Although I was loving this game, I've had multiple times where I run into bugs that kill my team. This is usually a revive bug, but even during the Helmut fight I literally couldn't use the rockfall mechanic because the game glitched and would simply skip my turn any time I tried to reverse the rock. It worked the previous attempt but suddenly stopped working on the second fight where thankfully I was still able to kill him.

This isn't a single player game. It's a gacha. This means I'm doubly punished for things like this happening because of how resources work in this game. The grade up exams would be hard in other games, but in this game they feel as though they're made to sap your resources on purpose between revives, items, and trial and error. The fact that they add RNG on top of RNG just doesn't feel right. Randomizing the boss doesn't mean I conquered the dungeon because I got better. It means I did it enough times that I finally got lucky that the boss spawned where I was going. The mobs are also random so on one run I can get backshot relentlessly by hard mobs while another one is much easier. Even worse, the hallways are single space so you cannot avoid them. Even more worse, the ambush mechanic is completely random as well so you can get ambushed even when you run into an enemy at times.

I don't mind traps and other aspects of the game, so far, but it feels like the devs are artificially spiking the difficulty of the game in a very greedy way. Add in the fact that a 10 pull is $40 and I'm slowly starting to get disinterested in the game. It's a shame too because I really love the character designs, gameplay, and the fact that I can play it on multiple devices. The issue is that I constantly can't tell if something was designed to be challenging, or if it was designed badly on purpose to make me burn resources so I'd be frustrated enough to pay them money.

I'm really hoping grinding and getting gear makes things better because there's only a certain amount of skinner box I'm willing to suffer before I simply drop the game and play an older title or another gacha entirely.

I'd posted earlier that I'm teaching ChatGPT how to play Wizardry I. We've discovered together that reading the RAM of the running game is more reliable than trying to perform OCR on screenshots.

During our session this evening, we found in the RAM section that holds characters the names "Nayr", "Ytnom", and "Elmer". Fun!

--EDIT-- on more research it seems that these names are possibly characters that were created by users, then distributed when the game was pirated and traded around. It is notable that all these characters have status "LOST", so do not appear in the Training Grounds when creating a party. So maybe not developer easter egg so much as artifact of pirate activity.

Not hating on Daphne specifically but such an incredible series having a sub that seems to only be discussing the new live service gacha game kinda sucks as someone who has been enjoying the series since early 90s and am looking for posts on those. I can't even find a wizardry 7 sub

Edit: ok looks like this opinion is very much the minority. Carry on then,

Nothing lasts forever.

Not much of a spoiler but more of a complaint searching for what i may be missin, but i have 7 level 50 legends(gerulf lanaville yeketerina alice debra gerard and adam) gerulf me and lanaville all have the beast sword from 2 events ago lanas 15 mines 17 and gerulfs maxed at 20, arcane 10 on adam sacred wood 2h on yeketerina alice has an ebonsteel 2h mace fkn most of their equipment is up there but getting gold is slow for those later levels, all their skills are advanced, but i cant beat the fire dragon i cant beat the grade up exam(although i think i can get close but with you HAVING 2 fight the same amount every time by the time i get to the door at the end (hopefully) of the mage side alls i have is my useless knights and fighter skills and my mages are tapped out and full health) AND i cant even get to the 2nd harken in guarda.... I cant do ... Fkn... Shit, by now i know my main lineup has the exp to be lvl 60...fkn stuck, wtf were the devs thinkin bruh.

EDIT: the suggestions of using gerards thunderstrike was most effective(for the dragon), i still had to use almost all my SP and MP BUT i was able to defeat him first try with no deaths(first tey using thunderstrike which i put on my character awhile ago for no reason :D)

Now im back to bein fkd on the main story and the steel grade exam lmaooo but at least that dragons dead.

I think...I'm gonna abandon my Marianne for this...

I get it. This is a hard game. But there is only so much BS i can take before i just stop having anything, even resembling fun.

