Alright. I give up. I spent the last 2 hours grinding so I could level up two characters wind and ice job classes, all so that I could go against the Dark Mask guy again (yeah, wind and ice is what the people in town told me to use) - and he killed EVERY single person in my team on the first go. Each character is a level 32 now, and I'm STILL just having my ass handed to me. Screw it, I give up... total waste of time and effort.
Well, it wasn't a total waste ... you warned us! Still hope Kemco screwed up and put out a wrong build or has anti-piracy settings that weren't set right. Hope you hear from them next week, but I'm not going to bother with this game for now.
And please mail the exact same post to kemco also.Hopefully they will take the corrective measures more quickly
I am sad because I have hit this same wall. I really wanted to love this game but the instadeath battles are just ridiculous.
I'm absolutely loving it so far. Three gates down and going steady. The towns give a lot of clues about what order to do each location in, what jobs you need and even spell or gear to use, which has really been helping. Gradually working on maxing every job on every person anyway so I can swap in spells and skills as I need. Personally I'm finding the job system as more a way of unlocking skillsets than an actual dedication, especially with how fast some of them train up.
Do you use all 8 characters? I tend to stick to 4 chosen ones and just train them to master every job.. I chose Leo, Sandy, Liza, Shura. Would have used Caffie, but she (or he) is not cute..
I'm using Leo, Caffie, Sandy and Liza. I like sticking with main characters where possible, and I wanted someone to specialise in casting for my fourth so Liza seemed a nice fit.
Hmm.. Different characters unlock different stories and possibly different endings.. But that aside, I notice different characters have different speed in recharging their ability orb.. And Shura is one of the slowest... In the end I changed back to Caffie even though she is not cute..
Alright... I didn't give up, and played even more, and here's what I wrote to Kemco; **I'm posting this because it might help you guys as well, especially magicjesus who was stuck at the same part I was... So... to recap... I was able to get through Dark Mask by having 3 of my characters proficient in Ice + Wind classes (Tier 3) - and let them use both Ice and Wind skills by selecting 'Ice Mag.' in the passive skill area, while keeping them all in the Wind Job Class. Then my third character needed to be a healer (Tier 3) so that she could use 'Allheal' to heal my whole time with pretty much EVERY turn, because Dark Mask does a TON of damage, and poisons a lot. It was still a pretty hard battle to get through, and I still feel like I'm just missing something. I've tried going through some Android forums and other sites looking for help, but not much has been posted in the way of guides/tips for this one. Sorry guys. Hope this helps though.
Does this mean grinding characters to that level, with different strategies other than 3 Ice + Wind Tier 3 classes, complete the story and get to the point where youre at now? I was really looking forward to this game, but if the only solution is having proficiencies in Ice and Wind, i wont even load this game ever, until it gets tweaked. And a required Healer that must heal all every turn? RPG fail in my book. Thanks for taking the time to work with Kemco SV. Let us know what they plan with the game, coz for now, i dont think this is looking good.
Yup, pretty much, wasn't able to do it the other 3 ways I tried (one Ice + Wind character, one Lightning + Fire character, one Soldier and One Support Magic - two Ice + Wind characters, one Archer, one Support - two Ice + Wind characters, one Healer, one Soldier) - the only thing that worked was having 3 Ice+Wind characters and a Healer - all having to be Tier 3 because of the magic skills that are unlocked when you reach that point (All heal, and stronger Ice+Wind attacks) And that was just for that one boss... I'm sure as you progress throughout the game, you'll need characters proficient in other classes, which just means more grinding to level up their job classes... No problem-o. I absolutely love Kemco, and just couldn't let the time I threw into this be for nothing (other than a drain, and letting you guys know what my experience has been... though I'm sure it does mean something to you guys... you know what I mean) =oP I'm still pretty disappointed about the amount of grinding I've had to do - it's about 30x worse than Lunar, which I already thought was pretty bad. Anyway, glad I could finally post some meaningful info about 1 way to get through that section of the game. =oP
Aaaaaaaaaand, to anyone still interested... After I beat Dark Mask... it's back to 4 action deaths (I usually get each of my characters to pull off one move before enemies attack me 4 times, killing each character with one hit) So... it's either back to grinding and job switching while trying to find out what job I need (working my way up to at the very least Tier 2, but probably Tier 3 before knowing for sure if that job class is the way to go...) - my god... so much grinding!! I'm still going to chip away at it a bit at a time, but the way it's going know - if this story is in any way, shape or form near the length of Kemco's other games, and in turn, a way to gauge how long Dark Gate is - I'll probably wind up having to put in close to 200-300 hours just to get through it.
What would you guys say are the best Kemco RPGs? Id prefer a FF style but I love most RPGs so could anyone make a recommendation?
Another suggestion is that don't start with fantasy chronicles otherwise other games will look quite a bit less polished
