No new characters, but Rinoa might as well be, as she finally gets a powerful relic with some staying power for the first time in forever.
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New Legend Dives
Seifer: +1000 HP, +35 ATK, +30 DEF, +30 RES, Minor Confuse Resist, Minor Dark Resist, Dark Damage +9%
Fujin: +700 HP, +20 ATK, +25 DEF, +40 MAG, +25 RES, Minor Sleep Resist, Minor Wind Resist, Wind Damage +9%
New Legend Materia
Seifer LM1 “Disturbed Deserter”: Increases Dark damage dealt by 10%
Seifer LM2 “Obsession for Victory”: Grants Last Stand and Reraise: ?% at the beginning of the battle
Fujin LM1 “Sharp Wind”: Increases Wind damage dealt by 10%
Fujin LM2 “Godspeed Fighting Style”: 30% chance to grant Quick Cast 3 to the user after using a Wind attack
Banner 1
Squall USB (1/14%)
Relic “Ice Brand”: Sword, RS +Ice
Soul Break “Brutal Shell”: Ice/NE
Nine single attacks (0,83 each), grants High Quick Cast 2“High Quick Cast 2” [ID:2021] Cast speed x3,00, lasts for 2 turns and EX: SeeD to the user
Key Statuses “EX: SeeD”: Casts Blasting End after using two Spellblade abilities for 15 seconds
Key Effects “Blasting End”: PHY, Physical, Ice/NE
Four group attacks (0,65 each)
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Seifer USB (1/14%)
Relic “Almasy Flametongue”: Sword, +Fire
Soul Break “Forbidden Demon Slice”: Dark/Fire
Seven single attacks (0,94 each), multiplier increases as HP decreases, grants Attach Dark to the user, restores HP to the user for 70% of their maximum HP
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Squall BSB2 (1/14%)
Relic “Axis Blade”: Sword
Soul Break “Steely Blade”: Ice/NE, Eight single attacks (0,83 each), grants Haste, Attach Ice and Burst Mode to the user
C1 “Draw & Junction”: Ice/NE, Spellblade, Two single attacks (0,40 each)
C2 “Löwen Roar”: Ice/NE, Spellblade, 4/5/6/7 single attacks (0,54/0,89/1,05/1,25 each) scaling with Draw & Junction uses, +0/5/10/25% critical chance
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Seifer BSB (1/14%)
Relic “Almasy Sheer Trigger”: Sword
Soul Break “Sorceress’s Knight”: Dark/NE, Eight single attacks (0,96 each), grants Haste, Sentinel“Sentinel” [ID:502] DEF +200%, taunts single-target PHY and BLK attacks for 25 seconds and Burst Mode to the user
C1 “Desperate Madness”: Dark/NE, Darkness, Four single attacks (0,56 each), Desperate Madness“Desperate Madness” [ID:6015] DEF -50%, RES -25% for 30 seconds and Radiant Shield 100/125/150/175/200/225/250/275/300% to the user
C2 “Downfall”: Dark/NE, Darkness, Heals the user for 20% of the damage dealt
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Quistis BSB (1/14%)
Relic “Quistis’s Dress”: Light Armor
Soul Break “Hail to the Queen”: Poison/NE, Eight random attacks (1,88 each), grants Haste, Attach Poison and Burst Mode the user
C1 “Cloying Fragrance”: Poison/NE, Black Magic, Four single attacks (2,17 each), causes Poison (7%), Blind (7%), Silence (7%) and Confuse (7%)
C2 “Vile Ichor”: Poison/NE, Black Magic, Two group attacks (3,09 each), grants Stitch in Time to the user for 20 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Squall LMR (1/14%)
Relic “Lion Gloves”: Bracer
Legend Materia “Fangs of the Lion”: Grants Attach Ice at the beginning of the battle
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Seifer LMR (1/14%)
Relic “Seifer’s Guise”: Light Armor, +Dark
Legend Materia “Relentless Assailant”: ATK +3% for each hit taken by damaging attacks, up to +35%
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Laguna SSB2 (2/14%)
Relic “Vega”: Light Armor
Soul Break “Freezing Barrage”: Ice, Seven group ranged attacks (0,85 each), causes Imperil Ice 20% for 25 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Seifer SSB2 (2/14%)
Relic “Seifer’s Gloves”: Bracer, +Dark
Soul Break “Death by Committee”: Dark/Lightning/Wind, Eight single attacks (0,92 each), DEF -30% to the user for 25 seconds, ATK and MAG +30% to all allies for 25 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Quistis SSB (2/14%)
Relic “Red Scorpion”: Whip
Soul Break “Mighty Guard (VIII)”: Grants Shell, Haste and High Regen to all allies
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Selphie SSB (1/14%)
Relic “Crescent Wish”: Rod
Soul Break “Dreamstage”: Restores HP (85), grants Magical Blink 1 to all allies
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Banner 2
Rinoa CSB (1/14%)
Relic “Conformer”: Thrown
