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Already diving into another one, huh? Well, good luck with this.
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theshim posted:It helps that most of the class portraits are pretty good again. Yeah, I really didn't like EO4's portraits overall. They were really boring and bland compared to EO3's. EO5's portraits are a lot better.
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Oct 15, 2016 01:56
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RIP my  Herbalist.Looks perfect, exactly what I had in mind. Also hooray! 
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Oct 15, 2016 18:41
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Nameless for our Guild name. Classes: Fencer, Dragoon, Reaper.
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Oct 15, 2016 20:57
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FredMSloniker posted:If 'Nameless' wins, can we literally leave the guild name blank, or put in some ellipses or something? The guild name is essentially what characters refer to the player as, so I dunno if that would work out too well in writing.
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Oct 16, 2016 00:43
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Technically you don't need a healer in any of the EO games (well, no idea about EO5), but how rough the going will get depends on the game. Doing so in say, EO4, is fairly doable while doing it in EO1 is practically suicidal, though ultimately possible.
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Oct 16, 2016 18:57
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FredMSloniker posted:I'm getting the sense from your description that, while ailments work against enemies, they're still closer to Final Fantasy utility levels (almost invariably less useful than simply hitting them) than MegaTen levels (a vital part of random encounters, much less bosses). Is that fair? Seems like binds are where it's at in the debuff department. Dunno about EO5, but it is definitely not true in the EO games starting from 4. Ailments and binds can buy you several free turns on a boss if you apply the right ones. If you're playing EO1, yeah binds are the way to go because ailments will rarely land on bosses. Though stuns were utterly broken in that game because nothing in the game was resistant to it at all.
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Oct 18, 2016 08:43
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Stick with Greg and Falz.
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Oct 18, 2016 22:43
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Ragnar Homsar posted:Nope. I don't think anyone knows what's in the extra data EO4 lets you write to the SD card, either. If the Untold extra data and how it was used in EO2U was any indication, your party data on the guild card is stored there. No idea if anything else would be contained. But I doubt we'll ever find out without someone looking through the code or something.
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e: nvm
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Oct 20, 2016 16:39
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Mio, Magda, Kaelin.
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Oct 25, 2016 04:22
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Looks like it should be quintuple and 250 judging from the enemy formation and that exp payout.
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Nov 4, 2016 05:58
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I guess I'll be going with Sasha, Raven, and Dosen for my votes.
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Nov 22, 2016 09:56
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Arcade Rabbit posted:I don't know about difficulty yet, but I'd say Golem is certainly the most creatively designed and strategically implemented of the first stratum bosses. Remember back in EO1 when the first major boss was just "big wolf with ice attacks and calls friends"? My, but we have come a long way since then. Well, Fenrir was basically a damage check. As well as most other first bosses in the series aside from Narmer. If you couldn't kill him fast enough, he would either kill you first, or the Skolls would overwhelm you. Assuming you didn't abuse Immunize. 
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Nov 23, 2016 01:00
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Annointed posted:Is Etrian Odyssey seriously trying to goad newbies into thinking the game isn't that hard, if at all by making the first boss derp out? I've played through 1-3 and not once did I see a boss waste his time like that. From what Ragnar told me, and from the playthroughs I've seen, Golem does not usually do this. Might be possible that he stumbled upon a hole in the AI and caused it to go crazy.
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Nov 27, 2016 11:22
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I'm fairly certain that normal attacks are meant to be an emergency measure of sorts. Only resorted to when everyone's out of TP, or if you don't want to use up any TP on a particular fight. TP usage is a pretty big part of the whole resource management angle the series goes for, so I doubt they'll ever try to make something you can use for free that useful. Otherwise the only limiting factor in explorations would be the inventory space.
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Nov 28, 2016 07:30
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I'd say Fortresses in EO4 were a really powerful support class. The problem is, not a lot in that game actually warranted using one. EO4 rewards offensive play far more than defensive play, and a lot of enemies in that game aren't as dangerous as the enemies in other EO games. Which doesn't mean that the class isn't good at its job, Fortresses are pretty much unkillable late-game. Though unless your party is that squishy, another attacker in that party slot might net you more results. The one time in the game they really shine is against the post-game final boss, if you didn't bother weakening it. Which was completely optional and not even required for 100% completion. Bombardment Prep not working with Buster Cannon is disappointing. I thought it was Charge + Front Mortar all over again.
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Dec 3, 2016 23:49
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Huh. I thought making Barrier effectively only usable every other turn would have made it garbage, but from what it sounds like, it's still useful?
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Dec 8, 2016 06:20
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I don't know what's worse, Squirrels stealing threads to leave you to die in the Labyrinth, or them just being straight out for your blood now.
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Something that kind of came to mind, how well does EOV support running multiples of the same classes? It was a thing you could do in the earlier games, but it had the problem of narrowing what your party was capable of (ESPECIALLY in EO1.) Subclassing in EO3 and 4 kind of alleviated that issue, and I imagine specializations in EOV might differentiate some of the classes enough to get around it entirely?
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Dec 20, 2016 02:12
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It feels weird to not have Scatter About around anymore. On the other hand I can't say I'll miss it. The song wasn't that great in the first place and just kept getting worse every time the series remixed it.
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A couple of the classes' skills seems like they're trying to take advantage of accumulative resistance and immunities in the sense that if the ailment doesn't land, you still get something out of it. Though Three-Stage Strike has way too low of a base chance and damage output to even be used for either purpose.Dark Flame Master posted:How do they even hold that many swords at once? Do they like, tape them to their ears and headbang? Look closer at the Masauro artwork, they're attached to their wrists. Though I don't think that would actually works out if you tried that yourself.
