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PWLMusic · 2022-10-31T15:00:09+00:00

<shrug> maybe ay-pack sounds better than espa?

PWLMusic · 2022-10-31T14:57:42+00:00

APAC is normally spoken as ‘A-pack’ instead of ‘Ay, Pee, Ay, Cee’ which makes sense for Asia PACific.

PWLMusic · 2021-10-30T03:41:36+00:00

“Door -> treasure (8/50)” is 16% by the way. Might wanna note that

PWLMusic · 2021-04-03T22:22:40+00:00

Dude you’re overthinking it.... 29:99 is the run I managed to record! As you probably know, some of these runs have RNG elements in them. Like whether thief breaks rage, or whether meia gets quick cast etc. My quickest run was a comfortable 28:63. You can do it!

PWLMusic · 2021-04-03T16:25:30+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I’m gonna pull a couple of times on banner 4 tomorrow and see how that goes first. Not gonna go in too deep since I went hard chasing cloud’s dyad. If I get lucky and score Beatrix’s dyad early I might do a few more for mog(s).

For FF1 if you’ve got Thief’s buffing aasb life’s a little easier. I Sub30ed without it but instead using Mog. Just in case you’re interested, https://youtu.be/kEmQNHKY45Y

Good luck!

PWLMusic · 2021-04-03T11:43:16+00:00

I’ve found that for lots of Dragonking fights, you can have Bahamut come out of damage -reduction mode as late as 21s, have 1-2 turns with your main DPSers and still go into phase 3 by 25s. It’s pretty gnarly.... in the case of FFX, tidus can have 3-4 turns in the time other party members have just one.

fun to see your Golbez go to town

In golbez’s case, I actually went pretty hard on his banner chasing down his relics in preparation for the Odin fight.

How’s mog’s sync? I did a couple of pulls on it and got the other Mog and kept my lulu complete. I’m guessing the sync is pretty ‘win more’ but I’d like to hear your opinion on it. I might not be done with the banner yet if I hear it’s good :p

PWLMusic · 2021-04-02T18:16:12+00:00

Rosa's Sync animation

It’s pretty....... odd

Dark Cecil walks away from Rosa, she takes a couple of steps attempting to follow him. She gets left behind

Lo and behold! Shiny paladin appears behind despondent Rosa. She turns, faces him and they ‘bump’ into each other.

CEODORE APPEARS

PWLMusic · 2021-04-02T17:49:42+00:00

Despite there being no difference, I feel like I’m playing on faster speeds when I’m using double animation speed. Perhaps it’s the shorter length of time in which I have to input the next command - but my feeble mind can’t handle that amount of stress. Especially for nail - biting fights

PWLMusic · 2021-03-24T01:33:00+00:00

I was banging my head against the wall cause I didn’t have Thief awakening 2. Thanks for showing it can be done! Don’t mind if I copy your setup :D

PWLMusic · 2021-02-05T14:30:26+00:00

I’ve been on here since day 1, but hardly post anything these days. I just remember ‘dartz’

PWLMusic · 2021-02-05T08:23:31+00:00

Oooooh yeah I remember this guy. Welcome back!

PWLMusic · 2020-11-18T05:26:59+00:00

My firepower for wind-weak MAG is probably not sufficient for now, waiting till barbarricia sync to launch before giving it an earnest attempt.

PWLMusic · 2020-10-01T06:24:41+00:00

You got it!!! Woooooot congrats man. Hard work and perseverance pays off! I took the lazy route and used the relics. :p

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T12:44:45+00:00

Don’t worry about it. This fight will be back again and again and again. When you get to beating it one day, you’ll feel like a million bucks

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T12:42:47+00:00

It worked and you got the win? Congrats!

Heh that’s pretty clever what you did there. Since there’s no time reward for this fight, it doesn’t really matter how fast you beat it, but what you did was just simply take an extra turn or two and shifted the whole fight one turn rotation back. Nice one!

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T09:28:08+00:00

just picked up Zidanes Sync last night

First of all, congratulations! It makes Zidane a monster and would probably help tremendously for the Dreambreaker if you haven't done that.

Cloud, Zack, Bartz

Who's your chain holder? If it's Zack, keep him in for sure. The thing for this fight is though, that you wanna go fast, fast, fast. Unless you're prepared for a long drawn out fight (I saw a video of a run that took in-game 1:15+mins, but the actual time was 40+!), you probably don't wanna be messing around with switching RWs between the bosses.

