you don't need to sleep with the original girls as the new protagonist.
You could always swap to dante's pov for some fun
You could always swap to dante's pov for some fun
No worries, when you press "new game" you can choose any episode, even post-game after the story is complete. This naturally unlocks most things in the gallery. There's a cheat menu in your "bedroom" which is fairly comprehensive too.
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I'm at the part where I first encountered "Evil Eris" at the Capital City, but I do have some general gameplay questions.
The first one being, how do I improve both the quality and quantity of all resource producing sections of the home village Dante, Bessie and Ray live in?
My second question being, what's the best way to grind enough levels to get stronger and possibly overleveled?
My third question being, will there be any gameplay use for the School and Nursery once they're completed? Or are they just there for lore reasons?
The first one being, how do I improve both the quality and quantity of all resource producing sections of the home village Dante, Bessie and Ray live in?
My second question being, what's the best way to grind enough levels to get stronger and possibly overleveled?
My third question being, will there be any gameplay use for the School and Nursery once they're completed? Or are they just there for lore reasons?
You already have some upgrades by the look of it. Basically, you just focus on buying the upgrades from Wendy, at the church/town hall, she'll upgrade your shops and resource producers in exchange for resources and money, I recommend prioritizing the mines first, since all the other building upgrades primarily need gems to upgrade them.
As for grinding and levelling, just do all main and side quests available for each area, and if you really wanna grind, do the repeatable quests for each area too, but the game even explains at the start, levels will only get you so far, if you really wanna feel powerful, focus on your equipment, meaning weapons, armor, accessories, and blessings to compliment your three party members.
You'll max the village out naturally by just buying all the upgrades from Wendy, and continuing the story, remember to collect resources from the village after every new quest you complete, you can't really rush the village completion, as time only advances when you do a quest you haven't played before, or complete a repeatable quest. Replayable story quests do not advance time, although you MAY get some strong gear for going back and beating bosses you may not have beaten on your first attempt, every boss in the game is beatable, even ones that may seem like they're impossible.
Learn to build synergy between your abilities on your characters, your equipment, and most importantly, your blessings, you may not be very powerful if you just try to grind it out, but the right combination of mid-late game items can make you feel nearly invincible.
As for the school and nursery, they primarily serve as flavor text for post-game content.
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Thanks for your input. It's greatly appreciated. One quest I'm struggling with is the "Rule of Three" quest where it says I need to fight a three-headed serpent but I keep fighting and losing to Sybil's Team.
What level should I ideally be at to be considered overleveled for the Capital City Quests? Or better yet, should I try crafting this shotgun build for Bessie?:
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I can give you screenshots of all the gear I have. But I've mainly been using the "optimize" button when equipping more powerful items.
That's where you're having an issue, while you certainly CAN just hit the optimize button, that'll only account for what items have the highest stats, not what each item does.
If the shotgun you're referring to (I can't sign into steam for some reason on browser so I can't view it), is the super shotgun, absolutely get that.
For general guidelines, as you move forward, be on the look out parry related items, specifically items that increase your chance to parry, and items that increase your NUMBER of parries per turn on a character, and I recommend putting those on your main character (red head), as he will eventually unlock an ability that will actively allow him to parry more attacks than any character in a single turn.
For Bessie, she's perfect for multi-hit and status effects on enemies, if you make that shotgun, she can single-handedly clear out 90% of non-boss enemies in the game on her own because the shotgun hits all enemies twice, for her, you got some options depending on your taste in gameplay, you can either put all critical related items on her, or try making it so that instead of just 2 hits she can potentially land up to 4 or even 8 hits on an enemy, or you can level up certain blessings which may grant bonuses to poison effects, which at max level they'll keep all enemies permanently poisoned for as long as Bessie is alive at the start of a fight, or even gear her up with evasion equipment and try to max that out so she's near impossible to hit-
The world is your oyster.
As for Ray, I highly recommend anything that lowers magic costs, and that can grant her access to her transformations ASAP in a fight.
