Let's play FFT 1.3 Easytype Complete

[Rpgsaurus]

Aww, the memories.

By the way, I'm impressed that you didn't re-roll your characters to get 70+ faith/brave. For those who don't know, Brave = % of activating a reaction skill, and say a 70% chance to Auto Potion feels hugely different from 50% and will save a lot of headache and reloading. Low faith is good on tanks (they take less spell damage, and a lower chance for them to get debuffed); conversely, high faith is optimal for spellcasters.

Guess I'm a bit too much of a powergamer, though, I even re-rolled my Zodiac signs to get worst compatibility with Elmdor for that future fight (robbing Elmdor of his Genji gear is insanely difficult without it, or at least it was in my experience).

Anyways, a little tidbit regarding Algus/Argath (in case you didn't know):

Spoiler

be as much of an asshole to him as possible and win the final confrontation in 3 turns to get a nice permanent brave bonus.

Edit: FFT1.3 Hardtype pretty much assumes you know what you're doing and how to min/max your guys for the coming fights. It was a good idea to go Easytype in a Play-by-Play, since it gives you a lot more room for maneuver in how you choose to build your party (though perhaps less fun for those sadists like me who like people going FUUUUUU and raging a lot in their plays). :D

 

[spekkio]

BAWWW

All the cool kids volunteered on page 4 BRO

I'm impressed that you didn't re-roll your characters to get 70+ faith/brave.

will save a lot of reloading

I think you're missing the point of this LP...

 

[spekkio]

So - what happened?



All three chemist rush forward. Their range is p. shitty, which can't be said about Bee's range:

Paula tests his crossbow

But due to enemy squire's high reflexes

Sov and Steve show Paula how it's done

DR attacks the female squire

Bee stabs the strong squire

Sov barely survives enemy's revenge (5 HP left)

Paula fails again, despite attacking from behind

Female squire takes her revenge on DR

Despite heavy wounds, Sov attacks enemy chemist, who is casting a spell

Steve heals Sov

DR lobs a stone at the male squire, but fails

That's how the difference in Levels works - more experienced units are damn hard to hit for less experienced ones.
Enemy chemist uses white magicks

The only unit that shows some skill is the allied kitty

Bee stabs the squire, leaving him with 15 HP

He uses Steel

Paula hits the target at last

Enemy uses Potion. Sov and Steve soften the enemy chemist up:

DR tries to deliver the finishing blow

The kitty shows our units how the killing is done

Bee follows into kitty's steps, killing the male squire, despite unfavorable conditions

Remaining chemist uses potion, but falls to combined attacks of Paula and Sov

It's over!

The kitty wants to join us

But we kick it out.

Alright - from now on I'm gonna skip detailed descriptions for random encounters.
(Only the most important things will be mentioned, mainly... casualties)



We reach the City of Gariland and visit the shop. New stuff available:

First part of equipment that increases MP.

Regular stuff (+10 HP).
We do some shopping end equip new stuff:

Bee learns Counter:

WC learns Steel and Antidote:

Steve is controlled by BethSoft now, so let's skip his new abilities...

Guzu learns Salve:

Paula has Stone, Parry and Move+1 learned, not enough JP to learn anything new.

With 213 chemist JP he can learn some sweet abilities, but it looks like he's after either Auto-Potion or Throw Items.

Spoiler

Or Cassidy has forgotten about Paula's 2nd job...

DrDR doesn't learn anything new (sucky performance in previous battle):

Betamin learns Move+1, Stone, Parry, Potion, Phoenix Down and Reequip:

Sov skipped since he joined the Auto Side.

Another location ahead of us:

Moogles? I hate these guys!



Alright - previous encounter was so easy, that I think we should give the 1st three volunteers (Bee, Sov & DR) another chance in the upcoming story battle...

Bombs? I love these guys!

 

[Crooked Bee]

Ooh, look at my range!

And Moogles are cute.

 

[spekkio]

04. The Siedge Weald

Three units required. So, the participants should be (from left to right): Bee, Ramza, Sov and DR:

Let's go!

These creatures have some p. nice abilities:

For example, they can gouge-out your eyeballs and mindfuck you... at the same time!



BTW - sorry for the detailed tl;dr description of the battle.
I simply couldn't stop .



Ramza starts the battle casting Haste on Bee. DR moves in and throws a rock at a goblin:

Points of interests in this battle - Number One:

Goblin (Prokne) reacts by increasing his physical power

This can be problematic. These bastards can't heal, but they become stronger with each hit taken.
So - it's wise to kill them using 2-3 strong units rather than trying to kill them using chemists...

