A fantastic journey with Buccaneers everywhere.

Chasing pistol shots.

I'm not liking the enemy animations in IV.

Wait, why'd the last on 404?

>>2126980
I don't mind them, but I would be much happier with 2D animations like Strange Journey. Them flashing eyes man.

Hoplite build. Retired at level 30. Would this be good for the main game?


HP UP 7
Guardian 10
Shields 10
Line Guard 10
Bodyguard 10
Provoke 10
Parry 5
M.Parry 5

Kagerou 3
Bunshin 1
Senpuku 10

>>2127140
Well, it was pretty old. Not as old as the one before it though, so who knows what happened to it.
>>2127338
I actually didn't find myself needing a hoplite all that badly in the main game, though having some of the anti-element skills did make certain bosses a lot easier. If you need the defense, that looks like a fairly solid setup, though.

>>2127882

It was nowhere near page 5 though. So either a janitor deleted or the OP did

>>2128009
Hmm. Who knows, then. I suppose I'll go bash overlord's head in. I've been putting it off for a week now.

I humbly request more art of Gunner Girl.

>>2128516

you could always check danbooru

>>2127140

this artist man. Where are his doujins? I know he's probably made some somewhere.

>>2128516

My folder is lacking, but there is plenty around.

>>2128678
You don't need doujins when you have your...imaginaaaaation. Think of the kind of game you're playing.

so how useful is Inspire, the prince skill?

>>2128564
Pixiv would be a better source if you have an account. The moon runes for Etrian Odyssey is 世界樹の迷宮. For gunner it's ガンナー

Alright I started Etrian Odyssey 2 with a team of Protector, Gunner, Ronin, Healer and Hexer. What should I expect? Also is there an easy money making money like in 3 where you just made farmers and had them farm?

>>2128846

Considering how limited it is (getting rid of debuffs, and I don't think binds count as debuffs), it really seems like a waste of points.

>>2128846
Just put a point in it. Upgrading doesn't expand it's range anyways.

It makes me so happy that so many people on /v/ and /vg/ seem to like Etrian Odyssey; I still remember all the hype threads on /v/ after 2 and 3 were announced.

So yeah, that's about it...oh, and here's every Etrian Odyssey soundtrack (or just about, at least)

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/etrian-odyssey-sound-collection-original-doujin-soundtracks-91653/

>>2130543

Might as well just copy-pasta this every thread


OSTs
Etrian Odyssey Original Soundtrack PART 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?1x99bssrz6t48c9

Etrian Odyssey Original Soundtrack PART 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?7pc06zt2p9ovxrt

Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard Original Soundtrack PART 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?abgsqtsuxbovsj0

Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard Original Soundtrack PART 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?2ykt6c9x6na6vbw

Etrian Odyssey III - The Drowned City Original Soundtrack PART 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?cdu258vcd82l809

Etrian Odyssey III - The Drowned City Original Soundtrack PART 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?kmme1n1osrtim90

>>2131469
Arrangements

Etrian Odyssey Super Arrange Version
http://www.mediafire.com/?076dntp0u65sfak

Etrian Odyssey I & II Super Arrange Version ~ Live Music by Piano and Strings
http://www.mediafire.com/?txskctdklk5dbkv

Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard Super Arrange Version
http://www.mediafire.com/?ys0zeuiq2q8b8y8

Etrian Odyssey III - The Drowned City Super Arrange Version
http://www.mediafire.com/?913b80sb5bkl54z

>>2131509

Etrian Odyssey sound track PROTO-TYPE
http://www.mediafire.com/?7rour1dkxejo2dv

Etrian Odyssey III - The Drowned City Sound Track Outtake
http://www.mediafire.com/?mtblkfr2hbqluwt

Etrian Odyssey - Aether ~ Yggdrasika
http://www.mediafire.com/?vfi3r8m2ma6inam

Etrian Odyssey - Aether ~ Yggdrasika 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?m5gwbo3qqro3e2a

Etrian Odyssey - Aether ~ Fall On Evil 2+
http://www.mediafire.com/?sgu26c8m1anato4

Etrian Odyssey III - Clovia Studio - Navigazione
http://www.mediafire.com/?vbne1qq6ogutria

Etrian Odyssey - Yohsui O'asa - Ayahuasca
http://www.mediafire.com/?qi2o1853umv633f

Etrian Odyssey - Sekaiju no Meikyuu Remixes Album ~ Sekaiju Fight ~ Ready go!
http://www.mediafire.com/?aewpzxd6ai8n4s5

Etrian Odyssey - Sekaiju no Kioku -The memories of world tree-
http://www.mediafire.com/?7eicv62xnqhxo6z

Etrian Odyssey - Sekai ju no Omocha Bako
http://www.mediafire.com/?faz0z96fpswsvh4

Etrian Odyssey - Seikaiju no Kyoshin - Melody of Etrian and High Lagaard
http://www.mediafire.com/?pg77shyy4ii3949

Etrian Odyssey - ALiCE'S EMOTiON - Forest of Crimson
http://www.mediafire.com/?05zc10bjj6wz538

Etrian Odyssey - ALiCE'S EMOTiON - Forest of Crimson 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?51dmj4elrmztmic

Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard sound track : Piano sketch version
http://www.mediafire.com/?ec83ya1hr5wu15h

Thanks to the anon who put this together.

I asked in the last thread but it died. Anyway:
[front]: Arbalist (loving front mortar), Gladiator
[back]: monk, prince, ninja
Ideas for subclasses on the front row? Monk will go prince for passive healing, prince will probably go in the front row as gladiator sub, ninja will go zodiac for dark ether. Don't know how to maximise my main source of damage with the front two. They're okay for now, but I'm worried if I don't get something sorted, my damage will drop off later. Will consider retiring gladiator into shogun. Thanks guys, you're all great people.

>>2131876
sorry, prince will go hoplite.

Should I go for that buff ignoring skill that the Arbalist has even if I have a princess with Ah Nihilo?

>>2131962

Isn't it needed to go into front motar? If you aren't planning on using it then don't bother with it either way.

>>2131876
Sub arbalist with gladiator. Charge and front mortar should be enough damage and with double action and wild swings involved, you can do more damage. As for gladiator, go with buccaneer for swashbuckling or ninja for evasion and ko move. Glad/bucc for more damage with normal moves, or glad/ninja for instant ko reg enemies or stun bosses occasionally.

I wouldn't worry too much about damage because I think the arbalist will do enough damage and having the gladiator support will be just fine. Post-game, you might have to try something else.

>>2132295
Needed for double action.

>>2132964
Thanks, I have a full team planned. Will report back to the thread in future with inevitable success.

What's a good subclass for Hoplites?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_PVPyn6n8

Obligatory

>>2132964
Would it be worth aiming ultimately for pincushion with the glad/bucc? If I'm going for swashbuckling, it seems a natural progression.

>>2136284
Even in your dying threads
FOE

>>2136152
The subclass is up in the air, honestly. /W gets you Primal Drums which is basically the offensive sub route here. /N gets you Bunshin for the rare times you want a double Hoplite (which, honestly, isn't that common in the post-game) and access to Kagenui for Kraken (which you can ignore with enough offense anyway). Though, yeah, you can cover the binds still with /W so it's mostly Bunshin out of /Ninja but I feel like mentioning Kagenui.

Page 3? Not on my watch!

Is there any game similar to EO but for PSP?

I wish I liked this series more than I do.

For the stuff I felt they did wrong, they turned around and did other stuff more right than I could've hoped for.

