What's wrong with this battle?

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Saber Cherry said:
Attack is decreased by high fatigue. So after casting all those spells, with no reinvigoration, what was the Nat's fatigue? Also, if it fell asleep, the Ice Devils would hit it 100% of the time, and (IIRC) ignore the armor.

It didn't fall asleep. The Nat had fatigue in the 50s after buffs, with +3 per round from encumbrance. The returning kicked in when her fatigue was about 65, so she hadn't fallen asleep at all.

I knew fatigue lowered DEF, but I didn't know it lowered ATT as well - is it the same mechanic? -1 per 10 fatigue or something?

In every MP game I've played the player with the IDs has won. Usually it's me, but this time I decided to stay away from blood entirely and see if I could defeat them. The combination of AW not working on IDs and ATT reducing after fatigue from buffs makes an SC pretty unlikely to work. Which is ridiculous, since the IDs are nowhere near the most expensive summons, so why should they be the best SCs?

I'll try using spells - most of the best anti-SC spells seem to need E3 or more, and Tien Chi lacks earth mages (only the Celestial Master with a random pick in earth). Frozen Heart would ironically be the ideal spell vs Arch Devils, but not Ice Devils. Ho hum.

CC