Let's play FFT 1.3 Easytype Complete

[The Thin Man]

One more reader here.

 

[Desmodus Rotundus]

I check this thread from time to time, and by check I mean I actually read through it all pretty much.

 

[betamin]

I read it sometimes too, if its too taxing for you maybe you should try to make the updates shorter or try and describe the action in a simplified way (less pictures and more text should give you less trouble)

 

[Ulminati]

Read it whenever I see new posts

 

[spekkio]

6 readers only? I'm soooo gonna abandon this!



[/andy]

12. Araguay Woods

From l2r: Guzu, WC and Bee

It's choco time!

Ramza decides that we should try helping the bird

Enemies - 5 goblins:

Fucking

Most of random encounters are much more difficult...
Still - fuckers can revive each other, so caution is advised.

a) Things that went well:

Almost everything

b) Problems:

1) With every attack, goblins were becoming stronger and stronger

Which could lead to:

2) Some goblins could use revive:

No biggie, since we were able to kill them quick enough - they can revive, but can't heal



3) Their 'Bloodfeast' attack was strong, but rarely accurate

4) Agrias was able to damage+Stop WC at some point

Radiant AI...

c) AWESOME / FUUU moments:

The only unit able to revive others without problems was Guzu, who got KOed. Monks would be able to revive her, but their 'Revive' has 0h range:

Luckily for Guzu, we were able to kill all enemies before she crystallized

Big bird gets kicked out

d) Units' performance:

Ramza:

1) God of block - at the beginning he was able to block 3 attacks in a row

2) Lifefont was useful

3) 100% accuracy thanks to Concentration, weak but fixed damage

And when critical kicked in

Guzu:

1) Powerful caster (Ifrit/Shiva)

2) And healer

WC - strong ranged unit, but doing less damage than Bee due to worse crossbow (Aim+3):

Bee - strong ranged unit (Aim+1):

We go back to the map - another difficult battle awaits us:

Bee learns Aim+3, WC learns 'Steal Heart' and switches to thief:

So far I was convinced that story battles scale to Ramza's level.
But after testing next battle, I realized that it's not the case - enemies seem to scale to the level of our best unit that participates in the battle (Lv. 16 - Bee and WC) - they are around level 14-16:

And the Boss is Lv. 21 (details - even his brave/faith - change depending on our team):

Yeah - Gaff mysteriously gained 9 levels and godlike equipment / abilities.



Since Ramza and other units are ~Lv 12, I decide to do...

MOAR grindan!

All units should grind to level 16.

And grind they did!

Ramza

Even when under enemy control (Confuse), his priorities were unchanged:

Yeah - fucker kept attacking enemies till his status went off!

He switched back to archer for some time

Later, he switched to monk

Which, combined with Aim, was a good idea:

He switched to dragoon when this job became available

Learned: Move +2, Poach, Equip Crossbows, Concentration, HJump+2, VJump+2

Bee

Not that great as archer

But her monk's skills were very useful

Switched to thief

Got a chance to increase her taffing skills (to switch to dragoon ASAP)

Learned: Steal Heart, Aim+5, HJump2, VJump2

WC

Competent thief

But he switched to Dragoon later

Learned: Move +2, HJump2, VJump2, Aim+5

Steve

He was a decent caster

Esp. after learning Bahamut:

Faced crisis of faith

Was useful in defense thanks to Titan

And was able to mass-revive allies thanks to Faerie

Learned (some of it through spirit devouring): Bahamut, Halve MP, Protect, Shiva, Faerie, Float, Throw Items, Sylph, Move +2, Carbuncle, Odin

Guzu

Was able to troll some undead with healing spells

Her reviving and healing abilities were unmatched in the team

Became even more dangerous after learning Bahamut:

Was damn lucky at one point:

Having Faith increased by Sov's Belief, she was even more powerful (Cura):

Learned (some of it through spirit devouring): Bahamut, Halve MP, Steal Heart, Steal Helm, Steal Shield, Magicksap, Blitz, Vigilance, Move +2, Jump+2, Poach, Golem, Odin, Lich

