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LeonhartFour posted...

I think I've lost to Necron once ever, and I've fought him many, many times. That's a very manageable fight.

Well without knowing how you fought him this statement may not have much meaning. It's a Final Fantasy game so it goes without saying that if you got all the good stuff then you're gonna run over things. My first file of FF9 was pretty non-gamebreaking in that I didn't have any of the ultimate weapons or high-damage moves (Shock, built-up Frog Drop/Dragon Crest/etc.; pretty much only Eiko and Garnet could deal high damage and they were needed for healing) or good support skills (e.g. Auto-Haste) and Necron did take a few tries, precisely because if he survives to use Grand Cross like 3-4 times you're almost certainly going to get screwed over at least once. Even my relatively wussy party had kinda curbstomped the lategame up to that point (the last previous boss who had posed a significant difficulty was Ark) so Necron kinda stood out to me. And in hindsight I tend to agree the diceroll design of Grand Cross isn't very good.

(FF5's Grand Cross is far less egregious because it can only apply one status per unit and is used only very rarely, while FFT's hits only a relatively small radius, limiting its potential to devastate your team.)
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