Right. So people are actually reading this. In fact, underestimated the attention this would actually get. 656 clicks from 44 individual countries to be precise. When you take out all the VPN’s it’s closer to 4, but i’m going to choose to believe the multicultural lie. I’m looking at you Mr/Mrs Costa Rica with your tasty full-access-to-all-content Netflix account.

A couple of noble shout outs to the folks over at Reddit who managed to make me semi-regret my John O’Shea comparison of Tyro. /u/RaIshtar suggested a starting five (well, four and a wildcard) to progress with and a couple of skills to aim for to close out all the basic content. Naturally, I stalked his previous post history to make sure he appeared to know what he was talking about and he certainly gets two thumbs fresh. This was also ratified by a whole host of winners, so Tyro is starting 5. Other notable mentions : /u/fifteen_two taught me to be a brave little soldier, /u/AstraSage gave me a pro tip over some mythril involving an upcoming banner for a certain Balamb delinquent, /u/Minandreas is concerned for my levels (as he should be), and /u/Fleadip has pretty much ensured i’ll never end up with a case of gastroenteritis again.

TL;DR: Sort out skills. Double Cut. Level up. Use Tyro. #mythrilforSeifer. Don’t be a pussy. Don’t get the chilli sauce.



So after all that fantastic advice, naturally the first thing I did was a 25 gem pull. If you’re wondering why I did this, you clearly didn’t read the blog title too carefully. Pulled Tifa’s UnSB and BSB. Shouldn’t be disappointed by a 5* relic pull, but we live in different times now. I guess she could make it into my flex slot in my starting five, but then I guess I could feed my eyes to hungry coyotes – it still doesn’t necessarily make it a good idea and at the risk of rustling many jimmies, I have never been a big Tifa fan.

Right. You’ve earned it, go on then, have a picture.

This is what I’ve got. Yes. That’s a Danjuro. I’ve never pulled a Katana. Those are some very well honed double cuts. I am weening myself off reta-meta since it doesn’t seem to be quite as powerful as I recall, and obviously there’s no Vit0 fuckery anymore either. May have to double cut the way to the top. Skills really have to be priority now, which means orbs and gil, both of which I have near enough none of. Wednesday dailies it is. This will give me a chance to shore up some equipment too which could do with a little upgrade TLC. So a couple of equip upgrades and then orbs for making Baron Trump Tyro great again. Also more double cut. My RM is terrible as I really don’t have other options, and at this stage, if I can get more attacks out, I take less damage since most things die in a double cut, so it will work for now. Tyro has pre-empt for emergency start of round healing.

First stop : Wednesday daily Gil+ to fix the 1/20 weapons and armour. The first run ended fairly predictably with 27 medals. Ovelia did get punched square in the face for an OHKO from the creepy muu squirrel things in the last run, but could be worse. Tidy 142k for mastery there, and barely a sniff of a challenge. On the back of this success, I figured i’d get my mildly homoerotic groove on, give the ++ map a shot and crushed it. /u/fifteen_two’s advice not falling on deaf ears. ++ dailies are now laughably easy. Have proceeded to master all other + dailies since to build that delicious mythril Seifer lure up.

As you have probably figured out, I am writing this entry over a number of days, and as such I’s event banner just dropped. Cleared all the normal dungeons just now, and am going to have a pop at getting those L2 memory crystals with my next refresh, which will begin with strangling Lich in his charity shop curtains that look like something my aunt had in her house in the early 90’s. She was a big fan of fortune teller fraud purple. And probably double cut. All this textile chopping also has the benefit of generating a ton of growth eggs too, which i’ll be a little more frugal with in distribution.

But anyhow, so far so good. Getting geared, got a couple of beneficial skills thanks to John O’Sheas dance lessons and just performed a home makeover to get Warrior of Lights crystal, which I wanted for ages and now no longer really need. Fook. But onward. Next time out, “tough” event content, some actual creative chest infection free satire, relearning Photoshop and maybe even a cheeky video. And double cut.

Cheers for reading, keep those comments coming.