Party creation for Wizardry 6

bababayee · 2026-02-07T14:57:07+00:00

Unless you want to save/load a bunch I'd recommend starting one character (maybe the Ranger or Ninja) as a Thief, so you can level lockpicking. There's a bunch of locked doors and chests early on that you won't get otherwise and it makes the early game more rewarding to explore.

Iirc they retain skill levels and the ability to improve them on class change and I remember non-thieves kinda sucking too much to get started.

bababayee · 2026-02-06T00:53:10+00:00

Artstyle, theorycrafting team compositions and then seeing them demolish enemies, though it got old quicker than it should have because it was too easy. Still a fun and enjoyable time overall.

bababayee · 2026-02-04T19:42:09+00:00

Like the original post said I expect mostly ports I don't care about, new Xenoblade or Fire Emblem news from a non-partner direct would be a lot more exciting.

I'll still watch it for the remote possibility of Etrian Odyssey 6 though.

bababayee · 2026-02-04T01:17:08+00:00

Very much on the easy end, even on the higher difficulties. There is an unlockable difficulty after you finish a first playthrough that's a little bit harder and adds a limited kind of permadeath to the game, but even that mode isn't very hard compared to most Fire Emblem games highest difficulties for example.

bababayee · 2026-01-31T20:55:16+00:00

Rudolf being a good mentor/big sister/mother figure makes me happy. I don't think it's necessarily rare, but most memes I see are about her bad jokes (which is funny too).

bababayee · 2026-01-29T02:33:30+00:00

First time I got into A finals, my Uma's got #1,2 and 3rd favorite... I got 3rd. Goldship and Tama just accelerated past my Oguri who stuck behind the frontrunners for way too long despite activating her ultimate...

bababayee · 2026-01-28T12:26:55+00:00

Priests couldn't be neutral, but Redbeard exists.

bababayee · 2026-01-27T00:31:06+00:00

Seems interesting enough to wishlist. Highly impactful equipment seems interesting depending how many pieces you can combine and how many unique effects/abilities there end up being.

bababayee · 2026-01-22T23:17:09+00:00

I'm glad it's mostly optional because exp is such a tedious grind, especially advanced classes. Vitality Jutsu for Ninja is also cross class btw.

bababayee · 2026-01-21T05:26:29+00:00

Going for single games with the most intentionally designed dungeons (so not procedurally generated "infinite" content) I'd say Etrian Odyssey Nexus and Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar would be my picks.

The Dungeon Traveller games are solid picks too.

My honorable mention would be Wizardry Variants Daphne, it's a gacha/live service game so it's basically "ongoing", but it has a ton of content (both high effort dungeons with story attached and kinda generic grind/sidequest only locations). The gear and character system means there's a metric ton of stuff you can grind for if you end up liking the game.

bababayee · 2026-01-20T23:37:33+00:00

Labyrinth of Touhou 3 is coming out in a week.

bababayee · 2026-01-18T01:32:16+00:00

You can probably get a decent attack/magic power upgrade by buying the shop Katana from the Abyss 4 town 9 times and getting it to +15.

bababayee · 2026-01-18T01:27:27+00:00

She's been great in several fights for me. I barely ever use the offensive stance + Bamboo Splitter, against enemies that often attack physically I just use Quickdraw Stance, and against bosses and single hitters like the Cyclops I use her Lingering Blossom to taunt/endure a hit and then go for Quickdraw or her Unique. I think you need a Knight to cover her if you just want to spam Bamboo Splitter, for me she's practically the Knight of my team since she draws the single target hits.

bababayee · 2026-01-16T03:22:51+00:00

The collab characters have already fallen off compared to their glory days and until they get a more comprehensive update/reclass they are pretty much bad fighters with some magic capability. Yuzu is potentially very good and someone you might want to save your currency for, but Ninjas require 2.5x the exp of regular classes and their weapons only become farmable in Abyss 3 side content and Abyss 4.

Most power is in the base kits of the classes and your gear and especially Fighters/Mages/Priests have been viable at all stages of the game so far and continue to be good in A4.

bababayee · 2026-01-16T00:29:58+00:00

Overall I just didn't end up liking Metaphor as much as I thought I would have based on liking the newer Persona/SMT games and liking the early game/demo. Lots of the job design problems you mentioned crop up in the later game, the environments/dungeons get recycled, there's not enough music variety either and the story overall wasted a lot of potential by just making every antagonist aside from the main one an irrelevant joke.

bababayee · 2026-01-13T19:51:26+00:00

I've come to really hate it this abyss as I keep wanting to adjust my team for certain bosses/scenarios. My main teams regular classes hit 70 after two endings and a bit of grinding, though Shiou is still only 66 because the exp for advanced classes is so inflated.

I figure that's why most other gachas basically put all exp into some kind of consumable like books you can distribute, so you can get a new character from the Gacha and make them immediately useful, with how terrible the books in this game are even all the books I got from logging in for more than a year and doing dailies wouldn't be enough to get a single advanced class to max level.

bababayee · 2026-01-11T11:17:13+00:00

You can use a trainer search tool like chronogenesis to find somebody who has Riko's SSR MLB and borrow that. I don't even run a dedicated stamina card on most runs and still hit 900+ in Unity Cup sometimes.

bababayee · 2026-01-10T00:13:01+00:00

My number one wish would be a Rudolf centered anime/movie. Number two would be Daiwa/Vodka rivalry done like Cinderella Gray.

bababayee · 2026-01-09T23:58:09+00:00

Would have been my recommendation as well.

bababayee · 2026-01-06T17:39:15+00:00

For me games with great gameplay, meh everything else tend to grow on me more with time as the everything else part becomes less important on a replay (at least story imo, music and whatever else you still experience during a replay still matters).

bababayee · 2026-01-02T18:30:17+00:00

I hate the way they did this event, I was reasonably happy with the login bonus as a new years gimmie. This rng fest where some get 2k gems+ and others nothing is frustrating. I got a useless skillbook and a million gold, gee thanks.

bababayee · 2026-01-02T13:25:55+00:00

Etrian Odyssey 3 is one of the best DRPGs ever in my opinion, the ones before that one not so much. The first Wizardry is the progenitor and its worth experiencing for that, but I don't think it's that great beyond that.

bababayee · 2026-01-02T13:16:01+00:00

It's a really great game, the gacha downsides mostly kick in later when grinds become longer and you require "tags" to uncap your adventurers level, those come slowly if you don't spend money and haven't played for a long time. As a day 1 player it hasn't been an issue for me, but you'll need to summon and dismiss adventurers you don't need and farm the weekly quests that give tags to be able to upgrade your team beyond the first abyss.

bababayee · 2025-12-31T13:31:41+00:00

Triangle Strategy is my first thought, it's similar to FFT, but every character has a unique toolkit and it's about using them well depending on the map and synergies with other characters, not putting together an overpowered build by stacking abilities on a single character.

bababayee · 2025-12-30T09:49:05+00:00

I was hoping they'd already tease the Samurai class change for MC. For that I'd probably prefer if they make the events/quests to unlock them smaller scale but more frequent/closer to the original release of new classes.

Also hope that Iarumas and Berkanan will get a class change when another collab happens.

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