Stat Upping Support-Type Items, Underrated? Options

[ChefMKT]

Well, I'm up to chapter 4 right now and I've decided to actually try to use a few of the items I never used during my play throughs. One of them was the power wrist. First of all, Power Wrist gives +30 STR to the user at the cost of around 20 WT. 30 STR might not sound much, but infact, it's actually the opposite.

The following contains spoilers about the Accursed but pretty much everyone here finished the game, but I'll put in spoiler tags anyway.

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When I had used power wrist with Ein during the battle with Isher. Depending on how much STR boosts you obtained from overskills learnt, Disaresta would usually do 60-80 per hit and the final blow would be around 140-150. Using the power wrist however, the damage soars up to around 120-135 per hit. I don't know how much the final blow would do seeing as how Isher blocked it when I was battling him. Now, you might wonder, "why the bloody hell is he raving on about this?" Look at it this way: Isher blocks ALOT. By having Ein's damage per hit raised, you have a higher chance to take him out even if he does manage to block a few hits. This is especially useful not only for attaining the S-Rank, but also increasing score by taking less counts. I don't remember how many counts it took me to take down Isher, but I could've easily taken him out even faster if I had known Disaresta would do so much damage.

Against Lindwurm, it was pretty much the same story. Except, I had Lina and Serene use the power wrist. Serene used Bat Jr (The one obtained from the Crystal Caverns after chapter 2) and hit roughly 140-150 per hit. That's 600 of Lindwurm's HP gone. Without the power wrist, you'd be look at just shy of 400 damage depending on your stats. Lina's Overskill with the Lightning Bow did around 1100 nabbing me the S-Rank at 60 counts. Without the power wrist, you'd be doing around 750-800 depending on your stats. If I remember correctly, I never destroyed Lindwurm in 60 counts.

We all know how fast Arch Angel falls against Lina's Barrage overskill. Imagine how much faster it would fall when Lina uses a Power Wrist. I hope to plan to do it sometime tommorow and see for myself.

Now, if this much damage was obtained with using a power wrist, I wondered how much damage Cierra would do using Black Earrings. I threw them away this play through and now I'm tempted to start again just to test it out. Not only Black Earrings give a magic boost, but also gives 100% accuracy on all her attacks. I don't know about you, but with my experience with Cierra, usually 1 or 2 hits miss when I use her level 3 over skills. With her magic already ridiculously high, the magic boost would just plain obliterate everything. The only problem is that she's so slow.

I have yet to use some of the other support items, but Power Wrist and Black Earrings are probably the best support items aside from Flag and Cheer Bell. None of you probably care about this but I've played through Riviera so many times that I'm trying to find new ways to keep myself occupied with the game. One of them being to get the highest score possible. By finding the new use of these two support items, I think that I could significantly improve my scores. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just thinking way too much about this. I posted this because I was solely relying on attack items and I figured many others here did too (if they still played Riviera that is). Potions are useless in this game, I know that much, but now stat upping items have shined up to me as an item I'll keep in my inventory from now on.

[P.P.A.]

Useful! I´ll try that.
But the Wyvern wings are good as well.

[Dr Strum]

I've never used positive support items outside of practise. I see no point. Negative support items, however...

[Shadow]

Same here.
I'll try that when I play the game again. But I don't think I need it with Isher, I can beat him before his Overdrive.

[Raijinili]

The card opposite to the Power Wrist is the Mage Ring, not the Black Earrings.

WHERE'S THAT ITEM GUIDE, STURM?

[Rhiannon]

He said Black Earrings because it also raises accuracy. <_<

[Dr Strum]

WHERE'S THAT ITEM GUIDE, STURM?

Bite me. I don't have the hundreds of hours to waste on LCN that I used to.

[ChefMKT]

Useful! I´ll try that.
But the Wyvern wings are good as well.

Yeah, Wyvern wings have their uses in battles which contain 4 enemies or more. Only problem is, it might get rid of ALL enemies and that means no S-Rank. =/

I've never used positive support items outside of practise. I see no point. Negative support items, however...

Negative support items? Could you gimme a few examples?

Same here.
I'll try that when I play the game again. But I don't think I need it with Isher, I can beat him before his Overdrive.

Yeah, I beat Isher before he used his over drive as well. My point was however, was trying to get the maximum points possible. I.E Finish with a Lvl 3 or EXL and in the shortest count possible (preferably without using Fanelia or Longinus).

If I'm not mistaken, EXL gives 100 extra points compared to a lvl 3 but I have to check up on that later.

[Dr Strum]

SPIDER WEB
Or whatever it was called.

[Ultimaninja]

oh, negative support items for enemies...

thought you ment like the harpy feather and the tickle ability...

[Raijinili]

EXL gives a percentage of points.

[paperweight]

The power wrist is really the only support item I ever use. Except the shield or slumber ivy on occasion. They can come in quite handy sometimes. I always liked attacking better than defending. If you kill them first, they ususally cant kill you. Usually.

[ChefMKT]

Just finished chapter 4 and I was somewhat disappointed. Lina with Power Wrist and Barrage did 3400 damage out of 4000. Awesome, but totally unnecessary because by the time you get the Overdrive bar charged, the damage dealt is enough for a non-str boosted barrage to take the Accursed down. Hopefully Death will give me a better result.

[ChefMKT]

Power wrist comes through for me again! =O

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I managed to beat Zombie Dragon in 28 counts. Ein used Flag to get the OD bar to level 2, Fia uses Power Wrist, Serene attacks with Rosier to build up the OD bar + 950 damage. Next turn, Fia whips out a Cadenza dealing 3550 damage falling Zombie Dragon. Zombie Dragon has a total HP count of 4500 so without power wrist, this wouldn't have been possible. The only problem with this is, having two support items doesn't leave much for attack items so the enemy must be taken down as fast a possible. This leads into the next problem.

Seth-Rah is a fairly long battle without longinus or fanelia because of the fact that HP is very limited. If I do decide to use this set up of flag + power wrist, I might run into trouble. However, this might bring in the use of Dragon Steak. 70% HP Heal and +25 STR, works both as a potion and a stat upper but Fia can't eat it. I figured I'll have Ein keep on using the flag, Cierra using up the OD bar by constantly using Rosier's over skill and seeing as how I keep getting Serene's ending, I might opt to use Lina instead of Fia but I'll decide when I actually get there.

A few other mentions I forgot during chapter 4. Power wrist also came in handy against the White Wyvern and Red Sage for Lina's Voltage Raid. I don't specifically remember the counts I did but they were very, very short battles.

I still need to try out the black earrings next play through and see how much more damage Cierra can deal, but with the damage output I'm getting so far, it will be very, very interesting indeed.