Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Lief Katano 15th June 2013, 9:58 pm
Chapter 15: Library...of DOOM
- All those rumors of the library being evil? TRUE!:
Our new team formation! Lief is still a berserker because he hasn't gained a job level yet. Mystic Knight will be our go-to for boss battles. There is a location coming up where it's easy for ninjas to job level up, though.
No longer restricted by the castle, we can now explore to the western part of this continent thing!
If you remember Mog's Dance skill from Final Fantasy VI, Gaia is basically that; the only difference is the user has to use the attack list of the terrain they're currently fighting on, and the user doesn't go into a pseudo-Berserk state.
Also, don't be fooled by the fact that Faris is currently in her pajamas: Geomancers can be powerful if the random number god smiles upon them. (And the skill in use isn't currently ineffective against whoever you're fighting against, such as getting Earthquake ((this attack)) on a flying enemy ((you should know how that turns out)).)
This desert is "special". Why?
Most, if not all, fights are against these guys. They can wreck your shit. However, there is an advantage to fighting them.
Aqua Breath is the main way they wreck your shit. Non-elemental damage to all on the opposing side. (At least, I believe that's what it is. If I'm right, it does extra damage to certain types of enemies. If I'm wrong, it's water elemental and does extra damage to them anyway.)
Survive the fight, though, and...
Wait, sorry, I just had to show that off.
3 ABP.
That's not even the real kicker.
We learn Aqua Breath as a Blue Magic.
We also make Faris die. Yes, there is a reason. No, I'm not telling you yet.
(Faris, as the geomancer, is the best candidate for doing this, as the ABP requirements to master Geomancer is significantly less then the rest of the jobs.)
The Beastmaster's job command, !Capture, allows you to capture a monster at critical health. Captured monsters give no EXP or gil (but they still give ABP).
After that, the character who Captured the monster has the command switched to !Release, which has the captured monster perform an attack at the cost of it removing itself from your service.
Mythril Dragons also have a Blue Magic known as Transfusion, which kills the user but fully restores HP and MP to the target. You only want to use this if you are desperate for MP (or possibly HP, but that's way more easier to recover).
Oh yeah, the caster CAN target his/herself. It only fully restores MP.
Galuf job levels up, gaining !Calm, which Stops a beast-type monster. Woo?
Eventually, we get a level up, which is why Faris had to die.
So we revive her and go on with PLOT!
This is the Library of Ancients. Scholars reside here, perfecting their Check skills and figuring out how to raise the effectiveness of items like the legendary Chemist of the past.
Healing pot. Like the healing spring we found earlier, but in pot form.
Up on the rooftop, some scholars are trying to get rid of books that have been possessed.
Hey guys, guess who we're getting as a summon near in the future? Totally not some guy named Ifrit, that's for sure.
The book on the end?
MONSTER
All "Page x" enemies are weak to fire (as they are made out of paper). All but one of them have Blue Magic spells to teach. In addition, x is always a power of 2. The lower the power of 2, the weaker the Page is (this guy is number 32, so he's the weakest). Page 32 can teach us Aera, the upgraded form of Aero.
...yeah, Galuf has Learning. Kill him!
Sometimes, when Page enemies die, another one comes to take their place. Page 64 (this guy) has Level 5 Death, which, as mentioned in the book by the Blue Mage, is Learnable. Guess who's Level 5 and has Learning on?
Yeah, Faris. Sorry, lass.Lima don't kill me
Is it a problem that I find Faris' current position cute? /randomly asking question
Anyway, once you defeat the final Page in a set of enemies, it will disappear back into the bowels of the book. This is extremely not satisfying to me.
Also, random fact: if enough Page enemies show up in one encounter, you get more then 1 ABP.
But on the bright side, more Blue Magicks!
Level 5 Death bypasses Death resistance, instantly killing anything on the targeted side that has a level that's a multiple of 5. Despite what you'd think, the game designers were stupid and had a boss that had a level that was a multiple of 5 (that and you can modify levels to be a multiple of 5, so). Aera is the second tier of Aero so it will be useful if we ever use a Blue Mage before we stumble across Aeroga.
Hm, intriguing. Who smells a fetch quest thing?
Also, I forgot to go to the pub which is where the game tells you to go here. See, Cid is upset because his inventions killed 3/4ths of the world. To get him out of the funk and possibly fix the fire-powered ship as it is our only possible means of transport because Hiryuu is too stupid to fly over mountains, we need to get his grandson: Mid. (So freaking clever on the name, by the way.)
Alas...
...there is a problem.
Nobody's heard hide or hair of Mid for quite a bit, so it's safe to assume he's in the basement...with the monsters. All of the monsters down there are Page monsters, so.
Anyway, next time we beat up books (sadly beating them to death with books is impossible, but we can at least slap them around with Faris' bell), get a new eidolon (bet you can't guess who that is), and somehow imbue Lief's sword with ice! Woo!
