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The Tales of Vesperia |OT|
- Thread starter Firestorm
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So i picked this game up today, i have wanted to get it for some time now and finally had a nopportuhnity to get it. I started to play thorugh with my Wife and we are having alot of fun so far. One hting htat made me very mad though is that we could not for hte life of me figure out how to use estelle to heal anyone but herself.
I read thorugh the guide 4 or 5 times and just could not figure it out. I did some online research and it appears you can use the d=pad to direct healing magic to allies? I will be trying this out soon, but am still upset this did not seem to be explained very well. Playing thorugh with my wife in the first few hours we died several times only becasue we could not figure htis out and did not have access to many gummies yet.
Other hten that i am having a blast playing co-op with my wife, it is very hard to find a co-op rpg that she can get into, so i am happy that she seems to be enjoying playing this one.
I read thorugh the guide 4 or 5 times and just could not figure it out. I did some online research and it appears you can use the d=pad to direct healing magic to allies? I will be trying this out soon, but am still upset this did not seem to be explained very well. Playing thorugh with my wife in the first few hours we died several times only becasue we could not figure htis out and did not have access to many gummies yet.
Other hten that i am having a blast playing co-op with my wife, it is very hard to find a co-op rpg that she can get into, so i am happy that she seems to be enjoying playing this one.
RocketDarkness
Member
D-pad left/right while casting. For extra safety once you get overlimits, hold A until you've successfully selected your target (underneath the characters box, it'll say P2 Target to indicate P2 is targeting that character with a spell; in this case, Estelle would be P2). Holding A prevents accidentally going into overlimit while trying to select a target.BobM said:
Since I'm posting already...I've been playing this game with two of my friends, and it's been an absolute blast. The leader is Repede, second buddy is Estelle, and I'm Rita. We've become quite the destructive posse. Light Magic + 10 Fireballs = absurd.
I just beat 100-man melee with Rita on my first try, Milky Way's Resilience skill, combined with Levitation, makes survival much much easier. Death from above!
One random question: does anyone know exactly how Rita's "Recast" ability works? It seems to imply you can resume casting a spell from where you were interrupted, but I'm not sure how it triggers.
RocketDarkness
Member
While I'm not overly familiar with melee in Vesperia, it seems like you won't be able to get overly ridiculous until your artes evolve (through using them numerous times) and you gain access to the Combo abilities that allow you to link artes into other artes.sonarrat said:
You get higher combos as your get multi-hit artes and as you get skills that allow you to link different types of artes. For now, all you can really do is six basic hits followed by a base arte followed by an arcane arte.sonarrat said:
On your Arte screen, keep pressing down until you hit the screen giving you options to set to your right analog stick. You can set skills for other party members here. Making them attack as your combo runs out can keep a combo going as you go through your follow up animation.
Finally my 360 is getting shipped back, in just a few short days I'll be able to become addicted to this again. =D
If you're purely going for combos, it's still more beneficial to wait it out for more advanced skills and multihit artes. Things that add a hit or two to your combo or help artes link together mixed with commanding party members to attack to hold the combo from breaking is the key to high numbers.
sonarrat said:
If you're purely going for combos, it's still more beneficial to wait it out for more advanced skills and multihit artes. Things that add a hit or two to your combo or help artes link together mixed with commanding party members to attack to hold the combo from breaking is the key to high numbers.
My Arms Your Hearse
Banned
Firestorm said:
Except Estelle's AI is complete shit and she takes way too long to cast (when she ever bothers) to be of any use even if her AI wasn't complete shit.
Karol and Raven are much more effective.
Yes, I was going to add that about Estelle. I'm really not sure why but Estelle's AI is complete crap in this game. Raven's also sort of annoying in that he uses his Artes way too fast even though that's not what I have him set to. The problem with his Love Shot was that it doesn't heal as much as Estelle can with Nightingale or Revitalize.
Firestorm said:
That's true. I usually use Estelle for bosses and Raven for everything else because of that, I no longer need to deal with Estelle casting revitalize during random fights where only one person needs healing. :lol
Even during bosses she needs a lot of babysitting. Usually when someone dies I instantly bring them back with a life bottle, then ~15 seconds later I hear RESURRECTION! which goes to complete waste.
