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[Stafford]

I'm playing Trials of Mana on my Xbox and I'm definitely enjoying it but so far I don't get how my team members don't use their special abilities at all, worse even, they seem to get hurt badly way too often and easily. Angela for example was close to death just now.

Last but not least, i would appreciate some input on training for these characters. I have Duran as main, Kevin as second and Angela as third. For Duran I've mostly put points into STR, STA for the health boost, but what to do with INT, LUCK and SPRT for him? And the same question for the other two members.

 

[Punished Miku]

I'm playing Trials of Mana on my Xbox and I'm definitely enjoying it but so far I don't get how my team members don't use their special abilities at all, worse even, they seem to get hurt badly way too often and easily. Angela for example was close to death just now.

Last but not least, i would appreciate some input on training for these characters. I have Duran as main, Kevin as second and Angela as third. For Duran I've mostly put points into STR, STA for the health boost, but what to do with INT, LUCK and SPRT for him? And the same question for the other two members.

I really don't think it matters that much what you level up. Everyone will be doing physical attacks, and special attacks. Just max out the strength, stamina and luck for fighters and intelligence, spirit, stamina for mages and then just do the others whenever you're done.

For special abilities I just set team AI to not use them and would bounce around party members and just manually use them, but they probably have a limited behavior setting in the menu if I remember correctly.

 

[Stafford]

I really don't think it matters that much what you level up. Everyone will be doing physical attacks, and special attacks. Just max out the strength, stamina and luck for fighters and intelligence, spirit, stamina for mages and then just do the others whenever you're done.

For special abilities I just set team AI to not use them and would bounce around party members and just manually use them, but they probably have a limited behavior setting in the menu if I remember correctly.

Hmm, I see, thanks. Ideally they do use abilities because they got their own CR bar, it's not using up mine.

 

[ReyBrujo]

So, I played the one in Collection of Mana (which is a port of the original SFC one, not the PS version) but there you had to configure your partners to use their skills from the Skill or Battle configuration menu, otherwise they would always use the simple attack. I guess it's the same for PS.