No more FF5 for awhile. The answer to GBA SJC Jobs is: Not right now, and heres why: First of all, 3 of them don’t unlock until you’ve got all 4 tablets in the merged world. The 4th isn’t until after you beat the optional super dungeon. Which leads to the obvious conclusion: “Just mod them in”. Which is what I would have to do. The problem is the game knows when you get the jobs. Therefore, you don’t get the tools for jobs until you get access to them. Cannoneer is half a job since you don’t get the merchant that sells you ammo until you unlock it. Necromancer can’t even get abilities until the merged world. There might be a random handful in Galufs World, but theres absolutely nothing in Bartz’ World. I dont remember much about Oracle. I asserted it was garbage and gave up on it. The only feasible job would be Gladiator, and thats basically like a hybrid Knight/Dancer except when you high roll it does nutty damage. It also gets Slash-All which just sounds like a free win to me. I can tell you exactly how these runs will go. Necromancer would just be rod smashing the entire game. I’d farm flame rings and smash fire rods on myself for healing since Necromancers have a bonemail-style undead effect. That would be it until I could start even getting abilities in the merged world. I get a lot of complaints about rod smashing, and thats exactly how this one would be for 90% of the run. I’m not interested and dont think I can make compelling content for them. Finally, and most importantly of all: I’m just done with FF5 for the time being. I did 21 playthroughs for the SJC. Then I did Bartz Only for Premium Buster and then Best/Worst Jobs. I’m completely tapped out of FF5.
Necromancer is just Blue Mage except you can’t properly heal anyway, and Gladiator and Cannoneer contain too much cheese (Open Fire is scaled for endgame enemies, so you one shot everything until around midway through world 2.) Oracle sucks, just a (more) magic-oriented Geomancer, except sometimes the spells hurt you (yay?)
@@mattmelton7389it’d be fun to see him suffer through ff3. Zodiac Age is really fun for “one class” challenges, since gear is a lot better in that game and many abilities are cross-class. It’s a lot longer game, though
Thanks for this series. You don't know how important what you do can be to people. Its helped me get through the worst year of my life and I'm eternally grateful. Thanks again and happy holidays!
It's interesting that a "best job from each crystal" party and a "best jobs synergistically" party end up pretty similar. The Fire crystal really is the biggest toss up, you could make some kind of argument for most of them. But I really, really can't argue with the efficiency of early 1000 Needles; kinda wish 10k Needles was in this game so that spell didn't completely fall off later. Plus not having to rely on Confuse to get shit like White Wind and Mighty Guard is super nice, obviously. Also that comment about "what were the devs thinking about letting Blue Mage equip shields", I'm asking what were they thinking giving a half-knight job a strength penalty of like, minus 7 or something. Also cool that you went the level 3 Flare route for Exdeath whereas I went for Level 2 Old; level 66 is a super debilitating level for someone like Exdeath to have. But yeah, great run. Your FFV stuff has been a super fun ride!
I tried to get all blue spell and spent 3 hours on the ancient library trying to get Guard Off without success. My mistake is having time mage merge with my beast master, so I wasted the first turn casting Haste 😂
What a fantastic set of videos good sir, every single one objectively played the same game but the variations in strategy and storytelling edits made each one felt unique. Excited to see what you decide to do from here
fun fact - not only does sap damage YOU during stopped time, it damages enemies during stop time, and doesn't run out its duration the way it normally would. This leads to the strategy known as QuickLeak, where you inflict Sap and then activate Quick and only use the first action, trapping the enemy in stopped time as the game waits for your second input. Every enemy in the game is vulnerable to this, including all the super bosses and Neo Exdeath. Downside: the damage rate is comically low, meaning using it against any of the powerful bosses takes many, many hours of waiting in stopped time for them to die.
With my recent run of FFV, i have figured out that Black Mage and Summoner is quite a combo. Having access to a full party reflect in Carbuncle is nice to absolutely melt a single target(which is most bosses). Firing off a 50% damage spell at 4 targets results in a 200% damage spell. Doing 6k damage in a single turn(12k if you have doublecast) on an enemy with neutral element resistance feels quite strong on a lvl 30 party.(At the final dungeon at lvl 30 with just this combo of -aga reflect)
I must say, your commentary during this whole series was hilarious. You definitely have a great talent for content creation. Looking forward to your next series. Great job, dude!
This has been an amazing series. I stumbled on it when the berserker vid came out. I eagerly awaited for each subsequent video and was not disappointed. This gave me a new found appreciation for FF5. Thanks again my dude!
