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Dr. Fetus posted:Fascinating. Pancakes heal a good chunk of TP, and are relatively cheap to make as long as you remember to buy berries from the berry vendor in the bar. There are other food items, but mostly I just filled my bag with Pancakes and never worried about TP. Uh... you can eat food items out of battle, and they take up a completely separate bag space.
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Update 13: The Strongest Link The floor opens immediately with a giraffe puzzle. There's a twist on this one from 7F, though, which we'll see in a bit. The path that starts here is too long to cross without running into a giraffe, so we have to head into that corridor visible in the screenshot. (Obtained "Cactus and beetle After observing the cactus, you both caught a beetle and and quenched your thirst." Choosing not to wait for the beetle or not drinking the juice after getting the beetle lowers the EXP reward. Feeble Miasma now increases ailment/bind infliction rates by 1.42x. Lanzon learns Bestow Mana because I'm actually using Jars as Chain fodder now, and because it increases his LUC a bit. Shoving a boulder on top of a giraffe lops off 25% of its HP, shoves it backwards, and stuns it until we leave the floor. The boulder being here also disrups the other giraffe's charging paths, meaning we can actually progress from this room now! (Obtained The Viewing Crystal reveals all shortcuts, stairways, FOEs, gathering points, and treasure chests in a 9x9 area around us. Any FOEs that are on tiles we haven't "discovered" yet are also shown. Dashing Neckbeast HP: 4484 STR: 66 INT: 45 VIT: 47 WIS: 45 AGI: 42 LUC: 45 Skills:
Disable Resistances: Dashing Neckbeasts are incredibly simple: they'll either use a normal attack, or Charge followed by Power Sweep. A Charged Power Sweep will either wipe out our party entirely or, failing that, leave our front line severely injured and our backline either dead or close to it (assuming I have guard skills and characters using Defend.) Head binds are a good way to completely neuter giraffes, but if you don't have that, your only real option is damage racing it. Since I'm sure you can guess what Iseria and Sasha do, let's skip to Raven, who's using Feeble Miasma to make Lanzon's job easier. Said job is inflicting poison. Using Tri-Shield works if you're just trying to guard against normal attacks, but it won't do anything against Power Sweep. Might as well get three ghosts for Fire Bomb spam. Oh, yeah, Dosen has a bow equipped. This means he activates extra Chain hits! Well, that's... Less than impressive. To be expected when going up against an elementally-resistant monster, though. It's worth it just to proc a Chain hit. You're loving kidding me, the poison's gone already?! Two turns is the literal minimum for how long a disable can last! Ugh. Chewing through that much HP without poison's gonna be annoying. (Charge.) To avoid a total party wipe, I have Dosen use Aegis Shield. If you'll remember the Races update, Aegis Shield is the "ultimate" Brownie limit, and it completely nullifies all attacks to the party for one turn.  ......What the gently caress? Why did C die? Uh oh. I don't have any answer to this aside from defending. Everyone defends, Sasha applies the Line Guard effect to the front row. Okay, that's not so bad, right? Uh oh. And now I'm hosed. I can't do anything against this next one. I've been trying to run for several turns and it's just not happening. I feel like I'm playing EO4 again--failing to run this often is an anomaly for EO5. (The explorers have fallen...) I should not have wiped here. The poison only lasting two turns was bullshit. Any longer and the thing would've died before all that nonsense. https://zippy.gfycat.com/GreenLazyAcouchi.webm What you're seeing there is the usual EO game over "save your map data" prompt. For anyone new to the series, when you game over in an EO game, you're given the option to save any modifications you made to your map after your party's wiped--basically to save you the time redrawing it when you reload, and to help you better prepare for whatever might've killed you. There's no reason not to accept this, so I do. From here, I do everything I did before. Including fighting the Dashing Neckbeast. This time, the loving poison decided to last a few more turns, but, uh, now I'm left without any options against an incoming