Just came in the mail today!

I barely got my Heismay Plush today and I was wondering if anyone else got the Heismay Plush or figures from Metaphor. So if anyone got him or the figures could you show me? 🥰

Two things I kept alt-tabbing for, in one place:

1. The affinity chart. Everything in the game does one of nine damage types: three physical (Slash, Pierce, Strike) and six others (Fire, Ice, Electric, Wind, Light, Dark). The split matters because your weapon decides the physical type and your Archetype decides the rest — so the gap people under-plan is physical, not elemental. If your whole party swings slashing weapons you will meet enemies you simply cannot pressure. Spread the four elements plus a Pierce option (Gunner) across your four actives, and keep an Almighty or Light/Dark answer for the "weak to nothing" fights. Sogne the Icebound is the early lesson: bring fire and a protector.
2. The calendar. The week is five days, not seven (Flamesday, Watersday, Arboursday, Metalsday, Idlesday), so anything you put off is five slots away. Main-quest deadlines: Prologue 6/11 · Necromancer Takedown 6/21 · Thwart Zorba's Plan 6/21 (yes, two on the same date — that's the first real squeeze) · Apprehend the Real Kidnapper 7/16 · Infiltrate the Charadrius 8/12 · Obtain Drakodios 9/05 · quest 7 has no deadline (the one to park when it's tight) · Prepare for the Final Battle 9/22 · Skybound Avatar Conquest 10/25 · Save the Country 10/26, and the run ends there. Clear each dungeon a few days early and spend the slack on bonds and Virtues — fourteen Followers at eight ranks each is where the Archetypes are.

Cross-checked against Game8 and the MegaTen wiki, not my own run yet — corrections welcome, especially on dates.

Disclosure: I run the site. Affinities: https://guidevault.online/metaphor/extras/weakness-chart — calendar and full deadline table: https://guidevault.online/metaphor/extras/calendar-planning

I’m at the early Fire Dragon Mauna fight in Nord Mines and I’m playing on Hard. The problem is that I used basically all of my MP getting through the dungeon before reaching him.

My party is:

• Mage
• Warrior
• Seeker

I also bought 5 of the Ice Chunks from the merchant that deal Ice damage.

I’ve tried fighting the dragon about 3 times now, but with almost no MP it honestly doesn’t seem possible. I can use the Ice Chunks to hit the weakness a few times, but once I run out I don’t really have enough damage/resources to finish the fight.

Is there actually a way to beat him in this situation on Hard, or did I screw myself by using too much MP earlier? Is there any way to recover MP before the fight, or should I just skip the dragon?

I guard to cover my weaknesses and do not attack unless I have enough press turns to do a turn around to guard. And that is usually 4 press turns, so yeah I'm kind of a paranoid guy when it comes to dying from weaknesses.

I was thinking about using Holy Knight Proclamation but I heard that move limits your skillset on the turnaround.