Kevin's Watch

I now have Quickenings for four characters. I feel like I'm cheating whe I use them. I mean, seriously. My chars are all level 13. The damage cap for the game, even at level 100, is 9999. I can currently cause over 7000 damage by using the Quickenings. It's just silly.

Wait untill you get good a multiples. I got a 17 once, and I did like 18,000 damage.

It was insane.

Yeah, I think my 7300 was a 4-chain using three of my characters. I killed two Marks (Cluckatrice and Nidhogg) using Quickenings, and I'm trying to beat Rocktoise. Still, I think I'm going to try to avoid using them in the main storyline.

Murrin wrote:Playing this game is making me want to replay FF9...

I never got into FF9. There was something about it that rubbed me the wrong way. Better than 10 though. I think I've just about given up on the series.

I've gotten back into the game in the last few days. Did the Sandsea and Raithwall's tomb, spent several hours back and forth in one corridor for an 18% chance of a chest with Demonsbane in it--a sword with 59 attack, I eventually got one each for Ashe, Vaan, and Basch. Made things much easier.

Now I'm in Barheim Passage running a much more difficult bit--but much more entertaining than the Raithwall back-and-forth--for Deathbringer swords with 90 attack and 10% chance KO. My chars are all level 21-22, and the area is full of level 38-41 Suriander(?), and one Adamantitan. The trick for the sword is to find a Mimic--called Ithuno, I think--at the back of the area and steal from it, but it can kill me easily so I have to draw it to the entrance and run outside to heal now and then. This wouldn't be too hard if it wasn't for the fact it only appears very rarely.
If I run through and the mimic's not there, I kill stuff for exp instead--I can take down Suriander with my three sword fighters if they come one at a time, but clearing the area would be impossible (I have limited supply of potions and no ethers), so I only kill one or two things in the area each time I go through.
I've managed to get one Deathbringer so far, and the effort is worth it: I managed to take down a lv40 Suriander with only one KOd character and one with HP critical when it was over, instead of the usual two dead and third critical (this is using only physical attacks--a three- or four-chain Quickening will take one down much easier).

For laughs I also made a run for the Esper that is in an area nearby, and after running for my life through a cave crowded with lv40 ghosts I was promptly slaughtered in the Esper battle.

I'm toward the end of the game, and I don't want it to end, so I've done what I've done with most Final Fantasy games - get to the end and stop. Granted, I was moving when I got close to the end, and moved in with my girlfriend, so I didn't want to start up our living together with me playing videogames all over the place, so I've been putting it off. But now I really want to get back to it, but have forgotten everything of what I was doing in the game. Argh...

Well, one day I'll pick it up again.

The ending made me laugh. I finished it about a week after I got it... when it first came out.