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[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Lezard For Really Real: .....................

There has to be some faster way to break this damn crystal. Psychosoma + Observation + Fists of Iron + Mental Boost does not werk evidently.

Thwack Lezard until he loses focus, then smack the crystal.

[Bardiche]

-THAT's- how you do it?

Bloody hell. I was already getting annoyed at lol300dmgperhit for so long.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

That the biggest threat in such a gimmick battle is the player getting annoyed when he doesn't figure the trick out is a testament to how much Lezard sucks anyway.

[Yoshiken]

...Are you kidding me? I went through that whole fight without attacking Lezard once. I just dodged the entire time and attacked the crystal when I could.

[Bardiche]

Well, Alicia had 14k HP and Gungnir did around 1k, so the biggest threat to me was getting Frozen/Stone or whatever the hell Lezard can do that'll shut down my party. I had replaced Arngrim by Xehnon just in case of such shenanigans, but as it turned out Alicia broke the Stone before he cast any FURIGIDU DAMUSURU spells.

But man, lame, I never knew you could haxmoed Lezard that way.

[Yoshiken]

See, when I did that, Alicia had about 5k and Gungnir did about 1-2k. By the end of the fight, Alicia & Phyress were the only ones alive, and Phyress had been revived a couple of times. =/

Ah, well. Good to know for future reference, I guess.

topic: FFVII HDINS - I should really stop pausing. I've been at the end of the Bottomswell fight for the last 3 hours. (But I'm 10 minutes ahead of my previous run!)

[Talaysen]

Frue hardc0ar people beat that fight by killing Lezard himself.  You're all bunch of pansies.

(Protip: Do not do the above if you value your sanity.)

Psykoden Trollkreis - Trading is broken.  That is all.

[Captain K.]

Play RS and try repeating that statement, Snow.

RS human path wasn't bad - you could stalk people and figure out the right way to get them eventually.  Other than bugged characters like Putt.

Nonhuman side was indeed FAQbait though.

Didn't think S5's recruitment was particularly bad either.  Think I FAQd 2 out of 108?

SuikoDS:  Got the big castle.  Enjoying the game quite a bit.  Not sure how well I'm doing on recruitment - seems like quite a few open up after the big castle.

[Tide]

Frue hardc0ar people beat that fight by killing Lezard himself.  You're all bunch of pansies.

(Protip: Do not do the above if you value your sanity.)

Psykoden Trollkreis - Trading is broken.  That is all.

*kills Lezard with Super Rufus*

[Yoshiken]

(Protip: Do not do the above if you value your sanity.)

...I'm guessing that doesn't actually work, right? What -does- happen?

[Meeplelard]

It works, and it doesn't change much.  Its just a harder way to win the fight.  You get nothing for it beyond bragging rights.

So basically, its a completely pointless thing.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

VP2 - Dog theater cleared, Heavenly Punishment got. What the fuck is wrong with those mults.

[DjinnAndTonic]

PSG2 - Finished.

Hugh completely punks out Dark Force and Mother Brain. Effectively 100% paralysis that only takes two turns to charge while defending, and as if he has anything else to do, and paralysis normally lasts long enough that he can apply it again before they get to do anything. I'm not sure if they can even be paralysed through other means.

I deemed it infeasible to map from the television and ended up looking up maps on the net. As such I did not have the true PS2 experience, which is somewhat depressing.

Didn't do any item creation so I'm not sure how well that works. Looked somewhat tedious though.

Thoughts-

Rolf might want this form. He gets mid-level water/ice and lightning magic in case he could ever take advantage of those and couldn't use Megid/Nagrants for whatever reason. Probably doesn't care about Royal Guard (three turn invincibility) since it takes 6 turns to charge up on pure defence, let alone him actually attacking, and one of those turns is wasted casting it. Seems like Megid was more powerful as well but I'm not sure on this.

Nei definitely wants this form, assuming she gets scaled to the time she leaves. Deband, Shifta, and Naresta. And Rust Force that completely restores TP. And she has roughly twice the TP that she did in the original. Last Force does take a while to charge but she has several dozen whiles.

