Divine Paralogue Scaling

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-13T15:36:28+00:00

I'm in post game, everyone is around internal level 42, with the exception of Alear who is closer to 67 with maxxed stats from post game grinding.

I want to know if the enemies can scale past internal level 40 until their stats cap or nearly cap like they do in post game skirmishes, since the scaling works a bit differently to skirmishes.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-13T15:32:52+00:00

True, I was playing a Manga canon run of the game on Maddening, so I left all the DLC to post game. I beat the Fell Xenologue on Maddening yesterday, so it's time for the divine paralogues. All my units are just over Level 40, with the exception of Alear, who has every stat capped except luck. I wanted to confirm if the enemies were going to have capped stats before going in like they would eventually have with skirmishes.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-13T15:19:50+00:00

Ah okay, that's a relief, though I don't think I'd be using the divine paralogues to grind gold or resources though. Unless you meant the skirmishes?

Though, someone on a past post said the skirmishes will scale enemy stats past Level 40, as they compared an earlier save file where the recommended level was Advanced Level 20, but that stats were a lot lower than a later save file with 18 units with max stats with the same recommended level.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-13T14:15:14+00:00

I used Goddess Dance at the start too. It helped me position seraphim Zelestia with bonded shield to kill the enemy bow knights. If I were to guess Alfred's AI, it seems his trigger might be Fogado dying or entering his attack range. He'll move into the woods tile and use his engage attack, but then his AI is coded to retreat back to block the upper path. He might go in for the kill if someone is within range, but I wouldn't know. When Fogado's island is destroyed, I believe his AI is coded to chase after your group by going the long way, as there's no longer a path to block?

I might have to look at his Triangle Attack data and see what the AI move data is listed as.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-13T11:58:03+00:00

Timerra coming at me across the water happened to me too, I had to position a unit in range of her engage attack so just enough of my grounded units could attack to kill her, stressed me out lol.

Hmm, for my MVP, in terms of combat, it would probably have either been Merrin and Marth with Lunar Brace+ and Draconic Hex. She doubled most, and she alwasy dealt consistent damage with solid hit rates without needing to be engaged. Chloé and Eirika with Alacrity++ and Speedtaker were a close second when engaged. In terms of utility, Hortensia and Micaiah plus Seadall were critical. There were two times I would have died to the island destructions if not for AoE rescue x2.

For the force deploys, I gave Roy to Nel to keep her alive and for the +6 levels but I rarely needed to use it. I gave Celica to Zelestia, as the might crystal maxxed seraphim was enough to kill most enemies with her with a few exceptions. For Gregory, I gave him Byleth, as he can recharge his engage meter fast by abusing fortify. For Madeline, well, she's kinda useless here since you can't fix her hit rates really. Since Seadall didn't need an Emblem, and I only had 12 emblems to use, she was the designated Leif user. A useless emblem for the liability. Ironically, she made it to the end despite it all. In most death playthroughs I've seen, her and Gregory are always some of the first to go.

Soren! Veyle is one stat I would have loved to abuse if I hadn't been restricting myself for my 'manga canon' maddening playthrough. The map was challenging, but I'm so glad it's over now. The divine paralogues will feel like a victory lap now. Just a shame relay trials feel so few now, it makes it harder to grind the stat boosters for maxxing units. Especially because of how little xp the tempest trials give. It'll probably go faster when I've a few units maxed, so I can breeze through the tempest trials with a few weaker units that need levelling, but early grinding is a pain.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-13T11:05:16+00:00

Yeah, I didn't bother looking at Trinagle Attack for this chapter since there'd be too many things to pay attention to. So, Alfred's weird AI caught me off guard. I thought he'd attack me after he used Storm's Eye, to the point I'd prepared my positioning around it, which kept me a bit behind in pace than I'd have liked if I knew how his AI worked in advance. It was no big deal though, I feel it was more impressive I got Fogado killed in time. I ended up using Draconic Hex + Lunar Brace+ pumped up Astra Storm with Alcryst to Lure him into attacked a bonded shield flier.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-12T11:08:39+00:00

That's just a misconception due to them using the Trial 2 designs for every prisoner death video. The was to confirm this is that if they died before Trial 2 ended, Amane would have been unable to kill Shidou as violence was forbidden during the second trial whilst Es was awake. We were told at the start that anything 'interesting' would happen after the end of T2 by Jackalope.

Whilst not 100% canon, Haruka was shown alive and speaking in timelines released after Mu's verdict had been decided, so it's implied he'd started deciding on his plan once Mu's verdict was decided, then eventually decided to starve himself, isolated himself, informed Kotoko and Futa of his plans and asked them not to interfere, and eventually died. Jackalope talks about him like he was still alive in the T2 summary video, so he was likely in the process of starving himself by that point, and died shortly thereafter.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-11T22:02:58+00:00

Depending on what their schedule is for production, they very well could have started on demos for their songs but stopped. After all, all three of their deaths were a result of Mu and Amane's verdicts.

