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Dreamboum

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Oct 28, 2017
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RESETERA EDITION
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FAQ
  • What is Four Job Fiesta ?
FJF is a challenge run where you are assigned a job for each character that you have to stick with for the entirety of the game. A variety of rules can be added in order to spice up your experience. The goal is to beat the game, but you can also try to beat the superbosses.​
  • What makes it interesting ?
Final Fantasy V is a flexible enough game to allow for a wide variety of customization so adding a challenge on top of it allows for creativity to thrive and give further room for experimentation. It's not simply a matter of completing the game, but doing it with the cards that have been dealt. It also brings a way to discuss about the game and share our strategies.​
  • How do I register ?
You have to tweet to GILGABOT (@FF5forFutures) and use hashtags that denotes your run choice. Hashtags are listed in the help page. You need a twitter account to participate.
  • What version can I use ?
SNES, GBA and the Smarpthone/Steam version are allowed.​
  • How do I get my job assigned ?
You have to tweet to GILGABOT with a hashtag of the crystal you reached in order to have your job assigned. #Wind for the wind crystal, #Water, #Fire and #Earth in order.
  • How do I confirm I beat the game ?
You need to take a screen capture or a picture of your four jobs beating the final boss and tweet it to GILGABOT with the hashtag #Victory. The website can also log your victory against Shinryu and Omega with #VictoryShinryu and #VictoryOmega
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Charity & Pledging

The 2016 Edition of FJF raised $19365.61 for Child's Play Charity. The 2018 edition will also give 100% of the donations to the same charity!

On top of simply donating, you can pledge money for every condition that you self-impose to yourself like pledging to give money if you complete or fail your run, or for every game over that you have come across. It is not mandatory to donate or pledge, but greatly appreciated.​

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THE RUN!
Before FJF kicks off, selected players will stream a race of Final Fantasy V with jobs that were selected by you. You can vote once towards a job, or give money to charity to boost your vote further. Several incentives are available like defeating the superboss Omega if 12.500$ is met for the final incentive. The Run page is available here.

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Contest Rules
You have to choose the run you want to start with​

NORMAL
One job from each crystal will be assigned. You can only use the classes you have currently unlocked until all four of them are unlocked.

RANDOM
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One job will be assigned regardless of the crystal they belong from the pool of jobs that you have currently unlocked.

TEAM 750
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Only jobs that can break rods or are similar will be assigned to you. Breaking rods is the act of using an equipped rod in battle to use it as a strong attack and breaking it in the process. Mostly Magical jobs.

TEAM NO 750
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Only jobs that cannot break rods or are similar will be assigned to you. Mostly Physical jobs.

CLASSIC
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Jobs that were from the original Final Fantasy will be assigned to you.

CHAOS
Players will be assigned jobs.

PURE CHAOS
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Players will be assigned jobs totally randomly. Freelancer and Mime are included.

POPULAR
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Jobs assignment are weighted towards the popular jobs voted during the Spring Voting Sessions.

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Run Options
These are the options that you can add on top of your run choice​

NATURAL
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Bartz must use the Wind crystal job. Water for Lenna, Fire for Faris and Earth for Galuf/Krile.
Characters must remain Freelancers until their job is unlocked.
Characters cannot use skills from other jobs. You have to keep the skills of your assigned job.

UPGRADE
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You will only use your Wind Job until you unlock your Water Job. Water until you unlock Fire, and then Fire until you unlock Earth. Then once you unlock your Earth job will be the job you use until the end of the game. Any abilities learned from the previous jobs may be used.

FIFTH JOB
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Krile will receive her own job, losing the access to the previous Earth job assigned to Galuf.

BERSERKER RISK
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(Pre-registration only)
For every 10$ donated, a player with the Berserker risk option will be assigned a Berserker. If there are more Berserkers to be assigned than players with the risk, players will have a chance of receiving multiple berserkers for a single run.

More details here.

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Credits: assets used and creation of the FJF goes to revenantkioku . I didn't know if RK would create a thread this year since he doesn't post on here anymore so I went ahead. Don't treat it as an OT if he has plans to make his own thread until the Fiesta starts.
 
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Kientin

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,278
Looking deep inside trying to find out if I have a run in me this time haha. I will probably end up caving.
 

vic viper

Member
Dec 27, 2017
307
Registered for a random upgrade run. Love doing this every year, FFV is my favorite game. Hopefully this will help tide me over until Octopath launches too!
 

