You can also use the "basic" racial art (available for all classes for the specific race), or you can get a different race/class to get the art you like then class change them to necro.
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Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth |OT| Unleash the Beast!
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Smells like revenge!
Well, here it is. If anyone wants to be added there PM me or post the picture here.
Ahhhhhh what!? this is out in EU digitally!!
I've got the physical preordered but fuck it, I'm buying this now!
Thanks Deep Silver!
Glad we're getting the DLC too - need that FM soundtrack.
Can't wait to play this, easily my most anticipated game this year.
Sorry Culdcept you'll have to sit on the shelf for a bit
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Wahahaha! Soon my precious!
(Also free theme?!)
I've got the physical preordered but fuck it, I'm buying this now!
Thanks Deep Silver!
Glad we're getting the DLC too - need that FM soundtrack.
Can't wait to play this, easily my most anticipated game this year.
Sorry Culdcept you'll have to sit on the shelf for a bit
alongside Monster Hunter Stories and Fire Emblem Fates and Mario & Luigi... At least I completed Metroid 2 quickly that was great.
Edit:
Wahahaha! Soon my precious!
(Also free theme?!)
I haven't played the game, but having looked at the skills: does the Race skill "Animal Care" do the trick?
Oh hey, that is definitely it going by the description. I haven't messed with race skills much yet, thanks.
Tacorona72
Member
Jenetta's bread jokes. Good lord.
I reviewed the game and ended up beating all the post-game bosses and such. I did a lot of it on Advanced but the very last post-game boss I had to knock down to Basic :/
My party the whole way through was
Fencer (Chain Fencer) , Masurao (Blade Master)
Dragoon (Shield Bearer), Warlock (Elemancer), Botanist (Merciful Healer)
Dragoon can basically go in either row. The Decoy Bunkers are super useful, though I didn't mess with wraiths or whatnot.
I think I was a little higher than 60.
My party the whole way through was
Fencer (Chain Fencer) , Masurao (Blade Master)
Dragoon (Shield Bearer), Warlock (Elemancer), Botanist (Merciful Healer)
Dragoon can basically go in either row. The Decoy Bunkers are super useful, though I didn't mess with wraiths or whatnot.
I think I was a little higher than 60.
I am frowning in the general direction of Atlus' UX people. The opening message box about creating save data (that gives no indication that you can continue) and the fact that you have to hit "new game" to port your data from the demo... not great.
But. New EO! Going to lose a lot of time to this over the next few weeks.
But. New EO! Going to lose a lot of time to this over the next few weeks.
SciencePilot
Member
So I was playing with the skill simulator, and now I'm having second thoughts about using harbinger. It seems like it requires a lot of points to do cool stuff. It's such an investment just to keep miasma up reliably. Also I'm really disappointed because I thought harbinger got skills to remove enemy buffs, but it turns out I misread and it actually removes debuffs. That's not as good :/
Maybe I will replace it with dragoon.
Maybe I will replace it with dragoon.
When do you unlock the ability to class change?
I had an easier time getting through the first floor with my new team than my demo team. The free heals from the Rover's hound are great for starting out.
After you complete the first main quest, visit the guild.
After you complete the first main quest, visit the guild.
Flying Fish
Neo Member
Oh my god the
on floor 2.
Wow, that's my exact party composition. Neat coincidence.
triple dog ambush
Wow, that's my exact party composition. Neat coincidence.
Elaugaufein
Member
How far through the game do you have to be , to be able to grab the DLC ?
You can choose them after you complete the second stratum, probably around level 30 or so on advanced
Harbingers are very skill point hungry and don't come into their own until they get their Legendary Title. Keeping a Miasma Armor up isn't a problem once you have at least 5 points into Auto Miasma and a few into Endless Shroud.
If going Deathbringer, the Basic level reaps aren't worth investing aside from being a prereq to the Master level reaps. Your main damage in fights is going to be Toxic Reap and Frigid Reap when things are all ailmented up.
I went through most of the game on Advanced with
F: Cannon Bearer / Barrage Pugilist / Deathbringer
R: [Celestrian reclassed] Poisoner Botanist / Hound Rover
Starting with Miasma Armor allows you to end most random encounters with a single Toxic Reap unless there are multiple rows of enemies. My Poisoner and Deathbringer usually did the most damage in longer engagements like FOE/Boss battles.
Suspicious_Jug
Neo Member
I just realized there are a different set of palettes that change the armor color as well along with using the sample race portraits.
I have to go back and experiment with these.
I have to go back and experiment with these.
SciencePilot
Member
Thanks for the advice! Sounds like a cool build. I've been thinking of playing harbinger defensively and going for deathguard actually. Focus on lowering enemy attack and accuracy, try to paralyze and sleep them, and guard the party against ailments. It sounds like my party is going to end up totally different from yours, but that's the fun part, right?
Mathematics
Neo Member
Oh man. I'm going to be on the character select screens for a very long time
Does the magic attack stat effect the power of Wraiths?
Ah okay, thanks. I feel like I'm going to have to retrain every party member once I unlock them then, because by that point I'll be well into picking skills I don't really want.
Ah okay, thanks. I feel like I'm going to have to retrain every party member once I unlock them then, because by that point I'll be well into picking skills I don't really want.
Wraiths' normal attacks are physical (slashing I think) but some of the necro skills that use wraiths are magic, such as Flame Bomb which uses INT stat as a modifier. As for whether or not buffing the necro's magic attack somehow boosts the wraiths' damage, I haven't experimented with that. My guess is that wraiths derive their normal attack power from the necro's weapon power, but I didn't get into that much detail with a necro yet so I'm just guessing.
