This isn't the "best build", but its a fun one. Give Denam a blowgun that inflicts either Charm or Petrify then have the skills then have Eagle Eye + Meditate + Tremendous Shot + Anything Else. If you can get Eagle eye to proc then you have a 100% chance for your status to land. If it doesn't proc then Tremendous shot can also give a 100% chance for the status to proc. The Meditate allows to it to be used more often. You basically just have a Denam scampering around consistently landing a status every turn.
My Dark Denam can Solo San Bronsa with Berserk, Mighty Impact, Apostate, Speedstar - I wield 2H Cursed Sword and the counter attack IV is really good. Picking up 2-3 Phy cards I can 1-2 shot 3k+ HP dragons with Mighty Impact and Berserk multi hitting all enemies around me
Ive pointed this out to others but you could interface with coffee potato and other og and modern players to become the order ogre slayers as you knowledge together will ensure unique builds (prempt+berserk+lement of the dead) uff!
i used, Sword Mastery, MP Regen, Double Shot (the melee one) and Phalanx, and 2 (1 AoE, 1 Missile) offensive magic level 3s, with healing and Element on hit.
The build I used until the end of the game was Spears, meditate 4, phalanx and steelstance. With instill, gift of renewal, boon and ease. He was the mvp in the last fight.
Lord is the class made for me. Custom Build, OC, let your imagination go wild, etc Almost anything can work with Lord and you are only restricted with the classes Denam can switch to. Sad White Knight noises
My Coda Lord melee build: Mothers blessing, steelstance, Preempt, berserk Draconic HP wisplight 2, judgment, boon of swiftness( if not on an item) Whatever melee weapon had a counterattack, matching elemental attack. Preempt, counter will take out a lot of enemies. Put the stinky set on your sister, have her buff Denam, dip the Coda’s:)
A truly immortal denam would have Minds Eye and apostate. Other 2 skills are a flex spot. Like first aid or meditate. Preempt or land of dead. Speedstar and weapon finisher. Spam brimstone shot on a crossbow lmao list goes on
obviously a bit late to the video, but a few comments on the builds themselves: For the first build, the main draw here is the large melee damage. double attacks, instill, and crits just scale damage wildly out of control. However, swords are heavy, and double attack itself has a hefty RT cost on it on TOP. This is all to say that a denam dual wielding swords is going to be slower than your knights and terror knights- and still locked to melee. This can be mitigated by trying to weasel in speedstar over phalanx when you're not running solo, putting on boon of swiftness, or my personal choice, just dual wielding daggers or 1h katanas instead of swords. those weapons types are quite light, have useful/powerful/ranged finishers, and arent any weaker than swords. I don't have much to say about the mage build. though that specific build is more or less an end-game rune fencer but with conserve RT. which is to say it's not really SUPER unique to lord. But he can be a mage, and mages are good. The third build is an interesting take on a hyper aggressive bulky unit, but i think we can spruce it up a bit to keep it just as offensive, but really dig into that "tank" aspect: Mighty Impact. Steelstance/Mighty Impact/Berserk and your choice of Weapon Skill, Rampart Aura, or Preempt for the 4th slot, depending on playstyle. The thing here is that not only do crits do double damage, they cause knockback. when paired with berserk, thats not only a ton of damage, but youre shoving everyone back. With rampart aura, you can pin enemies between walls and your aura and be highly disruptive and protect your backline by weaponizing your aura. With Preempt paired with mighty blow, you can mighty blow at the *end* of your turn, and with preempt, you will counter first, crit, and knock them back- outright preventing their attack entirely unless they have a spear or whip. It works wonders for swordmaster, and lord denam can do this too. except with any weapon he sees fit. For flavor, i like hammers here, but it doesnt truly matter. MP will be a problem, but if he gets swung at enough, he'll get a steady stream of MP that way The 4th build, though, is something very interesting, and very wholly unique to denam, and he can fulfill it amazingly well. but i would make a a few simple changes: the first one being Vigorous attack. 100, 1000, 1000000% vigorous attack. Raising your chance to hit to 100% from a skill also raises your weapon's on-hit chance to 100% as well. not only that, vigorous attack is AoE, extending that effect to your allies, AND attacks made under vigorous attacked cannot be blocked or parried. This skill alone for this build GUARANTEES the status effect on your melee weapon. Poison, breached, stun, silence, these are a simple attack action away. pair this with berserk? Claws for AoE poison. 2h Swords for AoE Breached. Daggers for AoE Silence. Absolutely mad. this also allows you to tailor your spell choices to effects your weapons dont provide. slow, petrify, charm at range. and this is just 2 skills. steelstance tax if youre really going solo, i suppose, but in a dedicated team, i would swap it out for fearful impact- especially under berserk. this is a pseudo-baby version of lament of the dead, but with the added status of your weapon. 4th slot can be meditate 4 or conserve MP to lean into the spells, concentrate so said spells connect, weapon skill for finishers(which can also cause status like stop), speedstar for more turns, really its flexible. I think Meditate is probably the most useful general-use option here- This isnt really a dedicated damage build.
