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First of all, I warn you: the Grimoire system is the worst quality of EOU. It's either unpredictable, ineffective or completely overpowered. Compared to Subclass system from EO3 and 4, it's terrible in terms of gameplay design.

Trying to get a specific skill in a Grimoire stone is type A: unpredictable. In order to get Prayer grimoire stone, you'll need a character with Prayer skill (I believe Protector is the only class to get it?). After that, if you want a good leveled Prayer (like lv5 or 10), you'll need to level that Prayer skill of said character to that level. After that it comes down to either having good luck in Grimoire chance or abusing using Lucky Scarab or Four-Leaf Clover. After THAT it's all down to synthesizing the skill to a otherwise good grimoire.

I hope you aren't planning on doing that to all your characters. Leave stuff like that to post-game.

I cannot really help you more than this because, in my experience, Grimoire system is best left for post-game completionists. If you're still interested, here is a link for a promising-looking GameFAQs thread which may help you (I think?).

PS. Prayer isn't that special...

I did 100%, but no memory of the item locations. So, I googled it:

This post and that post help pin its location.

3rd floor of Golden Lair: Chopping point in the secret area. Apparently the fire scale pile needs to still be up, which requires to enter from Maze 4 secret area.

You can tell us if it's true haha.

The Japanese wiki is the best source for skill mechanics, though it might take a little bit to understand the translations.

http://www32.atwiki.jp/sekaiju_mazeiv

There's also a guide on GameFAQs (in progress I believe)

http://www.gamefaqs.com/3ds/997793-etrian-odyssey-iv-legends-of-the-titan/faqs/68761

Here is the Banner since page seems to be down now.

I'm guessing the banner was suppose to go up after/during E3 announcement, but some intern posted it too early or something LOL.

Preorder Placeholder is also up on Amazon.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997793-etrian-odyssey-iv-legends-of-the-titan/66130089

Gives the best answer I think. Can't bother to go into detail when it's all there. Spoiler alert!, the page has info on the final superboss.

If it is your 2nd playthrough you have more experience than me.

But regarding Speed Boost and Fan Dance.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997793-etrian-odyssey-iv-legends-of-the-titan/65754491?page=2 is a well researched post.

Conclusions regarding D/N :

• Fan Dance on Dancer alone has an effect on evasion. Good skill.
• Fan Dance + Dancer's speed boost has little effect on evasion. It is bugged, don't take both.
• Nightseeker's speed boost overrides dancer's fance dance. Not as bad as the previous bug but still bad; why take Fan Dance to get it overriden?

So :

• Don't pick Dancer's speed boost ever.
• Chose between Nightseeker's speed boost or Dancer's Fan Dance. For a D/N Fan Dance would be the best option.

I'm not sure about the iPhone stylus. I have a Note 9 and that stylus doesn't work on the Switch for some reason. I bought this on Amazon for use with my Switch.

https://www.amazon.com/MEKO-Universal-Precision-Capacitive-Replacement/dp/B00N1BRWLA

1. Some skills have higher "turn speed" than others. For example, Protector's Wall skills and Bravery's Gift have very high turn speed (going even before shiny enemies) and Alchemist's Inferno/Cocytus/Thor formulas are much slower than Fire/Ice/Volt forumulas. I don't think there are any specific numbers and calculations out there, sorry. Defend usually goes before enemies, excluding shiny enemies.

2. Boost increases the level of skill used by 5, going even above level 10 (Boosted level 10 skill becomes level 15, for example). Even actions like Attack and Defend have increased efficiency, apparently.

Check out GameFAQs if you want to know more.

I personally used the info from here.

Depending on how much of a cookie cutter team you want, it recommends the following:

F = Ronin/Protector - Dark Hunter - War Magus - B = Gunner - Hexer

I personally chose dmg dealers Ronin, Gunner, Hexer, healer War Magus, and my tank Protector as I dislike any builds that revolve around binds/status effects or other such luck/cheeses, but it's up to you. If you want to 100% the game without overleveling, you'll definitely need a DH or Protector. Their force skills are just too good.

I'm not sure I could see 2 War Magus, 2 Hexer, 1 Protector/DH working all that well, at least initially. Your team just won't be outputting that much damage early on without the Hexers' revenge unless you really see yourself having the patience to use status effect skills (poison) all the time. Some people harp on using War Magus' cursecut/transfer for infinite tp, so I guess it could work (I didn't need it for my team). I would substitute one or more of your WM/Hexers for straight up dmg dealers or just deal with the fact that it'll be awhile until you see a strong team.

eBay tends to be more expensive.

Through Japanese Amazon, I can get a new copy of EOV (without rough sketch soundtrack) for $55 including shipping.

The rough sketch soundtrack version, I can get for $67.

In my experience, amazon.co.jp has been very good on shipping speeds as well. I've ordered things from them that have gotten to me (in the central US) as quickly as two days later.

The only thing that they don't seem to offer internationally is the collector's pack that includes the artbook.

It's up on the german Amazon now as well, listed with a release date of 3.11.17: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B074WKKNG8/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1503391752&sr=8-5&keywords=etrian+odyssey

Is it normal for Amazon UK not to display the release date on a preorder? The german version costs 25% more than the UK version, even though it isn't even translated :/

Nintendo did make a stylus for Mario Maker 2, so it's certainly something Atlus could attempt for the physical edition of an EO game. Capacitive styluses are really cheap; you can buy them for < $0.50 apiece on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/homEdge-Universal-Capacitive-Samsung-Compatible/dp/B07F882S6V/ref=sr_1_9?crid=3A5321NOFTZ8Y&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=capacitive+stylus&amp;qid=1596201778&amp;sprefix=capacitiv%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-9

I think you could squeeze one into a standard Switch case without too much trouble. It doesn't solve the docked problem, but if Nintendo was able to make a decent controller-based experience for Mario Maker, I think Atlus can manage for EO's mapping.

Sorry for bothering but do you mean this item by any chance (I tried to look around and it's the only one)?

I ask because, after translating the description, seems like it says something about the first edition (though it talks about the artbook only) but I'm unsure if by pre-ordering it I would get anything.

Well I'm less interested in the first-person crawling aspect (I'm a newbie to the genre) but more interested in character customization and skills.

So far, I've discovered Band of Monsters and played the intro. Looks interesting: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kemco.hitpoint.mateki