If you're in the capital and you're level 25 or higher, you're definitely overlevelled.
Remember that levels scale exponentially, not linearly, if you're already level 23 or higher, you're definitely over levelled for the quest you're trying to do, it's likely you're just having a hard time because your gear is mostly randomized, or you haven't been buying better gear from the shops.
If you have the right gear in this game, you can easily beat enemies over twice your level, I know personally, I cleared out the whole arena after I was a little further in the story than where you're at right now.
It's honestly all about just learning what the items do and what party member they'd work best on.
Edit: What I will say in regards to grinding, is that you're better off not trying to grind for levels, but rather trying to farm enemies for specific drops/equipment. Some enemies will drop seemingly plain but secretly broken powerful equipment, especially be looking out for anything that is "antshell", you'll thank me later.
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More of the colosseum unlocks as you progress through the story, if you do all the colosseum has available and hit a block in any of the various tournaments/challenges, that means you can only unlock more by completing more story.
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Thank you for your input. I finally got around to screenshotting my current builds and items within my possession.
If I were to go on a shopping spree for Weapons and Armor on every location's shops, what temporary build should I go for in the meantime until I unlock all the ingredients necessary for the Exterminator Bessie build?
Also, I'll definitely work towards making this build for Dante/the MC as well:
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So recommendations for temporary builds for all three party members would be greatly appreciated. I will say that I've already got the Blessings of Automatron and Hides-in-Barrells.
Last but not least, is this weapon the best one to give Ray as equipment?:
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Counter Tank Build for MC, Exterminator Build for Bessie and Rage build for Ray they can be found in the Steam Guide Section for the game
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This the Steam Guide Build you're talking about?:
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Because it has a "Celestial Rage Build" listed under its recs for builds. Now could you tell me where and when I would get each item necessary to make these builds?
I would say generally speaking, yes, all those builds on steam are mostly optimized, you CAN do better, but that's really up to you to fiddle around with.
Personally, I'd swap out the bloodthirsty shotgun you have on Bessie for the "It's a shotgun", as generally speaking, multi-hit, and omni attack weapons have better damage potential overall, and if I'm remember right, it's the best shotgun you can use until you get all the parts to make the super shotgun, as it's attack is essentially the base for the super shotgun's attack, just without all the added bonuses from the other shotguns, you should easily be able to take out Sybil's group with that one change alone, the regular shotgun hits all enemies twice for 62% base damage per shot, with a chance to crit on every individual hit, while the bloodthirsty shotgun is just a regular attack with higher crit chance, which is easy to find on other weapons, items, or blessings.
To put into perspective, if you use the plain shotgun against Sybil's party, Bessie would go from only attacking one enemy per turn, to attacking EACH of them TWICE, for more damage than the normal base damage overall.
That's six attacks in one turn with only Bessie, and each of them have their own chance to crit.
Also, by far the worst thing I see about your current build, is that you...just plain don't have armor-
Which is understandable if you're hurting on funds, but I strongly recommend you do whatever it takes to update your team's armor ASAP, armor is debatably even more important than what weapons or blessings you pick in this game, that's why they're more expensive than any other thing in the game.
Prioritize your gear in order they're listed.
Focus on picking what armor you wanna get first because it's the most expensive and has the most dramatic effect on your playstyle.
Then pick your weapon to compliment what you like most about the armor.
Then stack accessories and blessings to tie everything else together.
Personally, I also think you should take the cutlass off Dante and replace it with something that either has multi-hit (so attacking multiple times in one turn), or omni attack (attacking all enemies in a single turn), based on what you currently have, Keke's Fury might be your best option here, it'll replace your normal attack with fury swipes, randomly attack twice for 56% damage on each hit, plus decrease the enemy's defense with each hit, it may not be as strong as Bessie outright, but it's better suited for boss fights with a single big target, and it's a free debuff on your enemy that you don't need to use MP to cast. Or better yet, replay the story mission you met Keke in to try and get a legendary version of the "Wolf's Claw" she drops, it's actually a triple attack, just without the debuff. Consider this a tip to replay missions to get items you haven't gotten before, some of the best options you can get are just regular drops early on.
