by Cassiopeia » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:26 am
I always try to make sure I have some characters equipped with something that prevents the monsters from carrying out their action. Paralyze them, seduce them, inflict possessed or something like that. Sometimes it's even enough to silence them, when it's a monster that will most likely cast a spell. Silencing it in the first round and finishing it off in the second often saves me from a lot of damage.
At the Tumulus and Dvorsky Tower I kept changing equipment all the time, depending on what came my way. That's the advantage of visible monsters. For the skeletons, for instance, I always used a weapon that inflicts possessed. It has a very high success rate, and since they counter hits, they'll hit their companions or themselves instead. Paralyzing them wouldn't be all that helpful here because they still hit back.
For those huge purple spiders I change to Death weapons and paralyzing stuff.
I'd rather spend some time swapping around equipment than taking much damage from fights. My goal is always to get through fights as healthy as possible, so as to save healing items and MP. I'm a little hysteric in that point. I'm always afraid to run out of stuff, even when I've got plenty, lol.