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Prism posted:Which was hilarious when I found it out. Plus, I mean, what else are they going to use as passives? Counter? Depends on what jobs you get. Knights - Two-Handed or Equip Swords Monks - Barehanded or HP+30% Thief - Artful Dodger Black Mage - !Black 6 White Mage - !White 6 Blue Mage - Learning or !Blue Red Mage - !Red 3 Summoner - !Summon 5 Time Mage - !Time 6 Mystic Knight - !Spellblade 6 Berserker -  Ninja - Dual Wield Beastmaster - Equip Whips Bard - Equip Harps Ranger - Equip Bows Geomancer -  Dancer - Equip Ribbon Dragoon - Equip Spears Samurai - Equip Katanas or Shirahadori Chemist - Doesn't matter what you do with your Berseker, just slap !Mix on the other three and make the game beg for mercy. 
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May 19, 2015 02:35
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quote:CarbyBot Wind Job: Knight  
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Sakurazuka posted:What benefit to Freelancers have early in the game, just being able to equip anything? Pretty much, yeah. That means stuff like being able to use the katana from Castle Tycoon without a Samurai, or the RIbbon from Karnak without a Dancer. Hell, even just straight up breaking rods if you're desperate.
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May 19, 2015 19:14
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dis astranagant posted:Negating the flee chance with mug is a far bigger bonus to the chicken knife than turning upper 30s-lower 40s str into 50 something str. Monks can give any class that can use the Chicken Knife the ability to negate the drawback with !Focus. For the record, the following abilities will let you bypass the !Flee chance of the Chicken Knife: !Mug (Thief), !Focus (Monk), !Rapid Fire (Ranger), !Jump (Dragoon), !Dance (Dancer) Note that this works for pretty much any weapon that has a "chance to cast a spell/ability on hit" effect, not just the Chicken Knife. So you could, in theory, use these with Death Sickles or the Assassin's Dagger to fight Undead without worrying about accidentally healing them to full by Proc'ing Death on a hit. There's also the Dual Wield trick where if you have a Twin Lance in your main hand (the first weapon you attack with) and the Chicken Knife in your off-hand (second weapon you attack with), you'll also bypass the !Flee effect.
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May 22, 2015 05:19
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It helps that all of the random encounters in the canal will only attack Faris or Lenna, so you can just stick them in the back and have them Defend while Bartz and Galuf do the killing, at least until you get to the boss. Then it's just a matter of praying he doesn't kill/paralyze your guys with the weapons while you fling potions like mad to stay alive.
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May 23, 2015 21:32
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Evil Fluffy posted:Knuckles can drop from an enemy in Pyramid. Yeah, but it's a rare drop, and that encounter only shows up in a Monster-in-a-Box. It shows up in normal encounters in Istory Falls, though.
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May 25, 2015 00:50
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KataraniSword posted:Oh, right, and then he proceeded to get the Earth Crystal into its critical/Earth Shaker phase only to realize he'd forgotten to repeat step 3 after his reset. Nah, the Float part wasn't for the Earth Crystal, it was for the Gil Cave since the turtle in there has a party-wide ground-based attack that will kill you if you're not floating. kaschei posted:What does "SR" mean? Save/Reset? Soft reset. Basically, check the chest, kill the monsters, and if the item doesn't drop, reset the game and try again.
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May 25, 2015 02:21
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gently caress it.  BRING ON THE CHAOS! I REG! I WIN! I REG AGAIN!
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May 29, 2015 01:00
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Minrad posted:so Chaos is completely random for each character, yes? That's what we're assuming at this point in time.
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May 29, 2015 01:17
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Mega64 posted:You can check out the various bosses by clicking this link of the new Seal Guardians and checking all the related videos. This is wonderful. 
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May 31, 2015 16:21
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khy posted:Part of me thinks it'd be fun to participate in this, but I've got a loooooooong history of leaving RPGs half finished and I would likely not finish before this event is over and done with. I'm currently trying to play FF5 on my phone just because the job system still appeals to me, but I still have NO IDEA which jobs synergize with which and which are good and which are awful and so on and so forth. Too many choices makes me indecisive. Still I guess I'll give it a try sort of unofficially; play through on my own and come to this thread for help and advice. Fiesta runs are great if you're the kind of player who gets decision paralysis when it comes to trying to figure out which jobs you need to level up and when because it effectively takes the decision out of your hands. Just sign up for a normal run and if you get stuck somewhere, either ask here in the thread or in #ffvfiesta on synirc.