Sov lobs another rock at Prokne



Delita attacks nearby bomb

Argath misses Prokne

Another goblin moves close to Sov and Argath and attacks

Attack with AoE >1?



Argath counters with a tackle

Weak shit - knight's Counter is much better.
Prokne moves close to Delita, DR, Sov and Argath and prepares the Spin Punch (AFAIR this shit has bigger AoE than in vanilla):

Oh-oh

Delita KOed, Sov & Argath in critical condition, DR wounded.



(Delita's high damage was probably caused by Zodiac compatibility with Prokne)

One of the bombs targets Argath with her ranged attack

Another man down!

Ramza casts the damn Haste at last. Bee attacks Prokne twice:

But the bastard is still alive (and increases his physical attack)
Ramza intervenes, scoring another kill

DR revives Delita

And hides away from enemy units. Sov (3 HP left) revives Argath:

And GTFO as well.
Remaining goblin does something stupid - uses Spin Punch to KO Argath, but hits two enemy units as well:

Maybe not that stupid actually...
One of the bombs fries Bee's ass (-20 HP):

Laverna (the damaged goblin) goes after Sov and uses Spin Punch to KO him

Another man down!

One of the bombs attacks the other one using Flame Attack

:/

There are two of them, so Bee won't be able to kill them on her own (she only hits them for ~20 damage).
But that doesn't stop our brave knight!

Ramza attacks remaining goblin

FFS!

DR revives Sov

Who hides in the corner and heals

Erebos (goblin) uses new attack on Ramza

Bombs continue healing and Bee-frying

Delita hits Laverna and blocks his eye & mind - raping attack

Bee jumps into the pond and kills Ramza's eye-rapist

MCed Ramza heals one of the bombs

DR tries doing a little stoning

And scores a kill thanks to the critical

Sov heals our killer chemist

Delita resurrects Argath

Who...

I'm sooooo gonna kill this bastard!

Bee shows some defensive skill at last, blocking enemy flames with a shield

Ramza wastes Phoenix Down on a p. alive bomb

DR decides to wake our prince up

Sov heals Bee

Bee and Ramza attack one of the bombs, with mild success

Argath hits the other one

Ramza tries to take this bomb out

But fails

He gains EXP and Job level.
DR tries to repeat his previous trick:

But this time it leads to some dire consequences

Oh-oh

Argath, DR and Ramza KOed and covered in oil (flame attacks inflict more damage)



Points of interests in this battle - Number Two:

You should kill wounded bombs ASAP!



Sov revives Ramza, Bee critically hits remaining bomb:

Oh-oh

Luckily for us, she decides to KO Ramza, instead of self-destructing

Delita revives DR who finds a hidden item

And revives Ramza

Sov takes the bomb down, ending the mission

We survived once more!



But wasted 6 Phoenix Downs...



TBH, so far we were able to kill our enemies mainly thanks to the use of items and our ability to revive KOed units.
But what will happen when enemy is able to do the same?

Spoiler

RAPE

Our team goes back to Gariland and buys MOAR items.

After that, we go back on the road leading to the City of Dorter.

Another story battle awaits us there. We will need 3 units for it:

But before that, let's check our rooster...



Ramza learns... jack shit, thanks to his shitty performance (Confsed / KOed most of the battle)...

Bee:

Squire: Focus, Blitz, Parry, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Ether, Antidote, Echo Herbs, Phoenix Down, Reequip
Knight: Counter
Archer: Jump+1

Aislin: Crispy as fuck

Mrowaksu: Crispy as fuck

Warcupine:

Squire: Rush, Stone, Steel, Beatdown, Parry
Chemist: Potion, Antidote, Phoenix Down, Reequip, Treasure Hunter

Steve:

Automated

Paco: Crispy as fuck

Guzu:

Squire: Stone, Salve, Steel, Parry
Chemist: Potion, Ether, Phoenix Down, Reequip

Bane: Crispy as fuck

Paula4:

Squire: Stone, Parry, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Phoenix Down, Reequip

DrDR:

Squire: Stone, Parry, Move+1
Chemist: Potion, Hi-Potion, Eye Drops, Phoenix Down, Reequip

Betamin:

Automated

Sov:

Automated

Delita:

Learned Counter, probably by watching Bee.

Argath:

He has only one ability left as a squire:

After learning it, he becomes a master squire:

Keeping this job would be retarded now. He switches to a knight:

I've disabled 'Items' for him to punish the bastard for wasting OUR Hi-potions. Nevar again!



Alrighty people, who wants to participate in next story battle (3 units)?
(And possible random encounter preceding it - we have to cross the plains again after all - 5 units)

You should know the drill by now.

