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I did, whenever I was allowed. You'll notice I specifically said it helps when she and Chloe become available.

Like I said the main problem was the big fixed fights like outsiders and Ammit, where she was not present.

That said even with her skill it's hard to get above Four of a Kind. I most certainly never had Royal flushes all over the place. Perhaps if fights lasted a lot of rounds since the jokers seems to be shuffled back in and come up in the middle 9 cards again, but by that point the enemy is also throwing big stuff every round and the fight ends one way or the other very quickly. My experience was more often than not badly for me, given reasonably strong enemies.
What stones are your using?
Lighting stuns most enemies so they can not attack you, even outsiders gets stunned.
I have 3 load outs, lighting, fire and frost. I use lighting unless the enemies are immune to it then I switch over to fire or frost.
 

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I did, whenever I was allowed. You'll notice I specifically said it helps when she and Chloe become available.

Like I said the main problem was the big fixed fights like outsiders and Ammit, where she was not present.

That said even with her skill it's hard to get above Four of a Kind. I most certainly never had Royal flushes all over the place. Perhaps if fights lasted a lot of rounds since the jokers seems to be shuffled back in and come up in the middle 9 cards again, but by that point the enemy is also throwing big stuff every round and the fight ends one way or the other very quickly. My experience was more often than not badly for me, given reasonably strong enemies.
Yes, I found that with Molly, 4 of a kind was most common, so put my best attack gem in that slot. With enemies that have strong attacks, you need to either cast barrier, bring Dylan after he learns regeneration spell, or someone who can shield you, like Emily... That, or have a shield gem in an easy slot, like 3 of a kind can also help.
 
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What stones are your using?
Lighting stuns most enemies so they can not attack you, even outsiders gets stunned.
I have 3 load outs, lighting, fire and frost. I use lighting unless the enemies are immune to it then I switch over to fire or frost.
Once you start getting other ways to do straight damage (Hammer Time/Fire Mastery/Dragon Slayer) I mostly ran Lightning or Ice. But until you get the Lightning reset gem (very late) that's not gonna lock enemies for multiple fills of the board.

The Outsiders were very easy. Since they telegraph their moves and you have Barrier it was just a long fight, but never dangerous. Ammit was a right pain though - I'm glad you didn't have to actually whittle off all that HP... It was still pretty boring.
 

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Yes, I found that with Molly, 4 of a kind was most common, so put my best attack gem in that slot. With enemies that have strong attacks, you need to either cast barrier, bring Dylan after he learns regeneration spell, or someone who can shield you, like Emily... That, or have a shield gem in an easy slot, like 3 of a kind can also help.
Dylan (Or the Aztec goddess) is definitely the MVP besides Molly for regen/heal/refresh. My ideal party most of the time (once available) was Dylan/Molly/Bella.

And I'm glad I wasn't the only one that found Four of a Kind to be a soft ceiling.
 
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Dylan (Or the Aztec goddess) is definitely the MVP besides Molly for regen/heal/refresh. My ideal party most of the time (once available) was Dylan/Molly/Bella.

And I'm glad I wasn't the only one that found Four of a Kind to be a soft ceiling.
I also found that taking The Chosen works well, after Akane gets her other abilities, since she can shield, heal, add rage, etc
 

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I also found that taking The Chosen works well, after Akane gets her other abilities, since she can shield, heal, add rage, etc
Yeah she becomes pretty good once she gets her second set of abilities. I just really, really love being able to refresh Hammer Time ;)
 

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Just do it
one of my few Patreon supported devs, this is a great story with amazing characters and a robust cast.
His new project is as good or better to be honest.. but steam tells me I have played this WAY WAY to much.

I running crew varies on time in the game..
but shadow hunter Akani/Molly/??Rain??? once your in late game is hard to beat when you can manipulate the board and drop jockers like crazy.
 

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Just do it
one of my few Patreon supported devs, this is a great story with amazing characters and a robust cast.
His new project is as good or better to be honest.. but steam tells me I have played this WAY WAY to much.

I running crew varies on time in the game..
but shadow hunter Akani/Molly/??Rain??? once your in late game is hard to beat when you can manipulate the board and drop jockers like crazy.
I bought it from steam already and can't wait for book 2 and 3 to get finished.
One of the best games on here.
 

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so i've started playing book 3 again after getting distracted for some while
i'm at day 264 and i want to make a prediction on how things will resolve:
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after the comma is my hopium because i'm a sucker for endings where everyone ends up happy, but i'm fairly confident on the
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prediction

edit: well.. i sure was wrong in my prediction
 
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I don't get the version tags in the title of this post. It seems to mention only book 1 and 2. does this mean book 3 is still ongoing, despite the completed tag? also, some of the posts above seem to sound like B3 is still ongoing...
 

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I don't get the version tags in the title of this post. It seems to mention only book 1 and 2. does this mean book 3 is still ongoing, despite the completed tag? also, some of the posts above seem to sound like B3 is still ongoing...
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the story for book 1, 2, & 3 is done and complete. Droid decided to go back and add a "New Game +" to each of the books. as well as update many QoL aspects from book 3 into books 1 & 2 (book 1 was started over 4 YEARS ago.....he's learned ALOT in that time....) start with book 1, you'll hopefully enjoy it.
 

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I don't get the version tags in the title of this post. It seems to mention only book 1 and 2. does this mean book 3 is still ongoing, despite the completed tag? also, some of the posts above seem to sound like B3 is still ongoing...
the story for book 1, 2, & 3 is done and complete. Droid decided to go back and add a "New Game +" to each of the books. as well as update many QoL aspects from book 3 into books 1 & 2 (book 1 was started over 4 YEARS ago.....he's learned ALOT in that time....) start with book 1, you'll hopefully enjoy it.
Book 1 is complete but may get QoL improvements.
Both books 2 and 3 main story are done but there are side quests that need more content and book 2 does not have the same gems as book 1 does yet so you wont be able to use some of the top gems in book 1 for 2, in a new game plus you will get all your gems back and able to use them in new game + book 1.
 

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I don't get the version tags in the title of this post. It seems to mention only book 1 and 2. does this mean book 3 is still ongoing, despite the completed tag? also, some of the posts above seem to sound like B3 is still ongoing...
Books 1-3 are done, and the story complete.
After I finished book 3, I went back and started book 1 NG+ mode (inspired by Persona, where you can start a new game with the end of game save, for a slightly different story).

NG+ is done for Book 1. I'm cleaning out some final issues with Steamdeck, when I have time, then porting the NG+ iteration of the engine to Book 2, and repeating the process. Finally I'll do the same thing for book 3.
 

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Books 1-3 are done, and the story complete.
After I finished book 3, I went back and started book 1 NG+ mode (inspired by Persona, where you can start a new game with the end of game save, for a slightly different story).

NG+ is done for Book 1. I'm cleaning out some final issues with Steamdeck, when I have time, then porting the NG+ iteration of the engine to Book 2, and repeating the process. Finally I'll do the same thing for book 3.
At the end of book 1 there are 2 quests that say they will be more in book 2, is this not going to happen now?
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and thus i have finished the story of book 3, not how i expected it would end but i am satisfied

excellent work on this vn, you made me care about the characters and story to the point where i skip the porn to get to the plot. i'll play again once all 3 books have ng+
That's what I am waiting for to play again.
 
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