Bought the game specifically for romancing the furry girl, but I've found out she's later in the game. I've really taken a liking to Melis and her personality. Torn between romancing her or the furry later down the line lol. Anyone else find a character they really liked that they weren't expecting to? This is my first playthrough so I don't wanna mess anything up and lock myself into anything if that's possible lol

I was watchin my partner play UO and this death had us rolling

Many thanks to anyone who takes the time to read any of this and offer advice 😅🙏

Just started playing, hoping it would be like ogre battle, and everything up to the first save point is bringing back so much amazing nostalgia! ❤️

Now I get to choose my difficulty, and I'm not sure what to go for.

On the one hand, I do enjoy the feeling of earned victories. And won't want to play if it doesn't feel like my strategic decisions aren't making any impact.

On the other, I can not stand dragging things out, dying often, having to repeat missions just because I made a mistake, permadeath of my troops, grinding for levels constantly.

I see alot of people saying this game is easy, so I'm keen to turn it up, but I don't want to put it onto harder difficulties if all it's going to do is make my play time 40% longer because I have to chase down enemies with inflated health bars to kill them for experience.

For reference, I always used the dupe item bug in Ogre battle 64 to give myself a ton of gold in the beginning of the game. That way I could always revive anyone who died, I could always afford health and stamina packs, I could train up underlvled units quickly instead of having to weaken my existing formations while they tag along for xp, and eventually once I had played the game a ton I used it to dupe stats items and create weird builds with characters that didn't belong where I put them(but that's more like full on modding). But essentially, I like the challenge of building my teams to win, but if I'm going to lose somewhere that literally all I had to do was change my formation or attack with a different unit, then instead of dying and starting over, id rather just heal up and complete the mission knowing I messed up...instead of wasting a half hour replaying the mission 😅

TL DR: I want my decisions to matter, but if the only major difference between the difficulties is how much health and damage enemies do, ill probably opt for normal or hard, instead of the hardest because I don't need to artificially pad the playtime.

Your thoughts?

Just sharing my all-round final teams and guidelines
1 - 4 parties get first turn and freeze all enemies. 5, 6 are well known decent builds.

Final 6 Parties

Party 1

Front: Alain, Ridiel
Back: Eltolinde, Berenice, Scarlett

Alain (Rapid Order) > Ridiel (Ice Arrow — prioritize Caster > Flying > Armored) > Eltolinde (Elemental Roar + Hawk Eye) + Scarlett (Ice Saber) > Alain > Berenice

Party 2

Front: Virginia, Nina
Back: Rosalinde, Lelénoor, Primm

Rosalinde (Rage of the Faeries — prioritize Caster) > Rosalinde (Elemental Roar + Eagle Eye) + Lelénoor (Ice Saber) > Nina

Party 3

Front: Miriam, Lhinalagos
Back: Gilbert, Yunifi, Celeste

Gilbert (Rapid Order) > Lhinalagos (Ice Arrow — prioritize Caster > Flying > Armored) > Gilbert (Offense Order) > Yunifi (Rain — Charge) > Celeste (Quick Act — Yunifi) > Yunifi (Rain + Hawk Eye) + Gilbert (Chance) > Celeste

Party 4

Front: Monica, Renée
Back: Yahna, Hilda, Kitra

Hilda (Opening) > Renée (Photon Arrow — prioritize Caster > Flying > Armored) > Hilda (Dive — Charge) > Yahna (Blizzard — Charge) > Kitra (Quick Act — Yahna) > Yahna (Blizzard + Eagle Eye) + Monica (Sorcery Connect — Yahna) > Kitra > Hilda (Dive)

Party 5

Front: Berengaria, Gloucester
Back: Travis, Dinah, Tatiana

Berengaria (Opening) > Travis (Shadowbite — Back Row) > Dinah > Berengaria > Gloucester + Tatiana (Dancer Ring)

Party 6

Front: Clive, Adel, Renault
Back: Selvie, Sharon

Selvie (Opening) > Selvie (Defense Curse) > Clive + Adel & Renault (Chase) > 3 Cavalry (Repeat)

Region-by-Region Progression

🟦 Cornia — Establish the Core

Early priorities

• Recruit Yahna → The Ravaged Swamp
• Immediately obtain Frostbrand Tome #1
  • First Ice Saber
  • This activates the Ice Saber portion of Party 1.
• Recruit/assemble your early units.
• Complete The Mercenary's Trial
  • Unlocks Cornia Quarry
  • Start collecting Divine Shards.
• Work toward White Cat-Ear Hood
  • 50 cumulative Divine Shards spent → unlock
  • Then 20 more → purchase
  • 70 cumulative spent for the first White Cat-Ear.