Charged Power Sweep. I used Tri-Shield to at least keep Iseria and the ghosts alive. If I can just stall for a turn or two, I'll win. (Defeated Dashing Neckbeast!) (Received 1 Neckbeast Fur.) Back to town to fix everyone being dead. Lightning Shot: Uses the arms. Deals ranged INT-based volt damage to one enemy, with line-piercing effect. Has a 120% speed modifier and 100 base accuracy at all levels. Garbage for Dragoons, decent for Warlocks. If you're only hitting one enemy, Lightning Shot at level 5 compares favorably to Lightning: 7 TP for 130% damage at level 5 for Lightning Shot, compared to 12 TP for 129% damage at level 5 for Lightning. Despite Lightning Shot being useless for Sasha, I bought her a Parrot Gun anyway since it's a pretty big improvement over her old artillery. A rare breed Dashing Neckbeast is the one time I'm willing to fight a rare breed FOE, mostly because I can still get the preemptive, and it's not like the damage increase it gets means anything, given that it's very capable of killing us already. Rare breed FOE EXP can best be described as "a truckload." I forgot to spend the drat skill points again, though. Well, uh, approaching this from the front would be dumb. (The scorpion here doesn't turn. Ever.) There's a campfire spot here. whoops hang on gotta check my 3DS's battery okay we're good (yes I still have my EO2U cart in my recording 3DS, months after finishing that LP) To progress, we have to shove this boulder, so that it blocks the scorpion's line of sight. With that, we can progress peacefully. This food point has Labyrinth Wheat. I'm sure this gigantic open corridor is perfectly safe. OH gently caress SCORPIONS RETREAT This is a Sense Mana check. Why would you not dig it up? (Obtained 3 "Ancient treasure box Using your ability to sense mana, you successfully found an old treasure box." I remembered that I had skill points to spend. Still don't want to bump Material Guard up to 5. Cure Herb now has 255% healing power. Anyway. The solution to the corridor is to block the scorpions' line of sight with this thing. (Obtained Bronze Ingot!) I piss them off and box myself in for this, though. Well worth my time, in my opinion. I do some forging back at town, and use a Bronze Ingot to max out Lanzon's Megalith 5006. Barrier Wall, the skill on Lanzon's Megalith 5006, now reduces physical damage to the entire party by 34%, compared to 26% at level 4, but also costs 15 TP instead of 9 TP now. Yeah, uh, I just decided to fight a scorpion for no reason other than I could. Tunnel-Visioned Predator HP: 3657 STR: 63 INT: 46 VIT: 53 WIS: 44 AGI: 44 LUC: 54 Skills:
Disable Resistances: I don't have any methods of inflicting petrification other than Petrify Gasses, and even with a weakness, they're not too reliable, so I'll take care of the conditional at another time. Contrary to what you might expect, Tunnel-Visioned Predators don't inflict poison like you'd probably expect a scorpion to--in fact, they're weak to it, which makes Lanzon's job easier. An easy poison infliction means we'll chew through 3657 HP fairly quickly. Oh, right, the scorpion itself. 63 STR means even normal attacks hurt a decent amount, and Binding Bludgeon will leave even someone under the effect of Line Guard hurting quite a bit. Nothing unrecoverable, though. Iseria will only spam Chain Fire. That's it. Sasha tosses out one of my two remaining Fire Jars for Chain Fire hits. (I don't need to use Line Guard since I got a preemptive.) Feeble Miasma and Poison Bomb, same combo as last time. And Dosen just does a normal attack to get a Chain hit. Aw, what? Yeah, uh, Earthrun characters do not make for good Jar users. I wasn't interested in the Jar damage, though. Oh dear. We might be here for a while if the poison doesn't land. I use Tri-Shield to give myself a free turn. The scorpion can only ever hit two people at maximum. YOU HAD ONE JOB, DOSEN That's more like it. A few turns pass where our damage numbers basically consist of this on repeat. It's much more effective than what we were doing earlier. By the time the poison wears off, the scorpion's already close to dying. Unfortunately, Lanzon's out of ghosts right now, so I need to resummon them. Which I don't do. Because I'm smart. (Binding Bludgeon.) Uh-oh. (Lanzon reduced the damage Sasha took!) Wait, what?! Lanzon didn't do anything this turn! (Lanzon reduced the damage Dosen took!) Okay, I'll cut the act. I appear to