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Jun 21, 2014 02:09
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KataraniSword posted:Berserk requires Wonder Wand manipulation or Power Staff grinding with the teams I mentioned (Berserk is a 5th-level spell, so White Mage only) and getting Flash to hit on Shinryu is... well, let's just say it's a hell of a feat and far from "trivial". Aw dang I didn't do the math. Never mind then.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:16
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I wonder what classes the original 4 Warriors of Dawn specialized in? I always kind of assumed that Bartz' dad was the fighter stereotype, but Zeza (Xezat) calls himself the swordsman so he probably has dibs. Did that make Dorgann a support class?! I assume they have the same crystal spirits, but it would be pretty wild if the other world had a separate job set. They all seem to like swords though, so maybe it was freelancer all day every day. Xezat - Knight/Samurai Galuf - Monk/Berserker Kelger - Time Mage/Ninja Dorgann - Bard/White Mage There's my imaginary party that crushes Exdeath 30 years before the start of the game. Are there any other clues that would hint at their professions?
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Jun 21, 2014 02:17
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Xezat was a dancer. A dancer of swords EDIT: Seriously speaking, I can't picture Galuf as anything other than a Monk, except maybe a Berserker. He just gives off that gruff, masculine vibe.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:23
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I always saw Xezat as more of a mage type, with some Bard stuff. You do find a magic song in his room.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:25
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Lessail posted:Omega decided he didn't like me so I went and killed Exdeath before I forgot to Seriously thought you were talking about Ornstein and Smough for a second there.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:26
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Sage/Blackbelt/Swordmaster/Pirate, obviously.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:26
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Dorgann was clearly a Dancer. Where else would Bartz have gotten that outfit?
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Jun 21, 2014 02:27
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Dr Pepper posted:I always saw Xezat as more of a mage type, with some Bard stuff. You do find a magic song in his room. Xezat calls himself 'the swordsman', so he's clearly at least got Equip Sword. More seriously, in the FF1 GBA remakes, some of the default names are the Dawn Warriors if you keep making it suggest them for you. Xezat is a default name for a Fighter; Dorgann (spelled Dorgan) is a Monk name, and Kelger (spelled Kelga) is a Thief name.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:30
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Mega64 posted:So I combed through the Algorithms guide and spent several hours making a rough boss guide that lists status vulnerabilities. I skipped a few minor bosses, and I don't bother differentiating some stuff like the Liquid Flame forms, but I can clean that stuff up another day. In the meantime, enjoy a guide that actually tells you what status effects a boss is weak to. I've learned a few surprising things doing this, like just how many enemies are weak to blind. Not a mistake necessarily, but saying X-Death is vunerable to slow is just encouraging someone to hasten their inevitable demise.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:42
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Dr Pepper posted:I always saw Xezat as more of a mage type, with some Bard stuff. You do find a magic song in his room. Xezat's animations on the ship and in the Barrier Tower do suggest that he's frying monsters with magic, but he also looks like he's going toe-to-toe with Enkidu, so maybe he's multiclassing. Red or Blue Mage, maybe?
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Jun 21, 2014 02:57
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Well, decided to do a second run, random this time. Knight for my wind job. Time to not run from anything until I find out if I get something that can use the chicken knife properly.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:15
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Xezat is actually a guns'braster. This is canon.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:16
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Hedera Helix posted:...This is going to sound like a dumb question, but how exactly do pledges work with regards to the job fair? Do you tweet a pledge, make a donation, and notify Gilgabot? Quoting because I have the same question. Doing a 750 run & got Black Mage/Summoner/Bard/Dancer and I had Dancer last year in a regular run so I really want to try something different but not 100% sure what order the job fair stuff is supposed to go in.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:19
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If you go to the Job Fair page, it'll compose the tweet for you. Just set up your classes, hit submit, tweet it, then go donate. Make sure you put a message in your donation telling RK what your twitter handle is and that it's for the Job Fair.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:28
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Welp, farming reflect knights in the barrier tower. One down so far, let's see how long it takes to get the rest.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:40
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Sprite141 posted:Welp, farming reflect knights in the barrier tower. One down so far, let's see how long it takes to get the rest. I got fairly lucky when I did it on my first run, 40 minutes or so for all 4 rings, which I needed to survive Exdeath. Helps if you can shut down the trash pulls so you don't burn consumables though.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:47
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Having an absolute blast with Blue Mage. It really is a great job. Turning Garula into a frog and then blasting him with Aero was effective and hilarious. My Water job was Red Mage. I know there isn't much synergy with Blue, but how best can I use this guy? (Aside from the obvious snapping of rods all day long)
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Jun 21, 2014 03:47
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Woo victory! Had to back out of the void to farm elixirs in the wind shrine  BUT THEN I WON!  EAT IT, NEO EXDEATH.    
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Jun 21, 2014 03:51
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SereneCrimson posted:Having an absolute blast with Blue Mage. It really is a great job. Unfortunately all you can really do is use it as a Raise machine and snap rods all day long. Dualcasting Raise helped me sandbag Neo Exdeath until I could pull a strategy out of my rear end. Every other class that has synergy with Red Mage is in Wind and Water, however so you're flat out of luck otherwise.
