Q39 · Chapter 05 · Temporary builds
Heal now, or grow stronger?
How should healing compete with buying more power?
Selected direction
The direction
Health should remain a meaningful resource and sometimes compete directly with more power: take healing now or push the build harder. Healing can also be a build identity. The trainer may specialize in healing, defense, buffs or support while the companion supplies other roles, creating trainer-companion synergy.
Even with permanent progression, challenging dungeons should preserve a real chance of death. No healing or progression path should make the player feel permanently invulnerable.
Recorded as: Selected direction
The original question’s prompt
Always available at a cost, limited shop stock, automatic between stages, or another approach?
Examples in a prompt are not decisions unless the answer chooses them.Still to decide in this chapter
Exact button count, the language that separates companion from party-wide powers, offer locking and healing amounts are unresolved. Challenging dungeons must keep a real chance of death.