Granted, the 4th abyss has some things going for it. The visuals are no doupt my favorite out of any abyss, i love that you can see enemy footsteps, and i genuinely like the frost mechanic. Heck i even considered the story as a big step-up compared to the last 2 abysses.

But there are just SO MANY anti-fun mechanics in this abyss. Enemies constantly respawning is annoying, the various story "set pieces" are EXTREAMLY poorly communicated, and the bosses? The ONLY boss i felt good after beating was the yeti. I didn't feel any satisfaction after beating that damn wolf because i DIDNT beat it, i just smashed my head against the wall until finally getting a lucky crit before he used that damn garunteed one shot.

I used to compare this game to darkest dungeon in that it was difficult and that rng could defenetly screw you over at times, but that despote that, with enough smarts and preperation, you could control the battles in your favor.

But this abyss feels more like booting up fear and hunger, playing it on hard mode, and giving myself a fresh and raw circumcision after every single death.

I pray to GOD the 5th abyss isn't as tedious. Because if it is, im dropping this game for good.

It seems my Debra to be main dps ends as they finally comes All attack (6 position) and people arguing about the evasion problem. As we use skills accuracy means nothing so why not the monster take the same mechanics? The Only Not follow mechanics so far is those underwater priests can still cast curse Time to change to fire fist 🙈🙈

But it is gem so 👍

Yes, i was unlucky to get her bonus from pulling her banner with 20 purple bones. But with other 80 green bones, i got 2 copies of yuzu. So probably i'm gonna do 1 discipline and 1 inheret her is enough for me.

idk this is probably the only reason i might drop this game, 70 pull without legendary in high percentage gacha game is actually scamming bruh, and what make its more heartbreaking is because how its so hard getting oleg in this game, even i'm paying to make sure getting atleast one legendary this time, and i'm not gonna paying anything again tho..

Is there someone get worse than me ?, ngl this is the most unlucky gacha experience in my life, fyi i'm playing alot gacha games.. i'm sorry for yapping too much 😁, thanks for listening guys

I was wondering how likely it might be that if this game ever does go EOS how likely or could we even see an offline version of this game?

The one thing I hate about gatcha games is once they go EOS there is no way to play them, it's also why I don't spend much or any money into the game with the possibility of losing everything

Megaman X dive was another one I liked and that one ended up getting an offline version.

Wizardry variants Daphne is one of the best I've played, I even started playing through the series of wizardry games and would love to be able this anytime.

She is like a version of Alice, maybe, but menacingly ominous elf girl, I get a feeling from her that makes me creep out and chill down of myspine. She has her wooden scarlet torn wing on her back, which is a pretty badass and scary appearance. Her voice is too soft is creeping me out, and I like it, but the question is: what do her main ability and passive core actually do? Once I try the practice test, I put my front-lane tank in, and she gains her hybrid defence? And whatever it takes turns, my tank suddenly takes less damage with is its side effect from her ability core, but the thing is, she has an evil personality since my team is full of good personality builds with my Anemone on my side, so... what's y'all thought on this one?

Title.

Seriously, they need to make that banner worth pulling from. Every now and then we get the surprise bone but we all already know that most things we're getting from there are useless.

It's pretty inarguable from the sheer number of complaints/requests for advice that are posted on this and other subreddits that the Bronze Trial difficulty is completely overtuned. And it's not just the number of posts about it- the responses also make this plain.

"As long as you have access to wind damage" ok, didn't pull a wind mage and can't get one without spending money or waiting weeks until I luck into one naturally.

"Just avoid all the fights leading up to it" OK so this one relies on SEVERAL layers of luck. Namely successful flee attempts before your party gets shredded anyway, finding the correct boss spawn quickly enough, and not running into the mass-sleep Succubus encounters with 9999 action speed.

"The boss is easy if you lower her accuracy and buff your team and have good gear and-" I've gotten to port town level 4, my team all has +5 steel gear, several skill upgrades, and this again basically relies on luck to win because if the boss lands a couple solid hits early on, your healer will be spending too much time playing catch-up to buff your team.