DR

Could fuck enemies up using regular attacks

Thanks to his 'Poach' ability, he was able to take many scalps:

His 'Jump' ability wasn't that great since he could attack only adjacent units (I left his dragoon JP untouched). Plus it was weaker than using Aim:

But this skill has great defensive potential - when targeted by powerful enemies, he can simply use Jump, and with some luck, avoid an attack + rape the attacker

Learned (through spirit devouring): Cura, Raise, Thunder, Ether, Hi-Ether

Sov

Real ass-kicker thanks to vide array of his Mystic Arts:

Tough motherfucker, since he's almost self-reliant when it comes to MP - he can always steal some MP from enemies (as long as he has 2 MP left)

After learning Belief he inclined further - by being able to buff/debuff casters:

And casters with strong Faith can be useful (Steve+Shiva):

After learning most of Mystic's abilities, he switched to Orator:

But these skills aren't very useful ATM

Learned (some of it through spirit devouring): Repose, Fervor, Harmony, Move +2, Belief, Magicksap, Hi-Ether, Aim+1, Elixir, Remedy, Auto-Potion, Throw Items, Disbelief, Entice, Intimidate

Anyway...

All units reached level 18 (except Bee - Lv 19)

Tested next story battle and got this:

So it looks that enemies scale to the level of our 'best unit' (Bee), but with an exception of the boss (who went from Lv. 21 to Lv. 24).

But that's not going to stop us!



Since there's only one enemy who can steal our shit, we should use best equipment:

Ramza:

Bee switches to Dragoon:

WC:

Steve:

Guzu:

DR:

Sov goes back to his main job (so he can use items):

Alrighty, sisters and bros!

We need 3 soldiers for the upcoming story battle. Who wants to go?

 

[Ulminati]

Warcupine stands ready to fist!

 

[procrastinator]

6 readers only?

We need 3 soldiers for the upcoming story battle. Who wants to go?

I want to go, but I'm not really sure on how many soldiers do I represent?..


Also

 

[Crooked Bee]

A dragoon? That's cool!

I wanna go!!

And grind they did!

 

[Damned Registrations]

Oooh send me. And learn horizontal jump 5 + vertical jump 3.

Also, if you keep up this pace of grindan you're going to regret it later. Since monsters don't get equipment, their stats scale MUCH faster than humans with level, and levels don't improve your equipment. Well, luckily you have more than enough units to rotate so you won't get overlevelled just by doing necessary battles anyways.

Edit: Curse you timezone! Oh well. I'll steal the show when next equipment set becomes available.

 

[The Thin Man]

Damnit! Missed the cut again!

 

[Crooked Bee]

Moar!

 

[spekkio]

^

 

[Ulminati]

ANDYMAN!?

 

[spekkio]

I want to go, but I'm not really sure on how many soldiers do I represent?

At least 2,5.

If you keep up this pace of grindan you're going to regret it later

Well, we had to gain some useful abilities after all. But from now on I'm only going to equalize units' levels - most of them have reached their destination jobs or are almost there...

 

[spekkio]

BMP

 

[spekkio]

Let's prepare for the upcoming battle!

Ramza equips best available stuff and chooses AoW

WC should use Aim

Guzu and Bee - Items:

Let's hit 'em!

13. Zeirchele Falls

Video 24. Zeirchele Falls - Before the Battle

(notice another broken sprite shapeshifter):

Enemies:

Pumped-up Gaff:

And 5 dragoons using different secondary action abilities

At least Delita and Ovelia (guests) look decent as well:

At the beginning of the battle, we have to bear more DRAMA...

:/

Fortunately, we were able to shut Gaff up eventually:

a) What went well:

1) Killing enemies wasn't that difficult, and since there was only one unit able to revive others with items:

This battle was long, but not that difficult.

