Just started this game and I'm completely new to the series

>>388110917
go back and play/emulate 1 and 2

F O E

>>388111052
Why can't I start with this one?

>>388110917

Whatever else you pick, make sure to have a dancer. They're good for the entire game.

You'll need a sniper for the second dungeon, there are ghost enemies that dodge everything if you don't bind their legs. Training one from the start will save you some time, and binding arms will keep the bears from raping you.

You don't really need a rune master till the 3rd dungeon and you'll be able to auto level one to lvl 25. Don't bother with one now. Instead, make sure to find the fire hammer so you can give your weapons element damage. Or you can try a landshark. All the bears are weak to fire, so you should use a guide to find it before the first boss.

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>>388112261
Neat, already got a dancer (couldn't resist) so looks like I'm good for now. Really nice advice anon, thanks.

>>388110917
I hope you are doing a full loli team.

L/F/N/M/R is a good team for starters

>>388112747
*L/F/N/M/S.

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What's this game?
Something like Class of Heroes? Is any better?

I really love this guy's art.

The only reason to use more than 5 characters is if you want a farming party, but it's been so long since I played 4 that I don't remember if even that's really needed in this one

>>388112747
Oh you bet I am. It's not often that a game let's me do this so I'm taking full advantage.

Team is L/F/D/M/N right now

I started playing 3 a couple days ago, and boy am I glad I specced my Zodiac with electric skills first

>>388112261
>there are ghost enemies that dodge everything if you don't bind their legs.
Why does no one ever bother with equipment? You can buy glasses that give you more hit chance and don't need to rely on binds that will fail eventually for the boss.

>>388113103
>actually leveling up the spell skills instead of stuff like dark ether and meteorite
You can go the whole game with level 1 stars and be fine, dark ether, however, is amazing once you slap a ninja subclass.

>>388111140
You're being memed. 4 is the most common recommended entry point.

If you're not playing on Normal you're not getting the full experience. It's the baseline difficulty of the series, with casual modes added in newer instalments to make it easier.

If a FOE has a patrol route, mark it on the map to avoid getting caught by surprise. Same goes for line of sight FOEs later on.

If you haven't noticed already, you can only have 3 buffs and 3 debuffs on you at the same time so avoid stacking too many at once, particularly with a dancer who needs all their buff slots for maximum effectiveness.

Abuse binds and ailments, nothing is immune to anything in most Etrian Odyssey games including bosses. Besides crippling enemy abilities that use those body parts, Arm Binds reduce enemy physical attack by half, Head Binds reduce enemy elemental damage severely and make them take 50% more elemental damage and Leg Binds remove the enemy's ability to dodge and also reduce their turn speed.

Some ailments also have secondary effects - Paralyse, Blind and Sleep prevent attacks from being evaded and hitting a sleeping enemy with a physical attack does 50% more damage.

You can counter a buff or debuff by using a skill that does the same or overlapping effect. For example you can use a Fortress' Strike Guard to remove a defence down debuff from your party, but it can also remove debuffs that lower both your physical and elemental defence.

I remember when the EOIV demo came out and I first walked into the dungeon with 3D on and this playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTU-jTmWr-k
Talk about comfy...

>>388113209
I only levelled it up once, I specced into electric and magic damage (but will probably stop). It's my first shot at the series so the build will be far from perfect

>>388113228
Thanks I am playing on normal, can't stand it when a game is too easy.

Thanks for the tips too. Having loads of fun making my own maps and shit

>>388113314
The best way is to level up all your basic one hit stars one level then start focusing on dark ether/etheric charge/meteorite.
That way you make a metric crapton of damage for bascially free.

>>388112493

Good luck anon. Make sure to never leave tiwn without a Adrianne Thread. They're custom made to save your ass.

>Also, don't fuck around too long in the airship. The first three lands have a random punishment if you do.

>>388113436
By fuck around do you mean exploring the world map? So I should head straight to the objectives?

>>388113436
The first one doesn't until you unlock the second, also
>punishment
Sure is collecting crystals that sell x1000 a piece a punishment.

>>388113436
>punishment
>not windfall due to looting the extremely valuable dragon crystals for their powerful effects and high sell value

Also another tip is that if there's a telegraphed attack that does too much damage to survive, make sure to defend on the turn it's coming. There are two exceptions to this - the miniboss in the first maze and the boss of the first maze where you can interrupt their attack by dealing enough damage.

