Yes, I can finally run ELT with my most "efficient" team, which is: CG Nicky, CG Jake, 2x Lv 100 Chiz & Lv 60 Chiz + Friend Unit which gives a total of 525%. The difference was that I gave the Chiz's DW + a Kazekiri so their double phantom shadows chain elementally. I also enhanced jake enough to get dueling, which is better than the pathetic normal damage he was doing at L7.
I got all the missions done for LGD, but that with my 2x OKs + Sephy. It still gave a bonus of 300% (w/Friend Unit), but I found the rewards were basically the same as running ELT with the 525% team. So it made sense to just run ELT since it cost less NRG, even with the slightly lower chance of getting bunnies.
Speaking of which, you are so lucky! I've only seen 1 rabbit, total. And I forgot to libra it! But the one time I did get it the rewards was 12K bokken, which was crazy!
Yay, thanks for being cool about arena & Ayaka. Maybe this will give you some hints too?
I'm always making sure I have 5 orbs at the refresh (not just Friday, but everyday), since I want to make sure I get the coliseum quest, otherwise I just only run the arena.
Staying under 20K isn't an issue, I'm usually between 10K-15K. Right now I'm at 6K, and that's from only going against the top team on my list. But the jump is CRAZY getting to 3K; I just don't know how many refreshes they go through to get those kind of numbers. It doesn't seem that worth it for just 2 more mini-pots. Going for 30K, that's definitely worth it with the King Pot, and achievable without paid refreshes.
So my Ayaka is geared with Rikku's Pouch and Frozen Hurricane. That's really key. The rest of the team is Amielia & Emilia, Rem & Noctis.
My current setup basically can cover any week because the restrictions have little effect on them. Ayaka & Rem have ribbons.
The sisters run with ricochets, with Man-killer + ice elemental chains they can do more than 999 dmg, and inflict stop at the same time.
Rem is a total MAG build and just constantly Siphon Delta's the enemy to neuter them. Unless they have over 650 MP or so, they're all drained to 0 MP after the first attack.
Noctis runs blizzard flask with Ayaka's Frozen hurricane.
So basically you have 4 elemental chaining multi-attacks which all stop-spam. Unless they have an Ayaka they're all frozen and drained within 3 turns or so.
If ice attacks are banned Noctis goes Fire Flask and Ayaka throws chaos grenades. If the enemies don't have ribbons the fight is over right away.
The only counter to this is LBs, i.e. CG fina's. She's the only real threat since her counter gives some serious LB crystals, and she can spam her LB almost every turn. But even if something happens Ayaka can heal status ailments with Rikkus pouch (because Esunaga doesn't cure petrify)or raise the entire team if they were wiped, so there's really nothing that I can think of that can counter this. Even 100% evade teams can't handle this since all the attacks are abilities
The best part is that you can just hit repeat, so you can literally go do something else while running arena. The only time you have to do something is if someone gets petrified/etc, the you just use Rikku's pouch, then go back to Ice attacks. I'm debating whether to get a 3rd ribbon for one of the maids. In any case it think it's my "perfect" setup because it's effective and basically runs itself.
How's your strategy?
