Eizen in particular seemed so frail, that I stopped using him as a glass-cannon and set up him up for ranged combat as a caster. However, for the rest of the party, I have no idea what combos I should be using. triangle is for wind aretes, circle is fire, etc). I've had Velvet's artes set up hot-keyed to an element for each button (e.g. Should everyone's strategy have breaksouls set to 'regenerate'?Īrets set-up. But then what's left? Yes, Velvet with her breaksoul heals and is invincible, but that isn't helping the rest of my party. They were taking too long and not healing as much as I needed. With the healing artes efficiency being reduced, I just turned them off.

Healing! How do I manage the heal struggle on Intense?! I can't keep spamming items, as the time to use them is increased and my party keeps dying too quickly to use peach gels anyway. Why am I struggling with this so much? I don't want to turn the difficulty back down (I'm stubborn) but I was wondering if anyone had general Intense mode tips or specific answers to these reasons that make Intense Mode challenging for me. And it's incredibly frustrating because 1) I don't understand how the difficulty spike could be so stark, I went from being god-like to being unable to fight mobs and 2) a quick search online shows most people actually thought intense was easy!! I saw a post about how intense felt no harder than hard mode. Wrecked by almost everything, not just boss encounters but now even random mobs have managed to return me to title screen.

I've KO'ed to a few bosses and code red hunts but I haven't seen a dire foe yet and I wanted more grade for abilities so I changed the difficulty up to Intense Mode. Gameplay wise, I haven't really been struggling on Hard Mode. I've been playing on Hard difficulty, mostly as Velvet, and I was relatively confident that I had a grasp on the game's mechanics or at least basic understanding. I've really been enjoying the story aspect of the game (though that's a topic for another post) and at this point in the game my team is level 32 and I've put in around 22 hours. I want to preference this post by stating that I've recently started Tales of Berseria and it's my first Tales game, though I've played a ton of other RPG games (usually turn based or dungeon crawler style).

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