These dragons are really hard! When should I be taking them on? The sidequest just came up, but I haven't done the earth crystal yet. Any tips? I'm level 58, and am up for grinding up any jobs necessary.
Use a spiritmaster and enigma. You'll also want to protect against any status ailment the bosses might be able to cook up.
Fought my first dragon. Everyone died except Tiz. I'm on a counterattack kick ever since getting Swordmaster, so the Swordmasters were all in "Know Your Enemey" stance but died instantly. He was testing out my new trick, which is Utsusemi + Transience + Comeback Kid. Apparently the dragon's breath attacks are physical. Hilarity ensued.
Next time I bring a Spiritmaster to I can apply wards, I think.
These dragons are really hard! When should I be taking them on? The sidequest just came up, but I haven't done the earth crystal yet. Any tips? I'm level 58, and am up for grinding up any jobs necessary.
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One of the questions was something like "your pack is overloaded and you need to discard something. What do you get rid of?" and one of the answers was something like "that 10 pound bag of parrot food."
Ok, so that's the pirate answer I assume, but is that really something pirates are known for doing? Don't they care about the parrot on their shoulder? It's a pet, you don't trash its food. Why does sabotaging my own stereotype make me more of that stereotype?
Man, I'm not sure how I want to have Tiz and Edea, job-wise. Ringabel and Agnés are both fairly settled and solid as magic damage/support respectively, but I'm not sure how I want Tiz and Edea to go.
Basically I'd like to have those two in physical roles, with one of them being a high-defense tank (who can maybe pop out some respectable damage) and the other as a high-damage character, preferably with Dual Wield. I'm just not sure what jobs, sub-jobs, and support abilities I really want on them.
Get to the end of this chapter. You get the best tank job and the best physical damage job at the end of this.
Also if you can manage to get into the castle through the sidequest (you probably aren't strong enough yet), get the hidden chest on the first floor, the Blood Sword. Using it as an item casts the Drain Sword Magic, so you can set up some insane combos without needing to have the Spell Fencer as your sub-job
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One of the questions was something like "your pack is overloaded and you need to discard something. What do you get rid of?" and one of the answers was something like "that 10 pound bag of parrot food."
Ok, so that's the pirate answer I assume, but is that really something pirates are known for doing? Don't they care about the parrot on their shoulder? It's a pet, you don't trash its food. Why does sabotaging my own stereotype make me more of that stereotype?
The problem with being a Ninja is that one of your command slots is guaranteed not to be Dark Arts. You can put Dark Arts in the other one, true, but that locks you out of any sort of other utility commands.
Wow. Vampire castle. Just got jumped by two dohgs that ate me alive. O.o
Yeah turn off encounters in there. The enemies are seriously worse than the boss.
Bah! That's cheating. It's more fun if you treat it as a puzzle that you have to figure out some specifically-tailored solultion for...at least for values of "fun" that can accommodate a lot of frustration. It took me a day or two to come up with a viable party configuration that could consistently beat all possible encounters, but I did manage it.
Better to turn off encounters than to skip it if you give up, though. It's a useful class to have and it's a pretty significant inconvenience to not have it before the start of the next chapter.
The problem with being a Ninja is that one of your command slots is guaranteed not to be Dark Arts. You can put Dark Arts in the other one, true, but that locks you out of any sort of other utility commands.
But the problem with not being a Ninja is having to spend one or two ability points on a handedness buff and not having Utsusemi and also being slower than the fastest you can possibly be!
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After a few more tries, I managed to beat the fire temple boss. After that, I died only once for the remainder of chapter 3 and the entirety of chapter 4,it was against Victoria. I bougth/equipped 4 star pendants then proceeded to kick her ass
Archer is extremly effective I must say, especially against non human opponents.
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The problem with being a Ninja is that one of your command slots is guaranteed not to be Dark Arts. You can put Dark Arts in the other one, true, but that locks you out of any sort of other utility commands.
But the problem with not being a Ninja is having to spend one or two ability points on a handedness buff and not having Utsusemi and also being slower than the fastest you can possibly be!
Saying that someone should be a Ninja so that they should have Utsusemi is like saying that someone should be a White Mage so that they can heal themselves. Just get a Templar to cover the entire party at once, that's what they're there for.
