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You can heal with elemental attacks + elemental absorb armors. Also, the Healing Rod (equippable by WHM) bestows Regen on hit. Also, very cool series, can't wait for more!
Should be a fun run. Hopefully this allows a good chance for the status infliction on hit weapons/jobs to shine a lot more, especially measures. Going longer without healing outside of combat probably really would require investing into better gear and ranged combat more heavily and early, but yeah it sounds like it'd mainly require a lot of running past enemies to get to save points instead of actually fighting, so... eh.
Nice first episode! Yeah, healing outside of battle is probably necessary at some point but will unfortunately make a lot of random encounters pretty pointless busywork. Still really interested to see the first boss fight soon.
Super excited for this one! I was playing 12 last winter, and I was thinking an attack only on this game would be impossible. I hope you can prove me wrong!
Final Fantasy XII is a fantastic game. I have only played the original (not the zodiac age) back when i had a ps2 in my old apartment. Best of luck to you!
FF12 is one of my favourite FF games. Its open battle system makes this a very different experience from your Attack Only runs of other games, since you often choose how you fight enemies.
8:19 I remember during one random playthrough of mine with the original version, this boss(which was supposed to be easy, cuz the other characters, and especially Basch will carry you through damage and healing) Like literally did its Cinematic Attack like 3 times back to back, literally killing me instantly😅😅😅😅
In all seriousness one of the builds I tried myself was a power ranger. Used the trinket(s) that boost atk when low on ho and a bow. It allowed me to clean up a significant early game but kept my health on edge. I played all of 12 and don’t remember it at all. And that is probably why I haven’t played 13 to completion.
use gambits! they wont just go hogwild and run off to kill things, if you dont want to fight at all you can just hold the FLEE command and they wont even draw their weapons. even without fleeing, the range to see an enemy and go fight it is still rather small, and its not a problem. theyre not just gonna runoff and pick fights you dont want.
@@user-Aaron- I find the games setting really intresting and Ivalice as a world intriguing. I also really enjoyed the hunt system, finding all the monsters and defeating them felt great. Combat and especially the gambit system really resonated whit me, essentielly programming out the busywork of combat. While story and characters left a lot to be desired (excluding Balthier). It still holds a very special place in my heart.
i think the builds i would ultimately use in an attack only playthrough would be Monk, Uhlan, Bushi, Knight, Archer, Shikari. machinist guns are generally bad if youre allowed to level up. monk uhlan archer can hit flying enemies, knight is heavy armor tank, bushi and shikari are combo crazy damage dealers. i might consider foebreaker or time mage instead of shikari or knight, but the other 4 are absolutely the most useful jobs for just constant attacking.
Something makes me feel like you can still use the gambit system a little bit but obviously there will be less need for those and for licenses. It will be interesting to see if you get the missable spear that makes many bosses quite easy. It is nice that you won’t be speed running levels up. I like when you brought up the great aspects and the two bunny girls were just chilling on screen lol
My FFXII knowledge isn't quite up to date, but I believe Fran archer and Balthier machinist are actually traps unfortunately. Given that's kind of their "intended" weapons they have fancier animations with these that take a bit longer. I hope these few frames every attack won't have much of an actual effect in the long run, but only time will tell. Worst case scenario, the second license board will be there.
@@DannyCheatTV The actual gameplay impact is actually pretty minimal. Unless you're min-maxing it really doesn't matter at all. It's extremely unlikely to cause a scenario where he would have won with different characters on those jobs -- a bigger impact would be the raw stats, really.
chests are often like this example: 90% chance of gil, 10% chance of item. then if it hits item it usually has a common and a rare, so like 90% chance potion, 10% mage masher. so 9/10 times it will only have gil, then the 1 time it'll have an item which is most likely a potion. but 1/10 times you open it AND get item, it'll be the mage masher weapon. if you're after that weapon, you gotta leave and return a bunch and hope for some luck, as 1/10th of 1/10th is an average of only seeing that weapon 1% of the time. sometimes it 50/50 gil/item, and then 50/50 junk item or good item, so in those cases its closer to 25% to get the good item. just gotta look up the chests and determine if its worth it to farm em or not.
