2012-04-29, 08:17 PM
Planning doing a few more playthroughs than Felix, because I did things slower and didn't grind at all on my first playthrough. This (second) playthrough I was working on getting the usage titles while just going through the game normally, but I was still missing a lot of them by the end of the Future Arc, which is coincidentally when I finally unlocked the Striking Manual. Wish I had known that existed and that it was so easy to get before I did all of Cheria's and Malik's A-artes >.>
Accomplished so far on the second playthrough:
-Most of the titles (and all of the usage ones), save for the level 200 one and a few combat-related ones (damn you, Quad Smasher)
-All the imitation titles
-9999 Eleth Mixer (just hit 14 slots, too)
-Most of the Inn requests (goddamn there's a lot of them. Still have a few to go, but I'll finish it before the end)
-Filled the dualize book (well, almost. I'll have filled it soon. I got my S-gem while grinding usage. It's pretty)
I was rolling straight Chaos with few/no issues until Lambda, who just did far too much damage for me to handle. Been playing on Evil since. I thought the Fodra Queen would destroy me on Evil, but it really wasn't that bad (probably because of all the title grinding I had just done). The EXP/Gald bonus for Blue Earth is wtpomghax. I'm working on finishing the Zhonecage (on floor 8), and Evil hasn't been a problem for me so far, but I suspect it will be on Solomus. Once I finish the Zhonecage and get all the rare craftables, I'll head to playthrough three. Three might be kind of boring, since the main point of it will be to get Sophie's Skit title and finish up any remaining odd titles I'm missing. I'm hoping that'll net me enough grade to start off the last playthrough with all skills learned.
Pascal has lately been my character of choice. So fun to play as. On an unrelated note, I need to see how it is that people can solo Chaos Veigue like... at all, let alone at a low level. I must be missing some sort of fundamental knowledge of how that works, because I had trouble soloing him on Easy around level 70ish (on my second playthrough). When I went in there at a higher difficulty on accident, he just didn't stagger and killed me in three swings.
For the Carta minigame, it turns out that it's actually pretty easy if you go in there with *exactly* 25 cards, that way the same 25 cards always show and you don't have to memorize as much. It helped me even further that I had actually played most of the games of the characters I had cards of. Even then, I couldn't get a perfect on Hard normally, however, doing that pause trick to have time to think about the quote and where the card was ended up being enough to get him in a try or two. Why is the Rita costume song so terrible? There's plenty of good music in Vesperia, but all of the ones they brought to Graces don't make for good battle music at all.
Anyway, I have about 190 hours in it so far, and I'm looking forward to a bunch more. I wonder who I should spend my time on next playthrough...
Accomplished so far on the second playthrough:
-Most of the titles (and all of the usage ones), save for the level 200 one and a few combat-related ones (damn you, Quad Smasher)
-All the imitation titles
-9999 Eleth Mixer (just hit 14 slots, too)
-Most of the Inn requests (goddamn there's a lot of them. Still have a few to go, but I'll finish it before the end)
-Filled the dualize book (well, almost. I'll have filled it soon. I got my S-gem while grinding usage. It's pretty)
I was rolling straight Chaos with few/no issues until Lambda, who just did far too much damage for me to handle. Been playing on Evil since. I thought the Fodra Queen would destroy me on Evil, but it really wasn't that bad (probably because of all the title grinding I had just done). The EXP/Gald bonus for Blue Earth is wtpomghax. I'm working on finishing the Zhonecage (on floor 8), and Evil hasn't been a problem for me so far, but I suspect it will be on Solomus. Once I finish the Zhonecage and get all the rare craftables, I'll head to playthrough three. Three might be kind of boring, since the main point of it will be to get Sophie's Skit title and finish up any remaining odd titles I'm missing. I'm hoping that'll net me enough grade to start off the last playthrough with all skills learned.
Pascal has lately been my character of choice. So fun to play as. On an unrelated note, I need to see how it is that people can solo Chaos Veigue like... at all, let alone at a low level. I must be missing some sort of fundamental knowledge of how that works, because I had trouble soloing him on Easy around level 70ish (on my second playthrough). When I went in there at a higher difficulty on accident, he just didn't stagger and killed me in three swings.
For the Carta minigame, it turns out that it's actually pretty easy if you go in there with *exactly* 25 cards, that way the same 25 cards always show and you don't have to memorize as much. It helped me even further that I had actually played most of the games of the characters I had cards of. Even then, I couldn't get a perfect on Hard normally, however, doing that pause trick to have time to think about the quote and where the card was ended up being enough to get him in a try or two. Why is the Rita costume song so terrible? There's plenty of good music in Vesperia, but all of the ones they brought to Graces don't make for good battle music at all.
Anyway, I have about 190 hours in it so far, and I'm looking forward to a bunch more. I wonder who I should spend my time on next playthrough...