In the middle of studying (oh god, I can't wait until this week is over but then I have to grade things on the weekend, but I have 2 trophies for this game leeeeeffffft), but I saw that these weren't answered, so...
Sagitario said:
Are there any "secret"/hard to get or find/uncommon titles?
I got the 100th title for Asbel, but I don't think I am anywhere near for the rest of the characters.
The other characters' titles might be harder to get because they aren't meeting the requirements to get Adept and Master titles for their attacks. I usually either: used them manually (which was easier), or turned off a bulk of their attacks and had them focus on one or two of their attacks to level up to adept at the very least.
Hubert's A-Style titles are much easier to get than her B-Style titles because his B-styles usually require you to get 70-100 for his Adept and 500-800 for his Master. His A-Styles have less stricter requirements.
Sophie generally gets out-of-battle titles pretty easily, but most of her in-battle A and B Adept and Master titles are along the lines of Asbel's requirements (so... 70-80 for Adept and up to 450 for Master in general).
Cheria, Malik, and Pascal's requirements for both A and B Style artes are very small (sometimes 20-40 for the Adept, and then 200-400 for the Master). You can probably try to get these in easier areas if you're not used to using these guys manually. I ended up getting Cheria's 100 titles second, and she was pretty close to Asbel. But I guess it's because I'm so used to using her manually that I ended up getting her A- and B-Style Adept and Master titles so easily.
You can always purchase the Eleth Mod titles in Telos Astue (but they're ridiculously expensive). Keep buying things for some of the girls' titles. Keep synthesizing new foods for Cheria's titles. Increasing the eleth mixer's capacity would be for Malik, synthesizing new items would be for Pascal, running around a lot on the world map would be for Sophie, etc. The easy way out are the Narikiri titles in the Future Arc because there are 7 of those per character. There are also comboing titles for each character, titles for each character for beating enemies in 10 seconds 10 times, titles for finding drops after battle for each character, titles for getting rid of 2 or 4 enemies in one hit for each character, etc. The DLC costume titles don't count in the count, I've noticed. The normal in-game costumes do, though. Pascal has a title for beating every mode of Carta Card, and also a title for beating every mode of her Shoot Cube minigame.
Each character also has status guard titles (so poisonproof, burnproof, etc). These come up whenever a character is afflicted with the status at least once (sometimes it takes up to 5 times) in battles and they'll get the title. These are pretty useful too.
Some titles come from inn requests or sidequests (usually end-of-game sidequests).
So the long and short of it is: try to do everything, and use the characters as often as possible in battle.
You can also get Level 3 blast calibers (during the main arc), level 4 blast calibers, and accel mode (both during the future arc) and those come in the form of titles.
When you do New Game + a second time, do Grade things you select come over? Like, say you picked +1000 HP for your second run through and on your 3rd run through you pick it again. So are you up a net +2000 HP?
I believe you do NG+ more than once, you'll just accumulate more Grade on your second playthrough (it's inevitable because you get clear bonuses depending on how many times you've cleared the game), but the bonuses reset so you have to pick them again.
Now this makes me realize that I've done vanilla playthroughs of the game in the three playthroughs I've done. Meaning, I've experienced childhood arc 3 times.
I don't dislike childhood arc outside of the fact that you can't style-switch.
