The rest of the spells I put buff/debuffs. It is nice to see him use that, it does great damage for a familiar that otherwise will be auto-attacking for 1 all the time. So for example swain usually has monolith line and it has a huge magic attack and water bomb that is 4mp. But what I did is that I put relatively low cost spells on the chars I used the less. One last advice for mid-late, change your tactics to be keep us healthy or backup us up (I don't see a difference between them in practice). Things get nicer mid game when spell costs are less relative to your increased mana pool. Lastly on tactics, I spent most of my game having them on 'dont use abilities'.įor the early bosses when I was learning I had my AI as 'dont do anything' so that they would only defend because you get a higher change of getting glims, but I quickly tried to get out of that, it makes boss fights pretty boring, I like to be battling with familiars and managing their health. Even with the tactics 'don't use abilities' they will steal heal if you press 'all out defense' and someone is below 50% Another advantage of this is that if you press all out defense and you have owners with less than 50%, one of the AIs tends to heal them. This lets you get all you party to defend or go offensive with just a button press. The other thing to know is that at some point the game unlocks another mini tactics called:(X) all out attack and (Y) all out defense. So in summary, you just have to play a bit more until the familiars you have get a bit stronger. If defense is okay, it will put out the first familiar (or the one with highest attack I think). If a owner and his familiars are too weak for the enemy, they will put out the familiar/owner with highest defense.

Once you play a bit more, the familiars become better than the players and they will be out all the time instead of the owner. I just finished the game, I should write a post with all my findings.The AI will not use the familiars if the familiars are too weak for the opponents. Is there any way to make Swain's AI even the least bit intelligent, or is AI even more of a misnomer than usual? This is making advancement from this point forward difficult, as the enemies have increased in difficulty to accommodate an additional team member, and yet I still feel as though I only have two fighters. It's not like I can just constantly be in control of Swain, and I don't know how else to force him to be useful. I even turned his Tactics from 'do what you like' to 'provide backup', and yet he seems intent on doing whatever the heck he likes. I have been overwhelmed several times by enemies I otherwise could have defeated because he refuses to fight. Without fail, he always seems to put away his familiar, shooting the enemies with his useless pistol in a petty attempt to steal items at the cost of potential victory. Swain, on the other hand, is a complete invalid in combat. Esther is alright, although I have seen Gogo use healing tear multiple times to heal ZERO health. That being said, it would be a lot more enjoyable if your main character weren't the only productive member of the team. Let me just preface this rant by saying I like Wrath of the White Witch a lot, and quite enjoy the combat system.

Ni no kuni ai stealing golden glims