Arena battle videos and discussion

[Reks]

When it comes down to it, I don't mind either or with the in-game audio. It DOES add an effect to it overall, so I guess I prefer having it to not having it.

Also, I can has match? Team doesn't matter so much (aside from Monster Hunters, not until later at least.), nor does the opponent. So I leave it up to whomever to pick my (or my opponent's) poison.

[CT5Holy]

Alright, next match from me will be Reks' Celestial Stasis vs Otabo's Twisted Fate.

[Reks]

Alright, next match from me will be Reks' Celestial Stasis vs Otabo's Twisted Fate.

That was rather fast. Thank you!

[The Damned]

(Thanks, Barren. Preemptive GG to Vigilanti & Reks.)

Geez, I shouldn't have posted all those videos at once given the view count. Oh well, whatever. I at least have one more opinion on the audio thing...for a grand total of two. Huzzah.

Anyway, apologies for the delay, especially to you Reks:


1. FFT ARENA 1.38d - Vigilanti (A Summoner's Pilgrimage) vs. The Damned (Pilgrimage of Repentance) [12:17]

2. FFT ARENA 1.38d - Reks (Monster Hunters) vs. The Damned (Flailing About) Redone [11:16]


Not much else to say. Had wanted to update my thread, but of course I failed there again. I'll just do that tomorrow. No need to make people wait for this still.

Italics EDIT: Whoops, messed up the italics for the second video. Fixed now.

[reinoe]

(Thanks, Barren. Preemptive GG to Vigilanti & Reks.)

1. FFT ARENA 1.38d - Vigilanti (A Summoner's Pilgrimage) vs. The Damned (Pilgrimage of Repentance) [12:17]

2. FFT ARENA 1.38d - Reks (Monster Hunters) vs. The Damned (Flailing About) Redone [11:16]

spoiler: A summoners Pilgrimage vs Pilgrimage of Repenance

Round 1
3:14 was my favorite part.  At first I thought I was having early morning hallucinations but that Fairy did indeed hit it's allied undead unit for 85hp.  Further confirmed with a retalitory damage split.

Round 2
Double water KO at 9:11 was clutch for T.D.  Not helping was Vigilanti's Summoner being too far away to use Carbunkle to hit multiple units.

[Dokurider]

spoiler: Reks vs The Damned

It's basically a requirement to have Anti-Blind on your Grand Cross unit, because even if you have a way to cure blind, you still have to stop to heal yourself every turn you use Grand Cross, cutting your dps in half. Because of all the blind and evasion, Flailing About was an accurate name for once.

EDIT: Oh it's intentional. Joke's on me.

[The Damned]

(Yeah, it's easy to miss that it's intentional. You aren't the first though. I think someone else--Barren?--did too.)

So, I almost forgot to say this: Outside of maybe recording a "tie-breaker" for DomieV vs. LightningHax, I'm going to be taking "off" from ARENA for a week.

Well, at least when it comes to recording. I'm going to finally try to do some actual work and start editing map positions or whatever because there are way too few small maps or just general maps that I think could have better starting positions.

*looks at Volcano*

So, yeah, going to try my clumsy hand at that particular effort. Other than that, it will be a time to catch-up on things that I still owe on this forum and other ones as well as finish (read: start) cleaning up my channel since I'm going to try to make that public...tomorrow.

Other than that, there only real bit of good news I have to report is that while screwing around and getting screwed over by Camtasia last week, I finally found the missing music I knew I still had somewhere. That's where things like "The Picard Song" and the Street Fighter EX music were hiding.

*goes back to trying to prepare a post to update with*

P.S. Since I can't remember if I ever "apologized" for it, I'll try not to use dubstep again if I can avoid it, at least without "warning" for it, even if it's like Super Mario RPG remix that I used. I seriously don't see how people like that particular style of music, but oh well, I at least gave it a try (read: several tries)....

[CT5Holy]

Reks' Celestial Stasis vs Otabo's Twisted Fate

[Reks]

spoiler: me vs Otabo

Well, that could have gone better. You gave me a few ideas for things, though I'm not sure what to do for Nuadiah. His Elemental IS indeed mainly for picking off weaker units, or at least HITTING units that he can't reach and/or would move out of Jump.

[reinoe]

Reks' Celestial Stasis vs Otabo's Twisted Fate

Since the vast majority of the commentary on this match was said during the rounds, I don't have much to add on this matchup.  Given it's huge length I was sure it would be a best of three matchup, especially since Reks had a huge advantage on the small map.  I will point out something very important that's semi-relevant to the current balance discussion thread though...

Move MP-UP on units with a lot of MP negates Witch Hunt.  Also Absorb MP also negates Witch Hunt. 

[Otabo]

If anything, this should be more than enough proof that both Phoenix Blade and Quickening need to be removed.

[Reks]

Well, Celestial Stasis was upgraded again, so they'll (NUADIAH) no longer be dumb about what they have.... For the most part.

Anyway, I wanna request another few matches with them against any team willing to be thrown at them. They actually had a good number of excellent back-and-forths with SWA in tests, but due to me not having any recording stuff at the time, none of it will be seen. And that was with me somehow still having an older version of the Memcard generator (the one where Move-MP UP was bugged), effectively crippling SWA and CS a bit.

