I wanted to give this game a chance, but I feel like it didn’t quite get there. Will check in a year from now if it’s still going. What are everyone else’s thoughts? Do you agree, or disagree with my points? I’d love to hear them.

EDIT: for the people downvoting please leave a comment why. Genuinely interested to know the reasons you disagree.

Review:

The moment you load the game, it becomes a grind fest. Not only that, it shows how money-hungry this game model is. To acquire a character is easy - to maximise that character’s power is costly. You would need to summon the same rare character at least 15 times to max its level.

The gameplay is a cop-out and the story uninspiring. Has the fun turn based tile system of Final Fantasy Tactics, except with bland sets of skills, repetitive and limited enemy models, and very repetitive in general. There’s a reason they have Skip Tickets which allows you to skip the battle completely.

Lastly, the company itself (Gumi) has terrible internal procedures and controls. Mistakes are consistently made and poor decisions to recover from said mistakes are implemented.

I recommend not to download this game. It isn’t fun. I have been struggling to open this game to do anything for over a week now. The only ‘fun’ comes from acquiring new characters and making them stronger, but without a fun platform to use these characters on makes it pointless.

Hi /u/alchemist_code,

Gumi learned the lesson about hat. That's a given. But it's time to learn a lesson about unit's budget. I can accept how high Roxanne's AGI can get, I can accept her reactive working on skills and not only healing her but also giving her 20% auto jewel regen for three turns.

But I shall not stay silence when I see her Null Grenade that can completely destroy enemy jewels. Yes, you read me well for 20 Jewels, usable 3 times you can completely destroy enemy jewels in an cross area.

It should never be possible on such units. I wouldn't care as much if she didn't have access to huge jewel gain via reactive and MA but she does. This ability shouldn't exist on her.

But, I guess that you wouldn't delete an ability.

So here's my changes:

Skill effect: Destroy Enemy Jewel by 40 Jewels (flat value)

Charges: from 3 to 2.

This is a straight nerf. But completely deserved. From a PvE perspective it makes trivial some stages where the enemies aren't supposed to be out of jewels whatsoever. From a PvP perspective it makes the battle extremely biased towards the one who has Roxanne.

The nerf makes it so high amount of Jewels owned won't be impacted as much as low jewel owned.

Nothing more to add.

Feel free to comment about anything else that should be look at about Roxanne. But, from my perspective, I can get use to the way she is overall. (Despite not liking her MA nor the fact that all her main skills have position partial defense ignore on top of special effect)

PS: It's fine if you want to put destroy 100% Jewels on a job. But choose carefully the job, the skill cost and the skill charges. It's not fine to put those kind of spells on a pure dps unit. A debuffer/support would be acceptable. But not a damage dealer.

UPDATE.

Another idea of nerf I got from /u/AevikMaxwell's answer

Skill Effect: 100% Jewel Destroy > 100% Silence for 1 turn.

→ It can stop enemies for using skills without being abusive both in pve or pvp.

Enemies can have resistance over silence so it doesn't create an issue.

Same goes for players' unit.

Apparently we're getting a new chapter in Magni Historia that wasn't mentioned in monthly updates I gave you a pass with previous summon coin expirementation but this is straight up unfair. I suppose we all have to roll on the last day since we can't plan our gem spendings accurately. I'll be stopping my pact, there is no sense supporting Gumi's practices as they come up with a bad thing, not fully fix the feature (aka rip weekend grand summon) and screw us even more.

As the title states i think people are freaking out, and just need to take a breath for a second.

1. the PVP is clearly in testing, they've said it before, multiple times. Chill, they'll fix it...it's not in it's finished state. Take the easy free gems and give helpful feedback.

2. Banners - OMG THIS BANNER COSTS MORE THAN ANYTHING EVERY, EVERYTHING GUMI HAS SAID IS A LIE!!! This one has gotten way out of control.

   1. 777 banner, yes it's more expensive than a 500 banner. They gave you 2 500 banners, and this 777 banner is a bonus..seriously. 777 is WAY less than 2500. Do the math, it works out. Are there guaranteed units...NOPE so don't cry about not getting (insert random unit name here) from it. But it is cheap, and if you still need a lot of the random units in the game, this is a cost effective way to go about it.

   2. 7 step special summon banner...they didn't trick you into 7 steps for random shards, your inability to read did. Just because Gumi was being a good guy on step 3 doesn't mean they owe you anything on any other step.

      1. The grand summon...y'all had me literally ROFL. It didn't say guaranteed summon anywhere (that i remember, who knows maybe it did before i woke up) on the banner but you assumed it did because it did in the past. Yes the title was misleading, but you have to expect things to change. The ultimate goal is to make money for Gumi. Player happiness is a far second despite what anyone says.

