What Characters do you use?

[Raffi]

hey Guys,

i'm curios: What Party do you use and why? (Please be careful with possible spoilers.)

I played IV 4 times (3x on Ps4) and 1x Steam but i always end up with 3 fixed members :/...

Rean (melee), Alisa (for heavenly gift) and Build as Artsuser and Musse (for Heal/Curia Craft) also build on arts.
the last member is rotating. But i prefer to always use the same characters during one playthrough.
Last time i used Laura the combination Laure/Rean with max str and auto CP regeneration is just ridiculous...
Until now I never used Machias, Elliot, Jusis (just ass support for the BO), Gaius, Fie/Laura (except in part 2 Chapter), Juna/Kurt (except the parts when you have to use them).

Whats your fav. Party?

[jlawleraz]

For all the Trails games, I just use the characters I like the most or the ones I think are most important to the plot. I don't care what they can do in combat. Using the right quartz and items it is easy to build any character into a valuable combat participant.

For this game, my party was frequently Rean, Musse, Juna, and Altina or Emma (both if I got to choose that many in my larger party). Beyond that, I think Fie, Laura, and Alisa have good moments and comments (Fie's "Come at me fishes" makes me laugh every time), so I used them occasionally.

[Michiel]

Duvalie (leader), Altina (2nd in command), Fie, Musse.
Because they are the cutest :)

[Vallhalla]

Rean, Fie, Altina, and the other white haired guy in the lineup for the sake of it being a white haired squad. Brainless fun, really.

[Royard]

My main party on first nightmare playthrough: Rean, Sara (both high dodge/crit builds), Crow (high crit build) and Musse with Pandora/Virgo as arts nuke.

[JuampaBenja]

Normally i go with Rean , Emma , Fie. The 4th member usually depends on what i need at that moment (arts , melee , range , heal)

[qwerty]

Main - Rean, Altina, Kurt, Juna
Support - Musse(Order), Ash(For full new 7th on the field), Crow(Jokes), Others(for sidequests)
Used this setup after 1st chapter until end of the game.

[Sephilar]

I play all of them to not get bored. I really don't understand why would anyone want to play only with the same characters considering the amount that this game has, and even more than double in Hajimari. With that said, the ones I play the most because they are the characters I like the most are Altina, Jusis, Crow, Duvallie, Fie, Ash and Musse.

Obviously though, I would just play with the SSS if it weren't because they can't be played in the game for most of the time.

[Edwardlloyd]

I never linked anyone beside Rean and Laura since cold steel 1 for the front line because she is the best girl. also helps that she wrecks ♥♥♥♥.

backline changes according but it's usually kurt or emma because

rean=dreichels
Laura=his lover lianne sandlot
Kurt = his knight roland vander
Emma= Roselia, his awakener witch

legendary team

emma's order also makes the game a joke

[Koby]

I try to shake things up whenever they give me options for a party just to use characters I haven't used much unless it's Machias, Jusis, and Elliot. Those three have practically always been useless in comparison to the rest of the cast imo.

In any case, my strongest hitters are generally: Rean, Musse, Crow, and Ash.

[Royard]

Originally posted by Koby:

I try to shake things up whenever they give me options for a party just to use characters I haven't used much unless it's Machias, Jusis, and Elliot. Those three have practically always been useless in comparison to the rest of the cast imo.

In any case, my strongest hitters are generally: Rean, Musse, Crow, and Ash.

Imagine thinking that Machias is useless. Could you tell me why you think it is that way?

[BondEternal]

I don't mind using any character. Instead, I separate class 7 into roles and make sure I pick at least one person for each role. I always bring 1 heavy physical attacker (Laura, Ash, Gaius), 1 evasive tank (Fie or Sara), 1 arts user (Emma, Musse, Altina, Elliot), 1 support (Jusis, Alisa) and 1 debuffer/breaker (Juna, Machias, Kurt). Any leftover spots are taken up by who needs to gain link exp.