>>388113687
>defending
>not boosting your defenses while going all out

>>388113851
It's the only way to survive Healing Strike without overlevelling.

>>388113932
>surviving
Get a runemaster and nuke those stupid armadillos with some burst skill or another, it's the whole reason it's always done at the beginning of the turn.

>>388114093
You won't be able to do that on Normal. They have too much health to one-round unless you're in an unusually elemental team.

>>388114172
>You won't be able to do that on Normal.
You can though, a RM can outright kill the armadillos with something like fire wall, only two gauges a pop which is quite handy.

>>388114337
No, they will survive that unless you're overlevelled. You can kill them in 2 turns with a single runemaster, using a burst skill on the first turn. You still have to survive the Healing Strike on the first turn.

4 is a very good entrypoint. Don't worry about training new characters, 3 extra classes open up as the game progresses but you're given the option to instantly boost their level by a lot.

If you were playing EO3, then you'd have to have a team of farmers for grinding shekels.

>>388112945
Guys?
I just downloaded an emulator on my phone and I'm playing the first game.

Any tips?

>>388112945
It's Class of Heroes but with less bullshit like permadeath and with actual good music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NNPHh_jmQE

>>388114502
>No, they will survive that unless you're overlevelled
No, they won't, a Rm with rune gleam and your preferred rune, in this case, fire, will kill the armadillos the moment they appear. I wasn't overlevelled, but doing 500 in damage the moment the quest appears is easy.

Is it me or is this game max comfy?

>>388115584
soundtrack is really good, and i like the lolis, so yes it is comfy.

>>388115584
The whole series is maximum comfy. It's one of the best games for playing when depressed.
>cheerful art style
>great music
>difficulty high enough that you have to focus on the game, but still turn-based so there's little actual pressure
>drawing maps

Guys an angry baboon just spawned. Only level 5 do I run?

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>>388114658
>Mapping on a phone

>>388115934
You can probably take it out, if you have a sniper with arm bind you can trivialise it.

>>388116056
Ahhh I do not..guess I'm running

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>>388115584
It does feel nice emulating an actual adventurer party that travels around and draws maps

>>388116138
They're not scary alone.

>>388116026
Could do it on literal paper.

>>388113228
Not that anon, but some enemies DO actually have immunity to certain ailments, but enemies can also be vulnerable to ailments as well. Also, it's Panic that negates enemy evasion, not Blind.

>>388113025
Shadow Bite and Venom Throw on Nightseeker from the level 20 and 40 skill trees respectively are incredibly powerful. Don't worry if your Nightseeker doesn't seem that good at first, they git gud.

>>388117793
Then you level up auto spread and spread throw and every random encounter lasts one turn for like 8tp.

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>>388113025
Nightseeker will start out weak early on, and with your party you'll be lacking in elemental damage without a Runemaster

What does the "Etrian" in the title even mean?

>>388118141
*might be lacking

>>388118196
Played the original game? The one that took place in ETRIA?

>>388118285
wew, no I haven't.

>>388118285
Why even keep that name then?

>>388118450
Probably because it's distinctive

>>388118450
Brand recognition and to upset autists. The japanese name makes more sense being "Labyrinth of the world tree" which applies to all the games. Maybe Yggdrasil Odyssey would've been better.

>>388118450
Atlus USA though they were being special snowflakes with that name, and they thought people would be too stupid to tell the game apart from Yggdra Union as the Japanese name is "labyrinth of Yggdrasil"

>>388118450
They should just change it to Loli Odyssey tbqh fellas

>>388118953
This

>>388119053
That

>>388118953
I don't think marketing would like that tbqh, even if it's accurate.

>>388119130
The other

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Daily reminder

>>388119207
No, it's not. Especially not after 5

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>>388119347
That Teach is a slut!

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>>388119820
TEACH IS PURE.
PURE!

>ywn have a cute potato herbalist wife
Darkest timeline

>>388120071
Potatoes are for frying!

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>>388120194
How dare you insult my wifes race. Look how cute she is, impregnation is what needs to be done.

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>>388120071
just imagine what you could do with them

>>388116026
I can still play it on my PC though. Just wanted more portability.

So any tips?

>>388120604
Don't level up elemental wall skills to the point where they absorb damage. There's a bug/oversight in the first game where any skill you absorb will still apply status effects, whereas if you just level it up to negate damage it'll also block the ailments.

