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Welcome to the Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta 2021 thread! In its ninth 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: 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. Rosalie 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 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 2021? (I'm out of clever predictions) 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: (Thread) 2020 Infographic: Kyrosiris fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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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) 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!!!!) 2021 Fanart (Raitzeno has a present for you!) Kyrosiris fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jun 11, 2021 |
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(This post reserved for es, as is tradition)quote:As standard, I, Kyrosiris, will toxx for my usual 10 cents a speed trap hit and 2 cents a rod snapped, up to a cumulative total of 100 dollars, to be donated at the end of the Fiesta. girl dick energy posted:
Fenrir posted:Ohhhh, you're on. Soon as I get a summoner. Admiral Joeslop posted:I like big Bartz and I cannot lie. Kyrosiris posted:
Jose Valasquez posted:
Dr. Bones posted:You know what, gently caress it. As a , for every QUADZERKER goon run, I'll throw a buck in for charity. Just post in here (or @ me in the discord) and let me know that you're doing the QUADZERKER challenge, so I can keep track. This, of course, only applies to completed runs (though I won't demand triple-crowning or anything extra. Just beat the game.) ultrafilter posted:It's time, but I'm going to do something different this year. Everyone loves quadzerks, but how about quad geomancers or quad red mages? I'll throw in $10 per regular job that someone does a quad run of, and $20 for Freelancer/Mime/Gladiator/Oracle/Cannoneer. Some of those runs will be pretty miserable, but it's for a good cause, and let's face it: thread regulars have done worse. Osci posted:I'm going to go with a similar to last year. girl dick energy posted:I just got killed by a Ghidra in the ten steps between Archie and the next cutscene. In honor of this, and to do something productive with the experience... Galick posted:Hi there! I'm the one making the Waddler rebalance and this is my first foray into game modding in general. I hope the people who choose to use the rebalance have fun with it, and if you find a bug or anything, please let me know! Mustached Demon posted:Then I got the for you! Rosalie_A posted:Alright thread. It's time to talk about overpowered abilities. You know the ones. They can make or break a run. You get three Thieves and despair and then roll a Samurai and go "lol guess I'm throwing money at everything". Ace Transmuter posted:So, after years of the Matrix version genuinely being the easiest to play, my friend bought me an old DS and the FFVA cart, so I'll be returning to the best version. FeyerbrandX posted:So I finally came up with an idea for a nrook posted:
DalaranJ posted:Last year, I asked you to commit The Perfect Crime. This year, I need you to Attack and Dethrone God(s). Doom Goon posted:OMG. DalaranJ posted:Okay, here's a more radical that I'm going to add on top of my last one. Aerdan posted:https://twitter.com/aerdan/status/1402644546073288705 StrangeAeon posted:yes Koobes posted:
nrook posted:Last minute toxx: Shyfted One posted:$1 for each unique (not default or even Cactuar since that's become common) NED sprite submitted for victory. This is per each replacement option per person. So I'll only accept 1 Neo X Death, Yiazmat, etc victory shot per person. I want to see a variety! Max of $75? Arrrthritis posted:Got a couple of Toxxes this year for the people who are interested! Hellioning posted:
30.5 Days posted:
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BERSERKER RISK RIDE OR DIE
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:17 |
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GROUND FLOOOOOOR
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:18 |
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Finally, the stars align and I am released from the LP subforum lurking to lurk here *kicks the evidence that I've already escaped the forum for SaGa talk under the bed*
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:18 |
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I killed an elephant with bards last year and it was surely a thing.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:20 |
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:20 |
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Just like last year, I'm going to give $0.10 for every Fat Chocobo summoned. The command .chonk will count on Carbybot using the same syntax as the existing rod counter, so use that. Because times are tight right now, I'll probably be capping out at $10, but we'll see.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:21 |
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I'm gonna post this every year until it makes it into the fanart section and you can't stop me.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:21 |
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.purechaos+void
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Oh hell yes let's loving GO
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:24 |
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Unreal_One posted:.purechaos+void Wind Job: Berserker Water Job: Mime Fire Job: Freelancer Lost to the void: Thief
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:24 |
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Hopefully this year I will finish a run instead of what happened in 2020, stalling out and replaying Trails games for achievements instead.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:26 |
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Yo, I heard there was a staff in the wind shrine.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:33 |
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W.T. Fits posted:I'm gonna post this every year until it makes it into the fanart section and you can't stop me.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:38 |
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girl dick energy posted:
Ohhhh, you're on. Soon as I get a summoner. Also I'll be matching this toxx. All the chonks I summon myself will go above the cap.