It's the kind of thing I'd write friendly letter by hand addressing my complaints, but still telling the dev team they're beautiful people.

> finished eo1
> started eo2
> foes dont give exp
> maximum 5 chop/mine/take per day on a character

Seriously, what the fuck?

>>2148915

Bosses give a shitload of EXP to make up for FOEs not giving any. Can hit Lv70 fairly quick if you just kill the first 4 stratum bosses, sleep at the inn, repeat. And their conditionals are worth 30,000 goddamn en.

also, team of survivalists blah blah farming blah blah

>>2146781
Class of Heroes is pretty close to it. Though it starts off painfully difficult until you actually start making some cash. And I'd suggest looking up some kind of walkthrough for it since, at least for me, it was pretty fucking vague on some info

>>2149638
My only complaint about class of heroes is that the bosses are either "Use your ultimate move to kill them instantly, or die in one shot to each of their attacks while all your regular swings miss"

Also, killed Overlord on EO2 last night. Forgot to go in with any force skills, but honestly I didn't need it. The only death was my gunner who had the bad luck of using a warmighted ricochet on the same turn he used counter.

Following that, proceeded to trash golem in four turns, and wyvern in six turns. I actually thought wyvern would be hard - I went into the fight thinking 'well, let's see how badly I die' and next thing I know he was dead and I've got the conditional drop.

It probably helps that Cuffs landed on wyvern on the first turn, and shortly after that I hit him with dominate, but still. Golem buffed himself on the first turn, got hit with erase on the second so his punch didn't even kill my Hexer, and then was terrified on the third turn.

I'm going to miss this team in EO4.

Should I go through the seemingly painful endgame of EO1, or move onto to EO2.

It seems my classes for the main game aren't going to be as effective on these gruesome levels.

L/P
S/A/M

>>2152502

Yeah, youre fucked.You have landsknecht instead of ronin/troubadour.

Goddamnit I was intending to use male swordsman 1, but the more female swordsman 2 fanart that pops up, the more I'm tempted to use her.

I am NOT using an all vagina team again for EO4, damnit!

>>2152731
But those teams have the most fun.

>>2152731
I was actually use some guys this time because I liked some of the guys a lot more than the girls, but after seeing female swordsman 2 I think I'll be going to use a female only team again.

>>2153465

I'm going with that male medic and the male 2 fortress

>>2152731

I'm kinda stuck on EO4 teams. I know I want to use a swordsman, and I always have at least one guy on my team to be myself. I wanted to be the swordsman but the second male made me think there were three female swordsmen at first. I'm hoping there's alternate colors like in 3.

>>2153794

I think the next logical step from EO3 would be to let you make your own palette.

Also Male Medic 1, why is he so perfect?

>>2153991

medic of the year all years

>>2153991

He just can't keep things out of his mouth is why.

>>2154306

>>2154398

It's cool of them to give us inkeeper boy as playable character this time. Definitely will use him

>>2154664

why didn't I make that connection sooner.

It's probably because his eyes are open now.

>>2154739
>Kill golem
>Go back downstairs to walk through that room on B26 that was safe before
>FOEs start appearing out of the walls and chasing me
>ASTERIOS EVERYWHERE JESUS CHRIST

the shopkeep in EO4 won't be able to match up to Napier.

>>2154808
Don't forget to bind their arms to unlock the Force Up sword.

So I started EO1 and I am a total noob.

My party I created:

Front - Protector, Landsknecht
Row - Alchemist, Troubardour, Medic

Good or bad setup?

(also: I always sell everything the enemies drop, is that the right thing to do?)

hey kid wanna /ss/?

>>2155193
yes. you want to sell things enemies drop in EO as it unlocks new stuff for you to buy

>>2155193

Id suggest MPT front, AS back, L is pretty useless tbh.You might want to keep medic in the back until you start feeling confident he wont die in the front row.

>>2155154
My protector and war magus are both using Rubylights right now, though force generation is always a plus.
Just blew all my money on a Hex Mantle and Kerykerion for my Hexer though, so it'll be money grinding time for a while.

>>2155456

>L is pretty useless

Bah, that's disappointing. I was planning to get the first game whenever I can and I was hoping he'd at least be okay because he sucks in 2 also, but he's my favorite class in that game as well.

>>2155456

>MPT
>AS

I am sorry but what?

>>2155764

He is "okay", just not the best.Ronin deals more damage, survivalist deals more damage AND have very useful skills.The only plus of landsknechts is better survivability, but thats not really useful later on.

>>2156089

I can deal with him being okay if he's not just dead weight like he is in 2. 37 damage to Scylla with the best sword I can use just makes me sad.

I have all three games but I've only played 1 a bit due to lack of time (I work a *lot*).

How long would it take to play through one of them?

>>2156282
>I can deal with him being okay if he's not just dead weight like he is in 2

He's definitely not dead weight. Axe is for single enemy damage but is surclassed by ronin and survivalist, sword is for multiple enemy dmg (allslash is brutal but requires points on useless skills). You could also use the elemental chases if you have an Alchemist in the party.
If you're not a minmaxer you will be just fine EO1 Landsknechte are not as bad as the ones in EO2.

>>2156764
>How long would it take to play through one of them?

It depends a lot on how are you familiar with old school dungeon crawlers like Wizardry and how willing you're to learn and/or exploit the game mechanics, going thorugh the post game dungeons.

Probably not less than 40+ hours.

So if there just one class that could come back from previous EO games as a secret class in 4 what would it be?

>>2158038
Some variation of Ronin or Shogun.

>>2158038
Hexer. If limit skills are included, it would be a very tough call between that and Dark Hunter, though.

>>2158448

I still wonder what that BURST command is.

it likely has to with that gauge on the right

So I'm running a Gladiator/Shogun and making some expressive use of Warrior's Might to follow up the Shogun/Pirate and there was one thing I was wondering;

Does Warrior Might count as a normal attack or a skill when he hits with it?

>>2158448
>Hexer. If limit skills are included, it would be a very tough call between that and Dark Hunter, though.

The Night Seeker seems like a re-flavor of the Dark Hunter though so I doubt it.

>>2159487
It's technically a skill, but takes some things into account that only normal attacks do, as well. I'm not sure of the exact mechanics offhand, sorry.

i can't into kanji

>>2159487
>Does Warrior Might count as a normal attack or a skill when he hits with it?

It's considered a non-offensive skill when used (so no Trickster or Double Action activation) it uses the normal hit formulas for the hits (so it adds elemental slots damage) but it won't activate passive skills like swashbuckling.

Oh hey they did a sort of mini update on the character page on the site

http://sq4.atlusnet.jp

I should get back to playing EO3

>>2161882
Yeah, I realized I was spending more time in these threads than I was actually playing the game. Then I beat up three bosses so I think I can take a little break.

>>2166352

last night i was playing EO3 so much that before I knew it it was 2 am.

>>2167072
How far did you end up going? I know that feeling, though. "Just one more floor... just one more... one more FOE... one more boss... oh hey, it's light outside."

>>2167442

I'm on the 7th floor right now. Just taking my time really. Getting materials for equipment...

My party is level 22 now. I have a level 9 zodiac who was previously level 11 (she had combat study 5 ranked. ) I'll use her when I need a drop that requires non-physical attacks to get like hermit or something. I'll grind her if I need more elements on my team.

I still have a level 11 wildling, ninja, farmer and a buccaneer with combat study. Maybe i should max it out since they lose all their points when they rest anyway.

