Etrian Odyssey General

>tfw amassing a stockpile of Copper Ingots in the demo

I swear to fuck coming up with a party in V is harder than any other game.
Tell me your parties and what makes them fun so I can copy them.

>Trying to tank with Fencer through Predict
>Costs too much mana
>Only lasts for 1 turn
Man, that sucks
So Dragoon is the only valid option for a tank?

Fencer dodgetank only becomes a thing once you reach second names.
For now, the best you can do is just blind enemies instead of using Predict every single turn.

Dodging is an offense for fencing not a defense.

You can use Dragoon in the frontline just fine.
Judging by how random aggro worked in the past they will even draw some stray hits towards them (and away from characters that take more damage) just for sitting there.

Alright, can you reach second names in the demo?

If you don't name your pugilist Touma and have the turban sprite.
You're playing pugilist incorrectly.

Ore Scythes are pretty cheap and their material are easily gathered.
I hope you have forged all weapons to +5 already.

It costs 400,000 en.

Is it worthwhile to invest points into both a hawk and hound on Rover? The TP cost for summoning both is way too high.

>Naming your party after anime characters
I think you're the one who's living his life incorrectly.

Yeah no, goodbye Fencer

No

If you are not using fuck huge Pugilist to act as your trusty servant that protects your girls from harm you are doing it wrong.

I used both Hawk and Hound - and Animal Therapy and racial passives.

My Rover was only there to summon the animals and normal attack. And it worked.
Their high STR lets them deal great damage even without using skills and the additional damage and passive healing really helped.

Later on you can equip a TP accessory before going to sleep, summon your pets in the labyrinth and the change the TP accessory for a damage one - only your max TP will be reduced so your animals are pretty much free.

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I don't know the reference so I'll just assume you said something stupid

All the Pugalist portraits look awful to me.

To Aru Majutsu no Index reference. Touma is the protagonist and punches people in the face a lot.

After looking at their skillset Pugalists look stupidly good

well you didn't have to go and prove him right

I was just explaining the reference, not trying to say it was a good idea. Using pre-existing character names in games is dumb.

They can one hit kill the postgame boss, so that's fun
Sure Sanzu does the trick too but that's not as satisfying

Wait shit really?

Would I be reasonably able to equip my Warlock with a gun without screwing over their spell damage?

Hmm strange things are afoot with regards to the EU release date. DeepSilverUK on twitter said they're working on it and on the uk eshop it says october 17th for some reason. I hope they can bump up the release to be the same as NAs.

Just pirate the US release then transfer your save across when your actual copy arrives.

Assuming of course that you're running CFW like any sane 3DS user.

I'm not a poorfag, thanks.

If you weren't a poorfag you'd just import a US 3DS so you'd stop getting fucked in the ass by Atlus USA every new release. You clearly haven't, so you're either poor or stupid.

What do you guys think of the battle themes in V?

Not until you get the spell that uses your weapon in the 3 element specialisation.
With the rework to weapons and armor magical attack on weapons actually matters and it's no longer only TEC/INT that is important.
Staves have more magical attack so they give you stronger spells.

Eh I don't mind waiting it'll just be a pleasant surprise if it does get bumped. I don't really have a use for CFW so didn't set it up.
Don't know who is...

I haven't noticed them as annoying which means they are good.

Smoke Rot + Smoke Bomb seems to be good for high damage

>tfw necro's poison bomb is starting to become my main nuke
It's like EO2U Hexer all over again, because my party can't really do anything else yet.

Poison is great for random encounters and some bosses have summons, too.
Blowing up ghosts is good.

>level my b team with the conch
>try out dodge fencer for the first time
>level 9 against floor 1 enemies
>evades once, gets killed with the next hit
Exactly what I expected from Nene.

so when does reaper stop being ass
I already know transcience is a meme but what else do they have going for them

Nothing, it was, a joke by Atlus to shit on edgelords

Can skills like Thunder Fist and Devil's Fist trigger Blood Wrath procs?

Yes

Just use it for debuffing and occasional ailments

Sucks that none of my statuses/binds are perfectly accurate yet, but I guess that's just early game.
Maybe I was just spoiled by how good Hexer was in EO2U.

They have good debuffs, especially their resistance debuff is great.

Which of the non combat racial skills like fishing, animal husbandry, gathering etc. are worth getting?

Hexer is just stupid good.
Overall base chances of skills are a bit lower than usual but in return enemy resistances are ore lenient.

So while in EO2U Hexer would basically always inflict stuff on enemies as long as they were not strong aginst it and had trouble against late bosses without their Force Boost it is now ever so slightly more even - a bit less chance against random enemies, a bit more chance against bosses, even in the post-game.