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Jun 21, 2014 03:52
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SereneCrimson posted:My Water job was Red Mage. I know there isn't much synergy with Blue, but how best can I use this guy? (Aside from the obvious snapping of rods all day long) For the first half of the game, your red mage will be able to fill in for any role your blue mage cannot fill. After a certain point, unfortunately, the effectiveness of third-level black and white magic drops pretty badly, until life and the status-effect spells are the only ones that you'll have any use for. Once you get dualcast, you can wring some more life out of the -a attack and healing spells, but even those will need to be rod-boosted with the wizard rod or what have you. My recommendation would be to turn someone into a semi-permanent red mage, in order to get dualcast on at least one person before the end of the game. Blue would be a great ability to give them, actually.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:03
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First Fiesta run ever successful! Dancer/Knight/Ranger/Time Mage. Next time I'll actually adopt some Berserkers or something, this run's keyphrase was "complete melee superiority". Also "no multi-target healing except for Nightingale", but that's probably more than most fiesta-ers get. Beaten Exdeath by mostly dancing with Excalibur and using Quick to sandbag and throw Meteors. Maybe I should go for Omega, at least, but last time I checked him out, he got something like seven turns in a row and obliterated me utterly. Maybe break out Quick and rods.  Edit: Welp, turns out Omega has reflect on and for whatever reason I can't reflect rod spells off my party members. Gonna have to do some research. Aithon fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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Jun 21, 2014 04:05
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I think Poison Rod boosted Bio is good enough to at least get you through the third world. Granted it's about half the damage of an -aga with a boosted rod, but it's still powerful and inflicts sap. At least it's a lot let painful to slog through than a monk from my current experience.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:07
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FeyerbrandX posted:I think Poison Rod boosted Bio is good enough to at least get you through the third world. Granted it's about half the damage of an -aga with a boosted rod, but it's still powerful and inflicts sap. Bio's level 4 and Red Mage cuts off at level 3, apart from dualcasting boosted -ra spells, Red Mage's endgame use is as a medic since Phoenix Downs cost an assload.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:09
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Don't forget, they can also cast armor! Twice! 
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Jun 21, 2014 04:12
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A whole bunch of status-effect spells are level 3 or lower, so Red Mages are also good at that poo poo. Double chances to silence Omniscient, the ability to confuse two enemies in a random encounter, etc. Status effects are underrated in FF5 by people who play without restrictions. The only time Red Mage is really a burden is on Neo Exdeath. And poo poo, being able to dualcast protect actually is kind of useful.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:19
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So after like 3-4 levels worth of grinding, I finally get all 3 reflect rings in a row. I actually will end up in my mid 30s before I end world 2, if only because of grinding items.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:28
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Forgot it was level 4. There is one other possibility though; I asked this last year but never got an answer. If you have a ninja, are you able to break a rod and possess the boost of the other rod? (i.e, equip 2 fire rods and break one)
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Zombies' Downfall posted:A whole bunch of status-effect spells are level 3 or lower, so Red Mages are also good at that poo poo. Double chances to silence Omniscient, the ability to confuse two enemies in a random encounter, etc. Red Mage ended up saving my bacon against Neo Exdeath, partly because of Protect and partly because of being able to simultaneously get Bartz and Lenna up so they could actually do the heavy lifting. Faris was too busy singing and keeping Lenna from running out of MP.
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Thanks for the Red Mage tips guys! I'm pretty happy to have a guy who can use Confuse, so I can get some of those peskier Blue spells. As well as Cura just being nice to have for a decent little chunk of the game. Right now I'm just spending some time to get the cash to stock up on rods. I'm sure I don't have to go overboard with them, but I'd like to have a nice stockpile in order to make sure I'm for the most part prepared if I need to get snappin'.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:33
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FeyerbrandX posted:Forgot it was level 4. Actually, yes. Then again, I find the extra utility of rodboosted, !Magic-boosted !Throw to be more than trying to do clever rodbreaks.
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And my second job is Summoner. 2 new jobs so far, and I'm definitely not going to be lacking damage output. Now to figure out how to beat Shiva. Edit: Oh right, break a rod, kill a boss. Vhadka fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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Jun 21, 2014 04:34
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I just got to World 3 and didn't get any Reflect Rings, are they gone for good?
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Jun 21, 2014 04:42
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Countblanc posted:I just got to World 3 and didn't get any Reflect Rings, are they gone for good? No, you can steal them in the phoenix tower. I think from the flower girls.
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Jun 21, 2014 04:45
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Countblanc posted:I just got to World 3 and didn't get any Reflect Rings, are they gone for good? You can find one in a chest in Istory Falls, Leviathan drops one if you dare brave him. I'm pretty sure they're a common steal from one of the enemies in the Phoenix Tower.
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Ugh, Twintania is looking to be another wall like Byblos was. His Tidal Wave counters bring my Bard and Dancer to critical and it only takes two of them to wipe the whole group. I either need to grind or go drop some cash on 3 more Coral Rings. EDIT: Nevermind, got him with just the one Coral Ring on my Knight. I still had to play defense heavily at times, but luckily I only had to eat 2 Waves before he went down. Bufuman fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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Jun 21, 2014 05:08
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drat died to Neo-Exdeath as he was nearing death. What reduces Almagest, as I don't want to grind everyone above 1600 to survive it. Got a White Mage, Time Mage, Ranger, and Dragoon.
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Rirse posted:drat died to Neo-Exdeath as he was nearing death. What reduces Almagest, as I don't want to grind everyone above 1600 to survive it. Got a White Mage, Time Mage, Ranger, and Dragoon. Shell works if you have that or Mighty Guard. Otherwise try Olding that section with the Ancient Sword.
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Bufuman posted:Shell works if you have that or Mighty Guard. Otherwise try Olding that section with the Ancient Sword. I don't have anyone who can use swords, but I do have Old on my Time Mage.
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