No wonder there was no TV commercial. This shouldn't have even been on the Namco website. Ugh. It's horrible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ny_Ns36mds
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
I refuse to believe that is realFirestorm said:
http://www.namcobandaigames.com/grandjedi6 said:
PseudoKirby
Banned
ok I am sick of this, where the hell is Gucci and Drought?
I need that damn letter of challenge
I need that damn letter of challenge
PseudoKirby
Banned
couple other things
when I defeated Nan in the Colosseum, the last attack I did had Yuri leaning over nan as she leaned back in defeat.... looked exactly like Yuri was kissing her.... if only I could have gotten a picture fast enough
also ending the celebration sequence just right as yuri says "you picked the wrong people to F...."
priceless
when I defeated Nan in the Colosseum, the last attack I did had Yuri leaning over nan as she leaned back in defeat.... looked exactly like Yuri was kissing her.... if only I could have gotten a picture fast enough
also ending the celebration sequence just right as yuri says "you picked the wrong people to F...."
priceless
^Yeah, I like when you interrupt Yuri's overlimit with something: I'M GONNA BLOW YOU--
Can someone tell me, are there any weapons with new skills in the EX dungeon? Are they sweet skills? Cuz I might just skip it and do it on my second playthrough...
Also, what's the max synth level? I'm at 350.
Can someone tell me, are there any weapons with new skills in the EX dungeon? Are they sweet skills? Cuz I might just skip it and do it on my second playthrough...
Also, what's the max synth level? I'm at 350.
I pretty much used Estelle for everything. I had to turn off certain spells so that she would only cast area of effect ones and ignore casting the lesser crap versions, though, and forced her AI to keep distance as well as focus only on Healing which worked out okay with Nightingale and Revive (?). Karol is great for spot healing once he learns the Arte but I'm guessing the reason he's so effective is because he doesn't have as many options to select from when the AI has to make a decision unlike Estelle who seems to randomly select healing spells unless you narrow her choices or force her to cast something else. Raven was hardly used in my mix and I didn't know he could heal until much later when the party was surprised and he was blasted for damage.Case said:
Status effects weren't as much of a problem for me, oddly enough. I was fully expecting to have to deal with a lot of these, but you eventually gather together a decent number of anti-status items early on and stocking Panacea bottles helped immensely later. Most zones seem to focus on particular ones, such as Stone or Paralysis, and I just equipped when necessary. I had more trouble with getting stunned than anything else, but I completely agree with Karol being clutch in battle healing if you need him. Once everyone learned Item Throw, relying on spellcasting to heal their ills didn't become much of an issue for me.Jonnyram said:
PseudoKirby
Banned
screw this memory place, its unfair damnit I got all the way to zagi on my first try and ran out of items, in the end I was running around as estelle (last one alive, ALWAYS) wearing a TP regenerator (1%) trying to be able to resurect Yuri...
also why the hell dont those rebirth items EVER work?
also why the hell dont those rebirth items EVER work?
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
I finally beat the game last night, at 97 hours.
Bonus Dungeon here I come!
Duke 3 was a pain in the ass, even at level 86. I wish I could Over Limit every minute.
Bonus Dungeon here I come!
PseudoKirby
Banned
Princess Skittles said:
duke 3? didnt he only have 2 forms?
and now everytime you post I get lost in rita's beauty D:
AndresON777
shooting blanks
How do you do the mystic artes? I have the 3 overlimits thing but I cannot get it to work.
Also,
Also,
you don't get any achievements for rescuing Estelle? I thought I would since I got a big one for saving the lower quarter's blastia.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
PseudoKirby said:
If you collected all seven Fell Arms, he will have a third form similar to the Abyssion boss from Symphonia.
RocketDarkness
Member
Princess Skittles said:
My two friends and I fought Duke3 at level 71, and wow, that was a tense battle. Fortunately, we had just gotten Estelle Revive, so that helped out immeasurably. Big Bang was most often countered though a combined overlimit spam of Nightinggale and Meteor Storm, with Repede alternating between full assault and kite tanking, depending on his HP.
Once we finish up affairs in this playthrough, we're going to try an EX playthrough on the new difficulty setting. Should be exciting.
