Automatic Crossbows: When archers are promoted to bowmasters, they swap their bows for giant crossbows that can fire barrages of arrows or explosive shells.Enemies with great support abilities but use it at the wrong times.A more prominent example of a boss would be Darksol, who would use a much weaker regular attack than his more powerful Demon Breath. For example, monsters with special abilities would do more damage with their special attacks that ignore defense than their regular attack that does less damage. Enemies that have much more damaging moves (spells or unique moves) than their regular attack, especially bosses, decide to use their weaker attack.Even when they do decide to heal someone, they always use the strongest healing spell they have available, even if the target is only slightly injured. Enemy healers get the worst of it, as they will often attack for low damage or do nothing during their turns instead of healing.Artificial Stupidity: The enemies you will face are.Downplayed with Arthur, who gets spells, having lived in a city of mages, but they're not great. Armor and Magic Don't Mix: Mages might be the best at defeating heavily armored enemies, but beware because of their low physical defense.This can sometimes lead to having to make painful decisions over who gets bumped from the team when a strong new character comes along.
All of the Other Reindeer: Max is envied and resented by the other knights of Guardiana because Lord Varios, a skilled and esteemed knight captain, is teaching him instead of them.After the End: The British comic adaptation only, which had Granseal as an island in the distant future of our world, after a nuclear war led to mutations which produced analogues to the usual fantasy races.Aerith and Bob: Every now and then a character will have a mundane name (Max, Arthur, Ken).Rescuing him in one piece is the only way you can receive the mayor's permission to use his boat to travel to Prompt. In Rindo, the young grandson of the town's mayor wanders off out of excitement to see the upcoming circus, only to get kidnapped by Mishaela and her minions, who plan to feed the boy to a dragon.Unfortunately, it ends up coming true, and by the time you get back, you find that the girl and her mother had been sent away by the father to safety when Runefaust attacked. In the very first chapter, you can talk to a little girl in town and she'll explain she had a nightmare where Guardiana was on fire, including the house where she and her family lived.