Ashgar

Member
Oct 28, 2017
246
I'm wondering if I'm going to regret going with Forbidden. I also wonder when RK is going to tell us what Forbidden actually is.
 

Chaosblade

Resettlement Advisor
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,597
Had to look and see if there was a thread for this since The Run is starting in a little over an hour.

There is a strange "wrong" button on the player page now. It appears to be messed up and some people are getting jobs early.

Going to give streaming a go this year. First run I tried to check all the boxes with Popular 750 5th Job Berserker Risk but I'm not sure Popular is compatible with 750. Oh well, not important.



And for the OP, the #Wind command is redundant. Gilgabot assigns the wind job on registration now (or the start of the fiesta for prereg).
 

JC Lately

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
615
Ah! Must have missed this thread earlier. Was getting worried that there wouldnt be one this year since RK doesn't post here and I couldn't find a thread on GAF either.

In for a 750 Run.
 
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SkyOdin

Member
Apr 21, 2018
2,680
Oh, I missed this thread. I might sign up this year, depending on if I can find a good way to play the game.
 

JC Lately

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
615
The mobile/Steam version is perfectly serviceable if you can get past the character sprites.
 

Hecht

Blue light comes around
Administrator
Oct 24, 2017
9,736
The mobile/Steam version is perfectly serviceable if you can get past the character sprites.
I actually quite like the mobile version. Advance version is the best, but mobile is great except for the character sprites. Enemy sprites are great and there's none of that crappy 3D stuff on the map like the FF6 version
 

Man God

Member
Oct 25, 2017
38,308
My favorite time of the year. I might be down to only two runs this year with all the other stuff I have planned.
 

Nairume

SaGa Sage
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,944
One of my favorite annual events. Dunno if I'll top my four runs from last year, but I've already got a Popular run on deck and will probably do at least a second run during the fiesta. Looking forward to seeing how everybody's runs go this time around!
 

Man God

Member
Oct 25, 2017
38,308
GBA version for me. I've tried hard to play the PSX version one year to reclaim the past and couldn't make it more than a few minutes.

Maybe the fan patched SNES version. I also have a copy for the SFC and I've played the game enough to do it without knowing Japanese.
 

MilkBeard

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,783
Oh look, it's the FFV 4 job fiesta. I won't join in this year, but I will play the game alongside everyone, as I haven't beaten the game yet.
 

Zellia

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
2,769
UK
Doing a #random run this year. If I get Thief again at any point I might just job fair it though, it was my Wind job for the normal runs I did for the past two years.
 

Hecht

Blue light comes around
Administrator
Oct 24, 2017
9,736
I'll probably do mobile since I tend to do something like watch a movie or something while playing. Also I have no idea where my GBA/DS is :/
 

ASaiyan

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,228
I've still never played V, but I think it's incredible that people love the game this much to do this mass marathon each year. And it's all for Child's Play (which I used to run events for that raised like 1/100th the money, lol).

Godspeed all!
 
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Dreamboum

Dreamboum

Member
Oct 28, 2017
22,869
I'm ashamed to say my last one was 4 years ago. Every year I say I'm nostalgic and every year I don't do it.
 

gasmo

Avenger
Nov 5, 2017
628
Did it 2 times before that was fun , i'm tempted to do it again just to see what the hell is forbidden.
 

Hecht

Blue light comes around
Administrator
Oct 24, 2017
9,736
Last year I did 3x Berserker and 1x Beastmaster. I'm invincible.
 

vic viper

Member
Dec 27, 2017
307
I definitely don't think there's a team where it would be impossible, you'd just have to dig into mechanics a bit more and examine equipment. There's always a solution.
One thing that's helped a lot in my fiesta runs is reading sullla's solo runs for ffv. http://www.sullla.com/FF/finalfantasy.html they go deep into mechanics and strategies, really interesting stuff, imo,
 

zyxwvu4321

Member
Oct 25, 2017
150
Done this every year since 2011 and never gotten Blue Mage, Ninja, or Samurai. Hopefully this is the year!
 

