Just came in here to say that I hate the OT title.
And to say I hope you guys are having fun with one of the best jrpgs ever made.
And to say I hope you guys are having fun with one of the best jrpgs ever made.
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Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age [Switch + XB1] |OT| Guess Who's Basch?
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Whats everyones class combo's from a roleplaying perspective? Mine Below:
Vaan: Daggers\Bushi
Basche: Knight\Foebreaker
Fran: Archer\Spears
Balthier: Guns\Time magic
Ashe: Red Battlemage\White Mage
Penelo: Monk\Black Mage
My teams are usually:
Vaan, Balthier, Fran and Basch, Ashe, Penelo.
Vaan: Daggers\Bushi
Basche: Knight\Foebreaker
Fran: Archer\Spears
Balthier: Guns\Time magic
Ashe: Red Battlemage\White Mage
Penelo: Monk\Black Mage
My teams are usually:
Vaan, Balthier, Fran and Basch, Ashe, Penelo.
My Basche jobs are same as yours.
Vaan: Red battlemage/Shikari
Balthier: Time Battle/Machinist
Fran: Uhlan/Monk
Ashe: Whitemage/Time Battle
Might reset Penelo at some point...
Also certain Espers will give new abilities to certain jobs so I gave Mateus to the Knight job and now my Basch can perfom some white mage spells
https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/578...em-and-which-job-license-board-to-use-them-on
Vaan: Red battlemage/Shikari
Balthier: Time Battle/Machinist
Fran: Uhlan/Monk
Ashe: Whitemage/Time Battle
Might reset Penelo at some point...
Also certain Espers will give new abilities to certain jobs so I gave Mateus to the Knight job and now my Basch can perfom some white mage spells
https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/578...em-and-which-job-license-board-to-use-them-on
Now I'm kind of glad Dry came up before I get a chance to go for him. Looking for Mjrn now.
I beat it after two attempts, it's pretty easy once you figure out his weaknesses, and if you have one very useful black magic spell alongside a elemental-boosting staff/rod
The last 30% are hell if you don't know how to counter the hunt.
Espers are also super useful in The Zodiac Age, saved my skin more than once
The game is very much oriented around ailments rather than elements.
I think it's Matsuno's love of MMOs that made it this way.
I very seldom say this about a game but I'm close to the end and happy this game will be over soon. I liked the gambit system, character/class development and the premise of this world with all its cultures, imperialism and high politics - but they made so little of it. I never got invested into the fate of the party you get to play as. The plot is told in a way that I cannot call anything but boring, especially after you reached the capital. The mid-section of the game was a bit better in this regard.
It's still an okayish to decent game but I enjoyed every other mainline Final Fantasy that I played way more.
It's still an okayish to decent game but I enjoyed every other mainline Final Fantasy that I played way more.
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You only need to have one of a type of bullet to keep using it, you get them from hunts or bazaar mostly
It's a nice change of pace to see that bosses can be susceptible to ailments instead of being fully immune to everything except attacking them in other FF
And damn, that Nihopalaoa + Remedy trick on bosses is nuts. Really makes some fights super easy.
Mmmh what's the name, I bought an ammunition and it ended being for the bow...
I just finished Raithwall Tomb and got my 2nd jobs, time for crippling indecision and grinding to start to hinder my progress through the game!
I'm not even close to the end of the game but I've noticed this too. These plot progressions and twists just don't work if you put any thought into it. Early on when Vaan is in the treasure room and he takes the macguffin, Balthier and Fran come in and chase him as if the rock has significant purpose. Later on they think it's cursed and don't want it anymore. They apparently thought it's just treasure. Why not take just about anything else in the treasury because it was literally filled with gold?
A bit later on, you meet the resistance leader who actually works for the Empire to infiltrate their ranks. He then joins your party on the ship to help you escape. He drops his helmet and fights the Empire's soldiers along the way. He then leaves your party to stay in the Empire's army as if nothing happened. Later on he joins you again and literally nobody bats an eye and questions his motives because he's supposed to be loyal or some bullshit. Does the writer think we're stupid?
Makes you think how far modern video game storytelling has come along.
