JUDE'S PROFILE

This is the party I used to master Soulcage--probably the only undead tree I can think of in any RPG ever.

Mog warned about using fire magic, but if you blind him his fire blades rarely connects anyway. I still only got a single medal for damage taken because he used Fira an awful lot, but I got full medals on everything else. For me he opened up the fight with Fira, which knocked out 1500-2500 HP on everybody. After that I am able to get up Boon, Magic Breakdown, and Stoneskin RW to bring that down to a much more manageable 200-500 damage.

Between Steal Power and Armor Break, Zidane was able to do a pretty impressive 5500 damage with Dark Buster, which I wasn't expecting. I can't wait to use this Steal Power ability with Locke in a few weeks since I have Locke's Rising Sun. Lacking a synergy weapon, Steiner was only hitting for about 4k with Fira Sword and Tyro's Attunement II RW that increases vulnerability damage.

Sazh proved pretty invaluable for this fight since he could fill my Magic Breakdown, Renewing Cure, and Shellga gap in a single slot. Renewing Cure was nice because it remedies the Sap status that accompanies Mustard Bomb. I was worried I would have to drop Steiner for somebody else but then remembered Sazh has White Magic 3, so I switched his Dark Buster to Zidane and was good to go.

Vivi chilled until Blind worked, and then nuked the rest of the fight. I did have to use the Mystery Veil limit break once because a Fira snuck through before I refreshed Stoneskin (fortunately Shellga and Magic Breakdown were still active).

I could've probably gotten away with Eiko not bringing Protectga, but I'm glad I did because sometimes Soulcage's physical attacks sneak through Blind and it takes awhile just to get Blind to stick anyway.

author=hedge1
Here's where I'm wrong: I was saying that ATK was impacting the formula in ways that weren't beneficial.

I would have responded sooner to your statement but it actually took a bit of time to figure out exactly why I had included the extra +ATK initially (go me for not taking notes on the topic). On the surface it looks like a big mistake, since it garbles the numbers and eliminates the ability to make player-sensical number scaling.

On the flip side, however, it prevents ATK from scaling out of control if a power-leveled character hits an early game target. Without the extra +ATK, a mere 548 ATK could deal 30,000 damage to a 10 DEF target. I don't mind easily killing a 10 DEF target. But I do mind how awkward it feels for 548 ATK to do 30,000 damage, especially when it's generally doing around 550 damage. Furthermore, by raising DEF from 10 to 50, damage falls to just 6,000. Again, that feels really awkward (even though on a hits-to-kill basis it makes perfect sense).

A better way to control this is to feed in actor or target level (or both) into the formula, instead of using attack again. It's a very predictable number you can design around too.

Well, I guess my FF7 team got stronger. What's not seen is the first pull that was all 3-star items I already had. So FF9 was a bust, and still remains a weak realm for me. I also spent 25 mythril upgrading my inventory again, so it'll be awhile before I can do another pull at all.

author=Rebezion
I am working on set of weapons in castlevania style, this however is called Lamevania.

I think about making a Castlevania fangame pretty much every weekend. Godspeed.

Anyway, I took Thanksgiving completely off but I've been doing work on equipment stuff the last few evenings. I sort of hate making these kinds of UIs because I don't know how to fit all of the information I want on a single screen. So this time I've opted to do a paged stat panel so you can flip through the details. Selecting a given equipment slot automatically turns to the page that has the most relevant stats for that slot. It also predicts all stat changes, like how equipping a two-handed weapon will remove your off hand weapon.

Blech. I was unable to kill FF13's Bahamut Elite before the doom timer got me. He's quite tanky and resists armor/mental breaks. I'll go back later either with a higher level party or with a bard or a +Attack RW.