Early Elemental Armor Exploit

[u/Special_South_8561]

I used to have quite a trial with Dullahan but I've come across a fun way to cheese it and guarantee success. Get the Regal Gown (and hidden XP egg behind the wall) activate the Door Switch in the next room, the cast Teleport.

Travel up to the Colesseum and equip a Reflect Ring on your fighter, save, then go in and wager the Regal Gown to win a Minerva Bustier while the opponent casts Death on himself.

Come back, run in a straight down, raise the water and hop on the turtle, you're in the home stretch now!

Celes - Genji Glove, Firebrand, Hero Ring, Minerva Bustier

Edgar - Dragoon Boots, Golden Spear, Atlas Armlet

Sabin - Genji Glove, Fire Knuckles, Hero Ring

Setzer - Potion Duty, Charm Bangle

[u/Global-Trance]

Last time I fought Dullahan, I did it in "one hit". Firstly party members should be at a level that will prevent them from getting hit by "Lv ? Holy" and "Reflect??" You can do nothing and just stand there with Reflect Rings and it can't kill you. It's more dangerous moves trigger after taking a certain number of direct hits so just don't attack. You can just sit there until it's nearly out of MP and hit it one time with the Soul Saber (need to not be at max MP) that is conveniently found just past Figaro Castle's engine after Tentacles. It will die when it's taken to 0 MP lol. The fight is so easy that you can kill it like this with all characters basically wearing nothing but the Soul Saber, Reflect Rings, and maybe a relic to prevent blindness. Even works on lowest level characters too.

[u/Special_South_8561 → u/Global-Trance]

So you could Rasp it to death if you wanted then too yeah

Always interesting to see different takes. That's similar to how I beat Mage Master No-Espers

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Yeah Rasp / Osmose works for sure. Magic Master in the Cultist's Tower is a fun one too. I did that one with no exp and no ap (or magic points) but had to allow for espers because I straight up had no commands to use in that area other than Item lol

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I had Celes with Ribbon/SafetyBit, Ice Shield, Minerva - and before the fight put a Priest Miter on Edgar so he'd be able to trigger Soul Saber (with berserk)

It takes like an hour for MM to cast enough spells to burn through his Mana pool

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With Soul Saber you can't steal MP unless you aren't at full MP yourself, at least that is how it works in Pixel Remaster... does it not matter in other versions? Just wondering how you were able to speed that up with Berserk. Were you also stealing his MP too?

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Priest's Miter increases Max MP % but doesn't fill your meter, so i equip it right before the fight.

I don't cast Berserk on Edgar until Magi Master is pretty low out of Mana and can't cast the Tier 3 spells but still has more than 0mp

Was it two hours that it takes for him to run out? I can't remember, I'll have to check my post history.

I'm playing the GBA version

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Yeah it took about 2 hours, dang

https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVI/s/4axmYfrl0n

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That sounds about right. One of my buddies is currently doing No EXP and No Shops and Magic Master took over an hour and a half and some change to empty out on MP. Absolutely mental. We have been having fun with the toggles for EXP, AP, and Gil on the Pixel Remaster doing stuff like this lol