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HardDiskD posted:So, this page is really something huh. Yup, real nice and clear.
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Magic rules in RF4. Weapons are probably more useful in the long run, but magic stats increase alongside farm work, E.G. watering plants -> water magic stat, so they can stay fairly even. RP also increases constantly, so it's probably a carryover from 3.
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RF3 magic is great. It's strong yes, but mostly because the RP bar increases with levels/skills, and because most food that restores RP restores it as a percentage instead of as a flat number. It's not a small percentage either, you can cook really early in the game and simple foraged ingredients will cook into stuff that restores 60% of your max RP.
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Mzbundifund posted:RF3 magic is great. It's strong yes, but mostly because the RP bar increases with levels/skills, and because most food that restores RP restores it as a percentage instead of as a flat number. It's not a small percentage either, you can cook really early in the game and simple foraged ingredients will cook into stuff that restores 60% of your max RP. That, and you can forage actually cooked goods too. They're a bit rarer to find but in the different dungeons you'll find cooked food based on the produce of that season, so it's always good to have a look around for stuff. I've found some neat surprises that kept me alive/RP'd up enough to save my life a few times.
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There are staff weapons that have magic-like charged attacks in RF4, too, and it's a lot easier to break the magic curve than the physical one, meaning the hardest content melts a bit easier to spells if you can use them. That said, RF4 is essentially "learn how to game your forging skills", the game.
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LordHippoman posted:Enjoy the wood grind motherfucker This is the best response, thank you.
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KataraniSword posted:There are staff weapons that have magic-like charged attacks in RF4, too, and it's a lot easier to break the magic curve than the physical one, meaning the hardest content melts a bit easier to spells if you can use them. That said, RF4 is essentially "learn how to game your forging skills", the game. Yeah, endgame forging kind of blows magic out of the water when you can tap one button and hit the entire screen a half dozen times from range with a melee weapon. Magic's still great though, and elemental weaknesses are common.
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Except when it bugs out and crashes the game on you because you broke some limit with some extreme combination of range and effects. Magic has laws governing its use while forging holds to none. 
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Oh man, now I want a game with forbidden weapons, and the reason they're forbidden is that they can literally break the game, cause crashes, freezes, graphical/audio glitches, etc' etc'... Obviously story-required weapons would cause non game-stopping glitches, while the super secret 100-level dungeon forbidden weapon could delete all your saves.
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Update 41: Please Use The Game Mechanics Well, we’ve got nearly every sidequest checked off the list now. There’s one more that requires some pretty specific circumstances, and the reward is poo poo, so I may not get it done by the end, but I’ll do my best. Time to start pushing into the penultimate cave, Danaan.  Our new ally, Tiny, is joining us for this expedition.  Sorry, TINY. He’s labeled as a Humanoid monster, and to be honest, I don’t know if those classifications mean anything. I haven’t seen any weapons that do 50% more damage to “Plants” or anything, for example.  To reach Danaan, head west from Kasimir and cross the lilypad. Tabatha is here on Holidays, and this is the only place you can propose to her, as she’s hinting here.  Tucked into the corner is a cave. Which...leads to more caves.  There’s a fork inside, and on the left is this sign, and Danaan.    If it’s just another monster summoner I’m leaving.  : So it would seem. : What could the Sechs possibly be up to?: I don’t know, but I plan on finding out.: Right. I’ll try to see what I can learn too. She just turns around and leaves. Good effort, Mist. So, welcome to Danann. It’s built into the side of a mountain, so there are a lot of little mini-caves inside. It’s also pretty big and weird shaped and I may have trouble explaining it through screenshots, my bad.  The first little cave leads to a few fields, as well as this hilarious “gently caress you” wall of poison in front of the water source.  Outside again, we’ve got a recolor of an old rival. Meet the Arch Demon. They have powerful physical attacks and can paralyze you.  Every one of Tiny’s hits knocks other monsters on their rear end, which is hilarious, and gave me time to down the spawner, but they are invincible while on the ground. So it’s not exactly “optimal”. There’s a branch off to the east here, but I’m going to make things simple and just run all the way north first.  