13:40 - I started a new run of this game on the defunct iOS version because your content has been making me want to play it again. I got to Iron Claw, had my Blue Mages all ready… and then Faris Berserker hit with her axe for a high roll of over 800 damage. Poor Iron Claw didn’t even get a hit in, let alone Death Claw.
Strange to think that the worst jobs video eliminated the "weeb jobs" almost immediately for being too good, but somehow neither made the cut for the best jobs party. Also strange that Beastmaster made the cut, but given that you took blue mage, it makes sense. Love the content as always, can't wait to see what you do next
they get a ton of passives and commands to learn and are definitely strong picks but I feel like the only thing that goes into truly busted territory is giltoss, which just requires gil farming (which is kind of boring to watch honestly, no synergy either).
Honestly, it kinda shows the difference between being independently good and being synergistically good. Ninja and samurai are powerful on their own, as is ranger. but when it comes to making a strong team, in this context a beastmaster is the better pick. The toolsets of both Ninja and Samurai don't mix well with a lot of classes or make them that much stronger, whereas beastmaster both unlocks the full potential of blue mage and brings some tactical utility of his own in the process. Quite often, having a good force multiplier and team player is better than having a squad of largely independently strong characters. you see this all the time in team based games. the whole "you don't need tactics when the enemy is dead" is more of a nice idea than an actual truism, like yea, that'd be great. but all out offense isn't gonna work in every situation, and once you blow your load you're gonna wish you had all that support and utility you passed up for more numbers.
That's an extremely good summary, because the synergy aspect is massively important. Beastmaster does more with Blue Mage than even Ninja ever could. I would add that as absurdly powerful as Samurai is, Chemist is the one job that can actually solo both secret bosses as far as I'm aware. Mix is just that redonkulous if you have the ingredients.
Thanks for this whoooooooole series! This channel is the reason why Final Fantasy V was my game of the year according to RUclips. There were many rewatches and it was fun seeing my first Final Fantasy game beaten with every job (GBA excluded). Like many others have said, it must have been difficult to make every play through interesting but you made it happen!
Really enjoyed this series, thank you for making it. Also, my name is Carlos, do hearing "Karlabos" every video never stopped making my ears perk up like a cat hearing the can opener
Okay now that I've actually seen the video I have to say I'm stoked that Blue Mage was chosen. The mysterious man in the mask with its bff Beastmaster crushed it. BLU being undoubtedly being my favorite FF job and it was great to see a FF5 run with BLU at its full potential. Though of course Chemist and Time Mage were no slouch either. You could also say that Black Mage and Summoner had their hand in the run too with the Magic Lamp and rod smashing.
A fantastic series coming to an end. I really look forward to seeing what you do next, I found your channel about 7 jobs in and have watched the entire series. Whatever you do, I hope you take a well earned break.
I was skeptical when I started watching because how can someone make compelling content for 20+ run throughs on the same game. I was very wrong! This has been so much to watch and you wit is the star of the show! Well done and looking forward to the next series!
The algorithm brought me in early, one minute in and I was hooked! Thank you for completing this series and inspiring so many of us to do our own zany ffv runs!
Throwing my hat into the ring for Final Fantasy Tactics job challenges. I completely get being toasted on FF5. This was a fascinating series to watch, and I'm really glad you did it. Thank you for sharing this journey with us. :3
this sort of "dragon thats not a dragon" annoyed the hell out of me in Fire Emblem Engage, where you fight a lot of Dragons that are not "Dragons" but "Fell Dragons" therefore, not affected by the dozens of Dragon slaying weapons you get in that game, you know, the weapons designed specifically to kill evil dragons that don't work against these evil dragons.
Thank you so much for the series, you don't know how much they meant to me it was something that'd cheer me up often as I had an overall really rough year but your series made it so much better and helped me a lot, so thank you for that
Summoner vs Time Mage is difficult, but Time Mage can equip staffs which Summoner and Blue Mage can'ts, so they can use the healing staff for free cura or undead damage while having time magic and another skill to use. Also gives you the choice of using the flail and morning star.
Awesome series from start to finish; despite finishing the game multiple times I learned a lot from your vids. Definitely have earned a break from it, but have considered a charity Four Job Fiesta run next year? Could be a fun live stream. Unless you draw thief...
If you're still looking for suggestions/ideas etc. how about crystal only party. As in each party member has the job you choose, but the jobs available to choose are only from the fire crystal (or the other 3 crystals separately). And each party member has to have a different job of that crystal at all times. Added challenge? No rod smashing, but you're the boss. Love the vids btw.
