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I just finished Act 1. I freaking knew they were going to do that! It's my bad for looking at "character combat builds" and deducing the outcome from the lack of "builds" for that one character.

I haven't looked at anything since so I'm fresh for Act 2 and 3. I have some theories about where the story is going but I could be wrong. Anyways back to the game, what a wonderful, wonderful game.
 
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John Matrix said:
I just finished Act 1. I freaking knew they were going to do that! It's my bad for looking at "character combat builds" and deducing the outcome from the lack of "builds" for that one character.

I haven't looked at anything since so I'm fresh for Act 2 and 3. I have some theories about where the story is going but I could be wrong. Anyways back to the game, what a wonderful, wonderful game.
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It's okay. I got over him quickly when a new badass took his place.
 
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I gotta know, how are you guys finding the super pictos once you're in Act III? You using guides or just coming across them? I'm doing this game totally blind and there's just so many places to explore that it seems like dumb luck if you come across something that's really good.
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Well if you want a hint....one of the best pictos in the game is on the dark shores. I ran around kiting all the idiots, quickly grabbed it, and yeeted the fk on out of the area.
 
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JohnnyFlawless said:
Well if you want a hint....one of the best pictos in the game is on the dark shores. I ran around kiting all the idiots, quickly grabbed it, and yeeted the fk on out of the area.
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I just crushed Frozen Hearts and I'm basically SSJ1 at this point. So I'm planning on heading back there next.

Dammit I love this game.
 
My sciel is severely lacking lumina from ignoring her most game. She has like 65 😬. Guess I'm lumina farming Clair Obscur after I get done with endless tower. I need to know.....how powerful I can juice Maelle's one shot.....I need.....to know....
 
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JohnnyFlawless said:
My sciel is severely lacking lumina from ignoring her most game. She has like 65 😬. Guess I'm lumina farming Clair Obscur after I get done with endless tower. I need to know.....how powerful I can juice Maelle's one shot.....I need.....to know....
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Maelle can do.... Billions in damage. Post nerf.
 
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Maelle can do.... Billions in damage. Post nerf.
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I'm worried ng+ will be stupid easy. I hope that's not the case. While I enjoy deleting bosses in one hit, and it does give a certain satisfaction, it will make the game boring if I'm just running around ending lives just by breathing on them.
 
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I'm worried ng+ will be stupid easy. I hope that's not the case. While I enjoy deleting bosses in one hit, and it does give a certain satisfaction, it will make the game boring if I'm just running around ending lives just by breathing on them.
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From what I've read, NG+ doesn't scale to the ridiculous damage output that's possible with certain builds.

I think it's ok though, I like this open and very varied approach to exploring the games possibilities. I rather have this and some broken builds than less build freedom. But yeah, it makes NG+ too easy if you push for the strongest build. On the other hand, if NG+ was way more difficult, it would force players who didn't find these "exploits" into using those.
 
The parries do get insanely hard with some of the end game bosses facing 3 at a time to where it's basically max shield up and pray you kill em all before your shields go lol
 
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The parries do get insanely hard with some of the end game bosses facing 3 at a time to where it's basically max shield up and pray you kill em all before your shields go lol
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When I hit Act 3 the first thing I did was the Endless Tower. If you can complete that there's only 1 boss in the game that will pose any challenge.

IMO with how badly I feel they shit the bed with the story if they just gave me an Endless Tower DLC with tons of different fights sans story I'd be all about it.
 
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When I hit Act 3 the first thing I did was the Endless Tower. If you can complete that there's only 1 boss in the game that will pose any challenge.

IMO with how badly I feel they shit the bed with the story if they just gave me an Endless Tower DLC with tons of different fights sans story I'd be all about it.
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Yeah I made the mistake of hitting endless tower first. I'm on the second to last fight and I'm level 73ish. It's giving me a bit of a problem. I know I can cheese it throwing sciel in to buff Maelle cuz I'm so close to being able to one shot all of them with her multi attack.
 
I'm still using monocco to get that last foot, which you can get in the second to last fight in endless tower. But yeah once I throw sciel in there, it's just gonna be stupid. Also when I get Chevalim for verso. And I don't even have Maelle on cheater yet .

But the ideal setup for me this far is verso is my shooter and stacks burns and marks on everything. Auto attack applies defenceless and powerless. Second turn ap buffs if needed.

Sciel then buffs with double damage.

Maelle for me has the low health damage setup along with most the other DMG buffs. Then it's just a last chance into phantom strike or stendahl and gg. Instead of using cheater currently, I'm just using auto death into survivor to put me at 1 health.

I don't even see the need for sciel's play next immediately move, unless someone sees a better setup.
 
So ...if starting in virtuouse is irrelevant once you get cheater.....what weapon will give Maelle the most damage for stendhal 🤔....everyone keeps saying medalum OP but they fixed the damage bug it had so I wonder why it's still the best.
 
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So ...if starting in virtuouse is irrelevant once you get cheater.....what weapon will give Maelle the most damage for stendhal 🤔....everyone keeps saying medalum OP but they fixed the damage bug it had so I wonder why it's still the best.
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Why would starting in virtuous stance be irrelevant with the cheater picto? It's all about that first attack, you buff Maelle and put everything into the first hit. Starting with virtuous stance provides another big damage boost.
 