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Ragnar Homsar posted:I actually didn't notice that! You're right, though. I glossed over it mostly since Call Allies isn't really a skill, it's something rolled into the Haughty Hermit's AI script, which I can't read at all. You'd probably have to dig into the game code to read those as even with EO1 using lookup tables for its AI scripts, a lot of those values won't make sense unless you specifically know what they represent. I'd imagine raw actual scripts would be even harder to decipher.
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How is TP recovery in this game? In EO2U, it was very lacking since you couldn't buy Amritas until you got to the 4th Stratum. And I believe the only other method was a dish that recovered a very small percentage of TP per turn. I know there's Magic Heal, which is fairly helpful early on. And the potential truckload of Amritas you can grab.
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Jan 9, 2017 11:35
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Clarste posted:You can eat Pancakes. Fascinating. (And there's your new page.)
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Jan 9, 2017 11:51
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Alexis, Cecil, Gram
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Jan 10, 2017 21:08
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Multistrike Form on the basic spells gives you more damage than Compression Form on the higher tier spells on average, though it's not as reliable as Compression Form. (You do lose out on Mag Attack Up and Common Magic, though.) So go with Master of the Six Ways. Also Gunpowder Dragoon, Combo Boxer, Death-Bringing Reaper, Spirit-Destroying Necromancer. As for names, Edit: actually, Edgelord is better. Araxxor fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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theshim posted:There are also firsts in the series - actual undead. Yeah, EO was generally fairly grounded with a lot of its enemies since most of them were just different forms of wildlife. Outside of bosses, I think this is the first time more fantastical things like the undead got put into the mix.
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Jan 25, 2017 19:45
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werbear posted:Respawning F.O.E.s? That sounds... ugly. Killing them is my Plan B if I can't be bothered with the puzzle and my Plan A on return trips to the stratum. Depth Dancers from EOU say hi. 
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Huh, playing through this Stratum, I was wondering why that wall of skeletons disappeared. I thought some border got set or something to smooth that section over. I do like this Stratum, I think it handled appealing to traveling at different times of day quite well without outright hindering you. (Though I believe that one section in the lower left is outright impossible to go through without fighting the FOEs.) Araxxor fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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Ragnar Homsar posted:To be fair, there's precedent--flying FOEs and a fuckton of serious dick moves in the original EO1 and EO2, namely. Remember FOEs that spawned the moment you opened a treasure chest and trapped you in the room?  (Honestly kind of surprised that "trap" FOEs like that haven't been used in games past the first one.)
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Feb 24, 2017 04:06
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Yeah, there are moments where the game reminds you that the Labyrinth is a dangerous place from a story perspective as well.
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Feb 24, 2017 20:38
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Valerie's only real bits of characterization were in the solo FOE quests. Which got cut out of the remake since you can't adjust the number of party members in story mode. Even then, there wasn't much to her.werbear posted:Still a better character than "does not like bugs" or... uh... what is the character trait of the Barkeeper in EO/EOU? What even is her name? Kiritida is the one who didn't like bugs in EO4. I don't think she had anything else outside of that. Kind of a shame that none of the barkeepers have yet to live up to Cass and Missy, though at least Genetta is a fun NPC.
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quote:Why do these exist In case you don't have a way to inflict said ailment for a conditional drop and don't want to change up your party or use up (or don't have) a Formaldehyde to get it. They're not much, but they're something for the players that like to go for 100% completion.
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vdate posted:Sort of like a combination tabard and scarf! You may also note that the skeletons have tusks, which didn't fully register for me the first time I saw them. Also re: skeletons, the difference in the scale of the numbers of this game make me The overall numbers may seem bigger, but in reality, the power of the classes and all got knocked down a peg. In EO2U, it was pretty common to see player damage numbers break the thousands, and eventually the ten-thousands. That's really not a thing in EO5. In all honestly, the damage output is more comparable with the average damage output in EO1 and 2. (Which is to say in the hundreds is considered to be great damage in this game.)
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Omobono posted:I never understood why status effect weapons in EO are that bad. I understand dropping the stats a bit, but in a series where: Mainly because they're meant to give you another method to snag certain conditional drops, nothing more. I'm not sure why the Dark Scythe is like the sole exception in the entire series. (Discounting forged weapons you can make yourself.) No matter what role the Reaper is put in, they're certainly gonna appreciate that weapon. I think the reason they don't straight up give them 0 attack is that certain damage formulas wouldn't play nicely with them. (though they would work fine in EO3 and 4.) Mainly because in the EO games, forcing the game to divide by 0 straight up halts any ongoing calculations, and causes the game to give up and use whatever numbers it had in there before that happened. werbear posted:So we are already on the point that no one made it past? The only thing blocking off discovery of them is if you realize that they're there or not. There are no tells on the walls that there's a passage there. Your only hint that they exist is that the map fog lights up a specific area on the map, despite the fact that you seemingly explored the entire floor. I'm pretty sure this is the first time since EOU that there have been unmarked passages.
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Raven, Sasha, Lanzon, and Cecil. Base classes.
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blizzardvizard posted:Undead King looks rad. I didn't expect an colorful Egyptian themed boss from how the Stratum is like, but he still looks great. Mechanically interesting, too. I'm really liking how the boss encounters are designed in this game. The boss design in EO5 is miles better than the bosses in EO2U. You aren't straight up punished for not being psychic, and the fights don't spiral as easily out of control as they do in EO2U.
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Omobono posted:It's really, really hard to screw an Imperial, all their skillset revolves around their gimmick. It's nearly impossible for him to screw up his build, since he maxed out every single skill possible and then some.
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