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Baron Von Beans said:
Excellent grab! Mess around with each class a little bit, from what I hear they all play pretty differently, so you can tailer your choice to your playstyle. I have only played the scorceress, but she's at level 95 or so. I love her play style. I want to play others...but I can't help but try to eek my sorc up to 100. A lot of ranged attacks, barely any physical for her. I love raining death from above :D
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out of curiousity...how do you play her?

i got bored because i felt like all i did was levitate across the screen and spam 1 elemental attack, depending on my weapon

SSD not showing up as free for me...
 
heckmanimation said:
out of curiousity...how do you play her?

i got bored because i felt like all i did was levitate across the screen and spam 1 elemental attack, depending on my weapon
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Well, to start, I never looked at builds, or guides for how she "should" be played. I started out by putting a ton of points in the generic fields, and then hoarding a ton to see what all I should do with some careful experimentation. As in, spend a ton of points, test it, if I don't like it, turn off and back on to try again! Luckily I only had to do that twice, I spent my points earlier in stuff that I ended up loving. Anyhoo, my scorceress style, bear with me, as it's been a month or two since I have played -

I only use Fire & Ice scepters, bump the lighting. It uses far too much mana, and I like the attacks of Fire/Ice much better. All of my sets have one Fire wand, one Ice wand, 4 spells, and the rest is all armor. For my spells, I have the Generate Food, Rock Crusher, Frog Spell, and the Armor Sphere, all maxed. I have the recharge rate, mp gain from kills, and mp gain on hit skills maxed as well. Your method of attacking works just fine and dandy, you'll get the end results no problem with her. But I played it in the way it made the most sense to me - fire staff aginst undead & woodland creatures, ice staff against demonic & lizard people, and then fire/ice for humans, and everyone else I come to. Usually I go for Ice for bosses. The attacks depend on what I am fighting. Slower enemies weak to fire, I do the fire carpet a few times to trap them, then do the cycle of jump attacks. With the double jump, and one air dodge, I can shoot 4 of the large fireballs diagonally down on a point of my choosing before I land. Add in the levetation damage bonus, and you've got death in your hands. I do a similar tactic against the Ice weaklings, but the stong ice horizontal air attck is so deadly, I try for that more often. That attack, the horizontal one, is cancellable into itself if you get the timing right. This is why I use it on bosses, because once that large ice block hits, it splits into 8 directions that can each hit many times over. With bosses HUGE area that can be hit, this attack hits many many times. I can jump, throw about 5-15 of these suckers out before I land on a boss, and their health gets drained like no other. I never thought I'd like the extra magic missles, but a few staves I have give me bonuses to them, and they are a HUGE help against wizards. With the rock crush and frog song spells, if ANY large group comes on my screen I do one, or both. The frog song is amazing, turns everyone it touches (even thieves!) into a weak ass frog, unless they block the attack, and that only happens in the later later later levels. Both spells imo are perfect for crowd control. Yes, raining death from the air ise one way to have the most damage potential, but the ground game is plenty capable too. I never used the winter storms, or any of the whole screen attacks. I put a little bit of skills in the thundercloud...but that thing sucks to me. If you'd like to get a more detailed look, lemme know and I'll fire it up to get some deets.

I hope this is somewhat decipherable, and helpful. For the majority of my time, up to level 75-80, I played solo with the AI, and never really had touble. I played with CorrosiveFrost a good bit, getting my char to where she is now. I reallllly want to get back in to it, to get the super endgame stuff, clear those LoC floors, and even play the other classes finally! I think I have 76 hours in the Sorc alone...I think...I can't remember, but I know it's a lot. I'm down to play, but for you or anyone interested we gotta set something up a day or so in advance, as I am having to schedule my gaming times out now :(
 
Baron Von Beans said:
Excellent grab! Mess around with each class a little bit, from what I hear they all play pretty differently, so you can tailer your choice to your playstyle. I have only played the scorceress, but she's at level 95 or so. I love her play style. I want to play others...but I can't help but try to eek my sorc up to 100. A lot of ranged attacks, barely any physical for her. I love raining death from above :D
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I must admit I'm drawn to playing the Elf on an aesthetic level, so I think I'll give her a whirl first.
 
