Yeah I was expecting something akin to III as well so it was a relief.
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Etrian Odyssey V demo version available now
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Yeah I was expecting something akin to III as well so it was a relief.
E_Darkness
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Oh pets get their own row now. That sure is a real change.
TriggerShy
Member
I'm glad Adventure Logs are a thing, now when the game baits me with an "eat this thing?" event and then say "Psyche! It's poison, why'd you eat it, dummy?" I could at least get experience for surviving.
Aaronrules380
Member
I believe so
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Swap Shaman in for the Harbinger and you have my party. It's fun so far!
But Harbingers are cool >_<
Also I'll take a hit in DPS if I swap out one of my damage classes. Always go 3 DPS. Hound Rover's doing the bulk of the healing, with Medicas as emergency heals.
SolicitorPirate
Member
Unfortunately, as much as I want to believe my
Pugilist/Dragoon/Masurou
Shaman/Necromancer
party would work at later levels, the party is simply unable to heal enough to get through the lower levels. Shaman in particular just does not make sense to me as a class. It's heals are so weak compared to similar classes like Dancer and Trabadour and at least before speccing, doesn't have any tricks of its own to make up for the lack of healing.
Like what the hell is a Shaman even meant to do in the early game? Buffs are always nice, but TP costs at low levels are too high for them to be consistently used. Also, in my experience, buffs only really come into their own in middle game onwards once you've been able to invest enough points into the buff. When all you have is a couple points in an attack buff, you're really not doing all that much.
I've thus changed my team to the following
Pugilist/Dragoon/Masurou
Necromancer/Rover
Healing is much more in control now and I'm actually making decent progress. That said, I'm a little bit concerned that Nec and Rov are going to be stepping on each other's toes since they are both pet classes. Especially since I'm planning on speccing my Necromancer into an Evoker, which relies on having as many wraiths as possible
Pugilist/Dragoon/Masurou
Shaman/Necromancer
party would work at later levels, the party is simply unable to heal enough to get through the lower levels. Shaman in particular just does not make sense to me as a class. It's heals are so weak compared to similar classes like Dancer and Trabadour and at least before speccing, doesn't have any tricks of its own to make up for the lack of healing.
Like what the hell is a Shaman even meant to do in the early game? Buffs are always nice, but TP costs at low levels are too high for them to be consistently used. Also, in my experience, buffs only really come into their own in middle game onwards once you've been able to invest enough points into the buff. When all you have is a couple points in an attack buff, you're really not doing all that much.
I've thus changed my team to the following
Pugilist/Dragoon/Masurou
Necromancer/Rover
Healing is much more in control now and I'm actually making decent progress. That said, I'm a little bit concerned that Nec and Rov are going to be stepping on each other's toes since they are both pet classes. Especially since I'm planning on speccing my Necromancer into an Evoker, which relies on having as many wraiths as possible
Currently running this line-up.
Fencer/Dragoon/Harbinger
Warlock/Necromancer
I'm doing fine so far, but I have a bad feeling that this party is gonna fuck up hard and hit a wall at one point. But then again, this is Etrian Odyssey, almost any set-up will work with little tweaking when necessary. Still trying to get a grasp on each class so I had the remaining classes as a different line-up with mostly support skills for farming lol.
Also, from the looks of it, the Fencer class isn't that good? I'm barely seeing anyone have it on their line-up or is the class stronger late-game?
Fencer/Dragoon/Harbinger
Warlock/Necromancer
I'm doing fine so far, but I have a bad feeling that this party is gonna fuck up hard and hit a wall at one point. But then again, this is Etrian Odyssey, almost any set-up will work with little tweaking when necessary. Still trying to get a grasp on each class so I had the remaining classes as a different line-up with mostly support skills for farming lol.
Also, from the looks of it, the Fencer class isn't that good? I'm barely seeing anyone have it on their line-up or is the class stronger late-game?
They seem like a reliable chaser-type class to me. Combined with a Warlock and I get a nice elemental-followup two hit combo that's enough to finish off enemies with an elemental weakness.
But I'm still really early into the game, so I have no idea how the class holds up later on.
Link Fencer does not reach the highs of the other dedicated damage classes but she does not require you to build a party around her like the Linksknecht in EOIV. Her evasion build is kinda iffy though, but since you have a Dragoon you don't need to worry too much about that.
I went with the Warlock as well because of the synergy, its working out so far early game.
Now that I think about it, I remember dropping my Landsknecht once I unlocked Bushi and Imperial back in EOIV. My reasoning is the same as well with having to build a specific team and how I got frustrated because of how slow it is, requiring multiple turns to wind up. I'll experiment a bit more and see how either the Pugilist and Masurao fares with my line-up.
