Mary Skelter: Nightmares – Tips & Tricks

by Falagar / Articles, Misc. Guides / 20 Jul 2018

Early Advice and Tips

Meat Shield

Class change Alice or Cinderella to a Paladin and have her learn to cover. Equip Agility boosting accessories to raise her speed and use cover to protect the rest of the party from most enemy attacks.

Cinderella technically makes for a better Paladin since if you use lick on her, you can get a heal, but there is no real best class for a Blood Maiden or Blood Maiden for a class.

Blood Abilities

Blood Abilities can be used when running from Nightmares. For example, Sleeping Beauty’s Rose Arrow will temporarily stun the Nightmare on hit, and Kaguya’s Bamboo Guard can block one attack from a Nightmare when running during a Murder Hunt.

Becoming Overpowered (and other useful tips)

These will absolutely shatter the difficulty of the game.

Early Weapons and Armor

After Chapter 3, the Jail Tower area will open up. While it’s clearly intended to be an endgame dungeon, you can exploit it for items and weapons. Enter when your Libido gauge is near full and save near an item spawn point.

Select the Merchant Encounter Upon the roulette wheel and then walk around until he appears. The weapons, items, and armor he sells will all be the endgame or near endgame quality. While expensive, even a single weapon can turn a Blood Maiden into an engine of destruction.

Experience in the Jail Tower

Once you can survive a few fights in the Jail Tower, you can rack up some good experiences there. However, the first-floor enemies give poor experience and rush to the second floor to start farming.

Greed is Good

Want items and money galore? Early on, the class changed Snow White into an Item Meister and put points into her class abilities to increase item drop rates. Sell whatever you don’t need.

Additionally, you can change Sleeping Beauty into a Blood Hunter and put points into those class abilities for increased money.

Total Enemy Party Kill

Class change into Speed Gunner as Sleeping Beauty and Kaguya or Marshal as Alice and Cinderella. Use the Merchant trick in the Jail Tower detailed above and buy a Proto Gun for a Speed Gunner or a Howl Eater for a Marshal.

Have the Blood Maiden in question learn an AoE attack such as Amber Red and put extra points into it. While the 31 MP cost of Amber Red is expensive early on, the great damage and speed of the Speed Gunner and Marshal classes allow you to destroy all enemies in one or two turns, assisted by an overpowered weapon equip.

Make sure to keep careful watch over the Corruption level. Blood Maiden running a setup like this moves faster than Jack, meaning they can Blood Skelter before you get the chance to clear it. If they go Blood Skelter and use AoE attacks on your party, it’s going to hurt.

Boss Killer

Similar to the above, but instead of running skills like Amber Red that hit all enemies on the field, use Rage Rush instead. In a normal battle with multiple enemies on the field, it’ll attack them at random, but there’s only one enemy on the field during a boss fight, which will be hit multiple times for massive damage.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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