Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Final Fantasy/Persona inspired FRPG

[Waffle Iron]

Speaking of damage. What do you guys run? I use maelle, sciel, lune. Stuffed them with energized start. Maelle starts with the AOE defenseless attack, lune follows with Hel (I have the -1 fire AP weapon and enough energizers to start her at 8 AP) then sciel does the fire bond spell (hit all burning enemies). For basic enemies that wipes them before they have a turn.
For bosses I don't really anything special. Maelle goes to virtuose stand off of hitting a fire target and spam fleuret flurry to keep pumping out virtuose damage.
Lune does thermal transfer into lightning into genesis.
sciel marks targets for maelle or just spams her high power spells as well.

 

[Estate]

Speaking of Act 3, I really do love that Act 3 is literally just for side content and that's it. I'm glad there's so much shit to do when the game finally opens up and the damage cap remover is effectively free. Some of these bosses have a ridiculous amount of health though and I guess from here on the name of the game is pumping Verso, Lune, and Maelle with so many damage pictos that they're shitting out hundreds of thousands of damage a hi

True.
Flying around and finding hidden bosses is fun. And some of the side content is just too good, like a damn casino in the skies.

And as for damage, I'm still trying to break 1mil. I'm close (700k), but not there yet.

Speaking of damage. What do you guys run? I use maelle, sciel, lune. Stuffed them with energized start. Maelle starts with the AOE defenseless attack, lune follows with Hel (I have the -1 fire AP weapon and enough energizers to start her at 8 AP) then sciel does the fire bond spell (hit all burning enemies). For basic enemies that wipes them before they have a turn.
For bosses I don't really anything special. Maelle goes to virtuose stand off of hitting a fire target and spam fleuret flurry to keep pumping out virtuose damage.
Lune does thermal transfer into lightning into genesis.
sciel marks targets for maelle or just spams her high power spells as well.

I run Lune, Verso and Sciel.
Verso has Dualiso, which makes you take another turn after a Basic Attack. You can add +1 AP, Defenseless, Powerless and all kinds of shit on a Basic Attack. Even if the scaling is absolute crap, that weapon's mechanic is simply unmatched.
Lune has Kralim, which starts her with 2 random stains. Depending on what stains I got, I use Wildfire, Storm or Tremor, anything that gives Light + Element stain. This usually brings me into Genesis. I may opt for Lighting Dance for insane single target damage (she has over 70% crit) or Crustal Crush for incredible Break damage. If the fight drags on, Lune's 3rd Gradient, has so much damage, it's disgusting.
Sciel is there to give Heal and Heal On effects and maybe give other members Double Damage and to set her Twilight damage. Final Path and Twilight Dance can do lots of damage and her Gradient attacks are one of the best.
I use lots of +AP pictos and Lumina, and Verso feeds even more AP with Leadership skill, so I usually am able to spam 9p skills every turn.
Anyway, if you're interested, here's how a fight usually goes for me.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Look guys, two sycophantic faggots from the synth "whoa mama futa lover" thread have come to deliver their dipshit opinions.
Lil' bros here bitch about brigading, run to jannies to bitch and cry for help and shill their 100 views "review" videos on this game.
Begone, little grifting clout goblins.
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Nigger, this is a thread I made. I didn’t just “come”, I was here.

But yeah, you can’t refute anything. Can you explain why it’s not woke when a game is set in the early 1900’s and has niggers in it, or are you just this dumb?

 

[Road Work Ahead]

1900’s and has niggers

I mean, it's not like France colonized largest swaths of Africa or something.

 

[Spud]

I mean, it's not like France colonized largest swaths of Africa or something.

They wanted the valuable resources not the low IQ inhabitants.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

Resistance to lots of things and

Already got the pattern but at level 34 that fucking faggot still one shots me

 

[Estate]

But yeah, you can’t refute anything. Can you explain why it’s not woke when a game is set in the early 1900’s and has niggers in it, or are you just this dumb?

You gonna debatebro me?
Lmao, get real, faggot, I don't take you seriously, nor your dipshit takes.
If you want to mald over some prop and episodic niggers, and start shitting yourself and scream "woke!" be my guess.
You cretinous throatjockeys still don't get that you're no better then trannies and libshits who see nazis in the most innocuous things, like milk or ok hand gesture.

Already got the pattern but at level 34 that fucking faggot still one shots me

Level some more and try looking for pictos that give lots of health, to at least tank some hits.
One good option, is to visit Red Woods in starting area, but you'll need to drop like 90k chroma.
Or, do like I did and train yourself to dodge to the sound cue.

