Let's play FFT 1.3 Easytype Complete

[spekkio]

Indeed. Kicking WC out of the battle would be even better idea than changing him into squire or using him as monk.

 

[Ulminati]

Indeed. You should ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL and suddenly switch to chemist at some crucial story moment

 

[Damned Registrations]

That archer was rending everything because he had concentrate set, so he ignored all our majestic evasion. On that note however, since I want to learn thief next anyways, if you set me up with Arts of War and Equip Crossbow you can experience the awesome cheese for yourself, since thieves get it innately. First thief ability I want to learn is move +2. After that I'm not too concerned (Secret hunt would probably be good so we can poach some OP items later), just unlock Lancer. Once we have a long range sniping machine we won't need to worry about one or two fags trying to rend our shit, we can just one shot them at the start of the battle before they rend anything. They can have, at best, 2 out of 3 of armor, ranged weapon, and concentrate. Well, unless guns still ignore enemy evade.

Mind you, if it's epic GRINDAN you're after, you may as well use the chakra cheese (enter random battle and beat on eachother with weak attacks while you spam chakra.) If you just want to equalize the levels, you could send the high level units on an errand (gives jp without earning xp too) and send all the lowbies into a random battle. They should gain levels quickly if they get the finishing blows instead of me stealing them all.

 

[spekkio]

If you just want to equalize the levels

This. All units will grind to Lv 12.

you could send the high level units on an errand (gives jp without earning xp too) and send all the lowbies into a random battle

DR is the only Lv 12 unit ATM.

And random encounters scale to Ramza's level, so the team with low-level characters only won't be able to deal with Lv 11 goblins / bombs...

 

[Damned Registrations]

Go the mandalia then. Even if they're hugely outlevelled, they shouldn't lose to a team of 2 units. Though there might be more serious encounters there now, since you're past the prologue. Dunno.

Bombs aren't good for leveling against anyways. They perform killing blows on THEMSELVES, denying you the xp.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Grind on.

 

[spekkio]

Since I had some problems with our casters being totaly useless (unable to survive 2-3 turns and / or inflict decent damage) I've decided to apply more DERP to this LP.

So far, it's super-effective!

You now there's only one thing you can do...

bonus version for Konjad

 

[Damned Registrations]

Use editor!

Well, should make the game more interesting if it means fewer quickloads. And you can always go check out the deep dungeon if you're not feeling challenged enough.

 

[Crooked Bee]

 

[Ulminati]

of boosting Bees bravery to be comparative to the awesoem stat I rolled legally. 53->70 is a pretty huge fudge.

 

[Crooked Bee]

U jelly?

 

[Ulminati]

All I'm saying is, if Bee gets 53->70 bravery, warcupine should have 70->97 bravery to keep things fair

 

[procrastinator]

Faith without deeds is worthless, so looking forward to doing some heavy spellslinging soon
Oh, and that demonic horn thingie is kinda cute.

 

[spekkio]

The grinding is finally over!



How did it go? Well... Prepare for:

DR switches to Thief

And learns Equip Crossbows.
Since he has more than enough knight JP, I decide to spend it without permission. DR learns: Rend Helm, Defend, Equip Shields and Equip Swords. This leads to:

He equips bowgun

Let's use him as a guinea pig for testing Errands:

He leaves the team temporarily:

The rest of the team reaches Gariland safely. There are two other Errands available here:

We continue to Eagrose Castle, once again, without random encounters. One new errand in the Tavern:

New items available in the shop. Some of them are known to us: Mythril Sword, Battle Axe, Knightslayer, Ice Bow (those were described earlier). But some of them are totally new:

Javelin: Attack - 8, Block - 20 (Dragoon only)

Barbut: +55 HP

Mythril Armor: +65 HP

Our tanks equip newshit:

And leave the castle. After a while, we bump into 1st random encounter.

Lenalian Plateau

Team: Ramza, Bee, WC, Steve and Ladd

Enemies: two kittens and a deep one

Problems:

1) casters' fragility

2) Seaman's ranged attack (Aqua Breath)

3) Seaman's reaction skill (Nature's Wrath)

Nice things:

1) WC's physical power

2) Arbalest's Doublestrike

We play with the remaining kitty, waiting for Ladd's corpse to become edible. Finally:

Steve devours it and inclines heavily:

Kitty dies moments later

DR learns Aurablast. Moment's later we meet enemies again.

