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Aside from dancing whats the best way to level up? Noticed Cyrus and Prims chapter 3 needs them a 40 and they're kinda lagging behind somewhat. Also cripes was Olberics Chapter 3 ultra easy. Whats up with that
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I just finished Tressa's chapter 2 as my first one and it was kind of a breeze? My party was Tressa + Thief (level 21), Alfyn +Warrior (19ish), Cyrus (12 or 13) and Ophelia +Dancer (14). I had almost no issues with the boss.
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Jul 21, 2018 05:18
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minya posted:What’s the scoop on secondary jobs? I don’t really understand how to use them to their best potential. Should I be giving jobs to characters that match their skills, like Cleric to Cyrus because it boosts his magic? Or should I be thinking mainly about skills? You don’t actually need to use a sub job to learn its support skills—just switch into it, invest your JP, and then go back. So if you want Cyrus to learn the SP Saver skill from Merchant, you can keep him as a Cleric or whatever until he has the 4,630 JP needed to learn the skill, then switch to Merchant and spend it all at once. In general, the different characters' natural stat spreads far outweigh the stat bonuses from subclasses. You’re never going to make Primrose very tanky, even if you make her a Warrior or Apothecary. It's better to look for a subclass that supports the character's natural talents, offers new attack types, and has reasonably synergistic active skills. Cyrus is solid as a Cleric, even though it doesn’t offer him any new weapons. It doubles down on his strong elemental stats, improving his damage; it grants him a new elemental attack type; and it gives him an important option for team support (big heals) in a pinch. An example of a bad subclass is Olberic in Dancer. Dancer improves his Speed (which is fine) but also his elemental attack and evasion (which are terrible). He can use Daggers now, but he doesn’t get any attack skills for them, so he's still going to rely on the AOE/high damage skills associated with Swords and Polearms from his base class. And Dancer's active skills are meant to provide buffs to a single teammate who's responsible for dishing out a ton of damage. If Olberic's doing the dancing, then that’s a whole turn where one of your best natural damage dealers isn’t doing any damage at all. ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Aside from dancing whats the best way to level up? Noticed Cyrus and Prims chapter 3 needs them a 40 and they're kinda lagging behind somewhat. The best way is to have a single nuker on your team who can one-shot anything in the area in the first round of combat. You can finish fights in 25 seconds or so, whereas fishing for Bewildering Grace bonuses in every encounter will make each battle take five minutes or more—during which you could probably complete ten normal fights. You can have a Dancer in the squad and have them use BG if they happen to go before your nuker. Just don’t sit there and try to spam it over and over; you should only consider it if you happen to kill a Chubby Cait but left something else alive, because hitting 100x JP then will give you enough points to buy literally everything. Zoran fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jul 21, 2018 |
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Jul 21, 2018 05:20
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The target indicator for party members is a small hand on their sprite, a blue highlight on the turn order, but not the *one* place my eyes expect it - the god drat vertical list of party members!!!
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Jul 21, 2018 05:23
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Dang, I was hoping I could do some Bravely-tier game breaking shenanigans with the Runelord but apparently transfer rune explicitly only works on self-buffs? Am I right that literally only Tressa and Olberic have those? Weird design decision. And yes, I realize how powerful it is on Tressa but it's weird that it's so exclusive.
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Jul 21, 2018 05:24
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Well, the Runelord has self-buff skills too...
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Jul 21, 2018 05:26
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Zoran posted:You don’t actually need to use a sub job to learn its support skills—just switch into it, invest your JP, and then go back. So if you want Cyrus to learn the SP Saver skill from Merchant, you can keep him as a Cleric or whatever until he has the 4,630 JP needed to learn the skill, then switch to Merchant and spend it all at once.. Given this info does it mean that we should probably keep given characters as only 1 or maybe 2 different Support jobs (per given character) unless there is a reason to learn a skill from some other class?
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Jul 21, 2018 05:29
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Zoran posted:Well, the Runelord has self-buff skills too... Obviously  I was hoping for something like mass-casting reflect or the dancer buffs.
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Jul 21, 2018 05:32
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Your Computer posted:Obviously Yep, need a Dancer for that.
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Jul 21, 2018 05:51
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Your Computer posted:Obviously I mean you can do that with the dancers Divine skill; it's exactly as good as you'd think it is
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Jul 21, 2018 06:00
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acumen posted:Runelord trivializes Warmaster if you use Tressa. Yup. This is exactly what happened. Everybody knows about Transfer Rune + Sidestep I'm sure since that's the cheese strat for that boss. But I accidentally discovered that Transfer Rune also applies to Rest. Tressa now becomes the stupidest party battery because a fully boosted Rest is 100 SP to the whole part at that point.
