Arena battle videos and discussion

[TrueLight]

spoiler: Me vs. SSM

It looks like Jumping Archer is doing well, but he seems a bit squishy (As is the Ninja). Draw Out Wizard saved my day with Murasame (200 AOE healing a turn).The Squires just didn't have enough damage output to put my team on the defensive. GG SSM.

[dacheat]

Pretty much.

Awesome thanks. 

[Dol]

New scrim vids:

FFT Arena Scrim:  FriskyDingo vs Mucus

FFT Arena Scrim:  Dacheat vs ImBQB part 1 & part 2

FFT Arena Scrim:  Reks (Magical Melodies) vs Angelus part 1 & Part 2

Did best of 3s today.  Split into parts until the time limit on youtube is removed for this channel.  The tourney wont have that issue of course 

[formerdeathcorps]

Dol, the third link is broken.

Reks (Magical Melodies) vs. Angelus
Part 2

[mucus]

spoiler: mucus vs FriskyDingo

OMG! Thanks for having my first match!  This was a big learning experience for me!  I saw some stuff that worked, and a lot that didn't I look forward to getting my second round!
@FriskyDingo - That masamune made it really hard to kill you! And those Bahamuts, they just kept coming!

spoiler: Reks vs Angelus

Round 1: The verbal skills seem to miss like crazy.
Round 3: The small map really changed the game . . .

[dacheat]

spoiler: Me vs. BQB

Oh god that must have been painful to commentate. I really need to revamp my team. Not enough offense...

[Dol]

Dol, the third link is broken.

Yeah, I went to bed while they were uploading.  Its fixed now.

[Barren]

FFT Arena Season One Exhibition Fanatic (Anti Physical) vs mucus

FFT Arena Season One Exhibition dacheat (The Lightswitch Ravers) vs iamBQB (The Light Brigade)

FFT Arena Season One Exhibition Kihaku_FTW (The Great Skype Conversation) vs The Damned (Obligation Day!)

FFT Arena Season One Exhibition Kihaku_FTW (Team of First Times) vs SoySauceMaster (Stormy Weather)

FFT Arena Season One Exhibition formerdeathcorps (Test E) vs formerdeathcorps (Test F)

[mucus]

That was great!  Thanks for demoing me!
I see some major flaws in that team's design.

[dacheat]

Barren/Dol: I am so sorry for those two matches. Those had to be painful to commentate. I definitely need to revamp my team. The Scholar is basically dead weight, my Monk makes very little use of his Snipe secondary, and overall my team just doesn't do very much damage.

[Dol]

Barren/Dol: I am so sorry for those two matches. Those had to be painful to commentate. I definitely need to revamp my team.

Dont sweat it.  Arena teams very rarely work out the way you would think on the first try, especially if you are new to the Arena patch.  I'm going to try and coordinate with Barren in the future to make sure that we arent doing the exact same matchups on test videos.  Variety is the spice of life after all

Continue to tweak out your teams.  I'm going to try and do a few matches a day from now until the tourney registration ends to help out.  No promises of course, but I'll try!

[iamBQB]

spoiler: BQB vs dacheat

Ouch, not having any rez abilities is such an obvious flaw. Should not have missed that. The Lancer's outrunning the Paladins and getting singled out is definitely a problem, but I do like their damage output. Two pally's is probably overkill so I'll look into getting a more support based class as a replacement.

Dacheat: I don't think it is so much that you have a very low damage output as it was my characters all have high magic defense and evasion paired with low faith. I believe that is why your Priest kept relying on Demi as it does Percentile damage and would likely be the most powerful ability for her to use. Your team handled mine pretty easily all in all, my one victory due to two friendly fire stops on your part. GG.

That's why they were named the Light Brigade anyway, I knew they were doomed to failure and I sent them into battle anyway  :P

Live and learn anyway, I'll be editing up today to fix what I can. Thanks to Barren and Dol both for the vids.

[Barren]

Barren/Dol: I am so sorry for those two matches. Those had to be painful to commentate. I definitely need to revamp my team. The Scholar is basically dead weight, my Monk makes very little use of his Snipe secondary, and overall my team just doesn't do very much damage.

Don't even worry man. It comes with the job. I usually offer opinions and insight during the vids when the need arises. Glad you enjoyed them nonetheless

[dacheat]

Dont sweat it.  Arena teams very rarely work out the way you would think on the first try, especially if you are new to the Arena patch.  I'm going to try and coordinate with Barren in the future to make sure that we arent doing the exact same matchups on test videos.  Variety is the spice of life after all

Continue to tweak out your teams.  I'm going to try and do a few matches a day from now until the tourney registration ends to help out.  No promises of course, but I'll try!

Awesome. Thanks for all your work.

EDIT:

spoiler: Me vs. BQB

That definitely had a lot to do with it too. Your team was tanky as hell haha. If your team had a rez source I think we would have stalemated. :D

EDIT2: Do "strengthen: element" buffs from gear stack? How much does one strengthen buff your attacks with that element?

[Barren]

the strengthen in a element only occurs once dacheat. if you had 108 gems for example it covers all elements and you won't need another elemental boosting item. you can't double strengthen. there are other strengthening items like earth clothes, giant axe, prismatic rod, etc.

Just remember it only occurs once so be sure you know what you're wielding or you'd be wasting potential on the battlefield my friend

[dacheat]

Alright thanks. I need to go edit my revised team that I just posted then haha. Do you know what % it strengthens the element? It says 50% on some, but on others it doesn't specify. 33%?

[Barren]

Alright thanks. I need to go edit my revised team that I just posted then haha. Do you know what % it strengthens the element? It says 50% on some, but on others it doesn't specify. 33%?

According to the team design made by gaignun an element is boosted by 25%. the 50% items most likely are elemental resistance gear like venetian shield, white robe, thief hat, etc. the 33% is due to attack/magic attack up.

Of course overwhelm adds 20% more damage/healing from unit has it as a support ability. unyielding does 20% less damage/healing to that unit.

[dacheat]

Awesome, thanks for the help.

[Barren]

Anytime

[SoySauceMaster]

Thanks for the vids.

spoiler: Kihaku vs SSM

GG Kihaku. Oh, well. I can't make it work. I HATE the idea of using classes and equips just for the stat bonuses. I'm giving up and resigning from the tournament. There's enough competitors, as it is, anyway.