And I have a 5 person farmer team who have just 1 point in combat study ( I dont plan on resting to remove it)

They are on their way to learning Safe Stroll. They have pretty good stuff on them incase of ambush and they have the stalk cutter which actually makes certain monsters easier to kill.

Huh, my thread got deleted by janitor for some reason, guess he hates deer for some reason.

>>2168038

He's a EO player of course.

Why else would he hate deer.

>>2167869
If you ever need an elemental conditional it shouldn't be a problem as long as you're keeping up with your sea quests. The elemental limit scrolls you get from those do a lot of damage, if a conditional is ever required.
Though Zodiac/Arbalist is good for elemental attacks as well, since the arbalist multi-hit elemental skills take less skill points to get to, and count as blunt/element dual types for those enemies that resist the element you have to kill it with.

>>2168792

But aren't there certain enemies that you have to kill without using physical attacks of any kind or just status ailments? Like the Great Anaconda or Great Hermit? I tried using ailments but it's kind of slow. And I know you don't get those elemental scrolls till later and I'd rather get the drop sooner than later when the item it makes could still be of use possibly.

I have just 1 point in my barrages but for now im focusing on Cloudbuster.

Either way I'm going to have a Zodiac in reserve just in case.

>>2169046

>But aren't there certain enemies that you have to kill without using physical attacks.....

The key term here is "kill with".

You can attack a Great Anaconda with physical attacks until it has a sliver of health, then kill it with a non physical attack, and you can get a chance at it's conditional.

For ailment monsters, just wail them down and then apply the status required.

Case in point, if it wasn't like this, it would be impossible to get insta kill conditionals like Helion, since the insta kill moves require them being at less than half health to actually work (or was it 51% at max Climax?)

>>2169228

oh. i worded that weird. My party set-up relies in physical attacks so I wouldn't be able to get those rare drops because even if I use a barrage it still counts as part physical.

Thats why I got my Zodiac.

I can get elemental drops alright though.

Is it even worth getting conditionals from regular enemies anyway? I know some quests require them and you can just ask the person at the bar for some hints for some monsters, but I never bothered with them until I got lucky hammer or whatever the limit is and went back to fill the item compendium.

>>2170995
You get better items early.

>>2170995

Like >>2171528 said, you get better items early on.

It's better to have everything the stratum has in your favor than to be horribly equipped. I personally got all the conditional drops (except for Narmel) from the first stratum, and it helped a ton when fighting him.

>>2171673


Oh, well the normal gear and the sea quest stuff was good enough for me.

>>2172035

well then you don't need to worry.

But it always helps to have the very best equipment you can possibly have when fighting a boss. But if you can beat him with less powerful equipment then more power to you.

I like how the conditional drop from the first sea quest boss can be used to unlock some gloves (Boldrons) that last you all the way until like... stratum five.

>>2172221

But if you can't, this is one of the many options you can fall back to before you have to resort to "Grind to win".

I decided to continue my EO2 game after giving up, because of the boss at the end of the ice stratum.

Here is my team
Front :
Warrior, dark hunter, ronin
Medic, Gunner (I replaced my bard with him)


It's good ?

>>2172306

You should give War Magus a try.

Having a Protector or a Beast also is very helpful, specially once you hit stratum 5 and all those really strong as hell physically monsters pop up and want to murder your ass.

Man I really wanna play Etrian 2 again.. but I must finish the third game before the fourth comes out, and I don't wanna open my EO2 case ;_;

>>2172412
Who should I replace with then ?
Everybody seem so useful

The bard was a dissapointement compared to EO1

>>2172303

I don't actually mind grinding in EO for some reason. It's likely because there's a goal to it. Like when you're hunting for a specific drop to make a stronger weapon or something.

Oh, hey. An EO thread. Fancy that.

Kazeuma's Sekaiju no Anone 18 just came out yesterday, too. Check it out.

http://exhentai.org/g/475767/b75eb8dc22/

>>2172221

Bosses are more about the skills you use, and a bit of luck as well, more than being in the best gear though. Of course, if you have resist gear, then that makes of difference, but you hardly ever have to resort to that.

>>2172754

This one's from #10. Good stuff.

>>2172754
Is there one featuring a ronin, female, of course ?

>>2172754

Yeah we have EO threads.

They may be slow (threads often several days if not a week) but i like it that way.

>>2172813

True. Atlus has that as sort of a trend really. But having better stuff never hurts either. Espesically early on when you don't have access to skills you need or the skills you havent aren't that strong yet.

>>2172990

Is this a Ronin?

If so, #16. Features tentacles and egg impregnation.

Hottest shit I've read.

>>2173114
No, It's a shogun
But it's fine, just hope there's not only deviant things

>>2173114
>>2173187
Found it myself, it was number 8, and she seems to be in other as well.
Thanks! It's a gold mine

>>2173187

Oh I remember what a Ronin is now. Its English, too.

http://exhentai.org/g/215728/bec1f239e1/?p=1

Have fun.

>>2173630

in b4 sad panda

Anyway thanks.

>Conversation about conditional drops and the importance of getting them
>Suddenly becomes about hentai

oh /eog/

>>2173837
My bad, I got what I wanted, I'll stop talking about that

>>2173969

Nah. I'm just teasing is all.

>>2173684

Worst, won't even connect to show the sad panda.

I tried googling how to get through, but after failure after failure I resigned to my face of no Loli porn for incompetence.

>>2174483
>>2174483

>face

Fate*, can't even spell correctly.

I wish someone would translate the purple Zodiac and blonde Princess doujins. They look cute.

Also fuck yeah, spending my work breaks abusing the shit out of the EO3 Scylla exploit.

So, this thread is about doujins now huh? Don't make me post THAT doujin you know the one

>>2174976

The one where the Princess gets raped by another princess, and the gladiator and arbalist get rapped by gorillas, and the hoplite gets raped by Farmer kun, then Farmer kun gets wrapped by a Shogun, while the hoplite gets gangraped by three stratum guardians?

No? Then is it THAT doujin where Napier sicks a clothes eating plant on Ranma Monk, devouring her clothes and fucking her silly?

No? Then is it THAT doujin where they all die horrible deaths while their corpses get butt fucked for ever and... oh wait a minute that's not an actual doujin.... at least not an EO one.

>>2172513
Personally I find War Magus to be a lot more useful than my Medic ever was. Her Salve 2 heals are good enough most of the time, and a lot faster than a medic's heals ever are. When I don't actually need healing, Warmight is just lovely to have, and erase / cursecut / etc are all useful too.

>>2175247

>oh wait a minute that's not an actual doujin.... at least not an EO one.

but it's what happens when you die in Eo.

>>2175247
>That feel when Japan only makese boring vanilla porn and hardcore rape porn with no in-between

>>2175325

It might happen, but there are no EO doujins about it out there.....

Yet

But anyway, just post something, preferably flat chested and about lovely Hexer girl #1 or #2, preferably #1.

>>2175378

What, are you some faggot that wants some EO porn where the Red Witch Warmagus gets ambushed in the dungeon, raped, and then ends in consensual sex with no blood and gore?

.... I probably would too.

>>2175247

> The one where the Princess gets raped by another princess, and the gladiator and arbalist get rapped by gorillas, and the hoplite gets raped by Farmer kun, then Farmer kun gets wrapped by a Shogun, while the hoplite gets gangraped by three stratum guardians?

http://exhentai.org/g/323342/ecf27b0853/

> No? Then is it THAT doujin where Napier sicks a clothes eating plant on Ranma Monk, devouring her clothes and fucking her silly?

http://exhentai.org/g/333016/887afaafe4/

And yet no mention of that one where the group gets raped, one of them by a wolf.

http://exhentai.org/g/281560/2187f25b16/

I swear, Etrian Odyssey gets the hottest shit.

