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Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl |OT| B4 Fight & Heal, There Was Frederica
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Mauricio_Magus
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when I played EO1 and saw it, my mind was blown away.
whiterabbit
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I need some hype. I'm still not too far into the game yet. Can anyone post some screenshots?
Don't. You need to see it for yourself. Trust me, it's worth it.
Enjoy. I was surprised by it, too.
You just HAVE to see it for yourself.
jaundicejuice
Member
Seriously, don't spoil the surprise, just play the game.
Curious how the story handles that... and if there was any foreshadowing. Cause in classic it's outta no where.
Also any bad talk I gave hexer has been revoked. Glad I stuck with her... suicide word is brutal.
Now I just need to find a good attack spell grimiore skill for my trabadour. Her buffs last a long time so she has lots of downtime.
Also any bad talk I gave hexer has been revoked. Glad I stuck with her... suicide word is brutal.
Now I just need to find a good attack spell grimiore skill for my trabadour. Her buffs last a long time so she has lots of downtime.
Try some debuffs from monsters, def down or things like that. I was using my troub for that for a while
My hexer has that covered. I've hit the debuff and buff cap. God damned that cap... my biggest complaint about this series.
Story spoils it pretty much immediately.
If you are willing to put a little effort into getting a King Grimoire, Fenrir's is a fantastic ability for a troubador with freetime. And even though getting a king grimoire is obtuse, the fact that it is guaranteed level 10 felt a lot less grindy for me than trying for anything else.
How do you get it? What does it do?
At your mansion, data options lets you see your guild card. There are 8 integers there like number of enemies killed and number of steps walked, and so forth. You want to align the one's digit of as many of these 8 numbers as possible. So Like 457 enemies killed, 197 grimoires fused. You only have to line up at least 2, but I think the more you have lined up the better your chances. I'm uncertain on if its just the last digit, or last 2 digits though.
Then save, and go kill a boss and reset if it doesn't drop it. With ~4-6 numbers lined up it felt like about a 25% chance to drop for me.
Fenrir in particular drops
Wolf Pack - makes your entire team do something like 1.5x damage on the turn its cast. And at least for me, my troub giving everyone in my party a 150% damage multiplier is way better than whatever offensive spell I might have had him cast. And since it is a 1 turn effect, it does not use a buff slot.
The King Grimoires are just so silly to get. Like, without someone pointing them out (and, notably, it was a dev if I recall), it would've come down to complete coincidence for someone to find one I think.
Well,
That said, unless they changed Classic immensely
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Well,
the entirety of the Story-only dungeon pretty much gives away the "twist."
That said, unless they changed Classic immensely
it was fairly obvious in the original by the time you got that far as well
yes, though not all bosses have one.
I think there are 7 total: first 4 stratum bosses, plus Manticore, Alraune, and Ant Queen
The hard part of the Quest is when you run out of Inventory Space 4 hours into it ;__;
I think that's pretty much what the encounter-less room was for in the original, too. It's pretty hard to do it the non-cheating way since the game's TP restoring skills are a bit stingy. But at least there's autopilot arrows and fast walking this time around.
whiterabbit
Member
The amount of FOEs on B5 are startling. Do some of those boulder boars never wake up?
Lot of them are just boulders really.
We have a room that fully heals HP/TP as many times as we want now. Still, it doesnt make it better when most of the floor have no encounters.
The reward of the quest comes from the dialogue between your character and the others. Running back and forth waiting for night to hit is a low price to pay.
My favorite quest so far.
And I'm stuck here playing Classic
The superior way to play.
Oh I forgot. Sorry to hear that.
Everyone is just split up between Classic and Story >_>
nah I want a story and characters even if it's shitty. You think I'd still play Tales games if it was all gameplay? No waaay. I wouldn't have gone Story first if they didn't lock two classes until after Story mode is finished.
Shhh.. He isn't supposed to know that.
Same difference, yo.
Bottom line is you gain access to those two classes in Classic when you couldn't before.
PixyJunket
Member
That felt more like a punishment to me.
Aren't you playing on Classic?
GeekyDad
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Just finished up Gladsheim Area II, and I have to say, the story is a lot more interesting than I expected. There's some really good stuff here. The story is told in that same D&D dungeon-master style, and the Story Mode dialogue does its job well. I think it's a shame so many folks are going to immediately shelve it because it doesn't fit into their notion of what an EO game should be. It's not Shakespeare, but it's entertaining. At the very least, the premise is very cool, especially for those familiar with the book of Revelation.
That's interesting. I've had decent enough luck getting my Dark Hunter binds to land against random encounters, FOEs and stratum bosses, but sometimes I think a Hexer would be better (especially since they were an unlockable class originally - and I prefer their design).
The trouble is that switching would turn my RDP/AM party into RP/HAM which has too many squishy characters and too many back row ones. So I'd have to swap out an Alchemist (and lose all that wide effect elemental damage) or Medic (and figure out where to get enough healing) in order to bring in a front-row Landy or something.
Decisions, decisions...
The problem is that binds and status effects have their chance to land based on TEC. In literally every other EO game, it was based on LUC. Now LUC figures in as your chance to AVOID being bound/afflicted. And, oddly enough, for some enemy skills the chance to land is based on STR. At the end of the day, this means the Hexer/Alchemist have the best chance to land those binds/afflictions. Alchemist would have the unrivaled strongest poison, too.
I was really really close to downloading Y, but I think I'll just wait
Same here
I got most of strat 5 mapped and just took down alarune. Actually I'm kinda surprised the amount of progress I've made since it's release... thought it'd be slower.
whiterabbit
Member
I beat the first stratum. For some reason the skill trees are bugging me. The actual custom window looked a lot better in EO IV.
PixyJunket
Member
I'm playing Story since I beat the original years ago.
I decided the best way to reorganize my party layout was to retire characters into new classes at level 30. And so long as I'm retiring some of them, I might as well retire everyone at once for the stat bonuses and extra skill points. That brings everyone back to level 15, but they'll be hitting above their level due to those extra stats and better equipment, so it shouldn't be long before I can get back to exploring.
I wound up settling on a RLP/HA setup in which Protector prioritizes healing skills first in order to make up for ditching the Medic. So far the Prayer skill's providing more HP/TP healing than I expected, so this just might work if I can put up enough offense to keep random encounters short and my Hexer can shut down boss attacks long enough.
I wound up settling on a RLP/HA setup in which Protector prioritizes healing skills first in order to make up for ditching the Medic. So far the Prayer skill's providing more HP/TP healing than I expected, so this just might work if I can put up enough offense to keep random encounters short and my Hexer can shut down boss attacks long enough.
I just played a bit of EOIV because I got a few Streetpasses, and my god the game felt slow in comparison to Untold. I really miss the Hold B for faster movement and Hold A for faster battles. Both can even be set to default in the options. One of the reasons I'd say the newest entry in the series is better then the previous one. Its these simple improvements that sometimes make it hard to go back to the previous games.
But hold A for faster battles have been there since 3 (or maybe 2, never played 2). Unless you mean for even faster battles by making the thing go faster in the settings.
Personally I dont like the fast battle settings, the EOIV speed was good enough and I use the same here. I use the hold a alot, that speed is perfect for me, other settings are either too fast or to slow. (For some reason, animation in fast is faster than skip on normal, and I do not like it that fast)
GeekyDad
Member
Yeah. Though I don't use the fast-battle features, I don't think I can go back to the regular walk speed. It's crazy that it was just now introduced, as it's an old feature of most Roglue-likes (which play similarly in terms of dungeon exploration).