If this is the case, I'm really gonna be disappointed if I ever drop the poster girl from my main team...
I made it to the end of the third floor with a a Pugilist, Dragoon, Rover, Shaman, and Warlock. They're all at level 10, so I'm exploring the other classes right now. It definitely looks like the Botanist is way more useful early-game than the Shaman; the Shaman's secondary healing abilities just don't cover the "oh crap something knocked me down to 5hp healplz" contingency that crops up a lot early on.
Anybody found any hidden challenges to try in the demo? I've beaten both flavors of FOE and completed all of the available quests. I could grind the rest of my guild up to level 10, but I've got weeks to do that at this point. Should've stretched it out longer here...
Anybody found any hidden challenges to try in the demo? I've beaten both flavors of FOE and completed all of the available quests. I could grind the rest of my guild up to level 10, but I've got weeks to do that at this point. Should've stretched it out longer here...
I'm in the same position -- more or less maxed out my main party, playing again with a second, going back for FOE runs with the first party when they respawn (gotta get drops for those +5s!).
Have you killed rare breeds of the FOEs yet? It amps up the lethality quite a bit -- I managed to take out a rare owlbear with my main party, but only two people made it out alive.
SciencePilot
Member
Never played any Etrian Odyssey games before, but I was interested in the series, so I tried out the demo for both this game and the previous one (IV).
I gotta say, this game is a big step up from IV presentation-wise. The menus and the voice acting are good... Also the ability to freely recolor your characters hair, skin, and eyes is a nice touch. For those reasons, my initial impression is that I'm going to wait to play this game when it comes out, instead of playing IV right now.
I gotta say, this game is a big step up from IV presentation-wise. The menus and the voice acting are good... Also the ability to freely recolor your characters hair, skin, and eyes is a nice touch. For those reasons, my initial impression is that I'm going to wait to play this game when it comes out, instead of playing IV right now.
Because the Internet
Neo Member
Really enjoying it. Will probably pre-order. Hopefully I have time to play this next year. Radiant historia and strange journey redux might release around the same time as this.
PensivePen
Member
I was able to reach the end of the 3rd floor with a party of Pugilist/Masurao/Harbinger - Warlock/Shaman
The lack of a strong dedicated healer was a little rough early on, but I was able to compensate for it by using the union blessing if things ever got real bad, and once my damage dealers started to get a bit tougher it wasn't much of an issue. I did eat a lot of meat and fish as I progressed though. That said I didn't feel like my Shaman was doing very much, so I might switch them out for a Botanist anyway
The lack of a strong dedicated healer was a little rough early on, but I was able to compensate for it by using the union blessing if things ever got real bad, and once my damage dealers started to get a bit tougher it wasn't much of an issue. I did eat a lot of meat and fish as I progressed though. That said I didn't feel like my Shaman was doing very much, so I might switch them out for a Botanist anyway
SJR and RD are coming out next year. EOV is coming out next month.
Taco_Human
Member
I never beat 4, I got stuck at the boss with the rotating elements. I never ever used element combos so I couldn't kill him.
I had a reasonably similar setup (Pugilist / Dragoon, Rover / Shaman / Warlock). Swapped out the Shaman for a Botanist after everyone hit level 10 and the Botanist was pulling her weight despite only being at level 5. Targeted healing and cheap AOE ailment attacks are useful!
I suspect / hope that the Shamans get more useful later in the game, but early-game their buffs and light healing just didn't make the grade. I think a part of it is the way their buff skills are designed to have a high TP cost until you invest in the relevant mastery skill... that's really rough on low-level characters with small TP pools. Mine was stuck with nothing to do but defend half the time.
I'm rocking a
Dragoon/Masurou/Pugilist
Botanist/Necromancer
And doing pretty good. Just finished up the second floor and was much better than my initial party which wiped out all the time
Fencer/Masurou
Dragoon/Shaman/Necromancer
Where one fight was like death. Fencer just couldn't deal consistent damage and having Masu as my only dps was death. Plus, no healing. No healing at all. Floor 1 killed me.
Dragoon/Masurou/Pugilist
Botanist/Necromancer
And doing pretty good. Just finished up the second floor and was much better than my initial party which wiped out all the time
Fencer/Masurou
Dragoon/Shaman/Necromancer
Where one fight was like death. Fencer just couldn't deal consistent damage and having Masu as my only dps was death. Plus, no healing. No healing at all. Floor 1 killed me.