HiddenWings
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Final Fantasy Five Four Job Fiesta 2012
- Thread starter Aeana
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Susurrus
Member
Alright, I'll probably get rid of last year's save then. No biggy.
When does the fiesta end? I'm thinking of making a pledge, but not sure I can remember to check it. Perhaps if I set myself a reminder.
EDIT: OK, I read the OT and got Aug 31, 2012.
Also, I did #BERSERKERRISK
EDIT AGAIN:
OK, I made a pledge. I did it on a "per complete/hard complete" type thing. Not sure how to go about this now as far as up to what date and such. Never done it before and I don't want to accidentally fail on my pledge.
HiddenWings
Member
I think people have sent messages to Gilgabot indicating their desire to switch.
Alternately, you could probably just PM RK directly.
Professor Beef
Banned
Necron I'm excited.
Lumpy Onion
Member
This is kinda OT, but it refers to FF V so I figure I'd post it here...Anyway I was browsing through Romhacking.net and came across a patch for FF V Advance that sounded pretty darn interesting. For starters it changes the order in which you receive jobs. ie: for the wind crystal I got Dancer, Dragoon, and a Time Mage along with the usual. And it also allows you to learn the four advanced jobs (cannoneer etc) at the Earth crystal. It also adds access to various spells and weapons in shops early on to make early acquisition these jobs viable.
Most interesting is that it allows you to fully customize your action pallet. So that means you can choose from three (or four?) abilities for your character, and even swap out the "item" and "fight" ability. Kinda reminds me of FF VIII in that you can select exactly what commands you want. There's a whole slew of other changes too. FF V has always frustrated me in that I can only really add one extra ability to my characters unless they are freelancer.
And yeah, this has no place in this challenge, but as an FF V fanatic it sounds like a dream come true.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/856/
Most interesting is that it allows you to fully customize your action pallet. So that means you can choose from three (or four?) abilities for your character, and even swap out the "item" and "fight" ability. Kinda reminds me of FF VIII in that you can select exactly what commands you want. There's a whole slew of other changes too. FF V has always frustrated me in that I can only really add one extra ability to my characters unless they are freelancer.
And yeah, this has no place in this challenge, but as an FF V fanatic it sounds like a dream come true.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/856/
Lumpy Onion
Member
Maybe, it says he changed some of the monster stats to make it harder so I dunno. Either way I have always wanted those four advance exclusive jobs earlier in the game. Now's my chance.
Daaaaaamn, I forgot about that!
HiddenWings
Member
To be completely fair, the game balance on a normal playthrough doesn't hold up well anyway. I think this would be interesting to try.
Maybe I'll play though the game 3 times during its 20th anniversary...
Signed up for hard mode and Berserker Risk, should be fun.
Somewhat related, I've been working on a patch for the GBA version to replace those ugly portraits with more accurate and cartoony ones. I should be able to finish before things get started so it'll be available for people to use if they like them. Here's half of 'em
Somewhat related, I've been working on a patch for the GBA version to replace those ugly portraits with more accurate and cartoony ones. I should be able to finish before things get started so it'll be available for people to use if they like them. Here's half of 'em
Going Hard? Maybe you'll get Berserker for your last slot!
Nope, regular.
Maybe doing hard as a second run.
RK's shaping up for an easy run.
Thief
RM
Bard
Dancer
Thief and RM sucks but they have great synergy together. Thief steals/capture and gain massive gil, buys a ton of rods and RM break rods. Bard owns exdeath. Sword Dance + ribbon + sword dance item + chicken knife = LOL all bosses in the game.
Thief
Berserker
Beastmaster/Geo
Dragoon
would be a much tougher.
Thief
RM
Bard
Dancer
Thief and RM sucks but they have great synergy together. Thief steals/capture and gain massive gil, buys a ton of rods and RM break rods. Bard owns exdeath. Sword Dance + ribbon + sword dance item + chicken knife = LOL all bosses in the game.
Thief
Berserker
Beastmaster/Geo
Dragoon
would be a much tougher.