Fovoham Windflats

Team: Ramza, Bee, WC, Steve and Alicia

Enemies: Two seamen and two evil eyes (+ one allied evil eye)

Problems:

1) seamen's ranged attacks

They can also heal using it

Nice things:

1) WC's Aurablast

2) Ramza's Arbalest

3) One of the seamen stepping on a doomtrap and dying a couple of turns later

We wait till Alicia crystallizes

Bee eats her ghost and inclines her newly-acquired Geomancy skills (you can only learn abilities from available jobs):

Steve ends the battle

Ramza learns Lifefont end sets it

Bee checks her new abilities

She learns Recover HP and Torrent

Steve learns Haste. We go back to Dorter and listen to DR's report:

So, DR alone wasn't enough to deal with the bandits...
We continue to:

Zeklaus Desert

Team: Bee, WC, Steve, DR (went back to Aim instead of AoW) and Lavian

Enemies: two bombs, two skeletons and a goat (+ one allied bomb)

Problems:

1) Skeletons' ranged attacks (Anima) were very powerful - fuckers were able to one-shot most of our units...

2) Our units were way too weak to do decent damage

3) One of the skeletons was able to cast Berserk on DR

Nice things:

Thanks to quality commanding (and a lot of luck) we were able to defeat enemies!

But fucking BARELY!



Next step:

Siedge Weald

Team: same as last time

Enemies: two archers, two monks and a blackie (+ allied goblin)

Problems:

1) enemy monks

2) most of enemy units were able to revive KOed friends using items or skills

Nice things:

1) DR

2) Bee's aurablast + critical

Too bad that her regular hits do ~30 damage...

3) allied goblin, who was able to revive units

4) Steve, who again showed inhuman blocking skills

Lavian got killed accidentally...

DR eats her spirit (she was high level thief)

Bee saves some JP by devouring the ghost of enemy blackie

And ends the battle

Bee learns Chakra, WC learns Recover HP

Steve reaches now job

Summoner

Warrior who fight by summoning powerful spirits, known as espers
Requires: Time Mage Lv 3

a) Action abilities (Summon):

1) Moogle (70): heals allies (radius 3h2v)
2) Shiva (150): Ice attack (radius 3h2v)
3) Ramuh (150): Lightning attack (radius 3h2v)
4) Ifrit (150): Fire attack (radius 3h2v)
5) Faerie (200): revives KOed allies (radius 2h2v)
6) Sylph (200): silences enemies (radius 3h2v)
7) Golem (250): protects all allies from physical damage
8) Carbuncle (250): reflects magickal attacks cast on allies (radius 3h2v)
9) Titan (200): Earth attack (radius 3h2v)
10) Odin (200): non-elemental attack (radius 3h2v)
11) Salamander (200): Fire attack (radius 3h2v)
12) Lich (300): Deals Dark damage = 1/2 of target's max HP (radius 3h2v)
13) Leviathan (400): Water attack (radius 4h3v)
14) Bahamut (400: non-elemental attack (radius 4h3v)
15) ???

b) Reaction abilities:

1) Recover MP (200): Recover MP when critically wounded

c) Support abilities:

1) Halve MP (600): Reduce MP consumption by half when using magicks

d) Movement ability: none

Too bad that this stuff is p. expensive MP-wise:

Steve learns Ifrit and switches to his (probably) final job:

Next stop:

Fovoham Windflats a.k.a. How I learned to stop whining and love the DERP

Team: Bee, WC, Steve, Guzu and Sov

Enemies: Two knights, two seamen and a whitey

Nice things:

1) Bee's geo-skills may be weak

But damage is guaranteed, and additional status change may be useful

2) WC's Recover HP

3) Sov's Invigoration

Too bad that it doesn't add stolen HP, like Empowerment does.

Problems:

1) our casters are steel nearly useless

2) summoners with low Faith are bad idea

3) enemies can one-shot our casters without problems

4) seamen's Nature's Wrath is totally imba

After losing most of units, I decided to try again: same stage, same team.
This time things looked much better - only three enemies - seaman, bird and a goat.
But there were some...

