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marchionessofmustache) wrote2019-11-08 12:05 pm
marchionessofmustache) wrote2019-11-08 12:05 pm
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romasaga3 in 3 days!
three days til three!!
Time to plan a party again!
Actually I might just look up my last post about this and use the party I planned then, since I didn't get very far in my last playthrough.
But I've done the fuzzy-face harem party so many times now that I'm thinking I might want to try another party. A BAMF Ladies party seems pretty enticing.
Then the question is who to include...
For the main character I feel it would have to be Ellen. Katarina is a tough competitor for that spot, but I feel like I'd like to do something different with her.
Possible party members:
Bai Meinyan
Muse
Nora
Tatyana
Undine
Zhi Ling
Fairy (can't remember what they renamed her for the English version)
Nora is a must, as probably the biggest BAMF of them all.
Zhi Ling is a favorite, so she gets in.
So we still need two more. Tatyana isn't really a good candidate IMO, nor is the fairy.
Oh, Undine is an obvious choice. That's three. So we need one more.
So I guess it's between Bai and Muse. Bai I want to save for a 'magey mages' type party, so Muse it is. Plus Muse is an interesting character, so that's a pretty cool party.
Ellen, Nora, Zhi Ling, Undine, Muse.
Sounds like a pretty badass party.
Undine is definitely a Genbu type, but I don't know about everyone else.
Just realized they're probably going to change the names of the jutsu schools :( I'll be okay if they name them with the conventional "Hydrology" and stuff like that, but if they just call them "Water Magic" I will be sad. It would be awesome if they kept them as Genbu, Seiryu, etc.
Jutsu growth rates:
Ellen - 1 Byakko, 1 Lunar
Nora - 2 Byakko
Zhi - 1 Lunar
Undine - 5 Genbu, 2 Lunar
Muse - 2 Seiryu, 1 Suzaku, 2 Byakko, 1 Genbu, 4 Lunar
Lots of Byakko in there. Maybe a whole Byakko party, with Undine on the Genbu just because that's her thing. Zhi Ling isn't great at any magic so I could go for a waza crown on her. Ellen could go for the waza crown too, honestly. This could be a not-very-jutsu focused play, and even have Nora take the crown. Undine and Muse could be the only ones that do jutsu.
Physical Growth Rates:
Ellen - 3 Bludgeon, 1 Pierce, 3 Martial
Nora - 3 Bludgeon, 2 Pierce, 1 Martial
Zhi - 1 Bludgeon, 1 Pierce, 4 Project
Undine -
Muse -
Undine and Muse have literally no physical growth, so it makes more sense to use them as pure mages I guess. Across Ellen, Nora, and Zhi Ling, we have decent growth in all the different physical types except for slashing type, which NO ONE has at all.
Ellen's glimmer type can be type 11 if she chooses Foil as her starting weapon, so we'll go with that for her.
Nora is mace type.
Zhi is bow type.
Undine and Muse are none type.
Not a lot of chance to glimmer the big stuff in a variety of categories, so it seems like we're mostly going to rely on Ellen to glimmer rare stuff. No growth or glimmer type for any slashing weapons, so I guess we'll just completely ignore them.
Another option is to give Ellen karate as her main weapon, which will give her great stats, plus actually enable her to learn all the karate waza (type 11 isn't great for this). But it limits her ability as a learn-everything-for-everyone type. Type 11 is still ok for learning SOME karate, so it's probably not a terrible idea if we're also throwing her on Axe.
Ellen - Axe, Martial, Foil
Nora - Mace, Spear
Zhi - Bow
Seems decent. We'll be completely missing out on swords of any kind.
This will prove to be an interesting run. Not having swords means not having access to a lot of useful waza.
Everyone's speed is kind of meh. It's not bad, but everyone hovers around the medium speed range (15-16).
Ellen's starting stuff:
I want to say that I hate that all the information surrounding this game in English uses the TERRIBLE fan translation terms. I get that that's most people's outlet to playing the game, but as someone who has barely ever touched it, it makes NO SENSE. They changed the names of stuff unnecessarily (starsigns are now "classes" so like instead of Saturn it's like "Hunter" or something, and I have no idea what is supposed to be what; magic schools are now 'elemental' so the flower-growing Seiryu is now "Wind" despite almost none of the jutsu having anything to do with wind, etc.) or the translations are just really bad where things make no sense, especially when the words were English to start with, it seems like they just made up their own words (bullet = "Ballet", thumbing = "Saming", ward = "Wod")
ANYWAY I'm having to use an English-language guide for this right now because my guide that I made is broken and won't connect to the database. And it's really confusing and poorly put together so you have to click like 30 links to see information that really should be stored together.
SO THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING BUT
Ellen's starsign should be whatever the hell "Trader" is supposed to be, probably, because this will raise her speed and we desperately need a speedy person. "Hunter" (????) raises speed more but lowers strength, which is bad.
The starting weapon needs to be Foil to get the Type 11, which is going to raise speed as well, but also drop Strength (just by 1 though). Both things raise Skill, so she'll have decent Skill level in addition to Strength. Basically she'll become faster and a bit of an all-rounder, which is nice.
