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CK07 posted:I was pretty sure, anectdotally and from tutorials, that time was the ONLY factor in the quality of the item - like, make the shield in less than 15 seconds, it's Good; 10 seconds, Great; 7 seconds Top or whatever. And I know that higher-level tools make the bars fill faster. Anyone have a source for other info? I've always just ignored the "nice/great/excellent" popups. I don't think so, I've made fast and sloppy and only get Bronze quality, and have done slower with all Great and gotten Gold quality.
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CK07 posted:I was pretty sure, anectdotally and from tutorials, that time was the ONLY factor in the quality of the item - like, make the shield in less than 15 seconds, it's Good; 10 seconds, Great; 7 seconds Top or whatever. And I know that higher-level tools make the bars fill faster. Anyone have a source for other info? I've always just ignored the "nice/great/excellent" popups. That's absolutely not the case. I can give you some sources, but they're all in Japanese--if you want them I can link them though. There are two factors in deciding an item's quality--number of Nice/Greats and sub-skills. (e.g. "wooden weapons" skill) And of course, item difficulty, which affects both quality and the mini-games. There's a random factor in there too--number of nice/greats and sub-skills increase the chance of getting a good quality item, but don't necessarily guarantee it. Your base skill affects the rate at which the crafting bars fill. The actual formula is (Crafting Ability) x (1 + Craft Skill%). This is modified by the difficulty of the item of course. Crafting Ability is the associated ability score on your stat sheet, which is derived from your main stats plus the bonus provided by your tool. Craft skill is the associated "main" skill. (e.g. "Carpentry") Time is only important in as much that the more quickly you complete each crafting station, the more likely you are to get a Nice! Great! Etc. But don't take my word for it, try it out for yourself! Pick an item that you can consistently get top quality on and start making it, but don't use your special meter. Wait until you get to the very last station (so you're at like 87% or 95% or whatever) and then just sit there until the clock almost runs out, then use your special so that the last station gets a Great as well. Even though the clock's practically at zero, I bet you'll still get a top quality item!
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Oct 30, 2014 22:27
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For carpentry, idk about the other crafts since I haven't done them, making the basic stuff you get greats pretty easily if you don't miss any on the right station, mash well on the center station, and hold without releasing at all on the left station and thus far I've only not gotten a HQ once when I figured out it wasn't super tight timed and stopped missing the right station.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:15
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Well thanks for the info, everyone, I'll be sure and try this different method and see how that works!
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Oct 31, 2014 00:43
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This game is hella cute and the dialogue reminds me of FF14 with all the fun the translators obviously had with it.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:22
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If your character is female and you want to reduce the grind of getting skill levels up, the outfit you get from the password "Lace case" contains a dress that increases skill gain. It's a maid dress, so I would assume the male equivalent (the Butler outfit) does the same thing. It also has ridiculously good defense and magic defense, so I'm not using it in combat unless I start actually being challenged. Do you have to advance the story to be able to buy a house in Port Puerto? The realtor says I have to be a "VIP" to buy it.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:28
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precision posted:If your character is female and you want to reduce the grind of getting skill levels up, the outfit you get from the password "Lace case" contains a dress that increases skill gain. It's a maid dress, so I would assume the male equivalent (the Butler outfit) does the same thing. It also has ridiculously good defense and magic defense, so I'm not using it in combat unless I start actually being challenged. Gonna get this.  The Vacation Home in Puerto is available for 50k after you go there the first time, do the story, return to King Erik, and come back.
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Oct 31, 2014 01:39
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precision posted:If your character is female and you want to reduce the grind of getting skill levels up, the outfit you get from the password "Lace case" contains a dress that increases skill gain. It's a maid dress, so I would assume the male equivalent (the Butler outfit) does the same thing. It also has ridiculously good defense and magic defense, so I'm not using it in combat unless I start actually being challenged. butler outfit increass ally friendship i believe
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Oct 31, 2014 02:35
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When does the tailor get the ability to make clothes that don't suck? I'm an apprentice and so far I haven't seen anything for my wizard.precision posted:If your character is female and you want to reduce the grind of getting skill levels up, the outfit you get from the password "Lace case" contains a dress that increases skill gain. It's a maid dress. I knew that I should have started with a female character to play virtual dress up. 