2) Gaff tried reviving his Bros using Chant, but was mostly failing

3) Our gangbang technique was doing wonders

b) What didn't go well:

1) When attacked (even if not hit) enemies often countered with Dragonheart:

2) Gaff was raping us (but mainly Guzu) using his both Sword skills

c) AWESOME / FUUU moments:

1) Guzu started casting Golem

But Gaff decided to intervene using Duskblade

After some turns she tried it again, but once more:

2) She tried to summon Bahamut

But was once again interrupted

3) Eventually, she was able to cast Golem

Which showed his usefulness right away

d) Units' performance:

1) Ramza:

Tried using Rend ONLY once

With great success

But this brought the enemy from 267 HP to 167 HP.

:D

He was also powerful hitter, even without aim

Thanks to his concentration, he was also our main executioner

Eventually, he prevented Gaff from using his Sword skills by stealing all his MP with MagickSap

Inclined by spirit eating:

2) WC:

Was kicking much ass using jump

And Aim

He was also hard as fuck to kill

But he was the only unit who lost a part of equipment (helmet)

In the final phase of the battle, he was able to finish off two enemies

And feast upon their spirits (2nd one gave only 'Recover HP/MP):

3) Guzu:

It required some Ethers (wasted by our dear guests ), but she got a chance to kick some ass both in offensive

and defensive

4) Bee:

Not as strong in melee as Ramza or WC, but decent enough

When she was able to hit something, that is...

She could also revive / heal

She found a new dress

And put it on right away

5) Agrias:

Her sword skills were useless against Gaff (huge gap in levels)

And way too weak against regular enemies

But she grabbed a treasure for us

6) Delita:

His Holy Knight skills looked impressive on screen:

But he wasn't able to KO anybody (decline, since during my training attempt he was kicking much ass)

He performed much better when he run out of MP

But he wasted a lot of our precious Hi-Ethers

Fortunately, in later phase he showed some skill

7) Ovelia:

Mainly acted as support unit (powerful buffs), but at some point she decided to proove that white mages can be useful in offensive as well

Anyway, we were again successful!



Video 25. Reunion with Delita

Our new destination - Lionel Castle:

Ovelia joins us as a guest:

She's a

by occupation:

Her job allows her to use some p. cool abilities:

a) Action abilities (Holy Magicks):

1) Aegis: Reraise, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste
2) Dispelna: removes ALL possible negative status effects

We go back to Dorter, visit the tavern:

Buy new items:

Ashura: Attack 8, Block 35
Kotetstu: Attack 9, Block 35

Serpent Staff: Attack 5, Block 20, target receives random status effect: Reraise/Regen/Protect/Shell/Haste/Reflect
Cypress Pole: Attack 6, Block 30

Wizard's Hat: HP+40, MP+12, mAT+1

Adamant Vest: HP+36

And check new character profiles:

Cardinal Delacroix

Master Darlavon

It's incline time again!

Ramza continues his path to samuraihood, switching to monk

And talking about samuraihood, Bee...

New job available!

Samurai

Uses Iaido techniques to attack using katanas' spirits
Innate abilities: Doublehand
Requires: Knight Lv4, Monk Lv5, Dragoon Lv3

a) Action abilities (Iaido):

This stuff influences both enemies and allies in range

1) Ashura (70): Fire attack (radius 3h2v)
2) Kotetsu (120): Dark attack (radius 3h2v)
3) Osafune (170): absorbs MP (radius 3h2v)
4) Murasame (250): restores HP (radius 3h2v)
5) Ama-no-Murakumo (300): Slow (radius 3h2v)
6) Kiyomori (350): Protect + Shell (radius 3h2v)
7) Muramasa (400): Confuse + Doom (radius 3h2v)
8) Kiku-ichimonji (450): 4-directional attack (radius 5h2v)
9) Masamune (600): Regen + Haste (radius 3h2v)
10) Chirijiraden (700): attacks only enemies (radius 3h3v)

b) Reaction abilities:

1) First Strike (900): Attack before being physically attacked

c) Support abilities:

1) Equip Katana (150): Equip katana regardless of job
2) Doublehand (500): Wield weapon in both hands (doubles physical power)

d) Movement ability:

1) Swim (150): Act in deep water as it was solid land

Bee learns Kotetsu and reaches her final job:

WC could switch to samurai as well

But since he's more interested in the way of the ninja, he switches to archer for now

Steve switches to White Mage - we have to test those modified Calculators sooner or later... He grabs Ovelia's Mage's Cloak (pEV 18, mEV 18, mAT+1):

Guzu switches to whitey as well. Thanks to her Green Beret, she doesn't even have to use Heavy Armor...