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Kaede Akamatsu 16th June 2013, 11:20 am
Awww, Faris. 
Why is she getting K.O'ed so much in this update?
Why is she getting K.O'ed so much in this update?
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Lief Katano 16th June 2013, 6:27 pm
Well, the first time she got KO'ed was to prevent her from gaining EXP, so she'd stay at level 15 so we could get Level 5 Death. The second time was because of said spell (if I just rushed in there while everyone was level 15, they'd all suffer from insta-KO and therefore we'd get a game over and not get the magic). Faris in particular was chosen because Geomancers have low ABP requirements to master, compared to everyone else (Especially Red Mage). If it makes you feel better, though, Galuf got KO'ed by Aqua Breath and Faris didn't.
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Lief Katano 27th June 2013, 4:05 pm
Chapter 16: Basement of the Library...OF DOOM
- Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun:
Welcome to the basement...of doom! Here, the Page monsters run in full force. 83.3(repeat)% of the enemies here are weak to fire (unless I'm remembering wrong), including bosses. With that out of the way, let's begin!
Stepping on some tiles makes bookcases move. I don't know, either.
You are to then step here to make the bookcase go back to where it was.
So we can go through here, see.
Stepping here moves the bookcase AGAIN,
and stepping here will allow the bookcase to move back, so we can move on.
By inspecting where the crack is, the bookcase moves back, allowing us to press onwards.
Yoink.
The door above Lief is where we came from. The door to our left is...
...cockblocked by the 128th page. He has no Blue Magic, if I remember correctly.
After trying to fight us again, he gives way to Page 256. He does have a Blue Magic.
As a note, the library's common Gaia attack, Ignus Fatcus (or something like that), wrecks their shit. It's a fire attack, see.
His blue magic attack, Moon Flute, Berserks all party members. (As in, they set it to target the heroes. So even when you use it, it hits you. Could be an iOS version bug, but eh...) This is bad, as Lenna uses the healing staff...which can only hurt the undead...and Pages aren't undead.
Luckily, though, Lief axes it. (Moon Flute also doesn't affect him, as he's *already* berserk.)
We also get 2 ABP from this fight!
Okay, so for what's really behind the door:
An evil bookcase.
So, we need his boss to make him not be evil. That's what the ladder leading into the books is for.
Inside *this* hallway...
Is a very special book.
First we change Lief to a mystic knight.
See, this book is special by virtue that it holds the eidolon of fire, Ifrit.
Don't ask me why he was sealed in a book.
Anyway, to be able to summon him (and therefore continue with PLOT!), we gotta whip his ass.
Ladies and the closest thing we have to gentlemen, the lord of flames: IFRIT!
As you can see, he opens up the fight with Fira.
As you can also see, it hurts.
He also has a skill called High Kick, which hurts and paralyzes.
I somehow fudged it, but he also has Scorch, which hurts everyone with fire damage. Sadly, it's enough to knock Faris out. D:
Here's the thing though: as a fire enemy, he's weak to ice. Lief charging his sword with Blizzara will knock off (what I assume to be) a con-Cid-erable portion of his health. *hit* (As will water damage, but I don't think that's really an option now...)
Even though it's pretty weaksauce (a whole 90 points of damage), I'd recommend a geomancer attacking rather then using Gaia. The reasons should be obvious enough (and you can get a chuckle out of the animation).
Eventually, beat Ifrit up enough and he'll let you summon him.
ABP physics confuse me. We beat the Liquid Flame and got 6 ABP; shouldn't Ifrit, a boss who came after her and therefore is harder (in theory) be worth as much, if not more, ABP? (He's plot-required, even!)
No matter what the answer to that question is, Lief still got a job level up! He obtains !Spellblade L1, which lets him charge his sword with Fire, Blizzard, or Thunder. ...eh.
Ifrit's required item drop is the Flame Scroll, which can be thrown by ninjas to invoke magickal fire damage. This would give me a reason to make Lief a ninja in the next battle, if I had any knives that didn't come with Lenna.
And so, we can now summon Ifrit and move on with the plot!
Anyway, we'll stop here for now. Why? Eh...I'm lazy...I just beat a boss...sometimes reloading screenshots fails...etc. ...
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Lief Katano 1st July 2013, 4:57 pm
Chapter 17 - Lower Part of the Basement of the Library...of DOOM
- Burning books and all that:
To proceed with the PLOT!, we need to go back to the evil bookcase.
Ifrit is a bro and helps us.
See? I wasn't making it up that Ifrit was the only Eidolon needed to progress the plot.
With that, we can continue on.
Also, random fact: Faris' bell can do 250 damage to Page 64s. Huh.
