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[Yuka]

I'm not too fond of using Durant for some bizarre reason, but does he become essential later in the game?

[ChefMKT]

Do you have the LUK to pick it up? Circumstances.

There's always items which give guranteed item drops.

Even having Sanctuary is a bad reason to leave your Assassin/Hunter there. Criticals, anyone?

That can be said for any unit. Getting criticaled usually means it's over unless your stats are a lot higher than the enemy.

*facepalm* GETTING both the Hunter and Assassin. You recall how the Hunter is optional? Remember?

I always get the hunter though, not sure about the other people but I've always gotten the optional characters whether I use them or not.

Besides, I've rarely seen the enemy send out a unit against mine that would be slaughtered.

But it does happen, and criticals, although annoying when it happens, doesn't happen all the time.

Neither the manual nor guide says that TEC has anything to do with the charging of aggression. And I've had end-game Yggdra start a battle with 15% charge, so I know it's not true.

That's funny, my hunter had 100% aggression gauge at end game for Thunderbolt. I also know that my Steal started out with roughly 25% aggression gauge at the beginning of the game. End game however, the aggression starting gauge was at around 53% using Milanor of course.

I wasn't talking about pulling off the skill, I was talking about pulling off Fatal Damage.

Fatal damage is more of a luxary than anything. If you're able to pull one off, more power to you. Gravity Chaos against Aegina anyone? :o

You remember Mizer's annoying tendency to show up randomly? I usually left Milanor back a little to deal with him. Meaning he was not always on the side of the map where the brunt of the battle was occurring.

The only battlefield where Mizer shows up where you had to have left Milanor behind to deal with him is BF07. The other times he showed up were relatively close to the action. And even then, in BF07 you'd still have Milanor's initial equip and coincidentally, items dropped when he dealt the finishing blow, regardless of the LUK of the enemy. That means you can run to the other side of the map where your goal is and still get the item. Also, in all of the Mizer occurances, I had stole from him and still got the other items as a pick up.

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For BF08 with Rosary and Russel, I had stolen Mizer's item. During the next phase, the cards were replenished and I was lucky enough to get Russel and Rosary in the same union when I used Steal. Of course, this won't always happen so I would have opted to get Russel's item instead of Rosary since I was planning to get Roswell in my team at the time.

In all the desert levels, you HAVE to walk over the desert, except in one where you only have to cross it to get an item. As well, I only brought up the terrains to discount your arguement that "twelve move will get you across the map," not as a new point.

In the first desert level, you don't have to walk over the desert at all. There's a complete path from start to the goal.

Do I have to keep mentioning that Milanor is not going to be the most used character, MKT? I never used Serene in my first playthrough of Riviera.

I did say that a majority of the time by a majority of the players, Milanor is going to be the most used character. Obviously, I don't have the statistics to prove that but comparing it to the early game, he is superior and what would most people do if they have a superior character? They'll keep using it.

BF35 is a fantastic counter to this.

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First part has both Juvelon, that Assassin and Mardya with fucking great items to steal, the second/third part (no refill between) has Gulcasa and "Aegina" to steal from. The battlefield where you get Yggdra back is also a good counter. Both Gulcasa and Aegina show up in this one, as well. And both have protect, so it's steal or break, and you definitely want to get rid of Gulcasa's item. But this actually made me think of something; don't argue or anything because this is just an off note, but if you never steal items from the recurring characters, your playthrough probably won't be that hard because the enemies will always be poorly equipped. Back to the point, though, in BF35, Gulcasa has max LUK, and Aegina has near max. The Assassin has max LUK, and either Mardya or Juvelon has near max LUK as well, so hoping for a drop is kind of... Not likely.

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The map where Yggdra is captured, Aegina's item can be obtained during an earlier battlefield (BF24 I believe) so that rules that one out. That means I'm free to steal Gulcasa's item and don't even worry about Aegina at all since I had gotten her item before. And I thought BF35 had those stacks of invincible knights.

Anyway, as I said above, using an item which gurantees item drops can be used here such as the four leaf clover. This frees up Steal to be used for when Gulcasa and "Aegina" storms in. Since those two are going to stick together in the same union, Steal can be used to swipe both of their items during the phase where they're protected. Better yet, equip the item which gives a guranteed drop and get their items that way if stealing from them is too risky.

MIZER111 Multiple fronts, think about it. BF44 is a good example.

3/4 Mizer occurances happen near the bulk of the attack. Besides, I use steal on Mizer anyway so I can get warp shoes which is awesome if you happen to have Rosary and not Roswell. The enemies on said battlefields involving Mizer also have low LUK so using Nietzsche or even Milanor will suffice.

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As for BF44, I had only used 4 units mainly throughout the whole game. So I got Yggdra, Durant and Cruz to handle Gulcasa and Milanor to hold the other front. In this situation, Item Break could have been a possibility, but Milanor I stole the item from the unit firing the cannon. I didn't manage to steal Gulcasa's item during this battlefield, but I do recall Gulcasa holding the exact same time in BF45 where he went all "demon blood boiling" thing so I managed to steal it from him then.

Enough, stop claiming Milanor will be used the most; not everyone plays the same. You've seen the Milanor hate at GFAQs, right? Well, maybe some of them play like me and avoid using characters they don't like, regardless of power.

I'm claiming Milanor will be used the most by the majority of the players which implies that everyone doesn't play the same way. I'm well aware that everyone doesn't play the same way.