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2021 thread this way! Welcome to the Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta 2020 thread! In its eighth year running, this thread will be the SA headquarters for the Four Job Fiesta, equal parts to keep us from taking over the FF Megathread as well as a single point of action for trading tricks and trips, cursing Gilgabot's lack of mercy, or whatever Fiesta-related discussion you may want. Much like the years before, we hope to bring lots of victories, lots of donations, and lots of berserkers from the Berserker Tree! Quick Links: Goon Discord, Official Website, Official Blog, Official Subreddit (yes, yes, I know, but it's official)  So Kyrosiris, what IS the Four Job Fiesta? Every year, RevenantKioku and his trusty sidekick Gilgabot (or maybe it's the other way around?) organize the Fiesta as a charity drive for Child's Play and as a gathering for all FFV fans to celebrate the game. Mechanically, the Fiesta challenges you to play through Final Fantasy V using just one job from each Crystal. Hard Mode ups the ante, allowing Gilgabot to pull from past Crystals - you can, for example, get another White Mage from the Fire Crystal, or a Berserker from the Earth Crystal! In 2012, the Berserker Risk option was added as a way to pump up the difficulty even more - for every $10 raised prior to the Fiesta's start, every Berserker Risk participant was assigned a mandatory Berserker! Enough was raised to stick every participant at Risk with at least one Berserker, and SA member Rosalie_A ended up with what was considered the nastiest team of the Fiesta - a Knight and THREE Berserkers! 2013 renamed Hard Mode to "Random Mode" which is honestly more accurate, and added the new Team 750/No-750 and Natural modes, adding extra fun and challenge. 2015 upped the stakes and added the much-beloved Chaos Mode, which was what we all wanted from Random all along - any job is possible from any crystal, and duplicates are possible, leading to a handful of Chaos Riskers ending up with  FOUR. FREAKING. BERSERKERS. (RIP Everhate, The Chosen One) 2016 graced us with Pure Chaos, which is Chaos without repeats and with Mime and Freelancer in the character pool. 2018 gave us the interesting and GBA-only Forbidden mode - at the cost of permanently losing one of your other three jobs, you can earn the right to use one of the GBA-only jobs - Oracle, Gladiator, or Cannoneer! 2019 gave us Fifth Job - Krile is her own character! Why shouldn't she get a job? She takes Galuf's job and dunks it in the trash (you can't use ANY of its abilities or passives!) and brings her own! Hope you weren't attached to that Geomancer, she's a Berserker now!While the challenge is not one regularly "recommended" for those new to Final Fantasy V, there have been several goons who challenged the Fiesta as their first playthrough of the game and triumphed! That said, the challenge will definitely require a bit more aptitude and awareness of the game's mechanics and neat combos than a game where you plow through everything with !X-Fight, !X-Magic, and other powerful combos (that is, unless Gilgabot is merciful and gives you those combos). It goes a long way to help snap the decision paralysis that plagues a lot of first-time players of FFV, though. Well, I've never played FFV before. Should I try anyways? Absolutely! Like I said, lots of goons have earned their first victory in FFV through the Fiesta - either combinations of the restricted job access giving them real focus to finish the game, or getting advice from the litany of Fiesta veterans that haunt this thread and Discord, or for whatever reason. Plus, FFV is fun, and you're playing for charity (via either your donations or runs that you finish that trigger other people's pledges)! How's this all work, then? What're the rules? An example team would be mine from 2012 - I got Thief, Summoner, Ninja, and Samurai. From the Wind Crystal on, I had to have a full party of Thieves. Once I finished the Water Crystal, I got to choose a configuration of at least 1 Thief and at least 1 Summoner, and then the other two could be either Thieves or Summoners, with no limit aside from having at least one of each. The Fire crystal was the same - I had to field at least one Ninja, Summoner, and Thief at all times, and my fourth character could be what was best suited of my three job options. After the Earth Crystal, that was it - everyone was locked in. You can switch jobs around as is necessary, but you've gotta adhere to those guidelines. If you want your Ninja to learn some Summon Magic, that Summoner has to switch to being a Ninja too. Note that for Natural and Chaos runs, you use Freelancers until you have obtained your assigned jobs. A Ranger/Samurai/Dragoon/Chemist Chaos run would use Freelancers until you get the Black Chocobo, and a White Mage/Time Mage/Bard/Chemist Natural run has