Beat the main course on Wundertwins event. FF4 content never fails to annoy, Baigan was as annoying as he was unthreatening. Whee, having the arms not self-destruct being a medal condition while the arms themselves have about half of Baigan's 100k HP. Odin, once again, raised his sword just in time to die from Edea's Thundaja.
In one of my multiple Odin-Grind runs, I actually had one where he never raised his sword once. My team isn't exactly a DPS Machine because my FF4 Synergy isn't fantastic and Agrias isn't totally leveled up (using her because Saint Cross + Spellblade combo), so he lives plenty to do so.
RNG based conditions on AI are basically the worst, Odin takes it to a new level because not only can he sometimes not raise his sword, he can also raise it at a point where your Thunder damage dealers are occupied (like charging a Soul Break or something). Reminds me of Emperor's "Do not let him Starfall 5 times!" or whatever condition, which is awful because Starfall isn't scripted, so if the RNG says so, you can fail a condition despite doing everything else right.
But yeah, this event just further demonstrates how FF4 content is some of the worst in the game. It doesn't help that this event hands us two of the least inspired PCs in the game: A pure Black mage and a pure white Mage. Heck, Palom even has the same soul break as Vivi.
Actually, i should rant about Palom because he really is just a worse Vivi all things considered. Here's all my issues with Palom because I just need to get him off my chest:
-As I said, he's a Vivi clone. His stats are basically identical to Vivi, with the differences being negligible (it's similar to Terra vs. Ashe before Terra got her magic buff), he has the exact same equipment draw, and they even have the same default Soul Break. There's clones, and then there's carbon copies. Lulu and Edea are very similar to Vivi, sure, but at least they have some distinguishing features. Palom is just another Vivi straight up.
-Adding to that, Palom is also from a worse realm than Vivi. FF4 has Tuesdailies, to be fair, but otherwise? It's got small number of dungeons that have ended, and there's only one event after this one based around FF4 (Yang's.) FF9 has dungeon updates still left to come, and *3* events in the future, so he's worse than Vivi when you look at that.
-Using him in Tuesdailies seems sound until yo remember FF4 has
four other characters with Black 5. Of them, two of them are Sages, thus can do other stuff, Rydia has Summon 5 so more offensive options to work with (also Carbuncle), especially when looking at AoE, and Golbez has a uniquely tanky build for a Black Mage. Basically, what I'm saying is even if you want two Black Mages, Rydia's almost as strong magically and can do more, and the other 3 are "good enough" while bringing more to the table. Also FuSoYa has a beard puddle, we can't ignore that!
-Palom joins right after we just got Edea, a Black Mage in the same style, who has a niche in throwing weapons (thus another person to make use of Hope/Rinoa relics) and has access to Dark Zone+Memento Mori.
-Vivi gets a pass too because he was introduced as like the 3rd character with Black 5 after Terra and Rinoa (Rydia didn't have Black 5 initially remember), and he's a storyline character, so he helps those with a smaller cast. Palom is an event character who is the same as an early storyline character, I don't think there's anyone else in the game like that.
-His Soul Breaks are uninspired. He only has his SSB which is just a Lightning/Non spell with no special perks. By contrast, Edea had the same scenario with an Ice/Non move...but she also got a clone of Magic Infusion as a 2nd unique Soul Break, which is actually pretty cool. Vivi's Soul Breaks aren't the most original, but he has multiple at least. Palom's Dagger is kind of neat, but in practice the "it's a dagger" matters for all of Red XIII and some of the Ninjas I guess.
I could rant about Porom similarly because a lot of the same crap applies to her as Palom, but at least she has a cool SSB in Hastega+Curaga-level Medica. Also she can use Bows, which isn't a common trait of White Mages; yes, I know, so can FF4's OTHER White Mage, but it's more than you can say for her brother.
Now yes, I know that you can't do a lot with Palom, but I'm sure there was something you could do to make him stand out, even if it was simply fudging something like support 3 or some such.
Yes, that was completely pointless but I just wanted it off my chest.
