Let's play FFT 1.3 Easytype Complete

[Damned Registrations]

Sign me up.

Regarding the alternate outcome thing: the story won't change (though you can certainly miss dialogue by ending the battle too fast) however, lots of fights in the vanilla game gave your current team a brave boost or penalty. For example, you all got +10 brave when choosing to forget about Argath and just kill em all. I'm not sure if they changed when this stuff happens between the PSX and PSP versions, or between vanilla and 1.3. Something to keep an eye out for though, since 1/4 of brave changes in battle are permanent.

Oh, and Status effect spells do depend on faith. Pretty much all magic does for that matter. The formula is basically (Spell hit chance + MA) X (Caster faith/100) X (Target Faith/100). Zodiac factors in too. But basically, Guzu's got about 2/3 the chance to hit with spells, and will deal about 2/3 the damage or healing (and recieve about 2/3 the damage and healing) as a character with 70 faith. In vanilla you can get an item later that gives you a status of 'Faith' which artificially sets your faith as 100. Not sure if it's in 1.3.

And yeah, Crystals are totally OP. Makes me rage when an NPC grabs one. Obviously it must be some kind of bug, since they gave you a menu to choose which skill to gain, but it always gives you all their skills as long as you choose one. Pretty sure you can even get skills for classes you haven't unlocked yet, and will have those skills learned when you end up unlocking that class.

 

[spekkio]

About the crystals - I don't remember this stuff being so imba in vanilla, but enemies had like 3-4 learned skills there anyway. But here, with even low-level faggots having >10 skills? This is madness!

:/

 

[procrastinator]

Let's try it again, this time picking Items as Action #2 instead of Black Magicks.

Guzu becomes totally useless

That's how procrastination works...

But basically, Guzu's got about 2/3 the chance to hit with spells, and will deal about 2/3 the damage or healing (and recieve about 2/3 the damage and healing) as a character with 70 faith.

But it's only 47 :/

 

[Ulminati]

Noone's more Aryan than Warcupine. He's the obvious candidate

WC is a little bit behind the rest of the team...

That'd be because the weekly updates fall on thursdays where I'm working late, so all spots are taken by the time I get home

For that reason, I'm hereby handing control of WC over to Bethesda so he can be the next BROvahkiin

 

[Damned Registrations]

47 is 67.1% of 70. I think the average is around 55-60. Ramza is imba and has 70/70 for brave and faith, which is about as high as you can get for generics if you scum for them. Also he has tranny stats and get the better halves of male and female stat growths in any class.

Note that accuracy on damage spells is always 100% and you only have to deal with evasion to hit. OTOH, having a middling chance to hit to begin with with a status spell against someone with middling spell evasion will drop your chances into the gutter. Equipment breaking/stealing has the same issue. Though I think thieves have innate concentrate in 1.3, which lets them ignore enemy evasion.

 

[The Thin Man]

I want in on some crystalline entrails!

 

[spekkio]

For that reason, I'm hereby handing control of WC over to Bethesda.

And that's going to help you volunteer... how exactly?

I think thieves have innate concentrate in 1.3, which lets them ignore enemy evasion.

Indeed.

...

Holy fuck!

A monk, a knight and two mages (plus 1 knight & 1 thief)?

 

[procrastinator]

A monk, a knight and two mages (plus 1 knight & 1 thief)?

What's wrong, spekkio?

 

[Ulminati]

For that reason, I'm hereby handing control of WC over to Bethesda.

And that's going to help you volunteer... how exactly?

It probably isn't. But it means I can stop worrying about catching an earlier train home just so I can write "I voulenteer" in a post. At some point you'll get everyone else killed off and bethesda can bring the BROvahkiin back. Saves me a bunch of effort I can pour into Skyrim instead.


And should I happen to get home early many updates from now, I can voulenteer a hilariously underleveled knight on behalf of Bethesda to completely screw you over

 

[spekkio]

Don't worry - there are 4 slots for units and probably ~6 readers left.
Sooner or later the inevitable will be... inevitable..

 

[spekkio]

Don't worry - there are 4 slots for units and probably ~6 readers left.
Sooner or later the inevitable will be... inevitable..

What I meant - sooner or later there will be less readers than free slots and I will be free to abandon this thread, ghostdog style!



But first things first...



