FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 79 (Yans' Elixirs and the clock's displayable limit)
2Welcome,
This is the 79th 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
The last part of the video, starting around 1:06:30, is dedicated to the "clock's displayable limit" and it contains timeskips. The Elixirs farming from Yans in Vile Island starts around 09:00 and ends around 1:02:00 (as a reminder, it was not achieved while training the characters); it was stopped upon reaching 89 Elixirs possessed because the Hot & Cold farming (that should be done later mainly to reach 99 Protect Rings possessed) should be more than enough to collect the remaining 10 copies. As a reminder, FF9's counter of successful steals is capped at 9999 and reaching that hidden 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 (as a reminder, the first episode that contains timecodes of successful steals is the sub-episode "75-4", during the Wing Edges farming); here are the timecodes of the successful steals done in this episode:
Steal 735: 09:44; Steal 736: 10:30; Steal 737: 11:41; Steal 738: 11:58; Steal 739: 12:41; Steal 740: 13:16; Steal 741: 14:45; Steal 742: 14:51; Steal 743: 16:31; Steal 744: 17:11; Steal 745: 17:16; Steal 746: 17:22; Steal 747: 18:52; Steal 748: 19:46; Steal 749: 19:53; Steal 750: 21:45; Steal 751: 24:11; Steal 752: 26:21; Steal 753: 26:27; Steal 754: 27:20; Steal 755: 27:26; Steal 756: 27:44; Steal 757: 29:28; Steal 758: 29:37; Steal 759: 30:53; Steal 760: 31:35; Steal 761: 33:11; Steal 762: 33:17; Steal 763: 35:47; Steal 764: 35:53; Steal 765: 36:40; Steal 766: 38:04; Steal 767: 39:55; Steal 768: 42:09; Steal 769: 42:35; Steal 770: 43:51; Steal 771: 43:57; Steal 772: 45:11; Steal 773: 45:49; Steal 774: 47:16; Steal 775: 47:36; Steal 776: 48:51; Steal 777: 49:01; Steal 778: 50:25; Steal 779: 50:40; Steal 780: 50:44; Steal 781: 51:22; Steal 782: 52:50; Steal 783: 54:15; Steal 784: 55:12; Steal 785: 55:27; Steal 786: 56:38; Steal 787: 59:49; Steal 788: 59:56; Steal 789: 1:00:31; Steal 790: 1:00:37; Steal 791: 1:01:24.
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* The team I used for the Elixirs farming is composed of Quina (in order to use Night to incapacitate the monsters), Freya (only for the Initiative support ability), and Vivi so I can use Stop sometimes on the monsters that I want to steal from without provoking a counter-attack, and so I can use Sleep instead of Night if Vivi can act before Quina and there is only one monster to put to sleep, or Slow sometimes in order to allow Zidane stealing 8 times in a row from a monster instead of 5 times.
* During the Elixirs farming, the equipment should prioritize Speed for Zidane, Magic for Vivi (to reach 92 Magic in order to make his Sleep spell as efficient againt a single Yan as Quina's Night and to optimize his Stop spell's efficiency) and Spirit or Speed for the others; the support abilities that should be activated are Bandit, Master Thief, Initiative, Alert, Auto-Life, Auto-Haste, Auto-Regen, Steal Gil, Insomniac, HP+20%, HP+10% and other useful support abilites if they do not waste time.
* 59 Elixirs were possessed beforehand so 30 Elixirs have been collected in this episode.
* As a reminder, during the first 600 hours of play, the TRIANGLE menu's clock changes its font color each time a threshold of 100 hours is reached (only the two last digits of hours are shown though): the color is white from 0 to 100 hours, red from 100 to 200 hours, yellow from 200 to 300 hours, blue from 300 to 400 hours, purple from 400 to 500 hours, and green from 500 to 600 hours (other infos on the clock are found in the various texts that start appearing around 1:07:50).
* I made the last save of this episode in the Lost Continent because the next task, which is reaching 9999 successful steals, will be started there.
* Note that from now on, I will avoid reaching 9999999 Gils or approaching it, so that the Gils possessed can be used as accurate markers of the progress of the saves that I load (instead of the clock that cannot be used for that purpose anymore).
* Timeskips occur at 1:07:14 and 1:08:29.
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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