Thread: Accessory Quests

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Sunday's accessory quest is pretty dang dangerous. You still get the trash, the mid boss and the last boss but their elements are randomized by stage, trash mobs won't be mixed. Encountered thunder trash, water mid boss and thunder final on my attempt using my light team. Ended up using an elixir. Will probably just run rank3 for the rest my uses.

I'm not sure if it's worth the gamble if you don't have an extremely strong dark or light team to be honest. The risk of encountering an elemental weakness. Unless you're a whale who can use an elixir every run if needed. Though you could always get lucky too.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

Sunday's accessory quest is pretty dang dangerous. You still get the trash, the mid boss and the last boss but their elements are randomized by stage, trash mobs won't be mixed. Encountered thunder trash, water mid boss and thunder final on my attempt using my light team. Ended up using an elixir. Will probably just run rank3 for the rest my uses.

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Guess what I encountered? Thunder trash, Thunder mid-boss, and Thunder final boss--all with my Water team on my very first attempt. That's 3/3 elemental disadvantage against an element we haven't even encountered yet. I actually managed to clear it with 1 Elixir. Debuffs falling off is actually what killed me, ironically. They got out of sync due to a bad transition, misses, and general panic. I also had some bad RNG with my Soul taking some focus-fire. I kind of wish I recorded it, as it was the most epic battle I'll probably ever face.

I did rank 1-3 this time since the reward is jewels. I went with light and rank 3 took forever. No one went down, but it took forever since the boss was also light.

How much harder would people say rank 4 is compared to rank 3? I haven't tried any ranks 4 matches yet as I didn't feel it would be worth it if the difficulty jump is the same as it is between rank 2 and rank 3. That and I also don't have elixirs to throw away every day to do them especially if it's going to take more than one.

Originally Posted by OtherGuy02

How much harder would people say rank 4 is compared to rank 3? I haven't tried any ranks 4 matches yet as I didn't feel it would be worth it if the difficulty jump is the same as it is between rank 2 and rank 3. That and I also don't have elixirs to throw away every day to do them especially if it's going to take more than one.

If you can't easily clear Rank 3, you'll have no chance in rank 4. Even the rank 4 trash is potentially lethal, though this varies by element. You need superb damage, excellent mitigation, or Gaia to clear the final boss regardless of element, because 1 Full Burst and a volley of skills / auto-attacks typically won't be enough to end Rage. That's before even considering the various things that can go wrong and derail an attempt, such as bad transitions (no debuffs ready) and Black Propaganda misses.

was nervous and had my family entering my room and out during the recording, so forgot to use abilities here and there

Holy shit.

Again, I'm a week behind most on this Accessory stuff since x-mas took away quite some days from me, plus I wanted to get T1-T3 done on all elements first just because of reasons.

So today, was my first T4 Sunday. Well, I didn't want to run T4 on Thunder just because Wind bosses are ASS, plus lack of debuffs. So I ran Andromeda with Sniper Shot, Ryu-Oh, Sol. The plan was just to endure and outheal, while using Triton's combo- to keep single target assaults away and clearing last boss Rage meter with OP Belphegor. Felt off to put Shiva in the backrow, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Wave 1, Fire. Wow, easiest trash with no tricks against their weakness?
Wave 2, Light. With double healers, this can feel like a bad thing, but with -70% Atk you hardly need heals to begin with.
Wave 3, Thunder. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

I had full Burst remaining after Pegasus, and it was fucking terrifying to see that it was less than 25% Rage bar increase. It didn't help that debuffs kept getting resisted, despite Sphinx not getting resisted once.
I somehow managed to do it without Elixir, but jesus christ. I don't think I could've done it if I had gotten Thunder wave2 as well.

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

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Guess what I encountered? Thunder trash, Thunder mid-boss, and Thunder final boss--all with my Water team on my very first attempt.--

I tip my hat to you, good sir. I tip my hat.

Even though I'm sure your Water grid is notably better than mine (97%+14% here now), that's still just god awful to fight.

Originally Posted by Slashley

Wave 1, Fire. Wow, easiest trash with no tricks against their weakness?
Wave 2, Light. With double healers, this can feel like a bad thing, but with -70% Atk you hardly need heals to begin with.
Wave 3, Thunder. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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I somehow managed to do it without Elixir

Well, if your Water team can handle that, it can likely handle any of the Rank 4 Accessory Quests except for Thunder. Congratulations. Now you just need to figure out to clear the element you actually need gear for.

Why not all of them? I play this game waayyy too much, after all. Gonna make Water (total of) 130%+ first, I guess. Despite two SRs, the team is just so damn balanced that it's fun to play with.

In other news, also fought Thunder wave1, Water wave1 and Water wave3. All of which were almost as terrifying as Thunder wave3. I guess the whole "same element resists debuffs a lot" thing is true. I could've been just unlucky with a sample size of this size, but.