@embee187 the pixel remaster available now dont have the new jobs and dungeon/bosses. Only the gba (might be ds) version has them unfortunately. Necromancer was so much fun 😢
Mystic Knights are one of my favorite jobs, also the rune sword in Istory falls is pretty good, at first seems weak but it adds your magic to the attack formula just like the chicken knife adds speed to the formula, and also crits at the cost of 8 MP
Finished FFV yesterday for the first time and it's really nice to see you upload a challenge run, it brings me back to when I first started playing it ☕🐒
Btw i just wanted to say i loved your double digit carbon fiber/submarine jokes. That was classhole stuff right there and i salute it as a fellow classhole.
Don't let my icon fool you; this is my favorite job in all of the FF games. I like me a class that mixes melee and spellcasting,;and I LOVE a class that does that, but literally so lol
It was definitly one of my favorite jobs in Bravley default espacilly since you can use Holy and Death whit sword magic in that game.Just a shame Phantom weapon costs 3 passive slot.
I asked for this a few vids ago and its exactly what I was hoping for and expecting. Making great use of Break Blade for bosses that can tend to wall other jobs, Silence Blade to clown on Omniscient. I didnt even consider flame rings with firaga blade for healing so I even learned something today.
Looking forward to seeing the beastmaster run. They have at least a couple of useful command abilities, and there's several bossfights that are trivialized by releasing four monsters.
I would've thought this would have been a way easier cakewalk with how strong Mystic Knight can be in the right situation. I guess Break Blade can't be that useful, otherwise what's the challenge. At least with some grinding you can absolutely wipe out the final bosses. I forgot to sub last time on the hilarious Bard episode, let me fix that.
Theres a mod that removes cutscenes for the pixel remaster if you're playing it on PC, a little weird to set up but very worth it for replaying this a bunch lol
I did this challenge on the GBA version. I don't know if it's still there, but there's a part of Neo Exdeath that's vulnerable to Break... so I would keep each of the other parts alive and manage their HP so I could kill them in one cycle of hits, with the fourth smacking the last part with Break Blade.
PR put the sol cannon launchers into the back row, and that can make the fight a lot harder for certain teams like this. You can also remove all the stat loss from Old status on PR though, so with a lot of resources used you can get through the fight on the back of good damage once it's just the cannon itself left. The fLAME ring strats and the excessive levels getting them gives hurt my soul, but hey, you do you. Odin and NED's Almagest part and a ton of random monsters also die to break spellblade, it's incredibly OP sometimes and would have allowed for a fairly low-level win like maybe around level 25. That was fun that you used it on the trench triplets, good variety kill. Old stat loss goes away when you die on PR, so they're young and good as new on revival, lol
I feel like they also did this during their development, realized how absurdly strong the class would be and had to put in counters in several bosses to compensate
"The power of spell-based blade-buffs." That's a tongue twister! It's surprising to see early Mystic Knight struggles. Not the fact that they're struggling, but seeing them. On some level I just _know_ that Mystic Knight is bad early-game job, excellent late-game ability. Oof, try to spare a phoenix down on the skeleton boss and end up spending it on your team instead! DX Wait, Sleep Spellblade doesn't work on Atomos? That sounds like a bug. What the hey hey Pixel Remaster? And it doesn't work on the Crystals, and it didn't work on the Dragon Grass. Pixel Remaster, what did you do? I wonder how the PR implements the Excalipoor behind the scenes. Damage formula? Special on-hit effect? Because Flare Spellblade increases attack power and various abilities prevent on-hit effects. They must have bugged it at least once during development! Wait you actually picked up the Ice Shield in ExDeath's castle, and the shields in the Pyramid? Who are you and what have you done with the real Backlog Buster? I remember NeoExdeath's Almagest part being 'vulnerable' to Break. Lamp Catoblepas can't be targeted, !Released Orukat/Mover still only gets one chance to work, and the Break spell will just fail due to insane magic evade. Break Spellblade _should_ be the best option, but not if they've borked it in the PR. :P Thank you for another one of these. Still worked in some great jokes after all these runs! :D
I have been doing this series with you 😂 every time you release a video, i do the same run after to see how long it takes. So far i have hated the berserkers the most. It was just mind numbing. Great series!
Watching your series made me replay FFV after 20 years. I just finished it in 30 hours and I had a lot of fun spamming rapid fire + dual wield. I will replay it with other shittier classes.
I love your series and now I think I want to try my first challenge run and because of you I think I'll start with FF5. Which job do you recommend for someone's very first challenge run?