See? I'm not making this type of stuff up. :Iit seriously did more damage against the 64th page, despite Page the 32nd being weaker
See? That is 60 more damage then Lief, the highest damage-dealing member of the party, is doing. (Galuf isn't doing as good because he's currently a beastmaster, not a monk.)
One of the exits leads to a dead end.
The exit near a Phoenix Down is less assholish, leading us over here.
Mess around with books to get here. That ladder leads to a fixed fight with the Pages. It resets if you go off of the screen, so it's possibly a way to ABP grind.
So after doing the fight twice (the door leads nowhere, by the by...at least, without utilizing invisible air passages), we can move on.
Save point. Many a Final Fantasy player know what these mean.
I change my classes to reflect this. Galuf's a summoner because he's going to be one anyway and I need to show off Ifrit, and...that's all I need to explain.
So onwards!
Books attack, as always. They form together to make one enemy...
...Byblos.
Fire magics, as with all book-related monsters and jokool, ruin its day. Everyone has a fire attack.
(and yes we have a preemptive strike on it, I don't know why)
Byblos can slow a character with his Web attack. Why this message is brought up is a mystery.
Byblos can also use Confuse. This isn't a threat when Lenna's pinned with it, as it will make her attack at random...including her allies. It makes healing a tad harder, though, as we can't use Cura at will (and Byblos hits hard - see: dead Faris, Galuf with 101 HP ((maybe I shouldn't've used Summoner in this fight...)))
He can also use the Blue Magic skill Magic Hammer, which halves the target's Magic Points (magic).
Flaming summon orbs surround Galuf. He and his friends disappear.
From the ether, a demon appears. Flames surround him, consuming everything.
All who see him wonder what they did to receive such torture in their moments before dying. Consumed by the flames of hell, those who manage to survive lose their sanity and mutter only one thing, over and over again: Ifrit.
As an aside, I think the flaming orbs thing is cool and wish they didn't drop it after FFXI (or maybe FFX, can't remember).
Ifrit deals 672 damage to Byblos when using Galuf's stats. He has 3600 HP. 18.6(repeating)% of his HP, or so my calculator says.
This is why you have equipment for all jobs.
Killing the bookly monstrosity with Ifrit gets us this. If we hadn't, he'd basically do the same, except without talking about Ifrit.
Perhaps as a throwback to the death animation of Chaos, when Byblos (and, in fact, any boss that comes after him ((I believe))) is defeated, the screen flashes twice, and he sinks down, crumbling.
This may come in handy later.
She gains the ability to royally screw up the enemy with the earth in any job (!Gaia).
This is used with a job we don't even have yet.._.
How does a book monster even have this?
Ladies and gentlemen, Mid, son of Kid, son of Cid, son of Gid, son of Nid, son of Lid, son of Jid, son of Quid...eh, you get it.
: Don't tell me you were engrossed in that book the whole time!
: What whole time? Now that you mention it, I did hear some rustling behind me...Oh, was that you?
(Galuf summoned an ancient flame demon used to burn evil library books, Lief hit Byblos with a fire-charged blade, and Lenna and Faris tried to do something but failed because I either screwed up giving them commands or they were at Byblos' mercy. That's more then just "rustling".)
See, Lief understands how stupid this is!
: ...!?
: You've gotta be kidding.
: A strange bird, this one...
Well, now that you saw Mid...we're ending this for today! Yeah, I dunno. .-.
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Truthseeker4449 1st July 2013, 4:59 pm
Why you burning down a library D:
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Lief Katano 1st July 2013, 5:13 pm
We're not burning down a library. We're using Ifrit, who can only burn evil stuff.
Pretty sure.
Pretty sure.
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Truthseeker4449 1st July 2013, 5:16 pm
But what if it's an evil library D:
I go to those all the time
*shows you my evil library card*
I go to those all the time
*shows you my evil library card*
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by Lief Katano 1st July 2013, 5:20 pm
Well then it's screwed.
But it's not an evil library, just a possessed library.
But it's not an evil library, just a possessed library.
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Truthseeker4449 1st July 2013, 5:21 pm
What's the difference? D:
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Lief Katano 1st July 2013, 5:26 pm
Not all the books have demons inside of them on set pages that let you learn Blue Magic.
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Truthseeker4449 1st July 2013, 5:29 pm
And the books that do have demons inside of them?
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Guest 1st July 2013, 5:32 pm
Lief wrote:Fire magics, as with all book-related monsters and jokool, ruin its day. Everyone has a fire attack.
Haha. Eye c wut u did there.
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Re: Active Time Battles! Crystals! Job Shift System! Bartz! THIS CAN ONLY BE FFV!
by Truthseeker4449 1st July 2013, 5:34 pm
I skimmed over it and completely missed that.
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by Lief Katano 1st July 2013, 5:45 pm
They get burned.Truthseeker4449 wrote:And the books that do have demons inside of them?
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