Y'know if anyone who is done playing the game wouldn't mind handing over their account (or at least letting me play on it) so I can hop onto some multiplayer shenanigans, that'd be p cool
JP news, FFT event down, CM done, etc. Izlude was a fun CM due to Izlude's weak and very weak forms being at something like 80% and 66%. Gafgarion's BSB is cool but would be a lot cooler on an account that didn't farm religiously. Drain Ability Uses is only so good. It may make Omega Drive worth making, come to think of it. lol watch as gaf doesn't even have combat 5
The Multiplayer Nightmare Velius fight was the hardest fight I have participated in in a while, largely because I was playing during peak hours and everyone is a goddamn IDIOT. So, the 3 Archaeodemons all have Life Drain, all resist Holy, and unlock Gigaflare (actually a cool little move that hits you based on positioning on the field. Kinda sucks for Player 2 and 3 though) after a certain time. On top of this, both Velius and the Archaeodeomons have a ton of HP, and Velius' defenses are around the same relative stupidity as Mote Dungeon Ifrit when he first came out. Cue:
1. Nobody agreeing on whether to blitz down the boss or take out the Archaeodemons first (either are valid strategies but you can't do both at the same time, and stickers don't allow for much coordination).
2. People Bringing in BSB Agrias (OSB Agrias is fine due to dual elemental) and then attacking the Archaeodemons with their holy-elemental attacks.
3. Nobody using breakdowns, or more smartly, Dances.*
4. OSB Orlandeaux spamming their OSBs on different targets so Life drain is well over an OHKO even with a Y'shtola Asylum barrier.
5. People agreeing to take down the demons first but taking them all out piecemeal instead of focusing down a single demon at a time.
6. Many people not realizing just how many hones you need and running out by turn four because wow.
7. One particularly annoying Aeris who only had her reraise SSB, R2 Ultra Cure, and R4 Ultima Weapon and she wasn't built for dealing damage at all.
I eventually won by spelling out exactly the strategy I wanted (Physical-based team, focus demons down one at a time, someone bring Wall) in the Join Party screen, and even then mid-battle if I realized someone was being a moron I couldn't really tell them how to fix it and had to hope they had enough sense to follow my lead. After the first couple failed attempts with this I realized I could just kick people from my party, so cue me sitting there for 30 minutes nexting bitches left and right until I got a party I could work with. I tried using Mustadio because his SSB stacks with all other breakdowns that I am aware of but his skillset was kinda lacking, namely this fight having Dances is way more important, so I swapped him out for Shitbrat. Spamming Shitbrat's BSB was also very useful, since most of the scary damage is magic and MBlink is great. Status is also a huge deal, so out came Penalty Break.
Since I essentially picked out people I could work with I'll list the team here:
My Ramza (Penalty Break/Indoor Spell), Dr. Mog's
My Tyro (Break Fever/Wrath), Battleforged
BSB + OSB Orlandu / SSB Lenna
OSB Orlandu / UltraSSB + SG Tyro (Penalty Break, Wrath)
BSB Faris (Hi-Unfaith, Wrath) / BSB Vanille
It was a looooooong fight. Even though finally everyone was on the same page to take down the demons one at a time, and even with the Orlandeux cranking out OSBs every other turn or so, it took around five turns to take each archaeo demon down, and after we did that we had to start chipping through Velius' HP. I'm pretty sure the fight took a half hour real time.
Fortunately, though, with this method and the amount of mitigation being thrown up by Faris and the Tyros, by the time Velius was bringing out anything legitimately scary all his adds were dead and he couldn't really dish out too much damage.
Overall not really that difficult of a fight. It's main problem is that you need a coordinated strategy and the communication tools provided aren't good enough to facilitate that. Though to the game's credit I did manage to figure out something. If I couldn't speak Japanese though... egh. Could be a real problem in global if some players don't speak English that well.
