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Etrian Odyssey Community Thread: The Ongoing Adventures of Fight and Heal
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She's easy compared to her original incarnation. Just eat for sleep resist.
Nope, you need to sneak by them.
Alternatively, I'm pretty sure I'm remembering this right, but you can defeat some of them, leave, and come back, basically doing things over multiple days of need be. Getting spotted will make everything respawn, but I'm pretty sure they're beholden to the regular FOE spawn rules if you don't.
Suspicious_Jug
Neo Member
I just finished the V demo and am really looking forward to Tuesday to continue.
IIRC you don't have to kill them but you can, and killing a couple of them can make navigating the floor much easier. The trick is you must catch them from the side or behind when you attack, because if they spot you everything respawns.
Grim Patron
Member
Im at Starbucks writing my review rn.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
You can do it Monday night, especially considering some people have early copies.
Hispanicguy
Member
16 hours into EOV right now. In the 2nd Stratum, 8th fl.
I kept switching between people and finally have a team I feel comfortable with:
Masurao
Pugilist
Warlock
Shaman
Botanist
Masurao uses Swallow Soar, which gives me 2 attacks in one turn. Once when I first use it then another after the enemy finishes their turn.
Pugilist uses One Two Punch. Regular attack plus a chance at using a bind skill right after. What's crazy is you might end up using 1 bind skill or all 3. So you can essentially attack 1-4 times for the cost of just the main skill (which is 5 TP until level 5, then it's 9 TP.). Definitely my main damage dealer.
Warlock is my elemental damage guy but if I make any changes to my team, he will be the first to go. Maybe for one of the pet classes.
Shaman gives ATK/DEF boost to the party as well as secondary healing with Heaven's Gift.
Botanist is the healer. Healing a line is so helpful.
Current team is between level 24/25. I try to grind for the best equipment currently available before moving on, as well as completing all side missions.
I don't know if it was present in past games, but it's good to see more than one save file. Seems you can save 1 file on the cart and others on the SD card. I guess that should help those who start on digital but want to move to physical? Hopefully this does work for you guys.
I kept switching between people and finally have a team I feel comfortable with:
Masurao
Pugilist
Warlock
Shaman
Botanist
Masurao uses Swallow Soar, which gives me 2 attacks in one turn. Once when I first use it then another after the enemy finishes their turn.
Pugilist uses One Two Punch. Regular attack plus a chance at using a bind skill right after. What's crazy is you might end up using 1 bind skill or all 3. So you can essentially attack 1-4 times for the cost of just the main skill (which is 5 TP until level 5, then it's 9 TP.). Definitely my main damage dealer.
Warlock is my elemental damage guy but if I make any changes to my team, he will be the first to go. Maybe for one of the pet classes.
Shaman gives ATK/DEF boost to the party as well as secondary healing with Heaven's Gift.
Botanist is the healer. Healing a line is so helpful.
Current team is between level 24/25. I try to grind for the best equipment currently available before moving on, as well as completing all side missions.
I don't know if it was present in past games, but it's good to see more than one save file. Seems you can save 1 file on the cart and others on the SD card. I guess that should help those who start on digital but want to move to physical? Hopefully this does work for you guys.
Hispanicguy
Member
Lol, just got to that part.
Yea, I think very soon I'll be changing my Warlock to a tank class. I'm stubborn, though, so I'm curious how long I can last before doing so, lol.
I've been slacking on my skill points. Everyone has about 15 unused points. I should go after some poison and multi hit skills.
Doing a little grinding for money now.
Hispanicguy
Member
I'm fighting him now. He has about 25% HP left but I don't think I'll win. The attack that hits everyone puts me in such a hole.
What level are you? I'm around 27.
I was able to poison him so that took about 75 HP off every turn. That with an arm bind helped.
What level are you? I'm around 27.
I was able to poison him so that took about 75 HP off every turn. That with an arm bind helped.
I'm 28.
I can survive everything including the AoE, but I don't have enough damage to power through his heal, and I ran out of TP. I might need to look at using some attack items.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Amazon just shipped EO5!
The day is almost here!
The day is almost here!
E_Darkness
Member
I've decided to wait for the physical EU version. At least it gives me time to beat 2U and to also get the FM soundtrack day -3.
Hispanicguy
Member
I just beat him. Definitely a tough fight.
I used Armor Pierce to lower his DEF and always used my strongest skills when that was active.
I still think Pugilist's One-Two Punch is amazing. With a DEF debuff on the enemy and an ATK buff, you can do 100+ damage 1-4 times, depending on how much you've leveled it up.
Warlock was chanting with Lightning and took about 140 off of him each time.
Shaman did a decent job helping out with healing. Using a Prayer not only raised ATK or DEF but healed the team for 20 hp. Not much but combined with the Botanist, they did a good job constantly keeping them healthy.
Buying some items to recover TP definitely helped. That and remembering the Union skill that recovers TP. I mean, its pitiful how much they give you lol but its something.
I got lucky a few times getting him petrified. Used that opportunity to regroup.
A quick search tells me the limit is 85.
Well boys, it's up. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1448942
My copy is coming from Amazon so I'm hoping it's waiting for me when I get home from work tomorrow.
My copy is coming from Amazon so I'm hoping it's waiting for me when I get home from work tomorrow.
E_Darkness
Member
I beat Scylla. With a lot of luck at the end, I was running out of resources. Time to beat the rest of the game.
Makes me think I was low leveled, my party's average is 40.
Makes me think I was low leveled, my party's average is 40.
Korranator
Member
Just beat
EMD's 11th Branch: Phantom Depths.
That was a major pain......
One branch left.
EMD's 11th Branch: Phantom Depths.
That was a major pain......
One branch left.
E_Darkness
Member
Beat Scylla. Barely. But hey, it counts and I didn't lower it off expert!
Did the next part of Ginnungagap, random story mode speculation because I'm playing on classic.
It is nice that I can go into Ginnungagap, but the balance feels off for classic.
Started 4th stratum. That theme is glorious (using the FM OST and god damn). New battle theme sounds like a pseudo-boss theme, so no idea how to feel about that, it isn't awful.
Did the next part of Ginnungagap, random story mode speculation because I'm playing on classic.
Weird self aware voice tells me to do things. I then fight what seems to be a weird out of place boss which probably makes sense in story context, also the boss is easy, presumably story because that balancing was a bit messed up. It does no damage. Makes me think the story party lose their protector? Though Demi-Fafnir? A cool ass boss design. Giant on fire Gurren mech.
Started 4th stratum. That theme is glorious (using the FM OST and god damn). New battle theme sounds like a pseudo-boss theme, so no idea how to feel about that, it isn't awful.
Your hunch is correct. Really though, it's a shame you didn't have the time to go through Story Mode for EOU2 as it's actually good.
Inspecting the Resounding Weapons isn't bad, but it's not very catchy. EOII's soundtrack felt rather experimental overall, as if Koshiro was trying to compose a form of orchestral-sounding tracks using FM synth soundfonts. It works great for town/stratum themes however.
Inspecting the Resounding Weapons isn't bad, but it's not very catchy. EOII's soundtrack felt rather experimental overall, as if Koshiro was trying to compose a form of orchestral-sounding tracks using FM synth soundfonts. It works great for town/stratum themes however.
Cheers! \o
SliceSabre
Banned
I still didn't finish EOIII.