Bee learns Hi-Potion, Equip Heavy Armor (useful if she wants to go Bruce Lee from now on; plus most 'bosses' has 'Safeguard' set, so 'Rend' commands don't look very useful) & Purification and switches to monk:

Guzu inclines a bit too:

08. Lenalian Plateau

From L2R: DR, Guzu, Bee, Sov and Ramza

It's that chick again!

Of course, we're gonna do it the slow way...

Let me introduce you... To the most difficult stage so far.

Spoiler

It's p. easy, as long as you use non-retarded team. More on this later...

Two knights (one of them is Milleuda), two archers and two time mages.

Knight1 can use Items:

Archer1 will always hit his target:

Archer2 can (and will) destroy our equipment from a distance:

Mage1 can use black magick:

Mage2 can use white magick and is hard to kill (Critical->Quick)

But main problem with this battle lies here:

A special unit. Able to destroy and steal equipment and charm our male units. Her equipment can't be destroyed / stolen.
And she will regenerate HP by moving (Lifefont) and when being attacked (Regenerate).
Whoever moded this in was fucking retarded...



That was my 3rd 'approach' to this map. During the 1st one I was quickly obliterated by the mages.
During the 2nd one I was able to win, but after long damn time and with sometimes 2 units alive...

But how went 'the real one'?

:/

We were damn lucky at first, since I was able to quickly kill both mages, and enemies were stupid enough not to revive them (this happened 1st time in 3 plays)

And what's wrong with the enemy mages? Well...

:/

So the mages weren't the problem. What was?
Well - our fucking team.



The only two units that were able to do something more than using items was Ramza and DR. Sov kicked some ass as well. Other units were totally useless...

Bee: totally useless as a monk:

Yeah. Her attack power was low when she was a knight, but after switching to monk it became laughably bad. Compare with DR (higher Brave of course, and a sword, but still):

She got a chance for some massive incline at one moment:

But the destiny was against it...



Guzu: she was able to cast Haste on DR (but only on him - chances of success for other allies were <50%)...

And use items

Totally useless in offense.

Guzu casting Haste on herself and Sov:

'Nuff said.

Sov: not that bad actually. Mainly thanks to his non-retarded set of skills (Bethsoft delivers!)

His Cure was very weak:

But he was able to actually kill somebody

Or kick some general ass

He lost his armor at some point

But thanks to 'Reequip' he equipped another one later

He was able to block >9000 enemy attacks, despite being a white mage

And when it comes to reviving others...

How about Ramza? Well...

He was responsible for ~90% of the kills...

DR was kicking ass for a long time

Until...

And that ended his ass-kicking. Without 'Reequip' or 'Safeguard', he was unable to equip a sword again, which made him nearly useless.

PROTIP: 'Throw Items' is quite useless - if he has to use an item on somebody, he is able to reach the tile next to his target most of the time.

As long as his 'Move' is high enough...

Delita was 10 times more useful than most of you, even despite being controlled by the Radiant AI [tm].
And I switched him to thief on purpose, to acquire some spillover thief JP. If not for that, he would've stayed a knight or an archer (rape from a distance)

tl;dr



But... What went wrong, you may ask. I was able to kill all enemies, except Milleuda. It was 6 vs. 1 (Ramza not pictured).

But... We weren't able to kill her.

I blocked her movement to prevent her from moving and recovering HP with 'Lifefont'. And started pounding her:

Bee was hitting Milleuda for 6 damage - even Sov was better - 9 damage with his magical wang.

of Bee.

I don't know WTF is wrong with her - her Brave is 55, Sov's is 44... and he is still able to do more damage than her...



So, we were able to hit her for ~50 damage in one turn...

And she recovered 23 HP due to 'Regenerate'. So far, so good. But there were 3 problems that led to an epic fail.

1) Our only unit that was able to inflict some serious damage (Ramza) could sometimes miss

So, she was able to recover more HP (23) than our attacks inflicted.



2) She could Charm one of our guys and break the circle surrounding her...

At some point we were able to lower her HP below 50

But...

Repeated with her every turn of course, as long as you don't surround her again...
For additional lulz, charmed Ramza decided to do something 'random':

She was at full HP in no time:

And after some time:

Still, it should be quite possible to kill her, if not for:

3) She leveled up, which increased her HP

Remember - If you want to kill an immortal, don't forget to bring a bow with you...

