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SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambitions |OT| So Good It Sells Itself
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It depends who/what you're using, what version you're fighting, what BR you are around, and what phase you need help with. None of the sections have a singular and direct easy answer. You need to understand the game mechanics and tailor your strategy around your party and your specific problem.
Urpina and Taria both have similar 3 Act structures. Yes, still on act one.
Dual wield is your best friend for Urpina.
Personally I found having everyone max level health (999) helped but it's not necessary. Speed is king though, I used my most mobile characters plus a mage. Either that or have speed debuffs handy on a character. Maxed out thunder spell really wrecks the boss as well.
One just popped up when I found a secret
shrine in that province where you go on pilgrimage. I think it was Macha, if I remember well. Wasn't too bad to fight but really cool to see.
999 HP is overkill. Across my four playthroughs I only eclipsed 800 HP with like 2 or 3 characters. Turn order matters a whole ton, but it matters for some versions of the boss much more than others. If it is doing Stun/Confusion, yes, you need to go first, so speed debuff, Mobility, and
Make sure you are using a formation that fits your party. If Urpina is main DPS with Dual Whirlwind, try to get it Rank 2 and use Sweeping Strikes formation so it costs 2 BP. If you need to go first, Free For All is great. If you want to do the mage strategy, use any of the mage or Incantation- formations. Hell, if you're going for a single target enemy, you can even use the dumb Frenzy formation.
The game is extremely well-balanced, and different strategies are going to be required depending on what characters/weapons you are using and what main/path/ending you are heading towards.
Landing Speed/Defense debuffs on the first turn is super useful, and is one of the reasons why I think higher Mobility builds for Clubs/Axes are under-appreciated.
I was reading the tips section and learned that it's easier to land ailments if the enemy already has ailments. This blew my mind. I tried it out and it seems like cycling poison, paralysis, and sleep against enemies who are susceptible to all of them is super potent. You can basically just ailment lock them.
That's why that is one of the Bonus Rewards conditions. The Bonus conditions aren't "challenges", they are there to guide the player into playing the game "correctly".
Protects on key characters helps when the final boss is doing stun spam too, so don't approach it like you can only do anything with your fastest characters. The sooner you get your mage started casting the better.
Sure, it's this one:
The initially item that starts it off is just lying on the ground in
Provincia Cerenaif
Emporer's Saw wasn't in one place for me, I had to keep chasing the people who had taken it across several regions. But to start you can
take the port that's to the east of Alhouacan to start sailing around the bay. The culprits should pop up when you step on the city.
Ah that's the city I've been looking for actually. I dunno if I can access it just yet but I'll progress some more and hopefully I can get it and then clear that particular quest.
One more thing; should I feed the black apples?
I'm sure there's multiple outcomes to that but
I wouldn't recommend it. I fed the apples to some sheep, it turned the sheep into monsters and I had to kill them. It made the shepherd real mad.
So ehm...this game blew me away. From a fantastic take on turn based combat, to a mind blowing soundtrack, to the great non linear story telling.
Anyways here is my review. Its in danish but TLDR: I fecking love this game
Anyways here is my review. Its in danish but TLDR: I fecking love this game
Which part are you on? You've already done the Termina Chapter?
I figured it out; I needed to trigger a particular battle and finish it to be able to progress to another area.
It isn't weapons, it is stats, and they tell you what stat they want a lot or not a lot of. Also, Death Wish = High LP, Hungry = Low LP.
Your success is dependent on your stats (including equipment bonuses). Most of them are pretty easy to discern based on the text, but generally: if they want a high stat, it needs to be 12 or over; if they want a low stat it needs to be 8 or less. Some of the descriptions are vague ("Your baddest dude" and "Someone with a death wish" translate to 6 LP or more, while "Hungry" is asking for someone with 5 LP or less. The one on Megdasse about being a shepherd is asking for low acuity).
There are other teams you can fight including the crazy hard hell's wall. I don't remember what the rewards were after beating it the first time, so probably nothing that great.
If you
clear out all of the glyph monsters the apples turn red and giving them to the sheep does not immediately turn them into fiends.
Early game Urpina-
I met this old lady in some ruins who gave me three matches. In the same region (adjacent to Azhuacan, but I forget its name), I found an old, abandoned shrine and had the option to light a match. A monster appeared so I fought and beat it. I assume I'll be able to light the remaining two matches in other zones, correct?
Also, in that region, there was a forest hut surrounded by fiends. When I defeated the fiends and entered the hut, this NPC wearing sunglasses was sitting inside. He said he was just fine staying in there and chilling. Is he recruitable, and if so, how do I do that?
I met this old lady in some ruins who gave me three matches. In the same region (adjacent to Azhuacan, but I forget its name), I found an old, abandoned shrine and had the option to light a match. A monster appeared so I fought and beat it. I assume I'll be able to light the remaining two matches in other zones, correct?
Also, in that region, there was a forest hut surrounded by fiends. When I defeated the fiends and entered the hut, this NPC wearing sunglasses was sitting inside. He said he was just fine staying in there and chilling. Is he recruitable, and if so, how do I do that?
That is one of the quests that progresses during one of the chapter scenarios. You can only go so far with the quest until you have triggered the proper scenario, at which point you can complete it.
Hmm I see. Is the game mixing up when it is supposed to let players do certain side quests or something?
Some quests are directly tied to the main scenario quests and some aren't. It also varies from character to character. So for instance in the quest we are talking about you could interact with the baby in Taria and Balmaint's first chapter, but could not complete the quest until you triggered the main scenario quest in a subsequent chapter. For my Urpina run the baby didn't even appear till her third chapter and the quest could be completed right away.
I'm at Azuhacan during the Phoenix scenario, and there is a fight with two Infernal Destroyers that I assume is blocking my path. How on earth do I beat these guys? Feels like a lot of RNG to stop them from using Double Machine Guns which two-shots my party.
You need to clarify more, because there's like 5 or 6 different versions of the Phoenix scenario, and slight branches even in that. Who is your main? 2nd or 3rd Act? What you're describing doesn't sound like any version I've done.
Anyhow, those guys are the worst enemy in the game. They fucked up the scaling. If you have to fight them (I'm yet to see any time those things are mandatory fights), use Protect moves to make sure that if somebody is going down they'll trigger a Unite Attack. That and stuns, and I think Attack/Speed/Defense debuffs are the tricks.
2nd Act, Urpina. I'm trying to get to the middle tower and I might just be missing the path, but the only thing it seems I can do is fight one of those scarlet shard monsters that pops up.
And yeah I've been trying that. Protect helps me last a few extra turns but they are just sponges so I can't take them out before I get taken out, especially when one of my stuns doesn't connect.
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Bal scenario complete~
Y'all recommend Urpina cuz she's easy? Bal seemed like Normal difficulty to me although that final boss battle was annoying @o@
So far I really like the game but dislike it when it isn't properly detailing or informing you how to progress.
Going to do Urpina now, but afterwards who of the remaining two are worth doing first?
Y'all recommend Urpina cuz she's easy? Bal seemed like Normal difficulty to me although that final boss battle was annoying @o@
So far I really like the game but dislike it when it isn't properly detailing or informing you how to progress.
Going to do Urpina now, but afterwards who of the remaining two are worth doing first?
Scarlet Shard monsters are 100% optional. Library or sewers is my suggestion? Lots of people seemingly don't notice when the map changes.
Hm I thought I went everywhere at least looking for a button prompt that meant I could interact with it, I'll check again.
The formatting could use some work, it kinda looks like a wall of text
yeah our owner who is also responsible for the design and formatting insists that we keep the same design as we used back 10 years ago. It's an ongoing debate