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I like big Bartz and I cannot lie. Edit: Toxxes! This year I will probably just be doing the T-Rex toxx. I will donate $5 for every kill of T-Rex in world two that DOES NOT use a Phoenix Down or similar item. Anything goes except something that would kill an undead outright. You can post a video, a screenshot, a tiktok, hell you don't have to do anything but post that you did it. Limit will be $75. Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 17, 2021 |
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DID YOU KNOW: The Rune Chime is flagged as a Song-category attack! DID YOU KNOW: Stompbot cannot evade music! (this is why you can stop lock him with bard) CHALLENGE: Defeat Omega while your only source of damage is a Rune Chime. You can use whatever supporting jobs you want. You may stop-lock. You may mix your Geomancer into godhood. No holds barred... but the only offense is the DING. to charity and a custom vanity title in the Discord of your choice to the winner! Congratulations, Galick! Kyrosiris fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Oh boy it's time for another year where I'll probably burn out before getting anything done
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I will not let these abandoned fanarts from last year go unnoticed. Cattail Prophet posted:Help, my brain put two and two together and I couldn't stop myself: Mega64 posted:An excuse to post a thing I made a few months ago.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:51 |
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W.T. Fits posted:
I guess I'll dump my crimes that haven't been fully documented in the thread too.
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NGDBSS posted:Hopefully this year I will finish a run instead of what happened in 2020, stalling out and replaying Trails games for achievements instead. Don’t worry, I’m sure finishing your Fiesta run this year will be a pizza cake.
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# ? May 17, 2021 02:59 |
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Well, since everybody else is posting their dumb memes from last year... *clears throat* gently caress YOU, KARNAK! IF YOU'RE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY A NEW HAMMER THIS WEEKEND, YOU'RE A BIG ENOUGH SHMUCK TO COME TO BIG ROD HELL'S SHOP! BAD DEALS! RODS THAT BREAK DOWN! THIEVES! IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA FIND A BARGAIN AT BIG ROD'S, YOU CAN KISS MY rear end! IT'S OUR BELIEF THAT YOU'RE SUCH A STUPID MOTHERFUCKER, YOU'LL FALL FOR THIS BULLSHIT! GUARANTEED! IF YOU FIND A BETTER DEAL, SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY rear end! YOU HEARD US RIGHT, SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY rear end! BRING YOUR KNIGHT, BRING YOUR BERSERKER, BRING YOUR MONK! WE'LL gently caress HER! THAT'S RIGHT, WE'LL gently caress YOUR MONK! BECAUSE AT BIG ROD HELL'S, YOU'RE hosed SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY! TAKE A HIKE TO BIG ROD HELL'S, HOME OF CHALLENGE GEOMANCY! THAT'S RIGHT, CHALLENGE GEOMANCY! HOW DOES IT WORK?! IF YOU !GAIA SIX FEET IN THE AIR STRAIGHT UP AND NOT HAVE A WIZARD CAST RESET, YOU GET FLARE! DON'T WAIT, DON'T DELAY, DON'T TAKE MORE THAN TEN MINUTES! OR WE'LL RIP YOUR NUTS OFF, KUPO! ONLY AT BIG ROD HELL'S, THE ONLY DEALER THAT TELLS YOU TO gently caress OFF! HURRY UP, rear end in a top hat! THIS EVENT ENDS THE MINUTE AFTER YOU LEAVE CASTLE KARNAK, AND IT BETTER NOT BLOW UP, OR YOU'RE A DEAD MOTHERFUCKER! GO TO HELL! BIG ROD HELL'S SHOP! KARNAK'S FILTHIEST, AND EXCLUSIVE HOME TO THE MEANEST SONS-OF-BITCHES ON PLANET R! GUARANTEED! (I wrote a lot of this but a few lines were from other people on the Discord, and I can't seem to find where I credit their contributions, but whoever they are, they are awesome)
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I completed two runs last year. Let's see if I can't get at least three this time.
