Four Job Fiesta 2018 - Finally, A Grim Reaper

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Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

How'd I miss this thread until now.

Anyway I've got a new host for my FF5 stuff and I'm tweaking it whenever I have time and energy. Includes a boss guide, a comprehensive status effect guide that shows which job can inflict what, a guide that lists every enemy drop and steal available in the game, and a way-too-comprehensive Blue Magic guide that lists every possible source you can find Blue Magic from. And since I'm crazy I'm always adding more stuff to it.

Fiesta hype.

# ¿ May 24, 2018 01:27

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:58

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

You can somewhat easily solo the game with 2/3�s of the jobs, to be fair.

Anyway both Black Mage and Summoner suck because they don�t have half the fashion sense of the Geomancer.

# ¿ May 24, 2018 20:31

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Dragonatrix posted:

You do have to be real powerful to fight evil while still wearing pyjamas, that's true.

Wish someone would tell that to the Geomancer.

# ¿ May 24, 2018 20:49

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Thief is in the same boat as White Mage and Bard, solid support character but complete crap by themselves until late game.

But that�s why you get three other jobs! Of course, now I�m picturing a Thief/WM/Bard/Geo run...

# ¿ May 25, 2018 23:55

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Nonsense! You have a Thief with !Mug and Chicken Knife, a Bard to make everyone a badass and... and two healers.

Yeah, in World 3.

What about Soul Cannon? Or Atomos? Or hell, Adamantoise?

# ¿ May 26, 2018 00:08

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

There�s some thing with Dual-Wielding where if the second attack does 0 damage, Omega ignores its counters.

I�m kinda curious if that extends to other bosses, where you can bypass counters (or possibly even form changes, like say, Archy) with a Ninja by doing 0 damage with your second attack.

# ¿ May 28, 2018 03:28

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Per asking eLmaGus on his stream just now, the runners for this year's The Run will be:

eLmaGus/jenja23/Yagamoth/ the one and only DRAGONDARCH

# ¿ May 30, 2018 22:50

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Huzzah! posted:

but the question is, will he go 24 hours without sleep before the race again?

I will be impressed if he can top his last run of running some convoluted scheme to set up "Death By Math But Different" only to wipe to a Moldwynd in the Wind Shrine and be forced to restart the entire game because he forgot to save.

# ¿ May 30, 2018 23:11

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

ultrafilter posted:

I thought he got blacklisted last year. Am I misremembering, or was that just not real?

Nah, he took last year off due to personal stuff. Honestly glad he's back to run this year, and only 50% because of schadenfreude.

# ¿ May 31, 2018 01:04

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

derra posted:

WM Byblos isn't too bad, even. Kill 3 of your own guys, whack yourself with a Healing Staff until Byblos is out of MP, revive and whittle him down. How is that a pain vs grinding to beat Sandworm / Soulcannon / NED?

To be fair though you�re a god drat Fiesta Machine compared to us mortals.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2018 18:59

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2018 19:44

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2018 20:03

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Do what we do in the Discord and roll teams and theorycraft with them without actually playing them.

Unlucky7 posted:

I want to make a pledge for this year, like $15 or $20 for an unfinished run, $10 for a finished run, but...is offering more for an unfinished run bad form?

Nah, it�s charity, pledge however you want.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2018 03:32

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Current Frontrunner is Thief/MK/Geo/Dancer

The other three have synergy with each other, but Geo looks even more useless than usual. What ability would you even give them?

# ¿ Jun 6, 2018 02:17

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

It's probably safe to Twohand at least until you get the Aegis Shield. After that, it's more whether you want to play defensively for stuff like W2 Exdeath/NED or go full offensive to burn things down, depending on team, playstyle, etc.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2018 10:16

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Kyrosiris posted:

Done.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2018 22:09

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

I freaking love whips. Give me all the drat whips.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2018 13:55

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Ramc posted:

Hello FFV thread. I just wanted to share a little update from an old Mega64 thread. You may remember the Lets Play Final Fantasy With a 3 Year Old run from a few years back- The archive of the thread is here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3724860 and if you don't have archives you should buy them for Lowtax's bandwidth spine, there are a lot of good gimmick runs in that thread.

Anyway, what is this kid up to now?

Haha, that�s awesome!

I finally got off my lazy butt and submitted the whole thing to the LP Archive, so hopefully it�ll be up any day now.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 03:19

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Berserkers are a privilege, not a right.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 03:48

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

JerikTelorian posted:

So which one of you just dropped like $2.5k on the fiesta? In one swoop we pretty much went from 1 zerk for every two riskers to a guaranteed zerkerbro.

InfernoBlade posted:

I didn't want to decide the run this year, and I may have given RPGLB enough to buy a new car this year, but I felt the need to water the berserker tree a bit before the run starts tomorrow. So I threw in ~$2500 and change to bring it up to a nice even 5k.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 14:25

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

If you go to your player page and click the WRONG button you can unlock your first job right now.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 17:12

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Bruceski posted:

Crystals just racking up bodies on this run.