>>2176732

Whoops, that's not ranma monk. Oh well, whatever.

It was only a matter of time

>>2177903

indeed

OK SO back on the gmes, I should bother resting the entire team should I? I just think it'll feel weird my hoplite is lv. 45 while everyone else is in the 39-40 range.

I just started Etrian Odyssey III and holy shit I suck at this game. I guess I am getting bad luck or something but I've failed on the first floor twice now. I keep finding Great Lynxes that one shot each of my party members.

>>2176732

>>2178942
Grind in safer areas a little bit, I think there are spots you flat out won't see a lynx.

A Hoplite line guard up front should solve your problem as well for the most part, along with a Monk/prince(ss)/buttton of medica. Just grind like a mother fucker and soon Lynxes won't oneshot you. Also, fair warning, day/night cycle is something you should pay attention to on the next floor or so.

>>2152502

I'm this guy from earlier. So should I replace my L with a T or R? I don't know if I'm up for leveling just for the endgame when I could get a start on EO2.

Also how do I get rid of the sad panda in the ex links? Clear my cache?

>>2179150
Thanks for the advice. I guess I should grind some more before I try finishing the first quest.

Also since you are answering a question mind telling me if my party is decent? The party I decided to use was Buccaneer/Princess/Monk and Wildling/Arbalist.

>>2179214

My lv 70 team is L/P/S/M/T. I've manage to kill everything besides Primevil so far.

Finally at Floor 25 in EO3, my team is in 70-71.

Gotta go get the Blue and Gold Dragon now while farming for books and XP I suppose. Party is Hoplite/Ninja, Princess/Monk, Zodiac/Ninja, Monk/Princess, Arbalist/Gladiator.

At this stage in the game should I really bother with the Arbalist Barrages? I usually use Cloudbuster/Charge during farming, but I'm thinking of getting one for times when I need more spontaneous AoE like with the triple pumpkin groups on Floor 25.

>>2179381
It doesn't look very easy early on bro. You may want to slap prince(ss) into the back row, and ditch the wildling for now- they seem cool, but you really shouldn't bother with them unless you have a good grasp on how the game goes. A hoplite could save you loads of trouble. Monk could probably work in front row if you were speccing for fists and shit, but I'd rather slap them in back row as well since lolheals, in which case I would ditch the prince(ss) for a Zodiac for the early damages and basically forcing you to learn TP management... or abuse Dark Ether like a dirty whore. You could switch between monk and prince(ss) easily though, it doesn't really matter which one you take depending on what you find you need.

I would personally suggest you take the most boring yet effective 5man squad until the end of the second stratum, THEN decide on what you want your main squad to be. By that point of the game all things are available to you, and you have a firm grasp on what to do. Hoplite is excellent to send with grinding squads- that way you keep the grindees alive while boosting someone who is solid in about any party setup as far as I can tell. Also, Farmer has a means of boosting XP gain for a party, so one of those could help too, alongside resource gathering.

Guides are your friend bro. Those could help you out if you need it. Also, just saying, do sea quests when you can. They are awesome. You will notice a relation between sea quests and inn cost, by the way... I won't spoil it for you but it's pretty obvious once you try it out.

>>2180593
Once again thanks for the advice. I was thinking of dropping the wildling anyways just because she doesn't seem useful and her summons don't do much besides the bind.
So the prince and monk roles overlap a lot? If that's the case I'll drop the monk and grind the princess so I can get her heal skills instead of the buffs.

>>2173630
>search for a .rar based on the file name
>all download links dead
At this point I'm going to find a download link, open the archive, and have a squirrel pop up and steal my ethernet cable.

Gutrune, what are you doing?

>>2182617

I'm making a map.

I can understand why all these doujins are about rape, but... why are they about rape?!

>>2182964
There's no room for sweet, tender love in the world of Etrian Odyssey.

>>2182964
Because it's a game series about getting horribly killed by all sorts of terrors. I too wish for more tender love doujins though.

>>2183104
>>2183178

Guess doujin makers aren't firm believers of victory fucks.

>>2183178
At least tender bestiality

>>2179098
Same here.

I don't suppose anyone would be willing to tell us how?

Will increasing my protector's STR increase smite damage? I just have a couple of points to throw around, I have TP up maxed, and VIT at 5, I guess I could put them into HP, but what would be better?

>>2183496

you're luck we aren't on /a/ or anything

>>2183251
Well I did come across one where the drill hair DH performs sort of consensual femdom on a he-troubadour.

Then the DH visits him again, only to be fucked silly and mindbroken by a Trigourd he summoned to return the favor.

>>2183872
Waaaait a minute, I remember that one.

>>2183743

fucking spoonfeeder

Anyway, as much as I love EO doujins, we shouldn't have threads about it.

So I never used one before, how do I spec her? Without a Landshwhatever I won't have any attacks that hit every enemy, so groups of enemies might be a problem

>>2188938
EO1 or 2? I'll assume 2.

You'll want to build Whips so you can get Ecstasy and Climax, the big DD skills. Get your binds to upper levels if you can as well. If you want to risk it, you can level up Swords so you also have access to Bait/Magibait, which act like powerful counterattacks whenever the row your DH is in gets hit. You'll have to burn a turn to use it though, and if no enemies attack the line she's in, you'll have effectively wasted TP and an attack round. Antisick and Antibind are also pretty good.

I've never experimented with the utility of a Sword DH, but Ecstasy and Climax are stupid powerful in EO2. Unlock a Dominator and pretend she's going "Oh ho ho" every time you hit "Dominate."

>>2188938
For your groups of enemies problem, you have other class options:

All of Hexer's status ailments target all enemies on screen, so you can get Poison for straight up damage or Torpor to give the rest of your party crowd control and a slight damage bonus for hitting asleep enemies.

Gunners have 2 moves: Wildshot, which fires a single shot at each enemy; and RIcochet, which is a 3-5 shot volley (at max level) which randomly hits targets.

Ronin, should you spec Overhead, has a fire-based AOE slash as well as access to Midareba, a Richocet-type move that targets a specific mob.

Alchemists also have AOE nukes, I think.

>>2189447
Also in my experience Magibait isn't really a crucial skill so you can dump those spare 5 points in LUC Up or something. Bind stick rates can get fickle even at max level.

>>2189447
Another word on Bait: DON'T USE IT ON ENEMIES THAT CAN CONFUSE. This happened to me the second time I tried fighting Harpuia when unlocking the 5th Stratum.
>Alice uses Bait.
>Harpuia uses Shriek, entire front row gets confused
>Landsknecht hits herself.
>"Bait Activated!"
>Me: Huh?
>"Amelia takes 873 damage! Amelia is dead!"
>Me: Well shit. Good thing I have this Nec--
>"Bait Activated!"
>"Alice takes 925 damage! Alice is dead!"
>My Gunner's face when
So it is pretty powerful, and it activates more often with more enemies around, but it's also a firm believer in friendly fire.

>There's a rock on the ground
>kick it?
>it bounces around and hits a character on the head
>lost 10 HP

What is even the point of this?

>>2193034

to teach you that even mundane things in the labyrinth are deadly

anyone a bit more excited about the soundtrack than the game?

>>2193387

I'm curious to see how they'll handle the battle music personally. The music we've heard so far has been pretty calm.

