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Author Topic: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta  (Read 19590 times)

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #90 on: June 21, 2012, 12:03:34 pm »
Quote from: Sowelu on June 20, 2012, 02:36:03 pm
Quote from: Cecilff2 on June 20, 2012, 10:41:45 am
Gonna have to go powerlevel looks like

My party's around level 30, and the most HP any of em has is bartz with 960 or so.  Made it to Neo Exdeath.  But he'll always cast Almagest.

Almagest does 1600 to everyone.  I have no idea which body part casts it, or if it's just something they all do.  I don't know if I'd be able to kill it before it casts Almagest anyways.  I'd use Shell but Red mages can't cast Shell.  The best I can do damage wise is spam Flare on a part.

I think it's the hand that casts Almagest...and unless I remember incorrectly, it's vulnerable to Break.  Not 100%-chance vulnerable, but you can do it with only moderate luck.

You may have saved my run.  I shall attempt it now.

Edit: Which part is the "hand"?  The dude portruding out as the head, the part with the girl the extends out to the right, the back with the skeleton dude stuck in it, or the top with the monster heads?

Further Edit: Further research has led me to indicating it's the part with the girl extending from it, and it is susceptible to break(Evade chance 80%).  Will be giving it a go.

Last Edit: It works, but still not viable for my party.  After you kill the almagest part, the other three parts seem to increase their attack speed about 500%.  Can't keep up at all.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2012, 12:42:44 pm by Cecilff2 »
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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #91 on: June 21, 2012, 12:18:37 pm »
The bottom right part is the one that casts Almagest, but it's not vulnerable to break. The two skeletons on the far left is though, so if you have the magic lamp, using it to get Odin -> Carbuncle can really help you out. (Odin will kill the skeletons and Carbuncle casts reflect on everybody) So you should then focus on taking out the bottom right, and after that, split all your damage between the other two. Having Hermes sandals on your characters with the most damage will probably help if you can't cast haste yourself. Watch out with reflect though, it means you can only heal with items, which shouldn't be a problem if you saved up enough elixers.
It should only be tough if you get unlucky with an early Almagest or Grand Cross, or if your damage isn't split enough and only one part is alive in the end.
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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #92 on: June 21, 2012, 12:53:55 pm »
Quote from: Rebecca Black on June 21, 2012, 12:18:37 pm
so if you have the magic lamp, using it to get Odin -> Carbuncle can really help you out. (Odin will kill the skeletons and Carbuncle casts reflect on everybody)

Thats probably what I'm going to have to do.  (I went to the void after fork tower, so no magic lamp atm)

Break can take care of almagest and odin will take care of the 1hk spells that the other one is casting.
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Unless of course they don't fit properly and your feet blister up like bubble wrap.
Oh ho ho, but don't try to return the shoes, because they won't take them back once you've worn them.
Especially if that fat pig Tony is at the desk.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #93 on: June 21, 2012, 01:26:43 pm »
Quote from: Cecilff2 on June 21, 2012, 12:53:55 pm
Quote from: Rebecca Black on June 21, 2012, 12:18:37 pm
so if you have the magic lamp, using it to get Odin -> Carbuncle can really help you out. (Odin will kill the skeletons and Carbuncle casts reflect on everybody)

Thats probably what I'm going to have to do.  (I went to the void after fork tower, so no magic lamp atm)

Break can take care of almagest and odin will take care of the 1hk spells that the other one is casting.

Hm? Odin from the lamp basically casts break, but that won't work on the Almagest part, only the skeletons. Unless I've been lied to multiple times, which is a possibility  :-\
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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #94 on: June 21, 2012, 01:32:32 pm »
Interesting statistic!

6 of the 7 people who've beaten Omega have also beaten Shinryu.