 

[Soycast Guy]

You gonna debatebro me?
Lmao, get real, faggot, I don't take you seriously, nor your dipshit takes.
If you want to mald over some prop and episodic niggers, and start shitting yourself and scream "woke!" be my guess.

Alright cool man, you proved my point. You know that the game has DEI and you’re seething.

I mean, it's not like France colonized largest swaths of Africa or something.

Yeah, colonization doesn’t mean the Africans all come back to France.

 

[Waffle Iron]

I run Lune, Verso and Sciel.
Verso has Dualiso, which makes you take another turn after a Basic Attack. You can add +1 AP, Defenseless, Powerless and all kinds of shit on a Basic Attack. Even if the scaling is absolute crap, that weapon's mechanic is simply unmatched.
Lune has Kralim, which starts her with 2 random stains. Depending on what stains I got, I use Wildfire, Storm or Tremor, anything that gives Light + Element stain. This usually brings me into Genesis. I may opt for Lighting Dance for insane single target damage (she has over 70% crit) or Crustal Crush for incredible Break damage. If the fight drags on, Lune's 3rd Gradient, has so much damage, it's disgusting.
Sciel is there to give Heal and Heal On effects and maybe give other members Double Damage and to set her Twilight damage. Final Path and Twilight Dance can do lots of damage and her Gradient attacks are one of the best.
I use lots of +AP pictos and Lumina, and Verso feeds even more AP with Leadership skill, so I usually am able to spam 9p skills every turn.
Anyway, if you're interested, here's how a fight usually goes for me.

Thanks. I haven't really tried verso so maybe I should try that. Although I am loathe to tear everything up since I would have to make sure everyone goes in the right order, has the right pictros and lumina, etc. My current setup works well, although some of the endgame act 3 stuff starts to pose a challenge.

 

[Estate]

Alright cool man, you proved my point. You know that the game has DEI and you’re seething.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with you trying to shill your review channel in the vtuber simp and futa lover thread and trying to scoop whatever crumbs of audience and clout falls into your faggot mouth.
Go back to your homosexual discord and have your butt buddies think of better ways to farm engagement.

Thanks. I haven't really tried verso so maybe I should try that. Although I am loathe to tear everything up since I would have to make sure everyone goes in the right order, has the right pictros and lumina, etc. My current setup works well, although some of the endgame act 3 stuff starts to pose a challenge.

Order is dictated by speed usually, or if you attack first, the order in which you added party members to the team. You can drop and add, and set your own order.
Anyway, you don't need to make changes.
If something works for you, continue that.
My only other advice, if you're using Maelle is to giver her +AP pictos (like AP on consume mark, or AP on apply burn etc) since she has lots of good, but very expensive skills, especially the void ones.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

It's not like this game preaches love of niggers and trannies, so what's to "deradicalize"?
To me, it's themes revolve around grief, loss, self-sacrifice and familial bonds. It focuses on those and doesn't go into retard territory.

I meant that the reaction by the homos in the synthetic man thread regarding this game is deradicalizing me. I mean look what happened while i was asleep. Two trannies from the synthetic man discord chase me over here to rant about politics. How could i ever take them or their homo daddy seriously ever again? 2 nobodies and synthetic man all share the same opinions and coincidently are in the same discord based from a thread on kiwifarms. Totally organic opinions lmao.

Renoir prequel dlc please.

 

[Soycast Guy]

I'm sure this has nothing to do with you trying to shill your review channel in the vtuber simp and futa lover thread and trying to scoop whatever crumbs of audience and clout falls into your faggot mouth.
Go back to your homosexual discord and have your butt buddies think of better ways to farm engagement.

I didn’t even shill my video. I can’t help what other people do. But anyway I’m not gonna reply anymore and let you have your little Reddit circlejerk, because it’s clear you still can’t provide a counterpoint for anything I said.

 

[Right To Bear Blarms]

Just completed the game and really enjoyed it even though the Act 2 ending twist was kind of lame.

Spoiler: Spoiler

I fucking hate "it was all a dream" or "it was all in a snowglobe the whole time" shit. I was so interested to find out what had been happening outside the bubble for 67 years while Lumiere was in there so finding out that there was no world outside the bubble and it was just some dead kid's dollhouse instantly sucked out all the mystery from the world.

I'm fine with neither of the endings being "good" but the Verso one is definitely far superior even if it means the whole world gets erased. The Maelle ending keeps the world around but strips all the characters of all their agency since everything is under her control. Just give me an ending where the Gestrals get to run the place while Esquis and Francois chill in their cave and all the humans fuck off with their melodrama.

The gameplay was great but overall the game is kind of easy even on expert with the exception of Simon who's just a shitty superboss for the sake of being a shitty superboss.