Problems:

1) Our magickal damage was still shit

2) Enemies were still able to one(or two)-shot us

3) After Bee being Berserked, Guzu failing her Raise

And WC being turned into a frog

I decided to reload and go full POPAMOLE, by editing the memcard with WinHex.
Took me some time, but I didn't have to use special editor, which makes me:



All units (except WC) had their Brave or Faith edited to 70

The only problematic unit was Sov - when I tried changing his Brave or Faith, I was getting:

Probably some kind of internal check...
Finally, I increased both his Brave and Faith by 10, and it worked:

Steve changed his job to squire (all casters need Knight's Equip Heavy Armor IMO)

And we hit the road again...

Siedge Weald

Team: WC, Steve, Bee, Guzu and Sov

Witness massive INCLINE with your own eyes!

Nice things:

1) Bee's physical power

She's resistant to magick due to low Faith - that's a bad thing (hard to heal) but also a good thing (resistant to black magick).

She can always heal using Chakra:

2) Guzu's spell accuracy

3) Guzu's magickal power (Araise, Raise and Cura):

4) Sov's dodging ability wasn't affected

5) And his physical power increased

6) WC, our only non-edited units kicks more ass with every level

7) Steve was able to use his Axe of Death

Problems:

1) Our casters are now more sensitive to magick

But that's how Faith works...

Our 3 casters play with Bee for a while

Guzu learns Safeguard thanks to enemy spirit

WC does similar trick - he can now become Geomancer it seems

Sov ends the battle using his Staff of Death

Steve learns Equip Heavy Armor & Recover HP and switches back to his target job

Guzu learns Equip Heavy Armor & Shiva and switches to summoner as well:

Sov learns Empowerment, which should make him self-reliant when it comes to MP. Bee switches Geomancy (not always works - not all abilities unlocked) with Items. Ramza learns Steal Heart to be able to actually use his Steal abilities.

It's time for moar!

Lenalian Plateau

Team: WC, Bee, Steve, Guzu, Sov

Enemies: 2 blackies, 2 timies and 2 mystics (+ allied piggy)

Nice thingies - Guzu's magickal power

Sov learns Shell, Fire, Fira and X-Potion thanks to spirit devouring

Guzu is even more lucky - she learns 3 summons for free:

Steve has some luck as well

Guzu tests her new kupofag right away

Steve does the same, proving his superiority over Guzu (bullshit actually - higher Faith of Steve and Sov)

Our casters continue playing with Bee, who has a chance to test her Chakra

WC grabs a free lunch as well

(this shit is ridiculously broken - you can learn ~20 abilities just by killing middle-level unit)

Sov ends the battle by sucking all HP vital fluids of enemy mystic

Bee learns Shockwave, WC learns Chakra.

Even moar grinding follows!

Lenalian Plateau

Team: WC, DR, Steve, Guzu and Sov

Enemies: 4 kittens, a seaman and an evil chicken

This encounter was quite difficult actually. At some point I was close to reloading!



Nice things:

1) Our casting abilities

2) Recover HP saving our asses a couple of times

Problems:

1) Unit positioning - DR shot WC in the back by total accident

2) Seaman was as powerful as ever

3) kittens were able to slow+poison all of us

And their attacks can stop charging units from performing an action.

4) seaman was countering our attack with powerful geomancy (this shit hits not only attacker, but also units standing nearby!)

At some point, we were nearly beaten - Sov and Steve KOed, WC and Guzu nearly dead. Guzu prepared Araise

Evil chicken tried to get her, but DR stopped him her just in time!

With MCed chicken on our side, we were unstoppable!

Steve was able to revive Sov just in time to avoid WC's crystallization

Our units were parting hard after Kupofag overusage

Casters played their favorite game with monks, but DR ended the fun eventually

WC learns Shockwave, both summoners learn 'Recover MP', Guzu learns 'Recover HP' too, Sov learns Induration.
DR learns Move+2 and Poach and reaches his next job:

:clap:

Zeklaus Desert

Team: Bee, WC, Steve, Guzu and Sov

Enemies: 2 grenades, 3 skeletons and a blackie



This encounter was damn difficult!
Only a few screenshots since I was certain that I'm not gonna make it so I concentrated on quickloading instead of making screenshots.