>>2193341

Well that happens in 2, somewhat late in the game actually, if I recall correctly. It's kinda weird it's only 10 HP, should have been like petrification or something(turns out it was magic)

>>2193518

it's probably more for the sake of humor then

Hmm...

I wonder what the odds are of Atlus reprinting copies of EO 1 and 2 to promote EO4's release?

>>2193823
Seeing Atlus originally localized Disgaea 1 and now every console and their grandma has some iteration of it, it's not that farfetched of an idea. Though I imagine devastation for those who shelled out 50-90 bux trying to find new copies of EO 1-3. This is also why I'm so hesitant in buying EO3.

>>2193963

Yeah it might be best to wait around the time Atlus USA announces EO4 and it gets close to the release.

I wonder what each song on the site is used for in game.

Sound 2 definitely sounds like a stratum theme

>>2193823
If Atlus fully embraced Steam and didn't stop with Rock of Ages, this would be really funny.
>Pre-Purchase Etrian Odyssey 4 and receive a discount on the first 3 games!
>Already own any of these games? Then take advantage of an additional x% off your pre-purchase!

Is it just me or are there 2 sets of icons?

Also the locked door icon is making a come back it seems.

The clover symbol is likely a chest.

It doesn't seem like the tent icon is there.

I didn't have the dream last night. I think the Ragelope is coming to get me in real life.

>>2194526
That blimp thing is the new method of transportation outside of dungeons, right?
I'm wondering if they'll function like warp wires/whatever threads.

Playing EO I, due to my bad luck while grinding for bosses rare items my party is lv 65~67 and I have yet to activate the elevators, should I retire when I reach 70? Is going through the extra stratum enough to get my 70 lv back?

>>2199229
I don't know about the first game, but retiring gets your characters extra skill points and you get more points the later the level. So yeah.

>>2204329

In the first game, retiring at 70 would net you like 6 or so extra points, and stats up to the new character based on the retired character.

You would start at level one after retiring.

It was an overall bad process in the first game, in the second game it became sort of ok, but wasn't as good as in the third.

>>2206056
>>2204329
I know the pros and cons of retiring, my concern is about grinding, I just beat the last boss and in 5 battles I'll reach lv 70. I wanted to know if just getting to Primevil would make me go up to 70 again or if I would have to spend an eternity grinding. I guess I'll retire my Medic anyway since his build will benefit a lot of those skill points.
no trip because I'm not using my computer

>>2206507

You will spend an eternity grinding.

>>2206739
Even with Divinty?

>>2206810

Yes, even with divinity.

>>2176732
>All these rape doujins
>Only a scant few non-rapey doujins
I guess this is just one of those series where rape dominates the fan base. There isn't any decent stuff of the first female gladiator.

>>2207580

I think I've seen like 6 scylla/alraune rape doujins so far, what did you expect?

What's a better accessory for my hexer? The LUC ones or the Life Belt for more revenge damage?

I'm on floor 19 of EO3. So many teleport gates. This is by far the farthest I've gotten in an EO game, so, kinda nervous!
What's the final boss like??

>>2210957

Depends on who you sided with and whether you're doing the true ending or not

>>2197038

Actually I was wondering.

What if it's like a landing pad of sorts.

Like when you move your airship there you can get into it and fly across the labyrinth floors thus avoiding most random fights.

The only downside is that you can only land in those landing tiles.

it functioning as a warp wire seems possible too

>>2188938
I don't actually have any attack-all-enemy skills, and it hasn't been a problem, as my Hexer has disable-all-enemy skills (mostly Torpor, though I used Poison for the first three stratums)

Basically you want Climax maxed so that you can instantly kill any FOE and a couple of bosses, once they reach 55% hp or lower.

Ecstasy does 750% damage or so to a fully bound enemy, but you can hold off on that until you unlock the 'Dominator' whip in stratum 4. It has 300% force generation so you'll be able to use dominate FAR more often, making Ecstasy actually worth it. Keep in mind it makes binds drop much faster when used.

Pick ONE of Cuffs/Shackles/Gag for general use. I went with cuffs because I find in EO2 arm binds are the most useful, to cut enemy attack, and because there aren't a lot of magic using enemies.

Viper can be useful to have a cheap attack with a chance of poisoning, or for harpuia's conditional if you like.

STR Up is quite important, even though it's only a 10 point str boost you'd be amazed how much of a difference it makes. I suggest this for EVERY melee character, especially at low levels when you don't have the tp pool for maxed skills to be very viable - it can drastically increase the damage output of your regular attacks.

Antibind and Antisick are good too - whole party just get confused/bound/etc? It's likely your DH evaded that thanks to the bonus resistance, so throw around a Therica BX/AX and you're safe! (Especially because, with whips, they're HILARIOUSLY fast)

(continued, field too long)

>>2214164
HP Up isn't bad, it helps with a DH's lower vitality when compared to protectors/lands/warmagi/etc. TP Up can help with their low-ish tec pool as well.

I never used the baits much. They're good on some enemies, especially those with multi-hit attacks, but you're risking your turn for a chance at something whereas I usually found it more useful to just beat the crap out of and/or disable things outright.

For some reason IGN calls EO4 Etrian Odyssey 4 The Legendary Giant

>>2210957
It's either a two-on-five fight with Seyfried and Olympia against you, a one-on-five fight against Kujura followed by a one-on-five fight against Gutrune, or a one-on-five fight against the Progenitor or whatever he's called.

>>2195698

You better get a team of 5 adventurers to combat it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4thgYfWu4

too bad the 6th stratum didn't have it's battle theme

>>2183743

yep, I shall continue to live with sad panda, can't even get the first step done because every time I press register, it says unable to connect.

>>2209721
Variety.

I wonder how many years are between EO3 and 4...

>>2217892
I don't know, but I wonder how old is the dancer.

>>2218952

Thats up to you to decide.

Is it just me or does /vg/ have more Etrian threads than the span of /v/

>>2219070

Well there were alot of threads when EO3 and EO2 were new on /v/ IIRC.

But I think you're right. Outside of the aforementioned threads they weren't very active or around.

>>2217892
I am under the impression EOIV happens before EOIII.
EO had the discovery of Shinjuku and its technologies, after that in EOII we had Gunners usoing that technology, EOIII had even more advanced tools and classes (super high tech ballista, guns, yggdroids...) and EOIV looks even more archaich than EO in terms of classes (I only say that because Rune Master looks a lot more magic than Alchemist(the others look pretty similar(Sniper's bow looks quite complex, though))).

>>2219042
How convinient

>>2219070

There was one every now and then, they mostly art dumps though while 2 people actually discusses anything

>>2221305

Indeed

>>2221517

Well there's not much for use to talk about other than EO4 speculation and party set-ups and the like.

>>2221625
6 DANCERS

>FOE on a gather spot.

Man, I love EO3 and for everyone on here recommending me to the game, but do I HATE HATE HATE B24. FOES, bosses, running around for all the gathering spots, and that I can deal with and is pretty fun, but that stupid maze is really getting to me. I was so close to slamming that DS.

It's taunting me. I know where the area is that gives the shortcut so I don't have to go through the maze all over again, but I can't get there. I get to the other three places just fine, but I can't get to the one place I want to go. Even with the floor falling bs on the previous floor didn't give me this much trouble.

I'm in the end of the ice stratum in EO2, before the boss
I got a soldier / dark hunder / ronin in front, and a gunner and medic in the back

It's a good team ?
I choosed my team pretty fast in EO1, but I changed twice of team in EO2, so I'd like to know If I should retire someone before it's too late.