 

[Ulminati]

Voulenteered

 

[Crooked Bee]

I volunteer too! I wanna be a Knight. It doesn't look like I have enough JP to buy new Knight abilities, but whatever.

BTW - sorry for the detailed tl;dr description of the battle.

The only true way. Truly enjoyable.

One of the bombs fries Bee's ass (-20 HP)

Bombs continue healing and Bee-frying

 

[Damned Registrations]

I didn't think level had anything to do with accuracy in FFT (Aside from a really minor effect on status spells, where the accuracy is generally X+ Magic Power, which you gain like 1 point every 5 levels or some shit.)


Other than that, update was excellent. I especially enjoyed the part where I nearly caused a TPK.

Anyways, sign me up. I got a lot of doctoring to do. Learn Throw Item next if I manage the JP for it. After that is learned, you can switch me directly to Knight and set it as my support along with Item if I can get level 3 squire just from spillover jp from all the meatheads. Keep me in chemist until then though.

 

[procrastinator]

(3 units)

 

[The Thin Man]

You mentioned spill over for random encounters so I volunteer!

 

[procrastinator]

Oh, right. Me too then.

 

[spekkio]

 

[spekkio]

While moving through the Siedge Weald our team gets abducted!



5 units volunteer to deal with the problem.
From left to right - Warcupine, Bee, DR, Steve and Guzu:

This encounter looks quite interesting - two orators and two monsters

Orators can do some buff/debuff -ing

Minotaur has 3 attacks: physical, status changing (Berserk) and ranged (fire breath):

Ahriman has 3 attacks as well: physical and two status changing ones (Doom; Stop/Immobilize/Disable):

The battle goes more or less like this...

Orators do their DISCUSS stuff

We attack using our powerful ranged technique (Stone).
Still, this can be p. useful

Ahriman uses his dirty trick

Minotaur does the same when away from our units

Stopped Steve looks like this:

Instead of finishing off nearly dead Steve, Ahriman tries to Doom him

:D

Minotaur tries to rape WC using his pickaxe, but fails as well

WC takes the Evil Eye down

Female orator makes DR impotent

Male orator uses his fists this time, KOing Steve

Bee takes the female orator from behind

WC tastes the goat's pickaxe this time

Female orator does sth. weird but misses

Guzu revives Steve. DR becomes able again (most of status effects wear off with time)

Minotaur KOs DR using his fire breath

WC revives our dear Doctor

He gains both regular and job level.



Guzu stabs the male orator in the gut

Gains both levels as well.



Steve and Bee gangrape the female (for good)

Guzu practices her knowledge in anatomy on the male

:D

Only the goat left. All units attack him using stones and weapons. Steve comes a little bit too close, though:

Fuck. Another Phoenix Down wasted.

DR revives his chemist BRO.

Three other units gangrape the goat. DR delivers the final blow:

ITZ over:

Our glorious performance in battle (not counting wasting a shitload of items again) leads to massive

Three new jobs available!

Monk

A warrior specialized in unarmed combat.
Innate abilities: Brawler
Requires: Knight Lv3

a) Action abilities (Martial Arts):

1) Cyclone (100): attacks nearby enemies (radius 3h0v)
2) Pummel (200): a series of quick strikes (range 1h0v)
3) Aurablast (200): ranged attack (range 3h3v)
4) Shockwave (400): releases a wave in 4 directions (radius 5h2v)
5) Doom Fist (200): causes Doom (range 1h0v)
6) Purification (70): removes Stone, Blind, Confuse, Silence, Berserk, Toad, Poison, Sleep, Immobilize & Disable (radius 2h0v)
7) Chakra (250): restores HP & MP (radius 2h0v)
8) Revive (350): removes KO (range 1h0v)

b) Reaction abilities:

1) Recover HP (350): recover HP when critically wounded
2) Bonecrusher (200): deal damage = own max HP when critically wounded

c) Support abilities:

1) Brawler (150): deliver powerful unarmed attacks even when not a monk

d) Movement ability:

1) Lifefont (220): recover HP when moving

White Mage

Uses spells centered on recovery and protection.
Requires: Chemist Lv3

a) Action abilities (White Magicks):

