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It's in the Class doc for Angela : -Fireball is learnable with light spirit but still a fire elemental spell -Ice Smash is learnable with earth spirit but still an ice elemental spell I think they are the 2 exceptions that don't require the corresponding spirits, and I assume this is in order to make Angela more usefull in the early game.

So I defeated Jagan :

I don't think increasing power would be a good idea plus we are talking for Lise and Hawk, but what about Kevin's Werewolf form (which is even stronger in Dervish) ? Or Duran's Duelist that get a innate boost for his LV3 Tech ?

For physical damage I think AGL should be raise in order to avoid the ennemy dodging your hits, Speed Up and Speed Down can help to. All that being said I think Hawk is better for Damage than Lise, for Crit Build Hawk in Ninja Master also has the Detect ability that reduce the target resistance to Crit Rate and Damage, on top of gear and Energy Ball, plus Hawk has the Double hit so that's 2 chance to crit (same with his LV1 Tech), admitadly I use Lise as a Star Lancer more as a support/tank than for damage which means I didn't increase her STR (tough as I said I max out her INT and use the spear that use INT instead of STR) that much and didn't touch her Luck so I can't say how a fully offensive oriented Lise could turn off.

Hmm I disagree here in my current playthrough I gear Hawk to be my main Physical Damage Dealer and OH Boy does he does the job very well, granted I use a Crit Build but even without with the exception of when the ennemy resist or is immune to physical he does good damage with his attacks and LV1 Tech, and if you manage to found the ennemy weakness, set the day you are fighting to the one of the corresponding spirit and use the corresponding Sabers and you will do good damage by the time caster is casting + the animation of the spell (and if you want big numbers Crit can happen and LV2 and 3 taking the sabers elemental into the equation can do some huge numbers).

It also works with statut effects spell (Sleep Flower, Body Change...etc...), but in any case for me the Sudden Upgrade is useless anyway the only accessory that gives it to you makes the spell cost all your MP, and it is a late game accessory if I'm not mistaken not really worth it, I say increase the stat that allow faster cast-time, equip equipment that reduce the cast-time and Speed Up and the castime is already non-existent (when the game doesn't have trouble loading), and on that note Carlie, Hawk and Lise all 3 have access to weapon that use the same stat that the one that reduce their castime making STR potentially irrelevant for them even if you plan to use physical damage with them ^^.

I think it has more to do with the game itself than the accessories effect, sometime I noticed the castime for was varying a lot sometime spell are casted almost instantly sometime they take a while, same with Techs, I think it's just the game having trouble to load.

So Lightgazer down :

I remember when I reload a save file of of 1.8 with 1.9 all kind of weird stuff happened like characters having spells they aren't suppose to have, Gau having 25 EL while I barely played him...etc..

HMM got a softlock in the Ancient Ruin of Light, basically Lise and Carlie are froze in their casting preparation stance, their a bunch of number for damage around them, I theorize that's the Spiked armor type that results into to many information the game could handle, never happen before tough.

I don't think, I barely use save state, and had just load the game (with a normal save).

Shadow can but you need a special weapon that isn't that good outside of that so that's handicaping Shadow, plus he doesn't get the free turn afterward if I recall correctly so it's not really recommended to use Shadow that way as it kind of nerf him for no real benefit. Also being good at swinging a Knife doesn't mean you are good at throwing them properly.

That would risk making Locke OP in early area especially in Zozo where you can steal Butterfly an Knife that deals Double damage on human.... in an area fill with Human type ennemies, also on a diversity subject Throw is what make Shadow unique so personnaly I wouldn't like another character to be able to do it (even more if it's just to do it with less options), plus Shadow can already does that to an extent equip him with the Switchblades that gives him a chance to steal and you can already do what you describe.

Ok think I've got a glitch I was fighting the God Beast of Earth, fight was going normally but then the boss completly freeze and stop doing anything for the entire fight giving me basically a completly free win, unlike the god beast of wind however I didn't put any statut effect on him so I don't have a single clue about how this happen. EDIT : Well beat him without the glitch this time :

Also post my videos of these fights if anyone interested : Mispolm Dangaard Dolan

So I'm projecting myself into my next playthrough already, so currently I'm playing Star Lancer, Ninja Master and Bishop (so Lise, Hawk and Carlie), which by the way for me is a really good team I didn't found any situation where that team couldn't respond in one way or another I was worried about the lack of Anti-Magic (once I learned what it does), but so far it didn't hurt me at all (didn't even need Specter's Eye at all up until now). When I will be done with this playthrough I want to try the other 3 characters which are Duran, Kevin and Angela. I looked up and for now what seem on paper to be the best team for me would be Lord, Warrior Monk and Arch Mage as this team would get all Up, all Down (except Defense Down), Heal Light, Tinkle Rain, Life Booster, Aura Wave and Anti-Magic but my issue are that there is no Sabers except Leaf (that isn't to troublesome just I will not be able to perform with Angela at her best and Sabers could be handy for some fights) and more importantly this party will make me running with Knight, Monk and Sorceress at first and I fear this might be rough as this team will only give me Defense and Power Up and no stat down at all, I also fear this party would lack physical strength. So do you think there would be a better team with this 3 or is this one good enough despite the cons ?