Helpful Tips

Since not all of us can be bothered to remember these types of stuff, or never found out about them in the first place, this is a page for some tips that may have been forgotten.

Regarding Attack Types

 * Physical Types - Can be dodged, can be countered, can be reflected. Most non holy/dark/magic attacks are these.


 * Magical Types - Can be dodged, but most spells have a base hit chance of 100%, can be evaded ("The attack had no effect!"), can be reflected.


 * Auto Hit' - CAN NOT BE DODGED. Physical Type Auto Hits (Makina, Empty Sky, Non Holy/Dark attacks), can be nulled, elemental (No Physical type, aka Breath skills, Nature Spells, Die for Me!) can only be nulled/absorbed if you are completely immune to all elemental types in the attack. Auto hit can only be reflected if you completely reflect all elements.


 * Chaos Element - Mostly only in the LoC (Nuclear and Page of the End have a Chaos Element). Bypasses any elemental absorbs/reflects/nulls. Still affected by the type of attack it is on. (Nuclear/Page of the End are magical, thus can be reflected)

Regarding Weapons and Skills

 * If the skill has a ^ in the calculations, its taking the highest of the stats listed.
 * Likewise, a skill with a + (e.g. Att+Agi, for spears) takes the average of the two.
 * After choosing a target, if you have multiple elements on your attack, it will take the one that will deal the most damage.
 * However, if you have multiple "[Element Type Here] Damage +15%", it will take the HIGHEST of them, even if that boost is NOT what is being used against the enemy.
 * Weapon Type Skills, (Swords,Bows,Guns,Etc) deal roughly 50% more damage when used with their proper weapon, and somewhat lower damage if the weapon is close enough, (Clubs/Axes, Swords/Katanas)
 * Deflectors are affected by dispels!
 * If your person has a deflector on them and they die from Climax/Ascension/Death, they keep it upon being revived.
 * Self harm damage (Edging, Punishment (Godfather),? (Samurai Skill)) will be blocked by deflectors.
 * Non damaging Talk/Dance/Song Skills are auto hit.

Regarding Buffs

 * Buffs start their countdown on the turn you use then, so 4 turns means the turn you cast it plus 3 more afterwards. Buffs generally last until end of turn.
 * Buffs that appear separately on the status bar stack with each other, if they don't, its not being stacked.(Transform + Inner Focused Mind will stack. Song of Offence + Enchant Magic will not.)

List of Dispels
Typically there is a 5 turn cooldown between dispels.
 * Disruptive Wave - No Cost for Enemies.
 * Mass Dispel - Costs MP, Magical, but will still dispel if reflected
 * All Cancel - Costs MP, Certain Hit
 * Zero Shift- Also removes debuffs on enemy side, costs MP.

Other

 * If all front line members are under a status effect that will not end naturally (e.g. Petrified), you will lose the battle. (Found this out the hard way. She still had Holy Martyr, but was the only one left on the field...)


 * In the LoC, there is only one spot where a non red chest will spawn (As far as I know). Therefore, if you are grinding Trial 5 for red loot, just memorize where that spot is. If there isn't a chest there, just head to the next floor.


 * Monsters have MP as well, and can not cast spells that use them if they run out. Especially angels, whos holy attacks all need MP.


 * In Part Two, certain characters gain Haste: [Skill] (Reina gains Haste: Dance, for example), Hasted skills ALWAYS go first, if there are two hasted skills, its random which one goes first.