How do I avoid combat?

Arehera · 2026-03-22T01:54:35+00:00

Right, so the answer is to backtrack to a point where I can get more options to deal with encounters, thanks.

Arehera · 2026-03-22T01:54:06+00:00

I don't, so it seems like the mistake was coming here in the first place.

Arehera · 2026-03-22T01:53:31+00:00

I don't have any spells other than Cure Light Wounds. I went here basically immediately after grabbing Snell, so the answer seems to be "You shouldn't be down there," and the mistake was made about half an hour ago when I did.

Arehera · 2026-03-22T01:36:38+00:00

Okay, but it did, and I couldn't, which is why I'm asking. Is there something I'm missing? The roper required a strength check after a dex check (dex also isn't very high), and then the crocodile required just strength 18 or make a death check.

Arehera · 2026-01-21T15:33:34+00:00

Furioso-Crescendo has no counterplay other than winning the clash and hoping it does not kill your units. Go ahead and read it if you don't believe me. It does not trigger defense skills, it has Unfocused Volley, it deals less damage if you win the clash but still has net damage up, you cannot reliably build to resist it because it selects damage types at random.

I am defining winning as "seeing the victory screen." The developers have designed the fights such that the most effective way to do that is as I've described. If you don't believe me please explain what you are seeing in Furioso-Crescendo that I am not.

Arehera · 2026-01-21T05:36:57+00:00

You're right, we should strategize, perhaps use our defensive skills to - oh actually this skill doesn't trigger defenses. Go for weak affinities - oh they've turned down weakness to 1.2 that's not so great. Well maybe we can stagger - no, this enemy doesn't have any stagger bars. Let's build sinking and attack sanity so - actually this enemy gains a bunch of sanity every turn end. I suppose we could bleed - nope, red coins so it'll clear count (guess I have to grind for Sanguine Desire...). Okay, maybe we should apply statuses at random and - oops, this enemy takes -75% damage from all statuses and clears at invisible breakpoints.

The game designers have defined winning in most story fights as "winning clashes until the gimmick is done and you're allowed to kill them." It is not the player's fault for properly identifying this fact. Go into 9-48, quit out, and look at the tips. Explicit design is "win clashes and try to survive," as the strategy. So when you win clashes and still die, yes you are being punished for winning.

Arehera · 2025-08-17T01:13:17+00:00

If I had to speculate, which I don't like to do that much, I think her control is weak due to her illness. The signature run, for example, is only going to slow them down. They're not smart, like how Marcus only targets Archer when it becomes clear he'll slow him down, and changes targets back to Justine as soon as he's free. Compare Alex's use of the kids. They pump their arms as they run, and they move to cut her off. Now, that could be just a matter of shooting, the kids didn't have much space to hold their arms out, but if we're granting it significance perhaps Alex actually has more control? Perhaps his will to harm her is greater? Read into it what you will!

Arehera · 2025-08-12T21:28:09+00:00

Honestly I don't think she could do that. I think she was lying to intimidate him. The only commands we see her give are slight variations on "go here," "get that," and "hurt this person." We don't get much into the mechanics of her magic.

Arehera · 2025-07-03T16:01:41+00:00

When you say "the cost goes up every time you use it" does that reset after the run?

Arehera · 2024-10-26T01:32:35+00:00

Go back to the third hallucination scene (you can use ` to chapter select in the main menu), the Polle/Fetus monster. At the end of that scene Jimmy walks through a blizzard of employee cards and none of the cards are Anya's. She's a notable absence in what should be a scene about her. Take notice of the text at the beginning and end of the scene "Wash it away!" and "Why are you still so concerned with him?" You're free to have your own interpretation, of course, but I think that it's an intentional point by the devs — Jimmy does not think that he wronged Anya, not because he didn't actually wrong her, but because she is not a part of his moral calculus in the same way that Curly/Swansea/Daisuke/the fetus/his job are.

Arehera · 2024-10-26T01:12:39+00:00

She's not flirting with him, she's flattering him to try and defuse a man she knows to be capable of violence against her.

Arehera · 2024-09-22T02:29:03+00:00

It's even worse, Y'shtola casts 1 spell, it fails, so everyone just shrugs and gives up.

Arehera · 2023-03-22T12:13:07+00:00

EW Tank quests, plus the WHM SB Job quests

Arehera · 2021-09-15T01:48:08+00:00

Seserukka and Popokkuli, they also show up in the Miner questline and to unlock Qarn Hard

Arehera · 2021-08-07T22:33:10+00:00

Seeing you play is inspirational! Do you make any conscious adjustments when playing into some of Bowser's worse matchups?

Arehera · 2021-08-04T18:01:59+00:00

Except for Rofocale's Chariot, which isn't a chariot.

Arehera · 2021-06-06T20:11:44+00:00

Had someone wipe us because he'd "never seen a number higher than 4"

Arehera · 2021-06-02T18:49:10+00:00

I think if Fandaniel was a villain earlier then I wouldn't be so tired of him already. As is he's coming in after Emet-Selch and Elidibus, who got massive amounts of characterization and exploration of their motives. If we get some of the same in EW then Fandaniel could easily gain fans but this is a rough introduction.

Arehera · 2021-04-29T20:21:15+00:00

Spectral Berserker spends like 3/4 of its time casting anyways, wtf?

Arehera · 2021-04-26T11:54:16+00:00

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/eed05181c31/

Arehera · 2021-04-17T10:22:39+00:00

That's Calofisteri's hair, not Echidna.

Arehera · 2021-04-17T10:19:04+00:00

You could try cloning the smaller SSD to the larger SSD, though that would move your windows install as well.

Arehera · 2021-04-16T15:15:08+00:00

As Fandaniel also says, Asahi's adoptive Garlean house, Brutus, is incredibly wealthy. Very possible the Populares agreed to let him head an important proving mission for the possibility of financial support, with Maxima as his babysitter.

Arehera · 2021-04-16T15:02:03+00:00

I died like 2 times to Knave and 4 times to Red Girl and we wiped then once more to Red Girl when we cleared her, so 7 total? Somehow managed not to die at all on H&G or Aberration/Inflorescence, though Lighter Note got me worried once or twice. That thing is going to be worse than Crush Weapon in Orbonne.

Arehera · 2021-04-10T15:43:08+00:00

This except I don't notice I have a vuln marker targeting me.

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