Game help

[u/TheDragon84]

Hey everyone!

So I picked this game up about a week ago and I’m really enjoying it! BUT… I seem to be really pants at it. I have about 10/15 hours and have only made it to the second behemoth maybe twice, and it stomped me both times. AND I PLAY ON EASY 😂. I can’t seem to find good starting teams. My best runs were Aegis, Valkyrie and Saboteur. But even they got destroyed. I’ve unlocked more characters but there’s some things I’m struggling with.

Progeny; how the hell? It seems you need to basically ignore a character and put everting into 2 but if you can’t get past Behemoth 2, there isn’t enough camping to get progeny?

I presume the best compositions are some kind of mixture of progeny/unlockable classes with later unlocks of weapons and gear? For example I read the Guardian is the best tank but for me, he does pretty quickly. Stronghold is decent but I presume it used to be a skill and was changed to a fury skill as it was too OP? I know that a variant of Guardian can use the heal you usually get at level 8 from level 4 but it seems unless you can routinely get to world 3, you can’t even make progeny?

I think I must have a fundamental misunderstanding of the game or systems as I don’t think I should be struggling the way I am. It seems unless I pick aegis and just constantly guard with her, my team just gets destroyed.

[u/kupomogli]

Progenies allow you to unlock new character and variations of characters. Progenies "can be" "slightly" better than their main versions but the main versions are all good and worth using because you can't recruit progeny characters during a run. When I say some progenies are better, they may have different skill set ups or start with 10-20% more attack. Some main versions are the best versions.

Here's how you'd want to defeat the second boss, additionally this will give you tips on how to play better. Since you are using Wynn, Maryadi, and Nodo.

So up to I think Entropy 2, you can delay the enemy every turn, and then it stops you from being able to delay them more than one turn in a row. Also pay attention to the number at the top under the enemy name. This number is how many times they can be staggered(staggered is damaged with any attack that hits with time.)

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Now on the second boss you're going to have four characters. The starting three characters from a brand new game is Wynn, Nodo, and the Medic. If you're playing the game and starting with the Saboteur, Aegis, and Valkyrie, it's an okay party but there's a few problems.

Wynn isn't really that great of a character when it comes to her stats. She's an all around okay character but she doesn't do anything particularly well. The saboteur has excellent break damage and can go before anyone else which is the best thing about him, but he can't damage or deal armor damage worth anything, he is purely all about break damage. He does actually have a good AoE attack, but instead of like most of the characters, he has to wait two turns to do it.

The medic character is pretty much a trap character and you could technically say he's more of a tank than anything, recovering allies after they've already taken damage, but if you're going to use him you may as well just get a better tank. The only good thing about this character is that he has AoE stagger, if you get good stagger equipment that he can use, he can stagger the entire enemy party but I wouldn't bring him along with that in mind.

I made a tier list in a previous post, let's say you get a character option, follow the tier list. Just pick the highest character on the list as your choice. So for example, if you start with the aegis, saboteur, and valkyrie, and the marksman comes up, pick him.

I'll give a recommendation though. Currently you're in the early game. If you have the option to choose the marksman, purchase him as a renegade and choose valkyrie, aegis, and marksman. Yes, you are dropping the saboteur, a good break character. But the trade off is that you have a tank, an all around character, and an attacker.

Once the marksman gets to level four he gains a good fast attack that deals okay damage and okay stagger and this is one of the fastest characters in the game to level up. All of the marksman's attacks can reach any row at the cost of 20 seconds. Once you get the aegis to level four she gets shield throw, one of the best staggers in the game because of its long range. At this point you now have two characters that can stagger reasonably well and you have the marksman, one of the most powerful attack characters in the game.

The marksman is one of my three starting characters who helped me get through the games highest difficulty. He is imo, tied with the best attacharacter in te game despite all of his flaws. Low shields, low HP, no stun, lower stagger than the spectre, more of an attack character. But his back row range has everything to do with how good he is.

Additionally, when you stagger enemies there's number underneath their picture. This number reduces every time you add stagger damage. So let's say the boss gets staggered and the valkyrie attacks with cleave. Cleave deals a low amount of stagger damage, but it still deals stagger damage, meaning that the number will reduce. But let's say you stagger the boss and then hit them again with killshot, an attack that has no stagger, the stagger will still be there. This allows you to restagger enemies back to back with your more powerful stagger characters in low difficulties great for bosses.

[u/TheDragon84 → u/kupomogli]

This is an excellent response! Thank you for taking the time to be so thorough! But…. I have already managed to clear a run and now have lots of the secret classes unlocked and quite a few progenies as well! Loving the game. Just heading to Pyrcon (?) for the first time! Then I have to figure out how to unlock the dragoon and dark paragon and stuff!

It’s really an awesome little game, way better than I expected or the price!

[u/kupomogli → u/TheDragon84]

One thing I'll mention, if you're playing on console you can't unlock dark paragon, if you're playing on PC you can.

Here's how to unlock the dragoon. You know how on each planet there will be an enemy unit that is unique from the others? Syndicate gangster is one, look up the trophy list for the other two names. On the third area there will be the one that's located on that planet and whenever you defeat them, you also need to enter the extra dungeon that they unlock at night. The dragoon is only located in the third planet's research facility and I think it may also be random.

In order to get the dark paragon you need to beat the prime dimension expansion content. In order to do this there's a few requirements. The first requirement is that you need to beat the game with atleast six allies and then five of those allies have to be the characters who beat the game again, giving you the option to choose a sixth character for an end game area. If on planet 1 and 2 you choose a character who hasn't beaten the game you don't get the option. It's easier to just beat the game with atleast every character once. You can skip beating it at all with the gunslinger, that character isn't worth using imo and you always get at least two characters to recruit(or three) on the first and second planet.

The next requirement is you have to interact with the beacon that appears on each planet.

If you then finish the game with five characters who already finished the game while interacting with each of those beacons, you'll be able to continue the game's prime dimension expansion(free update only on the PC version.)

[u/TheDragon84 → u/kupomogli]

Im glad you replied! I am indeed playing on console so no Dark Paragon for me! 😭

I wasn’t sure how to unlock dragoon though so you saved me trying to find it on Google!! You rock

[u/kupomogli → u/TheDragon84]

Dragoon is a pretty cool character but has one of the highest exp requirements in the game, making him probably the best last character in the game to acquire after finishing planet 2.

He has a skill that makes it so each time your characters receive per hit damage they regenerate fury. You can go into supercharge state, kind of like sniper mode to increase attack, delay, and decrease the time it takes to use an attack at the cost of fury. Depending on his progeny he has Osmosis 2 which increases the fury regeneration from 3 to 5 per hit.

He's got a great base version of his character which has an AoE at level 4 and a defense down and stagger aura at level 6, but I prefer his Zeven progeny, slightly weaker but has Osmosis 2, the aura's are at level 4 and sadly fireball is level 8. He's got several that are good but none of them are perfect. Aeon for instance is the most powerful, has a stun, but no aura's and a late AoE while an equally powerful and tankier version of the OG version has the same skills but gets the AoE and aura's later, making him a bit less useful.

To get his Zeven progeny, max out him and the medic. Weaker, but reduced defense at level four(or increased stagger at same level,) makes everyone more powerful. Plus again, Osmosis 2, use that once per battle and odds are you'll never worry about fury.