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[UberTag]

Puwexil is now streaming a trial run as well.

 

[Man God]

So soon.

 

[Link Man]

37 hours till The Run. I can hardly wait.

 

[Man God]

Charged up the two GB Mircos.

Got a few things ready to listen to/watch if I need to grind.

Thought about staying up all night doing a class by class analysis of each and every job and how they synergize with other classes.

 

[neoemonk]

I almost bought FF XIV on PSN but realized I was just going to spend my free month playing this instead. Can't wait to get my jobs.

 

[Omnicent]

Beastmaster can be pretty good but when you compare it to the broken Ninja or Bard, and the versatile and easy to use Ranger it feels a bit underwhelming. I discovered the other day that he can capture a Crystelle and use Mighty Guard but I don't know how it can be done when it only has 3 HP and there's no access to % based attacks.

Beast is amazing if you know what to capture. I tore things up with it a few years ago (sand bears mother fucker, and then you got the breath attack beasts that deal % damage.... do 9999 to exdeath and shit, so good lol).
There are some really good beasts yo ucan capture

 

[neoemonk]

Thought about staying up all night doing a class by class analysis of each and every job and how they synergize with other classes.

DO IT

 

[Heropon]

Right now there are 579 berserkers for 447 berserker risk players. That means that 132 lucky players would receive double berserker love if the fiesta started now. Animal costumes for everyone!

 

[Bomber Bob]

I almost bought FF XIV on PSN but realized I was just going to spend my free month playing this instead. Can't wait to get my jobs.

Free month star when you activate the game so you can buy now and activate later

 

[Man God]

DO IT

Might as well.

 

[Link Man]

Less than 12 hours until the festivities begin!

Edit: Got my file ready, right before the Wing Raptor.

 

[JC Lately]

Let's do this thing.

EDIT: Wow, iPhone screen shots are huge. I better quote my future screen caps for this thread.

EDIT2: Damn photobucket really kills the image quality, doesn't it? I need a new image host. Preferably one with an ios app.

 

[Mazre]

<sigh> Looks like I deleted my wind crystal save by accident. Guess I get to suffer through the games opening again this year.

 

[neoemonk]

I think I'm going to hook my laptop up to the living room TV and have The Run on all day while doing house stuff.

 

[Link Man]

Let's do this thing.

EDIT: Wow, iPhone screen shots are huge. I better quote my future screen caps for this thread.

EDIT2: Damn photobucket really kills the image quality, doesn't it? I need a new image hots. Preferably one with a ios app.

imgur

 

[Joule]

The race between puwexil and dragondarchsda is starting up soon.

http://multitwitch.tv/puwexil/dragondarchsda

 

[Omnicent]

The race between puwexil and dragondarchsda is starting up soon.

http://multitwitch.tv/puwexil/dragondarchsda

yeah its up now, My body is ready

 

[itzknickknac]

yeah its up now, My body is ready

I'm pretty new to twitch. Is there a way to watch the stream at a later time?

 

[UberTag]

The early part of this race is going to ride on whether DDarch can build a big enough lead with his Monk brigade to hold off Puwexil down the line when he's hampered by his team's dependency on Beastmaster catches.

 

[Man God]

thief+time mage=team speed run. Run from every fight, escape from the second half of dungeons for free, aka the ones they expect you to run back from.

 

[transience]

not much speedrunning going on early! I wonder if we could see a huge comeback through the rest of the game.

 

[Man God]

Also since they have to do everything its going to be hard for the second team to catch up, adding in all those extra dungeons just helps team escape, especially since team escape wanted to go to the Trench anyways for meteo and has a freaking geomancer to make it simple!

 

[LuffyZoro]

DD's getting a Mystic Knight next, which is very good in my experience.

 

[Omnicent]

wrong thread

 

[Hazmat]

Watching the multitwitch stream is actually pretty damn interesting. I've got my save ready for my wind crystal job, can't wait for this to start.

 

[UberTag]

Damn, puwexil is already nearly caught up. This thing is ovah.

Yeah, this was one of those inevitable outcomes once that Berserker/Red Mage stalemate ended and dropped the Time Mage in his lap.
Was hoping for something more balanced. Give points to DragonDarchsda for trying. Dude's been putting in late nights the past three days taking notes and documenting strats.
But there's only so much one can do.

EDIT: Puwexil has now pulled ahead. Expect him to easily remain there.
The venerable TM combo of Slowga+Hastega+Teleport+Return+Rod Breaking is just too damned brutal in the speed run department.

 

[UberTag]

And Puwexil has conquered the FF5 FJF 2004 inaugural charity run in just a hair over 11 hours. (He stopped his clock at 11 hours, 5 minutes, 48 seconds.)
See, guys... this isn't a huge commitment. You can easily blow through your Fiesta run in very little time.

 

[UberTag]

Dragondarch is waaaaaaay closer than I expected. Just entering the Void.

He gained ground amazingly quick. Just wasn't fast enough to make it a closer finish.

 

[Hazmat]

Dragondarch is waaaaaaay closer than I expected. Just entering the Void.

It was pretty cool watching them go back and forth with their strategies. My intial bet wasn't on the winner, I choose to believe that having to do each tablet is what I didn't take into account. Pretty damn fun to watch though.

 

[Ourobolus]

They're done! Nice!

 

[UberTag]

Dragondarch finishes his speed run 40 minutes later at 11:45:22.

 

[graywords]

Impressive stuff! Both of 'em did great.

 

[Link Man]

Thief on a BerserkerRisk. Yay.

 

[Mazre]

Black mage here. Someday blue mage...someday.

 

[Ourobolus]

I got Blue Mage. AGAIN.
Hdjdivohndnxdnc

 

[Heropon]

First time I get a thief in the wind crystal, but my practice run this year was with him, so time to repeat.

 

[graywords]

Knight!

Now to decide whether Brave Blade is worth it. I've read a lot of stuff that says "no"?

 

[Luigi87]

Knight again.
I can deal.

 

[Ourobolus]

I got Monk for my first Classic job for my other run. I think I'll open up all four of those at the outset though.

BLUE MAGE, FUCK

 

[Negator]

White Mage

Easy mode confirmed

 

[Hazmat]

White Mage. Never finished a fiesta with WM, but I figure this shouldn't be too hard (random).

 

[Ainaurdur]

Thief on a BerserkerRisk. Yay.

I will share your pain, except I not only have Thief with Berserker Risk... I am also doing Team No 750.

 

[Ourobolus]

Natural classic: Monk/Red Mage/Thief/Red Mage

Normal/Natural/BR: Blue Mage/???????

Well my FF1 run is gonna be interesting...

 

[Dark Schala]

Knight?

Okay... should be interesting.

 

[UberTag]

Thief on a BerserkerRisk. Yay.

You and me both. Also bagged a thief on BerserkerRisk. I'm sort of happy about it.
Any berserkers I land will be super-quick. And we can steal the Gaia Hammer and Death Sickle super early.

Just make sure to suicide your berserkers before the Sandworm battle.

The quirk for me is that this a Random run. So I may be in for some wackiness.

 

[Triangulate]

#berserkerrisk

Black mage.

First time I've had black mage.

 

[Matt Attack]

Got Black Mage! Hopefully this will be fun!

 

[Dark Schala]

Got Black Mage! Hopefully this will be fun!

Black Mage makes the first bit of the game easy street.

 

[graywords]

Do you plan to ever run from a battle?

Dunno. What are the pros and cons of running or not running, apart from the Brave Blade/Chicken Knife? The only one I immediately think of is "running would make the run a hell of a lot shorter".

 

[LuffyZoro]

Hmm. Knight.