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I guess I'm some kind of daily streamer or something at the moment. I played again on June 26.


I started from the midway save point in Exdeath's Castle at the end of Galuf's world. The fights were nice and balanced, although I hate having to walk on lava (not that it would justify a geomancer or anything). I didn't do too badly at the skull-filled mystery floor, and ended up fighting Carbuncle, which truly does nothing for my team.

I used a few Mixes to enhance the team's effectiveness. I know Carbuncle technically has two forms and that's probably why his defenses seemed to oscillate so much. Eventually he did Banish Faris successfully, but otherwise it was quite an easy battle.


We grabbed the Partisan and fought Gilgamesh. He kept turning us into tiny people or amphibians, but it also wasn't very hard. Some use of Mix accelerated the battle but, again, it felt easy. In fact I was pretty surprised when the battle ended.


Battles here were mostly conducted with the chemist (Bartz) joining the berserker (Krile) and dragoon (Faris) on the offense, while the bard (Lenna) sang songs mostly to lock down enemies with Romeo's Ballad. Every so often something weird would happen, like a Black Warlock reflecting Confuse onto itself, then casting Break on its own ally, but the ally was a Reflect Mage, and consequently this confused enemy petrified someone on my team. Very silly.


For Exdeath, we started with Dragon Kiss which I had intended to nullify Condemn. However, I don't think we saw very much Condemn. Really, I would've been much smarter to just go on the offense instead of buffing as much as I did, since once I went fully offensive the fight ended quite quickly. With Reflect Rings on 3 party members and Dragon Defense on the other, this was safe and easy.
 

We went into the merged world, which is great fun. At the beginning, I kept Krile as a berserker and Bartz as a chemist, and they had no problem defeating the Antlion.

We met Exdeath's splinter form, where, perhaps fittingly, there's a wedged-in TMNT reference.

Before entering the Pyramid, I went to Moore and collected the Chicken Knife.

I then backtracked to the lower levels of the Ancient Library and ran away a lot for about 15 minutes to fully power up the Chicken Knife. It has a lot of utility as a very high-powered and defense-ignoring weapon, but one usually wants a way to work around its significant downside of randomly escaping. I realized that being berserk doesn't prevent this, so my only option was the Jump command. That actually worked fairly well!

I tried coming up with some strategies to defeat the guardian Gargoyles at the same time, only to get strangely lucky and have my berserker proc the Death Sickle's death effect on them consecutively, ending the fight with no effort. We gained a lot of job levels at once from this, coincidentally.
 

For the Pyramid, I recalled one time skipping tons of treasure and then returning once Lenna had rejoined in order to make the dungeon a little bit easier and keep Lenna's level better paced. I was going to do that, but then I had very little trouble here making progress and getting treasure such that I pretty much emptied this place out after all. There was a Crystal Armor in a chest, and then I was surprised to get a second from Sekret almost right away.
 
There was great treasure here. I'll be able to make good use of the Black Robe, White Robe, Black Garb, and especially the Gaia Hammer. Since my berserkers are using Equip Harps to get a moderate boost to their magic, the Gaia Hammer's earthquake effect should be pretty potent.

We had to fight the rather immodest Melusine shortly after completing the Pyramid. We just used Reflect Rings and Dragon Defense, plus some other Mixes to speed things up, and won with brute force where possible and a little bit of Succubus Kiss on the side for magic damage. It was fine.
 

The world opens up a lot at this point and I had some goodies to gather! I went to the Phantom Village / Mirage and got the Thief Knife, two Hermes Shoes, and the eighth piano. We had a little jaunt to Crescent after that and completed the list of songs.
 
We also collected our first three sealed weapons: Holy Lance, Assassin's Dagger, and Apollo's Harp. The only other two that can even be equipped by my team are the Rune Axe and the Sage Staff. I sort of regretted the choice of Holy Lance, even though it's a fairly good weapon, but it won't usually be better than the Chicken Knife.


Exdeath sicced some awesome-looking demons on us...

...and then we got the Magic Lamp and the Mirage Vest before entering the Island Shrine.

The Island Shrine was okay. There are some bulky enemies here like Tot Aevis that aren't fun to fight, and the Executors were pretty annoying on a few occasions. The Pantera miniboss-in-a-box was a surprise to me: I didn't remember it existing at all, and it was actually a pretty challenging fight.

Treasure here was okay. My favourite thing I got was a second Protect Ring. Right now, the Protect Rings are on the chemist and the bard.

I encountered Wendigo (aka Stalker?) next.
 
As with a few of the last several bosses, I sort of over-prepared with Mix and made the entire team absorb the Frost counter attacks (eventually). Often when I've fought this enemy, I use multi-target attacks and just take the counters, but I don't actually have any multi-target attacks... so it took a long time, especially given that I couldn't control the berserker.
The battle ended pretty suddenly. Wendigo didn't do the thing I've seen in the past where the main target dies a bit before the clones, and it doesn't have a boss death animation.
 

I wanted to do the Fork Tower to open up Catapult, so I did that next. As always, I mixed up the physical and magical towers the first time. I ran quite a bit, especially since I had pretty much zero magical offense: anything that couldn't be killed with a single Mix would counter.

I was nervous about my strategy for Minotaur, but it turns out my Hermes Sandal-wearing berserker and dragoon were just able to kick its butt.
 