Really fun video! Your comment on making Denam every other class before Lord is a really good tip. I have never tried the class because I always saved Catiua in my playthroughs. From what I'm seeing, rather than viable, most of these builds I'd call workable 😄. It's fun ideas for sure, and I see the logic behind it. My thinking is that most of these wouldn't be applicable in a lot of circumstances, and focusing on one unit to be a jack-of-all-trades in a game about building an army is very tricky. For example, rather than two books and a phalanx, I'd use reflection or nullify to negate damages, meditate, engulf and nature's touch; equip Denam with a staff of purification for exorcism and one of the elemental staves for extra range; thinking a cheap missile, a summon and one of the apocrypha as spells... This is just one way I can think of making a Lord in this version of the game (I mention this because of the differences between the PSP remake of LUCT and how the skill system worked in that game) that, to me, sounds more viable in more places of the game. Add stuff like the flying boots or what have you, and you'd avoid PotD's, Bronsa's and PG's cliffs and pits xD. Nice work nonetheless!
hammer skill, meditate, berserk, sanguine assault. Try it out! Have one of your wizards use 100mp want first turn and watch him destroy everything. The lv30 hammer skill really strong!
I personally like having a dagger with parry 3, and lombardia with counter-attack. Then I use evade, speedstar, dagger (ranged finishing moves), and double hit. Also the accessory from the Blackmoor fight, and elemental enhancing equipment abilities from PotD / San Bronsa, along with changing his element to whatever the more powerful weapon is, for me that was fire. He is a beast. Throw in level II summoning magic, and some of the Draconic magics that enable magic evasion, or health regeneration, and hes unstoppable.
phalanx is essential for solos but yeah for team play you can skip it. for solos, you can also consider steelstance/mind's eye if you can fit either in. when i get access to lord, my denam will be similar to your nuke build: spells: summon, drain heart, boon of swiftness, instill of weak element/aoe skills: meditate, speedstar, conserve RT, nature's touch (this is my flex skill for phalanx, engulf, conserve mp or whatever's needed) i think for solo play preempt is awesome. if i'm seeing it correctly, phalanx prevents counterattacks but not preempt. for spells i'd go with instill, heal, dispel and boon of swiftness. then for skills, i'd add lament and mighty impact (good for pushing back on preempt to make enemy waste their attack if you use it before you end your turn).
Thinking about it, Mother’s skill the cleanses will get rid of the poison. So for a durable build - wear them down, Phalanx, First Aid, Mothers Cleansing - leaving one slot. Play around with spells. I like the Instill lines.
Dropping Mother’s Mercy and will run Blessing to remove status. Keeping First Aid with Phalanx. Running two Daggers with Parry 1 and Parry 2 (they both show up - parry rate has been high! - on training). Preempt works well with this.
How do you get Lord Class without killing Catuia in the process? Sorry, new to the game. From my understanding, you need to have Catuia to die so you can get Lord Class mark. But if I do that, I can't do Coda 2+ or something without Catuia?
@@slowbro09 Just like others have said, both Catiua and Denam are excellent picks. Decide if you want his Lord class or Catiua’s Princess/Dark Princess magic classes for your first run. Then using the World Tarot you can always go back and play the other routes
@@slowbro09 they are both good and you can have both on the same save, just takes time. So the question is, which one do you want first? Once you get into CODA it starts to become clear.
