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To address that Maximillian you acquired late in the video: IIRC, the Elvorets in the Necrohol of Nabudis can drop them on occasion, so that’s most likely where you got it from 👍

What number can you divide in half to make vulnerable to level 5 death? Every multiple of 5 doubled is still a multiple of 5. Sometimes a number can be a multiple of 5 and dividing it in half will make it no longer a multiple of 5, but there should never be a need to half a number to then make it a multiple of 5.

Red Mage best mage. Mix time mage and get a Red Time Battlemage and that unit becomes an absolute unit

Let us acknowledge the Xenoblade 1 music in the background.

Though the jobs are bit unique in FF10, I consider Tidus to basically be a time battlemage if you stick to his section of the sphere grid.

Your party is wearing full heavy armor, so they are much tankier against physical attacks than you are used to. That's why Daedalus and Bergan were a joke

My favorite Game! Thanks for the Video.

great video loved the challenge!

What is next, white mages? It seems you startet with all magic classes . I wanted to try WM run myself but it might impossible so I thought I'll add summons as well, but I was gonna only use one character in case it was easy

An interesting (and very easy) run you could try is unarmed monk only. Only issues is flying enemies, which is solvable.

Having not ever player dark souls 2, the statement "id rather wade through the lake of rot over X area" might just be the biggest jab you can make about a region in souls games. considering the lake of rot is miserable, and in a more casual setting makes you fight a rather poorly designed boss in it (Dragonkin Solider). though i guess if your only concerned about seeing the credits thats not such a big knock. honestly nice in general to see somebody not actively bashing Elden Ring and its open world in a challenge run context, sure you had some gripes with it but you werent basically going 'games bad for challenge runs because theres no real limits on resources'. when frankly as you pointed out 'the game expects you to kill a God. and gives you the tools to do it.". doesn't mean i don't wish spellcasting tools had unique light attack combos using magic associated with the tool, and used the spells has heavy attacks. like imagine if the golden order seal had a light combo of medium range arcs of light, or the Staff of the Guilty conjured close range brambles that cause bleed build up on you and your target. (Carian Slicer would in this iteration get absorbed into the Carian staff instead of being a dedicated spell.). anywho souls design aside, i might be binging these videos months late, but Xeph continues to prove that being good and video games isn't paticularly required in these games. (Mrs Gamerchamp would be proud.)

Thanks so very much for this!! I think using a Crossbow they are good for taking out sertain creatures that fly at a distance and smaller beasties, but on most adversary's it's almost useless"" I think Fran the Vera is by far the best character because I always build up her license board making her character the most powerful so she can use every kind of weapon' including Spears 13:11 s❤

This seems like a fun run. I've done a mage only run, but not a specific mage type.

You say the entire game but you don't do the hunts or side content

Quina is peak blue mage performance

I wish they had access to meteor and space magic. Apparently the Japanese translation of Time Mage is more akin to Space-Time mage.

during normal playthroughs where you can actually optimize, haste+berserk is an even more cracked strategy for a large portion of the game. Also, I'm surprised you didn't know about the diamond armlet from trial mode. I figured you'd been ignoring it on purpose, as picking it up right away has always felt like a staple thing to do in a normal playthrough for me. It might be against the spirit of the challenge runs, but you can pretty easily manipulate chest rng as well. It looks like you're playing the ps4 release? If you keep a separate save file with rex in the beginning at the first save crystal, you can find your rng seed based on his cure values, then load your actual file with your rng set up. So long as nothing advances your rng before you next open a chest (ie: you don't start any fights or cast any spells) you'll be in the same part of the rng sequence, and be able to guarantee your drops. Because the game auto-saves during every room transition, this is pretty doable in a lot of situations. Completely against the spirit of the challenges, you can use this to guarantee seitengrat drops. This doesn't work on pc because (iirc) the rng on startup is random on pc whereas the rng on console is fixed. PC has third party tools that tell you your current and upcoming rng values though, so its actually way easier if you're willing to use them. The argument can be made that's sort of cheating though, but somehow rng manipulating sort of feels like it fits in with the core gameplay loop of ff12 to me.

I actively enjoy these videos. Any chance of Monk or Knight runs in the future?

at opening: in 5, they can be fairly broken (especially if you abuse glitches -- not as broken as Blue Mage, Chemist, or Samurai can be), especially when abusing glitches, so I won't say the class is UNIVRSALLY BAD. But, RE: 12: since I never even realized time mage was a thing in 12, I'll defer to your superior expeience nd just nod my head in agreement that it's probably bad in 12 (and I suspect because you say the class in bad in general, I suspect it's REALLLY BAD in 12) Curious to see what horrors you go through before the finish :D -- good luck!