Rudolf definitely wants this form. 400 damage in Revenge that only takes two turns to charge on defence or three turns on level 1 attacks.

Amy probably doesn't care. Nareverser is nigh-useless in a duel. She doesn't get any new techs that I can remember.

Hugh probably wants this form for Sulphur hax. He gets some ice/water magic as well. Seems like Volt/Savolt took a cut in accuracy though, although I may have just been considerably unlucky.

I don't think that Anna wants this form. It seems like her damage got cut back or something. Medical Treat is more worthless duel-wise than Nareverser. No new techs as far as I remember.

Kain may want this form for Burst Touch, but it takes three turns of defence to bring up so I think that's pushing the limits of his ability to survive that long. Seems like Brosedan took a hit in accuracy as well but it may have also been my luck. He does get some lightning magic, so he has options there that aren't robot-specific. Could be worth it.

Shir probably wants this form for Tornado. Another two turns of defence one. Whether she can hold out this long is debatable, and it's the weakest attack skill, but it's probably better than anything she currently has >_>

Cannot really speak for Neifirst, Dark Force, or Mother Brain as they all got effectively shut down. What a pity.

Decent on the whole, but I'm not sure whether I'd call it superior to the original? In some areas it is, but it has other things dragging it down.

Stat topic request! Dooooo iiiiiiitt~!

[Talaysen]

(Protip: Do not do the above if you value your sanity.)

...I'm guessing that doesn't actually work, right? What -does- happen?

It works.  Nothing happens.  I did it to see if something WOULD happen but nothing did and I was disappointed.

[Twilkitri]

PSG2 - Finished.

Stat topic request! Dooooo iiiiiiitt~!

Given that a) this is Phantasy Star 2 that b) I can't run a debugger over, the idea frightens and dismays me. Also the necessity to replay in order to get Neifirst & Dark Force information.

[NotMiki]

FF7.  What the hell, game.  It's been a very long time, don't think I've replayed the game ever, actually, but I didn't think there'd be so much gametime where casting summons would not only be my best damage but would actually be the quickest end to a random encounter.  I'm in Nibelheim and my characters 8HKO with physicals.  Tifa still can't break 100 damage on a regular basis.  Just picked up Trine to go along with Beta, so combat will hopefully be shorter from here on.

[Meeplelard]

MK: Muppy Get.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

VP2 - Ethereal Queen:

Please learn to not suck. That damage was absolutely awful. Thanks for the 99 Sorcerer's Savvies, though!

Love, Snow.

P.S.: While you're at it, work on that durability thing. You could stand to take hits better.

[Fudozukushi]

P4: Done.  True end get.  May rant later but lol Fudopromise.

[Dark Holy Elf]

1st-run Ethereal Queen is pretty reliant on Astral Maze nonsense to get anything done.

[OblivionKnight]

Frue hardc0ar people beat that fight by killing Lezard himself.  You're all bunch of pansies.

(Protip: Do not do the above if you value your sanity.)

They also do it with mages only.  It's fun!

[Clear Tranquil]

Fun like this!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMYoqV_Kys

*CT is shot*

The crystal got me too *patpats Yoshi*

Back to Blue Dragon today, thinking of complimenting Jiro's White Magic with the Support Class?

Also picked up Infinite Undiscovery for cheap - didn't really know much about it other than people saying it sucked but eh it was cheap - and did a bit of research about it online. I found out that it had a character called Michelle in it, that's my name! That's just weird~

I also found out that it has things like item creation and Berserk in it like SO3, so chances are I might actually like it >_>

[OblivionKnight]

No weirder than a midget ninja named Jay >_>

[Yoshiken]

FFVII HDINS - Gi Nattak down! Practically owned Jenova, owned Dyne (Right Arm lolz!), nearly got owned by Stinger #1, owned Stinger #2, Phoenix Down-ed Gi Nattak. On to Nibelheim!
(I've gone into more detail on my blog, so I'll spare the needless rambling for people who don't care.)

[Meeplelard]

No weirder than a midget ninja named Jay >_>

Who hangs out with talking otters no less...