My party is slowly becoming more and more cookie cutter and it is bumming me out
Dark Knight/Thief (someone's gotta steal)
Swordmaster/Pirate
Arcanist/Red Mage
Spiritmaster/Performer
Just can't really beat Epic Group Cast Poison + BP Recovery on everyone, Hasten World kept getting me killed.
Hasten World is the biggest double-edged sword imaginable
But there's still room for you to mix it up, I promise. You have have to be willing to grit your teeth and put some effort into it
...Incidentally my Performer is Performer/Freelancer.
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Some bosses just fail miserably at using excess BP. The Templar, for instance... I had Hasten World on during his chapter 6 fight, and it was an utter joke - he ended up at 4 BP all the time and barely used any regardless... while I was making full use of the income to completely negate his offense, defense, and then hammer him down.
And then there's Red Mage, who I would never have it on for (Cura/Thundara/SPAM).
My party is slowly becoming more and more cookie cutter and it is bumming me out
Dark Knight/Thief (someone's gotta steal)
Swordmaster/Pirate
Arcanist/Red Mage
Spiritmaster/Performer
Just can't really beat Epic Group Cast Poison + BP Recovery on everyone, Hasten World kept getting me killed.
Hasten World is the biggest double-edged sword imaginable
But there's still room for you to mix it up, I promise. You have have to be willing to grit your teeth and put some effort into it
...Incidentally my Performer is Performer/Freelancer.
My Hero/Mimic/Mimic/Mimic
Some bosses just fail miserably at using excess BP. The Templar, for instance... I had Hasten World on during his chapter 6 fight, and it was an utter joke - he ended up at 4 BP all the time and barely used any regardless... while I was making full use of the income to completely negate his offense, defense, and then hammer him down.
And then there's Red Mage, who I would never have it on for (Cura/Thundara/SPAM).
Different freaking story for the Templar fight in Chapter 8
My party is slowly becoming more and more cookie cutter and it is bumming me out
Dark Knight/Thief (someone's gotta steal)
Swordmaster/Pirate
Arcanist/Red Mage
Spiritmaster/Performer
Just can't really beat Epic Group Cast Poison + BP Recovery on everyone, Hasten World kept getting me killed.
Hasten World is the biggest double-edged sword imaginable
But there's still room for you to mix it up, I promise. You have have to be willing to grit your teeth and put some effort into it
...Incidentally my Performer is Performer/Freelancer.
My Hero/Mimic/Mimic/Mimic
Some bosses just fail miserably at using excess BP. The Templar, for instance... I had Hasten World on during his chapter 6 fight, and it was an utter joke - he ended up at 4 BP all the time and barely used any regardless... while I was making full use of the income to completely negate his offense, defense, and then hammer him down.
And then there's Red Mage, who I would never have it on for (Cura/Thundara/SPAM).
Different freaking story for the Templar fight in Chapter 8
Yeah, but he's alone in 6.
And Hasten World makes it easier to keep up the powerful defense stuff... at which point the boss braving like mad doesn't hurt as much. Unless they focus someone, because Rampart and Utsusemi each break after one hit (unlike Enigma).
Wow. Vampire castle. Just got jumped by two dohgs that ate me alive. O.o
Yeah turn off encounters in there. The enemies are seriously worse than the boss.
Bah! That's cheating. It's more fun if you treat it as a puzzle that you have to figure out some specifically-tailored solultion for...at least for values of "fun" that can accommodate a lot of frustration. It took me a day or two to come up with a viable party configuration that could consistently beat all possible encounters, but I did manage it.
Better to turn off encounters than to skip it if you give up, though. It's a useful class to have and it's a pretty significant inconvenience to not have it before the start of the next chapter.
It is not cheating. Its an option availble from the start of any save file. Its like turning off music or attack animations
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So the potion guy has the ability to OHKO anyone whenever he likes after the first turn or so. Huh.
Who decided that "damage equal to the amount of damage I'm missing" was a good idea?
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So the potion guy has the ability to OHKO anyone whenever he likes after the first turn or so. Huh.
Who decided that "damage equal to the amount of damage I'm missing" was a good idea?
Yeah, they're not nearly as strong when you use them. (However, I want to say the move is technically survivable when over 9999 HP? I think you can do that.)
Also, since your team gets 4 BP/turn to his one, it's trivial to just raise the person he hits (as you probably don't have Ninja or Templar, who just laugh at it and negate it since its physical) and carry on with killing him.
