Early-to-mid game build and general tips: Veronica

[somedude212]

Just like the previous posts, I will put the names in parenthesis if I don't know what it will be called in English version.

Veronica has three skill trees: "staff", whip, and "mage". Just like others, she doesn't gain access to all her skills in her trees until certain point in the game.

Early-to-mid game build advice:

1. "Staff" is okay. For active skills, she can learn a single-target fizzle (prevents enemy spell-casting), "caduceus" (heals one party member; that was its name in DQ VIII), "exorcism" (deals extra damage to devil type and has a chance to paralyze). Passives increase her max mp and attack magic power when equipped with staff, which are nice to have. She can unlock the skill that increases the crit rate of spells for all active party members (spells can crit in this game) so that's useful if you are running the party of spell casters, which would be the MC, Rab, Veronica, and Serena. Since powerful attack magic don't come until mid-game, I would save the points for other skills at this point.

2. Whip is not recommended if this is your first time playing it. Due to Veronica's low strength, many of the skills in this tree are not going to be useful until you get whips powerful enough to cover that. While whip skills have the advantage of inflicting status ailments and damage at the same time, Veronica is better off nuking enemies with her magic. That said, she can learn twin dragon lash (powerful whip skill that hits the enemy twice; this was the skill's name in DQ 8) so she has more damage potential than Sylvando if you stack those attack up passives for whips on her for mid-game.

3. "Mage" is the tree that you want to focus on. "Magic breath" (self-buff that regens MP every turn), and "magic awakening" (self-buff that greatly increases her attack magic power; think of it as the magical version of Oomph that only targets self) are excellent skills to pick up. Passives include increase to her max MP and attack magic power (useful) and stronger resistance to various elements, which are important due to how fragile she is.

General Tips:

1. She is hands down the most fragile member of the party. As she cannot equip shields and has the lowest HP pool, it is not uncommon for her to die in one turn during the boss battles even if she was at full HP beforehand. Giving her some life seeds (increase max HP) is recommended if you decide to use her for your main party.

2. To compensate for the above fragility, she becomes extremely powerful in the late game. Not only can she learn the most powerful spells for both single and multi targets, she can also obtain the passive that gives her chance to re-cast the spell she just used at no cost. Just make sure she is protected at all times as her low HP pool and inability to equip shields remain problems for her throughout the whole game.

3. Just like Serena, I do not recommend using skill seeds on her for the early-to-mid game. Most of useful spells for her at that point come from level-ups and by the time she reaches those levels, you should have enough skill points to learn whatever skills you want.

[NeverSleeper]

You could have added these to the other discussion, this is essentially spam.

[somedude212]

I was thinking about that but both the title and contents for sisters combined together ended up being too long even if these two are individually much shorter and less depth than what I wrote for Erik and the MC. Another thing is that I prefer people would ask about one character in the topic dedicated to him/her if they have any question.

[NeverSleeper]

Originally posted by somedude212:

I was thinking about that but both the title and contents for sisters combined together ended up being too long even if these two are individually much shorter and less depth than what I wrote for Erik and the MC. Another thing is that I prefer people would ask about one character in the topic dedicated to him/her if they have any question.

You should combine all of this into one topic, there's no need to spam the board.

[See you Space Cowboy...]

These are really helpful and well-written topics. They're absolutely not "Spam" and it's pretty rude of you to call them that.

[SGTPALOOZA]

not spam at all.

[SGTPALOOZA]

Also, thank you for taking the time to try and help newcomers!

[jenovaschild]

Agree its not spam, and easily found advice for this characters build.

[NeverSleeper]

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[jenovaschild]

Originally posted by NeverSleeper:

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