This weird floating set of leaves is the next foe in Danaan, and also not a recolor! This is the amazingly named LEAFBALL. It’s a caster and it spams Swordstorm.  These Swordstorms hurt, too, that was 60 damage.  I hide behind the spawner as it annihilates Tiny, and...here’s the issue with the spear.  Rune Factory’s hitboxes hate you. Greatly. Flicker has caused Donnel to disappear in this shot, but look at the floating spear. That did not count as a hit.  I’m thinking I might just have to stick with the sword. Time for take 2.  So, forget all that happened, welcome back to Rune Factory. This is Update 41, and we’re off to the penultimate cave with  Oh, the sword is so much nicer. Look at all those damage numbers.  Sure, we both got Paralyzed, but Medicate is a godsend. Danaan is quite a bit tougher than the Kasimir Ruins.  Anyway, past two forks, we finally reach the big cave over here.  It looks like another throwaway farming cave at first, but there’s a nice little passage in the back.  There’s also AAAHHHHHH.  Jesus I hate this model. This is the Blood Panther! He melees you, that’s about it. Sometimes he might get a crit.  Return to the weird abyss you came from, demon.  The cave eventually leads to a fork. You’re probably understanding why I was dreading trying to describe this place now. Well, heading north first, as has been the norm in this cave so far…   ...Later.  Okay maybe now, just a little.  Here’s the highest tier Ore in the game, Platinum. It’s good. Not much else to say about it, it’s required for a lot of the best equipment.  Also I’d like to note that Snaga got stuck on that corner. I’d like to mention that this cave really, really loves getting monsters stuck on the geometry.  The southern path leads to actual progression in the cave.  Also, this guy, the Necro. Allegedly he can Seal you and steal your Health.  I say “allegedly” because he aggro’d on Snaga, who was behind a rock, and Snaga couldn’t get around the rock, and thus they stared at eachother for a good several seconds as I smacked down the spawner. It was a sad fate.  Anyway, we’ve got a locked door here. Probably because I haven’t destroyed all the spawners-  Ahem. gently caress : (In fact, I’m sure of it! After all, people are supposed to live in harmony with the land! It seems Mist rubbed off on me more than I imagined…) Well, let’s not worry about that for now. Let’s just put the farming in the back of our minds. Let’s check out some fire.  You can get through here dousing only one of the flames. As you can see, this is a polished speedrun of Rune Factory, on update 41.  Snaga got owned by a laser as soon as I got in here. This is egam’s older brother, the Little Wizard. It uses Water Laser instead of Fireball, but is otherwise the same squishy caster.  Once you’re close enough here, they can’t really do much to you.   This is a pretty handy crafting material. That’s as far as I can get for now in the main path, so let’s go back and investigate those two forks outside I skipped.  Since this “cave” is outside, you can see the different effects from the times of day, like the sunset here. That’s really cool, and I like it.  Anyway, this fork hides an upgrade to the Silver Wolf, the Hunter Wolf. It’s basically just a stat upgrade of its Toros cousin, but it does hurt. A lot.  As you can see via the complete demolition of Snaga.  Aside from the spawner, though, this is a dead end.  The other fork has another Arch Demon spawner.  This was welcome, given how low I was getting on HP.  But...this is another dead end. I suppose that’s all I can do in here for now, so I’ll have to  ...Anyway, fastforward to the next day.  I’m going to need to use a Watering Can a lot soon, so I’m going to grab the third tier. Thankfully, I have all this stuff just on the shelf.     54 squares is a great capacity, but there’s another reason I want this. It has to do with that “Charge 3”.  Jean is out of the loop.  Anyway, I just bought five packs of seeds. Spinach has the shortest growing period of the fall crops, so I grabbed those. And, yes, all five packs will be necessary.  So, you might think “Oh, just need to pick some patches in this cave to open that door!” You’d be wasting your time. There’s a specific set.  And they’re hidden NORTH of the fire wall!  Up in this room, there’s a pool of water, which helps mitigate the annoyance factor here.  As well as five patches. We’ll have to use them all, unlike the Kasimir ones.  After much clearing, here’s a demonstration of why I wanted this can. A fully charged use of this waters a 3x3 square, making this all go much, much faster.   Since there are no festivals for a long time, I can just sleeping bag away the days, watering on each and then repeating. Hubris is knocking at the door.  I’m sure I’m not forgetting anything.  The spinach is making some decent progress.  But...wait… Oh poo poo the good hut is almost out of food. And I don’t want their FP to drop...I like my large produce…  A very sorrowful orb. I’ll be back, spinach.  So I bought a ton of this from Camus and shoved it in. Now, to return to my spinach!  ...You know, I think this is a good time to break. Next time we’ll do the second half of Danaan.