I feel like I'm not doing as much damage as I should be. I'm just barely managing to keep up with all the new Hunts that get posted. The Nidhogg (which is only like Hunt #5) wiped me out like 3 times before I finally managed to take it down. I'm scared to take on the other "special" hunts offered by the hunting clan because I feel like I would go down in no time flat.
Maybe I should've invested more in weapons and armor before spending my Gil on filling up on Gambits? At least I finally got the funds to purchase all of them once I took the Nidhogg down, so now I can focus again on growing my characters.
Maybe I should've invested more in weapons and armor before spending my Gil on filling up on Gambits? At least I finally got the funds to purchase all of them once I took the Nidhogg down, so now I can focus again on growing my characters.
Just got through Mateus. Decided to use every job. In general, I try to pair high MAG with high STR for flexibility, but there aren't enough mage classes to do it fully.
Vaan: Uhlan/Bushi for high STR katana with ranged option
Balthier: Shikari/Foebreaker to break and smash
Fran: White/Machinist. I have no idea what else to put machinist on since guns ignore stats
Basch: Knight/Time. Did this before I noticed their armor overlaps. Rest is good.... variety of tanky/DPS/Support.
Ashe: Monk/Black. HP and kickpunch when nukes don't work.
Penelo: Archer/Red. Just flexible.
Vaan: Uhlan/Bushi for high STR katana with ranged option
Balthier: Shikari/Foebreaker to break and smash
Fran: White/Machinist. I have no idea what else to put machinist on since guns ignore stats
Basch: Knight/Time. Did this before I noticed their armor overlaps. Rest is good.... variety of tanky/DPS/Support.
Ashe: Monk/Black. HP and kickpunch when nukes don't work.
Penelo: Archer/Red. Just flexible.
Just got Ashe in the party. World in general has been kinda meh as I remember it, with a couple pretty similar dungeons to start off with. Everything seems so majestic and fantastic during cutscenes and in-between gameplay, but then you regain control and the world just doesn't seem to compare.
Combat wise after doing some more reading I feel like I'm doing a much better job, although there are still a few really common situations that I feel gambits don't handle real well. Outside of a fight that I later learned I was supposed to just run from I haven't had too many troubles.
Combat wise after doing some more reading I feel like I'm doing a much better job, although there are still a few really common situations that I feel gambits don't handle real well. Outside of a fight that I later learned I was supposed to just run from I haven't had too many troubles.
The nethicite is known to be the most prized royal treasure of Dalmasca. Why would Balthier take some trinket out there when it's the most important thing and he's one the most infamous sky pirate in Ivalice?
Vossler wasn't working for the Empire then, he was the most loyal person to the resistance and carried everything on his shoulders. Marquis Ondore smuggled Vossler aboard the Leviathan in order to save the princess. I think you forgot some things because he didn't say in the army, Larsa told him to follow him and then you see him at the airport again.
Optional stuff like hunts and Espers can be quite challenging in this game, especially if you try and fight them as soon as they become available.
Like some others have said, buffs and status effects are big things in this game. For example, you can Blind the Nidhogg to make it a lot easier. Especially early on, spells like Blind and Slow are staples.
The problem is Balthier doesn't seem to know it's nethicite or what nethicite is capable of. I can't fully grasp his motivations. He asks Ashe's ring as collateral for putting his and Fran's life in danger for potentially future upsides. Either he's the most brilliant or charitable pirate. Either way, leaving the nethicite there to be stowed away raises questions in itself.
Vossler is just a clumsily written plot device that you could see a mile away.
just got out of there; shit.
Now I wonder what else I've missed, I'm not the best explorer :/
Balthier knows and there are hints strew throughout. I don't think you are far enough in the story to make sense of it
You're speaking of issues with regard to what motivates characters for their actions in the game. And I fully agree, a lot of it is questionable. To add onto this: Why do Vaan and Penelo even stick with everybody? Their sole reasons for joining are being dealt away with soon enough. The answer is: You will never find out why they did, sorry to spoil you in this regard ;) There are tons of issues like that. The mid-section does get a bit better, but even then most things remain very flat. I also think the audio plays its part. It's been praised on here and I do acknowledge the fine details of different accents, but why does everyone sound like their recording was taken inside an indoor swimming arena? Compressed audio file suck and for me further weaken the connection between characters and story.