Time and Blue Mages are excellent choices because many of their "best" spells (Level 5 Death, Death Claw, Meteor, any buff) don't actually use Magic stat, so they still work as effective on jobs with lower Magic stat like the Beastmaster.
I know this is a little late in coming, but you don't have to eat the full 1500 damage from the bombs' self destruct. The damage is based on their remaining HP, so you can whittle them down a little and then tank like a 300 HP self-destruct instead.
BeastMaster as one of the best job? that was unexpected! I understand it synergises perfectly with blue mage, but ranger and ninja are so good that it shocks me!
Ninja has a few synergies with Blue in non-PR versions. Scrolls scale with Magic Power, and Dual Wield Rune Blade does funny damage on Blue Mage. Bard lets you get almost every Blue Magic as early as Beastmaster. The only notable missing ones are 1000 needles (wait for early merged world) and lv3 Flare (Island Shrine) (and you used those a lot when they are optimal). Boost Songs and Apollo Harp are even better than Dragon's Whisker for Dragon kiss damage dealing. What you could have used Beastmaster for is Slow on Catch/Release. With that and Drink/Mix/Hermes Shoes for haste, you could have freed the Water Crystal Job for Summoner or Mystic Knight. I don't know if Quickslip works in PR. Also, whith Blue, don't forget to kill Jackanapes with lv20 Goblin Punch or 1000 needles. No reason but F**k them.
Confuse lets you get blue magic as well, but it is far more tedious. Chemist, white mage, and dancer can all do this too. Early 1K needles is super good, but also not needed to cheese gilgamesh or archeoavis. Masamune can cast partywide haste, but you get that around the same time with time mage, as well as being able to slow all but 2 bosses. Finally, while summoner is fantastic, it takes a while to get going. Until you grab shiva, your only method of dealing with enemies or even shiva herself is the 3 early summons or rod breaking. Another thing is summons can't do single target damage, so that niche is out. Time mage at least has utility to help all other jobs deal damage faster and take damage slower.
I've enjoyed this series. If you do return to Final Fantasy V, an idea for a run is to randomly select one class from each crystal (maybe excluding Freelancer and Mime). The decision has to be made when the crystal has been acquired. To keep the run interesting.
Glad you picked beastmaster instead of Ninja. With beastmaster, time mage, and chemist, it's all about making the best job in the game (Blue Mage) better, more efficient, and lacking in weakness. Chemist buffs and helps killing things that blue mage cannot (which is like 2 bosses total). Beastmaster helps fill up the spell list of blue mage, and while you could do it with confuse status, it's easier to use control, and also onlylevel 33 flare is missed without otherjobs beyond beast. Great synergies also with capture and release. Time mage buffs every job and can make blue mage deal damage or exploit weaknesses faster. For a 4 job team, this is the best and most efficient loadout you can have. Excellently done wes.
Well, the first fight against ExDeath (in Castle Ex-Death), he can use Level 3 Flare if has more than 16000hp. It's not something common, but he can use it sometimes . So, it's not really missed.
Level 3 flare can be put to good use, but it only has a few uses outside the first phase of exdeath (and the top part in NED) The gargoyles can be easily killed without it, and exdeath in his castle is susceptible to level 2 old. Almost every boss in the game can be killed with level 5 death if you use level 2 old and count the in game ATB tics to the proper level. For exdeath this is 1, so just level 2 old him and spam level 5 death. He can die in 2 actions. Dark spark can half the opponent's level and if it is an odd number, it can then become an even number which is then susceptible to level 2 old. Blue mage is beyond busted even without control.
So cool to see this wrapped up, but i can't help but feel a little lost, what am i going to do without visiting Zok and the Wonky Ronky Ruins... Maybe I'll see if Leanna has developed an immunity to iocaine powder...
never knew about the w1 scene with Boko? Aww, yeah ff5 has a ton of story behind it just hidden away. My favorite one is with Bartz and Galuf sharing a drink after joining up in w2
Now that Exdeath has finally been vanquished and the world(s) saved, It's time for around of applause for the true hero... the inanimate Magic Rod! In Rod We Trust.
Out of all the unique gear that gets pulled up in these, it's kind of odd that the Mirage Vest never came up. Yet... I still can't see a place where it would've been any significant help, either!
It’s funny because Bard could very much be on the best team if used well. I like Beastmaster from this crystal due to the Blue Mage though. It’d be interesting picking a more physical slant to this one. White Mage\Mystic Knight\Ranger\Chemist could be interesting.
