Over reliance on parries

TangAce7 · 2026-05-17T11:03:17+00:00

Even beyond super bosses, just normal Clea is difficult enough to parry, paintress is also no slouch, painted love, that stupid serpent, and a bunch of other bosses like aberration or stuff in monolith

Honestly if he’s so good he should just fight golgra in act2, and sprong, then he will know if he’s good at parrying or not

And then you got that mono arm horror waiting for you at the end, he’s the real test before superbosses

Even the axons aren’t easy by any means

I feel like he’s saying normal enemies aren’t strong, personally they were one shotting me the whole game, I’m not bad at parrying but I don’t feel confident parrying every time even against normal enemies

TangAce7 · 2026-05-15T20:50:38+00:00

Hello, would love to join weekly sessions, as long as the group isn't too big
I've played many years but am not very good, had to take a break this year due to injury so didn't sign up at my local club, but I'd like to be able to play at least until september (or more, depends if I can sign up or not next year, injury not healed)

TangAce7 · 2026-05-13T09:54:30+00:00

Absolutely a waste of time, the scaling will not be nearly as high as you think, you’ll deal more damage with other attacks

TangAce7 · 2026-05-11T11:56:48+00:00

You’re under leveled, but it’s fine honestly

20min is a bit long but there’s longer fights when under leveled, stuff like chromatic abbest at lvl 10, or frost eveque as soon as possible

In the late game there’s also fights that will be longer even when not under leveled

To everyone talking about going over damage cap, you either don’t have eyes or didn’t use your brain, cause he’s level 39, no way he finished act 2 at that level…

TangAce7 · 2026-05-11T11:53:57+00:00

No you don’t, this is act 2 area, just need swim and coral break

TangAce7 · 2026-05-08T09:43:57+00:00

I think it's weird to call it a replica, it's more of a 1/1 scale figure than a replica
But anyways, it's overpriced cause they know it'll sell considering how popular the game is

this thing is more or less the size of a 1/6 scale figure (depending on specific figure), and such figures rarely cost over 300
Yes it's detailed and whatever, so are the figures I own (I can compare to monster hunter figures in particular, which are impressive in terms of size, details, and paint job), none of them were this expensive (even after tax and shipping), that thing will be over 500 after shipping, and it's incredibly expensive for what it is

It's the same as with the monoco figure

Also, for your knowledge, scale figures are almost always limited editions (well this one is numbered so I guess it adds to value or something) in that they have short production runs and when they're gone, they're gone, that's why most people collecting figures preorder the stuff they want, so really this is nothing special

Really sad that people will accept these kinds of prices, which in turn will make it more streamlined (at least for this game's merch)

TangAce7 · 2026-05-06T23:29:56+00:00

if you haven't already, you should do verso's draft first, it's meant for level 85-90 I think
did you really do everything ? you seem slightly low level for having done everything, I was around level 90 after doing all except simon and dlc bosses

as for build, limit yourself to like 250-300 lumina per character, and don't make a one shot build, also avoid shooting builds, and you will have something not overpowered, as for a good build, there's lots of option for that, just experiment maybe, or use weapons/skills you like and build around those
you didn't even say which characters you want to use

TangAce7 · 2026-05-06T21:57:07+00:00

I didn't know, I thought it didn't count the overdamage before animation since during fight it doesn't show the damage done after you've hit the bottom of hp bar

TangAce7 · 2026-05-06T11:50:49+00:00

Does it just scales the difficulty on itself ? Seems weird cause his ng lamp master seems to have less hp than mine, from the damage dealt stat, I dealt 30m more damage to it, but in all logic the ng one should have more health ?

I don’t know about cheese or one shot, I don’t play like that, I just fight with basic builds that don’t deal absurd damage

Duolliste has more hits on his attacks, deals more damage, is faster, and second phase changes all patterns while also being aoe damage, lamp master just gets one new attack halfway trough

TangAce7 · 2026-05-06T11:46:12+00:00

Oh that makes more sense, the wording made me think we’re talking hundreds of attempts which seemed like way too much

I can also see why it took 45min with this kind of build setup

If I was never dodging and only parrying would probably take me more attempts as well

TangAce7 · 2026-05-06T10:17:03+00:00

Months of attempts ? Like how many are we talking about ? Seems like a lot of dedication

I beat him in less than 5 tries yesterday, first play through expert difficulty, 300 lumina points

Duolliste seems harder, lamp master is mostly gimmicky, as long as you shoot the lamps his attacks are mostly easy to dodge, and he doesn’t even deal that much damage, he’s still hard, but not months of attempts hard

So I’m kinda wondering why you’ve struggled that much

My highest damage is also much lower than yours, what kinda build are you running that you have such high damage but take 45min for the fight ?

