I bring Ludmila, Ryker (husband), and my very first insect it’s like Ash’s pikachu to me at this point 😂

Priscilla (if she's your girlfriend/wife) will heal all statuses, and Ludmilla can do it (without being your lover)

Misasagi is pretty interesting. I've seen her using the Nine Tailed Fox's attacks as well as buffing herself. Of all the villagers I've uses, she was one of the most aggressive and strongest from lower levels

It's cool how the devs spent the time to make each character's battle AI unique.

So far i mostly bring Reinhard bcs he's surprisingly strong (and im also courting him uwu) but damn gotta target that special curry from Elsje

Just a reminder. Human party members are not allowed in the final boss fight... so try to train your monster friends instead (the elemental fairies are useful in high level).

Time to invite Margaret to my party always! I could use someone who heals status effects in some of these places! XD I always space of inviting people to my party and end up mostly soloing RF until I remember I can have some help, and lately everyone asks me instead if I want to go on an adventure, and I can never say no. Not even if it's like 9pm when they invite me. Thanks for the video! It helps to know, because it might motivate me to remember a bit better now XD

Ludmila can also heal ailments. I've had her remove seal from me numerous times.

I prefer to only take companions who look like they could reasonably fight or have a history of fighting for rp reasons, but I will keep this in mind when I decide to take on the hard modes! I've taken up the role of healer/blaster mage and that has been very fun with my melee team.

Thx for the tips Josh!!! You’re a life saver for this game bc there isn’t that much good info about it online and you go into detail so we’ll and explain things well too!!!

I like the Axe-users in the town. I just think that spinning attack they can do looks cool. And my goodness, I hate the party members that throw Failed/Disastrous Dishes. I've managed to intercept two of them accidentally, and that stinks when it happens.

Lucas does heal though (all cure) and he throws you cooked meal/potion if you are his lover. I think he's top tier support character.

I just bring along my favorite characters/level them up LMAO. Hina and me are ride or die. It's really neat how every npc has a different battle style too!

I'd also like to give an Honorable Mention to Palmo. Though he starts at level 1, his starting weapon, the Punching Gloves, is stronger than any other villagers starting weapon except Elsja, and he doesn't have her laziness. Fuuka, too, also starts with a stronger than average weapon, Kote, and she will also eat food to help herself in combat

I gave Ludmila a Magic ring to speed up the charge on her staff. She's definitely one of my favorites.

Priscilla can join your party without doing her first love story event (finding mushroom), however she won't accept to join your party as long she is going to stand at the gate to the forest during the day but after completing the first love story event of your choosing (isn't required to do hers), she'll join your party. She was able to go out with me at Day 7 without doing her love story, I'm using her a lot & still haven't started hers.

I can't belive I never considered giving weapons and gear to my party members😭 it would definitely help me level up my forging and crafting aside from other things

Gonna throw my hat into the ring and say that Beatrice is pretty great. She pretty much demolishes with hammers late game, even getting the ultimate axe/hammer attack once she's at a high enough level as well as light magic. Also I'm bias and took her everywhere since she's my wife.

Tbh best party members is YOUR LOVED ONES 😍

I didn’t know we had healers. And I just gave badass weapons to Martin (my bf), Darroch and Reinhard

Correction Lucas does heal and he does throw potions at you as well I would know he is my game husband 😂

Ludmilla using Darkness is actually kinda busted in a strange way. The Darkness spell and Dark Absorber spell both have this suction effect where they pull enemies into them, however this suction effect is pretty weak. I learned a trick however that makes it much stronger. The more instances of these spells cast on the field their suction effect gets amplified. The effect is also multiplicative at least it would have to be considering how strong it gets and how fast. Normally casting these spells you have a down time where you can't move or recast the spell, this however can be canceled by casting a spell on another button. So if you put Dark Absorber, and Darkness (or a duplicate of either) on X and Y, and press them alternately you can in about 3 casts of the spells generate a black hole capable of pulling all the enemies in any given room to your location, at the speed of light. They then take massive dmg from the stacks of Darkness and Dark Absorber orbs. Ludmilla being able to cast these dark spells can add to this black hole effect making it impossible for enemies to move freely.

@Play with Josh : Guide-videos to forging (especially staffs and acessorys) and Monsterstats and Monster-EVs would be nice if u can make them.

i never even thought of inviting randolph out since hes old and married. i think its cool you can invite him out right from the start tho. definitely a unique thing for people who would want to invite him out

Ooooo what about which monsters would be good to have along to help fight?? I’d love a video covering that! All these videos have been soooo helpful for me

Randolf is always such a G when I want to power through the first dungeon faster right when they let me in there. If a villager is mismatched for weapon type they specifically will not use the charge attack for the new weapon, any of the rune abilities for their chosen weapon, and their AI is slowed somewhat. Villager attacking AI gets better as they level up, and caps itself at 100. A Sun Pendant being in your accessory will double a villager's damage output as well as halve the damage they take. This stacks with a White Stone for family members. Since reversed status effects via a Talisman is the literal best thing in this game-for yourself and for villagers in your party-the villagers that heal your statues: Ludmila, Priscilla, and Margaret, are the worst villagers in this game by a mile. It's unfortunate, since I married Ludmila on my first playthrough and found that out the hard way. You have to be at least dating Priscilla and Ludmila to get those heals, by the way. Pretty useful tips early game. I honestly wish that curry trick didn't exist though; it goes against the spirit of the game almost as badly as giving players free tomato seeds at the beginning of the game. You know, they almost patched that out in an early Japanese patch, but that only made it so you have to actually move away from the curry.

