Final Fantasy Hacktics

those matches certainly dragged on and on, not sure why my paladin wasn't using accumulate instead of yell. well anyways, I think some tweaking to my team will make it better somehow. GG Dol

The Time magic setup you found had was very similar to an experiment I ran while working on my archer team, Immortal Haste/slow crowd control with Demi self healing,  I tried for Balance nuking after revival instead of sinkhole counterspelling since i was running phoenix blade, and Your use of MP absorb ended up working much better than my use of Move MP up. On the whole you took the experiment two steps farther than I did and wound up with some really awesome units.

>Thief has 13 SPD
>Monk has no headgear

Yup, I was half asleep.  'Scuse me a moment.

I find it amusing how despite Raven being "tired" and noticing the lack of headgear on his Monk that this still managed to be the closest match of the four. I figured something was up with Raven's Monk not having that after Raven had extoled the virtue of the 80 HP/80 MP headgear.

I also find it funny that Raise 2 barely made a difference in this match despite the two constantly Undead units.

The problems that still exist in Ahong's team aside, I actually still expected this to be a lot closer due how horrifically strong that Dancer was. Therefore, it's no surprise that this was utterly one-sided with the Geomancer being able to kill her off the bat both teams via Flare and then Ahong's team falling back into ineffectual sandbag mode pretty much automatically.

I mean, this entire match was basically a 3v3 because the Dancer was dead more often than not and Otabo's Samurai--I must admit I chuckled at her name being "Silver"--literally did nothing but Masamune (because we totally don't see enough of that skill).

So, the only real noteworthy thing was, as I said on Youtube, that was nice to see someone finally use Wall again, especially with the Reraise being used more & more and costing less than it and being instant and not being subject to Silence.

As I also said on Youtube, I figured I was screwed between just seeing the time and formerdeathcorp's teams set-up, particularly those stupid Bards with Overwhelm. It's pretty difficult to fight against instant healing of 800 HP even before Bloody Strings reminds you how overpowered it still is. This is to say nothing of double Masamune and Botan, like her namesake, deciding to act like a complete idiot and step forward into the limelight where Dance wasn't involved when she should have stayed back. Continuing to have Dragon Spirit & Kagesougi rarely proc for me compared to everyone else also didn't help, though at least Shion & Magaki were competent this time around as opposed to their "Pink Concerto" selves.

Sigh. Oh well. At least it confirmed that Southern Cross was a mistake as I suspected it would be, so I can fix Mukai easily. Botan on that other hand.... I might have to give her Teleport and change her primary completely.

That said, as much as I'm dismayed about getting (constantly) curbstomped, I'm glad that most of mine tend to be brutally quick rather than...drawn out like this was. I honestly expected Dol's team to do a bit better despite being disadvantaged from the get-go even before Masamune and Kiyomori figuring into the picture since DomieV's team was faster and less squishy and only the Samurai had AoE.

The Samurai getting that much MA in the second round and then getting put down without being able to do anything was kind of cruel...but fuck Murasame anyway.

Speaking of the second round, yeah, it's been quite a while since either Desert map was used. I find it ironic that the first time one gets used in months, none of the units have Geomancy/Elemental or even just Counter Flood.

Not much else to say besides that other than Dol had a lot of Flare procs go off. I wonder if the proc rate for the book is what it's supposed to or if Dol just got rather lucky (to no avail).

Geomancer is pretty useless with the exception of the occasional decap proc. Priest continues to die while Chemist is stuck sandbagging. That leaves the Ninja to do all the work. It looks like its time to improve this team's DPS. GG Raven.

I'm surprised my team lasted as long as it did but yea Death Sentence really did me in. GG Otabo, very good team

Simply put, The Damned got out-Lored. Without Earth Dragon, he lost his main source of healing and his whole strategy fell apart in short order.

Even I have to admit, that book using Monk worked out a lot better than I thought it would. I still it's because Quickening carried Sonic through. I think it would be much unit if it was using a more conventional build, i.e. Martial Arts instead of Book.

I was really nervous about how the team would perform once I saw the tiny map.  Unfortunately for T.D. Lore absorb spam is almost a direct counter to dance spam.  It was almost like a rock/paper/scissors match.  I was scissors and T.D.'s team was paper.  There just wasn't much he could do.

GG TD

Round 1
The small map and the draw outs were crazy.  So much damage getting thrown around.

Round 2
I think the deciding factor came in two parts in the same turn.  When the priest survived the ninjitsu I though he was going to use HP Restore, but it was MP restore instead.  Then while Phoebe the scholar was charging Shadow Shade, sonic the monk missed his charm.  He got a "Quick" to take effect and then he missed the charm again.  Fate sealed.

