"Firecrest and glass pumpkin are now available for purchase"

[HyoMinPark]

The only reason I validate myself buying these if I decide too, is the fact that I've been to 197-198 multiple times and always get screwed by gloom/no skills/no healing/no items even had all those at once before, without a way to remove them..but yeah I already knew this would bother people...it does suck a bit because I even wanted to work for it and it's clear by the start of this post how that went lol...edit if it is purchasable only for those who cleared floor 200 then -shrug- that's fair tbh lol

I wiped myself a lot on those floors, but usually to unlucky trap triggers. What my group did was we basically saved our Serenity pomanders unless we hit a floor that was a combination of Gloom/Items Unavailable/Auto-Heal Disabled (unless we happened to find one in a coffer), so we went into 191 with 3 Serenity pomanders. Starting at 193, we also alternated between popping Sight and Safety pomanders for each floor, so that we would either see the traps, or not have to deal with them at all. We got lucky to land an additional Sight for floor 197 (because we were cautiously going through it without one due to miscalculation), and for 199, we actually ended up with the Gloom/No Items/No Auto-Heal floor effect (which we all just sat there and laughed about for a good minute because of course the last floor would throw us a curveball like that), and had 3 Serenity pomanders ready to use. So I'd recommend saving your Sight and Safety pomanders until Floor 194, and then alternate between activating one per floor all the way to 199. We tried to stay stocked up on as many pomanders as possible, and only popped crucial ones if we absolutely had to.

On-topic: I'm really hoping it's a Glass Pumpkin --> Firecrest exchange, or something where people can only buy them if they've cleared Floor 200. I already know my rant and concerns are premature, and I don't have any issues admitting that they are. But it made me feel better to just rant about it, premature or not. If my rant was for nothing, well, it is what it is. I felt better just ranting about it, and some times that's just all you need. Now I'm just impatient and waiting for 2am PST so I can start Stormblood!

[UnstablePersonality]

I wiped myself a lot on those floors, but usually to unlucky trap triggers. What my group did was we basically saved our Serenity pomanders unless we hit a floor that was a combination of Gloom/Items Unavailable/Auto-Heal Disabled (unless we happened to find one in a coffer), so we went into 191 with 3 Serenity pomanders. Starting at 193, we also alternated between popping Sight and Safety pomanders for each floor, so that we would either see the traps, or not have to deal with them at all. We got lucky to land an additional Sight for floor 197 (because we were cautiously going through it without one due to miscalculation), and for 199, we actually ended up with the Gloom/No Items/No Auto-Heal floor effect (which we all just sat there and laughed about for a good minute because of course the last floor would throw us a curveball like that), and had 3 Serenity pomanders ready to use. So I'd recommend saving your Sight and Safety pomanders until Floor 194, and then alternate between activating one per floor all the way to 199. We tried to stay stocked up on as many pomanders as possible, and only popped crucial ones if we absolutely had to.

On-topic: I'm really hoping it's a Glass Pumpkin --> Firecrest exchange, or something where people can only buy them if they've cleared Floor 200. I already know my rant and concerns are premature, and I don't have any issues admitting that they are. But it made me feel better to just rant about it, premature or not. If my rant was for nothing, well, it is what it is. I felt better just ranting about it, and some times that's just all you need. Now I'm just impatient and waiting for 2am PST so I can start Stormblood!

Yeah that's basically what we did for the most part but sadly it wasn't enough, we even had flights going and saved up for smoother clear of 199, basically for almost all intensive purposes we had cleared.