I also recommend getting Agni and Rudra for Dante ASAP, as it lets him attack one enemy four times in a single turn, just be aware that if you fight anyone who is immune to or absorbs elemental or magic damage, you may want to switch it out for something else, Agni and Rudra is the go to end game choice for Dante in my opinion, since you have so many options for things to put on him, the extra damage really adds up.
What you do with Ray is really personal choice, personally I made mine an awakening machine who could easily switch between forms almost at will, that's the main thing Nature's Harmony is good for, but don't underrate the infinity rod either for longer battles, it's good to have both.
Generally speaking you can think of breaking down gear into early, mid, late, and post game items.
Early on your gear doesn't matter much because the game largely expects you to not have much money for big upgrades and you don't even have Mistral Village unlocked yet, literally anything works here.
Mid game is roughly from when Mistral Village is unlocked up to Little Shroom City being unlocked, this is where you're at, it's normal to be confused and feel awkward here, this is literally the part where you don't yet have access to end game weapons and accessories, but you're going to be facing significantly tougher enemies than in the early game, just struggle through, buy your armors wisely, do your thing in the colosseum and training arena where possible, and focus on getting the super shotgun for Bessie, Agni and Rudra for Dante, and your choice of wand for Ray.
If you really wanna get into blessings, before you commit to upgrading anything to level 3, as blessed cores are going to be rare until you get into late game, go back to the Elven Kingdom and replay the fights for the "Dark Elves" contract, every time you beat this, you're guaranteed to get a giftbox (worth 1,000 gold if sold, and used to advance your progress with girls in the village), a basic gemstone (used for unlocking the training arena, fishery, upgrade and alchemical huts, and worth 500G if sold), and most importantly, a blessed essence, which can be used to upgrade any blessing from level one to level two without the need for gold, and can also be sold for 375G if you'd like.
If there's any quest you should be grinding for money or materials, it's this one, as you easily make a few thousand gold each time you replay the fights, and you also get some of the most important resources in the game for doing basically any kind of upgrading for free. The more you don't need to upgrade things anymore, the more you can just sell these things for money to buy things like tier 3, 4, or 5 armor, it's not the most profitable for late game, but to be honest, you really don't need to grind much if at all in late game, as the most drastic resource draw is in mid game.
I won't go into post game stuff for the sake of spoilers, but also, literally anything from post game content is intentionally overpowered.
As a side note, if you really want a goal to shoot for, try and beat Guinevere in the training arena in the village as soon as you can. Her ACCESSORY THAT GOES IN A BLESSING SLOT is the most powerful weapon in the game if used correctly, it grants you a special skill that casts both regen...and zombie on an enemy, making it the only way I know of to inflict the zombie status on enemies, which turns all healing into damage for them, and circumvents almost all defenses in the game, it's basically a death sentence if you can cast it and survive against an enemy that doesn't have the ability to disspell it...which is 90% of enemies in the game, and even then, you can just recast it.
Honestly, you can get the vast majority of items you'll be using for the rest of the game by the time you make it to Little shroom city, that's when you can craft all the mythical weapons and accessories.
The Celestial Rage build is basically getting the Rage Walker armor for Ray, which I believe you can get in the Capital City, either before or after you complete Little Shroom City, it's a tier 5 armor, which lets her permanently be in rage form, and also the Celestial Ring, which honestly I can't fully remember how I got it, but it was either through beating Ray in the Training Arena, or an unlock from clearing certain tournaments in the colosseum.
You can get the rage walker very early on, but the celestial ring is late game. Fury form is gonna be much more useful to you at where you're at anyways.
Correction for my last reply: You get the celestial ring from beating Alice in the Training Arena, it says so right at the beginning of the guide you linked.