Aaaaah, RF5 looking good. Hope it will release on pc too

I usually just bring my three favorites at any one time to make their friendship go up

Yea Meg was really useful in rf4 for that reason! But I actually haven't brought her with me in this game 🤷🏻‍♀️ honestly it's so easy I didn't really need anyone but I brought some friends for the company haha

Lol, so I've never gone into combat with a villager besides elsje because she was the first person I took into a fight and I just assumed everyone was as slow and useless combat wise as her XD now I see that's not the case. Also I've received and sold about 10 royal curries from her so far and I keep needing to get more since I somehow keep ending up broke despite them XD I'm only at the end of my first spring 😅

Funny thing about all other Rune Factory series... I never invite others into my team, other than bringing my pets... Keep forgot about them... Like Rune Factory 4... I only know that I can invite them after I win the empire boss...

randolf does give you bread and raisin tho... an complete package for a newbie. whatever dish he throw is literally a preferred dish to increased most of the all NPC friendship. Lucas also throw his loved dish which is a high lveled include Dish (Fried udon, Tempura Udon, and Udon) but him must 50% health lower

Ludmila also cures status ailments. (Well, either her, or Misasagi. I'm not 100% sure which it is because I always have Ludmila in my party and almost always have Misasagi in, but I have definitely noticed they recover status ailments without any action on my end; it just takes a little while.)

Simone also throws some other medicines at you if you have a status ailment sometimes! She threw a para-gone at me once aha

Scarlett may not throw the best potions but i think she makes up for it with the seal and fast duel swords in my opinon anyways

I only use tamed monsters as allies in dungeons as in early game because they don't desert you at 7 PM 😅 I did not even know you can't have human companions in the last dungeon. My monster pals helped me breezed through the entire game (on normal difficulty). I may need new monsters for the post-game dungeon?

I always bring my favorit charakters (Ryker, Palmo, Reinhard) and Elsje because of the Royal Curry.

I always have to have the legendary warrior/adventurer Randolph in my party. Oh, and he has actually thrown bread in my mouth during battle, true story.

I gave everyone those duck slippers now every cutscene im laughing in tears

I actually have had Randolph throw bread, raisin bread, and curry bread at me. It might have just been an update though.

How do you create the actual party though? Once you have 3 characters picked out, how do you get the three of them to come with you?

Uh no. Ludimilia also does cure party statuses. It happened for me at the very least. Not sure about Priscilla though. I think she also does cure statuses.

Idk if this has been mentioned in any of your videos yet, but about the crystal shards.. does anyone know how to get the crystal shards out of the water? 😅😫 it's bugging me.

im roleplaying my ranger and lucy are going out on day trips with the kids to train them and teach fhsm about the world

Lucas party with Margaret can never go wrong 🤣😂

Could you do a video about who of the bachelors is the strongest in combat? Or like compare them :)

My party usually is Lucas, my hell ghost Death, and whatever villager asks to come with me.

Hello, what lvl must friendship need be to equip with gear and weapons that you give them?

Not me giving Yuki the strongest weapon i had hoping i could put her in my party.. why does she accept weapons and even wields them in her status screen when she isnt recruitable

Margaret also heals status effects like paralyzed and poison

And Scarlet said area and alice can't be seed members when she can't even heal us more than 900

Is Margaret only available if you've played RF4 or is she a character introduced in the story?

Reinhard has been pumping out the dps and does it quite often compared to the others for me.

Is there a way to get the extra characters without buying the fourth game?

So if you give your companions armor or weapons after they join your party they will use it in battle?

Darroch, Terry for dmg, simone / ludmilla for heal. Pets are odd in fight like in rf 4, almost attack at random xd (i have an lv 55 or so chicken...)

because of wrong purchase... my RF4 is EUR region... and my RF5 is USA region... so i cannot unlock Margareth and Doug 😭😭😭...

I just used elsje to get rich lol

Not a single comment mentions Fuuka, it seems like she is one of those npcs that look like they can fight but are actually just mediocre.

Actually, Randolph will throw bread at you on occasion if you’re low on health

wait hiw did you get Margaret?

Simone sounds like a god in the maze. Those dragons are so stupid.

For some reason my Scarlet walks like a slug. I invested good equips on her but she's still good.

I just took the boys I like the most and want to marry. And my Killer Griffin.

best team 5000 lv player 5000 lvl ninetail fox 5000 lvl master spider 5000 lvl king bee,

I only take my husbands with me.

I gave Elsje some sweet glasses and she dont wear them.

Why does Livia have stats when she can't even join your party ever?

Best party member? is with your waifu.

margeret ludmilla scarlet luvia lucy randolph gives gift cure all cure master cure mediseal medipoi medipara,

I have both RF 5 and RF4S, but because my RF4S is EU while my RF5 is US, Dough and Margaret never appeared at my RF5. Fck region shit. 👿

since the game is so easy, I'll just play solo.

drop rates seem so obnoxiously low in this game that creating equipment for optional characters is basiclly pointless. ive played about 300 hours so far and STILL dont have equipment for the main fella let alone others game needs an update to increase drop rates by at least 5000%

Livia won't join me at 3