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regawdless said:
Why would starting in virtuous stance be irrelevant with the cheater picto? It's all about that first attack, you buff Maelle and put everything into the first hit. Starting with virtuous stance provides another big damage boost.
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All of that is correct. But with cheater, she goes into virtuose 9ap with another turn. And you can set it up that sciel makes her go again with double damage. So she will be in virtuose with whatever weapon regardless. I'm just too lazy at this point to set all that up since I'm just wrecking shop as it is.
 
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    I just finished Act 1. I freaking knew they were going to do that! It's my bad for looking at "character combat builds" and deducing the outcome from the lack of "builds" for that one character.

    I haven't looked at anything since so I'm fresh for Act 2 and 3. I have some theories about where the story is going but I could be wrong. Anyways back to the game, what a wonderful, wonderful game.
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    Also because it's expensive to hire Charley Cox for a full game
     
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    Also because it's expensive to hire Charley Cox for a full game
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    Ha probably! Verso is pretty cool though, more tragic backstory and better hair. I'm still in Act II, exploring a bit and taking my time. Just finished the Old Lumiere part, then went right back and found a pretty tough boss that was kicking my ass until I got her stupid attacks down after 5 or 6 tries, then she never hit me again and I steamed roll her.
     
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    regawdless said:
    Why would starting in virtuous stance be irrelevant with the cheater picto? It's all about that first attack, you buff Maelle and put everything into the first hit. Starting with virtuous stance provides another big damage boost.
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    So to elaborate further, the setup would be verso shooting burn and mark and laying defenceless with his auto attack.

    Maelle would go next and just do last chance twice in a row if she has cheater.

    Then sciel can hit her with fury and play next skill.

    So in this situation.... medalum is not needed. IF there is a more powerful weapon for her, which I'm not sure yet if there is. I'm hearing Lithum might be.


    Edit: so medalum highest weapon power is 2906. The next two highest that aren't elemental, but physical and void are glaisum at 3713 and barrier breaker at 3616.

    So technically you can get way higher damage in virtuose using those weapons maxed.
     
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    Well this is interesting.....powerful on shell isn't working on maelle. I have sciel auto death giving her rush and shell and it doesn't give powerful 🤔
     
    JohnnyFlawless said:
    Oh shit....you just made me realize....deaths door doesn't proc using this then. Wtf is the purpose of the one pictos?!?!
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    It's probably primarily intended to be used as a Picto for the high crit bonus. I suppose it could also sorta kinda come in handy for buffs that trigger when you're at max health. There's probably some cool combo out there.
     
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    It's probably primarily intended to be used as a Picto for the high crit bonus. I suppose it could also sorta kinda come in handy for buffs that trigger when you're at max health. There's probably some cool combo out there.
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    Should've been 101% crit as a nod to Neo. But it's like 108 or something like that. What's the extra crit for? Is there a picto that utilizes that?
     
    Im done with the game now. Only Simon and the sister to go. But dont fancy ages grinding or getting a build a certain way for what will likely be a 30 scene cutscene at best. If they patch in a quest log and a few bits and bobs or dlc ill be back.

    Overall final score a low 4/5 (great), which is more for gameplay than story . So much to love and although im not the greatest fan act 2 twist, it's not terrible. The most addicted I've been to a game since Returnal.
     
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    I'm wondering if I'll want to go into an expert ng+....tbh the OPenis of stendhal is really killing the fun factor for me. The game has now become let's see how high I can one hit everything.

    Might have to do a no stendhal run next time to keep it fresh and challenging.
     
    I am such an idiot. I'm running around looking for Stendhal thinking it was a picto. Started the Endless Tower last night thinking I needed to complete it to get it there. Then I go into Maelle's skill tree to change her loadout and see that it's a blasted skill. Been playing all of Act III without that equipped /facepalm. Of course, after I equip it, I immediately see why everyone loves to use it.
     
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    Showdown said:
    I am such an idiot. I'm running around looking for Stendhal thinking it was a picto. Started the Endless Tower last night thinking I needed to complete it to get it there. Then I go into Maelle's skill tree to change her loadout and see that it's a blasted skill. Been playing all of Act III without that equipped /facepalm. Of course, after I equip it, I immediately see why everyone loves to use it.
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    It's disgustingly over powered, Verso is my only other character that comes close to the same damage, and close means like 10-20% of Stendhal
     
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    It's disgustingly over powered, Verso is my only other character that comes close to the same damage, and close means like 10-20% of Stendhal
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    Same here with my Verso.

    I don't even want to go and get Medalum now because I feel like it's just going to make the game too easy. Brulerum has been wrecking enough shop for me at this point anyways.
     
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    I finished this tonight. I was really hyped up for it, but didn't enjoy the combat much so it took me awhile to play through it. I don't like how everything relies on twitch reactions. It got very boring quickly for me. Had the game had a more traditional battle system for me it probably would have been a near perfect score. But with the combat it has I have to knock a couple points off. I'd probably rank it somewhere around a 7.5/10.

    I really enjoyed the art style, music, world, characters and love what they did with the world map.
     
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    I finished this tonight. I was really hyped up for it, but didn't enjoy the combat much so it took me awhile to play through it. I don't like how everything relies on twitch reactions. It got very boring quickly for me. Had the game had a more traditional battle system for me it probably would have been a near perfect score. But with the combat it has I have to knock a couple points off. I'd probably rank it somewhere around a 7.5/10.

    I really enjoyed the art style, music, world, characters and love what they did with the world map.
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    Most everyone enjoyed it for the fact that it both doubled as a laid back turn base, but also threw some skill based QTE in there to not make it stale. Like for instance....it's boring me now when I'm just one shotting everything and barely get to see enemy attacks.
     
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