ShadowNinja

Very weird. He was using spoon on me very early on in the fight and in the attempt that I beat him he used it around 10 times.

1 hour ago, Nesouk said:

So it is as I say you were poorly prepare who the fuck would not have a stock of phenix Downs when they became available, and I beat him in 6-7 minutes at LV13-14 with 0 Phenix Downs the only difference is that I had Sabin instead of Edgar so sorry but I don't think the fight is as insane as you make it seems.

Well I spent a lot of $$ on gear and had 20 phoenix's but kept getting bullshit step mines and magnitude killing people. Also, it's literally impossible to do the fight with 0 downs unless he never does the spoon attack. He did the spoon attack at least 8x in all of my attempts and it's a 100% hit rate auto kill so how the fuck did you not die once.

55 minutes ago, Mishrak said:

Yo bro, this isn’t reddit. Check your attitude.  If you want help we’ll be glad to offer advice but rolling in here like we owe you something is garbage. 

A) I wasn't cursing at you or anyone else. B) I don't need advice, the encounter is simply broken. C) I finally beat it, took me 13 phoenix downs and 15 minutes. No encounter this early in the game should be that difficult. The only reason I was losing was because I only had 9 phoenix downs originally so I had to go back to town and buy a fuck ton of them. If you have to rez 13 times to beat this shit when you're over leveled for it and geared to the teeth, it's broken. It felt like I was fighting a weapon in FF7.

I'm using gau, locke, edgar, celes. I'm well aware it's not min maxing but there's no fucking reason whatsoever that I should be having this much difficulty with a party that's entirely over leveled and has the best possible gear in the entire game at this point in time. This piece of shit uses slim jim every 20 fucking seconds. It's so god damn retarded it's unbelievable. Then he uses spoon once every minute and auto kills whoever it hits. Then I rez them, then he hits that fucking person right before I can heal them then they die again, then he spawns adds, then he slim jims again. Tone this fucking piece of shit boss down. It's seriously the most cancerous shit I've ever experienced in my entire life playing a JRPG.

7 minutes ago, A Dummy said:

Are you setting Sap and Slowing him?
Every time he pops a Slim Jim he gains Regen and Haste, so you wanna make sure to counter those with Slow and something like Drill or Pummel or you're going to have a bad time.

Yep. Drilling. Slowing. Poisoning. I know I've been getting extremely close to killing him but he pulls out some bullshit RNG on me every time so far 6x in a row now.

I've beaten him before on the 1.4a version. Not sure if he was buffed or what not but this time it's virtually impossible. I legit had a much easier time with Atma weapon than this fucking guy. I'm over leveled for the zone with all level 13-14's when the mod maker says the zone is intended for 10-12(good fucking joke). I'm employing what is literally a flawless strategy. I always defend his jump attack. I hold my turn with Edgar usually with bio blast so I can immediately kill his adds when he spawns them. My entire team is in the back row using weapons that ignore row so that I avoid as much damage as possible. I'm having Celes slow and heal non stop. I've attempted 6x so far with my last attempt had him using "spoon" literally back to back insta killing 2 of my guys then after I rezzed them he insta killed them again. No fucking boss this early in the game should be this difficult. He's literally harder than Atma weapon which is fucking retarded. He 100 million percent needs to be toned down. 

This fight is not even remotely reasonably balanced.  Either remove his regen or remove his "spoon" attack or significantly nerf both. This fight is not even close to being fun.

6 hours ago, Vaylen said:

Being quick might be a skill... but there are other skills. Decision-making, adaptability, preparation. Strategy and real-time tactics.

By keeping myself UNDERlevelled, I make the game artificially harder, yes. Following from that: If I am overlevelled, I make the game artificially easier. I like neither of those options - I wish to be appropriately levelled to keep the challenge intact without it becoming too frustrating.

There are no real time tactics unless you switch to active combat. The other things you mentioned aren't really skills. How difficult is it to know that if your opponent is weak to fire then you use fire. The level of depth in strategy is basically non-existent which is why I think you're trying a bit too hard. I mean, I easily beat this game when I was like 10 years old, how hard can it be? If you're not willing to switch to active combat then I have no clue why you're even on the forums complaining that the game has become too easy.

1 hour ago, Vaylen said:

Well, this mod aims to make it more skill based and dynamic. Overlevelling kinda makes those efforts go to waste.

The only skill involved whatsoever is preparation pretty much. Your only chance of dying is due to being poorly prepared or just bad RNG. By maintaining a low level you're just making the game artificially harder which doesn't really increase the skill requirement, it just makes fights take longer and increases the chances for RNG to screw you. The only way you could make the game more skill based would be to switch combat mode to active so if increasing difficulty is what you're truly after then I suggest doing that.

On 5/27/2018 at 10:54 AM, Vaylen said:

Hello there, I'd like someone to give me a general overview on what level my party should be for the various areas in the game. Would be especially helpful for the WoR stuff.

Reason I am asking is that I... Really do not like to overlevel, but oftentimes accidently do so. The no-exp feature is quite nice in that regard(A bit of a bummer for spellpoints and ELs, though).
As the levelling curve is a lot different now, I'd like to at least have some idea where I stand. Without the ability to scan enemy levels(Like in many other RPGs), it is hard to tell wether I just play well or am plain OP.

Currently, the game has started feeling way too easy(I am at the sealed gate cave and the enemies.. don't even get to do anything most of the time). Has felt that way since the magitek factory(All the bosses barely scratched me...).
Party is currently at lvl 18.

I think you're trying a bit too hard dude. Final Fantasies aren't exactly skill based games. Just play the game and experiment as you like.

Nope. Just some random rom site. Forget which exactly.

Ah cool. Just wanted to make sure. I started playing recently but it turns out I've been playing the 1.4a version which is quite old and I tried updating it to 1.9 and it crashes. I ended up killing shadow and wanted to play him anyways so I guess I'll just restart fresh with 1.9

When a new patch comes out, do you have to restart the entire game in order to use it or can you patch your existing game?

Wow, that's dumb. Kinda makes me wanna quit honestly. Totally forgot about that part I guess but meh. No way I'm restarting from scratch

Hmm not sure what you mean?  I got to the end and it said "jump" or "I can't leave without shadow!" I tried to click that but nothing happened and I only had 10 seconds left so i just jumped

don't tell me I can't get Shadow now...

So, I just heard about this mod and hadn't played FF3 in ages and have been meaning to so I decided to try this. Shadow is one of my favorite characters and so I wanted to get him in the WoR. Well, I checked guides and they said you can find him in the cave on the Veldt. So I went there and when I get to the screen to fight Tiamat, I see Relm lying there and not Shadow which I thought was weird cuz in all of the videos it's Shadow lying there. So then I killed Tiamat and took Relm back to town where she sleeps there but I find no sign on Shadow anywhere. I never got the cut scene for him and he won't appear in the coliseum. I also went back to the cave and he's not there either. No clue what to do now on how to find him. Did my game get bugged or something or was this just a change because I did something in a different order? Help meh!