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 time.I decided last year that I wanted to try out all of the regular jobs in a single summer, and so I did it over the course of five runs. It was a blast, and now I want to encourage you to do the same thing. For everyone who uses all twenty regular jobs (i.e., those you have access to before world 3), I'll donate $20 and match your job fair expenses up to the total price of one of each job. Any kind of run is fine except for #fifthjob or some other mode that has you using more than four jobs in a single playthrough. If you're going to do this, I suggest that you plan ahead a bit. This is going to take at least five runs, and you don't want the last one to be something like Monk/Berserker/Geomancer/Dragoon. Edit: Since it's come up a couple times, I want to add that there's no requirement to do this in only five runs. I just did that because I didn't want to play more than I did. Bruceski posted:That's why the Fiesta survives. All the classes are good. There are no bad jobs, but there are some teams that don't really come together. ultrafilter fucked around with this message at 03:30 on May 31, 2019 |
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May 27, 2019 16:32
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Poque posted:Does this need to be done in five runs? No, although more than five runs is quite a bit of FFV for one season. But with the job fair, there's no need to take more than five runs to do both.
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May 27, 2019 17:29
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Ritznit posted:Thank you very much for the responses. Seems I should worry less, then. There are very few situations where you'd need to check a guide. If you just play normally and ask for help when you get stuck, you'll be fine. Poque posted:Unless there's a new fun run type, I plan on doing a 750 Berserker Risk for my pre-registration. It's a great combo, as you're guaranteed the Zerk in the water slot with a guaranteed good supporting mage class from wind. I've found it a really fun way to start off the summer. My second run last year was Black Mage/Berserker/Geomancer/Chemist. It was a little bit of a slog at times, but Equip Axes is a great secondary for the casters, and the endgame...well, a Berserker with a high magic stat and the Gaia Hammer is pretty much an engine of destruction, but if you bump them up to level 255 and give them haste, it's pretty magical. Shame there aren't more fights where it's worth setting up something like that.
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May 27, 2019 17:42
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Kyrosiris posted:...in 2012 we came up with a veritable compendium of knowledge, tactics, and advice (which got loving additions in 2013 and 2014, too!). You can find it here.... This got 404'd.
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May 27, 2019 18:07
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KataraniSword posted:The worst no-modifiers FJF team (so one job from each crystal) is pretty universally felt to be Monk/Red Mage/Geomancer/Dancer. Not only is there essentially no synergy, but all four jobs are incredibly ineffectual, and three of the four are made of sugarglass on top of that. Monk's not that bad as long as you keep their levels high enough. They just have a bad reputation because people want to rush through Fiesta runs. Monk/Dancer is a rough combo, though. The Monk needs levels, so you have to fight random encounters, but the Dancer needs a maxed out Chicken Knife, so you're going to have to do a lot of running. You can end up needing to do a lot of grinding at the end for that one.
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May 30, 2019 04:01
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This seems like a good plan. In case you're curious, here's how I did it:
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May 30, 2019 18:18
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Eh. Grinding out Dualcast sucks for sure, but it's a great skill once you have it. It's against the rules, but going through the Phoenix Tower and making everyone a Red Mage for the Magic Jar fights helps a lot. Also, for those of you who are planning runs, I'd recommend thinking about how you're going to get past world 2 Exdeath as well as the late game. That's a tough fight and you don't have superpowers yet.
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May 30, 2019 18:23
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Shyfted One posted:Does it have to be over 5 runs with no duplicates? If not I'll probably do a couple chaos/random runs and then I could just start making teams of classes I haven't gotten through no750/750 runs with job fair to finish it out. No limit. Just keep in mind that more than five runs is a lot of FFV.
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May 31, 2019 03:29
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Alxprit posted:I wasn't able to beat Omega on my run two years ago with Red Mage White Mage Chemist and Geomancer, seems like. Couldn't find a way to do reasonable amounts of damage or survive super well. Here's hoping for a successful triple crown this year. Omega and Shinryu are no match for the power of chemistry. Kite Pride Worldwide posted:Now, the real challenge is the Sealed Temple if you're lucky enough to get the right classes... And masochistic enough to actually do it. mp5 posted:Monk, Berserker, Ranger, Dragoon let's get into the misery Ranger has X-Fight/Rapid Fire, so that's not a great choice.