HiddenWings
Member
At this point I almost want to encourage giving him summoner so the rest of us can start sooner. Blue Mage is still off-limits.
RevenantKioku
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Someone made a $20 and didn't vote. That's cool and all but if it was you and want it to count, contact me!
(And why is bard good for Exdeath?)
(And why is bard good for Exdeath?)
RevenantKioku
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Never mind, found it!
HiddenWings
Member
Interdimensional Rift, part 2:
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Final Demon of the Rift: Exdeath
or: Why Bard isn't a dud pick in the Job Fiesta
Exdeath, tree form. Usually the shorter part, I spend a few minutes doing nothing but healing and waiting on Hero's Rime. Eventually I decide I've had enough and finish him off.
Neo Exdeath. For once, he's not lying.
The relentless onslaught continues. He gets to use exactly zero special abilities. No Almagest, no Grand Cross, no Vacuum Wave, no Delta Attack, no Meteor.
Sadly, with Thief, Red Mage, and Dancer, you won't see these numbers. The dancer will hit 9999 like normal, but I highly doubt a red mage or thief will be able to attack for several thousand.
Not sure. But the Help page still has "SECRET TO BE SEEN SOON" listed twice at the bottom.
RevenantKioku
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I only see it once!
Hecatonchires Custom
Member
Ugh I'd so sign up for this but I have a move coming up and I'm behind in one of my classes and won't be available until early August. So jelly :/
RevenantKioku
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The event runs through August 31.
Yeah basically if you have the hero's song, which slowly increases your party's levels in battle, you can just stall at the first exdeath, pump up your characters to ridic levels and then destroy him.
I am amused, it is only after you saying this that I reload the Help page and it is showing BerserkerRisk in place of the first, now leaving only one. Ah well.
Still look forward to the reveal.
BassForever
Member
Wouldn't that strategy work for any boss minus Atomos?
led4lyfe
Member
Wait, what did you do to stop neo exdeath from casting special abilities?
Edit:, lvl song made it so your party could attack multiple times before neo exdeath even got his first turn???
RevenantKioku
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Wouldn't white ball ruin that?
HiddenWings
Member
He got some normal attacks in, but he was murdered with a souped-up Bahamut before he could do much else.
Edit: Oh, about the health never changing?
Nope! you do have to revive the character, but the increase persists through death, and he doesn't really do any other threatening things.
RevenantKioku
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Eighty dollar donation just went through. My job list got a bit of a shake up!
HiddenWings
Member
For all of the pain that I have attempted to inflict upon your job list, you cannot blame me for the fact that you now have love that is like a truck.
RevenantKioku
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I can! Because Blue Mage and Berserker would be more fun than Thief an Berserker!
RevenantKioku
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Shit is getting real in the votes.
You don't get the song until basically the end of the game. you have to have played all the pianos throughout the game to get it too.
Thief Berserker is terrible. The only good thing are the very few berserker weapons that are steals instead of drops and getting money slightly quicker for flame ring grinding.
Thief three berserkers is just about the hardest hard mode challenge in this game. 4 WM's is so brutal to get going but gets slightly easier as you go along.
I'm so glad someone decided to angel donate you a Blue Mage...for now. I would help if I could having never had the sweet touch of Blue Magic on my fiesta runs.
Thief three berserkers is just about the hardest hard mode challenge in this game. 4 WM's is so brutal to get going but gets slightly easier as you go along.
I'm so glad someone decided to angel donate you a Blue Mage...for now. I would help if I could having never had the sweet touch of Blue Magic on my fiesta runs.
RevenantKioku
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Is there any way to even utilize Flame Ring healing if your first two jobs are Thief and Berserker?
HiddenWings
Member
Not on your own, but there are some pretty generous enemies who will cast things like Firaga and atomic ray.
I'm thinking of seeing how well I can do without using Flame/Coral/Reflect rings, or at least not buying them. Some of the bosses are total jokes when you use those things. It'll depend on what jobs I get I guess. I fought Leviathan once without Coral Rings and the only way I could survive his Tsunamis was by using Jump, so I dunno.