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Mysticblade posted:Also, I'm so glad I didn't bother playing this game beyond the 2nd dungeon. Weirdly enough in my recent playthrough of 1 this is where I stopped (which is why I'm so glad you're slogging through this Hippoman thank you). And I'd forgotten about Misty Bloom Cave. I know when I first played this series I started with 1 and finished it, and now I guess I'm glad I did? Because 1 and 2 are really great, fun games that just end up too ruined by the quality of life and mechanics changes of 3 and beyond. Having said that I'm actually playing 2 right now, but I'm speed-feeding fish to Dorothy because I don't care about any of the wives and just want to get to having crafting and magic and more to do hot drat.
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I will not lie, I busted out laughing when I saw the typhoon warning.
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Old Greg posted:(which is why I'm so glad you're slogging through this Hippoman thank you). "No problem!", I say, as I regret my decisions in life. (Really though glad people are enjoying this.) Glazius posted:I will not lie, I busted out laughing when I saw the typhoon warning. It actually changes into a hailstorm during winter. I accidentally cropped that out.
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Update 42: Villains and Vehicles A little hailstorm isn’t going to stop Donnel’s quest to conquer Danaan Cave. At least, not after he sleeps.  You might wonder why I’m in Misty Bloom Cave again. Have I finally lost my mind? No, that happened back around Update 26.  I’m here to grab two Water Crystals. There’s something in this cave that you’ll want either a strong non-elemental or water weapon for. I’m going for the latter, the spear probably isn’t gonna cut it.  First step is this dinky little thing.  But that turns into…  The mighty (well, it’s okay) Sea Cutter! It has less raw attack and one less combo button than the Aerial Blade, but it’ll serve well for what I need it for.  Finally, I round out the kitchen with the last three items Ivan will be selling us. Farewell, old pal. I’ll show them off in a future update, for now, though, we have business in Danaan.   OmNom is here, and there’s not much to say about it. It’s a standard melee fighter.  I’m going to skip the areas we’ve already explored and just get to the good stuff.  Actually I lied. Guess who forgot to refill the can?  Guess who had to run across the poison? Guess who regrets their decisions? It’s me.  One more watering/nap later, the Spinach is done!  Satisfied with our five plot offering, the gate disappears.  I do like the scenery in Danaan. Nowhere to go but up!  So, this is actually NOT Leafball. This little pain in the rear end is PLANTCORE, and it will gently caress you up. It’s just Leafball with higher stats, but that’s bad enough. Swordstorm is a menace.  Well, not from Donnel. But from anyone else.  There’s a fork at the north end here, I’m going west first, because I felt like it.  Ol’ Tricky Mush is back! The trick is that he’s still kind of a pushover, please, Tricky Mush, stop embarrassing yourself   Whoa. A new enemy model. This is the…Tortoise. Not too much notable about it, it’s a little odd because it’s one of a kind, no recolors, and only shows up here.  It can do a little chomp or try and slide at you in its shell. I like this guy.  tricky mush please, not again, just leave  But we’re still missing one spawner...I’m sure there couldn’t be too much bullshit between us and it. Time to backtrack to the fork and take a right.   It’s like they just figured out this whole “Locked Door Puzzle” idea thing in the final stretch.    His name was “F Hunter”? Little on the nose, buddy. : (This sounds like it’s worth checking out!)Luckily, this one isn’t too painful. It’s just a little scavenger hunt. Remember that cave at the very start of the dungeon?  This one? Clear away some of the top left corner here...and…   The Hoe pulls through for us once again.  Well, that’s access to the final part of the cave unlocked.  One nice thing about having crops in caves?  The runes respawn every day if you don’t harvest the plants. So this is a good way to keep yourself sustained. The thing is that it takes so long you’ll usually just want to blitz through it, and you typically can. Rune Factory 1’s core game mechanic is just too cumbersome to really work out.  Donnel, you dork.  Inside...hey...you again? Get outta here!  Aside from Mini-Golem’s unceremonious return, there’s not really much here. Just some water, fields…   But that’s it. Now, to see what awaits us in the final room! Get that Water weapon ready.  ...That seems like a train wreck waiting to happen.   : I don’t know… I’ll bet someone does. Haven’t seen another teleporter since Gigant!  Please, don’t make me just have to keep calling you “woman”. : Huh? Who are you? ...I’m not transcribing that.   