I've been going with Dark Summon 2, Paradigm Shift, Instill Dark, and Boon of Swiftness (or switching out the last one). Then Phalanx, Spears, Conserve MP to cast Paradigm Shift or Summon 2 for free, and... I've been playing around with the last skill, but nothing is quite living up to its potential. Nothing gets close enough to a team with matriarchs/shamans/liches to let Lament of the Dead work. Double Impact sounds great, but if I have mana, Hellhound 2 is a delete key. Maybe speedster, first aid, mother's mercy, or conserve RT? It's a tough call. I like the range on spears, but the lack of counterattacks in the dead zone is making me reconsider. Also, phalanx turns of counterattack, so maybe I could go Intercession (is that the anti-magic shield?)/Spell Reflect + Steelstance to keep getting my counterattacks in. Or just move away from dark, choose an element and use Nature's Touch.
To your second question yes you can. To your first question, he does it by first switching into every other class before coming back to lord. You can change to a lord at around lvl 30-32 (ish), but by then you still wouldn’t have unlocked all the skills of the other class, nor would you have unlocked some of the late game classes yet. This means that if you swap into lord at that level, you’ll only get the skills from the other classes at that level- provided that you were at one point in those classes to begin with and that you hit the required levels to get the skills WHILE YOU WERE ON those classes before switching to lord (capitalised part needs confirmation, but I believe that’s how it works). If you’ve already switched to lord before getting the skills from other classes that you want, I THINK all you have to do is level up in lord (for the stats, or not if you don’t care or have other stat goals), switch into the class that has the skill that you want unlocked at your current level, then switch back. To make it efficient, just get to your desired level and switch to as many classes as possible before switching back into lord, though its not so hard to get lord classmarks.
I think boon of swiftness if an overall loser. The cost to cast minus lessened RT doesn’t equal out. Maybe it can work out but even looking up people doing the math on PSP it didn’t work out.
Boon of swiftness on reborn is good. It is how I beat the Leonar fight on my first playthrough (lawful). Would get a few double turns on him thanks to that.
@@Cressx I just beat him last night. Depending on the moves he does and if you don’t move you will get double turns anyways. I used auto-skill card and phalanx. Only fight I won I got that card first turn and phalanx almost always proc’d. But boon of swiftness didn’t give you extra turns it was probably just your RT use. I found being stuck only able to use a basic attack on Leonar got me a lot of turns.
I like putting 0 MP and meditate 4 on him other 2 slots i generally save for weapon/double attack or weapon/speedstar or weapon/hp imagine 0 MP ressurects/exo2/swiftness/damage spell,rest of that Mp can be saved for spamming finish blows.
For the first build you should be running Brynhildr+Lombardia. I know it seems counterintuitive since Lombardia is lightning element, but it has counter 3. You get counter+Parry and all the benefits of double hit + instill light. Give denam a bunch of vit res str cards w the double attack mighty impact build and you can just charge him straight into the enemy line as a Lord, parry countering away while being tanky and getting a mighty impact double hit every turn. It can get crazy w berserk and such too.
Can confirm. At UL45 and these two swords, Denim can reliably hit for 800-1200 per turn, unbuffed, depending on the enemy. With Meditate IV, he's pretty much guaranteed to always have the 40 MP available as well. The AI unfortunately doesn't seem to know how to properly utilize this build though, so you'll have to manually control it to get the full benefits.
Phalanx doesn't allow counters. Still, this class seems so OP regardless of what you build though rampart aura with lobbers is pure cheese should you want to save Princess Catiua (which no idea why the anchor point or even saving is not directly before cutscenes) instead of have this class.
@@MrPY7 you're also preventing someone else from using one of those powerful plot swords too. Good comment, reminds me of why double blowgun doesn't work between double attack not being for ranged and the fact it weighs down RT. Another reason lobber is OP lol pay to win.
@Dan-rn3td is that the hobyrim swordmaster ability where they do their attack last? That's kinda useless imo pre-empt. He also can't equip anything but 2 handed katanas, so he gets power crept chapter 4 too.
Any suggestions for a Denam lord build that I’m looking to do. I want to do good damage with swords, katanas, or two handed swords plus skills to go with them along with some good buff or attack spells. Any suggestions along with classes I should class into to get the skills that I want to go for? I see all these comments and classes for how many levels for skills I feel lost.