Its probably Mystic Knight, I only really struggled here because I didnt grind. Alternatives would be like, Black or Blue Mage since you get them right away. Then Summoner, since its absurdly strong. Chemist is insanely good as well. Both of them basically require an external guide. You need to know where all the summons are. Then for CHemist you need a mix list and the locations to grind materials. Samurai is a freebie since you can just gil toss your way to victory.
Love the videos, FFV is one of my fave games and Mystic Knights are goated. One thing, I thought Garula was female? Iirc there’s a spot where you can talk to its handler or a kid who mentions “She” is normally gentle and friendly to the town children, or something like that. But that might be a relic of the PS1 translation?
Spellblade is broken as shit since at max level it doubles your strength. MK’s main downside is that you can’t heal outside of drain sword, which isn’t great unless paired with rapid fire and your enemy isn’t undead or counter-happy
Hey Wes. Big fan. Really appreciate all the dedication and sweat and especially those delicious tears! 😂 Keep up the great work, and here's hoping for more Shin Megami Tensei too! You rock!
Not sure if this comment is for him or us, but I can answer for myself. This is my favorite game in the series because it's the best implementation of the job system in the whole franchise, the characters are memorable (without it needing to be 17 characters like later and even earlier games in the series), and the emotional moments hit without being overblown cutscenes. And the meme answer: cuz the MC's canon name is Buttz
too lazy to go back and check but sort of wondering what your time and levels have been so far for every class. Along with stuff like did you use brave blade or chicken knife and other stuff? Still love challenges like this.
Lowest is 42, which was Blackmage and I think Blue Mage. Highest was Berserker by like, a massive margin, but non-Berserker was like 55ish. Most jobs are finishing in the 42-50 mark consistently. Jobs that take the Brave Blade is exactly knight, everything else is Chicken Knife.
I mean, you almost certainly could have beaten him at level 41; Break Blade takes out the Almagest part instantly. Sure the physicals were bad, but without all the party-wide Almagest damage, him Vacuum Waving Bartz to death repeatedly turns from a legitimate threat to a minor if somewhat amusing annoyance
mystic knight is my fave job in the series (followed by redmage) something bout buffing your sword with magic to hit super hard always gets me. "hey final boss, lemme fuse FLARE to my sword! now explode fcker!" course my favourite ever "spell sword" is FF9 Steiner-Vivi combo, doomsday spell sword. sure Steiner, you're doing a lot of heavy lifting with your lil sword swing as Vivi calls down a world ending meteor right behind you..... wait this version doesnt hurt the party? well holy shit >.>
Honestly u probably would've won at 41 with a chicken knife, but I don't blame u after a very long Neo Ex-Death fight the first time. By for some chance did u considered fighting super boss Omega this run since Mystic Knight is the one job that can easily destroy him.
Dude. PLEASE. For the love of all that is in Heaven, could you at least try to nuke Magissa with the frostrod smash turn 1? If they didn't increase her HP by 250, then she should still have 650 health and can be rod smashed on the very first action. In the gba version it was Six hundred fifty HP, so a single rod smash ended the fight nomatter the magical damage roll. It really does break my heart 💔 that the pixel remaster changed so much for the technical bosses
Mystic Knights are my favorite jobs conceptually, but their actual implementation left much to be desired. I wish all sharp weapons including daggers and spears could be enchanted, that the MP cost and magic damage would be high, that you could enchant the weapons of your other party members, and that the spell lasted only for 5 turns. It would have made the job more dynamic and interesting.
I think we've all figured out you can beat FFV by now. Stuff like this should be spaced out between other content. The same video 20 times is cancerous for people with no interest in that specific game.
This series inspired me to get FFV and I’m at the sand worm and having such a blast ❤
It's a good game and the pixel remaster has some decent end game stuff from what I understand
That's awesome, enjoy one of the greats!
@embee187 the pixel remaster available now dont have the new jobs and dungeon/bosses. Only the gba (might be ds) version has them unfortunately. Necromancer was so much fun 😢
I'm playing it now since the pixel remaster FINALLY came to Xbox the other day.
Ba da bah bah bahhh. . .ur loving it
Dude is busting the SHIT outta this particular backlog.
Good to see someone being a man of their world, amirite?
Busted in a good way
Mystic Knights are one of my favorite jobs, also the rune sword in Istory falls is pretty good, at first seems weak but it adds your magic to the attack formula just like the chicken knife adds speed to the formula, and also crits at the cost of 8 MP
And all of their Stat blade attacks always land if the monster is not immune.
