And now I've beaten both pre-boss groups! Mainly was Friend Defender Defense and Regen-based. Vantus is a strong resource in a item conservation run! Elemental attacks, but gotta keep him alive!
Quiet Quitting! Wow! This is some inspired-by-modern dialogue~! Made me chuckle! Thumbs up!
The Bestiary really makes it clear just how bad a meal that guy's getting! Random numbers~! Ugh.
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What's Counter Vector Analysis supposed to do? It seems like the user is just hurting themselves, while Brill just keeps punching.
I let Vantus fall again and now it's just Brill vs. ~1100 HP, where the only big damage is 30 HP from Gravity , which is basically healed off by Adrenaline.
And the battle's hired help isn't a concern at all, they're just making Pepperflask Counter useful by killing them for me. The second set is just annoying. With 5 Regen from adrenaline... And it hasn't even been 200 enemy turns yet? 1100 HP went to 497. Won't even lose half my Flasks from this.
EDIT: Equipment List: Gastronomicon, Revolutionary Helm, Mythril Thread Robe, Red Dragonstone, This Thing LV 3, Friend Defender, Master's Gift, Pepperevenge, Lucky Lass (Shoulda ditched this), Catch Up, Battle Brooch, Cryogem (Shoulda dropped too), Startforce (ditto), Restoration, Illusive Rune (Ditto Defense is high enough that Blocking's useless due to Electro), Defense Focus x2, Adrenaline x3, Attack Focus, Extra Edge... (Did the Attack and Defense focuses just cancel each other out? No, not quite.)
Yay for Reflect Fire! ... At somewhere around <100 HP, the boss seems to be permanently burnt? Its 1 turn of Burn isn't going away any more? ... Then I gotta take out the hired help too? Annoying, but okay.
It would be a lot harder if I hadn't dismantled the preparations, so much.
And I forgot what the tip was about Gravity, first I didn't use it because it seemed Vantus was being protected by Brill okay and doing good damage, then I was in a punching rhythm and Check said something about a gravity resistance.
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The kids playing Vantus and Merc shouldn't appear before the Formas are saved, should they?
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Not gonna mention how Brill found an unexpected element Eioldon?