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Sounds pretty good and similar to one that I finished with the new update, Death Hand, Dragon Master but went with Bishop fot Carlie for that curse upgrade with dark force, dark saber and empowered antimagic combo once I got Lise's final weapon.

Hm maybe give Cold Blaze sleep status while the monsters like those Ice Dragons that inflict snowman inflict another status? Like maybe silence, but with the ice physical damage? Might be not that unique but could still be better than having a buggy status effect.

I wouldn't mind that

Could have been a Needlion and Needlebird on that screen and having casted Cold Blaze on both.

I remember it happened on Needlions as well

The final weapons of Nightblade and Necromancer seem to go best with the armor that revives you at the cost of MP. With my Paladin/RuneMaster/Nectomancer run, for the Dragon Emperor fight I went on Gnome Day, Diamond Saber and just casted Earthquake with Angela, Half Vanish with Carlie until her hp reached half then switched to Machine Golem. I had Carlie equiped with Sage Armor, Protect Ring and the Ring that casts from HP. I barely have any money left haha, you really can afford only one of those Pedan armors. Next in line are these teams: Ninja Master, Vanadise, Duelist going to be fun using Duelist for the first time. I guess with his final weapon damage depends on how close he is to the target? Warrior Monk, Wanderer, Necromamcer seems like a really fun one to try.

The game froze again during the Dragon Emperor fight, I simply used a healing item while the Dragon Emperor was getting ready to cast Spiral Moon. The music is still playing, just the screen is frozen. No savestate was used.

The area in ancient ruins of light, before you enter the water area part that leads to the lightgazer fight.

Snowman status on enemies, then casting holy ball followed by weapon attack or sometimes just holy ball. It doesm't always happen but I was able to produce that like 5 times.

Yes upon looking at it again, it happened when casting holy ball on an enemy that got turned into a snowman, the game either goes blaxk screen or resets.

So as I was playing the game, through the ancient ruins of light, as I was using spells the game suddenly just resets back to title screen. I wasn't using save states.

If you wanna do Durans path, you might need a Magic Shield or Counter Magic user. Wont tell you where, you will find out eventually, or you can try it without either of them it is doable but it's more difficult. I personally was thinking of running Swordmaster, Warrior Monk, Wanderer. You got debuffs, power up, Magic Shield (which has the defensive part of mind up and def up, which covers that for the three of them), Swordmaster would also selfcast speed up and energy ball, also has every saber. Has antimagic, also could attack magically too, half vanish with Wanderers final weapon is pretty good. Other Lord (heal, def up, speed up, speed down, energy ball), Ninja Master (debuffs), God Hand (power up, def down, mind down, counter magic, moon saber). No antimagic but since counter attacks now ignore physical resistance would be a pretty good team to make use of counter attacks, but you will still need antimagic fot some bosses so might wanna buy some specters eye. Or you can switch instead of God Hand for Death Hand but lose some debuffs and power up for dark saber, magic shield, aura wave, lunatic. I would prefer more God Hand for that set up tho.

I usually use the helms that remove the weakness of either base or advanced class depending with the resist armor for god beasts, while for final battles the remove weakness armor or the ring from Jad that can't be unequiped.

This seems like a very good strat to use for fights like Bigieu especially, where her physical attacks hit like a friggin truck.

I did use savestates, but rarely. I use fast forward also often when going to one screen to the other, when moving around sometimes or sometimes to end the animation faster. Snes9x. 3 times the game crashed during tech/spell animations the screen froze, then there was that one time while I was farming weapon/armor seeds and opened a chest, game froze, even when I loaded the savestate the game kept crashing whwn trying to open that chest, couldn't even switch screens. Could be due to savestates/fast forwards afterall. But during the boss fights there were no savestates used, maybe related to fast forward there, or too many spells cast at once or both.

The enemy trying to cast, all of my characters being on cast mode or trying to use a tech. On mispolm for example after Kevin used a lv3 tech right when the animation was about trying to finish the screen froze. On Xan Bie I think I was casting speed down during the animation it froze. On Heath I was casting Mind Up during the spell animation the game froze.

Enemies with death spell will also have the same advantage over you, like those power boulders for example. Tho am not sure if there is any other mob that casts spells like death spell.

Overall I would say Death Hand, Dragon Master, Sage was pretty fun overall. Next I think I will do Paladin, RuneMaster, Necromancer party. No speed up, but I think I will play very defensively with this party and using reflect armor+stone cloud combo with Paladin for mobs. While for bosses there is magic shield, sabers, black course, half vanish, and other spells that Angela and Carlie provide. Duran can throw in here and there turn undead to get rid of those undead mobs (those friggin Dragon Zombies), and be a tank, don't think I would use his final weapon here, there is enough spells that Angela and Carlie provide. Of course you could also make use of the curse upgrade with Necromancer, more of a safe strategy on bosses tho with that I feel.

Yeah it just happened again during Heath fight while casting a spell. Now I have to go all the way and fight Gorva and Heath again.

Happened to me on Mispolm and Xan Bie too. Mispolm the freeze happened with a tech while on Xan Bie it happened due to a spell. Happened on mob fights as well before. Seems it has something to do with the spell/tech animations? No clue.

Sounds like a great team, love it. I think Wanderer may be better due to Magic Shield taking care of the teams defenses, and supporting Warrior Monks healing power at the same time.

Yeah you're right. I think I will try a Warrior Monk based party next. For now I think I will start Death Hand, DragonMaster, Sage, this one should be fun.

Thinking of parties with Warrior Monk in them: Warrior Monk, Wanderer, Rune Master Debuffs, heal, Magic Shield, Anti-Magic, 5 sabers that might work as replacement for Mind Up, Half Vanish. Or replace Rune Master with Grand Diviba and get Speed Up, Transshape + 6 additional sabers. Magus might work too, no sabers but she gets her own Mind Up, Death Spell. Warrior Monk, Swordmaster, Vanadise - heal, debuffs, Lise is free from her role as a healer and on bosses she could make use of her final weapon by using any element. Duran with that crit build. Might troublesome on mobs tho you will lose a lot of exp with Lise's summon, and no anti-magic, might want to rely on counters to take some of them out. You could choose instead of Vanadise Wanderer for Magic Shield, Anti-Magic, Half Vanish.

I agree on Warrior Monk, seems like a pretty damn good class to try it now as well. Loving the update in general.

Now with the Leaf Coat Spell Upgrade, I think some nice teams could come out of that. "Next fire elemental spell or lv2/3 tech deals increased damage" Rogue, Wanderer, Nightblade, Magus, Dervish could make some use of the Earth Bracelet. DragonMaster + Rogue might turn out to be a nice combo, with Rogue making use of all these spell upgrades.