I still cant wait to see Geomancer, thats gonna be an interesting one
Finished FFV yesterday for the first time and it's really nice to see you upload a challenge run, it brings me back to when I first started playing it ☕🐒
I think Time Mage is going to be easy because you can rod smash.
Sandworm does have an elemental weakness but it's water, which you don't have a regular spell for
You can't normally exploit "Water" weakness until you have Leviathan.
What about the Blue Spell: Aqua Rake?
@@ThePageofRage Aqua Breath is considered "non elemental", but it is given a property to deal 8x damage against desert enemies
@@sertiana2512 Ninja can throw scrolls that deal Water damage
OMG, a new, non member upload. Public Access FTW!
Btw i just wanted to say i loved your double digit carbon fiber/submarine jokes. That was classhole stuff right there and i salute it as a fellow classhole.
We're back!
Don't let my icon fool you; this is my favorite job in all of the FF games.
I like me a class that mixes melee and spellcasting,;and I LOVE a class that does that, but literally so lol
It was definitly one of my favorite jobs in Bravley default espacilly since you can use Holy and Death whit sword magic in that game.Just a shame Phantom weapon costs 3 passive slot.
@@246Rennie yeah; BD Spell Fencer was my favorite Job in BD.
Shame they never really brought it back for BS or BD2.
Lets go! Glad to see more FFV.
Odin is vulnerable to Break, so you could have used break blade.
Frog Sword is exclusive to the Nagnarok from FFT.
Ive never been happier to see a video uploaded.
Yessss, been waiting patiently for the next one in the series! Love these vids, keep up the great work!
Silence sword might be able to stop bridge Gilgamesh from buffing himself halfway throug
Break Sword should work on the almagest part of Neo-Exdeath
It should have worked on the flower and the 4 crystals. The pixel remaster sucks, man.
I asked for this a few vids ago and its exactly what I was hoping for and expecting. Making great use of Break Blade for bosses that can tend to wall other jobs, Silence Blade to clown on Omniscient. I didnt even consider flame rings with firaga blade for healing so I even learned something today.
I was jumping for joy and handstand twerking when I saw mystic knight.
Looking forward to seeing the beastmaster run. They have at least a couple of useful command abilities, and there's several bossfights that are trivialized by releasing four monsters.
You're approaching some deep waters with those submarine jokes.
Glad to see you back!
I'm currently doing a Summoner only run! Halfway through world 2 at the moment! 😅
Summoner just cruuuuuuuuuuuushes it. Easily one of the easiest jobs.
@BacklogBuster Yep! I did Blue mage before and I crushed with that, too. Looking forward to your Time Mage and Beastmaster runs 😀
"Porking across Mysidia" is Gold, Jerry, Gold!
I would've thought this would have been a way easier cakewalk with how strong Mystic Knight can be in the right situation. I guess Break Blade can't be that useful, otherwise what's the challenge. At least with some grinding you can absolutely wipe out the final bosses. I forgot to sub last time on the hilarious Bard episode, let me fix that.
Theres a mod that removes cutscenes for the pixel remaster if you're playing it on PC, a little weird to set up but very worth it for replaying this a bunch lol
Find yourself someone that loves you like Wes loves the gauche.
ALWAYS grab The Gauche
I love this series because this is my favorite ff game, and i get to watch it 22 times 😂
I did this challenge on the GBA version. I don't know if it's still there, but there's a part of Neo Exdeath that's vulnerable to Break... so I would keep each of the other parts alive and manage their HP so I could kill them in one cycle of hits, with the fourth smacking the last part with Break Blade.
Welcome back. I just started playing the game but I'm lost in the Fire-Powered Ship. That is one crazy maze.
PR put the sol cannon launchers into the back row, and that can make the fight a lot harder for certain teams like this. You can also remove all the stat loss from Old status on PR though, so with a lot of resources used you can get through the fight on the back of good damage once it's just the cannon itself left.
The fLAME ring strats and the excessive levels getting them gives hurt my soul, but hey, you do you.
Odin and NED's Almagest part and a ton of random monsters also die to break spellblade, it's incredibly OP sometimes and would have allowed for a fairly low-level win like maybe around level 25. That was fun that you used it on the trench triplets, good variety kill.
Old stat loss goes away when you die on PR, so they're young and good as new on revival, lol
Finally, I’ve been waiting like forever for a new video lol.
Drain sword is great. I used that one a lot.
I appreciate the Hitchcock reference.