Now, here's something I'm curious about. Which jobs have the greatest gulf between how they did as solo jobs, and how they work on a team? I'm thinking like White Mage, which did terribly on its own, but which the game is balanced around you having.
Surprised you never mentioned the synergy of Beastmaster with Chemist -- being able to grind for Dark Matters in world 1 very very easily among a couple other things. Haven't watched the rest of the video so I imagine you DO that but....I'll see I guess.
As crazy as it sounds for a same job challenge thief sucks but they are really useful on a balanced team. Dash, Hidden Passage, and Caution end up being fairly useful, plus there is always stuff to steal.
Thief is at its best on a first playthrough when you don't know everything. It's a great utility job with some nice features and good agility for the chicken knife and ATB fills. Once you know how to cheese bosses and manage random battles, it becomes a chore to use outside of mug chicken knife
I'm glad u ended with beating the super bosses. Kind of hard to do with a single job challenge. Mystic Knights could beat Omega with Thunder3 sword and honestly White Mage could with Shin Ryu since they have berserk and blink so he will never hit.
See, I've asked this question before but the answer didn't make sense. Why is there a gap in class after the Ninja and after the Chemist? If anything, the gaps would happen at the very end and leave a blank space there.
Fire crystal is divided into 2 sets. You get Beastmaster, Geomancer and Ninja, after Karnak. Then you get Bard and Ranger at the Black Chocobo. The earth crystal only has 4 jobs and Freelancer is crystal-less.
No more FF5 for awhile. The answer to GBA SJC Jobs is: Not right now, and heres why:
First of all, 3 of them don’t unlock until you’ve got all 4 tablets in the merged world. The 4th isn’t until after you beat the optional super dungeon.
Which leads to the obvious conclusion: “Just mod them in”. Which is what I would have to do.
The problem is the game knows when you get the jobs. Therefore, you don’t get the tools for jobs until you get access to them. Cannoneer is half a job since you don’t get the merchant that sells you ammo until you unlock it.
Necromancer can’t even get abilities until the merged world. There might be a random handful in Galufs World, but theres absolutely nothing in Bartz’ World.
I dont remember much about Oracle. I asserted it was garbage and gave up on it.
The only feasible job would be Gladiator, and thats basically like a hybrid Knight/Dancer except when you high roll it does nutty damage. It also gets Slash-All which just sounds like a free win to me.
I can tell you exactly how these runs will go. Necromancer would just be rod smashing the entire game. I’d farm flame rings and smash fire rods on myself for healing since Necromancers have a bonemail-style undead effect. That would be it until I could start even getting abilities in the merged world. I get a lot of complaints about rod smashing, and thats exactly how this one would be for 90% of the run.
I’m not interested and dont think I can make compelling content for them.
Finally, and most importantly of all: I’m just done with FF5 for the time being. I did 21 playthroughs for the SJC. Then I did Bartz Only for Premium Buster and then Best/Worst Jobs. I’m completely tapped out of FF5.
So what poor game are you looking to strip-mine next? :D
Okay but hear me out: all Dragoon playthrough.
All jobs, all enemies, all NPCs: (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥dragoon♥
Necromancer is just Blue Mage except you can’t properly heal anyway, and Gladiator and Cannoneer contain too much cheese (Open Fire is scaled for endgame enemies, so you one shot everything until around midway through world 2.) Oracle sucks, just a (more) magic-oriented Geomancer, except sometimes the spells hurt you (yay?)
@@BacklogBuster i finish tis run today with all The Four jobs, believe me, extremily fun and worth it.
@@mattmelton7389it’d be fun to see him suffer through ff3. Zodiac Age is really fun for “one class” challenges, since gear is a lot better in that game and many abilities are cross-class. It’s a lot longer game, though
Thanks for this series. You don't know how important what you do can be to people. Its helped me get through the worst year of my life and I'm eternally grateful. Thanks again and happy holidays!
You're welcome. I hope next year is better. Its been rough for lots of people these last few years.
Hey brother hope this next year is better for you. ❤ BIG SMOOCH😂
It's interesting that a "best job from each crystal" party and a "best jobs synergistically" party end up pretty similar. The Fire crystal really is the biggest toss up, you could make some kind of argument for most of them. But I really, really can't argue with the efficiency of early 1000 Needles; kinda wish 10k Needles was in this game so that spell didn't completely fall off later. Plus not having to rely on Confuse to get shit like White Wind and Mighty Guard is super nice, obviously.
Also that comment about "what were the devs thinking about letting Blue Mage equip shields", I'm asking what were they thinking giving a half-knight job a strength penalty of like, minus 7 or something. Also cool that you went the level 3 Flare route for Exdeath whereas I went for Level 2 Old; level 66 is a super debilitating level for someone like Exdeath to have.
