So I just completed FFXIIIFollow

So you only see value in a discussion if people agree in the end?

It's the internet, reasonable arguments aren't actually considered and thought upon, they are only used to to point out the lack of intelligence of whoever is disagreeing with you.

Also, the character progression in FFXIII was laughable. If you think otherwise then you've clearly never been exposed to any sort of good writing, just the weak **** poor drivel that passes for pop culture nowadays.

It's every bit as useful as "you keep trying to withdraw from this conversation but I won't let you because I'm blindly convinced that I'm right".

Liar. You respond to Alma all the time.

Well that's depressing, because now I get neither pleasures a debate can produce--winning or understanding why the other person feels differently.

I've been away for a few days.

I came back to see 17 more posts and I was optimistic as to what they contained.

I am a little disappointed :(

I hear that there is another way, but you'll have to do some things that you're not proud of.






My Little Pony Memes.

Edited, Aug 8th 2011 9:47pm by Eske

I never had any problem with the final boss. I killed him before he even cast a single spell.

I didn't even know he had Death in his ******* before coming to this thread, actually.

I never said that the fight was hard with proper planning. I said that it's not that different from the final battle of FFXIII, in that proper planning is going to make it pretty easy where it could potentially be really rough without it (and note that I said "could" for both instances--your luck is a huge factor in both, without the right gear).

Yunalesca's fight is a breeze if all 3 of your characters are deathproof and zombieproof, for instance. If you add the appropriate other status (blind or silence-proof), it's a breeze.

But assuming you are an average joe, with only access to what you could realistically have found or made at this point, you aren't going to have any of that (or auto-med).

In P1, you only have 3 options.
1. Attempt to damage Yunalesca with your status ailments.
2. Try to heal status ailments between attacks, either by using a dedicated member or just attacking every other round.
3. Have Yuna reflect everyone, which allows them to attack normally without fear.

You're probably going to choose 3.

So let's fast forward to P2 (and assume everyone's in good health). You are all now zombies. And you all have reflect. Yuna is going to need to Dispell(ga) at this point, because it's going to get rough from here on out unless you have a massive number of mega-potions. Plus, Yunalesca will heal herself if you don't. You'll also need to cure zombie from here on out on all but 1 member (constantly shifting the status, so that you can heal when it's gone).

That alone can be pretty annoying with the RNG. Yunalesca is a very fast boss, and Cura hurts a lot. Since she inflicts zombie with an AoE (that luckily doesn't do TOO much damage), all of your party members are going to need constant healing. The kicker, of course, is that you can't use AoE heals, since you'll damage a member that way...

This phase is really annoying, but not too hard to survive. The NEXT phase is where the RNG can really ***** you over.

So you enter P3 and two of your party members die. The thing that sucks is that Yunalesca is fully capable of having the next turn after Mega Death. And Curaga hurts. A lot. It's fully conceivable that your zombied character will not have the health to survive it (especially since zombie means they won't be at full health).

That right there is a potential game over. And the ONLY way to avoid it completely is to have deathproof armor, so that you don't need to rely on zombie status to survive the start of P3.

But say you get lucky, and you get a turn after megadeath. Well, you're going to use a pheonix down, which will give you 1 character alive, 1 zombie, 1 dead (I imagine you don't want a MP, since it would give you 2 alive, without a zombie, opening yourself to MD).

Then you'll revive the next one. But all this while, Yunalesca can be using Curaga, so you might lose your zombied member. And there's no guarantee that she won't use Mega Death before using Hellbiter, so you might still end up in a situation without a zombie.

Is she hard with proper planning? No. But I've gone in with over-leveled groups (but without deathproof gear) and still lost, simply because Yunalesca got really lucky strings of turns.