Originally Posted by Mermaid
Originally Posted by MadDemiurg
-Stat bloat and shopping. Seriously, I feel like I'm playing a shopping simulator. Because of ridiculous stat bloat you need to update gear at least every other level to keep up, which results in ridiculous runs across current location vendors in search of new items. It gets old pretty fast.


You really do not need to do this and this really is not an issue. Stat inflation only affects armour, not skills/stats. The only item that matters somewhat is the weapon for a physical damage dealer. The rest is almost arbitrary. Another 500 Magical Armour is just that. So long as you are not being chain stunned armour values are completely arbitrary. On each of my three playthroughs I have finished the game (even on Tactician) with sub level 10 items simply because I preferred the +1 Warfare over an extra 300 physical and 300 magical armour. The only thing you need to shop for is weapon and this is the sole reason for why trading is even needed in the game.


Depends if you build for ini and/or cheese when initiating fights. In many fights on tactician you would get oneshot if you don't go first and have bad armor. Shopping for several weapons every other level is pretty grueling on its own as well.