Did I mess up? (Can't subdue demons with my current skills)

[nadi]

Hi there! First time asking something in the Steam forums, but I am really confused.

I am already 7-8 hours in and haven't caught a single demon. I feel like I am stuck now. At first I had no clue that you can only use elemental DAMAGE spells to Down demons and that all the others elemental spells had no effect for that. Because I wanted all my characters to have different elements, I missed the opportuniyt for Hugo to learn fireball with his guardian and instead taught him some Ice spell. But I didn't encounter any demons with weakness to that. In videos I saw people using elemental damage spells with demons they fused for other characters as well - but I just don't GET any of demons, so that isn't an option. Is there any way I can still catch some? Could Hugo still learn a fire damage spell with his guardian? Or should I start over? (I am not to enthusiastic abiut that option.)

Any tipps super welcome. thank you :)

[mbran031]

This situation sounds like an absolute nightmare lol. I was only able to start downing demons because I had Hugo learn fireball. Being able to slowly acquire demons after that helped to eventually get the other elemental damage spells on other party members, which makes battles progress smoothly and at the same rhythm/tempo as Persona 5 battles by the second dungeon.

I guess just...level up and hope someone else learns a damage spell? But that's gonna take a long a*s time with how slowly battles will go if you're not hitting elemental weaknesses.

Stay strong brotha, hopefully the game devs will have a bit of mercy on players and patch this nonsense.

[RuthlessWind]

So later in the game, you will find some demons who are weak to Wind and Thunder. That's your best bet to start catching demons.

But if you don't want to wait, craft a demon catcher in your room. It has a 100% demon catching rate (except Elite and Bosses) and that should allow you to jump start your demon taming career.

[mbran031]

Where do you find the demon essence? I'm in the second dungeon and haven't seen any.

[TwinSails_Matt]

Hi Nadi!

We're sorry that you have encountered issues with the monster taming.. We are working on making these aspects clearer for the players in future patches.
Few tips to help you:
1- You can only tame a 'downed' demon and it must be the last standing demon or all the demons must be downed with the demon to try to capture.
2- To down a demon you must use an element the demon is weak to (as you have learned on the video). You can look at the stats of each demon during combat.
3- There are some rare items that help you with the capturing aspects Demon Catcher & knock-out items

Hope this helps :)

[RuthlessWind]

Hey Matt.

I have a question regarding point 1. From my experience, player can tame monsters by downing all the demons (no matter how many are still standing/alive). Is that not how it is supposed to work?
(Of course the player can only tame one demon after which the Down status disappears for the remaining demons).

[Enchantress]

Originally posted by nadi:

Hi there! First time asking something in the Steam forums, but I am really confused.

I am already 7-8 hours in and haven't caught a single demon. I feel like I am stuck now. At first I had no clue that you can only use elemental DAMAGE spells to Down demons and that all the others elemental spells had no effect for that. Because I wanted all my characters to have different elements, I missed the opportuniyt for Hugo to learn fireball with his guardian and instead taught him some Ice spell. But I didn't encounter any demons with weakness to that. In videos I saw people using elemental damage spells with demons they fused for other characters as well - but I just don't GET any of demons, so that isn't an option. Is there any way I can still catch some? Could Hugo still learn a fire damage spell with his guardian? Or should I start over? (I am not to enthusiastic abiut that option.)

Any tipps super welcome. thank you :)

don't worry as u progress this gets much easier (i'm 12 hours in and am finally getting them almost every round), especially with the tools u can make to help that the dev mentioned above. knock out bombs are great...if the last one standing has low enough health, use that and as long as he isn't too high of level u should get them each time.

[TwinSails_Matt]

Originally posted by RuthlessWind:

Hey Matt.

I have a question regarding point 1. From my experience, player can tame monsters by downing all the demons (no matter how many are still standing/alive). Is that not how it is supposed to work?
(Of course the player can only tame one demon after which the Down status disappears for the remaining demons).

It was a miss-use of words on my side (I've edited my post), you can indeed capture a demon while other demons are still alive but they all must be downed. Which in my opinion is more complicated than to defeat all the demons you do not want and only keep the one you wish to capture.

[XT]

Oh, is that why I'm so far in the game and have never seen demon essence other than two you can find (so I can't craft the capture item) nor captured anything but that one demon you can persuade via chat?

[SuperBearCat]

Originally posted by RuthlessWind:

So later in the game, you will find some demons who are weak to Wind and Thunder. That's your best bet to start catching demons.

But if you don't want to wait, craft a demon catcher in your room. It has a 100% demon catching rate (except Elite and Bosses) and that should allow you to jump start your demon taming career.

i can't craft... crafting table isn't clickable in my room...

[TwinSails_Matt]

Hi Beruang Fighter!
On which crafting table you are working on ? Could you please contact our customer support: https://asmodee.helpshift.com/hc/en/90-bloomtown/
We'll try to find a solution for you and a fix for the rest of the community.
Thank you for your help :)

[SuperBearCat]

Originally posted by TwinSails_Matt:

Hi Beruang Fighter!
On which crafting table you are working on ? Could you please contact our customer support: https://asmodee.helpshift.com/hc/en/90-bloomtown/
We'll try to find a solution for you and a fix for the rest of the community.
Thank you for your help :)

I was in a story portion where I wasnt allowed to fast travel or craft.