2015-02-20, 09:13 PM
[MENTION=6037]Dark Link[/MENTION] That's... interesting...
I've hardly had any time to sit down and play this, despite having the entire week off.
I just want to restress this though: This game is haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard. Or it is for me anyways.
I've been extremely underleveled despite spending extra time grinding now. I was 25, and the dungeon I was recently at had monsters in the ~35 range, and during it I unlocked Evil, so I was obviously required to step it up and everything went to level 45. Ended up hitting game over three times trying to go through an extra part to the dungeon. You could follow a straight path and get to the boss (which absolutely destroyed me) or you can go off on this long ass side-path to get treasure, etc, first which I did. In particular, this dungeon had spell casters. If you ran into the actual monster model itself, they could spawn 5 at a time. Their spell was Ice Shears, Mikleo's second basic spell, so it's very fast, and it basically twoshot anyone. Since the enemy AI in this game is fairly good, they'll all spread out, so even if your ally AI were smart enough (which they aren't) you would only be able to stop 4 of them casting at a time if you didn't immediately stunlock all of them with armatization. Equivalently, think 5 enemies in Graces that all start casting Cold Front that comes from both sides instead of one direction
The boss itself literally oneshot me, even if I was blocking because it was level 56 I believe. The AI isn't very good at dodging, so they tend to try to block things, which would work if I was at an adequate level, but they just sit there and eat it. It did 5000 damage unblocked so... I think I had like 2000 on my highest HP character? Ended the fight with 0 Grade. It was like +35 Grade for not using any items and then -40 Grade for dying 27 times.
tl;dr I need to step it up. I left off at the entrance to the Trial of Fire, so I imagine we're past the halfway point in the game? I have no idea, my pace is awful.
I've hardly had any time to sit down and play this, despite having the entire week off.
I just want to restress this though: This game is haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard. Or it is for me anyways.
I've been extremely underleveled despite spending extra time grinding now. I was 25, and the dungeon I was recently at had monsters in the ~35 range, and during it I unlocked Evil, so I was obviously required to step it up and everything went to level 45. Ended up hitting game over three times trying to go through an extra part to the dungeon. You could follow a straight path and get to the boss (which absolutely destroyed me) or you can go off on this long ass side-path to get treasure, etc, first which I did. In particular, this dungeon had spell casters. If you ran into the actual monster model itself, they could spawn 5 at a time. Their spell was Ice Shears, Mikleo's second basic spell, so it's very fast, and it basically twoshot anyone. Since the enemy AI in this game is fairly good, they'll all spread out, so even if your ally AI were smart enough (which they aren't) you would only be able to stop 4 of them casting at a time if you didn't immediately stunlock all of them with armatization. Equivalently, think 5 enemies in Graces that all start casting Cold Front that comes from both sides instead of one direction
The boss itself literally oneshot me, even if I was blocking because it was level 56 I believe. The AI isn't very good at dodging, so they tend to try to block things, which would work if I was at an adequate level, but they just sit there and eat it. It did 5000 damage unblocked so... I think I had like 2000 on my highest HP character? Ended the fight with 0 Grade. It was like +35 Grade for not using any items and then -40 Grade for dying 27 times.
tl;dr I need to step it up. I left off at the entrance to the Trial of Fire, so I imagine we're past the halfway point in the game? I have no idea, my pace is awful.