Ok, so the battle system is a little bit simpler than I thought but I'm still having trouble with my allies staying alive in boss fights and against large numbers of enemies. I've been playing with Orders lately to see if I can help prevent this. Basically the Assault Artes work against enemies that Burst artes don't and vise versa. It's more or less that simple and gaining artes is done through titles, which are leveled via SP through battles, requests and items. Higher combos on enemies also mean much higher damage against said enemy and boy can it rise up there, so the game is pretty combo heavy.
The Eleth Mixer uses a material called Eleth (go figure) that serves a couple purposes. The slots and the amount of Eleth the Mixer has will entirely depend on how often it gets used. So you'll want to use it often and refill it at any shop you encounter as it's very beneficial and refilling is rather cheap. Basically it comes down to a few ways it can be used:
(1) Cooking. You can put a dualized cooking item that restores HP, buffs the party, etc in there. Depending on the food will depend on when it can be triggered. Example is that Rice Balls trigger in battle when below 60% health. So it uses 10 Eleth (based on the food item) to restore 11% health to me in battle when I fall below 60% health. It acts on a time basis in battle I believe, so it can happen multiple times in a long battle.
(2) Usable/Crafting Items. It can duplicate items based on the amount you run around in the game. The more rare the item the harder it is to produce and the more Eleth it takes when the Mixer duplicates an item.
(3) Spellbooks. These can perform various options and in some cases may require other items placed in the Mixer to work properly. Ones I've encountered so far do things like restore 5% of the Eleth Mixer when the Eleth Mixer doesn't activate in a battle or Increase SP Gain by 10% at end of battle at the cost of some Eleth.
Now the neat thing about the Eleth Mixer is once you put an item in it, it doesn't consume it or hold it, preventing you from using it. So if you put an item in there and use it all up, it will still be in the Eleth Mixer and can duplicate or activate when it needs to. Once you remove it though, you can't add it back unless you have that item in your inventory. A quick example being is that I put an Apple Gel in there and use all 15 Apple Gels and have none left, it will duplicate if I have Eleth available and walk around a bit.
Crafting seems to be a little more complicated. I haven't entirely figured it out yet, but I think I'm getting the hang of things. Normal crafting items seem to be mostly used for crafting items you can sell for Gald or higher tiers of crafting items. Combining food items is more or less cooking, separate from crafting items. Then you have shards that change weapon quality and the weapons effect and items that when combined with weapons will upgrade them to different weapons. The straight up upgrading is is straight forward but coming across the items that you can use to craft seems pretty uncommon so far. As for the shards that increase quality and change/add a weapon effect, they are pretty common. Not entirely sure what quality actually does, but it probably increases the weapon attributes a bit.
I've also recently learned that if you fight enough of the same enemy, a soul (key item) will drop. Not sure what this is used for, but each enemy can only drop a soul once and a star will appear in the beast book on their enemy page if you obtained one from them.
EDIT: I should stop wasting so much time at work posting these tidbits. Could probably find this stuff elsewhere that's a bit more detailed and concise.
EDIT 2: Changed Crystals to Shards to correct the proper name.
The Eleth Mixer uses a material called Eleth (go figure) that serves a couple purposes. The slots and the amount of Eleth the Mixer has will entirely depend on how often it gets used. So you'll want to use it often and refill it at any shop you encounter as it's very beneficial and refilling is rather cheap. Basically it comes down to a few ways it can be used:
(1) Cooking. You can put a dualized cooking item that restores HP, buffs the party, etc in there. Depending on the food will depend on when it can be triggered. Example is that Rice Balls trigger in battle when below 60% health. So it uses 10 Eleth (based on the food item) to restore 11% health to me in battle when I fall below 60% health. It acts on a time basis in battle I believe, so it can happen multiple times in a long battle.
(2) Usable/Crafting Items. It can duplicate items based on the amount you run around in the game. The more rare the item the harder it is to produce and the more Eleth it takes when the Mixer duplicates an item.
(3) Spellbooks. These can perform various options and in some cases may require other items placed in the Mixer to work properly. Ones I've encountered so far do things like restore 5% of the Eleth Mixer when the Eleth Mixer doesn't activate in a battle or Increase SP Gain by 10% at end of battle at the cost of some Eleth.
Now the neat thing about the Eleth Mixer is once you put an item in it, it doesn't consume it or hold it, preventing you from using it. So if you put an item in there and use it all up, it will still be in the Eleth Mixer and can duplicate or activate when it needs to. Once you remove it though, you can't add it back unless you have that item in your inventory. A quick example being is that I put an Apple Gel in there and use all 15 Apple Gels and have none left, it will duplicate if I have Eleth available and walk around a bit.
Crafting seems to be a little more complicated. I haven't entirely figured it out yet, but I think I'm getting the hang of things. Normal crafting items seem to be mostly used for crafting items you can sell for Gald or higher tiers of crafting items. Combining food items is more or less cooking, separate from crafting items. Then you have shards that change weapon quality and the weapons effect and items that when combined with weapons will upgrade them to different weapons. The straight up upgrading is is straight forward but coming across the items that you can use to craft seems pretty uncommon so far. As for the shards that increase quality and change/add a weapon effect, they are pretty common. Not entirely sure what quality actually does, but it probably increases the weapon attributes a bit.
I've also recently learned that if you fight enough of the same enemy, a soul (key item) will drop. Not sure what this is used for, but each enemy can only drop a soul once and a star will appear in the beast book on their enemy page if you obtained one from them.
EDIT: I should stop wasting so much time at work posting these tidbits. Could probably find this stuff elsewhere that's a bit more detailed and concise.
EDIT 2: Changed Crystals to Shards to correct the proper name.
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status effects in this game. They are a lot harder to take and in the current area I'm in slow is pissing me off and wishing I did the Request for the Slow Charm (or bought one which I think was available) in the last shop.
