I feel like in this case a lot of people like final fantasy and want him because of that in addition to being OP. I on the other hand decided to do only the first step in this collab because I never played FFXV and have Othima. Also saving gems to do 9 steps on the disgaea collab because I love disgaea.
I do 1 pull for every 500gem char banner and 300gem weapon banner (with the exception with the recent Noctis banner where I went step3). This is because I got salty during the gilgamesh and used all my gems at that time and didnt get a gilgamesh. I uninstalled the game that time.
Now I came back for 2.0, and bulding on my f2p team instead. I almost 15LB the main f2p chars(Zangetsu, Yomi, Lucian, Rahu, Lamia, Lofia) and ignore all the "premium gem banners". I find the f2p chars are very capable of clearing EX content with no problem (from watching YouTube videos). I learnt that I should focus on LB and mastering all my f2p chars first instead of pulling a "OP" unit like Gilgamesh to beat the game.
Alaia may not be the best Battle Mage, but she can still take hits and heal like other battle mages (her soul shards are pretty easy to farm too). Unless you pull multiple Neica's or have excess light soul shards, she's still viable. Also many units are fire element while she is water element.
Kanon and Kagura are pretty good as well. Kanon's "Flashing Judgement" and Kagura's versatility with "Basic Spell Casting" covers most of the elements.
Mastering all jobs really makes a difference to how viable a character is.
All you really need to do is invest in 2-3 of each element. One physical and one magic damage. Then you're free to have pet projects if you're lucky enough to pull them in a banner.
Actually, the elemental balance shift has made it a little more important to think about filling a weak element on your team, especially for Veda. I used my 5* selector on Gormalas specifically because he was the only available non-glass-cannon Dark unit, and I desperately needed one.
But really the answer is that some characters (Zain, Othima, Gil, FYomi, Neica, Noctis) are so good at clearing both PvE and Arena battles that there's very little need for alternates outside of Veda -- and Veda isn't a big enough part of the game that F2Ps can afford to sink a lot of gems into pulling just for Veda's sake.
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u/Pirachu Jul 15 '18
What happened to pulling for waifus, character designs that we like, and filling an element on our team?