The thing 5hat always baffle me about the battle system in this game is why the heck is Quickenings Physical damage? Cuz it only scales with Strength stat and level?(Not to mention dealing damage base on random power value)
interesting start to the series So weapon types in 12 are REALLY WEIRD In an EXTREME summary, some use the character’s speed to calc damage, some use strength, some use vitality, some use magick and strength combined, etc…… so some characters ARE better at using some weapon types over others Not to mention different weapon types just charge the atb gauge faster or slower Guns and crossbows being the slowest I believe, with daggers(?) being fastest (idk I didn’t fact check that) And then the weapon type ALSO affects how often you can do combos, all polearms and “ninja swords” have innate high combo rates for example but some specific weapons can also have the trait …unfortunately, despite having a gun as his “main weapon” in artwork, balthier’s damage output with them is… pretty bad I verbally said “oh… no” when hearing you gave him machinist/guns 😅 But hey! That just makes it more interesting, right? Can’t wait to see more~
@@Shinybook51 I guess its easier to get maxed out stats and fire absorb break hp equipment with only attacking in ffx, than entering the deck 30,000 times.
@@Shinybook51No need to RNG manip when you can very easily just hack things in. But he said in the video he'd avoid it anyway. I don't see it being that useful over the general best gear anyway in this type of challenge outside of Yiazmat where you can cheese him out of range. And there's no way he's even getting to Yiazmat.
check the options menu for a battle speed slider, as well. you can change the rate at which all gauges fill by setting it to the highest or lowest speed, but it doesnt change the rate at which you run around the map. why would this help? at the lowest speed, the monsters will have lots of time to chase you and catch you before your attacks fill and shoot them. at the highest speed, you will shoot them before they can catch you! sometimes youll want to take more control of the battle, so slowing things down can be a great idea. slow it down when you plan on fleeing through an area without taking a single hit. youll run past them before their gauge fills, and theyll never catch you to strike you! if youre actively engaging in combat, speed things up so you can get some more strikes in before they can catch you!
You can get as many deathrbingers for free once you reach the feywood there's a chest in the middle that respawns when you leave the area be careful it has a trap on it but you can get close enough to get the chest without triggering it
Isn't that part of the Feywood only unlocked after Draklor? I think you're able to buy Deathbringers from a shop once you're at the point in the story, at least in TZA. Free's always better, but I think I'd rather have them before running through Feywood with attack only.
@@KaptainKrezzyI got 3 deathbringers from a chest in Barheim passage which requires a sidequest and you have to keep leaving the area and returning. Most of the time it's a mimic chest though so that's why you have to keep returning to the particular chest. Like two or three screens over and returning.
Will you be allowing the steal at the beginning of battle gambit. I think that should be allowed in the run. A lot of the game is obtaining materials to sell to the bazaar
I assume 'attack only' means 'attack only'. Which does mean some of the stuff he assumes he'll be able to get he won't because you need to steal the loot for the Bazaar....
Ok since im pretty well knowledged in ffxii im gonna say Measures will be bread and butter here so a Machinist. Knights Shikari Bushi is best melee damage jobs. Monk or Uhlaan for flyers. Archer mages and foebreaker seem useless here unless you wanna oil enemies for fire arrow attacks. Time mage for those bolt debuffs would be essential here as well... am i forgetting anything else? Lol
Oh crap two license board is way freaking better. I need that version. Also I forgot licenses are for equipment. I need that version in my life. The combat is scales with level. So equipment as far as I recall is just equipment. Hope that lets the run lean towards properly geared classes
Game is mostly solved with 1 gambit. Foe: Lowest HP - Attack Also I believe sextants give positive buffs to allies if you attack yourself. They do next to no DMG and will wake sleeping characters.