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Saigyouji posted:Dragondarch's method for killing the Crystals is still nothing short of amazing, though. All this time later, I finally notice that I typed "prosperity" when I meant "posterity."  But yeah, dragondarch was bad at FFV last year. I've never seen his speed run attempts at other games, so who knows, maybe he's actually halfway competent in those, but here, he was completely out of his depth, even having supposedly done some research beforehand, and pretty much ignored any and all advice from Fiesta veterans who've been doing this poo poo for years and know better. That said... for all the poo poo we give him for being terrible, it is nice that he's agreed to come back and do another run at this. Partly because people doing stuff for charity is always cool, and partly because I look forward to whatever batshit insanity we're going to end up adding to .dd on CarbyBot from this year's run.
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Jun 5, 2015 07:00
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Every time I see that effect go off, I can't help but 
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Jun 5, 2015 23:16
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Asiina posted:FF8 had high schools double as floating cars.  FF8 was a very silly game.
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Current crop of jobs is Blue Mage/Berserker/Beastmaster. On a Chaos Berserker Risk run. Dunno what it is, but Gilgabot always gives me at least one Blue Mage during one of my runs each year.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:14
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And final team lineup is... ... Okay then.
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Jun 23, 2015 06:35
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You might also want to try and see if you can hit the Almagest portion with Catoblepas (Shoat) from the Magic Lamp. It's low odds, but if you can pull it off, it'll make your life so much easier.
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Jul 3, 2015 02:23
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KataraniSword posted:Not to mention that if you're playing FF5 after a marathon of Dissidia, your brain remembers that the Brave Blade is really loving strong and Bartz bashes peoples' faces in and wow that must mean it's the "right" choice Speaking of Dissidia, one of my favorite things with Gilgamesh in Dissidia 012 is that one of his eight weapons is listed as the "Chicken Knife (?)". Its physical appearance resembles a chicken, and it even makes clucking noises when you hit with it... but oddly enough, its attack power seems to rise when Gilgamesh's HP drops. Poor guy got duped again.
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 And that's run #1 finally finished. I got sidetracked by Heroes of the Storm all summer. Also was kinda burned out, partly from a pre-fiesta warm-up run. Final Thoughts: Blue Mage - Superstar, as always. But this is the third year in a row I've gotten a Blue Mage as my starting job for my first (and this year, looks like only) run, and I'm getting kinda sick of it. Trying to chase down all the blue magic doesn't help, even with a Beastmaster to help smooth things out (which was nicely countered by having not one, but TWO Berserkers). If I end up rolling Blue Mage as my wind job for my first run next year, I'm buying a thief. Say what you want about its combat performance, but at the end there, I was really missing Vigilance and a !Flee that works 100% of the time as opposed to 25% of the time. Granted, being in a hurry to finish before the end of the Fiesta might have had something to do with that, but it really seemed like drat near half the encounters in the Rift were back attacks, as if the RNG itself were out to spite me. Berserker x2 - BERSERKER KILL STUFF GOOD. SOMETIMES SCREW UP BLUE MAGIC LEARNING BUT STILL USEFUL FOR KILL STUFF. TIMES TWO. Beastmaster - Also known as "Blue Mage with half the MP total" because that's what he effectively was by the end of the game. I barely used the Pokemon cannon at all, though !Control saw some use. But not having access to the Gold Hairpin to help mitigate the cost of some of the more absurdly costed Blue Magic (there is really no good reason why Mighty Guard should cost 72 MP) meant he was part time Blue Mage, part time item bot, and occasionally whipped things. I really gotta stop doing warm-up runs. I always end up burning out, then feeling bad when I don't manage to get in more than one or two official runs.  Still looking forward to next year! 
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One run because I burned out way too early, no triple crown. Partly because I basically waited until the last minute to finish my run and didn't have time, and partly because while I could have theoretically killed both Omega and Shinryu with my team and a bit of luck, I really didn't want to deal with the headache of facing them with Blue Mage/Berserker/Beastmaster/Berserker.
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