Well, I think that's planned enough for now. I still don't know if I'm going to go this route or make my first playthrough the fuzzy harem after all.
Time to plan a party again!
Actually I might just look up my last post about this and use the party I planned then, since I didn't get very far in my last playthrough.
But I've done the fuzzy-face harem party so many times now that I'm thinking I might want to try another party. A BAMF Ladies party seems pretty enticing.
Then the question is who to include...
For the main character I feel it would have to be Ellen. Katarina is a tough competitor for that spot, but I feel like I'd like to do something different with her.
Possible party members:
Bai Meinyan
Muse
Nora
Tatyana
Undine
Zhi Ling
Fairy (can't remember what they renamed her for the English version)
Nora is a must, as probably the biggest BAMF of them all.
Zhi Ling is a favorite, so she gets in.
So we still need two more. Tatyana isn't really a good candidate IMO, nor is the fairy.
Oh, Undine is an obvious choice. That's three. So we need one more.
So I guess it's between Bai and Muse. Bai I want to save for a 'magey mages' type party, so Muse it is. Plus Muse is an interesting character, so that's a pretty cool party.
Ellen, Nora, Zhi Ling, Undine, Muse.
Sounds like a pretty badass party.
Undine is definitely a Genbu type, but I don't know about everyone else.
Just realized they're probably going to change the names of the jutsu schools :( I'll be okay if they name them with the conventional "Hydrology" and stuff like that, but if they just call them "Water Magic" I will be sad. It would be awesome if they kept them as Genbu, Seiryu, etc.
Jutsu growth rates:
Ellen - 1 Byakko, 1 Lunar
Nora - 2 Byakko
Zhi - 1 Lunar
Undine - 5 Genbu, 2 Lunar
Muse - 2 Seiryu, 1 Suzaku, 2 Byakko, 1 Genbu, 4 Lunar
Lots of Byakko in there. Maybe a whole Byakko party, with Undine on the Genbu just because that's her thing. Zhi Ling isn't great at any magic so I could go for a waza crown on her. Ellen could go for the waza crown too, honestly. This could be a not-very-jutsu focused play, and even have Nora take the crown. Undine and Muse could be the only ones that do jutsu.
Physical Growth Rates:
Ellen - 3 Bludgeon, 1 Pierce, 3 Martial
Nora - 3 Bludgeon, 2 Pierce, 1 Martial
Zhi - 1 Bludgeon, 1 Pierce, 4 Project
Undine -
Muse -
Undine and Muse have literally no physical growth, so it makes more sense to use them as pure mages I guess. Across Ellen, Nora, and Zhi Ling, we have decent growth in all the different physical types except for slashing type, which NO ONE has at all.
Ellen's glimmer type can be type 11 if she chooses Foil as her starting weapon, so we'll go with that for her.
Nora is mace type.
Zhi is bow type.
Undine and Muse are none type.
Not a lot of chance to glimmer the big stuff in a variety of categories, so it seems like we're mostly going to rely on Ellen to glimmer rare stuff. No growth or glimmer type for any slashing weapons, so I guess we'll just completely ignore them.
Another option is to give Ellen karate as her main weapon, which will give her great stats, plus actually enable her to learn all the karate waza (type 11 isn't great for this). But it limits her ability as a learn-everything-for-everyone type. Type 11 is still ok for learning SOME karate, so it's probably not a terrible idea if we're also throwing her on Axe.
Ellen - Axe, Martial, Foil
Nora - Mace, Spear
Zhi - Bow
Seems decent. We'll be completely missing out on swords of any kind.
This will prove to be an interesting run. Not having swords means not having access to a lot of useful waza.
Everyone's speed is kind of meh. It's not bad, but everyone hovers around the medium speed range (15-16).
Ellen's starting stuff:
I want to say that I hate that all the information surrounding this game in English uses the TERRIBLE fan translation terms. I get that that's most people's outlet to playing the game, but as someone who has barely ever touched it, it makes NO SENSE. They changed the names of stuff unnecessarily (starsigns are now "classes" so like instead of Saturn it's like "Hunter" or something, and I have no idea what is supposed to be what; magic schools are now 'elemental' so the flower-growing Seiryu is now "Wind" despite almost none of the jutsu having anything to do with wind, etc.) or the translations are just really bad where things make no sense, especially when the words were English to start with, it seems like they just made up their own words (bullet = "Ballet", thumbing = "Saming", ward = "Wod")
ANYWAY I'm having to use an English-language guide for this right now because my guide that I made is broken and won't connect to the database. And it's really confusing and poorly put together so you have to click like 30 links to see information that really should be stored together.
SO THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING BUT
Ellen's starsign should be whatever the hell "Trader" is supposed to be, probably, because this will raise her speed and we desperately need a speedy person. "Hunter" (????) raises speed more but lowers strength, which is bad.
The starting weapon needs to be Foil to get the Type 11, which is going to raise speed as well, but also drop Strength (just by 1 though). Both things raise Skill, so she'll have decent Skill level in addition to Strength. Basically she'll become faster and a bit of an all-rounder, which is nice.
Well, I think that's planned enough for now. I still don't know if I'm going to go this route or make my first playthrough the fuzzy harem after all.