Woo-hoo I've been waiting for this job this whole series
Succmaxx Vamp-pilled
My favorite job!
THE RETURN OF THE KING
I feel like they also did this during their development, realized how absurdly strong the class would be and had to put in counters in several bosses to compensate
I love FFV, I remember playing a rom hack of it way back when, the FFV spoof, the story was written better then the main game lol
"The power of spell-based blade-buffs." That's a tongue twister!
It's surprising to see early Mystic Knight struggles. Not the fact that they're struggling, but seeing them. On some level I just _know_ that Mystic Knight is bad early-game job, excellent late-game ability.
Oof, try to spare a phoenix down on the skeleton boss and end up spending it on your team instead! DX
Wait, Sleep Spellblade doesn't work on Atomos? That sounds like a bug. What the hey hey Pixel Remaster?
And it doesn't work on the Crystals, and it didn't work on the Dragon Grass. Pixel Remaster, what did you do?
I wonder how the PR implements the Excalipoor behind the scenes. Damage formula? Special on-hit effect? Because Flare Spellblade increases attack power and various abilities prevent on-hit effects. They must have bugged it at least once during development!
Wait you actually picked up the Ice Shield in ExDeath's castle, and the shields in the Pyramid? Who are you and what have you done with the real Backlog Buster?
I remember NeoExdeath's Almagest part being 'vulnerable' to Break. Lamp Catoblepas can't be targeted, !Released Orukat/Mover still only gets one chance to work, and the Break spell will just fail due to insane magic evade. Break Spellblade _should_ be the best option, but not if they've borked it in the PR. :P
Thank you for another one of these. Still worked in some great jokes after all these runs! :D
Was wondering when the new video would come out !!!!❤❤❤
I backlog buster!
I have been doing this series with you 😂 every time you release a video, i do the same run after to see how long it takes. So far i have hated the berserkers the most. It was just mind numbing. Great series!
Mystic knight was always one of my favorite jobs
Magic sword + dual wield and sleep sword and ancient sword is fun.
Mystic Knight is basically a Grugfest but with a single turn of setup. Extremely strong, even in spite of not having access to Knightswords.
One month producing two (or more) videos of a water crystal job...
The road block must have been colossal.
3 premium vids and I played a *lot* of Final Fantasy 5. Like, 8 playthroughs of it.
wake up honey, new Backlog Buster just dropped
Awwww yeah~ now to see the power of the Spell Swords
Watching your series made me replay FFV after 20 years. I just finished it in 30 hours and I had a lot of fun spamming rapid fire + dual wield. I will replay it with other shittier classes.
I love your series and now I think I want to try my first challenge run and because of you I think I'll start with FF5. Which job do you recommend for someone's very first challenge run?
Its probably Mystic Knight, I only really struggled here because I didnt grind. Alternatives would be like, Black or Blue Mage since you get them right away. Then Summoner, since its absurdly strong. Chemist is insanely good as well. Both of them basically require an external guide. You need to know where all the summons are. Then for CHemist you need a mix list and the locations to grind materials. Samurai is a freebie since you can just gil toss your way to victory.
@@BacklogBuster Thanks! I appreciate the advice and the videos!
god you deserve more subs
Been wondering where this was gonna be. Bro had us edging for a month.
Love the videos, FFV is one of my fave games and Mystic Knights are goated.
One thing, I thought Garula was female? Iirc there’s a spot where you can talk to its handler or a kid who mentions “She” is normally gentle and friendly to the town children, or something like that. But that might be a relic of the PS1 translation?
Still patiently waiting for summoner.
I completely forgot this was a class you can use in the game. which is weird since i remembered geomancer and time mage
Happy this is back!
Spellblade is broken as shit since at max level it doubles your strength. MK’s main downside is that you can’t heal outside of drain sword, which isn’t great unless paired with rapid fire and your enemy isn’t undead or counter-happy
Hey Wes. Big fan. Really appreciate all the dedication and sweat and especially those delicious tears! 😂 Keep up the great work, and here's hoping for more Shin Megami Tensei too! You rock!
Once I get this series done I'm gonna make vids on DDS. After that, who knows whats happening.
Galuf should have been inherently immune to Old because he's already old
What makes you like FFV so much?
Not sure if this comment is for him or us, but I can answer for myself. This is my favorite game in the series because it's the best implementation of the job system in the whole franchise, the characters are memorable (without it needing to be 17 characters like later and even earlier games in the series), and the emotional moments hit without being overblown cutscenes.