PseudoKirby
Banned
where are they though? D:Firestorm said:
RocketDarkness
Member
Back where youPseudoKirby said:
kicked Yeager's ass, in Zaude.
But I think you have to visit
Capula Nor or Torim, whichever's the one that has the Fortune's Market HQ, for a cutscene first.
For Gauche and Droit, you also have to...
Anyway, I wrote an Artes Guide:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/945075/54226
Be sure to check out the section on how artes improve; there's a lot of ridiculous info that I wouldn't have been able to find without a Japanese wiki.
1. See a scene at Ehmead hill. Enter from the west side, go into the monster trail, and explore a bit until you get a scene.
2. Go to Mt. Temza for another scene near the entrance.
After those and the event in Capua Torim, you can finally fight them.
2. Go to Mt. Temza for another scene near the entrance.
After those and the event in Capua Torim, you can finally fight them.
Anyway, I wrote an Artes Guide:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/945075/54226
Be sure to check out the section on how artes improve; there's a lot of ridiculous info that I wouldn't have been able to find without a Japanese wiki.
PseudoKirby
Banned
yeb said:
I have seen a scene in both those places you mean the
Raven flower scenes?
RocketDarkness
Member
Yep.PseudoKirby said:
FateBreaker
Member
Hey guys. I have a few questions because I suck:
(I'm at the VERY end of the game. One step away from the final boss.)
1) How do you do guild quests? I hear you go to some guy in Dahngrest, but nothing is happening for me...
2) How do you get the Bunny Guild Achievement? I joined it in Dahngrest but got nothing.
3) How do you activate the right-hand teleporter in the final dungeon? It seems like it can make you access other treasures. What am I missing here?
4) I just learned that one of the titles you obtain is only obtained if you get every Secret Mission. I did every one but 17. I'm planning to do a second playthrough, though. If I skipped every one except 17 on my playthrough, would that count, or no?
5) How do you get the 200-man melees activated?
6) Is there anything in the game that you can't access in the first playthough other than the bonus dungeon?
And, screw the haters, the final dungeon music kicks ass.
Thanks to the brave soul who is tacking these questions.
(I'm at the VERY end of the game. One step away from the final boss.)
1) How do you do guild quests? I hear you go to some guy in Dahngrest, but nothing is happening for me...
2) How do you get the Bunny Guild Achievement? I joined it in Dahngrest but got nothing.
3) How do you activate the right-hand teleporter in the final dungeon? It seems like it can make you access other treasures. What am I missing here?
4) I just learned that one of the titles you obtain is only obtained if you get every Secret Mission. I did every one but 17. I'm planning to do a second playthrough, though. If I skipped every one except 17 on my playthrough, would that count, or no?
5) How do you get the 200-man melees activated?
6) Is there anything in the game that you can't access in the first playthough other than the bonus dungeon?
And, screw the haters, the final dungeon music kicks ass.
Thanks to the brave soul who is tacking these questions.
goldenpp72
Member
4) I just learned that one of the titles you obtain is only obtained if you get every Secret Mission. I did every one but 17. I'm planning to do a second playthrough, though. If I skipped every one except 17 on my playthrough, would that count, or no?
from what I know, no, you need them all at once. I got em all at once
This brings me to my question, i didn't do anything to activate a secret dungeon for a second play through, does this mean I have to do a third one?
from what I know, no, you need them all at once. I got em all at once
This brings me to my question, i didn't do anything to activate a secret dungeon for a second play through, does this mean I have to do a third one?
There are actually lots of artes that have (or gain) a chance to guard break, it's pretty much the biggest thing I skipped. I'll probably go back and add all of them once I actually understand the mechanic a little more - I'd like to experiment with it during SM 17 on my replay.Jonnyram said:
RocketDarkness
Member
I think it's after you beat the game once, but basically, you have to traipse all the way up to a certain point of the dungeon, at which point you can find a door that takes you on an alternate path ALL THE WAY BACK DOWN to the first floor. Then you unlock the right hand elevator on the first floor, and voila.FateBreaker said:
FirstInHell
Banned
What does grade do? I was having a hell of a time on a boss and dialed it down to easy after dying 5 times.
Does switching it down to easy every now and again screw something up with leveling my characters?
Does switching it down to easy every now and again screw something up with leveling my characters?