tips for a beginner?

[george constanza kinnie]

I really enjoyed FFT when I played earlier this year, but I am pretty bad with strategy games (even on easy...) Do you have any tips to keep in mind, like reccommended builds for Denam or classes to watch out for?

[Black Hammer]

Archers are extremely good. As in, borderline to grossly OP, depending on your perspective. There are a few reasons for this.

1. Ranged attacks, even beyond the listed range of the weapon. You can shoot things really far away with good positioning, usually with no risk of counterattack. Even if the target is also an archer, their shot isn't guaranteed to even get near you. This allows you to weaken or even delete enemy troops before they engage. Whether that means blowing out their tank, or just sniping their healer.

2. Because they don't need to move to attack, their turn comes up more often. So they get more attacks.

3. They hit surprisingly hard, given the first two points.

You can do worse than running two archers most of the time. (You can safely leave Canopus in his base class if you want, it's basically archer with slightly less damage but better mobility, but the mobility is worth having.)

Aside from that, you always want a couple of healers around. Early on, that's your clerics, but also rune knights and regular knights get the basic heal spell. The AI tends to focus fire, so until you have a better way to keep damage on your tanky sorts, you'll need healing to keep the AI from burning one or two specific units down immediately.

Keep Denam out of magic classes. There are a few fights where he'll be relatively alone, so you don't want him to be too glassy. Or to have a minimum attack range (like with bows).

Regarding wizards/enchantresses, they are pretty underwhelming early, due to the spells you have access to early. The damage spells have lousy firing arcs and mediocre damage, while the status effects are going to be sitting at 50% accuracy even with spellstrike. Landing a Charm can be huge, though, and you're going to want their cudgel skill leveled up later on, so fielding one at least in training battles is decent practice.

Pay attention to the level cap rising after fights. The game will occasionally raise it several levels between fights, and if you're new to strategy games don't handicap yourself.

Knights are good to have around early for a couple reasons. They are, unfortunately, quite slow (both in movement and turn speed). Still, Rampart Aura (blocks enemy movement), access to healing spells, and good durability means you'll want to keep one around for a while to protect your back line somewhat. Do NOT use the Phalanx skill; it just makes the AI ignore your knight in favor of attacking something else.

Don't forget to equip the revive item on a few different characters. You don't want people to go down for a number of reasons (not least because revive items are expensive), but better to drop some cash on a revive than have to replay an entire fight.

[kongol36]

get the originals,,,

[Lacdanan]

There's a lot of mechanics that aren't clearly explained, like weapon types, which armour is better against what damage. Weather and terrain affect elements, or at least use to. All questions you answer aren't there for flavour. You can find all this stuff out in the Warren report like the tutorial says, but most people don't read that stuff. I wouldn't really worry about it too much to start but it is something to consider since you can't simply level your way out of situations like you use to. It's more of a thing you figure out how the basics work and how your classes can work together or not. There's really no wrong way to go at it, and a "♥♥♥♥ around and find out" attitude is only a problem if you hit a wall that you can't seem to get by.

[D's Journal]

Originally posted by Benkei Kuruma:

Honestly this is a great game for a beginner.

How is this comapred to Triangle Strat?
Do units die for good?

[george constanza kinnie]

Thank you for the tips, but now I'm wondering when is it a good time to change classes for characters

[Black Hammer]

Originally posted by LORE OF PISS!!!!:

Thank you for the tips, but now I'm wondering when is it a good time to change classes for characters

Whenever you want someone in that class. Very little is tied to the character specifically aside from their base level and weapon level, so switching around doesn't really lose you anything. There's no permanent stat growth tied to levels, from what I can see.

[T//KRL]

Don't forget to check out the spells section of the store to deck out all your wizards and clerics with a full set of 4 spells. Also unlike most clerics, Cautia can learn the light damaging spell Spiritsurge, which can let her finish off weakened enemies from afar, and that's one of the things the AI seems pretty good at doing.

If you have trouble with the early battle at quadriga fortress, but you can head back to tackle different story battles and return once you're a bit higher leveled. Tackling it right away at level 5 can be real fun because you might have to work on some strategy to make it happen, and prepare well by taking multiple clerics, but it's a tough fight for sure because everything is level 6-7 and your level cap is only level 5 at that moment. The other fights in chapter 1 are a bit easier.

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

Archers are extremely good. As in, borderline to grossly OP, depending on your perspective. There are a few reasons for this.

Archers are still very good, just want to point out that if you're basing this on the previous versions at all, Archers are much less strong in this game. Or maybe Defense just works better now in general? For the Most part I notice archers seem to do incredible damage against units like mages and other archers, getting those big 100+ damage hits in, but pretty weak vs more defensive units like Knights and Warriors, sometimes hitting for 10-20. The other points of why they're great still hold up, just the damage is a bit lower now.

[guering]

Don't rush it, it's called Tactics for a reason. Take your time and move in blocks, let the enemy come first and use ranged meanwhile

[bshock]

Archers are really only strong against back line units now. Just try to bait enemy units and use common sense. Rushing will get you killed.