Final Fantasy Hacktics

I'm not the guy who pulls out a spreadsheet to ensure the math is sound (that's for the intelligent people like wkw and gaigun to do) I just spitball ideas with balance in mind, even if it nerfs some of my favourite stuff. I firmly believe haste and regen should remain seperate. I think thieves should have to make great sacrifices to achieve 200 damage, and if mp switch is anything like it was before, it has no place here. I watched some stuff in the earlier seasons where the mp would not carry over to hp when surpassed. If this can be addressed, then sure, I can consider it, but if that's not possible, it can get messy. That's just my two cents.

I pretty much agree with everything else (go easy on the pole arms though, they're mostly great weapons even if underused) monsters have been a topic of much debate in the past and I agree we should try to hash that out before attempting to add new classes. My proposal for them are to have pre-designed monster units that vary with palettes based on popular team designs. For example: Red bomb is fire element, absorbs fire, has a fire spell and can self destruct dealing fire damage and oil. Grenade (blue) can be the ice version that procs slow upon detonation, and even a green one (Ivy shell?) That is earth but heals upon detonation and offers positive buffs (if we can get ai to sacrifice itself like that, again I'm just the idea man, I'll let the smart people determine if something like that can work). We can do this for chocobo, skeletons, behemoths etc. As far as equip is concerned, I think they should have equip accessory only with a list of accessories specially designed for monsters. I would love to see monsters have their own JP skill sets, but that seems absolutely daunting to program, so this is my proposal. Of course having their own JP skill sets to choose from would be ideal, but I'd just be happy to see monsters functioning at all.

Though I've been around for a while, my input isn't much better than what a new player can offer so please take what I say with a grain of salt. I feel that the game has been well refined at this point and doesn't need drastic changes all over the place, but a few things must happen for sure. Losing speed stacking is definitely one most of us seem to agree on and may be just what the game needs to do things such as keep thieves in check.

Oh, I'm curious: what do ya'll think we should do about monsters? Would you feel okay with pre-designed monsters to fill offence/tank/support roles (much like vanilla)? If not, how do think we should go about that?

Gawd too many ideas! Before we even think of changing things like samurai which is actually totally fine and doesn't really need any buffs we gotta make sure the big things get fixed, such as scholar as a whole.

What i don't understand is why masamune (ability) still gives regen. By removing regen from masamune you would buff both poison AND every other ability that uses regen. still range one target self, and people will still use the crap out of it. The whole reason regen has problems at all is because of how easy it is to abuse masamune, and how many times better masamune is to pretty much everything else in the game. Conversely, squire should pick up poison. First off, it'll actually get used, and secondly, it will help fortify squire as a potential caster. Ultima isn't bad but i really wish it was ct4.

while we're on samurai, all they need is a selection of katana that people will want to use. that's it. Start giving them bows and spears and then they'll pretty much be able to do everything with little to no drawback. Kind of not cool as they're supposed to be compared to paladins who appear to get left in the dust with every new idea. I know i was one of the first to agree on the bow/spear thing, but after much thought, i realized my second favourite caster class is samurai, and they're not even caster types. We don't need them proficient as a speed character as well.

I'm cool with netherseer as a class, not too happy with losing dancers though. It's a tough call between the dancer skillset being nearly useless, but the class itself totally rocking. If we lose permanent speed stacking, maybe we can ease up on the dancer's hit %. Would be cool if there was an oil spell on a class somewhere. Thief needs a PA nerf. Like, a big PA nerf. If masamune loses regen, maybe lancer can pick up "Rei's Wind" which would look like a grand cross that grants regen. We can keep the 3 highest level jumps and like 2 vertical jump slots and have a few support abilities akin to squire stuff. Zombie/berserk/oil/stop and maybe charm need another skill to cure them. They just dominate games and can be very difficult to counter. especially stop, nerf the stop spell PLEASE! waaaay too potent for how easily 100% can be achieved. i can't even get those odds with don't act. I suggest we make a shield to prevent one of each of these statii as most armor doesn't even protect against them and cloth units should have a choice of at least one defense (aside from accessories which may offer ma/pa benefits you may not even want)

i don't think increasing summoner MP will make a huge difference unless we develop spells with such ridiculous MP costs that only a summoner would be able to comfortably cast them. If not, you could give them 999 mp and they'll still collect dust. Oh, and no mp switch. we can't get that to function properly without move mp up abuse.

Thanks, Shintroy. She's totally perfect and healthy.

Woooah I got a match! Thanks, barren! Been crazy all weekend and my sister just had a baby this morning, so I'll have to get around to everybody's matches, but I'll see em' soon enough.

Quote from: Andrew on October 07, 2015, 07:03:40 pm
Thanks for the compliment, Rouroni, and it's nice that you've got all caught-up with the videos.  The Raven King's mime looks like she can do some pretty effective mimicking... lots and lots of Chakra action, and those dances would be a pain to deal with!

We'll have to see. They're supposed to feel like the first fight against Elmdor, so I added last dance and a mime to better emulate stop bracelet. Probably the final edit, elmdor has his own kind of "blood suck" and works surprisingly well. Some time later I noticed it looks a bit like delay buster (huge fan BTW, ct5holy) almost too similar.. accidental, I swear, but it's not a common strategy so I feel okay about it. Thanks for taking the time to look at my team, Andrew. You must have been watching for a while before making teams, you're doing really well.











