With healing bullets, they can also save your skin in a pinch. They also know if specific Aragami parts are weak against piercing or crushing damage, and will use appropriately typed ammo (if equipped) to help destroy unbind those parts. But unlike you, ranged-only (and two New Gen) characters possess a skill that lets them passively regenerate Oracle, even when not in Burst. The only limiting factor to ranged characters is, like you, how much Oracle they have. You shouldn’t be too surprised when I tell you ranged combat inverses the strengths and weaknesses of melee combat: they give up survivability for the ability to continuously damage Aragami from whatever effective range their weapon allows.
Skills that improve a character’s item usage are also excellent choices. expensive), and remember that Short Blades have a great innate boost to debuff stacking when in Burst. Debuffs are infinitely cost efficient for melee than ranged (free vs.
Other defensive skills include Firm Stand and Prepared. Damage Cut is a great second option if the character is already naturally tanky. When skilling characters for melee combat, raw Health should be on the top of the list. If Commanded to get Aggressive, they will prioritise Devour attempts over healing. Regardless, they are nonetheless useful as frontline/aggro interceptors and decoys for when you want to split up groups of enemies. They are observed using Step Attacks quite frequently, but depending on the attack patterns of certain Aragami, they will inevitably end up wasting quite some time darting in and out of strike distance. This unfortunately negates the offensive potential of some characters in Rage Burst, who are equipped with Blood Arts that only trigger on the last stage of a combo.Īs already mentioned, NPCs don’t engage Aragami in melee combat for sustained intervals, which - in addition to their ability to Guard - is great for their overall survivability, but costs them significantly in DPS.
Edit: ended up buying the cartridge for Vita. If I do buy, it’s highly likely to be on Steam. I’m still on the fence about getting them, mostly because I’ve already invested so much time and effort into the Japanese releases (RB in particular, since that’s a character I’ve transferred up through all the games since the original GE on PSP). Not long to go until Rage Burst also become available. So, Resurrection has been released to North America.