But some things can be shown:

WC's Aurablast is now powerful

Same thing with Sov's Invigoration

Skeletons can use Gravity spells

We would be history without powerful AoE healing spells

Our monks+casters combo works well - we don't need ethers to recover MP and kick some ass

Bee learns Revive and Pummel (not much monk's abilities left to learn), WC learns Revive and Aim+3 (he learned X-Potion and Ether during previous battle as well). We can switch their 'Items' to something else now.
Steve learns Lifefont and Golem, Guzu learns Carbuncle. We will be able to protect ourselves from physical damage and reflect magic from now on.



Sov learns Recover HP and Delirium.
I was ready to grind even more, since it's damn fun...

But then I realized that all casters are Lv 12 and other units are ~Lv 15 already.

Our casters are IMO fine - their 'target' job should be either summoner (Guzu and Steve) or mystic (Sov). White magicks as 2nd active abilities. Adding some Orator / Bard / Sage (or whatever Calculator is now called) stuff can be considered.
Tanks are different story - their 'target' job should be one that allows the innate usage of heavy armor. Which means: Knight, Dragoon or Samurai. That way we can spend our Support ability on something useful, like 'Safeguard'.

So I was thinking about something like this:

• Ramza: Samurai
• Bee: Samurai (+some l33t dancing skills maybe?)
• WC: Ninja (highest brave)
• DR: whatever you want as long as he's good at terminating

Martial Arts / Items as 2nd active ability.

What do you people think?



Let's check our MAJESTIC team:

Ramza

Squire: Focus, Rush, Stone, Salve, Tailwind, Chant, Steel, Beatdown, Blitz, Parry, Equip Axes, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, Echo Herbs, Phoenix Down, Safeguard, Reequip
Knight: Powersap, Mindsap, Magicksap, Rend Weapon, Rend Helm, Rend Armor, Rend Shield, Counter, Defend, Equip Heavy Armor
Archer: Aim+1, Aim+3, Aim+5
Monk: Cyclone, Lifefont
White: -
Black: -
Thief: Steal Heart

Bee

Squire: Focus, Rush, Stone, Chant, Steel, Beatdown, Blitz, Parry, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Ether, Hi-Ether, Antidote, Echo Herbs, Phoenix Down, Reequip
Knight: Powersap, Mindsap, Magicksap, Rend Weapon, Rend Helm, Rend Armor, Rend Shield, Counter, Equip Heavy Armor
Archer: Aim+1, Jump+1
Monk: Cyclone, Pummel, Aurablast, Shockwave, Purification, Chakra, Revive, Recover HP, Brawler
White: Cure, Cura, Protect
Black: Fira, Thunder, Thundara, Poison
Geomancer: Sinkhole, Torrent, Tanglevine, Contortion, Tremor, Will-o'-the-Wisp

WC

Squire: Rush, Stone, Salve, Chant, Steel, Beatdown, Blitz, Parry, Equip Axes, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Ether, Hi-Ether, Antidote, Phoenix Down, Reequip, Treasure Hunter
Knight: Powersap, Mindsap, Speedsap, Magicksap, Rend Armor, Rend Shield, Counter, Equip Heavy Armor
Archer: Aim+1, Aim+3, Jump+1
Monk: Cyclone, Aurablast, Shockwave, Chakra, Revive, Recover HP, Bonecrusher
Geomancer: Sinkhole

Steve

Squire: Rush, Stone, Steel, Parry, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Ether, Hi-Ether, Antidote, Echo Herbs, Phoenix Down, Safeguard, Reequip
Knight: Equip Heavy Armor
Archer: -
Monk: Recover HP, Lifefont
White: Cure, Cura, Raise, Shell
Black: Fire, Fira, Thunder, Thundara, Blizzard, Poison
Time: Haste, Slow, Stop, Immobilize, Gravity
Summoner: Moogle, Ifrit, Golem, Recover MP
Geomancer: -

