KataraniSword posted:

Oh lord, don't do this to yourself. FF3 isn't balanced like FF5 is; it's more like FFX-2 where the mindset is to hotswap jobs into what you need for a situation. No matter what you pull (unless it's "Sage and Ninja, all day erryday"), you're going to get stonewalled.

Lovely Senorita posted:

oh god what is Faris wearing

Pollyanna posted:

Oh, I see. So I'm better off with either #regrand750 or #regchaos750? I'm having trouble figuring out what the effective difference is between those two setups.

Kashuno posted:

Someone confirm that I'm thinking correctly. For Upgrade it's 4 of your wind crystal, then 4 of your water, etc etc right?

Bruceski posted:

I just did it inside the ship. I think I cleared Liquid at level...16? Maybe 20.

Bad Seafood posted:

NGDBSS posted:

Hopefully you're going for a triple crown with that selection? You've got Time Mage, after all, even if quickleaking takes a while.

Also, gently caress grinding for Reflect Rings is tedious and I don't know how I forgot about it.

Choco1980 posted:

But seriously, I can't stress enough how handy Vampire is as a blue magic. If you're fighting someone who hits harder than you do, you can just turn around and use their own damage back at them as long as they're drain-able. (I suppose that's the one case where ???? is more useful, but not by much).

quote:

Question: Do you think I should quicksavescum the Walse Basement, or just wait until I get Level 5 Death from the library to fight the Jackanapes with?

Choco1980 posted:

Ugh. I go on vacation for a week tomorrow and I'm struggling to find a free android gba emulator that is accepting my mGBA save state. Either I'm doing something wrong copy and pasting the files, or it just doesn't work with others well...any help would be appreciated...

Gus Hobbleton posted:

Am I missing some gimmick on the soul cannon or does this boss require more grinding than I'm willing to do? Fucker has upwards of 50,000 hp.

NGDBSS posted:

Try using a different emulator, perhaps? Snes9x is a relatively old piece of software at this point, and since its most recent release there have been quite a few good SNES emulators that are in various ways better.

My personal preference is for Lsnes, since that's designed as one of the console-accurate pieces of software and thus won't have the occasional bug resulting from focusing on speed in the early days. (Back when Smite was running the DKC2 race thread, it was pointed out that ZSNES had a bug relating to rotating barrels, hence the switch.)

Fat and Useless posted:

Alright run 3!

Ranger
Dancer
Chemist
Bard

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Edward_Tohr posted:

Fuckdamn dumbass berserkers. This run could be over if they'd stop aiming for the parts of NED that don't loving exist.

BrightWing posted:

My hubris shall be my undoing. In my excitement of completing my first run, I seem to have signed up for a Random 750 run. Let's see how bad-

Blue Mage

Oh. Well alright then.

Poque posted:

http://fourjobfiesta.com/players.php?player=odinsmash

InfernoBlade posted:

I rolled BM/Thief/Bard/Beastmaster on my 2nd run. I think I'm going to JF the Bard out as I already played a run with one. Any thoughts on what to replace him with (all jobs up to fire crystal ok)? Healing might be nice so WHM would be tempting, but OTOH Ninja might be fun to allow the thief to dual-wield assassin dagger + chicken knife.

NGDBSS posted:

I believe what's going on is not that the Movers heal, but that the three in a left-facing triangle become hidden in favor of three in a right-facing triangle becoming unhidden (or vice-versa). See, a bunch of monsters use the Unhide Monster command to pull some interesting behind-the-scenes tricks. Any time you see a monster change form, summon stuff, or just regenerate a target without using a named ability like Arise; that's the result of Unhide Monster. The problem is that the command itself is not well-documented; the original game's algorithm FAQ doesn't distinguish between any of these, and the GBA's corresponding FAQ doesn't always distinguish between different uses of the command at once. But the long and short of it I've been able to find is that:

• All uses of Unhide Monster will do literally that, unhide a monster to be placed somewhere on the field. Once all nonhidden monsters are defeated, the party wins. (This is why killing Zephyrus alone will trigger victory, because any remaining monsters are hidden.)
  
• Unhide Monster (Change Monster) will unhide a monster on the field, and explicitly regenerate it to full health even if it's dead. When a monster is regenerated without a named ability or just plain summoned, it's likely using this command.
  
• Unhide Monster (Form Change) will swap a monster's form, while explicitly not regenerating any health (edit: or removing any status effects) unless the target was dead, in which case it's instead restored to full health. This is what gets used for most obvious form changes, but is also used to swap AI and/or stats. Oh, and the Great Trench boss fight uses this.
  
• Unhide Monster (Random) is a subclassification of Form Change, specifically to allow a swap to a random form rather than to a fixed one.

My guess would be that, given that Alxprit has been able to consistently kill groups of Movers, that the Movers themselves use a variant of Unhide Monster similar to Form Change which instead reveals distinct monsters. According to the encounter tables, that fight isn't against three Movers, but instead six (three of which are hidden at a time). Thus if you're able to kill a whole group of three at once, they won't get a chance to trigger Unhide Monster to hide themselves and reveal/revive from death the other group.