Disable arts when you know what you're doing. XD What options become available depends a lot on who's the leader. If you have Pagus leading, for example, his union will likely get more mystic arts option. Which means that, if you stuck combat-only people in his union, then even when you get to select mystic art you'll get Pagus throwing a mystic and everybody else just doing an ordinary hit. =/ It probably matters less in the beginning but if you pay attention to what class your characters are, you'd get a clue. For example I think Dave starts as a Mysticknight, so he can do both mystic and combat. A union he leads is more likely to get mystic as well as combat art choices.
BR is hard to explain, but in a short...
- BR goes up if you fight a lot. - Higher BR means the monsters you meet will be harder (they hit harder) - Higher BR does NOT mean you're stronger. This is because BR does not equal gaining experience. - This means if you want an easy ride you actually want to keep your BR low. XD;;;; Obviously you can't just not fight at all, so you should pick your battles. - You get more experience by keeping a long battle chain, fighting tougher monsters, fighting more monsters in one battle, killing them quickly, dealing high damage, receiving less damage... stuff like that.
So, if you fight something and the notice that a lot of people are gaining skills/stats during the victory screen, that's a good monster to fight for more experience per BR gain!
If at this point you're wondering what BR is really for... there are weapons that some characters will only start getting at a certain BR, plus other things. More info here.
Really, if you just go through the game normally, do the sidequests and don't obsessively fight lots of cheap enemies thinking you can easily "raise level" that way, you'll be fine. There is no need to rush and raise BR in order to get certain weapons/arts. You'll get them/get asked to build them when the time comes that you need such weapons!
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Date: 2009-10-02 12:04 pm (UTC)BR is hard to explain, but in a short...
- BR goes up if you fight a lot.
- Higher BR means the monsters you meet will be harder (they hit harder)
- Higher BR does NOT mean you're stronger. This is because BR does not equal gaining experience.
- This means if you want an easy ride you actually want to keep your BR low. XD;;;; Obviously you can't just not fight at all, so you should pick your battles.
- You get more experience by keeping a long battle chain, fighting tougher monsters, fighting more monsters in one battle, killing them quickly, dealing high damage, receiving less damage... stuff like that.
So, if you fight something and the notice that a lot of people are gaining skills/stats during the victory screen, that's a good monster to fight for more experience per BR gain!
If at this point you're wondering what BR is really for... there are weapons that some characters will only start getting at a certain BR, plus other things. More info here.
Really, if you just go through the game normally, do the sidequests and don't obsessively fight lots of cheap enemies thinking you can easily "raise level" that way, you'll be fine. There is no need to rush and raise BR in order to get certain weapons/arts. You'll get them/get asked to build them when the time comes that you need such weapons!