have found a bug that no-one else has discovered (at least it's not documented on the @wiki). See, last turn, Lanzon used Barrier Wall, that phys damage reduction skill on his coffin. Now, on this turn, Sasha used Gun Mount after having used it last turn. As it turns out, Gun Mount does not only replicate the shield skill the user used last turn--it replicates ANY shield skill from ANY party member. That's a pretty stupid and funny bug if you ask me, but its usefulness in a standard run is also pretty limited in scope. I only discovered it because Barrier Wall technically counts as a shield skill. Lanzon learns Anatomy to boost his INT a bit. Back to town to heal. Charge: Uses the arms. Increases the damage of the user's next physical attack. Has a 50% speed modifier at all levels. Garbage until level 5, at which point it's basically a TP conserver. I'd grab one for Jana, but honestly, there's other katanas that are more easily forged, and with the boatload of Amritas we have both in our pack and in storage, TP's not an issue. Incidentally, since I haven't shown it yet, here's Haggle in action (Dosen knows it). All of Ceric's prices are reduced by 5%--it's most noticeable with Ariadne Threads (top), since they normally cost 100 en. I actually do the scorpion puzzle correctly this time and move on. An encounter with a rare breed Cliff Goat leaves Lanzon dead, and gives Raven and Dosen level ups. Feeble Miasma now increases infliction chances by 1.46x. Dosen learns Acrobatics in case an event needs it. "The bear trap incident You encountered a fearsome bear trap set in the Labyrinth. Surprised by it, you resolve to be more careful in the future." Blehhhhhhhhhh I hate squirrels enough already, an ambush is just salt in the wound. Blehhhhhhhhhh again. Blehhhhhhhhhh and also yawn. (Obtained ...Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure pith helmets aren't metallic. "Hidden opening Having withstood numerous monster attacks while investigating a hole in the cliff, you obtained a new helmet." Let's send Dosen up there, shall we? "Flower blooming on the cliff A single flower blooming in a precarious location. Your eyes drawn to it, you take a moment to admire it and find yourselves relaxed." And that's the floor. Let's go back now. Bar patrons. #1 is Hansuke yet again. #2: Slender-eyed doctor: Doctor: Ow ow ow, never thought we'd bump into a rampaging gorilla, of all things. To borrow a line from one of my guildmates: "They're not as fast as the other monsters, but boy do they pack a punch." Maybe it'd help if they were blinded? Or had their arms bound? 10F has two quests associated with it, but I need to finish A favor for Ceric I before doing one of them. Clinical trials: ...Remus's dialogue is...the same. Huh. Wonder what that means. What I do know is that talking to Remus means it's the end of the update. Next time: 10F. Rea fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Oh yeah, the Gorgon Bow has a semi-reliable petrify effect. That's how I got the scorpion drop.
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Update 14: E2M5 (Alternatively: MAP10) Cecil brought each of the bind punches up to level 5 (177% damage, 40% base chance to bind, 5 TP), and leveled up One-Two to level 6 (123% damage, 50% follow-up chance, 9 TP). Jana leveled up Armor Penetrate to 9 (200% damage, 25% def reduce, 8 TP), and tossed the leftover two points into Katana Mastery because I'm out of things I want on her (3% damage increase). Mio leveled up Oracle: Dance to 4 (168% damage, 26% resistance reduction, 12 TP), got some Race passives, and then put another point into Prayer: Eradication (23% atk increase, 10 TP) because I ran out of other things to level up. Also I fully forged Gram's current bow. (Floor subtitle: The king of sky, who rules the plateau.) Hammer Kong HP: 893 STR: 60 INT: 38 VIT: 45 WIS: 42 AGI: 29 LUC: 44 Skills:
Disable Resistances: Hammer Kongs hit hard and can take a lot of damage before they die. You have no idea how hard it is for me to not make a lovely Donkey Kong joke right now. [img- A 1% damage increase for Jana. (Obtained 2 This food point has Moon Apples.  Giant Spotted Dog HP: 577 STR: 69 INT: 36 VIT: 58 WIS: 54 AGI: 42 LUC: 38 Skills:
