sharing info and collectively building something like that is really fucking cool but yeah at least one (attempted?) playthrough of these things totally blind should be mandatory really
wish i had the time to return to this at the moment
Does anyone know if there is a cap on weapon skill level? One of the tips says something about mastering weapons to unlock roles, and I am wondering what that counts as because man I sure could use some roles.
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Getting new roles has nothing to do with weapon level and everything to do with techs sparked. As I understand it most roles require techs from different weapons, so to get enough roles to fill your slots you need to switch weapons a lot, which is honestly a huge pain!
Roles aren’t that important so if you’re not min / maxing you should ignore them and just roll with whatever you get
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I’m not sure what the skill level cap is, though the HP cap is 999 so it might just max out once you hit 99 or 999. But roles are typically unlocked by learning techs. If you check your roles it tells you what techs unlocked it:
The Fluid was unlocked because I learned Triple Thrust with short sword and Slide in Martial Arts. Maidenblade said “No Specific Requirements”, and it’s what Urpina defaulted as, so it might just be a role unique to her she has innately. Novice Duelist is a role that also says “No Specific Requirements” but it’s something Urpina learned through a quest. There’s another role I have called The Fighter (large sleep resistance up) that I learned by achieving Rank 2 with the Mesmerize tech.
Largely I’ve read that Roles are things more intended to be built up over multiple playthroughs as you build your characters’ up, and while they can help customize your playstyle they aren’t strictly necessary to fiddle with. Especially on a first playthrough.
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Ah, fair enough. Because yeah, if you focus on like one weapon, you suddenly end up with like 5 role slots, but only know two roles, so it’s kinda weird.
But it makes sense as a multiplaythrough thing as well, and doesn’t seem super game breaking either way.
Dang, my first time ever seeing Brutal difficulty. After playing Hard battles I can’t imagine what this must be like.
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Brutal is weird, because some of them are genuinely difficult, but others, you figure out a gimmick and steamroll them. I have been fighting the red demon spawns in each area that I can get them to spawn in to get infernostones and like half of those fights have been cakewalks, but the other half have been genuinely rough and I have been stuck for a few tries on one that I am taking a break from. I wonder how many of these stones I need to get to thaw out the frozen god in the North.
Also, how did you get that boss cave rumor to happen?
I’ve been going around believing every rumor I’ve found, I think. Then I did “things are falling from the sky” rumor from a lady in the town Pescara, believed it and fought the battle. I went back to the town and the lady told me the same rumor again, and I decided to not believe it this time to see what happens. Nothing happened so I went back to town and she had that new rumor. Believed it and this cave has appeared. I think I need to get some new weapons ready first though.
I can’t remember all the rumors I’ve gone through. I recall the lady in the well, the Bigfoot tracks, and I think there were a couple others. There one guy in the northeast who asks you if you have any stupid gossip but I haven’t been able to tell him anything yet.
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Ah OK, I need to just not believe one of those then, because the sky keeps dropping stuff as long as you believe it.
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Is it just fiends or does other stuff fall too?
Other stuff, some small treasures, but nothing too notable. I did it like 5 or 6 times, I think.
I saw and ran through the Final Boss Cave in my first visit in that area. I think my reward was… an underwhelming joke! which was probably funnier than a good one would have been
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I beat it and all I got was a Strange Bone and a ton of material. Is there anything else that happened with you?
Like booji said it actually wasn’t that hard! Since it was a single enemy battle it was mainly figuring out the best way to whittle it down while surviving, which usually means try to have poison active in as many rounds as possible and have a couple of Protectors to mitigate losses. The rest is planning your techs around your available BP and the enemy’s upcoming attack. Defense Down was of course helpful and utilizing your party member deaths to create United Attacks is a very strong tactic.
It looks like there’s another rumor I can follow about a cave with treasure but I think this might be the first rumor I heard in the region? Is this stuff looping?
I then wandered into some Provinces I had visited before looking for the right element smithy and it looks like new events are popping up in them now that I guess I hit a major milestone in the campaign. Looks fun! I have no idea where to go to find this mysterious Urpina Twin though.
Wait, is this the region with the evergreen cherry blossom tree and endless lava pit and the swamp? The one where you can take on a mining excavation to create elemental caves and you have to go through an ice passage to reach an upper area where there’s a wrecked ship and a big thing trapped in ice? I’m not collecting any shards yet in my playthrough but isn’t that supposed to be a dragon and not a god? Did you just call it a god or is it actually different from mine?
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I don’t know what it is, but it is in theory dead in the ice, but yes, that.
There is a doppelganger cave you can see on Urpina’s home map, but you need to use the boathouse to get there, but it won’t let you do that till “everything is at peace” so…?
Thanks for the tips. I guess I’ll let it progress as it does and get to it later.
There’s a minstrel’s tale about it. I thought it was one of the more interesting ones so I’m curious to get to unfreezing it myself.
Yeah, I didn’t get on this path until after I finished collecting teh Flamebringer shards and it seems to only trigger the giant demon’s showing up once you’ve “solved” whatever the main thing in an area is.
Then I guess I’ll at least get my next main story path going so I get start my progression while exploring at the same time.
I think my favorite tales so far are that one and the one about the building the Labyrinth. I like these ones because they have a mixture of fantastic whimsy and the age old god petulance, naiveity, and cruelty. Those tales really do feel like they could be real fables.
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