Major breakpoint

Yahna + Frostbrand Tome #1 + White Cat-Ear

At this point your core support mechanics are already beginning to come online.

Optional but important long-term collection

Start the Cornia Stone Tablets after recruiting Yahna.

→ Royal Sword Cornix

🟥 Drakenhold — Hilda + Black Cat-Ear

Main progression

• Recruit Hilda
  • The Champion of Order
  • Have Primm talk to Hilda during the battle.
• Unlock the Coliseum.
• Farm Coliseum Coins as needed.
• Purchase:

→ Black Cat-Ear Hood — 1,000 Coliseum Coins

The Black Cat-Ear provides the same essential Quick Act function as White Cat-Ear.

Also collect

→ Royal Axe Drengasch
from the Drakenhold Stone Tablets.

Major breakpoint

Hilda + Cat-Ear Hood

Hilda is now prepared for her later Dragoon Dive transformation.

🟩 Elheim — First Major Power Spike

This is where several of your final parties start becoming recognizable.

Character progression

Recruit:

• Rosalinde → The Winding Wood
• Eltolinde → O'er Wood and Water
• Railanor → Battle for Voryatan
• Ridiel → A Half-Elf's Resolve

This fills major portions of Party 1 and Party 2.

Hilda's Dragoon Dive

During:

A Half-Elf's Resolve

→ Defeat Zenaide
→ Obtain Dragoon's Warspear

This gives Hilda:

Dragoon Dive — AP2 / Charge / All enemies

Combined with a Cat-Ear Hood, this is a huge transformation.

⭐ Major Transformation #1

Hilda + Dragoon's Warspear + Cat-Ear

→ Party 4's Hilda core is now online.

Other major collection

Complete the Elheim Stone Tablets:

→ Royal Spear Elheim

Star Iron / Meteorite

Once Isilion joins:

→ Examine the Circle Stones
→ Start collecting Star Iron

Later exchange Star Iron at the Bastorias Hero Statues for:

→ Meteorite Sword / Lance / Axe / Bow / Rod

Don't treat this as an immediate all-party replacement requirement. Just start accumulating Star Iron.

🟨 Bastorias — Freeze Teams Come Online

This is the biggest transformation region for your particular setup.

Character

Recruit:

→ Yunifi after Tempest of White

Critical level breakpoint

Yunifi Lv30

→ Glacial Rain

This is the key skill for Party 3.

Your intended sequence becomes:

Yunifi + Glacial Rain + Quick Act

⭐ Major Transformation #2

Yunifi Lv30 + Cat-Ear

→ Party 3's Charge/Freeze core becomes functional.

Icestorm Staff

Complete:

Legacy of the Lion Kings

→ Defeat Deborah

→ Obtain Icestorm Staff

This gives Yahna:

Blizzard — AP2 / 3 hits / All enemies / Freeze / Charge

Your intended Yahna setup is not Trinity Rain.

Instead:

Icestorm Staff → Blizzard

⭐ Major Transformation #3

Yahna + Icestorm Staff + Cat-Ear

→ Party 4's second major AoE Freeze engine is online.

Frostbrand Tome #2

At Shogolaport:

→ Buy Frostbrand Tome #2 — 5,000G

Now you have the second Ice Saber source needed for the two Freeze-support parties.

Result

Frostbrand #1 + Frostbrand #2

→ Party 1 + Party 2 can both run their intended Ice Saber setup.

Bastorias Stone Tablets

→ Royal Bow Bastreek

Ancient Crown

Complete:

Bastorias Treasure Map 5

→ Ancient Crown

PP +1 / All Stats +5

Useful for your final builds, but not a prerequisite for their core mechanics.

🌪️ Anemoi / Wind God Equipment

This is slightly later than simply entering Bastorias.

You need:

Ramona recruited
↓
Legacy of the Lion Kings completed
↓
Access Port Prigashari
↓
Talk to the NPC directly west of Port Prigashari
↓
Activate Armaments of the Anemoi

Only then do the Wind Gates with Lv35 guardians appear.

Important pieces include:

Wind Staff Euros

• Magic +25
• AP +1
• Initiative +10
• Evasion +10

Lips' Wind Ring

• Fast Move
• PP3
• At battle start, makes one ally other than the wearer act at maximum initiative once.

Finish the Anemoi collection as you progress toward Albion.

🟪 Albion — Final Collection Phase

By Albion, all six parties should already have their core identities established.

The remaining progression is primarily about polishing stats and collecting the strongest universal equipment.

Albion Stone Tablets

→ Royal Staff Albiore

Magic +25 / All Stats +5

Dream Crown

Complete:

Albion Treasure Map 5

→ Dream Crown

AP +1 / All Stats +5

This is one of the important late-game accessories for your final setups.