USPS was late with my delivery sadly so I won't get my copy until tomorrow, but the party I'm running with is
Masurao (one blade)/Dragoon (cannon)/Harbinger (Deathbringer)
Rover (Hound)/Warlock (Omnimancer)
Will gen my guild card as soon as I can. Had a huge amount of fun in the demo so cannot wait. The classes seem phenomenally balanced this time.
Masurao (one blade)/Dragoon (cannon)/Harbinger (Deathbringer)
Rover (Hound)/Warlock (Omnimancer)
Will gen my guild card as soon as I can. Had a huge amount of fun in the demo so cannot wait. The classes seem phenomenally balanced this time.
Why am I the only one inside lol
Hispanicguy
Member
I sent a PM earlier so soon you'll have company
Just fought the 3rd Stratum boss but died. I chipped away a good amount of health. He had about 25% left but at that point, everyone was pretty much empty on TP. Need to be smarter with my moves, as well as level up some more.
Some annoying enemies in this Stratum.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I was really excited about this, but then I remembered Mario Odyssey comes out in about a week. Hm...
Is there no way to keep select portraits across races? I don't have the actual game yet so I've been mostly just testing stuff out in the demo, which along with the exp share item as affording me a bunch of spare charters to swap around. I had a spare Brouni to switch into a Dragoon but not only are all the Brouni portraits terrible, all the Dragoon skins are awesome.
Your only hope might be to buy DLC portraits and hope they work for Brouni then you can Retire your character into someone new and use a non-brouni portrait for a brouni. Does anyone know if this works, based off JP version?
Or just play a human dragoon. So far it's been working for me. Might consider some other options later if I buy the DLC, I guess.
Final* Etrian Odyssey game vs just another Mario platformer, it's not like it's a hard choice, is it?
*in English
That's a shame, I'm not going to buy the shitty portrait DLC for that. At the moment I have
Puglist/Harbringer
Rover/Shaman/Dragoon
and was planning on swapping in a Celestrian Shaman and Brouni Dragoon to fill the gaps. It's not a big deal, I mostly wanted to swap in the Brouni Dragoon for the sake of having one of every race in my active party and having access to all the unique racial skills.
It's weird how they offer so much (re-)customization, but don't allow swapping of the base sprite after character creation.
Aaronrules380
Member
First Stratum boss is kicking my ass goddamn, Anyone have any tips?
My party is Pugilist, Harbinger, and a therian Fencer in front, botanist and warlock in back
My party is Pugilist, Harbinger, and a therian Fencer in front, botanist and warlock in back
You can completely change the voice, eye and skin colour, and name though. I don't buy that changing the portrait is a bridge too far, especially for something that is purely cosmetic.
Alright, so my new team is Fencer, Pugilist, Musurao, Shaman, and (Celestrian) Botanist. All utilizing Class "Default" portraits, because those actually look really nice (imo), and are unique because of how plain they are.
Was going to have the Shaman be a Brouni Warlock, but decided against it because I've played with Elements so much already. It kind of gets old, set up the strong move, throw out the color-coded nuke, repeat. That said, I also tried to steer clear of too much set-up with my team. No stances, no long Chains, no Charge moves, and nothing in need of a constant refresh (like the Front/Rear Guard of the past games I played). Plans wil be something that I figure in battle rather than a pre-determined "do X then Y then Z."
I want to deal a ton of damage with the Front Row, and the Back Row is there for the support the team will need. Shaman to cover the Elements, and Botanist for healing and ailments.. Healing is one thing that I can't play without, and ailments never get old. Pugilist will have the Binds, but I don't know how heavily I'll invest in them. Physical Burst damage sounds fun. Fencer will be Agility Tank because there's nothing more Russian Roulette than an Agility Tank. Musurao is sort of a filler class tbh, but I hope it plays well enough with the others!
Was going to have the Shaman be a Brouni Warlock, but decided against it because I've played with Elements so much already. It kind of gets old, set up the strong move, throw out the color-coded nuke, repeat. That said, I also tried to steer clear of too much set-up with my team. No stances, no long Chains, no Charge moves, and nothing in need of a constant refresh (like the Front/Rear Guard of the past games I played). Plans wil be something that I figure in battle rather than a pre-determined "do X then Y then Z."
I want to deal a ton of damage with the Front Row, and the Back Row is there for the support the team will need. Shaman to cover the Elements, and Botanist for healing and ailments.. Healing is one thing that I can't play without, and ailments never get old. Pugilist will have the Binds, but I don't know how heavily I'll invest in them. Physical Burst damage sounds fun. Fencer will be Agility Tank because there's nothing more Russian Roulette than an Agility Tank. Musurao is sort of a filler class tbh, but I hope it plays well enough with the others!
Spam AOEs. The body is the main one so focus on bringing that down while trying to keep the adds thinned out. You did lock out the sides right?
Also don't bother with binds or ailments cause it's immune to those.
Also don't bother with binds or ailments cause it's immune to those.
Interface23
Member
Im pretty sure well get PQ2 and whatever this final EO game is (Probably EOU3)
Suspicious_Jug
Neo Member
Sometimes I wonder, with all the etrian odyssey games I've played. why I still forget to bring Ariadne Thread. Just got ambushed by some bats after barely surviving the berry canine trio.
E_Darkness
Member
On a quick side: the EOV theme doesn't appear to be on the theme store in the EU. Is this a case of you need to buy the game?