More Final Fantasy

[Sofis]

Offered without comment in the category "Why yes, the chemist is the most ridiculously powerful class in the game":



By the way, I've enjoyed reading about your Final Fantasy variants, Sullla. Thanks for writing about them.

[Sullla]

Well done! I've never tried to beat Omega with any of my characters yet. Did you use a Kiss of Blessing, or more conventional means?

[Sofis]

Kiss of Blessing, as well as another, more obscure bug, that allows you to refresh the image status from the Mirage Vest. And 44 X-Potions. I don't think it would be possible to win without berserking Omega, as the chemist has no way of blocking Delta Attack.

I also used Kiss of Blessing against Atmos (kind of taking my cue from you on fudging that battle). Other than that (and Shinryuu, if I decide to try him) I consider it off limits on account of being it a little too literally game breaking .

Speaking of X-Potions, this variant has actually been considerably less grindy than most of yours appear to have been, since the chemist does not ever need to depend on Elixirs for healing, and the special ingredients can all be gotten as guaranteed drops.

[Sofis]

Regarding the thief report...

(You can still enter the Steamship dungeon if you go immediately back to the ship, without talking to Cid and triggering the cutscene that advances the plot.)

The steamship is actually only very temporarily inaccessible. Once you get to the airship hangar, you can reenter it. It's even still there in the final world.

We're talking literally dozens and dozens of boss fights ending with White Hole popping up.

When I had similar troubles, it turned out to be because of my method for loading the game, of all things. I'd just hold down fast forward and autofire-A, and instantly be back at the final save point. Very efficient. I got suspicious, however, when I got the exact same encounter exactly one step from the teleporter to the final area every time I tried it. It turns out FF5 initializes the RNG based on how long you spend on the title screen, so I was always getting the same sequence of random numbers. Could that have been the source of your trouble?

I'd like to do something easier next; Chemist seems like it would be a lot of fun, with that broken Mix ability...

If so, you may be interested in a bug I encountered. If you level up while under the influence of a giant drink, your max HP will be reset to the old value, rather than the new, post level up value. This can be fixed by switching classes back and forth (or otherwise forcing the max HP to be recalculated, I expect).
Also, for reference, I beat both Omega and the game at level 43. It should be possible at a lower level .

[Sullla]

No, I don't think it was a RNG issue against Exdeath. I sometimes would get random encounters walking to the final boss, sometimes none, and when I did fight random battles they weren't in the same spot. I think I was just a little more unlucky than usual there.

Thanks for the information about the Giant Drink bug. For the Chemist, the starting level doesn't even matter very much, because he/she can drink those Dragon Power mixes and turn into Level 99 with ease. But when I play the solo characters, I don't pay any attention to level, and I rarely run from battles unless I have to, so I usually finish the game somewhere between Level 55-60. I'm sure your character will end up at a much lower level than mine.

[Sofis]

For the Chemist, the starting level doesn't even matter very much, because he/she can drink those Dragon Power mixes and turn into Level 99 with ease.

The in battle max is actually 255 .

[Deceptus]

Great report as always. I just have one question (no, really, it's a question, not malicious nitpickery!): English is not my first language, so I'm really curious whether the sentence:

before ultimately being shot and killed in the back of the head in 1882

Is gramatically correct.
(Seriously, just trying to get better at writing in English.)

[Nystul]

Great report as always. I just have one question (no, really, it's a question, not malicious nitpickery!): English is not my first language, so I'm really curious whether the sentence:

before ultimately being shot and killed in the back of the head in 1882

Is gramatically correct.
(Seriously, just trying to get better at writing in English.)

The phrase "in the back of the head" describes where the person was being shot, not where the person was being killed. The phrase should be coupled with the verb it describes: "being shot in the back of the head and killed".

Correct: The roast was cooked in the oven and served to the guests.
Incorrect: The roast was cooked and served in the oven to the guests.
Evil: The roast was cooked and served to the guests in the oven.

Is this the aspect you were asking about?

[RefSteel]

The phrase "in the back of the head" describes where the person was being shot, not where the person was being killed. The phrase should be coupled with the verb it describes: "being shot in the back of the head and killed".

Correct: The roast was cooked in the oven and served to the guests.
Incorrect: The roast was cooked and served in the oven to the guests.
Evil: The roast was cooked and served to the guests in the oven.

While I believe you've got the rules right, there's a bit of a wrinkle: The act of shooting and the act of killing are the same act - not so for the act of cooking and the act of serving. It's fine to write that he was "shot in the back of the head and killed," but when you introduce the date at the end, you lose the full meaning of the sentence. He could have been "fired from his job and killed in 1882" without specifying the method of his death, for instance. Thus, in this case, I would change "shot and killed in the back of the head" to "killed by a shot in the back of the head" or rewrite the sentence more extensively.

That's if I'm writing a story or a business letter. For a forum post, a quick e-mail, or a game report, like anyone else, I can get pretty sloppy. [/WayOffTopic]

More importantly: You have a Solo thief game posted?! Cool! Right; off to read the reports I missed then!

[Deceptus]

Correct: The roast was cooked in the oven and served to the guests.
Incorrect: The roast was cooked and served in the oven to the guests.
Evil: The roast was cooked and served to the guests in the oven.

Learning is fun this way.

Thank you, that's all. I know I'm obnoxious, sorry about that.