Disable Resistances: Giant Spotted Dogs are considerably less threatening to us now than their red counterparts down on 1F were when we first met them. Attack debuffs are basically moot when I have Mio, and even then, lowering one row's defense was far more dangerous. (Received: 2 Broken Bladeclaws, 1 Hound Jawbone, and 1 Blackened Claw.) (Received 1 Strong and Thin Branch naturally, 1 Twisting Root from Alexis, and 1 Strong and Thin Branch from Cecil.) 10F, B3 Chop Point
(Mist Slice.) I should get around to buying Mio a new weapon soon, probably something with INT Up or TP Up on it. Cold Wave's becoming pretty mediocre by this point. Hoo-Ha now deals 127% damage on the initial hit, and has a 52% follow-up chance. Y'know, as fun as Guild TFKrew showing up is, I'd like it if the game could use the other guild cards I got from Clarste and Tyty sometime soon. my pack is so stuffed full of Amritas that it's easy for me to forget that I don't have any HP restoration items in a party that has no healing skills Having some Medicas on hand would let us get an Adventure Episode in the end, but my tendency to be an idiot means we miss out on it permanently. Yes, permanently. Events involving guilds from Guild Cards can't be repeated, even if you fail a check like that. A random encounter gives Alexis a level. Vision Thrust now costs 9 TP, in exchange for dealing 210% damage and having a 65% base blind chance. Incidentally, the outer edges of 10F look considerably different from previous floors. "The fearsome hamsters! During your exploration, you stopped to take a break but in the meanwhile hamsters got into your food supplies." Risk Perception: Gives a chance to nullify blindsides. I'd say this would be an okay equipment skill if it wasn't tied to an FOE drop. I buy a Leiomano for Cecil, a Sasanoyuki for Jana, and a Killing Shot for Gram. I fully realize that two of these are current downgrades. That's fine, because... I do some forging immediately after. I then recycle the old weapons. This gives me a Bronze Ingot in return, and I end up with 5 Bronze Scraps left over. I wanted to take care of the two quests I have active, so I do so. (Obtained I also got a Bound Hoof, which we need for A favor for Ceric I. This was the thing I needed to unlock for the aforementioned quest. When we leave, Ceric says this: (Obtained Alexis already has a better sword. Oh well. (Obtained The Petrifrisser has a 20% base chance to petrify on normal attacks. G A R B A G E Hoo-Ha's initial hit now deals 131% damage, and it now has a 54% follow-up chance. I can't wait to get specializations. Target Arrow now costs 10 TP, still deals 175% damage, but now reduces defense by 30%, and lasts for 6 turns. Prayer: Eradication now buffs attack by 25%. (Obtained "Lost goods and cliff You discovered some items near the edge of the cliff. While you barely made it, you obtain a beneficial item." This room is a combination of a scorpion and giraffe puzzle. It's easier for me to show than tell: F2 is where the giraffes spawn, and F1 is where the scorpion spawns. The giraffes charge in a counter-clockwise pattern. Our goal is to aggro the scorpion and run from the left corner to the door; the scorpion will block the giraffes' charge that way. Like so! F3 is the baboon, F1 is the scorpion. There's a proper way to solve this room, and that involves playing ring-around-the-rosie with the baboon around the solid tile on the left while not aggroing the scorpion. But scorpions beware, 'cause he's after YOU! This event triggers automatically. Walking would mean we'd discover a Seven-Horned Kabuto Beetle, but I'd still need Animal Husbandry to actually catch it, and...no-one on this team has it. OOPS. "Falling rocks You successfully dashed through the narrow passage before any rocks could fall on you." (Received 1 Walnut naturally, 1 Peanut from Alexis, and 2 Pineapple Smells from Cecil.) 10F, E3 Take Point
Second-to-last puzzle of the floor. F2 is a giraffe, F3 is a baboon. Correct solution: let the baboon shove down the boulder with relative ease, and then give it the loop-de-loop around the top tile, while avoiding the giraffe. My solution: kill the baboon. I'm not showing the actual fights, but this party is scarily good at making FOEs cry out for mummy at this level. Gram now fires in spurts. Prayer: Eradication increases attack by 27% now. (Obtained Not an Adventure Episode! This food point gives out Labyrinth Wheat. By the way, if you couldn't guess, the encounters start getting pretty nasty by this point. We're really close to the stratum boss. The 2nd Stratum sure is generous with these healing points. Also not an Adventure Episode. This final puzzle is so huge that it can't be drawn all at once. Map time! F1s are Tunnel-Visioned Predators, F3 is a Haughty Hermit. ...Gonna be real honest with you here, I- I just beat the poo poo out of two of the FOEs and then sneak past the scorpion in the corner. (Obtained (Obtained 2000 en.) (Obtained 1 Razorstone naturally, and 2 Razorstones from Alexis.) 10F, D5 Mine Point