Soul Break “Shiva”: Ice, Eleven single attacks (1,63 each), minimum damage 543, Ice Chain +20%, grants Quick Cast 2 to all allies
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Fujin OSB (1/14%)
Relic “Engetsurin”: Thrown, RS +Wind
Soul Break “Self-Taught Tornado Zone”: Wind/NE, Breaks damage cap, 42,50 multiplier if exploiting elemental weakness
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Rinoa BSB2 (1/14%)
Relic “Crystal Cross”: Thrown
Soul Break “Angel Wing Icetomb”: Ice/NE, Eight group attacks (1,80 each), grants Haste, Attach Ice and Burst Mode the user
C1 “Truespell Freezeground”: Ice/NE, Black Magic, Four single attacks (2,00/2,25/2,55 each) at 650/1200 MAG
C2 “Truespell Mageruin”: Witch, MAG -40% for 20 seconds, MAG +30% to the user for 20 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Fujin BSB (1/14%)
Relic “Fujin’s Shin-Chakram”: Thrown, +Wind
Soul Break “Metsu”: Wind/NE, 0CT, Five group attacks (2,40 each), MAG and RES -40% for 25 seconds, grants Haste and Burst Mode to the user
C1 “Shitsu”: Wind/NE, Half Cast Time, Black Magic, Four single attacks (2,25 each)
C2 “Hakai”: Wind/NE, Half Cast Time, Black Magic, RES -30% for 15 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Edea BSB (1/14%)
Relic “Valkyrie”: Thrown
Soul Break “Maelstrom”: Ice/Dark, Eight single attacks (1,88 each), grants Haste, Attach Ice and Burst Mode to the user
C1 “Glamour of Ice”: Ice/Dark, Black Magic, 3/4/5/6 single attacks (2,00 each) at 726/1133/1205 MAG
C2 “Astral Force”: Ice/Dark, Black Magic, Two group attacks (3,09 each), grants Stitch in Time to the user for 20 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Rinoa LMR (1/14%)
Relic “Arm Warmers”: Bracer, Minor Fire Resist
Legend Materia “Fated Witch”: MAG +1% for each hit dealt with damaging BLK attacks, up to +20%
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Fujin LMR (1/14%)
Relic “Fujin’s Bracer”: Bracer, +Wind
Legend Materia “Raging Wind”: Grants Attach Wind at the beginning of the battle
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Rinoa SSB2 (2/14%)
Relic “Rinoa’s Guise”: Light Armor, +Earth
Soul Break “Angelo Strike”: Earth/NE, Five group attacks (2,82 each), grants Attach Earth to the user
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Fujin SSB (2/14%)
Relic “Fujin’s Jacket”: Light Armor, +Wind
Soul Break “Zan”: Wind/NE, Eight single attacks (2,14 each), grants Attach Wind to the user
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Raijin SSB (2/14%)
Relic “Raijin’s Shoulderpad”: Light Armor, +Lightning
Soul Break “Aura”: Grants Instant Cast 1, Last Stand and High Regen to all allies
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Edea SSB2 (1/14%)
Relic “Sorceress’s Gown”: Robe
Soul Break “Time Crush”: Dark, Five single attacks (3,56 each), causes Imperil Dark 20% for 25 seconds
Description: This is my description.
Recurrence: None
Rating: 50/100
Banners Overview
Banner 1: Physical Ice focus. Physical Dark and magical Poison. Medica and Utility. Good CM low end.
Banner 2: Magical Ice focus. Magical Wind. Almost entirely magical with a large amount of elemental equipment. Complimentary low end.
Until the next FF8 event or Super Fest, these two banners will be the most concentrated places to find tools for your nascent Ice team. The banners only ask you whether you want physical or magical. Banner 2 has an advantage here because its supplement is the excellent Wind mage Fujin, while the first is stuck with an average tier dark knight in Seifer.
In fact, due to Banner 2’s abundance of elemental equipment, notably on its low end to soften the blow of not drawing your most desired relics, it’s difficult to find any advantages the first holds at all. The only one that comes to mind is that the CM Trinity exists in the low end, with a boostga/faithga, a medica, and a hastega. This stuff will make CMs a joke, but you could argue that the magical power of the second banner would do just as well of a job with the right RW to assist, and a low end that contributes in any synergy due to elemental equipment.
Rating Banner 2 higher than the first is an easy decision here. Rinoa’s CSB and Edea’s BSB are two of the most powerful Ice tools we have available, and Fujin claims the same for Wind. Rinoa’s BSB2 is competent and a fine consolation if you miss her CSB.
Ultimately, due to Squall’s lackluster EX: Seed and the presence of Seifer, the first banner can’t compete but is still an option if you’re in the game to develop Squall and prefer physical Ice.