Talk:Monster Carnival

Dragonlord LGD is pretty easy to put to sleep the entire fight. Have LMS's LB ready to use to protect your party from his first round status effects if you cant sleep him first round. Just keep using Dragonlords LB's or sleep spell if he wakes up. -

LGD: Equip man eater+ and dracospike if you're lucky enough to get a dragonlord. To beat him, use crazy days then 1 or 2 TKO with kafrizzle finish chain off POD153, and you can extend your survivability with toxic rain at the end of your 1st turn.

LGD: Another excellent unit for escape farming LGD is Explorer Aileen. Party: TDH ExAileen, the rest = Bonus units Put Germinas Boots on a bonus unit for escape, build TDH ExAileen as strong as you can. Build her limit over the course of the other battles before escaping. LB Dragonlord to kill in one shot. (I am not sure how strong she has to be to pull this off, but current BiS TDH Overkills by a good bit so I don't think build has to be perfect)

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If you are farming ELT with weak bonus units then don't forget about Bahamut. A leveled up Bahamut should take the final boss down to around 10% all by himself. Just so long as the Esper gauge fills before the final round!

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Hi, Shakers here. This is not about how to "beat the boss", just comments on the exclusive items for this event. There is a lot of great stuff here that you really, really don't want to miss out on.

MUST GRABS:


 * Erdrick's Sword. ATK+125 Great Sword. Cost is a bit high at 120000, but the only better non-elemental Great sword is Beatrix's TMR. Personally, I am happy to spend a few F2P 100 lapis NRG refills to make sure I get this!


 * Cautery Sword & Gracos's Trident. 15000 each. Anything with killers, just grab it! Never mind the more-than-half-decent ATK stats.


 * Crow's Claws. ATK+52, Effect: Two-Hit Combo. Two words here: Amelia Arena.


 * Metal Slash. Fixed damage (2000) to one enemy. This can have some niche uses... grab it!!!


 * Ribbon. This is Kefka's TMR. Much like Zidane's dualwield TMR, you can never have enough of these :)

ALSO GOOD TO GET:


 * Staff of Antimagic. SPR+62, Effect: Silence (30%). One of the better healer staves.


 * Big Boss Shield. DEF+45, Effect: Auto-Shell. Ok, but not BiS... you should have Genji shield, at least.

MIGHT BE USEFUL:


 * Elemental Damage Down. Increase resistance to all elements (30%), Exclusive: Orochi. I dunno... if Orochi ever finds a way into your team?


 * Hustle Dance. Heal (400 HP, 3x) to all allies. Seems to be an ability-based version of cura.

RUBBISH:


 * Iron Axe ATK+58. Even Platinum axe is ATK+76.


 * Wave of Panic. Decrease ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR (35%) for 3 turns to all enemies, Exclusive: Dragonlord only. I don't have Dragonlord, and even if I did... why would you even think of wasting a materia slot on a substandard fullbreak when you should be maxxing out his MAG instead? I don't get it.

TRUST MOOGLES:

As a general rule of thumb, if you are using earth shrine to farm TMR, 100 NRG spent is roughly equivalent to one of the 8000 coin exclusive 5% moogles, depending on how much bonus you are getting on your missions.

i.e. 5x units do Earth Shrine 100 times, cost 100 NRG; so approx 100x0.1x0.1x5 = 5% TM (shared between the 5 units). Compare this to 4 x 25 NRG (to do the ELT mission) @ about 2000 coins per go = 8000 coins, to be spent on a 5% moogle.

So what I am saying is, I wouldn't be caught dead spending 100k coins on a 5% moogle!

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Just following up on what I was alluding to above about the 8000 coin moogles... definitely grab them all! Total cost of 3x5x8000 = 120000 coin for a 25% head start on these TMR's. Sounds like a lot, but even if you haven't pulled the unit to use them on yet, they are 4* base, so they will drop sooner or later. And the resulting TMR's are all pretty awesome:


 * Trust Moogle (Orochi 5%), 	Passive Ability,	Increase ATK (40%), Increase DEF/SPR (60%) when HP drops below 50%
 * Trust Moogle (Killing Machine 5%), 	Sword,	ATK+114 Effect: Machine Killer
 * Trust Moogle (Liquid Metal Slime 5%), 	Light Shield,	DEF+49, Resistance: Poison (Null), Sleep (Null), Paralyze (Null), Confuse (Null), Disease (Null), Petrify (Null)

Anyway hope this helps. Like I say, I am a F2P, and you don't need to spend any money to get all this good gear, just use some of your F2P daily-playing lapis to reload NRG if need be... just don't leave it to the last minute :)

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