It's very possible for White Mage Raine to solo the superboss Abyssion using this tactic, combined with the fact that for some characters, it's ridiculously easy to get immunity to the elements. The best part is that anyone with access to any sort of spell can perform it (everyone except Lloyd and Presea, though Genis won't be making much use of it because of his already slow attack speed and strength). Needless to say, it makes the arena a piece of cake. This works with any enemy that can stagger, and since the spell doesn't activate, it consumes no TP. You can perform an essentially infinite combo by attacking twice (non-directional), then quickly pressing B, then X, then attacking twice again, cast and cancel, repeat. Yes, you can deliberately avoid healing and just spam, say, Falcon's Crest at the start of every battle until someone cheap-shots you. No, you can't use the same Mystic Arte more than once in one battle (without healing to full and falling to the red again). Any Mystic Arte with the prerequisite of 'health in the red'.Harold at high levels is incredibly powerful against solo bosses, able to combo-lock them with either speed-cast Divine Saber spam (her highest-level Light spell) or her base melee techniques Raigashou (Light elemental) or Chouishou (Dark elemental), as these videos show.Worse, it didn't even count as a true hi-ougi in this game (this was fixed in later games with the spell) so Harold doesn't have to go into overlimit to use it. It's really only balanced by how much TP it consumes to cast, but since items don't have a time limit like in several other Tales Games nothing's stopping you from just getting all the other characters to heal her TP. It's usually a One-Hit KO, dealing much more damage than any other attack in the game (people only showcase it on bosses because it seems to kill everything else too quickly) and healing your party. Magic in general is usually this, due to how much more damage it inflicts compared to melee, but special mention goes to Harold's full Crazy Comet hi-ougi chain.

Johnny doesn't gain his Maware Rondo until fairly high level but it allows him to easily launch and stunlock many bosses including Barbatos who is weak to its sound element.Leon's Chaltier also has the highest critical chance of any Swordian (plus a chance to petrify) in a game where criticals restore CC, letting you continue your combo as long as you keep getting them.Leon also has access to the sword arte 'Marian.', which fires a sword beam, creates an energy aura, and makes him immune to all attacks while he's using it.He's hard to stagger out of casting, and on release it fires a massive, screen-filling attack and also grants him immunity to the next seven hits.

The Director's Cut version of the Remake takes Leon's Demon's Lance spell from the original and buffs it to amazing levels, even renaming it 'Demon's Lance: Zero'.

Again, I don't believe this was always the case. I suspect that some level of ridiculous division spam is partially responsible Germany had unit after unit after unit garrisoned in its homeland (doing nothing) while the American divisions were naturally insane. This kind of behaviour has happened twice now any war that goes beyond 1945 seems to be hopelessly laggy, almost immediately. Furthermore, I recall that during my Germany game, I was invading America around '97 and performance hadn't dropped that much, so I have to believe that the game wasn't always this way. I have an i5 4460 and a GTX 970 I feel it should comfortably accommodate the specs required for HoI4. I wasn't in the mood for waiting literally hours just to try another invasion (which probably would have failed again), so I had to ditch the game. The fastest game speed didn't seem to exceed the slowest, it took well over 15 minutes for my units to travel from Italy to Normandy, and obviously framerate dropped whenever I moved the camera. The invasion of Britain around 1945 failed, as it so often seems to, and I wouldn't have minded just preparing another one, except for the fact that at this point performance had become unbearable. I was doing well - I'd taken out the Raj, won the war in most of Africa, defeated the Soviets, and was preparing to invade Britain. Recently, I've been trying to finish a game as Italy on hard difficulty. I've only ever really finished one game of Hearts of Iron 4 as Germany, on normal difficulty.

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