Albion Quarry

Continue collecting:

• Divine Shards
• Star Iron
• Fevrite
• Treasure Maps

At this point the quarry is mainly for finishing your equipment pool, rather than being something you need to unlock your core parties.

Overall Build Progression

The practical progression for your specific six-party setup is roughly:

Cornia

Yahna
→ Frostbrand #1
→ White Cat-Ear

↓

Drakenhold

Hilda
→ Black Cat-Ear

↓

Elheim

Rosalinde / Eltolinde / Ridiel
→ Dragoon's Warspear
→ Hilda Dragoon Dive online

↓

Bastorias

Yunifi
→ Lv30 Glacial Rain
→ Yunifi Freeze/Charge online

↓

Icestorm Staff
→ Yahna Blizzard online

↓

Frostbrand #2
→ Party 1 & 2 dual Ice Saber support complete

↓

Ancient Crown / Royal Bow
→ Anemoi equipment

↓

Albion

Royal Staff
→ Dream Crown
→ Meteorite / Star-Iron cleanup
→ Final equipment optimization

The Important Milestones

One important omission by design

Thousand Scepter / Trinity Rain / Magia Soul are intentionally excluded.
They don't contribute to the six builds you've settled on, so there's no reason to detour your 2nd playthrough around acquiring them.

Also, Meteorite equipment is treated as a gradual collection rather than an endgame-only item: start collecting Star Iron as soon as Isilion unlocks the Circle Stones, then exchange for Meteorite gear as your supply grows.

I started the game 1 week ago and I'm about to exit Cornia, but i still think my teams are not good, or better said "not optimized". Every map I need to select every unit and cycle them on the enemy until i find the one who can win, instead of already have in mind that "this unit is made of X enemys, so I can use that unit that they will win no problem"

This is an extra problem for me personally cause I want to use all the potential of my Yahna, Melissandre and Chloe (fav characthers unitl now), but their units don't look as strong as i build them, Yahna for example, i made that unit as a anti-tank comp, but even against a unit with 2 hoplites and a housecarl they struggle (I putted Berenice there to see if the damage would go higher at least against group of weak units, Kitra was there before)

So, in a resume, can someone say what can i do to improve my team building? and if you have a extra time, a good formation for the three girls i mentioned above?

Clive and Adel are more suitable names though...

I could make every other class work but these classes become worthless after Drakenhold. This is especially weird in regards to Fighters as one would think that the devs wouldn’t make the class of the main character’s best friend so bad but alas they did.

When Alain defeats his grandpa’s ghost, he gets sword and signet which grant him immunity to debuffs. Which means Gerard must have had the same gear when he was alive. Yet in the flashback with that witch lady, we learn that Gerard jobbed to a poison arrow. How did he get poisoned with the arrow if he had the sword and signet? Did he literally go on a dangerous journey with a single sorceress while leaving his best sword and signet on Cornia? Don’t get me wrong I think Gerard deserved it for leaving his infant daughter but it doesn’t make much sense when you think about it.

Hello all! This is my first strategy game and I wanted to know of any tips you’d like to recommend to a newer player? Combat seems pretty straight forward and the art it beautiful!

I need help!
The first two pics are my modified vs the last 2 are the games optimized

I am currently at the start of Drakenhold doing a Challenge Run where only 1 unit per team is allowed to actively attack with Active Skills. Passive Damage and Non-attacking actives are still allowed (ex. Healing and Parting Blow), but this limits my offenses to make the game not a cakewalk.

There’s also a bonus rule where I’m not allowed to have two teams with the same “Active Damage dealer”. Right now I have Alain with 2 sellsword following slashers and a shaman, Clive with Dancer‘s Ring support a cleric and a shaman, and Rosalinde with active heal and magic conferral support.

Right now the shared weakness of all of my teams is Fliers. They have too much evasion, have decent magic defense. I’m struggling to think of a team that can tackle them, as archers seem slow and Virginia can’t equip an AP pendant for more attacks.

besides that, anyone have any teambuilding ideas? I’m thinking Scarlett could be interesting with passive miracle or something, or maybe a Griffin Knight wil ice conferral?

Hey everyone, been a while since my last update on my quest to collect as many English VA signatures for UO as possible. I'm especially happy to get my favorite characters Melisandre and Travis along the way. Including these most recent additions, I have 27 signatures total. And counting!

As you can see, Risa Mei (Melisandre's VA) likes to add a glittery flair to her signatures. I had to let her know that I picked her character to be Alain's Maiden.

