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Regy Rusty posted:I saw the cat man once but he ran away before I even attacked him cause I didn't know he was special. Don't let any enemies attack.
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Regy Rusty posted:I saw the cat man once but he ran away before I even attacked him cause I didn't know he was special. I think Domination is beat the encounter in the first round. e: oh I thought not letting them attack was Untouched, but I guess it's just don't get hit.
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GaryLeeLoveBuckets posted:I think Domination is beat the encounter in the first round. Yeah, the bonuses are Untouched (don't get attacked), Domination (win during the first turn) and Break (Break).
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Jul 16, 2018 18:54
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Wow I didn't even realize I'd won during the first turn. I guess now that I have a full party that's a lot easier to do though. Ususally I'm wasting so much time stealing money with Tressa lol
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Jul 16, 2018 18:57
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Man, Tressa's chapter 2 boss was doing party wide 500 damage and the ads were doing like 200-300 party wide and that was nuts. Just finished Therions who's boss is literally a fat guy who can barely manage 300 to a single target sometimes. The balance is hosed in a real weird way I tell you what.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:57
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I have only played 6 hours and just started my 4th character prologue. This game is so relaxing on commutes and waiting areas. Primrose Olberic Tressa Cyrus
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Jul 16, 2018 19:05
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Regy Rusty posted:I saw the cat man once but he ran away before I even attacked him cause I didn't know he was special. Zore posted:Don't let any enemies attack. No, it's win in the first round. I've gotten attacked before (and lost the no damage money bonus) but still gotten domination because I wiped them out by the end of the first round. Also as best I can tell the bonuses are just a flat 10% which is nice when you get multipliers from the dance.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:06
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Some thoughts on Primrose the Dancer-Warrior: I chose this path because I like the idea of using Eye for an Eye with Warrior skills that let you tank. In addition, it gave our party someone with Swords finally (We have Linde, but Linde does as Linde pleases in battle). Immediately swapping to a weapon the enemy has been vulnerable to and setting up Incite has worked pretty well. Stout Wall is usually my second action with Prim. Stacking Evade to the gills has been a mistake, it seems. Enemies hit reliably regardless of how high I pump the stat. My supports are the Summon Strength, Eye for an Eye, Second Wind, and Cover. Some thought on Tressa as a Merchant-Scholar: All hail the Discount Wizard. Don't know what I'm going cross train Alfyn in. Maybe Ophilia for some light magic, but it feels like a waste. I'm taking a different approach with H'aanit and giving her Apothacary to get access to Amputate. She doesn't need to be more versatile, just better at her physical attacks. A second healer would be good as well.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:10
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https://twitter.com/konpeitopanic/status/1018508604188475392
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Jul 16, 2018 19:21
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Tressa spoiler: Bold of them to go with "Tressa discovers capitalism" as a story 
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Jul 16, 2018 19:30
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In terms of the towns feeling empty / plot not lining up, I think it makes sense with that comment about the developers intending you to be able to pick it up and play it in chunks or before bed or travelling to work or what not. The dungeons being pretty small combined with the chapters mostly playing out the same way is more digestible over the long run. Unfortunately most gamers are session players and grinders so after 20 hours of doing everyone's Chapter 1 in a row, you don't so much see a tiny themed town, but all the nuts and bolts. Not being able to swap your party at a save point kind of sucks, but at least fast travel is dope.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:46
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Real talk, does anyone have a list of the optional dungeons in between chapters 1 and 2 (the ones that are in between the 8 starting towns)? That would help me out A LOT!
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Jul 16, 2018 19:49
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I think my only major gripe with this game is that the amount of new stuff you can train your characters in seems to peter out pretty early (unless there's more stuff later). I'm in the middle of my first Chapter 2 and I feel like I already basically have the perfect secondary skills layout for my squad. The only character advancement I really see coming up is just taking whatever rando I put into my dream team to do their content.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:51
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I think it's be interesting if, in a future sequel to the game, all eight characters are involved in the combat. Like, you make two teams of four, and they alternate rounds or something. Having to go back to the tavern over and over to swap characters to do all the side quests is tedious. Just loving have all eight in your party at once.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:52
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fadam posted:I think my only major gripe with this game is that the amount of new stuff you can train your characters in seems to peter out pretty early (unless there's more stuff later). I'm in the middle of my first Chapter 2 and I feel like I already basically have the perfect secondary skills layout for my squad. The only character advancement I really see coming up is just taking whatever rando I put into my dream team to do their content. There are four more jobs that unlock in level 50 dungeons but otherwise yeah, its mostly just equipment/level advancement.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:53
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Zore posted:There are four more jobs that unlock in level 50 dungeons but otherwise yeah, its mostly just equipment/level advancement. Oh drat, that's sick. Speaking of late game, did we ever figure out if there's actually endgame content that involves all eight stories converging, yet?
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Jul 16, 2018 19:54
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There is a true final boss, yes.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:57
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It would be nice if you could just swap characters at save points.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:57
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fadam posted:Oh drat, that's sick. There is 100% content that features all 8 protagonists at once. It's considered the epilogue/postgame and there's a bunch of requirements to get to it - mainly to do with some side quest chains and completing all 8 character's Ch. 4s.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:58
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Gyoru posted:There is 100% content that features all 8 protagonists at once. It's considered the epilogue/postgame and there's a bunch of requirements to get to it - mainly to do with some side quest chains and completing all 8 character's Ch. 4s. That's good to hear. I guess that Jason Schreier guy was wrong?