Same  : Not that I expected peasants such as yourselves to comprehend… In plain terms, I’m a member of the Sechs Army, overseeing this region.: But what interest does your army have in our peaceful town?!: We are investigating a certain monster called the “Grimoire”, traditionally reported to inhabit this region.: In that case, you’re too late. I already defeated the Grimoire and sent it back to its original world.You never bothered telling Sharron that! : Don’t be ridiculous. What you defeated was nothing more than a mere dragon. It would take no small lack of intelligence to confuse such a thing for the Grimoire. But I digress… <- but with pink hair and an eyepatch: The true Grimoire can single-handedly destroy an entire nation. If a country were able to gain control over such a beast, no one on earth could oppose it!: But even if a creature as incredible as that existed, what makes you think it would serve you?: Obviously you don’t know the first thing about the Grimoire.: What do you mean by that?They’re really just knocking out all the plot threads in this conversation. Here comes another! : To some, legends are merely old fables, but others know them for what they really are: keys to unlocking new truths! We searched this region’s caves and we used “shifts” to randomly summon monsters in a sweep for the Grimoire.: “Shifts”? Is that what those devices in the caves are called? So you’re the ones that put them there!: Yes. The shifts represent the culmination of the Sechs Empire’s advanced scientific might!: So you’re summoning innocent monsters into our world just so you can find the Grimoire?: You’re a smart peasant.: That’s not right!Quick, Mist, try to give her a lovely farm! : What do you plan to do if you find the Grimoire?: Need you even ask? What fool wouldn’t want its amazing powers?: I’ll never let you do that!: Oh? If you don’t mind me asking, how do you plan to stop us?: I’ll fight if I have to! You are literally the only soldier we have seen so far in the game, Lynette. : You never know until you try! I thought you wanted to command its powers?  Well, bye. The screen rumbles… : Wh-what? Well then! gently caress.  TRAIN TANK : So this is what they’ve been up to… Mist, you’d better stand back.: O-Okay. Well it’s time for Donnel to 1v1 a freaking tank, Boss #7 got metal in a hurry. The Sechs Battle Tank has 2000 HP, like Golem, but a high defense makes it hard to chew through. Plus, any element that isn’t water is HIGHLY resisted. My Aerial Blade did 7 damage a swipe. The Tank is confined to moving on the tracks, so you can predict it a bit.  The first attack it has is to use the turret to fire an Aqua Laser. It traces Donnel for a few seconds, then shoots. The key here is to be constantly circling the tank to keep yourself out of its eventual blast. When it starts firing, it’s stuck in the animation for a while, so you have a chance to pull out a combo.  Try not to get into a corner, or you might have to double back, and that’s when it loves to zap you. After firing it a few times, the tank will retreat into one of the caves on the edge of the arena, and, after a few seconds, pop out a different one, like a Scooby Doo chase scene.  The second attack the Battle Tank uses is a burst of flame from the small guns on the sides, forming an X shape. The safe spots here are in front of or behind the Tank.  But, if you can sneak between the fireballs, you can get a couple sly hits in. After a little circling around and fireball blasting, it’ll retreat and come out again. Each time it does this, it picks one attack to use. So if it fires a laser immediately after leaving the cave, it’s lasers until it goes back in. If it’s fireballs? Get ready for fire until the Scooby Doo Shuffle happens again.  Cure is a great tool for this fight. And the whole game, really.  Oh, the Tank can also run you over if you stand in front of it. You’ll take damage and be toppled. However, being behind it, even if it backs into you, has no effect.  The Battle Tank’s “Turning Red” is a little different. It sheds its turret…  AND REPLACES IT WITH A FUCKOFF HYPER BEAM. That is an obscene amount of damage. You still dodge it in the same way, though. In this phase, I’d highly recommend only attacking the tank after you’ve dodged a laser, because unnecessary damage can be gross when it gets this high.  A better look at the Sechs Plasma Gun.  Oh, also the fireballs are upgraded in this phase, eliminating the handy middle spot. Really have to use that opening with the laser now.  So, play it safe, keep in mind it’s predictable, and the Battle Tank will eventually go up in smoke.   Someone’s mad.    : You know, Mist. You could at least pretend to think I won because of my skill…: Oh, right! You’re so strong, Donnel! No, I mean it!: Thanks… Enough banter, let’s bring in the pirate here. : I would appreciate it if you would head back to your country.: It’s not over yet. I won’t forget this insolent act! She keeps doing that. : You’re not going to chase her?: Even a blade imbued with Retornen magic can harm humans, right?: Yes. Against a human, it act as a normal sword. If cut, people will bleed. It can even take a person’s life.: In that case, I must not fight. Not even against a soldier....She never said that was an unmanned Battle Tank, Donnel. I think your hands might be stained today. : Donnel…: Yes?: I’m...I’m so happy to have met you…: Mist…: I’d better be getting back. See you back in town…: Okay, Mist. Done-aan Cave.  Only one Pass remains... Names! Names would be cool for any of: Arch Demon LEAFBALL Lil’ WIzard Blood Panther Hunter Wolf Necro Plantcore Mini-Golem Tortoise LordHippoman fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Nov 8, 2016 |
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Sure! A railroad tank. That's completely a reasonable boss fight. I guess they weren't expecting infantry?