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Oct 31, 2014 03:00
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Corridor posted:butler outfit increass ally friendship i believe The female one that does that is a "lolita" dress you get with "Exceedingly cute". Or maybe it's the other way around and you get that one with "Lace case", I know it's one of the two because they're the only passwords I've used. e: Yeah it's "Exceedingly cute" that gets you the maid, "Lace case" gets you the Lolita set. precision fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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I'm at the break in the story where I need to check up on Robin, the Goddess Ship, and whatnot. I started out as a blacksmith and got as far as I could before switching to Paladin. I got sick of getting gated, so I did 4 chapters in a row. Today I spent a lot of time grinding out Dosh to bank roll getting other Lifes up and improving gear. I started with 100k, bought everything I could in terms of mats, and then got Auto+ in a few gold armor recipes and sold those and got up to 200k. Started Carpenter and Wood Cutter and they're both at Expert now with a lot of mats left over to replenish some Dosh from buying the Port Peurto house for fast warping. Also got Blacksmithing up to Master and downed the Nap Dragon. Notes: - Why can't I loving bulk make armor this is bullshit  - Find 3 Elder Oak Logs is a bullshit quest - Being on the cusp of getting the numbers to work in your favor sucks (having to do 4 timed hits versus 3 or 2) - Three bounty limit is kinda horseshit - Tree boss battles are the best
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Oct 31, 2014 03:36
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Phone posted:downed the Nap Dragon. But let's be honest, who was the real monster in this engagement?
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Oct 31, 2014 03:44
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The Nap Dragon. He hits pretty hard and it took way longer than I thought it would. Dude owes me some potion money.
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Oct 31, 2014 03:49
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gmq posted:When does the tailor get the ability to make clothes that don't suck? I'm an apprentice and so far I haven't seen anything for my wizard. yeah you don't start getting clothes with decent stats until probably expert level.
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Oct 31, 2014 07:23
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loving Plains Eels, man. Found a spot that gave me four in a row, and refuses to give me a fifth.
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Oct 31, 2014 07:52
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:loving Plains Eels, man. Found a spot that gave me four in a row, and refuses to give me a fifth. have fun experiencing this with every fish in every area
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Oct 31, 2014 09:13
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precision posted:The female one that does that is a "lolita" dress you get with "Exceedingly cute". Or maybe it's the other way around and you get that one with "Lace case", I know it's one of the two because they're the only passwords I've used. Just got the game, got beat by some bandits. Used "Exceedingly cute", dressed up like a maid since it was all better than my Paladin gear. Then I slaughtered them all. My cuteness will be their undoing.
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Oct 31, 2014 09:58
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Are there any Dagger combos besides "mash A" and the forward/backward slashes? I think I'll pick up a single level in Paladin just so I can use Swords when I'm not using magic. I love the writing/translation. I just finished a quest and the guy said "Aren't you worried that I keep asking you for bomb-making materials?" 
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Oct 31, 2014 10:07
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precision posted:Are there any Dagger combos besides "mash A" and the forward/backward slashes? I think I'll pick up a single level in Paladin just so I can use Swords when I'm not using magic. i love that guy and his unrequited pining for gaites
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Oct 31, 2014 10:33
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You're half pirate and half princess, doesn't that make you "Her HAAAAARRRR-nes"?
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Oct 31, 2014 12:58
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I was a bit disappointed in (minor Porto spoiler) Olivia isn't in her pirate garb as a party member after the chapter.
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Oct 31, 2014 13:46
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Mokinokaro posted:I was a bit disappointed in (minor Porto spoiler) Olivia isn't in her pirate garb as a party member after the chapter. Yeah, and likewise with Laura, her "girboy" outfit is much cuter than her full Princess look. I wonder why the birds in Puerto don't talk in lolcat-speak in the US translation?
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Oct 31, 2014 14:36
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So how exactly do you wizard? I really like playing it, but I always run out of SP super fast then sit around trying not to get my poo poo stomped in by mushrooms. Is there any way to raise your SP? Or am I just being bad at wizard?
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Nuebot posted:So how exactly do you wizard? I really like playing it, but I always run out of SP super fast then sit around trying not to get my poo poo stomped in by mushrooms. Is there any way to raise your SP? Or am I just being bad at wizard? According to the OP, you just chug stamina potions like a junkie. It would be a good idea to at least dabble in Alchemist so you can make your own.
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If you get the DLC, there are a few end-game items that raise SP regeneration, most notably a ring that has SP regen ++++ (costing Gold Lunares coins). Mostly it really does come down to an IV drip of stamina potions.
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precision posted:Yeah, and likewise with Laura, her "girboy" outfit is much cuter than her full Princess look. Different translation/localisation units for Nintendo Europe and North America means a lot of things don't get shared. Seems like a rather silly duplication of work to me, but eh. Also Laura dresses in her cute little tomboy outfit at night, you'll find her wandering around Castele food market with cap and breeches on, ready for adventure. I've finished most of the God quests now, and you can get your Life Master to come on a Very Special Adventure with you once you've achieved God status. While it's fun to get Jinx or Mustang to come along with you, bigod, the quests are arse-kickingly hard.