Sizable room ending in a solitary door near the center of the floor. Something tells me we're at the boss. If, for some hosed up reason, you don't have at least one party member that's level 20, Remus will tell you go to train more before taking on the mission. "The arrogant whelp Hippogriff In order for the Council to recognize you as Masters, you'll need to defeat the magical beast known as the Hippogriff that awaits you at the end of the 2nd stratum." I dunno what else to say that Remus didn't, honestly. Next time: Hippogriff, our second boss. Take it to the fridge! Rea fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Pre-Update 15: Hippogriff Overview Hippogriff HP: 6254 STR: 78 INT: 70 VIT: 53 WIS: 49 AGI: 57 LUC: 47 Skills:
Disable Resistances: Hippogriff is a far simpler affair than Golem was. That doesn't mean it's easier, though--Hippogriff is still plenty capable of screwing up our party. It's arguably better at that than Golem, since it doesn't have to worry about having the necessary body parts to use its dangerous skills, and its deadly skills use both the arms and legs. Bind Claw is pretty explicitly designed to screw up our front row, and getting *really* unlucky with it while using Sasha can, effectively, be a game over. Back Kick's not really worth talking about. Fury Gaze really loving sucks since that base chance is all but guaranteed when you factor in Hippogriff's LUC compared to most of our party members, and panic is really difficult to deal with, especially if a support gets hit with it. Lightning Dance is very capable of ending a good attempt solely on its own, both between its damage and the paralysis. Sky Dive hits as hard as Back Kick does, but hits the entire party and reduces phys damage. FUN. Wing Shield and Rest are Hippogriff's primary gimmicks, and you need to have methods of dealing with them, or else the fight can become drat near unwinnable. Not canceling Wing Shield and Rest will mean that Hippogriff will heal 1500 HP over three turns--that's just shy of 25% of its HP. It's somewhat easy to counter it (INT-based damage dealers can hit that 500 damage requirement fairly easily and head binds stop Rest completely), mercifully. With that in mind, onto party members: Vote for a maximum of three party members, with a maximum of one vote per character. No caveats otherwise. Rea fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Alexis, Iseria, Mio I feel a deep-seated need for him to take a dodge tank. Clarste fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Iseria, Mio, Magda Let's see what Chain Fencers can do in a boss fight.
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Ragnar Homsar posted:See, last turn, Lanzon used Barrier Wall, that phys damage reduction skill on his coffin. Now, on this turn, Sasha used Gun Mount after having used it last turn. As it turns out, Gun Mount does not only replicate the shield skill the user used last turn--it replicates ANY shield skill from ANY party member. Good thing I don't do 'standard' runs. I am totally doing a 5-Dragoon party and seeing just how much I can abuse that, assuming it doesn't get fixed before it comes out here (and assuming that 5 Dragoons isn't as stupid as it probably is). Ragnar Homsar posted:
This made me laugh way harder than it should have. Anyway, I'll vote for Kaelin, Iseria, and Dosen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ke0Rv5ww24 Dosen, Kaelin, Alexis
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Mio, Alexis, 1x Ragnar's Choice.
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I quite enjoy that alcharagia's only apparent purpose in this LP is to MST3K it while it's happening.
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Voting is closed because I have nothing else to do today and want to start the fight ASAP.quote:Kaelin: 7 A fragile party, but also one capable of easily dealing 1000+ damage per turn. 
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It's weird how much perfectly normal food there is in this crazy dungeon.
