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Third year in a row starting with White Mage  Also,  Meticulous Monster Masher I will donate $5, up to a maximum of $50, for each person who posts a screenshot of their fully completed bestiary. Mustached Demon posted:
In honor of this year's charity namesake: 
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Bad Seafood posted:I somehow wound up with the exact same party composition I had last year. Might spice it up with a low-level playthrough or something, I dunno, but man, what are the odds. High enough that you'd expect it to happen to lots of people every year.
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Jun 18, 2023 18:06
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nrook posted:
Garula before Living Flame: Four Knights makes this free, each does about 200 damage per hit so it was just a straight hold-A to win. As mentioned above, no picture on this one because see above tech disaster. Jackanapes before Byblos: Came all the way back from the Library before killing Byblos for this one. Moon Flute makes it a pure damage race, but Two-Handed Berserker won out (barely).  Prototype before Sol Cannon: Blue Mage makes it free.  Skull Eater before Archaeoaevis: Blue Mage makes this free too, though Incisor being a one-shot means it's not a flawless victory.  I'll get the last four when I get back in town to continue my run later this week.
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Jun 18, 2023 18:07
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Unlucky7 posted:Wow! Starting out with Thief sucks rear end! I barely got past Siren
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Jun 18, 2023 18:49
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Shoehead posted:I barely got past Siren Bregor posted:If I remember correctly Thief needs to hit a certain level to get to another damage tier before Magissa/Garula, but it’s been a while. Still prefer it over the slow-but-safe slog of White Mage to start. Yep. You got Thief, you get to grind. IIRC it's level 11 to get the extra damage, which isn't too bad....
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Jun 18, 2023 18:57
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Mustached Demon posted:
Edit:  Reading comprehension is hard. I somehow glossed over the pridefully in that sentence and just went for plain old Buttz.
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Jun 18, 2023 19:07
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 Just beat Karnak, party so far of Blue Mage/Dancer/Red Mage. And of course this after learning that you can't confuse Fans for White Wind in PR. I hope I get a heavy hitter with Earth, utility is on point but my offense is going to be terrible in World 2.
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Jun 18, 2023 19:12
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Mustached Demon posted:
 You get a lot more room in this version
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Jun 18, 2023 19:12
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ultrafilter posted:Yep. You got Thief, you get to grind. IIRC it's level 11 to get the extra damage, which isn't too bad.... oh god I hate to ask this but is that character level 11 or job level?
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Jun 18, 2023 19:30
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Shoehead posted:oh god I hate to ask this but is that character level 11 or job level? Character level. I don't think any job has more than seven levels, and you're definitely not getting anywhere near that until the endgame. ultrafilter fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 19:34
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Siren should be doable at like level 7 if you're throwing potions at her during her undead phase. That said yeah I'd aim for level 11 for Magissa so you can have a shot at bursting her before Forza gets summoned.
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Jun 18, 2023 19:54
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First job Thief is all about steal-farming potions and actually farming daggers from skeletons. It's pretty brutal, but if you do both those things you don't need to grind so much.
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Jun 18, 2023 19:56
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Also like...don't be too proud to stick your thieves in the back row. Sometimes you need to survive more than you need the damage.
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Jun 18, 2023 20:03
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Arzaac posted:Also like...don't be too proud to stick your thieves in the back row. Sometimes you need to survive more than you need the damage. Yes! Totally great advice. The strongest part of early Thief is getting a bunch of potions for free, so making your potion heals more efficient is surprisingly useful.
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Jun 18, 2023 20:12
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Don’t worry too much about getting pictures of normal enemy kills, folks. It’s a pain in the rear end, and I trust you. Also thief is so much worse than white mage in early game imo, I don’t think there’s any comparison. White mage has two slow but safe boss fights and that’s it.
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Jun 18, 2023 20:20
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Mustached Demon posted:
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Jun 18, 2023 20:32
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Mustached Demon posted:
 (Stonewall, in case it wasn't clear.)
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Jun 18, 2023 21:17
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Kyrosiris posted:Siren should be doable at like level 7 if you're throwing potions at her during her undead phase. I managed to beat them at 10 but I was practically chugging potions; went through nearly 50 of them. Granted, I wanted to see if I could afford to have them all in the front row and if I could not get one shot by Tackle. Technically, I didn't, but only barely, so I may have mading things a bit harder for myself. But yeah, being back row is no joke. My first attempt at them at level 9, I sent everyone to the back when Forza appeared, and it reduced his damage by half and i kind of wish I thought to do that during Siren in her Undead phase. Granted, I ended up running out of potions anyway so I had to go back and restock, as well as did a spot of grinding.
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Jun 18, 2023 21:27
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ended up with blue/red/beastmaster/dragoon. blue + beast seems like an easy win though having no "press this button to do big damage" job will probably make this more tedious than my black mage or summoner runs.
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Jun 18, 2023 21:28
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I've button mashed past Garula, it's mostly OK. Drinking potions hasn't been cutting it really and I only got through it by him luckily choosing the wrong targets every time. I need some damage soon.. I rolled red mage for this job so I guess I'm breaking rods forever!
