Unicorn Overlord | 1.04 Patch CHANGED MY MIND On Swordmasters
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I'm just gonna say, this is exactly what this class needed.
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I was absolutely assuming that there would be no updates, or that any DLC would be paid, but I'm so happy to see that they pushed the game out to get the money they needed to stay afloat, made a game that *works* and isn't buggy, and yet are happy to finish it completely now that they are financially stable. So pleased with Vanillaware right now.
+50% more sword per sword is a lot of sword;
br uh 😂😂
My sword is +50%, but this +50% more.
50% more sword is basically a dagger, no?
Give me : - Infinite NG+ cycles - Some kind of endgame infinite grind like the tower of mirage from Dragon's Crown and i'll never ask for shit again !
I would kill for the ability to restart and go through to the continents in any order, get my favorite battle companions at varying points of the story to see what it’s like to have them earlier or later, depending.
That would be fantastic to have. We can only hope
What kind of monster benches virginia when you get maiden's hammer and retaliation earrings in soldraga? Watching her swat fliers and scouts that attack her all through true zenorian is funny.
Are you running her shield block/heal setup with this, or going all in on the counter? I took a break from the game for DD2 and am just getting to the third country and about to get her turn 1 block buff. I’m wondering if the new patch changes + her start of battle skill may help her outgrow needing the self heal. Going to test it for sure.
@@jayellgee PP generally committed to maiden's hammer. I let iron veil go active if there are no other start-of-battle skills worth using in her unit. I haven't needed the extra defense and guard through elheim. Will have to see if bastorias would change my mind. As far as healing goes, I'd rather have someone with quick heal in the backrow do it. Doesn't have to be a cleric, but a debuff cleanse is nice, so elven archers with scarlett's ribbon/monks mitre is nice too since guard seals, stuns, and blinds are no fun with the added frost arrow later. Giving refresh/quick cure priority over quick heal (at least for blinds, and stuns specifically) will take the debuff off before maiden's hammer triggers right on time to maim the guy who applied it. I'll have to see how much I like brandish + that other attack buff she gets later eventually. I let her keep the blue rose shield (turn off royal guard), azure crest shield, and the kingsblade for 4pp and damage. Alternatively, you could use one of those two shields, with a shield that gives immunity to things like guard seal/stun, and use a PP increasing sword like dragonbone, or much later, wingcrest. With the earrings and kingsblade, maiden's hammer hits low defense-high initiative targets like rogues and swordfighters for ~80 damage from elheim onward that cannot be dodged. Fliers can't dodge it either on top of her vertical edge. She becomes a hard counter for most wyvern rider units you run into through drakenhold even on true zenorian.
The kind that never gets hit in the first place?
This almost feels like a bug fix rather than a balance change. It seems to me they were always intended to get offhand damage. If you used a magic boosting sword it would boost in your off hand.
Seeing the updated sort system is so satisying. I found it a bit frustrating scrolling through to try and find the specific item I wanted and it's just so much more efficient now.
Valkyria's buff isn't that big of a deal because that class was already the best tank to begin with, lol. virginia didn't need a buff, but i can see why they did it
Honestly, I just think they still benefit from having phantom shields better, since you don't need more guard rates when their start of battle skill fills up the other half of their def and guard rates already
So happy to see update to this amazing title. Thanks for covering the patch as well!
And theres a big twist too, magic swords give the FULL magic attack boost, so a magic second sword is a viable choice.
Oh now that is VERY interesting
@@TitaniumLegman Magic swords always gave the full magic boost even before the patch, it's why they're amazing dodge tanks that can even clean up physical tanks.
and unguardable, the guard procs but the dmg is full
That's how I always used them. Get one high attack weapon, and then a runic weapon with its magic attack to be used against armored units. Honestly, I might have preferred a general boost to their attack stats, so I could keep using the off hand slot for obsolete or niche weapons that give nice skills.
@@bificommander7472 But end game you can upgrade all those niche or obsolete weapons to get 25 power (which is the power cap). I hear you on the general power but SMs didn't need a huge upgrade - although one can definitely argue that's what they got.
The real biggest change for me in this update is the fixed the broken ass inventory system. Now I can can actually sort things in a useful manner to tell what damn equipment I have.
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Hell yeah! I just started pushing through my TZ playthrough, with an emphasis on using classes I didn't use originally. Which includes Swordmasters.
@TitaniumLegman Thank you for making this video. We may have disagreed about SMs in the past - and you make a good case - but I'm just glad we can agree now. You genuinely sound excited and I'm here for it; Vanillawear pulls through with the W.
