Insane Difficulty: Seiken Densetsu 3 Sin of Mana - Discussion - Insane Difficulty

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thanks ill go with this since i would like duran to be focused on attacking. didnt know it had an accessory to make spells MT. vanadis does look better with it. and i thought RM had stat downs? was i mistaken?

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ill take your suggestion and do this to get a feel of the game after this patch. on my 3rd play with lise hawk ill go for hard

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looking forward to this

qweqaz, on 25 March 2017 - 02:46 AM, said:

it does not affect all spells; basically it promotes all spells to MT that had a MT form legitimately available in vanilla.

qweqaz, on 25 March 2017 - 02:46 AM, said:

Rune Master has the Lv2 and Lv3 spell plus saber of the 4 "base" elements.
Maybe you ment Archmage who has Power Down and Mind Down?

qweqaz, on 25 March 2017 - 02:46 AM, said:

Have fun.

hmmm... I might have written myself into a corner...

the final bosses story-wise have absorbed the power of the god beasts.
in the base game this expressed itself by giving them the gb's signature moves and "background changing" powers (change elemental weaknesses).

This of course becomes lame once you enhance the godbeasts beyond mere "element swaps", what we did here.

So what do we have to work with here? Read at your own peril.

You can probably guess that most combinations of those are (close to) unwinnable.

This can only end interesting.

btw there are a lot of new accessories xD love it but since there is no description im not sure what it does. for example Thief's armband in dwarf cave. im guessing its hawk exclusive stats accessory or it somehow gives better items in chests?

For various reasons, I can't show the equipment effects in an ingame description, so you kinda have to check back with the armor_elements_stats.xls delivered with the patch. This applies to accessoires (shared between characters) and armors/helms/weapons (unique per character).

Lugar's moon saber healing was still using yellow numbers instead of green.

I see gildervine's adds don't spawn as level 22 anymore. Jesus Christ.

Valenhil, on 25 March 2017 - 08:35 PM, said:

that one's old, like v0.555 old.
his re-fight has the same summon level, though.

Was playing tonight, and one thing a friend mentioned.... that would be really cool is if the ring menu didn't stop all inputs from other characters... like if I could keep melee'ing as Hawk while Angela was fishing for her cast spells.

Realize it's probably nigh impossible, but just putting it out there as a wishlist item. I'm sure someone mentioned it before and it got shot down, but damn that would be interesting. May require the whole game to get harder tho, I dunno. Then again, it could work conversely for enemies attacking while you were in the menu too.

Coding aside, think about how bad the slowdown can get with 3 vs 3 fighters and some damage numbers on screen, now add a dozen ring elements. Not happening.
I mean I can almost crash the game just with Hawk.
Once, the game even needed 2-3 minutes to resolve a fight in Shangri La. This is seriously bad enough.

For single player it would make it unreasonably harder since you can't do anything while you think your strategy in the ring menu and the Ninja are critting you dead.
On the flipside, it would trivialize most bosses, as you could just open the menu and watch the AI slaughter it, as it can't cast any spell while the menu is active.

so with that, one path is done

v0.870

• changed AI and stats of Dark Lich
  
• changed AI and stats of Deathjester
  
• changed AI and stats of Black Rabite
  
• Kevin/Death Hand now learns MT Lunatic
  
• changed Levatein tier weapons to ignore physical resistances
  
• God Hand's final weapon "Spiral Claw" now prolongs the counterattack window on a successful counterattack
  
• Warrior Monk's final weapon "Holy Claw" now healing power based on current TP (does not consume them)
  
• Death Hand's final weapon "Skull Disect" now disables throw chance and makes Lv3 techs consume target's stat debuffs to increase damage dealt
  
• Fenrir Knight's final weapon "Giant's Spear" now heals the party on a successful counterattack
  
• gave more final class weapons non-zero values for Lv1 tech bonus and counter bonus
  
• slightly increased Lightgazer's and Fiegmund's magic power
  
• added resistance to Ice to Mispolm
  
• increased levels of enemies on the Landumber landing platform from 13 to 50
  
• changed enemy saber heal color from yellow to green
  
• fixed levels of enemies in Shangri La final dungeon, most were half as high as they should have been
  
• fixed a grey save statue in Shangri La that played a boss victory event instead of the save prompt
  
• fixed a crash caused by Lv1 techs attacking a target with more defense than the attacker has attack power
  
• MT'd Lunatic uses Spiral Moon animation

So........all the final weapons have their respective special effect?

all? no, still missing 10, spread around Duran, Angela, Hawk and Lise. Coincidently, 5 per story path.

Jumping back into it after months. The light and heavy attack additions are pretty neat and its nice to see most of the final weapons have been implemented (the rogue and the wanderer weapons seem cool). I have noticed however that my main character has been falling a bit behind in XP compared to the other two for some reason (I've only cleared the first boss so far but I'll keep the armors and equipment on the same tier and continue on and see if it persists).

Rolling a Duran/Kevin/Lise crew to try and have some fun with the debuff (Dragonmaster + Death Hand) mechanic. So far this is probably the most fun we've had so far, early game anyway. Fights are super fun since it's just melee all over the place.

Should be interesting as we continue .... remembering the OP.

sid, on 05 April 2017 - 11:31 AM, said:

Well, if anyone stays behind it is most likely the main character.
The other two can gain +30 exp per kill as long as they are lower than the main.
If anyone dies, the game queues an exp event for each player character, order being semi-random, but if you leave the screen before it gets handled it is gone.
So in total if the game has a hickup where it skips giving the main character exp, it sticks, the underlings would catch back up over time.

Don't know if that is the issue you're facing, but I'd take it as a likely explanation.

The gildervine fight is really, really borked. You lose control of your character too often, just standing there for several seconds waiting for something to resolve.

While you're frozen there an add attacks fifteen times and you just want to heal but then sleep flower resolves on your pc and game switches you to someone casting.