As for my run, I'm about to go fight Atomos, which will be "fun". Any tips on that part? I have yet to grab White Wind, but I'll do that the next time I'm playing.
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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #95 on: June 21, 2012, 05:06:24 pm »
Quote from: Rebecca Black on June 21, 2012, 01:26:43 pm
Quote from: Cecilff2 on June 21, 2012, 12:53:55 pm
Quote from: Rebecca Black on June 21, 2012, 12:18:37 pm
so if you have the magic lamp, using it to get Odin -> Carbuncle can really help you out. (Odin will kill the skeletons and Carbuncle casts reflect on everybody)

Thats probably what I'm going to have to do.  (I went to the void after fork tower, so no magic lamp atm)

Break can take care of almagest and odin will take care of the 1hk spells that the other one is casting.

Hm? Odin from the lamp basically casts break, but that won't work on the Almagest part, only the skeletons. Unless I've been lied to multiple times, which is a possibility  :-\

Zantetsukan works on the back end.  Break works on the Almagest part(I've done it twice already...the rest of the body just kills me soon after).  So I'd have to deal with grand cross, vacuum wave, and dispel.  I think that might be manageable.  One of my mages already has hermes, so I'll probably grab another hermes or 2 and give the elven mantle to someone else, and give that mage a main gauche instead.


Also tips for Atomos.  He's vulnerable to sleep.  Do you have the Time Slip blue magic?  If you don't have any way to inflict sleep, let him KO one of your characters and leave that character KOed.  He only tries to suck that character in then which gives you time to attack him.  Revive the character if they start getting really close to atomos.
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There comes a time when you must take off the soft, furry slippers of a boy and put on the shoes of a man.
Unless of course they don't fit properly and your feet blister up like bubble wrap.
Oh ho ho, but don't try to return the shoes, because they won't take them back once you've worn them.
Especially if that fat pig Tony is at the desk.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #96 on: June 21, 2012, 08:20:42 pm »
Hmm... I might have to give my knight the flame shield and weaken the flame guardian enough that he spams Fira then leave him for last in order to beat them...

Edit: Well, I ended up just having to let my berserker go to town and use my other three characters to finish off the ones that got low enough to start caster their big spells. Many hi-potions and phoenix downs were lost this day.
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The moment the lever was pulled, somebody's pet kitten stepped onto the bridge. I read somewhere that if a cat falls more than 11 stories, it instinctively flares its legs out to increase air resistance. This slows it down enough to stick the landing with relatively minor injuries. In Dwarf Fortress, apparently, cats don't do that.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #97 on: June 21, 2012, 10:47:31 pm »
Whoooo!

Magic Lamp + Break worked wonderfully.  Without any spells, he wasn't able to instant kill any of my party(Both grand crosses he casted were rather weak too, confuse, silence, low health and paralyze were the only statuses he inflicted) which meant protect stayed up so vacuum wave couldn't instant kill anyone either.  My black mage dualcasted flare til everything stopped moving.
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There comes a time when you must take off the soft, furry slippers of a boy and put on the shoes of a man.
Unless of course they don't fit properly and your feet blister up like bubble wrap.
Oh ho ho, but don't try to return the shoes, because they won't take them back once you've worn them.
Especially if that fat pig Tony is at the desk.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #98 on: July 06, 2012, 06:27:06 pm »
Oh man, finally. I was stuck at Exdeath for entirely too long. I ended up just grinding in his castle for a while to get some extra levels, then I had to grind more to make sure I wasn't a level multiple of 3 (to avoid lvl 3 flare) and in the process I got a bunch of elixirs as random drops. It makes it a lot easier when you can use an elixir whenever you need to heal.
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Quote from: TurkeyXIII on June 22, 2010, 06:06:27 am
The moment the lever was pulled, somebody's pet kitten stepped onto the bridge. I read somewhere that if a cat falls more than 11 stories, it instinctively flares its legs out to increase air resistance. This slows it down enough to stick the landing with relatively minor injuries. In Dwarf Fortress, apparently, cats don't do that.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #99 on: July 11, 2012, 07:37:23 pm »
Alright guys, I need your help. How do I beat Omniscient with my 4 jobs being Knight, Ranger, Berserker, and Dragoon? I've got reflect rings so he can't hurt me, but I can't hurt him without him resetting the battle. I have one turn after he silences himself every so often that I can do some damage, but he eventually gets regen on himself and between that and cure/cura I can't do nearly enough. I tried using items that cast magic (well, the magic lamp anyway, since I think that's the only option I have) and it just makes him cast Return anyway. I guess I can just find an emulator with a fast forward option and let him run himself out of MP, but I was hoping there's another option.

