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Trasson posted:The Doom Axe is great, but if you're interested in its effect you can just use !Blue for Death Claw. After that, the Earth Hammer and the Rune Axe are excellent weapons for any class with decent Strength and Magic. Later though, the Rune Edge outclasses them by being great for hybrids with better availability and accuracy. It's 500 AP  But yeah I'm already using Berserker, and once she's maxed out I don't want the ability to go to waste. I really messed up not stealing the Gaia Hammer from Titan though, didn't realize how long you go before you can find one (again, never used Axes). Everyone jokes about Berserker being one of the worst classes but really they are massive damage dealers for a large chunk of the game, especially with two handed. I guess in terms of Water Crystal jobs sure it's trash, but so far they're better than some of the Earth jobs. I think I'd rather get a Berserker over a Dancer, maybe even a Dragoon. I'm gonna try sticking Equip Axes on a Summoner/Black Mage and give them Gaia axe. Strength will go from -10 to +21, and Magic is already really high in case the earthquake effect goes off. They can stay in the back too. I also tried Throw on a summoner for the first time since that was recommended. Ninja has -10 magic, Summoner has +33. The throw scrolls are only 200 and can be boosted by gear the summoner is wearing, those stupid little 200 gold scrolls do like 2000 damage to everything for no MP cost. Another gimmick I looked up I'd like to try: Dragoon with Equip Ribbon. Dragoons can equip the Man Eater Knife with equip ribbon, which accidentally counts as a spear when you jump. You can go the other way too and give a Dancer Jump with that knife. You'd never come across this in a FJF run so I'll try it out this time. Maybe I should wait until the FF5 thread is up to talk about all this
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I also tried Throw on a summoner for the first time since that was recommended. Ninja has -10 magic, Summoner has +33. The throw scrolls are only 200 and can be boosted by gear the summoner is wearing, those stupid little 200 gold scrolls do like 2000 damage to everything for no MP cost. It's so ridiculously good. Throw Summoners/Summoning Ninjas are one of my favorite midgame combinations. The Scrolls are basically in between power of the level 2 spells and level 3 spells. And yeah, once I get a general "yeah, we'll reuse #FF5Fiesta" sentiment, I'll go ahead and post the thread.
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#FF5Fiesta sounds fine to me! Let's get this thing rolling.  That way we aren't eating up the main thread before the thing even starts.
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glod posted:#FF5Fiesta sounds fine to me! Let's get this thing rolling. Alrighty, topic is live! If it could get added to the OP that'd be swell. 
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So, apparently, FF8 is getting re-released for PC, like 7 was. At least for Japan, no western announcement yet.
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I want to get in on the Four Job Fiesta this year. Do I need Twitter? I honestly don't think I can beat this game without !Rapidfire. Are Gladiator et al included?
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Tokelau All Star posted:I want to get in on the Four Job Fiesta this year. Do I need Twitter? I honestly don't think I can beat this game without !Rapidfire. Are Gladiator et al included? You'll need a twit if you want to officially participate. Gladiators and all the other bonus GBA jobs aren't included.
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ShadeofDante posted:It looks like you'll be able to tag yourself on teams this year? I'm assuming that's what Team "No 750 Run" means. Probably means we could get a goon team going to see how many of us rock at 4JF. I'm down for this if that tuns out to be the case.
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I kind of hope that this year he allows, maybe as an optional thing, the GBA jobs. It's not like the three you can get before beating everything are overpowered or anything.
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Veks posted:So, apparently, FF8 is getting re-released for PC, like 7 was. At least for Japan, no western announcement yet. Got a source for this? Is it being outsourced to the same studio that made such a fiasco out of 7?
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Dr Pepper posted:I kind of hope that this year he allows, maybe as an optional thing, the GBA jobs. It's not like the three you can get before beating everything are overpowered or anything. Cannoneer can allow you to outright skip Neo-Exdeath.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I'm down for this if that tuns out to be the case. Are there any other relatively popular websites that do this, apart from neogaf? Either way, that's a great idea.