Yeah I never connected with the characters the story The Music anything with this game I literally got to the final dungeon and then just stopped playing it when it first came out. Very good battle system but the story the level design the graphics the characters everything is just so lackluster. If somebody offered me $5,000 to replay this game I probably wouldn't do it lol
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You can heal with elemental attacks + elemental absorb armors. Also, the Healing Rod (equippable by WHM) bestows Regen on hit.
Also, very cool series, can't wait for more!
Loved this. You can use chains to heal as well. If your chain gets big enough, it can give you some small amount of health back.
Final fantasy 12 is one of my favorites and I feel it’s very underrated in general. Really excited for this attack only challenge
Should be a fun run. Hopefully this allows a good chance for the status infliction on hit weapons/jobs to shine a lot more, especially measures. Going longer without healing outside of combat probably really would require investing into better gear and ranged combat more heavily and early, but yeah it sounds like it'd mainly require a lot of running past enemies to get to save points instead of actually fighting, so... eh.
Yes! I always love watching these challenge runs on your channel 🎉
Nice first episode!
Yeah, healing outside of battle is probably necessary at some point but will unfortunately make a lot of random encounters pretty pointless busywork. Still really interested to see the first boss fight soon.
Looking forward to this. The attack only challenges have all been bangers so far
I'm soooo excited for the next episode! I hope it goes some interesting places and is feasible to do!
FF XII!! One of my favourites along side FFX. FF XII has some of the most amazing compositions, I absolutely adore the music in this game!
Super excited for this one! I was playing 12 last winter, and I was thinking an attack only on this game would be impossible. I hope you can prove me wrong!
Berk did it again! He keeps finding ways to get me to rewatch some of my favorite games 😊 Good luck!
I love this series I can’t wait to see more. Kiting enemies could be useful in the future
Final Fantasy XII is a fantastic game. I have only played the original (not the zodiac age) back when i had a ps2 in my old apartment. Best of luck to you!
This is going to be a good series ladies and gents.
Cant wait to see Dansg forced into a party comp depending exclusively on Penelo
YES!! I was worried that there wouldn't be another Attack Only coming.
Oh this looks like it'll be fun. Can't wait!
FF12 is one of my favourite FF games. Its open battle system makes this a very different experience from your Attack Only runs of other games, since you often choose how you fight enemies.
8:19 I remember during one random playthrough of mine with the original version, this boss(which was supposed to be easy, cuz the other characters, and especially Basch will carry you through damage and healing)
Like literally did its Cinematic Attack like 3 times back to back, literally killing me instantly😅😅😅😅
What no way thx bro much love hope everyone has a great weekend
In all seriousness one of the builds I tried myself was a power ranger. Used the trinket(s) that boost atk when low on ho and a bow. It allowed me to clean up a significant early game but kept my health on edge.
I played all of 12 and don’t remember it at all. And that is probably why I haven’t played 13 to completion.
use gambits! they wont just go hogwild and run off to kill things, if you dont want to fight at all you can just hold the FLEE command and they wont even draw their weapons. even without fleeing, the range to see an enemy and go fight it is still rather small, and its not a problem. theyre not just gonna runoff and pick fights you dont want.
My favourite FF, so hyped for this one.
What makes it your fav?
@@user-Aaron- I find the games setting really intresting and Ivalice as a world intriguing.
I also really enjoyed the hunt system, finding all the monsters and defeating them felt great.
Combat and especially the gambit system really resonated whit me, essentielly programming out the busywork of combat.
While story and characters left a lot to be desired (excluding Balthier). It still holds a very special place in my heart.
Yess! Here we go again! 🥳
Showing some love !
i think the builds i would ultimately use in an attack only playthrough would be Monk, Uhlan, Bushi, Knight, Archer, Shikari.
machinist guns are generally bad if youre allowed to level up. monk uhlan archer can hit flying enemies, knight is heavy armor tank, bushi and shikari are combo crazy damage dealers.
i might consider foebreaker or time mage instead of shikari or knight, but the other 4 are absolutely the most useful jobs for just constant attacking.
I was thinking foebreaker for oil bombs and then burnimg bow fire arrow archer for 150% fire damage attacks
Something makes me feel like you can still use the gambit system a little bit but obviously there will be less need for those and for licenses.
