Battle Before Dawn Changes?

[zahlman]

Or just give the Merc Steel instead? :/

[HF Makalov Fanboy Kai]

how much speed does that silver sword merc have anyways?

IIRC Zeph has an base of 12 or so

[Whitefang]

Dondon and Horace already stated the only real problem with the map...swordreavers and magic (and an archer) that attack Jaffar.

For Hard mode only...

I would suggest giving the fighters regular axes...maybe Silver or Killer. To balance this, give Zephiel a Lancereaver, so that he is vulnerable to the enemies again, which makes it harder to defend him (the point of the chapter). The big issue is that the swordreavers are supposed to make it hard to protect Zephiel since he wields swords, but what it also accomplishes is that Jaffar pretty much has a 50% chance of death. Combine that with his AI where he charges headlong into enemies, abandons pillars, and doesn't use the elixir until he's below 50% health, and that's the problem.

Nino is fine. You might give her paragon so that she gains exp faster. I have no idea if that's possible, though.

[chococoke]

Nino should be 100% fine, and is only in danger in the very rare case of the priest proccing a crit.

[zahlman]

Nino is fine. You might give her paragon so that she gains exp faster. I have no idea if that's possible, though.

She could be put into a brand-new class that copies the name string, weapon ranks etc. from mage/sage, but has a hax 'class power' and 'class bonus A/B'.

[Ϲharlie]

Nino wouldn't even need a brand new class. Female mage and sage are separate classes from male mage and sage. She could keep her own class since she's the only playable character to use it.

[Jack of the Dead]

there's a rescue staff in the room to the right of zeph. if a person is playing HHM they should at least know that trick instead of trying to racing to the middle. (but ursula appears on the right of HHM right? that strategy needs a little work. but its still better than having to beat all the fighters and myrms to the room.)

[zahlman]

there's a rescue staff in the room to the right of zeph. if a person is playing HHM they should at least know that trick instead of trying to racing to the middle. (but ursula appears on the right of HHM right? that strategy needs a little work. but its still better than having to beat all the fighters and myrms to the room.)

But that saves you like at most one turn in terms of getting Zephiel safe (unless you have trouble actually fighting through the enemies at the entrance to the throne room), and you might want to have 3 Hammerne-less Rescue uses for later Warp+Rescue shenanigans... although I can't really think of applications for that in 7 quite like in 6 or 8...

Edited December 24, 2011 by zahlman