Through mirrors, dews and premium items and party support, my Meli could chew through Generals, but now? Now nothing will stand in her way. Also the extra defenses from the second shield for Valkyrie will be nice, there were times when my Virginia was overwhelmed by continuous attacks if faced with druids or breakers, this will help with that. Finally, thank goodness for the translition fixes
I would definitely not use Gryphons as a dodge tank over sword master late game when true strike is so common. Having an effective dodge tank and a sub DPS to target specific units like tanks or thieves is way more useful especially when you can get sword master avoid up to 160+ and the only thing they need is an archer cover. If anything Gryphons are way better backliners with more utility accessories for support or for row clearing.
I’ve managed to recruit Amalia from the coliseum at level 22 with a broken mid game squad: Dark marq/Rogue/Gladiator/Primm 🔥 once you are able to neutralize back row with the rogue darkness/stun skill then with Berengia stun the front row then wipe out with Bruno. Once you reach one of the last few matches you need to place Primm in the front as a “tank” by utilizing that passive ability to survive any blow a few times haha this achievement of becoming coliseum champ with an 18 level difference got me so pumped about the trials and strategies I developed to take Amalia down! You can also raise Berengia’s evasion to over 100 if you set her up w the right items
Oddly specific thing I just saw the TZ Bad Ending guy post, but it seems you can also now change Scarlett's voice to Norbelle if you have her unlocked in the log now.
Oh that sounds awesome... Going through that hell though......
Nice! This is a welcome change. After the last video, my swordmaster learned Meteor Slash, which I found incredibly underwhelming for the reasons you mentioned. This should help a *lot*.
It made me mad that the "Dodge-Tank Buster class" could mostly get rid of frontline thieves, and literally no one else unless you invested HEAVILY in their kit... Meanwhile a Truestrike buffed Gryphon or Wyvern just cooks the entire line with the greatest of ease...
Same with my archers. I never used the swordmaster class
Literally the best use case was removing the 5-hit shield that only one enemy has.
@@mac1bcfound that more so with ballist. Archers have alot of utility and buff compatibility with coins
@brutalnobody5240 yes I liked them too. With the triple shot followed by another follow up shot, I was just clearing out rows. 😁
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Havent finished the game because IRL.About 65 hours in I've like (most) of the Swordmaster NPCs design, so I had fun making them crit/evade and thought they were really good I'm casual and play mostly on expert. I don't even know what true zenorian is like. But still! Always fun when you're playing a game in a way that isn't meta and having fun, then your "bottom tier" favorite playstyles get buffed! Excited to get back and finally finish the game. Keep up the great work dude!
I did like using them for the heck of it after a good opener to buff them or debuff but this makes a big difference to them. cool to see.
Keen Edge doing 69 damage? Nice
lol no wonder my swordmaster team in bestoria hit so hard. Also I have saved so much time in the menus putting teams together.
Swordmaster is my favorite class so this makes me happy
I'm glad they're making patches to the game overall.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed/experienced this but I think they also patched a silly bug with circle heal. Before this update, If the enemy was cleared before the user (Ramona in my case) started charging circle heal, it would just trigger the healing twice in a row for some reason. I just had this scenario happen again post-patch and it's not doing the double circle heal proc so along with the text fixes they've been working on little stuff like that, it's nice.
I forgot to update my game since launch, but now I guess is a good time to do it! :D
been playing the demo and im hooked
GO. GET. THE GAME.
finally my triple swordmaster squad in the backline can shine XD
Messing with it in TZ, swordmaster still seems reliant on a druid or a magic damage weapon in order to meaningfully break thru the front row, so their use is still very heavily restricted relative to sellswords or warriors. Safer to put on the front row than either of those tho, I suppose.
using hybrid sword like spellsteel is much better as 1 mystic conferral buff and keen edge can make your swordmaster crit for 150 dmg against a physical or magical tank
I literally gave Aramis the maiden’s ring and beat the game the day before this patch lol
It was a very needed upgrade. I was going to start removing mine, but I'll keep using them for now.
5:50 haha your commentary on the finer details of these RPGs is so entertaining to listen to. If they ever made Tactics RPGs into an esport you would be an amazing caster.
This is much needed. Both of my true zenioran playthroughs I never used a single sword master because they are so weak they couldn't even one shot most thieves. It's useless to attack a thief with a true strike and do 95% damage if no one else can hit him.
