OMFG BANNANAS

Having just finished Ogre Battle 64, I'm a little bored, game-wise at the moment. So why not spice things up a little FFTA challenge. I was thinking of a Marche only challenge.

This may seem impossible on the surface, but I think it can be done (barely). I think if I manipulate stat growth while leveling, I can pull it off.
First of all, the rules:
1. I can only use Marche (when I'm forced to bring Montblanc, I'll use him, eventually he'll be so weak it won't matter).
2. No cheating (It'll be hard knowing I can get 99 of everything with my gameshark)

Thats all. But, the hard part is planning my levels. Skyblade, I could use some help. I was thinking of starting as a soldier, and leveling as one until I learn the abilities First Aid, and Speed Break, and Shield-Bearer (or until I hit level 10, whichever is first). I'll switch to a thief, to learn the steal abilities. Then I'll switch to a white mage for 10 levels (learning Protect, Shell, Reflect and the cure spells). After that, I'll immediately work on becoming a Ninja, leveling like that till I'm level 50.

This will be nigh impossible, but if I learn Protect, Shell, and cure spells pronto, and use White Mage as Secondary with my Ninja, it'll become much easier. The problem is, that soloing with a white mage will be uber hard, so I'll need to first master an instant death move with another class, and I have no idea what class has it.

So, can someone tell me how soon in the game I can get equips that have instant death. And also some tips or ideas on how to grow stats would help.

I'm pretty sure the Sniper learns Doom pretty early on.

1 problem with that Genji....Sniper is a Vierina(just cant spell it right) only class, which means thats out of the question unless nosebleed can hack a human with vierina classes (which i doubt)

XD Silly me. I forgot about that.

Hmm, my advice would be soilder-fighter, and learn some good near KO moves while your a WM, or go BM and then WM, then youll be set for ilusionist ^ ^

Illusionist is unacceptable. I need a high speed if I'm going to survive eight guys tanking me. Hence Ninja. Actually, I just need to know how soon I can learn Petrify/Doom/Death, and how fast.


EDIT: This blows. Humans can't learn any variant of death/doom/petrify.

So my new flow chart is.

Archer: Block arrows, aim legs
Thief: Steal Weapon, steal armor
Fighter/Paladin: Reflex/Strikeback (whatever I have acess to first)
White Mage: Shell, Protect, Cure

Then, I'll do two levels as a Ninja, one as a Paladin, and one as a fighter, over and over till I hit fifty. xD

Angel Ring and Fairy shoes are priority too.

why not just divide up the remaining levels to 50 by the jobs to the odds you wish to have then just train the easiest one first?

Because, certain abilities are essential, and once I get those, thats what im doing. But if I do say 20 Ninja in a row, then 10 each, I'll develop an issue. While gaining loads of speed, I won't be gaining any strength/defense. So, I'll rotate to make it even during the whole process.

Alright 4 missions done. W00t! I did the harb picking crap. While the monsters were gang-banging Montblanc, I ran around behind them, abd picked them off with my archery. Montblancs Black Magic helped. I used a Phoenix down.

Oh, before hand, I stripped them all of equips, and sold doubles. I bought a Char bow, Green hat, bronze armor, bronve helm, and some battle boots.

I completed Fire Fire!, by picking off the bomb in front of me, and making good use of the fact I can move farther than bombs. I did dueling sub (dispatch), and recieved a Kris Knife.


I did the Wanted mission with Dagelhev.
The field was so:

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Since I had block arrows, I ran down the right side, blowing past the archer, got a shot on Dagelhev, and sarted going in circle avoiding enemies, till he died.

The really annoying thing about doing a Marche solo is that you won't be able to do a lot of the dispatch missions.

Since you're just using Marche, you're also going to lose some of the abilities that would be very helpful to you, such as Angel Whisper.

Your reaction ability should be either Strikeback or Reflex, since the enemy uses normal attacks fairly often, and both of those will keep them from damaging you. You may want to switch to the Hunter class once you've got some decent speed. Hunter is very well rounded, has incredible range, and can deal with monsters very effectively with Sidewinder. And having Strikeback on a long range character allows you to sometimes block arrow attacks and shoot back, similar to return arrows.

The Hunter has the best human skills, in my opinion. I usually end up training as a ninja/fighter/some mage, then leaving Marche as a Paladin with Hunter skills. Paladin has a number of healing abilities and such, and Hunter has long distance attacks against groups of enemies and ultima.

THE JACKEL

Which ability can I get first? Strikeback, or Reflex?

strike back I do believe. Reflex requires mirage vest (I think) which is first available against babus.

Unfortunately mirage vest are only for bangaa's (white monks) and nu mou's (sages). I'm not sure because I haven't been playing it lately but the genji armour would provide you with reflex and the wygar would give you strike back. You get the wygar first as you might of guessed- therefore, you get Strikeback first.

As Sky said doing a Marche solo is hard. You can't send him out on any dispatch missions therefore at one point you may not be able to progress in the game.
You can learn most of the attack for the human race (due to the fact that you can't do any dispatch missions, you'll miss out on some), even angel whisper although it would be very hard, i've done this (Charm the Sprite after killing all of the enemies APART FROM ONE other than it, then get hit by the one enemy until you are kneeling down... survive until the sprite heals you- *remember to have learning on!).

I suggest that you become a hunter- they are strong, fast and long ranged not to mention they have pretty decent magic power. Equip them with things with the best defense then he's great.

I just figured out its Wygar, but when do I get it. I also realized, if there is more than one zombie/vampire in a story mission, unless I'm an illusionist, I'm screwed.

EDIT: I kept my clan, so I can do the Stone missions.