Insane Difficulty: BNW 1.5.2 is now available! - Insane Difficulty

Well, sounds about right then for Vargas.

Yeah, I'm watching Dee's stream and the new timer settings seem spot on so far.

I deduced them largely from watching the videos you posted, so thanks again for that.

Due to a... minor miscalculation when killing off Terra... I ended up soloing Whelk with Wedge. Biggs, true to his namesake, died in a trench. But the result is I've gotten past Vargas without gaining a single point of exp despite farming ungodly amounts of GP, so hooray for No Exp Eggs. I have plans for Ultros and the Soul Train although I don't know how well they'll work out.

I hate this LLG stuff though so I'm trying to figure out whose levels are best to manipulate to not screw over Setzer/Shadow/Strago/Relm overmuch. Cyan might be an excellent carry candidate once Kirin is available, he should be an unkillable brick with some levels. As long as nobody exceeds 10 by Crescent Island everything should be fine, I'm probably being overly greedy trying to get early levels on folks. The main problem is not understanding how the averaging works and who is "in the party" for certain segments, like Shadow's reaveraging at Thamasa or when specifically Strago and Relm's levels are set in stone. If everyone but Terra/Locke are "out of the party" for those three, then all I have to do is have a suitable party for IMRF and leave everyone underleveled to help Setzer and Mog and I should be pretty okay after that.

EDIT: It'd be nice to have a post-Dadaluma save with everybody lv3 for future efforts though, if possible. Hmmm. Hell Angel and Dadaluma are gonna be a bitch, but I think it's doable.

So, if Celes got access to Phantom earlier, she could be the Phantom of the Opera.

Bug #1 - Wart Pucks & Surianders will Sneeze themselves out of battle

Bug #2 - Tzen sells Tonics instead of Dried Meat

Tzen got all upscale, man. Dried Meat is what peasant towns like Mobliz sell.

BTB, on 31 October 2014 - 12:15 AM, said:

Technically the Phantom is the one who drops stuff on people, not the other way around, so she'd still be doing it wrong.

Making my way through the IMTRF, had a Commando use Demi on himself. He was poisoned and had Shell on himself, if either of those are relevant.

Also, the guy at the Chocobo Stable near Miranda gives a running tutorial before asking if you want to rent a Chocobo from him; there may have been something similar with the one in South Figaro, but I don't remember.

Julford, on 31 October 2014 - 06:54 AM, said:

Yup, he's missing a targeting byte. Weird. I wonder how it went missing.

I'll add it to the list.

Julford, on 31 October 2014 - 06:54 AM, said:

Oops.

I'll let Synchysi answer this one.

Oh BTB, something that just occurred to me regarding your Phantom quip: If Phantom were available at the AH in place of Zoneseek at the same time as Golem (or otherwise available pre-Opera House), Shadow could actually use it to level up if recruited in Kohlingen after Dadaluma, and if Zoneseek took Phantom's place at the IMRF then Strago and Relm would basically never notice the difference. Also Celes would get access to Haste and Safe before the IMRF (which is actually less useful than it sounds since she's MIA for Ultros, Number 128, and Cranes, but probably super useful against Number 024).

I'm not saying it's a good idea (easy early levels for Shadow probably aren't due to his base stats, and Celes already gets access to 2 of the 4 starting Espers so I doubt she needs a third), but that's an interesting consequence of that switch in this thought experiment.

I'd rather see no Espers at the auction house at all because of RNG, but that's just a personal preference. I hate that place

Julford, on 31 October 2014 - 06:54 AM, said:

Probably a dialogue pointer I missed.

We'll add it to the list of fixes for 1.5.2.

Mishrak, on 31 October 2014 - 07:57 AM, said:

Quick, BTB, move every Esper to the Auction House!

So, when Shadow uses a Smoke Bomb to create multiple images of himself... is he fourshadowing?

BTB, on 31 October 2014 - 08:19 AM, said:

Should Locke be removed from the party after picking doors in Narshe since he's un-Lockeing?

Is it possible to sketch Goner, or is that outside the Relm of possibility?

Nakar, on 31 October 2014 - 08:23 AM, said:

I already made that joke. Twice >.>

BTB, on 31 October 2014 - 08:27 AM, said:

Take it easy, man. Don't be like a Wild Rat Gau against Doom Gaze, full of impotent Rage.

lol

Despite the benefits to moving Phantom to the Auction House for min-maxing, doing so leaves you with the possibility of getting to the FC without having an esper for Shadow.

thzfunnymzn, on 31 October 2014 - 08:31 AM, said:

Game, set, and match.

Counterpoint: Shadow is such a badass he's the only character in my Stamina-only run who was prohibited from having any Esper boosts at all (because they were all technically illegal) and he was still probably one of the best characters, despite his tiny fragile ninja body among the steroid-addled beef gods that were my Stamina/HP-raised party members.

Counter-counterpoint: Relm fans want to see Shadow die and not having an esper for the FC pretty much seals his fate.