Quote Originally Posted by Saeleyna View Post
What's an ideal FLB weapon? Which weapons should I rush to SL30 (I'm assuming the assault/exceed ones)? I have a handful of bricks and some SSR release weapons, but haven't wanted to invest in that yet as not positive what I should be replacing. I have the old union pride weapons as well ofc, but those don't seem that great FLB either.
If you ask me, priorities are:
0. Assault/Pride goes into every weapon. This is a requirement for a weapon to be in your Grid.
1. Exceed, IF needed. If your attack damage (with debuffs) is 1/5 of your burst damage cap. Or should I say, if you hit for 200k, then you want one Exceed. If you hit for 260k, then you want two Exceeds. 320k, three Exceeds. Damage cap 350k? Four Exceeds. Notice that if you use PF, you need to use 7 instead of 5 (so 185k/228k/271k).
2. HP. You want HP. HP is good for you. More HP until you reach about 20k with Ophiel. This is really difficult for Water since Ophiel Lances don't have HP on them, nor does Water Exceed weapons.
3. Vigor. Vigor is great to have... when you're at full health. A flaky stat, but enables you to deal amazing damage.
4. Ascension. Want to keep your Vigor working? Well, this helps. Notice that you'll probably need to run Aphrodite for all content if you go heavily into #3 and #4.
5. Elaborate. Notice, currently a trash stat, but one or two is very nice after we get Anniversary patch, which is either in a week or a couple of months depending on what Nutaku does.

Getting two of the above is good, but getting three of the above in one weapon is much better. Ophiel Lances hits #0, #3 and #4. This makes them pretty damn good. Would I take Assault/Exceed/HP over it? Any day. Is that an option? Not in Water it isn't. You get what you have. Like... Water Labyrinth weapon for example, if you got that.

Bricks are for:
1. The Anniversary upcoming 50 Dragon Eye weapons.
2. Merc Axes which cost 15 Dragon Eyes. Remember, you only need two of these puppies and you're set for life on Exceeds (once Anniversary hits).
3. Good Hime weapons. For Water, that's... kinda just Dadga Hammer I think?

Please don't use bricks for anything else.
Quote Originally Posted by Saeleyna View Post
-- I can't solo any of the L90 rag fights, but I don't know if that's something that's realistic either.
It's plenty doable. I can solo most Disaster Rags and Guardians, and that's not a feat at this point at all. Just about everyone who has been invested into Kamihime since launch is able to, probably. Heck, dreamlitz has started a series about solo beating them with R teams...

Anyway, you should join a Union which has one person capable of such things. You need looooots of Ophiels, since you need to buy 20 Ophiel Lances. By minimum you should buy two per month, so 50 Treasures. But then it'll take you 10 months to complete your Grid (assuming you drops). So buying the full 4 will cost you a whopping... what was it, 225 Treasures a month? Yeah, you're gonna need looooots of Ophiels. Find somebody who is willing to help you farm that thing daily and you'll be far stronger in a few months. And did I see that you haven't unlocked all Accessory slots either - have fun farming Ult Waters for all the Regalia you're going to need!

If you want to be serious with Water though, you'll also need some kind of Thunder team. Since Ophiel+ is coming, which can only be fought with a Thunder team. Ophiel+ will allow you to FLB Ophiel Lances, which needlessly say are good enough for your Grid even without FLB, but with FLB they'll be pretty goddamn good...


So uh... tl;dr; version: have fun grinding! I hope this has helped!