I’m running Denam as a jack of all trades. Items - fruit, resurrect, Arian feather, whatever else I feel like for last slot Spells- infuse light, exorcism, heal, resurrect Skills - 1h katana, Meditate, terrify aura, Speedster. Sometimes I switch aura or speedster for Phalynx if I need more survival but with a full squad they hardly target him anyway And weapons 1h katana and shield. The basics are, react to what’s happening on the map with resurrect, exorcise, etc. then with meditate proccing his mana is always full and the finishing blows for 1h katana have an insane range, and a double hit at melee so he can cover a broad area, be tanky, rend defense with terror, rez… he’s just a great all around unit.
My lord build is ice elemental dual 1h axe Instill ice, drain heart highest lvl ice missile & ice aoe double attack, berserk, mighty impact & preemptive attack. I normal do mighty impact at the end of my turn that way if preemptive procs if I get attacked it'll knock the attacker away, straight up one shit then, or even off the stage plus stop me from getting dmg all together.
Ok, was angling this way. Your video took me across the finish line. Denam - Lord Double attack Beserk Phalanx First Aid Running Blessing for poison removal Boon of swiftness Instill Dark HP Siphon spell - emergencies Two daggers Pinion Dragon fang
I use a lord in the psp version as battlefield control, air and fire are kings here with bound, breached, sleep, envenom and TP removal gives a level of versatility to kill or recruit as needed
My Lord build is basically an upgrade of the Rune Fencer, Skills are: Any 2h Weapon Skill(I like Spears and Hammers), Sanguine Assault, Conserve MP, Meditate. Sanguine can be swapped out for Nature's Touch if you don't have him running Light Or Dark. His Spells are Summon, Apocrypha, Instill, and Boon of Swiftness(Boon can be swapped out if you have another source of haste, like speed star , or certain post game gloves). Playstyle is the same as RF; He just has access to more MP, better spells, and powerful melee strikes via Sanguine. I feel this set up is also very flexible as you can make him more melee focused or spell focused by just swapping out Conserve Mp for something like berserk or speed star, or nature's touch. This build also interacts well with the Ogre Set once you get deep into post game.
Hammers, double atk, mighty blow, meditate. Massive single target, and the hammer aoe finisher that can do 600-1500dmg based on buffs. Pretty much the strongest denam ive made so far.. hes just a beefier version of ozma.
My Denam Lord Build is this Skills: 1-hand katana, double wield, mighty strikes (from swordmaster), mighty impact Spells: Instill Lightning, Thunderbird, Boon of Swiftness, Heal III I got Thunderfire from POTD and mighty strikes from swordmaster boosts attacks of "katanas" This is an all-offense build for Denam, not suitable for solo but Heal III and Boon Swiftness gives him some utility if out of enemy range
Based on a Rune Knight Build I was already using: Skills: Speedster, Conserve MP, Meditate IV, Spears Spells: Ease 2, Paradigm Shift, Major Heal 2, Boon of Swiftness If I had a Necromancer tag I would probably replace something for the spell that Drains HP and converts it to MP. He built to lead his army swiftly.
These builds are experimental and for fun, definitely not “the best” possible or anything. Denam doesn’t have access to the best mage gear or spells so it does make it difficult. I’d love to hear how the build can be improved!
On the double attack build use 2 weapons with the same element. So the first one on a crit applies the elemental debuff and the second one does more damage.
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To add/ alter your 1st build. Dual 1h katanas with sanguine assault 2x attack phalanx and meditate or 1st aid
This isn't the "best build", but its a fun one. Give Denam a blowgun that inflicts either Charm or Petrify then have the skills then have Eagle Eye + Meditate + Tremendous Shot + Anything Else. If you can get Eagle eye to proc then you have a 100% chance for your status to land. If it doesn't proc then Tremendous shot can also give a 100% chance for the status to proc. The Meditate allows to it to be used more often. You basically just have a Denam scampering around consistently landing a status every turn.
My Dark Denam can Solo San Bronsa with Berserk, Mighty Impact, Apostate, Speedstar - I wield 2H Cursed Sword and the counter attack IV is really good. Picking up 2-3 Phy cards I can 1-2 shot 3k+ HP dragons with Mighty Impact and Berserk multi hitting all enemies around me
Nice! Is this on Reborn? How did you get Speedstar? 😆
@@FetchQuestsYT it's from buccaneer. You'll get the classmark after recruiting Azelstan.
