Insane Difficulty: Sinister Six: A 1.3 six-player Class Draft challenge! - Insane Difficulty

Quad, Hart, Bateman, Kjata, Bishop, and Ludo were inspired by an awesome idea from IdesofMarch and his friends to do a class draft 1.3 challenge.

Rules:
Squire/Chemist/Mime are common classes (available to all players and not featured in the draft).
BUT in each battle there is a limit of 3 instances (total) of Item & Basic Skill (including Ramza's).
Poaching may be used, but players without the Thief class must wait until after Finath.
In the draft, each player gets to pick five classes.
Draft is Snake style (1-2-3-4-5-6-6-5-4-3-2-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-6-5-etc)
Cumulative brave+faith per unit allowed is 130.
Monsters are usable from start of game.
Over the course of the game your usable party members are limited to Ramza + 7 generics + 5 monsters.

Classes to be drafted are the 17 remaining base classes, Dark Knight, Onion Knight, Mustadio's Engineer, and some monsters. Full list in spoiler:


Draft order was randomly determined to be: Bishop, Quad, Ludo, Kjata, Hart, Bateman.

THE DRAFT!

Round One!
Bishop Mediator
Quad Dark Knight
Ludo Time Mage
Kjata Lancer
Hart Samurai
Bateman Priest

Round Two!
Bateman Ninja
Hart Onion Knight
Kjata Engineer
Ludo Summoner
Quad Sage
Bishop Wizard

Round Three!
Bishop Knight
Quad Bard
Ludo Squids
Kjata Thief
Hart Bombs
Bateman Oracle

Round Four!
Bateman Marksman
Hart Dancer
Kjata Trees
Ludo Geomancer
Quad Monk
Bishop Flotiballs

Round Five!
Bishop Chocobos
Quad Ghosts
Ludo Uribos
Kjata Birds
Hart Tonberry
Bateman Skeletons

(Goblins and Bull Demons were relegated to the dustbin.)

Final teams:

Bishop:
Mediator, Wizard, Knight, Flotiballs, Chocobos

Quadpolar:
Dark Knight, Sage, Bard, Monk, Ghosts

Ludovician:
Time Mage, Summoner, Squids, Geomancer, Uribos

Kjata:
Lancer, Engineer, Thief, Trees, Birds

Hart-Hunt:
Samurai, Onion Knight, Bombs, Dancer, Tonberry

Bateman:
Priest, Ninja, Oracle, Marksman, Skeletons

Stay tuned for individual playthrough updates!

Edit this shit with a public "best team" poll.

Kjata, on 29 June 2015 - 09:09 PM, said:

Agreed.

I'm partial to Bateman's team as it's eerily similar to my own, but Quad's seems really strong in the abstract.

I didn't even think about drafting monsters, but I'm totally stealing that for next time. Super stoked to hear how it goes.

I think quad has the best, and hart has the worst.

Just so everybody knows, I didn't pick ninja when I had the chance because quad said "inb4 ninja." So I spite picked lancer.

I think both Ludo and Bateman have solid choices.

pls

I don't see anyone else dropping Short Charge Bahamut.

Poll.

I think Quad's team is best because it's being played by Quad. And even aside from that it probably has the best chance of beating Altima.

In retrospective, Bishop's pick is absolutely parallel to my playstyle, which is why I picked it. However, I'm still in love with my set up. Not only it's a mix of my old school and new school strats, but it also gives me the advantage of being good at both low levels, and high levels. And I'm tempted for the latter.

I voted quad. Dark Knights will make a lot of the generic battles easier. He also has Bard to get him through a lot of otherwise difficult battles, including Altima. Sage will make for good control via status effects, and Monk will offer good damage and a good skillset. Ghosts are a nightmare for physical users and they don't really crystalize. They also have some good synergy with Monks because they can avoid earth slash and Chakra can actually heal them. It seems like a well-rounded setup to me. His setup also provides Damage split, so that can make for some interesting tanky strats with Chakra.

I can see Bishop and Hart doing well, too. Look forward to seeing what happens

And no one has still mentioned quad's boner for cursed rings. That equipped on ramza means unholy champion, which opens many, many fun possibilities.

Started up my run a little while ago. Just got up to Gorgoland and taking a break.

My party consists of the following units:

Ludovician, Ramza, 74 br 70 fa Scorpio
quudpolor, male, 70/60 Cancer
Adabbon, male, 70/60 Scorpio
Jkata, male, 70/60 Pisces
Satann, female, 64/70 Cancer
Boship, female, 64/70 Scorpio
Jart Junt, female, 64/70, Pisces
Mastur Bateman, female, 70/60, Cancer
Tim the Douche, Pisco Demon, 70/40, Cancer
Squidward, Squidlarkin, 70/40, Scorpio
Sunshine, Mindflare, 70/40, Pisces
Bacon, Uribo, 70/40, Cancer
Pork, Porky, 70/40, Scorpio
Ham, Wildbow, 70/40, Pisces

So far all of my units are still level 1 with the exceptions of Satann, Boship, and Jart Junt, who are each level 2 with 0 exp.

Meteor power.

This draft just got real sinister. I gained a few levels in the process, but that fuckery alone was totally worth it.

Edit:

Uploaded, more to come soon. That stupid archer made my day btw.

quadpolar, on 01 July 2015 - 04:21 AM, said:

Amazing, and i accidently -1'd you while trying to +1 you so someone +1 his post for me please.

"We must go to Lionel Castle immediately! There's more food there." - Ramza, Vampire Lord

Uhh, I beat mandalia plains....

Congrats.

Queklain down. Thanks to quad-senpai for telling me how to do it.