LEVIATHAN is HERE - Thoughts on Summon & Battle Rank Event - FF7 Ever Crisis
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Following up on my thoughts on Leviathan & the new Battle Ranking event in FF7 Ever Crisis. Wondering what everyone thinks: is content difficulty on point, or does it need some tweaking? And is this new event the sort of life the game needs? Let me know your thoughts!
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3:36 That has been my approach to the most difficult content so far. There's a degree of fun and engagement to building a party and taking down content, but EX stuff tends to feel less fun and more unfair. You just need to cover and do so much at the same time to be able to do it. Having to fight the game's auto system with your uncontrolled characters really kills the enjoyment too. I can juggle abilities use on one unit - I can't be bothered to swap between all 3 in time to effectively use their ATB before the AI farts it away. I'm borderline between dolphin/whale, and it's impacted my spending because it makes it feel like you need to spend so much more for niche things.
I think the new event structure is fine.
As for Leviathan EX1 maybe my team can give you an idea. Only standout piece is murasame ob10 but everything else is less than ob6. If other pieces are ob6 I’d guess murasame could easily be less than ob10
Cloud with Murasame and Bandaged Sword
Matt with Prime Number and Core Defender for healing and to help with MDEF buff
Red with Seaside Collar and Junk collar for breach and MATK debuff
What's extra nice is that Murasame has triangle sigil boost and Seaside Collar has X sigil boost so sigil phase is easy.
Last tip is I think his single target nuke hits the lowest max HP person. Hopefully someone else can confirm.
Anyway, I'm hopping into the Discord server now!
Nice! I tried almost the same team and weapons (but Matt with OB6 Centipede and OB1 Syringe Rapier) and it went well (I stay alive for some time) until my Cloud got nuked by Leviathan in like 2 hits (he had the lowest HP). I will adjust to give less HP to someone with Water Res. and MDEF and try again later. Much appreciate the tip!
Edit: Just did the EX1. Leviathan indeed focused on the person with the least amount of HP (My Matt with 40% Water Res.). Thank you very much for help!
Yup single target focus is always on the lowest max hp person. You can use that to your advantage to stack more water resist on that person and essentially force him to attack one person who will take less damage and it’s then easier to survive.
@@Takeshe36 awesome glad this little post helped. Grats!
This did help! I went with Aerith instead of Matt, but yes. Red was a superb suggestion! THANK YOU!
@@Nitelight9 awesome and grats!
I’ve completed ex 2 with cloud zack and red xiii. Murasame and bandaged sword for cloud, seaside collar and junk collar for red, and twinkling star and enhance sword for zack.
Red hits extra x sigils while cloud deals with triangle and zack is there to heal and debuff. You can skip his nasty phase if you interupt his tidal waves with LB’s during sigil break phase .
Personally i thought this ex 2 wasn’t as bad as previous 2 but i can see people obviously struggling if they don’t have the utility to take him on with . Hope this helps .
Thanks a lot! I did use a similar team (minus zack) to clear EX1 this morning. Have yet to try EX2, but I'm equal parts excited and nervous lol
Someone else mentioned it, but his single target attacks always target the person with the lowest max hp value. You can use that to your advantage by stacking more water resist on who has the least hp so you’ll have less issue healing back up after the attacks. I still found I had to switch to defense mode for each of those hits. Lucia and aerith are perfect for the role since they can mainhand their ramuh summon weapons for rank 5 boost water resist.
For the sigil phase, I got through it without having to heal by using quick charge limits on 2 characters to delay his attacks. The attack during the sigil phase is very slow and also takes a very long time to start casting again after he’s interrupted. I think I used 4 limits to delay during it and was able to survive that way without healing or needing to cast buffs. That might be their intention since so many of the characters have fast cast limits now with the rank 3 limit additions.
Outside of that the damage is the only real thing gating you that might be dependent on what you have and how strong your murasame is. Lightning resist down is pretty mandatory. A high potency debuff is preferred but you can also supplement that with lightning breach materia.
The fight took me a while but once you know some of those tips it gets easier to figure out how to build around, I’m sure you’ve got this!
I'll definitely use this advice and give it some more attention! Thank you!!
