Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[stokeriño]

The armours I've sorted out thus far generally have that kind of thing, yeah.

Yuna: Ribbon, Auto-Haste, Auto-Phoenix, Auto-Protect
Tidus: Break HP Limit, Auto-Haste, Auto-Phoenix, Auto-Protect
Wakka: (Ribbon), Auto-Haste, Auto-Protect, Auto-Potion
Rikku: Break HP Limit, Auto-Haste, Auto-Protect, Auto-Regen

Auto-Haste is pretty much the automatic must-have. Otherwise it's a bit of pick-n-mix.

I figure that even if BHPL isn't perfect, having Tidus around with 3 or 4 times the HP of everyone else and with Auto-Phoenix on his armour might be a nice fail-safe at some point.

[stokeriño]

Dark Bahamut is toast!

[Benji]

What luck did you wind up having? Stat wise I mean.

[stokeriño]

Well the grid has enough to max all stats (except HP) but Yuna's the only one who's activated it all at this stage. So she had 255, Tidus had something like 90 and Wakka whatever he had originally (so probably about 20).

[Benji]

You actually bothered to max luck? How are you not dead from boredom?

[stokeriño]

Probably because I am already zombified from boredom thanks to my WWE 2K16 exploits. YOU CANNOT KILL WHAT IS ALREADY DEAD.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Only Dark Aeon I've actually killed so far is Valefor (who I'm guessing is the easiest) and even then I had to use Zanmato with Yojimbo because he killed the other two people I had out instantly 

Also that Ribbon stuff sounds dope, I need to start working on customising some better armor.

[probablyoliver]

All this talk is making me want to go for the FFX platinum. I hate you all.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Join us...

[Benji]

Come play with us Ollie. Forever and ever and ever (because that's how long this platinum takes).

[stokeriño]

And then when it's done, there's always the X-2 platinum.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Seriously though, what's the best way of organising the sphere grid? I'm thinking of just teleporting everyone to a corner and just working around, or is that stupid?

[stokeriño]

Probably the way that involves least amount of thinking/planning (so NOT what I did in my screenshot of madness a page or two back ) is to just start overwriting everything in blocks, yeah. This isn't the most efficient in that it effectively requires your characters to go round it all a second time to activate the new spheres...but it may help keep you sane...

I will say that it will save you some hassle if you select your 'A-Team' (3 characters) to keep leveled up and do all these grid shenanigans with, and just leave the rest of the characters to rot until the grid is the way you like it. After that, it will be much easier to blitz the other characters round the completed grid rather than try and keep everybody up to speed throughout.

FYI: if you want to max a stat then you require 63 lots of +4 spheres to reach the ceiling of 255. The exceptions are Luck (requires 'only' 60 because everyone has some base Luck stats), MP (requires 25 lots of +40 to reach 999 MP), and HP (requires too many +300 to reach 99,999).

[Benji]

63? That doesn't seem at all right. That makes 252 and the default spheres alone make up around 160-180ish.

[stokeriño]

If you leave the default spheres in then it's impossible to max more than a few of the stats, so overwriting some/all of them is implied.

I assume there must be some base stats for the characters as well that tip the total up from 252, but 63 is the figure that I've seen used online and it's certainly got me 255 when I did it.

[Benji]

Exact numbers needed:

Standard grid
20 strength spheres
25 defense spheres
27 magic spheres
32 magic defense spheres
32 evasion spheres
20 agility spheres
46 accuracy spheres

Expert grid
23 strength spheres
30 defense spheres
27 magic spheres
34 magic defense spheres
35 evasion spheres
35 agility spheres
47 accuracy spheres

Luck is down to what you do yourself, but generally everything is do-able with around 85 (plus five uses of "Aim") IIRC, so around 20, but I'd probably suggest getting more.

On standard you shouldn't need a single clear sphere and will have one spare slot left over for HP/MP/whatever (not entirely sure that's true, this is going off what I've read).

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

You guys are throwing way too much math at this, I was just gonna make it up as I went along 

[Benji]

Pretty much what I'm doing to be honest, I just knew what Stok posted was wrong

[Schlitzbrille]

3 hours ago, WHTGLT said:

All this talk is making me want to go for the FFX platinum. I hate you all.

No you love us for it

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

To be fair @WHTGLT you're closer to the Platinum than I am so you might as well...