That means buying a full 99
heal potions takes two and a half minutes of mindlessly mashing A. And Lord help you if you wanted pure potions or tents, because then you'd have to remember to push DOWN each and every time to select from the list.
Not exact matches
«I don't know the effect, but I
healed eventually,» said another patient, who
took the
potion to cure a back injury.
To put it simply combat is cumbersome, and the only way it provides a challenge is through the sheer number of enemies attempting to mash you into a pulp, usually resulting in you rolling madly around the place while guzzling
potions of
healing and throwing ice spells about the place, because frozen enemies
take extra damage and it's an easy piece of magic to spam.
As you are attempting to dispatch of the threat in a particular area, you not only have to be aware of the damage that your player controlled character is
taking, but you also have to be aware of the damage that your brigades are
taking as well as issuing them commands and trying to administer
potions to
heal yourself or to counteract status effects.
Once in that area, action
takes place in side - scrolling fashion and players can dispatch of enemies using various attack combos all while collecting loot - drops of weapons for her or her party members, items to improve their weapons and
potions that regain health or
heal status ailments.
So, if you have a
healing potion and you want a tome, give your
potion to a teammate or use it before
taking the tome.
Tomes and Grimoires give you a good loot at the end of a match but they
take up the space of a
healing potion in your inventory.
If you do
take a bit too much damage, there are health
potions that will restore some of your lost health, but these can be quickly used up so it's generally better to learnt to avoid or block hits than to
take the damage and
heal afterwards.
A more intuitive way of keeping your team
healed than frequently pausing the action to administer individual curative items would have been welcomed too -
take a tip from me and acquire Ignis» Regroup Technique early on to save yourself a fortune in Hi -
Potions.
As a result, you tend to glide through combat by guzzling
potions to compensate for the lumpen blocking mechanic, and even when you get to more challenging boss encounters where enemy
healing and shielding threatens to become an issue, you can almost always progress through sheer gluttony and overkill rather than by having to think too deeply about what sort of combat approach to
take.
You have to push the A button three times to buy one
healing potion, and there's a pause between each menu, so it
takes ~ 1.5 seconds per purchase.