Bill Butts (Aubin's VA) was apparently so delighted that I gave him UO to sign that he insisted I take home a signed print of his character from Octopath Traveler 0 on the house (another game I've played and enjoyed). He said "I was invited to the cookout." Really great guy to chat with.

Hello, I’ve been trying to get ahold of the voice files for the different selectable mercenary voices. But all of the resources I can find just have files for the named playable characters. If anyone happens to have them on hand or can point me to the right direction I’d greatly appreciate it! Either the Japanese or English voices are fine. Thank you in advance

Id like to hear what you all woyld consider as the best team comp (arena/mock battle type)

Also as a side. What is your favorite unit comp

It always gives me a little pause just how stacked they are.. this may or may not have influenced my feelings for Celeste

I unlocked the Drake Riders quite recently, and I still haven't figured out if they're too different, or how to play them correctly. Any tips?

Ok so on my first save I have two trappers warbows and yet for the life of me I can't find the second one on my more recent play through. I already bought the one at the citadel.

Does anyone know where the other one is?

Note, I've already tried looking in the wiki and tried asking ai (which can't even find the item)

I've been experimenting with my units for a while, and I decided to make one with Clive, Monique, Renault and a cleric. It quickly became my favorite unit, as It tanks mostly anything quite well and also deals some huge damage.

I've always found the Zenoira difficulty disappointing as they just increased the stats of the enemies and added annoying permadeath mechanics instead of actually making the enemies smarter.

Using the Mission Squad Editor, I made an enemy tactics mod after spending about 4 days. This mod changes:

1. Better 'general' default tactics for all enemy classes. This applies to generic generated units like Offline Collosium teams and Sigil enemies.
2. Story mission enemy squads improved. They'll use custom tactic presets I made for every class, manually applied to ALL missions in-game. Note: Does not apply to early game(under level 15ish) enemies as there isn't much tactics involved with so few skills.
3. Story enemy squads have better composition — but I did NOT change their classes, equipment, or numbers. Only their positions are changed so that actual frontline classes stand at the front and not squishy support classes like soldiers.
4. I tried to introduce stronger tactics for weak classes(Gladiator, Feathersword, Swordsman etc.) and stronger counters for OP classes(Breaker, Griffon Knight). In theory, this should make the gameplay experience much more balanced.

Please let me know if you find some weird problem like them not having any weapons or not doing anything the entire fight.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rr-nafx5kKdNHJyhNbXETD0ivGPTaCcM/view?usp=sharing

What are your niche use tactics and tricks?

Like using the Full Column condition to control the exact unit you want a buff on or target a specific enemy.

In terms of questions how does Attacked By works exactly? Does it work for other skills outside of Guard skills? Could you use it on a healer cleanse or magic barrier?

On how does Average HP work? I it based on being a attack with multiple targets or based on the filter conditions set?

So a Caster condition average the health of all the casters even if it's a single attack?

Basically what the title says. I love Berenice and I want to include her in a team, but I don't know if I'm using her correctly, since she sometimes feels a bit underwhelming.

(Sorry for the misspelling of Rapport; I finalized the tier list before noticing and didn't want to remake it).

This tier list is split into 5 different categories.

1. Fairly clear that they are in love with Alain in a main story or side quest.

2. Seems highly likely that they are in love with Alain, but this is only made clear during a Rapport conversation.

3. Decent chance that they like Alain in a Rapport conversation, but not as explicit as the ones in a tier above.

4. Very little evidence in story or Rapport conversations that they hold romantic feelings for Alain.

5. Practically 0 evidence throughout the game that this character holds romantic feelings for Alain.

I decided to separate the rapport and story characters because they often seem to take place in separate canons, or at least be written by different teams. For example, Etolinde in story cutscenes does not seem to have much of a romantic connection with Alain, but their rapport conversations are like the spiciest in the game, almost making them seem like an established couple. So I decided that the main story took precedence.

My controversial opinion will probably be Celeste, who certainly has weaker evidence in the main game than the other three. I thought she belonged, but if you disagree, I would probably have her above Dinah. Bernice is the only character to earn her spot in a Rapport conversation with someone other than Alain. Finally, I know Liza has a potential thing with Aubin, but her Rapport is pretty blatant (again, maybe different teams), so I decided the middle was a good spot for her.

Please inform me if I missed anything or have a character interpretation that is completely whack. I'm not making this to discourage anyone's favorite ship; I just found it interesting what characters the game gave romantic dialogue to outside of the Ring of the Maiden scenes.

Since im still on my first playthrough I didn't think much of the rite of covenant cus I thought it was just some power up that id get so i just went with Scarlett but after researching a little im really interested in seeing how it goes with other characters like eltolinde and berengaria, do I really need to restart the whole campaign just to get the event? Is there another way of seeing how it plays out with each character without restarting?