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Jun 18, 2023 21:49
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LENNA STOP YOU CAN WALK DIAGONALLY IN THIS VERSION! YOU DONT NEED TO WALK THROUGH THE POISON GRASS
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Jun 18, 2023 22:01
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My Volcano team (Run #1) is Monk/Mystic Knight/Samurai/Dragoon. Currently at 3 Reflect Rings at the Barrier Tower with this team.
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Jun 18, 2023 23:22
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Got Summoner for my second job. That will be just fine.
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Jun 18, 2023 23:33
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I'm currently sitting on blue mage, summoner, and beast master. I don't know what job four is going to be, but I think I've got this run.
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Jun 18, 2023 23:43
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Mustached Demon posted:
The + in LGBT+ is here, reporting for duty! 
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Jun 18, 2023 23:55
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Really important thing for people playing on the PR version to keep in mind: when a confused enemy uses an ability that can only target allies, it will only target itself. In previous versions, they would target your party. For example, the Stingray, when confused, will still cast Mighty Guard on itself and not your party. So if you're trying to learn some blue magic spells and you don't have a beastmaster, confuse isn't enough. Fortunately you can reflect Mighty Guard off of the Stingray, and you can get reflect from the wonder wand, but I'm pretty sure that White Wind is impossible to get without a beastmaster.
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Jun 19, 2023 00:02
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Mustached Demon posted:
 Gay Jack wouldn't fit
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Jun 19, 2023 00:03
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My full party roll ended up being Knight/Blue/Mystic/Monk. The hard part is deciding when I want Blue and when I want Two-Handed...
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Jun 19, 2023 00:23
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Cattail Prophet posted:Probably gonna be one run and done for me this year. To make up for it, I came up with a fun Well, because I can't let a toxx go undone, I got them there:  This was such a pain lmao. At one point, one other town werewolf was walking back and forth on the 3 tile path between the cliff and the inn and it was a nightmare getting my last wolf past him Edit: I forgot to get requiem first but thankfully one of the two I could reach was the one who teaches it lol 
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Jun 19, 2023 00:37
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ultrafilter posted:High enough that you'd expect it to happen to lots of people every year. Edit: Realized after posting my maths were off, move along.
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Jun 19, 2023 01:12
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My team this year got me White Mage/Time Mage/Ranger/Dancer. Not too thrilled about Dancer, and I'd like a resource-light DPS powerhouse, but I can't really complain about the rod breaking and cheap heals. Maybe next year will be my Blue Mage year....
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Jun 19, 2023 01:53
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Sesq posted:My team this year got me White Mage/Time Mage/Ranger/Dancer. Not too thrilled about Dancer, and I'd like a resource-light DPS powerhouse, but I can't really complain about the rod breaking and cheap heals. Maybe next year will be my Blue Mage year.... My first year was Blue Mage/Mystic Knight/Beastmaster/Chemist. I'm still chasing that high.
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Jun 19, 2023 03:27
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Mid has repaired the fire-ship and I'm currently Blue/Mystic/Waiting for Ranger crystal/Unknown. Feels harder than a normal run (obviously) but it's always been doable with strategy so far.
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Jun 19, 2023 03:52
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The nice thing about Blue Mage is that it’s not that expensive to get !Blue, so even though it takes awhile to get a party healing spell, you can often just chuck it on everyone and use Vampire to stay healthy. Well, okay, there are also other nice things about Blue Mage.
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Jun 19, 2023 04:27
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Kyrosiris posted:
The interesting thing about this toxx is that you'd have to actively avoid some of the spells hitting your blue mage. Unless, like me, you got blue mage last.
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Jun 19, 2023 05:51
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I upgraded from Black Mage to Blue Mage after the Sandworm. Any particularly good spells I should grab here before I leave world 1?
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Jun 19, 2023 06:39
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Aqua Breath, L5 Death, Aero 2, Flash, Dark Spark, Goblin Punch, and Toad Song are the ones from World 1 I'd consider pretty important.
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Jun 19, 2023 06:56
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 Not gonna lie, this isn't a very fun team, especially for my first run on PR. I've only played on GBA before now, still having to actually use !catch to carry the team is a fun exercise. Mustached Demon posted:
nrook posted:
  2-for-1 with the name and the Prototype. I forgot to take a picture of actually self-destructing one, hopefully catching counts for the purposes of the toxx.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:58
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DalaranJ posted:The interesting thing about this toxx is that you'd have to actively avoid some of the spells hitting your blue mage. Unless, like me, you got blue mage last. My first job was Blue and I was immediately "lol no" for this toxx. Of course I have two sources of confusion to get WW yet I'm playing PR where that no longer works.
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 That's, uh, gonna be a little bit dull, but there's very little I'm not going to be able to carve through. Stats will be decent, no magic but I don't have barely anything that scales on magic. Another one of those maybe unironically do brave blade rolls, the only difficult-but-doable i think I'll see is getting enough Thundaga on Omega and Ragnarok's probably off the table unless I hit a breakpoint where drain sword and AFK?
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