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Mekkah	Dec 22 2007, 12:13 PM
Posts: 667 Group: FEFFer Member #1,400 Joined: July 24, 2007	Looking at the whole thing, 19xx is a pretty undesirable chapter to go to. 1) Killing Kishuna alone will cost you ~5 turns and a ton of resets, I'd estimate. First you have to clear pretty much each of his friends, because the Snipers have rape Silver Bows and the Knights either fuck you up close with Silver Lance or throw a Javelin. It gives a bunch of EXP in the end, but it's pretty hard to do. Then you have Kishuna himself, who has to die in four hits unless you got some kind of rescue chain or a really strong ranged attack (very unlikely). Note that Kishuna gives shit for EXP. 2) In the meantime, you have Aion to deal with. He has immense evade on the throne when Kishuna is there. Killing him before you take on Kishuna takes ages, even Mani Katti Lyn has like ~70 hit iirc. If Kishuna goes away then his evade goes down the plunger, but now everyone is in danger of Bolting which should still have 5 charges. 3) Then, you have 19xx itself, where you have to do some amazing gimmicks to even get the Dragonshield and Eclipse in the eastern chests, because that 20 Speed Thief is going to nick them about right away. The chapter also allows few units, and you have to deal with a ballista, poison weapons, mages, archers and knights mostly, with some wyverns sneaking up on you. Getting the northern chest in a reasonable amount of time is hard too, because you only have one Thief and HHM has (iirc) exactly 0 droppable Door/Chest Keys unlike the other modes. 4) If that wasn't bad enough, the chapter is completely zero value. As Vincent outlined, that's great news for funds and EXP, but it rapes your tactics. Looking at the whole thing I'd say 19xx is going to take ~15 turns or so which is a pretty big hit. 5) You are still Silver Cardless, so you're kind of paying double for every weapon you bought so far. With that in mind as well as the fact that you won't be able to buy more weaponry with Silver Card until Ch20 (Killer) and Ch21 (Iron/Tomes), do I really want to stretch my quest for another chapter before that? Is this whole thing worth 2 stat boosters a 8000G and the Eclipse tome for 4000G (for a total of 20000G), plus a handful of EXP? Because I don't think so.


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