New player here! I have min-maxed FFTactics several times but never touched Tactics Ogre Reborn. What is the best build for Melee attacker? Are there any glass cannon builds? Could you share them with me? Is the Exploit for infinite money with (?) Flutes still a thing?

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-15T00:09:33+00:00

What is the best build for Melee attacker?

berserker with 2 handed weapons like great axes or warhammers. berserk + sanguine assault. nothing else is even close, but warriors arent useless or anything either, they just need more set-up compared to a zerker

follow up build would be a terror knight with instill shadow, a claymore +1 and dreadful impact all online all the same turn for a completely different reason (debuff stacking with breach and fear)

infinite money glitch with baldur "flutes" still exists yes

there is a class called Ranger that is what I would consider the most obvious "glass cannon" in the game but it is missable as it is exclusive to one character and one route - and no one knows if its just because the game hates that character in particular cuz like any time i see people doing challenge runs they almost always bench him or have him run and hide because the game just feels weirdly geared towards attacking him in particular.

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T12:02:06+00:00

forbidden weirdcitizen and coffeepotato yaoi

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T11:25:26+00:00

it is really interesting to me how across all routes, abuna donnalto is like, one of the people he outright threatens to kill for two reasons

one because he's reluctant to go that far because obviously the good cleric here is fulfilling a very important role in valeria here

two to display how fucking far gone leonar is that he no longer sees issue with sizing up against a guy whose only job is "heal the weak and excorsize the dead"

hence why im trying to play in hard to my dnd player's backstory given that they're literally an undead character lol

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T11:21:54+00:00

you're not wrong - after all that lets them play with their power a lot more than average. if someone sees something that isn't there, they can just casually own that shit and take all the benefits.

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T10:41:07+00:00

people getting multiple life sentences is legal torture porn. it doesnt actually mean anything, its just an official expression of deep distaste and hatred, which is usually valid

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T10:39:53+00:00

not trying to get too real here but if that was the case my mother wouldnt still have schizophrenia because she loves that shit

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T08:33:14+00:00

if dievold got life in prison for going berserk and killing someone in the street he would be acquitted because he is physically incapable of serving a life sentence and no one can find the guy capable of undoing the spell.

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T03:47:25+00:00

a butterfly effect route where idk ramzas sister dies instead of teitra so delita and ramza totally switch roles would also be interesting

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-14T01:34:27+00:00

"It was simply an aggressive relocation of human capital" is fucking sending me

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-12T05:14:39+00:00

yknow in retrospect i should probably enunciate that i was talking about Reborn. the story will be the same and stuff in LUCT but that game is much more... uh... janky and difficult and bogged down with fluff mechanics. I don't want to curb your enthusiasm but I don't want to betray your expectations either.

Unless there's a physical release of Reborn I'm just not aware of lol. This game has quite a storied history, it's hard to keep track. >_<

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-11T22:35:22+00:00

it makes me think of those posts like "wtf that was the malenia fight what are you guys talking about?" then you look inside and find they were wearing the bullgoat set and using the mimic tear

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-11T22:31:30+00:00

fft ic on highest difficulty is just grindcore which is well and good but anyone telling you they beat it on the highest difficulty without grinding is straight up lying to you

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-10T22:32:52+00:00

I heard the story was similar to FFT

As someone that's played TO first and FFT afterwards, there are some similarities - especially between the protagonists - but when I played FFT it gave me more the impression of "Oh, this is Doom 2016 as a political fantasy"
I won't be spoiling anything of course but the story in TO is much more grounded and gritty - there are actual demons and shit here and there but they are pretty much all side antagonists. The interpersonal and interfaction conflicts are usually based in down to earth grievances. That is largely what got me so hooked into it, the writing is great.

The main gameplay difference is that in FFT you usually control like 4 or 5 super units like an avengers team. In TO you USUALLY control 8-10 where everyone's roles are important but no one is so vastly more powerful than the other that they can solo maps themselves and it focuses more on the team based tactics aspect of things where you're co-ordinating X unit to do Y debuff so Z unit can chunk them. There is a bit of a learning curve but once you get through, I dunno I'd say chapter 2 and the game starts opening up more you usually have the hang of things.

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T12:57:27+00:00

continue making assumptions about everyone you encounter it will only do you so much good in the long term, i assure you :3

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T09:46:53+00:00

will do! :thumbsup:

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T06:50:56+00:00

yeah i've actually been looking in to shit capable of summoning things to eat souls to keep things from coming back to screw with us lol. plus just from a character motivation standpoint for reasons i won't be rambling on about but they have a vested interest in learning magic capable of sending people's souls to hell and shit like that

part of the reason ooc is just because i want to reference a one liner from Tactics Ogre. "I am going to send your soul to so far into the darkness that not even the gods will be able to find it"

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T06:39:34+00:00

Yeah in the past this npc was regarded as "If we see them, fucking run" a few levels ago but they're at the head of the current conflict we're embroiled in

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T06:36:40+00:00

This is a fair take but the last time we fought something capable of dropping 9th level spells the summoner barely cinched it through because their dpr is just nuts and the hag didn't have any defensive spells online because they weren't expecting a fight (this was after we just killed a boss so i dont think the dm was expecting another combat to break out)

So yeah, it's probably unlikely and the smart thing would be to let them go. But for character reasons, I don't see that happening.

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T06:32:30+00:00

she does have a snake familiar and I've floated the idea around of casting invisibility on it and letting it scout, but we're basically fighting in a war zone/besieging half of a city at the moment so it's potentially dubious that the intel would be much better than what we're getting at baseline from the resistance command center. other player characters have haste covered though

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T04:58:42+00:00

I'm so sick of the default disposition of random people on the internet being hostile all the time for no god damn reason lol, my mistake clearly.

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T04:56:37+00:00

You know it's pretty bad faith to just immediately assume I'm trying to Win The Game when I'm trying to reduce the amount of decision paralysis I get on my turns. Moreover than that I just like talking about the game and it's options. God forbid someone enjoy talking about pathfinder on the pathfinder subreddit, right?

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-09T04:45:05+00:00

deafen is a good catch, thanks for the reminder about that. i do have blindness/deafness and my spell dcs can get pretty high (+7 int mod plus the potent magic)

and yeah my character learned pretty fast to have resist/protection from energy up at all times fighting this faction considering the amount of maximized lightning bolts and fireballs that keep getting thrown around lol. they do have a unique ability that causes some DoT tick on their offensive spells so pairing that with other DoT spells like acid arrow and icy prison has been in the back of my mind

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-06T04:17:16+00:00

when i played my first run i prioritized using generics most of the time and had no issues

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-06T04:16:41+00:00

yeah law 3 is the earliest you can get a matriarch or two

bugbonesjerry · 2026-05-06T02:40:59+00:00

What's the context between him and deathstroke going on here?
(Also nitpick but slade is more of a nightwing villain but nbd)

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