My top 5 tips for true zenoiran: 1. use only optimal items. you only have limited uses so you want to get the most bang for your back. For example: need stamina? dont use stamina restoring items. As funny as that sounds. Go rest then use the hourglass items to recover full unit stamina. Need to resu someone in the squad? avoid using the revival orbs unless forced into battle. Use the camping sets so you also get a free heal for everyone close. And so on. 2. wind faerie charms are your friend. Assists are the biggest reason your squads will lose units in TZ. hoard them like waifus. 3. as for valor points, use efficient ones and not just stuff you want to use out of convenience. Like i liked using hastened mobility on expert just to travel the map faster and finish the stage faster. Or royal order for more xp. Plunder for more gold In TZ, your valor skills have to count and have a tangible influence in finishing battles. This means stuff like vital absorb (damage and drain enemy stamina), provoke (remove assisting enemies from watchtowers) and dual shield (shield all allies from enemy assists). Only use the convenience stuff when you're just a couple of battles away from finishing a map and have tons of valor. 3. have effiicient squads. As cool as it may seem to kill enemies one by one with 9 crits meteor slash swordmaster, thats just going to make you re-do battles. You want 1 battle kills. This means AOE is king. Your offense should be built around this heirarchy: board nuking>row nuking>column nuking>single target. Units with board nuke skills are a priority like yunifi, rosalinde and eltolinde. 4. Have at least 3 dedicated assist squads that can hold their own and take advantage of watch towers. Basically your 4 main teams/leads should be a: pusher (typically alain so you can replenish valor quickly) and 3 squads that are either led by an archer or mage. A pusher backed up by 3 assist units ensures you will get the kill 95% of the time. 5. speaking of alain, dont forget about gilbert! people think alain's lead is unique. Nope. gilbert also has the same leadership and is a better support unit than alain. He can lead his own push squad if you want.

I haven't tried it, but the cavalier tactic you spoke of still works pretty often on Expert mode too. You can put say Adel and Clive with Monica and shred through units with Wild Rush, Assault Lance and later Pile Bunker while cleaning up with Hache and I believe Sainted Strike? You'll be doing two column stuns, plus AP regain and PP decrease while attacking most enemies so winning comes down to making the other team act as little as possible while maximizing your battle actions.

“calVAry.” LeL. 🤭

True zenoiran is what i think expert should have been. The game is still easy on True Zenoiran difficulty for a 2nd playthrough. They really need to give enemies large advantages or the player major economical disadvantages (which can always be overcome by infinite grinding) to add challenge to the game.

I just beat the game in expert and went into true zeraorian, i just beat the coliseum map and its not that hard (im not using items in battle to make more challange)

When i completed Story Difficulty i had 23 Hallowed Corne Ashe left. Im assuming youd have much less on True Zenorian

They need to disable the battle result prediction in True Zenoiran, Knowing beforehand if our unit win or lose the battle just made it way too easy. And the enemy mobs should be fully geared with AP/PP pendants so we don't have too much advantages over them too.

Started true zenorian 2 days ago, Allrdy rushed trough drakenholm and elheim. Its honestly very very easy once you have experience from expert. Especially if you just run the usual stuff early like Hilda Dragoon-Cathat instant freeze comp. But even without the boardclear stuff, my other "normal" units perform rly good too and oneshot basically everything. Its sadly... a really really easy game. Im usually a coward. Usually i play anything on normal. However.... This game has the same issue as persona 5. Even on the hardest difficulty its a joke (i still LOVE both games tho, im just saying its rly rly rly easy... even on hardest difficulty)

Oh so you don't restart with the same levels and items?

I was expecting a difficulty that was unfair walking into it myself. What I experienced was a difficulty where I couldn't tell the difference between expert and true zenorian. I seriously had to check I actually selected the difficulty. It's not hard at all and kinda disappointing. I didn't level grind either. Just played it normally. Really just about knowing how to build a team more than anything else.

It’s the same as expert. I never let any squad die in battle and barely use items in expert diff. It’s actually easier in True zenorian since you already know the route for clearing battles.

I love it when games stay fair on their highest difficulties.

True zenoiran difficulty is only hard if you don't know what you're doing. I broke the game under a few hours and has lvl 30 units before saving Scarlett.

No, it's not hard. It's normal difficulty and very easy to break, we need an actual True Zenoiran difficulty 🤦🏾‍♂️