Main Site

Forum Index

I have two mages in my party.  The first is my buffer.  She has Time/White skills.  The second is currently a black mage, with Yin/Yang secondary.  Either he kills someone, or he paralyses/silences them.  Is that a good combo for a black mage?

I might turn him into a calculator.  I just unlocked the class for him, but I haven't tried the class yet.  Are they any good?  And what should my secondary be?  

I don't like using Summoners.  They're too powerful, and too diverse.  I used them immensely in previous playthroughs.  But have they been nerfed enough to be a non-overpowered class?

Specifically, The Knight gets Dash and Throw Stone and The Archer gets Accumulate and Heal. They'd be great additions to their skills.

Knights are Archers are pretty good classes in 1.3.  If they got those abilities, they would be even more powerful, and I think too unbalanced.  

So, perhaps some Squire buffing?  Or maybe turn them into Onion Knights?  

I think that they're supposed to be a mid-tier class, though.

Generally for me, I get a few of my guy's caught up in a cycle.  I kill one or two guys, then they revive them.  I then use the rest of my team to end the cycle by killing the healers.  

So basically you have to deal with it for the time being, but work through it.

I had the same kind of problem.  I kept getting murdered early on, but once you develop some good classes and abilities, it's much easier.  

I suggest getting something like auto-potion for your mages.  And I suggest having someone have white magic, and try to have two people with Item.

I just did the battle at Level 20 yesterday, the enemy Thieves were dealing anywhere from 80-120, but not once was 150 hit, odds are you are playing a typical low level playthrough, 8-20 I would guess. A possibility is excellent compatibility, in which if that is the case, charm them with your females. Of course birthdays for most generics are random... so that probably won't work optimally.

I'm level 17.  Ramza is 21.  They're 23.  I just happen to have the bad luck of being at a level where they start to use Twist Headbands and Judo Outfits, giving them +3 attack.  And they have good Ninja blades.  

I have not brought my Oracle in there yet.  Her low HP means that she can be One-shotted.

Charm is pretty much a win on 1.3

Oh, god yes.  My male Thief is one of my better characters.  For that battle, he charmed two of the females and kept them at bay.  He was the Key to Victoly.

Now I'm stuck on the first Wiegraf battle.  

My team now:

Ramza - Geomancer with Equip armor and Punch Art
Oracle with Item and Throw Item
Wizard with White Magic
Delita - Knight with Item
Thief with equip bow (plus steal weapon and heart)
Archer with battle skill (power ruin, armor break).

A bit of the problem is that Ramza is 3-4 levels higher than everyone else, so most of the enemies are 15, but my team is mostly 11.  Delita is 8.  Weigraf is bloody level 20.  

Also: I think 1.3 is too hard, too early.  Unless you grind, you really don't have that many useful skills, while the enemies tend to have amazing set-ups and equipment.  It tends to be more frustrating than fun.

You're dealing with Miluda and her little fort next, so bring skills that can neutralize enemies or cause permanent damage in one hit.

Head and armor break work miracles against those equip armor priests, so try to have an archer with break skills. Come to think of it, I remember a priest with flail one-shotting my guys, so weapon break that too =)

Zombie's probably even nastier here than on the last map. Hopefully your oracle has enough mp for multiple shots.

Oh god, this.  I didn't break any armors, or anything, so the white mages were very powerful.  And everyone had item.  So it was just a 45 minute stalemate, as I couldn't kill anyone and both sides kept reviving their guys.

lvl 10 is pretty high for sand rat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDkwA0Qv ... D0&index=7

best I can do is show you how I beat it but my team was lower lvl

I couldn't beat it at level 5, so I tried to get some abilities.

I tried again, and came close.  Very close.  But I still lost.  

The battle just gets harder and harder the higher your level.  I NEED hi-potions to cure, but I can't buy them.  The enemy has an absurd equipment advantage, and I simply cannot buy anything similar to it.  And on top of this, I'm stuck with Delita and Algus, who are utterly useless and make idiotic decisions.  By leveling up more, it's just going to get harder.

and try to level Delita and Algus a bit.

You can't.

Some classes are still really powerful, and might need some balancing:

- Monks.  Their abilities should cost MP.  Revive and Chakra should be given 1 vertical, but should have a longer charge time.  
- Geomancers.  Same thing.  Just a few MP points per ability.  Perhaps a small charge as well.  Maybe one minus for range too?  
- Summoners.  I haven't gotten one in my game yet.  They're one of the best mage classes in the game due to their wide range of powerful abilities (cure, reflect, golem, and attack spells), their wide AOE and 100% hit rate.  Some of their spells should be removed entirely, others should be retooled, and they should be blockable.  (Sorry if this has already been done.  I didn't see anything in the description of the changes about them)
- Samurai.  Spells should cost MP.  Perhaps remove that annoying "your sword might break" thing as well, but compensate that by giving them a charge time.  
- Ninja.  Still a little too powerful.