Holy geez. I'm attempting the Solo White Mage quest. I'm basically making this thread so I can post my progress (read: spam and postcount). Also, encouragement helps me do boring and insane stuff like this.



So far, I'm just at Pravoka. I need to gain a couple of levels before going after the ship. Note how I'm too lazy to crop out the desktop. Anyway, I don't intend on using savestates or game genie. Any thoughts?

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will take a while, should be rewarding if you manage to finish it though!

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Listen buddy, I jumped on the pole to get to the princess, nothing more, nothing less!

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I have two bits of advice:

#1: gimme that Mac.

#2: find the screenshot button for your emulator. saves on file size, and we don't have to look at your whole desktop.

and then a comment...

IT CANNOT BE DONE! if by some chance you DO finish it... well, I shall worship you as my (secondary, below Karnov) god.

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Luke, next time I'll crop it, I swear. RockNES' screen shot format confuses me. I was just extra special lazy.
Roth, yes, I beat Garland at Level 4.

And yes, I will keep you all updated in my struggles.

I'm now in Level 7, and though I have not yet gone to Elftown, I have the ship. I'll post screens when something more interesting than fighting Sharks happens. Maybe when I go for the crown, at level 10 or something. I'll give you all the status screen/fighting Mages/getting crown combo. I should be there tomorrow sometime.

Astos ought to be an excercise in patience.

I'll gladly answer any queries you may have. But for the basics: Ruse is stackable, and 99 Heal potions is a constant goal.

Edit:

I went ahead to Elftown, and picked up some new armor. Then I realized I never even equipped the Cloth Armor. Ah well, it sucks anyway.
Here's me being fairly close to level 8. I seem to be able to do Ogres pretty well. So I'll stick with them until at least level 10.

Editx2: Not only did I bother to crop the first pic, but I've resaved them both as .gifs. I could go lower quality even, but uh. I'm lazy.

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if he manages to keep his evade up..

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Listen buddy, I jumped on the pole to get to the princess, nothing more, nothing less!

Buy/Sell/Trade list: http://forums.nesfiles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1911

Zen, I imagine the solo Theif being the hardest way to play the game. Actually, on scond thought, at least the theif can actually run.

Anyway, check it out lads:

I got bored of leveling up, so I decided to go for it. I failed twice, but the third time...

I got the crown. You didn't think I would do it, but I did it. I imagine the Astos fight will take hour(s).

Here's a picture of what it looks like to kill a Wizard with one white mage.

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Prepare the congraturations.

I managed to get the crystal. The Astos fight took about 35 minutes.

I've done the stupid irritating hunt-and find quest, and I have given the TNT to Nerrick. I've filled out my spells including such indispensable gems as FEAR and HRM2.

Now I can (somewhat) comfortably power level…

I've only done 3 or 4 fights like this, because it is time consuming. Here's the deal:
It takes a few tries to get to the 'power peninsula'. Then I use a tent, reset, and get into a fight. If it is vs any Trolls with the Zombulls, I have to reset again. The goal is to fight 3 or 4 Zombulls here, with 0 Trolls, and get off my first cast of ruse quickly. One ruse is enough to get my evade high enough that they don't kill me right away, and then I can use it again. Then they're pretty likely to miss, so I just use Harm 2 a few times, win, and use a tent again. It's around 4 resets until I get a fight I like, and 1/3 fights are successes. But when I level up, my STR HAS to go up. Or else I reset. That adds another 2-5 resets (depending on the level). I'd like AGI to go up as well, but I'm not a machine, so I don't reset for that too. Anyway, after I use the tent, it's back to Pravoka to refill on heals, tents and rock the Inn.

Like I said, I've just started on this. Maybe I'll go to level 20? More likely I'll get bored and move on. Usually, my best laid plans are all based on how much patience I have.

I can't wait until I get the Defense sword, heal staff and mage staff. Leveling will be a breeze then. Fewer town stops.

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I need an update on this OSG! Get any further with the hardcore leveling up technique?

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http://robertlbryant.com

Update?

8) I haven't even played FF1 yet, even though I have it (no, I don't know what's wrong with me), and this looks harshly difficult. I am used to other RPG's, though, and just the talk about it sounds like a hard endeavor. I'm going to have to get that game out of the attic now; I have a goal to work towards!