Pull Strategies

Resources

Gems: Use them when you must have the LD weapon, either because the character's role coverage is important to your specific roster, or because they are a favorite character. Tier lists do not exist in this game for a reason, so do not fully trust generic "Should You Pull" advice unless that person is familiar with your specific roster.

• Make sure you have 50,000 gems saved to guarantee (pity) that you can buy the LD weapon (or EX weapon if you already have the LD) by using 300 G tokens.

• An FR costs 75,000 gems (300G tokens) however in most cases you will also need the FR unit's BT (unless it's a really strong FR).

• For absolute favorites, reserve 100,000 gems to guarantee a BT weapon - there is no case to pity a BT weapon for roster balance purposes.

  • Note after March 2023, every updated character is supposed to get a BT. If you need a character's BT and FR weapon either have 50 BT tokens ready to get pity the FR (or get lucky) or have 100,000 gems and stop at 75,000 gems (or earlier) if you get the BT early and walk away with "only" an FR pity. 

Tickets are your more commonly used, go-to way of acquiring weapons, but they can't guarantee anything, so this is heavily luck based. The more tickets you save to get an LD weapon that you would like, the more gems you can save for your critical needs and favorites. Due to no ticket guarantee, it is important to be be prepared to walk away empty-handed. 

For players that want to manage their resources in a healthy manner, *gems and tickets* should never be mixed on a single banner. This is especially important for players that wish to remain "free-to-play"

IMPORTANT: Duplicate Pulling for beginners for 15/35cp weapons is ENCOURAGED. There is rarely a valid case to pull for new weapons if you can't MLB them. If you lack powerstones - prepare to pull for dupes/golds until you can MLB them. Do NOT worry about EX/LD dupes, since they have low drop rates, plan to use powerstones to max those. 

Note on FRs: While your roster will need FRs, some characters do not need their FR to function so unless it is a favorite unit or a strong FR you wish to use over the course of a long time, you can focus on getting just LDs and EXs still especially if the unit is useful as a call. 

• After March 2023 with the introduction of FR boards, units with FR boards have access to FR Echo and can use their FR ability during Force Time which can make things easier in endgame content.

With the addition of anniversary new player chocoboards new players have access to at least 275 Weapon Tokens, 60 EX power tokens, 10 LD tokens, 300+ power stones, and more* which is enough to build quite a bit of older units that recently passed. If you fall into this new category and have access to these chocoboards, your main goal is to focus a single copy of a current unit's LD (and/or BT if you really want to invest in a character) as that will allow you to pick up another unit's LD with tokens and you have plenty of power stones (12 needed to fully MLB any given weapon without dupes).

*If you just started, as of Dec 2022, there are about 2 MILLION gems and 10,000 tickets that can be acquired for free just from permanent content alone! If you participate on all of the events for the month it usually gives around 75,000 gems and around 200+ tickets on average.

If you went in with tickets, be ready to walk away empty-handed as switching to gems means you should have used gems in the first place and are wasting even more resources.

If you don't have gems to continue to pull to pity, you have wasted them, so consider skipping the banner and saving your gems.

Thanks to Nidre & FFOOtip.com, your resource management is now fully trackable in their planner! See your resource accrual up to current JP timeline and forecast the use of your gems, tickets & other resources! See the reddit post & release details here.