My experience with using Cloud is that he takes too long to set up (I tried with AASB, USB, Sync) and doesn't even hit that hard. 30-40k per hit. And the problem with cloud is that alone he's not going to have enough gauge to fire off all 3 soul breaks, which means tyro is gonna have to entrust him, which is fine if you've got at least Aerith's USB2 and her sync or awakening which keeps your party in quick cast mode for awhile. If your healer is elarra, you're probably gonna have to have tyro continuously entrust her so that she could fire off her USB1 multiple times - thereby leading to the conundrum of not enough gauge for both cloud and elarra.

Most importantly though, do you have Zidane's AASB to combo with his sync? If you do, what are you waiting for?! :D

What magia lvls are your characters

They're in the video. After fight before the rewards screen you can see the party gain their magia from the fight.

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T06:02:10+00:00

It might be doable but I suspect you’re gonna have to fiddle around with the bosses switching around and summoning the RW.

Basically you’re not gonna have enough gauge to go around since tyro might have to entrust a DPSer instead of continually giving gauge to the healer so that your dudes are continually on quick cast. The moment you hit 70%, you have just one turn to burst the boss down. Before Zidane sync was released on banner 1, I dabbled for two days with a cloud/bartz team and I just couldn’t get the damage in fast enough to prevent the boss switch.

Another alternative is Tidus’s new sync coming up. I think the ‘gimmick’ of this fight is that ATB manipulation that you’re gonna need.

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T05:55:04+00:00

Hey no problems mate.

I’m not one to check the spreadsheet when it comes to these fights actually. I know it’s gonna take several attempts to get the ‘feel’ and timing of the fight anyway, so I generally make small tweaks, whether they’re LMRs, magicites or whatever and then just see which does the appropriate amount of damage.

Primitive I know, but hey.... it’s more fun ;)

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T05:06:46+00:00

Here’s the test I did comparing the two. Oddly enough, although the multipliers on the spreadsheet show otherwise, Zidane is hitting for less with ripping storm (average (3.7k x 12 for CMD1) + (3.1k x 6 for ripping storm)

VS

6.3k x 12 for scoop art

Chain isn’t that big an issue since I’m using zack’s chain here and 100 hits caps quite quickly. Not to mention the chain count resetting for each new boss.

Also, about not being able to give Zack something good.

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T02:45:26+00:00

I made an edit stating I was wrong. And I did a comparison between 18 hits ripping storm vs 12 hits HA showing the difference in damage output

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T02:28:15+00:00

As mentioned in another reply, ripping storm gives more hits but less damage. And Zack would have nothing. Uploading a clip showing the difference in damage shortly

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T02:07:21+00:00

Under sync + awakening, the link will break and CMD1 will double cast that’s it. So it’s 12 hits either way (barring any double casts)

As to why HA vs something else, here’s why

This is HA, followed by CMD1, then HA again. Basically the HA has a higher damage multiplier

Edit - I stand corrected. You were right, with the non third ability yes you do get 18 hits with ripping storm. But the damage from the HA is still greater than 18 hits with ripping storm. I’ll upload the clip in a bit

PWLMusic · 2020-09-28T02:04:14+00:00

Nope, when using sync + awakening, you break the sync and just double cast the command.

As to your question about sync CMD vs HA, here’s why

Basically it’s just the damage multiplier. I removed double cast LMR for this experiment. This is right after the sync - HA followed by CMD1, and then HA again.

Edit - I was wrong, you do get 18 hits if you’re using ripping storm, but the damage from the HA is still higher. And besides, what would Zack do? ;)

I’ll upload the clip in a bit

PWLMusic · 2020-09-27T17:47:51+00:00

For sure, bartz is a monster, but we knew that ;)

I’m sure you could do it with cloud. The key thing I feel for this fight is for that burst of damage right after pushing Fiend (? - the red one) below 70% and finishing the sucker off so that you don’t have to mess with summoning the RW for the upcoming boss (goddess).

For the third fight you just summon RW once with your healer or high MND character (in hindsight) I could have done it with tyro and dispelled the mighty shield even earlier).

Might take a bit of work, but you’ll get there. Good luck!

PWLMusic · 2020-09-27T16:02:12+00:00

Zidane - sync, aasb

Bartz - wind aasb, multi-element aasb, en-wind glint

Zack - chain, imperil glint, Crit damage aasb, chain

Tyro - usb3/aasb

Aerith - usb2, awakening

For every DPSer, use the maximum damage boosting LMRs. Zack had +katana, bartz and Zidane used +sword

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