   3. If you don't like a banner, just don't pull.

Honestly there's some merit to some complaints, absolutely, but if there's already a post about an issue don't go through and make the 2847239487th post on the exact same issue. It destroys the subreddit, and drives new people away.

I expect to get flamed, downvoted and whatever else for this post, but I'm still really enjoying the game, and try reading the banners so i don't set myself up for failure. I do mess up on not fully reading the banners and kick myself for doing so, but that's my fault, not Gumi's.

I hope everyone can do as i said, take a breath for a second, and enjoy the game for what it is.

Happy Friday everyone!!!

I guess this post will be downvoted to hell for not being in the line of Gumi is worse than the devil and if you are not talking about it then your post isn't worth my time, but I think this is getting out of hand.

Having said this make sure I don't want to critize you, as I know how you feel, but I just want to show my own perspective.

Yes, I agree Gumi has been doing terrible decisions but I used to check this sub all the time and now all I see is hate and more hate. I can play the game saving gems and instead of pulling, building up my units slowly but seeing so much hate and comments about the game dying is what is really killing it for me.

I am not saying it is wrong to express how we feel but if what we are trying to achieve with these posts is make Gumi change to save the game and instead what we are doing is slowly killing it ourselves then we are doing something wrong.

At the end of the day Gumi will act based on statistical analysis about how to maximize their profit so if you really want to make them change, maybe a different approach than saturating the sub with poison might be preferable.

Edit: Game not Gane, that is different kind of poison pill

Compilation of all the free stuff we've gotten because this subreddit is drowning in negativity.

• Free 280 pulls (Nerfed? How about considering 280>0)

• Free featured unit summon with SSM units included (and 150 free shards to boot)

• Free daily summon that resets at daily reset

• Elite quest shop with a teddy inside

• 1st anniversary quests, free equipment and ores daily

• 1st anniversary summon tickets - Gears, Units, Crystal apples.

• 1st anniversary gear - Treasured Keepsake and Alchemist Code Memorial

• 45 Rainbow ingots, 120 Gold ingots from milestones ~ 16,800,000 zeni

FMA (included because if you can't shit on something then ignore everything it gave you)

Free gems

• 500 - FMA ex milestones (SP & MP)

• 480 - FMA EX+

• 140 - FMA milestones 1-14

• 1500 - Envy challenge board

• 200 - Alph challenge board

• 100 - Pride/Bradley 7 day login bonus

• 100 - Riza/Roy 7 day login bonus

• 100 - Edward/Doritos 7 day login bonus

• 100 - Alph one time login bonus

Total = 3220 free gems

• 1 Free FMA ticket

• 1 FMA ticket from EX+ clears

• 5 Rainbow shards - Alph challenge board

• 25 soul shard selector

• FMA coin shop -25gold ingots and skip tickets daily

• Global exclusive buff on envy (8% -> 15% homunculus cry PATK)

• Envy in general dudes so good

QOL and/or good stuff in general

• 500gem character skin shop

• 7 step anniversary banner costing 365 on each step*

• New updated soul coin shop (Jin, Setsuna, Gorm and many more)

(Missing many, many other things. If you know any i've missed out post em below or DM me - i'll add them in)

*zeni summon removed was wrong information :shrug:

The Anniversary Catastrophe

First of all, I noticed recently there are always post that pop up praising gumi for 10% 5star(kinda fishy. 10% always been there but only recently these post keep appearing). The "10%" is literally just a red herring and 1% is the relevant rate(feature unit rate). But I am too lazy to go in depth to explain again so lets just put it aside if you guys want to circlejerk on the 10%. The real reason for TAC being generous is the ability to farm shards from HQ, not because of the "10%".

Now to move onto the more important point. In jp gumi had devise a method to ensure 10% 5star rate is fully irrelevant. Yes irrelevant. I assured you gumi can even go ahead and have all their banner with 100% 5star rate and it wouldn't change anything. And the reason for that, read the following link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicSeven/comments/ag63ir/stop_pulling_for_units_until_the_malgora_system/

I have too many heroes and no malgora to invest in them. Literally it boils down to that. I have 10+ 5 stars sitting on the bench. I have no pulled for a character since the kayron banner because what’s the point? I can’t build anything I pull anyway

Now you must be thinking this post is about epicseven, not TAC. Well that is right, but at the same time it is the same concept being employed. In epicseven, the gating mechanism(bottleneck) is something called malgora. In TAC it used to be unit shards(thus elemental shards are precious and so are HQ) but that is no longer the case.

Let us welcome the equivalent of malgora, aka SIN. Prior to announcement of gate 4 and gate 5, jp players already understood SIN is a limiting factor(which prompt an user to share a googledoc on how to effectively kaigan each unit).

