ambrolia wrote:
Diver and Dougie, Madame .. I need some tips on my mage... she almost always dies in battle.. I can't get the settings just right for my party members...Her build is obviously awful.. I am at the battle, to light the torch (it's my 2nd playthrough , but 1st with my mage.. 1st playthrough was with a tank.. and I had no probs with him) I need my tanks to tank as it always seems the baddies always come for me. And I don't understand the traps... There is so much, and I am beginning to think this is a steep learning curve here... I almost always choose a tank in the beginning of my rpg's just to play-through.. but I want some challenge... lol... And I still can't figure out how to use the first aid kit on my party members.. I can heal them when it's in my pre-set blade, but how do I literally use the potions on them? Is it where I have to use the rb and switch character to heal them from the inventory? That takes too darn long.. As a mage, I want to heal all my players at once... what are your character builds??
OK, a fellow chick explained this best so let me quote her:
iCeTKiTtY wrote:
You need to set up
tactics... Press the Back button to open up your management menu...
Flip over to the Character Record tab and press Y to open up the
Tactics menu... From there, you can choose the behavior of the selected
character, yes, even your own for when you switch over and use another
member of the party, your main character won't just stand there and not
do anything, which is the Default... And in turn, is why you say they
are stupid and die... Anyway, behavior... There's Default, Passive,
Aggressive, Ranged, Cautious and Defensive. Press X to view the details
of each behavior to help you figure out what you want.
Then
there's Presets, which are preset tactics like Scrapper, Defender or
Archer... You may modify these tactics but there's also Custom... Which
is what I use most... Since it starts you off from scratch... Note:
There is only one Custom set, so if you modify one of the presets, it
will overwrite as it is recognized as being the Custom set... So for
instance, you want your character to use a health poultice at a certain
point... You may do so by clicking on a condition slot... (the boxes
that say: [1][+], etc...) Click on Self, then from there select whether
to use it when your Health is at <50% and so on... Once you're done
with that, slide over to the right where it says (Action) and click on
that... Select Use health poultice: least powerful, since if the potion
used isn't strong enough, the condition will activate again and use
another one... So, you save your stronger potions from being used up
too early...
As for the wheel, I don't use it since I assign
things via the management menu, which gives me more details but you can
toggle the Radial Menu to Toggle open/closed so that you need only tap
the LT to open and close it instead of holding the LT down the whole
time... Which is found in the options menu by pressing Start...
Now,
you may gain extra condition slots via using a point in your Skills tab
towards Combat Tactics... So, all in all, you may have up to 6 slots...
Hope this helps...
The bold part I did for all the characters and it helped so much. I didn't know how to use that function until yesterday. Now they all seem to kick butt and heal them selves appropriately. Now I haven't played very far as a Mage. I'm guessing staying back and setting your party to be more aggressive would help. Set them to either attack the closest seen enemy or to attack the enemy attacking you.
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