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FinalFantasyBalls 2, The Search for Hi-Potions begins!
Quick bestiary check reveals these little fellas: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/hipot.png Who can currently kill one of my characters in a couple of hits more or less, yay. Luckily they hang out with these fellas: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/scroll.png Who drop a lightning scroll, ideal for killing the Corbetts. 45 minutes of double speed farming later, I have amassed a sum total of one hi-potion... I have got 45 lightning scrolls though, have gone up a level and got enough cash together for that ring CHz found so handy, actual yay! Bored of farming, we head out for the crescent isle, I think everyone knows what comes next http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/sinkan.png Goodbye boat, you were like a boat to me :eagletear: New town though, let's go shopping! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ninnit/why.png Why do I even go into these shops? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/nope.png Nope http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/nope2.png FUCK YOU SHOPPING EXPERIENCE http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/kweh.png Oh hai. Let's go exploring! Found Fartz' hood, it's boring http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/boooring.png Bored now http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/booring2.png FUCK YOU EXPOSITION TOWN http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/ready.png Doubt it... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ninnit/meh.png Fluked it first time. Buying a water scroll at Exposition Town certainly helped, as did the Berserkers actually aiming right a lot of the time. I reckon I missed some treasure in the desert because I managed to take the path to the exit first time and couldn't be arsed to go back in. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/helpful.png Convenient beds are convenient. Glad I ran around solving that puzzle to earn the Mini spell! i'm currently getting on the airship... |
Ugh, it's been a pain with thieves. Let's hope I roll something better for the water crystal.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...a/FFFFFFF1.jpg Oh my fucking god. DAMMIT. Jesus. FUCK! Ok, that's cool. Let's go with it. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...an1640x360.jpg Cool story. Let's hope I don't run into one. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...an2640x360.jpg Of course if you tell me not to go to the basement, I'm going to go there. Ugh....reset. ---- Hours later ---- Ok, finally got through that stupid fire ship with my thieves and beserkers. Finally, I can get a new job. Let's see what I get. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...a/FFFFFFF2.jpg NICE! I scored a Ranger. Still wish I had a magic user. Let me go and switch someone's job... http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...an4640x360.jpg Dude, wtf. Where is ranger? This is weird. Let me check online. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...nhoganargh.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...hoganargh2.jpg fffFFFFffffffFFFfffffff http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...an5640x360.jpg /ragequit |
Suddenly, all that time failing to get hi-potions doesn't seem such a waste as two ninjas hurling lightning scrolls takes care of the next few fights in quick succession. Also, Faris looks way cooler as a ninja than Lenna, why did nobody tell me this?
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MUST BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO DEAL ELEMENTAL DAMAGE
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Archeoaevis's shifting elemental weaknesses aren't a problem when you only deal physical damage. 8) http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv072@2x.png Okay let's move on, but first, for completely innocent reasons, let's switch Lenna's and Galuf's jobs and make Galuf the Geomancer. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv073@2x.png Peeeeeeeeerfect. Cutscene time. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv074@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv075@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv076@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv077@2x.png HAHAHAHAHAHA GOODBYE FOREVER GEOMANCER http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv078@2x.png Manticore hits hard, but also dies really quickly. I wasn't able to keep Butz alive, but Lenna was able to maintain her and Faris's HP. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv079@2x.png Purobolos is normally one of the trollingest battles in FFV, because when you kill one, they cast a spell to revive all the dead ones. The normal strat is to use a spell or summon to murder them all at the same time. For obvious reasons, that's not really feasible here. The dumbest alternative strategy, which I used because I'm dumb, is to take advantage of how they don't have very much MP. If you last long enough, they'll run out of MP and won't be able to revive any more. The fact that they won't revive the others if they kill themselves with Self Destruct also helps. Good thing I had plenty of hi-potions and phoenix downs! http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv080@2x.png Titan has the most powerful attack at this point in the game, Earth Shaker. It deals 500+ damage to every single member of my level 21 party. Titan uses it as a normal attack, and once more when you kill him as a final "fuck you." There are several ways to deal with Earth Shaker: steal some Gaia Gear, find a way to get Float on your party, or have White magic on everyone so you can rapidly heal. Unfortunately, all of those strategies I've either missed the opportunity for or were never possible. Soooo, my only options really are to grind up to a million HP or get super fucking lucky. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv081@2x.png If you haven't noticed by now, I'm always trying the get super fucking lucky strategy first. It's worked more often than not so far. =DDD http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv082@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv083@2x.png ENJOY YOUR DYING WORLD MOTHERFUCKERS, WE'RE BAILING OUTTA HERE |
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Invisible platforms? Mind. Blown. I fucking hated this dungeon, mainly because I forgot to stock up on potions before starting and tried to make it through with only 31. Used a lot of lightning scrolls. Ended up using a couple of elixirs too... One boss fight later and is it new job time? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/earth.png Maybe not... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../nonewjobs.png Or perhaps it is, yay! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ninnit/yay.png Woot! Chocodecide says Samurai, so I guess I can safely sell those ethers and random chemist bits now. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...oftheworld.png Nope, I'm the king of the world!
