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I don't think I've posted much since I bought this last week, but holy poo poo is this good. Continued from my demo save and I am maining Cyrus; after finishing his intro I stopped since I knew I would start the full game eventually. I've finished all Ch 1s and I enjoy how many different stories and genres are contained in the game. I thought that I wouldn't enjoy the stories not being connected as much early on, but I'm pleasantly surprised. For my team, I'm most interested in an antiestablishment crew: Cyrus, Tressa, Therion, Primrose. I like the idea of a bunch of different characters to use, but I think I want to complete Ch 2s for my main crew and pick off the others piecemeal. I don't really want to do other characters I don't care about right now because it will feel like work. I showed Octopath to my mostly-not-a-gamer partner and she's been really enjoying it. I haven't really explained what jrpgs typically are and she's going into it fairly blind at 12hrs so far.
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At what point can you start tackling the advanced jobs? And what are the general strats?
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Jul 25, 2018 22:23
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Etrips posted:At what point can you start tackling the advanced jobs? And what are the general strats? You can do them as early as 35 if you know the strats. I posted a huge paragraph about Runemaster earlier which is the most difficult one and I don't wanna take up a whole page just for that. Starseer and Sorcerer can be cheesed with using the Dancer divine skill to cast reflect on your entire party. Warlord cheese requires you to have already beaten Runemaster and equip it onto Tressa, use Rune Transfer to cast Sidestep on the whole party. Also god drat some of these side missions are toughies. I feel like I have all the puzzle pieces for some of them but I just don't know how they fit together. Key example is the one girl who wants to be a singer but can't leave her dad - I found her dad and I found the moneylender, I just don't know how to thread the needle between the three.
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Jul 25, 2018 22:50
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Also god drat some of these side missions are toughies. I feel like I have all the puzzle pieces for some of them but I just don't know how they fit together. Key example is the one girl who wants to be a singer but can't leave her dad - I found her dad and I found the moneylender, I just don't know how to thread the needle between the three. I accidentally solved that one by beating the crap out of the dad iirc 
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Jul 25, 2018 22:52
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Your Computer posted:I accidentally solved that one by beating the crap out of the dad iirc lmao I was like "there's no way that's the solution right? there's no way." At this point I've found and spoken to basically everyone in the game I have access to so those are the only types of solutions left. Though, I still haven't found the third Crest Mercenary, so I suspect there might be some NPCs locked behind the story
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Jul 25, 2018 22:55
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Etrips posted:At what point can you start tackling the advanced jobs? And what are the general strats? For any physical bosses, Sidestep is king.
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Jul 25, 2018 22:56
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Sonce we’re all posting parties and jobs, help me fix any problems I might have goons with a better head for this. Tressa/thief Olberic/apothecary Therion/dancer Cyrus/cleric I’m pretty happy with it but I’m sure there’s ways I could swap things around to make them more efficient. I don’t have the advanced jobs yet but those will add whole new wrinkles.
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Jul 25, 2018 22:58
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:You can do them as early as 35 if you know the strats. I posted a huge paragraph about Runemaster earlier which is the most difficult one and I don't wanna take up a whole page just for that. Starseer and Sorcerer can be cheesed with using the Dancer divine skill to cast reflect on your entire party. Warlord cheese requires you to have already beaten Runemaster and equip it onto Tressa, use Rune Transfer to cast Sidestep on the whole party. *As early as the low to mid 20s provided you have the necessary skills, but it'll take awhile and be fraught with danger.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:00
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I solved a sidequest once after talking to some guy who threatened me, so I beat the poo poo out of him and go right to a cutscene where a cleric from the next town (that I hadnt been in yet) thanks me for solving their problem
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Jul 25, 2018 23:08
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Alfyn's chapter 3, with all the talk about dirty, rotten, no-good thieves must be awkward for Therion 
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Jul 25, 2018 23:12
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lol apparently Octopath instantly sold out their restock in Japan 22k in 3 hours.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:13
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Control Volume posted:I solved a sidequest once after talking to some guy who threatened me, so I beat the poo poo out of him and go right to a cutscene where a cleric from the next town (that I hadnt been in yet) thanks me for solving their problem Hah yeah, I ran into the same one last night. "Talk poo poo get hit!"   : "Hey thanks for the help!"