>>2222403

Ho boy I've been there. One way to get past that spinner maze is to reverse the rotations

or follow the directions on this

>>2222501
Grind up force stuff if you can be assed.

I hope you have anti-ice on hand or you're pretty fucked.

Fight the boss and you'll see.

>>2222501
Bind the arms

>>2222518
Thanks, I'll keep that safe for later. I'm try again, planning my moves out carefully and mapping everything carefully then I'll use that.

>>2223156

it worked for me. I found myself going in circles too much to try it normally.

>>2222772
I fought it many times, and I gave up for some months at this point now.

>>2222976
Thanks
I'll try to get some anti-ice somehow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHOAabOXH8

I wonder if ATLUS USA will do videos like this for EO4

>>2226870
I had never watched that one before, now I really hope we get one for EOIV.

>>2227381

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x07JfxwwQI

so do i.

>>2222772
I don't think anti-ice is all that important. Embrace is crushing and Cry Soul is (I believe) slashing. Those are the nastier attacks of hers, anyways. She devastated my team the first time around, but when I went in with full force she was a pushover.

>>2228886
She NEVER used cry soul when I use anti-ice, and the moment I didn't use anti-ice, bam, cry soul.

>>2228948
Looked it up, just to be sure. Cry Soul does Slashing and Embrace does Crushing. Cry Soul can be disabled by binding her head, Embrace by binding her arms. Anti-ice won't have an effect on either one, since neither is ice-elemental. Must have just been weird luck on your part.

>>2230569
huh

Well disregard antiice then, sorry

>>2230904
Well, on the plus side it means they can toss out a cut / bash mist and bam, 50% damage resistance against those attacks.

Ok so I've defeated Ketos and have access to subclasses, but I don't really know what to pick. I decided on Hopplite/Ninja and Monk/Princess, but I don't know waht to do with Buccaneer, Arbalist and Prince. Also I want to switch Prince with Shogun when it'll be possible (I hope it'll be soon) and I'm thinking about switching Buccaneer for Gladiator. Any advice?

>>2231927
Gladiator for Buccaneer so you can Charge-Chase. Shit's strong.

For Arbalist, you could try Gladiator also for Charging antics. You can also do Shogun (when you unlock it) for back-row WarMight fun. As for your prince, I don't know. If he's in your back row, you could do Arbalist to allow him to do more damage with bowguns, but that's pretty general advice.

>>2231927
Retire Buccaneer for Shogun Buccaneer
Sub Monk for Prince

>>2231927
What do you want your prince to be spending their time on?

I subbed gladiator for sword damage and wolf howl. My monk/prince was handling the in battle healing all by himself just fine so it works out better to have the prince debuffing or attacking when she's not barking orders.

>>2179389

>Wyrm blindsided the party!
>Wyrm used searing

Hey, my first blindside resulting in me getting absolutely reamed! So yeah, I'll give him a few more tries, but I don't know if I'm up for grinding my Troubadour more. I might just admit defeat, play the shit out of Kid Icarus when it comes out Friday, then move onto EO2. I'm going to need that time to think of names for my new characters anyways...

Escape is impossible!

>>2234901

>>2234901
>bump into an FOE
>HURR, YOUR BACK IS AGAINST THE WALL NOW
>one-shot
>one-shot
>one-shot
>one-shot
>one-shot
>one-shot
>one-shot

>>2234901
I JUST GRINDED UP ALL THIS FORCE SHIT

I'LL BE DAMNED IF I'M BLOWIN IT ON YOU, SHRIMP.

>>2234901
>getting ambushed by an F.O.E. after hours of grinding without saving
>not remembering what you invested skill points in

>>2234901

You know what's worse than that? Those damn dragons in EO3. You think you can finish the battle quickly, then there's a Mother Dragon right there. Try to escape, fail, then there's another right behind you and it's a neverending sequence of being blindsided until you die. They frustrated me so much I went to F11 to beat up 9 of them for a quest. I only got second place though.

>>2235956
I remember getting to the floor full of those and getting into a random encounter with some baby dragons. I laughed at them on the previous floors when their calls would fail.

>>2235515
>Accidently bump into an FOE
>Finally manage to escape
>The last panel you were on is now occupied by an FOE

>>2235515
The heck enemy is that supposed to be, anyways? I've seen it in two different images, both times drawn with the same amount of eyes, and the same mouth, but I don't see it on the EO1/2/3 sprite sheets anywhere.

>>2236107
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlNRbZw22s

>>2235515
>>2236175
>getting trapped in one spot with a Mortal Hunter in front of you and two behind you
No Ariadne threads

>>2236212
It looks like a giant caterpillar.
Or a multi-eyed version of that stupid raptor thing.

>>2236371
That fucking room man

>>2235075
>stupid Arbalist skills.gif

>>2236257

http://tubedubber.com/#WnlNRbZw22s:nM2Og3EVGmc:0:100:0:0:1

>>2237204

http://tubedubber.com/#WnlNRbZw22s:hvbHlvcBAmM:0:100:0:0:1

EO1 version.

>>2236515
Why were a good portion of the Arbalist skills so awful? Or at the very least incredibly underwhelming.

>2237990

Like which ones?

>>2237990
I don't know what are you talking about, the only skills I didn't like of Arbalist were Snipe and Sharpshooter because It thought they were impractical.

>>2238332
>Pop Flares
Rarely is increased accuracy useful.
> Smoke Grenade
Inflicting status aliments is better left to Wildiling.
>Proper Form
Increased accuracy is just "eh".
>Extend
Oh boy 100 HP for killing something.
>Elemental Barrage
They might actually be useful if they didn't cost a fuckton to use.
>Double Action
Awful.
>Cloud Buster
Expensive as shit and underwhelming.
>Heavy Shot
Just more damage for some TP.

>>2239041

I personally don't plan on putting more than 4 points on each barrage on my arbalist.

>>2239041

For Pop Flares, it has situational usefulness depending on your party. I have a Ninja/Gladiator in my back row with Nine Smashes and I couldn't live without that move, but without a Gladiator it's not really good. Elemental barrages aren't that bad, I usually put a point into one of them but they're not especially useful. Double Action is kinda unreliable but it's helped me in a bind quite a few times, and I like Heavy Shot since it costs half as much as Armor Piercer but still does decent damage. Then again, I keep a back row Arbalist so I'm not putting Front Mortar to good use even though it seems like an amazing ability.

>>2239041
>Pop Flares
>Rarely is increased accuracy useful.
Nine Smashes, sure that's rare but it's a use
> Smoke Grenade
>Inflicting status aliments is better left to Wildiling.
Wildlings can't blind, blind is very useful if you remember it exists.
>Proper Form
>Increased accuracy is just "eh".
Agreed, I guess the only use for this is subbing a Nine Smasher.
>Extend
>Oh boy 100 HP for killing something.
Not bad if you want a front row squishy running around the labyrinth.
>Elemental Barrage
>They might actually be useful if they didn't cost a fuckton to use.
The costs aren't that high
>Double Action
>Awful.
Not when you Double Action buffed Front Mortar
>Cloud Buster
>Expensive as shit and underwhelming.
Not Apollon
>Heavy Shot
>Just more damage for some TP
Pretty much every class has a skill like this.

I understand what you say but I don't think they are really bad, also as most classes in this game subclassing helps a lot.

>>2240261

>Not Apollon

Are you talking about EO2 survivalist?

