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Rabbi Raccoon posted:I'm actually buying healing items this time around. Holy crap The drops feel oddly clustered. I bought a couple of revives, then ended up in an area where every right seemed to drop a few.
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Oct 24, 2019 19:34
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I bought them 10 minutes ago then learned a Brave Order for instant casting. The RPG penny pincher in me is sobbing.
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Oct 24, 2019 19:56
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ok, am i actually locked out of buying fishing gear upgrades in time to do this red perch fishing quest? because i can't catch this stupid thing with the base rod
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Oct 24, 2019 20:25
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Reiterpallasch posted:ok, am i actually locked out of buying fishing gear upgrades in time to do this red perch fishing quest? because i can't catch this stupid thing with the base rod No, there's a guy in your camp who will sell you the gear. The forager kid.
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Oct 24, 2019 20:32
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OddObserver posted:The drops feel oddly clustered. I bought a couple of revives, then ended up in an area where every right seemed to drop a few. I have something like 48 Curia balms and am still in the first big area
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Oct 24, 2019 20:37
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Stelas posted:No, there's a guy in your camp who will sell you the gear. The forager kid. I don't think I'm allowed to go back to the camp right now? Will I get the chance to before the quest times out?
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Oct 24, 2019 22:12
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Reiterpallasch posted:I don't think I'm allowed to go back to the camp right now? Will I get the chance to before the quest times out? Oh, uh, I have no idea. I'm not up to any part where I'm locked out yet. I do know you can hand in some quests on different days, so seeing the ranking screen doesn't necessarily lock you out of a quest - there's a fetch quest in the camp which you can hand in the next morning and it looks like I got the same amount of points either way. On the other hand that fish one's about a birthday so it might get cancelled. Stelas fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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Oct 24, 2019 22:46
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Oct 25, 2019 09:47
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BrightWing posted:Does money get less tight later? There's a lot to buy early on if you want to get all the available fishing upgrades and stuff immediately. Common mistakes: - Don't forget to sell your Sepith Masses, because I went back to Trails for a while and totally forgot they're just there to sell compared to regular Sepith. - Clothing store upgrades are nice but usually expensive and not strictly necessary. If you really want to get some profit early on you can sell a couple of the quest reward consumables for a remarkable amount of money. Alternatively, have Rean or Yuna make stacks of 99 potato salad for about 2500 per run.
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Oct 25, 2019 10:00
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Once you've actually gotten into some dungeons and amassed some sepith masses your bank will look better. If you want some early equipment, then you have some items in your inventory (should be one that sells for 5k and one that sells for 10k) that while they might find use in a pinch someday, getting your early cash in would be better, imo. Septium Vein and Kaleido MQ is also really good for getting your slots unlocked early, which then snowballs into more money later.
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Oct 25, 2019 10:00
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I like this smarter, more relaxed Rean a whole lot more than I did in CS 1 and 2. He's not stealing the show as much as I expected (yet??), and the interactions with people from the first two games are believable without him falling into angst mope mode like in the CS2 Epilogue. Good job.
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Oct 25, 2019 11:30
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Stelas posted:I like this smarter, more relaxed Rean a whole lot more than I did in CS 1 and 2. He's not stealing the show as much as I expected (yet??), and the interactions with people from the first two games are believable without him falling into angst mope mode like in the CS2 Epilogue. Good job. The kid lost one of his best friends, helped annex a country, and is on the verge of losing the rest of his friends. He is allowed to be unhappy about this.