Edit: Ok, so the Vampire Dogs? New favorite thing to hate. Hoooly crap.
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How smart is the game's AI? Sometimes the enemies will attack each of my characters once, and it's a breeze to heal the damage, while other times, the same enemies will attack the same character three or more times in a row, without any chance of that character surviving.
I'm not sure AI comes into it! Some enemies follow patterns but it seems that single target abilities are just random to me.
There was one foe who would lower my defenses and then follow up with a brave'd double-strength attack. The first few times these two abilities were always on the same target but the next few times the enemy ended up splitting the combo between targets. It's... hard to say.
It appears random to me with the exception of patterns in move selection. There was one boss who used a devastating attack every X turns for instance.
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i dunno, later on when i was doing boss rush they seemed to focus targets down more than usual?
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Next time I bring a Spiritmaster to I can apply wards, I think.
I've heard that Ninjas work well for the Dragons.
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Ok, so that's the pirate answer I assume, but is that really something pirates are known for doing? Don't they care about the parrot on their shoulder? It's a pet, you don't trash its food. Why does sabotaging my own stereotype make me more of that stereotype?
As for the parrot food answer, it felt like it could factor into summoner and/or ranger as well as pirate.
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Get to the end of this chapter. You get the best tank job and the best physical damage job at the end of this.
Also if you can manage to get into the castle through the sidequest (you probably aren't strong enough yet), get the hidden chest on the first floor, the Blood Sword. Using it as an item casts the Drain Sword Magic, so you can set up some insane combos without needing to have the Spell Fencer as your sub-job
What do you look for in a pet?
Maybe that one subtracts pirate points.
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Yeah turn off encounters in there. The enemies are seriously worse than the boss.
Better to turn off encounters than to skip it if you give up, though. It's a useful class to have and it's a pretty significant inconvenience to not have it before the start of the next chapter.
But the problem with not being a Ninja is having to spend one or two ability points on a handedness buff and not having Utsusemi and also being slower than the fastest you can possibly be!
My setup
Tiz : Templar / Pirate
Ringabell : Ninja / Performer
Agnès : Spirit Master / White Mage
Édéa : Archer / Free lancer
Archer is extremly effective I must say, especially against non human opponents.
Saying that someone should be a Ninja so that they should have Utsusemi is like saying that someone should be a White Mage so that they can heal themselves. Just get a Templar to cover the entire party at once, that's what they're there for.
Dark Knight/Thief (someone's gotta steal)
Swordmaster/Pirate
Arcanist/Red Mage
Spiritmaster/Performer
Just can't really beat Epic Group Cast Poison + BP Recovery on everyone, Hasten World kept getting me killed.
Hasten World is the biggest double-edged sword imaginable
But there's still room for you to mix it up, I promise. You have have to be willing to grit your teeth and put some effort into it
...Incidentally my Performer is Performer/Freelancer.
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Some bosses just fail miserably at using excess BP. The Templar, for instance... I had Hasten World on during his chapter 6 fight, and it was an utter joke - he ended up at 4 BP all the time and barely used any regardless... while I was making full use of the income to completely negate his offense, defense, and then hammer him down.
And then there's Red Mage, who I would never have it on for (Cura/Thundara/SPAM).
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Different freaking story for the Templar fight in Chapter 8
Yeah, but he's alone in 6.
And Hasten World makes it easier to keep up the powerful defense stuff... at which point the boss braving like mad doesn't hurt as much. Unless they focus someone, because Rampart and Utsusemi each break after one hit (unlike Enigma).
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It is not cheating. Its an option availble from the start of any save file. Its like turning off music or attack animations
Who decided that "damage equal to the amount of damage I'm missing" was a good idea?
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Yeah, they're not nearly as strong when you use them. (However, I want to say the move is technically survivable when over 9999 HP? I think you can do that.)
Also, since your team gets 4 BP/turn to his one, it's trivial to just raise the person he hits (as you probably don't have Ninja or Templar, who just laugh at it and negate it since its physical) and carry on with killing him.
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There was one foe who would lower my defenses and then follow up with a brave'd double-strength attack. The first few times these two abilities were always on the same target but the next few times the enemy ended up splitting the combo between targets. It's... hard to say.
It appears random to me with the exception of patterns in move selection. There was one boss who used a devastating attack every X turns for instance.
but then again it still mightve been random