>>2240868

Yeah it's not apollon, it is cloudbuster. It is rather useless actually, I don't think the damage is worth it and you are better off using a barrage skill

>>2241090

Hmm. I've never used an arbalist before so I might rest him to get Front Mortar instead. any maybe max out all the barrages i dunno.

>>2240868
EO I and II, EO I Apollon has a 500% multiplier, to see an Apollon like skill that instead of dealing heavy damage targets all enemies is kinda sad. The target all may be useful on strong enemies, though. It's something I should test sometime.

>>2241295
Front row, Farmer sub, Play Possum + Brave Heart you lose a bit of attack but TP regen and survivability are cool things to have, also using Farmer is always awesome.

>>2241464

I haven't beat the 2nd stratum yet.

I dunno. It's only 5 skill points on cloud buster to max it. I could have that and front mortar. But maybe i should rest to put those points on the barrages and focus on double action and front mortar instead.

having farmer as a sub class seems like a good idea but wouldn't be better to go gladiator for berserker's vow and charge for better damage?

>>2241687
That's why I said you lose a bit of attack.
Gladiator is the obvious option, I'm just pointing another fun one.
Also I love Farmers.

>>2241970

>Also I love farmers

I couldn't tell!

But that sounds like a good plan. I think i'll try that combo.

Is it worth maxing out the barrage skills? Or should i just leave them at 5 so they're cheap to use?

>>2241970

I remember when I had farmers I used to camp every goddamn day. It was the best.

>>2241687

Cloudbuster at rank 5 is 250% damage, which isn't bad, at 22 TP, but it takes one turn to deal damage on top of that. At 5 front mortar does 276% (382% at 10 for 36TP) damage if in the front row for 21 TP

Geh. Now I have to gain 5 levels on my arbalist so she's up to par with everyone else.

>>2244015

Whelp Time to do that light house quest.

>>2241970

what about persistence?

Or would having max play possum render that pointless?

>Get caught between a treasure bux, a mud puddle, and a Raging Tyrant
>Can't get away
>No Ariadne's Thread
>Suck it up and try to fight it
>Guard, Guard, Guard, Guard, Line Guard, Guard Order
>Etheric Charge
>Fire Star
>Singularity: You hit the enemy's weakness!
>200+ damage
>Rinse and repeat

>>2246787

I had the same situation except i did have a ariadne thread and no Zodiac

>>2247152
It was scary as fuck. If my Zodiac didn't have that kind of damage output I would have been fucked by that charged up hippo dick for sure.

>>2247313

Yeah zodiacs are awesome.

>Knock Salamox down to like 5% hp with a team of 48s
>He wipes out my entire party save my gunner and war magus.
>I'm out of nectars
>Next turn he kills my war magus, misses my gunner who has 17 hp left
>Flameshot doesn't kill him
>Next turn he misses my gunner TWICE
>Flameshot kills him

My gunner EARNED that damn conditional for her pistol.

>>2247687

Man I really want to get EO 1 or 2. Not sure which one. Probably 2.

Shame I'll have to buy it online.

>>2248012
I'm quite enjoying it now that I've gone back to it.
It's easier to have a general-purpose team of cheapasses. You have to have very specific strategies in III and I found it annoying to have to re-gear / rest everyone for each boss I fought.

>>2248253

I personally never had to do that on my first run of 3.

Maybe change my team around a little but having 3 as my first (and only) EO game did that i guess.

>>2248546
Oh, I should clarify. I didn't have to change my team for the STORY bosses. I meant the post-game and optional ones.

So far in 2 I've taken out three postgame/optional bosses without having to bring so much as an extra mist around with me.

>trying to get Ruin Caller's conditional drop
>don't want to waste TP to slowly chip at its health
>physicals love being criticals and doing more damage
>limits take forever to build up

Alright so I'm running out of skills to invest in for my Y/B build

Yggdroid
Data mining-10
Infravision-10
Virus Scanner-9
Overheat-5

Bucc
Rapier Mast-10
Gun Mast-8
Swashbuckling-10
Lady Luck-10

HPup-1

I'm thinking the only thing left to invest in would be hanging or lights out. The rest of my team isn't' set up to work with any of the chase skills. The only thing with the other skills is I would need to invest in sleep mode and a bind skill first to make sure i'm not using up all my tp.

Any advice?

>>2249924
You know what annoys me? Targeting the heads with magic and the stupid ally you end up with targeting the same thing but hitting first

>>2214164

How do I unlock the whip in the 4th stratum?

>>2248645

Well it's probably because the classes in 1 and 2 are more defined than the ones in 3.

So after grinding on that bird from the light house my Arbalist is on par with everyone else! Huzzah!

I wonder if i should have my Arbalist in the front lines so soon though. If I don't have line guard she nearly gets one shotted.

I'm pretty close to fighting Ketos

>>2242261
>>2245293
I'm sorry, I was tired and had to sleep.
Maxing Play Possum and Brave Heart takes 26 skill points, you'll probably not want to invest in Persistence, at least no until you're done with your Arbalist skills, after that it's a very good skill to have.
Leaving the Barrages at level 5 is a good idea but their usefulness depends heavily on your party, I'd give it some thought before leveling them.

Trying to kill the vampire tree on 21F, this guy just keeps spamming his sap life move over and over. My prince can't keep up with prevent order because he does it every turn 4 turns in a row and even with line guard he get's anywhere from 700-1000 health back when he uses it.

Can I bind his head or arms to keep him from using it? Or should I go grab a pierce accessory to try and kill the damage?

>>2262487
A pierce accessory should be enough, I think.

>>2250070

It's a few conditional drops I believe.... maybe it's the boss's conditional.

Fuck yeah, took down Drake today in EO3. Now just Dragon is left to unlock Level 99. Still have to hit up the Kraken and Anemone though.

Do the Tentacles on Floor 25 respawn on the same timer as standard FOEs? I killed two of them already but then stopped in case it might be a waste of time since I'm not yet ready to take on the Abyssal God.

>>2250070
Fully bind the Gourd FOEs (Flygourds IIRC) and they will drop the item you need, you need three of the item.

>>2250070
It's a pain in the ass. You need three Curse Vines from flygourds, which only drop when fully bound. Gourds take no damage from anything other than volt/ice, so bring a hexer with dampen, or strong skills of those elements. The only GOOD way to do it is to hit the gourd with dominate and then kill it the next turn, so hurt it a lot before domination. I suggest saving at the geomagnetic pole once you build the force necessary in case you mess up.

>>2265886
They respawn every 3 days.

>Finally get to floor 5 and ultimately the Chimera
>beat him down while my Hexer's poison does its work
>get his conditional and go back to town
wonder how much I'll get for it
>30,000en

WHAT. Fuck, dude that's a LOT money and I'm not even in the second stratum yet!

By the way my jimmies are rustled that no one in town even said anything about Guild Beowulf dying out ;_;

..And related to that, I finally have the Beast available as a class! Are they any good?

>>2270687
They're not better than a protector. They're really only good if you build your team around using one.

>>2270938

>They are not better than a protector

Late game, early game they are much more useful, they are much stronger than a protector early on, much more health too, can actively take hits for everyone else, so it reduces the targets needing healing to only him for the most part (it's not wise to have him block ALL hits, even early on).

They can heal themselves too on a pinch, and most of the time they get their definitive equipment early in the stratums.

Later game they fall off due to the nature of the game, monsters tend to hit deadly against one target alone, so if you combine that with an AOE, you get a pretty much dead beast every turn due to taking several hits he shouldn't have.