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Oct 25, 2019 11:34
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BrightWing posted:The kid lost one of his best friends, helped annex a country, and is on the verge of losing the rest of his friends. He is allowed to be unhappy about this. True, but it comes off the back of an entire game of Rean talking about trusting his friends, the viewpoint massively on him as he does this to the detriment of the rest of the class, and picks up with him distancing himself from them by not opening up to them about any of it. It's a big backslide and it made me turn off the game for quite a while. Yeah, they're kids and it's not like they should beep boop their way through it, but after such a Rean-centric game it felt pretty 'ugggghhh'. By the time the Epilogue ended I did feel like they'd redeemed that to some extent, and the transition from CS2 -> CS3 feels like it's picked up the rest of the slack, which is good. I'd still prefer if Yuna or Kurt were the 'official' MC to make things feel a bit different (probably blame Tokyo Xanadu for that) but I realize Rean's thoughts are kind of important and the Class 7 connections are being used well. Stelas fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 11:49
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Uff at a certain optional duel at beginning of Chapter 2.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:16
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Do characters not in the active party get full xp? I want to use these guest characters but I want to make sure the mandatory team is kept up to date.
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Oct 25, 2019 16:25
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I just got the VM deck and now the shopkeeper wants to duel, is that something I need to do now or can I do it on a later day? I'm unsure about VM, I always liked how quick and simple Blade was.
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Oct 25, 2019 18:07
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I do enjoy how Laura is still queen death of murder mountain. You don't have infinite cp in this game anymore though, so it's not quite as absurd. Honestly, it feels like they actually tried to balance this game, which is a nice departure from the last two.
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Oct 26, 2019 02:43
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Yeah, there's less wild spikes, though if you're conservative with your CP most mini-bosses still vanish in a haze of S-Crafts. For normal battles, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of Yuna with as many debuff quartz on her as I can, in Gunner mode. (also known as the Fie Method But Slower)
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Oct 26, 2019 02:49
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Personally I've been finding attack magic kind of weak? Like it doesn't deal enough damage to justify its cast time. While of course there are ways to mitigate that, it just seems kind of pointless to waste my time with otherwise. Which also ends up making things that save EP or recover EP pointless since I have no reason to use much EP.
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Oct 26, 2019 02:57
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I felt the same way at first. I think the idea is that you're supposed to try to line up a bunch of your turns in a row, then toss out the 'no cast time' order for a few turns, then cancel it and go back to a defensive stance. I did end up springing for some boutique armor and that helped a ton in freeing up what I could do with my orders.
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Oct 26, 2019 03:04
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The real star of the show has been +Break damage % stuff for me. When bosses spend all their time stunned they can't use their infuriating rear end in a top hat self heal + buffs shouts.
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Oct 26, 2019 03:38
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Starsnostars posted:I just got the VM deck and now the shopkeeper wants to duel, is that something I need to do now or can I do it on a later day? I want to know this too, I skipped a student on that first free day and Im worried I just lost out
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Rage phases don't feel fun and are basically an S-Craft tax. I just had a boss rage out, then blow through 8 turns in a row tossing out delay spam until all my guys were dead.BrightWing posted:I want to know this too, I skipped a student on that first free day and Im worried I just lost out I've definitely seen people you can challenge on multiple days, but that was as part of the same field trip.
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Oct 26, 2019 08:13
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Stelas posted:Rage phases don't feel fun and are basically an S-Craft tax. I just had a boss rage out, then blow through 8 turns in a row tossing out delay spam until all my guys were dead. You're supposed to Break them out of it. Basically it adds counterplay to old "the boss just does their S-Craft and kills you instantly" by giving you a short chance to stop it.
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What I find interesting is that I'm finding myself barely using S-crafts on bosses anymore except as finishers/turn bonus stealers because it's much, much more valuable to apply as much break damage as possible and to build up BP to issue and maintain Orders. Orders are basically the new S-crafts in terms of maintaining pressure. I don't have a problem with boss rages because they're predictable to an extent and you have more than enough tools to deal with them, arguably too many depending on your current party.
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In my experiance on hard if a boss enrages thats it, reset. I might get one turn to pop an order if I dont have one up already but otherwise they just rip through me.
