Ah yes, that's true. No worries, I'll just insert a rename option after the "skip" option.

I'm still working on fixing those script issues. I'm not a scripter, so they allude me, but I'm going to have a scripter look at it for me. Hopefully we can get that fixed.

@bigtime: Ah, yes, I see. I have it set on 25% instead of 125%. I'll fix that immediately. Thanks.

author=Dark Gaia
It turns out that, by default, Magic Defense really matters in Ace. Characters with low Wisdom will get one shotted, while those with average Wisdom barely take a scratch from that spell. I might have to adjust the formulas.

Actually, the reason defense and magic defense makes such a huge difference in LW 2 is because you made it so that characters have much higher attack and defense stats than enemies, but their HP is way lower. This amplifies the effect of defense and magic defense.

The game got way harder now that accessories give percentile bonuses instead of set bonuses. I used to be able to slap on Protect Earrings on everyone and take pitiful damage that way. The Rogue/Warrior setup is no longer overpowered, nothing seem to be that anymore. I'll see how it works out.

After playing trough the game again, I realized there's even more test to be done.

Anyway, the overall decrease of defense mainly resulted in random encounters getting much harder. The bosses weren't that severely affected. The reason for that is simple, random encounters are fought in groups of three while bosses are alone. Imagine that the characters have 10 points of defense less. This means that they will take 20 points of additional damage from normal attacks. A boss will only get those 20 extra points of damage once per turn while randoms have the chance of dealing those extra points of damage thrice as often. As a general rule, changes to a character's defense will affect random encounters more than boss battles.

Most bosses were also less threatening than random encounters. The exception is the Goblin King and Zolom. Both have nasty area off effect attacks and Zolom can also one shot my characters if he scores a critical hit. The first time I encountered him on this playtrough, he did that about seven times and I only had five revival items. Next time he only did that once.

The Magus/Cleric build did for a while look like a new powerbuild. I had a smooth sailing with it against randoms. They aren't that much more fragile to physical attacks than a Rogue and they are almost immune against spells. They can also two shot randoms with a 0% miss chance. They do however fail against enemies without elemental weaknesses. Typically, they are good against monster, but poor against humans. There seem to be two more characters that will eventually join, so I can see switching characters in and out based on opposition, something that was pointless to do in the first Legionwood.

I need to do more testing with classes, but so far my impression is that all of them are useful and none are overpowered. However, the Gunner and the Cleric doesn't seem good as main classes, only as sub classes.

The game seem very random. A warrior will take very little damage from physical attacks, but a lot from spells. A Magus or Cleric is the opposite. Now, let's assume the player has two physical classes and two magical ones. During one encounter, the enemies may nicely use physical attacks against the physical classes and magic against the magical classes and during another, they may do the opposite. Bosses can also randomly decide to use two nasty attack in a row. The sheer unpredictability does add danger, but it also disables a lot of strategies.

When there aren't any reliable defenses, offense becomes the new defense. I can't rely on an enemy targeting a Warrior with a physical attack or a Magus with a magical attack. I also can't rely on status effects to actually land. However, I can rely on a dead enemy neither using physical or magical attacks. Thus, randoms really are an offense spam with healing thrown in. So while Legionwood 2 is considerable more difficult than most other RPGs, it's difficult in a way that disables tactics.

That's part of why I wrote that I needed to do more testing. I'm a bit biased against only using single classes here since that seems boring. But in terms of combat effectiveness, that's likely the most effective way to go. I suspect the Gunner is an exception though, it has great skills, but not so good stats, so I think I may get more power by sticking its great skills on another class. I'll test it some other day.