Mystery

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Monnoco is really the best support character imo.

He is the only character that can apply the powerless debuff naturally.

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Sciel is the easily the best support character because of Fortune's Fury. Not to mention having Intervention. She should be in every team once unlocked.
Powerless is a pretty useless debuff unless for some reason you are taking multiple turns to kill enemies. 20% dmg reduction is meh, especially in a game when you can dodge/parry anything.
Using Monnoco as a marker is a better use of his support skills. But I rather Verso for that role.

I am being a bit critical here but you said "best"

Edit: I broke this down in a previous post but it is pretty simple to see why
Sciel gives you 2x dmg
A Marker gives you another 2x dmg
Maelle Medalum another 2x dmg

It is possible to get damage in the billions with this.

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I figured as much, but it seemed optional.

Even if it didn't offer anything, I still enjoy the story from it

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No reason not to do them. Not only do you get more story and combat moves. You actually get 3 side missions. And 1 is huge and pretty important to the story.

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I’m only about to finish act 2 but I am using Dualiso at level 20 with energizing attack, combo attack, empowering attack, exposing attack, and a bunch of the shot luminas. It’s like a cheat code with how much damage he does.

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Great weapon as well. That is what I used until I got the cheater lumina. Cheater gives you double turns no matter what. So you no longer benefit from the Dualiso after that.

Chevalam gives you S off the start. (300% dmg)

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Just powered through most of the endless tower with this build. Completely overpowered.

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Yep. There are a few fights that have 3 enemies that are pretty beefy and/or have shields.

Maelle has the best skill to deal with sheilds as well. If you do happen to go a couple turns in those fights another tip is the 1st tier gradient attack for Maelle gets her to virtuose again. With cheater lumina you can use that into a stendhal.

But all of the super hard optional bosses tend to be solo with no shields so they are getting one shot. Simon in particular is insane to try to parry, if you are not going to one shot him, good luck.

Also for this build. Since it may not be obvious.

With Maelle you want to build her as a glass cannon.
Pump her attributes for dmg. (I forget what the weapons key stats are)
The 3 pictos should get you to 100% crit.
For her luminas you want all of the dmg boosters. Including the 1 time opener types. And of course the dmg cap lumina.

She will easily do over 30 million dmg in the first attack at the end game.

I have been avoiding this thread like the plague because of spoilers. I have now beat everything in the game including all optionals.

Maelle, Verso and Sciel team is the best team easily IMO.
They can kill anything before it even attacks if you build them right.

For Maelle you want to get Medalum. (win the tournament as her)
For Verse you want to get Chevalam (not mandatory)

This trio becomes insane in the 3rd Act (Stendhal), when you have first strike lumina. And even more insane when you get cheater (boss is cake to get it with this setup).
All other Luuminas should just be energy and dmg

The idea is to just 1 shot everything with Maelle. She starts every fight with Virtuose because of Medalum.

Set your party up for Sciel to go first, then Verso, then Maelle. Use Sciel 2x dmg ability on Maelle, mark the enemy with Verso, then nuke it with Maelle's Stendhal. Nothing survives. Even the strongest post game hidden bosses.

As a bonus your setup with Verso of Chevalam (start in S), cheater and first strike will let you use steeled strike before the enemies move as well.

This does make the game broken. Just a warning.

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2 words. Drew Brees.

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100% this. The o-line was good but no o-line had it easier. Overrated bunch.



This was the case every year

I am in!
But man those remastered faces and animations looked goofy

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You guys may remember that Bill Simmons was actually cool and hip at one point like 20 years ago talking about his trips to Vegas with childhood buddies and comparing it to Rounders/Swingers.

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Bill was only somewhat "cool and hip" when his content was only written. As soon as that nerd got big enough for video and radio/podcast that jig was up.

The thing is the OG release looks better than what you are playing. All of the ports are worse visually than the original. The actual goal of that mod was to restore it to how it was before it all got "mushed" on later ports.

But I get that.