JUDE'S PROFILE

author=Craze
Yeah, I really don't know what happened there. Vanille's primary roles were Ravager and Saboteur, whereas Hope was Medic and Synergist. (Vanille DID have Medic and Hope DID have Ravager, but...)

My random guess is that Vanille came out earlier, and at the time there were fewer white mage options than black mages.

Ugh... Really underestimated how tanky Barthandelus is and brought some poor skills. Definitely suggest targeting the weaknesses of his pauldrons, and definitely suggest not bringing Blade Blitz or Quake unless your physical character is that stacked (Lv58 Lightning with Vega 42s wasn't up to the challenge). Use Spellblades instead. And Quake is a bad choice because they're resistant to it, so go non-elemental like Meteor (I don't have it yet) or Valefor/Maduin or Water/Lightning to target their weakness individually. Fortunately I still mastered it and got the quest in one stroke, but that fight was painful and I wouldn't have mastered it without medals carrying over from the previous stages. On the plus side, damage was so low in this attrition nightmare that Hope was able to do all of the healing with Mystery Veil alone, which is good because I didn't bring any Cure magic.

No stamina left for the bonus battles, but when I pick them up I'll be doing the boss rush with Lightning, Hope, Wakka (back out of retirement with the pumpkin head), Vanille, and Sazh. I will bring back Snow later to do some tanking for the espers, and he'll probably replace Vanille so I can keep all those breakdowns between Wakka and Sazh.

I use Bluestacks on my Surface and it runs fine. The main problem is it queries the server every time you touch snything, and that part is sluggish.

I got a second Vega 42s and a Buster Sword. Going to use the gun on Lightning rather than combine it, for at least the short term. And now I have four FF7 swords if you count that golden one I'll get tomorrow.

Pretty unlucky on orbs for this phase. Lots of cactuar encounters--no major orbs period and only a single greater summon orb. I guess there's still time left. I underestimated how much mythril is acquired from log in bonuses, so I have ample mythril for the next pull tonight. I didn't get any 5-star items on this phase but I did get a few 4-stars I can combine when I have the upgrade materials, such as a third Empyrean Rod or whatever it's called. Doubtful I'll have enough mythril to pull on FF13, though--depends on how much mythril is in the new dungeons.

My great luck during Zack event made it easy to smash the Cloud/Barret one. I didn't even bring Cure magic for the Jenova fights.

Also, good news: I noticed LockeZ has a Tyrfing, so add him if you haven't already.

This phase netted me Snow's jacket. Starting to feel a lot better about my FF13 synergy.