FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 76 (Wing Edges farming 3/3)
0Welcome,
This is the 76th episode of a let's play of a "non-Excalibur II perfect game with offensive approach of training" type of challenge, intended for the NTSC US PS1 version of the game.
Link of the complete playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66
Link of the first episode in the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GxUT7eGCQY&list=PLaIe3G8M8kUh9tYa0aIU7F18IAwcbZW66&index=2
What follows are links to 4 videos showing the last part of the Wing Edges farming, resulting in possessing 99 copies in the inventory (as a reminder, 99 copies of Battle Boots and 99 Bracers are already possesed; playing time is around 4 hours):
* Episode 76-1 (raising the Wing Edges possessed from 4 to 26):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIaj-ea0QEE
* Episode 76-2 (raising the Wing Edges possessed from 26 to 52):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pne_nUoIvVo
* Episode 76-3 (raising the Wing Edges possessed from 52 to 76):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MWxHueEFs
* Episode 76-4 (raising the Wing Edges possessed from 76 to 99):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ujUec7y28
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* The prep I would recommend for the farming is the following (based on the assumption that most characters have reached level 99 and learned their abilities):
- Team: selecting Zidane, Garnet (to be able to use Berserk; details few lines below), Vivi or Quina (to be able to inflict Sleep without wasting Zidane's turn) and other characters that have reached level 99.
- Equipment: optimizing Zidane's Speed and protecting the other characters from the Wind element (details few lines below).
- Support abilities: activating Zidane's Auto-Haste, Bandit and Master Thief, and activating other useful abilities for everyone like the "Auto" abilities and the ones that guard against status alterations (Alert and Initiative are useless since the monsters in Crystal World cannot do a surprise attack and cannot be attacked from behind).
- Placement: back row.
* When Marilis, Kraken and Lich are encountered, the team should try to escape with L1+R1 until Zidane uses "Flee".
* I would recommend the following when Tiamat is encountered:
- Zidane should steal constantly until stealing the second Wing Edge (if I understood the steal command's mechanism correctly, 12.2666 should be the average number of steal attempts needed to collect the two Wing Edges when Bandit and Master Thief are activated).
- Vivi/Quina should use Sleep/Night each few turns to try maintaining Tiamat constantly asleep (if for example Zidane's Speed is equal to 45, Tiamat can be maintained asleep during five stealing attempts). Note that Night requires activating Insomniac for everyone, while Vivi's Sleep requires Vivi's Magic to be equal or higher than 88 for optimal efficiency.
- In the rare case in which Tiamat manage to use Absorb Magic/Strength more than once (Night/Sleep will miss sometimes), Garnet should inflict Berserk to the monster to disable permanently all its actions but Silent Claw, so as to prevent it from being deadly by gaining power over time (this will also prevent it from using time-wasting actions). Explanatory example: given that Twister ignores Magic Defense, that Zidane is equipped to optimize Speed instead of being protected against Wind, that the farming will be done mainly in a screen (the one with lightning bolts) that makes Tiamat's Twister 1.5 stronger than normal (some FF9 monsters enhance the power of some elemental attacks if encountered in specific screens), and that Absorb Magic transfers 50% of a character's Magic to Tiamat's 25 Magic, Tiamat's Magic can easily reach 99 after only two Absorb Magic usages and its Twister damage will range consequently from 40 (1*40) to 9999 ([(99+71-1)*1.5]*40), which can KO Zidane.
* As a reminder, FF9's counter of successful steals is capped at 9999 and reaching that cap is among the goals of the challenge. I have decided to track via timecodes all the successful steals done after reaching the point when it is no longer possible to check the number of successful steals via Thievery. All the four sub-episodes linked few lines above contain those timecodes.
* Based on the actual playing time of all sessions of the three episodes, the whole Wing Edges farming lasted slightly more than 13 hours (without counting the time needed to collect the 4 to 6 million Gils necessary beforehand to be able to maximize Battle Boots and Bracers).
The following is the link of an annex file containing the details on max stats/items/Tetra Master requirements (notably the trainings):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v75arfocbfl2cxs
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