Those Tokos are pretty much the fastest. You can try using Earsplitter or something as soon as the fight starts to knock them down. Also helps to sneak up on them with Veil before engaging.
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Those Tokos are pretty much the fastest. You can try using Earsplitter or something as soon as the fight starts to knock them down. Also helps to sneak up on them with Veil before engaging.
I haven't touched the game for almost four days now. I'm currently
. The thought of getting the platinum put me off, but now I'm all set to go for it.
Here's my checklist:
- Constantly feed one familiar
- Keep track of which cauldrons items have been crafted
- Use steal
shipwrecked
Here's my checklist:
- Constantly feed one familiar
- Keep track of which cauldrons items have been crafted
- Use steal
Yes, higher stats.
Yup.
Don't worry about catching some familiars though if you're thinking of metamorphing them just to increase your familiar count. You can catch evolved versions of most of the familiars in later parts of the game.
Only concern yourself with leveling familiars you want on your main party.
I figured as much. THe problem is that I haven't seen ANY in the tower. They just show up as random enemies when other people rush me. Does the gateway trick work in there as well?
I don't know where they specifically are. I just ran into them randomly. Apparently they give out 24,000 exp per kill. o.0
No, you have to run up and down one of those hallways to get things to respawn.
You mean take the teleporter thingies?
Yeah, up to the second floor with one of the big wide hallways with 5 or so enemies in them. If you run to one end the enemies on the other end will despawn and reappear when you get close again.
I'm about 95% sure that the completion in the telling stone that says like "Task Completion" is definitely NOT your completion in the game. It's your completion for doing errands and such.
Source: Being at 50% completion and completing an errand it shooting up 1-2% and then turning in another task and it shooting up another 1-2%
For me right now, I've got (level 45 or so?--just did some swapping around):
Oliver: Dino, Puss in Boats (eyepatch one?) and a flash fry (3rd meta)
Esther: Gogo (yeah still), Auralynx (who will replace Gogo), Mitey (yeah still he's still ok)
Swaine: Adamantiger (insane atk speed/move speed), Paleolith (tank), Stabberwocky
I need some work with my party but I'm rolling pretty good right now.
Sanctuary
Member
The physical resist is terribly overrated. I don't know if it's a flat amount either or a percentage, but it seems stronger at the lower levels. A Dino in armor still takes way less damage against physical attacks than any familiar who has a resist against it aside from maybe the Tombstone types. The fact that they can all wear the ring isn't really a factor either. The point was simply that the Dino can actually do damage with it's melee, and it's not soley a special attack or nothing type of familiar, even if that's what you primarily use it for. I wasn't suggesting that it was "great" at melee either, only that it's nowhere near as awful as some are suggesting.
Mikey Jr.
Member
Is that one of the hallways where Oliver shimmies along a narrow pathway?
Gouty
Bloodborne is shit
sorry for all the questions but I got another one
Is there any way to increase my odds of triggering the heart/capture icon? For instance going into to defense mode and letting them stay in the fight awhile longer or are odds predetermined before the fight even starts?
Is there any way to increase my odds of triggering the heart/capture icon? For instance going into to defense mode and letting them stay in the fight awhile longer or are odds predetermined before the fight even starts?
So is it a better idea to wait until post game to try and catch familiars? Not that it would really make a difference since the capture rate doesn't get any better but at least killing would be easier. I think I've clocked in 15 hours and I only just reached Castaway Cove with a party levels ranging from level 20 to 25. I've been trying to catch two of every familiar I've seen so far but if I hear Oliver shout "Neato!" one more time I swear I'm going to bash my head into the wall.
As far as I know, no. Capture rates are set in stone, though I don't know at what point in the battle the game decides you get the opportunity to catch.
As far as I know, no. Capture rates are set in stone, though I don't know at what point in the battle the game decides you get the opportunity to catch.
It's a percentage; Bone Baron's is 40%, Brigadier's is 30%. It's more effective than you think.
Probably also worth noting that there are a half dozen or so familiar types with higher defense than Dinos, to the extent that it matters. Lumberwoods in particular are good tanks for Esther if you can put up with their vulnerability to fire and low capture rate.
Sure they can, I was just noting that (in my experience, anyway) the Naja and Bonehead do more damage over time with melee attacks, which makes them of comparable usefulness overall.
Not the shimmying part itself, but the hallway it's connected to.
Gouty
Bloodborne is shit
No what?
No way to increase the odds except as a reward for doing tasks...it's one of the last row Merit rewards.
Sorry about that =P
Edited my post to try and explain myself a bit better.