Great to see so much yin yang magic being thrown around, better yet to see how well it's being used. My respect to those who've used yin Yang in the past couple weeks.

My internet connection has been abysmal at best lately, so it's been a pain to watch everything, but I watched everything dammit! Welcome, Andrew, your teams have been a blast to watch and great job on the teams lately, DW! Sweet commentary from barren and ct5holy, also great music selection, TL. Have a few new team ideas, but for now "the raven king" has been untested since the mime change if someone wants to give that a go. 

In 1.38 I had a team called "order of steel basilisk" which revolved around a male samurai with (the previous) muramasa inflicting faith and a female samurai with black magic inflicting oil with the fire spell. I once saw a 956 damage ice spell on a faith up, oiled unit. Haven't been able to get the same results in this patch, especially because of the muramasa and oil change, so I begrudgingly scrapped it.

Basically, if you can get oil and faith up on units to follow up with a near max damage spell, I would consider it a success. Bonus points if your caster has faith up as well. I don't really intend to try again, but I might if no one else does. I reccomend using mediator's preach, archer's hawks eye and a fire/thunder black magic user.

@barren: hey, if you think you can pull it off, it's all yours. Oil no longer deals double damage, so you'll need bolt 2 to stand a chance at 999. Will be hard to keep an 18ma wizard with faith alive, but two speedy units could both inflict faith/oil and act as a distraction. Definitely all-in potential but the execution must be perfect. Safer to have a good sandbag plan along with it.

Happy (belated) birthday skip!

No wonder it's taking longer than usual, the quality looks better than ever! I don't know what you're hiding but I can tell you're going all out. Can't wait to see it!

Thanks for running matches, guys! "Ban Hammer" is an all-in team so I'll either stomp or fold quick. I didn't even want to give the scholars raise and fairy! Need those things though, can save them one day. Any combination of auto potion, HP restore, shell, magic defense up and 40 faith will do em' in quick, but if you forget to bring that to the party.. one, maybe two turns max. Don't see nealy enough games against TL, I just like to watch his teams go. Always exciting

Edit: oh almost forgot, always been against speed altering abilities. You can even benefit from slower teams if there was a speed cap. So many minor improvements come out of this.

That was an awesome tournament! Everybody who recorded matches did a great job, and congratulations gate buster! My internet has been garbage lately so it's been taking me forever to watch everything, and therefore respond.

Really interesting to see the two teams that beat me duke it out, what ultimately cost reks the victory was the investment into anti magic stuff. Got him this far, but speed and physical damage won the day. DW, mudvayne, fattyzilla.. you all did fantastic and have proven you are forces to be reckoned with.

I'm happy with my run, oracles are sitting generally where they belong, but there's an issue: I already have an oracle team, so these lovely ladies need a good home! At the cost of synergy, I went with 4 very different oracle builds all of which would make an excellent addition to any team. I firmly believe there is at least one status to compliment every team composition (which is why I feel "status based team" seems a funny thing to say) and with a tweak here and there, any one of these oracles will get that job done.

As you can see, they are quite happy together, but they'll be much happier on a team with more variety.

Wow that adapter is all spiky with AV jacks. There's gotta be like 100 controllers hiding somewhere.. definitely a bit jealous :3

You have done the oracles proud, Krypt. Excellent first run! The odds are stacked against us, but if you lend me your lovely lady luck we may have a chance.

Well skip, looks like the party's over. You did great this time around, you should be proud. Was a blast to see your team in action!

Good luck everyone, may the best (wo)man win!

Don't get discouraged, skip! I always check in here to see if anything is going on,  I can help write scripts and proof read some stuff for you if you'd like. Being as inspired/excited as you were during the first tournament is tough, so don't force it. I can always read over stuff or pitch ideas if you feel you've hit a block or just want feedback on something.

@skiploom: Hey don't tease me like that! You know I'm a fan. Great job this tournament, really kicking some ass this year.

@gatebuster: I'm gonna die long before you get a chance to kill me, so best of luck in the winners bracket!

Hmm... you using Microsoft excel? nothing else will do except fftastic which allows you to modify mem cards. There may be a free trial of excel floating around somewhere, hope it helps!

Great job on everything Barren, CT5holy, corosar and andante, you guys got this all down to a science. Thanks to you too, gaigun, your stats were very thurough and neat. Feel a bit overwhelmed by all the videos and balance discussion stuff going on, so I'll keep it brief. Will say "I have never seen someone get 6 predictions wrong in a row" but hey, statistics!

Hey, can I have my palettes swapped to red/yellow? Not a big deal, just want them to be pretty 

Good luck to you all, and can't wait to see our opener, redworld! I'm actually a bit scared.

as for the team/band name, I suggest "Dethfrog"

Edit: Oh, cool! Wow holy crap you guys just banged out everything, huh? That's awesome, can't complain. Haven't seen some action in a while :p

Quote from: CT5Holy on August 08, 2015, 06:14:02 pm
Desktop is good to go! I can definitely help host

Quote from: Barren on August 08, 2015, 06:30:51 pm
Sweet! That is awesome news! Would like to help me with the winner's bracket just like old times?