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Andrast posted:FFXII really isn't difficult enough for any of this to matter While this is true, it can be fun to come up with effective job combos, and sometimes the more important question is "will this job combo increase my fun?" Edmond Dantes posted:I think Basch (Bushi/Knight) is the only one I'm not gonna have 'conflicts' with; for the rest I'll probably have to pick something to focus on: This is basically the job combo set that I used, just on different characters and with Machinist and White Mage flipped (I had Balthier as a Shikari/White Mage tank and Fran as a Machinist/Foebreaker). Ultimately, gear-wise, most of those combos don't have any hard decisions to make. Here's what I mean: - Vaan: Light or heavy armor doesn't matter for evasion. It's just a question of whether you want to boost max HP (light armor), or defense and strength (heavy armor). Hang onto the Main Gauche dagger when you get it and use a shield and he'll be untouchable as a tank. Genji Gear is extremely late-game and has its own separate license that isn't one of the Heavy Armor licenses. Basically I'd say wear whatever you want when you're tanking (Main Gauche is pretty weak as an actual weapon so his damage isn't really in question) and wear heavy armor when you want to deal lots of damage (and the Genji Glove when you get it). - Balthier: Time magic doesn't really need much in the way of magic power, so stick with heavy armor and use the time magic for support. Extra magic power can help stick debuffs like Slow and Stop but that's it. - Fran: Gun damage isn't affected by stats at all, so wear mystic armor for more magic power and MP and you'll be just as effective with guns as if you wore anything else. - Basch: Strength boosts damage with any kind of weapon he can use (and even though katanas do use magic, they use strength significantly more), so stick with heavy armor. In the later parts of the game he'll have strong white magic thanks to Knight, but you probably aren't going to need to gear for that--the Magick Lores that Bushi (Samurai) gets are plenty to make him a good healer. - Ashe: Caster gear all the way. Black Mage is unreasonably strong. - Penelo: I'd recommend caster gear here, too. Bows are fine but they're nothing compared to offensive magic, and she won't be able to wear heavy armor to boost her bow damage until late in the game anyway (by which point she should probably be using the Burning Bow for +50% fire damage and spamming Ardor). Harrow fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Jul 19, 2018 |
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Andrast posted:FFXII really isn't difficult enough for any of this to matter Oh, I know. I just enjoy it. Harrow posted:Party Wisdom Thanks again! Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jul 19, 2018 |
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Andrast posted:FFXII really isn't difficult enough for any of this to matter I bet you don't even know the characters' attack animation timings per weapon down to milliseconds.
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The best part of the attack animation thing is that the difference between characters' attack animations can be surprisingly large, and also that difference is still functionally meaningless. Even if the game was hard enough for the difference to be worth considering, the number of times you're going to be able to just stand there whacking a stationary enemy with a weapon with no interruptions and without needing to stop and do something else are extremely few and far between. Here's a video that shows off each character's combo attack animations (using the PS2 Zodiac Job System version, but things are the same in Zodiac Age). One of the most noticeable differences is between Basch and Ashe's katana animations (she is a lot slower) but again, it really, really doesn't matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJn96BXo8Y That said the real reason I like this video is because you get to see what every character's attack animations look like for every weapon, and some of them are pretty funny or insanely cool. Ashe, for example, looks awesome with daggers and Balthier's pole animations are amusingly awkward. Harrow fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jul 19, 2018 |
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I went with class combinations that felt lore-appropriate. It reminded me of discussions I’d have with friends back in high school, about which Dungeons and Dragons class each Lord of the Rings character would be
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Legolas would be an archer, just IMO sorry if that's controversial
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Jay Rust posted:I went with class combinations that felt lore-appropriate. It reminded me of discussions I’d have with friends back in high school, about which Dungeons and Dragons class each Lord of the Rings character would be I went with job combinations that I thought were really fitting, but I also tried not to go with the super-obvious (like Vaan = Shikari, Penelo = White Mage). So I probably put too much thought into it, and I ended up going with something extremely obvious for Basch anyway:
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Mak0rz posted:are you talking to me? no, my brain also automatically inserts the word bort into sentences
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Man I hate waking up feeling worse than I when went to bed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbuGWgYLqWk
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Wait a minute. I bought some games over the summer sale and I seem to be playing only one of them eternally. How did this happen? Why did this happen? MY BACKLOG IS UP TO 50 GAMES
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Help Im Alive posted:Legolas would be an archer, just IMO sorry if that's controversial What really bothered me about Legolas in the movie is that in the book he is a elf redneck. I would rather have seen that in the films because it would be funny to me. Instead Gimli is the comic relief for no reason.