Edit: I also have a new team. Introducing a hybrid, a fusion of Celestial Stasis and Severe Weather Alert.....

Celestial Thunder! *totally original name* They'll be up, and you CAN use them, but they're still in testing.

[Barren]

Lots of matches here! Please note that I recorded these videos within the last week so if any of you updated your teams as I was recording, I have gotten your changes now but these videos will have your previous version of your team. Enjoy 

FFT Arena 1.38d - CT5Holy (Cruel Concoction) vs Vigilanti (Sobreity)

FFT Arena 1.38d - Gaignun (Team Ninja) vs reinoe (House of Dead Ninjas)

FFT Arena 1.38d - DarkxFatal (Phalanx) vs Barren (Six Move)

FFT Arena 1.38d - Angelus (A Very Strange Team) vs reinoe (Squinjas)

FFT Arena 1.38d - Avalanche (circlus teretris) vs Gaignin (Patch Me)

FFT Arena 1.38d - RavenOfRazgriz (playground Pioneers) vs Dokurider (Peking Dragon Company)

FFT Arena 1.38d - LightningHax (Stagnant Water) vs Reks (Celestial Statis)

FFT Arena 1.38d - TrueLight (Air Raid) vs Otabo (Springtime Sisters)

FFT Arena 1.38d - LightningHax (Arrow Hurts) vs Otabo (Twisted Fate)

[The Damned]

(Ugh. Why did that take almost four hours?)

Anyway, all the videos on my channel are finally public. I'll put it in my signature before I forget.

Hmmm...I haven't done any exercise this weekend. I kinda want to go for a walk, but it's pretty much midnight.

I guess if I don't update my patch thread in the next couple of hours, then you guys can just take that as a sign I've been brutally murdered or something. No big.

*remembers that he still needs to write a will, like everyone does*

Hmmm....

Regardless, preemptive thanks, Barren. I'll try to watch your videos before Tuesday (is over).

[reinoe]

Anyway, all the videos on my channel are finally public. I'll put it in my signature before I forget.

Glad you finally took the plunge!  I often search u-toob for matches and inspiration for team building, and then I would realize that yours weren't available yet.

[Otabo]

So many scholars.

FFT Arena 1.38d - Reinoe (Circuitfried) vs. Angelus (Scholars R Us)

[Angelus]

spoiler: me vs reinoe

Christ mate, that was a sheer massacre! That triple kill earth dragon was a nice way to cap it off. GG reinoe. And thank ye for visiting Scholars R Us!

[Dokurider]

[FFT Arena 138d] Reinoe vs Barren (High Risk High Rewards)

[reinoe]

[FFT Arena 138d] Reinoe vs Barren (High Risk High Rewards)

spoiler: 9P vs High Risk High Reward

That Chemist has Death Sentence Proc's that never miss.  The RNG went her way a lot.  It was quite maddening.

It's been a long time since I've suffered from MP starvation.  As much as I want to say poison was useless, it actually did what it was supposed to do and slowly killed off the Frog Chemist.

Barren's Archer was immune to blind so Abandon+Kiyomori meant nothing.  I should count my blessings.  After all, he could have had a magic gun and wrecked havok.

My most favorite part, or least favorite depending on my mood, was near the end of match 2 when it was obviously over and the Oracle approached Barren's Archer kneeling the whole time.  And just to troll things out a little, Barren's thief stole my Battle Boots from my Frogg'ed Knight as a souvenir.  Not too different from teabagging in a FPS.  Whining aside it was an interesting match all the same.  I need more attack power so I can either modify the Samurai or just go the easy route and make her a clone of the Paladin.  But I'm already making updates to the team.

GG Barren.

Thanks Dokurider!  The match was A LOT closer than I thought it would be surprisingly enough, especially after 9P's first outing.

[Barren]

spoiler: 9P vs High Risk High Reward

That Chemist has Death Sentence Proc's that never miss.  The RNG went her way a lot.  It was quite maddening.

It's been a long time since I've suffered from MP starvation.  As much as I want to say poison was useless, it actually did what it was supposed to do and slowly killed off the Frog Chemist.

Barren's Archer was immune to blind so Abandon+Kiyomori meant nothing.  I should count my blessings.  After all, he could have had a magic gun and wrecked havok.

My most favorite part, or least favorite depending on my mood, was near the end of match 2 when it was obviously over and the Oracle approached Barren's Archer kneeling the whole time.  And just to troll things out a little, Barren's thief stole my Battle Boots from my Frogg'ed Knight as a souvenir.  Not too different from teabagging in a FPS.  Whining aside it was an interesting match all the same.  I need more attack power so I can either modify the Samurai or just go the easy route and make her a clone of the Paladin.  But I'm already making updates to the team.

GG Barren.

Thanks Dokurider!  The match was A LOT closer than I thought it would be surprisingly enough, especially after 9P's first outing.

Thanks for the new idea reinoe, now I have a setup in mind for my archer in the next update :D

spoiler: me vs reinoe

that was a pretty long match to say the very least but the idea was to keep risking with breaks, talk skill and death spells while my thief just goes for KOs. I'm surprised my archer didn't go for many breaks and I want him too. perhaps there's another way he can spam breaks? Well GG reinoe, that was fun.