And BTW - she had stolen half of our equipment in the meantime, for example DR's faggy cape.



After over an hour of Milleuda-killing, I gave up.

So, it's almost impossible for us to kill her, at least as long as we keep our current set of skills.
That's why I decided to revoke your voting privileges in this LP for a moment...

Well...

 

[procrastinator]

That's why I decided to revoke your voting privileges in this LP for a moment...

Totally worth it

 

[Damned Registrations]

Brave doesn't affect damage dealt for most units AFAIK, only for fists (which is a bit of a drawback for Bee, but she's still fairly average for brave really) and knight swords which we don't even have yet. No, iron sword isn't a knight sword. Only knights can use them.

Bee was probably doing crap damage as a combination of 3 things:

Female (lower PA)
Low level (Lower PA)
Fist damage is derived from PA*PA, so having lower PA makes a HUGE fucking difference. Just going from 4 to 5 jumps your damage up by 77%. Monks do kinda shitty damage until you get the +PA equips later on, and pack on some levels. Even so, she should be doing ~25 a hit with 5 PA, so I dunno why she'd do a 1/4 of the damage I deal to the same target, unless it was a female sagitarius, then I'd have a +50% and she'd have a -50% modifier. But the knight you showed was a virgo. She should have been doing 18-20, not 12.

Oh, and me and Bee both have bad compatability with Miluda, so we're doing 25% less damage (and recieving, hit rates, etc.) Which makes it all the more odd that Miluda managed to steal all my shit. Like 50% evade + bad compatability, her chances must have been like 10% or some shit. Though, once the weapon is stolen I guess that fucked parry as well. Either that or the pilot turned my back to her like a tard so he could use an item at 1 range.

And throw item is great. It's just redundant when you have a team comprised of like, 4 healers and 2 offensive guys trying to beat up a regenerating tank with infinite charms. Especially when the damage dealers have shitty compatibility. Standing 1 tile away from someone to heal them is generally a good way to get your party nuked with AoE spells for the rest of the game.

Edit

No wonder she broke my sword, shot at the back gives her +39% chance to hit. If I'd been facing her she would have had like 3-4% chance to break any of my shit. Maybe you should let the auto-battle handle my turns, bethsofter.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

A special unit. Able to destroy and steal equipment and charm our male units. Her equipment can't be destroyed / stolen.
And she will regenerate HP by moving (Lifefont) and when being attacked (Regenerate).
Whoever moded this in was fucking retarded...

Let's play FFT 1.3 Easytype Complete (fail)

...well, she was a total pushover in the original, so I guess she can have her fun now.

 

[ghostdog]

That's why I decided to revoke your voting privileges in this LP for a moment...

What I meant - sooner or later there will be less readers than free slots and I will be free to abandon this thread, ghostdog style!

 

[spekkio]

No wonder she broke my sword, shot at the back gives her +39% chance to hit. If I'd been facing her she would have had like 3-4% chance to break any of my shit.

Sorry to break it for you, but most of the time there is more than one enemy unit on the map, so choosing which one should DR face can be difficult...

Maybe you should let the auto-battle handle my turns

Challenge accepted.

Which makes it all the more odd that Miluda managed to steal all my shit. [...] or the pilot turned my back to her like a tard so he could use an item at 1 range.

Riveting tale, chap. More on this in next update.

Spoiler

Don't forget that AI cheats

But thanks for explaining how mechanics work. After spending > an hour trying to kill one unit I probably lost some INT...

 

[spekkio]

Let's try again...

Sov has some problems right at the beginning of the battle

Ramza tries to reach one of the mages, Bee misses Knight1

Other units move forward as well. Sov heals himself:

Enemy mages cast Haste on... everyone

Archer2 KOs Sov, Ramza gets hit too

Delita revives our Whiteman

DR hits Archer1 who Aims+4 at him

Mage2 slows DR down

Mage1 burns Ramza's ass, almost killing him

Guzu does some ass-burning as well

Archer1 KOed, Archer2 & DR damaged

Milleuda uses Chakra

WTF is this shit? She's not a monk FFS! It's one of her 'White Knight' skills? WTF, modders?