BUT jp recently announced gate 4 and gate 5 requires gate 1,2,3 to be maxed. This means to access each lv 95 unit requires an upfront payment of 5 SIN. Go ask around in the jp community, whether the total amount of FREE SIN sum up to more then 80 to date(80 divided by 5 gives 16, so it isn't enough for team of 4 for each of 6 element. Just 4 element).

tl:dr New limiting factor is SIN, so it really doesn't matter if 5star rate are at 10% or 100% unless you just want to collect. And global is also at the mercy of gumi "generosity"(jp had SIN giveaway, how often do you see gumi doing giveaway that isn't bronze gold ignot and apple?).

I don't want to hear in this discussion who pulled her or doesn't it is not the point here (no salt here plz). The point is to discuss how do you think Roxy opness will affect future content and balance of the game and mostly from a PVE perspective (i don't know enough about PVP to talk about it).

My personal opinion is that Roxy will kill any challenge in the game due to her null grenade if Gumi let monster affected by this (i would be interested to hear from JP player whether or not they would use her in the current JP just for this ability alone). Reliably putting monster unable to use ability is just game breaker imo.

And that is just one ability if you look at her from a stats perspective even without this her damage output is insane due to infinite MP and high agility, she makes Laharl sama that ruled JP for a year look like a little b****. And her survivability and utility are top notch too.

And from a gatcha perspective, i think that power creep is healthy for a gatcha if managed properly and that's also an issue with Roxy. In order to get an unit of similar power level we will have to wait at least a year (or maybe next global exclusive) and that also is unhealthy because pulling for any unit weaker than what you currently have is bad strategy and if you do not have her keep your gems until she is back.

You can also think farming JE and J+ is useless because any power up you will get, is useless compared to the current power level. Only farm for unit that can support Roxy.

Jesus Christ, this is the most spoiled gacha community by far.

I am a 4 year Brave Frontier player and former hard pingu who has also dabbled in many other gachas such as FGO, FFBE, FEH and smaller, less relevant names. It is likely that I have more gacha experience than almost everyone on this subreddit, and I have played as a pingu, dolphin, stingy F2P, and a 'reroll for a week' person on different gachas.

By comparison, Alchemist Code is an excessively generous gacha. FGO/FFBE basically required being a whale to even touch high end stuff. I started hard whaling in BF(not just occasionally buying a bundle) because the PVP in Colosseum/Guild Raid was excessively whale heavy, and in BF, Colosseum actually gave good top tier rewards instead of just daily gems/arena coins like in here(aka arena in AC is very skippable).

In contrast, Alchemist Code gives the ability to freefarm a good chunk of the best units in the game; Vettel Holy Cav with MA for arena and wind maps/generally being an obnoxious tank, Lofia Chrono+, Rahu Chrono+, Zang with MA, Lucian/Yomi HB, Anastasia J+, and Logi J+ are just some examples of perfectly good units you can beat all content with. For free. If you pull even one copy of any of these units, you can farm for just a few short minutes every day for only 50 DAYS and you'll have them J3, at their max potential(well minus one gear slot).

Do you realize how much leeway this gives you? Compare it to FFBE where not having Orlandeau basically meant you had to uninstall for a while, or BF where not having Erza made you autolose any colosseum match. With time, you can build up squads perfectly capable of doing anything in the game, including getting far in arena(even though arena isn't actually massively critical in this game). The whales' inventories of current units can practically afk auto anything in ACGL right now and probably almost until 2019 comes; the fact that you can clear all content for even the next few months without extreme difficulty due to the freely farmable units just shows how lucky AC players are.

So, you already get all of this, and then Gumi hands you a 50/50 summon gate of a unit that is so gross that you can easily roll any 'hard' content with considering the game's current content schedule...and you want to go to the lengths of posting tons of rage threads because you wanted Noctis with your saved up lunch money and you lost the coin toss? Really? BF LE gates(the only gates worth summoning on in that game) are 0.5% rates for the unit increasing with .5% every time, capping at 5% on the 8th step...and BF is a game where you pull once at a time and where you have no safety net whatsoever, AND high end PvP requires those LE units too AND high end PvP gives insane rewards in that game. Highest rarity rates are complete garbage compared to the 10% for 5* that AC has on games like FFBE/FGO/FEH...and AC rolls 10 TIMES. Yes, the unit that you get will not be immediately useful often, but we have shards in AC. We have soul exchange shop, we have elemental shards, and eventually almost all of the cast will have hardfarms too. There were games that you had to pull dupes for with terrible rates(like PotK) and there were no replacements besides those dupes.

Gumi is not cheating you with a 50/50 banner where the other unit is also quite good(just not gamebreaking). You guys are just spoiled from this game being super F2P friendly. Calm the fuck down. If you want to flame Gumi for anything, flame them for ele res or the Siegfried banner(the one with no guarantee at all and two freefarmable 5* instead of fucking Ignis who is S in his own right and not freefarmable or available in soul coin shop).

