I can definitely see why I feel this FFT community is dead (outside maybe an occasional hack like ff6 characters) and why I had “one more in me” as Vince Carter would say. People aren’t really being creative when playing this game, or straight out giving misinformation. For example, gender only matters with late game perfumes/Agrias’ birthday tynar rouge, which an male onion knight can equip to be broken, steal heart (opposite gender and monsters), and dancer’s path of level 5 geomancer/dragoon has more combo potential due to the samurai’s blade grasp Shirahadori evasion while charging, being unlocked next door than the lame male bard by level 5 orator/summoner, which has no cohesion. Ramza and special characters generally have higher stats anyway, with negligible increased magic for generic women and physical attack for men).
I believe I got everything setup for this and can’t replicate any type of edutainment research for another game (crisis core hell thundaga was close though ff2 intuitive boost was just luck withbunarmed double shield attacks). I’ve also been playing more demos and checking what trickles in, so this account will still be treated as semi-retired.
I lucked out that Luso initially had shout so he went in God mode with that 999 damage due to maxed bravery and a few attack buffs when stalling (it was like 470 before that). He can learn Ultima before Ramza in the Elmdor battle with a ton of luck as a game hunter (Ramza needs to see if not learn the ability shout as a chapter 4 squire first). Also remember to recruit that dark behemoth with beastmaster in Luso’s recruitment battle for that Almagest hp loss oblivion.
Mystics (stronger with bravery -30 but needs time and can miss more with trepidation) and Orators (intimidate but less height, bravery -20 and instant) can lower bravery to make someone a chicken (which Beowulf is the master of by reducing with 50, though ch. 4 is solo territory given overpowered equipment).
So you just gotta target enemies with under 60 bravery and 2 hit them with some RNG (this Riovanes Castle battle before Wiegraf is a pain with 3 archers that triple snipe anyone near that can’t take a hit, and the knights have high evade if you’re not cheesing with Iaido and the like (I even had to use jump for guaranteed weaker damage as incompatible normal attack doublehand would miss if not behind, though I edited that out).
Mustadio works well in this build (aimed shot buffed by tailwind) and I’ve come a long way since my mystic corruption one that is much less feasible when even cheap holy is outsped in this battle.
Bravery can be buffed with Ramza’s steel that doesn’t miss (people can “research” this skill and say it sucks despite the monk boost and it goes up permanently by 1, with 5 staying for the battle (shout stays 2 I believe though praise with only 4, with preach doing the same with 1 faith point carrying over to be 70 at end of vid, though they can miss unlike the former I mentioned).
No idea how someone discovered how faith made someone leave the party given it gotta be over 95 and not Ramza (these boosts are tiny compared to reductions, and Bard/Dancer reaction buffs not worth it though dancer works with this dragoon pretty decently to get whoever is in critical rather than be helpless in a corner to barely hurt anyone at this stage, though slow dance missed).
It helps to have high magic attack (my mystic had a regen build better than monk) Luso’s heavy armor with lifefont or arcane strength as well. I can also change Mustadio back to his Machinist class and normally snipe enemies (books need line of sight like guns). It is very important to scan all your enemies for accuracy bravery given the heavy RNG. Luso was only level 31 for that big damage but had 18 physical attack (buying Bracers just before Riovanes helps a to. Though they cost over 50k like the regen pantherskin hand bag, which helps adrenaline rush like blood sword)m with 12 by default. Mincing minuet also let my dancing dragoon do 19 damage due to her 94 bravery and 10 attack from the bracer (monk is technically higher but I don’t have that range).
I put a link to a long guide I made below with classes: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
I also updated the ff fandom for machinist and mystic jobs once I figured out how to play it. Nice way to put a close on this game and a farewell to a lot of gaming culture.
Timestamps are below:
0:00 Trepidation charging
0:12 Oh noes my rare helmet has been rended
0:32 First Trepidation hits
0:45 Doublehand backstab
0:55 Trepidation chicken time
1:41 Rare Crystal gets all 5 abilities
2:14 Preach increases faith for slight accuracy
2:43 Luso status before shouting
3:21 Tailwind buffs aimed shot by 1%
3:38 An Arm…
4:23 Praise works but not slow dance
4:45 Steel Bravery
4:58 …and a Leg
5:14 Title namer max damage Luso fried chicken
5:20 Status screen