>can make clever use of status effects to beat powerful bosses

ah yes the clever use of a sons mental instability to kill god.. makes sense

name one mmo where this isn't considered an exploit

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>>379662645
>status effects are useless against basic enemies because you can kill them faster through regular attacks

>all bosses are immune to status effects making them useless to even have

Fucking Bravely Default demo.

>>379662645
There's no winning when it comes to status effects in games. If you make them work on bosses people will pee their pants and go "REEEEEEEE TOO POWERFUL MUH CHALLENGING HARDCORE GAYMUR NEEDS TOO PISS EASY THE BOSSES AREN'T EVEN LIKE REAL BOSSES REEEEEEE!!!" but if you don't make them work on bosses people will pee their pants and go "REEEEEE THESE SHOULD WORK ON BOSSES TOO WHY ARE THEY EVEN IN THE GAME THESE SKILLS ARE USELESS THIS CHARACTER IS USELESS THIS CLASS IS USELESS THEY ONLY WORK ON TRASH ENEMIES REEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Devs need to go back to just making the shit the way they want instead of trying to satisfy the most autistic common denominator.

>>379663127
The superior method is to make it so that bosses are hard enough that even when debuffed they're still tough.

>>379663127
Or you could make status effects that are not crippling to be under and still leave the boss a threat. Don't make statuses like :

STOP
FROG
STUN
PIG
IMP
etc

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>buffing and debuffing an integral part of battling tough enemies

>>379662645
I feel like Etrian Odyssey can't decide whether status effects should be god-tier or shit tier.

>>379663092
Bravely Default has an advanced class that can ailment bosses, it's fun as fuck to use. Time it right and you have a boss sleep the ENTIRE BATTLE, WITHOUT EVER MAKING A SINGLE ATTACK ON YOUR PARTY

>>379662645
>>379663250
Fuck yes. You can basically separate the good JRPGs from the bad ones by the ones that actually allow you to do these.

>>379662738
Stop fucking around and get in the goddamn robot

>>379663127
>spell sequencer: lower resistance, lower resistance, lower resistance
>spell sequencer: greater malison, greater malison, greater malison
>spell sequencer: disintegrate, disintegrate, disintegrate
and just like that, three wizards can down Baldur's Gate 2s dragons

>>379662645
>EO boss with bullshit multihit move
>Blind+Party Shield through it

>>379662645
>Etrian Odyssey
>Use Fear on a Boss
>Use Suicide, a move that cancels a feared opponent's next turn and causes them to auto attack themselves 3 times
>Kill boss in 4 turns

Etrian Odyssey status effects get me ROCK. HARD.

>>379663127
Just have status effects wear off sooner on bosses so you can't poison stall them to death or whatever.