To a degree yes power creep happens even on Ilias, Hild is a rare case due to starting with very good race setup to be very good long term
Ilias is one of the weaker angels as a character, she gets a bit better after lv 85 with a new skill added, honestly all remain useable but later characters are generally better even more so part 3 characters from after the great decision they are generally just the strongest members right away.
Alice and Luka are way better in different ways luka‘s unique sword letting him easily hit weakness and being basically a recruit bot, Alice has just so many races she can be built in basically any way
like it is possible in Alice Route to cheese the super boss using either Alicetroemeria(chapter 2) or Rovissa(colab) by haste black magic and making sure that the super boss is always asleep and so doesn’t get a turn.
Like not always the case but generally later characters have much better traits and so become stronger like Alicetroemeria who you get chapter 2 alice route or at great decision siding with alice. Since her trait lets her just use two Black magic or spells(with only extra 50% cost for double cast in one turn)
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R so like it depends on the character by a lot because depends on traits and what race they are like genuine some part 3 characters are straight up worse than part 1 characters and some are way better
Ilias is one of the weaker angels as a character, she gets a bit better after lv 85 with a new skill added, honestly all remain useable but later characters are generally better even more so part 3 characters from after the great decision they are generally just the strongest members right away.
Alice and Luka are way better in different ways luka‘s unique sword letting him easily hit weakness and being basically a recruit bot, Alice has just so many races she can be built in basically any way
like it is possible in Alice Route to cheese the super boss using either Alicetroemeria(chapter 2) or Rovissa(colab) by haste black magic and making sure that the super boss is always asleep and so doesn’t get a turn.
Like not always the case but generally later characters have much better traits and so become stronger like Alicetroemeria who you get chapter 2 alice route or at great decision siding with alice. Since her trait lets her just use two Black magic or spells(with only extra 50% cost for double cast in one turn)
Which due to her races can get two of the additional actions per turn for some cost skill, so can basically cast Black magic or Time skills 6 times per turn if she need to massively amp her damage even more(also has a 50% magic up skill she gets access to), add in gets a unique fire spell with a better damage formula than even the one from the advanced class Inferno mageDeal +30% Dark damage.
Can always use Black Magic, Time Magic and Dark skills.
Black Magic and Time Magic act twice with 150% MP cost.
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