JUDE'S PROFILE

I know very, very little about Lumberyard and still need to do more reading, but if it's really easy to integrate with AWS then I might give it some real consideration. I'm already knee-deep in a game with an AWS backend so I wouldn't want to redo all of that unless it'll save me an enormous amount of hassle.

Eh... Maybe not. Apparently it's Cryengine based. That's a bit much to learn.

I always set the text speed to the fastest setting when the option is given. I don't really care as long as it's not too slow--pauses included. I find it impossible to replay Xenogears, for example.

I got that Darkest Dungeon game because people have been talking about it so much. Seems neat. I lost almost all of my progress, though. I played it on my desktop, and later played it in bed on my laptop. I think I started the game before my laptop had finished connecting to my network and then syncing Steam's cloud saves. I got in and my save file was from like the first thirty minutes of the game. So I quit and then that save file got uploaded to the cloud. Oh well.

I was going to do XP daily, but the notice indicated that Kefka is tomorrow so I decided I got enough XP over the weekend and spent my stamina on the bonus battles. I hate how I am always just short of being able to do them all in one go and have to wait an hour on stamina.

Ultimate Vossler is a joke if you have Stoneskin/SG, Protectga, and a tank. My party idea was dogshit but I mastered the fight anyway. My party was pretty much the same that I mentioned previously, except I gave Leon Shield Bash instead of Lifesiphon because I figured he'd get hit often enough to use his Hypnotize limit break regularly. I gave Dispel to Y'shtola since I used Lunatic High as my RW. I replaced Aeris's Dispel wth Quetzalcoatl because it's my best honed summon and it'd give her something to cast if Y'shtola was too tied up to dispel Vossler's reflect.

So Leon did get hit enough to have ample soul meter, but Imperial Swordsmen are assholes and attack each other and my party anyway, so the confusion doesn't last nor is it very effective. They did hit Vossler once for about 3k, though, so if their confusion AI wasn't dumb then it'd probably be a good idea. Between Protectga, Draw Fire, Stoneskin, and Shield Bash: Vossler's multi-strike abilities only hit Leon for about 120-200 per hit, so it was easy to keep his HP high enough to draw every single one of those attacks. The only threatening ability in the encounter for me was the Imperial Guards' water spell, since I didn't bring any form of Shellga.

Aeris was a stupid idea, but she did clue me into something. Dragon Force is useless here. Vossler doesn't use normal attacks or his AoE attack often enough for it to matter, such that after only a single Dragon Force use, I still had three party members with an active blink. However, Quetzalcoatl turned out to be a pretty great idea. That water spell I mentioned previously wasn't nearly the problem it could've been because those guards are vulnerable to paralyze, so they only used the spell once before they were all paralyzed and made irrelevant for the rest of the fight. I ended up killing Vossler at pretty much the same time as his guards, and that actually allowed me to get full speed medals (I still missed two damage medals). So consider bringing a summoner if you've got Quetzalcoatl.

Drunk Cecil did his usual thing of keeping the attack buff active on the party. I changed Locke's Steal Power to Power Break just so he could do some damage during those turns. Dismissal worked twice, so that was cool. I got the slow medals via Locke's limit break, which was actually hitting the damage cap against Vossler and his turds once Armor Break and Cecil's buff were up.

Anyway, just bring a tanky dude and keep his health high and Vossler is nothing compared to Beatrix.

Also, Bartz's wind limit break was super dope against the tree dragon. I totally forgot it hit all enemies since I've mostly used it against bosses that are alone, so blasting a bunch of plant creatures for 20k damage was a nice surprise after I manually targeted the dragon. During that fight I used my Mako Might/Dr Mogs Teachings on Yuna and Sazh. I didn't bring any cure magic and relied on a single Hymn of Fayth near the start. As a result, I discovered that Wrath works pretty damn well on Y'shtola for getting her Stoneskin ready in a hurry. Consider Esuna and some form of dispel on that fight. I had the former but not the latter, which kept my damage lower than it could've been.

Also, I didn't see a single Gigantaur during the whole weekend, so that's lame. Leveled Locke up about ten levels though, so now he's in his 60s and should be pretty strong for the Kefka event. Also got a bunch of record materia... I can't remember all of them, so that was lucky. Good thing XP also correlates with those limit break mastery points. Made it a snap to learn Dragon Force permanently.

I looked ahead a bit and Exdeath has a runic weapon. So I'll probably go for that since it's something I'm missing and I've yet to do an FF5 banner pull, which is weird because I have a bunch of 5-star items from FF5 (Judgement Staff, Air Knife, Heavy Spear, Genji Armor, and Genji Helm). I talk a lot about how other banners give me FF7 all of the time, but apparently they've given me more FF5 when I actually look at my items. Actually, I think I might've gotten Judgement Staff during the very first Lenna event, since I recall getting it at about the same time as her. This was when I was still doing single pulls every time I had 5 mythril at once and often using mythril to refresh stamina for story dungeons. Ah... Ignorance.

Yeah, couldn't resist. Did a 3-pull going for Balthier's or Fran's weapons. Didn't get either, but got some robe and a Shellga light armor, and considering my only FF12 armor is a 3++ pirate cloak or whatever that event reward is called, this is a pretty dope pull.