It's just all so bland and boring rather than gripping. I very recently played FF VII, IX, X, XIII-2 and XV and they were all better in this regard (for all other issues they might have had). Or take Xenoblade 1 as the best example of similair games, even with the technical limitations and boring side quests of the Wii you DID care because cutscenes were done really well and you felt with Rex (btw, there will be less and less cutscenes when you move on, not helping the cause of the game...). But fully feeling with Ashe as to what she is doing? Hardly possible because it just, again, stays too bland.
As someone who has studied International Relations like me I also wished that imperial oppression, carrot and sticks tactics, policies and stuff were transported better.
The game's best part where things do click is in Bur-Omisace, when the nethizit with its religious elements and the human will for controlling or even creating nethizite are being introduced, as well as what massacre the empire is ready to do to uphold avantage and stay in power. But there are so many other scenes where the potential is never fully realized
There are a lot of pacing issues, too - but let's not get into that. The game has other strengths so I hope you will still enjoy the ride. I certainly did but will always be disappointed for what this game could have been.
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I really don't see what's so weird about a resistance leader keeping his cover as an imperial soldier after securing the princess, it makes way more sense that letting go of the special privilege and tactical advantages that grants him. Balthier always stroke me as knowing exactly what he was trying to steal as well, hmm.
Oh jeez, thanks for this. I've been relying on dispel motes instead and I just finished th
I wish I could replay this game. I looooooved the hell out of it last summer on PS4. Zodiac Age is such a fantastic upgrade over vanilla FFXII.
Is it weird that I'm having trouble at the escape section of the Dreadnaught Leviathan? I have breezed through the game up til now without dying much but suddenly I'm getting crushed. I'm thinking about loading a save from about an hour earlier and doing some hunts/grinding to level up and maybe investing in some better armor, because no matter what gambits I've used I seem to get put down really easily and just am not doing much damage.
It seems like the general consensus is this game is super easy and I kinda felt that way for the first 8 hrs but suddenly I'm having issues. This is also really the first jrpg I've spent time playing.
It seems like the general consensus is this game is super easy and I kinda felt that way for the first 8 hrs but suddenly I'm having issues. This is also really the first jrpg I've spent time playing.
i'm about to set off for Raithwall's Tomb and Fran is over here, lvl 24, sitting on 5014lp...
i don't know why i grind like I do but i did and now we are death
speaking of... changing license boards, for the first time, when you've got like 3 characters who have 900lp each:
"this is fucking dope"
Changing license boards, when you've got the entire party, and you grinded Trials for like 20 minutes so everyone's got 4000lp to spend:
"NO OH SHIT NO CAN I GO BACK... well here's to spending the next hour slotting boards" *drinks*
i don't know why i grind like I do but i did and now we are death
speaking of... changing license boards, for the first time, when you've got like 3 characters who have 900lp each:
"this is fucking dope"
Changing license boards, when you've got the entire party, and you grinded Trials for like 20 minutes so everyone's got 4000lp to spend:
"NO OH SHIT NO CAN I GO BACK... well here's to spending the next hour slotting boards" *drinks*
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IIRC it's not worth beating it on the first try anymore, in the OG version you could get a super powerful (for the time) sword but now you don't.
Just come back later and destroy it.
Thanks!! Feels good to dodge the first and defeat the second Demon Wall before breakfast this morning.
I'm a big fan of all the UX improvements in this release. I want 2x in every RPG.
It really is a feature I want in more re-releases/other JRPG. I love kicking back for cut scenes knowing I just got through a dungeon ect in 2~4x time. Especially on a second play through oooboy.
Are you using Mist attacks? This one is the first "road block" so to speak in terms of the hunts if I remember. I did it once it was available and it took many tries of misting it and going all in on attacks. Also using an odd setup for my character classes so far but its doable. Some of the bigger hunts are a challenge on purpose though since you can go back to them at almost any time.
Some of the hunts are ridiculous. I still haven't beaten the chicken with its nuggets.
Make sure you're doing mist combos by pressing X/Y/B during the mist animation. This mechanic is really clumsy imo but it's critical to doing big damage, as you get bonus attacks for long chains.