Aaronrules380

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
22,484
I have been playing since it started in 2009 and never had Monk, Mystic Knight, Summoner, or Chemist
I got both mystic knight and chemist on my run last year, which was just unfair lol. Though in fairness my other two jobs were geomancer and thief which both kind of suck lol

edit: I also got summoner, mystic knight, and blue mage in one run my first time which was just kind of overkill in retrospect lol. (Though due to weirdness they never validated my run that year even though I sent a pic)
 

Hecht

Blue light comes around
Administrator
Oct 24, 2017
9,736
I got both mystic knight and chemist on my run last year, which was just unfair lol. Though in fairness my other two jobs were geomancer and thief which both kind of suck lol

edit: I also got summoner, mystic knight, and blue mage in one run my first time which was just kind of overkill in retrospect lol. (Though due to weirdness they never validated my run that year even though I sent a pic)
I've had Blue Mage like 4 times. Love that class. It's kinda a shame that I've never had Summoner or Chemist to enable easy mode, though. Not having Mystic Knight means I gotta get really lucky on Almagest w/ ExDeath too. :/
 

Aaronrules380

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
22,484
I've had Blue Mage like 4 times. Love that class. It's kinda a shame that I've never had Summoner or Chemist to enable easy mode, though. Not having Mystic Knight means I gotta get really lucky on Almagest w/ ExDeath too. :/
Yeah, chemist is a class that I don't think anyone bothers with in a casual playthrough but is actually absurdly broken when you know how to use it. Mystic Knight plus chemist had some fun shenanigans combining drink with mystic knight to load up on hero cocktails and boost my level sky high in the early part of the Final Boss before using the haste/blink/berserk mix to send my mystic knight with flare spell blade to do max damage with each attack. And yeah summoner is also super good. Blue mage I remember being good, but I also remember missing the ability to use beastmaster to control and get some of the useful support abilities blue mages get
 

Novel Mike

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,553
Never done this before but seems fun and I've done several of these types of challenges for my youtube channel (doing a Nuzlocke run on Emerald Right now) and this seems fun and I have been wanting to get into streaming so this seems like a fun way to start. I'm not super familiar with FFV (I played it once when the GBA version came out way back when and never finished it) so I think I'll just do a normal run but IDK if this is in any frowned upon but I generally like to add my own rules. Since this is already fairly unfamiliar to me I think I'm just going to do a general game over rule, which means if every dies at any point the run ends and I lose.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Mementos
I'm curious what team you got that you felt it was impossible. I feel like even bad teams should be capable. Did you ask for advice at all when you struggled? Some jobs can be way better than they initially seem after all
Yes, I still couldn't win. I think last time I tried was back in November. Let me check that file to see who I had gotten.

Level 35 White Mage
Level 34 Time Mage
Level 35 Black Mage
Level 33 Ranger
 

Hecht

Blue light comes around
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Oct 24, 2017
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Yeah, chemist is a class that I don't think anyone bothers with in a casual playthrough but is actually absurdly broken when you know how to use it. Mystic Knight plus chemist had some fun shenanigans combining drink with mystic knight to load up on hero cocktails and boost my level sky high in the early part of the Final Boss before using the haste/blink/berserk mix to send my mystic knight with flare spell blade to do max damage with each attack. And yeah summoner is also super good. Blue mage I remember being good, but I also remember missing the ability to use beastmaster to control and get some of the useful support abilities blue mages get
Confuse generally works. It's waaay less predictable but it shouldn't lock you out of anything important
 

Hecht

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Oct 24, 2017
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That's true, can't remember if I used that or not, though I think I did, but relying so heavily on dice rolls to get abilities is a bit of a drag
Yeah, RNG sucks. For running it quickly it's kinda necessary though i.e., Catoblepas vs NeoExDeath. I did manage to win at level 23-ish, with my max HP on one character being 630.
 

Aaronrules380

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
22,484
lol truth

Forbidden seems to indicate that certain jobs are verboten, so I'm curious to see what I end up getting.
yeah, same.

Also, if we really, really want to get absolute easy mode, chemist and samurai combo seems really, really fucking broken even beyond the two classes already being really powerful, since if I understand correctly each hero drink/ dragon power used on a gil tosser raises the damage of gil toss by 3000 which is kind of insane
 

Hecht

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Oct 24, 2017
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The easiest combos, by FAR, are

Wind: White/Black/Blue/Knight (though White has an initially terrible time)
Water: Time Mage/Summoner
Fire: Ranger/Bard
Earth: Samurai/Chemist

You get some of those and you're set.
 

Aaronrules380

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
22,484
The easiest combos, by FAR, are

Wind: White/Black/Blue/Knight (though White has an initially terrible time)
Water: Time Mage/Summoner
Fire: Ranger/Bard
Earth: Samurai/Chemist

You get some of those and you're set.
I mean you can also get some ridiculous synergies if you get stuff like mystic knight + ranger for the infamous Rapid Fire flare swords, but obviously those require getting two specific classes as opposed to the ones you mentioned which are pretty much always great regardless of what else you get