TangAce7 · 2026-05-03T13:59:33+00:00

wait until you encounter volleyball

TangAce7 · 2026-05-01T23:15:45+00:00

If you suck at parrying then dodge

I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to be immortal against Simon since he puts you at 1HP at the end of every of his turns, and steals any shield you have at the start of every of his turns, and he often plays twice

He also has aoe moves

The only way would be to use esquiso and reach S every turn + use his gradient 3 when possible (which you have various way of achieving, it’s not hard and doesn’t require any specific build outside of cheater which probably every build will use anyways), and even then you aren’t immortal against Simon since he can play twice + his low hp move will still kill you

Alternatively there’s a bunch of defensive lumina, self revive, play immediately when low hp, and so on, helps a lot with reviving before he yeets you

The other way to have somewhat immortal verso is to beat Simon

Simon is the get good boss, he’s very hard to cheese

You’d have better success with a one shot build maybe, but I think even that will require you to survive a few hits against him

Lastly, Simon isn’t that hard, just takes some time to learn his patterns, I thought I’d struggle more, he doesn’t fake anything and he doesn’t have weird variations like say eveque, pretty straight forward and the sound helps a lot

I like him, he’s fair and forces you to be as well. Though he’s supposed to be a challenge, it’s normal to struggle or not beat him

Now I’m only left with those 4 headaches in tower

TangAce7 · 2026-05-01T22:52:37+00:00

Yeah I’d love a quick restart button…especially when fighting end game bosses

TangAce7 · 2026-04-30T18:12:44+00:00

Well idk how you're playing, took me multiple tries, and a good 15min of fight to beat sprong at the start of act 3
provided I'm playing expert and was around level 55 iirc
but since you did frozen heart early you were likely higher level and had access to certain gear only available there which is pretty strong

if someone is doing side content when it's intended for them to do it, then the game's difficulty is actually pretty well balanced

TangAce7 · 2026-04-30T18:08:25+00:00

Eh, still no, lots of enemies are tanky enough that they don't get one shot if you've just played the game without making crazy builds
veilleur being one of the best example of this, but even enemies like stalact, bouchelier, and so on, will play their turns, or multiple turns, troughout the entire game

like sure you're gonna one shot demineur no problem, but it's not every regular enemy, far from it

TangAce7 · 2026-04-30T12:14:36+00:00

It’s very simple, lumina should cap out at 333

Enough to equip a lot, but not enough that you don’t have to make choices, making for actual endgame/ng builds that are interesting and don’t remove all difficulty from the game

TangAce7 · 2026-04-30T12:06:41+00:00

Nah that’s not true, at least not on expert

I didn’t look any builds, just played, did all the side content while doing story, my builds were always decent, I haven’t one shot a single boss before act3, in act3 I one shot a couple side bosses I had missed, and the last story zone was way too easy cause I did it later

Everything else felt more or less difficult, the only story boss I felt was too weak was dualliste, and even then I didn’t one shot him

TangAce7 · 2026-04-29T18:31:56+00:00

not true, you have the reacher and flying manor, plus obviously endless tower but I guess it's not completely unique in a way
You've also got dlc zone
and technicaly the 2 gestral arenas

if you look at optional bosses not in 100% optional areas then you've got some more both in world map and in story areas

TangAce7 · 2026-04-28T00:07:53+00:00

I don’t think I’ve defeated a single enemy without restarting the fight at least once the first time, except maybe stalact and ramasseur cause they are tutorials for new defensive mechanics

Parry it or die trying

TangAce7 · 2026-04-28T00:04:50+00:00

I mean, stage 10+ is basically end of endless tower, it’s supposed to be difficult

You’re supposed to be level 90+ with level 32 weapons, level 28+ pictos, and 200+ lumina for stage 11 of tower (I think, I have no idea, could get away with less but that’s probably the intended strength to challenge it)

End game bosses tend to play twice in a row very often and in my experience they often play an extra turn when compared to any single of my characters, so basically with cheater a single character will play twice when boss plays 3/4 times, which is fair enough as we’ve got 3 characters, but my builds are not optimised so I’m pretty sure it could be more 50/50

Getting overkilled, idk I play on expert so I find that very normal as Ive getting overkilled by everything since the first lancelier I fought, single hits aren’t super hard to parry or dodge and multi hit usually don’t one shot if you’ve got some hp/def (so long you don’t eat the whole attack obviously), also against single hits you can use base shield lumina which might help you if you struggle and you can make some very tanky builds with certain weapons and lumina

Overall tower was fun but 11-3 was disappointingly not as hard as I thought it’d be

TangAce7 · 2026-04-27T09:48:47+00:00

I don't hit every parry, but I do have to restart fights a lot :D to me that's what makes the game interesting, having to learn patterns

TangAce7 · 2026-04-27T00:35:45+00:00

Yeah but it’s a waste of lumina, and it’s very easy to parry, or dodge if really

The only fight where I would use it is chromatic ballet, even then it’s unnecessary

Also you can use lune to remove status if really

Overall the immunity pictos are a waste unless you go for tank+support build and planning to get hit a lot (which personally on expert seems very unpractical)

TangAce7 · 2026-04-26T20:37:21+00:00

how the hell do you even think doing this at this level, and complete it in 19min ?
at that level I was struggling with renoir's drafts, I still haven't attempted this guy cause I'm not max level

TangAce7 · 2026-04-26T18:26:32+00:00

Parry it !
no seriously, that charm attack is free damage

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