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Zeninage is a super cheap ability. Enjoy your get out of jail free card, man. (Until you forget to check your GP before a boss battle.)
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I guess this is technically a boss. Rare steal of Gaia Gear is possible off this guy, because I really need one now. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv085@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv086@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv087@2x.png Oh god. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv088@2x.png I didn't want this. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv088@8x.png I DIDN'T WANT THIS AT ALL http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv089@2x.png Fled every random encounter like a pro. Gilgamesh battle #1 is also technically a boss battle I guess, but since it's beatable with solo Geomancer, I think it's an insult to actual boss battles to call it that. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv090@2x.png Okay we're back. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv091@2x.png Gilgamesh #2 is the first legitimate fight in this place, and even then it's a cakewalk until he buffs himself near the end, and EVEN THEN it's easily manageable with hi-potions. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv092@2x.png Hey look, it's the undead boss in every Final Fantasy game that you can kill instantly with a phoenix down. I couldn't possibly be stupid enough to http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv093@2x.png HAHAHA I AM EXACTLY THAT STUPID FOR THE GLORY OF WHATEVER THE NAME OF THE PLANET THAT WE JUST LEFT WAS http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv094@2x.png WHAT THE FUCK http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv095@2x.png Okay phew. |
The EPIC CHALLENGE of the game has basically melted away in the face of my Secret Ninja Techniques, slowed down only slightly by Having To Endure A Dragoon, so— not much to report. I'm sure things will ramp back up, but for now all I got is this basic status report.
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Have exactly one hour before work. Going to Manhogan.
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CANCEL PREVIOUS ORDER RESCINDING MAD SMUGGITUDE FURTHER: ADDITIONAL SMUGGERY INCOMING http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_100.pnghttp://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_131.png http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_148.pnghttp://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_149.pnghttp://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272...0a%5D_150b.pnghttp://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_151.png http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_146.pnghttp://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/272....0a%5D_153.png http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/iYLDpqLapke7J.gif Real talk, getting White Mage for my first job is basically The Reason This Was Even Possible, Dragoons are some useless shit but it don't even matter what your class is when you can just queue up four dudes in Hermes Sandals to just puke out tons of Holy on the faces of suckas. Not gonna bother with the optional bosses, since all it would get me, apparently, is more weapons. As I mentioned this was my first real attempt at completing FFV. Last time I tried it was a shoddy-ass translation of the SNES rom, prooooobably before I even joined GFF. Don't think I even got to the first crystal. So, now that I've given FFV its due, I gotta say: I was missing out. Yes, it's a JRPG, with all the linear tedium and grinding that implies, but as JRPGs go: not fucking bad. It's not Chrono Trigger (what is), but it's probably become my second-favorite of the franchise, right behind FFVI. It takes the OH BOY, CRYSTALS plots of the previous games to the logical conclusion and gives the future entries the go-ahead to do new things, since it took the CRYSTALS! idea about as far as it could go. You done good, Final Fantasy V. You done real good. You were a JRPG I didn't hate. Might go ahead and get a second run going, see if I can lap y'all. |
Were you playing the game sped up or do you just genuinely have a lot of spare time? Honestly just curious here.
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Grats Pang. ::brofist::
Damn, bro. I still haven't even gotten to the earth crystal. Gotta hustle up my game. |
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LET ME SHOW YOU HOW I HOGAN.
