Insane Difficulty: playthrough - Insane Difficulty

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Looks like the total list of affected skills are:
Drill Kick (missing Crono's Cyclone damage contribution)
Volt Bite (missing Crono's Lightning damage contribution)
Bubble Snap (missing Marle's Water damage contribution)
Spin Kick (missing Robo's Robo Tackle damage contribution)
Bubble Hit (missing Marle's Water damage contribution)

All of these are due to that character's damage being forcibly excluded from the attack in the original game...

Falcon Hit isn't bugged, but it does look like I wanted to give it a higher attack power at one point, and didn't know how to at the time. I gave it 200% Spincut damage, which is what it had in vanilla, but it looks like I originally wanted to give it 1.25*Rock Throw and 1.5*Spincut. It could probably stand to be better than 2x Spincut, but 1.25*Rock Throw and 1.5*Spincut does sound pretty... formidable... for an AoE attack, even if it is limited scope AoE. And those are pretty strong attacks being used for its base, at least for that point in the game. I'll have to think about how much power I'd want to give Falcon Hit.

I checked triple techs, too, but none were affected.

zombero, on 06 August 2015 - 07:50 AM, said:

awesome! i kinda thought ayla seemed lackluster; now i know why. most of these are her dual techs.

regarding bubble hit/snap, did you mean frog's water damage contribution?

regarding falcon hit, it is technically less damage than spincut and rock-throw, so i reported it. but since it is an aoe it is still pretty good.

mud imp:





i'm slightly over-leveled because i killed everything in the sunken desert except the boss.

charmed things. used ice sword to kill the red beast, confuse to kill the blue beast and confuse / ice toss to kill the mud imp. not to hard.

edit: does the power boost from the aeon helm/suit do anything on marle or lucca?

This post has been edited by seraph9888: 06 August 2015 - 09:13 PM

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Er, yeah.

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I decided to give Falcon hit 100% of Spincut and Rock Throw's damage, which is mostly a buff. Seems like how hard Ayla can throw Crono should matter just as much as his sword.

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Nope! The Pow/Stam combo already existed as an effect, so it was easier to just use that than to create a new effect that was only Stam.

giga gaia:





haste on marle, falcon hit on the hands, cube toss and confuse on the head. i imagine this fight would be really hard without elemental mails.

note: i did this before falcon hit was buffed.

golem twins: oh no, there's two of them, what ever shall i do?

golem boss: he doesn't even attack.

dalton ll:





he counters elements with the opposite element. guess which element i used.

Welp, you're almost to the point where the mercy ends! Often times, I didn't want to make bosses too hard, because I didn't want to induce a grindfest. Hopefully one day I can get around to creating a more optimal solution.

lavos spawn(s):

these screen shots were taken right before the last fight on death peak.





i completed the hero's grave sidequest before attempting death peak, which was not toooo hard and worth the rewards. i think the moon armor was particularly useful against the lavos spawn.

edit: i forgot the most important part: don't...attack...the shell!!!

This post has been edited by seraph9888: 08 August 2015 - 02:12 PM

just wanna say i started this about a weekish ago, on right before black omen with chrono, did the frog character quest and on the sunken desert now, i'll give my spiel about the game a difficulty and what to adjust later tonight or something, gonna game with friends, overall a pretty easy hack TBH, also those skills you said were affected, were indeed all skills i found not very useful.

and i do have quite alot to say.

Depending on your playstyle, Black Omen and the final bosses within may be the only part of the hack that feels particularly difficult, but the difficulty of that segment should be pretty unconditional.

how to beat the tubster in the black omen? even if i use lifeline he just spams full party death, and i can't kill him in one/two turns from what i can tell.

son of sun:





sorry i've been away. life got in the way.

anywho this fight is fairly easy with fire resistant gear. he has a pretty gnarly non-elemental (i think) attack. just get your m def as high as you can and you should be good. i brought ayla solely for the tech points.

atropos:



if you survive up to the part where she does nothing but area bomb you've won. mother brain is still giving me trouble but i really just came for the +3 speed and + 10 m def.

rust tyrano:





again this battle can be cheesed with elemental protection.

it turns out that fire tackle and dark bomb do slightly (like 50) more damage than omega flare vs a single target. since omega flare hits all enemies it's still decent. and it does way more damage than its composite parts. it does require an accessory though. and fire tackle/ dark bomb is a lot cheaper. hmmm :l

dawnbomb, on 17 August 2015 - 12:09 PM, said:

You can't let him get a thirst for blood.

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Interesting observation, though I'd be more concerned if it were a high-end single target triple being outclassed. Omega Flare definitely has a fair amount of uses IMO, though suffers from the same limitation of every triple tech of often being difficult to use in practice.

zombero, on 18 August 2015 - 10:50 AM, said:

just out of curiosity, what is the damage contribution breakdown? (umm, sure lets call it that). in other words. how much damage do dark bomb, laser spin and flare contribute. ugh... i can't words.

seraph9888, on 18 August 2015 - 11:10 AM, said:

It is... 1*Dark Bomb, 1.5*Flare, 2*Laser Spin

got it; thanks!

yakra XIII:





no elemental cheese. but plenty of haste cheese and status protection. so close to dark matter i can taste it!

retinite:





alright this fight was tough. magus started with an ice 2; then he was on item duty and threw in a periodic "att." on the bottom and dark bomb to heal the core. when the core dies the other parts start raising their defense and doing nastier attacks. robo and frog did bubble snap (i guess it's physical?) on the bottom and after awhile started doing low hp frog squash followed by cure beam. the bottom and core died at the same time. after that it was easy.

*fixed*