Guzu

Squire: Rush, Stone, Salve, Steel, Parry
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Ether, Hi-Ether, Phoenix Down, Safeguard, Reequip, Treasure Hunter
Knight: Equip Heavy Armor
Archer: -
Monk: Recover HP
White: Cure, Cura, Raise, Arise, Protect
Black: Fire, Fira, Thunder, Blizzard, Blizzara, Blizzaga, Poison
Time: Haste, Slow, Stop, Gravity
Summoner: Moogle, Shiva, Ifrit, Faerie, Carbuncle, Recover MP
Geomancer: -

DR

Squire: Rush, Stone, Salve, Chant, Steel, Parry, Equip Axes, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Eye Drops, Phoenix Down, Throw Items, Reequip
Knight: MASTA
Archer: Aim+1, Aim+2, Aim+3, Aim+4, Aim+7, Equip Crossbows, Jump+1
Monk: Cyclone, Aurablast, Shockwave, Purification, Chakra, Revive, Recover HP, Bonecrusher, Brawler
White: Cure
Black: Fire, Fira
Time: -
Thief: Steal Heart, Steal Helm, Vigilance, Poach, Move+2
Dragoon: -

Sov

Squire: Stone, Salve, Parry, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, Ether, Antidote, Phoenix Down, Reequip, Treasure Hunter
Knight: Equip Heavy Armor
Archer: -
Monk: Recover HP
White: Cure, Cura, Raise, Shell
Black: Fire, Fira, Thunder, Blizzard
Orator: -
Mystic: Empowerment, Invigoration, Induration, Delirium, Hesitation
Geomancer: -

Every one of them is a

Guests:

But it looks like we need two things:

• units with high Brave and Faith - POPAMOLE retries during recruitment needed,
• units with shitload of good abilities - POPAMOLE grinding for JP / enemy spirits required.

I hope you had as much fun reading this update as I had writing it.



It's time to go back to the main business!

We need 3 units for the upcoming battle (should be piss-easy by the look of enemy team). Who wants to go kick some ass?

DISCUSS!

 

[Ulminati]

Reporting for duty

But of hex editing everyone to the level of awesome WC achieved naturally. As far as I'm concerned, this is what the hex-edited units look like:

Goddamn steroid abusers.

Ninja for WC sounds fine though. That's what I was originally shooting for. Glad to see Bethesda listens to their fans.

 

[procrastinator]

Do want.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Do want.

Bee: Samurai (+some l33t dancing skills maybe?)

 

[spekkio]

Hey, Ulminati.

I can always decrease WC's Brave to 70.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Could you do an update on the cost of Dragoon abilities? You're missing a few of them.

DR: whatever you want as long as he's good at terminating

Oh trust me, there's going to be some epic terminating this chapter. Javelin should be pretty badass for now, but the real fun is going to start in a few more battles when a particular item becomes available.

Regarding Safeguard: Equipchange is a better option if you can afford to use it really, since that way you are still equipped for the fight, but you make the enemy waste turns trying to break your shit. If you have safeguard set they'll either break someone else's shit, or just hurt the fuck out of you. The drawback is wasting a turn re-equiping, but you only need to do that if they successfully break something, which might take them multiple attempts. Plus they might break something you don't even need anyways, like an accessory or shield that you don't really need, and equip change gives you the option of tweaking your gear for the battle with status/element immunities depending on what the enemy can do.

 

[spekkio]

@ DR

1) On missing descriptions

Updated.



2) On Safeguard

ATM I'm more concerned with loosing yet-impossible-to-buy equipment (like Gold Armor etc.).
Reequip is clearly more useful than Safeguard, but not when enemy brakes your unique Sword of Awesomeness +10.

 

[spekkio]

Should I continue this LP or can it be safely abandoned?

 

[Damned Registrations]

What? Of course not. Only reason you didn't get a pile of complaints for missing an update last week was everyone trying to get into Ulm's PnP game and fapping over the Muriad.

Keep going until you don't get enough volunteers for the mission, at least. Why would you want to stop right after doing the hard part of getting all the levels evened out and stats fixed up? Go kick some ass!

 

[procrastinator]

Do continue.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Attention whore detected ITT.

And that's not me.

 

[spekkio]

Nah, I'm just counting my readers.