Bee hits Mage2 (low damage due to enemy's 'Defense Boost' skill)

Sov heals Ramza and Knight1

Ramza shows some m4d ninja skillz in defense

And offense

Mage1 KOed

Mage2 revives Archer1

Sov (8 HP left, behind Guzu) dodges Acher2's attack

Guzu prepares Fira, targeting both archers

Upgraded 'Radiant AI' kicks in

Delita heals Sov. Bee shows some skill at last:

Archer1 KOed again

:D

Sov explores the dark side

Archer2 tries to punish Sov, but the dark side is strong in this one:

Mage2 hels herself and Archer2 using Cura (~ +60 HP). Ramza and DR are not amused:

Mage2 picks up the wrong guy

Too bad that DR has no 'Counter', or she would be history



Sov's dodging skills fail him at last

Guzu heals him, since she is Out of MP. Delita and Knight1 have some fun in the distance

Bee solves the 'mage problem'

Sov hits Archer2

Holy fuck, a competent caster for a change!

Knight1 attacks Guzu

Archer2 punishes Sov's actions

Guzu blocks Milleuda's attack and heals herself

Ramza reduces enemy numbers to 2, KOing Archer2

DR tests Milleuda's 'Regeneration' with surprise buttsex

Delita and Bee attack Knight1

Sov heals himself and Ramza. Milleuda doesn't like this, KOing him:

Bee allows Knight1 to rend her shield and get away with it

Guzu revives Sov. Ramza tries to score another kill:

But Knight1 is lucky again. Twice:

Yeah - she blocked 4 our attacks in a row. That's why Delita's 'Concentration' is so useful. But he decides to heal Sov...
Who does some nice casting with perfect target-control:

Bee stings Milleuda and levels up

Milleuda tries to revive Mage1 but fails (skill). Knight1 has more luck (item =100% chance of success)

Mage1 hits DR in the ass, taking advantage of his lack of Counter

Ramza rapes Knight1

DR devours Archer1's spirit

:derp:

Bee finishes Mage1 off

So, once again - it's we vs. Milleuda.
Killing her takes fucking ages and leads to some lulz...

1) Guzu grabs Archer2's spirit

But decides to recover HP/MP instead...

I'm certain that AI cheats like a dirty little motherfucker...



2) Milleuda tries diplomacy

3) Guzu shows how powerful her magick skills are

4) Ramza applies diplomacy as well

5) Charmed DR scores a critical hit on Bee's abdomen

Total fucking accident that it was his one and only critical in this battle...

6) Guzu goes after Knight1's spirit, but this one can only recover HP/MP

7) DR continues playing with females

8) Guzu does some successful flaming

9) DR inclines further

10) We are able to drive her into a corner. Too bad that only two units can hit her from back/front

Still, she keeps charming Ramza/DR/Sov from time to time...

11) Sov doesn't fuck around as well

12) Guzu does more flaming

Yeah - Sov was punished for his brave actions...

12) Milleuda gives up the diplomacy for good

No fucking way you fuck, we're going to kill this bitch no matter what!

At least this proves that Ramza is no homo!

13) Bee brings Milleuda to her knees (critical state)

:/

14) Guzu has to knock some sense into 1/2 of our males...

Of course, it's time for her Thunder Rod to activate...

15) Sov kicks some ass even while Charmed. This time it was Bee's ass:

16) Milleuda destroys DR's sword

No wonder she broke my sword, shot at the back gives her +39% chance to hit. If I'd been facing her she would have had like 3-4% chance to break any of my shit.

But this time he's prepared

BTW, if she kept doing this, we will be history sooner or later - we won't be able to kill her using bare fists...

17) Bee inclines further

18) We finally get a chance to kill this bitch!

She's in critical condition, and we have 5 units that can act before she can use Chakra:

Knowing the cheaty AI, I decide to use a quicksave...



Guzu softens the Bitch up

Leaving her with 13 HP... :D It's time to f...

AI uses Charmed Sov to hit Guzu

And cock-block Ramza and DR - they're unable to reach the Bitch (she reaches the higher ground before DR's turn)

I take a few deep breaths and decide to quickload...

Guzu wakes Sov up

Sov motherfucking delivers!

So does Ramza

That's right, modders. Why do you hate us so?!

Why didn't you mod out all emo characters instead?!

Another raping ground awaits us

But before that, let's go back to the nearest city to have a drink or two. And buy some new stuff...

New armor for regulars (non-tanks, non-casters), +24 HP.

New armor for casters.

The axe looks interesting:

But only Squires and Gaymancers can use such manly things...