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Jul 25, 2018 23:14
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Some Numbers posted:So what I'm getting from this is that I should not attempt any of the advanced jobs without the Dancer and Cleric Divine Skills? I beat 3 of them without either (and all 4 without the Cleric divine skill). Those skills help but are not in any way required.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:23
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Licarn posted:Alfyn's chapter 3, with all the talk about dirty, rotten, no-good thieves must be awkward for Therion Well, Therion is a thief, not a murderer. Except for the several dozen guards we saw him murder while he was "sneaking" through the Ruvel's mansion, I guess. And I guess since he didn't say anything like "Man, this usually never happens! I can't believe I've been caught by, and subsequently had to murder, so many guards," you kinda have to assume this is par for the course for him, and any time he robs a mansion he leaves way more dead bodies behind than Miguel ever could. Huh.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:23
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Bussamove posted:Sonce we’re all posting parties and jobs, help me fix any problems I might have goons with a better head for this. I think it's a bad mindset to say "okay here is the cement secondary job I am using for each character." Like, if a boss is weak against bows, switching Therion over to Hunter would suddenly become your most effective character since a single Arrow Storm will probably shred all his shield charges. Likewise, right now Olberic is the only one capable of using axes, and Tressa is the only one able to use bows. You might not need axes or bows all the time, but just switch up if you do.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:27
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Still in the very early game, and I’m trying to pick up Primrose as party member #5. Do bosses scale with # of party members? If so, drat. In fact, the difficulty spiked quite high once I hit 4 members...is that normal? Also, what am I supposed to be doing besides getting all the other members? I feel rather underpowered.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:37
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Pollyanna posted:Still in the very early game, and I’m trying to pick up Primrose as party member #5. Do bosses scale with # of party members? If so, drat. In fact, the difficulty spiked quite high once I hit 4 members...is that normal? The early game (chapter 1s) scale up to four party members since you can go for whichever characters you want in whichever order you want. Other than getting the rest of the cast, try doing the dungeons (one in each of the 8 areas) and getting the subjobs.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:41
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Can I get a strat for Runelord? Just got Starseer so figured it was next and welp he's a big fan of naptime and I'm not
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Jul 25, 2018 23:43
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I think there are only 4 non story dungeons in the starter area
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Jul 25, 2018 23:43
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:I think it's a bad mindset to say "okay here is the cement secondary job I am using for each character." Like, if a boss is weak against bows, switching Therion over to Hunter would suddenly become your most effective character since a single Arrow Storm will probably shred all his shield charges. Likewise, right now Olberic is the only one capable of using axes, and Tressa is the only one able to use bows. You might not need axes or bows all the time, but just switch up if you do. Well yeah, if I know something coming up has a particular weakness I’ll switch it up, this is just my general party setup. Olberic dips into hunter quite a bit and Tressa has been a scholar a lot too.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:49
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I don't really have set jobs for my party either, I rotate between two or three for each character, which is slowly growing as I unlock the other four. Then again I also rotate my party pretty regularly to try to keep everyone leveled. Everyone's hovering around 40 right now besides my main at 51, have 5/8 C3's done and all jobs but Starseer (doing two C3's before each subjob, figure that's a good pace to get them).
