Picked this to this afternoon. Decided to pass on loading a previous demo save and rolled a new run with Primrose. First thing I noticed after finishing her chapter one is that there were 3 very obvious path side stories, 2 of which require some one else's path action. I didn't do her story in the demo so I don't know if they were there during that but I didn't run into any thing like that in any of my demo saves.
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Sp Cyrus gets bonuses sometimes when scrutinizing people. Is there a way to see what he has?
Oh shiiiit, some allies' unique commands can bring benefits to other allies' commands.
After picking up Alfyn, I went back to Therion's starter town and used Inquire with one of the NPCs, who granted a permanent success chance increase to Therion's Steal command.
Got the full game! I have Primrose and Olberic from my demo save file, and I'm slowly making my way north and east around the mountains so that I can get to the snow village for the next part of Primrose's story.
Which means that Therion and Alfyn may take a while for me to get to, as they are both pretty much in the opposite direction from the rest of Prim's story. We'll see what happens.
By the way, I noticed that when you recruit a new party member, they seem to be halfway through their chapter 1. Olberic was just about to head out to attack the bandits when I recruited him.
So, when the heck does a parson meet Primrose during her chapter 1? Her activities seem sharply limited until she's right about to enter the catacombs.
Got the full game! I have Primrose and Olberic from my demo save file, and I'm slowly making my way north and east around the mountains so that I can get to the snow village for the next part of Primrose's story.
Which means that Therion and Alfyn may take a while for me to get to, as they are both pretty much in the opposite direction from the rest of Prim's story. We'll see what happens.
By the way, I noticed that when you recruit a new party member, they seem to be halfway through their chapter 1. Olberic was just about to head out to attack the bandits when I recruited him.
So, when the heck does a parson meet Primrose during her chapter 1? Her activities seem sharply limited until she's right about to enter the catacombs.
Also, Prim's first support ability is lovely.
Yes, but it prompts you if you "want to hear the beginning of the tale," which would be all the pre-fighting dialog and cutscenes.
So I'm going through the chapter 2s now, and here's a few things to note that have helped me a bunch. Spoilered if you wanna keep blind (all mechanical stuff)
The grind gets real after ch1. Good luck going right into chapter 2 stuff.
You are going to want to go Shrine Hunting after you get everyone to unlock a bunch of secondary jobs. Each Chapter 2 town has a shrine around it. Go visit them.
You probably also need money. A LOT of money. You are probably crying right now because you can only buy one piece of good armor for one character. Go grab Tressa and start roaming to high level areas with the scholar's evasive maneuvers and the cleric's run away++ chance ability.
She will start snagging 5k+ when you go into those areas and you can unlock towns for later fast travel.
Also you may want to try to recruit some of those high level NPCs with Primose or Ophilia because they do stupid damage.
Expect Ch2 bosses to be hard and long fights. Be ready.
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Steam: Tortalius
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Mmmmkay I have played for a total of 8 hours thus far (5 today, 3 yesterday with the demo.)
I've recruited four characters and visited 5 towns (I was gonna recruit Therion but decided to nab Alfyn instead firsttt). I keep wanting to go back to old towns to try out new Path Actions but I think I'll just wait til I have everyone first, haha.
I'm super duper in love with this game. I love the complete non-linear free-form structure. It's actually been super chill and relaxing just going from town to town and the in-between areas and just recruiting characters and going through their Ch1s.
Alfyn's boss was ACTUALLY legit hard too, like I dunno if that shit starts to scale with level/number of characters, but him being my fourth translated to a much harder boss than the other three. Hot damn. Thankfully Tressa could self-clear her Poison debuff and Olberic could draw Aggro from all the Snakes (with Prim buffing his Defense).
I can't wait for the difficulty to ramp up though. If that was just a small taste of what it'll start to get like then I'm all fuckin' in.
Alfyn's boss was ACTUALLY legit hard too, like I dunno if that shit starts to scale with level/number of characters, but him being my fourth translated to a much harder boss than the other three. Hot damn. Thankfully Tressa could self-clear her Poison debuff and Olberic could draw Aggro from all the Snakes (with Prim buffing his Defense).
Poison is no joke in this game, it does a very large percentage of your max health in damage. Fortunately it works the same way on enemies too, so turtle-y enemies can be fairly readily rolled down by poison.
At some point sure if you want, but he can concoct poison bombs easy enough. The only functional differences are using consumables vs SP, and you can dump BP into Empoison for additional duration(2 turns/BP). Poison is fixed%(though I think some enemies are poison weak and take way more than others?) so both ways of applying it do identical actual damage/turn.
I just remember getting Enpoison in the demo, and it not working at all on the viper boss, so I'm considering not doing that that early next time.
