I'm in chapter 10 now and I'm using
Lightning as leader (which I can't change, I like her in my party but not as leader)
Snow
Vanille
Com/Rav/Rav
Med/Sen/Med
Med/Sen/Sab
Rav/Rav/Rav
that's because I'm on a boss though. I used Fang instead of Snow for a while for easy stagger.
Wait, are you saying that you didn't use CP points at all until the end of chapter eleven? Isn't that kind of impossible? Or do you mean forced you to use the rest of your CP points?Originally Posted by Siegurd
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forced to use the rest of the ones I had. Up until that point I had only spent very few outside of their specialized roles.
Oh, I haven't spent any outside of their three main roles so far. I started to get Snow towards having cure then realised how expensive it was and decided against it. Maybe after I've maxed out level 4 on all of them...
EDIT: But then I find using them in multiple roles is good. I can't figure out how you could have beat certain bosses using just those roles, though. Well done!
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Lightning/Snow/Sazh
I have Sazh trained as a Medic right now, so I can increase my healing while in this group.
Relentless attack (Rav, Com, Rav)
Tri-Disaster (Rav, Com, Rav)
Combat Clinic (Med, Sen, Med)
Strike Team (Com, Syn, Com)
Protection (Med, Syn, Sent)
Cerberus (Com, Com, Com)
If I can, and it the guide made it sound like you could, I'll be switching out Lightning in order to place in Vanille.
I use the ladies
Typically my paradigms (off the top of my head) are:
Lightning is either a commando or ravager, depending on if I am building the stagger bar.
Fang is commando typically, unless I need her sentinel capabilities.
Vanille is my healer and when possible does supplementary ravaging.
The boys have cooties, so I don't use them.
I taught Fang a Ravager ability so I switched out Com/Com/Rav in favor of Rav/Rav/Rav. It really does make a difference for building the stagger bar, which is more important than never letting the enemy touch the ground once the bar is filled (even though the latter is awesome).
I should clarify:
I still haven't spent/wasted (too expensive in the main storyline for results) any CP on their secondary role sets. But up until a point in chapter eleven I had almost exclusively (I think the other roles were hovering around level 2-2 1/2) each character leveled in just one of their three primary roles, then had to level the others for stat boosts. I was able to get that far doing it like that because I spent all my weapon upgrade points on the Blazefire saber for str/mag stats on Lightning and had Fang's initial weapon (I forget the name) up to max as well. Never got around to turning the blazefire into a flamberge until post-story though, I switched out for the Lionheart as soon as I could. I relied (and still do) on quick stagger building and Vanille's powerful healing ability. Open the fight with rav/sab/sab to debuff then to diversity to build and maintain then relentless to destroy the remainder.
Suffice to say, things had a bit of extra difficulty without the extra 1-1.5k+ hp from the other role trees, which is why I ended up needing to level their other primary role's up to an almost even keel with the ones I used the most.
I was always very, very bad at upgrading accessories. Even after I beat the game I still have the majority of my primary accessories at level one. A few are at level 3-5.
I prefer rav/com/rav for stagger building versus rav/rav/rav, but once the enemy is staggered and at 999.99% (easy with army of one) going aggression (com/com/rav) is pretty devastating, unless the mob is immune/still resistant to melee damage. Throw on a deprotect and an imperil and you can hit max damage with Fang fairly early on that way.
I would use Vanille more, but I don't want to hear porn noises every time I use Fire.
Try using her Eidolon's special gestalt attack if you think that's bad...
I'm surprised at the amount of people that use Fang.
Fang is badass (only slightly less than Lightning).
I would also be using Vanille if she was Syn instead of Sab. I thought about using Vanille and Sazh for a bit (along with Lightning), but now it would be too much effort and gil in using all of their unused CP and upgrading their weapons.
Fang does, according to the strat guide, gain the games hightest attack rating, so her high damage output probably has something to do with eveyrone using her. ;P
Sab isn't to bad either.
Yeah and the weapon I have her using now levels up quickly, so her attack is much higher than the rest of my team.
I love her for her sentinel capabilities more though.
Fang is pretty good but I don't find her versatile enough to be what I want. I use Sazh, Lightning, and Hope currently. If I find a fight is tough I switch out Hope for Vanille because her SAB stuff can be pretty delicious.
I start with SYN/MED/SYN so I can get Haste and Protect up, then I change to Diversity (COM/RAV/MED). I have Thaumaturgy (RAV/RAV/MED) and Tri-Disaster (RAVx3) in there as well. Can't remember the other two.
I find it interesting how different people start up. Earlier I had mentioned that certain battles require you to know the exact lineup and exact process before you can win, meaning it was more trial and error, but it's good to see that people are still really varied with how they go about things.
One thing I can't get my head around yet is that people start with a medic, though. I've very, very rarely found myself needing a heal until after a couple of "turns" of hits from the enemy, unless I'm facing a very, very large group (and even then it's rare) or a very, very tough enemy.
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