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Valak has a bunch, but it does calm down (for a bit) from here.
30fps. probably some dips here or there, but nothing really worrying
By the way, if I were to count the number of sidequests I've done up until this point (doing every single one available to me, as far as I know), how many would it be?
Less than Alcamoth by a wide variety but I can't remember the exact number. Probably around 12 to 15?
No, I meant the number of sidequests before Valak Mountain lol.
I take it even the developers got exhausted after a while
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Enel (the speedrunner I linked in the threadmarks and OP) has a guide out for Seven (and everyone else, just Riki missing now I believe). He goes over all the different arts and explains what they do and which are ideal.
I like you.
It's such a bummer how they screwed up the camera options in 2/Torna. The first person camera is on ground-level and even the height/horizontal alignment adjustment is rigid and limited compared to how they did it here.
Well, I'm just glad it seems to finally be easing up. The Affinity Chart looks to be over 80% filled in, too. I guess whatever the last major NPC hub is is smaller in scale compared to Frontier Village and such.
I dont remember where exactly that ch starts, but i know where it goes so..
i think around 15 hours tops, though of course in the last ch you can take your time to do whatever you want before the point of no return
Thank you! I love the game, I was just wondering how long it went on for at this point (without googling).
The first time I get there. I can't remember the name of the location but
I just got into the base after Shulk had a premonition Fiora is inside
If you mean
Galahad Fortress on Sword Valley then you are about 65-70% through the main story.
Also at 22 hours and already there you must be really rushing.
Kind of. I was getting frustrated with bosses absolutely destroying me so I turned on casual mode and then just didn't turn it off and breezed through basically the forest onwards. I'll probably do some side quests and what not to extend my time but I'm mostly just trying to get through the story.
Just got to Valak Mountain or w/e the snowy area is called.
I've been trying to play without looking much up (have looked up some of the high affinity presents and where to find the colony 6 items though) and was super excited to find an advanced book for Melia. I didn't realize it was such a big deal until my SO was like WOAH HOLY SHIT WHERE'D YOU GET THAT.
Since then I haven't found any--and have only unlocked a single new skill tree branch (Reticence for Melia -- my SO explained how to get it luckily).
Are there any obvious skill tree branches or advanced books I've missed? I'm guessing quite a few tbh but I've been trying to be better about finding secret areas since discovering the advanced book in
I've been trying to play without looking much up (have looked up some of the high affinity presents and where to find the colony 6 items though) and was super excited to find an advanced book for Melia. I didn't realize it was such a big deal until my SO was like WOAH HOLY SHIT WHERE'D YOU GET THAT.
Since then I haven't found any--and have only unlocked a single new skill tree branch (Reticence for Melia -- my SO explained how to get it luckily).
Are there any obvious skill tree branches or advanced books I've missed? I'm guessing quite a few tbh but I've been trying to be better about finding secret areas since discovering the advanced book in
the high tomb
Advanced books are found from UMs and higher level monsters. You're at the point where you can get Dunban's, Riki, and Shulk's fourth skill trees.
Yeah I'm loving the game, I'm like 60 hours in and it's probably gonna be my favorite RPG of all time when it's all said and done, and I get why certain quests and items are time sensitive, but man I don't think I've ever thought missable items and quests were ever a good thing in RPGs. It's just kinda frustrating. Oh well. Guess I'll settle for 100%'ing the collectopedia and challenges.
Adding to what DPT120 said
You can also get a free Advanced Art Book for Shulk's Battle Soul from Lupa's quest line in Frontier Village
Here's also a list of all which monsters can drop which Advanced Art Books (potential spoilers for Seven), They do only drop from Golden Chests though and have a rare chance of appearing. If you want to grind for them, chests' contents are determined when you open them, so you can save scum it if you save before opening.
If I were you, I'd avoid reading anything story related in this thread for the best experience. Ask all gameplay questions to your heart content.
Why don't visions trigger sometimes? I'm fighting these stupid spider kings with Dive Impact, and it's always a party wipe if it hits, but I only get a vision like 1/3 of the time.
Related: what's the range of these sorts of attacks? I'm Melia and I'm far enough away that I can't hit him with a fireball but still being OHKO by Dive Impact.
Related: what's the range of these sorts of attacks? I'm Melia and I'm far enough away that I can't hit him with a fireball but still being OHKO by Dive Impact.
Reached Agniratha and I have to say the game really drags now. Only thing I'm doing is hitting switches and collect items to cross barriers. Hope it picks up again soon because I really want to finish it this time.
I'll add that save scumming for 1% odds or so isn't really worth it. In the later areas I'll open a chest 3-4 times just to see if the game wants to be generous, but explicitly farming a chest for a specific item can potentially take hours and just isn't worth it.
Sometimes that 3-4 attempts is all it takes. I got a 0.7% odds Power Drive book that way last night which was really fortunate.