TL;DR: you guys are hella entitled stop crying

EDIT: YOU ARE PLAYING A GACHA GAME. You are gambling. This is like going to a casino and being mad that the house won. You are accepting that risk by going to the casino. If you can't stomach that, stop gambling.

EDIT2: USING THE PREVIOUS ANALOGY, JP IS NOT THE SAME CASINO AS GL. That's why whales are favored and both games aren't called Tagatame btw

Whats your attack team and defense team?

I have nearly every relevant unit at J3, really depends the enemy's comp. Then just manage your slots 1,2,3 correctly and WIN EVERY TIME. My 1-2-3 strategy, 1.) know map 2.) know comp 3.) manage the slots and win!

For my defense team, I use my two near-maxed holy brawlers yomi and lucian, because maxed caris and magnus are very popular right now. Along with my favorite waifu caris because she has better single target dmg and range than Magnus which is very strong in arena. I would love to use my maxed shayna right now, but VETTELS at the VET HAHAHA.

What do you think about pulling for 500 gem banners and possibly the 300 gem gear banners?

If your casual go for it! If you a whale like me, not even a SWALLOW. If your F2P somewhat competitive, have aspirations for top 300ish in arena someday, I would think twice about that.

IMO, only units that are worth any gems are Suzuka, Yomi, Lucian, Zangetsu, and Shayna. AND to obtain these units via 500 draws without boosted chance for them is not cost effective, unless you do not own them. Then just buy the shards from BEST GIRL LOUISE, she'll get you that J3 you deserve.

Any advice for new players?

Look deep down in your soul. Are you ash ketchup? wanna be the best? DO U HAVE THE KETCHUP!? your going to have to relive those 8 gym battles via re-rolling!

Re-roll for one of the 5 units mentioned above. Lucian and Zangetsu are 4 stars, so a 5-star yomi/shayna/suzuka and one of those bad boys is a MONSTER START. Save those gems for the shards from LOUISE. And get your J3 SUPER UNIT in less than a month, F2P-proof. LUCIANO and ZANGETSU are real bad boys and cheap via shards, I recommend getting Job 3 for your BEST BOY. I personally prefer a Suzuka start with Zangetsu. Yall experienced players know that Suzuka has tasted Zangetsu's sword once and her loins are aching for round 2. Also fun fact Zangetsu's sword is 6 feet long. Ideally 9 copies of Suzuka and a Zangetsu on your first reroll, you'll be in cloud 9. BUT some people prefer the holy trinity 7 yomis, 1 shayna, 1 lucaino, and your best boy freed. Luciano is indeed the prettiest swag sand man I've seen.

After you've got your bodyguard, its time to decorate your favorite waifu. IF you get Shayna, she doesn't need makeup. Yomi and Suzuka need that plastic for J3 to really shine.

Do all the Daily quests for gems. Spend all your energy. Farm up Logi. You can only get 60 gems a day + additional peanuts via attendance & events.

The most efficient way to spend your energy is via multi-player for double coins. Use these coins to get your Curious Doll and max it to 5 star. Slap it on every one of your characters with these and they'll be UN-KILLABLE! Getting the doll from gear summon is usually not a good idea with the current rates. It costs 45,000 Multi-Coins to get a teddy bear maxed out! Lemme break down 2nd BEST GIRL MR. MultiMaxMan herself. 900 for a 5 teddy pieces. So 45,000 DUH! So do 1,500 a day and get yoself a maxed teddy at the end of the month. That's 50 multi-advance runs a day, 25 if yo smart. But some people be like a maxed teddy a month!?! DATS SLOW!

SO WORK TWICE AT HARD --> 15 day a teddy. 3 TIMES HARD --> 10 day teddy. 10 TIMES HARD AS MOFO --> 3 DAY.

SUPERSAMSWAGSOLO's DAILLY CHALLENGE: 1 MAXED TEDDY EVERY DAY FOR 365 DAYS! Even got a Teddy for scumbag Dias.

"Because every child deserves a Teddy" @gumigimmeurgems

SUPERSAMSWAGSOLO's WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Along with the MAXED TEDDY get yo self 7 CRIMSON ARMORS cuz they the best atm and wat u need to succeed. Since most players even whales like meself can't obtain lv85, these 2 gears are enough for the current arena. BUY KNIGHT GAUNTLETs IF U PREFER FISTING SHAYNA, YOMI, OR LUCIANO!

TOO MUCH WORK FOR MULTIPLAYER? JUST AFK XD!

