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[CrimsonEon]

Jann could definitely use either a Steel Axe or a Swordreaver. Both deal a hefty amount of damage, though the Steel Axe takes 2 AS away from him, and the Swordreaver takes 1.

[Swordstar]

So I'd really like the Royal Rapier. It gives me effective damage against Armored and Horseback and is pretty decent. Here's current thoughts on shopping list. We have enough by about 150 if we get the Royal Rapier. We still have two shops to find so things might change but we'll see?

Lockpick (1300) (Suz)
Poison (500) (Flora)
Iron Rapier (340) or Royal Rapier (1000) (Iris)
Iron Sword (250) (Cecil)
Iron Lance (300) (Fred)
Iron Pilum (300) (Sieg)
Steel Axe (400) (Jann)
Hand Axe (250) (Flora)
Shine 350 (Shae)
Elwind (400) (Altha)
Something for Greg?

[Swordstar]

To be clear!

This is not a full list yet, do not buy anything just yet

[Chevaleresse]

I'm eyeballing that Pilum as well, fwiw. Since Siegfried is almost never going to be doubling anything.

[Swordstar]

That was the thought, but we want to see prices and such before we make the final call on anything

[GiglameshDespair]

Seems good to me

[Swordstar]

Yeeeeesh staffs are expensive

[Criptfeind]

Iz sad.

So, now that we've found all the non secret shops, what do you guys want for yourselves?

I'm gunna put it out there that Gregory doesn't want anything unless we somehow end up with loads of extra cash (we won't). Worm and Sin are quite marginal, damage and hit chance manipulation are particularly less valuable on Gregory comparatively, and blackfire upgrades Gregory to be really really good against something he's already good at, which seems less useful then covering actual gaps.

[Mopsy]

Yeeeeesh staffs are expensive

Yes they are. Here's my preliminary proposal for the staff users:

Arnold gets:

• Soothe (800G) XOR Barrier (1500G), depending on what the rest of you think gives best value for money. Since both Soothe and Barrier are Rank D, they can be passed back and forth between Arnold and Flora if necessary.
• Flora's Heal staff (0G, 26/30), since he'll probably be doing more healing.

Flora gets:

• A Steel Axe (400G) from RWM, to make her chopping skills useful.
• Maybe Jann's Hatchet (0G), if he won't be needing it.
• Arnold's Heal staff (0G, 12/30), since she'll probably only be healing when she has to.

[Chevaleresse]

Looking at just grabbing a plain old javelin, here. Didn't realize Pilums were 2 range.

[Swordstar]

Neither of those staffs are really worth the cost tbh given our funds. Swapping heal staffs makes sense. Getting flora a hand axe instead of steel since she's speced for throwing not hacking. Keeping Jann hatchet on him cause provides range option. Poison for Flora (and Arnold if he wants to borrow) is more useful I'd argue than barrier or soothe because it can always be useful against enemies plus it's significantly cheaper than any of the buff staffs

Jav for sieg is fine since I think it's similar cost to jav. I'd also forgotten pilums were 2 range only.

[Criptfeind]

I have to admit I'm somewhat unsold on the idea of poison. So far our style of combat seems to me to be very quick, apply maximum pressure to certain points to quickly defeat enemies in that area to shift the tide of combat well holding other areas with tonks and healer. Poison is something that needs several turns to get value for the action it takes to apply, which seems like it's not that useful since in a lot of cases if we want to poison someone it seems like we'd kill them before poison got it's value in.

Also out of the staves available Soothe is obviously really good in it's niche but that niche is so narrow it seems not worth the 800 gold when we have a limited budget. Barrier is somewhat more valuable, but... Well, also somewhat niche to be honest. Honestly, I think that perhaps we should get another heal staff almost? Over 3.5 fights we've used 22 charges I guess? I could see us possibly using enough to wipe out a staff over the next three fights if they are big ones.

[Chevaleresse]

If we're using a tank+healer combo to staple down places, poison could very well be exploited in that case. Instead of waiting for the cavalry to show up, we could potentially wear down targets with just a staff+tank.

[Swordstar]

So I'm playing an ailment focused healer in fef3. I've used poison a somewhat decent amount and for sure used it more than we've used our buff staffs. It's not always going to be useful but it can help tick down hp on high up enemies plus it's a consistent source of damage against tankier enemies.

Wrt soothe and barrier. It's unlikely we'll be facing zerk staffs any time soon since they're B rank. Sleep is more likely but also significantly less scary. And yes more res is always useful but that's a really expensive staff that only has 15 uses. Cost isn't really worth gains.

[Mopsy]

Just get whatever you think is best, then.