So are there gimmicks to each fight? Like there's an easy trick to killing the flower boss guarding the Mega All materia and the rest?
Also are they vulnerable to Dual? It is Dual that Flare can inflict in this, right? 'cuz when I was going at the flower boss, it just kinda randomly switched to form two and I hadn't attacked it so I can only assume Dual had been draining its HP.
As for break damage/HP Limit, I thought I read a post of yours when someone inquired as to if that was included in your mod and you said no because everything should be beatable without doing that. I was kinda going with that and didn't install anything to allow above 9999.
As for Barret, I kinda like sticking with one party in my games. I'm already annoyed I'm probably going to have to swap in Yuffie for Conformer and Morph. I mean, I like Yuffie, but I had settled on my party of Cloud/Vincent/Cid and I think they should be able totackle anything. Well, they can, it's just that killing enemies and dropping them to .2% HP without killing them are very different propositions.
But I dunno, I just beat Reno and Rude on the sunken airplane and was kinda settling in for some serious grindage for Sources but if you don't think that's neessary, I'll reconsider.
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This is giving me deja vu, though. In New Threat, one of the bosses guarding one of the materia caves was like a trio of ghost pirates or whatever. To win, you were supposed to cast Regen on the two assistants or something. Dummy me, I just powered through it and killed them all.
I'm not the smartest or most creative gamer. If we are dying fast, throw status effects at them. Maybe Defend or use Tranquilizers. Otherwise, attack ,attack, attack.
I did notice that Amaterasu does seem to ignore defensive magic. And off course the flower boss cave has Dual automatically on you. I didn't really think these were important beyond being a challenge. Maybe there's more to it than that.
Wait, is the flower effected by the auto-Dual effect, too? I hadn't even considered that till now.
I'm rambling now, sorry. I just figured I had to power my way through but nowm, if there is an alternative, I should try to find it.
One thing I do nee dto grind for is Elixirs or Turbo Ethers. Everything loves to drain your MP at this point.