The only swordmaster that have utilized is paired up with a witch so she can imbue the swordmaster with magic to compensate for the low potency of meteor slash.
Tom's favorite class: Swordmaster confirmed.
My Melisandre more died than killed. Now she can whoop anyone's ass. LOL
Hell yeah, we love to see it.
swordmasters are now worth it
7:27 go Gregor
10:19 nice
Its a nice needed buff for swordmasters but it still doesnt solve their main issue of not being an AOE unit or bringing something else to the table aside from being an evade tank. The increase in dmg doesnt make them a striker as its not good enough to take down armored since they dont have range. It wouldve been better if they gave swordmasters the full atk.bonus. They will still be used as an evade tank early on and subbed out for better evade tanks later. So it makes them better but doesnt allow them to jump over other evade tanks (and its not like you need alot since having more than 5 squads is plenty).
swordmaster buff is so nice tbh
I gave my swordmaster the king sword in her off hand. Seems good
I was really excited to promote my promote my sword fighters and was so confused why they didn't do any extra damage with the exta sword. Must have been a bug or something.
Ohh I guess I assumed thats how it always worked lmao
Would Sword Master now be A-Tier in the promoted class guide?
Huh, I didn't mind the old swordmaster. It gave me a reason to put one weapon with a high attack, and one obsolete weapon with a good skill, nice bonus or with a magical attack skill for versatility. I think I'd have prefered a general attack boost.
Too bad I beat this game a week ago to experience using this. Also Virginia was a great tank for me when also paired with Scarlett
Ngl the difference from having 2 swords vs 1 doesn’t seem different as you make it out to be based off your demos. But the additional is welcomed nonetheless.
Finally swordmaster S tier
The swordfighters are basically the myrmidons from FE right?
Damn, patch noted in my SRPG? Fire Emblem 3H had a level that literally softlocked players and they still never fixed it
The downside is, the CPU can do more damage too. Bring on the challenge.
Meteor Smash still confuses me in how its damage is calculated. I've been trying to crunch numbers to figure out optimal situations for when it does more damage than Keen Edge, and it keeps coming out in a way that doesn't make sense. Either it's dealing more than 20% of their base damage, or I'm seriously missing something here with either my math or how damage is calculated in the game
Okay, I think I actually found out how damage is calculated, and the numbers do make sense. There's still some a bit off, but the calculations are only one digit off instead of the much larger breadth they were at earlier. I *think* the way it works is that you first subtract the defender's DEF from the attacker's ATK, then the game factors in things like the extra 50% damage from Critical Hits (but not bonus to critical damage from items like the Wyvern's Razor), then the game factors in the Attack's Potency, and after that does the game factor in bonus critical damage from Wyvern's Razor/Charged Impetus. So, a Swordmaster with the Viking's War Horn buff who crits on all of his Meteor Slash attacks *should* be dealing somewhere in the range of 85% more damage than if they used Keen Edge
But did they add a ng+ option?
Asking the real questions !
Before the do anything else they need to make the game have any amount of challenge
Well, let me tell you about the secret Amalia challenge fights. 😉
@@TitaniumLegmanstill wont be any challenge my man the game is just easy but it is a start
I guess I'll have to somewhat respect enemy SM teams now, instead of using them as free XP piñatas for under leveled units.
I still think they shoul get full attack of both swords they give up alot of defense by not having a shield
WTB DLC and update for NS!!!
No, 69 is not good, it's nice.
I use Swordmaster to kill fox ladys
Well, I guess swordmasters suck less now, lol. They still suck outside their intended role: hunting down scouts. This means they're good in Drakehnhold and Early-Mid Bastorias (in the back row). I guess you could set up a super swordmaster with coins and such, but... why not set up Bruno to take out the entire unit instead?
What about our complaints against Lex
Gryphon knights weak to bows, sword masters aren’t
Swordmaster got no AOE so Gryphon is still GOAT.😅
Yeah...no. You are heavily overstating the benefits of these changes. They are good, sure, but not nearly as big as you claim. Hell, your own flawed tests/footage don't even support your claims. Try again, kid.
Try not to be a dick, kid. Maybe then I'll give a shit about your opinion. 🤣
so they still suck lol
Swordmaster are still crap, they need something to do magic damage, against shields and most late enemy are tanky they deal no damage and a re dead weight.
swordmaster still bottom tier and buffs to virginia were not needed.
Im so happy they fixed the translation on the generals equipment. I used the spear wrong on my first playthrough and when someone told me what they actually do ive been using the bow and its such a busted item. But now i know why it wouldnt always work.