Final Fantasy Hacktics

You are doing a hell of a job SB. School will be over in a couple weeks for me, as soon as I belt out a couple more papers and exams. By then you should have an update released that will make the patch even more fun! I'll definitely be starting over, and I'll see how it plays again from the get go. The text updates as I said before I think will be huge (does that include ability info?) and make the game much more streamlined for newcomers, ala me.

Good luck with everything in your life, school, etc, and make that first priority, but thanks from everyone for making such headway into a drastically different playthrough of the best game ever

I ran into a Lune Knight at Mandalia that raped my level 4 face with Holy Explosions... yeesh. School looks daunting til the end of the semester (two more weeks!) so my gaming time will be lessened considerably unfortunately. Very happy the patch goes that far! I thought it only went to chapter 1 for some reason, that's exciting and I look forward to furthering my progress and checking out all these new abilities/battles.

Yeah he really helped in that department

Thanks for the clarification on all those points SB, I'll be trying out Sand Rat Cellar soon enough. It's so odd trying to decide what abilities to learn when I have no idea what they do. I figured Blood Spill sounded good for instance, and was quite surprised it was MP depletion, but it actually helped me out in Dorter. So far the only new abilities I have are Blood Spill/Heal Shot and some elemental skills.

I was also wondering when the patch ends or how it ends? It's just chapter 1 right, but then what happens after Zeakden? I just wanna make sure I have a save file able to run around and train to learn some abilities and try them out after the actual story battles of the patch are over.

Thanks for the answers again SB!

EDIT: Well I made it through Sand Rat Cellar first try! Elemental was great, items were key, really I made it through because the enemy ran out of MP very quickly with Brite/Invigorate, and thus had little power to take me down. I collected some crystals. The elemental rods must cast their spell every time right, because they seemed too! Caused some damage for sure.  Quicksilver was also useful, and Thunderous Rythm is just cool, heh.

Now I have a real team developing as my Chemist got Cure 1-3, and Fire/Water so I have a PainBreaker/Elemental, an Elementalist/Pain Weld, Ballista/Item, Amplifier/Item, and BloodMancer/Control. Still having a blast too I might add.

Yeah I thought I saw drain happening on that counter, but I wasn't sure! As for odd JP costs, only a few jobs open but I noticed BloodMancers' have Counter Tackle for 800 jp, not sure if it's really counter tackle or something else though, heh. Also Chemists have "Is ****, OK?" as there movement ability, but that's one someone probably noticed. I'll certainly post anything else I notice as I go along. A new patch with text descriptions would be amazing too to make things way easier!

Also, my first experience with event skipper, it's wonderful. Thanks to VC for that one

EDIT: I just got through Dorter, actually found it very easy. I just went in at level 3-4 to check the enemy out, and decided to go for it. My elementalist w/Gaurd was a beast, elemental is insanely powerful early on. Fun stuff, the stupid guests killed the last enemy before I could collect crystals though... so I might go back and do it again, heh. Blood Spill helped to render their elementalists useless as well.  Heal Shot is cool, I like the amplifiers double attacks (but why does the second punch hurt more? Maybe its not being affected by the endurance thing?), and SpellBlades have some serious power as well.

Good stuff, I'm off for the night!

I'm going to be starting up this patch since I've slowed down on 1.3 near the end. I've been reading religously since signing up for the boards and I am very excited about your patch, it seems amazing and I can't wait to get into it, but I was too obsessed with 1.3 til now to start

I believe it's from FFVI, I forget the name of the enemy though. Soul/Zone Eater? Something like that.

EDIT: See above >_>

I personally think they look great, but apparently I am alone on that one. I don't see any problem with them.