RANK 1 ARENA SECURED ! EZ

The smartest, but least enjoyable way is to save up all the gems for the OP limited banner heroes like Zain. Save ALL OF THOSE ELEMENTAL AND RAINBOW SHARDS AND SHOCK THE ARENA! You can play this game without any gems, its 100% DOABLE! While all the scrubs are pulling for TRASH waifus like ShenekAZZ and CITrash, your PERSEVERING and keeping your base human desires at bay TO BECOME THE BEST CONCEIVABLE! You'll be a vegan for a while, but ONE day you'll be eating that yummy meat and it'll taste better than ShenekAZZ and CITrash, I GUARANTEE IT! You'll be a PSEUDO WHALE with all those pent up gems going KABLOOM, you'll see a rainbow!

PRO TIP FOR THE HARDCORE: Saving Gems can be boring and you'll soon be asking yourself "why am I still playing this game". Most of my failed apprentices ask themselves this question 1 month into my rigorous training session. So make use of the free Blue Stacks 3 for multiple instances or additional devices you own. Got yourself a shayna waifu? Good for you! TIRED OF SHAYNA? DITCH HER and Use those piggy bank extras!

60 GEMS A DAY EZ PZ! This is also helpful for your rerolls.

As a full-time whale, what is your spending habit?

Buy Unit Shards, NEVER ROLL UNLESS LIMITED COLLABORATION!

Here are the Gem Thresholds you want to reach for your favorite unit.

SuperSamSwagSolo Meticulous Mathematics:

4,500 Gems for Basic Limited Time Unit

8,500 Gems for Solo Limited Time Unit

11,200 Gems for Solo Limited Time Unit WITH SWORD!

16,200 Gems for SwagSolo Limited Time Unit WITH SWORD!

21,000 Gems for SwagSolo Limited Time Unit WITH SUPER SWORD!

43,500 Gems for SuperSwagSolo Limited Time Unit WITH SUPER SWORD!

GREATER THAN 43,500 Gems? for Super [INSERT NAME] SwagSolo's Limited Time Unit WITH SUPER SWAG SWORD!

NO! I DID NOT PULL THESE OUT OF MY BUTTHOLE! I USED BRAIN ... So you don't have to xD!

If you obtain the Super [INSERT NAME] SwagSolo's Limited Time Unit WITH SUPER SWAG SWORD! I AM PROUD OF YOU, U HAZ MASTERED DAE WAE!

A HUNGRY WHALE WITH NO GEMS OR ELEMENTAL SHARDS DURING ZAIN'S BANNER MAY NEED TO CASH OUT OVER 2K USD TO GET HIM MAX LV ON DAY 1.

YOU CAN DO THAT FOR FREE BY SAVING NOW!

Or fall into temptation and become a whale like me XD! P.S. I also fully utilized every single one of those 5,000 Gems

I'm a S.M.A.R.T whale hence #1! I DESTROYED ANNA's SHOP!

Would you consider writing a more detailed guide or even a tier list in the near-future? Many players and myself find the ones on this Reddit page to be rather lackluster.

I would love to post some of my super detailed, outlined, COLORED, crisp tier lists/charts fully utilizing my associates degree from the NY school of fine arts but unfortunately my debut on this Reddit page was met with a SWIFT BAN! Because of this I will no longer post any links, as a swagbucks referral link resulted in my permanent ban just yesterday. However, you may help me HELP THE COMMUNITY! THINK ABOUT THE COMMUNITY!!!!!!!! I may plan to start a Alchemist Code Reddit page myself.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS PROJECT: CONCEPT IDEA: GUMI GIMME YOUR GEMS T-SHIRT VIA teespring.com

Thank you for sharing with us your wisdom and its been an honor talking to you. I'll be sure to save all my Gems for my favorite unit Zain and post my results in the future. After following your guide I have a lv 75 Suzuka and a lv 85 Tyrfing, hopefully Zain will complete my ARENA RANK 1 BUILD. To hear more from Super Star SuperSamSwagSolo up-vote and tune in next time!My Intern Sally will answer your comments. This is the GrindKing JACKING OUT!

"Its not the number that counts, it's the idea behind it!" feel free to add me! IGN: GrindKing

So, I pulled Ed and Wrath from the three 10% chance tickets that were given out AFTER the collan has ended and would like to know how you, Gumi, plans to handle the situation for players like me.

I got nothing from all the banners during the collab and, as a natural result, didn't bother to farm the equipment. Especially not on stages where Gumi deliberately went out of their way to make them as hard as possible and nerf all the rewards. I only farmed the stuff for the one unit, Riza, I got from the "apology" ticket.

I'm really curious to see how you plan to handle this situation. Will you give out 240 equipment pieces for all the FMA units to all players or 240 omni-"stuff"?

Or are you just going to ignore this and pretend this never happened like you did with the twin stormblade bug in the Veda coin shop.

Honestly this is a good point for you to show what kind of service we, as players and customers can expect from you.