>>388120591
Plant them?

Play a real game like Wizardry, Might and Magic, Eye of the Beholder or Menzoberranzan.

>>388122202
>play shitty, archaic games that only people that pretend to be hardcore enjoy

>>388120604
get a medic with immunize

>>388122202
Thanks for the recs, friend! I already play wizardry and I was looking for some more DRPGs to play. Etrian Odyssey is still my favorite, though!

>>388122636
No problem! And don't forget to buy EOV when it comes out.
5 cents deposited into my bank account

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>>388115584

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>>388112945
>that bellybutton indent

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>>388123368
Eh, I should've scaled the image down a bit before posting, that's a bit unnecessarily hires.

>replaying EOU1
>keep dreaming about mapping floors every night
Anyone else know this feel?

OP here. Just got poison hammer. What effect to add to my Land's weapon?

>>388124681
The only ones worth adding are stats or certain type of damage up, elemental and status ailment forges only work when you normal attack

>>388124681
Vit goes in all slots

>>388125073
>>388125240

Thanks brehs

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Since it was such a popular topic in yesterday's EO thread, how about those planned EO5 parties?

I only need to decide on my last frontliner class. I'm contemplating between these three.

>>388126378
Depends on the party, right? Cestus is the easy answer. Looks like you can't go wrong with them

>>388126378
I deliberately haven't been spoiling myself about EO5's classes. I like the sense of discovery when you just pick a class based on the description and see how they work as you play.

>>388126378

That girl on the left is pretty cute.

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>>388126378
>>388126593
rest of the (planned) party for reference.

>>388126378
>planning your party now
>not waiting for a possible demo so you can make the best of the demo by spending it like any sane person would primarily on deciding classes with the same song on loop for ten hours
lmaoing at your shark jumping
did Japan get a demo?

Is the demo going to work like the IV demo, where you could import your data into the main game?

>>388126723
Warlock up front? Is it for magic weapon? What are you doing before that unlocks? Is it really for magic weapon, are you at least constantly row swapping? Will the Shaman unlock Common Magic? I guess I don't know anymore. Cestus for giving it everything or Reaper for the debuffs/status needed to stay alive.

>>388111052
What DS emulator do you recommend?

>>388127290
Because I want him to be on front row. If it doesn't work then it's not a big deal since this is just the planning phase and in the games rearranging the party has been a free action in battles since EO4(?) anyway.

I don't much about the exact skillsets of these classes yet beyond basic archetype shit, if there's at least one skill somewhere that has the Warlock sit on the front row, then awesome.

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>>388126378
Planning to use them for EOV

>>388127557
Yeah, there's a single party short ranged attack, so you can jump into the front row for a turn, smash shit, and jump back. Downside - it unlocks in midgame. Complication - in that skill path the Warlok gets a BIG damage boost if another character deals magic damage earlier in the round. It's synergy central if you want to pull it off.

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>never play EO first game without a dedicated healer
>only dedicated healer in V is a disgusting potato

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>>388128146

Potatoes are cute!

CUTE!

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>>388127651
>sól

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>>388128146
Fork over 3 bucks then

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>>388127651
>hel

>>388128861
Didn't even look into DLC. I will actually do this.

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>>388129257

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Man, all these EO threads makes me want to continue my 2u run, but I'm the sky fortress and it's been like a year since I last played

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>>388113262
>>388115584
To think that the soundtrack this comfy was composed by the same man who worked on Streets of Rage's music.

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>>388129257
But can you do the trick with the older games and just change the portrait with another class?

Also, how does the different healers work?

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>>388126378
Feel like i'm gonna regret picking that Harbinger but i'll stick with it

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>>388131718
Shit, wrong image

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Dunno how this team will work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4SK1FVyb2g

>>388133896
>originally herbalist because that's what they're all about: herbs
>changed to something much broader, botany is just plants in general

Why

>>388126785
>He didn't plan a year in advance with the Japanese demo
Come on, boy.

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The names, colors and details are yet to be decided, but I think I'll roll with that kind of party.

I'll probably switch the hunter around with some sort of heal or the necromancer I'f I'm lacking support.

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>dropped my 3ds so hard the stylus, cartridge, & grips all popped out
>seems ok so far

cerulean forest is pretty dope btw