@@albertlie Looks like I need to recruit Azelstan 🏴☠️
Ive pointed this out to others but you could interface with coffee potato and other og and modern players to become the order ogre slayers as you knowledge together will ensure unique builds (prempt+berserk+lement of the dead) uff!
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i used, Sword Mastery, MP Regen, Double Shot (the melee one) and Phalanx, and 2 (1 AoE, 1 Missile) offensive magic level 3s, with healing and Element on hit.
The build I used until the end of the game was Spears, meditate 4, phalanx and steelstance. With instill, gift of renewal, boon and ease. He was the mvp in the last fight.
Lord is the class made for me.
Custom Build, OC, let your imagination go wild, etc
Almost anything can work with Lord and you are only restricted with the classes Denam can switch to.
Sad White Knight noises
Berserk double strike is silly. He double strikes everyone in the AOE!
My Coda Lord melee build:
Mothers blessing, steelstance, Preempt, berserk
Draconic HP wisplight 2, judgment, boon of swiftness( if not on an item)
Whatever melee weapon had a counterattack, matching elemental attack.
Preempt, counter will take out a lot of enemies.
Put the stinky set on your sister, have her buff Denam, dip the Coda’s:)
A truly immortal denam would have Minds Eye and apostate. Other 2 skills are a flex spot. Like first aid or meditate. Preempt or land of dead. Speedstar and weapon finisher. Spam brimstone shot on a crossbow lmao list goes on
7:57 I don't believe that this is true. If you test with a single book, it should be doing the same damage as having two books. Possibly a bug.
obviously a bit late to the video, but a few comments on the builds themselves:
For the first build, the main draw here is the large melee damage. double attacks, instill, and crits just scale damage wildly out of control. However, swords are heavy, and double attack itself has a hefty RT cost on it on TOP. This is all to say that a denam dual wielding swords is going to be slower than your knights and terror knights- and still locked to melee. This can be mitigated by trying to weasel in speedstar over phalanx when you're not running solo, putting on boon of swiftness, or my personal choice, just dual wielding daggers or 1h katanas instead of swords. those weapons types are quite light, have useful/powerful/ranged finishers, and arent any weaker than swords.
I don't have much to say about the mage build. though that specific build is more or less an end-game rune fencer but with conserve RT. which is to say it's not really SUPER unique to lord. But he can be a mage, and mages are good.
The third build is an interesting take on a hyper aggressive bulky unit, but i think we can spruce it up a bit to keep it just as offensive, but really dig into that "tank" aspect: Mighty Impact. Steelstance/Mighty Impact/Berserk and your choice of Weapon Skill, Rampart Aura, or Preempt for the 4th slot, depending on playstyle.
The thing here is that not only do crits do double damage, they cause knockback. when paired with berserk, thats not only a ton of damage, but youre shoving everyone back. With rampart aura, you can pin enemies between walls and your aura and be highly disruptive and protect your backline by weaponizing your aura.
With Preempt paired with mighty blow, you can mighty blow at the *end* of your turn, and with preempt, you will counter first, crit, and knock them back- outright preventing their attack entirely unless they have a spear or whip. It works wonders for swordmaster, and lord denam can do this too. except with any weapon he sees fit. For flavor, i like hammers here, but it doesnt truly matter. MP will be a problem, but if he gets swung at enough, he'll get a steady stream of MP that way
The 4th build, though, is something very interesting, and very wholly unique to denam, and he can fulfill it amazingly well. but i would make a a few simple changes: the first one being Vigorous attack. 100, 1000, 1000000% vigorous attack.
Raising your chance to hit to 100% from a skill also raises your weapon's on-hit chance to 100% as well. not only that, vigorous attack is AoE, extending that effect to your allies, AND attacks made under vigorous attacked cannot be blocked or parried. This skill alone for this build GUARANTEES the status effect on your melee weapon. Poison, breached, stun, silence, these are a simple attack action away. pair this with berserk? Claws for AoE poison. 2h Swords for AoE Breached. Daggers for AoE Silence. Absolutely mad.
this also allows you to tailor your spell choices to effects your weapons dont provide. slow, petrify, charm at range. and this is just 2 skills. steelstance tax if youre really going solo, i suppose, but in a dedicated team, i would swap it out for fearful impact- especially under berserk. this is a pseudo-baby version of lament of the dead, but with the added status of your weapon. 4th slot can be meditate 4 or conserve MP to lean into the spells, concentrate so said spells connect, weapon skill for finishers(which can also cause status like stop), speedstar for more turns, really its flexible. I think Meditate is probably the most useful general-use option here- This isnt really a dedicated damage build.