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Saint Freak posted:I bet you don't even know the characters' attack animation timings per weapon down to milliseconds. I made Balthier a Machinist and I don't even care. Because FF12 sucks.
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Harrow posted:befits the leading man, wouldn't you say? I 100% read this in Balthier's voice.
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Heartcatch posted:Wait a minute. I bought some games over the summer sale and I seem to be playing only one of them eternally. Which one?
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Heartcatch posted:Wait a minute. I bought some games over the summer sale and I seem to be playing only one of them eternally. I've not played anything except Oblivion for over a month now
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How do I get in the money laundering guild, is there an online form somewhere https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1019940456115863557
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Heartcatch posted:Wait a minute. I bought some games over the summer sale and I seem to be playing only one of them eternally. Only 50? How quaint. I have unfortunately fallen back into the hearthstone cycle with the new set announcement.
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Chill out and forget about your backlog, if you're enjoying a game don't rush it
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I've set a deadline for myself, anything in my backlog by the end of the year gets cut and I'm gonna start fresh.
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It's almost a year to the day since Splatoon 2 came out and I still play it almost every day...like what you like and play what you like, don't sweat the small stuff
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Convex posted:Chill out and forget about your backlog, if you're enjoying a game don't rush it I'll forget about my backlog when I'm dead
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About the only game I played consistently every day was Super Mario Maker and the only reason I stopped was because everyone else did. Port it to Switch you cowards! (i will never get that hopping fly costume goddamn gently caress the hard version of the fly swatter minigame)
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Someone bring out the "Who has Ryu from Street Fighter fought?" chart we gotta update it again. https://twitter.com/PowerRangersNOW/status/1019993999279415296
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that looks very unsatisfying to play
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buying postal 2 is maybe the greatest regret i've held throughout my life and it probably will continue to be into the future
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Help Im Alive posted:that looks very unsatisfying to play
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The Colonel posted:buying postal 2 is maybe the greatest regret i've held throughout my life and it probably will continue to be into the future it's a nice reminder that lovely edgelords are nothing new at least
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less laughter posted:Which one? Cook, Serve, Delicious 2. chumbler posted:Only 50? How quaint. Well, technically far more, but that's a separate category of, "Well, I would play these but it'll never happen".
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Help Im Alive posted:that looks very unsatisfying to play It's a cooldown-based and FG shaped PvP mobile game, so yeah
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"Democracy dies in darkness," am I right https://twitter.com/ktbenner/status/1019283372063981570
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washington post said crao
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https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/983803487510081536
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I've never watched/listened to the Go Off Kings are they any good?
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I got Japanese Taiko no Tatsujin on switch because I'm weak and couldn't wait for the Asian English version.
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Mak0rz posted:I've never watched/listened to the Go Off Kings are they any good? i think jesse is probably the funniest person around right now, tied with his yks podcast cohost mike hale. stefan would be third though. also rob is there but he doesn't do much
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Heartcatch posted:Wait a minute. I bought some games over the summer sale and I seem to be playing only one of them eternally. Ahaha. 50 games. You are like a child. Like a little baby.
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codenameFANGIO posted:Ahaha. 50 games. You are like a child. Like a little baby. This is a compliment. The longer my lifespan the more games I can not play.
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 21:38 |
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and that's because I quit buying random garbage To be fair, at least half of that is random garbage that I'll play at most a couple of hours before shelving, but first I must play those couple of hours.
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I don’t even have concept of a backlog anymore. I just play what I want and don’t care if I have games in my library that I haven’t played.
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