Duels to test artes

[Daigotsu]

I saw a video when a guy was playing with himself, I guess to test combos. Like Velvet Vs Eleanor. How to do it?

[Fel]

("playing with himself" is a funny way to phrase it)

Are you sure it's not actually one of the scripted battles?
You fight Eleonore a few times during the story, at least once in a duel where you only have velvet.

If it's not that, then I'm sorry ut I have no idea, but I'd like to know too.

[Predator Goose]

I wanted this really bad when I played Zestiria - just like a practice dummy to try out arte combinations, see how they flowed together, stacked, etc. I'd be very happy if Berseria had something to this effect

[Simon]

Originally posted by Predator Goose:

I wanted this really bad when I played Zestiria - just like a practice dummy to try out arte combinations, see how they flowed together, stacked, etc. I'd be very happy if Berseria had something to this effect

There is one, kind of... It is the "Slash Beat" mini game.

[Fel]

Slash beat definitely lets you try out a combo you already wanted to try, but the time limit does mean that experimentation is not really a viable option (you have to launch the "battle" again and again after setting what you want to try).

One of the better ways might be to equip as weak of a gear as possible, put the difficulty down to simple, and go to an area as late as possible with "big" enemies (dragon and golems usually are good for that).
Set your team to be defensive, and you should have enemies that still have a decent-ish HP pool to take a few hits.

If you didn't kill him yet, Titan (code red in the volcano dungeon) is barely anything more than a golem with more HP and better defensive stats, so he could be a decent sand bag.
In normal and above, I think he even negates the elements he is resistant towards, and with his fairly slow move set he shouldn't pose too much of a threat.

[Daigotsu]

Can't find the video anymore. WIsh there was an easy way to test stuff, might do the puch bag strategy. hehehe

[Grin]

What he probably used in the video is the cheat engine table that allowed you to edit your party to you liking. Such as being able to have 6 eizens.