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[RubyLapiz]

It's very nice, I am Maria, stu is Frioniel, Jason is Guy, and Azar is Lionhe!

So far I've fought maybe about ten battles, stu is weilding double shields (I had him in the back row until I remembered he wouldn't ever gain any hp back there), maria a bow, and guy a sword and an axe (since he's the last character, I figured double wielding would make up for the lack in stats he's going to suffer for a while)

Guy's hp is about up to 100, maria and frioniel's to 50 something, frioniel's shields are almost level7, maria's bows to 3:45 poor guy is struggling along with 1:40 on axes and swords

haven't had any increases in agility yet; I was hoping to do some research into it sometime.

I just wanted to post about this game. I have it emulated at 150% speed for convenience xD

Also i've decided not to give them any armor right now, 'cause I mean, what's the point?

[Crossblades]

Do you plan to give them Magic?

[Zeromus_X]

Yeah, I wish I got the hang of that whole Agility increasing thing. Tell us how it goes.

[Azar]

Not enough about me.

[RubyLapiz]

You don't show up for like half the game, and then you don't join the party until the last tenth

They all have cure now; I'm debating whether to do like my last game and let Guy (Jason) handle the black magic so i have some elemental stuff to through out or to just pawn it off on the fourth characters. I don't want to spend a lot of effort with in on frioniel since it'll weaken his strength etc, I guess I could give maria some instead of guy. (it was just a random decision last time xD)

no one hasn't increased agility still (I weaned frioniel off the double shields since he got them to level 9 in the hour of playtime I've spent (clock time, not game time) and maria has given up her cane for bows. So equipped shields don't seem to do much. Maybe it has to do with how much you can dodge the multiple attacks or give out multiple attacks yourself? Other venues of investigation are actually running from battles (although how can you get stats up if you don't win is beyond me) and whatever else I can think of (ideas plz))

[RubyLapiz]

maria finally gained one agility;

things that happened in the battle: she was cured once by frioniel, she attacked herself, was poisoned, I don't remember if I accidentally hit the run command or not, she gained a level in canes.

[edit-9:43-- maria gained another agility. it was on a self-healing cycle, so she was cured by herself, hit with poison a few times, didn't hit run at all.]

[oddler]

Does it have something to do with how often you take damage?

[FuzZerd]

as I recall you have a chance of gaining agility every time you dodge, so using double shields will greatly increase your chances of gaining agility, and you also gain agility faster as you have a higher agility stat, so if your gaining agility slowly now its probably nothing to worry about, you'll start gaining it a ton later on in the game.