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Jun 2, 2019 02:44
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KataraniSword posted:If you're allowed to use every tool in the game it's also really easy to get bogged down with fiddling or choice paralysis. FJF rules streamline it so that you only focus on the jobs you're given instead of all eleventeen. I've never actually finished FFV without some sort of restrictions on who can use what job. I don't think I've even made it to the end of world 1 without getting bogged down in grinding.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:08
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TheLawinator posted:So I've never beaten FFV before and am doing a little trial run before the fiesta starts. How lame is black mage, berserker, ranger, chemist? I'm just a bit before the earth crystal and so far it has been kinda dumb. Am I missing out on some serious combos or anything? That's a very solid team that won't give you any real problems, but it can be a little bit dull, particularly for random encounters. You want elemental rods, a death sickle, elemental bows and 99 turtle shells for most of the game.
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Jun 9, 2019 00:16
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Are there any strategies for Omega that don't require at least some luck? I can't think of any.
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Jun 9, 2019 23:55
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Princey posted:What do you do with Shinryu if you can't berserk him? Are there any party compositions that just can't beat him? There are strategies that don't involve berserk, but I'm not sure how many of them are feasible under the fiesta rules. There definitely are some parties that can't beat any of the superbosses at a reasonable level, and probably some that can't ever.
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Jun 10, 2019 15:02
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The big countdown timer on the front page of the main site says we'll start about this time on Tuesday.
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Jun 14, 2019 02:06
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The boss of the island temple doesn't counter Wind Slash even though it's a multi-target attack. That makes him a lot less painful to beat with a Geomancer on your team than a lot of other configurations.
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Jun 14, 2019 16:03
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derra posted:Ah, yes, that terrifying ender-of-runs Wendigo. Is there any reason for a Geomancer to even go there? No, if you have four Geomancers, there's no reason to do the Island Temple. But you probably have other jobs too.
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Jun 15, 2019 00:53
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Miles McCloud posted:1. The way I understand it, throughout FF5 you collect crystals that allow you to reclass your party members, and the challenge is to allow the Gilgabot to select which classes you take? I don't mind a challenging first run, just want to be sure I do it right. The game makes it perfectly clear when to do this, right? You get a certain set of jobs from each crystal, and Gilgabot tells you which ones you can use. You have to limit yourself to those jobs, and keep at least one person in each job you've unlocked at all times. For instance, if you roll Knight/Time Mage/Ninja/Dancer, then you'll have four Knights after the wind crystal, some mix of Knights and Time Mages after the water crystal, and one person in each of Knight, Ninja and Time Mage plus someone else in one of those three after the fire crystal. Then after you reach the earth crystal, you'll be required to have one of each at all times. There are a couple points later on where you don't have all your party members, and the rule there is just no duplicates and no other jobs.
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Jun 15, 2019 15:46
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Kheldarn posted:2) The Ocean Floor Map is long gone, because Photobucket is garbage. Fortunatly, I was able to find a copy via Google, and I've uploaded it to LPix See that part in the bottom left that's a different color from everything else? If you want to fill out your bestiary, you have to sail around that particular indistinguishable 16 x 16 block of ocean for a while. Take even one step out of it and you're wasting your time. Don't try to fill out your bestiary is what I'm saying.
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Jun 16, 2019 01:51
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Azza Bamboo posted:I'm assuming if I play more organs I get better at playing them. Yes, and once you've mastered the piano, it's  time (if you get the right job).
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Jun 17, 2019 01:57
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Azza Bamboo posted:The captured animals seem pretty great as well, although it seems weird that I go through a whole fight to capture something that just becomes one move in one fight. Welcome to the Fiesta.
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Jun 18, 2019 04:31
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DalaranJ posted:
Monk isn't as bad as most people say as long as you keep them adequately leveled. Feeding them enough XP can be a bit grindy, and the crowd who want to run as quickly as possible hates that, so they get a bad reputation. Their only real downside is that they don't get late game superpowers like a lot of other jobs. The problem you're going to run into is that your Dancer also needs a fully powered Chicken Knife, and grinding that out along with levels for your Monk is a little painful. Some Guy TT posted:I've been noticing lots of distasteful comments about Natural though. Why is that? Not as much fun because there's no skill mixing? Yeah, that's the issue. Try it out and you'll see pretty quickly why.
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Jun 18, 2019 15:19
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Samuel Clemens posted:
Forget Omega and Shinryu, the real superboss is the Gil Turtle.
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Jun 19, 2019 16:40
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derra posted:That leaves Old, and Esuna doesn't restore the lost levels, only prevents you from losing more. This is really only a problem for, what, three potential bosses - SoulCannon, Calofisteri and the optional Gilgy fight? NED too.
