Talk:Fighter/@comment-188.194.213.217-20130718183424/@comment-9317427-20130808010616

@Anon ^

Well you see, the question of Why play on Hard Mode in the first place? should be answered first.

The Challenge. Wanting to see if it's even viable or not. Wanting to see which tactics make it possible; make it faster; and make it less tedious. The same reasons why there are :
 * Lv1 Only Runs (Any RPG that allows this ie. KH:BBS)
 * No Healing Item Runs
 * Knife Only Runs (RE Fans)
 * etc... yadda yadda

The reasoning behind, "Vocation A is harder to play on Solo Hard Mode than Vocation B so it'd be better to play as Vocation B", goes against why a player would want the challenge in the first place.

Casuals and Gamers who don't get addicted to the game would probably play on Normal Mode; hopefully finishing it once; and moving on to the next game.

Then there are those who like challenges but aren't exactly addicted to the game. They will start playing on Hard Mode; finishing it once; and moving on to the next game.

Then there are those from both types listed above that gets addicted to the game. So much to the point that they would go through tons of playthroughs using different Vocations / Setups / Difficulties / Savegame Backups.

Those who want more challenge resort to gimping themselves in terms of : 
 * No Healing Items
 * No Augment Run
 * Fixed Augment Run
 * Weakest Weapon Run
 * No Min-Maxing or Single Vocation Only Run
 * No Skills Run
 * etc... yadda yadda

I'd honestly say I'm pretty much addicted to this game. Played all the Vocations (barring Mages lol) with Pawns on Single Vocation Only Runs | Normal Mode.

Tried multiple runs of the same Vocations with different fixed Skill Setups to add variety and then went and did Main Pawn Only Runs | Normal Mode. I have never reached Level 200 on any of my save backups because I never did like being overleveled.

Then came Dark Arisen and went for Hard Mode. Wanted to up the ante by making it Solo Runs. Did the same thing I did with the original game, playing all the Vocations (and Skill Setup Variations) on different saves and retained the Single Vocation Only Runs.

This is how I enjoy the game thoroughly. Vocation selection doesn't really matter. I just want to see if I myself can thoroughly finish the game within the limits and conditions that I set for myself. And yes, I find it fun @_@.

I can safely say, I learn something new everytime in each sucessive playthrough. This is such a great game but I might be biased since I am addicted xD. (Could use a bigger world though... but what the heck lol)

PS. For reference, both my Fighter-Solo-Hard-Run and Warrior-Solo-Hard-Run had Aestethics-Over-Stats-Gear-Restriction and Lightest-Gear-That-Looks-Good-Restriction on. For obvious reasons. And yes, I really do type too much >_>;;