Aircalibur421 Wrote:I'll work on synthing all the effects tomorrow. I have to finish the childhood arc again. Most of the follow the [level #] "condition" "effect" (+ / = / (x) [Modified value based on level], pattern.
The only Shard effects I'd need now are Tension, Holy, Revenge, and Refill. The other things I need are the names for the effects that come on equipment (i.e. what are the effects that make you deal more damage to certain enemy types called), and the effects themselves that come from the Future Arc weapons (The effects associated with Accel Mode/Gauge).
[MENTION=3430]Sarah[/MENTION]: The Books you're missing are
#82; In Wallbridge, after you've cleared it, there is an extra warp that becomes accessible inside, at the bottom of one of the towers (IIRC). It warps you to a new area of the Wallbridge Ruins that has some treasure and this book should be there. It recovers Eleth based on the highest combo you get in a battle, so it's not too good, but COLLECTOR'S BOOK etc.
#105; Turtlez Stamp Reward (90); every time you use an arte, it counts as 2 instead of 1.
#111; defeat Kohak Amber in the Cameo Party Battle in the Arena. You unlock the fight after reaching Reala in the bonus dungeon I think.
#114; defeat the final boss in the bonus dungeon
#116; defeat Rockgagong =D
[spoiler=Rage (EX dungeon spoiler I s'pose)]So I'm coming very close to starting my New Game+. I'm just finishing up some loose ends, killed all the dragons on Hard finally, and now I'm seeing how far I can get in the EX dungeon. The answer: Not very. The monsters are pretty absurd and I can't beat the third floor boss (Amber), nor can I survive regular encounters consistently on the fourth floor. So I decided to give Amber one final big attempt. I put the characters I saw doing the best against her, I equipped things that hit her weaknesses, some human/burn resistance for Hubert and Asbel, and some eleth gauge growth up/down on the two casters. I even ate some food beforehand and set up my mid-battle food (it was revive on KO food). The first 30 seconds or so went great -- she doesn't hit anyone. Then Enemy Eleth Burst. Less than a second in she uses Starlight and one-shots everyone (14k damage). My KO food did not proc.
Fuck this -- plowing through on normal.
Remember when full-screen unavoidable hi-ougis that did absurd damage had the caveat of not being able to kill you (Big Bang, Brave Vesperia, most things Nibilim did)? I miss that.[/spoiler]
KaidaTan Wrote:[spoiler=Rage (EX dungeon spoiler I s'pose)]So I'm coming very close to starting my New Game+. I'm just finishing up some loose ends, killed all the dragons on Hard finally, and now I'm seeing how far I can get in the EX dungeon. The answer: Not very. The monsters are pretty absurd and I can't beat the third floor boss (Amber), nor can I survive regular encounters consistently on the fourth floor. So I decided to give Amber one final big attempt. I put the characters I saw doing the best against her, I equipped things that hit her weaknesses, some human/burn resistance for Hubert and Asbel, and some eleth gauge growth up/down on the two casters. I even ate some food beforehand and set up my mid-battle food (it was revive on KO food). The first 30 seconds or so went great -- she doesn't hit anyone. Then Enemy Eleth Burst. Less than a second in she uses Starlight and one-shots everyone (14k damage). My KO food did not proc.
Fuck this -- plowing through on normal.
Remember when full-screen unavoidable hi-ougis that did absurd damage had the caveat of not being able to kill you (Big Bang, Brave Vesperia, most things Nibilim did)? I miss that.[/spoiler]
I think I've had Starlight kill me once. Make sure the level modifier isn't getting too high. I went into one of those floors under leveled once and ended up not finding enough monsters to keep it at 100% and had to restart since regular fights were lasting upwards of 5 minutes.
JoeTang Wrote:I think I've had Starlight kill me once. Make sure the level modifier isn't getting too high. I went into one of those floors under leveled once and ended up not finding enough monsters to keep it at 100% and had to restart since regular fights were lasting upwards of 5 minutes.
I think the monsters are just getting stronger than my absurdly slow leveling speed can keep up with, and my synthing is coming along slowly as well because it costs 16 MOONS for each synth. Those stupid elemental things on that floor take nearly that long to kill, too. I didn't have any problems making sure the modifier stays low, and I always make sure to start the boss with 100%, but Starlight definitely decided I didn't need to be alive anymore that time. I got her just fine on Moderate a second ago.
2012-03-30, 07:36 PM (This post was last modified: 2012-03-30, 11:49 PM by Justin.)
KaidaTan Wrote:I think the monsters are just getting stronger than my absurdly slow leveling speed can keep up with, and my synthing is coming along slowly as well because it costs 16 MOONS for each synth. Those stupid elemental things on that floor take nearly that long to kill, too. I didn't have any problems making sure the modifier stays low, and I always make sure to start the boss with 100%, but Starlight definitely decided I didn't need to be alive anymore that time. I got her just fine on Moderate a second ago.
Starting your next playthrough may be a good idea then. Try to wrap up any other sidequests you have yet for extra grade, and try to get 10x exp and maybe 2x SP paired with the double SP for previously mastered titles. Be sure to get the important stuff like library info and your eleth mixer related junk. Getting through the zonecage on your first playthrough is difficult in higher difficulties if you don't have 10x exp. It takes god damn FOREVER to level even once without it.
KaidaTan Wrote:How do I get Sophie and Mecha-Sophie to salute at the end of Pascal's 4th BC? Does Pascal still have to build Mecha-Sophie at some point?
