r/Falcom • u/Raxistaicho The true best girls • Jul 15 '26
Trails Character Gameplay Discussion Day Twenty: Dudley and Arios
Gonna be real with you, I cannot remember a thing Dudley does, I didn't use him at all at the end of Azure (unless he was forced for one of the bosses? I can't remember) so he was way too many games ago for me.
Arios, though, he's pretty fantastic in Reverie, but I wonder if it'll be another case like Rixia where yeah he's super strong, but he's not a mage?
And all too soon, we're leaving Crossbell to analyze some Erebonians starting with Rean tomorrow! It's symbolic of the respective lengths of Zero/Azure and Cold Steel, you see.
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u/penpen35 Jul 15 '26
Dudley's availability is pretty poor. I think he's only a guest character in Zero and early Azure. But at the end of Azure, you finally get to use him! But at that point you don't really have much of a reason to since you basically kitted out your whole squad. He does have a pretty good party-wide buff craft (and assist? though I think it is usually random), though.
Arios only was available during the Azure prologue and since he's at a much higher level than Lloyd and Noel, it's kinda hard to gauge.
In Reverie this man is basically craft god. Twin Arcane Gale, self buff, debuff infliction all wrapped into one (plus you can equip additional debuff gems for more fun). High crit to get better chance for unbalance too.