Faris as a Freelancer until the same. So who the hell is Gilgabot? Gilgabot is the Twitter bot that does the backend paperwork of the Fiesta. You tweet keywords to him (@FF5ForFutures) at certain thresholds in your playthrough and he will do whatever those correspond to. For example, you can tweet "@FF5ForFutures #Water" to note that you've reached the Water Crystal. Gilgabot will then reply (maybe - he hit the daily tweet limit several times last year) with your Job assignment for that crystal. You can see a full list of his commands here. (link this to letsplaying's commands page when the site's back up) Twitter? Ewww, I don't do that social media bullshit. Tough. Don't blame Gilgabot, blame yourself or God. If you wanna Fiesta (at least officially - no one's stopping you from doing your own using random.org or similar), you gotta tweet. Worst case scenario, you make a throw-away account you use just for the Fiesta and then ignore it. Many goons do this every year.  NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE A PROTECTED ACCOUNT, YOU WILL HAVE EXTREME DIFFICULTY FIESTA-ING OFFICIALLY. Consider making a throwaway account. Help! Gilgabot gave me a shittacular job combo and $BOSS is kicking my rear end! Relax. Trasson got through the entire game and even the optional superboss Shinryu in 2012 with a Knight and three Berserkers. You can beat the focus of your ire too, with some strategy and tenacity. That said, we're not going to leave you in the lurch - lots of FFV pros participate in the Fiesta, and in 2012 we came up with a veritable compendium of knowledge, tactics, and advice (which got loving additions in 2013 and 2014, too!). You can find it here, but be aware it contains story and boss spoilers, as well as a significant amount of mechanical information for the game. Other resources include Alcharagia's Primer to FFV's Jobs, Sulla's Solo Single Class Challenges, Mega64's Resource Page, and the FFV Algorithm Guide (for SNES and GBA)! We'll all be prattling away on Discord! Enkibot is also back and better than ever! It has moved here and now supports GBA jobs and Mime/Freelancer!!Science is scary and I can't use !Mix, the most powerful ability in FFV! Help me!!!! Relax. Learn the true power of  here. Don't glitch Exdeath! (especially since your victory won't count  )Alright, I'm in! What do I do? Get on Twitter and send Gilgabot (@FF5ForFutures) a pre-registration tweet. This will look something like "@FF5ForFutures #regpurechaos #BERSERKERRISK". Then, just wait for the Fiesta to start! What's New for 2020? COVID-19! In all honestly we have no idea. RK has not been as coyly half-show, half-don't about the new feature (and instead has just been using Gilgabot to shitpost on twitter), so yeah. We'll find out at pre-reg, I guess! Trivia and Infographic Nonsense! Every year, RevenantKioku puts out an infographic for the year's Fiesta, covering a lot of trivia and data, distribution of classes, stuff like that (as well as how fair and balanced Gilgabot was, which he always is). They're pretty neat, and are timg'd below - click the year (or expand the image, but they're really big) for big. 2011 Infographic:  2012 Infographic:  2013 Infographic:  (Thread) 2014 Infographic:  (Thread) 2015 Infographic:  (Thread) 2016 Infographic:  (Thread) 2017 Infographic:  (Thread) 2018 Infographic:  (Thread) 2019 Infographic:  
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High Quality Goon-Made Fiesta Fanart! 2014 Fanart  (by Bloodwulfe)  (also by Bloodwulfe)  (by Asiina)  (again, by Bloodwulfe)  (by Shoehead)  (yup, still Bloodwulfe)  (Bloodwulfe: still the best)  (THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE MEAN NOTHING TO A_Raving_Loon) Can of Worms is rad as hell and has made multiple FFV Advance patches, including the source of the above gif. Fiesta State Mod(no mechanical changes) FFVA Balance Mod (actual mechanical changes) (changelog) 2015 Fanart Mega64 takes on the trials and tribulations of the Omnizerker.  (What's Flarnith's art doing here?!)  (neongrey needs to be sure you heard him correctly.) 2016 Fanart  (Asterism has to face some tough choices.)  (Koobes decided to correct Mid a bit.)  (Let's just call this a work by Edward_Tohr and move on with life) 2017 Fanart  (Mikl is having some problems with the weather.)  (Ablative assures me that, just like Ronka, it can only go up uP UP!!)  (Orange Fluffy Sheep demonstrates the value of Butzcoin. BUY IN NOW)  Ablative reminds us of that which we must sacrifice, because the numbers are infallible.)  (Bad Seafood has opinions on robots.) 2018 Fanart  (Aerdan lets us know what's up.)  (Orange Fluffy Sheep has important information that might SAVE YOUR LIFE.)  (Mega64 reminds us that the FBI is full of poo poo.)  (Archenetron is ready for suffering in The Run.)  (Obang Metho has relevant memes.) 2019 Fanart     (Admiral Joeslop pays homage to the King of All Superbosses)  (I fully admit I have no idea what FeyerbrandX was riffing here, but it's rad)  (Azza Bamboo pays off an interdimensional threat) 2020 Fanart  (noooooo vernatio can't just make a meme out of the final boss fight!!!!) Kyrosiris fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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INCONVENIENCE YOURSELF! RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY! FULFILL A  TODAY!Jose Valasquez posted:This filled up quicker than I expected last year, so I've adjusted the numbers to give more people an opportunity for pain. Bufuman posted:It's time for ultrafilter posted:Same DalaranJ posted:The Perfect Crime Aerdan posted:The Skald Hempuli posted:
apophenium posted:I also want to do a Kyrosiris posted:You know what's stupid? The Brave Blade. You know what loving rules? Osci posted:Based on what happened during my first fiesta year. Mustached Demon posted:I came up with a hopefully fun Azza Bamboo posted:
Spelling Mitsake posted:Way to go! I'm currently banging my head against that wall... JibberJabberwocky posted:4zerk run just got past sandworm. Took about 20 tries at level 45. Was going to give up and go back and grind to 50 on mini dragons when I got a lucky one in. I immediately went out saved tented then went back to the library and healed at the pot, then saved in a second slot, then copied my save as a backup, before continuing. berenzen posted:I have a little bit of expendable cash, so I think I'll make a Kyrosiris fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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That time again already? And of course, can't have a Fiesta without pulling this old gem back out again: 
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Chemist is even more useful something something corona
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Welp, my free time was already under duress, this will probably shank it in the nearest alleyway. BRING IT ON.
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yes good last year I was a butt and didn't even finish one run, but this year we are all made of time
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 Gotta start the Fiesta off right, with some lovely memes!
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Didn't finish a run last year because of life and shadowbringers dropping. Gonna complete some this time around.
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This filled up quicker than I expected last year, so I've adjusted the numbers to give more people an opportunity for pain. $20 up to a Max of $500 per run that uses a 0 power Chicken Knife on NED Please provide a screenshot of the equipment screen and one of the wielder attacking NED Completions: blakelmenakle, Procrastine, Serene Dragon, Fat and Useless, JibberJabberwocky x2, Orange Fluffy Sheep, Vernatio, Shyfted, Spelling Mitsake, Zerilan, Man With Hat, TheWonderTrickster, Jose Valasquez, jaclynhyde, Doom Goon x4 Jose Valasquez fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ginfs4TY0oo Mandatory 
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Oh, that reminds me that I had an idea for a toxx myself. It's time for  Magical Bufu's Magical * The condition for this one is simple: Obtain every magic spell in one run. White, Black, Time, Blue, Summons, and Songs. Dark Arts are exempt, but if you're a masochist you're welcome to go for it. * The classes required to actually USE the spells are not mandatory, but obviously Blue Magic will require a Blue Mage or a randomizer run with Learning. * Donation amount is $5 for every run with all spells, up to a limit of $100. (I wanted it to be more, but I have more bills to pay than I did in previous years thanks to Real Life Bullshit) * Proof requested: Ideally shots of your magic screens, but for simplicity's sake I'll accept a shot of just the Time magic list to cover White and Black too (since you need to get their final spells to get access to Meteor). For most lists with multiple pages (White/Black/Time just barely require two pages in certain versions IIRC), I'll go by the honor system and accept single shots at the bottom of the list. Blue Magic will require shots of all pages though. Bufuman fucked around with this message at 02:39 on May 22, 2020 |
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Same as last year. Use all twenty regular jobs and I'll donate $20 plus your job fair expenses (up to the total price of one of each regular job). Any kind of run is fine except for #fifthjob or some other mode that has you using more than four jobs in a single playthrough. If you're going to do this, I suggest that you plan ahead a bit. This is going to take at least five runs, and you don't want the last one to be something like Monk/Berserker/Geomancer/Dragoon. There is no requirement to do this in exactly five runs, but more than that is a lot of FFV.