And the meme answer: cuz the MC's canon name is Buttz
Replayability factor. This game is very open that allow you to create your own challenges and limitations.
That's my favorite job in ff5. Nice to finally see it in 1 class challenge 🤝
Love the Anakin reference
too lazy to go back and check but sort of wondering what your time and levels have been so far for every class. Along with stuff like did you use brave blade or chicken knife and other stuff? Still love challenges like this.
Lowest is 42, which was Blackmage and I think Blue Mage. Highest was Berserker by like, a massive margin, but non-Berserker was like 55ish. Most jobs are finishing in the 42-50 mark consistently. Jobs that take the Brave Blade is exactly knight, everything else is Chicken Knife.
More to enjoy!
Some grinding is likely inevitable sounds like an album
Backlog, PLEASE try X-zone/banish on Twintania, it'd be frickin hilarious! 😂
I mean, you almost certainly could have beaten him at level 41; Break Blade takes out the Almagest part instantly. Sure the physicals were bad, but without all the party-wide Almagest damage, him Vacuum Waving Bartz to death repeatedly turns from a legitimate threat to a minor if somewhat amusing annoyance
Love this serie!
I thought mystic knight would be easier
I think for mime. Each character should be allowed to get 1 level or so from each of their crystals jobs
I can't wait to see you do mime
Once you get Drain Mystic Knight makes the game easy.
mystic knight is my fave job in the series (followed by redmage) something bout buffing your sword with magic to hit super hard always gets me. "hey final boss, lemme fuse FLARE to my sword! now explode fcker!" course my favourite ever "spell sword" is FF9 Steiner-Vivi combo, doomsday spell sword. sure Steiner, you're doing a lot of heavy lifting with your lil sword swing as Vivi calls down a world ending meteor right behind you..... wait this version doesnt hurt the party? well holy shit >.>
Carbon fiber... too soon.
About damn time! At this rate you'll never get through your backlog! 😅
....of Tir na Nog
Honestly u probably would've won at 41 with a chicken knife, but I don't blame u after a very long Neo Ex-Death fight the first time. By for some chance did u considered fighting super boss Omega this run since Mystic Knight is the one job that can easily destroy him.
One day crystal jobs will end, and the time will come...
For Sealed Temple jobs only challenges
Lol, no. They're all post-4 tablets. The games entirely over at that point.
@BacklogBuster I mean, yes, but hell, why not? Every job had or will have its time to shine. Why not these for, just for funzies?
22 videos is more than enough FF5.
Still waiting on Summoners
never even eard o a mystic knight and i beat that game
Dude. PLEASE. For the love of all that is in Heaven, could you at least try to nuke Magissa with the frostrod smash turn 1? If they didn't increase her HP by 250, then she should still have 650 health and can be rod smashed on the very first action. In the gba version it was Six hundred fifty HP, so a single rod smash ended the fight nomatter the magical damage roll.
It really does break my heart 💔 that the pixel remaster changed so much for the technical bosses
That is an oddly specific thing to get bent out of shape about lol.
Sorry😅@@BacklogBuster
I wished they changed the characters you move around with. Even the 8 bit version did that when they changed job, sloppy!
Uhm..
The Grand Cross part can be hit with Break.
(Also relevant to beastmaster)
28th view, 4 minutes in. LETS GOOOO!!!
Mystic Knights are my favorite jobs conceptually, but their actual implementation left much to be desired. I wish all sharp weapons including daggers and spears could be enchanted, that the MP cost and magic damage would be high, that you could enchant the weapons of your other party members, and that the spell lasted only for 5 turns. It would have made the job more dynamic and interesting.
great series, but if i hear 'main gauche' pronounced american instead of french again i'm gonna go insane
seethe more frenchie.
@@BacklogBuster bad move--i counter being called french with almagast
You sound a lot like Recommended Playing.
I have no idea who that is.
@@BacklogBuster A now retired UA-camr that made guides.
Not sure if being just dry funny or actually didn't realise they are the same person 😂@@Dr.Moogle
@@sirloinestakegames7866 I didn't know . I thought I was just imagining the resemblance.
Man. This challenge really SUCKED.
The commentation on this is sucky.
If you need to take a break Wes take one from FF5 and do some other work. Your intro sounded somewhat depressed
Wow. This run sucks.
I think we've all figured out you can beat FFV by now. Stuff like this should be spaced out between other content. The same video 20 times is cancerous for people with no interest in that specific game.
No thanks.
Cancerous? Dramatic much? If you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to watch it. Baby