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Okay, running around in Ferolia, the werewolves that can just spam healing spells forever are the first thing in the game with the serious capacity to kick my rear end.
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Started Trials with a party of Angela, Duran and Kevin. Just finished the boss fight to get the first elemental, Lumina, and I've got a question about what I should be doing with stats for my party. Going off the page in the LP that was linked earlier, I know for Angela I should be doing Int > Spirit > Stamina if I can't raise either of the first two, but what should I be throwing my points into for Duran and Kevin (when I get him) besides Strength and occasionally Stamina?
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W.T. Fits posted:Started Trials with a party of Angela, Duran and Kevin. Just finished the boss fight to get the first elemental, Lumina, and I've got a question about what I should be doing with stats for my party. Just put points into Int or Spirit since those affect magic def slightly. Probably Int, since there's more regular magic attacks than there are holy attacks in the game. If you're taking Duran or Kevin down the Light route, then they can use Spirit for their heals. Whichever stat is higher will affect your max MP, but this is only mainly relevant to Duran and his sabers, since Kevin is generally focused on punching stuff all the time. Allarion fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 23:01
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 I decided to give Kevin a more intimidating name
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Jun 13, 2019 00:32
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Rate my team: Hawk, Angela, Riesz.
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Jun 13, 2019 03:15
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PantsBandit posted:Rate my team: Hawk, Angela, Riesz. one of the best particularly with dark hawk and light lise
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Jun 13, 2019 03:26
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Hawk, Riesz, x is kinda just the best in general assuming you go Light Riesz and Dark Hawk.
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PantsBandit posted:Rate my team: Hawk, Angela, Riesz. You've managed to pick the only character combination that can't learn any healing magic. But, Riesz, especially Light Riesz is a Very Good Choice, who has astounding synergy specifically with Dark Hawkeye, who is a powerhouse. And Angela is a black mage and I don't think you can actually screw up a black mage. Is there actually a bad character combination or is it more a matter of bad class picks within a combo?
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Jun 13, 2019 03:41
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How the girl squard of Riesz, Angela, and Charlotte?
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Jun 13, 2019 03:47
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Some are more synergistic than others. I like pairing Duran and Angela together, but they don't actually complement each other well party-wise since they're just off doing their own thing with Duran smashing things with his sword and Angela magic spamming, and Duran's sabers are only marginally useful for Angela since she's not gonna be smacking things often with her staff. EDIT: All Girl squad is good. It's gonna be Caster-focused, but Light Riesz will always be there to buff, and Dark Charlotte pairs well with Angela. Allarion fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Jun 13, 2019 03:49
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Okay, now I'm trying to get my hands on ??? Seeds in the Jungle of Illusion before I hit 38 and I'm seriously considering just tossing my hands in the air and not playing further. I forgot how annoying this was.
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Rand Brittain posted:Okay, now I'm trying to get my hands on ??? Seeds in the Jungle of Illusion before I hit 38 and I'm seriously considering just tossing my hands in the air and not playing further. I forgot how annoying this was. I always found it easiest to get them from the Light God-Beast area.
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Jun 13, 2019 04:49
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What do the seeds do? I've played SD3 tons and I never remember grinding for seeds. Is it like a stat-boost thing for min-maxing?
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Jun 13, 2019 05:12
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Is there any strategy to the bosses beyond mashing attack and healing when you're about to die? So far it doesn't seem like they really have dodgeable attacks. Oh and dex is the broken stat I guess? Does Hawk still rely on it? PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Jun 13, 2019 05:13
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:What do the seeds do? I've played SD3 tons and I never remeber grinding for seeds. Is it like a stat-boost thing for min-maxing? You need the items they grow into to do the second class change.
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Rand Brittain posted:You need the items they grow into to do the second class change. Cipher Pol 9 fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Jun 13, 2019 05:15
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Did one of these have a character get turned into a werewolf? I swear I played a mana game that had something like that
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Jun 13, 2019 05:31
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Kevin is a werewolf, yes.
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Jun 13, 2019 05:35
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PantsBandit posted:Is there any strategy to the bosses beyond mashing attack and healing when you're about to die? So far it doesn't seem like they really have dodgeable attacks. Yeah, all the bugs and glitches still apply, so dex is still only useful for Hawkeye, and Kevin is still a murder machine who gets buffed by anything while in werewolf form
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Allarion posted:Yeah, all the bugs and glitches still apply, so dex is still only useful for Hawkeye, and Kevin is still a murder machine who gets buffed by anything while in werewolf form Anyone checked if Duran's shields are still broken?
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I'm amazed that anybody even knew Duran's shields were broken because they're so obscurely difficult to find. Anyway, I finished class changing, and now I'm annoyed because the guide at Seikens was completely wrong about which class was which and has the LL and LD classes switched around for Kevin and Duran.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:46
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The out of nowhere double announcement of Collection and Trials remake (gonna be a long time before I stop accidentally calling that game SD3) have basically turned this E3 around for me entirely. I bought the collection after more than twenty years of waiting and still can't believe I'm somehow playing an official version of this game instead of a emulator or reprogrammed SNES cart. So far I like the new translation, and otherwise it seems pretty faithful. I'm also waiting for someone to figure out if they've fixed any of the bugged stats, but even if they didn't I'd say this remains completely worth playing. For first-timers: don't stress too hard about party comps. It's a Square JRPG, it's never going to actually be so hard that you can't progress. Worst case scenario is you go grind for a little bit and brute force a tricky fight. Just pick whoever seems cool and go with it.
