Posted: 20th July 2007 00:34
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I just had the most nail-biting FF boss fight in my entire final fantasy Career...
as the topic says, i fought Neo shinryuu for bloody 37 minutes, with my characters being VERY weak compared to what you're supposed to be at for that fight. (Almagaest could wipe my party out entirely, needless to say i had to retry a couple of times before i had an Almagaest-free fight.) With each character having approximately 2000 hp, i had to use Coral rings and ice shields to survive his Ice breath and Tidal wave abilities, i also used Golem and blink to nullify his melee attacks, though i screwed up a few times, resulting in deaths and time spent reviving / rebuffing / restoring... Lenna was dualcasting white magic, Bartz had blue magic (mighty guard) and rapidfire, and ended up being the only attacker capable of seriously hurting Neo Shinryuu, with 2000 damage for each connected hit, i did lots of misses though. Krile was the most useless character, giving no real benefits to the party but hastega and 2 lucky crits for 2000 each (and a little regen, which sucks in this fight). Faris, as earlier explained had summon for golem, and jump, as i had this idea that this would somehow inflict some wicked damage to NS, i was wrong though. The reason my characters are using the abilities they are using are simply that they each have like 5 jobs mastered, and some of those jobs include combat-useless jobs such as Geomancer and Chemist (chemist is useless for me atleast since i know of no !mix that can be used against shinryuu). I could have mastered many more jobs, but the fight wouldn't have been near as exciting ![]() Neo Shinryuu Fight. This post has been edited by Ganolink on 20th July 2007 20:16 -------------------- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Broccoli to die. |
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Posted: 20th July 2007 05:48
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Almagest sucks.
I have a hunch that the damage for Neo Shinryu's Almagest is determined somewhat by the characters' levels, because one time I fought him I was pumping up Butz's levels with Dragon Powers and it did around 7000 damage to him. I also suspect that he might only start using it as a counterattack to spells, although I have no way to confirm this. I wish there was more AI documentation on the web for these new bosses... All I can say is that it is highly recommended to equip armor on your characters to nullify his attacks. Ice Shields and Coral Rings are a must for Tidal Wave and Ice Breath, but other useful things are Bone Mails for the zombie status, and to absorb Poison Breath. If you don't have Bone Mails for everyone, at least give the one to your main attacker. You can steal them from Necromancers, I believe. Also of note are the two Mixes, Dragon Power (Potion + Dragon's Fang) and Dragon's Kiss (Maiden's Kiss + Dragon's Fang). Dragon Power raises the target's level by 20, which is very useful if you haven't overleveled your characters, and since Rapid Fire may hit his two invisible targets. It also helps if you equip your attacking character with Dragon Lances (steal from Crystal Dragons) or Dragon's Whiskers (dropped by Stingrays). Since I'm lazy about item drops I only stole one lance and got lucky with a whisker and the damage was still satisfactory. Dragon's Kiss turns the target into a dragon so that they are immune to the things dragons are immune to (such as Maelstrom, so he can't do his cheap Maelstrom-> Zombie Breath combo). Here's my version of the fight which basically condenses my wall of text into one visible explanation. -------------------- |
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Posted: 20th July 2007 10:14
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Your version of the fight looks alot like mine, although you hit 2,5 times harder with double as many hits on Bartz with your dragon lances, i noticed that he could survive ice breath even without an Ice shield, which didn't seem to be the case when i fought him. Besides that, wouldn't bonemail sort of gimp your ability to heal? or doesn't it reverse the effects of white wind ;o - as for my movie! filefront has no avaliable upload servers at the moment.
And to make this a more discussable topic, it could be a mix between ''very long tedious bossfights'' and ''my experiences with Neo Shinryuu''. Post on! edit: also Zeromus_X, he didn't seem to use Doom on you at all... while i fought him, he kept targetting Bartz after Rapid Fire. ![]() This post has been edited by Ganolink on 20th July 2007 10:20 -------------------- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Broccoli to die. |
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