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Jul 21, 2018 08:41
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Oh my god, I just finished Tressa's journey, and it's so heartwarming!  A nice break from the other three endings I’d already finished. But it's funny to see that Tressa's really not cut out for this whole merchant thing, since she can’t stand to take people's money.
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Jul 21, 2018 08:49
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Zoran posted:Oh my god, I just finished Tressa's journey, and it's so heartwarming! Tressa is fine with taking money from people. They just need to be killed first.
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Jul 21, 2018 08:51
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Yup. This is exactly what happened. Tressa is a lithium-ion battery.  Oh god, now I am imagining a laptop battery dressed as runelord tressa. Edit: no wait stop brain! Why am I thinking of going to the store and getting a back of party batteries, and I open up a pack And I hear 'Always looking for a bargain', but its in slowbeefs ridley voice! Pharohman777 fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Jul 21, 2018 |
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Jul 21, 2018 08:54
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Is there a list of subclasses that are generally good for each character? I'm unlocking them now. So far I have Olberic as a hunter, Alfyn as a warrior, and Ophelia as a cleric. I was going to make Tressa a theif when I unlock it.
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Jul 21, 2018 09:32
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Pharohman777 posted:I really don't get the whole 'H'aanit is gay' thing based off those lines.
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Jul 21, 2018 10:13
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This game's soundtrack is so good and it's starting to rival Chrono Cross for best video game soundtrack.
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Jul 21, 2018 10:22
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https://twitter.com/PedroPmaq/status/1017633249466646529 https://twitter.com/PedroPmaq/status/1019438203206451200
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Jul 21, 2018 10:40
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I've located all the super shrines! So far I've only done runelord. Made a few attempts at archmagus and it's rough if I don't chain the breaks just right. How do the other two compare in difficulty? I know I don't need to worry about unlocking them given I still have a number of Chapter 3's to do but they are shiny and I want them! The way you trivialize the Archmagus and the Starseer is by casting party wide reflects constantly. They'll break and kill themselves on your shields, it's great.
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Jul 21, 2018 12:15
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Zoran posted:Yep, need a Dancer for that. someone awful. posted:I mean you can do that with the dancers Divine skill; it's exactly as good as you'd think it is  I hadn't bought that one yet because it specifically says "skills that target one foe" and that seemed very situational.
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Jul 21, 2018 12:21
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I just started this and am in the middle of recruiting my 4th character (the Cleric) but i've found i'm constantly low on cash and i've hit the guardian of the flame boss who's been a bit tricky to beat. I figured my gear is what's too low because the area level is 7 and my team range from 7-15. I've got the Warrior, Merchant, Scholar and the Clir now in my party so i was wondering if there's a way to score some big cash. Though i do appear to be trapped in the Cleric's 1st chapter so i can't really fast travel outside of the nearby town and the 2 zones.
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Jul 21, 2018 12:49
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Where is the shrine of the merchant? Seems like I'd have to have a boat to find it.
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Jul 21, 2018 14:29
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DalaranJ posted:Where is the shrine of the merchant? Seems like I'd have to have a boat to find it. You must go through the Highlands to get to the Shrine of the Trader.
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Jul 21, 2018 14:31
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DalaranJ posted:Where is the shrine of the merchant? Seems like I'd have to have a boat to find it. The second tier area of the coastlands is like that of the frostlands—you can’t get there directly from the inner area, and instead you have to go around through a neighboring region.
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Jul 21, 2018 14:33
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Kin posted:I just started this and am in the middle of recruiting my 4th character (the Cleric) but i've found i'm constantly low on cash and i've hit the guardian of the flame boss who's been a bit tricky to beat. You're probably fine as far as levels and equipment, as long as you've got at least a couple of items upgraded from the starting gear. The bosses are just a little difficult at first before you get better with the combat system. The pattern, such as it is, is to hit the boss's weaknesses until his guard breaks, and then have a nova turn where you pop all your boost points to do damage to him. Bonus points if you have some damage buffs going on your party for the break turn, even more bonus points if you time the break to be early in a turn, before the boss's attack, so he gets stunned for basically two whole turns instead of just one. It may also help to check out the townspeople with Ophilia's Guide ability and grab one with higher strength?