Omniscient actually took two tries, and it did Reset the battle a couple of times as well. What ended up working, in the end, was going in with Reflect Rings, using Mix and Drink to get defensive buffs (Protect, double HP, Haste...) and then using Mix to berserk Omniscient, then using Mix to blind Omniscient, and powering up a little bit and whittling him down with terrible physical attacks from my chemist and bard while stopping to heal as necessary. It was slow but safe... and really, not that slow, since Omniscient actually has quite low HP.
 
With that, we got Flare and Holy and, more importantly, got our airship upgraded to an airship/submarine.


The next thing we will be doing is restocking Dragon Fangs and then Istory Falls. I don't want to do the Deep Sea Trench at all so that will be our last major stop before the Void.

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Last time I played, I had been grinding some Grass Tortoises for Turtle Shells. I was continuing with that a bit as I started up on June 23.


I started this session with a bit of an explanation of the utter basics of Four Job Fiesta intended for someone who has no idea what's going on. I had to talk about something, because the Turtle Shell grind is not particularly entertaining. I ended up with some amount in the 60s or so, and spent the money on a third Flame Ring and on a big stack of Ethers and some other consumables. Just to try it out, I used Mix to aim a Succubus Kiss at an enemy here. It is powerful.


I also decided to run from a Goblin in a treasure chest in Tule for a little bit, but probably not enough to get a full-powered Chicken Knife. I may need to revisit that later.

There were only a couple of other things to consider doing before leaving for Galuf's world. For one, I thought maybe I should try to fight a Prototype, especially since Succubus Kiss is so strong. While Bartz as a dragoon and Faris as a bard had basically nothing to contribute, Lenna was able to kiss a few Prototypes to death.
 
Prototypes give adequate experience, no money, and drop items called Dark Matter. Dark Matter are very rare items mostly used with Mix to create some rather potent effects. I think I had one and won three more from Prototypes before just proceeding to Galuf's world.

I fought a Pao to get a tent and Bartz fought off the Abductor as well...

...and then Galuf had to come to our rescue. For his short solo segment, he was also a dragoon. This made his fight with Gilgamesh very easy.


When Galuf rescued the rest of the team, we actually had all four party members with all four of our jobs! A dragoon, a berserker, a bard, and a chemist.
 
There's not a lot of synergy, but Sing and Mix are very potent commands and Equip Harps actually has some value.

My stream had a hiccup toward the beginning of the Gilgamesh on-the-bridge battle. I had to edit the video posted above at it may be a little bit flickering around this point, although I've mostly fixed it. It wasn't flickering when it was live. It wouldn't be me without some kind of minor technical flub, right?

Anyway, for Gilgamesh, I didn't bother messing with his MP or trying to auto-kill him or anything... though I did whip out a couple of Succubus Kisses to finish him off after he buffed.
 
I said, at the time, that it felt cheap using that potent attack... but it would've been cheaper, really, to fully disable his magic or kill him outright. I oughtn't be feeling bad about using good tactics though.

We got blown away, shopped in Regole (I think?), and helped a moogle. I didn't mess around with the dinosaur fella and used a Phoenix Down.

We navigated the desert, grabbed the Dancing Dagger, and went back to Bal.


I thought we might be able to beat the Gil Turtle, perhaps because the chemist feels so broken and we took out the Prototype... however, despite preparing with a Mix to avoid Earth Shaker, we were not ready for the Gil Turtle.

Consequently, we just got Requiem in Qelb and proceeded to Drakenvale. Having Requiem here was quite an asset.

We stocked roughly 30 Dragon Fangs here by defeating Zombie Dragons, and managed the fights using this as well as Romeo's Ballad from time to time. For the same reason, saving Golem was easy!
 
Every so often, the berserker's Death Sickle would have its death effect trigger, restoring an undead enemy by 9999 HP. That was not ideal... but these fights weren't so hard or complicated that it was any real issue.


For the boss called Dragon Pod - a plant thing - I forgot to pack Mix for my chemist. I considered other options and noted quickly that Romeo's Ballad worked. Well. Now I've got a fight where two bozos just sing Romeo's Ballad constantly while two tanky warriors whack the boss. It worked just fine. Even with this, it was eventually a Death Sickle's death effect that killed the Dragon Pod!
 

We raided Surgate Castle to get a couple of new equips and the Swift Song, and then went to Xezat's Fleet. I decided to try out a Death Potion on Gilgamesh here, and it was great.


We entered the Barrier Tower. I expect to need to fight to get at least two Reflect Rings here - I don't want to grind for ages, but Reflect Rings are really good for my team, especially seeing as they have absolutely no magic spells. I say "two" because they might provide a legitimate solution in the Fork Tower later if I decide that's useful - which I probably will.

I opened the first trapped chest with that buff Red Dragon, and after I ran from it the first time and re-equipped it was two Yellow Dragons instead. I used Mix to give the whole team the ability to absorb lightning spells - which is expensive in terms of time and materials, but kind of awesome. We won a Coral Ring for fighting them, plus the chest's Blood Sword that I can never use.


I saved up at this point, so we'll probably be starting the next session with another grind. Hopefully it won't be terrible.

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I had been wanting to play more classic Final Fantasy games, especially just to get a feel for the new Pixel Remaster versions. The only one I had played so far was Final Fantasy III in October of 2024. While I'd been talking about doing the side quest challenge for Final Fantasy I, it happened that Four Job Fiesta season had started and it seemed opportune. I started a playthrough on June 16, 2025.


Thinking that I've spent lots of time lately using knight, thief, white mage and black mage, I decided I wanted to choose a playthrough style that avoided the wind crystal jobs as much as possible. The new Volcano Run option seemed like a good fit.