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http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv097@2x.png Gee, uh, thanks guy. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv098@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv099@2x.png Next year, just put cash in a card. It'll be easier for both of us. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv100@2x.png Let's see if this guy is any harder the second time around HAHA NOPE http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv101@2x.png Spent 15 minutes abusing save states and force-feeding Golem hi-potions for literally no reason. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv102@2x.png Cool, this can sit right next to my Ramuh magicite. Too bad I can't transfer this shit to FFVI and get a jump-start on things. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv103@2x.png Geomancer has a couple of shockingly useful multi-target Gaia attacks in Drakenvale, so clearing the Dragon Flowers wasn't a problem. Sucked how my dancing Berserker wasted Sword Dance after Sword Dance on the flowers instead of the actual boss though. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv104@2x.png Well, it took just one boss battle before Geomancer went back to being a total waste of a party slot again. Despite this, Gilgamesh #3: still a joke. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv105@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv106@2x.png Abused save states again to get four Reflect Rings off these guys for... reasons. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv107@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv108@2x.png Fuck, this optional, non-boss fight was harder than I remember. My streak of not wiping broken for an item I can't even equip. :( http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv109@2x.png Atomos: kind of a dick. Murders your guys and then devours their corpses. Also infli— Hold on, I've got an idea. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv110@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv111@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv112@2x.png HAHAHAHAHAHA GOODBYE FOREVER GEOMANCER Okay, let's start over. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv113@2x.png Atomos: kind of a dick. Murders your guys and then devours their corpses. Also inflicts some status conditions to limit your damage output. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv114@2x.png Well, TRIES to inflict some status conditions to limit your damage output. Since I don't have to worry about using magic to heal my party members at any point during the game, I'm free to leverage the strategic possibilities of four Reflect Rings. With that shit taken care of, this is an astoundingly easy fight with a Sword Dancing Berserker. |
LET ME SHOW YOU HOW I HOGAN: ATTEMPT THE SECOND.
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So next we spend literally fucking hours flying around in circles looking for the meteors that aren't marked on the map and I can't for the life of me remember where they were. On route to the last one, we meet up with an old friend.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/dragon.png He must be hungry by now. Fartz pours salt on the wound. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...noonecares.png FUCK YOU DRAGON. Transported to a new world of adventure, our first mission is building up a stock of tents. Hell, if the game wants to throw one-hit-kill enemies that automatically drop one at me, a brother's gonna go farming, right? 99 tents later, we use one for a kip. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...aintathang.png Lessons for the modern outdoorsman 1 When alone and attacked by a monster, the safest course of action is throwing money at it. Once. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...aintathang.png Despite his money ain't a thang approach to combat, the lure of an unattended chest proves too strong for our young hero and we end up captured. Grandad spings us out, we run across a bridge, some bitch jumps out. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/foff.png Spending our way out of trouble again. FFV? More like the Obama administration amirite? :tpg: A bit of a treck past those god damn annoying pink bitches and the party comes across the fabled promise land, the end to all woes, the land of milk and honey. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../hipotshop.png A spot of gold farming later... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/year.png Meet a moogle, save a moogle, completely forgetting to use a phoenix down and doing it the needlessly difficult way, completely ignore moogle's route across the desert, nearly get murdered twice by those fucking head things that reduce everyone to single digit hp with one attack before learning to stay off the sand, find the moogle village then shit gets weird. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/silly.png Fucking furries. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../sidequest.png FUCKING FURRIES. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/thief.png I think he's saying "Fuck off and leave my treasure alone" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/vsilly.png Lol, DANCESERKER ACTIVATE. Head to King Grandad's castle, clear the joint out of Knight swords and spells we can't use, head off out again. More furries, angry ones this time. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/bringit.png ... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../totalynot.png Totally not sorry. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/broke.png FUCK YOU RITUAL. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/FUDRAGON.png Probably because nobody fed them. Additional Spam: I have to say by the way this is the most fun I've had playing a Final Fantasy game for ages and this thread is legendary already. We've totally got to play something else retarded after this. |