edit: ok, I just found fast forward on my emulator and this fight at 17x speed is pretty hilarious since he hit both of my people with regen while he had reflect on himself and now I'm invincible... it's like magic tennis!

edit2: After 20 minutes of watching this sped up 17 times it's getting stupid. I recommend other people find a different way to do this.

edit3: Well that worked eventually, but it was incredibly dull.
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Quote from: TurkeyXIII on June 22, 2010, 06:06:27 am
The moment the lever was pulled, somebody's pet kitten stepped onto the bridge. I read somewhere that if a cat falls more than 11 stories, it instinctively flares its legs out to increase air resistance. This slows it down enough to stick the landing with relatively minor injuries. In Dwarf Fortress, apparently, cats don't do that.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #100 on: July 11, 2012, 09:23:35 pm »
There's no requirement to do Omniscient. You don't have to do the fork tower. And with that team I don't see why you would. No mages.
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« Reply #101 on: July 12, 2012, 12:03:04 am »
Yeah, I made a mistake on the sealed castle weapons and needed one more tablet, although I didn't end up using the weapon, so... meh.

Anyway, finally finished my playthrough. I felt a little bad for Exdeath when he didn't get to attack at all in his first form, but I ended up having to eat a couple Almagests before I could take out the part of Neo Exdeath that casts it. It only took me two tries though, so that's cool. I ended up doing it pretty much the same way as the first Exdeath fight (Rapid Shot plus liberal application of Elixirs when necessary). Now... to start a hardmode playthrough after my victory's logged!
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Quote from: TurkeyXIII on June 22, 2010, 06:06:27 am
The moment the lever was pulled, somebody's pet kitten stepped onto the bridge. I read somewhere that if a cat falls more than 11 stories, it instinctively flares its legs out to increase air resistance. This slows it down enough to stick the landing with relatively minor injuries. In Dwarf Fortress, apparently, cats don't do that.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #102 on: July 12, 2012, 09:10:26 am »
I started up a second run

Classes?

Monk, Summoner, Ninja and Chemist.

YES.  I believe I can take on Shinryuu and possibly Omega too with this combo.(Bacchus Wine + Golem for shinryuu.  Flame Rings and carbuncle against omega.  Also rods)
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There comes a time when you must take off the soft, furry slippers of a boy and put on the shoes of a man.
Unless of course they don't fit properly and your feet blister up like bubble wrap.
Oh ho ho, but don't try to return the shoes, because they won't take them back once you've worn them.
Especially if that fat pig Tony is at the desk.

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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #103 on: July 12, 2012, 09:36:46 am »
I dunno man. With monk there, I'm not sure you're going to have the damage past world 1.
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Re: Final Fantasy V: Four Job Fiesta
« Reply #104 on: July 12, 2012, 09:55:57 am »
Quote from: frostshotgg on July 12, 2012, 09:36:46 am
I dunno man. With monk there, I'm not sure you're going to have the damage past world 1.

Chemist.  :)
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There comes a time when you must take off the soft, furry slippers of a boy and put on the shoes of a man.
Unless of course they don't fit properly and your feet blister up like bubble wrap.
Oh ho ho, but don't try to return the shoes, because they won't take them back once you've worn them.
Especially if that fat pig Tony is at the desk.
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