Necromanti
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It really is. Now I don't need to be reminded how painfully slow the normal speed is when I forget to switch back.
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Mistwalker/Hironobu Sakaguchi's Terra Battle |OT| Season 2 has been unleashed!
- Thread starter Goli
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Yeah. I keep toggling it off every second battle, since I don't remember that it sticks, however
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
I'm up to Ch11. Most of my party is lvl 31, except Kuscah at 34. Was looking forwards to getting him to 35 and farming some items so he can lay off the donuts!
Really impressed with this game so far.
Not as impressed with my squad. I almost lost on the 4-3 Sandsomething King boss. I guess for the most part I can keep the battles under control, but I feel like I am lacking in damage. I have yet to pull a mage of any rarity which doesn't help. My space mage is proving useful at least as he already has Levitate for himself at all times.
Not as impressed with my squad. I almost lost on the 4-3 Sandsomething King boss. I guess for the most part I can keep the battles under control, but I feel like I am lacking in damage. I have yet to pull a mage of any rarity which doesn't help. My space mage is proving useful at least as he already has Levitate for himself at all times.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Keep with Kuscah, the allure of an SS is strong, but he levels way faster and gets Heal All.
I use my Amimari only because she is SS.
Keep, one of the best characters in game.
I got Amina around that time again. I rolled with Amina/Kuscah both in my party for a while.
I've been using Amina only now but Kuscah is more than capable to carry your party. He will also get a heal all spell that Amina doesn't.
Your spacemage falls under the "remedy" type characters who are rather useless most of the time. There will be stages where you'll definitely need levitate but I'd switch him out for a real damage dealer for most of the time.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Ok I am going to be grinding for Animaton, does it matter what level my characters are for hunting zone 2? Or are drops affected at all by that?
Thank god for this update.
I got 3 Lvl 1 SS characters I am planning to grind this week.
From what i've seen it looks like if one of your characters is above the lvl limit of the zone it will decrease the drop rate.
I got 3 Lvl 1 SS characters I am planning to grind this week.
From what i've seen it looks like if one of your characters is above the lvl limit of the zone it will decrease the drop rate.
Game feels like its in slow motion with no fastforward.
Drop rate and number of drops don't really matter. I did Hunting Zone 2 once with all characters above lvl 40+ and got 16 item drops, all of them were rings though.
I don't think anyone has done enough testing, but the game recommends you to not be above lvl 40 and I'd follow that recommendation (if you want the rare ores that is)
Drop rate and number of drops don't really matter. I did Hunting Zone 2 once with all characters above lvl 40+ and got 16 item drops, all of them were rings though.
I don't think anyone has done enough testing, but the game recommends you to not be above lvl 40 and I'd follow that recommendation (if you want the rare ores that is)
Dimitri LH
Member
Just saw this thread now. The Downloaded starter thing intrigued me so much.....finished downloading the game just now.
I really wish there was a confirmation or just worked out numbers of rare drops in the different zones. I would really like to see how much of a difference, if any, there is.
names2hard4you
Member
Dat fast forward lock is a game changer. LOL
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Are rare materials dropped more often on Hunting Zone 3 because I am on 18-10 and will have it unlocked soon?
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Just ran it twice and I just ended up getting a ton of rings lol.
Curry-Hakase
Member
Based Mistwalker with those QoL updates.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Which zone did you do?
Well, that helped a lot, thanks! I cleared the stage without any real trouble and I've been cruising through the rest of the chapter (ocasionally losing my archer, but I don't really need her and just want her to grab some XP).
Zone 2, don't have access to the later ones yet.
I had 15 rings i was annoyed.
Yea might just start running chapter 20 now on for rare ores with the experience and money being a great addition.
Also does anyone know how significant the increase in experience is for normal chapters? Might just grind 15-9 a lot for my low lvl chars when I can't bother waiting for metal zones to open.
Also does anyone know how significant the increase in experience is for normal chapters? Might just grind 15-9 a lot for my low lvl chars when I can't bother waiting for metal zones to open.
cpp_is_king
Member
Yea Hunting Zone 3 is garbage from what I can tell. So weird.
Curry-Hakase
Member
Have you guys gotten any Animaton from Chapter 20? I'm closing in 16 Oxsecium and 10 Dark Matter just going through Ch 20 and the Puddings...
theMrCravens
Member
Just now as I read these posts, I finished a HZ3 pudding run and got 2 dark matter, 1 ori, 1 anima and 1 oxcesium.
RNG!
RNG!
cpp_is_king
Member
I've gotten that on HZ2 though. At the very least, you should consistently get 2x as many item drops when doing HZ3 as HZ2. I seem to get anywhere from 6-18 on HZ2 with the two extremes being fairly rare, and 8-20 on HZ3. Not worth 75% more stamina.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Is chapter 19 hard to get through?
Curry-Hakase
Member
I don't know the exact increase but I went from getting 180k from Chapter 20 to around 220k experience.
If you got through 18 then you can definitely get through 19.
That's pretty good. It looks like people are saying its around a 10% increase throughout so that's pretty great to hear.
Chrono Helix
Member
How long are you guys typically taking to do chapter 20? It usually takes me an hour, and quite a few minutes is spent restarting on the second last wave because my characters keep getting knocked into bombs, or worse, one of the sword enemies pincers my characters with a bomb which is somehow allowed to do ridiculous damage.
15 - 20 min. I kill the archer boss that spawns bombs in one turn before it can do anything. The bombs are always insta-kill.
Just got another one
shadowstar
Member
Wasted all of my energy on pudding time and just got rings
cpp_is_king
Member
Eh, suit yourself. But as people pointed out a number of times on the last page, SS and even S are not necessary to progress in the game.
And as they also pointed out, it's an enormous advantage. I'd even settle for an A-class mage at this point, but the best I've seen is a B...
Bahamut is a great mage and you can probably get him this weekend
high rank melee chars with lots of elemental atks are best imo
cpp_is_king
Member
Well at first I thought you were just trying for an SS character, but now it has to be a mage also? The only mages that are actually even overpowered are the SS ones since they have full row / full column attacks. The others are only a slight advantage over physical characters, and in some situations they are a distinct disadvantage since weapon bonuses are themselves quite strong. SS characters themselves are estimated to be about a 7% pull rate, and only 4 out of the 18 SS characters are mages. So if that's what you're limiting yourself to, then you're looking at about a (7%) x (4/18) = 1.5% chance to get an SS mage.
There's only 2 S mages that I'm aware of (Pupropu and Puprope), and 1 A mage (A'merpact), so yea. Good luck.
cpp_is_king
Member
Anyone know if Skill Boost % is additive or multiplicative?