launchers are bows with about triple damage, the biggest issue ive found with them are 1) machines are way too late and 2) the only good non rng launcher you get theres only 1 battle left and youll most likely have base launcher ammo. but if you could find a way to do item drop manipulation then a machine would easily cut the hardest fight in the game out (elves)

So one thing on one of your old posts, you were unsure which mob determines the drop. The mob that is showing on the map is the one that determines the drop, not the last mob killed. gear from the present goes to the past and gear from the past goes to the present a good way to get some better equips on your party. that ogre formation you talked about in present B also has a ~3-5% chance to drop the bullova which is the highest dmg single handed weapon in the game. Ive also thought of making a machine because you get a free launcher and bullets and the launchers dmg is so high at base that the machines stats don't matter and if you can get the elf archers blinded the machine launcher special attack is a full battle aoe nuke. I've been looking into other things too like the paralysis gas book that drops from the spiders in the room with the switches to open the door in wenekera past. and the chaos zone book in the holy manalum could maybe make the elf fight easier.

i mean you can feel free to end watching the game at any time but as far as speedruns are concerned generally the last viable input is the end of the game. and you have no more inputs to make after killing the final boss