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I'm sure it's somewhere in the thread, but searching for "New Game Plus" didn't yield any results so I just wanted to ask, what exactly is carried over to a New Game Plus?
You basically redo the entire story. this time, you get to keep your items and equipment as well as previous job and race levels along with any skills or abilities you learned. I believe it's the same for your allies as well unless you choose a different heroine from your first playthrough
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I never played the first trilogy and went into this with absolutely no prior knowledge, but have been really enjoying everything about the story and characters and gameplay.
I'm on Very Easy to get a feel for things first and want to go again at a higher difficulty and take a bit more time to explore other options, play the game more as intended, but wasn't sure if the time I've put in having Luka master basically every job was going to benefit me.
If you're used to rpgs at all, normal is honestly pretty easy, even on a first playthrough. If you've got that much in job mastery, you can probably go for something much harder, but just play what sounds comfortable. Just know that without ramping the difficulty up, you'll probably breeze right through it unless you use units you didn't use before and stick with gear appropriate to the area.
I usually go the easiest difficulty because I'm not usually playing games on this site for the gameplay. As is, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as a game nearly as much as I am. I honestly don't care even care about the sex scenes at this point and have made zero effort to find them. I'm too busy helping Vanilla to expand her shop, Papi to learn to craft with better materials, Pochi to talk to other doggirls and spamming the Talk command to get every single enemy to 100 Affinity.
I don't imagine most people do. Just pointing it out after having played one side through completely (Alice side) and proceeding into 500+ LoC. I know there's plenty of people who've gone a lot deeper in, and props to them for putting in that time. But I have to say, the game balance is really solid. Normal is just that, normal. If you know how turn based games are in general, you'll breeze through most of it, except the occasional battle that has a status effect you might not expect/be ready for. Even then, since it's normal, you can power through it, just won't be the most pleasant fight.
This honestly ranks up there with some of the best rpgs I've played in the level of work they put into balance, storytelling, and just the level of detail they put into the characters/battle system. You can tell it's a project they enjoy, it shows in all aspects of their work.
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PS: Sonya and illias are utter garbage
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As characters - yes (though currently I use only Luka and Illass, while dog and worm dig for small medals all the time), but Illass gives Luka a bit greater skills, no?
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p.s.s. Oh my god, I just got out of Pornof and already played for 11 hours? HOW?
Oh, and, does jobs have any effect on stat growth? I mean, for example, if I get a mage job, will I get more magic and MP per level up, while having warrior - atk?
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There's a lot to unpack here.
Skills that both Alice and Ilias give are useful, but in most cases will get outclassed by skills you learn from jobs later on or learned from other sources as well. When it comes to skill training from them, it's mostly just flavor text differences.
Weapon damage is explained by one of the guys in the Ilias Village church, one of the soldiers on the left side on the first floor, and I believe randomly a few more times throughout the game. The idea is, by using a sword skill with a sword equipped, the ability does more damage than if you attacked with anything else. I believe, but don't remember exactly, the way it's looked at is that the ability uses the damage mod listed and matching the weapon type increases it beyond that number (someone can come behind and correct me on this if it's backwards).
With this though, there's a bunch of factors to keep up with besides just damage mods. Each weapon has abilities tied to the weapon type, example being swords again: swords have a 25% chance to enter a defensive (defend) stance after using a sword skill. Each weapon type has something that makes them advantageous in certain types of builds.
Continuing with the sword example (since it provides good examples to most everything related to weapon types), the idea of weapon types effecting damage mods. Great swords and knight swords both work with swords for max damage mods, but katanas work less than any of the above while being more effective than, say, a staff. Similar types of weapons still get a bonus, but not as much as the actual match. Added on to this, there's abilities you can learn and attached to LoC gear called (weapon type) mastery. When equipped with those weapons that match the mastery, your stats increase dramatically, which obviously leads to more damage/healing when used while those are equipped.
The stats attached to the weapon usually align with the weapon attributes the skills use. All skills that deal damage/heal rely on a stat or multiple stats to deal damage/heal. Using a weapon with agility only doesn't help for skills that rely on attack, so matching that means a lot when trying to deal damage. At the same time, there's abilities in some characters' passives, races, jobs, and LoC gear that can change what certain weapon/skill types use for their damage calculations, such as Cross Heal, which makes white magic use the magic stat instead of willpower.
Passives for characters and races matter as well. Some specialize in using specific types of weapons, so your build should accommodate that as much as possible.
Tl;dr there's a lot going on in the combat math, so just make sure to match weapon types when possible and make sure to gear for the core damage stat+defenses and you're essentially set.
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So, what characters should I have all the time to have the most lore?
I dont really care who is with me in the party, I only need Illass for heal, worm with dog so they dig while we talk or fight (already got 30 small medals, but maybe its nothing much) and priest imp for heal in the back, thats all, I have 3 free slots (could have that other girl and not imp in there, but I was curious where the race will branch later, since I already have Luka as a human)
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Anybody you need that's considered essential for the part of the story is there, regardless of if they're in the party or not. So hiding Alice/Ilias will still let them talk when they need to for story purposes. Before reading the spoiler though, note that: a) there are more than you have spots available, b) their relevance isn't 100% throughout, and c) if they legitimately matter for a spot, they're always there regardless of party or not.
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Bring whoever you want on your journey though. All the characters have random throwaway lines when meeting certain other characters as npcs/bosses, so there's honestly no way to see everything in a single run. Two probably wouldn't come close either, since as I said, there's characters with lines all over the place and without knowing where all of them are, there's no way to tell if you've seen them all.
As for the medals... you've got way more than most by that point most likely. I don't want to say with certainty, but I imagine most people didn't have 1-2 digging for medals constantly, if they did at all. Not that it's a problem, but I don't think that would be considered the norm.
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Well, I waste TONS of time while trying for 100 affection with enemy before rectuiting anyway, instead of always defend, better just dig for stuff, especially since for 50 medals there is quite awesome skimpy armor. And I assume I will not be a king for a LONG while anyway, might as well go for it. Or maybe I dont know something (I am sure I dont know something) and there is something else I should waste my medals on?
And another question, will Sonya ever go awol? I dont use her pretty much because of that, otherwise she would sit on the bench as a healer, to save mp of the main healer. But maybe my fear is unfounded.
Pretty much just the job classes, maybe an armor if you have the medals sitting around. The gear gets outclassed later, but snagging it early will certainly make someone stronger than they should be for a while. Oh, and recruit medal queen. That should be done as well.
There is another medal shop later though, with more late game stuff, but it's gated by a recruitment and a quest. Better for the medals there.
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To my knowledge, Sonya stays with you for pretty much the entire game, only going AWOL once that I can remember. That one time is really story important though, and it happens no matter if you have Ilias or Alice.
Small medals are fine to hoard, I would say optimal order for getting the items with them (at least before getting access to the 2nd medal shop), would be the job change item > medal queen recruitment > equipment. The Noble job opens up a few other jobs which are decent, especially since it leads up to the Fencer job once you get that job change item, and iirc the Fencer or it's upgrade gives Boss Slayer skills. However, the Fencer job is behind the 2nd medal shop, and I only noticed that opening towards the middle/end of part 2.
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Just got Luka human race lvl10, so, question, when and how will I get another races? Spoilers about in which town and which part and if its missible and things like that is fine =)
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when I try to scroll up through the previous text, it shows a blank box. I have 2.41. Any fixes?