DD was the only one not to wipe to the Crystals.

Of course it also took him like ten minutes to beat it but hey, it's still impressive.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 00:48

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

OBS Studio is recommended.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 01:01

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Ahaha, Wind job is Berserker and I didn�t even Zerk risk. :black101:

Also I wussed out and switched to Pure Chaos after that forboding Forbidden Warning. Maybe next run.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 04:14

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Rolled Berserker/Summoner/Monk/Chemist.

The biggest challenge will be finding a way to make Monk useful before I can stuff her full of drugs.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 23:46

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

You're pretty much right. It seems crappy because a Blue Mage has horrid Strength, but on a job like Knight it's really nice, especially with Excalipoor or the Brave Blade. I guess the only issue is you can't crit with Gunch, but very few weapons crit anyway so it's no biggie.

Also it gets boosted by Power Drinks, which is the only thing Power Drink affects due to a bug.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2018 00:24

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Monk on Drugs dealt 5k a punch to W2 Exdeath.

I can't believe I have a run where Monks Are Good.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2018 23:36

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Good Steals for your party:

* Hi-Potions from Poltergeist on the Steamship if you need some healing before Regole.
* If you haven't done Ronka Ruins yet, the Killer Bow is a rare steal from Ghidra. If you have, it's too late sadly.
* Twin-Lances from the Statues in Bal Basement. Thief and Ninja can use those.
* Hayate Bow is the rare steal from Poison Eagles in Drakenvale. They're the "proc !Rapidfire" bows.
* You can steal Reflect Rings from Carbuncle and Reflect Mages instead of grinding from Reflect Knights.

Out of time but here's the complete guide I wrote.

Also did a guide for Blue Magic though it's a bit overkill. I'd at least get Vampire, L5 Death, and Goblin Punch. L5 Death in particular makes grinding the statues in Bal Basement significantly easier.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2018 10:24

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

jaclynhyde posted:

Know what, I'll get onto the toxx train.

I just played FFV outside the Fiesta for the first time, and getting to and beating Leviathan was still a giant pain in the rear end. So in the interest of making everyone suffer with me, I'll donate $5 for everyone who defeats Leviathan, up to $50.

Decided to do it without !Mix and had to rely on clutch Berserker rolls. Well, I say "rely" but my Berserker was making GBS threads out massive damage so I knew she'd take care of business.

It's also convenient because I have Chemist and Summoner, meaning I can actually take advantage of Leviathan! That said, I have other plans for NED...

# ¿ Jun 23, 2018 00:57

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Four's recommended since W2Exdeath has a ton of nasty attacks and they help tremendously in surviving Phase 2 where he spams -ga spells. It really depends how confident you are in making GBS threads out damage (which probably won't be a problem with your party) and healing (which is definitely a problem with your party).

Also there's this.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2018 12:46

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPKj7NKrwk

Got a Triple Crown with Berserker/Summoner/Monk/Chemist. This team gels surprisingly well with each other. Chemist loves Summoner's Magic stat for making out, while Summoner loves making Leviathan useful and the extra MP. Berserker loves that Summoner Magic stat for Rune Axe destruction, and Monk loves Equip Axes and !Mix so that they can be useful. Just a solid team all around, had fun with this group outside the random encounters being cruel and getting some bad luck with wipes fleeing from everything.

Another successful Fiesta.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2018 17:38

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Samuel Clemens posted:

Wait a second, that Chemist isn't punching!

I forgot to unequip the Chicken Knife. :negative:

Also it took fifteen minutes of buffing that I don�t really want to repeat so

# ¿ Jun 23, 2018 19:56

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

You can...if your entire party isn�t Berserk.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2018 20:57

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Give Geo !Dualcast when you get it.

Also I'm sorry.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 13:57

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Edward_Tohr posted:

This is probably the worst idea I've ever had.

oh no

# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 20:57

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Most strats for Chemists break down to "use drugs to make out".

# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 21:54

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

There's also the Job Fair too.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2018 10:13

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Either go for broke on offense with Flare Sword Rapidfire plus Dance plus Apollo, or have three Zombies with Reflect Rings with the Bard Hiding and let Shinny Atomic Ray himself to death (very slowly).

# ¿ Jun 26, 2018 13:57

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

When you reach the Ship Graveyard, immediately go south down a bunch of rocks to get a much-needed weapon upgrade, the Flail.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2018 18:51

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:58

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Beastmaster / Thief / Dancer / Blue Mage. World 1 has been...interesting, especially the whole Ronka Ruins arc. Rocket Launchers, Clapperclaw, and to a lesser extent Soul Cannon were interesting experiences. A real shame I missed out on White Wind. Then again, the trade-off was getting W1 Lamia's Tiara, so it worked out.

Also, theoretically I can tackle the GBA bonus dungeon! Whether I want to is another story entirely, as I've never done it before.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2018 19:07

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