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Update 15: Princess and Mage Make Technicolor Bird Cower in Fear (Nameless vs. Hippogriff)quote:
As soon as we enter the floor, an event happens. "The lost guard and something about a cow You successfully guided a guard back to town, and he told you about a cow!" All of what you just saw happened before I did some boss preparations--mostly grinding for materials to upgrade equipment. Alexis's equipment here isn't actually truthful--I replaced his Luck Necklace with a pair of shoes, because certain crucial actions of his were getting outsped by Hippogriff. Only other major change from prior to this fight is that Mio has a bow equipped now. I recycled her Ice Bat Fang. Alexis's skill build got overhauled a bit. I exchanged some points in Race skills and one point in Sylphid for a maxed out Wind Curtain and level 9 Vision Thrust. Iseria has maxed out Chain Shock (12 TP, 200% damage, max 5 chains per turn, -10% chance per hit), and put one point into Chain Boost, which gives her +5% damage for one turn for every activation of a Chain skill. Kaelin ditched all of his points in Amplifier and his one point in Magic Shield for a level 9 Lightning (157% INT damage, 12 TP) and level 9 Incantation: Compression Form (2.06x damage, 10 TP). Mio has 5 points in Oracle: Dance now (192% INT damage, 34% resistance decrease, 18 TP). Dosen's most significant change is he has one more point into Cure Herb (270% healing power, 5 TP). For those of you somehow playing along at home: the Hippogriff fight starts once you step on this tile! https://my.mixtape.moe/apwymh.webm  VIDEO: Boss Fight: Hippogriff These three use Defend, since Hippogriff always opens with Fury Gaze, and using Defend reduces a character's chance of being hit with disables. Kaelin uses Incantation: Compression Form. Literally all he will do for the entire fight is Compression -> Lightning on repeat. I question my usage of Compression, looking back--prior to level 10, and especially without High-Speed Incantation, Compression's not terribly worth it. Level 9 amounts to an effective 3% damage increase over just spamming the skill back-to-back. And Mio uses Prayer: Eradication. You have no idea how many attempts just prompted an immediate reset because someone got hit by Fury Gaze. Iseria uses Chain Freeze to save TP--nah I'm loving with ya she's gonna be using Chain Shock. Mio and Dosen use normal attacks to get Chain hits. (You'd be forgiven for not being able to guess that due to how the UI animates when you quickly send inputs.) (Wind Curtain.) (Normal attack.) (Sylphid counter, followed by Chain Shock.) So begins the Chain Train. It can be a little hard to tell due to standard damage variance. All it took was one turn to knock off that much of Hippogriff's HP. Mio uses a Hamao on Alexis to restore his TP a little, since Alexis getting below 30 TP means no Wind Curtain, which means Bad Things for ensuring him and Iseria don't die. (Bind Claw.) Hippogriff is no match for a good supply of TP restoration and the fact that Alexis wears shoes. Getting a Chain hit off that is just icing on the cake. I have Mio cast Prayer: Purple Lightning, so she can cast Oracle: Dance later. (Sky Dive.) ...wait hold on what the gently caress did I seriously already trigger that Kaelin was left at 2 HP there, and Mio and Dosen didn't fare much better. Alexis uses Vision Thrust on the off-chance that he blinds Hippogriff. Mio uses Oracle: Dance to amplify volt damage. No blind, drat. Kaelin knocked Hippogriff out of Wing Guard, since we did over 500 damage after Lightning. I have a feeling that we're going to immediately trigger another Sky Dive, so Alexis takes a break to restore his TP with an Amrita Iseria uses a Hamao on Kaelin. Dosen uses Aegis Shield in preparation for Sky Dive, and uses another Amrita on Alexis. ...I really hope this is actually Sky Dive, or else I'll have wasted something very powerful on nothing. YES, GOOD, UNIRONICALLY. I do the exact same stuff as the last Wing Guard turn. The fact that Hippogriff is blinded means I'll take my chances on leaving Alexis and Iseria unguarded for the upcoming Sky Dive. 2ez Here's the last Wing Guard... And there goes the last Wing Guard. When I fought the final boss of Persona Q, I put him to sleep on the first turn. The AI never bothered using Gears of Time after having its first action skipped, so the final boss never bothered actually using its gimmick. It's kind of like this, except instead of chumping it with one action, it's the sheer damage output causing the boss to cower in fear. I approve. EO5 is a good game. (Defeated Hippogriff!) Where's the fun in that? Let's go to the next stratum! I betcha it's gonna be very bright and cheery. VIDEO: 3rd Stratum: Vanguard's Mortuary Intro oh. I immediately went back to the Council to turn the mission in. (Obtained 6000 en.) Eh, Edgar can wait. Oh, right, this thing. Rest: Uses the arms. Restores the user's HP, based on a static value plus a percentage of their maximum HP. Has a 120% speed modifier at all levels. Eh. I don't think Cesti really need to heal themselves all that often. Only bar patron is Hansuke. We actually have three quests to do here. #1: Request for never-before-seen ore: #2: Moving skeletons: fact or fiction?: And #3: Peddler Ceric: I didn't talk to Ceric for