Uploaded September 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The specter of the FF8 Contrived Challenge rears it's head :l
Challenge Conditions
-) No Items
-) Initial Equipment
-) No Accessories
-) No Physical Attacks/Limits
-) No Non-Mandatory Inns: pastebin.com/WHheXtMc
-) Allowed Materia List: pastebin.com/cHJs2BLH
Far from my prediction of running into a tough battle here, we instead got a very quick one. I was too busy worrying about heavy-hitting attacks like Aqualung to notice that Jenny here has very low Magic Defence which, combined with a weakness to Earth, sends her packing in short order. She will cast Reflect in response to magic attacks though, so a Debarrier is needed after each cast of Quake3. Beyond that, we've got Icicles that can be taken care of with Demi2 so I tacked that onto the end to get it out of the way.
Going into Disc 2, the majority of our Materia has been 'grown' with only a few exceptions like the newly acquired Comet. We've also reached a much higher Level than I thought would be possible using Black Bats over Adamantaimai and we're looking likely to reach Lv.80 or so. That being said, we have very few opportunities to grind left in the entire game as there are only three Restore Points between here and the end of the game.
The specter of the FF8 Contrived Challenge rears it's head :l
Challenge Conditions
-) No Items
-) Initial Equipment
-) No Accessories
-) No Physical Attacks/Limits
-) No Non-Mandatory Inns: pastebin.com/WHheXtMc
-) Allowed Materia List: pastebin.com/cHJs2BLH
Far from my prediction of running into a tough battle here, we instead got a very quick one. I was too busy worrying about heavy-hitting attacks like Aqualung to notice that Jenny here has very low Magic Defence which, combined with a weakness to Earth, sends her packing in short order. She will cast Reflect in response to magic attacks though, so a Debarrier is needed after each cast of Quake3. Beyond that, we've got Icicles that can be taken care of with Demi2 so I tacked that onto the end to get it out of the way.
Going into Disc 2, the majority of our Materia has been 'grown' with only a few exceptions like the newly acquired Comet. We've also reached a much higher Level than I thought would be possible using Black Bats over Adamantaimai and we're looking likely to reach Lv.80 or so. That being said, we have very few opportunities to grind left in the entire game as there are only three Restore Points between here and the end of the game.
