I know this thread is sadly kinda dead now but I just got the game and have questions.
1. When you delay an enemy, is there a way to tell where in the timeline it's gonna be moved to? When I use Urpina's delay attack (I forgot the name), she seems to delay them one step over on the timeline. But when I use Nessa's Matador, they get delayed all the way to the end.
2. Am I free to upgrade weapons if I haven't yet learned all its skills? I noticed when I reforged it'll show me some of the new weapon's skills but missing some of the ones I already have. Are those just skills that the weapons have by default?
3. I read somewhere in the tutorial that some characters are better with certain weapons. Is this just stat based or does it say somewhere "this character likes this weapon?"
4. Can you defend against magic attacks? What about AoE physical attacks? If I protect someone, will they be protected by AoE damage too or do AoE attacks bypass protect?
I think that's all for now.
I need to start a fresh run if this game. Going off memory so someone may come in and correct me. Sorry if I'm wrong about anything.
1. I definitely remember being able to see where the delay attacks send the enemies in the timeline. When you select an attack it but before you select a target I thought it would show where they were moving along the turn order.
2. There are different types of the same weapon those influence the skills you can learn with each. Some will say standard, blunt, thrust, special etc. When you are looking at what each weapon can upgrade into it will say what type of category of the weapon type it is. So if you haven't learned all the skills when you upgrade the weapon if it switches types you will have different skills available. The upgrading usually branches quite a bit so you will most likely be able to switch it back to a previous type eventually.
3. Under each character's stat screen you'll see a list of all the weapon categories and skill level numbers, I think their weapons they are most proficient in are in green.
4. Using cover skills with your tank characters does protect against aoe. Not sure on magic but I'm pretty sure that's true of those as well. Important part of the battle system is covering your squishy characters with your tanks during aoe attacks and manipulating turns and effectively utilizing stuns and other status ailments.
When learning skills other specific skills need to be used to "spark" those other skills. And the more skills of each weapon you learn the harder it becomes to learn subsequent skills.
There are lists of all the weapon types and skills and what skills to use to spark them out there.