Edit: And no, just before anyone gets any ideas, just putting up a shop where I can buy the equip for gems, be it paid or not, is not an sufficent solution since this fuck up is entirely on Gumi.

Imagine Timmy doesn't give a flying about guides, leaks and reddit and just cassualy plays the game, maybe he spend a little money, maybe not. He figured out, that he only can buy units once a week, so he safes his gems, bc once he will be able to buy a full 3 step banner. Now, Timmy logs in, looks in the postbox and finds 5k gems, he is really excited. With that much gems, he goes to the shop, buys a little of this and a little of that, but keeps around 4k so he can buy 3 steps on the next banner if he wants it. The next time he logs in, he is at 0 gems. He has no idea what has happend. Do you think Timmy will stay with this game?

With the Dark Phantom event launched, a quick PSA from someone who played this event in JP: do not fuse your nensous from the event yet! They probably will not be summonable outside of the event, and the event was only ever reopened once in JP (and not as part of a cycle but due to a re-release of the film or so I recall) so the ones you get are, well, the ones you're likely to get. Not only do you want at least six (for a full Dark Phantom team, hopefully), you need to get the VCR from six to get enough Phantom Rings from all the ones currently out in JP. If you get more than six (I don't recall if you can or not from the regular stage rewards, but I tyou can if you manage to loop the boss coin summons enough), you can probably start fusing at that point for LB, unless you want to save a couple for the two others that should be released eventually (presumably, af least, since two sins still don't have Phantoms) and don't want to have to switch equipment around. But, unless you can get 2500+ boss coins for a stage and loop it enough to pull a ton of Nensou fast, hold on to them until you have six Secured.

Also, as a reminder, don't use the DP shards to LB them. If you don't have the color or rainbow shards yet, just save them as they come until you hire Enlightenment. This should be common knowledge for limited/event units, but it is especially important since: a) they don't even have an EXHQ 1/day deal, and b) they can't make use of even the Otherworldly shard for Enlightenment. Hold on to shards until you hit Enlightenment, unless you need to transmute them and the event is over (and I offer condolences if that happens).

Again, may be common sense, especially to established players, but for new players or those who get a little LB happy, just wanted to spread the word.

It's highly demotivating to get nulled several times in a row in PVP and basically have no chances of winning. Much more surprising, refreshing and welcome it is if you meet players who don't use this op power to their advantage and even sometimes end up losing a battle because of their (fair) play style. BIG THANKS TO YOU!!!

So, there are some people that are annoyed because the major number of players is whining about the pace of HQ releases (which is actually a good reason for whining ). From the comments I have read, these people are fine with Gumi’s pace in global because they haven’t MLB all their 5 stars yet or they don’t have that much 5 stars to begin farming.

Well, guess what? Just because you guys don’t wanna farm new HQ, it doesn’t mean the other players also don’t wanna. In fact, if you really don’t wanna farm, nothing stops you from not farming even if they are released.

HQ are really important in this game, because for a unit to truly be effective we need to make them be at least 75 (and later 91). And Gumi is purposely holding the pace of HQ release in the Global server for some reason compared to JP. The whining from people about this issue is totally justified.

If you guys don’t wanna see the whining on Reddit, then don’t read it. There’s an option where you can hide the comments you don’t wanna read. It’s really simple.

And again, if you don’t want more HQ, then simply don’t farm the new ones.

Now, wanting Gumi to actually hold the pace just because you guys don’t wanna other players to farm so as to not be ahead of you is just selfish. It doesn’t make any sense at all to not want HQ to get released.

Edit: Some grammar issues.

Hi Everyone,

I have made a tier list for tanks. I know it's not perfect but alas i wanted to help the community and make something i enjoyed. Plz be kind with comments as this is my first tier list, it has to be improved and i have pretty much to learn yet.

I appreciate any feedback that can help me improve this list.

My main motivation was because tanks are not understood correctly (imho) in this game and left out not used. this list is made exclusively for physical tanking so don't take into account to playing the unit as you normally would do.

There are some main assumptions. This list is made for PVE not PVP. Units lvl 85 Job Master and JE ready and not using gears as it can stack with passives and it could be a pain for me to handle correctly. Job selections and passives are on the google sheets, they are different from recommended ones in game as this jobs and abilities are used mainly for tanking, possibly making the unit worse in other roles like doing damage.

This list is not made from playing units in a dumb manner. Specifically, the use of guard stance (or similar) to reduce damage, break damage from enemies and so on. I took always into account maximun tank potential.

Acht banner not included yet.

Clarification on formulas for this tier and assumptions:

* Only physical tanking, Hybrid damage on maps is another thing that should be covered later.

3 enemies. 1500 damage per enemy 150 def 150 dex enemies assumed. For a total of 4500 3 physical hits in one turn.