But yeah, great run. Your FFV stuff has been a super fun ride!
I'm still trying to figure out why the Mystic KNIGHT can't equip KNIGHT Swords >_
I'm so glad you picked Blue Mage as part of the best team, because it's my favorite Job bar none.
Really hoping to see Excalipoor Goblin Punch later in the video 🤞
I'll never forgive SE for dropping proper blue magic from the series after FF7.
I tried to get all blue spell and spent 3 hours on the ancient library trying to get Guard Off without success. My mistake is having time mage merge with my beast master, so I wasted the first turn casting Haste 😂
@@deedoubs Quistis in 8 and Kimahri in 10 are blue mages.
@@cb3648, plus Quina from IX... Quina was the designated Blue Mage for FF IX
End of an era. Congrats on all of the entertaining FFV playthroughs. Looking forward to watching whatever your next venture is.
What a fantastic set of videos good sir, every single one objectively played the same game but the variations in strategy and storytelling edits made each one felt unique. Excited to see what you decide to do from here
fun fact - not only does sap damage YOU during stopped time, it damages enemies during stop time, and doesn't run out its duration the way it normally would. This leads to the strategy known as QuickLeak, where you inflict Sap and then activate Quick and only use the first action, trapping the enemy in stopped time as the game waits for your second input. Every enemy in the game is vulnerable to this, including all the super bosses and Neo Exdeath. Downside: the damage rate is comically low, meaning using it against any of the powerful bosses takes many, many hours of waiting in stopped time for them to die.
There was no whip sound effect when you grabbed the flame lash. Run failed
*insert red failure stamp*
With my recent run of FFV, i have figured out that Black Mage and Summoner is quite a combo. Having access to a full party reflect in Carbuncle is nice to absolutely melt a single target(which is most bosses). Firing off a 50% damage spell at 4 targets results in a 200% damage spell. Doing 6k damage in a single turn(12k if you have doublecast) on an enemy with neutral element resistance feels quite strong on a lvl 30 party.(At the final dungeon at lvl 30 with just this combo of -aga reflect)
I must say, your commentary during this whole series was hilarious. You definitely have a great talent for content creation. Looking forward to your next series. Great job, dude!
Thank you for all the FF5 content. It's been fun and I'm glad to see a run with an easier premise to finish it off!
This has been an amazing series. I stumbled on it when the berserker vid came out. I eagerly awaited for each subsequent video and was not disappointed. This gave me a new found appreciation for FF5. Thanks again my dude!
FFV has always been my favorite FF game and seeing this suite of vids focusing on them in a fun way has been a treat. Thanks for the fun content!
13:40 - I started a new run of this game on the defunct iOS version because your content has been making me want to play it again. I got to Iron Claw, had my Blue Mages all ready… and then Faris Berserker hit with her axe for a high roll of over 800 damage. Poor Iron Claw didn’t even get a hit in, let alone Death Claw.
Going to miss the FF5 videos, but they were a blast while they were around.
"Don't cry because they're gone, smile because they were here"
I'm going to miss this series so much, thanks for the videos.
Strange to think that the worst jobs video eliminated the "weeb jobs" almost immediately for being too good, but somehow neither made the cut for the best jobs party. Also strange that Beastmaster made the cut, but given that you took blue mage, it makes sense. Love the content as always, can't wait to see what you do next
they get a ton of passives and commands to learn and are definitely strong picks but I feel like the only thing that goes into truly busted territory is giltoss, which just requires gil farming (which is kind of boring to watch honestly, no synergy either).
Honestly, it kinda shows the difference between being independently good and being synergistically good.
Ninja and samurai are powerful on their own, as is ranger. but when it comes to making a strong team, in this context a beastmaster is the better pick.
The toolsets of both Ninja and Samurai don't mix well with a lot of classes or make them that much stronger, whereas beastmaster both unlocks the full potential of blue mage and brings some tactical utility of his own in the process.
Quite often, having a good force multiplier and team player is better than having a squad of largely independently strong characters. you see this all the time in team based games. the whole "you don't need tactics when the enemy is dead" is more of a nice idea than an actual truism, like yea, that'd be great. but all out offense isn't gonna work in every situation, and once you blow your load you're gonna wish you had all that support and utility you passed up for more numbers.
@@Ehibikawell said
That's an extremely good summary, because the synergy aspect is massively important. Beastmaster does more with Blue Mage than even Ninja ever could.
