Difficulty (Hard)

[Lup]

How u guys think of the difficulty, specialy on Hard ??
Im on the 2nd village in the catacomb, I customize my team to have full set of ats/spells against ennemy weakness so I have 8 turns, I ambush them, but they manage to kill 3 ppl of my party

Idk what to do, my team is customize to beat them with only weakness so I wonder if ur game are the same as me.
Maybe its my gear set (I didn't buy much) but how ur games doing ? Do u feel the same ?

[REBirthTheEdge]

I usually get party wipe in the first dungeon, I am genuinely enjoying the challenge and testing out different builds.

[SKINLESSHEAD]

Use brawler and knight. They get a good synergy attack that uses hp. Good for killing mobs fast and preserving mp.

[GoatToHeal]

Thankfully It's harder than Persona for sure, but definitely not as challenging as I was expecting (hopefully regicide fulfills that!).
So far any challenge to me has boiled down to losing once and then recomposing my party to destroy the enemy like SMT.
The enemies having an extra press-turn is great though! That makes ambushes especially devastating and annoying haha.

[Klinestife]

just finished the third main dungeon and i can’t really say i’m running into the same issue. from what i understand, you don’t have the damage output to actually kill them with all your extra turns. new gear helps, but you should also be using brawler or faker synergies to wipe the mobs.

[Lup]

yea I have 2 brawlers, one shadow and a merchant, but the big boy in red weak to light element is a tough one and I can't kill him in 8 turns ahahah
I only bought 1 armor that cost 40k and the rest of my gear are the ones dropped in dungeons

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by GoatToHeal:

Thankfully It's harder than Persona for sure, but definitely not as challenging as I was expecting (hopefully regicide fulfills that!).
So far any challenge to me has boiled down to losing once and then recomposing my party to destroy the enemy like SMT. :SMT5V_JackFrost:
The enemies having an extra press-turn is great though! That makes ambushes especially devastating and annoying haha.

Yep, ambush is the kneecapper in this game.

[Klinestife]

Originally posted by Lup:

yea I have 2 brawlers, one shadow and a merchant, but the big boy in red weak to light element is a tough one and I can't kill him in 8 turns ahahah
I only bought 1 armor that cost 40k and the rest of my gear are the ones dropped in dungeons

for that one specifically, i had to use healer with double brawler to have the damage output to kill him before he gets unstunned.

[Lup]

Yea so my only issue is my gear I guess

[FireWalkWithMe]

I found it kind of similar to persona difficulty but since you can't use wildcard to change your class on the fly, it did little but use up more time. It also gives the enemies one more move every turn.

You basically need at least 1 character to have a weakness exploiting move for every elite fight if not two or sometimes three. Typically my first fight was info gathering then I would restart and set up an optimal team to exploit the weakness. This felt like a tedious chore that just sucked up more time.

Also, because the enemies had one more turn every time, this could result in a ridiculous RNG round where they land a critical (getting another turn) and would wipe my team no matter how tactical the earlier part of the fight is (most of the time they wouldn't even wipe the team outright, just kill one person and start a kill/revive/heal quagmire that was impossible to come out ahead (maybe they should have critical healing or something ffs).

While yes, I had to dig deeper with item usage (especially MP items) and such, none of this really made the game any more fun (and tactically, it didn't change much), and I know it's going to be long enough as it is.

To each their own, but I changed it to normal and have never looked back.

[Wsp]

I started on Hard mode and kept with it throughout the game. Early on I used knight's proclamation a lot to protect the damage dealers or to stabalise. Don't forget to buff/debuff as much as you can during boss battles. You are rewarded for grinding too, so maybe you can do some. At least they made it less time consuming in Metaphor with the overworld battling. Good luck!

[Watermill]

im doing regicide mode with a clean save file so no NG+ anything carried over and im doing fine. buy weapons before anything after each town. the damage increase from higher statted weapons makes a world of difference in time to kill.