TheNamelessOne
Member
So I'm thinking about picking this up. I haven't really been interested in JRPGs for quite some time - didn't finish FF13 for example. I'm a little hesistant since it seems to be such a long game and I often don't complete longer games. So what I'm wondering is basically if this game is good enough to hopefully keep me interested over 40+ hours.
I'm not a huge JRPG player (the amount I've beaten can be counted on one hand most likely) but god damn do I love this game. The combat isn't the greatest thing ever, but the charm, presentation, and aesthetics really carries it into greatness for me.
It's one of my favorite games this gen.
Gully State
Member
It's a solid traditional JRPG. If you don't enjoy the genre, chances are you won't enjoy this game..,
TheNamelessOne
Member
Cool, thanks for your input. I'll think about it.
Just got to the Tombstone Trail. FFFFFFFFFFF the final boss in that area nearly wiped the floor using my party members. I barely won the fight with only Oliver as the only surviving member.
I think I'm going to level up a bit more since my party is only about Level 30+ at the moment.
I think I'm going to level up a bit more since my party is only about Level 30+ at the moment.
Boss Riovane
Member
Finally acquired a Dinoceros. Is there anything special to leveling them?
He only levels by drinking the blood of a pure-hearted one.
Audioboxer
Member
Got to Hamelin (sp?) and then discovered I could grind tokos. Thought I had to be able to fly. First I went and tamed a lumberwood, then spent an hour or so grinding tokos and managed to get the team up to level 45 and capture one toko!
Think I'm way overlevelled now
Think I'm way overlevelled now
goldenticket
Member
so im past dealing with hamelin but im going back on tasks and there is one where you are supposed to get a fungus west of hamelin for a sick guys wife. ive walked all over and havent seen it. any help?
Die Squirrel Die
Member
There's a tiny little bit of forest west of Hamelin and south of Tombstone Trail. It's a secret forest, you'll get it from there. You have to trade something for it but I can't remember what now.
Jugendstil
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goldenticket
Member
is there a person or a door or something ive walked around that area and havent seen it
Nope,just enter the trees and its kinda in the middle of the circle the 3 trees make...It's completly west and I think there's one of those glittering spots near by also...
DarknessTear
Banned
It's just you!
She is the one that dies more often but obviously she is not completly useless since she is the familiar catcher...
breakfuss
Member
Figured I was opening myself up for that, but seriously, I just can't seem to make any good use of her. And if that wasn't bad enough, when I'm not controlling her...she dies constantly. *sigh*
cpp_is_king
Member
Is any exact data available about the efficacy of various merit awards? I'm interested mostly in the one that increases tame success rate. Does anyone know how much the rate increases by? I have the Prima guide and I can see the success rate for each creature, but that is probably the unmodified rate, so I'm just wondering how the merit award affects this
DangerousDave
Member
I realized that the initial familiars are really crap.
I reached the third evolution of the first familiar (the knight one) and is only getting 2 and a few 3 (even some 1) in their params each level up. That seems to happen also with that monkey familiar, and basically with the "default" familiars that you get with the characters.
Anyone knows good alternative to the default familiars??? I found that the "banana" familiar is much better than the one that Jairo has by default (it get a 5, a lot of 4 and 3's each level up). But any alternative for the "knight" and "mage chicken" one of Esther and the "Knight" of Oliver?
I reached the third evolution of the first familiar (the knight one) and is only getting 2 and a few 3 (even some 1) in their params each level up. That seems to happen also with that monkey familiar, and basically with the "default" familiars that you get with the characters.
Anyone knows good alternative to the default familiars??? I found that the "banana" familiar is much better than the one that Jairo has by default (it get a 5, a lot of 4 and 3's each level up). But any alternative for the "knight" and "mage chicken" one of Esther and the "Knight" of Oliver?
goldenticket
Member
is it under a glittering spot? thats what ive been looking for i thought i found it but it was like a walnut kinda thing instead
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I'm really enjoying this game a ton. Really glad I bought it. (And got an amazing deal on it. A co-worker got 2 copies (one reg edition preorder for steel book, and one special edition from Namco), sold me the "normal box" copy from the special edition for what he'd get for it from EBgames at the time, which was $25. I offered more but he declined).
I've been on a bit of a gaming funk lately and don't have much desire to play anything... yet I've managed 18 hours in this!
I've been on a bit of a gaming funk lately and don't have much desire to play anything... yet I've managed 18 hours in this!
It adds +20% more to the current percentage. So if there's a 25% chance to tame a familiar, the merit ups it to 30%. And if a familiar has a 1% chance, that same merit only makes it 1.2%. It's really not that great.
+20% of original percentage. See my above comment.
I just got my purrloiner high enough to evolve him to his second form. I hope I see some improvement because so far he's been a disappointment.
Naja I just got one so verdict is still out.