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In each case, when I talked about these unrunnable fights in my report, I really meant individual encounters, not specific monsters types. Just for another example, you can run from a GrShark/Wizard Sahag pairing, but not a Wizard/Red Sahag pairing. I know that the game sets the running flag by encounter mob, not enemy type. That would have saved me some agony at a couple points. Wow, wish I'd known about how the game handles the negative XP issue while playing. 'Final Fantasy V's story is retarded.' 'WHAT WAS THAT? I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THIS JOB SYSTEM.' Hey, if you want to do variantism with one of the SNES FFs, it's gotta be Final Fantasy V. Maybe D2 Ironman style, with only one trip allowed to each town, though that makes for some really tough cash farming before Elfland or you lose FAST forever. I was trying to think of a way to play the game Diablo Ironman style without town trips, but you're right that there just isn't enough healing until the Heal Staff halfway through the game. I don't have much to add on the LOTL variant. Kudos for the persistence!īTW, your page header 'Low-Level Chellenge' has a typo Thirteen attempts at the Temple of Fiends? I know you've stubbornly done far more than that, but I get bored and start loading up Civ instead after about four tries. Those have some drastically different mechanics, especially in the department of combat damage modifiers like race and element. However, newer sources can be unreliable about the NES version many authors have only played from the PSX or DS remakes of the game. The Dragon Armor has elemental resistances? I've always used the Ben Siron guide (on Gamefaqs and a billion other sites) which doesn't mention that.? I see now that some other guides do mention it.

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Finally, just for even more confusion, the Zombull/Troll package can be encountered with zero Trolls, which looks identical to the ZomBull package in Ordeal but IS runnable! (BTW, someone recently posted to the FF Formulas thread on Gamefaqs with the full list of nonrunnable encounters.) Other ZomBull packages, like the ZB/Troll encounter on the Peninsula of Power, do permit running. The ZomBull package in Castle Ordeal prevents running, since it's used as the boss of the dungeon. Re running from ZomBulls - the key point is that unrunnability (I made a word :D ) depends on the entire encounter _group_ package, not just the type of enemy. That's actually possible with save-state abuse, run from everything else and hit the 1/201 shot with the Bane Sword. I always wanted to somehow get a level-1 character to beat WarMech all by himself to gain 10+ levels in one shot.

Then when you win the *next* fight, the game checks again and awards the missing level.

The warrior ends up with a negative number for exp needed, which displays as 65000+ as overflow from 2^16. The game can handle the situation where a low-level Warrior gains two levels in one fight.

Enough potions will get through it, while the Short and Silver Swords and Iron Armor really can be skipped. As I mentioned in my reports, Marsh Cave really is just a grind of attrition. Yours was certainly much more impressive!Īnd I didn't realize that a true low level challenge also effectively meant a low-gold challenge, at least for the first part of the game. I don't remember many details, except that the party was of course the uber Fighter-Fighter-Red-Red combo and definitely leveled enough for the LIFE spell. My low-level run was several years ago, and wasn't all that low, finished at level 18 or 19. Hey, I did play another FF variant myself a few weeks ago, but haven't gotten around to the report. Good thing you came back with another report. Wow, somehow I completely missed this thread when you posted it.

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