the rest of the update. We'll see that next time. Anyway, the quest patrons. #1: Girl with a large book: Girl: Hmm, so these stones are from the first stratum, which means they were mined from the... Girl: Oh, hello! Sorry about that, I've been busy taking all these notes. So are you the explorers?! You took my request?! All right! Thank you! So do you have any ore mined from the third stratum? Could you please show me some? I'd love to see all the types, but even just one would be great! I wanna feel them, sketch them, and then record it all in this book here! And then, someday, head up there myself to collect them from the Labyrinth. I'm still a kid so there's no way I'm going right now, but when I grow up I'm definitely going! Oh, sorry. That has nothing to do with the request, does it? I'll be waiting here, so when you have the ore from the third stratum just come talk to me, okay? We just gotta show her all of the things we can mine in the 3rd Stratum. Given that there's Mine points on 11F, that's easy. #3: Thin Lunarian woman: Woman: Geez, that girl never listens to a word I say... Oh? Excuse me, are you explorers? Woman: So you are? Then you took my request?! Thank you so much, I've been waiting here for you! I hope you don't mind me cutting right to the heart of matter? It's about my daughter. Lately she's been going around town getting into all sorts of mischief. Naturally I've tried scolding her, but while she makes a good show of saying sorry, the very next day she's always right back at it! But, well, she has a bit of a thing when it comes to ghosts and such. Especially skeletons. Even seeing a picture of one in a book is enough to get her hiding under her blankets. So I was looking through some old documents, and apparently there are actual, real life moving skeletons on the third stratum's 11th floor? Woman: I bet if I showed her a picture of one of those she'd be scared straight! Which is where you come in. I want you to register the skeleton monsters of the 11th floor into your Monstrous Codex. You can do it whenever you happen to be up there on other matters, but please, do this for me. Edgar starts talking as soon as we enter. And, at last, we get access to specializations--or Second Names, if you want to use their fancy term. You're already familiar with these from the class updates, and Edgar just explained their gist, but just as a refresher: Second Names give access to an entire new page of skills, focused on one specific theme, and they also give small stat bonuses that are relevant to the specialization. Let's talk to Remus before we mess with them. ANYWAY. Specializations. One more note about them: a character needs to be level 20 to set them. Once they're level 20, the top option on their Manage menu entry unlocks. From there, you pick one of the two specializations. I already know which one I want for Alexis: he's our dodgetank, so he's going to become an Illusionary Fencer. ...Or... Yep, you can type in custom names. You have a limit of 15 characters for it--that's plenty to type out a lot of stuff in English, though. These two aren't the only ones I've pre-planned specializations for. Our Herbalists have also been pre-decided. Dosen becomes a Deeply Compassionate Doctor. And Magda becomes an Innocent Poisoner. Next time: five characters take their newfound specializations for a spin on 11F.
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Much like I mentioned at the end of the update, it's time to vote on specializations! And also their names. For a quick refresher, here's what each spec does (I'd really recommend you just re-read the class updates though): Dragoon Adamantine Dragoon: Advanced shield skills; defense-oriented Gunpowder Dragoon: Offense skills, new type of summon; offense-oriented Cestus Combo Boxer: Focus on binding punches and combos Devastating Fistfighter: Focus on HP-manipulating skills Reaper Death-Bringing Reaper: Variety of new scythe skills; offense-oriented Death-Warding Reaper: Support skills Warlock Master of the Six Ways: Access to cut, stab, and bash damage; also multi-hit Ruler of Fire, Ice, and Lightning: Focus on fire/ice/volt damage; more TP-dependent Necromancer Spirit-Summoning Necromancer: Somewhat support-oriented Spirit-Destroying Necromancer: Somewhat offense-oriented Hound Falcon-Accompanied Hound: Offense-oriented with Falz Dog-Leading Hound: Support-oriented with Greg Masurao Four Heavens as One Masurao: Four katanas at once; multi-hit skills Single Peerless Blade Masurao: One katana; crits Shaman Heaven's Wrath Shaman: Semi-offense oriented Heaven's Love Shaman: Semi-defense oriented So, yeah, just vote for whatever spec you want for each class. Try your best to avoid just defaulting to my own choice! Also, if you want, toss in a name for each spec--these might be hard to necessarily "vote" for, so we'll see how that turns out in the end. Note that these are just initial specs; they'll be rotated out on a regular basis! For class names: since 15 characters might be a bit limiting in some instances, you're free to write out stuff in Japanese if what you want doesn't fit in English, but bear in mind that anything Japanese (especially anything using kanji) means you'll be subjecting Clarste to having to instruct me where to hunt and peck--and in the case of kanji, putting in each syllable.
