Jade Empire

[frostwolf ex]

Yeah, I beat The Ravager. It wasn't easy, he's intensely harder than anyone leading up to him. Here's how I did it;


The best way I've found to beat him is to keep blocking until he looks like he's about to do a fierce attack. His animation for doing this is long and slow, giving you plenty of time to roll to the side and lay into him. When you do attack, hit him in Focus mode with your best style powered by chi. Try to do as much damage to him as you can before he gets back into his rhythm. Be sure to have the Spirit Thief style equipped so you can hang back and revitalize yourself if the fight drags on (which it most likely will). I'm not sure about support styles like Paralyzing Palm or Heavenly Wave, but try them just in case. If you can hit him with Paralyzing Palm and it work, then alternate between hitting him with that and your strongest attacks. Whatever you do, don't just let him roll away after he's taken a lot of damage or he WILL heal most of it back.

very good, thats what i ddo too, except i saved my chi for healing, if you use stunning palm, wait till he does his hard strike because you want to hit him with all of it, when i hit him with a full normal combo he was stunned for exactly 2 full combos for me of legendary strike, times will vary depending on your slotting but i just whittled him down with that.


as for jm's buddy
i just let black whirlwind at him, the first segment of the fight is easy, as whirlwing has massive reach, so i just stayed on him with basic combos, when he went channeling i just took out the horse demons(immolate dosent last that long) and went after him again, the trick is to stay on him, if he gets range he can use magic, and that will screw you over, look for him to go into his magic aoe, you can usually roll behind him and get 2 combos off on him while its fruitlessly hitting in front of him. are you sure you are taking fire damage on each hit from the horse demons? i never noticed that, they usually go down pretty fast and only cheaphit me when they die and explode

[g0zen]

Gozen, I wasn't talking about Ravager. All I did to beat him was do my buffed up toad demon form, went into focus mode & mashed the X button. He didn't even hit me. Toad demon is almost imbalanced it is so powerful.

I'm talking about Kai the Serpent after the Ravager. He is pulling some evil shit on me. I can get him down to his last two increments of life without getting hit, or using magic or Focus, but once you get him there, the goes transparent, & it says Channeling over his head. He summons two really powerful Horse demons. I can manage to not get hit by their immolation fireballs, but still, I take fire damage from them every time I hit them, even using weapons. Just from the slow tick damage, I'm not able to beat both of them, I run out of focus first, then magic from healing, then I end up dying before I can get the last HD's last little bar of health.

JM

Oh, in that battle I was playing as The Black Whirlwind. So I just aggro'd the fuck out of him until he called up the Horse Demons, then took my time with them, then aggro'd Kai till he died. It wasn't even a challenge.

[Ste-Von]

I just fought The Ravager and lost, gonna try again soon.

I really like this game's story and I'm really being pulled through it on the strength of the narrative and characters. That said, the combat system is really simple and easy to exploit. Sure I just died on a boss, and died quite a few times before I figured out the system, but I think the combat in this game is pretty fucking pathetic. I haven't used a harmonic combo, I only use one style (thousand cuts), I don't pay much attention to what gems I have equipped and most of the time I don't even realize I have a partner. I think it all comes down to the fighting being so basic. All I really need to do to win any fight is go into free target mode, run around behind my enemies and mash the a button, and occasionally flip out of the way of attacks. I would'nt be so bad if I could do more than one combo and the controls were more responsive.
Anyone agree with me on this?

Anyhowz, like I said the story is nice, I'm gonna get back to it right now.

[∀ Narayan]

I, too fought against the Ravager with unpleasant results. No matter - I'll just level up during the main quest.

Sagacious Zu has left my party, that sonuvabitch better not try anything.

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This game is fucking fantastic I haven't felt this good playing a video game since Halo 1 and Ninja Gaiden.

FUCK YES. JADE EMPIRE OWNS YOU. FUCK. YES.

GOTY

[epmode]

Sagacious Zu has left my party, that sonuvabitch better not try anything.

Did you just not notice the spoiler tags that everyone has been using? Edit your post, please.

[frostwolf ex]

ok jsut beat it in 16 hours..we will be replaying this again, solid masterpiece, other companies need to copy the fuck out of this game, and..i will say it even though its not an entirely fair comparison given that they are 2 different types of game..i liked it more than kotor.

oh and seriously watch the whole credits, you will be glad you did.


EDIT: oh and one more thing, unless spore or oblivion come out this year, or zelda brings serious game, this is my goty 2005.

[g0zen]

16 hours? Jesus, did you do any side-quests at all?

[frostwolf ex]

16 hours? Jesus, did you do any side-quests at all?

yeah iw as wondering about that, i did a lot of sidequests, but i didnt do
kangs big quest, the map that he forgot about, i thought here would be more free time after the first meeting with the emporer and..well, you remember how that went. but beyond that i did a lot of sidequests, i saved the orphins, got the guy married, set all the spirits to rest in the necropolis, hell i even did all the dragonfly shooter missions for that parts guy in the imperial city where you land. i dunno, i guess the kangs quest was pretty involved. anyone who hasnt beaten the game, dont read this part
anyhow, gozen, was it me or did the baddies from the"other" on really freaking weak, deaths hand didnt even hit me with the doubleswords from the girl in the arena and maxed stone immortal, the "other" was a fucking joke, his ox demon servant was eviscerated in seconds with focus+chi+doubleswords, the doubt puzzle was gone in seconds with stone immortal and the last guy, again, stone immortal+double swords had him to 25% in no time, i actually slowed myself down and used my starting style, legendary strike, for storyline purposes(li taught me it, i will finish him with it) the last serious baddie for me was that traitor spirit monk and her buddies by the first fountain in chapter 5! again i dont hold this against the game, its goty all the way barring oblivion this year, but man, last baddies aint what they used to be. man i wish there was a star wars game done with this engine, i said itbefore but ill repeat it, the style mapping was genious.
mega spoilers up her do NOT read
EDIT:fuck, that was close..stupid spoiler tabs :P

[Master of 7s]

I can't believe no one has figured out the Storm Dragon Beat Down Style.

Select Storm Dragon, smack 'em once, select prefered style, administer beating, select Storm Dragon again, smack 'em once again.

Human enemies, including bosses have ZERO defense against this tactic making for some very unfair boss fights.

[MechDeus]

Picked this up today and just finished playing about 11-12 hours in a row as I've reached Heaven of the Shadow Fox, and the only reason I forced myself to stop is so that I'll get at least a couple hours of sleep before work. This game is fantastic, it's everything RPGs have needed to evolve into for the last couple generations.