(this may or not be 80% lifted from last year's thread
Q: What is this?A: A month-and-a-half long charity marathon benefiting Child's Play. Play Final Fantasy V, on whatever platform you want (SNES, PS1, GBA, iOS, emulator), with the jobs given to you by the custom RNG bot and benevolent overlord, Gilgabot!
Q: When does it start?The fiesta begins on on June 12th or the completion of ~*~the run~*~ (details on the main site)
Registration is LIVE GO GO GO It runs through the end of August, so there's plenty of time and no rush (except for #BERSERKERRISK). You can even register once the fiesta has begun, register for another run after you finish so no worries if you check this topic out later.
Q: What do I need to sign up?A: A twitter account. That's it. You can totally make a throwaway twitter account for this; just make sure you will be able to remember the password. It's used to tweet at Gilgabot for commands, such as signing up, revealing jobs, and reporting victories. If you have a private account, you'll need to either unlock it when you send the command tweets or send a message to get added to Gilgabot's friend list (I can give instructions if needed)
Q: How does the four job thing work?A: This depends on the ruleset you choose.
In
Standard, once you get your first crystal and reveal your first job, your entire party will be locked into that job. As you get the new jobs, you need to have one representative of each available job at all times (excluding when you have insufficient party members to do so, in those cases just make sure everyone has a different job). You can swap jobs as often as you want within that limitation, and mix and match the abilities you learn freely. This is what you will sign up for by default.
In
Natural Only, each character is locked to Freelancer until you get their respective crystal - at which point the character is locked forever into whatever job you got for that crystal. No mixing and matching jobs. This is the tougher one by a significant margin!
NEW THIS YEAR is
Upgrade. This is sort of a mix between the two modes. Your entire party will start out all the same job just as a standard run. However, once the next set of jobs is available you can choose when to ~upgrade~ your full team to your next assigned job. You can keep using any skills you learned previously and equip them on your new jobs, so have fun grinding and hope Gilgabot has mercy on you for your endgame job :V
Q: Which run choice do I pick?A: There's several sets of runs that affect what classes you can obtain:
Regular is the original mode, you will receive one random Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth job at each crystal. This is what I'd recommend for a first timer.
Random will open up additional jobs for each crystal - any job that you haven't obtained yet that is also up for grabs. For instance, the Water crystal may also unlock a new Wind job instead, and the Earth could hand you any job in the game. You're more likely to receive jobs from the first crystals as a result, and very unlikely to see an Earth crystal job.
Chaos Mode is similar to Random, except that
any job is up for grabs for each crystal. This means you have a pretty decent chance of not getting a job from the Wind crystal and needing to No Job Siesta a bit longer. This mode also enables the possibility of rolling the same job for multiple crystals!
Team 750 and Team No 750 is a modifier this year that divides the classes in half in the general theme of Magic vs Physical (or close enough to allow an even divide) named after the cost of an elemental rod, as using/breaking one in battle to cast a powerful spell is a common tactic for mages. The breakdowns are:
- Team 750: Wind - White Mage/Black Mage/Blue Mage Water - Time Mage/Summoner/Red Mage Fire - Geomancer/Bard Earth - Chemist/Dancer
- Team No 750: Wind - Thief/Monk/Knight Water - Mystic Knight/Berserker Fire - Ninja/Beastmaster/Ranger Earth - Dragoon/Samurai
Classic will assign you one of the six original FF1 classes at each job, and can assign you multiples of the same job. This is automatically under Natural Only rules, as above. Could be potentially hellish (four white mages is a legit risk)
Q: Berserker Risk?A: Based on the amount of donations received before preregistration ends vs the number of players who signed up for this, those players will be guaranteed to receive at least one Berserker and maybe more depending on job mode! You can only sign up for Berserker Risk before the Fiesta begins so choose wisely. They're quite a challenging class to work with due to really being entirely out of your control, but that doesn't mean they're bad. Just brace yourself!
To clarify, adding #BERSERKKERRISK to a Regular run will lock you into getting a 'zerker for your Water crystal job and that's it (they will always hit the bare minimum of donations) Adding it to a Random run opens up the possibility of your Fire and/or Earth crystal jobs getting overridden by THE RISK. And Chaos Mode? Hope you're ready for the chance of FOUR BERSERKERS
In my opinion/experience, having just one isn't much of a liability outside of a few battles and for some teams it'd be a great source of damage throughout the game. If you really want a risk, make sure to sign up for Chaos or Random!
Q: I don't know Final Fantasy V that well...A: What a great time to come play the best one! Our buddy Garlyle is some sort of FF5 Wizard and
wrote a handbook (click here for GBA version "translation")specifically oriented towards the FJF that covers more or less everything you'd ever want to know to make the most of the game's mechanics, the classes you've drawn, to help you figure out boss strategies, etc. Also, MotK has several veterans of this challenge, and we'll always be available to offer a helping hand if you stumble or just run face first into a brick wall.
And yes, this is totally a great excuse to play FFV for the first time!
Q: Is there any way I can watch someone miss on Byblos 6 times in a row and laugh at her misfortune?A: A few of us will be streaming our runs! Come check us out, subscribe to keep on top of stream times and post if you got a link I missed!
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