2012-04-11, 11:49 PM
The "piggyback" method wouldn't work at all. On a first playthrough, even taking off your armor and using a stat halving book, Lambda Theos won't even be doing 100k to you on Chaos, let alone the 900k necessary.
I checked into it, and I would need to defeat Theos on at least Hard Mode to maintain the same amount of Grade. I thought maybe the 100 earned from completing my Monster Book would help make up for fighting him on a lower difficulty, but it doesn't at all. Even on Hard he's freakin' lv180 and OP as hell. So yeah, I just have to deal with the stupid way they set up the game clear grade bonus and accept not fighting Theos until NG+.
Had a really good day yesterday and today, though. Managed to acquire all of the items I was missing. Now every category in my Collector's Book is 100%, except Gems (missing O, P, Q, R and S). I wasn't planning on it, but now I think I'm going to finish it. Those last Gems are EXPENSIVE though...no two ways about it.
If I can finish that and pull off a huge combo (gonna try that 999 business, hopefully), I think I'm FINALLY ready for NG+. I refuse to start if I can't carry over as much as I can. I don't care about bonuses so much (though I do hope to grab some EXP). I ain't mastering my titles and filling in my books again.
I checked into it, and I would need to defeat Theos on at least Hard Mode to maintain the same amount of Grade. I thought maybe the 100 earned from completing my Monster Book would help make up for fighting him on a lower difficulty, but it doesn't at all. Even on Hard he's freakin' lv180 and OP as hell. So yeah, I just have to deal with the stupid way they set up the game clear grade bonus and accept not fighting Theos until NG+.
Had a really good day yesterday and today, though. Managed to acquire all of the items I was missing. Now every category in my Collector's Book is 100%, except Gems (missing O, P, Q, R and S). I wasn't planning on it, but now I think I'm going to finish it. Those last Gems are EXPENSIVE though...no two ways about it.
If I can finish that and pull off a huge combo (gonna try that 999 business, hopefully), I think I'm FINALLY ready for NG+. I refuse to start if I can't carry over as much as I can. I don't care about bonuses so much (though I do hope to grab some EXP). I ain't mastering my titles and filling in my books again.