@@Nitelight9 no worries! I’m sure you’ve got ex1 at least after making some team adjustments. EX2 is another story 😂. The team I used was cloud straight lightning damage, red xiii with seaside collar and his mdef up weapon, and tifa with lifeguard wraps, matk down, and stacked with 2 pieces of water resist gear and the lowest max hp. I know other teams can work as long as you have those bases covered and some quick cast limits to help delay all the sigil break attacks.
I found you could drop clouds sanctuary as long as debuff is max you'll survive the hit.
Then if you are getting to the second round where mdef down is applied again (happens after the second round of sigils) taking Breath Of The Earth can be used to take that off instead.
Very nice tip! Thanks for letting me know!
I wouldnt mind the EX1 difficulty spike if you onlu got gems and icons/titles from it. What i dont like is that they lock tree progression behind it.
Yessss! I didn't mention that part, but this is what makes it not feel good to have to wait!
Got another comment, because you know me 😂
I like that they’re switching it up on us with the EX versions of the fight. At least, now that I know it’s happening. But, the disappointing thing is how much I thought I would need to focus on DPS, when really, there are people clearing these end game fights with only materia for their main DPS. That’s what I did with Bahamifrit EX2, anyway.
I know there will still be fights where we can break out those big guns, since less utility will be required. Or at least, I hope there will be. Good news is that my DPS weapons will be there and ready when the time comes.
I will also say that a break from the game really put things into perspective for me. I’m okay with not being able to beat these fights right away, because now I know I have something I can prog when I have a couple of hours to kill. Of course, it’s easy for me to say when I don’t have a channel to keep going (and therefore have to rush out a guide), but I wanted to share anyway, in case it’s a useful perspective for your enjoyment of the game and what you decide to do going forward. I will also say that, if you’re struggling with these endgame fights like I am, that means that plenty of others are as well, and my best guess is that they would still welcome a guide from you when you are feeling ready to make it.
Yeah, you really nailed it with this! I think sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to come out with a guide within 48hrs of new content, and sometimes that just isn't feasible. So, I'm just not going to worry about it.
And thinking back on how the devs have chosen to make content difficult, it was really back and forth. In the beginning, it was all about survivability (which is why I started using Tifa with all of her various debuffs), but then they started coming out with stuff like Seph Crash where you could not survive past a certain point and had to be able to dps race. So, naturally, people started pulling based off of this. This also applies currently to Bahamut EX2--Eventually, he will one shot you no matter what buffs and debuffs are up. So, I think they are going back to survival just because it is the easiest way to make content difficult again and to sell more crystals lol. I'm good with it, but sometimes I let it get to me.
@@Nitelight9 ahh good point. I’d forgotten that this is how things used to be lol. In the past, I was always beating things with just materia! The summary you provided on the progression of how they made things difficult is spot on, imo
I just joint tied on your current ranking 73788 score @Rank83 haha
Im fine with EX spike difficulty. Up to Vhard you are supposed to grind those so they made it easy which is great. Ex you need to clear once and done, and there are already f2p strats out there so nothing too difficult even for ex2.
New ranking was confusing at first with the daily and points, but now that i understand, i like the format.
Good perspective! Maybe I need to relax 😂
@@Nitelight9 I recommend this JP guy for inspiration, f2p clearing the most difficult content. Very impressive gameplay (and mdef materias!!)
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There are f2p clear runs on yt of Leviathan EX2 even without the murasame garb. It's all about juggling matk down, mdef up, lth res down.
It's not like this is any harder than Bahamut, Bahafrit, Shiva EX stages
To be clear, my main contention is that there is no sweet spot for difficulty, it's either done in
if you don't have lightning cloud your going to have a hard time that's for sure
Kind of feels bad to have invested invest in Lucias eath and thunder, both Leviathan and the brothers are highly magic resistant IE Built for Cloud and Yuffie. The Earth Aracanum still does well with bald eagle and a Earth pys Materia, fortananetly but my magic earth gun still hasnt gotten Any use ecludinging 1 Crisis dungeon
Yeah, there's been a few weapons along the way that just never got content where they were needed
I need a guide for the baha and Ifirt and baha vh2, I feel like he got stronger, he starts spamming unity aura at like 40-30% hp.
