With Recovery, you can afford to spam skills with slightly higher AP costs, especially Tornado Slashes (a decently-powerful skill with an astounding 120 base accuracy, and a moderate AP cost of 25, enough to make me want to recommend it over Single Slash should your character have the Recovery ability). However, even without the Recovery ability (and you probably won’t be getting more than 2 characters with the Recovery ability through the 1st half of the game), you can pretty much spam the aforementioned low-AP skills almost non-stop if your Agility is 5 or more (since 5 Agility, as you may have already guessed by doing some math, means 75 AP to work with, and 1/5th of 75 AP is 15 AP, which is exactly the AP cost of the aforementioned low-AP skills). With the Recovery ability, you essentially gain a 50% boost in AP regeneration at 0 Agility, and a 75% boost at 10 Agility. Speaking of Agility, you may recall that characters start off with 50 AP maximum at 0 Agility, and that each point of Agility increases your max AP by 5 points (which, in turn, could potentially mean a 5% increase in dodge rates). That’s not counting the additional AP regeneration bonus provided by the Recovery ability, which is 5 + your Agility. (That is, try ranged or magic skills against an opponent with Parry or Floating, and try using melee or ranged skills against an opponent with D-Shield.)įinally, one last thing that you should know about AP is that, each turn, you naturally recover AP equal to 1/5th of your max AP. (VP stands for Vitality Points, which is basically this game’s way of calling them “hit points”, but you probably knew that as well I presume?) Against an enemy with abilities like Parry or D-Shield, it might even be a good idea to switch to a different skill type to try to bypass these defenses. (With the exception of Dust Blast and Gust, which both have a base accuracy of 130, these skills all have a base accuracy of 120.) They, along with Meditation, are also among the least AP-costly skills in the game (-15 AP), which is perfect if you want to conserve your own AP whilst building up your CP (more on that later), and possibly whittling down the opponent’s VP as well. In a situation where your opponents have alot of AP to give them such hefty dodge bonuses, you’d be better off using your more accurate skills like, say, Single Slash, Shot, Gust, Dust Blast, Venom Shot, or Poison Dust to name a few, since even though they’re among the weakest skills in the game, they’re also some of the most accurate skills in the game. Therefore, if you have 50 AP in reserve, that’s a whopping 50% dodge bonus! No wonder why you’d normally miss when you try to use a powerful but inaccurate skill like, say, Thunder Chain or Astral Blade (which both have a base accuracy of 80, which is considered very low in this game) on an enemy with a near-full AP bar! You may have also noticed that certain abilities, like Parry and D-Shield, provide additional dodge bonuses against certain skill types, including melee, ranged, and magic skills, and that these bonuses stack with the natural dodge bonuses provided by high AP, which I mentioned before. What you might not have known is that each point of AP in stock contributes a 1% dodge bonus. You see that blue bar underneath your character’s health bar? Those are your Action Points, but you probably knew that already, and you probably already knew that AP is used as a resource to spend to be able to use the vast majority of skills in the game, right? Action Points (AP), learn to conserve and budget them! So, you’ve picked up this game, thinking that this will be another one of Winged Cloud’s hentai games, right? And you’re just finding out how difficult the game is to simply breeze through without thinking hard about your actions, right? Perhaps you’ve underestimated just how deep this game’s mechanics are? Perhaps you weren’t paying attention to what your skills’ hit percentages were the moment you used them? Well, I won’t insult your intelligence any further, so let’s get to the guide. Welcome to the School of Hard Knocks, n00bs! Struggling with this game? Wondering why your attacks keep missing, and yet your opponents always manage to land critical hits on you? This guide will attempt to go in-depth with the game’s tactics-oriented rpg mechanics, and suggest some character builds that could help you breeze through the game without too much level grinding, even on Abyssal difficulty.
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