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| * Optional: Enemy drops and steals can be shuffled | * Optional: Enemy drops and steals can be shuffled | ||
| * Optional: Color palettes for player characters | * Optional: Color palettes for player characters | ||
| + | * Optional: Jobs can be given random starting abilities and learned abilities on seed generation, aka Chaos Mode. | ||
| Career Day does **not** shuffle the following: | Career Day does **not** shuffle the following: | ||
| * No Exdeath fights are changed - they're in the same places and have the same capabilities. | * No Exdeath fights are changed - they're in the same places and have the same capabilities. | ||
| - | * Jobs still teach the same list of Abilities to individual characters as they always did. | + | * Jobs still teach the same list of Abilities to individual characters as they always did, unless playing the optional Chaos Mode. |
| * Areas of the game have not been moved or changed - the layouts remain familiar. | * Areas of the game have not been moved or changed - the layouts remain familiar. | ||
| * Items, Spells, Jobs, and Abilities still do exactly what you expect of them. | * Items, Spells, Jobs, and Abilities still do exactly what you expect of them. | ||
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| NeoExdeath is a challenging final boss. There are a number of guides for vanilla FFV that cover NeoExdeath in its entirety (especially Four Job Fiesta related resources), so if your goal is either for racing or for playing more than one seed, it's a good idea to understand how the final boss operates (this applies to all bosses, really.) | NeoExdeath is a challenging final boss. There are a number of guides for vanilla FFV that cover NeoExdeath in its entirety (especially Four Job Fiesta related resources), so if your goal is either for racing or for playing more than one seed, it's a good idea to understand how the final boss operates (this applies to all bosses, really.) | ||
| - | Of course, ask any questions in our [[https://discord.gg/6Yw6HbK|Community Discord]], for which you can find a link to in the main page of this wiki. Many players are around and willing to help answer basic questions. | + | ====== How do I Underflow my Berserker? ====== |
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| + | The short version: To underflow your Berserker with the Rune Axe (Rune Axe damage is based equally on the character's Strength and Magic Power stats), use Galuf with the Giant Glove or the Thornlet equipped. Galuf is the only one who can do this with just one of those items equipped, other characters would need both. If you need to clear Mua Forest and get Cara, Galuf's stats will persist on her until you change gear/job/ability so just leave her untouched as long as you want to keep her underflowed. Earth Hammer underflow is more lenient, anyone but Lenna can do it with Thornlet or Giant Glove. Beware equipping items like the Aegis Shield or Elf Cape, which give +1 magic and could ruin your underflow. | ||
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| + | Detailed explanation: The Berserker job gives only +1 to a character's Magic Power stat, and when a character's inherent magic is added to that, Magic Power is still generally so low that it can be possible to underflow it "below" zero. Now the game doesn't do negative numbers, so instead it wraps around to the highest possible Magic Power. The game will always display zero Magic Power even if you are successfully underflowed, so you just need to do a little basic math to get your Magic Power to what would be at least -1. | ||
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| + | Inherent Character Magic Power Stat: Galuf = 0, Butz = 1, Faris = 2, Krile = 3, Lenna = 4. | ||
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| + | Berserker Magic Power Stat augment: +1. | ||
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| + | Relevant equipment and how it augments Magic Power: Rune Axe +3, Thornlet -5, Giant Glove -5 (I will refer to these last two as "underflow items" because they subtract from your Magic Power stat). | ||
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| + | Gear that could potentially ruin your Magic Power underflow because it gives a bit of Magic Power: Aegis Shield +1, Elf Cape +1. | ||
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| + | DO NOT put on any Magic abilities like White, Black, Time, Blue, Red, Summon, or Equip Harps that would carry over an increase to the Berserker's Magic Power, we're trying to keep this stat super low for underflow! | ||
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| + | DO feel free to put on the Double Grip ability since that works with axes and will nearly double your damage at the cost of losing your shield. You might want to increase your Berserker's Agility stat instead, by using abilities like Agility (Thief master ability) or Equip Bows (from Hunter) but in the randomizer it's often best to have your Berserker attacking last in case the fight can't be solved with pure single-target damage. If you don't mind resetting out of a boss fight here or there though, go for a speedy Berserker if you want. | ||
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| + | The Earth Hammer does not augment Magic Power at all, but it's useful because it procs the Quake spell 1/4 of the time on attack. It's probably the best underflow weapon for a Berserker in the final fight against Neo ExDeath, while an underflowed Rune Axe is more useful for getting through the seed in general. | ||
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| + | Simply add up your Magic Power Stat from Character, Berserker job, and the gear you're using and make sure it reaches at least -1 to activate the underflow for massive damage. Note that Galuf is the only character that can reach -1 Magic Power using the Rune Axe and only one underflow item (Galuf = 0 + 1 + 3 - 5 = -1), so he is the preferred character to do this. Anyone but Lenna can underflow the Earth Hammer with one underflow item (Lenna = 4 + 1 - 5 = 0), so don't go for Lenna underflow Berserker. Using two underflow items can be done and will underflow anyone as a Berserker, but using two underflow items limits your other gear options so this isn't recommended. | ||
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| + | If you want to be really wild and put the dual-wield ability on your Berserker and use two Rune Axes, in order to underflow you'd need both the Thornlet and Giant Glove on and you'd have to use Galuf, Butz, or Faris. (Faris = 2 + 1 + 3 + 3 - 5 - 5 = -1). | ||
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| + | Have fun underflow zerking! Rune Axes and Earth Hammers are pretty common in Kuza Castle (accessible in World 2 in the randomizer), and the Berserker job is pretty common in World 1 shops since it's a low tier job. A Rune Axe hits hard even without underflow, but with underflow those damage numbers get huge. If you have a Rune Axe but can't underflow yet, you can give your Berserker a Magic ability to boost its damage a bit until you can underflow (or an agility ability as mentioned above). Just remember to remove the Magic ability once it's time to underflow. Giant Glove and Thornlet are also fairly low tier, so keep an eye out for them too of course. | ||
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| + | Ask any questions in our [[https://discord.gg/6Yw6HbK|Community Discord]], for which you can find a link to in the main page of this wiki. Many players are around and willing to help answer basic questions. | ||