DR keeps his dragoonhood:

Sov will act either as Orator (random battles) or Mystic (story battles):

I'm going to equalize all units to Lv 20, and after that, we will hit the road again:

We will need 3 soldiers for next story battle - who wants to go?

 

[spekkio]

^
It looks like some enemies will end up...
Disabled.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Sign me up.

 

[Crooked Bee]

She found a new dress

Imma sammurrai!

I won't be signing up 'cause I already did last time, so there.

 

[betamin]

I don't know how much alike is this game to 1.3 but word of advice: If you're gonna grind, you HAVE to steal stuff, otherwise you'll reach a point where your opponents will have way too good equipment for your leather hat wearing ass.

 

[Ulminati]

If bee isn't signing up, then I am!

 

[spekkio]

It's equalizin' time!



Bee switches back to thief (she lacks Move+2)

DR learns HJump 5 and VJump 3.
Our team visits all cities and buys new items:

Platinum Dagger: Attack 6, Block 10, Speed +1

Coral Sword: Attack 8, Block 25, +Thundara

Mythril Helm: HP+65

Plate Mail: HP+80

Finally, we bump into some enemies in Fovoham Windflats

Unfortunately, this thing DR was talking about happens - we are barely able to deal with regular monsters!

To make things worse, the bird was almost impossible to hit due to his 'First Strike' ability - his preemptive attack was canceling our attacks (or killing the attacker...)

I was able to complete this mission only by pure luck and 2 restarts...
At least DR got a chance to kick more ass - he poached all enemies!

So another stupid thing about FFT 1.3 - you have to proceed through the campaign in a 'window of levels' of sorts - not too low (shitty units) but not too high (godlike enemies in random encounters).
Fucking modders!



Bee learns Move+2 and goes back to her samurai job, Guzu learns Esuna.
WC learns Purification, Poach and Torrent and switches to Geomancer

Steve learns Esuna and Sylph, switches back to his old staff (more useful in pure offense)

Sov switches to orator

There are only two units < Lv 20 (Steve and Sov), but since WC is 2 job levels from becoming a ninja, he should continue his equalizing further.
Our three brave men attack some dudes in the Siedge Weald:

It's the usual 2 orators, a goat and an evil eye team.
Steve casts Titan, which is useful this time

Sov's orator skills are totally useless (very low accuracy - I think we should switch him to some other secondary job - Bard or Calculator...)

Steve massacres enemies using Bahamut

Sov kicks ass using his Mystic Arts

He's one of the most useful units now, mainly thanks to his 'Hesitation' skill - taking an enemy out of a battle for a couple of turns is very good idea..
We continue plying with the remaining goat, until Sov has enough of it

This battle allowed WC to reach AND master a new job!

Mime

A warrior who has abandoned his/her own identity, instead mimicking actions of allies in battle
Innate abilities: Beastmaster, Concentration, Brawler
Requires: Lv2 in all jobs except Samurai, Ninja, Sage, Bard and Dancer

a) Action abilities (Mimic): none

b) Reaction abilities: none

c) Support abilities: none

d) Movement ability: none

Way too random to be of any real use, IMO...
Sov learns Preach and Stall. It's time for the final grinding session in Mandalia Plain:

Three fluffy kittens this time. Steve rapes two of them using Odin and Ifrit

We play with remaining kitty till WC reaches Geo Lv 3

And Sov and Steve reach Lv 20.
Due to many weak attacks from our soldiers, the kitty was able to reach Speed=13 (innate counter)

Sov kills him.
WC is finally ready to step onto the shadow path. He learns Tanglevine, Contortion and Shuriken and switches to ninja:

Ninja

Agile and stealthy warrior who can Throw shit weapons at enemies
Innate abilities: Dual Wield
Requires: Archer Lv4, Thief Lv5, Geomancer Lv3

a) Action abilities (Throw):

1) Shuriken (50)
2) Bomb (70)
3) Knife (100)
4) Sword (100)
5) Flail (100)
6) Katana (100)
7) Ninja Blade (100)
8) Polearm (100)
9) Stick (100)
10) Knight's Sword (100)
11) Book (100)

b) Reaction abilities:

1) Vanish (200): Invisible at HP loss
2) Reflexes (300): Increases evade at physical / magickal attack

c) Support abilities:

1) Dual Wield (800): use weapons in both hands regardless of job

d) Movement ability:

1) Waterwalking (220): Walk across and stop on the surface of water

Sov learns Enlighten, switches back to mystic and grabs a pole.
Both mages go back to Equip Heavy Armor - they should put best helmets on during story battles.
Our gests prepare themselves just in case... (Agrias learns Northwain's Strike):

It's time to buy some shurikens for WC:

And kick more ass!

14. Zaland

We can see some blonde faggot, trying to run away from some other faggots:

We have a choice here:

1) Is easier - it gives us 'Kill all enemies' objective, and Mustadio will stay KOed when KOed
2) Is much more difficult, since we can't allow enemies to KO Mustadio - in such situation we will get Game Over

Oh well, let's try something difficult (2):

And protect they did!

Enemies: (a little bit damaged since I forgot to take screenshots at the beginning of the battle)

Only the beginning of the battle was interesting...

:/

Enemies concentrated on raping Mustadio:

Sov healed Mustadio just in time

Enemy mystic would rape him in next turn

Not long after that, Mustadio heals

And hides away, which allows us to rape the enemies without worrying about him



The late part of the battle was more about bringing units to Lv 22 (WC's level) than everything else...

After a long sadomasochistic session, Ramza ends the battle

a) What went well:

P. much everything actually. :D

b) What didn't go well

1) WC was kicking much ass both in offense and defense (see below). Unfortunately, at one point enemy's Aurablast was too much for him

Yeah - monks are fucking strong here...

I was worrying that Sov won't make it in time to revive WC (Ramza was too busy in other area), but Agrias inclined the situation:

2) Enemy monks could revive fallen enemies quickly

But that's only a problem of choosing next target. And Mustadio's gun is very useful here

d) Unit's performance

1) Ramza:

Made dealing with mages easier

Able to rape enemies both by jumping (esp. great idea when enemy targets him with magick)

And regular attacks

Learned some stuff by spiritual devouring

2) Sov:

Was able to disable enemy monk in perfect moment

That was the crucial point of the battle - with only one dangerous enemy left, we were able to deal with this mission easily.



Able to fuck enemy mages' plans too

3) DR

Due to his 'Aim', he was able to kill almost every enemy with 2 hits max

4) WC

Introducin'... ninjas!



Inhuman range and evade - probably the only unit that can ram into group of enemies, kill somebody in one attack, survive attacks from the rest and GTFO in next turn...

Huge chance that he actually hits something due to dual wielding - two attacks = >100 damage

He can also attack from a range with 'Throw'

Ninja + Equip Heavy Armor >>> Samurai IMO

Video 26. The Machinist

Our kills looks much more impressive now

New characters' profiles:

Mustadio Bunansa

Besrudio Bunansa

Ludovich Beart

Mustadio uses a special job - mechanist

a) Action abilities (Aimed Shot):

1) Leg Shot: +Immobilize
2) Arm Shot: +Disable
3) Seal Evil: Petrifies undead (+Stone)

Ramza learns VJump 8 and Beastmaster and switches to monk - making him a ninja is tempting...
Bee switches to geomancer for identical reasons

Other units keeps their jobs. We have two new items:

Mage's staff: Attack 4, Block 20, mAT+1
Romandan Pistol: Attack 6, Block 5, Range 8, Chemist&Orator only

It's time to equalize all units to Lv. 22!

But when we try moving from Zaland, we get a scene

Video 27. Ovelia's Misgivings

An EPIC lesbian romance? More likely than you think...