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LordHippoman posted:
Sorry for being ten years old. Name suggestions: Arch Demon - Gosha Plantcore - DIEkn Tortoise - Ellis (it connotes excitement)
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Leafball: Salad Blood Panther: TypeO Necro: Vecna Tortoise: Ghido (stealth edit: or TURTL)
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The Secret Fourth FFXIII Game: Let's Play Rune Factory No, seriously, in retrospect, drat do you look like a one-eyed prototype for Lightning, Lynette. Must be the pink hair and cape. TooMuchAbstraction posted:Tortoise: Ghido (stealth edit: or TURTL) Do you think he spent five hundred years in Danaan Cave munching pizza?
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Arch Demon: Beezl Lil’ WIzard: Drazl (continuation of the egam theme) Hunter Wolf: Sif Plantcore: Scrub Mini-Golem: Castle
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I'd like to imagine that our magic Return-to-Monster-World sword just sent a flipping tank train flying into the monster world 
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LordHippoman posted:Update 42: Villains and Vehicles no poo poo Sage Grimm posted:Arch Demon: Beezl I like all of these.
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Glazius posted:Sure! A railroad tank. That's completely a reasonable boss fight. The Sechs Empire is entirely capable of neutralizing Grimoire, so long as it decides to come to that one cave and stay there for a little while so they can shoot it with water lasers, doesn't move out of that circle, and preferably damages the tank to about 25% so it can pull out the good gun. Also every time I do Monster Names I get to google references and there's some stuff I haven't heard of (I totally missed the Hope Chest joke), this thread makes me a much more worldly person.
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Yertle for Tortoise.
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That limitation makes it fairly difficult to make up really good names. I really wanted to continue MGS references with the Hunter Wolf but Sniper Wolf did not quite boil down nicely (Snpr? Snipe? SnWlf? bleah). Alternatively Okami wouldn't be a bad alternative for Hunter Wolf but it's rather commonly used.
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How about Atuin for the Tortoise? As someone said, using a weapon that can only move on train tracks to fight a dragon is pretty dumb. The Sechsies though seem to be kinda dumb in general, considering what I've seen of them in RF4.
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Well, they aren't the Sechsessful Empire, after all!
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Sage Grimm posted:Well, they aren't the Sechsessful Empire, after all! We should really just count our blessings that they aren't Zzyzxessful, either. (God, Rune Factory Frontier's translation had issues.)
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KataraniSword posted:We should really just count our blessings that they aren't Zzyzxessful, either. (God, Rune Factory Frontier's translation had issues.) Zzyzx is an actual place. I don't have context on the Rune Factory Frontier stuff, but maybe the translators were just from SoCal?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Zzyzx is an actual place. I don't have context on the Rune Factory Frontier stuff, but maybe the translators were just from SoCal? Or one of them is a fan of obscure movie trivia.