You & me both! I haven't tried VH2 in a bit, but I have not cleared that one yet. I think I need some certain weapons powered up a bit more before I can tackle that one.
@@Nitelight9 my poor tifa gets targeted each time. I’ve tried too much and I’m getting burned out lol
The end game is a different animal.
Ironically many content creators really shit the bed when it came to building expectations for end game. Everything was about DPS but the reality is you're going to eat shit at end game without survivability.
Players need to get them 4* materials with the big mdef/pdef stats.
Keep weapons that were ridiculed on your wishlist. Bandaged sword is an absolute staple for endgame essentially at OB6 with 3 ticks up.
Centipede is another one. Everyone should have that on their wishlist all the time. Mad Minute 3 Matk ticks down- plus best R abilities in the game. Stuff like this.
Yeah, bandaged sword was one I originally slept on and have been working on it here and there since. But Matt, in general, is someone I slept on way too much, and am paying the price just as you stated. Very insightful comment!
@@Nitelight9 Matt and Lucia in general are monsters for end game content. I don't have a single costume for either but both can be game breaking in regards to Bahex2 - Centipede and Mad Minute, plus the diamond sigils that gate keep certain phases.
Zack is another one people tend ignore, twinkling star is perhaps more instrumental than kujas blade but doesn't get the same kind of appreciation. You combine that with his ceremonial sword at OB6 and you're laughing, yet all people were fixated on was Zidane's sword or Tifa's cow girl gloves. Obviously great weapons but everything in end game is about killing two birds with one stone.
It's why I barely use Aerith anymore even though I own more costumes for her than anyone. She's a jack of all trades, master of none in end game
@@cwh-barr2441 Verrrry true words here. Those damn diamond sigil weapons are seriously annoying! It's very surprising that we haven't seen many more of those, seeing as Hornet came out in like what, the second month of the game? And its a huge deal to have one like that with dps stats
@@Nitelight9 lmao, you aren't joking. I have no idea what applibot what were thinking with that shit
You've got Matt with 2x sources of it. Lucia with a weapon that does physical damage with MATK r abilities. And then Tifa and Barret are the only two FFVII characters with a source. With most people wanting to build Tifa for pure DPS or Matk down in this situation.
Like just make that shit a materia before you lose your entire player base lmao
@@cwh-barr2441 YES!!! The worst part about this is that if you aren't a super whale, it truly forces/limits what comps you can even consider to try to clear Bahamut 2 and Baha/Ifrit. Not fun if you didn't go for those weapons.
im starting to feel burnt out... i am too lazy to log on when that happens i usually stop playing the game =(
I get it. I truly do. Sometimes it helps me to take like an entire week off and then when you come back, maybe it feels fresh again?
i also feel like that. They already released shiva with those noble memories and they are horroble to grind. Too less drops for the immensive amount you need. And without any adjust or QoL we have the same on levi now...
@@0nionKnightlp yeah, this is why quality co-op partners are going to be huge for the future co-op summons. Best way to get those memories
@@0nionKnightlp if you set up the team properly it's super quick . i auto grinded them all, the VH3 fights are actually a lot easier than 1/2 to autogrind . also , for some reason that day i was getting cactuars left and right lol . tho i did end up cleaning out almost all my saved up stamina pots
Can’t even bind with him. Can’t find anyone to even play one co op with me. It’s like no one is even playing anymore.
I'll be honest, I play nearly all of my co-ops with randos. At least 90% of them. Join my discord. I'll help you if I'm on when you are.
Do co open in event it counts to
Idk if it's just me but I find the game is getting boring now..... Been playing since release everyday I would say. But I am on the edge of quitting.
I get it. I think a ton of day one players are feeling this way. I've been fighting it for sure. But I really like the IP, so I'm going to stick around as long as possible
new event is saved by brothers boss..... without that boss this event is a complete whale kraken territory next time we ll see this event as real it s lol
without brothers boss... for levi i did ex1
Yeah, they threw us for a bit of a loop with the title of the event. I was thinking lightning and wind would be the needed attributes, not water and earth.. the two most whale elements of them all haha
@@Nitelight9 do brothers boss u can get 70k easily with arcanum