Well, let's kill some harmless animals!



Unfortunately, random encounters get worse and worse by the level!
It's like this thing DR and Betamin were talking about...



We tried our luck in Zeirchele Falls

Encountered 3 kittens and 3 derp ones

Which meant... rape.

Kittens can inflict Slow+Potion, break casters' charge and are faster and faster with each hit

No big deal, but Deep ones are much worse.

1) They will counterattack with strong geomancy (Nature's Wrath) when attacked

2) They will use a status-changing attack (Mind Blast) with high accuracy, that costs them 0 MP

It can hit up to 5 targets at once, BTW.

3) They can rape us with regular ranged attack (Aqua Breath), MP-free as well

4) They can also heal/speed up using their attacks (Speed Wave)

That's the main problem when dealing with animals in 1.3 - they not only get insane level bonuses, but most of the time you can't fight a battle of exhaustion against them, like you can against humans - fuckers simply won't run out of MP/items...

We were struggling using quickloads and different approaches, but eventually got

We skipped this location and tried our luck in Araguay Woods

Only to find 3 skeletons and 2 malBROs...

Skeletons are fast as fuck and can use Graviga, MP-free of course:

This spell not only damages us

But heals targeted skeletons as well

To make things more interesting, it can hit up to 5 units...



But skeletons are not that bad actually - multiheaded dicks are much worse. They can smack us up with physical attack, but most of the time they will use a status-changing attack with huge area of effect:

Yeah! It can inflict more than one negative status!

We were struggling a bit

But were owned moments later (two units petrified, two confused)

I tried Araguay Woods again, only to meet this:

Two allied ents, 4 bombs and 2 tiamats

We were finally lucky (same location again) - two skeletons and three marlBROs - that should be a piece of cake!

Ramza get Confused+Stoned, but Guzu was able to fix him with Esuna

In the meantime, Steve launched Bahamut

Thank god that the dicks counterattack only with Regenerate...
Steve died from tentacle rape

But DR was able to take his first multiheaded trophy!

Guzu got tentacle raped twice, survived and striked back, using Bahamut

The rest is formality

BTW, I'm curious what we're going to get when we FINALLY find a poach shop...

OMG, we were able to survive a random encounter!



Our not-so-brave now team continues to more civilized area.
Bee learns Wind Slash, Sov switches to White Mage - he's a perfect candidate for a Bard:

We meet some resistance in Lenalian Plateau

Rather shitty one

A straightforward battle, spent mostly on leveling-up and ended by Steve's new wand

It's time to go back on track - Steve and Guzu are still Lv. 21 but we can live with that I think...

Mustadio learns Arm Shot and Parry:

Other guest grab regular equipment

Bee learns Quicksand and Ignore Elevation. She can become a kunoichi now:

Steve learns Holy and switches to Black Mage. Guzu switches to Time Mage. Both of them are very close to reaching Calculator.
They can switch to mimes as well:

DR is ready to kick more ass (Squire skipped since he's close to mastering this job anyway):

Sov learns Esuna, Ignore Elevation, Corruption, Quiescence & Concentration and switches to... chemist. We need some chemist JP for new items that hopefully show up soon.



Just check out these mean motherfuckers!

Another new location awaits us:

We need 3 soldiers - who wants to go?

 

[Damned Registrations]

Nice update. Whether or not the poaching pays off is hard to say- there are rare and common poaches for each monster. A lot of it is junk like hi potions and crap, but some of it is really nice weapons and such.

Send me in! For shits and giggles, turn me back into a chemist and give me a gun for this battle, with Arts of War secondary, and I guess equip armor for support. Guns + Arts of War is something you gotta try out at least once.

After the next battle, I think you can get the next axe at Lionel. Set me back up as a dragoon with equip axe and martial arts when that happens. Learn the best jump abilities then the reaction skill when you can.

Also: Why is everyone half naked?

 

[spekkio]

Also: Why is everyone half naked?

We have some good equipment but only 1-2 pieces each, so people who enlist will take it.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I wanna go! Do whatever you want with me.