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I usually get 3 or so turns, also on Hard. I think the act of popping enrage tends to have a pretty long delay, relative to their other moves. Once you let them get an action they'll start killing you pretty fast though. Basically I pop Juna's Sledgehammer and go all-out at that point (or whoever else has good Orders for breaking). Of course, even if you only have one turn you could cast Absolute Reflect or something, couldn't you? Really the issue is that you have to reserve BP for it, but you always know it's coming. Again, it's basically the same as bosses in previous games pulling an S-Craft out of their rear end and killing your entire team instantly, except they give you a little warning.
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Erosion of madness is my favorite boss music so far. Such a great piece ! (Don't google or youtube that if you don't want to be spoiled). I've always loved Falcom's music but it just keeps getting better. (And yes, I know another pretty good boss song is coming my way soon.) I took 2 weeks off to play this game but it's beginning to look like I may not be able to finish it before they're over. Death Priest fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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Oct 26, 2019 18:08
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Not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous about heading to the end of Chapter 1. I'm having trouble with battles. I get that you're supposed to pretty much use Brave Orders constantly, but I'm having difficulty keeping up the BP to do so
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Oct 26, 2019 18:24
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If you don't care about enemy data (because there are 4 goddamn enemy types in Ch. 1's final battle), you can just walk into it with full CP and burn the entire fight down with 200CP S-Crafts. Just pop Laura's Brave Order for +60% damage first if you want to be sure. There's a slight element of chance, since at least 2 of those enemies have freeze moves available to them, and can go first, but you can just heal it first if that happens.
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:Not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous about heading to the end of Chapter 1. I'm having trouble with battles. I get that you're supposed to pretty much use Brave Orders constantly, but I'm having difficulty keeping up the BP to do so Terper fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Oct 26, 2019 |
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I played through CS3 in Japanese for the Platinum so for the English release I'm going to try and get the Platinum in one Nightmare playthrough. I've already learned some new things that I was ignorant of in the Japanese version like being able to exchange for for high tier accessories at the cost of U material. Having Silver Charms and Evergreens early on has been a god send. Here is the easiest way to break the games combat system. Use Juna's order to Break all enemies and then use Kurt's order to keep everyone at the top of the turn order. Just keep getting BP from hitting broken enemies and keep refreshing Kurt's order so the enemies never get turns. It works even better if your main AOE attackers have Juna's starting master quartz equipped or at least in their sub slot. Also never stay at 5 BP if you know you'll get another Brave Point with your next attack. Just use Rean's 1 BP attack up order so everyone gets a free 10 CP as well as a general attack up. You can also make a evasion tank using Sirius (Kurt's starting master quartz) in combination with evade quartz and accessories like Evergreen. I think some characters like Fie have a innate evade chance as well.
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Yo, is Towa still cool? Cause I think Towa is still cool.
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Is there a way to break the game like by having Fie with 100% physical evade of buffing Laura up so much she can kill a boss in a single hit? That was really enjoyable in 1 and 2
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Overbite posted:Is there a way to break the game like by having Fie with 100% physical evade of buffing Laura up so much she can kill a boss in a single hit? That was really enjoyable in 1 and 2 Read two posts above yours.
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Oct 27, 2019 17:29
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That final (normal) fight in Chapter 1 ended up being great. A nail biter but in a good way. I'm getting into a groove with the Brave Orders now. They really fix the big problem of the early parts of these games where your options are just so limited.
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Oct 27, 2019 17:39
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What is Altina good at? I just assumed that she'd be like Millium was in the previous games but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Starsnostars posted:What is Altina good at? I just assumed that she'd be like Millium was in the previous games but that doesn't seem to be the case. I've been using her as a caster and getting some mileage out of her that way (with the Brave order that removes cast time).
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Starsnostars posted:What is Altina good at? I just assumed that she'd be like Millium was in the previous games but that doesn't seem to be the case. The Brave order that reflects all incoming damage. But she's definitely a caster. She has two lines and one only has one stop.
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