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Good thing I maxed out Boomerang Axe and Charge Smash! The Landsknechts were about level 56-57, which is stupidly overleveled for the 4th stratum by the standards of this series. By the end of the fight, only the two axe users survived. My back row party members were using them often. Somas heal your entire party for about 80 HP. Having to give up an armor slot to equip accessories is annoying in every EO game. The status ailment blocking food probably helped on the first turn, but the Scorpion Plume accessories that increase Fear resistance are what carried me through the fight. EO games except for 5 only allow you to carry 60 items in your inventory. 5 Landsknechts have no healing other than items, and their TEC stat is too low to take advantage of Medic or War Magus Grimoires anyway. Tonight's Etrian Odyssey Untold 2 update: Cockatrices can petrify your characters, and this doesn't wear off after battle like in EO5. The random encounters in the upper floors can be almost as dangerous. They can hit your whole party with a physical attack that can blind. I still have not beaten an Enraged Raptor, so I don't fight them in Picnic mode yet. Luminous Birds hit your entire party with a Lightning elemental attack, but it takes a turn to charge up which leaves an opening for Blinding Slash. Falcon Slash was how I beat this fight on Expert.Ĭharging Rhinos can hit multiple characters with a powerful physical attack, but are otherwise just enemies with too much HP like FOEs and bosses in general. Curse makes you damage yourself every time you attack. Great Frogs can summon about 5 smaller frogs that afflict your party with Curse status. That's because Harpuia will try to afflict your party with Fear status on the 1st turn, which can make you lose turns and TP. The best cafe food for this boss will probably be the one that blocks status ailments for the first 3 turns. (Then again, you don't need to do difficulty switching in the better EO games.) My team has already beaten the Luminous Bird, Charging Rhino, and Great Frog before on Expert, and had already explored the floors, so it didn't feel too corny to switch to Picnic that time. I killed the Luminous Bird FOEs on the 20th floor to prevent them from showing up at the boss fight with Picnic grinding. So much for the "Blinding Slash and pray" tactic that carried me through much of the game. Harpuia seems to have low health for an Untold 2 boss, but she's immune to blind. More updates on Etrian Odyssey Untold 2's 4th stratum! Pacifist (or mostly nonviolent at least) playthroughs are fun to try in Fallout and Geneforge games too. So I thought "Why not skip it altogether?" I made a mostly pacifist character named "Gandhi" who only killed mandatory enemies, and the game became more interesting. In the Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, combat is probably the worst part of the game due to enemies scaling to your level. Hurricane disables my skills? Time to move one of my back row axe users to the front. With 5 Landsknechts, I switch all the time. Normally, you'd rarely do this because classes are designed to always be in either the front or the back. There's also an option in the battle menu to switch your characters to different rows without using up a turn. In Etrian Odyssey Untold 2, Blinding Slash and Boomerang Axe are subpar attacks under normal circumstances, but they've saved me many times in my Landsknecht only challenge. It's pretty much the same reason I used to play stuff like Sky Battles and Inverse Battle a lot in Pokemon X/Y instead of Singles OU. I like monoclass teams in RPGs because they force you to use different tactics that you would never consider with generic optimized teams. Paper-thin defenses don't matter if the enemy can't hit you, right? :) Then I beat the game with 5 Nightseekers, and that was even more fun. Then I thought using 5 Dancers was a funny idea, and I enjoyed the game much more. 4 was the first one I had, and I restarted the game several times because I got bored playing with standard teams. If you're going to play one of the Etrian Odyssey games, try 3, 4, or 5 instead of the Untold games with their stupid Grimoire Stone lotto.Ĭhallenge runs are pretty much the only way I play that series.