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[u/Skeith253]

Hello thanks for taking the time. Quick question in trails in the sky 1st chapter do buffs of the same type stack?

Like if i use estelles morale to boost Strength, and then use Agates own self buff to boost strength does it do anything? As far as i can tell its a no but just wanted to confirm it.

Any info welcomed.

EDIT: Thank you all for the responses.

[u/LtLukoziuz → u/Skeith253]

To follow your example, both Estelle's and Agate's buffs are 15%, so using both would get 30%, and you could do it a third time for 45%. What you should see is not the big middle arrow changing, but the little yellow chevron in left bottom corner, it should become two and then three chevrons -

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/be8277e145f1.png

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/0395c6b2f760.png

[u/Skeith253 → u/LtLukoziuz]

Thank you so much. I tried looking for info but the sites i was looking at were old and for other trails games i think.

[u/LtLukoziuz → u/Skeith253]

No worries, as mentioned below, the design and application changed several times over the series:

• OG Sky Series (duration keyed from delay units themselves instead of turn count, each buff having its own, non-stackable value)
  
• Crossbell (25/50% stacking, i.e. yellow -> red arrow. Arts eat two turns worth of buffs, making buffs pretty bad for artists, yet still necessary in Nightmare)
• CS1-2 (same as Crossbell, but arts now only eat a buff turn on cast, instead of both on command and cast)
• CS3+/Daybreaks/Horizons/Sky1st(and2nd most likely) (what's mentioned above. At first they did three styles of arrows, going thicker and yellow->orange->red, but either at Reverie or Daybreak 1, can't recall exactly which, they changed to those chevrons instead and stuck to them)

[u/Terramagi → u/Skeith253]

Buffs stack to 50%. So if you have a 25 and a 25, it'll stack. The arrow changes from yellow to red to signify this.

At least, that's how it works in the later games. It might be different in FC.

[u/Saltymr → u/Terramagi]

In the original trilogy they do not stack, they get overwritten instead, duration and magnitude both.

[u/LtLukoziuz → u/Terramagi]

The numbers ain't right, mate, that's Crossbell/CS1-2 math. Saltymr already corrected what's the deal with the original Sky trilogy, but in later games, starting with Cold Steel 3 (and so Sky 1st remake too), they changed all stat increases to follow 3step process - 15/30/45% (or S/M/L, or +/++/+++, depending on game)

[u/Terramagi → u/LtLukoziuz]

The flow of time^buffs is strange in Lordran^Zemuria.