@Urouge:
The reknown rewards carry over so you can grab them in all games.
Not until chapter 4, and that's the ridiculous part, considering chapter 2-3 have flocks of counter/luna/hawkeyes. Itll make you cry :(.
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@Hinscher:
I HATE astra. I toss it into the bench as soon as learned. Way too many times have I succumbed to counter because of astra.
I loved it on Hard and lower levels, but freaking counter has ruined astra for me.
Astra is a really good skill for people who use brave weapons. In fact it's essentially required to get the full benefit out of it. And yes, hard is probably the most balanced out of all the difficulties. Lunatic/Lunatic+ they make sure that outleveling isn't an option.
Also best way to fight counter? A high level sniper. Seriously they rarely hit you, and you can't retaliate. My sniper noire is a MONSTER.
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@Hinscher:
Oh and obviously any skills that priest of Troubadour learn. Not even a fast way of leveling those. SO I wouldn't mind if I could transfer over (one) skill. YOu know as I said, be like teh children skills. They get the last skill their parent has equipped. Let it be that. Let the last skill someone has equipped carry over.
Heck they wouldn't even be that cheap eitehr. Cuase most are skill based and you start with only like 6 skill so doubtfull they ever activate. Only cheap ones would be like Swordbreaker or other –--breaker skills. But tehya re still for only one weapon. Even with +50 avoid vesrus swords you can't just rush in. The axes, spears, bows, and tombs would kill you instantly.
Obviously same as children, DLC skills don't transfer. So you don't have like paragon, Iotes Shield, Bonds, ect transfer over.
Well as for troubadours, I find those easiest because you can just spam warp staffs, and level them while on the map, then class change them. I've gotten charactesr like lisa to level 80 in less than an hour in one map haha.
Also my reccomendation to make the challenges easier is to train the frekin parents. I'm currently on the last boss of lunatic (99hp dragonskin, ignis and ridiculous range, my maxed out chrome does like 15 damage with his exault), and I'm struggling because their pairings aren't doing as much damage as the kids. So that's what I'm working with right now.