Thread: Accessory Quests

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

Cleared rank4 successfully 3 times today (was my first attempt)
The first week I cleared ranks 1-3 each day, since my OCD would've kicked in to leave those clear-rewards unclaimed I guess, so this was my first attempt at the rank 4s. xD

It was definitely very challenging, but not impossible like I expected it to be for a F2P player like myself. Which makes me happy to know that it's still possible to clear end game content even as a F2P.

Though I suspect not all the other elements' rank 4s will go as smoothly as this I suppose...

Fire is one of the easier ones, and that's not just because my main is Water. The trash all have the same identical ability that can be easily ignored. One ATK buff isn't sufficient to make the trash dangerous, and the overdrive damage is low. Compare to Wind, where the buffs stack and can get out of hand very quickly, or Water, where an AoE overdrive can be buffed by a single character's AoE ATK up. The mid-boss is similarly straightforward.

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

Fire is one of the easier ones, and that's not just because my main is Water.--

Well shit. I was all happy yesterday for my Water team just BLASTING through T3 with absolutely no issues whatsoever.

So anyway, the first week I was busy with x-mas and stuff, plus OCD wanting to clear T1-3 so that those rewards won't hang around there. Did my first T4 today. Water too, so it was my main team - Thunder - against it.

Damn. No heals, so needing to bring a healer Soul, thus not having debuffs really hurts. Brought Sniper Shot since -20% Def to all in wave1 ought to be really good, but that meant no Black Propaganda. And damn the main boss during Rage was really, really painful... didn't help that my only Def debuff got resisted once.

Still cleared it without Elixir, but it was just three near-dead Hime left. I'll do two more runs later today, not feeling particularly confident about clearing.

Sol might solve much of my problems as she'd allow me to bring Mordred with Ambush, but on the other hand, Sol would be very vulnerable. Running Mii would solve that, but holy crap, 16% damage loss? Ouch. Well, don't Sol anyway yet, so questions for later.

Originally Posted by Slashley

Sol might solve much of my problems as she'd allow me to bring Mordred with Ambush, but on the other hand, Sol would be very vulnerable. Running Mii would solve that, but holy crap, 16% damage loss? Ouch. Well, don't Sol anyway yet, so questions for later.

I run Sol in my Water team and she does fine. I'm running with Gaia though, and she mitigates the actually dangerous attacks. My highest moment of danger is when I -only- have 40% damage cut available. Of course, the real problems are when something goes wrong, like debuffs missing. Then you're screwed. Gaia also contributes to healing, but a lot of the Thunder SSRs self-heal so maybe that will compensate?