VERSALIA'S PROFILE

author=Einander
It seems to me that there are two main dangers with blanket allowance of status effects: Poison and Rage/Berserk. I assume that both are traditional forms (i.e, percentage damage and "you use your normal attack instead of spells or abilities")? The former wrecks bosses for obvious reasons (see Tales of Symphonia, where nothing in the game had poison resistance), while the latter is nasty against pretty much everything; even physical bosses have serious problems with losing all of their abilities.

Most status effects have a "Boss version," in the same way that Charm affects a boss, but not quite as often. Rage will make bosses much more likely to use a standard attack or slightly more likely to use their physical attack skills, as opposed to becoming a mindless attackzombie. Additionally, in Persona games, Rage increases damage you both deal and receive by 150% - enraging every enemy you fight is definitely not always the best strategy!

Poison, likewise, is also somewhat different. It cuts strength in half, a very useful ailment to use on bosses that will not totally obliterate them. Its damage, like Chains of Love, is only partially percentage-based; it is otherwise based on the caster's physical damage.

Sleep is also a little problematic in any series with good buffs, on account of the fact that even kinds of sleep broken by attacks allow you free
set-up; oftentimes, that's the single most threatening part of any fight.

As far as Sympathizer goes, it's based on how much damage allies are taking. Since allies taking damage is an event that happens constantly, the role obviously doesn't have a huge base per-trigger gain. If you use turtling tactics and shut down enemy attacks, Blaise's sync gain will be considerably smaller; however, in fights against a hard-hitting foe or when someone takes an unexpected critical, Blaise really shines. He's a Boss-Killer, really! And yes, Chains of Love does nothing unless the victim is suffering an ailment. I'll update the post to reflect that fact.

I'm a little iffy on Rain Dance, though

This is pretty much true, and I'm not sure why I posted this version; it's meant to deal Water or Lightning damage, and hits multiple random enemies (not a multiple number of times). There are effects that draw attention to certain targets that will attract 'random hits' from skills so you can direct these better! You noted using it for probing elemental resistances - that's one of its intended uses, as it is a base-level ability, and will get overwritten later. Aisling has the same problem with her physical AoE, they're all "hit X random enemies," but Blaise does eventually learn Magaru.

Thanks for the feedback!

author=Celes_Cole
That's a bit more realistic

and yet this game image resembles neither of those

author=calunio
I threw in a yellow tint, so the place would feel slightly... depressing. The tint is subtle, and comes and goes in intervals of 6s, so it's subtle.

I do not know what planet you are from but yellow is generally considered a bright and cheerful color, with cooler (blue-tint) colors being generally "heavy," sad, and depressing, and warm red colors being angry, energetic, vibrant. You could also simply desaturate it slightly instead of tinting it yellow - that will drain it of juuust enough color to make it, well, depressing.

author=lucidrose
Question for y'all.

My husband really enjoys tactical RPGs - FF Tactics for example but anything in the tactics game style.

I tried searching but didn't come up with too much. Anyone have any suggestions?

I don't think there is too much to find here in that genre. There are games that can be described as tactical, but I don't think I've ever seen anything coming close to the Tactics gameplay style get a full release. I think "Abyss League" is a mixture of TCGs, tactics and tower defense... it's being developed, though.

If you've ever used Charas you know the only way to get what you REALLY want is to just browse every single resource. Also learn the magic of keywords. I'd search for 'wagon' but also

west, western
vehicle
carriage
cart
horse (maybe a horse-related resource has something like this included in it?)
cowboy (same thing)

etc