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XIII Event Guide: Marluxia

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Hey everyone!  New event is up!  Apparently every 13th of the month from now on we’re going to be getting Organization events, which I think is pretty great.  They last a week, so be sure to keep up on those! 

This one is for our flower king Marluxia.  His strength is high, his cost is low, and he’s a free guilt.  He does more damage the more enemies die per stage, which is great for HSC.  He’s a little better and a little worse than Hydra/HT Sora, depending on how many enemies were killed, but definitely worth guilting for the lower gauge cost!

The downside: no rerolls!  Good luck!

In KH2 Final Mix, Marluxia would put a counter above your head to indicate a “death timer” based on how many attacks you’ve used against him.  In keeping with the spirit of his character, the enemy you fight - Wandering Spook - has a counter above his head.  Each attack against him - each attack, not each medal! - lowers the counter by one.  When it reaches zero, you get struck by a killing blow.  Second Chance can mitigate this, however.  So the goal is to use as few attacks to do the most damage!  If a medal goes beyond the number above his head (say you use a 13 hit medal on and he has four hits left) and it kills him, it does NOT kill you!  There are 13 stages, and in each stage the counter goes down by 3 (with one exception).

One turning does not matter at all.  All rewards are “complete without continue” and “use appropriate keyblade”.  The keyblade ones always reward 20 jewels (for a total of 260), so they are more like recommendations.  Additionally, killing every enemy in the room is also pointless (unless you need Special!)

Now that we know the rules, here’s the breakdown:

Stage - Counter - Reward
1: 50 - HDL
2: 47 - MM
3: 44 - *Marluxia*
4: 41 - HDL
5: 38 - *Marluxia*
6: 35 - MM
7: 32 - MM
8: 29 - *Marluxia*
9: 26 - Hairstyles!
10: 23 - *Marluxia*
11: 20 - *Marluxia* - If you’re having problems, use LL instead of Starlight

12: 17 - *Marluxia*
This is where it gets hard.  Instead of one Wandering Spook, there are two, each with a counter of 17.  Both of your enemies are Speed type and are level 180, so you should use Power medals.  

Good medals for this event are obviously buff medals (iKairi, Pooh, Piglet) but avoid J&S.  They use too many hits.  Fully buffed, Meowjesty (two hits) is still crazy strong and staggers hits amongst the two of them, so I recommend him.  Rock Titan (1 hit) and Cid (1 hit) are extremely helpful.  Even Riku Replica (two hits) and BC Mickey (1 hit) are great, even though they don’t have a type-advantage.

Don’t forget to use your Nova with +3 Strength!  

13: 13 - *Marluxia* - Title: No. XI
This time you only have one Spook, but there are nine Red Roses, too.  Everything is Level 200 and Power type.  Additionally, you only get 13 hits this time: not 14.

Same as before, use buff medals and no J&S.  Taking out the flowers is essential, because the Spook himself does very little damage.  A +3 Str. Jack (1 hit) will take them out, or a strong +3 Nova with a swipe or two.  Once the flowers are down, take your time with buffs and medals like Hag (1 hit) and Jack.  Antiform Sora is very useful (3 hits).  SDG (3 hits), Ill. Aerith (1 hit), Vexen (1 hit), CoM BC Riku (1 hit) and Halloween Donald (3 hits) are all great.  Wisdom Form (1 hit) and Magician Donald (1 hit) can be good if you have them guilted.  Though honestly, a combination of Jack, buffs, and good friend medals will do the trick.  It’s not a very hard mission: just takes some strategizing.

If worse comes to worse, Second Chance can save you for a turn and it will reset the counter to 13.  I encourage everyone to put up their best guilted medal with 1 or 2 hits or a Second Chance up for your friends!!

That’s it!  Good luck on your Marluxia rolls everyone!  Event ends 11/20!

<3 KCM

For Spanish Speakers~

It was brought to my attention today that reddit user HollowRiku actually transcribes my KHUX Theater Mode videos into Spanish for people who don’t speak English and still want to understand the full plot of KHUX!  I think this is an incredibly noble thing to do, and if you aren’t great at English or have Spanish-speaking friends, PLEASE recommend this blog:

http://www.khworld.org/iceberg/?centro=traduccionunchained

((For those who don’t know, KHUX Theater Mode is a collection of cutscenes relevant to the overarching plot of Kingdom Hearts Unchained x for iOS and Android, made for the convenience of people who can’t play the game or the players that skip all the dialogue.))

