re: Metaphor ReFantazio: Anyone else playing?

I spoke to soon. The optional dragon boss at the end of the first trial dungeon is by far the hardest boss in the game so far. I tried several different strategies for about 3 hours last night and never came close, I fear i may be under developed archetype wise and think I should have cooked more buff items. All the videos I’ve watched of people fighting it had to buff the shite out of their party in order to take off massive almighty damage and get extra turn icons to beat it. I’m going to have to grind archetypes to beat it I think unless I drop the difficulty. I read on Reddit that the final boss is just as hard which is crazy

Hard. I’m simply not doing near enough damage. I run out of MP before being even close to finishing it. Most of the fights I’ve watched on YouTube involve using several buffs to boost damage in the thousands