Round 3
That Priest was having some unfortunate luck.  But in the long run multiple quickenings from the monk may have done it.  It's tough to say because multiple speed gains don't have an obvious or immediate effect.  But for a theme deck like Barren's he put up an excellent fight considering that his book using monk was not an optimum build.

Because I have a dirty mind, Otabo saying "Oracle is going to poke the priest" seemed hilarious.  But Ahong's archer was doing a ton of damage as Otabo predicted.  Even though Dol's Paladins were quite tanky, they couldn't withstand the onslaught.

Round 2
The blind contributed to the Archer missing.  Unfortunately when he did hit he hit really hard.  When the Dol's Chemist went down he didn't have any other way to reliably resurrect.  Speaking of reliable, that Oracle had plenty of time to cast Fairy on the Chemist but didn't.  The 4v3 disadvantage wasn't helping things.

Well as you said, i use summon magic, but forgot to change the faith. And, my dancer down very fast, out from my predict (when i still test it). Anyways, GG Otabo

Ouch, from Dol's paladin, Counter from Dol's Paladin that made my paladin knocked out. Made me got scared that i think my team lost in 2nd round. And, your Zombie skill from Oracle made my archer's re-action hurt itself. Uhh, GG Dol

As I said on Youtube, this was less a match and more a molestation. Reinoe's Lore-spam, which is already trouble because Lore can't be dodged and all his units heal each other with every action, is literally the worst team currently that this team can fight. So it was as much a foregone conclusion as my "Give Some Space, Roxas!" team fighting the Gun Neutralizer team...in an area that screwed over my Berserk gunner even harder.

I guess it's a good thing that it was quick, but it's still kind of...annoying, especially since I can't really do anything to improve that team aside from overhauling their absorb completely or taking out Projectile Guard for Auto Potion. (And then getting brutally murdered by spellgun team.) I guess I could also take Equip Shield to deal with the obnoxiousness of Mace of Zeus, but I'd probably end up getting screwed over by the lack of Defend UP just because I stopped using that, especially since Performing & Charging seem to obviate M-EV (now?) as well. Of course, even if ended up using Equip Shield, then I'd probably get murdered by Rime Bolt--I remember when that was the most used Lore, once upon a time--or Shadow Shade.

What gets me the most, though, is that somehow, my "luck" with the AI being an idiot extended to the Mime, who didn't even bother trying to punch the Geomancer when he could. Good times when the AI only has two choices, to punch or not to punch, and chooses invariably to do the latter.

Nice to see this team of Barren's finally fight. I don't think I've seen it fight before, so I'm not sure if it's really fought at all, much like his Book team which I think has only fought once. It's also nice to see someone besides me use the N-Kai Armlet.

Also nice to be reminded of the Saturday Morning Sonic cartoon. I seriously started humming "The Fastest Thing Alive" after Sonic got hit with multiple Quicks.

That said, you should feel deep, deep shame for naming one of those characters "Silver", Otabo. There are just some things you don't reference, especially when "Shadow" was still available as a name.

Still, nice to see someone be more successful than me--not like that's difficult--with the whole Equip Magegear Monk thing. You even used Necromonicon AND got it to inflict Undead finally after so many battles where it just wouldn't, so it's nice to know that actually works on some level.

I'm surprised that Battle Axe's overpowered proc only went off once here. I wonder if it going off more would have really changed things, though, considering how much that Archer does and the Paladins not really dodging that many Summons. Then again, Ahong's Paladin with Chaos Blade hurt a lot and the Chemist was shooting Dol's Paladns for absolutely pathetic damage....

Me versus Jumza: Well met, Jumza. You out blitzed my blitz team. One hell of an interesting set of matches they were. But like everyone else was saying, mono elemental teams, especially Earth, have a way of biting back.

Damned verses Jumza: A dance and sing team gets swept. Eh.

FDC verses Jumza: Jumza would have won just as easily had that Paladin not have been running Small Mantle.

Wow, I did so much better than I expected.
Match One: Two hands+Air knives scared me. A lot. The instant slaughter of these 2 teams was really interesting to watch, but I was definitely in a better position in round 3.

Match 2: Dancer, Bard, Mime combo made me think I was gonna win a lot faster than I did. That bard constantly healing himself causing the mime to heal himself was really annoying.

Match 3: I was not expecting to win that last one, with earth not being able to hit either knight, but as soon as the AI on my team started focusing the chemist and oracle it was all over. Also if silence song had hit more than I probably would have lost.

GG all! I'm glad that despite my teams obvious weaknesses due to being mono elemental I did so well. (especially with my first team!)