Insane Difficulty: Lufia 2 - Age of the Sinistrals - Insane Difficulty

Excel if it's possible, thank you

ok, try re-download

Many thanks, my friend. Now I will proceed to see what's the bare minimum of spells/stats needed to complete this thing out (of course, after I beat it on hard mode without any restrictions. I'm just before Gades first fight)

Current status on v4 Hard Mode run...just beat Gades at Gordovan Tower...the supposedly "unwinnable" first fight that is ;D. Everyone was lv31-32. Took several attempts until I got a start where at least everyone sans Tia was faster than Gades after a few applications of the Spido Jewel IP + some agility buffing on Guy. Once I could have Maxim survive a Destructo Wave on the frontline at full hp with some offense debuffing, all I had to do was spam Strong + IP moves of the Holy Wings & Camu Armor each time said move did over 300+ damage to Maxim. Otherwise, Maxim smacks Gades around with Cold Rapier's IP move + Undead Ring equipped, the other two heal (and occasionally tosses a Regain over to Tia if needed just to watch her get struck down hard at times).

How I managed to end the fight with Tia alive alongside everyone else...dumb luck, simple as that.

As for the Merix skill resetter...looks like it's indeed required to deal with Gades over at the Ancient Tower first before that unlocks.

Trio's currently sitting in Merix, all at lv35.

Do you still have an ingame save from just reaching Merix you could sent me?

I do. Just going to finish my breakfast here, then I'll send it off to ya.

Great, thank you!

Turns out I was slightly wrong about having to deal with Gades at the Ancient Tower before the skill resetter unlocked. Just had to complete the events at North Labyrinth and get Dekar into your team and he was willing to do the skill reset which I did (Gordovan Gades was the only reason I bothered buying a ton of skills so I could have the stats to handle him).

At first after skill resetting, I was curious if it was bugged because my stats didn't automatically update. Turns out I had to go to any shop that displayed your stats (armory, item shop, skill shop), peruse the wares, back out, and it updated correctly.



Turns out you hold on to your previous max hp/mp amount, even after normalizing stats post-skill resetting. Nothing I'd be worried about though since it's a minor advantage at best.

I know about that but I kept it on purpose; in case you go out without buying new stuff and run into a random fight, so you don't get immediatly destroyed.

So I've realized that uncursed Deadly Swords + Critical skill = stupid amounts of damage. With a couple attack buffs, Dekar was hitting Gades at the Ancient Tower for around 1000+ damage per use of Critical. Seems a little insane honestly. Not sure if it's bonus damage against basically every enemy type except Deadly Swords/Armors/ something else or what. You'll see when I get a chance to upload my latest videos for my playthrough tomorrow.

It's due to the x3 multiplikator of that sword's critical hit properties.

Gades mostly lives by his insane defense value (compared to your ATP), crits ignore this.
I had Maxim crit him for 180 with a regular weapon, x3 for that weapon, higher STR, some buffs, yeah can hit 1k.
Or even add Undead Ring for another x2?

That's why I (much) earlier said:

Praetarius5018, on 20 December 2016 - 12:32 PM, said:

with the right weapon and against high defense it might as well be the best skill period.

Of course most physical skills can crit, too, on top of their other modifiers. But that is down to chance.

Artemis, on 16 January 2017 - 08:39 PM, said:

Ah, that would do it. Thanks for clearing that up!

I'm thinking about something I might change for one of my hacks.

That is, the fact that Lexis and Artea cannot wear any of the blue chest armors.

Should something get changed there - and if so who shall be able to wear what armor (out of Mirac Plate and Ruse/Lucina Armor)?


As I'm not completely sure what to do, I wonder what you think about this issue.

Not sure, I think I'd actually enable both armors for all 7 seeing as those are the two only AC armors.

Yes, not everyone having an armor somehow feels wrong. I'll also think about it.

I'll go with Mirac Plates for every man, then. As it upsets the balance less (e. g. Artea's bunnysuit has the same IP move) and besides Lucina is a goddess of childbirth.

Haven't updated in forever since I've been getting sucked in by Dungeon Fighter Online again as of late.

Currently, YT videos of my playthrough are up past the third Idura fight. Got videos still to post/encode which will take me all the way to my current area, Ferim Kingdom. Everyone's lv61 right now.

Dankirk North Dungeon had some...odd enemy designs stat wise. Ramias I don't think were touched at all stat wise as even a weak little spell that does ~150 damage to all or so took them down and they didn't give anywhere near as much exp compared to other enemies in the dungeon (or they were an enemy in a previous dungeon and I just never ran into one, that too) and Desert Roses hit for jack squat damage (like 20-25 damage against most of my team who's around 390-400+ defense).

Really haven't been in that much trouble difficulty wise for a long time right now. I blame that on the fact that X + Inferno usually results in a dead enemy group or damn near it (and then Selan and/or Lexis finishes the job, heh).

Probably going to do one final skill reset once Artea joins up (Think I'm two dungeons away from that).

Now then, I ran into a weird & nasty bug that I can't for the life of me figure out how I triggered. Was doing my recording yesterday for the trip from Treadool all the way past the events at Dankirk North Dungeon. All's fine until I realize my boat has magically disappeared. Warping to a town doesn't make it reappear.

Only thing I remember doing during the recording was a save & reload at the first save point in Dankirk North Dungeon due to recording software shenanigans. Going to assume that triggered it somehow.

Here's the weird thing with that though...my save at Treadool before the Dankirk North Dungeon events had the ship just fine before I triggered whatever. Afterwards? It too had a disappearing ship result from a save reload.

No idea what happened to make the bug appear or what. Part of me wants to say this bug happened with some other version (vanilla or otherwise) before. Might be some weird emulator bug that got tripped (Using snes9x, latest version). Hell, could even be random ass X shenanigans (That guy is ALWAYS breaking traditional rpg rules!).

Thankfully, I can just lean on save states to save progress for now until I figure out what's causing this and if I can remedy it or if I'll have to rely on save states for now until the end of the playthrough.

Are you sure this is really a bug? Did it happen before or after clearing the Dankirk North Dungeon and opening the watergate?

If before, the ship won't appear at towns - excluding the later ones starting from Treadool. Maybe you just forgot where you parked the ship and warped to the wrong towns...?

Definitely after. I remember loading a test save after the watergate had been opened and my ship disappeared D:.