2015-04-15, 05:18 PM
Justin Wrote:I was fine with the skills being adjusted, but the equip nerfs were just silly. I still beat the game 100% but it took eons longer than it really needed to.
If you knew what to do, most of the things that were made easier could be done other ways. Maxing Fol didn't take that much longer using the +fol% gear/metal dudes/black hole sphere method, max level was never an issue, and with the best gear fully upgraded you could max all the important stats and make the rest so high nothing but 2nd/3rd form final postgame bosses could even damage you. 6K GRD is enough to 100% block Gabriel and EQ, and you could get that without the equip bugging; 9999atk is nothing, you can reach that even before you start stacking triemblem gear. The biggest, most important synth "bug" was not removed, probably because they realized the game is absolutely impossible on chaos postgame without it, which is of course the ability to make equips with 20 all resist. If you aren't immune to magic, you ARE screwed in Chaos, even before postgame. The majority of people never play on Chaos so they'll never understand that suffering, it took me 5 hours to get off of the "tutorial" planet at the initial crash site, and the very first tutorial enemy killed me 4 times. The huge stat modifier is annoying but not really what makes it difficult, it's the goddamn burst gauge modifier that makes enemies just about instantly go into burst mode and makes stagger locking impossible. A lot of people get mad about the inability to blindside but I didn't use that except against 2-3 bosses where you do 1 damage if you aren't hitting them from behind.
The stat stacking being removed doesn't really affect anything except your ability to kill 2nd/3rd gabe and EQ, and you don't need to do that for any achievements, you can easily just get Lymle's EQ in 10 minutes unlock on an easier difficulty mode or even just on 1st EQ in Chaos if you have near BiS gear.
The biggest skill adjust, by the way, was WAY more of a nerf than the equip nerf. Ever notice how NOT every single fucking hit is a crit with Reimi, and only about half to 3/4 are? THAT'S THE NERF LOL. I saw Reimi videos before where the console lagged on X360 because the crit notification in the corner overflowed so fast it literally started freezing the game.