Really fun video! Your comment on making Denam every other class before Lord is a really good tip. I have never tried the class because I always saved Catiua in my playthroughs. From what I'm seeing, rather than viable, most of these builds I'd call workable 😄. It's fun ideas for sure, and I see the logic behind it. My thinking is that most of these wouldn't be applicable in a lot of circumstances, and focusing on one unit to be a jack-of-all-trades in a game about building an army is very tricky. For example, rather than two books and a phalanx, I'd use reflection or nullify to negate damages, meditate, engulf and nature's touch; equip Denam with a staff of purification for exorcism and one of the elemental staves for extra range; thinking a cheap missile, a summon and one of the apocrypha as spells... This is just one way I can think of making a Lord in this version of the game (I mention this because of the differences between the PSP remake of LUCT and how the skill system worked in that game) that, to me, sounds more viable in more places of the game. Add stuff like the flying boots or what have you, and you'd avoid PotD's, Bronsa's and PG's cliffs and pits xD. Nice work nonetheless!
hammer skill, meditate, berserk, sanguine assault. Try it out! Have one of your wizards use 100mp want first turn and watch him destroy everything. The lv30 hammer skill really strong!
I had a 2 handed throwing axe and light magic for denam. And he just choping them from afar.
Nothing beats the Beserk + Double Attack + Auto Crit skills. And i mean that. If yall got a build you think is better lemme know
can I use double 1 hand axe/hammer for lord denam?
I personally like having a dagger with parry 3, and lombardia with counter-attack. Then I use evade, speedstar, dagger (ranged finishing moves), and double hit. Also the accessory from the Blackmoor fight, and elemental enhancing equipment abilities from PotD / San Bronsa, along with changing his element to whatever the more powerful weapon is, for me that was fire. He is a beast. Throw in level II summoning magic, and some of the Draconic magics that enable magic evasion, or health regeneration, and hes unstoppable.
phalanx is essential for solos but yeah for team play you can skip it. for solos, you can also consider steelstance/mind's eye if you can fit either in. when i get access to lord, my denam will be similar to your nuke build:
spells: summon, drain heart, boon of swiftness, instill of weak element/aoe
skills: meditate, speedstar, conserve RT, nature's touch (this is my flex skill for phalanx, engulf, conserve mp or whatever's needed)
i think for solo play preempt is awesome. if i'm seeing it correctly, phalanx prevents counterattacks but not preempt. for spells i'd go with instill, heal, dispel and boon of swiftness. then for skills, i'd add lament and mighty impact (good for pushing back on preempt to make enemy waste their attack if you use it before you end your turn).
Preempt with a counter attack weapon is disgustingly great.
Thinking about it, Mother’s skill the cleanses will get rid of the poison. So for a durable build - wear them down, Phalanx, First Aid, Mothers Cleansing - leaving one slot.
Play around with spells. I like the Instill lines.
Dropping Mother’s Mercy and will run Blessing to remove status. Keeping First Aid with Phalanx. Running two Daggers with Parry 1 and Parry 2 (they both show up - parry rate has been high! - on training). Preempt works well with this.
How do you get Lord Class without killing Catuia in the process? Sorry, new to the game. From my understanding, you need to have Catuia to die so you can get Lord Class mark. But if I do that, I can't do Coda 2+ or something without Catuia?
World system - you time travel. Allows you to go back in time. All characters are accessible.
@@Nachoadept Oh. I'm currently in Chapter 4. I haven't battle with Dark Knight Lancelot yet, should I save Catuia or get Lord instead? :0
@@slowbro09 Catiua is a solid unit and very fun to play, but Lord denam is a powerhouse, a legit one man team.
@@slowbro09 Just like others have said, both Catiua and Denam are excellent picks. Decide if you want his Lord class or Catiua’s Princess/Dark Princess magic classes for your first run. Then using the World Tarot you can always go back and play the other routes
@@slowbro09 they are both good and you can have both on the same save, just takes time. So the question is, which one do you want first? Once you get into CODA it starts to become clear.
