Did they buff Lv. 3 arts?

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

From what I remember, they weren't worth using since they take so long, so previous arts would be better for Beast Awakening. I know they've upped the combat speed, but have they seperately buffed the Lv. 3 arts in any way, or should I be sticking to non Lv. 3 arts?

I'll probably still use them when I'm not expecting I'll use Beast Awakening, but it annoyed me how much time those arts took. It was hard justifying their use, especially with their early SP cost before you leveled up your weapon skill

[ShinkuTear]

Level 3 Arts have not been buffed. So while they do result in faster skill recharge, the Level 2 arts are still ideal if you ever bother with using Beast Awakening *and* Arts at the same time

But this brings up a question of my own: What do you have to use Beast Awakening on, where you would also care about specific arts? Are you fighting the Forest of Pain end boss at a low level? Unless I am horribly mistaken, everything in Vol3 is easy enough that you can either just level a bit, or use Beast Awakening and flatten it with normal attacks.

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

Originally posted by ShinkuTear:

Level 3 Arts have not been buffed. So while they do result in faster skill recharge, the Level 2 arts are still ideal if you ever bother with using Beast Awakening *and* Arts at the same time

But this brings up a question of my own: What do you have to use Beast Awakening on, where you would also care about specific arts? Are you fighting the Forest of Pain end boss at a low level? Unless I am horribly mistaken, everything in Vol3 is easy enough that you can either just level a bit, or use Beast Awakening and flatten it with normal attacks.

I actually rarely ever used Beast Awakening in the original, but at the same time I never really did everything there was to do. Back then I beat Doppelganger, but I used the Sleipnir trick. I never really did the Forest of Pain either, or any of the Abyss quests. This information was less asking how I should play the game, and more like information I'd like handy incase I need it and struggle with a certain boss.

Also, it was also to vent my slight (very slight) frustration about the topic. The weapon levels in Vol. 3 are meant to revolve around the Lv. 3 arts, but it's not a big boost or anything with Beast Awakenings in mind. It doesn't completely nullify them or their appeal, but it slightly dampers my desire to actually level my weapon skills. This was a more personal thing I guess

[ShinkuTear]

Ah right, my mistake. Didn't mean to sound pushy or anything.

Well, if you farmed the skill points books hard enough in Vol1(like I did), you can get main allies to Lv24+ for their weapon, which is when the Lv3 arts really start kicking butt, especially if it is someone with a strong Lv3 Art, like Pi, Endrance, and Silabus... If you didn't farm the books much, I believe Arena is open for free use fairly early into the Vol3 story, if you wanna grind skill levels there... and manual use still works.

If you really feel you need that extra power, yeah, Level 2 arts the still the most efficient IIRC... but Beast Awakening on its own is probly enough? Level 3 arts aren't bad to use, IMO, just expensive as heck at first.

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

Originally posted by ShinkuTear:

Ah right, my mistake. Didn't mean to sound pushy or anything.

Well, if you farmed the skill points books hard enough in Vol1(like I did), you can get main allies to Lv24+ for their weapon, which is when the Lv3 arts really start kicking butt, especially if it is someone with a strong Lv3 Art, like Pi, Endrance, and Silabus... If you didn't farm the books much, I believe Arena is open for free use fairly early into the Vol3 story, if you wanna grind skill levels there... and manual use still works.

If you really feel you need that extra power, yeah, Level 2 arts the still the most efficient IIRC... but Beast Awakening on its own is probly enough? Level 3 arts aren't bad to use, IMO, just expensive as heck at first.

No worries, I definitely didn't take it that way, it just sounded like an honest question to me.

Yeah, I actually did level up my weapons to max before moving onto the next volume, so I have 21 of all three, after just starting Vol. 3, which is nice. I didn't really pay attention to everyone else's weapon levels though, especially since I swap party members fairly often. I know they level up when they aren't in your party, but does that include their weapon levels?