MusouSenshouzan

No, EXP to ____ still works. They just won't get affected by calendar bonuses. All abilities are allowed, really.

In-game rulesets never affect the abilities you can use. They can only affect in-battle values such as map BRV or EX absorption (although the official rulesets don't change any of those), as well as disabling equips, accessories and calendar bonuses.

Anti-assist builds are possible, yes. Assist depletion is quite capable of wrecking the assist gauge, especially if the HP attack wall rushes the opponent. But I find that an EX build is less effective because it's harder to gain EX than assist, and personally I find assists to be more versatile. The people I've seen discussing EX vs Assists also seem to agree that assist is easier to gain. Anyway, I've yet to fiddle with Original Quests, but someone posted on Dissidia Forums a very nice way to get around the message limit: Include separate text files together with the quest data that can provide more background to each scene and stuff like that. You could think of it as having just the action in-game and the bulk of the story in those text files. I'd like to give it a try sometime, but I'm bad at coming up with good stories. Also, I'd love to play over AHP sometime, but it'll probably be in slow motion because of my location.

A lot of people don't seem to mind that, though. I think losing assists for EX is much worse than losing EX for assists. Hmm, I believe it's character dependant... I like using Garland for Firion, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else use him for other characters. Kuja, Sephiroth, Jecht and Tidus seem to be very popular and staples. Kuja and Sephi have fairly long attacks, so people can smack the opponent while they're doing their attacks and still have time to go for assist chase and finish with a HP. Jecht for the same reason, except he wall rushes instead of chase. I'm not sure why a lot of people like Tidus, though. I used to use Tidus with Firion too, but Hopstep was just annoying for punishing and Sonic Buster sucks in stages with little ground.

Yeah. There's an accessory that fills up a whole half of the assist gauge once you land a HP attack (but it comes with the downside of making you unable to gain EX). This one is really good, especially since EX mode isn't that great this time around. I tried fighting my friend who was using a pure assist build without an assist build of my own (I wanted to still be able to enter EX for Blood Weapons) and I kept getting assist combo'd all the time, as well as being unable to land a lot of hits due to assist change. So yeah, I foresee a lot of people using assist builds.

Yeah, coming up with builds like that is really fun. From the few days I've been messing around with equips with the people I usually play with though, assist builds seem to be a lot better than EX builds because of how abundant assists are... I was hoping there'd be more freedom of choice between assists and EX, but at least rules are customizable now. Ah, great! I know of some people that can't wait for an undub. I'm fine with the English voices myself, I'm just more used to the Japanese ones since I played the japanese version for so long before I got a PS3.

Well, as far as I know, there's no PvP rulesets for Duodecim yet... Just regular 6999 (which can be easily set up with the Off.(Skill) in-game ruleset) and equips (no resins or hacked accessories, sometimes no summons either but that varies)

The hell did Tinypic do with my images? Well, at any rate I fixed the links.

You guys sure love your abominations, don't you?

Got bored again, so I decided to do something other than headswaps... I thought of Tengu's Hazama recolor and thought... what if the NOL characters all belonged to the same division? Ars Magi: Intelligence Department: Zero Squadron / Wings of Justice:

Adobe Photoshop CS3. But most likely any gif editor would work if you save each frame as an image and then put them together. PS just makes that easier. Yeah, Tinypic gives jpg extension to everything... I assume that despite the extension, the image data is still that of a gif.

Knight of the Blue Flame Hazama looks nice. Haz-Jin looks... funny. XD I find Tsubaki's lack of breast disturbing. (On a side note, I did something similar to that before, but the point was to make her look like WoF Tsubaki) Ragna could have his regular Azure Grimoire arm and a POWER OF SCIENCE arm due to the end of CS's story.

Just finished doing this pixel-over with Jin's story mode portrait: Yay for cut-off feet.

This one? Edit: Whoa, crap. The gif is faster than it's supposed to.

^ Yeah, I think they're a little too large to be direct linked like that, they're making my computer lag. Put them behind links? Or at least just the plasma one.

This is not much of an edit, but I guess I can post it too. Don't ask me why I did this, it just randomly popped into my mind.

Thunderbolt's request: First is widescreen and second is standard resolution, blah blah blah.

Sure, although it might take a while. Do you want Noel or Mu in the background?

I made a Nu wallpaper out of boredom. As usual, the first is for widescreen and the second for standard resolution monitors. And in case anyone would like to use it in their PSPs: Big thanks to Tong for the Lambda template. And here's my wallpaper post with my older wallpapers for those who haven't seen them yet. (This is clearly not shameless self-promotion. )

I think I managed to come up with something more terrifying than Valkentinum... WARNING: I will not be held responsible for potential eye burn, mental damage or other symptomns caused by this sprite.

There you go: That should be enough from me... for now.

Well, now there is. (Boredom is a terrible, terrible thing...) Abomination 1 Abomination 2 Abomination 3 That aside, how about a normal edit now? This one was based on last year's Rachel birthday pic. I did a sloppy job on Rachel's colors, but oh well.