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Jun 13, 2019 23:00
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PantsBandit posted:Is there any strategy to the bosses beyond mashing attack and healing when you're about to die? So far it doesn't seem like they really have dodgeable attacks. You can animation lock them with magic nukes
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Jun 13, 2019 23:20
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Here’s a little tip for first timers: you can glitch spells into being cast instantly by picking the spell to use, then with another character use whatever item and the spell will fire off immediately after the item animation is done. Breaks the game once you teach Angela Ancient
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Reality Sinner posted:You can animation lock them with magic nukes *laughs in Bil and Ben*
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Yeah, don't go too crazy with magic spam since lots of bosses love to counter you for doing that. Course, if you cast silence on them beforehand...
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Jun 13, 2019 23:42
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Can't believe Death Hand is no longer called Death Hand
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What's it called? I didn't take Kevin in my first party.
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Jun 14, 2019 00:37
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Dervish got renamed to Fatal Fist and Deathhand got renamed to Enlightened unless I'm mixing them up. I might be. Doesn't help that old faqs seem inconsistent on which is which.
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Jun 14, 2019 00:38
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Ah yeah, I think Death Hand is now Fatal Fist, and Dervish is Enlightened, which makes sense.
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Jun 14, 2019 00:45
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Final Fantasy Adventures was an absolutely rad game. I played so much of it as a kid. There was...I remember killing townsfolk and I think I had a monster friend. It was weird and tremendous for a Gameboy game.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Final Fantasy Adventures was an absolutely rad game. I played so much of it as a kid. There was...I remember killing townsfolk and I think I had a monster friend. It was weird and tremendous for a Gameboy game. Final Fantasy Adventure is such a gem of a game.
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Not a single god damned chocobo in the final fantasy series has been as cool as Chocobot.
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Can't believe I'm about to play a game I've been pining for since I saw screenshots in EGM in like 1994, after SoM blew my 8-year-old mind. $40 is kinda bullshit but I really can't resist. also: Detective No. 27 posted:Please put Secret of Mana + in the OP, thank you.
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Jun 14, 2019 02:56
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Someone on resetera made a Trials of Mana: Three Job Thiesta, which is similar to the yearly FFV4JF. http://www.robin64.co.uk/tomtjt
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So having not played this in decades, I've picked a party of Duran/Riesz/Hawk. Riesz is going Light/Dark for party buffs, Hawk is probably going Dark/Light for Debuffs. I'm thinking about taking Duran Swordmaster but that leaves me without any healing. Am I going to regret that or do the sabers and damage make up for it?
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You can rely on items for healing. Buy Poto Oils in Beiser which is a multi target healing item. Boom, all the healing you’ll ever need, especially since you’ll rip through most enemies with all the buffing and debuffing you’re going to do with that party.
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Man, this is disappointing. I've been doing my usual post-Smash-reveal reaction video binging (the only reaction videos I like, I swear  ) and I've been skipping around through the direct to see any reactions to the stuff that I liked (Animal Crossing, No More Heroes ect) and so far I've only found one that even acknowledged what a big deal it is to get both an official SD3 and the Trials remake. I guess the kind of people who stumbled across and played the fan translation of SD3 aren't the kind of people who become YouTubers, but if anyone finds a decent one lemme know. Obviously it was nice to see positive reactions here on the forums but there's something special about seeing and hearing genuine excitement. 
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:Man, this is disappointing. I've been doing my usual post-Smash-reveal reaction video binging (the only reaction videos I like, I swear I know what you mean!! It's almost like this port came so late that the majority of folks who would have flipped out about it just grew up and moved on before Nintendo actually finally delivered.  I was also able to find some random people on Twitter making a big deal about this, so if you're looking for fan reactions maybe try there. Question for the thread: Does anybody feel like SD3 is similar at all to Octopath Traveler? I still haven't played that one but visually it seems pretty similar...do the similarities end there? I have a friend who got really into Octopath; do you think I could convince him to try some co-op SD3 with me? Would he even enjoy it? (he's not a big RPG fan in general but he says Octopath Traveler just really resonated with him for some reason)
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You see people caring in certain places, it's just easy to see how this series became super niche after the World of Mana project killed it until of all things a mobile development team took over more than ten years later. I know Tomato (fan translator of Mother 3) has been getting interested in it just from a translation standpoint. timp posted:Question for the thread: Does anybody feel like SD3 is similar at all to Octopath Traveler? I still haven't played that one but visually it seems pretty similar...do the similarities end there? I have a friend who got really into Octopath; do you think I could convince him to try some co-op SD3 with me? Would he even enjoy it? (he's not a big RPG fan in general but he says Octopath Traveler just really resonated with him for some reason) Octopath is comprehensible SaGa and nothing like SD3, really. Other than it being sprite-based.
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