 

[Estate]

Renoir prequel dlc please.

These frenchfags delivered hard and I'm really looking forward to their next content.
Hopefully, they don't shit the bed.

Just completed the game and really enjoyed it even though the Act 2 ending twist was kind of lame.

I think it was executed properly, had proper foreshadowing and it worked.
I'm not of the opinion that games should have great storytelling, that's the domain of books. As long as the story ain't total ass, gameplay is what dictates the quality of a game.
Not keeping true to this, is how we ended up with tranny walking simulators.

 

[HexFag]

Nigger, this is a thread I made. I didn’t just “come”, I was here.

But yeah, you can’t refute anything. Can you explain why it’s not woke when a game is set in the early 1900’s and has niggers in it, or are you just this dumb?

It'll probably be the last time I talk about this shit in the thread unless something even dumber happens since this argument is going in circles and nobody is going to change their opinion but to us (mainly the people who are playing the game) you guys sound just like those neurotic SJWs from 2014 who cry and moan and shit and piss over some innocuous detail from the first 15 minutes of the game while not having any legitimate criticism for the game whatsoever. It's so tiring to have discussion of every game that has come out in the last 10-11 years be marred in discussion of factors which have LITERALLY FUCKING NOTHING to do with if the game is fun or not. All you do is push away people who are normal (relatively speaking this is the Kiwi Farms after all) away while shitting up discussion for people who do like the game. There was once a time where people on your side had a legitimate argument towards tokenization and poorly written and forced representation in video games but now you guys screech if you guys see one or two BLACK NPCs in a game utterly devoid of woke shit, you niggers have lost the plot. It makes you guys sound completely schizophrenic to people who just want to play the damn game or are popping in the thread to see if the game is good or not. I just want to play video games and talk about them with people who have too, there aren't a whole lot of places left on the Internet to do so. The last thing I'd want is discussion of one of the very very few rare new video games that are actually good to be shat up by the usual culture war shit.

Flying around and finding hidden bosses is fun. And some of the side content is just too good, like a damn casino in the skies.

I'm a bit disappointed they didn't make a full on Dragon Quest casino system for this game. I would've been stuck there for hours just gambling before losing it all

Verso has Dualiso, which makes you take another turn after a Basic Attack. You can add +1 AP, Defenseless, Powerless and all kinds of shit on a Basic Attack. Even if the scaling is absolute crap, that weapon's mechanic is simply unmatched.

I've opted to completely bulld speed on Verso while giving him base shield. I might make him a full glass canon and get him fast enough so he can do the delayed attack twice in a row, but I don't think that'd be possible until I grind the shit out of him. His weapon that allows him to keep his damage rank is busted as I put Confident on him so he already can't heal naturally anyway, there is effectively no downside. I think the only party member that can actually heal is Monoco but that's because I have it so he heals on crit while giving him a relatively high crit rate.

Is there a reason why Lune's crit rate isn't 100% as well? There are enough things you can equip on to her to get it over the number and a lot of her moves benefit from being able to crit.

Also I genuinely don't know if it's possible to beat the Gestral chief she does so much damn damage you have to be like late 80s-90s or build a ton of HP to even have a chance against her.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

These frenchfags delivered hard and I'm really looking forward to their next content.
Hopefully, they don't shit the bed.

Other than I trust them to write a good story for a Renoir prequel the other reason is that some of his attacks in the main game look absolutely amazing and I would love to be able to use them. Like the vanish attack with the black holes and the pool of chroma. I just don't know how to make a party out of it.

Spoiler

Renoir, Clea and Verso?

 

[Waffle Iron]

If something works for you, continue that.

The optional bosses are shithosing me so I thought I might be able to try some alternatives. Right now I'm trying the fire build on maelle but I must say I am disappointed in its power. Spamming the flurry in virtuose state seems to work a lot better than setting up the burns and then consuming them. I'd expect the attack that consumes 10 stacks to hit like a truck, but it is really mediocre.

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

Holy shit you're insane for doing that fight for FOURTY TWO FUCKING MINUTES STRAIGHT.

It was actually about 3.5 hours, I did it while watching a MATI. I pretty much rely exclusively on parries now.

 

[Waffle Iron]

It was actually about 3.5 hours, I did it while watching a MATI. I pretty much rely exclusively on parries now.

Don't worry, later enemies mix it up and you'll have to learn a different rhythm.

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Holy shit this game is incredible, and I'm still in the first act.
I'll now hide and ignore anything about the game since I managed to stay unspoiled and go finish it. I hope it isn't a 150+ hour bloated marathon like Metaphor.