From what I hear, you need to use it 50 times (or was it 100?) or so, then mash the Artes button to hell while it's casting.
And yes, she needs to have built Mecha-Sophie.
Sarah Wrote:Edit: God damn Cheria's Indignation is the worst spell in the game. WHY IS IT SO SLOW
For some reason, my AI Cheria keeps spamming Indignation every chance she gets, so I got the title without even trying.
KaidaTan Wrote:
Future Arc Final Dungeon Question
More importantly, I would have liked to not develop a special strategy for fighting those 10 Little Queens whilest being constantly assaulted by Paralysis.
Future Arc Boss
Goddamn, she was hard! Really really hard! (Playing on Hard, by the way.) Status effects abound, nearly impossible to combo, quick painful deaths. My... "strategy" ended up being get her down to about 30% HP normally, which wasn't a problem for some reason, then use an All-divide. I actually ran out of life bottles and had to start using elixers. And at the very end, even with the all-divide up, I had to spam elixers, hourglasses, and limit bottles just to get that last bit of damage in on her. Jesus that was a hard fight.
The hell you doing man, just equip a Paralysis Check or whatever the damn thing's called.
I somehow managed to beat Fodra Queen on Chaos on my final playthrough. No idea how that happened. I think I lowered the difficulty to Hard to kill Solomus though...
JoeTang Wrote:I think I've had Starlight kill me once. Make sure the level modifier isn't getting too high. I went into one of those floors under leveled once and ended up not finding enough monsters to keep it at 100% and had to restart since regular fights were lasting upwards of 5 minutes.
If you're unlucky enough, all your characters may be positioned wrongly...which would get you wiped by Starlight due to taking the maximum number of hits from it. If you're lucky though, you'll probably only take like 1 hit or so.
If you're unlucky enough, all your characters may be positioned wrongly...which would get you wiped by Starlight due to taking the maximum number of hits from it. If you're lucky though, you'll probably only take like 1 hit or so.
Same deal for Reala's BC.
Reala's BC is a joke. I could probably take 4 of those on Chaos before I die.
My friend and I just got to Barona Castle on our English version. Went through Wallbridge on Evil. Boss was a bit iffy because his spells still OHKO. I was playing as Pascal, but just switched to Richard, and we mauled the guards. Lightning Strike basically guaranteed paralysis on those things, and it was easy afterwards. Although I died to a Cluster Raid because Sword Rain's animation was too long =/ Regular monsters provide a challenge though because they hit hard, and we stagger for such long durations. Pascal doesn't have any crowd control yet T_T Working on getting Wind Needle Master's 5th skill before I start using Fearful Storm since I want all my artes available =S Enflame is OP though.
The hell you doing man, just equip a Paralysis Check or whatever the damn thing's called.
I somehow managed to beat Fodra Queen on Chaos on my final playthrough. No idea how that happened. I think I lowered the difficulty to Hard to kill Solomus though...
Charm? I didn't have that many on me, so I went for the food thing. It lasted for 90% of the battle anyway, and Sophie doesn't give a damn about status effects (Altraxia is wonderful). How many playthroughs did you do?
KaidaTan Wrote:Charm? I didn't have that many on me, so I went for the food thing. It lasted for 90% of the battle anyway, and Sophie doesn't give a damn about status effects (Altraxia is wonderful). How many playthroughs did you do?
Three, but using the save file my cousin had already cleared the game with once or twice.
Wow, will have to catch up on this thread again sometime.
102 hours clocked in now. Party is lv105-107. Still on first playthrough and haven't done Future Arc yet. lol I keep telling myself I want to get other stuff out of the way so I can better savor it...but there's NO END. Have two towns down to just the Gentleman's (I assume?) request, where that symbol thing appeared on the text boxes, with the others not too far behind. Held up with several equipment requests yet. I've cleared floors 1-6 on Zhonecage. I have access to floor 7, but I quit for the night because the chicken mob was too hilarious. My Dualize Book is mostly filled in, except for the ???????? stuff I haven't come across yet. Have 100+ Titles on Asbel and Pascal, with everyone else not too far behind (well except Hubert... I should probably use him). Got the 80 Mastered Titles Title on Malik tonight, with at least the 40+ on everyone else. I don't understand Qualities AT ALL.
Getting to the point where I'm about ready to mass consume wiki knowledge and such... My body will never be ready for New Game+.
FelixTM Wrote:Wow, will have to catch up on this thread again sometime.
102 hours clocked in now. Party is lv105-107. Still on first playthrough and haven't done Future Arc yet. lol I keep telling myself I want to get other stuff out of the way so I can better savor it...but there's NO END. Have two towns down to just the Gentleman's (I assume?) request, where that symbol thing appeared on the text boxes, with the others not too far behind. Held up with several equipment requests yet. I've cleared floors 1-6 on Zhonecage. I have access to floor 7, but I quit for the night because the chicken mob was too hilarious. My Dualize Book is mostly filled in, except for the ???????? stuff I haven't come across yet. Have 100+ Titles on Asbel and Pascal, with everyone else not too far behind (well except Hubert... I should probably use him). Got the 80 Mastered Titles Title on Malik tonight, with at least the 40+ on everyone else. I don't understand Qualities AT ALL.
Getting to the point where I'm about ready to mass consume wiki knowledge and such... My body will never be ready for New Game+.
There's really no reason to do NG+ if you do it all on a single playthrough like you seem to be.
