Mobile Game Mondayyyy

(yes it's tuesday, but i had a hecking colonoscopy yesterday, so we're doing both of my posts today)

happy Mobile Game Monday! What's in your wallet?

[FFRK] - last week was ridic so i haven't been doing much except sporadically farming orbs, until yesterday... when i took another stab at Dark Dragon Magicite and suddenly found myself with a sub-30 clear thanks to Orlandeau USB and two copies of Assault Sabre plus Agrias OSB. Dang! I managed to skip the Fang that usually instant KOs a character consistently, so now I have to rework my strategy (which was based on sacrificing Shelke) to be even more consistent, and then I have a great way to farm dem Dark Orbs.

I haven't gotten many great relics from the 5-myth Realm Parade draw, but I did land braska USB and Vanille LMR, as well as Relm USB which looks pretty promising. (not as promising: Strago OSB, a couple dupes, and some SSBs.) I have some vague ideas for starting to rebuild my elemental teams, meaning SPREADSHEETS,,,,,, why do I exist

I need to catch up on events this week, as well as continue on Torments -- I took a break once I found out I had more time, but I need to keep pushing on them because it's less than a month now!

There's supposedly a great Summer Fest coming up, so resist the urge and save that mythril!!

[FFBE] - the grind continues. I have had little luck on banners lately, but I did end up with the cute witch from the Nichol banner and managed to pull Lotus Mage Fina (I've now gone from Tilith to Ayaka to LM Fina; I have healers out the ass). I'm sitting on 5000 lapis and I want to pull on the Nichol banner again for the trust moogles, BUT I am sitting on it until the anniversary.

I'm finishing up the ongoing events; only grinding the raid until I get enough Dark Orbs to craft a second sword, and then I'm done with that. I'm still grinding Mog King FFIV for some of the TMs, the burst pots, and the cactuars, but that's all I have left. (Ended up with a party of Yangs + Kunshira for my clear team, plus the highest % unit I can find on my FList.) Then next is that story event, who will compete for stamina with my desire to actually finish chapter 1 of the fucking story mainly to treat Fryevia with that 100% moogle, yes yes.

Also need to finish enhancing Frye and consider enhancing Reberta. She looks like a really fun powerhouse, but her enhancements are soooooo expensive...

[LN] - I got super behind on this due to the crazy last week and my butt-prep weekend. I'm really at this point just trying to do dailies and farm for the outfits I have listed until I have some more mental space to advance it. I'm almost into the last chapter in Maiden so that's going well at least.

how about you? What was your best win this week?

New Tunes Tuesday!

Alright, New Tunes Tuesday it is, and I have a couple things to toss out at you ....

Artist: Lights
Album/Song to Try: Skin&Earth, Intro/Skydiving, New Fears, We Were Here
Style: somewhat ethereal alt-pop
Thoughts: Spotify threw me a Lights song on one of my radio channels, and I was immediately intrigued at the similarity to Ellie Goulding, who still holds a special place in my heart. Lights' Skin&Earth is sort-of like Ellie's first album Lights (hilarious!), which has this amazing ethereal-crystalline feeling to its complex lyrics and strung-out harmonies, met up with Ellie's disappointingly-trite pop-dance thing she called a third album, and created a child. Lights' lyrics are nowhere near the intricate depth of Ellie's first album, and her feel isn't quite as layered or deep, but there are echoes of that amazing album throughout Skin&EEarth, which just has a really cool feel, and has brought me back to it over and over this last week.

Artist: Gin Wigmore
Album/Song to Try: Gravel & Wine, "Black Sheep", "Man Like That"; Blood To Bone, "New Rush", "Nothing to No One"
Style: uniquely gravely-expressive voice spins rhythm over a combination of folk, pop, rock, dance
Thoughts: I don't know how to describe Gin Wigmore's voice other than awesome. She goes for it like few artists are able, and manages to wrangle around a dozen different styles - sometimes in one song. Obviously I like her more ragged, driving song with a beat and a purpose, but she hits soft and winsome often enough. Almost everything I've heard of hers is just plain good.

So far your suggestions have been GREAT - keep 'em coming. Let's talk tunes!