FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 84 (reaching 1500 dragons killed)
0Welcome,
This is the 84th 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
As a reminder, FF9's counter of dragons killed is capped at 9999 and reaching that hidden cap is among the goals of the challenge. This episode is just a presentation and the actual playing sessions are contained in the sub-episodes of which the links are below (total playing time is around 18 hours and 41 minutes; note that each sub-episode contains timecodes for all dragons killed):
* Episode 84-1 (raising the dragons killed's count to 205):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZa4P4pxFc
* Episode 84-2 (raising the dragons killed's count from 205 to 332):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg2o8jbmq68
* Episode 84-3 (raising the dragons killed's count from 332 to 431):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvWMtBoGw4Q
* Episode 84-4 (raising the dragons killed's count from 431 to 573):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrLwgr0Cmo
* Episode 84-5 (raising the dragons killed's count from 573 to 722):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lpc79sfELw
* Episode 84-6 (raising the dragons killed's count from 722 to 857):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIu92o9KZU
* Episode 84-7 (raising the dragons killed's count from 857 to 1002):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwWe7FOvQ4
* Episode 84-8 (raising the dragons killed's count from 1002 to 1140):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13dbIFFyFo0
* Episode 84-9 (raising the dragons killed's count from 1140 to 1280):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_2Z7L-AMM
* Episode 84-10 (raising the dragons killed's count from 1280 to 1428):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVL6AWIPSg
* Episode 84-11 (raising the dragons killed's count from 1428 to 1571):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU44S29CyPE
Extra info/corrections/comments on this episode:
* The defensive/survival requirements consist of not activating Auto-Regen, because one of the monsters that can be encountered, namely Dracozombie, can inflict the Zombie status, which reverts the effect of Regen, and activating Antibody to be guarded against Worm Hydra's Venom Breath. I activated also Restore HP, so I will not have to heal manually with Tent from time to time, since Restore HP heals automatically with half the max HP if surviving after receiving damage while in critical HP.
* The offensive ordered requirements are the following:
- Ensuring that the characters will always kill the enemies in one hit of the Attack command (this requires in my case attacking with Zidane and Freya only, placing the two characters in the front row and activating their Accuracy+, equipping Freya with a powerful weapon and activating her Dragon Killer, and equipping Zidane with the Ultima Weapon or raising his Strength to at least 80 if equipped with the Orichalcon.
- A quickness optimization consisting of optimizing Speed (in my case 44 for Zidane and 34 for Freya considering the previous requirements) and activating Alert and Initiative (the two latter support abilities are effective against Serpions only), then prioritizing the usage of Orichalcon over Ultima Weapon (daggers have a slightly quicker animation than thief swords).
* The purpose of Quina's presence in the team is gaining more Gils from battles thanks to Millionaire (items maximization has not been achieved yet).
* Taking into account my conditions of playing (Zidane and Freya as the only attackers due to Steiner and Amarant being at level 1, not optimized Speed, and using the original hardware), it seems 80-85 is the average number of dragons that are killed per hour.
* Like done at the end of this episode, I may spend Gils (in future episodes of the dragons farming) in Daguerreo's armory from time to time, because the whole dragons farming should allow gaining more than the 10 million Gils limit of carriage if I am not mistaken in my calculations (as a reminder, the only remaining items to achieve the main Gils/items farming are few items purchasable in Daguerreo's armory).
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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