Ayulsa City - Ieeya

Uhh that kinda makes positioning most important. There's no clear safe area. Hell that's why using a Monk class is one of the better ways of defeating Wiegraf in human form. Position yourself correctly and you can use Earth Slash to hit him while avoiding any of his Holy Sword techniques.

I tried all pretty much all configuration that was possible. With only Move +1 and Battle Boots to work with, it's not possible to avoid the Holy Sword moves AND getting a meaningful action twice in a row. And since he starts first, I enter the battle with half down, making it even more ridiculous. Mettle won't help since I needed too many boosts to actually outrun him.

Which is why I had to defeat him the way I did.

I always found Monk abilities like Chakra and Revive to really just be insanely helpful through that battle.

those lamentations remind me of this

Of course I didn't have it at that time!

nooooob

My way to defeat Wiegraf was the way real men will choose.

Since I was half down before I even moved, I decided pussyfooting around him won't bring me victory. After all the tests I decided there was only one way to do it, the fucking manly way. COME AT ME BRO! NO UBER EQUIPS AND QUEER JOBS. JUST COURAGE. With 13 attack, an attack will do around 208 damage to Wiegraf. I happened to have Archer's Aim 3 ability, so I used that. Because Wiegraf just moved, you'll get to slash him. It'll do 260 damage, enough to end the battle in one attack.

But he will counter, which will kill you. So what to do? Pray to all the spirits that govern the universe that either Counter won't activate (unlikely) or Ramza will block it (quite likely!). OH GODS I BID THEE--- and I won!

For Belias, I happened to have First Strike on Ramza. So what to do? Fuck survival completely, bring Ramza as close to him as possible and slash slash slash. And pray he attacks with melee, which Ramza will completely deflect and get a hit of his own in. If Ramza dies sack one guy to Phoenix Down him at the right time and repeat. Hope that Belias fall before all of your team do.

Marquis, same. Focus all hits on one of the chicks and hope that Rapha won't be a retard.

OH GODS I BID THEE--- and I won!

Cool story bro.

It was a tough labor.

But it beats having to restart the game.

It would've been sad if you actually ended up resorting to that.

I did resort to that. I didn't have the necessary skills and equips and levels.

And I couldn't go out of the castle to train since I saved it over the main file.

Well that's sad. Battle is one of the hardest in the game, but if you made it up to that point you should've been able to get through it still even like that.

How many times I must state I'm underleveled? ._.

I didn't play any extra battles, recruits etc. I follow the new red dots of the plot almost exactly up to that point.

Still, I've gone down that route before and gotten to the point where I was fighting him and would be one or two shotted and was still able to make it through the fight. Took damn near forever and I nearly had some of my forces crystalized but I know for a fact it's possible.

It's indeed possible. I did just that.

With a Geomancer.

Oh btw, go to first post in this thread and watch the Viena video. Carefully. I implore you do it.

Well then why say it's better than restarting the game if that's what you did? Because I was talking about that being the thing that would have been sad.

Nice song, why was I supposed to watch it so carefully?

Total time spent is less than replaying the game from start to get back there. No repetitive boredom save the experiments to win the battle and I can play without noticeable loss of continuity. I'd find it sadder if someone actually grinds for that.

So, I finished FFT. I wished I had made a separate save but I didn't so I can't play the extra dungeon (dammit) but it was a great game. Glad I bought it.

welp. thats why every gungnir chapter ends in a new save file for me.

Playing it for another 40 hours to grind and arrive at that point again doesn't sound very appealing since I don't keep the skills/equips but yeah, it was a great experience. Excellent story.