FF9 Perfect Game with Offensive Training B - 87 (reaching 6700 dragons killed)
0Welcome,
This is the 87th 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 20 hours and 34 minutes; note that each sub-episode contains timecodes for all dragons killed):
* Episode 87-1 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5044 to 5193):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSTYz9WI-JU
* Episode 87-2 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5193 to 5340):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epf8kEEbBNs
* Episode 87-3 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5340 to 5489):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIPBcHydODU
* Episode 87-4 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5489 to 5641):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8ri0v73rc
* Episode 87-5 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5641 to 5796):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEzLHkkzYxM
* Episode 87-6 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5796 to 5963):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCA--bKy9NQ
* Episode 87-7 (raising the dragons killed's count from 5963 to 6109):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBd9d-Ks6GE
* Episode 87-8 (raising the dragons killed's count from 6109 to 6266):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKbDbumBwi0
* Episode 87-9 (raising the dragons killed's count from 6266 to 6450):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGiEESDCH1k
* Episode 87-10 (raising the dragons killed's count from 6450 to 6599):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb4xI0aCs2E
* Episode 87-11 (raising the dragons killed's count from 6599 to 6743):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUrx6OGyI0
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.
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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