The Fool

Battles

The things I haven´t already mentioned about battles are how to use magic and items. Magic and Items are used by pressing the Y button to bring up a menu, there you can choose if you want to use a magic or item, change battle tactics, change a member out for another and more.

Items

If you´re hurt bad and you can´t do anything but run around to safe your life then using an item might be a good idea. This will leave you open for attacks in a short moment as your character stands still, raises his/her hand up and the item is used. This also bring a short time for where you can´t use any more items. A icon in the lower left corner show you when you can use another item.

Magic

Works just about the way Items does, bring up the menu with Y, choose symbology, choose what symbology you want to use and then a target. Your character stands still and starts chanting, if the character is hit during this time then you will have to choose the symbology again and hope that this time you aren´t hit.

There is a waiting time after using symbology as well. As the animation for using the magic needs to be finished before you can use another magic.

Battle tactics

Want to let Edge run amok using skills and so? Let him do that. Sarah might not be such a good choice for going into melee combat as she is weak and simply sucks at fighting. Have her stay out of harms way but instead buff you up with magic or heal you with magic.

There are a lot of tactics that you can use if you want to.

Bonus Gauge

In SO:TTEOT you got a bonus cauge that gave you stuff at the end of the battle, increased EXP, regaining more health, more money and more items. In SO:TLH this has evolved into a bigger gauge that allows you to make your own. All depending on how you kill your enemies. More items are gone, instead you get more AP to spend on your skills.

So if you want you can create a gauge that has 12 +10% exp. Giving you a 120% EXP which is pretty nice if you want to level your characters up.

Or you can create a mix so you regain 5% health, +50% EXP and then +2 SP for each battle you win.

This gauge can be destroyed though, take a critical hit and one from each color is destroyed. I don´t know how this works completely so I´ll just mention it briefly.

Skill Points

In SO:TTEOT you got skill points, so many that you could upgrade everything you wanted and still have more left over. In SO:TLH SP are quite rare and are only awarded when you level up your character or when you open chests/harvest/mine and that amount is stored in the Party SP.

What do you do with this SP you ask? Your skills can be upgraded so they heal more, do more damage or occur more often. Reimi has a skill “Energy shield” that allows her to sustain no damage when she is attacked. This is one skill you want to have maxed out.

You can only have two battle skills set. And with this I don´t mean you special skills that you use in battle, this skill set is up to you. If you want to upgrade the HP bonus skill to the max and gain 10 000 more HP for a character do so. Otherwise you might want to spend it on giving the heavy magic users more MP or the ability to hide themselves so they aren´t that much noticable to the enemies. All up to the player how s/he wants to create her own characters.

Special skills can also be upgraded so they do more damage or have a longer period of being used. Reimi´s Crimson Squall gains more arrows as an example.