1) Cure (40): restores HP (radius 2h1v)
2) Cura (120): -||-
3) Curaga (250): -||- (radius 2h2v)
4) Curaja (400): -||- (radius 3h3v)
5) Raise (120): removes KO
6) Araise (300): removes KO + fully restores HP
7) Reraise (400): protective spell that revives the target after KO (once)
8) Regen (150): casts Regen (radius 2h0v)
9) Protect (50): casts Protect - protection from physical attacks (radius 2h0v)
10) Protectja (350): casts Protect (radius 3h3v)
11) Shell (50): casts Shell - protection from magickal attacks (radius 2h0v)
12) Shellja (350): casts Shell (radius 3h3v)
13) Wall (150): casts Protect+Shell on a single target
14) Esuna (200): removes Stone, Blind, Confuse, Silence, Berserk, Toad, Poison, Sleep, Immobilize & Disable (radius 2h2v)
15) Holy (500): Attacks single target with sacred light

b) Reaction abilities:

1) Regenerate (250): Regen at HP loss

c) Support abilities:

1) Arcane Defense (250): take less damage from magickal attacks

d) Movement ability: none

Black Mage

Uses offensive spells of elemental nature.
Requires: Chemist Lv3

a) Action abilities (Black Magicks):

1) Fire (50): fire attack (radius 2h1v)
2) Fira (150): -||- (radius 2h2v)
3) Firaga (300): -||- (radius 2h3v)
4) Firaja (500): -||- (radius 3h3v)
5) Thunder (50): lightning attack (radius 2h1v)
6) Thundara (150): -||- (radius 2h2v)
7) Thundaga (300): -||- (radius 2h3v)
8) Thundaja (500): -||- (radius 3h3v)
9) Blizzard (50): ice attack (radius 2h1v)
10) Blizzara (150): -||- (radius 2h2v)
11) Blizzaga (300): -||- (radius 2h3v)
12) Blizzaja (500): -||- (radius 3h3v)
13) Poison (100): inflicts Poison (radius 2h2v)
14) Toad (250): inflicts Toad (single target)
15) Death (400): inflicts KO (single target)
16) Flare (550): Attacks single target with eXtreme heat

b) Reaction abilities:

1) Magick Counter (500): counters magickal attack with identical magickal attack

c) Support abilities:

1) Arcane Strength (350): inflict more damage with magickal attacks

d) Movement ability: none



WC learns Blitz and switches to Knight. He doesn't have enough JP to learn Counter, though.

Bee doesn't learn anything new

DR doesn't have enough JP to learn Throw Item / become a knight

Steve gained some chemist JP but that's it

Guzu is different story:

:D

Ramza decides to switch to knight:

DR grabs the blinding knife.
It's time to continue with the story...

(in during update)

 

[Ulminati]

Since I have points to spend, Warcupine learns:

Jump +1 from archery
Hi-potion from chemist

(May switch movement ability to jump +1 instead of treasure hunter. I really have no idea which is better. Bethesda will know)

In the unlikely event he gets over 9000 job points as a knight, Warcupine wants to switch to monk ASAP.

 

[The Thin Man]

Not that you asked for it, but I'm going to go ahead and volunteer yet again.

 

[spekkio]

stuff

But wait! There's MOAR!

:niggaplease:

05. Dorter Slums

From left to right: Bee, WC, Ramza and DR

Our team mets some mysterious knight...

Video 012. Dorter Slums - Before the battle

Our team consists of 6 units:

Enemy team is similar: Three archers, two black mages and a knight:

One of the archers is a little bit broken:

Let's do this!

DR moves forward and tries to apply next-gen cover technique (there are archers above):

When suddenly!

DUN DUN DUN!

Delita moves up and lobs a stone at 1st archer

2nd archer targets DR. 3rd archer uses Blitz against our brave chemist, hitting him twice (2x24 HP):

One of the 1.3's features AFAIK - additional damage in certain situations.
Ramza and WC move closer to enemy knight. Enemy mages move close to us as well:

Bee heals DR

Moments later, archer #2 finishes charging

DR tries to reach higher ground and heals himself

Enemy mage targets Ramza and starts charging

Unfortunately for him, Ramza is faster

Yeah - one hit was enough to kill him.



Delita manages to throw archer #3 off the ledge

:D

Enemy knight tries to target Bee's weapon womanhood

But

Archers #3 and #2 target DR again

Remaining mage targets Ramza

Bee buttsexes the knight

But he doesn't like this (Counter + critical hit)

Mage casts his spell

Archer #3 finishes charging and KOs DR

Delita gets hit by archer #1

WC reaches archer #3, but

Ramza heals Bee

Instead of doing something productive (like killing one of the archers FFS!!!11!!), Delita revives DR

Argath reaches archer #1 and hits him

DR gets KOed again

Archer #3 tries to beat WC down (using Beatdown)

But misses. Archer #2 does not:

Delita KOed. Mage targets Ramza again. Bee stabs him and levels up:

Enemy mage casts his final (?) spell:

WC continues playing with archer #3

Ramza tries to remove an obstacle that prevents him from reviving DR

Argath stones archer #1 to death

Enemy knight heals and hides. Archers #3 and #2 target Ramza

'Protect the Boss' is ordered! Mage targets WC this time.
Bee carefuly checks the situation

And acts accordingly

Archer #3 (Bruce) owned = Ramza saved!