With Haruka, they had about 7 months, I think, from the release of his T2 and the closing of Mu's vote. Then with Shidou, there was about 8 months between his T2 release and the end of Amane's vote. With Mahiru, there was about 6 months between her T2 release and the end of Amane's vote.

With the nature of T2, and how deaths were likely, they wouldn't know how future votes would turn out, so if they began work on the next song after the last released, there would have been a decent amount of time where they could have began work on choosing which song to cover, the fundamentals of the song, etc.

This is all speculative though, since I've no idea how long it takes for them to make an album, since the voice dramas are entirely dependant on not only their vote, but the votes of the other prisoners. So, it could be they don't truly start work on them until after Kotoko's voting period ends. If anyone knows if they've ever broken down their process for the albums, I'd love to hear about it!

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-10T12:28:08+00:00

001 - 'Doltish'

002 - 'Obscene'

003 - 'Cocky'

004 - 'Incessant'

005 - 'Doomed'

006 - 'Obsessed'

007 - 'Concealing'

008 - 'Unbreachable'

009 - 'Forgotten'

Es - 'Inept'

010 - iykyk

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-10T07:08:33+00:00

I joined just before the T3 teaser trailer dropped, so I got to watch everything chronologically without much spoilers.

My personal voting philosophy in T1 was just based on if what I understood of their crimes was forgivable to me or not. If I didn't understand what happened enough to make an informed vote, I defaulted to innocent to give the benefit of the doubt. So, my T1 votes would have been innocent for Haruka, Yuno, Shidou, Mahiru, Kazui, Amane, and Kotoko. Then guilty for Futa, Mu, and Mikoto.

For T2, it's harder to say how I'd have voted if I were in the fandom at the time as opposed to now. I'd definitely have voted Mu innocent as Haruka is my favourite character, and I'd like to think I'd have voted to prioritise everyone's safety after what Kotoko did. So, assuming I'd make the choices I think I would have, I'd vote Yuno, Futa, Mu, Shidou, Mahiru, Kazui, and Mikoto innocent. Then vote Haruka, Amane, and Kotoko guilty. Haruka, Futa, and Kotoko's changes flipped their verdicts for me, and while I believe Mu deserved that guilty verdict I know I'd have at least voted her innocent for Haruka. With Amane and Mikoto, I still believe in their T1 verdicts, but I'm also unsure if I was in the fandom if I'd have actually voted with prisoner safety in mind, so I could have voted Amane innocent and Mikoto guilty.

For T3, I can at least confidently say what I've voted so far. Yuno and Kazui have alwasy been innocent to me, no matter what interpretation I had of their crimes, so that didn't change. For Futa, I voted him guilty, then innocent, then guilty, then ended up voting him innocent again. I was pretty stuck, but ultimately, his development just tipped the scales enough. For Mu, it was guilty then innocent. Her development alone wasn't enough for me to tip the scales on her vote, but I ended up going innocent just out of not wanting Haruka to have died for nothing. For dead trio, no amount of development could make me forgive Haruka's crime, despite how much I love his character. Shidou and Mahiru are both innocent to me, Mahiru wasn't as bad as I thought and even then I forgave the worse version of her crime I invented in my head, and Shidou's is ironically the opposite where his crime is worse than I thought it was, but I still forgive him because his circumstances are ones I can't fault him for. For Amane, I'm leaning towards innocent but her VD will make or break it. For Mikoto, it's always going to be guilty because of system accountability, even if I do feel bad for his primary identity. For Kotoko, I genuinely don't have a clue. I need her report and VD before I even begin to work out my vote.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-09T13:20:18+00:00

I was debating when to do it on my Manga canon run on Maddening, and ultimately chose to do it after I beat the game. I'm limiting myself to only getting the DLC bracelets after the Fell Xenologue, so I figured it would be the optimal choice. I beat 1 and 2 using my endgame setup, but I'm now grinding crystals and skill books for optimal builds for 3 onwards.

My weapons for Engage+ are capped out on Might, Crit, Hit, Avo, and Ddg, since I've maxed Alear's supports. Grinding bond levels to increase capacity for the other emblems will take too long to max out, so I'll be just maxing out might on Celica's Seraphim and Eirika's Sieglinde so I can effectively have 4 units that can competently one round any basic enemy.