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I managed to make up for four years of stalling out (after only one year of a successful run, lmao) with two triple crowns last year so maybe this year I can pull at least one of those off again.
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Oh crap, is it that time of year again already. Gonna be interesting to see what I can manage this year, but I'm playing way too many daily games at the moment, and at least one of them is going to be busy around this time. Gonna have to really rush the few runs I'll probably manage.
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If any goons get QUADZERKER this year, they MUST complete their runs
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# ? May 17, 2021 04:22 |
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This year I got me one of them snazzy emu handhelds, an rg351v (see: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3937810), and I can't tell you how eager I am to run down the work clock playing FF5 in the bathroom this summer. Gonna play through the PSX version first this year, because I've never played through it before. Go team Y-Burns! zzMisc fucked around with this message at 04:27 on May 17, 2021 |
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Once again I'll be doing a 0 power chicken knife toxx. $10 up to a Max of $250 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 Completed: Red Metal, Serene Dragon, Galick, MagusDraco, Modoh, TheWonderTrickster, Vernatio, Doom Goon x4, Spelling Mitsake, Orange Fluffy Sheep Jose Valasquez fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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EDIT: I don't plan on doing a Sealed Temple toxx. That dungeon is obnoxious even with Time/Mystic/Bard/Cannoneer. My first run of 2021 will be Random + Fifth Job on RPGE. CourtlyHades296 fucked around with this message at 14:37 on May 17, 2021 |
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Dr. Bones posted:If any goons get QUADZERKER this year, they MUST complete their runs You know what, gently caress it. As a , for every QUADZERKER goon run, I'll throw a buck in for charity. Just post in here (or @ me in the discord) and let me know that you're doing the QUADZERKER challenge, so I can keep track. This, of course, only applies to completed runs (though I won't demand triple-crowning or anything extra. Just beat the game.) e: For every optional superboss you beat, I'll add +1 dollar to the donation for your run. Triple-crown is three bucks for charity for your run! (I am not counting GBA extra-double-plus superbosses) Dr. Bones fucked around with this message at 14:02 on May 17, 2021 |
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It's like I'm home again
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# ? May 17, 2021 14:41 |
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I'm sure we'll have another write up of why Sealed Temple is bad this year, but until then:
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Dr. Bones posted:You know what, gently caress it. As a , for every QUADZERKER goon run, I'll throw a buck in for charity. Just post in here (or @ me in the discord) and let me know that you're doing the QUADZERKER challenge, so I can keep track. This, of course, only applies to completed runs (though I won't demand triple-crowning or anything extra. Just beat the game.) Shinryu is doable, but you can't beat Omega with quadzerkers
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You can, the probability is just incomprehensibly low. A Rune Axe has a 1/200 chance of hitting, quarter's Omega's defense, and might roll above that!
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:You can, the probability is just incomprehensibly low. A Rune Axe has a 1/200 chance of hitting, quarter's Omega's defense, and might roll above that! I thought about adding that caveat, but I don't think anyone will actually ever beat Omega with quadzerkers before the heat death of the universe without cheating.
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While I'm waiting for the fiesta to start, I'm doing the Sealed Temple with Time/Mystic/Bard/Cannoneer on my RegAdvance savefile from last year. Time Mage not only lets you damage Archeodemon, but lets you use Teleport to run from battles easily. Cannoneer can wipe random enemies with Combine and EXP Up makes grinding quicker. Bard deals 8x damage to undead and dragons with Apollo's Harp, and can sing you to max strength/level/magic during boss fights. Mystic Knight is the least useful class for the Temple with this team, but still deals lots of damage with Flare Spellblade. So far, Grand Aevis; Archeodemon and Omega Mk.II fell to this team, without using Romeo's Ballad on Omega Mk.II.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Shinryu is doable, but you can't beat Omega with quadzerkers I know what I'm about.
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Leraika posted:I'm sure we'll have another write up of why Sealed Temple is bad this year, but until then:
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