Speaking of abilities not working like you expected; if y'all are looking at Olberic's Thousand Spears attack, keep in mind that its relative accuracy is very low. You're not likely to hit all the shots it puts out without investing in some accuracy-boosting equipment.
Oh shiiiit, some allies' unique commands can bring benefits to other allies' commands.
After picking up Alfyn, I went back to Therion's starter town and used Inquire with one of the NPCs, who granted a permanent success chance increase to Therion's Steal command.
It's only an increased chance in that particular town though.
It annoys me that I only realized Alfyn can concoct a party wide antidote after his boss. I was too focused on using the single version. Way to make things harder on myself.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
Also it doesn't need to be a Skyrim joke. Career-ending knee injuries have been around about as long as careers and knees.
Like if it was "this former mercenary took an arrow in the knee", I'd think it was specifically a Skyrim reference.
Also, man, no wonder that dude was such a difficult duel. I will treasure that Captain's Sword.
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Welp stayed up way too late playing this
rolled tressa for the merchant memes
made tons of bank grinding in chapter 1
bought a super powerful dagger only to find out tresse is a polearm and bow girl
10/10 absolutely in love with this game
gorgeous graphics, very fun combat, grind grind grind for exp and lootz
i think this and MHW are gonna be tied for goty for me
not sure who to recruit second but i do love me some thievery so might roll full greed team
Okay straight up, the soundtrack in this game is incredible. The only game in recent memory I remember being so blown away by the OST was Nier: Automata. Almost every town/dungeon/boss song I've heard so far has been REALLY good!
Okay straight up, the soundtrack in this game is incredible. The only game in recent memory I remember being so blown away by the OST was Nier: Automata. Almost every town/dungeon/boss song I've heard so far has been REALLY good!
It annoys me that I only realized Alfyn can concoct a party wide antidote after his boss. I was too focused on using the single version. Way to make things harder on myself.
Uh, wait, how
I was under the assumption he could only do single target as well............
It annoys me that I only realized Alfyn can concoct a party wide antidote after his boss. I was too focused on using the single version. Way to make things harder on myself.
Uh, wait, how
I was under the assumption he could only do single target as well............
The first component you pick, one of them determines if it's single target or party wide.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
Loving it so far. Started with Tressa (so much money!) and am moving clockwise so have Olberic and Primrose now.
In the demo I only solo’d every story and the combat with more party members is sooooo much better. Boss fights are much more difficult and interesting with a bigger team.
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This game really seems to drain my switch battery.
"Small volume" = single target
"Large volume" = multi target
AAAAAGH
I just assumed that was "small heal" and "bigger heal"
Fuck. Agh. Shit.
Oh well. Now I know!
On an unrelated note, how exactly does Tressa's passive work? It seems sorta random? Is it just a random chance while walking around, or is it like when zoning into a new map, or?
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"Small volume" = single target
"Large volume" = multi target
AAAAAGH
I just assumed that was "small heal" and "bigger heal"
Fuck. Agh. Shit.
Oh well. Now I know!
On an unrelated note, how exactly does Tressa's passive work? It seems sorta random? Is it just a random chance while walking around, or is it like when zoning into a new map, or?
Mild = small effect
Potent = large (medium?) effect
I have no idea if there's a 3rd tier or not, but the potency is listed too!
In hindsight, that makes sense. Big potency == stronger effect, whereas big volume == more of it.
I know cross-classing is a thing; if Tressa is an apothacery, can her Endless Items passive cause her to sometimes not expend ingredients when mixing items? Oh wait, or is the mixing items thing only available for Alfyn himself, since it's not under the "Merchant Abilities" header?
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<Person at the entrance of a town>: "You do realize you don't need to fight to enter here?"
My favorite thing in this game is the mental image of Olberic walking up to some geriatric grandpa or something and going "COME FRIEND, A DUEL!" and they go all "eh? wha? what's that sonny?"
And then Olberic whomps them flat on their fucking ass and they're knocked out STONE COLD and Olberic goes "Ahhh, a good duel. Thanks for the fight~" and the only words they can muster are "n-nuhhh"
I like that the only reason H'aanit's action is the Rogue version is that she doesn't even bother with the excuse of a duel when she wants to beat someone up and raid their house.
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Which means that Therion and Alfyn may take a while for me to get to, as they are both pretty much in the opposite direction from the rest of Prim's story. We'll see what happens.
By the way, I noticed that when you recruit a new party member, they seem to be halfway through their chapter 1. Olberic was just about to head out to attack the bandits when I recruited him.
So, when the heck does a parson meet Primrose during her chapter 1? Her activities seem sharply limited until she's right about to enter the catacombs.
Also, Prim's first support ability is lovely.
Yes, but it prompts you if you "want to hear the beginning of the tale," which would be all the pre-fighting dialog and cutscenes.