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Jul 21, 2018 14:34
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Folt The Bolt posted:You must go through the Highlands to get to the Shrine of the Trader. Is it northeast or southwest of the Shrine of the Thunderblade? It makes sense that it would be northeast but I don't see a stone circle on that map. e: Never mind there's a minimap icon. DalaranJ fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Jul 21, 2018 |
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Jul 21, 2018 14:37
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Kin posted:I just started this and am in the middle of recruiting my 4th character (the Cleric) but i've found i'm constantly low on cash and i've hit the guardian of the flame boss who's been a bit tricky to beat. I've got all the characters and have spent almost no money on equipment so far. It's probably less about gear than it is about your party composition - almost all of your characters struggle early on until you get access to more skills. For example, if you had the thief, he has a skill that restores the SP you use to cast it, does two hits, and is dagger-based, which the Cleric's boss is weak against, so if you had him the fight would be SUPER easy. I would very highly recommend going and getting the thief next, he can also steal all the items from townspeople that the merchant can buy so you can get a lot of gear upgrades for free, some really big ones if you're willing to save scum. For reference, my team is now Apothecary, Hunter, Thief, Warrior, so only 1/4 of the characters you have. For cash though, use the merchant skills, that's pretty much your best option right now. Just go into battle with enough healing items and you should be able to make it, in terms of difficulty getting the other characters that are better in the beginning of the game will make things a lot easier.
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Jul 21, 2018 14:44
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DalaranJ posted:Is it northeast or southwest of the Shrine of the Thunderblade? It makes sense that it would be northeast but I don't see a stone circle on that map. Northeast, I think. You need to go past Stonegard.
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Jul 21, 2018 15:15
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I have access to the chapter 4's of my main team now but I'm not ready to end any of the stories  Debating whether to just say gently caress it to overleveling and do all the chapter 2's and 3's before starting on the 4's. Even if the combat is easy the story is really good and I'm hooked on basically all of them (not to mention the NPC questlines!)
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Jul 21, 2018 15:24
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Pharohman777 posted:I really don't get the whole 'H'aanit is gay' thing based off those lines. Cyrus is that you?
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Jul 21, 2018 15:37
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I've been rotating characters based on the chat guide here - https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204212-octopath-traveler/76817692 and its been an interesting way of keeping my characters somewhat closely leveled while doing chapter quests and fighting the bosses.
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Jul 21, 2018 15:45
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Whew I picked the golden axe up after only a couple tries but this guy with the Holy Longbow in Saintsbridge really does NOT want to give it
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Jul 21, 2018 16:18
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Tressa gets so much loving cash in and out of battle that it's tough to keep her out of the party, especially since I'm constantly hard up on cash upgrading my gear
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Jul 21, 2018 16:35
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I beat the warmaster last night but just looking at it it seems kind if lackluster? Am I missing something? Should I just wait until I have enough JP to unlock more skills on it?
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Jul 21, 2018 16:36
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Some Numbers posted:I've mostly been thinking about Passive skills, like the Thief's free attack and double loot skills synergize really well with the Merchant's Collect, the Merchant's half SP and the Dancer's SP regen work really well on a spellcaster. You can also do Dancer SP Regen + Apothecary boosted heal/restore for unlimited SP on a caster DLC Inc posted:Tressa gets so much loving cash in and out of battle that it's tough to keep her out of the party, especially since I'm constantly hard up on cash upgrading my gear By the time you hit the third tier of cities there's basically nothing to buy. I hit them with about 400k in the bank and spent maybe 100k on gear and have nothing to do with the rest  Still raking in 2.5k+ per fight even without Tressa.
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IcePhoenix posted:I beat the warmaster last night but just looking at it it seems kind if lackluster? Am I missing something? Should I just wait until I have enough JP to unlock more skills on it? It can eventually be pretty good.
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Jul 21, 2018 16:38
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I managed a 2x XP dance on a Cait, which got me to the mid-20s with my team. Currently wandering around getting towns to fast-travel and gearing up. Went up through a level 45 area and got a really good-looking staff for my Scholar Ophelia and got my Warrior Therion a really good dagger from a cave. Breaking the game is fun.
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Jul 21, 2018 16:44
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So now that people have been playing it for a while and starting to get to the endgame, has anyone found a good way of getting JP other than spending a hundred turns doing bewildering grace on a trash mob?
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Jul 21, 2018 16:45
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Your Computer posted:So now that people have been playing it for a while and starting to get to the endgame, has anyone found a good way of getting JP other than spending a hundred turns doing bewildering grace on a trash mob? Just killing poo poo seems faster than bothering with the dance
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Your Computer posted:So now that people have been playing it for a while and starting to get to the endgame, has anyone found a good way of getting JP other than spending a hundred turns doing bewildering grace on a trash mob? Find someplace high level with enemies sharing the same weakness and kill them first turn. Bewildering Grace if your Dancer goes before your nukers, otherwise just kill the mob.
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