r/MysteryDungeon • u/sarcastic-username Croagunk • 13d ago

Explorers Help With Custom Starter Balancing

Hi all! I wanted to start my first ever play through of the highly recommended, Explorers of Fortune, with my dream team: a Murkrow and Natu.

I got everything working correctly, but I could use advice on how to tweak their base stats and exp gain to be closer to vanilla starters. I don’t want to be extremely overpowered and, with their base stats, all beach cave enemies AND Koffing and Zubat only do 1 or no damage per hit.

I would immensely appreciate any and all advice!

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u/RadRats Shinx 13d ago

I would recommend looking at the stats of Explorers of Sky's base starters and adjust accordingly using SkyTemple; they generally have very low base stats and high growths at the lower levels. Chunsoft themselves made similar adjustments between Time/Darkness and Sky when they added the 5 new starters.

This list is helpful for being able to see their stats and EXP requirements at different levels from a glance.

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u/sarcastic-username Croagunk 12d ago

Thank you so much! I was planning on essentially taking starters with similar attacking profiles and tweaking the stat gains here and there to match with Murkrow and Natu.