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The grind gets real after ch1. Good luck going right into chapter 2 stuff.
You are going to want to go Shrine Hunting after you get everyone to unlock a bunch of secondary jobs. Each Chapter 2 town has a shrine around it. Go visit them.
You probably also need money. A LOT of money. You are probably crying right now because you can only buy one piece of good armor for one character. Go grab Tressa and start roaming to high level areas with the scholar's evasive maneuvers and the cleric's run away++ chance ability.
She will start snagging 5k+ when you go into those areas and you can unlock towns for later fast travel.
Also you may want to try to recruit some of those high level NPCs with Primose or Ophilia because they do stupid damage.
Expect Ch2 bosses to be hard and long fights. Be ready.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
I've recruited four characters and visited 5 towns (I was gonna recruit Therion but decided to nab Alfyn instead firsttt). I keep wanting to go back to old towns to try out new Path Actions but I think I'll just wait til I have everyone first, haha.
I'm super duper in love with this game. I love the complete non-linear free-form structure. It's actually been super chill and relaxing just going from town to town and the in-between areas and just recruiting characters and going through their Ch1s.
Alfyn's boss was ACTUALLY legit hard too, like I dunno if that shit starts to scale with level/number of characters, but him being my fourth translated to a much harder boss than the other three. Hot damn. Thankfully Tressa could self-clear her Poison debuff and Olberic could draw Aggro from all the Snakes (with Prim buffing his Defense).
I can't wait for the difficulty to ramp up though. If that was just a small taste of what it'll start to get like then I'm all fuckin' in.
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Poison is no joke in this game, it does a very large percentage of your max health in damage. Fortunately it works the same way on enemies too, so turtle-y enemies can be fairly readily rolled down by poison.
I just remember getting Enpoison in the demo, and it not working at all on the viper boss, so I'm considering not doing that that early next time.
Speaking of abilities not working like you expected; if y'all are looking at Olberic's Thousand Spears attack, keep in mind that its relative accuracy is very low. You're not likely to hit all the shots it puts out without investing in some accuracy-boosting equipment.
I have a feeling I’m going to be making a purchase in two more hours of play time.
It's only an increased chance in that particular town though.
Like if it was "this former mercenary took an arrow in the knee", I'd think it was specifically a Skyrim reference.
Also, man, no wonder that dude was such a difficult duel. I will treasure that Captain's Sword.
rolled tressa for the merchant memes
made tons of bank grinding in chapter 1
bought a super powerful dagger only to find out tresse is a polearm and bow girl
10/10 absolutely in love with this game
gorgeous graphics, very fun combat, grind grind grind for exp and lootz
i think this and MHW are gonna be tied for goty for me
not sure who to recruit second but i do love me some thievery so might roll full greed team
This is my favorite track so far:
Uh, wait, how
I was under the assumption he could only do single target as well............
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<Person at the entrance of a town>: "You do realize you don't need to fight to enter here?"
The first component you pick, one of them determines if it's single target or party wide.
"Large volume" = multi target
In the demo I only solo’d every story and the combat with more party members is sooooo much better. Boss fights are much more difficult and interesting with a bigger team.
AAAAAGH
I just assumed that was "small heal" and "bigger heal"
Fuck. Agh. Shit.
Oh well. Now I know!
On an unrelated note, how exactly does Tressa's passive work? It seems sorta random? Is it just a random chance while walking around, or is it like when zoning into a new map, or?
Battle.net Tag: Dibby#1582
This is basically me last night. Did the same things. At least she could wear that black armor the vendor also sells.
I really like Tressa though. Hopefully the other characters have as much or more personality.
Tressa for Smash.
Nintendo ID: Pastalonius
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3ds: 3282-2248-0453
Mild = small effect
Potent = large (medium?) effect
I have no idea if there's a 3rd tier or not, but the potency is listed too!
Still not sure what I need to do to complete the
I know cross-classing is a thing; if Tressa is an apothacery, can her Endless Items passive cause her to sometimes not expend ingredients when mixing items? Oh wait, or is the mixing items thing only available for Alfyn himself, since it's not under the "Merchant Abilities" header?
Yeah I'm officially a big Tressa fan. I love hearing her say you got more than you bargained for! or time to close up shop! after defeating an enemy.
For her ability though when it says she spots some money does that mean I automatically pick it up? Or do I need to look for it?
My favorite thing in this game is the mental image of Olberic walking up to some geriatric grandpa or something and going "COME FRIEND, A DUEL!" and they go all "eh? wha? what's that sonny?"
And then Olberic whomps them flat on their fucking ass and they're knocked out STONE COLD and Olberic goes "Ahhh, a good duel. Thanks for the fight~" and the only words they can muster are "n-nuhhh"
Aaaand then he goes and raids their house.
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