I wasted my nuts.

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Aargh I was pretty annoyed to find that using my accuracy nuts (sharp nut?) on Oberic in order to have him hit with Thousand Spears more often did not make any difference.
Pretty annoying that type of thing. I feel like the game cheated me without explaining in game. And I had to find it on the web (which is often full of total spoilers to ruin the game completely, just near the info you need and you accidentally glance, then boom your game is ruined).
Anyhow I guess it does not matter too much since I am still hitting most times with other characters, meh.
Also did find another thing last night which super OP'd all my physical attackers but I will not discuss that. It may only work well against NPC's and not enemies. You may know what I am talking about. But often I find these things near start of game and at least found this one near end of game.
But let's get back on track talking about nuts. I think there's too many of them, and the strong (M) or (L) ones, mainly. Yesterday I spent 2 whole hours (total) deciding because I got a group of 3 nuts, 3 different times, and the question of who to use them on, and will I regret it later, is tedious and bothered me somewhat.
If you look at FF there are only a few of these permanent stat increase items and they increase your stat very slightly. I prefer that.

If we are talking about nuts I have to mention the squirrel (marmot?), when he used the "these nuts" skill, I had to LOL

[SaN]

I never search on the web on my first playthrough to avoid spoilers and to try to understand the game by myself.

Of course doing so I make mistakes, but making mistakes is part of the learning and anyway first playthrough can't be perfect.

Using Nuts effectively depends of your party and your strategy.

They increase base stats so the sooner a nut is used the more effective. Thats why the best is to know before starting a new game how to share nuts. This is impossible to understand on a first playthrough.

For example my last game I had Tressa, Therion, Alfyn and Ophilia.

Tressa was my main magical damage and Alfyn main physical damage.

Therion and Ophilia were supports characters.

So I used my nuts this way:

Tressa(Scholar/Runelord): Elemental damage

Alfyn(Warrior/Warmaster: Physical damage, Phys Def, Elemental Def, Critical, Accuracy, HP
Alfyn is my hardest character to be defeated and is able to save all my team as the last man standing.

Therion: Speed, Evasion, SP(for later when in some boss fight I switch him to Cleric or I want to use Share SP/Steal SP)

Ophilia: Nothing. Because I think she have enought SP and Elemental Def is easy to 999 with equipement.

[masternoxx1]

You've really gotta go thru the equip menu to see your actual stats when using said weapon and not the status menu.

And yes there is a stat cap as I recently found and had to reload a pretty old save.

I had wasted a ton of magic nuts looking at the status menu instead of the equip menu when my mage had reached 999 magic attack long ago (with +330 from staff).
So basically you don't want to raise most damage stats above 599 or so... although if you do go to 649 or so it frees up a passive job skill ability (the +50 to elem attack or phy attack ones)

Early in the game I used all the accuracy nuts on Oberic since I *thought* it would improve hits with Thousand Spears.. but its okay since I like him having high accuracy... it seems about 250 acc or so is adequate for most chars (my Oberic is 313 atm)

For example Oberic gets a +400 sword at the end so you dont want his attack at max level to be over 599 but before then you can use items like mighty belt or abilities like summon strength.

Overall I 'focus my nuts' mainly on 3 chars that I use all the time and don't focus much on the 4th which is getting changed a lot during the story, but as not much now.

So you can, easily totally waste your nuts starting around mid-late game, on Tressa or Oberic, most often.

Having a lot of nuts to use probably does increase replay value, meh, but it's quite an ordeal to replay this ...
I keep a ton of backup saves and I write down whenever I use the nuts... it's tedious af.. but that's what I do.

[masternoxx1]

Yep had so many games spoiled totally when looking on web.

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I was not even looking for that, but you can't unsee.
Bethesda games all have massive exploits like that...

[masternoxx1]

Looking on web u can get spoiler easy...

overall bad for gaming

[masternoxx1]

I did not look one thing for this game

[masternoxx1]

it is cheating but who cares?

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urgh

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Oberic, is the main char

[masternoxx1]

We love him as a char

[masternoxx1]

He's dumb but he fights LOL

[masternoxx1]

Fist of the north star?

[masternoxx1]

or just a 'good fighter'?

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Muh toof + ugly mom

[masternoxx1]

Yep If I were to fight them they would def Die.