>>2270687

If you have a dark hunter, the next stratum boss will be a walk in the park with climax.

Also nice picture, got more?

>>2270687
Better enjoy it. Conditional farming is the quickest way you can buy those weapons and armor those same items unlock. Enlist a dedicated sleeper and have him be the only member in the party for the Inn to respawn stratum bosses (14 days).

>>2271740

Now we just need porn of all three of the Labyrinth Deices...

I might switch my princess out for a Shogon later on and give my monk some prince skills.

>>2270687
And that is why I always have a hexer with poison at the start of the game, as well as a dark hunter with climax for the next boss.

LOADS of money to be saved up for awesome weapons.

>EO3
>Ninja, Wildling, Shogun as only 3 members of party
>Fill empty spaces with summoned beasts and ninja clones

Is there any reason why I shouldn't do this? I'm almost done with the 2nd Stratum, if that makes a difference.

>>2274463

You will either die a lot due to your numbers or run out of TP. Might be cool, though.

>>2274463

Oh, also, what does it mean if my Shogun's eyes are becoming bloodshot?

>>2274670
It means you've killed an enemy, triggering their skill that raises attack when they kill something.

>>2274670
Due to a skill you have (which escapes me at the moment), your attack power is higher for the battle for having your shogun kill an enemy. It's a good thing.

>>2271363
Dark Hunter, huh. Though I went for a Ronin instead--not that it was a bad decision save for how squishy they seem to be.

And yeah, I have a few more Hexer pictures. It's an entire folder and if you want I can .rar it up and upload it somewhere.

>>2274845
Bloody Lance.

>>2274541

"These humans listen to some funky ass beats."

>>2274812
>>2274845

Thanks, bros. Appreciate it.

>>2275001
Ronins are great for upfront damage, though personally I've always liked dark hunters for the disabling and crazy speed with a high status/bind resist. They get WAY better once you unlock the Dominator whip though. Up until that point they're just okay, but once you have 300% bonus force generation and can fire off Dominate nearly every time you run into a foe/boss they get scary.

Ronins get less squishy if you max both of their evasion skills. They'll dodge a lot of the things that get thrown at them.

>>2275286
I could have sworn one of their dodging skills is bugged though. The one where their evasion rises the more HP they lose? I read somewhere that as their HP decreases you lose accuracy instead of increased dodge.

>>2275428

Well, you don't lose accuracy, the thing I heard is that the effect applies at the enemy instead or something like that.

>>2275428
Some anon in the last thread mentioned that bug only happened in the japanese release of the game. It was fixed when it hit the states, though.

>>2275802
What about Survivalist Baitstep? Considering I only need 1 point in 1st Turn to make it trigger every time I doubt they fixed that move.

I'm hoping they'll put up more music this sunday on the website.

>>2275909
The survivalist skills that only need 1 point to work perfectly are still broken.
All evasion-related skills that would give evasion to the enemy instead of your own characters are fixed.
Katana mastery or whatever is still broken - the game checks to see if Ronins have the Healer skill, of all things, to add bonus damage.

>>2276057

I thought it was funny how they switched the description of Sword and Katana Mastery in the US version of EO3

>>2276563
I know there's a branch you can harvest in EO2 that says it's a flower which will restore TP if eaten, too. There's a couple of weird little things here and there.

I wonder what class they'll give info on this week.

Probably the fortress or medic.

>>2276057
Which was like, 11% or something bonus damage so it wasn't a big loss.

I hope they release some info on the Rune Masters, though.

So who wants to take bets on who our delicious brown classes will be? we've got the sort of cinnamon brown trap Swordman, and we know that it isn't the Fortress or Medic. That leaves Dance, Rune, Night, Snipe, and any unlockable class(es) we might get. I'm just going to assume we'll get a brown Dancer similar to the Troubadour, but do you think there will be any others?

>>2280406
My vote is for a brown Nightseeker, if only to subvert expectations. Whoever heard of a brown girl in leather fetish gear?

>>2280406
If we don't have a delicious brown dancer I'll be legitimately mad.

I would hope we get a dark skinned sniper that matches the Arbalist from EO3 with an awesome afro

>>2279695

I wonder what they'll be able to do outside of using spells to do fire, ice and volt damage./

>>2280921
Hopefully set trap-like spells like auto counters or something: set spell on target character, character takes hit, spell activates and throws it back at the attacker sort of stuff.

>>2281659

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v6kqzfm-EU

Maybe they'll be able to ignore an enemies buffs with spells or do full damage with spells that the enemy is strong against.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-uTZW-NYnA

The Labyrinth swallowed all

Innocents were stranded;
Sinners drowned in the depths;
The damned vanished there

The great power was lost to Man and Mother Earth turned her back on the new world

Only the cursed king on his throne in the abyss remembers that golden age.

I officially love Bloody Lance. I thought I was going to die from an infinite assault of Vampire Trees since I couldn't run until my Shogun got strong enough to one shot them with Charge and 5-Ring Sword.

>>2283149

I wonder why they cut off this full version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ccgv2iqwI&feature=related

>>2283570

>>2284776
I can't even make out what got skewered at the top.

>>2284896

A female monk.

>>2284595

too long?

So for scavenge in EO2, does it work like in EO1 where the character with the skill has to get the kill for the increased drop rate?

>>2266343

Wow, this is terrible, I've been having to grind up the force in the 3rd stratum where I can just auto-battle everything. I still need 2 of them, when do you unlock accelas or whatever they are called?

Replacing my Medic by a warmagus in EO2.
Clever move ? Or not ?

>>2288796

Yes, just have a gunner with medishot or buy lots of therica Bs and nectars. They work best with hexers though.

>>2288894
Ok, perfect, I just replaced my bard with a gunner.
Will need some extra grind though

So I cleared the first 2 floors of the 1st stratum of EO1.

The third floor has that mean insect FOE (it hurts).

How do I grind effectively now? All the stuff gives so few EP...

>>2289951
Just keep walking, next floor has stupdly weak FOE, that you can grind for exp, and you'll get an infinite recovery point just before that.

>>2284595
I think the shorter intro is more appropriate, personally. Longer intro is too generic anime-y for my tastes.

Grinding new recruits at Claret Hollows is so fun~
... and strange.

>>2291280

I like combat study. Makes doing that easier.

>>2291601

But it wasn't in 1, that was 3 only.

>>2291601
I wish EO I had combat study, that way I wouldn't spend an eternity grinding a Protector to beat Wyrm because my lv 40 still dies when it uses its tail.

>>2291653

i know. I'm just sayin'

>>2287361
Yeah that's what I did too. Fought stuff for force on the last floor of stratum 3, then saved at the geo pole, then went to grab me some vines.

You don't unlock Axcelas until stratum 5. If you get that whip you won't NEED them for your hunter, though. You'll get like 20+ force a battle if you kill something, and its attack power is crazy.

>>2288796
I did that, and I haven't looked back. They synergize amazingly well with hexers, which I have, and warmight helps a lot with my protector/dark hunter/gunner doing damage. Dark hunter has maxed antisick so she can just pop a therica BX if something bad happens.

>>2287012
Nah. Maxed it's a flat 41% boost to enemy drops regardless of who gets the kill.
Meaning if an item had a 10% drop rate it now has a 51% drop rate. Expect your pack to fill up fast.

Funny, Chaser skills don't trigger Curse damage in EO I, is it like this for EO II and III as well?

>>2292927

I dunno about 2, but in 3 it does.