SaGa Franchise

[Wolf Kanno]

Well this is a first for me when it comes to mobile gaming. I've actually reached the end of the available story content it seems, unless there is a trick I don't know about. Left on a real cliffhanger too.

I've collected a good chunk of characters so far, and I've been mostly grinding this one story mission to try and obtain a super rare drop in the form of an SS rank version of Rouge from SaGa Frontier. I've been upgrading equipment and working on side content which got me the Christmas themed Flurry (who is awesome btw) and I recruited Subier as well. While grinding this mission is tedious, it has allowed me to spark a good chunk of my playable characters weapon/magic arts.

My best team so far is:

Gerad (RS2) SS Rank - High HP, access to a group hitting sword skill, access to the best sword skill and great skills overall. I have his S Rank form as well and as soon as I figure out how to inherit skills, I may give him access to Wildfire so he'll have a Fire spell. His two innate abilities I've unlocked increase his defense and attack power at full HP. He's not even at maxed style level yet.

Santa Flurry (RS3) S Rank - High defense against melee, fire, and water damage, he also comes with a low cost healing spell, decent LP to use it, and his most powerful attack does dual strike and water damage. His innate abilities are what make him really BS. His third skill increases the effect of healing magic, he can randomly cure the status of any living party member at the start of a turn, and if he is killed in battle, he does a group heal spell to all surviving party members. He is proof that event characters are BS in these types of games.

Ellen (RS3) SS Rank - Is largely how she is in RS3, a damage beast. Her SS rank gives her access to the awesome Time Lapse and Dynamic Chop ax arts. All of her innate abilities crank up her regular and critical hit damage. As an SS rank, she gets very high stats and stat gains. She's almost as tanky as Gerad and Gustave. She also has higher strike defense than most characters.

Sophia (RS2) SS rank - Sophia is my second healer, with a low cost healing spell, higher LP than Flurry. She also gains Bonecrusher which is a great hammer skill that lowers an enemies strength. Her innate abilities cause her regular blows to raise her Love stat which increases healing effect. She also has Flurry's skill to restore the team when killed, and her final skill increases her healing ability anyway which is already better than Flurry's skill level. She also just has better stats overall and high natural defense against the two most common damage types.

Gustave XIII (SF2) S Rank - Despite only being S rank, his stats are on par with SS rank characters with the exception of HP. Gustave gets access to the overpowered Bull Crush greatsword skill which does way more damage than it should to enemies and he is the only character I've obtained who has access to Wheel Swing, which is a rare group hitting greatsword skill. Where he really shines is his innate abilities. He has one skill that works like Cover from FF but with the bonus of doing reduced damage, he can potentially restore some of his own health at the start of a round and it's a generous amount I might add. Finally, he has a form of One More Chance, allowing him to survive a fatal blow once per mission. He is a beast, and I can't wait until I can acquire one of his two SS rank incarnations to see what they can do.

Editga: Okay figured out how to inherit skills. What's neat is that not only can you switch which skills you want at no cost, if you have the character in multiple teams, you can still specialize which skills they inherit by team. This game is surprisingly user-friendly for this franchise.