Hi thought I'd give a quick write up, just finished my 5th or so SSCC, first one in years. This time I did it on the iPhone though! Much harder time wise due to no frame skipping and what not.
So it was capricorn geomancer, has no real problems till the dycedarg and zalbag battles. I found a NEW Zalbag strategy that is pretty insane and doesn't involve as much luck as some of the others. I didn't use ANY guide help until zalbag. And that was the only fight I needed guide help on. So here's a summary of the cool battles that I remember.
Items farmed
Act 2: Judo outfit
Act 3: Ice brand, crystal shield
Act 4: Thief hat
Act 1: Lvl 10 delita with auto potions solo's act 1 until last fight. I think I ran up and had to geomancy + attack once.
Act 2: This act was a breeze until execution site: was weeks ago but I remember I found a good setup at start to geomancy>wait>archer moves next to gaff and attacks and hopefully you get a retaliate proc to geo them both. After a good start like that just finish gaff off and try not to get slowed or have your back turned.
Act 3: I go to the plains to both farm knights for ice brand and crystal shield and to level up.
I lose over and over to lancers on underground 1, one fight I put it on auto battle (I was driving) and when I looked down he had killed 2 lancers! I quickly pulled over put it off auto battle, finished it myself later (is that cheat?)
Next battle I lose over and over again cause Olan seems to never do the right thing, until 1 fight I get berserked and just watch as I kill everyone.
Yardow fort city I won the 1st try! it was pretty epic it came down to 2 summoners left and I was in critical. One starts casting on me for the kill, I run up to KO him and he's bad compatibility so he has a sliver of life left. I die and the chic casts 2 spells while in crit and kills them both before I crystalise or they kill her. Epic
For Weigraft I did Ice brand Twisted headband Bracer. This makes him go first, you need to attack and land on side, not be countered and hit. You'll 1 shot him. Than for Velious you run up and need to face shot him, turn back to the air, he needs to cast on you and run back and to the left. Than you need to run up and land either a crit, or ice 2 proc. Odds are probably somewhere in the 5%, I think it took me 10 tries. I forgot if I wore powersleeve or boost ice robes.
Act 4: Went to Finnath River before leveling to make it easier. Took a lot of resets to get at least 5 yellows, this sucked on the iphone.
For Balk: Made myself immune to Balk, ran around killing generics.
Elmdor was rough. I chose the get ultima cast on you strat. Start in the back row 2nd tile over. Must have black costume, 108 gems equipped, ice brand, power sleeve, Thief hat. U can't get confused or doom or it's over, and he can't have high health (his health is random). Also when you attack from his side, attack from the side closest to the blue assassin. This way she'll cast ultima on you (which never goes off) instead of throwing at you and having a chance to kill you. You have to land a 14% chance from the side.
See below for more.
FFT on iPhone, Capri Geomancer SSCC complete, NEW Zalbag strat
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31 March 2014 - 08:59 AM
The fight at the church I got berserked again and ran around 1 shotting everyone for 2x their life totals.
Ok so Dycedarg I did in like 10 tries, I saw later on other guides people spent 100+ tries on this.
So my strat was initially to try loss strat. So you need to wear those robes make u immune to holy and u need to be immune to petrify from your accessory.
I went with +2 magic sword, Crystal shield, thief hat, powersleeve.
The key is to geomancy dycedarg like crazy and zalbag needs to hit him once. You need to kill him with 100% health so be fast. I think most my strat was I would run in the the little nook right under where they start so I Can geomancy without moving. Than what happened to me was weird: Big boss dude comes out and casts FLARE on me for more than half my health. I hit him mid charge, and the flare gets BLOCKED (15% chance) than he does it again, lands 1 than charges again, all the while I'm attacking him. I hit him before the 3rd one lands. Was very weird but I won, 10 tries was pretty good.
Ok so on to the BIG fight, zalbag.
I needed help from this forum on this fight, and read the initial strategy. The Line them up 4 in a row strategy is by far the best start. I ran in to a couple problems though, often times I couldn't 1 hit kill them midcharge after getting my 1 petrify off. Also I think the OP for that got insanely lucky on his zalbag kill. I found a strategy on accident where Zalbag doesn't move and just lets you kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Items: Ice brand, crystal shield (we need some dodges), Thief hat, power sleeve, 108 gems.
Start, run in to the back left corner. They will all line up and blue demon casts on you. Geomancy + wait, the 2 demons only (zalbag will heal this dmg and i can trigger his speed save). Normally you hope for the blue to get petrified, on my winning run I petrified the guy behind him and ate 200ish dmg. So the rest of the fight varries drastically from here, normally with that blue one down you hope the next guy that charges on u is enough to kill you, and the 3rd one runes back giving you time. Than you ko #2, than try to avoid zalbag and when #3 comes to kill u KO him, than hope they give you crystals. THIS was my initial plan but on my winning run (try #50 or so) something weird happened.