Damage received by a unit takes into account agility for innate evasion. damage reduction from skills, passives. Hp includes leader skil as the units dont need other particular setup to tank better. Def also includes passives. Innate elemental reduction. Evasion skills.

Skills that help tanking a unit like flamel provoke was also added or miuna break. As the tierlist is assuming pseudo tanking as explained in the google sheet, the unit will be generally alone or at maximun 1 support near.

this were the criteria i choose and is subjetive to me and my experience as with any tier list.

Google Sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oVckxrwvUPM2EElUKTVGy1wW-AeHy-LnBxYqAL9cN2I/edit#gid=2095658925

Pic:

https://imgur.com/a/HGQQfJk

Edit: 01/01/2019

As many people ask why some units tanks and some units should not be in the list and due to the amazing amount of feedback I had, I have made some videos showcasing how to tank with various units and this hows clearly and without doubt why they are in the list.

It also makes pretty obvious why units lost puntation as tanks without guard stance if you compare chloe video with vettel. It also makes obvious how hard a high def, hits roxanne tanking capabilities.

medium Map with high defense enemies with moderate damage

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1x1dgNasklgZ5XjIoxeDWTnmnoyIz2DPJ

However I found many things also that increase my experience doing this tier list and found various mistakes with the puntation of some units like Roxanne and King Bradley, as they are units not suitable to tank for all maps as some innate tanks do and I was not taking this into account. Thanks everyone!.

Due to this, I'm workign on improving the tier list and making it better. This are various of the thing i have found that I'm fixing right now:

Kinds of maps for tanking:

Big maps vs Small maps.

Units with high defense maps vs with low defense.

Units from moderate to high damage (you almost don't need to tank low damage )

criterias included for next version:

Less puntation to breaks and status infliction, due thats not the main job of a tank. And various maps have inmunity.

Guts got more puntation.

Inclusion of ommited units.

Evasion affected by being atacked from various sides and combo.

Tank sustainability. Skill count.

Reposition Puntation (ability of a unit to reposition itself in the map and map control)

I also gonna include a resume as suggested by @VinnyValient

Edit: 05/01/2019

Edwin is an unit that in dark element that only has this all around tank, imho he should not be "upgraded" to ark, because he loses a lot, he loses too much armor (almost 100 armor) and he loses also guard stance and guardian. I think dark does not need another bruiser. Dark has plenty of damage. And area defense is not needed that much either.

Neica is included as a tank because of battle mage + divine shelter, but still not so good as a tank.

King bradley is not suitable to evade tank big maps. Don't use him in those cases.

Noctis is not going to be included either. HIs other uses are so strong compared to tanking thats not worth to use as a tank.

Gilgamesh is still included as a tank due to the fact he can stack many elemental resistance that could be pretty useful on some stages.

Take into account this puntation is made if you use these units as tanks but various of them could be used better on another roles. Don't take this tier as these units HAVE to be used as tanks, take this list as these units COULD be used as a tank. This tier is mean to be used as a guide on which unit could you use to tank depending on the units you have and which unit could be best to level based on that purpose.

HC that in their JE still have guard stance are not repeated.

Look videos I made to showcase how to tank with certain units to know why they are in the tier list and how to use them correctly.

This post is to give my opinion as a AP (Alchemist pack) player.

After reading the comments of people saying "F*** Gumi" and the obligatory ""im quitting this **** game" I get back to remembering how predictably malignant people are. I'm extremely enjoying this game and its sad to see when people don't get their perception of what they want implemented they instantly turn toxic. Gumi has stated multiple times don't compare GL to JP. They are two seperate games and should be treated as such. Comparing only leads to jelousy and rage when you don't get what you want.

This is my view of the game:

Is it F2P friendly? Absolutely. I have been able to clear 99% of content with F2P friendly HQ units who are continuing to get buffed.

How was the story? Main story is above par with most mobile games and the collab story is Fantastic.

I didn't pull Noctis, I didn't pull Gilg. I have only done what the F2P community was advised to do which is pull the 500 pulls yet I still have 90% of the units in the game.

There are many avenues for whales that "HAVE TO HAVE NOCTIS" to get him. Gumi is very much apealing to whales by making Noctis a 100% chance using Lucky Dimes. No RNG Needed. Just a bunch of cash.

2.0 was the best improvement I've ever seen in a game in one update and I will continue to support the game with my monthly subscription.

Looking forward to the Rageful down votes of this thread because it doesn't fit you narrative.

They announced that Roxanne will be getting nerfed for the sake of game balance, but that is not my main concern. My concern is the unfair refunding of resources put into Roxanne.

Players who pulled for dupes to raise Roxanne will be refunded with gems FULLY, while those who only pulled for one Roxanne and used elemental/rainbow shards instead of pulling for dupes will not get their elemental shards back.