[Koby]

Originally posted by Royard:

Originally posted by Koby:

I try to shake things up whenever they give me options for a party just to use characters I haven't used much unless it's Machias, Jusis, and Elliot. Those three have practically always been useless in comparison to the rest of the cast imo.

In any case, my strongest hitters are generally: Rean, Musse, Crow, and Ash.

Imagine thinking that Machias is useless. Could you tell me why you think it is that way?

I didn't say useless, I said useless in comparison to the others. There is a difference. The point being there is just practically never a time he is needed that you can't use someone else who can dish out more DPS. Machias puts out like 2-6K damage at times that Crow, Ash, and Rean put out 10-25K. His main use is to use his ability to give someone else another turn and that isn't needed once you have built your team up, so most of his usefulness comes during the early portion of the game when you're much slower.

[DeathHydra]

I use Rean (crit build), Sara (evade/crit hybrid), Emma (pure arts dps), and Musse (arts dps/heal), with Ash, Jusis, and Crow as support member (for the brave order)

[Royard]

Originally posted by Koby:

Originally posted by Royard:

Imagine thinking that Machias is useless. Could you tell me why you think it is that way?

I didn't say useless, I said useless in comparison to the others. There is a difference. The point being there is just practically never a time he is needed that you can't use someone else who can dish out more DPS. Machias puts out like 2-6K damage at times that Crow, Ash, and Rean put out 10-25K. His main use is to use his ability to give someone else another turn and that isn't needed once you have built your team up, so most of his usefulness comes during the early portion of the game when you're much slower.

Sure he is not a DPS, he never was. He was always top support. If you are thinking that everyone usefulness depends just on dmg alone then i guess you are playing games on easy or at normal at best. And his ability... lets say it like this - in the right hands its simply broken. In CS1-2 he was the only one who had acceleration. In C3 they gave Sara pretty much the same order and it made her like #1 in the game. This time they boosted Juna too, they even gave her a selfbuff with BP regen. I guess Falcom likes her alot :D

[Koby]

Originally posted by Royard:

Originally posted by Koby:

I didn't say useless, I said useless in comparison to the others. There is a difference. The point being there is just practically never a time he is needed that you can't use someone else who can dish out more DPS. Machias puts out like 2-6K damage at times that Crow, Ash, and Rean put out 10-25K. His main use is to use his ability to give someone else another turn and that isn't needed once you have built your team up, so most of his usefulness comes during the early portion of the game when you're much slower.

Sure he is not a DPS, he never was. He was always top support. If you are thinking that everyone usefulness depends just on dmg alone then i guess you are playing games on easy or at normal at best. And his ability... lets say it like this - in the right hands its simply broken. In CS1-2 he was the only one who had acceleration. In C3 they gave Sara pretty much the same order and it made her like #1 in the game.

In CS4, his support isn't needed past early game. Everyone else ends up outshining him in all aspects. I play Cold Steel on Nightmare mode too, so you're wrong there. His utility and what he brings to the table is almost never needed and at most points others bring more utility or usefulness to the table. So the parts of the Cold Steel saga where he shines is very few. Like you said, in CS3 Sara could fulfill his utility. In CS4 his utility isn't needed by Act 2... the enemy already gets practically no turns even without him... so what does his utility bring to the table at that point? Actually I believe the only battles I've used him in within CS4 were the ones he was mandatory for. There's just very little points in the Cold Steel saga as a whole where his utility is ever needed over what others can bring to the table. Why do you need more speed when your enemy rarely gets a turn and is wiped out so quickly by others? So yes, in that regard I refer back to my original statement that Machias is useless by comparison.

As for CS1 & CS2, delay was so busted in those... that speed was outright useless outside of the couple of delay immune bosses. Hit the enemy a round with your party and the enemy suddenly never showed back up on the AT bar. Only thing you needed speed for was to ensure you got the first attack, but the Battle Advantage usually ensured that and Fie always had plenty of speed for the team that she'd run circles around everyone else. While Emma's Art would one-shot most things and Laura would deal out the massive physical DPS. So in CS2 the only time I used him was when you first recovered him before you get the rest of the class members and then only for mandatory segments after that, usually sitting in my reserve.