He is! It's just that Frederica's drawing my attention because of her involvement in the Gladsheim plot, Raguna's rather amusing (and has some development of her family back home), Arthur's mildly entertaining for comic relief*, and... Simon just is the least noteworthy out of the group. (Technically the Highlander is my least favorite party member, personality-wise. :P)
*I'm also interested in seeing if there's any more development of what happened to his hometown. Seems Simon's the main source of that plot now, if his comments in Gladsheim Area 2 were any indication, so I might switch the interest to Simon instead.
Cernunnos annoyed me enough to change the difficulty from Expert to Standard for the fight. I was tired :P. I don't blame you. If nothing else, the Healing Rollers during an already-difficult Stratum Boss fight were just cheap. (I warded off the wolves during the Fenrir fight with Flash Bombs/Sonic Bombs. I wish there'd been an option like that with the Healing Rollers. I'm normally all right with boss-assistants, but the combination of -high defense -high elemental defense -relatively high HP, given the two previous points -defense-buffing -healing for 180+ points a shot -and, finally, BEING IN THE BACK ROW...
That was just dirty fighting, honestly. If Cerunnos had moved to the back when the Rollers came into play, I at least could have spammed Draining Thrust. :\ As is, I mainly got through because I had Amalawake (the TP-regenerates-every-turn tea) active and so had my TP regenerate enough to keep up my high-TP combos. By the end of it, I wished I hadn't sunk so many points into Fire Formula for Fenrir... would have been nice to have a few more points in Volt Formula.)
At least he seems to be the most annoying boss so far. The Queen Bee was blessedly free of evasion spam, for all that her minions were so fond of Gale. (I personally think evasion spam is the cheapest thing a foe can do. Especially since this game depowered the Snipes by no longer having them have 100% accuracy. It would be rather easier to bind the legs of the Patroller Bees if they didn't keep dodging the very attacks intended to do that in the first place...)
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*I'm also interested in seeing if there's any more development of what happened to his hometown. Seems Simon's the main source of that plot now, if his comments in Gladsheim Area 2 were any indication, so I might switch the interest to Simon instead.
I don't blame you. If nothing else, the Healing Rollers during an already-difficult Stratum Boss fight were just cheap. (I warded off the wolves during the Fenrir fight with Flash Bombs/Sonic Bombs. I wish there'd been an option like that with the Healing Rollers. I'm normally all right with boss-assistants, but the combination of
-high defense
-high elemental defense
-relatively high HP, given the two previous points
-defense-buffing
-healing for 180+ points a shot
-and, finally, BEING IN THE BACK ROW...
That was just dirty fighting, honestly. If Cerunnos had moved to the back when the Rollers came into play, I at least could have spammed Draining Thrust. :\ As is, I mainly got through because I had Amalawake (the TP-regenerates-every-turn tea) active and so had my TP regenerate enough to keep up my high-TP combos. By the end of it, I wished I hadn't sunk so many points into Fire Formula for Fenrir... would have been nice to have a few more points in Volt Formula.)
At least he seems to be the most annoying boss so far. The Queen Bee was blessedly free of evasion spam, for all that her minions were so fond of Gale. (I personally think evasion spam is the cheapest thing a foe can do. Especially since this game depowered the Snipes by no longer having them have 100% accuracy. It would be rather easier to bind the legs of the Patroller Bees if they didn't keep dodging the very attacks intended to do that in the first place...)