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In order from top to bottom, 2-1-2-2-1-2-2-2. You should clearly name Cecil's specialization Banana Slammer and Mio's On-Deck Shipper. Other than this I have no feelings. I am helpful.
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Jan 12, 2017 11:28
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In case anyone skimmed over it, I definitely recommend listening to the 3rd stratum music.
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Jan 12, 2017 11:40
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When I first heard the 3rd Stratum theme I definitely didn't expect it to be a creepy graveyard. I originally thought it was gonna something like Stratum 2, dry and full of canyons (but with an orange sky backdrop or something) since it's kinda got that Western flick feel to it. Let's see... Adamantine, Combo, Death-bringing, Fire/Ice/Lightning, Spirit-destroyer, Falcon, Four Swords, Heaven's Love. In favor of On-Deck Shipper for Mio.
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Jan 12, 2017 12:01
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I'd say Ruler of Fire, Ice and Lightning for our resident smuglord. Call it Heaven's Emperor (or something like that), because you know he'd name it that way.
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Jan 12, 2017 13:14
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Combo Boxer, Master of the Six Ways, Four Heavens as One and Heaven's Love. The only name I can think of right now is Professional Juggler for Jana.
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Jan 12, 2017 13:27
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Omobono posted:I'd say Ruler of Fire, Ice and Lightning for our resident smuglord. Call it Heaven's Emperor (or something like that), because you know he'd name it that way. Maybe I'm biased, but I feel like that's possibly the most boring specialization in the game. All you're doing with it is exactly what you did with the basic skills, except using elemental spells with higher multipliers. Everything else is based around saving TP, except you only need to do that at all because your slightly better spells are also more expensive. With that in mind, I'm gonna have to vote for Master of the Six Ways. You can still call it Heaven's Emperor if you like. Edit: If you want an in-character reason, think of it as refusing to let the lesser classes have even some situations where they're better than him. Clarste fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Jan 12, 2017 15:29
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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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Jan 12, 2017 17:34
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Death-Bringing Reaper named Edgelord Combo Boxer named Dio Single Peerless Blade Masurao named *sigh*
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Jan 12, 2017 18:02
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Combo Boxer Master of the Six Ways Death-Bringing Reaper Four Heavens as One I'm not good with names, but Edgelord and On-Deck Shipper are great so I'm n-thing them. The rest I have no real opinion on.
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Jan 12, 2017 18:26
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Combo Boxer named Standing Proud is the one I needed to get out there ...but I also need Falcon-Accompanied Hound named just Captain Falcon. AweStriker fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Jan 12, 2017 18:33
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Gunpowder Dragoon Combo Boxer Ragnar's Choice for the Reaper Master of the Six Ways Ragnar's choice for the Necromancer Dog-Leading Hound Four Heavens as One Heaven's Love
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Jan 12, 2017 19:10
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Of course the loving nerd has a shipping chart for her own party members. 
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Jan 12, 2017 19:43
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Spirit-destroying Necromancer for Lanzon named Spirit Boogaloo
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Gunpowder Dragoon with the name of Panzer Combo Boxer called ORA ORA ORA Death-Bringing the Edgelord Master of the Six Ways Spirit-Destroying Necromancer Falcon-Accompanied Hound aka Captain Falcon Four Heavens as One Masurao as For Swords! Heaven's Love Shaman
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