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Update 43: Final Preparations :Welcome back to Iron Chef Kardia. Today, we have Chef Donnel on set. :He appears, Chairman, to be looking at the new appliances from Update 42. What will he do with them? :Chef Donnel is known for his unorthodox recipes, like using the Oven to shove an entire stick of butter into a Sweet Potato and calling it a day. :He also appears to be shoving Grapes into a tumbler and mashing Grass in it. This is evidently alcoholic, a new twist from his typical fare with the Cooking Pot. :He’s gesturing wildly at the best food item in the game, the Royal Curry, but he has no ability to actually cook, leading to questions as for why he’s here in the first place. :He’s heated milk! The crowd is losing it! :MY GOD HE BOILED THE EGG, HE’S DONE IT :Unfortunately, it seems everything in the Steamer still eludes him. Better luck next time, Chef Donnel. The judges will be disappointed.  That was the worst bit I’ve ever done so I’m just gonna upgrade the Hammer and we’ll forget it happened.  Glad we’re past that.  Sharron, Donnel dismantled a tank. He’ll be fine. Still, she has a point. A little additional firepower never hurt. It’s time to get to work.  Step 1 was grinding on these Demons back in Toros. This was oddly cathartic after they kicked my rear end so much back in the early updates.  This drop came pretty quickly, which is good.  I needed it for this, the Icifier. It’s the fourth tier Water Sword. But I still need a Crystal, so it’s going to have to wait.  In addition, our trusty Aerial Blade could use a boost. I’ll need to grind out the two Bird Wings for this one.  So it’s back to Gigant to beat up on Weegulls some more. This took far too long.  Mostly because of these teasing chests. C’mon.  This isn’t a double shot, they dropped one after another.  I’m gonna be here for a while. This is why I like Screenshot LP.  ...Well, THIS is interesting. Not what I wanted, but it’s a rare drop.  The Aero Element is a consumable that increases the damage of Wind elemental attacks. Permanently. Maybe this is how you’re supposed to make magic good? It still doesn’t seem to make a huge difference.  After eating it, you can see that Donnel’s Wind Attack and Defense stats have raised by one! It’s the little green swish. The game does such a poor job explaining elements (it doesn’t) that I can’t really go into details with math on what this does, but I assume it’s good. (that 10 Water Attack is from the Sea Cutter being equipped)  This was the aftermath of the wing grinding. I’m still not done. gently caress Weegulls. They didn’t even hit me, this was just RP backlash. So now I’ve got to wait until Melody’s bath opens, but let’s see what the gossip around town is.  Years, Nicholas. Centuries. All the stumps are mine now.   Donnel is a firm believer in abstinence only education. Also please never call him “lil’ donnel” again.  Most of the NPC comments are along these lines. Jean even questions how you did it with a sword. I’m not really sure.  gently caress why didn’t I call that update Tanking The Tank.  You don’t know how much I was hoping he would say “I wonder if BATTLE TANK is edible?”  Truly Awesome   Let’s Play Rune Factory: Truly Awesome  Speaking of truly awesome, not this.  Not only are these ludicrously expensive, they are the final magic books!  Oh, also I never showed off Water Laser. You’ve seen it from roughly every boss, but, I mean, I’ve come this far, I should go for 100%.  Bath, then wizardry.  Melody kinda rules.  Surprise here’s Water Laser. It’s one of the best spells because it pierces, comes out fast, and just does okay damage, but it’s really not worth using over a decent sword at this point.  Seems simple enough.  Meteor makes a .jpg fall from the sky.  It does pretty good AOE damage! This one’s not awful, but at a 15 RP per cast cost? Don’t bother.  At least it had some benefit.  Everyone say farewell to Egam Dnarg. This is his final spell.  It sucks. It whips up a wind AOE around you that does some okay damage to enemies at the cost of rooting you in place and eating 13 RP. Admittedly this would be better not against these wind resistant enemies.  Another one of these? Okay.  Night has fallen and I still don’t have the loving bird wings.  Finally, I may rest.  Getting the Water Crystals from Misty Bloom was a cake walk compared to that. Mostly because I didn’t have to rely on monster drops. Which, by the way, are the only way to get Water Crystals while Misty Bloom is closed. This cave sucks so much.  But the hard work pays off.  And I’ve got two weapons for the endgame! But...what if…  donnel tore the loving HEAVENS ASUNDER  My true gambit, revealed! For some reason the Heaven Asunder is easier to make than the Icifier despite the Icifier being a required ingredient. Just think “Rune Factory” and move on. The Heaven Asunder is stupidly powerful. It’s not the best sword in the game, that thing takes way too long to get, but it’ll do just fine for beating the last dungeon. That’s almost triple the raw damage of the Aerial Blade, it has both Water and Wind powers, and a 6 hit combo. It’s ridiculous.  