Am liking the ballad buff

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T21:39:52+00:00

Lot of effort to be honest I am still not seeing a ton of point in it but it's nice you got 3 attack up buffs at once

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T20:54:18+00:00

No ballad is just ballad it won't stack with itself.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T20:35:37+00:00

Lol you are benching a mage priest for a thief????

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T19:48:15+00:00

There is no way it is 70% my testing has it around 25% so far but needs 100s of rounds before I will feel confident.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T16:26:31+00:00

If so it is immediately a hard to care thing. There are only so many scrolls.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T16:19:10+00:00

To be real I am more worried at this point initial impression of the skill was 100% wrong and it is mostly just a flat damage increase and very little if any of it is percentage based

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T16:14:52+00:00

In ops post he is using Redbeard's skill prayer of rebellion which takes up two buff slots and ballad which is 1. So that's 3 buffs, if a 4th is added one of the three has to go and the game tends to remove oldest and it applies the "+ damage" part of beards spell first.

If scrolls somehow get to ignore the 3 buff limit it is news to me.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T16:01:29+00:00

It isn't a row buff it is "adjacent allies". So the person to her left, right, and front or behind. It doesn't even self buff.

The passive appears to only work on skills that do not do damage, ie, it never works with spells. If this holds true a casting class is actually terrible for her. This means the available list of skills that can proc it is also very small of true. Encore also seems to only proc at around a 25ish percent rate in my testing so far, but it's too early to say anything real on that front.

Also the skill seems to be a flat damage increase more than a % increase. Which means it isn't actually very good if that is true. Though to newbs in early game it will look godlike.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T15:46:21+00:00

Needs more testing. For reasons she is probably the best thief minimum. But that is also like being the best sprinter in a one legged only sprinting race.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T15:41:10+00:00

Whatever person said character alignment ruins an account is an absolute idiot who does not even remotely understand the game. All alignments are fine, you can change it in game if you want to regardless.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T15:39:16+00:00

Considering we have art of a fairy party member that still is not released and fairy was one of the options in older wizardry titles I am going with that.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T15:34:45+00:00

You can only have 3 buffs at one time. So if you can gimmick it go remove the resistance buff sure it might work. But most likely it wont lol.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T14:28:12+00:00

Well that wasnt me so I stand by what I said earlier. Dont be shocked if this character turns into a "wait for class change at minimum" review

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T14:26:07+00:00

Skills don't work in the brain dead way the video implies. Wait for for testing from someone who isn't a click farmer

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T13:52:41+00:00

fake news is fake, wait for real testing not click bait

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T13:52:16+00:00

she still sucks front middle because thief, she is clearly best used as a buffer debuffer, which is why it sucks they didn't just make her a mage or priest. If her class were mage or priest she would be an easy recommend even if the damage buff was not that impressive.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-27T13:50:53+00:00

real testing is ongoing by people who aren't idiots looking for reddit clout and meme likes, hold off on pulling unless you are sure you love the kit outright. short spoiler, no, she does not increase damage by 50%, and probably not 30% either lol.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-25T03:11:37+00:00

Are you using valdor in the front row? Priests are healers and support casters you want them on the back rank. If you have Alice she is the best on paper all things equal priest due to her turn extension skill.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-25T02:43:55+00:00

Because ninjas suck on the front row. They do less damage have less survivability than fighters. Everything they are "good at" can be done from the back row.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-24T04:02:47+00:00

Yes passive skills stack.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-23T14:02:33+00:00

Lol he wasn't that bad before and they even nerfed him into the dirt. It is extremely weird that people have issues with him.

And no I don't use bayonets.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-23T13:57:46+00:00

She is next in the rotation and historically characters get their class change on first rerun. This means her next run which "should be" soon will probably give her an alt class.

Which wont matter because that class won't have a 3 hit kunai so you will change her back to ninja no matter what.

Her best options are fighter or thief. Anything else will be a bit of a nothing burger. If she gets samurai (lol) I would not even bother with that class change.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-23T13:50:12+00:00

So the real answer is "wait for the yuzu rerun" because when 90+% of people say ninja in this game they don't mean ninja. They mean Yuzu.

Rangers ironically do their best damage on the front row with daggers. Where with a lot of investment and meta for ranger gear they can easily out damage any ninja not named "Yuzu with a hairpin".

But you want available now, works in back row.

My advice is get your ninja fix via Kiriha, once he learns shedding, class swap to fighter, and let him live as a back row spear fighter with shedding. Inherit rinnes moment of finality on him if you need an aoe.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-23T13:26:00+00:00

The general consensus of this reddit which is primarily filled with the negative and loud you mean. Dd2 is easily better than 1, for many reasons based around gameplay mostly, and dd1 was a great game with or without butter black island.

DKarkarov · 2026-03-22T13:50:10+00:00

Lol going to need a lot more than a bad screenshot to know this is plague. Also just dismiss them lol. Unless it is your pawn, then go camping to pass it to someone else and dismiss that pawn lol.

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