I would add that as absurdly powerful as Samurai is, Chemist is the one job that can actually solo both secret bosses as far as I'm aware. Mix is just that redonkulous if you have the ingredients.
Thanks for this whoooooooole series! This channel is the reason why Final Fantasy V was my game of the year according to RUclips. There were many rewatches and it was fun seeing my first Final Fantasy game beaten with every job (GBA excluded). Like many others have said, it must have been difficult to make every play through interesting but you made it happen!
Really enjoyed this series, thank you for making it. Also, my name is Carlos, do hearing "Karlabos" every video never stopped making my ears perk up like a cat hearing the can opener
Okay now that I've actually seen the video I have to say I'm stoked that Blue Mage was chosen. The mysterious man in the mask with its bff Beastmaster crushed it. BLU being undoubtedly being my favorite FF job and it was great to see a FF5 run with BLU at its full potential. Though of course Chemist and Time Mage were no slouch either. You could also say that Black Mage and Summoner had their hand in the run too with the Magic Lamp and rod smashing.
A fantastic series coming to an end. I really look forward to seeing what you do next, I found your channel about 7 jobs in and have watched the entire series. Whatever you do, I hope you take a well earned break.
I was not expecting a new one, these are my favorite videos of the year! Thanks for all of them! 😁
I was skeptical when I started watching because how can someone make compelling content for 20+ run throughs on the same game. I was very wrong! This has been so much to watch and you wit is the star of the show! Well done and looking forward to the next series!
Like last video, may the content never die
On the first day of Christmas the Backlog gave to me
ZOK!
35:08 WHERE IS MY WHIP SOUND??!! I NEED IT 😢😢😢
Loved this series so much. FF5 is my favorite game ever and seeing all the love people gave it here made me so happy seeing how loved this game is
The algorithm brought me in early, one minute in and I was hooked!
Thank you for completing this series and inspiring so many of us to do our own zany ffv runs!
Throwing my hat into the ring for Final Fantasy Tactics job challenges.
I completely get being toasted on FF5. This was a fascinating series to watch, and I'm really glad you did it. Thank you for sharing this journey with us. :3
What an amazing ride. This content brought me here and made me a supporter. Hopefully we get more rpg challanges.
Oh no! This is the last real time i'll get to see Zok! Everybody loves Zok!
Obrigado por ter feitos esses desafios. Amo ff5 e seus vídeos foram os melhores que já assistir.
Valeu!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it.
41:00 thank you everyone around me has always kept insisting that bird king Bahamut is a dragon.
this sort of "dragon thats not a dragon" annoyed the hell out of me in Fire Emblem Engage, where you fight a lot of Dragons that are not "Dragons" but "Fell Dragons" therefore, not affected by the dozens of Dragon slaying weapons you get in that game, you know, the weapons designed specifically to kill evil dragons that don't work against these evil dragons.
Thank you so much for the series, you don't know how much they meant to me it was something that'd cheer me up often as I had an overall really rough year but your series made it so much better and helped me a lot, so thank you for that
Now you have to beat FF5 using only the medium-est jobs!
My goodness you’re absolutely right!
THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT!!
Awesome series i watched all episode!
42:43 You can teach him blue spells! Whoa!
Summoner vs Time Mage is difficult, but Time Mage can equip staffs which Summoner and Blue Mage can'ts, so they can use the healing staff for free cura or undead damage while having time magic and another skill to use. Also gives you the choice of using the flail and morning star.
I really enjoyed this series and look forward to whatever is next!
Once again you've spoiled us with another victory lap. ❤
Awesome series from start to finish; despite finishing the game multiple times I learned a lot from your vids. Definitely have earned a break from it, but have considered a charity Four Job Fiesta run next year? Could be a fun live stream. Unless you draw thief...
Thanks for all the FF5 content
If you're still looking for suggestions/ideas etc. how about crystal only party. As in each party member has the job you choose, but the jobs available to choose are only from the fire crystal (or the other 3 crystals separately). And each party member has to have a different job of that crystal at all times.
Added challenge? No rod smashing, but you're the boss.
Love the vids btw.
Time and Blue Mages are excellent choices because many of their "best" spells (Level 5 Death, Death Claw, Meteor, any buff) don't actually use Magic stat, so they still work as effective on jobs with lower Magic stat like the Beastmaster.
Blue mage is best mage confirmed.
Its got everything you could possibly want, and a bunch of stuff you dont!
Thanks for the run buddy. So what's next on your list?
