Laphicet AI broken?

[alicerinz]

For whatever reason he just refuses to use his Mystic Arte. Had him in my party all the way from Vortingern to Merchio, but didn't see him do it a single time.

[MobySlick]

For me he does use them, but rarely. Like once per 20-30 fights. Maybe certain conditions have to be met for that, and for whatever reason, you're just not hitting that particular case in your battles?... IDK but I hope you can get him going.

[alicerinz]

Originally posted by MobySlick:

For me he does use them, but rarely. Like once per 20-30 fights. Maybe certain conditions have to be met for that, and for whatever reason, you're just not hitting that particular case in your battles?... IDK but I hope you can get him going.

Thats honestly hard to believe seeing how Velvet is performing Annihilating Crash every 12 seconds and Rokurou uses Final Judgement more than his first MA.

Why would #2 be any different?

[Sup3rNo7a]

Not sure. For me Phi uses Indignation (3rd MA) more than his other 2 Mystic Artes combined at this point, because all he has to do is Break Soul three times in a row and pop, there it goes (same as Eleanor and Eizen). lol

Only thing I can think of is to make sure you didn't accidentally disable his Mystic Arte usage in the Strategy menu, and maybe even set his BG usage strategy specifically to have him do Mystic Artes if it's not already.

If that's all fine, it could just be his AI wasn't feeling like doing it, or maybe the enemies were harassing him just enough to prevent him from doing it.

Edit: Out of curiosity, what are his AI Strategy settings set to?

[alicerinz]

Originally posted by Sup3rNo7a:

Not sure. For me Phi uses Indignation (3rd MA) more than his other 2 Mystic Artes combined at this point, because all he has to do is Break Soul three times in a row and pop, there it goes (same as Eleanor and Eizen). lol

Only thing I can think of is to make sure you didn't accidentally disable his Mystic Arte usage in the Strategy menu, and maybe even set his BG usage strategy specifically to have him do Mystic Artes if it's not already.

If that's all fine, it could just be his AI wasn't feeling like doing it, or maybe the enemies were harassing him just enough to prevent him from doing it.

Edit: Out of curiosity, what are his AI Strategy settings set to?

Soul Break - Up to You

BG - Mystic Arte

Attack/Healing - Aggressive

Engage At Range

Rescue Allies in Danger

Think thats it. He used Divide Pain around 730 times already. Binding Order was used twice, Chaos Boom was used several times ( It was me chaining into him ),
Indignation was never used.

[Sup3rNo7a]

I don't personally like using Engage at Range because the enemies seem to have an easier time interrupting whatever the AI is trying to do (since they prioritize gaining distance from an enemy before attacking, which is difficult when the enemy is constantly chasing them). I tend to prefer setting them to Target Weaknesses.

I also prefer Break Soul usage being set to For Attacking so that they're more likely to use them during combo chains, but Up to You should work okay as well for general purpose use.

Maybe give those tweaks a try and see if it makes any difference.

[{ST}Immortal Nub]

When he attacks at a range, he will run away if enemies get too close. By the time he has some distance, he has more sg to use in his combo, so there would be no point to use the mystic arte.