Thread 12006832

I've been at this for a while now and no matter what job combo I use it just seems impossible, she literally one shots my characters with Blizzara and there's nothing I can do!

>>12006832 (OP)
And yes I have tried the opposite - focusing her down and leaving the goons - but it still ends badly.

>>12006832 (OP)
level up

>>12006832 (OP)
this game is pretty hard honestly, i got filtered by a lot of the bosses.

You're not intended to fight Shiva the first moment you arrive in Walz Castle. You can go to the next area and buy supplies at Karnak and then walk back to the meteor and teleport back to Walz and get Shiva then. Much easier that way.

>>12006832 (OP)
>>12006837
Nevermind I fucking did it, the solution was so simple I feel stupid not figuring it out sooner.

if anyone's curious
first strat
>have one White Mage, Two Black Mages and a Knight, the Knight stays in the front row while the mages nuke stuff and white mage heals - this invariably led to the Knight getting killed with Blizzara almost instantly
What I hadn't realized is that Blizzara targets all party members in one row and it does less damage the more it splits up, so the new strat was
>two Knights in front soaking up the physical damage and splitting the Blizzara damage, one Summoner group healing with Sylph and a Black Mage either nuking with Fire or healing with secondary White Magic if necessary

>>12006889
Your secret strat was attack with two knights and heal with 2 mages? Thats the solution to 99% of bosses in every game.

>>12006897
the Knights were mostly soaking the goons' damage with Guard honestly

you could have postponed it until you get fire rods from the next castle, breaking them ends the battle near instantly
but congrats for hanging in there

>>12006837
>>12006921
He already had a fire rod see pic.
He could of finished the fight in 1 turn if he just used the fire rod from the start.

>>12006938
i dont wanna lose my fire rods :(

When I got to Siren (early boss, shipwreck area) and got wiped in seconds I knew that this would be a good FF, and it was.

>>12006908
>anon discovers the tank/healer/dps holy trinity

Ok now I'm sure THIS one is impossible.
Am I just supposed to let it kill a party member every time I attack it?

>>12007180
>Ok now I'm sure THIS one is impossible.
you better shape up before you get to the actual difficult bosses. This mindset is aids

Jesus fuck OP, what the fuck is going on with your shader. I can't even post the ironic version, it's that bad.

>>12006964
>>12007180
FF1.
FF3.
FF5.

Sakaguchi kino.

>>12007180
If you attack during one of its forms it will always counterattack.

>>12007180
You know you can buy infinite amounts of rods in the town right? 2 ice rods kills this boss (and almost every other boss after too) if you wanna cheese the game just buy tons of different rods.

>>12006948
Did you know that equipping fire rods boosts your fire spells? Test it out, they do more damage when equipped. Same for every rod and their element and the spells.

>>12006921
You can actually grind for Fire Rod drops in Walse Tower, if you really wanted. Even if you don't break them, equipping an elemental rod does increased damage of that element.

>>12006832 (OP)
Butz, stop gooning!

>>12006832 (OP)
Just come back a bit later.

>>12007180
Break a rod.

>>12006832 (OP)
>>12006873
Yeah Shiva early is an optional challenge. There's multiple ways to do it early though.
>>12006889
As you found out

probably my fav FF aside tactics. You can cheese it early or brute it or grind etc.. but it's just a great game and the story is perfect, you really feel these people bond for a save the world adventure.

It's got a few hard parts but it's just good. Actually while tactics is one of my favs too I wish they had the bonus master like 5 did.

>>12007192
It's just bilinear filtering with the default scanlines on the emulator

>>12007193
Absolutely based. These are the only good FF games.

>>12006832 (OP)
>>12007180
I guess OP either hasn't found another boss challenging and is busting through the game OR he's still stuck and trying to pass this boss.

>>12008182
And it's not integer scaled so it's all fucked up.

>>12008894
>another boss
which one? are there more of them?

>>12008894
I haven't gotten that much farther than that but yeah nothing's been as hard as that first stretch, the jobs you get from the fire crystal really help a lot.