I've been going with Dark Summon 2, Paradigm Shift, Instill Dark, and Boon of Swiftness (or switching out the last one). Then Phalanx, Spears, Conserve MP to cast Paradigm Shift or Summon 2 for free, and... I've been playing around with the last skill, but nothing is quite living up to its potential. Nothing gets close enough to a team with matriarchs/shamans/liches to let Lament of the Dead work. Double Impact sounds great, but if I have mana, Hellhound 2 is a delete key.
Maybe speedster, first aid, mother's mercy, or conserve RT? It's a tough call. I like the range on spears, but the lack of counterattacks in the dead zone is making me reconsider. Also, phalanx turns of counterattack, so maybe I could go Intercession (is that the anti-magic shield?)/Spell Reflect + Steelstance to keep getting my counterattacks in.
Or just move away from dark, choose an element and use Nature's Touch.
How does he gain the other class skills? Can I just change him from class to class with no leveling or combat?
To your second question yes you can. To your first question, he does it by first switching into every other class before coming back to lord. You can change to a lord at around lvl 30-32 (ish), but by then you still wouldn’t have unlocked all the skills of the other class, nor would you have unlocked some of the late game classes yet.
This means that if you swap into lord at that level, you’ll only get the skills from the other classes at that level- provided that you were at one point in those classes to begin with and that you hit the required levels to get the skills WHILE YOU WERE ON those classes before switching to lord (capitalised part needs confirmation, but I believe that’s how it works).
If you’ve already switched to lord before getting the skills from other classes that you want, I THINK all you have to do is level up in lord (for the stats, or not if you don’t care or have other stat goals), switch into the class that has the skill that you want unlocked at your current level, then switch back. To make it efficient, just get to your desired level and switch to as many classes as possible before switching back into lord, though its not so hard to get lord classmarks.
I think boon of swiftness if an overall loser. The cost to cast minus lessened RT doesn’t equal out. Maybe it can work out but even looking up people doing the math on PSP it didn’t work out.
With high mind, boon of Swiftness would last longer
I haven’t experimented with mind on this. Most of my boons last several turns.
Boon of swiftness on reborn is good. It is how I beat the Leonar fight on my first playthrough (lawful). Would get a few double turns on him thanks to that.
@@Cressx I just beat him last night. Depending on the moves he does and if you don’t move you will get double turns anyways.
I used auto-skill card and phalanx. Only fight I won I got that card first turn and phalanx almost always proc’d. But boon of swiftness didn’t give you extra turns it was probably just your RT use. I found being stuck only able to use a basic attack on Leonar got me a lot of turns.
I like putting 0 MP and meditate 4 on him other 2 slots i generally save for weapon/double attack or weapon/speedstar or weapon/hp imagine 0 MP ressurects/exo2/swiftness/damage spell,rest of that Mp can be saved for spamming finish blows.
For the first build you should be running Brynhildr+Lombardia. I know it seems counterintuitive since Lombardia is lightning element, but it has counter 3. You get counter+Parry and all the benefits of double hit + instill light. Give denam a bunch of vit res str cards w the double attack mighty impact build and you can just charge him straight into the enemy line as a Lord, parry countering away while being tanky and getting a mighty impact double hit every turn. It can get crazy w berserk and such too.
Can confirm. At UL45 and these two swords, Denim can reliably hit for 800-1200 per turn, unbuffed, depending on the enemy. With Meditate IV, he's pretty much guaranteed to always have the 40 MP available as well. The AI unfortunately doesn't seem to know how to properly utilize this build though, so you'll have to manually control it to get the full benefits.
Phalanx doesn't allow counters. Still, this class seems so OP regardless of what you build though rampart aura with lobbers is pure cheese should you want to save Princess Catiua (which no idea why the anchor point or even saving is not directly before cutscenes) instead of have this class.
when you run him like this, he becomes too slow, since the RT for each sword is inmense
@@MrPY7 you're also preventing someone else from using one of those powerful plot swords too. Good comment, reminds me of why double blowgun doesn't work between double attack not being for ranged and the fact it weighs down RT. Another reason lobber is OP lol pay to win.
@Dan-rn3td is that the hobyrim swordmaster ability where they do their attack last? That's kinda useless imo pre-empt. He also can't equip anything but 2 handed katanas, so he gets power crept chapter 4 too.
