rahmu wroteThe Gambit system is, imho, the coolest fight system I saw in a FF. (FF tactics was pretty neat too).
Gambits is not just "the computer plays for you". Sure, when you're looting and you're at a high level, simply putting "attack nearest opponent" should do the trick. But at the same time just pressing Attack manually is not much more fun.
Against Yiazmat (which is a whole order of magnitude more difficult than Zodiak, setting up your gambits
properly is a real strategy play. You have to take into accounts:
- the stats of each member of your party + equipment.
- the different attacks Yiazmat does, and how often.
- How to create an infinite heal: a gambit system that allows the party to never die (you will find out this does not exist, each system has a weakness, you'll learn this as you create advanced combinations of Gambits).
- How to maximize damage when still implementing infinite heal. It's easier to do infinite heal when your 3 characters are just focused on healing. But at some point you've got to attack.
For the record, when I beat Yiazmat without touching my controller. I wasn't even in the room for the whole fight (over 3h). I tried over 20 combinations of Gambits to come up with my strategy (which honestly, I cannot remember really well. It was 2006 after all ...), failure after failure you start to see patterns. What went wrong? Why did I lose? How should've the healer reacted (you can guess that healing is super important for me)?
The good news is that, if you manage to survive the first 30-40 minutes (on gambits), there's a high chance you can win this fight.
Anw, give it a real try, it's very weird and awkward at first. I think it's the most misunderstood battle system of all FFs (but it's a real innovative one). It's not just the computer doing things for you. It's you building a pseudo AI for your party.
Very nice of you to take your time to write all of this, but like you said you left the controller and went afk and you came back to find that Yiazmat is dead which shows that Gambits system is like a computer playing for you even if you set an AI to it yourself, which makes it like a third party doing the job for you which is not challenging at all, anyway this game is not only about Yiazmat and
www.gamefaqs.com is my friend, I saw a lot of Faqs showing the exact Gambits to implement for Yiazmat fight which I didn't see yet & I'm not intending to do because it will kill the fun of enjoying the fight, I'm now in the process of collecting 2 more Ribbons/Zodiarc spear because I opened the treasure chests that are not intended of being opened :P, getting the 2 doors of Necrohol Of Nabudis unlocked & collecting other armor pieces :P Hallelujah :P
PS: THIS TOPIC IS ABOUT FFXIV NOT FFXII :P just a reminder :P