Been playing through Final Fantasy 5 again. The Four Job Fiesta charity event is coming up. Every year they have something called "The Run" where fans vote on classes, and then a bunch of speed runners stream as they play with those classes back to back.
This year I'm playing along at home. The classes are Knight/Berserker/Geomancer/Dragoon. It's been mostly pretty civil, but the Forked Tower was a major roadblock. It's pretty optional for this team comp but I still wanted to do it.
How the forked tower works is you have to split up your party into two groups that will each explore one of the forks. One of the forks is physical only, and disables all magic. The other is magic only, and counters anything physical.
Problem is this group doesn't have any real magic users. Geomancer should count but doesn't. So the boss of the magic fork is The Omniscient and his gimmick is that any time you attack him through non-magical means, he casts a spell that resets the battle back to the beginning.
I'd read about a few strategies I could try, but only one of them ended up working. What you do is you equip the mage masher, a weak dagger usable by most classes which has a chance of silencing the enemy. You equip reflect rings on your characters. You attack your own characters, because he won't counter that, but when the silence procs, it bounces off your reflect ring and silences him instead. If the silence is successful, you have a shockingly short window (maybe 5 seconds?) where you can attack him, and he won't be able to cast his reset spell.
All in all the process of figuring out what I needed to do and doing it took about two hours. The part where I was using the working strategy was about 40 minutes. I also abused save states for this one, because a single misclick undoes all your progress, and maybe there's somebody out there that can do all that without once zigging when they were supposed to zag, but I really think I would've been there all day if I'd tried to do it all in one clean take.