I don't know why you'd farm chests for Advanced manuals when you can farm Noponstone instead and get the Master manuals
Visions only trigger if the attacks would kill someone at the time it's initiated. If you get worn down by other enemies after it's initiated there's no vision, and there's no vision if it leaves everyone toppled/dazed and then killed by autoattacks
thanks! I'll check those out tho I'll avoid clicking on that for now since I don't know who seven is (assuming you mean the 7th party member who I have guesses about but don't want to spoil just in case)!
The last side-quests are basically intended as post-game.
At level 73 you can kill uniques in the low 80s if you are set up right. But mostly I imagine the game is assuming you already are in the last area because those quest only show up after a specific story section occurs. It is basically content for being done the game
Easy Affinity grind tip
Just found a really easy way to grind affinity between characters. It's almost the same as the method I've seen people talk about using a high level UM in Eryth Sea, but this is easy to do earlier in the game:
-Go the Nopon Arch in Makna Forest, use Expert mode to lower your AI controlled characters to lvl 20-ish, while keeping your leader higher leveled.
-Fight the Jungle Quadwings in front of you, your AI characters will miss all their attacks and their tension will decrease thereby allowing you to Encourage them for free affinity
-The Quadwings love putting your party to sleep. Since your leader is higher level, they'll draw all the aggro and will always be the first to be woken up. Wake up your party members for even more affinity.
This lets you speed through affinity ranks really quickly
-Go the Nopon Arch in Makna Forest, use Expert mode to lower your AI controlled characters to lvl 20-ish, while keeping your leader higher leveled.
-Fight the Jungle Quadwings in front of you, your AI characters will miss all their attacks and their tension will decrease thereby allowing you to Encourage them for free affinity
-The Quadwings love putting your party to sleep. Since your leader is higher level, they'll draw all the aggro and will always be the first to be woken up. Wake up your party members for even more affinity.
This lets you speed through affinity ranks really quickly
Ok, thanks. The first time I played this game I ignored all those quests, it makes sense to do them later actually.
Chapter 15, over 100 hours of playtime and... "Corrupted data was found". The game crashed right in the middle of an important cutscene even. Now I have to redownload the whole game and Nintendo's servers are so damn slow.
If my save file is gone I'm gonna scream like Shulk.
If my save file is gone I'm gonna scream like Shulk.
I am just before the 2 last bosses
Using this time to 100% the game (or close to it), just need to complete the pedia, the affinity, and the superbosses
Today I faced Final Marcus with
Also
Using this time to 100% the game (or close to it), just need to complete the pedia, the affinity, and the superbosses
Today I faced Final Marcus with
Fiora, Reyn, Sharla, it was basically very easy because I just stunlocked him with Fiora's topple and then by the time he was up the chain attack was available again
Also
This entire branch is about Shulk lol
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Not really any obvious ones, and certainly not any from hidden areas like that. The majority of advanced manuals come from UMs. Skill trees all come from side quest lines, and you can get quite a few right now.
A little inaccurate (though more of a nitpick):
I wouldn't necessarily call Dunban's already obtainable if they just got to Valak Mountain, given that it's a little ways down.
But if you do count Dunban, the first 6 party member's 4th skill tree quest lines are all obtainable:
Shulk: Colony 9
Reyn: Colony 6 (requires 3 different invites, which indirectly requires Housing and Commerce lvl 2)
Sharla: Frontier Village
Dunban: Valak Mountain
Melia: Eryth Sea
Riki: Frontier Village
But if you do count Dunban, the first 6 party member's 4th skill tree quest lines are all obtainable:
Shulk: Colony 9
Reyn: Colony 6 (requires 3 different invites, which indirectly requires Housing and Commerce lvl 2)
Sharla: Frontier Village
Dunban: Valak Mountain
Melia: Eryth Sea
Riki: Frontier Village
Not necessarily true. At low health you're more likely to get a vision regardless of whether it'd kill you.
That sounds like your download was broken, which is separate from your save data.
There's a small chance the storage device is failing, though it's more likely the download just had a bad packet/write (unless it's a fairly old SD card that's seen heavy use).
I think doing the quests can level you up real fast.
If you are out of quests I dunno, I reached level 93 just with the quests and now I am just hunting UM for fun
Just finished redownloading and the save data is still there! Pretty weird btw, the SD card is actually brand new (SanDisk), I upgraded from 128GB to 512GB recently. Oh well, as long as it works now I'm happy.
Does anyone else have the issue where the music is really loud in cutscenes and then it's just okay (a little quiet) during gameplay??
I tried playing with sound options, but it didn't do much. Cutscene voices is now at 70-80% while music volume is at standard 50% but it's still really loud in some cutscenes.
I tried playing with sound options, but it didn't do much. Cutscene voices is now at 70-80% while music volume is at standard 50% but it's still really loud in some cutscenes.
end boss spoiler
Did anyone else find the dragon before Dickson to be the hardest boss of the end game? Dickson and Zanza were easy compared to that beast
It was likely corrupted on the initial download but only affected the relevant cutscene data.
Riki's AI seems to work best if you use the "Focus attacks" command (R2 + Up), try doing that and see if it helps.
I plan on hitting 99 eventually. Might as well do it now.