alcharagia posted:

Hello, everyone. My name is Alcharagia, and I have an ultimatum. On this runthrough, I will not fall into the Speed Trap once.

Asiina posted:

The dancer one from that gallery is great too.

Chaotic Neutral posted:

Tried .chaos in preparation/desperate hoping for true random..
No.
NO!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
Oh. Well, okay then.

Ugato posted:

I would really hate getting to the fire crystal with only thief. And to earth with only thief/geo. Ugh.

Fister Roboto posted:

It's just hilarious that there are two ultimate weapons that boost the power of every element in the game EXCEPT for the one used by the penultimate summon. What were they even thinking?

Kyrosiris posted:

Given that the best they'd be doing attacking themselves is maybe the low 300s at that point? I don't consider that chump change at all. Plus, the items you seem to be having kittens about are a grand total of 180 gil. If you don't have this, please spend a couple of minutes in Bal Castle's basement.

Also, I want to know what compositions you get that routinely let you beat fights like world 2 Exdeath, Atomos, Shinryu, etc. in five turns.

Chaotic Neutral posted:

Things that seem like reasons to go past the Pyramid but aren't:
* You have a Monk and the incorrect notion that boosting its attack without grinding will make it useful again (Kaiser Knuckles, Great Sea Trench)

KataraniSword posted:

An enemy that is a one-time monster-in-a-box there, isn't it? They're normal enemies in Istory Falls, but by the time you can do Istory Falls you can do the Trench. So you'd have to SR that chest constantly, which makes it... not very much less tedious.

Twelve by Pies posted:

Golden Goat posted:

Is it better to use !blue on a mystic knight for the increased magic or would rapidfire work better with spellblade?

Dr Pepper posted:

Brave Blade isn't actually particularly tedious, especially since if you're doing one you have Knight, which can pretty easily shred 90% of Random Encounters.

Countblanc posted:

Someone make the all class unlock mod for the SNES version so I can do chaos without having to use freelancers. God bless.

khy posted:

I'm in the ship graveyard. When I look at the skeletons I see Glenn Hughes from the Village People.

The skeleton in question :

What I cannot unsee :

(Bandana over eyes, forehead=nose, handlebar moustache)

Twelve by Pies posted:

Lookin' good there guys, with your hands down by your shins like some sort of orangutan.

Trasson posted:

No, !Mix does actually deserve all of the hype it gets. You said it yourself: !Mix can trivialize the entire game. That is literally the best a command in this game can be, so it's hard for it to be overhyped above that.

You say other stuff can trivialize the entire game. What are these things?

Blue Magic, maybe? But Dark Shock/Level 5 Death won't work on anything whose level doesn't divide down into a multiple of 5. This notably includes Omega and Shinryu, and anyway, how are they to survive those repeated castings through Magic Evasion and a level disadvantage?

!Rapid Fire is strong, but it's just doubled damage plus ignoring defense, so call it 220-250% of normal damage. If numbers like that were acceptable to trivialize the game, Berserkers would be more regarded.

Sword Magic's good, but is again almost all offense. Drain Sword exists, but there's still nothing to stop statuses.

!White is laughable. It can't attack until 85% of the game is over. All it does is not die until then. This is good, but I'd hardly call that trivializing. !Time's in a similar boat.

!Summon's definitely up there. Golem and Carbuncle stop a lot of problems, and you're not hurting for offense. Still, it's not trivial: consider the case of Summoner versus Berserked Shinryu: one mistimed Golem casting and you're dead. Not to mention that awful stretch through World 2 where you have to make do with Titan to do any real damage, and it's not enough.

Where's this command that sits next to !Mix on the throne of superboss corpses? The perfect ability would be one which wins the battle in a single action while incurring no loss of resources. Nothing does that, but the closer you can get, the better. !Mix, in a single command, gives you invincibility and unresistable killing power.

There are other things that trivialize Final Fantasy V. A combination of abilities and equipment, planning and knowledge. None of those are a singular entity. All you need with !Mix are a few dozen buyable items and a few dozen of some common drops, and a nice little chart, and the game is in your hands. No other single element in the game claims that distinction. That's why !Mix is hyped, and it is not overhype by any means.

Kyrosiris posted:

It's not.

Between instant kill attacks via catching Aquathornes and a combination Focus from the Monk/Sword Dance from the Barehanded Dancer, he had plenty of tactical, lateral-thinking ways to murder the things and he came up with that.

I'm pretty sure this is also after he spent literally two hours using !Control on Shield Dragons to grind XP.

ultrafilter posted:

Here it is. Note that a low level run requires more than four jobs.

StrangeAeon posted:

Hype for the approaching Fiesta has me playing FF6 for the first time. I'm realizing that the SNS era might have been a lot weirder than I knew. So far today, I've seen:

Gau solo Kefka
Terra make like Team Rocket and blast off again
Locke take an unexpected turn down Holy poo poo Dude, That's hosed Up lane.

Alabaster White posted:

Also, since the end of that LP, it has been discovered that you can actually get General Leo into the WoR by abusing the warp back to World of Balance trick, then taking the Nikeah ferry back into the World of Ruin. Apparently there's even a way to keep him in your party after a 'choose your party' menu that I'm not entirely clear on.