I wasn't sold on this team until the red dragon. Nice
Edit: another fun Exdeath nuke is L2 Old and then just spam L5 Death until you get lucky
1 atb tic, baby!
Merry Christmas everyone. and thank you backlog for another amazing video!
The fantastic 4...4 jobs that compliment and strengthen each other.
I know this is a little late in coming, but you don't have to eat the full 1500 damage from the bombs' self destruct.
The damage is based on their remaining HP, so you can whittle them down a little and then tank like a 300 HP self-destruct instead.
BeastMaster as one of the best job? that was unexpected! I understand it synergises perfectly with blue mage, but ranger and ninja are so good that it shocks me!
Control in a normal party is ultimate cheese in every FF it shows up in
I'm always in the corner, watching him bust
Amazing video. Maybe FFT or FF9 next?
I can't believe Backlog Buster was the Bay Area Blue Mage
Nice on getting a dragon beard within 5 minutes of leaving the shrine!! I thought you weren't gonna get it lol
10:58 John Locke moment 😂 I love Lost
Dude, where is the whipcrack sound when you got the Flamelash?
0/10, I demand a re-upload.
Honestly it's just cool that you made me appreciate whips and beastmaster a lot more from these vids. I just never bothered with them.
Beast Master over Ninja means this isn't the best jobs, but the best *party.* Ninja, on it's own, is a superior job to Beast Master.
i was really hoping you'd do this
Yes was hoping for this
Maybe the title should have been "how fast can you," as opposed to "can you?"
Ninja has a few synergies with Blue in non-PR versions. Scrolls scale with Magic Power, and Dual Wield Rune Blade does funny damage on Blue Mage.
Bard lets you get almost every Blue Magic as early as Beastmaster. The only notable missing ones are 1000 needles (wait for early merged world) and lv3 Flare (Island Shrine) (and you used those a lot when they are optimal). Boost Songs and Apollo Harp are even better than Dragon's Whisker for Dragon kiss damage dealing.
What you could have used Beastmaster for is Slow on Catch/Release. With that and Drink/Mix/Hermes Shoes for haste, you could have freed the Water Crystal Job for Summoner or Mystic Knight.
I don't know if Quickslip works in PR.
Also, whith Blue, don't forget to kill Jackanapes with lv20 Goblin Punch or 1000 needles. No reason but F**k them.
Confuse lets you get blue magic as well, but it is far more tedious. Chemist, white mage, and dancer can all do this too.
Early 1K needles is super good, but also not needed to cheese gilgamesh or archeoavis.
Masamune can cast partywide haste, but you get that around the same time with time mage, as well as being able to slow all but 2 bosses.
Finally, while summoner is fantastic, it takes a while to get going. Until you grab shiva, your only method of dealing with enemies or even shiva herself is the 3 early summons or rod breaking. Another thing is summons can't do single target damage, so that niche is out. Time mage at least has utility to help all other jobs deal damage faster and take damage slower.
Will A. Zeppil stops mad elephant by turning it into a frog and punching it!
I've enjoyed this series. If you do return to Final Fantasy V, an idea for a run is to randomly select one class from each crystal (maybe excluding Freelancer and Mime). The decision has to be made when the crystal has been acquired. To keep the run interesting.
Glad you picked beastmaster instead of Ninja. With beastmaster, time mage, and chemist, it's all about making the best job in the game (Blue Mage) better, more efficient, and lacking in weakness. Chemist buffs and helps killing things that blue mage cannot (which is like 2 bosses total).
Beastmaster helps fill up the spell list of blue mage, and while you could do it with confuse status, it's easier to use control, and also onlylevel 33 flare is missed without otherjobs beyond beast. Great synergies also with capture and release.
Time mage buffs every job and can make blue mage deal damage or exploit weaknesses faster.
For a 4 job team, this is the best and most efficient loadout you can have. Excellently done wes.
Well, the first fight against ExDeath (in Castle Ex-Death), he can use Level 3 Flare if has more than 16000hp. It's not something common, but he can use it sometimes . So, it's not really missed.
Level 3 flare can be put to good use, but it only has a few uses outside the first phase of exdeath (and the top part in NED)
The gargoyles can be easily killed without it, and exdeath in his castle is susceptible to level 2 old. Almost every boss in the game can be killed with level 5 death if you use level 2 old and count the in game ATB tics to the proper level. For exdeath this is 1, so just level 2 old him and spam level 5 death. He can die in 2 actions.
Dark spark can half the opponent's level and if it is an odd number, it can then become an even number which is then susceptible to level 2 old.
Blue mage is beyond busted even without control.
