Frustration.

[Alacod]

Let's get this out the way, I'm enjoying the game but there are some frustrations with game design that irk the sht out of me. First one being, In a game were time management is important the eating meals together at night is annoying. It does nothing to add depth to characters or move the plot forward, it literally just eats your time.

Another pet peeve is "Bond opportunities" Have an incredibly small window for some companions while others they hammer you with. Ex: Maria is rank 6 and Brigitta is 4, I'm only on month 7 day 10 they just throw these 2 at you back to back. Yet you have a small 2 day window before starting the Heismay bounty quest and only while traveling to do Strohl rank 4 Bond, if you miss that you have to wait until you complete the entire Martia questline before he can trigger his bond again. There is no clear reason why it locks his bond quest, it's literally just because.



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Rank 4 is important because he get another inheritance slot.

[joshgold]

if you play relatively efficiently you can easily max everyone's bonds and do all the side dungeons, I'm on the last month and have 15 days with nothing to do, so don't worry about it too much

[AH-1 Cobra]

Those merchants that let you only buy 1 of an item at a time, and filter you through a gauntlet of confirmation boxes in order to purchase that 1 item.

[Tiasmoon]

Strohl is kind of the exception. It seems to be common for players to have issues leveling him and get stuck with him for a while. On the flip side, he is also the only one you can get to rank 8 without requiring a stat to be at 4+

So he is one of the followers you can max the easiest.

[Unforgiven]

just wait till you get to NG+ and think you can use all that gear and skills you farmed in the last 1h of the first playthrough just to find out that the enemies are totally not adjusted for it and you just 1 shot everything even with white gear because your archetypes are all max lvl from the get go (on regicide btw)
rly disappointed with ng+ and regicide so far (2nd city)

[Zufuse]

About time management...the trick is always finish the dungeon in 1-2 days and you'll have all the time in the world. I recommend finishing all bounty mission, and main quest while farming exp in the dungeons, before upgrading your followers. Reaching at least lvl 60 will brute force everything from early to mid game. There's really no disadvantages at choosing followers to upgrade first, but I recommend finishing the first followers you've met before moving to new one. For me, I just choose who's available. Time in this game doesn't really matter, at least for me.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Strohl is kind of the exception. It seems to be common for players to have issues leveling him and get stuck with him for a while. On the flip side, he is also the only one you can get to rank 8 without requiring a stat to be at 4+

So he is one of the followers you can max the easiest.

im also at 7/10 and have strohl at like rank 6 so its really just a matter of time efficiency lol

[Thunderclaude]

For me the most frustrating game flaws are the random stuns wearing off during attacks, no way of being able to see an enemy's debuffs other than the animation on their bodies, and the idea of enemies scaling harder is just "oh, lets give the enemy a move that instantly gives him 4 more turns". I'm enjoying the game for the most part though.

[Unforgiven]

The bonds are particularly annoying, you unlock most of the tier 3 Archetypes in the last 10% of the game and barely get to use them, Mages and berserker are even worse, you literally get them for the last 5 dungeons only
Also ng+ literally resetting all bonds to 0 so you have to spend a ton of days again to max them and AGAIN can only use most cool archetypes for 5-10% of the game.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Strohl is kind of the exception. It seems to be common for players to have issues leveling him and get stuck with him for a while. On the flip side, he is also the only one you can get to rank 8 without requiring a stat to be at 4+

So he is one of the followers you can max the easiest.

im also at 7/10 and have strohl at like rank 6 so its really just a matter of time efficiency lol

It's not, ranks 7 and 8 are all locked behind specific ingame dates, so even if you fulfil the requirements you can't unlock them until that specific date