Ashen will's

[Lucoryphus]

Well, I am completely stuck in some mines fighting some mobs that keep wiping my party, cant get enough heals out, very frustrating.

[Boon: Gushy Tooshie]

Is this the mine with Victor, Robb and Kylian?

[Lucoryphus]

Originally posted by Boon: Gushy Tooshie:

Is this the mine with Victor, Robb and Kylian?

yes

[Boon: Gushy Tooshie]

Idk if you already have this stuff but - make sure to equip the cleric class emblem (that could have been found in rohlan fields) onto Victor who has a high mind stat and take advantage of the heal all skill attached to it

[WeeCapo]

Originally posted by Lucoryphus:

Well, I am completely stuck in some mines fighting some mobs that keep wiping my party, cant get enough heals out, very frustrating.

Same here, no problem till now... this duo is the worst, wipe me already 7 times and i'm hungry now.. i try many strats but no one works, is impossible for me to pass them... NICE VERY NICE! If the developer don't rebalance them the game for me END here.

BTW i read somewhere that the part with Sienna is more hard too..

PS: i don't have the cleric emblem, it was hard to take for me with 5/6 Slorse to kill.

UPDATE: i kill them after 10 try.. i need to wait for having some luck.

[Eddiya!]

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

[WeeCapo]

Originally posted by Eddiya!:

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

Lit? Seem only a buff for all stats to them.. and in the infobox they result strong to earth..

[Clead HeavenHell]

Sienna area gets hard, but you can always escape from fights.

[WeeCapo]

Originally posted by Clead HeavenHell:

Sienna area gets hard, but you can always escape from fights.

In mines u can't, because u need to confront them again, u shall not pass (around them)

Problem is: a developer is better to never put the player in the risk of situations of stalling / dead end..

Question for who have already played this game deep: this game need grinding at certain point?

[Zalugar]

Originally posted by WeeCapo:

Problem is: a developer is better to never put the player in the risk of situations of stalling / dead end..

Question for who have already played this game deep: this game need grinding at certain point?

Depends on what you consider grinding. Grinding in this game is effectively doing the Reward Board, since that's what gets you levels and thus base stat increases. Besides that, for the traditional go-kill-enemies kind of grinding, I played on hard/high enemy stats and I'd a say some grinding is needed for Sky Armors, and none for the characters. Probably don't even have to do Sky Armor grinding on lower stats.

Mind you I was extremely current on my Reward Board for my entire playthrough. Such as I killed the Yak and Frog before entering the Purple Flame Dungeon. I went out of my way to keep current, but that's also just my normal playstyle so I don't consider it grinding.

Keeping current on the reward board and keeping my armor/weapons up to date on upgrades (but no gems for 99% of it), I'd say there were only 3 fights I couldn't just oneshot first try, and they were all optional content. One of those would have been easily resolved if I had waited to do it when it was intended to be done, but I wanted to do it underleveled.

In short: no, not really.

[phenir]

Originally posted by WeeCapo:

Originally posted by Eddiya!:

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

Lit? Seem only a buff for all stats to them.. and in the infobox they result strong to earth..

One of the npcs in Sienna's section explains that using earth or water magic on them removes their lit status, like putting out a fire by throwing water or dirt on it. Of course, the choice for Sienna's section is listed after Victor and co so that advice likely comes too late for most people.

Originally posted by WeeCapo:

Originally posted by Clead HeavenHell:

Sienna area gets hard, but you can always escape from fights.

In mines u can't, because u need to confront them again, u shall not pass (around them)

Problem is: a developer is better to never put the player in the risk of situations of stalling / dead end..

Question for who have already played this game deep: this game need grinding at certain point?

I'm playing on normal mode and haven't had to grind at all, just finished act 3. But I also do a lot of exploring, especially when I got the airship. And I fill out my reward board a lot like the above poster so I have plenty of shards and I think I have every class emblem so far that I can reach. I think as long as you keep your armor and weapons up to date and have good strategy, most fights are easy. Honestly, the bosses are trivial compared to the trash fights so far, thanks to hp regen.

[WeeCapo]

Originally posted by phenir:

Originally posted by WeeCapo:

Lit? Seem only a buff for all stats to them.. and in the infobox they result strong to earth..

One of the npcs in Sienna's section explains that using earth or water magic on them removes their lit status, like putting out a fire by throwing water or dirt on it. Of course, the choice for Sienna's section is listed after Victor and co so that advice likely comes too late for most people.

As for me, yeah.. i'll choose to go in order

Originally posted by phenir:

Originally posted by WeeCapo:

In mines u can't, because u need to confront them again, u shall not pass (around them)

Problem is: a developer is better to never put the player in the risk of situations of stalling / dead end..

Question for who have already played this game deep: this game need grinding at certain point?

I'm playing on normal mode and haven't had to grind at all, just finished act 3. But I also do a lot of exploring, especially when I got the airship. And I fill out my reward board a lot like the above poster so I have plenty of shards and I think I have every class emblem so far that I can reach. I think as long as you keep your armor and weapons up to date and have good strategy, most fights are easy. Honestly, the bosses are trivial compared to the trash fights so far, thanks to hp regen.

Yeah the difference is Single (as for a boss) vs Multiple enemy, multiple enemy are way more dangerous than one (at least for the moment).

In any case thx u all for the answers.

[Terra+Medic]

Originally posted by Eddiya!:

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

Putting a bump on this one. This is the little obscure piece of knowledge I needed to break through.

[thenikus]

Originally posted by Eddiya!:

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

Wow, that is actually what does it. That is evil, developer man. It says the enemy's strength is earth, so why would I ever use it on them? And the buff removal indicator is so quick, you can easily miss it.

[TheSHEEEP]

Originally posted by thenikus:

Originally posted by Eddiya!:

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

Wow, that is actually what does it. That is evil, developer man. It says the enemy's strength is earth, so why would I ever use it on them? And the buff removal indicator is so quick, you can easily miss it.

Agreed.
Quite frankly, design like that is just one giant d*ck move.

Without this thread, I would have never even guessed to attack an enemy with its strong element and probably would have just stopped playing altogether.

[(Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr]

Originally posted by WeeCapo:

Originally posted by Eddiya!:

This may help: When Ashen Wills are "lit," hit them with an Earth magic attack from Victor. Avoid hitting them with a Wind magic attack.

Lit? Seem only a buff for all stats to them.. and in the infobox they result strong to earth..

This is true, you want to hit them with either earth or water magic when they buff. The idea is that they’re lighting the fire in their furnace and you use dirt or water to put it out. Basically earth magic will remove the buff even though the enemy takes less damage from earth.

An NPC in Sienna’s section gives you this hint.