The Guided Fate Paradox - typical EX advanced run and maximum limits

  • 9 years ago
Running through the "martial arts: EX advanced" dungeon is not easy. Not only are the enemies typically 10 times as powerful for all stats, the maps used are randomized for how they behave to their experience from the main story line itself. Because I haven't advanced beyond the second map of lesson 6, this means those water and shifting gears ones are types I haven't seen before. There's also those garden ones too. Advanced first hinted to these extra ones.

With the equipment as powerful as I have it, I could easily run through EX advanced. While it's very difficult getting started because of level 1, I could almost handle the full +10 enemy boosting quite well, so long as equipment doesn't burst. That means, what may be level 9 with 3000 HP is level 47 with about 16,000 HP. That's roughly 16,000 for all stats meaning that DEF needs to be at least 48,000 for ease. I used +8 instead meaning the base level is a 2.6x multiplier (8×20% more) and 16 extra levels are added with fractions truncated. Thus, what's level 9 starts as level 39 giving the base stats around 13,000 (meaning I need about 40,000 DEF). After I defeated the first enemy, it was smooth sailing from there on.

This video starts a long ways into EX advanced. I was after qualifying rank 5 misc items so I could finish the level 5 misc item and rank 4 arm stuff that meet my needs for the stats. I was also after GP as maxing equipment costs a huge fortune in GP. I generally provide many strategies for how to handle the enemies. Around the snail types, you can use divine skills that target Renya himself. However, you can't use divine skills that target the enemies. Divine skills that target the enemies can be used so long as you're 4 or more panels away or the snail is pointed away from you.

Little did I know that the stats would max much earlier than I was expecting. There's enough room for 10 digits. It was disappointing to see that 99,999,999 was the limit, a rather low limit for the most part. Still, it's enough to allow me to get 10-figure damage and it's one thing I'm after, best when I complete the level 5 helm and misc item. Not only that, but GP maxed at 999,999,999 when Disgaea (this is from the same makers of Disgaea) maxes at 10 trillion which is 10,000 times higher and there's enough space for that many digits. I also dealt with max level enemies for my first time as well.

Because of the 60-minute limit, I had to cut out bits of this video. The long zombie grind was an obvious choice to cut out, but I still explain how to do it - the key is that zombies revive after 50 turns upon being defeated. The key point of this video was to show how I typically run through EX advanced, encountering the game's limits, strategies for dealing with certain types of enemies, and also my first time dealing with routine level 9999 enemies.