Depends on what you want.
I think even the gathering skills are good because they only cost one point and often allow you to forge a weapon for little investment.
You could run a farm party for that but with one point per character that is really excessive.

Fishing, Forage Skill and Animal Care give you access to food, which helps prolong exploration and give you the ability to start FOE and boss fights with full TP.
Animal Care is also needed for a single quest.

Herbology is pretty great if you don't want to run a Botanist since 75HP Medicas are pretty damn strong, not to mention later healing items.

The other passives all either give stats or resistances, so they certainly have their use in battle even if some have a secondary bility of improving the results of certain Adventure Events.

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Feels like my current party isn't synchronizing very well.
F | D
H | R(hawk) | W
How to improve it?

I have a QR ready just in case qr sharing is a go.

Is H Botanist or Harbinger? I'm assuming Botanist.
You should have enough activations for you Fencer to be an actual member of the team so your party should work - unless you are trying a dodge Fencer with a Dragoon.

Yea it's Botanist. Forgot they changed Herbalist.
So far I did chain Fencer. Not sure if Bunker Dragoon will work, because of the Rover.

Dragoon does not need a Bunker. Without it they are just like a Protector which is useful enough.

Your Warlock should have some area clear as should your Rover.
The only problem I can see is that enemies die too fast so that your Fencer doesn't contribute that much.

Later in the game (after the demo) or while fighting the FOEs their damage will be more useful.

Is he singing Death Grips?

You've never read the DOOM comic? You should do yourself a favour and read it now. It is a masterpiece of fiction.

That's my party, except with the Dragoon up front.

I think it works well so far. Killed the Toxipede the minute I hit level 8, killed the Owl Beast the minute I hit level 10. No game overs or uneven exp moments.

>tfw no BFG9000 for Gunner

Fully buffed Point Blank Burst Shot with Crusade on a fully debuffed enemy comes close.

When you get a first boss conditional and farm autistic amounts of en

What two characters are usually picked with dragoon+2 necro meme? With them doing all the work it's hard to pick the fillers, especially if i want all the races.
And what is the most reliable party against the superboss? Just meme it with sanzu or there are better non-gimmick options?

Bunny Pugilist with that move that counters if someone on your line gets hit and Potato Deathguard Reaper for debuffs to increase damage and healing.

>Bunny Pugilist
I doubt their survivability when they already die to a stiff breeze and now you can only use medium armor and all line attacks are drawn to their line. No binds from their skills ever also sucks.
>Reaper
Are debuffs this important? Don't want any filthy chuunis in my team

Is it alright to give Necromancers chuuni names and heterochromia?

Debuffs are kind of a big deal since you can not buff the Wraiths.
Potatoes don't have Chuuni portraits either way.

I guess you could go with a Rover as your bunny since they also have a defence debuff. And maybe a Botanist to keep your Dragoon running.

Sure, why not? They are plenty of chuuni with thier painted on scars and skulls and shit.

Oh good I thought I was going overboard in naming one of my necromancers Hel.

Promise us you'll embrace your inner 13 year old and name somebody DarkEvil

Fuck I should've called my Reaper that instead of naming him Skull

>rover
They need pets and they don't have place for them, i would rather take 1kat instead. I thought about herbalist but healing one seems overkill and half the poison one's skills undermine the party by not letting enemies to attack properly

That's right, Rovers don't work with that party.
Well, 1kat has a defence debuff as well, so there is that.

Ranmonk and Twintail-cestus are good friends

Any chance they'd announce that "Last EO game with mapping" at TGS?

You're getting PQ2 and you're gonna like it.

Get hyped for Etrian Odyssey Untold the 3rd

>Inb4 there's a boss rush of all the game's previous superbosses

>PQ2 will have 2 dimensional versions of the P5 characters

I'm afraid Shatlus'll make Goro spurt out 'PANCAKEZ XD' every 5 seconds

Make that every 3 seconds.

Also it will interrupt you at random moments during exploration because all that boring talking wasn't shitty enough in PQ.

Maybe? Historically they do all their announcement at their own events

God PQ was a really fucking annoying game

No user, he'll ramble about Justice and say "I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for that damn IHOP".

You know what would go well with those pancakes? protein

Which class should she be?

Party cumdump

I can't bring myself to use any of the generics because they don't fit the style of any of the classes.
Same thing with reclassing.

That is not her class, that is her destiny.

>have been avoiding anything EO since V released
>just read this news

That fucking sucks, I know it was inevitable but god fucking dammit I hate it.

Do you have enough cheese strategies in stock?

Best weapon type for potato botanist?

Frontline herbalist