Now, there's one good thing that can be said about the previous battle... It payed off when it comes to JP:

Ramza learns Rend Weapon, Rend Armor, Rend Shield and Magicksap

Delita learns Magicksap, Rend Armor & Rend Shield

Now for the Decliners...

Bee:

Guzu:

DR:

Sov learns Cura (only 175 White JP, despite many great acts...), but there's something else about him:

New job available!

Mystic

A warrior specializing in status-changing techniques
Requires: White Mage Lv. 3

a) Action abilities (Mystic Arts):

1) Umbra (70): +Blind (radius 3)
2) Empowerment (100): Absorbs MP (1 target)
3) Invigoration (200): Absorbs HP (1 target)
4) Belief (200): +Faith (1 target) ?LOLWAT
5) Disbelief (200): +Atheist (1 target) ?LOLWAT
6) Corruption (150): +Undead (1 target)
7) Quiescence (120): +Silence (radius 2h1v)
8) Fervor (300): +Berserk (1 target)
9) Induration (400: +Stone (1 target)
10) Delirium (250): +Confuse (1 target)
11) Harmony (200): removes: Float, Reraise, Invisible, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste, Faith, Reflect (1 target)
12) Hesitation (100): +Disable (radius 2h0v)
13) Response (250): +Sleep (radius 2h1v)

b) Reaction abilities:

1) Absorb MP (100): Recover MP = the amount used by the opponent (trigger - magickal attack)

c) Support abilities:

1) Defense Boost (250): Take less damage from physical attacks

d) Movement ability:

1) Ignore Weather (100): Traverse any terrain unimpeded by weather conditions

Sov learns Hesitation and switches to his desired job:

I bet he will kick even more ass from now on!

But before that...

We need 3 units for the upcoming story battle:

Check out who we will fight against, to avoid possible fuckups with choosing jobs/abilities:

I STILL believe in your judgment...

Spoiler

Not really...

Who wants to go - 3 units for the story battle, 2 more units for the random encounter that will surely precede it?

 

[Ulminati]

Warcupine, for the glory of Bethesda!

Can units be renamed? If so, I see no reason not to embrace my destiny as BROvahkiin.

 

[The Thin Man]

Steve is here to please!

 

[Damned Registrations]

Send me in!

Also, I can't believe she broke my sword. Does she have innate concentrate too or just got insanely lucky?

Oh yeah, have me learn power and mind sap, switch equip change back to throw item, and put that cloak back on.

Fuck it, lets do something more fun.

Learn mind and power sap. Set Aim. Learn and set Equip Axe. (Was going to set counter but that fucking thing gives 40 evade to parry, which is actually just as good (better even) than the shield, lol) Leave the boots on since I won't have decent ranged presence.

 

[spekkio]

My bet is that whoever modded this shit, set some flags 'on' for the lulz. Like Milleuda using 'Chakra' - it should not be one of her skills (knight / thief). But she's a 'White Knight', so suddenly everything goes...

But she didn't have 'Concentrate' since she was able to miss us (rarely).

Check out Argath's 'Squire' skills - fucker had Rend Weapon and Armor among them, I'm not sure if it was the same in vanilla FFT.

That's why I'm such a faggot when it comes to 'Reequip' or 'Safeguard' - enemy units are way too lucky when it comes to breaking our shit...

switch equip change back to throw item, and put that cloak back on

I'm going to switch the Radiant AI on as well...

 

[Damned Registrations]

You can still miss even with concentrate, if you're using a skill with a base miss chance (like steal foo or the knight skills). Concentrate just cancels out evasion.

Also, I changed my skill setup after noticing the damage on that axe and that I had some spare squire JP. That and the fact I'll probably be fighting next to a bunch of healers again anyways.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Bee wants in, if only for the random encounter. Bethesda is given full control on that one.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Oh, and learn Aim +1 as well, just so I have something that can be used when theres really not time to charge at all that will bypass the shitty axe damage formula. (Radiant AI is probably a bad idea with Aim set)

 

[procrastinator]

Looks like Guzu's time travel experiments attracted some unwanted attention from the ruinous powers and she was turned into servant of darkness. And she doesn't give a slightest fuck about it
Which means she is ready to cast spells and will stay exactly the same as she was the last battle.

I have a question regarding Support Abilities though. Do you need to use them to get the bonus?