It will be interesting to see if you get the missable spear that makes many bosses quite easy. It is nice that you won’t be speed running levels up.
I like when you brought up the great aspects and the two bunny girls were just chilling on screen lol
I shall show this episode as much love as is legally possible!
Looking forward to this run!
My FFXII knowledge isn't quite up to date, but I believe Fran archer and Balthier machinist are actually traps unfortunately. Given that's kind of their "intended" weapons they have fancier animations with these that take a bit longer. I hope these few frames every attack won't have much of an actual effect in the long run, but only time will tell. Worst case scenario, the second license board will be there.
Had no idea about this!
@@DannyCheatTV The actual gameplay impact is actually pretty minimal. Unless you're min-maxing it really doesn't matter at all. It's extremely unlikely to cause a scenario where he would have won with different characters on those jobs -- a bigger impact would be the raw stats, really.
You're going to be using that speed up option a LOT with this one! Wish you the best, am sure you'll conquer it like the others.
chests are often like this example: 90% chance of gil, 10% chance of item.
then if it hits item it usually has a common and a rare, so like 90% chance potion, 10% mage masher.
so 9/10 times it will only have gil, then the 1 time it'll have an item which is most likely a potion. but 1/10 times you open it AND get item, it'll be the mage masher weapon. if you're after that weapon, you gotta leave and return a bunch and hope for some luck, as 1/10th of 1/10th is an average of only seeing that weapon 1% of the time.
sometimes it 50/50 gil/item, and then 50/50 junk item or good item, so in those cases its closer to 25% to get the good item. just gotta look up the chests and determine if its worth it to farm em or not.
Love to see it, FF12 is so fun :)
It’s really sad that so many people’s first version of 12 is tza cause uncapped boards were so peak and 10 reminiscent
This is gonna get wild around episode 3 or 4.
f**k yeah I'd been waiting for this one
A seitengrat for each character would make this a breeze.
Finally! Dan is playing The Phantom Menace!
I kid. FFXII will actually be good.
I truly enjoyed ff12 when it came to the states befire the zodiac age and still enjoy it to this day... will take it over 13 any day
It's weird to see Flee being allowed in an attack only run, I think the rule should be that if an enemy aggros to you, you have to fight it
Another attack-only challenge! Woo-hoo!
Great choice!
Christmas came early!! 🎉
That is awesome 👏
i love the judges in the game
Brilliant 👏
The thing 5hat always baffle me about the battle system in this game is why the heck is Quickenings Physical damage? Cuz it only scales with Strength stat and level?(Not to mention dealing damage base on random power value)
Oh wow, balances (edit: measures) might end up being useful.
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interesting start to the series
So weapon types in 12 are REALLY WEIRD
In an EXTREME summary, some use the character’s speed to calc damage, some use strength, some use vitality, some use magick and strength combined, etc…… so some characters ARE better at using some weapon types over others
Not to mention different weapon types just charge the atb gauge faster or slower
Guns and crossbows being the slowest I believe, with daggers(?) being fastest (idk I didn’t fact check that)
And then the weapon type ALSO affects how often you can do combos, all polearms and “ninja swords” have innate high combo rates for example but some specific weapons can also have the trait
…unfortunately, despite having a gun as his “main weapon” in artwork, balthier’s damage output with them is… pretty bad
I verbally said “oh… no” when hearing you gave him machinist/guns 😅
But hey! That just makes it more interesting, right? Can’t wait to see more~
Ooo, is this challenge the first time Measures are actually useful?😅😅😂😂
The "My strategy playing any rpg when I was a kid challenge"
Finally a run that sextants get some use lol
I can't even beat this game normally with no limitations, and you're doing it with just using attack?! Geez.
I get the feeling that if he does optional bosses there is going to be a lot of Seitengrat cheese
Doubtful, RNG manip on PC is not really a thing and I don't see him giving it to himself
@@Shinybook51 I guess its easier to get maxed out stats and fire absorb break hp equipment with only attacking in ffx, than entering the deck 30,000 times.
