Estelle orbments

[Frost]

Which did you use for the last chapter?
She's pretty useless for me for some reason. :/

[myhr2]

Estelle is the most flexible character in my opinion. Here are some set-up I use for her :

- physical attacker with support Arts. Equip her with two Tiger Hearts, and she'll have quite decent attack, awesome defense, and can still bring a lot of support Arts due to her orbment, with enough EP to actually use them. You want to try avoiding equiping Defense quartz in that set-up, or it'll ruin her attack.

- physical attacker. Tiger Heart + a CP-generating accessory. Wheel of Time is one of the strongest mono-target S-Craft in the whole game, it can really help to get rid of troublesome ennemies in Boss Fights right away, and is awesome afterwards to just...kill the Boss. ^^ Also, her interrupt craft is Aoe and deals subsential amounts of damage. Again, skip Defense quartz.

- support caster. I had very good results with her as a support/heal, because she's quite resilient, with good HP and Defense, and again, enough EP to spam Arts. Her Magic attack isn't very good, but you can improve it with minimal effort, and since she's resilient you can actually sacrifice her magic defense with a high Mind Quartz (not that usual casters suffer that much either, but, hey, less HP...) Earth+Water+Wind quartz and you have a very very resilient healer. Equip Impede quartz over the magic defense one for Wind elements.

[That's ich!]

Depending on your Party. Estelle is pretty flexible and can fit alot of roles.
For Example i had Kloe/Kevin with me during the final Dungeon, so i used her as a Bruiser/semi-support Hybrid
http://imgur.com/a/Abr5X

[Frost]

Thanks guys, I was just getting really tired of her doing 0 damage on the bosses unless I was using Arts. It's because she's so flexible that I'm having issues cause I hadn't really picked a "spec" per'se.

[Serge]

Estelle is the most flexible party member you can have, that's one of the reason she's the main character. I put the attack orb and tiger heart on her, also give her the red gem orbment (forgot the name) and she was doing around >1000 damage to the last boss. I'm sure if you equip her with the right orbments she can be a decent caster too.

[irg Horse Edition]

For the most part I dedicate one line to Arts and the other to... pretty much whatever you want.

At the centre slot I use EP Cut 5 for its vital use in combat and extra high elemental value.

For Line 1 I use Mind 5, HP 5, and Impede 5/Evade 5. This gives her every healing spell with exception of revives. Basically you can make her a competent white mage with average ATS and potentially decent STR to boot. ADF isn't terribly concerning to me if you know what you're doing against the final bosses when they try to cast.

I opt for her as a tanky support mage, so my Line 2 is typically Cast 2, Defence 5 and EP 5, but the only important Art this really offers is Earth Wall and maybe some Time Arts. Otherwise, it's pretty free range and could be swapped out for maybe Attack 5, Action 5, etc.

[LrdDimwit]

I found that - on Normal difficulty anyway - you simply have no choice but to equip Attack or mind quartz, and lose the Defense/ADF ones (since they decrease the relevant damage stat), if you want to do damage. Enemy defense is so high in the endgame that if you don't, you'll do piddly damage or no damage even if you're leveled appropriately.

Granted, I screwed up getting 2 ultimate weapons (I only got the one for Joshua and didn't feel like re-doing most of the last chapter to get the second one). But without them, you pretty much have to optimize for damage or you won't do any.

[Frost]

Originally posted by LrdDimwit:

I found that - on Normal difficulty anyway - you simply have no choice but to equip Attack or mind quartz, and lose the Defense/ADF ones (since they decrease the relevant damage stat), if you want to do damage. Enemy defense is so high in the endgame that if you don't, you'll do piddly damage or no damage even if you're leveled appropriately.

Granted, I screwed up getting 2 ultimate weapons (I only got the one for Joshua and didn't feel like re-doing most of the last chapter to get the second one). But without them, you pretty much have to optimize for damage or you won't do any.

I didn't get either for my first play through, I just ground out levels. How do you get the ultimate weapons? lol

[AnemoneMeer]

Estelle may be super flexible, but her baseline values in any given stat aren't high enough to work well in the higher difficulties. She largely compensates with powerful abilities. Wheel of Time being a complete monster offensively, Morale being a solid support buff, etc.

On higher difficulties, she's not capable of putting out damage outside of stuff like Wheel of Time abuse, so it's better to take advantage of her versatile orbment to slot in buffs and such and have her act as a support unit for Agate/Olivier/Whoever else you want to use.

[Arvelon]

Originally posted by AnemoneMeer:

On higher difficulties, she's not capable of putting out damage outside of stuff like Wheel of Time abuse

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Ahahahaha.
Sorry, but no.

Originally posted by Kitsune:

Which did you use for the last chapter?

Primary damaging caster. With Ingenuity.
Completed game on hard, not completed on nightmare yet, because of cold steel.

Originally posted by Kitsune:

She's pretty useless for me for some reason. :/

Use specialization. All on STR, or all on ATS, if you want damage.
You can get +200 ATS, +15 SPD (or +10?) + immunity set of items, in case of offencive caster. Add mind 5, ingenuity, EP cut 5, action 5, cast 2, defence 5 for boss battles and wood gem or absorb.