Final Fantasy Hacktics

Congradulations Andante! And great job to Shintroy for making it to the finals. As someone who got totally thrashed by Andante's team, I can say that you definitely put up way more of a fight than I did.

I think if talk skill had hit a little more often and if Shintroy's team didn't get so split up like it did in some rounds, he could have put on a better offense. The monk dying so fast in each round didn't help things either. But that was a good finale for both teams I'd say.

I'm surprised I sweeped this one! GG.

It was very brutal for those cursed ring units out there. Once they were dead, it didn't seem like the archer and chemist could self-sustain for very long.

Yeah, I suppose I could have given my ninja some extra status curing items, but it was sort of a last minute addition and I didn't know how it was going to affect his AI. And I truly thought stigma magic would be enough when designing my team, but now I know better.

My team did well staying alive in the first round, but the combination of speed and raise 2 sandbagging eventually wore them down. I probably wouldn't have won even if that last tornado had gone off.

Round 2 was more brutal. It was it a smaller map and thus silentkaster's team got to mine before I could blink. My team just doesn't hold up against a team that can outpace my tornadoes and high level cure spells.

PS: It looks like the RNG curse has been passed on...

Also, who is this "he" you speak of?  ;)

That's a pretty well designed team there, Heroebal. Those thieves were pretty dang resilient. My team could have attacked a lone thief at multiple points in that first round and won if it weren't for Lisa spamming petrify. The AI thought they had won but it kept missing. Also, my team was frantically trying to sandbag, but those thieves were just so fast. Looked pretty promising at the beginning though, we just couldn't finish the job.

I don't really know what to say about the second round because it was a complete slaughter of both sides. Missing that sleep was kind of a bummer, but at that point I was done anyway.

GG.

From the things I've seen of arena, defend (the support) and caution aren't really used that often anyway. So if we're thinking about scrapping the evasion+ from defend, maybe we should change it so that the units don't use their defending sprite. That way it can be a "hidden status" of sorts. Nurse could still be used as a way to add regen and get some healing in but will no longer actually show them defending, and we could replace caution and defend (support) with far more useful options.

I'm all for this. Cure spells sacrificing an instant cast for a buff is a good idea, but is it enough of a trade-off?

I like this idea. Nerfing tornado/quake to MA*7 is a good plan, and I can see many possible builds with clairvoyance. The only problem I can see with this is that other mage classes might not see much use as a result.

Gastrifitis:
This weapon needs that WP nerf, maybe just down to 14 WP or so. It will still be a viable weapon for warpath/PA*WP scaling strats but will give more spotlight to lower WP ranged weapons.

Stone Gun:
Bringing the Stone Gun up to 5 or maybe even 6 range would help give it an edge over spell guns and crossbows, even if it will still have initial: petrify. Perhaps we could even change the stone gun to something else or remove the initial: petrify. I don't think we should raise the WP of it though, because WP*WP can really add up.

Demi Gun:
This sounds really cool. I am in full support of the idea. My question is, will it be a 100% demi or will it be percentage based like the spell?

Stop definitely needs to get an accuracy reduction or something.
What about adding a robe that gives +PA as well as MP? This could help with hybrid units like male samurai or paladins who have almost no MP and want a PA buff.

Wow, that was a slaughter. I knew I shouldn't have discarded esuna on my preist like that. Oh well, there's still the loser's bracket. GG.

On a side note, I probably should have optimized my faith values so that raise doesn't miss every single battle...that's frustrating. Probably should have made the priest good compat with the monk and ninja as well.

Oh my god that was epic. I actually won? Rouroni really had me going there for a second during round two. My priest was tankier than I thought with all that counter magic action. I don't think I would have done it without counter magic, but it was ironically a last minute addition to my team setup. And like Barren commentated, I don't think I can stand up against massive status effects. It's funny, because while making my team and finding out my priest was 200 JP over the cap, I said "let's just throw away esuna, it'll be okay".

Congratulations, Corosar! That was pretty interesting. Skiploom188, you should cheer up a little. I know it's a little disappointing, but if you're truly invested I'm sure you can get better at it.

Round 1: It took a couple turns for the teams to engage each other so those ranged attacks might have helped quite a bit. That petrify on Skiploom188's samurai and the bard dying really set them back, and afterwards they just didn't have the sandbagging to bring themselves back to full power.

Round 2: It was funny to see the Samurai supposedly fly through the wall only to get killed by a fire spell later. Are units actually supposed to be able to go back there?

It seems like Anima Zero's team was being overwhelmed by statuses. The monk dying didn't help things, and although the chemist is evasive and can heal status as well, she could only heal one at a time. At any rate, good job Zotis and best of luck to Anima Zero in the loser's bracket.

That was epic. A very long and arduous match, impressive. Shintroy, I love how your time mage got stopped by your own mime. Also, I noticed that that undead monk kept dying a lot. Schrodinger's Monk, much?

Faith Rod and petrify is a decent combo. I like how the second round ended with the mediator running around, holding her own for a while until everyone was petrified. That mediator was pretty resilient.

Also, good job on your team, Rouroni! The mimicked Bahamuts really caused some damage. I hope my team can stand up to that, but it was so epic that I wouldn't really care if I lost.