MasterBalls said:
It's graphically more appealing, to me at least. In nearly every other way it's a downgrade though. They cut out a HUGE (and trust me, it is substantial) portion of the traditional platforming levels, and replace them with "Murfy" levels where you have to remove obstacles for another player using the touch screen. These are literally 50% of the game. It's incredibly perplexing and disappointing.
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About 30% of the levels, actually, and that's not counting the 28 Invaded levels, which are all traditional platforming.
 
ATXAlchemy said:
Poor Phantasy Star Online.

Released 4 years before Monster Hunter, yet still called a clone.

As much as I enjoyed MH, most of the stuff that surround it is just not quite... as good. Let's just put it at that.

At this rate, you might as well call Ys a Monster Hunter clone.

Edit: From this point onwards, I'm going to call every RPG with a good scripting to be a Legend of Heroes clone - the Story RPG.
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I'd say them all Dragon Quest clones.

Or Wizardry.
 
KimonoNoNo said:
I must admit I'm drawn to playing the Elf on an aesthetic level, so I think I'll give her a whirl first.
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Nice choice. I've heard she is difficult to play, but she looks like SO much fun. Definitely my next character, when I get around to it. The difficulty I hear comes from the arrow management, but I think that *might* have gotten easier. I love seeing elves zipping all over my screen, doging every direction possible. Looks so badass. The Dragon's Crown OT thread should have some very help elf tips, if you care to try to wade through it - The dying thread of DC. Would definitely recommend scanning this, as I have also heard the elf can either cause insane damage (I have seen this), or be just fairly mediocre, depending on your build. One lovely thing is that at level 30, then 60, you get opportunities to earn respec potions, in case ya much it up along the way. Good luck to ya!

Feel free to add me on PSN, too Kimono. Like I said before, any online play might have to be scheduled. I could pop in randomly, but my times can be random from either an hour, 5 minutes, or 7 hours. It depends every day! Keeps life interesting...or some jazz..
 
Downloading the XBlaze demo. More portable VN's need to be localized, it's the perfect format. Also redownloading Xenogears and Legend of Dragoon to finish off now that I don't need to worry about potential burn-in.
 
Jonesing for more SS tomorrow. Also Son of Scoregasm on Vita "soon" according to the EU blog. The first game is pretty awesome, will be picking that up for sure.
 
I think people are getting too hung up on the term "Monster Hunter Clone". I know some people use it literally, but most of the time I hear it used, it is more to describe a group of games that at this point should have their own genre but don't. Call them HRPGs or something. But certainly the major gist of Monster Hunter, SS, Toukiden, God Eater, Freedom Wars (apparently) are all very similar, and very different from other ARPGs such as Ys, with more of an MMO style reward loop, focus on multiplayer and typically being able to repeat missions. The games are certainly distinct, but also similar not unlike how Ys, Star Ocean and Tales are similar in that they are ARPGs but all have their own unique style.
 
I wish Sony Support would just tell me that they know what's wrong with my purchasing problem. I'm just going to wait 48 hours and try again.

besada said:
Don't take THIS personally, but read my tag.
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Oh I see what you're trying to do. Ok... Let's take this to PM then. I eat sharks for dinner.
 
Damn SSD is $36? Gonna have to wait for a plus discount/freebie on that and stick to original SS.

Bout to get that P3P for $5 now that my umd version is missing though.
 
The good news about atlus PSP game sales is that I already own them all digital (and a fair number physical as well)...


I am not sure if that is a good thing or sad...
 
$36. Shameful. I'll be hanging in Pandora until a sale or something.
Hope they do a better job with Freedom Wars and Oreshika (not that the bar is very high...).

To the people talking about Dragons Crown above: keep in mind that patch 1.05 brought some big changes to the game, so only things posted on the OT on the last 6~7 months (or more :p) works. But one of the last discussions held there was about elf and sorc, so cheers.

Yasumi said:
Liking XBlaze so far. It feels like a more sciency spin on Fate/Stay Night and the dynamic camera is nice.
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How much hours of playtime should one expect from Xblaze?
 
Any specific gems among the PSP sale? I never owned a PSP myself so pretty much any PSP game is new to me, and I have no idea if any of these are worth trying. Already have P3P in my cart.
 
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