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Jul 26, 2018 00:01
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Can I get a strat for Runelord? Just got Starseer so figured it was next and welp he's a big fan of naptime and I'm not https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3860038&userid=117149#post486256587
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Jul 26, 2018 00:12
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Can I get a strat for Runelord? Just got Starseer so figured it was next and welp he's a big fan of naptime and I'm not An easy-ish strat that doesn't require divine skills but does require money: Tressa - Warrior Olberic - Merchant Alfyn - I think I had him subbed as a hunter for bow breaks and leghold trap, but I never used leghold trap.  And then whomever (my main's Therion and he's subbed warmaster, and def down is real handy for Merchant summons) Alfyn is a BP battery. Tressa and Olberic can trade off on tanking Runelord via the warrior taunt while both building up their stide-step stacks. Alfyn can empoison when he isn't giving BP to people. When the boss gets guard broken you have Tressa and Olberic drop veteran summons on the boss, which should hit for 25k+ if you lowered their defense first. Your 4th party member can contribute with whatever offense they have available. A hunter also works if you want leghold trap for after the break ends. The main thing is knowing how much damage you can put out during the 2 turns of break and trying to setup later in the fight when the boss is low enough that a break mode damage rush can finish them, but not too low as to send them in to murder mode before you break them (and to break them asap if they are and you can't handle the damage). in my case I messed up and they barely survived the break mode, but since Tressa and Olberic both had half a dozen side-step stacks they survived, then one used a pomegranate(L) on the other who finished the boss with a merchant summon. Shadow Ninja 64 posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3860038&userid=117149#post486256587 This works too.
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I just used a large Olive of Life on Ophelia, not expecting that she would come back as a 9,999HP unbreakable wall of cute, shrug off multiple consecutive attacks and turn a lost cause into an easy win. Just started chapter 3 and Miguel is the first boss I've struggled against since early chapter 1. avoid doorways fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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Jul 26, 2018 00:52
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Licarn posted:Just started chapter 3 and Miguel is the first boss I've struggled against since early chapter 1. Yeah, he was a fucker! I ended up accidentally discovering the "leghold trap to give yourself free turns, keep boss broken" strategy by doing that fight.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:38
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3860038&userid=117149#post486256587 Was pretty slow going but perfectly safe. Thanks for that !
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Jul 26, 2018 01:58
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I can't believe Tressa's storyline is "What If The Real Treasure Was The Friends We Made Along The Way" except totally straight-faced and unironic
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Jul 26, 2018 03:01
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:I can't believe Tressa's storyline is "What If The Real Treasure Was The Friends We Made Along The Way" except totally straight-faced and unironic We truly are the Octopath Travelers. *Credits*
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Jul 26, 2018 03:02
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Got all the bonus jobs and can go to the final dungeon but read a post saying that it's ideal to have everyone at level 65 at least for it That is a poo poo ton of grinding and can't be right, right? 
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Jul 26, 2018 03:07
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"Is supposedly a prodigious merchant" "gets swindled by literally everyone" Her story is a relatively painless light-hearted romp but it's definitely not good edit: ^^^ I had all eight at level 70+ with best in slot items (but no battle tested duplicates because of that lovely rng) and it was pretty hard.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:07
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Got all the bonus jobs and can go to the final dungeon but read a post saying that it's ideal to have everyone at level 65 at least for it From what I have heard? No.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:08
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Man, Tressa's story is so good.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:12
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I finished Primrose's story. Holy poo poo I wish I brought Alfyn or stocked up on Herbs of Clamor.  I'm so glad I got Runelord before that fight because I think I'd have been so hosed without Runes.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:24
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Got all the bonus jobs and can go to the final dungeon but read a post saying that it's ideal to have everyone at level 65 at least for it The final boss requires you to break the game like never before
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Jul 26, 2018 03:26
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I know there hasn't been anything major yet but since people are starting to finish chapter 4's, can I just request that we try to keep spoilers in spoiler tags? 
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Jul 26, 2018 03:27
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Has there been a sprite rip yet?
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Jul 26, 2018 03:43
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Someone play this game for me; what party composition should I use? Also is there a map of the subclass dungeons? I haven’t found any
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Jul 26, 2018 03:47
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Your Computer posted:I know there hasn't been anything major yet but since people are starting to finish chapter 4's, can I just request that we try to keep spoilers in spoiler tags? I haven't even finished all my Chapter 2s yet, I still have Olberic and H'aanit.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:55
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Empress Brosephine posted:Someone play this game for me; what party composition should I use? All the shrines are near chapter 2 towns, so if you haven't ventured outside of the first ring, you wouldn't have found them yet. If you want a map, here you go: http://www.ign.com/wikis/octopath-traveler/Job_Shrine_Locations
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Got dang. Tonal whiplash playing Tressa and Primrose chp1 back to back
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