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ACQUIRE ALL SUMMONS http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv116@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv117@2x.png AHAHAHAHAHA HYPERSPEED DANCING BERSERKER ACTIVATE http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv118@2x.png New party config. I decided just now that I'm going to switch the Dragoon around so I can get Lance on everyone. Gonna experiment and see if it'll work as a supplement to hi-potions. I'm not holding my breath, but we'll see how it goes. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv119@2x.png http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv120@2x.png WELL IT DIDN'T HELP HERE Hardest fight of this run by far. 4 wipes, plus a couple of non-wipe restarts. Brace for words. Each of these assholes uses a powerful, multi-target elemental attack when they have about 2/5 of their HP left. Two of them are reflectable, hence the Reflect Rings again, but two of them aren't. The non-reflectable attacks do more than 500 HP of damage, and the Crystals are FAST, so it's impossible to heal quickly enough with hi-potions. The Crystals don't have a whole lot of HP compared to other bosses, so the way to beat this one is to pile on the damage on one at a time, killing them before they have a chance to do the elemental attack more than once. With a Dragoon that takes two turns to Jump and a Berserker with four possible targets, this is nearly impossible to coordinate. I ended up having to heal the BOSS with hi-potions frequently, just to make sure only one was ever using an elemental attack. I targeted the ones with reflectable attacks first. The reflected spells would inevitably heal the Crystal I was targeting, so it became pure luck: survive long enough for the Berserker to Sword Dance the right Crystal AND have my Dragoon land a Jump to kill it, without the Crystal healing in between. With just the non-reflectable attacking Crystals left, I didn't have to worry about them healing themselves, so it became a little simpler. I got them near the damage threshold and waited for the Berserker to Sword Dance one. Then, I could send my Dragoon up to land the finisher while keeping my party HP up with the other two controllable characters. Jumping also meant the Crystal wouldn't hit the Dragoon, so when she came back I'd have someone who could revive people if necessary. http://quiteajolt.com/gff/fffuck/ffv121@2x.png Fuck this fucking boss. Probably should've just grinded instead of trying it at level 26. Guess I'll spoiler this too, although pretty much all screenshots from the rest of the game will spoil this part as well so:
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Time for a spot of mountain climbing. Looks like this mountain is full of treasure!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/bossskip.png Aka, skip one boss token. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ninnit/how.png How does this fit in a treasure chest? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/shininnit/oz.png Pretty sure they actually have these in Australia. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/loaded.png No worries bitch, I'm loaded. Totally didn't even bother trying to recruit the Golem thing. The flower was relatively simple, thanks to some effective dancing by the Danceserker and Fartz love of throwing loose change at peasants. Dragon fixed, we join the Navy. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...t/wasgonna.png Was totally going to anyway but thanks for the hall pass dude. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../boatmutha.png I'M ON A BOAT. Much hilarity ensues, monsters get killed, Gilgamesh shows his sensitive side. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/near.png
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:( Luckily the Navy includes a submarine division but there's no sign of Gilgamesh. There is a tower to infiltrate though so off we go. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/ohyeah.png Considering what a big deal of this the training dude in the first village made, this is the only trapped chest I've found thus far. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ninnit/wtf.png FUUUUUUUUUUCK. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ninnit/hmm.png Cash Rules Everything Around Me. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/fyear.png Terrible hit rate be damned. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/done.png I only had one reflect ring but Atomos went down without too much of a struggle. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/sonow.png So now we remember the dragon. After a quick visit to the exposition turtle, we find ourselves in http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/moore.png Which lies right next to the forest with THE HIGHEST ENCOUNTER RATE OF ANYTHING EVER. Seriously, it was a fight every four steps or so and I simply couldn't kill things fast enough to stop at least one member of my party getting hit with blind or mini every fight. Item stocks low, we eventually get to the point where the forest burns down and we're aided by furries again. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...orefurries.png Fucking furries. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7.../magictree.png Sure, why not? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nit/dafuck.png Saw this screen a few times. Playing on the original without save states and the last save point being before the fire must have been painful. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...it/intense.png Suck a dick, bitches. Yay, we beat the crystals things! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...innit/divs.png DOH! Having fallen for the oldest trick in the book, our valiant teams get their collective arses kicked until the spoiler moment... Spoiler:
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