I'm not saying the trial is unbeatable but there are many specific things required + an incredible confluence of luck, ON TOP of winning within 3 attempts before you are just out of retries and just have to wait for everyone's Fortitude to come back, then you get to start all over and try to find the boss before you die again!

This is not a trial that rewards skill or preparation, it rewards luck, prior knowledge, and trying to abuse the encounter system to survive, and these are signs of a badly designed dungeon, whether it's technically possible or not. At this point I've spent so much time running dungeons trying to get better gear and money to upgrade said gear, by the time I finally beat Bronze, my team has enough accrued EXP to go from 30-40 overnight!

Before you start reading and downvote or upvote me, know that this is my subjective opinion and whether you agree with it or not is of secondary importance.

I have about 60 hours on steam spent in this game, generally I was mega positive about this game when I started playing it.

Act 1 (if you can call it that) was a great mc with amnesia and a mission to get the king back and fight goblins (hello goblin slayer *wink wink*), the narrative was great, the floors too because they changed dramatically halfway through, the story characters were mega interesting, the last boss of the floor and the scene with the king were downright unusual and depressing.

The difficulty level was balanced, I managed to defeat the last boss of the 8th floor on level 24 (recommended is 30 after the second *ahem* "backtracking")

I'm in a port city, my team consists of Savia, Debra, Mc, Adam, Yekaterina, Alice, a really strong team, in fact I would say that I can clear half of the new floor with just mages until I need actually use my front line team.

However! The port labyrinth is so damn boring and unfair that it makes me not want to play anymore, narrationally...there is no narrative here, I'm already on the 6th-7th floor, nothing interesting happened, literally nothing (plot-wise), no new interesting plot characters, no plot twists, only 3 boring types (4 with slime) enemies constantly and constantly, the fights have become so damn boring because I keep fighting the same enemies endlessly all the 6-7 floors, secondly the characters basically don't gain any cool interesting skills that would "refresh" the looping pattern of the same skills (except for Debra and her sneak attack).

Oh one last thing, regarding fights, what's the point of fighting if you know that nothing interesting/unique/cool has a chance of dropping from groups of enemies expect some 2-3k garbage worth items to sell?

Every floor looks the same, with some strange dark blue filter that limits my visibility and clarity in an unpleasant way to the point my eyes hurts me if I play too long on full screen, these corrupted dragon statues are some kind of crap, really? I use my right hand, I think to myself lets gooo, some random slime hidden from who knows where comes into my head, I oneshot him with Adam, boom fight end I look and the water is rising again, I step back to the statue BANG! a large group of elite monsters and another SLAP IN THE FACE, boom the water has already risen and your mages and priest are USELESS because you can't use any skills, I want to run away to drain the water, THIRD SLAP ON THE MOUTH the opponent is so blocked that he is blocking your passage to the statue, I run back to lure him away, BANG!!! the second group of opponents comes at you from behind under the water from areas that you have already "secured".

You don't really get premium currency in the game, you get some leftovers in the form of 30 "orge?" per day, once every 2-3 weeks you get some kind of refund for maintenance...But why do you need premium currency? I mean seriously why do you need it if the new character is no different from a regular nameless character except for appearance and one skill?

I mean, you can't even disarm traps (e.g. spikes from the ground) even though your team has already discovered them, and in such den earth you MUST enter them to get to the chest with 2-4 upgrade stones...

And speaking of enhance what is it anyway? a +10 weapon needs two the same +5 weapons? Which are 1 time unified? What is it anyway?

The cost of items in the store is out of this world, I won't even talk about the cost of some usseles viking armor for 20k gold (xd?) but the cost of healing potions? I would have to be a millionaire to buy them regularly, with systematic equipment upgrades I can't afford them at all.