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Jun 19, 2019 16:57
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ItBreathes posted:White Mage / Zerker / Bard / Samurai. Purobolos is going to be a pain, but no more than the natural Knight/Thief/WM/BM funrun I was doing before this. Zeninage will shut down Purobolos easily. And the stop song is among the weakest of the Bard's abilities, so have fun. Shoehead posted:Also holy hell I've never seen Galuf's underwear and kneehighs before, I love how dancer looks  Source
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Jun 19, 2019 17:04
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Kyrosiris posted:The issue with Monk is that unless you grind your nuts off, their damage falls off because their "weapon" power sucks. At normal levels to beat the game (the mid 30s), their fists are only like 70 attack power weapons, compared to the weakest thing in the sealed weapon pool at 82 (the Flame Lash). On the other hand, their punches can do critical hits, and that's not affected by RapidFire. The critical hit chance is 12%, so over the course of one RapidFire, you've got roughly a 21% chance of no crits, a 35% chance of one, a 26% chance of two, and an 18% chance of three or more. ultrafilter fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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Jun 19, 2019 17:15
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No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:Everything can be obtained either from enemies' normal AI routines or Confuse, tho possibly not at the earliest opportunities 1000 Needles (which isn't available till world 3 if you don't have a Beastmaster) and a couple of the level-based spells, although you'd need some source of reflect in the Barrier Tower (so Chemist, basically). 1000 Needles would be useful at a couple points in world 2, but it's not usually the end of the world if you don't have it.
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Jun 20, 2019 15:16
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TheDisreputableDog posted:My blue mages rolled to the Water crystal easily - vampire seems good. Blue Mage/Mystic Knight is half of the most broken team in the game, so yeah, it's pretty good.
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Jun 21, 2019 00:33
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DalaranJ posted:Should I grind !Rapidfire on my Monk or just saddle them with nonboosted !summon for the entire game? I'm already going to have them grind eqBow for double Killer Bows against a couple bosses. I think so. Buy a bunch of golden needles and go hang out in Castle Bal for a while. It won't take too long. ItBreathes posted:Does anyone have FFV hacking experience? How hard would it be to make movers give 999 AP? Are you on GBA? If so, you can just exploit the Quicksave feature to run into movers over and over again.
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Jun 21, 2019 04:06
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Miles McCloud posted:1. About how much game do I have left? I'm enjoying the heck out of this game and am curious how far I am from the end. World 1 is roughly the first 40-50% of the game, depending on how many of the endgame sidequests you do.
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Jun 22, 2019 01:46
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Some Guy TT posted:Has anyone else done a multiple zerker run yet? There are a few people who've finished the game with three or four Berserkers. I don't think anyone's tried to do that more than once, though.
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Jun 22, 2019 15:56
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There's got to be a less painful strategy. What's your team?
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Jun 22, 2019 21:17
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Azza Bamboo posted:Knight, Summoner, Bard, Dancer You can get your speed up, cast Golem, beat up a crystal, heal, and repeat. It's slow but pretty safe.
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Jun 22, 2019 21:44
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KataraniSword posted:Some of that weird esoteric stuff has been seen as a bug and patched out of the version you're playing (which is why a lot of people will sneer at it as "the worst") but some of it was the game working as intended. To be fair, it's hard to look at some of what worked in the GBA version and think that it's how the game was meant to work.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:30
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grieving for Gandalf posted:do I care about getting Hermes Sandals as much if I have the Masamune? I'm trying to cut down on my gil-grinding, I want to get Coral Rings for attempting Shinryu Very much. Hermes Sandals don't just give you haste; they make it so that you always have haste. That means that you can't be hit by stop, slow, or paralysis. The Masamune doesn't do that at all.
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Jun 24, 2019 04:29
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agradine posted:For the most part, yes. But Behemoths are never with the effort, and Movers can be a pain when you don't need the AP, which you shouldn't by that part Behemoths are hilariously weak to status effects. Even if you don't need to fight them, it can be fun to take them out that way.
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Jun 25, 2019 01:59
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Azza Bamboo posted:https://imgur.com/a/31s6uvs Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
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Jun 25, 2019 03:39
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Simply Simon posted:I went into the Rift without having fought Gilgamesh for the Excalipoor, and that was my first time ever, because it was now that I realized he won't be there to blow up Necrophobe. The Gilgamesh scene is a counter that Necrophobe executes against the attack that brings him down below 10k hp, so if you have a way to do more than 10hp in damage in a single attack, you can bypass that scene even if Gilgamesh is in the rift. There aren't a lot of options for breaking the damage cap, but it can be done.
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Jun 26, 2019 21:45
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fool_of_sound posted:equip whips or equip bows on my thief? Rapidfire.
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Jun 27, 2019 05:30
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I really didn't think anyone was going to do that. Congratulations.
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Jun 29, 2019 20:03
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