A FFIV no equipment challenge

[Cruise Control]

Scott seems to have dropped this, but over vacation, I picked it up and ran with it. I am playing the GBA version though. I'll continue from where he left off. I'm not sure if he did. But I made sure to strip people of their equips, right before they leave. Even if I have a boss fight coming up. I can give them to other chars, and sell them later.

Also, until I reach endgame (moon second time), in towns I will only purchase Weapons, and Armor. I will not buy Helmets, gloves, shields, etc. That way, when I reach teh end of the game I will have enough gil to purchase the best stuff.

Calcobrena was the hardest boss fight thus far. I'm taking lots of damage from multiple enemies. Cecil attacks a Brina with his firebrand, and Yang attacks the same one it dies. Kain targets a Calco. Rosa uses Cura on all. Cecil and Yang defeat a second Brina. Kain keeps focusing on the same Calco. Cecil, Yang, and Kain go all out on the Calcos, leaving the final Brina untouched. That way, I don't have to fight the big one.

Lugae and Barnabas were pie. I focused on Lugae. The second Lugae fight was cake too.

Rubicante was easy to defeat. It was just very time consuming. Cecil and Kain attack with Ice Brand, and Ice Lance. Edge uses flood. Rydia uses Blizzara. Rosa is still using Cura all. Just kept wailing away till he died.

Sealed cave was tough. I just saved outside, and kept resetting whenever I killed a non-required door. It was hard not to break down the door and get the sword for Cecil. Demon Wall, easy. Everbody has problems with him. I never do. I just had everybody go all out. Using a Baccus Cider on Cecil and Edge (who is god in this challenge). Rosa revives whoever needs it. Rydia attacked too, since magic is innefective on him.

Right after this, I went and got Excalibur, so Cecil can stop sucking ass.

The four Elemental Lords were almost unbearable. It was some massive endurance test, that took me three tries. Edge attacked (he does 400 more damage than Cecil), Rydia used the appropriate -ara spell, Rosa healed, FuSoYa used his -aga spells. Cecil fed Ethers to my party, and acted as a secondary healer. FuSoYa was the last one standing. I love my moon-man.

CPU, and nodes.
Round 1: Edge, Rydia, Cecil, and Rosa defended. FuSoYa used Herme's shoes to haste himself.
Round 2: Edge, Rydia, Cecil, and Rosa defended. FuSoYa cast reflect on himself.
Round 3: Edge and Cecil attack CPU. Rydia casts Thundara on FuSoYa (hits CPU), FuSoYa casts Flare on Defense Node. Defense Node dies.

For the rest of the fight, Edge and Cecil beat down CPU, FuSoYa keeps using flare on it, Rosa heals, and Rydia gives FuSoYa ethers or uses Thundara.

I went to the Land of summons, purchased the best equips I could, and gave Cecil the Genji set since he does more damage than Kain (which makes him more valuable).

I'm about to enter crystal palace. My setup follows:

[obsessed_wif_yuna]

wow..

umm.. how do you get those weapons and acc's? do you just buy them.. and if you do,, where do you get them from and how much do they cost?
um.. im not talking about cecils things im tlaking about the other things.. i havent heard of these before:
Kikuichimonji, Blitz Whip, Kinesis Staff, Gungir, Aegis Shield
and some diamond things.

[Siegfried]

Since he is playing on the GBA i think those are all the added items from the GBA version, if i am not mistaken

[ScottNUMBERS]

I haven't dropped this challenge, I've just been sucked into the vortex that is FFXI. Also, I was a little put off by how easy this challenge is, I wanted it to be unbarebly hard but you actually gain lots of levels soley from boss exp. Still, I'll finish what I started.

I'd update but I can't remember for the life of me my past experiences with the challenge (I blame FFXI again for that).

I'll try my best to update in future, I'll start playing some FFIV tonight and hopefully have an update for tomorrow.

Cruise Control, try not to slack on your updates like me, keep us posted please.

[Cruise Control]

Well, gimme a bit. Someone overwrote the file. This time round I'm killing all the doors and storming Eblan.

At tower of Babel.
Sealed Cave.

[ScottNUMBERS]

I was playing the other night just after beating Lugae and then I do all the story parts where it leads you to believe Yang and Cid (SPOILER)die. Then I find myself roaming the overworld in an Airship for half an hour with no clue where to go, someone throw me a bone here?

[Cruise Control]

Dwarf castle. Go talk to the king, get the key to the sealed cave. Then go the infirmary, and Cid will pimp your airship.

I'm right there too! Go buy equips in the Land of Summons.

[ScottNUMBERS]

But the hole that leads to the underworld is sealed off.

[Cruise Control]

Baron, talk to the engineers. Then get the hovercraft and go to Eblan.

[feioncastor]

I didn't expect Antlion to put up so much of a fight, I had no trouble with him, but I actually had to use three or four potions - against Antlion!

Why would you expect anything like that out of Antlion? Do not worry. Antlion is tame. Edward will take the Sand Ruby.

[ScottNUMBERS]

Just droppin' a post in this thread just to say I have not neglected it, I just haven't encountered many bosses, although now I'm very close to Rubricant. I'll update properly soon.

[Cruise Control]

Alright. Ready for the final battle. I opened every Monsters! chest in the game, got all the summons (Odin was HARD), and got every sealed weapon. Let me tell you Dark Bahamut was the toughest fight thusfar. I used 35 Phoenix Downs, and tried 12 times.

Rosa survived Mega-Flare with 215 HP. I had her revive Edge. Edge started reviving, and Rosa started casting reflect. Once everyone was up, I started laying on the offense. When someone died, revival was top-priority.

I'm prepared for my final descent. 99 Hi-Potions, 99 Phoenix Downs.

I have lots of stuff to throw.
1 Shuriken
17 Fuma Shuriken
Defender
Light Sword
Excalibur
Gungir
Spoon

Levels and equips are as follows:

Rydia has Blitz Whip instead of Stardust Rod, because of the 2 point defense boost.

EDIT: Only Cecil survived big bang. This is obviously not going to work. Where can I get Lunar Curtains, and Hermes Shoes in abundance?

[ScottNUMBERS]

There are quite a couple Hermes Shoes at the start of the game, that's the only way you can get your hands on them unfortunately (Since getting them to drop from random encounters is off-limits).

It might be worth plowing the caves in hope of some, unless you know you got them all whilst at the point in the game.

Good job getting this far, (and not to mention overtaking me twice), I'm sure you can beat Zeromus somehow, don't give up.

As for me, I tryed my hand at Rubricant a few times, he catches me out with that strong fire spell he likes to use, and with my weak weapons (I didn't pick up new equipment, due to insufficiant funds) slowly chewing at his HPs the battle goes on for quite a while.

[Cruise Control]

Unfortunately, I got them all, and I only have two. My only hope is to use Kain. The plan is to have Cecil live, phoenix down on Kain. Kain uses hermes shoes. Jump. I saw a video a little back that if you use magic on Zeromus, he counters with flare. So I think I'll Lunar Curtain+Zues Rage (and the like). EoFF doesn't have a steal guide though.

[Cruise Control]

I GIVE UP. I make it like 15,000 damage into the fight, but mess up my timing and get Banged (so terribly clever). But, whatever. I declare this challenge over.