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Silver Falcon posted:According to the OP, you just chug stamina potions like a junkie. Yeah definitely Alchemist/Wizard, and also keep up with your Dagger skill because they're good weapons and if you run out of SP there's no penalty for just switching weapon to finish the fight off. Also make sure you have two companions that have high physical attack/defense to tank for you while you heal them.
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precision posted:I wonder why the birds in Puerto don't talk in lolcat-speak in the US translation? The one in the tailor shop does...
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Oct 31, 2014 16:24
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they got rid of bawoon of wies, too. it's real hosed up.
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Mokinokaro posted:I was a bit disappointed in (minor Porto spoiler) Olivia isn't in her pirate garb as a party member after the chapter. precision posted:Yeah, and likewise with Laura, her "girboy" outfit is much cuter than her full Princess look. Both Olivia and Laura Are avaliable in their cooler outfits if you visit them at night, Laura is southeast of the restaurant on the main road, and Olivia is on her ship.
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This only cements my belief that Odin is the asskickingest companion. Dude's always wearing the raddest outfit 
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So the US got screwed out of all of the good jokes?
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RadicalR posted:So the US got screwed out of all of the good jokes? Nah there's still plenty of goofy puns to go around. Some of them are just done in different styles.
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RadicalR posted:So the US got screwed out of all of the good jokes? Nah it's still really funny. I'm not sure birds that talk like lolcats is a "good joke" anyway.
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Inflammatory posted:they got rid of bawoon of wies, too. it's real hosed up. Whaaat? The wittle kid and her bawoon of wies is hystewical! The best NPC is probably the shady guy obsessed with Gaites the Guard on the southern way out of Castele. I don't know why he needs sleep, stun and poison powders, but I'm growing increasingly worried for poor Gaites.
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There are so many things I want to do that I keep putting off advancing the story. I'm getting the point now, though, that I'm going to have to in order to advance lives because I can no longer get the materials I need to complete challenges. Also, here's something that happens apparently: If you adventure with another player who is an angler, let's say, and the angler fishes up fish while you're in multiplayer, a copy of the fish will be left behind for the other player, only visible to them AND it counts toward angler achievements, apparently, because my wife got a bunch of stars for fish I got out of the lava cave and on the plains and such when we were playing together. She switched to angler for the first time and had enough stars to jump straight to adept. So in theory, woodcutter and miner challenges would work the same way. And you get multiples of the bounty item rewards too. Only one person can get the dosh but if you're with a second person you get two of the item. We beat up a bandit in the desert and I turned the bounty in and we got two stuffed camels.
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I recently finished the game, and it's still a good time. I am having trouble finding all of the houses. One in Castele, one in Port Puerto, one in Al Maajik. Where are the rest of the houses?
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Oct 31, 2014 21:01
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Elderwood Village, Plushling Village, Origin Island
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Leofish posted:Also, here's something that happens apparently: If you adventure with another player who is an angler, let's say, and the angler fishes up fish while you're in multiplayer, a copy of the fish will be left behind for the other player, only visible to them AND it counts toward angler achievements, apparently, because my wife got a bunch of stars for fish I got out of the lava cave and on the plains and such when we were playing together. She switched to angler for the first time and had enough stars to jump straight to adept. Yeah, all item drops/rewards are doubled in multiplayer. I went through the lava cave with my wife's character so she could gain a bunch of experience and complete wizard challenges off the monsters in there, and we ended up with a nutso amount of that fire ore because I was mining everything we came across and she got drops for it too. Later on, I went around collecting the extra wood from the trees she cut down, and I got a bunch of woodcutter challenges in the process. Multiplayer is really goddamn good if you want to farm up a pile of good ingredients and tear through challenges. Getting two shards from a wingstone is sweet as heck.
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Angry Diplomat posted:Yeah, all item drops/rewards are doubled in multiplayer. I went through the lava cave with my wife's character so she could gain a bunch of experience and complete wizard challenges off the monsters in there, and we ended up with a nutso amount of that fire ore because I was mining everything we came across and she got drops for it too. Later on, I went around collecting the extra wood from the trees she cut down, and I got a bunch of woodcutter challenges in the process. Wow, it's great to hear that they fixed that! That wasn't the case in the Japanese version--well, not with the bounties at least. Updating the OP accordingly.
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