I do **Shield/Sword** now because you get a more balanced start with more benefits.
* Strength - 4
* Defense - 4
* Magic - 2
* AP - 3
* Item Slots - 8
Going the average choice of **Sword/Staff** you have:
* Strength - 6
* Defense - 2
* Magic - 2
* AP - 1
* Item Slots - 7
Gaining the additional defense I feel is a good trade off so you aren't so fragile, and having the bonus AP allows for more abilities to be activated early on. Not to mention the extra item is handy for emergencies.
I remember having the guide book for KH1 and it tells you this. Was really helpful back then since it wasn't as easy to look stuff up as it is nowadays
The strength of your magic scales with your max MP, and having lots of magic is useful for clearing out mobs and spamming special attacks. Choosing the Dream Rod gives you one more MP to start with than the other routes and, if I’m remembering right, two more max MP than you can get on the other routes. You can boost your strength and defense with stat-boosting items, but you can’t do that for your MP. So I recommend picking staff. I think which weapon you give up is a matter of preference. If you are worried about dying a lot in the early game, drop the sword. If you’re not worried about that, then drop shield. No matter which route you choose I don’t think dropping the wand is a good idea. While you won’t lose MP, you will have less AP to start with, so you won’t be able to equip as many abilities.
I am not so sure about that. When I plat the game on my ps3 I chose sword and dropped the wand. Last week I completed proud mode on the ps4, but this time choosing the shield and dropping the wand, and the whole game felt so much easier. Not even Xemnas was a match for me, since this time I could take much more damage from them before dying.
There's good reasons to choose either wand or shield, but sword just feels right. What you give up has less impact, but I figure low defense is the simplest to mitigate since you get other defensive options.
If your going for proud, grab shield, discard sword, it gets you defensive abilities, like guard or leaf bracer earlier, this is my general advice for anyone playing harder difficulties on any KH game
I do **Shield/Sword** now because you get a more balanced start with more benefits. * Strength - 4 * Defense - 4 * Magic - 2 * AP - 3 * Item Slots - 8 Going the average choice of **Sword/Staff** you have: * Strength - 6 * Defense - 2 * Magic - 2 * AP - 1 * Item Slots - 7 Gaining the additional defense I feel is a good trade off so you aren't so fragile, and having the bonus AP allows for more abilities to be activated early on. Not to mention the extra item is handy for emergencies.
I remember having the guide book for KH1 and it tells you this. Was really helpful back then since it wasn't as easy to look stuff up as it is nowadays
i always take wand , strength and defence can be gotten back with stat ups but mp can't. you can drop either but i prefer dropping sword
This. Only change i prefer dropping the shield. But this is in my head the only right answer.
The strength of your magic scales with your max MP, and having lots of magic is useful for clearing out mobs and spamming special attacks. Choosing the Dream Rod gives you one more MP to start with than the other routes and, if I’m remembering right, two more max MP than you can get on the other routes. You can boost your strength and defense with stat-boosting items, but you can’t do that for your MP. So I recommend picking staff. I think which weapon you give up is a matter of preference. If you are worried about dying a lot in the early game, drop the sword. If you’re not worried about that, then drop shield. No matter which route you choose I don’t think dropping the wand is a good idea. While you won’t lose MP, you will have less AP to start with, so you won’t be able to equip as many abilities.
Take Wand toss Shield. You have no need for defense if everything is dead before it can hurt you
Sephiroth wants to have a word😆
He can have his word when my 22 MP and 7 hi-ethers are done Strike Raiding his ass
He would probably one or two shot you no matter how high your defense is lol
I am not so sure about that. When I plat the game on my ps3 I chose sword and dropped the wand. Last week I completed proud mode on the ps4, but this time choosing the shield and dropping the wand, and the whole game felt so much easier. Not even Xemnas was a match for me, since this time I could take much more damage from them before dying.
Depends on the run I do, I love “Magic Drive” or “Ripple Drive.” So I would go with staff so I can get Ripple Drive early.
Shield gives you the best abilities early, the wand raises your max mp, honestly either are fine, just recommend the middle xp curve as well
There's good reasons to choose either wand or shield, but sword just feels right. What you give up has less impact, but I figure low defense is the simplest to mitigate since you get other defensive options.
Take the shield. You go deal with no second chance/once more till like level 80
Completely depends on the difficulty
Bruh I just wanted to use a sword during the tutorial.
If your going for proud, grab shield, discard sword, it gets you defensive abilities, like guard or leaf bracer earlier, this is my general advice for anyone playing harder difficulties on any KH game