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Jose Valasquez posted:This filled up quicker than I expected last year, so I've adjusted the numbers to give more people an opportunity for pain. Aw sweet the hassle of the a brave blade run with none of the payoff. Sounds like my bag. Hi I'm OFS I punched Omega to death with an Oracle once. It took 16 hours.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Aw sweet the hassle of the a brave blade run with none of the payoff. Hey, you can do the Dark Arts thing I mentioned in my previous post!
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Maybe this time ffxiv won't destroy my free time again.
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Kyrosiris posted:That said, we're not going to leave you in the lurch - lots of FFV pros participate in the Fiesta, and in 2012 we came up with a veritable compendium of knowledge, tactics, and advice (which got loving additions in 2013 and 2014, too!). You can find it here, but be aware it contains story and boss spoilers, as well as a significant amount of mechanical information for the game. This link throws a 404.
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ultrafilter posted:This link throws a 404. Oh yeah right, the cool stuff guide is dead. I'll edit that and do the toxx post later.
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Bufuman posted:Hey, you can do the Dark Arts thing I mentioned in my previous post! The issue is I will never roll Necromancer and I can't job fair for it, so even if I got the golden team for the sealed temple thief/time/beast/chem, I guess after job fairing out the blue mage with all 27 spells, I can't actually have the Necromancer around to get the dark arts.
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I'm in. Every year I sign up and rarely do it but it literally costs nothing to sign up so...
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Its that time of year. Time to post Battle on the Big Bridge covers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tltrL3EHPvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tvQoCBaKUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Y1NwrtIhc
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W.T. Fits posted:That time again already? no gently caress i wanted to post this i'm gonna do it anyway 
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The Perfect Crime $20 up to a maximum of $200 for each person who can show me, Post one screenshot showing your classes. You cannot use a thief at any time during this challenge. Post one screenshot showing your item list containing the following items: 1. Titan's Glove 2. Genji Armor 3. Kornago Gourd (or 2 if you have a beastmaster) 4. 3 Gold Hairpins (Reminder: There is a gold hairpin in Barrier Tower, and one in the Pyramid, don't forget to pick them up.) DalaranJ fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 22, 2020 |
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also geomancers are good y'all
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Leraika posted:also geomancers are good y'all no
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Leraika posted:also geomancers are good y'all THAT HIPPIE poo poo AIN'T MAGIC
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DalaranJ posted:The Perfect Crime 5. 2 Titan's Axes
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in zerk we trust
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DalaranJ posted:The Perfect Crime
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Kyrosiris posted:Oh yeah right, the cool stuff guide is dead. I'll edit that and do the toxx post later. It's not dead! Last year someone showed up with a copy they made, and I'm pretty sure I have a backup as well for just that reason.
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After getting super excited for last year's Fiesta, digging up a copy of the Goon guide, and being absolutely certain it'd be my first year doing multiple runs like so many people in the thread do... I didn't even finish one. This year, though... maybe.
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DalaranJ posted:The Perfect Crime (actually some goon will be insane enough to do this, I can't believe you left off the Titan's Axe, etc)
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DACK FAYDEN posted:The famed zero dollar toxx, I'm impressed. Honestly if it wasn't for the third gold hairpin I might actually try it, but uh... I've gotten that thing before with a Thief. Some things aren't worth repeating a timed dungeon dive for.
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I'm not sure if  or or  is the most appropriate but I do love the FJF thread every year.I completed five runs last year but left a sixth unfinished going for ultrafilter's all jobs toxx. I am filled with shame. This year will be better!
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