Any suggestions for a Denam lord build that I’m looking to do. I want to do good damage with swords, katanas, or two handed swords plus skills to go with them along with some good buff or attack spells. Any suggestions along with classes I should class into to get the skills that I want to go for? I see all these comments and classes for how many levels for skills I feel lost.
I’m running Denam as a jack of all trades.
Items - fruit, resurrect, Arian feather, whatever else I feel like for last slot
Spells- infuse light, exorcism, heal, resurrect
Skills - 1h katana, Meditate, terrify aura, Speedster. Sometimes I switch aura or speedster for Phalynx if I need more survival but with a full squad they hardly target him anyway
And weapons 1h katana and shield. The basics are, react to what’s happening on the map with resurrect, exorcise, etc. then with meditate proccing his mana is always full and the finishing blows for 1h katana have an insane range, and a double hit at melee so he can cover a broad area, be tanky, rend defense with terror, rez… he’s just a great all around unit.
Try with brunhylde in off hand. It is only 1 hand sword with counter attack. You get parry and counter attack.
My lord build is ice elemental dual 1h axe
Instill ice, drain heart highest lvl ice missile & ice aoe double attack, berserk, mighty impact & preemptive attack. I normal do mighty impact at the end of my turn that way if preemptive procs if I get attacked it'll knock the attacker away, straight up one shit then, or even off the stage plus stop me from getting dmg all together.
If you are soloing arion plume is ok but if you have to pick one Basin of time is better
Ok, was angling this way. Your video took me across the finish line.
Denam - Lord
Double attack
Beserk
Phalanx
First Aid
Running Blessing for poison removal
Boon of swiftness
Instill Dark
HP Siphon spell - emergencies
Two daggers
Pinion
Dragon fang
my denam doesn't have most the skills including meditate why 🙄
I use a lord in the psp version as battlefield control, air and fire are kings here with bound, breached, sleep, envenom and TP removal gives a level of versatility to kill or recruit as needed
My Lord build is basically an upgrade of the Rune Fencer, Skills are: Any 2h Weapon Skill(I like Spears and Hammers), Sanguine Assault, Conserve MP, Meditate. Sanguine can be swapped out for Nature's Touch if you don't have him running Light Or Dark. His Spells are Summon, Apocrypha, Instill, and Boon of Swiftness(Boon can be swapped out if you have another source of haste, like speed star , or certain post game gloves). Playstyle is the same as RF; He just has access to more MP, better spells, and powerful melee strikes via Sanguine. I feel this set up is also very flexible as you can make him more melee focused or spell focused by just swapping out Conserve Mp for something like berserk or speed star, or nature's touch. This build also interacts well with the Ogre Set once you get deep into post game.
Pretty much what i did with mine, packing Ease II on occasion. RF with Meditate IV is way more fun ^^
Hammers, double atk, mighty blow, meditate.
Massive single target, and the hammer aoe finisher that can do 600-1500dmg based on buffs.
Pretty much the strongest denam ive made so far.. hes just a beefier version of ozma.
Guys how to unlock all skills in emperor class
My Denam Lord Build is this
Skills: 1-hand katana, double wield, mighty strikes (from swordmaster), mighty impact
Spells: Instill Lightning, Thunderbird, Boon of Swiftness, Heal III
I got Thunderfire from POTD and mighty strikes from swordmaster boosts attacks of "katanas"
This is an all-offense build for Denam, not suitable for solo but Heal III and Boon Swiftness gives him some utility if out of enemy range
Love it. I’m going to go further in POTD for better spells and equipment for sure
How to get the brynhldr sword plz
You'll get it automatically as part of the story near the very end of the game =]
Based on a Rune Knight Build I was already using:
Skills: Speedster, Conserve MP, Meditate IV, Spears
Spells: Ease 2, Paradigm Shift, Major Heal 2, Boon of Swiftness
If I had a Necromancer tag I would probably replace something for the spell that Drains HP and converts it to MP.
He built to lead his army swiftly.
that 2nd build, the "Magic Build" was terrible.
These builds are experimental and for fun, definitely not “the best” possible or anything. Denam doesn’t have access to the best mage gear or spells so it does make it difficult. I’d love to hear how the build can be improved!
My build on denam lord is to be a good brother
On the double attack build use 2 weapons with the same element. So the first one on a crit applies the elemental debuff and the second one does more damage.