Chirithy and the Foretellers need to clear out a Corridor of Darkness in KHUX Theater Mode: Episode 18, and guess who got drafted?

KHUX Theater Mode presents the Moogle O’ Glory missions, where Donald and Goofy crash land into another rehashed plot arc!  

Hey guys.

I probably won’t be doing a guide for this HSC. I am at Youmacon for the next few days, then I have to take my GRE on Monday (which is like the SAT for graduate students). Then I have to relax for the first time in three months.

So I’m sorry!! ;_;

However if anyone is at Youmacon this weekend send me a message and we can meet up!! ^_^

November ‘16 Coliseum

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Alright let’s get started!  Coliseum is a little new this time around.  Instead of 10 tiers, they have 11, wherein Tier 10 has 10 rounds and Tier 11 goes to 999.  This is actually a good thing, but I’ll get to that in the rewards section.

So here’s the enemies:

x1: Speed
~Soldier x4
~Air Soldier
~Armored Archer x2 & Soldier x2
~Armored Archer & Soldier x2

x2: Power
~Dire Plant
~Dire Plant x3
~Gummi Hammer & Dire Plant x2

x3: Magic
~Minute Bomb
~Wizard x2 & Minute Bomb
~High Wizard & Wizard & Minute Bomb

x4: Speed (unless stated)
~Yellow Gummi Copter x4 (+1 S-Def)
~Red Gummi Copter (P) x2 (+1 P-Def)
~Aeroplane (+2 Def) & Yellow Gummi Copter x2 (+1 S-Def) & Red Gummi Copter (P) x2 (+1 P-Def)

x5: Power
~Bad Dog
~Bad Dog x3
~King Pretender & Great Pretender & Pretender

x6: Magic
~Darkball
~Darkball x2
~White Rose (+1 S-Def & Sleeping) & Red Nocturne & Yellow Opera & Blue Rhapsody & Violet Waltz

x7: Speed (unless stated)
~Blue Rhapsody (M) x2
~Bag O’ Jewels & Tornado Step x3
~Wibble Wobble & Bag O’ Jewels x3

x8: Power
~Shadow x7
~Mega-Shadow (-1 M-Def)
~Mega-Shadow (-1 M-Def)
~Mega-Shadow (-1 M-Def) & Shadow x4

x9: Magic (unless stated)
~Dire Plant (P)
~Fire Plant
~Ice Plant & Dire Plant (P) x2
~Dark Plant

x0: Speed (unless stated)
~Possessor (M) x4 *CAUTION*
~Creeper Plant x2
~Invisible

Strategies aren’t really a thing for coliseum anymore.  It’s mostly Sleep/Poison luck.  The Bad Dogs might be an issue with their paralysis.  The Invisible does more damage the lower it’s health, which will be a problem at high levels.  And that Aeroplane hits like a truck.  Everything else is pretty tame.

Rewards:

Each board costs 1,100, like every other week.  The in game notice tells you exactly what is on each board, so I won’t bore you.  But the titles are as follows:

Legend - completing Tier 10

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Amazing - Blue board

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Beefy - Pink board

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Because completing tier 10 gives 900 coins, you can fill out both boards and start your Tier 10 bonus board once you finish the Tier 10 missions.  This is 20 missions earlier than previous months, so they’ve technically made (non-competitive) Coliseum easier.  You’ll also get five Cids along the way, up from four.

As for ranked:

The top 2,500 this month get Defense Boost III, which is nullifying 80% of damage, up from the 66% of DB2.

The top 10,000 get DB2 and the Timothy Mouse Earrings, which look like little red dangling orbs.

Basically everyone gets the hat.

LASTLY!!!

Anyone who completes up to Tier 11 (which isn’t hard at all) before November 4th will get a Timeless River Mickey!  This was an event medal from the very start of the game, for completing one of the Lv. 140 Proud Quests in the first couple weeks.  At the time, it was impossible for a lot of people, so make sure to pick it up now!  TR Mickey is a fixed damage medal like Beast and KH2 Yuffie.

Additionally, until Nov. 4th, all Coliseum missions are 1AP to promote this event.

Thank you for reading!  And good luck this month!

<3 KCM

cinnamonchurro:

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 FCP mini acrylic stands that are pre-order bonuses for Japan! They are drawn by Tetsuya Nomura!

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom/khhd_fcp/special/

Illustrated Kairi

(Alternative Title: The Worst Luck in the World)

((Pics 2 and 3 are swapped for the visual appeal))