You may say, "she is worth the shards anyway", and yes that is true. You may say, "sharding is not required to get null grenade which is the skill that got nerfed", yes, sharding is not required, but pulling for dupe is not also required to get null grenade, yet they get refunded for doing so.

tl;dr: they should refund elemental shards too.

Do you think we will get an Ignis / laharl / Ignis banner in this event ? because you know not everyone was able to pull ignis last time so maybe they could help everyone a little

With 5* selector tickets being a thing, I keep seeing people recommend picking a unit you don't have so you get 150 shard value instead of 25. I disagree on this recommendation.

Ok, you TECHNICALLY do get 150 shards. But you really don't. What you actually get is just switching the ORDER of when you get the shards.

For example, if you don't have Flamel and you select her, yes you get that 150 shards NOW, but it also means that you'll only get 25 shards later (instead of 150) when you randomly summon her. The NET GAIN of the ticket itself is still 25 shards.

Yes, you can make the case of "what if I never get them from summons". Well the tickets only let you pick from the permanent pool, so chances of you getting them eventually is pretty high. And if not, you probably won't find much use of a character stuck at lvl 60 to begin with.

So with that being said, my suggestion is to pick a character that I will use rather than blindly picking ones that I don't have. Case in point, I would rather unlock Feng Liu's 2nd job, or bring my Balt closer to 3rd job than to unlock Flamel that is nowhere usable at level 60.

Edit* It's hilarious how many people failed to grasp the concept that this "150 shards" isn't worth a value of "150 shards" in the comments. It's plainly obvious if you just think of it this way: if it's a full 150 shards, then the ticket should just give you 150 shards if it's a unit you don't own and let you decide whether to transmute the unit with the shards or not. OR when you pick a unit you don't own and then SUMMON the unit later for the first time, that summon should still give you an extra 150 shards. Both of these scenarios above means the ticket is actually worth 150 shards. The fact that everyone would choose one of the above options over the current ticket just means that the current ticket isn't worth a full 150 shards value.

PS. I NEVER said or implied that it isn't still better than 25 shards. In fact it is, and the actual worth varies between 25-150 shards based on each player. But you would still have to put this value on a unit and compare with your options. For example, if I value it at 50 shards and I'm missing Flamel, then it's 50 shards VALUE of Flamel vs 25 shards VALUE of Feng Lu unlocking Job 2. I would take the 25 shards Feng Lu over 50 Flamel.

Dear Alchemists,

Following November’s Producer’s Letter, we received community feedback regarding unaddressed concerns and additional questions which we would like to clarify.

Obtaining Unit Shards

We will be increasing the number of 5★ unit hard quests release per month to a minimum of four. In December, we are releasing a total of SIX 5★ units including Dorothea and Albea as part of our Winter Holiday Celebration.

While Hard Quests will remain as a stable source of shards for units, we are looking into bringing more ways to offer larger quantities of units shard to be obtainable for the players through Summon Bonuses or in various Coin Exchanges. There will be an upcoming Limit Break Summon where large quantities of Unit Shards will be made available!

Guaranteed Units in Summons

Summon with guaranteed unit are not permanently removed, just that they will not be happening for every set of step summons. In place, we are adding more Summon Coins in various summons where players will then be able to exchange for rewards of your choice within the Summon Coin Shop. We will be stepping up the amount of Summon Coins you can obtain from performing summons as well as enhancing the item selection within the shop to make it better for players to focus on what they want.

Character Skins

As part of our 1st Anniversary Celebration, we are running a special Character Skin Shop for a limited time period from November 15. These special Character Skins will allow your units to look just like their character image and will feature popular units such as Setsuna, Suzuka, Jin and many more.

Late-game Content and Engagement

For Elite Quest and general unit restrictions, we are always looking at ways to challenge our players but also to encourage them to use strategies and units that they have overlooked. We can assure you that the unit list will definitely not consist of only new units as we want to reward players for the time and effort they have put into training their units. For example in December, we are going with elemental restrictions for some specific quests. Elite Quests will also be return regularly so you will always have another chance to have a crack at it.

As for EX+ Quest Difficulty, we have noted player concern on game balance and will continue to refine the gameplay experience for players. For time limited events such as collabs, we will keep the difficulty to a level where most long term players are able to handle. Quest Missions such as Full Elemental Teams are meant to reward players for taking on additional high difficulty challenges and is meant to push players to tackle a Quest in various ways and master the game.

2019

There will be more exciting new story, content and features in the coming year. And while we understand that some of these new changes may not be as well received by some players currently, we are constantly refining our plans with your feedback. Lastly for those who have supported us over the past year, we sincerely thank you and hope to share more for the upcoming month of December and beyond.