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noname2200 on 04 March 2013
MDMAlliance said:
noname2200 said:
MDMAlliance said:
noname2200 said:
MDMAlliance said:

I wasn't sure if I'm just not very good or if it happens to everyone, but I almost always struggle to keep my TP up after boss battles, so I try to leave almost as soon as I can once it's over.


What's your party/skills/strategy?


Lower offense from the beginning, blind/paralyze if I can, enhance magic, enhance defense, protect ally, healer in the back row, and do lots of magic attacks each turn, and I repeat this.  When I got the burst skill, I let the most powerful character use them.  

Oh, and I would also use fast attacks.  I'm not that far yet, to be honest.  I also don't use a lot of items either.  Only recently started finding items that healed TP.

The TP restorers are going to remain expensive and scarce for quite some time. Have you considered focusing more on forging to inflict the status effects, and using dancers in lieu of medics to save TP on that front? The Runemasters' Free Energy skill is also great once levelled, as it effectively halves TP consumption.


I actually do have a weapon that inflicts status.  One for poison, one for darkness.  Sadly, the poison one is the more effective one.  There aren't many powerful weapons I have access to that have many slots for these things.  However it definitely is something I consider.

Also, I honestly wasn't sure what each class really did but I liked the way mine was playing out except for the fact that I kept on running low on TP.  One good thing I have that helps save TP is the medic's patch up that helps prevent me from spending TP during regular battles.

I wound up skipping the medic myself and focusing on dancers/landsknetch for early game healing, supplementing that with arcanist abilities once you can dual-class. It's been quite effective so far, but post-game might be a different issue...

In any case, part of why I love the series is just how much diversity you can have in your setups for most of the game (again, post-games seem to demand min-maxing). I suppose running low on TP isn't even that big of an issue, since you're unfortunately limited to a mere 60 items in your inventory. :^/



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MDMAlliance on 04 March 2013
noname2200 said:

I wound up skipping the medic myself and focusing on dancers/landsknetch for early game healing, supplementing that with arcanist abilities once you can dual-class. It's been quite effective so far, but post-game might be a different issue...

In any case, part of why I love the series is just how much diversity you can have in your setups for most of the game (again, post-games seem to demand min-maxing). I suppose running low on TP isn't even that big of an issue, since you're unfortunately limited to a mere 60 items in your inventory. :^/


Yeah, I end up running out of inventory space a lot.



c0rd on 04 March 2013

Yeah, the game is probably nice but the demo turned me off. Seems like the type of game with all nameless characters, so its focus is on the gameplay, number crunching and stuff? I don't dislike that, but I've bought my share of "thinking" games for now, craving other genres atm.



F0X on 05 March 2013

Yet another solid 3DS RPG I need to pick up. I just got Fire Emblem, so maybe after I'm done with that.



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Mnementh on 05 March 2013
lestatdark said:
Oh I'll give it tons of love....

Once it frigging releases here in Europe >_>

Spring is the date so far. I think spring starts about now and lasts three months. *sigh*



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Mnementh on 05 March 2013
c0rd said:

Yeah, the game is probably nice but the demo turned me off. Seems like the type of game with all nameless characters, so its focus is on the gameplay, number crunching and stuff? I don't dislike that, but I've bought my share of "thinking" games for now, craving other genres atm.


Exactly, it is a RPG. Somewhat uncommon these days, it was more common in the golden years of RPGs in the 70s and 80s.



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lestatdark on 05 March 2013
Mnementh said:
lestatdark said:
Oh I'll give it tons of love....

Once it frigging releases here in Europe >_>

Spring is the date so far. I think spring starts about now and lasts three months. *sigh*

The sad thing is that Spring 2013 is still a tentative date... 

Oh Atlus, why you loathe us so .



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noname2200 on 05 March 2013
c0rd said:

Yeah, the game is probably nice but the demo turned me off. Seems like the type of game with all nameless characters, so its focus is on the gameplay, number crunching and stuff? I don't dislike that, but I've bought my share of "thinking" games for now, craving other genres atm.

It's definitely a dungeon crawler, first, foremost, and last. There's a plot, but it's pretty throwaway, and tertiary to dungeon delving.



Funtime on 07 March 2013
spurgeonryan said:
Sales were abyssmal! What are you American 3DS owners doing? Dying for games and you skip over this? There should have been more FW sales from this site alone, let alone all of America.


They're too busy playing Candy Crush with their little sisters!



NoirSon on 08 March 2013

I honestly didn't want to get the game, but I did and don't regret it as the demo was proving too fun to let it end where I actually progressed to. Currently just having fun level grinding up second, third and fourth teams so I can mix and match teams. Very good game, I highly recommend it.

A great time for RPG players as long as you have a 3DS.