I run to spot, they line up. I petrify one of the grey behind the blue charging on me, eat 200 dmg from blue, zalbag comes up and wiffs. I get charged on again and 3rd guy leaves. I run up and ko (with 108 gems you're dmg is much higher and u can't be vampired). Zalbag wiffs, I think but can't remember for sure I either hit 3rd guy midcharge, or I got really lucky and attacked him and got ice proc. Anyways I ran around full circle with zalbag chasing me after the 2 demons dead, I was in critical waiting for crystals, THEY BOTH BOXED, so no health for me. And I double turned zalbag and ended up standing next to the first petrified demon with zalbag on the other side. He had to walk around the petrify and also around the candlestick which would take like 8 spaces. So instead he walks up the petrify and is looking right at me (I'm on other side) and he is 6 moves from attacking me (he's always move 5 if you haven't done this fight 10000 times like me). So I geomancy hoping for a sleep, than wait. And Zalbag..... does nothing. I geomancy and pass. Again Zalbag just waits.... than again.... and again... and again.... I just geomancy him till he dies, me not moving, zalbag not moving. I about lost it with delight I couldn't believe it.
Ok so that's the highlight of this report. The rest of the game was either easy, or on balk 2 just tedious (run geomancy, run geomancy, until all of them are dead). Last fight I won on the 2nd try due to just insane luck. I chose to try the feather mantle get attacked from behind strat. First try I mess around with geomancy on the demons and try to crystal and blah blah, was too conveluted and I died. 2nd try I just go straight for attacks on boss, I get in to critical kill her phase 1.
Phase 2 was just insane luck. Just over and over boss cast that spell that resets CT. I just kept attacking till I won, no idea wtf happened.
Took 2 tries only, that'll never happen again.
Thanks for reading!
Ok so Dycedarg I did in like 10 tries, I saw later on other guides people spent 100+ tries on this.
So my strat was initially to try loss strat. So you need to wear those robes make u immune to holy and u need to be immune to petrify from your accessory.
I went with +2 magic sword, Crystal shield, thief hat, powersleeve.
The key is to geomancy dycedarg like crazy and zalbag needs to hit him once. You need to kill him with 100% health so be fast. I think most my strat was I would run in the the little nook right under where they start so I Can geomancy without moving. Than what happened to me was weird: Big boss dude comes out and casts FLARE on me for more than half my health. I hit him mid charge, and the flare gets BLOCKED (15% chance) than he does it again, lands 1 than charges again, all the while I'm attacking him. I hit him before the 3rd one lands. Was very weird but I won, 10 tries was pretty good.
Ok so on to the BIG fight, zalbag.
I needed help from this forum on this fight, and read the initial strategy. The Line them up 4 in a row strategy is by far the best start. I ran in to a couple problems though, often times I couldn't 1 hit kill them midcharge after getting my 1 petrify off. Also I think the OP for that got insanely lucky on his zalbag kill. I found a strategy on accident where Zalbag doesn't move and just lets you kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Items: Ice brand, crystal shield (we need some dodges), Thief hat, power sleeve, 108 gems.
Start, run in to the back left corner. They will all line up and blue demon casts on you. Geomancy + wait, the 2 demons only (zalbag will heal this dmg and i can trigger his speed save). Normally you hope for the blue to get petrified, on my winning run I petrified the guy behind him and ate 200ish dmg. So the rest of the fight varries drastically from here, normally with that blue one down you hope the next guy that charges on u is enough to kill you, and the 3rd one runes back giving you time. Than you ko #2, than try to avoid zalbag and when #3 comes to kill u KO him, than hope they give you crystals. THIS was my initial plan but on my winning run (try #50 or so) something weird happened.
I run to spot, they line up. I petrify one of the grey behind the blue charging on me, eat 200 dmg from blue, zalbag comes up and wiffs. I get charged on again and 3rd guy leaves. I run up and ko (with 108 gems you're dmg is much higher and u can't be vampired). Zalbag wiffs, I think but can't remember for sure I either hit 3rd guy midcharge, or I got really lucky and attacked him and got ice proc. Anyways I ran around full circle with zalbag chasing me after the 2 demons dead, I was in critical waiting for crystals, THEY BOTH BOXED, so no health for me. And I double turned zalbag and ended up standing next to the first petrified demon with zalbag on the other side. He had to walk around the petrify and also around the candlestick which would take like 8 spaces. So instead he walks up the petrify and is looking right at me (I'm on other side) and he is 6 moves from attacking me (he's always move 5 if you haven't done this fight 10000 times like me). So I geomancy hoping for a sleep, than wait. And Zalbag..... does nothing. I geomancy and pass. Again Zalbag just waits.... than again.... and again... and again.... I just geomancy him till he dies, me not moving, zalbag not moving. I about lost it with delight I couldn't believe it.
Ok so that's the highlight of this report. The rest of the game was either easy, or on balk 2 just tedious (run geomancy, run geomancy, until all of them are dead). Last fight I won on the 2nd try due to just insane luck. I chose to try the feather mantle get attacked from behind strat. First try I mess around with geomancy on the demons and try to crystal and blah blah, was too conveluted and I died. 2nd try I just go straight for attacks on boss, I get in to critical kill her phase 1.
Phase 2 was just insane luck. Just over and over boss cast that spell that resets CT. I just kept attacking till I won, no idea wtf happened.
Took 2 tries only, that'll never happen again.
Thanks for reading!
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