WC gets scorched a bit

But takes his revenge moments later

Two enemy units left. Ramza revives DR, who does something productive at last:

Argath kick some serious ass - he lobs a stone at archer #1, which not only throws him off the ledge:

But also kills him thanks to additional damage

:clap:

Enemy knight tries to damage DR's speed (Speedsap), but it's futile

Ramza heals himself

Other units surround remaining enemy

Who attacks Bee with exceptional luck

Bee applies her stinging technique again - flawlessly (blocking counterattack)

:D

DR ends the battle with a stone-throw

Video 013. In pursuit of Gustav

Characters introduced:

Wiegraf Folles

Gustav Margriff

So - it looks like we are going to visit the desert now...

Btw. - City of Dorter has nothing new for us.

It's time to learn new things...

Ramza learns Blitz and Echo Herbs, grabs new Sword:

Delita learns Aim+4 and switches to archer

Argath doesn't learn anything new

Three units who participated in the previous battle continue their incline:

Bee:

Warcupine: (learned Counter as requested earlier)

DrDR: (enough JP to learn Throw Items but still unable to switch to knight)

Anyway.

We need three units for the upcoming battle (no random encounters this time). Who wants to go? How should I spend your JP? Which job your unit should use? Which is better and why?

DISCUSS!

(I hope I don't have to repost your learned skills - check previous pages...)

 

[Damned Registrations]

Well, guess I'll have to use Squire after all since you switched the NPC mooks out of it. So do that and set Throw Item. Hopefully I can pull off the whopping ~3 actions required to gain the job level.

To battle!

Oh, and for future reference, bows don't need LoS to hit someone, they just arc over cover. The popamole technique only works against crossbows, guns, and the rare few spells that actually launch projectiles in a straight line.

 

[spekkio]

^

Yeah, I know. This whole 'taking cover' thing was posted for the sake of the IMMERSHUN.
Archers feel much more powerful than in vanilla game - shorter charging times or sth. Plus some of them can counterattack... Very nice.

 

[The Thin Man]

Okay, I jumped the gun earlier sorry about that, I still want to volunteer for the next battle though.

 

[procrastinator]

Ready for battle

New skills:
Chemist: Hi-ether, Treasure Hunter (I lose this while switching to BM, right?)
White mage: Raise, Cure
Black mage: Fire, Blizzard

Pick up the Black Mage job, let's command the darker powers.

Action 1: Black Magics
Action 2: Items
Reaction: Parry
Movement: Treasure Hunter

I assume I need to learn Fire before learning Firaga and the like, right?

 

[spekkio]

Treasure Hunter (I lose this while switching to BM, right?)

yes

I assume I need to learn Fire before learning Firaga and the like, right?

No, you can go for better spells right away. Last-gen bullshit mechanics.

Anyway: squire, chemist and black mage?

:faceplam.jpg:

But we're gonna make it!

 

[Crooked Bee]

I'm too late to volunteer, it seems, but I'll post how I want to spend my JP a bit later anyway.

 

[Ulminati]

Yeah, that's the problem. I wanted to voulenteer before I went off to do some shit in town. No "voulenteer naow!" message from Spekkio, so I can only post build update. Come back, all slots are taken. :p

I can't help but wonder if this'll come back and bite spekkio in hte ass later when all his little fighting dudes are under-leveled.

 

[spekkio]

Quick update before the battle.

WC learns Hi-potion and Jump+1
Let's set Jump+1 for him - AFAIK units are able to find some items even without 'Treasure Hunter' skill. And Jump+1 works all the time...

DrDR learns Throw Items and switches back to squire

Guzu learns Hi-Ether, Treasure Hunter, Cure, Raise, Fire and Blizzard.
She puts on her obligatory robe and wizard hat:

One more important thing about magicks (I've skipped this earlier).
All spells require two things: MP and time.
Stronger spells require more MP and take more time to cast:

Spoiler

If it's the other way around, DR should correct me

So - learning powerful spells is a little bit pointless - ATM we heve enough MP to cast them only once (if that -aja spells require 48 MP)

In during:

Yeah - this time we're divided into two teams...

I can't help but wonder if this'll come back and bite spekkio in hte ass later when all his little fighting dudes are under-leveled.

Nothing to worry about, everything is going to be fine.

 

[procrastinator]

Being first to get horribly raped is an achievement too