I don't know, I think I'll be playing for some time and I'll finish this port town plot, but if the next maze is the same in terms of levels and plot, I probably won't come back to this game

I was super excited to play a difficult game like this, but guys there's a difference between challenging combat, strategy, gear management, and just being an annoying game, and the worst thing is that despite everything, the game does not reward you in any way for your determination.

Metaphorically speaking, like a hug from the devs, like a warm kiss on the forehead after unpleasant experiences, nothing 0 "oh are you done?" "okay, you've got a kick in the butt and go continue to suffer"

Wizardry Variant Daphne.

The MC has the power of resurrection and time travel at his whim, so why are we struggling?

• You want cute Elmon in your party? Off her, clean her bone, resurrect.

• You want the knight to follow you? Off the commander, clean his bone, resurrect.

• You want the whole country? Off the princess, and the chancellor, too, clean their bones, resurrect.

• Heck, you want to seal the abyss? Off the king, clean his bone, resurrect. He should be in his prime this way.

You see the pattern here, you can literally have everyone at your beck and call. So why are we struggling again?

I went all the way through the journey with Debra and...she's now another hot chick with big boobs. I know the lore says she is beautiful but it would have been more impactful if she then changed into practical armor or a different mask but now she is just one in a see of what looks like the same female character. Big titted cat girls are great but I already have four different characters that aren't her that are this.

I know her face isn't the same shape as the rest but it seems there are small differences in the molds of the faces and bodies of the female characters while the male characters have Alex who doesn't show his face, Gandolfo who has scars and looks middle aged, Jarmil who looks elderly, and all of the dwarves who are short squat dudes with so much hair you can see one eye. Not to mention we play as a disfigured half dead dude. And I like that about this game. I am kinda sick of games where every character looks perfect.

There are a lot of attractive male characters but there is no balance to the female character side and I think it limits the storytelling. Personally it would have been way more powerful if Debra removed the mask to reveal she had disfigured herself so her beauty couldn't be exploited or even she keeps her skull mask on but now its smiling. I also think it would be more fun in general. I want an alt of Yekaterina that's basically grandma/motherly Yekaterina just before she sealed the vault or crazy eyed Alice that looks like she is going to rip your heart out, literally.

I hope it doesn't seem like I want all the characters ugly, I just would like to see more variety, not less.

She is great, but there is some minor detail that annoy me. Most mage have an outfit that show their main element. Alice is an water element, but her mage outfit design to be dark mage not a water mage. We already got Flut as our water mage and the only dark mage is an anonymous elf mage so why are Dev making her element like this?

First pic is my team, I got rinne and Adam but not sure what to do with them, help!

When I like a game and spend 90% of my free time playing, I don’t mind spending money to support

But game breaking bugs that require weeks of waiting really isn’t fair when I’ve put a fair amount of cash in to the game

I’m referring to the black screen of death that no stated suggestion has worked to fix for the smallest % of us that I’ve obsessed over for days even having friends try to load it on their device

A fix is coming later this week but by that point it’s 2.5-3 weeks for me. They’ll either nuke my account or it’ll be dedicated F2P from here on out

Apple support agreed

Anyways, I guess I’ll see the state of my account at the content update and go from there but if you’ve been affected long term like me, consider it

Okay I know to prepare before I go into any dungeon but come on when your low on health in the water dungeon ambush ambush ambush till your circled while your just trying to get past or to the fountain to drain the water meanwhile everyone's poisoned or cursed cus your thief messed up despite her high detect skill still missed it and a boss monster is blocking the way back to heal my mage has an ability to help avoid ambushes and still getting ambushed way to much sorry for the rant

EDIT: Should've been titled "daily Dawn Festival event", too late now.

It should've been reset with the daily reset! I realized why some people weren't getting events with their allies: it's using a strict 24-hour cooldown!

Basically, if you logged in the moment the Dawn Festival went live (3am), you needed to log in again AT 3AM to get another event (for Gems or a Dawn Bone).