So I looooooooove single class challenges and have done a lot of them myself to varying degrees (inclding getting to about Archades for all of them in this game). So of course I'm religiously watching yours. Anyway, it's interesting you seem to railroad yourself into mainly story only stuff. Just started the video but for instance you can buy crossbows (as well as the other mage job weapons, so it'd have been relevant for Red Mage as well) in Nalbina (which also has Dark and would have made THAT run even sillier at the beginning). Edit as I watch: Huh, didn';t pick up reflect? I suppose it's probably not too useful but still. LOL. The 'speedrunner walk of shame', not getting Bur-Omnisece crystal. And I'm guessing you also don't know about the Berzerker's Bracers in the Eastersand just south of the Highwaste? Much better than Basch casting it on himself as you can just talk it off when needed. As for Adrammelech, you can just Diamond Armlets to nullify Lightning damage. There's one in the caves, one in the Westersand and if you really want can grab as many as you need in the first stage of trial mode.....and I see you figured it out :D As far as someone being an 'item healer' you can grab the Pheasant Natsuke from Jahara to help with that (....ah I see you found one later too) Noticed you used Float on Deadalus but didn't mention it.... All this stuff is just to say this game has a lot to it that you can engage with and it's interesting to see what people do and don't do to get through challenges like this.

Monks!

Time mages are always either useless or massively OP. There is no inbetween

The thing about the time battle mage is mostly as the secondary job like you said it's probably the most important one for the red or black mage in my opinion. And the crossbows are some of the most weird things I have every used right up there with the gun. Bows are the best in terms of good damage

Haste + Berserk + Ranged Weapons is so cheesy in FF XII as you can keep your main character away from your allies so that AoE issues don't come up... I know you mention this but so many people don't understand how **powerful** of an option that is. Especially when enemies need to move to get to each character! Especially, especially, when you get the status ammo! Free Slow, Disable, Immobilize, Blind, Doom, and Sap are all great when combined with a hasted party. The magiks aren't useless once you get these as the chance to hit is like 25% (which is why you want to be hasted). Time Battlemages, funny enough, work rather well by taking their time with an enemy... Though when things are immune you really feel it. Also, they get some neat Technicks, a feature that people tend to overlook. Also, also, you can get access to some rather strong one handed swords (Durandal and Simha) with one Time Battlemage if you wanna get the Zodiark esper (kinda hate this only one person gets it system but whatever). Side note, the Japanese name is Timespace Warmage, which I think sounds 110% more metal. The thing about FF XII is that people tend to judge jobs against other jobs and not the jobs versus the game. This means that people think that some options are bad instead of just less optimal.

ff12 content??? in 2024?! you have to sub to that

Im at the start of the video and I can't wait to see the horrors of all Time Mages. As much as I enjoy the jobs, they are really lopsided. Still holding out hope for a Character license board version where each character has a unique character based board. 🤞

Balance is a time spell and insanely powerful. The difference beatween your max hip and current hp is the damage you deal. This can get you dealing thousands per hit when your autos would do far less. It’s not end game strong but it’s extremely powerful through the beginning and all mid game

Great run in my favorite game! You should expand this and include the optional content and secret Espers to see how far it goes

No tactics time mages? Heh

As mentioned on black mage only White mage is horrible early. You really want to do the hunts so you get the drain magic and then you're basically sorted for the entire game. I will say base game is pretty easy once drain comes into play. Ignores reflect, non elemental and ofc it heals. It's a massive win win. I am doing trial mode and planning on trying it against Yiazmat 😂😂. I managed to eventually kill fafnir...which took me getting to level 99 and i still only just managed it and Behemoth King took 40 minutes on double speed... So i can't wait to see how long Yiazmat takes 😂😂.

I consider the technique that lets you have 40+ forbidden suns a feature, not a bug :)

FFV: let's do the time warp again~ literally resetting the fight was probably the most annoying thing to code ever, so it makes sense they never got that power again XD

Keep FFXII alive!

Bravely Default would work for these types of video tbh, it's just FF with the serial numbers scratched off (granted I don't think we're ever gonna see 1 and it's sequel on modern platforms). But ya, it's always nice to see FF12 in these challenges.

I know you're playing time mages only run, but if anyone is interested on playing a "main" time battle mage character in the zodiac age. Time battlemage/Archer works great as ranged dps + item healer. Same with time/uhlan but you willl probably drop crossbows for spears

(You could include Bravely Default, that's three more Final Fantasy Time Mages right there)

I wonder how FFV Time Mage would hold up. Quick + Meteor can probably destroy mostly everything, but until you reach that part... especially world 1 without comet, I assume it's a rod spam fiesta lol

I mean, it's not Red Mage.. But Time mages are cool too... (Specially Time Battlemage)

It might end up quite easy late game, but all the same I'd be really interested to see if an esper only run is possible? I imagine it'll be pretty tough immediately after Raithwall's tomb, I'm not sure if Belias can even solo any other espers for you to be able to unlock them but it'd be real cool to see what's possible with a generally underutilised mechanic in FFXII ^.^

Love the final fantasy 12 content!! Keep it up!

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Babe wake up a new Xephrost video dropped

Pulling out the final fantasy 13 music for the twins fight is iconic

Zodiac age did release in 2017, but final fantasy xii: zodiac job system released in 2006 I believe, which was released only in Japan and is basically a 1:1 for the zodiac age

my first time seeing a video by you and i really enjoyed it! great work, gonna have to go back and watch some more

This is great, man! I love that you included your gameplay and exploration between bosses. Challenge runs that only showcase the boss fights are sooooooo boring to me. Awesome work. Subscribed. 💪

Good ol' rock. Nothing beats rock.

This was a great watch! The crystal sages made me laugh because the same thing happens to me every play through. Clones are annoying!

Nice run. Have a good weekend ☺️✌️

@7:20 "Will I ever learn? ....probably not" 😂😂😂