But in case there are any enemies with high elemental resistance in there, I want just a raw weapon as a backup. The ol’ Defender can be upgraded into this, which will do perfectly.  Before I start, though, there’s mail. Tomorrow is Sacred Night, which is kinda like Rune Factory Valentine’s Day.  Naturally dating (and forging) make Donnel pass out.  Sacred Night is a Holiday where, after nightfall, you can visit a marriage candidate in her house and have a “date”, that raises their LP by one. I think you can do multiples. Their LP must be above 7, though, and we don’t have anyone there but Sharron. Although yes, if we did, we could totally cheat on her. But Donnel’s a good man.  A good man with two fuckoff swords.  I don’t know how to tell Camus that Melody’s bathhouse IS her home.  Just wanted to show that the Heaven Asunder sells for a ridiculous amount of money. I won’t sell it, but, I mean, it’s there.  I wonder what happened to Bianca’s mom. Does Jasper have a tragic backstory? He eats away the pain  Since Donnel cannot date anyone tonight, he will instead do what he loves. Rubbing monsters.  ajkalan has both a demonic reference and a nice phonetic spelling to bypass that pesky name restriction.  Also WOW THE HEAVEN ASUNDER. 86 Damage in a single blow.  Sage Grimm gives us Sif the Hunter Wolf, a boss I totally beat because I definitely did not stop playing as soon as I got to the Anor Londo Bridge.  gently caress blood panthers   in the default name. TooMuchAbstraction’s TypeO is the rarest of blood types, which is good because this monster is ugly and I don’t want to see it anymore. why is it so close up?  Next up is egam’s cousin.  Sage Grimm reminds us of an old friend. Sadly the character limit gets in the way.  I also accidentally picked one of the Spinaches, so here’s what that looks like.  Sunset Turtle. There were a lot of good suggestions for this one.  But TooMuchAbstraction fit a Final Fantasy V reference into these 5 Legendary Characters. They are Characters. They are Legendary. There are even five of them.  That’s all for the monsters of Danaan Cave, so let’s get this final act started.    : So, it’s over!: No, perhaps there is more to come.: What?: It’s true that I destroyed the tank, but their commander managed to escape.: There’s a chance that their commander will lead more tanks.If you don’t see any railroad tracks, I wouldn’t worry about it. : Yes, a distinct possiblity.: Right. Why do you think that the Sechs Empire want to invade us?: I heard they are looking for Grimoire.: Grimoire? But, Donnel, I thought you had sent it back to its former world.: That’s what I thought too, but somehow Grimoire must have been a different creature.: Is that so?: Mr. Mayor, could you please issue me with a pass for the last cave? Grimoire may be in there.: Of course. No bullshit hoops to jump through or tiles to till this time. When there’s a direct threat of the village being destroyed by an enslaved god, Godwin gets down to brass tacks. : This is the last cave in Kardia. Donnel, thanks for your hard work. Take care. Well, guess this is it. Any advice, Sharron?  Thanks sharron.  Next time it’s the final dungeon.
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LordHippoman posted:I wonder what happened to Bianca’s mom. Does Jasper have a tragic backstory? I kind of figured he just married a turkey dinner and Bianca sprung from it fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus.
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Nov 1, 2016 21:37
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How many mining spots would a cave need to have to force you to use literally all your RP & HP before the boss fight?
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Mzbundifund posted:I kind of figured he just married a turkey dinner and Bianca sprung from it fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus. This is my favorite fictional head canon.
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Man, I'd have figured cooking would be pretty good for getting you to actual in-cave restorative items. But I guess it's just too much hassle for too little payoff?
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Glazius posted:Man, I'd have figured cooking would be pretty good for getting you to actual in-cave restorative items. But I guess it's just too much hassle for too little payoff? In the first game, yeah. This is especially true because a full patch of crops will give you 25RP (1/4 of your bar) every day, and you can sleep in a dungeon. Combine that with the cure spell, and there's no reason to bother with cooking, really.
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