Prexus said:
This would be covered in the tutorial for the combat system, BUT:
DEF Broken is when that third bar fills up all the way, that bar represents your "Break Meter" and when filled fully, your defense is broken for 3 rounds. While your defense is broken, you take FULL damage (normally all damage is reduced to 1/5). After the 3 rounds, the bar completely empties itself.
I suppose I should have picked a screenshot with one of those bars not full, since the "DEF Broken" isn't there then, my bad.
The red names of skills means you don't have enough MP to cast that skill right now, it will turn black once again when you have enough MP. Both you and your enemy gain MP back in ticks over time.
I want enemy skills to be visible because of how skills work, and because you can tell what they MIGHT be able to use on you next!
The icons represent either: (Sword) Power Attack (STR-based damage), (Running person) Fighting Attack (DEX-based damage), or (Wand) Energy Attack (INT-based damage).
Attacks have different damage both to your HP AND to your Break Bar, in this case, "Body Slam" is a high-break damage skill with low actual damage. The more you attack someone with the same TYPE of attack, ie. Power, the less the break bar will fill up each successive time until they're broken (then those counters reset).
So using just "Body Slam" to break their gauge will take longer than a combination of other skills.
The reason I put enemy skills there was so you could watch and plan out a strategy on when to use which attack, if they're keeping their own MP low and their healing skill is unavailable, you can waste your MP to try to finish them quickly, whereas if they don't have any healing skills, you can try to defend more and protect your own break bar until you break theirs.
You can't see it, but if you hold down the B/Esc key, you "defend" which reduces damage and break-damage.
After you use a skill, however, there is a period of time based on your AGI and the Delay value on the skill you use where your character will "walk in place" so that you cannot "defend".
You can also not be defending AND entering combos at the same time.
