Ah, thank you so much for the advice on some of the characters and the best gems for them. Honestly, maybe me going to Shulk or Dunban would be better. I just have to hope the AI for Sharla heals us correctly. This is why I mixed about items, because on one hand its nice to not have to worry about them, but on the other, sometimes the healing abilities of the characters aren't fast enough. Still, thanks so much on the info for Sharla and Dunban. I'll have to refit everyone with the right gems and all that.Kikki wrote: ↑Oct 02, 2022 11:11 am Every character has different base abilities. Dunban is the most agile character in the game. (Sharla at her max, without any gems, is actually only 121.) Reyn has naturally high defence. Sharla has naturally high ether. Etc. That's why it's more effective to kit your characters out differently, depending on their role. Sharla's a healer and can do some damage from a distance...she's never meant to be on the front line, drawing the aggro. She has lower defence, too...she's best off to be protected from damage with Arts Stealth, as defence gems don't help her enough...but Arts Stealth will make her draw less aggro any time she uses one of her healing arts, so the enemy is less likely to target her (especially if the other party members are doing their jobs right and drawing the aggro to themselves.)
Defence gems and attack gems are okay. But they're a waste of a gem slot that could be used to increase agility, instead, or improve a character's specific role within the party. Defence gems just add a few points to defence, and you already tweak your attack and defence by changing your armour. High agility means your character has a better chance of dodging an attack entirely, and not taking ANY damage several times is way better than just mitigating a few points of every hit.
I hate grinding I like getting my levelling up from quests, story, and the few fights I can't dodge while 100% filling in the maps. I do always have to grind somewhere around level 70 or so, though, to be able to do all the extra end-game stuff easily.
You get crystals from mining...but mostly from fighting. There's ample info on the internet if you ever want to know what enemies to fight to get certain types of crystals.
And I thought this was going to be true for the defense and attack part. After reading about agility and some other stuff, I've come to realize that I can't do my normal strategy. Usually for RPG's, I focus on attack and defense, and things like speed after. For this game though, it's better to be able to dodge attacks as you've said. My only thing about armor is I never know what the best thing to equipped is because while a certain armor may seem very good, it'll still pull, for example, defense down. It can get very confusing. Can I ask is it better for me to equip armor/weapons that have slots in them, even if one that doesn't have a slot gives me a good boost?
I can understand that honestly. I do like grinding in games like Disgaea and Digimon since i love the combat, but it's not something I tend to want to jump into outside of these games. Skyrim is the best example of this since I rarely would grind and when I did, I didn't like it. For this game, I do like the combat actually, but am just confused on how to make my character survive.
I'll also remember that for when needing crystals. Maybe I should do some monster hunting lol.
Still, thanks for all the help with this. This is my first time playing with this type of combat, so certain things are new to me. Today, I'll try to redo there gems. Luckily, I can test this for a certain mission I really need to finish =).