So cool to see this wrapped up, but i can't help but feel a little lost, what am i going to do without visiting Zok and the Wonky Ronky Ruins... Maybe I'll see if Leanna has developed an immunity to iocaine powder...
It is odorless, tasteless, and dissolves instantly in liquid. Lenna's favorite
*Sees blue mage in the thumbnail
Hoo boy, here we go again
Victory lap time!
Wow i really enjoyed this one
So overall... FF5 is a very great game. :D
yes gaem gud
never knew about the w1 scene with Boko? Aww, yeah ff5 has a ton of story behind it just hidden away. My favorite one is with Bartz and Galuf sharing a drink after joining up in w2
I find it funny that just a team of full Summoners finished the game over 2 hours faster than the "best" team 😂
since he was just going straight to the boss there it makes sense, while here he farmed an hour for dragon beard alone to prepare for the superbosses
Last time we'll here "back row ok,baby!"
Now that Exdeath has finally been vanquished and the world(s) saved, It's time for around of applause for the true hero... the inanimate Magic Rod!
In Rod We Trust.
In Rods We Bust
Out of all the unique gear that gets pulled up in these, it's kind of odd that the Mirage Vest never came up. Yet... I still can't see a place where it would've been any significant help, either!
Chemist deserves a spot just based on the fact that it let you use the word "chicanery" in a sentence.
Hmm...so if I have a mixer with masamune, I can blind him off the bat
better to Berserk him first, otherwise Shinryu will kill you with tidal wave if you don't have 4 coral rings.
It’s funny because Bard could very much be on the best team if used well. I like Beastmaster from this crystal due to the Blue Mage though.
It’d be interesting picking a more physical slant to this one. White Mage\Mystic Knight\Ranger\Chemist could be interesting.
Now, here's something I'm curious about. Which jobs have the greatest gulf between how they did as solo jobs, and how they work on a team? I'm thinking like White Mage, which did terribly on its own, but which the game is balanced around you having.
Surprised you never mentioned the synergy of Beastmaster with Chemist -- being able to grind for Dark Matters in world 1 very very easily among a couple other things. Haven't watched the rest of the video so I imagine you DO that but....I'll see I guess.
Worst jobs, check
Best jobs, check
Now, can you beat final fantasy 5 using the most mid jobs?
Have you thought about doing the single job (class) challenge in something like FF1?
Yeah gotta love just berserking Shinryu.
Hey, maybe you could this challenge for FFX-2? That would make for a fun series as well.
I would have picked the summoner over Time wizard. But it is because I am a sucker for summons :)
Now do the GBA jobs!
As crazy as it sounds for a same job challenge thief sucks but they are really useful on a balanced team. Dash, Hidden Passage, and Caution end up being fairly useful, plus there is always stuff to steal.
Thief is at its best on a first playthrough when you don't know everything. It's a great utility job with some nice features and good agility for the chicken knife and ATB fills.
Once you know how to cheese bosses and manage random battles, it becomes a chore to use outside of mug chicken knife
I have been farming dragon beard whips. All I have so far are 4. I'm aiming for 8-9.
Sad to see ff5 go
You almost tricked me into believing you're not picking Time Mage!
You're to good to only have 9k you'll go far
Any plans to do FFT content?
FFT Monk only has been sitting on my hard drive for 2 years now. It will get made in 2025.
Are we going to get playthroughs with all jobs of each crystal?
I'm glad u ended with beating the super bosses. Kind of hard to do with a single job challenge. Mystic Knights could beat Omega with Thunder3 sword and honestly White Mage could with Shin Ryu since they have berserk and blink so he will never hit.
Next up, Job runs for Dragon Quest 3? The limitless money of Merchants! The...okay, the Fool/Gadabout would be misery.
dropped this game, can't tell if i was bad because instead of strategizing and testing new cool stuff I just found myself grinding a lot
Of course now you have to do a best meat-head run with Knight, Mystic Knight, Hunter, and ... dammit, can't take Ninja.
No thanks, Im good.
See, I've asked this question before but the answer didn't make sense. Why is there a gap in class after the Ninja and after the Chemist? If anything, the gaps would happen at the very end and leave a blank space there.
Fire crystal is divided into 2 sets. You get Beastmaster, Geomancer and Ninja, after Karnak. Then you get Bard and Ranger at the Black Chocobo. The earth crystal only has 4 jobs and Freelancer is crystal-less.
Thanks for the reply. Here's hoping to see some FF6 content someday!
16:40 considering your other runs it should more like 46.
I'm counting per video, BTW.
Man...... I watched all this $41t... Bravo!