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Jul 16, 2018 19:59
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Well why would he bother playing to the end of another failed jrpg experiment
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Jul 16, 2018 20:12
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I just played Tressa's chapter 2 and I have more OPINIONS now! 1) It owned 2) The dungeon and boss was easier than all the level 15-20 content (dungeons) I've been doing which was weird, but it was a fantastic place to grind! 2a) Because of this, I finally unlocked the final skills/support skills for a couple of characters and wow this is a gamechanger. I wasn't that sold on the combat (compared to Bravely) but now I definitely see the potential! 3) The party skits are adorable  Alfyn continues to be the goodest boy.4) 
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Jul 16, 2018 20:16
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Zore posted:So what defenses can everyone hit by default? Warrior Therion seems pretty okay to me. Mine's level 25ish and with various equipment bonuses is hitting over 500 Evade, so as a Warrior he can draw aggro, have the enemies miss, then sometimes counterattack thanks to that one Dancer passive that he also has. That being said, I'm currently running Merchant Therion for more weakness coverage and just gave him Cover to protect the other squishy people in my party. Anyway, I just finished picking up the 8 subclasses, so now I have to make a decision between starting Chapter 2s or doing something insane and trying to game the system by getting to and somehow surviving and beating one of the special subclass bosses despite them being exactly twice the level of my head character. The one I found, the Starseeker, has 176k health, so I imagine the only way I would have any hope of success would involve many, many poisonings.
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Man, Tressa's chapter 2 boss was doing party wide 500 damage and the ads were doing like 200-300 party wide and that was nuts. It's funny I had the opposite experience, likely because I was incredibly underleveled. Went into Therion's Ch.2 boss with him at 20 and H'aanit/Alfyn/Primrose at 14/15/16. Boss was smacking the everloving daylights out of people. I ended up winning though with a whole lot of item spam and Therion dodge tanking like a motherfucker with his crazy rear end evasion. The only other Ch.2 I've done so far was Primrose's and that boss was way the gently caress easier by comparison. Never really was in danger during the whole fight. As a side note it's been really amusing to see the occasional bitching about locked purple chests out in the world because I chose Therion as my main so I've never had the situation come up where he wasn't around to unlock them. 
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YoshiOfYellow posted:As a side note it's been really amusing to see the occasional bitching about locked purple chests out in the world because I chose Therion as my main so I've never had the situation come up where he wasn't around to unlock them. 
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Jul 16, 2018 20:24
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Should I be completing side quests ASAP or can I do them whenever? I don’t want to lock myself out of anything because I went too far in the main story.
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Jul 16, 2018 20:25
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fadam posted:That's good to hear. I guess that Jason Schreier guy was wrong? The guy called I am Setsuna a masterpiece and the future of retro games is solved
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Jul 16, 2018 20:27
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fadam posted:That's good to hear. I guess that Jason Schreier guy was wrong? another botched video game journalism experiment 
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Mill Village posted:Should I be completing side quests ASAP or can I do them whenever? I don’t want to lock myself out of anything because I went too far in the main story. Some Chapter 1 side quests require visiting other towns, using path actions you may not have access to yet, and I think a couple of them even require going to Chapter 2 towns/areas. I wouldn't worry about completing them ASAP if you don't want to, since some you can't anyway.
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Your Computer posted:another botched video game journalism experiment I've thought you were someone else entirely for like a week because you didn't have your typical computer avatar. It's good to see you around I thought the friendly computer person had disappeared. 
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Jul 16, 2018 20:31
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I'm stoked for this side quest with the dragon egg. This little girl is the next Khaleesi.
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I've thought you were someone else entirely for like a week because you didn't have your typical computer avatar. It's good to see you around I thought the friendly computer person had disappeared.  Turpitude posted:I'm stoked for this side quest with the dragon egg. This little girl is the next Khaleesi. e: wow they're much more lenient on the rogue path actions, huh? In Quarrycrest there's an NPC that requires Alfyn to be level 30 to Inquire (way overleveled) while a level 16 Cyrus can scrutinize with 96% chance. The devs really do favor the rogue characters huh. Your Computer fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jul 16, 2018 |
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Do the area dungeons ever get marked complete? Or do you have to just remember you've already torn through them?
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I'm walking around doing quests, a guy has a sob story his kid has gone missing. I look all over town, there's a building I can't get into and someone is blocking the door, I unleash leopards on the person standing out front and they take a hell of a beating from my captured salamanders before they go down. I bust inside and find a bunch of kids, after scrutinizing them I discover they're all orphans and they love their new mom who is currently concussed outside. Then Therion stole their candy and stuffed animals. The End.
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I survived an hour against The Runelord and ticked away about half its 190k health. It went nuts and started doing strong AoE stuff then. I don't think I have the resources to deal with that at this time.
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I just did Cyrus' Chapter 2 since I was already in Quarrycrest and god drat now I'm super interested in his story too.  So far I'm extremely sold on the chapter 2's.The way they made the chapters separate episodes is pretty neat too. Octopath Traveler is definitely my favorite anime right now.
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:I survived an hour against The Runelord and ticked away about half its 190k health. It went nuts and started doing strong AoE stuff then. I don't think I have the resources to deal with that at this time. My strategy was to abuse the poo poo out of sidestep so my two merchants had 9 stacks by the aoe phase. After that it was just a matter of keeping up atk/armour debuffs on him and slamming for 20k with Olberic. BP funnelling helped too.
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Yeah, that sounds like a solid plan. I might give it another shot later on with a different party setup, but I think I need some JP on a few people to set that up, first. More levels would also help, since a party of 26/18/21/21 wasn't cutting it so much.
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I've been taking this game really slow. I mean really slow. I started with Tressa and I've only unlocked Cyrus, H'aanit, and Therion so far. On my way to unlock the other four and I think my initial party will be Tressa/Cyrus/Therion/Primrose and then I can just sub in H'aanit/Olberic if I need someone in town moved from a doorway.
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Mordiceius posted:I've been taking this game really slow. I mean really slow. Just walked right past Ophilia huh, that's cold
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