I really would like to make a "simple" guide to the game, but I also don't want it to get lost in the sauce here on a simple thread, and I don't own the steam version of the game so I can't make a steam guide.
But a lot of people's problems could easily be solved if they just had access to the information they needed in one place-
If I ever got the steam version, and I had the time to do another playthrough, I'd probably just make a hybrid guide for those who want/need it.
The game is deceptively deep, and has quite a few "thought puzzles" like the quizzes, the play, and so on where you need to know the right answer to progress or at least get the best outcome.
And a lot of people get confused in the items, the abilities, what to buy when, what to do for mid to post game, or how to beat super bosses-
I love this game and I'd love to make it more accessible to people who maybe aren't as RPG savvy....
But I don't have the money to get it on steam even during the Winter sale.
I'm a broke bastard, that's why I'm here in the first place.
But a lot of people's problems could easily be solved if they just had access to the information they needed in one place-
If I ever got the steam version, and I had the time to do another playthrough, I'd probably just make a hybrid guide for those who want/need it.
The game is deceptively deep, and has quite a few "thought puzzles" like the quizzes, the play, and so on where you need to know the right answer to progress or at least get the best outcome.
And a lot of people get confused in the items, the abilities, what to buy when, what to do for mid to post game, or how to beat super bosses-
I love this game and I'd love to make it more accessible to people who maybe aren't as RPG savvy....
But I don't have the money to get it on steam even during the Winter sale.
I'm a broke bastard, that's why I'm here in the first place.
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That's definitely a lot to take in, but I greatly appreciate the input. I may or may not reply again depending on what comes up. But I'm happy to report that I skipped Sybil's fight for now and have gotten all three components to make the Super Shotgun. (That one is hits every single opponent as well, right?) Now how exactly do I go about upgrading Mary's Blacksmith in order to get the Super Shotgun?I really would like to make a "simple" guide to the game, but I also don't want it to get lost in the sauce here on a simple thread, and I don't own the steam version of the game so I can't make a steam guide.
But a lot of people's problems could easily be solved if they just had access to the information they needed in one place-
If I ever got the steam version, and I had the time to do another playthrough, I'd probably just make a hybrid guide for those who want/need it.
The game is deceptively deep, and has quite a few "thought puzzles" like the quizzes, the play, and so on where you need to know the right answer to progress or at least get the best outcome.
And a lot of people get confused in the items, the abilities, what to buy when, what to do for mid to post game, or how to beat super bosses-
I love this game and I'd love to make it more accessible to people who maybe aren't as RPG savvy....
But I don't have the money to get it on steam even during the Winter sale.
I'm a broke bastard, that's why I'm here in the first place.
Also, before I went to Little Shroom City there was a black screen blurb that told me to interact with certain named NPCs before leaving Little Shroom City. Since I left it prematurely to go to the Mistral Village in order to check out my crafting options, did I screw something up? Or will Cecile and the others return to the Hunter's Tavern at some point or another? I can go back to some old saves if I have to.
Yes, super shotgun hits everyone multiple times.
You don't get it from Mary's Blacksmith, you need to go to town hall and build the upgrade hut if you haven't already (for two basic gemstones), then you need to, again in the town hall, go to "upgrade", then "building upgrades", and buy "Upgrade Hut Mythical Weapons" for 1 diamond from the mines, and 300 gold. Then go to the Upgrade Hut when you have it unlocked, and you'll be able to craft mythical weapons there.
Cecille and the others DO return at some point, but honestly, the biggest thing you should've made sure to get was Lyra's blessing before moving on, but I can't remember if that was an event where you had to go to her in the tavern for, or if it was just a side quest in the capital city.
Which I believe all side quests are technically playable in any order? I'm not sure as I always played them all in order myself, but the notifications about the tavern are primarily about Juggernaut, as you have the chance to challenge her as long as she's in the tavern, but beyond a certain point, she won't be anymore, that's legitimately up to you though, since Juggernaut is one of the hardest optional bosses in the entire game. If you just want a casual playthrough, you don't have to beat her.