Beating it hopefully later today is kind of reassuring as I know there are a few games when I was younger I just didn't have the patience/mindset to beat and doing so with LoD is kind of pushing me to check out some other titles I didn't finish and see if I can complete them now.
Hypnoticbrain wrote:
Just got the tree and the moon left then the games done. Everyone's addition is Max but darts. Final boss is gonna be epic. I remember him being long, lots of HP and lots of forms. Hope I get it first try
I think he was a bit on the easy side =\ I used Dart (41), Rose (35) & Miranda (34). I don't think at any point, anyone died. I think I only used Dart to transform into a Dragoon and that was at the tail end of the fight. Dart & Rose had their final additions and they were maxed (so roughly 900-2300 I think depending on form). I think part of the problem is I had Legend Casques on Dart & Rose and those halve/heavily impact the damage done from magic (they cost 10k though and I had enough to get a 3rd one actually) + I had the Dragoon armors for them so their own elements were null. I noticed the Legend Casques seemed to have 'broken' some of the bosses or heavily crippled them. I was fighting some of the side bosses (Faust for example) and magic attacks were either entirely missing Dart with a LC equipped or doing only 100-300 damage that was undone the next turn with simply guarding.
I do have to say though, I loved the backstory. I would love to see a prequel set the 10,000-11,000 years before the first game with the original Dragoons during the Dragon Campaign.
Hypnoticbrain wrote:
Have fun on 9 man I love that game to death. Can't beat ozma though for the life of me...or is it ozmo?
It's Ozma. I've beaten him before but it takes a lot of prep time (gear that protects, the Friendly Monsters help too I think, and the Chocobo Hot & Cold game to even get there). I think I didn't tackle him till I was even well into Memoria (if I recall that's the name of the last dungeon) and not sure if I fought him before or after Hades. Either way, looking forward to it and loving the game all over again (just got Ramuh and am on my way to the Outer Continent).
I do have to say though I wasn't much of a fan of Quina my first time through the game but now that I'm playing it again, I'm liking him/her. I'm getting some use out of the Blue Magic and he/she is a decent physical attacker when it wants to work (I know it's random as they'll do 500+ one hit and maybe 90-100 the next). So a nice multi-purpose character.
Then I gave vivi the boot because end game blk magic was obsolete IMO. Replaced with freya
Steiner is so cheap with his shock. Then have Freya use her one dragoon ability to mimic the last turn to get 9999x2.
Hypnoticbrain wrote:
I wasn't a fan either. My money is on her being female though never 100% said in the game. My party until end game was the first four you get, dagger, vivi, and Steiner.
Then I gave vivi the boot because end game blk magic was obsolete IMO. Replaced with freya
Steiner is so cheap with his shock. Then have Freya use her one dragoon ability to mimic the last turn to get 9999x2.
Zidane, Freya, Garnet, Eiko/Vivi was mine in my first playthrough. I traded in Steiner/Amarant/Quina here and there but I kind of hated that Steiner loses a skill set without Vivi so I sort of rarely used the combo cause I hated scrapping one of my other characters just to keep Steiner open in that regard so I usually just went with Vivi on his own.
Zidane was well rounded for me with his skills near the end of the game + his physical attacks (+ an awesome Trance). Garnet (and I think Eiko?) were good for healing + offense with their Eidolons but they were pretty awesome for boss fights cause if Garnet was Tranced, Eidolons would randomly summon I believe (haven't tried yet this playthrough) so I would just skip her turn to keep them coming while Eiko (or Garnet; like I said, I don't remember if it's the same for Eiko in Trance) would pick up on healing. Freya was a nice middle-ground too as she's got some good Dragon skills (Reis' Wind which casts Regen for instance) along with being a decent physical hitter & being able to get out of harm's way with her Jump (and rain it down on everyone when Tranced).
So I'm giving Quina a fair shake this time, might do the same for Amarant. I like Steiner as a character but as a Knight, I'd trade him for Beatrix. Wish she was an actual party member aside from that one time.
I swear I have one for IX but can't find it. I knew I had one for X-2. I'm kind of surprised though that I have one for XII, which is all the dazzle-dazzle: nice case for it along with a an art book included (I did buy the steel case edition for XII). This amazed the hell out of me. But I can't find my IX one and I don't remember buying one for VIII. I may have borrowed the VIII one in exchange for IX but never got it back but I'm wondering now who to track down to find that out Gonna do some box digging later.
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