Etrian Odyssey III

Grand Master Kickface · 10-06-2010, 07:51 PM

Grinding in this series is a penalty for having an inefficient party setup. You'll almost certainly have to grind in the beginning while you're still figuring out how all the skills work and what you want to put your skill points towards, but once your builds start coming together you'll hardly have to grind at all. This is especially true in III now that you get experience points from completing quests as well.

Anyway, I'm taking this game kind of slowly since I'm going back and forth between this and other games, but I managed to beat the first stratum. Makibishi is surprisingly great on my Ninja, and I just unlocked his instant-kill passive too. I think I'll go for his cloning abilities next. I'm still not sure what I'm doing with my Buccaneer though. I originally wanted him to revolve around the gun chasers, but they're not elemental attacks themselves like I thought they would be, and even at level 5 they miss a lot of activations. On my Prince, I don't know whether to aim for Protect Order or Regal Radiance first. He's actually the tankiest character in my party, so I don't think the Royal Veil line would be good for him. On my Arbalist I'm just kind of putting points into whatever. I have one point into each elemental barrage so far, and I think I'll work on Ambush or Giant Kill next. Night Vision sounds cool, but I don't know how many more critical hits it would give me considering the skill point investment.

10-06-2010, 07:51 PM	#8
Grand Master Kickface Uber Tier Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ice Path Posts: 273	Grinding in this series is a penalty for having an inefficient party setup. You'll almost certainly have to grind in the beginning while you're still figuring out how all the skills work and what you want to put your skill points towards, but once your builds start coming together you'll hardly have to grind at all. This is especially true in III now that you get experience points from completing quests as well. Anyway, I'm taking this game kind of slowly since I'm going back and forth between this and other games, but I managed to beat the first stratum. Makibishi is surprisingly great on my Ninja, and I just unlocked his instant-kill passive too. I think I'll go for his cloning abilities next. I'm still not sure what I'm doing with my Buccaneer though. I originally wanted him to revolve around the gun chasers, but they're not elemental attacks themselves like I thought they would be, and even at level 5 they miss a lot of activations. On my Prince, I don't know whether to aim for Protect Order or Regal Radiance first. He's actually the tankiest character in my party, so I don't think the Royal Veil line would be good for him. On my Arbalist I'm just kind of putting points into whatever. I have one point into each elemental barrage so far, and I think I'll work on Ambush or Giant Kill next. Night Vision sounds cool, but I don't know how many more critical hits it would give me considering the skill point investment.