Gerard farming ??

[Lauro]

Is it bad to farm a little with him?? Are there any ramificatins to farming ?? Each generation??

[Chester]

It isn't necessarily bad (especially if you're on a lower difficulty) but it won't help you as much as you might think it would. The more battles you fight, the quicker the "enemy level" will rise, increasing enemy stats (you can see the value on the Empire Revenue screen) - which is fine, that'll give you more TP experience rewards and they're going to get raised at some point anyway. But if you want to grind you'll probably want to do it when you have access to better weapons, have raised the Empire's Revenue per fight a little higher, or have more units with a greater range of skill sparking potential. The total battles you have fought will impact a few other things subtle things, but I won't spoil it and it won't matter too much.

If you're a player who has more fun with grinding, then don't feel too pressured to play a different way than you like. But if you're doing it hoping to get an advantage, there's better times to do it than with Gerard, like if you want to grind up some cash to build a structure/smith a weapon, or if you think a generation change is coming and you've still got plenty of lightbulbs next to your skills (and you really won't need to grind at any point in this game).

[Sigs]

yeah it is bad. I think they miscaclulated whatever nerf they gave Gerard.

Before Leon dies and mindjacks him, he's a black hole of XP. He learns at something like 70% slower than other characters at level 0-- you can visibly notice the others can gain a new skill at lightning speed compared to him.

After Leon mindjacks him, he's still slightly slower to learn skills than other characters, but is almost functional. He's still a net loss of experience for your party, and *appears* to have a slight damage nerf. Similar statted- characters with the same skill level and weapon will do more damage than him, at least from my limited experiments

End the tutorial immediately and abdicate the moment he takes the throne officially after you kill Kzinissie. You both get a new formation from your new emperor and ditch the dead weight that is Gerard. Your new Emperor can add to the Kingdom's overall skill levels at the normal rate and learn skills at the normal rate.

You unlock abilities, which are a reason to fight battles to learn and master them, improvements like the blacksmith (takes battles to complete, takes battles to forge items, takes a time skip to buy them in shops), the lab (takes battles to finish, takes battles to research mixed spells), etc. Gerard and Leon's story is the tutorial, and there's no reason to stay with the tutorial emperor.

[Shadowfox]

Originally posted by Sigs:

yeah it is bad. I think they miscaclulated whatever nerf they gave Gerard.

Before Leon dies and mindjacks him, he's a black hole of XP. He learns at something like 70% slower than other characters at level 0-- you can visibly notice the others can gain a new skill at lightning speed compared to him.

After Leon mindjacks him, he's still slightly slower to learn skills than other characters, but is almost functional. He's still a net loss of experience for your party, and *appears* to have a slight damage nerf. Similar statted- characters with the same skill level and weapon will do more damage than him, at least from my limited experiments

End the tutorial immediately and abdicate the moment he takes the throne officially after you kill Kzinissie. You both get a new formation from your new emperor and ditch the dead weight that is Gerard. Your new Emperor can add to the Kingdom's overall skill levels at the normal rate and learn skills at the normal rate.

You unlock abilities, which are a reason to fight battles to learn and master them, improvements like the blacksmith (takes battles to complete, takes battles to forge items, takes a time skip to buy them in shops), the lab (takes battles to finish, takes battles to research mixed spells), etc. Gerard and Leon's story is the tutorial, and there's no reason to stay with the tutorial emperor.

i found it funny that at least in the tutorial you actually do more damage with hes fists 10 damage then with hes short sword 7 damage

[KsiadzThePriest]

Gerard is not for martial arts/weapons. He learns magic a lot faster. I discovered it when got 2 lvl of Fire magic after defeating first doppleganger. And then he does more dmg with basic spell than other party member with weapon they specialize.