@@Shinybook51No need to RNG manip when you can very easily just hack things in. But he said in the video he'd avoid it anyway. I don't see it being that useful over the general best gear anyway in this type of challenge outside of Yiazmat where you can cheese him out of range. And there's no way he's even getting to Yiazmat.
@@TerraEponthat bow is double the damage on zodiac spear. Its absolutely worth it lmao
I am so hype for this challenge dude
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check the options menu for a battle speed slider, as well. you can change the rate at which all gauges fill by setting it to the highest or lowest speed, but it doesnt change the rate at which you run around the map. why would this help? at the lowest speed, the monsters will have lots of time to chase you and catch you before your attacks fill and shoot them. at the highest speed, you will shoot them before they can catch you!
sometimes youll want to take more control of the battle, so slowing things down can be a great idea. slow it down when you plan on fleeing through an area without taking a single hit. youll run past them before their gauge fills, and theyll never catch you to strike you! if youre actively engaging in combat, speed things up so you can get some more strikes in before they can catch you!
You can get as many deathrbingers for free once you reach the feywood there's a chest in the middle that respawns when you leave the area be careful it has a trap on it but you can get close enough to get the chest without triggering it
Isn't that part of the Feywood only unlocked after Draklor? I think you're able to buy Deathbringers from a shop once you're at the point in the story, at least in TZA. Free's always better, but I think I'd rather have them before running through Feywood with attack only.
@@KaptainKrezzyI got 3 deathbringers from a chest in Barheim passage which requires a sidequest and you have to keep leaving the area and returning. Most of the time it's a mimic chest though so that's why you have to keep returning to the particular chest. Like two or three screens over and returning.
Can Final Fantasy beat Dansg08 with only game ?
Will you be allowing the steal at the beginning of battle gambit. I think that should be allowed in the run. A lot of the game is obtaining materials to sell to the bazaar
I assume 'attack only' means 'attack only'. Which does mean some of the stuff he assumes he'll be able to get he won't because you need to steal the loot for the Bazaar....
i would recommend an uhlan, for the soul porpose of using the holy lance, combine that whit a white mask and you could heal yourself for a big amount
Ok since im pretty well knowledged in ffxii im gonna say Measures will be bread and butter here so a Machinist. Knights Shikari Bushi is best melee damage jobs. Monk or Uhlaan for flyers. Archer mages and foebreaker seem useless here unless you wanna oil enemies for fire arrow attacks. Time mage for those bolt debuffs would be essential here as well... am i forgetting anything else? Lol
Bein watching your ff12 run for last few weeks, and kind wished u go back at it
Hmmm, my comment keeping being eaten. If I'm being too backsteaish and are being deleted. sorry. Didn't mean to overstep. Excited for the playthrough.
It could work if it wasn't for some bosses that say physical attacks don't work cuz then it's a pain
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I haven't watched the video yet but no can you can't unless you skip chaos but that just prove you can't because chaos disabled attack
Oh crap two license board is way freaking better. I need that version. Also I forgot licenses are for equipment. I need that version in my life.
The combat is scales with level. So equipment as far as I recall is just equipment. Hope that lets the run lean towards properly geared classes
Bubble belts will be nice sequence breaking shops may be useful when possible maybe not at all lol
Its 2006 again when i tried playing the game without knowing a lick of Japanese
Game is mostly solved with 1 gambit.
Foe: Lowest HP - Attack
Also I believe sextants give positive buffs to allies if you attack yourself. They do next to no DMG and will wake sleeping characters.
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Lmao i also just realized you literally cant get chaos oh no :(
Les go
Yeah I never connected with the characters the story The Music anything with this game I literally got to the final dungeon and then just stopped playing it when it first came out. Very good battle system but the story the level design the graphics the characters everything is just so lackluster. If somebody offered me $5,000 to replay this game I probably wouldn't do it lol
Unironically did this as a kid, it’s possible but I stopped at the main story. Curious to see vs superbosses