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Mr. Leonheart posted:Cannoneer can allow you to outright skip Neo-Exdeath. That's a glitch though.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 22:24 |
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Achievement: Break the game before the Dollet mission.
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Loving Life Partner posted:Achievement: That's pretty simple though? I'm no FF8 guru and I could tell you how to accomplish that.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:That's pretty simple though? I'm no FF8 guru and I could tell you how to accomplish that. Yeah but they always throw in a few gimme chieves. A harder one would be to finish the game without breaking it (can it even be done??).
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voltron lion force posted:A harder one would be to finish the game without breaking it (can it even be done??). Yes, as my twelve-year-old self learned the hard way 
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voltron lion force posted:Yeah but they always throw in a few gimme chieves. A harder one would be to finish the game without breaking it (can it even be done??). Sure, you just have to use some subpar junctions and don't refine a single card or item.
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The White Dragon posted:Yes, as my twelve-year-old self learned the hard way I think I got to Odin before a friend saw me playing and realized I hadn't junctioned or any of that other poo poo. I stopped playing after he 'fixed' my characters for me because the challenge completely vanished.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I think I got to Odin before a friend saw me playing and realized I hadn't junctioned or any of that other poo poo. I stopped playing after he 'fixed' my characters for me because the challenge completely vanished. That sounds like the most boring challenge ever.
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Bongo Bill posted:Got a source for this? Is it being outsourced to the same studio that made such a fiasco out of 7? http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/...rmed-for-japan/ NovaCrystallis posted:Final Fantasy VIII’s PC port is making a come back, according to this week’s Famitsu. The magazine has the latest details on the game – originally ported to the PC back in 1999 – after months of Steam achievement leaks and other registry hints. Similar to last year’s Final Fantasy VII PC “revamp,” – which is finally being released in Japan on May 16th – FFVIII will include the same sort of game booster. That is, effectively allowing you to cheat by upping your HP, MP, and Gil levels to maximum. Presumably achievements and cloud saving support will also be included as well.
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RagnarokAngel posted:That sounds like the most boring challenge ever. From what my girlfriend tells me, it pretty much just involves spamming tons of limit breaks. (She beat the game without junctions)
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The White Dragon posted:Yes, as my twelve-year-old self learned the hard way Same here....but I was 18... I think I had like a max of 40 spells junctioned. I would still cast them. And I would just throw what ever where ever with out thinking about it. The game started getting hard so I leveled up to try to make it easier. Never played the card game, never refined magic. I had to beat Ultimicia by letting her hit me with her big move and then throwing the ONE Holy War trial I had and hope that it worked. Then do nothing but spam Zell and Squall's limit breaks. No idea why the hell I didn't get it the first time through, but what ever. Game kinda sucked anyways. Now 9. That was a game!
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Btw picked up Final fantasy 7 crisis core on psp the other day. Bloody good story line. Enjoyed how it transitioned to 7 so well incorporating characters back stories.
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It's the only good thing to come out of the expanded universe. There are still a few things it drops the ball on, especially Cloud's personality, but overall it's both a good addition to the story, and a good game by itself. I wish there was a difficulty between the incredibly easy normal mode, and the incredibly challenging hard mode. Being unable to skip cutscenes and having to reload a save whenever you die makes some bosses far too frustrating due to having to wait five minutes between each attempt.
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That loving Sned posted:It's the only good thing to come out of the expanded universe. There are still a few things it drops the ball on, especially Cloud's personality, but overall it's both a good addition to the story, and a good game by itself. Have you seen the boss dude that beats hard mode on a second replay without leveling up?
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RagnarokAngel posted:That sounds like the most boring challenge ever. Some fights got annoying (I missed Carbunkle too ) but everything was still pretty doable even without limit break spam. It just took longer. Once my characters were setup Squall had his damage increase several times over and something like 5k more HP. The game went from "wow a FF game where fights are kind of hard, this is neat" to "oh wait never mind it's actually easier than others."
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