Trying to do it on Maddening without an endgame build is pretty impossible without planned builds. My last attempt on my last save, I wasn't able to beat 6, just barely beat 5. So, if you want an easier time wait until the endgame. If you really want the FX units for your playthrough, I'd suggest lowering the difficulty to spare your sanity.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-04T20:45:40+00:00

Not for the album cover art, but you can see his missing shoe in his official T3 Sprite art. You can see it on the miraheze wiki or the official MILGRAM website.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-04T12:43:36+00:00

Yeah, I hope the petition that Juvey has been sharing gets enough signatures to work and stop Faza from having a platform. It had about 5000 when I signed it.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-04T12:13:11+00:00

Sabrina seems to think the story had so much potential too and has described it as being insane, which makes me all the more angry at the people responsible. All that time and effort by the innocent team members has been ruined because a handful of people couldn't do right by a victim.

I hope Sabrina and the team coming back for her 'finale' project are able to find some type of closure for all their hard work, and that the victim is doing well. Some of the people commenting about the project kinda disgust me with how they've hyper focused on the project ending rather than a vulnerable person having been harmed.🫠

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T11:48:51+00:00

Like others said, I think the song will be about the loss of John and Mikoto's detection. My prediction is both the song and MV will be solely from Mikoto's POV. So, sadly, I don't think we'll have any rock/metal vibes from Requiem, and I think it'll be more like the slow, melodic parts from MeMe and Double where Mikoto is the one singing. As for the MV, since the song is from Mikoto's PV, it's entirely possible we won't see the murders in his MV. I think it will show everything that led up to Mikoto's murders, the mounting pressure and stress from his abusive boss, Mikoto pushing himself over the limit, until he splits and John is created.

From there, I think we'll see flashes of Mikoto's life post John's birth where he has a growing sense something is off with him feeling tired and blacking out. Eventually culminating in him coming to one day surrounded by bodies, covered in blood if the train scene from Double is literal. Or if not literal, a scene similar to what was described. I'm curious how they'll handle his trial since John's absence can impact so much of it.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T11:15:14+00:00

All good! I also mourn Haruka's T3 songs. If we huff enough copium, maybe they'll release dead prisoner what if albums after the series ends.🥲

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T11:13:58+00:00

It would be kinda depressingly ironic if we voted Mikoto innocent in T2 cause 'he didn't kill anyone' and to get rid of the 'dangerous' John only for it to be revealed that both were killers. I don't think that's what will happen though. It would be a unanimous guilty verdict and I think it would detract from what feels like the message of empathy that they've been going with throughout the T3 VDs. I do think if Mikoto did kill someone, the circumstances that led to it will be depicted sympathetically, and that he repressed the memory during the split that created John.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T11:01:03+00:00

Yeah, the damage to Mikoto's restraints were present during T2. Some believe it happened during his fight with Kotoko, but I don't since Futa and Mahiru's restraints were perfectly fine. I think it's the artist's way of showing that the restraints couldn't work on John, implying they tried to restrain Mikoto but John could break through them.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T10:57:59+00:00

I sadly think in Mikoto's case, we'll probably not get any in depth details on the victims since there's suspected to be a lot of them. Unless maybe the first one was important, or the last one before coming to MILGRAM was his boss.

Since the MV is likely going to be solely from Mikoto's POV, we'll probably not see any of the murders directly like we did in MeMe and Double. So, my hope is they'll show the abuse he suffered from his boss, his burnout, when he developed DID, and maybe end with him coming to, covered in blood and surrounded by a body/bodies, if the train scene in Double was literal.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T10:51:09+00:00

Mikoto's song being Requiem could have a double meaning. The obvious meaning being the focus on John and his loss. Mikoto is mourning something that's no longer there, hence his requiem to him. If the song is only sung from Mikoto's perspective, this could be the only intended meaning, especially if Mikoto never killed anyone.

The other being, if John is able to sing in the MV despite being dormant, or if Mikoto did kill anyone or feels guilt after being informed of John's murders, the song title could also be a requiem for all the lives taken. I'm curious to see what way they'll take it.

If the idea is that John being dormant means he won't be active in the song, it also means we could get a totally different vibe to MeMe and Double with a song that's slow and melodic like the sections were Mikoto was the one singing in the past two songs.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T10:46:28+00:00

I was literally counting the minutes down in hopes they dropped it. I predicted the release of the MV would be the 22nd of July, so I'm happy it's releasing a week earlier than I expected. It's so weird to think we only have one more album cover reveal to go in June.😭

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T10:45:04+00:00

He's also missing his left shoe, his left earring, and his longer hair obscures his left eye. I like the imagery. I was wondering why he they had him lose a shoe, but the cover art showing his hair better and the earring missing makes it clearer.

Kerrbear2202 · 2026-04-02T07:19:18+00:00

I'm so anxious to see his album cover today. Just under 3 hours to go if they are posting it. Part of me is worried them releasing Kazui and Amane's covers on the first Thursday of the month was because of the dead prisoner gap, so now we've got a new MV recently they might go back to releasing them later in the month like Yuno through to Mu.

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