>>1410164
Why didn't you just wait a few hours and make the roadmap as the OP

>>1410185
Oh shit, didn't realize that's what everyone was waiting for. Well, it'll be just a post or two down then in a couple hours.

Roadmap won’t be around until the tail end of the Tavern Talk anyways.

Can’t believe we only got one hour left until the news drops, and one day left until the update hits.

>>1410222
Less than one day til the update, more like twelve hours.

>Nephti
BOOOOOOOOOOO

looks like nephti has gotten tons of buffs

>Solon
ALSO BOOOOO
but good I guess cuz more saving for Elrica and Saziroth.

Only got 2k rubies so I gotta skip, but whales are gonna have a blast tomorrow, as usual.
These Nephti buffs look NUTS! Triple cast, introducing magic crits before Detraina or whatever that witch's name is, 6 hit ST and 5 hit AOE, jesus.

>>1410305
and her accessory giving 100% crit, what the hell

Nephti might as well be a new character for global. This is bigger than the Roland/Frederica buffs. Everything is buffed to an insane degree. Even her A4 is buffed to be something nobody's ever had: it now grants permanent Dead Aim (guaranteed crit) in addition to everything else.
Her biggest weakness in JP was it took her too long to ramp up her cheer on points but now global Nephti gets them automatically every turn.
There's even more than what I'm listing. Fuck, she's pretty much top of the game now, I might have to try and pull. But she's like Bargello in that you want her A4 and even U10.
>>1410310
Yeah, she's cracked beyond.

Oh yeah, and reminder that on JP, Nephti, who was infamous for being mediocre, went from shitty to amazing and top tier with her 6* and TP. She's still gonna get skyrocketing buffs in global when she gets that in the future. So now, instead of going from near the bottom of the game to near the top of the game, she's going to go from above the top of the game to...whatever lies above the heavens.

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>>1410164
Road map

RIP to everyone who busted their ruby nut on the previous banner

All in on Nephti and future Castti teams now.

>>1410326
I don't regret going all in on the Bargello banner and am set to get his A4 in 5 months or whenever they add it to the exchange (they're adding Krauser tomorrow) but man, this might be the banner that makes me wish I was a whale the most. Nephti changing the game over night. I have 2k rubies as I said, maybe I should try and rush for another 2.5k with my backlog of traveler stories and lv100 NPC fights. But then I'd be dry and they'll hit us with either Live A Live or Elrica+Alaune EX next month I bet.
Decisions, decisions...

Where's the guy who was saving for Nepthi even when people were telling him she's meh/trash? I can't remember a time where I saw an anon win harder than he did today.

>>1410341
What is the nature of the buffs? I'm hurting on apothecaries so may throw a pull at her.

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>>1410350
It's a lot so I put everything in one pic, the red are the buffs

Any word on the guidestone bug or is it still fucked indefinitely?

>>1410351
That is pretty nice. Does JP have any more of the stack build supporters/DPS like her and Tatloch?
>>1410356
They still have no idea how to fix it lol

>>1410351
Assuming Nephti's later buffs that JP got from TP and 6* aren't changed for global when they arrive, you can look forward to following:
>her second passive that gives party buffs will also buff party damage by +15% passively at 5 support points
This is at 6 star and will make passive damage capping a breeze.
>she gains 1 support point when switching rows
This was given to her so in JP she could actually function, as she relied on her ultimate to get support points over there. This means on global she'll be able to get two points per turn with ease, not counting using her ultimate for an extra 2 (only 1 in JP) in the same turn, so 4 points in a turn for extreme ramp up, cutting out the only thing balancing her even further.
>TP Skill: 3-hit axe aoe, 55 potency, upgrades to six hits at 9 support points
Considering Global Nephti already had her 1 hit axe aoe changed to a 5 hit axe aoe at only 5 support points, this skill is just a slight upgrade that takes longer to reach, meaning you might wanna just bring her GLEX aoe. I should note, I say "axe" but all these skills are axe/staff/tome.
>EX Skill: 8 hit axe ST hits staff and tome too and lowers enemy axe/staff/tome res by 15%
She needs 6 support points to use this which'll be much easier on global when she gets this skill.

Bow before your new queen.

Everyone in the discord seething cause they were planning on skipping her lmao

>>1410370
fucking kek
global going for that money grab

>>1410370
I'm going for Solon first, if I get him early that's still a skip.

yeah nephti sounds cool, but where am i gonna use her?

>>1410410
when castti comes out

>>1410410
>>1410413
I feel like this applies to most characters. There just isn't that much actual content in the game.

i think i'll spend the full 6k and finally pick up rinyuu as well

>>1410432
Nice, you'll be set for supports then. Good on ya finally making it to 6k, that shit takes forever.

why couldn't they hit EX tressa with sudden global buffs...

>>1410459
Does she have 6* on JP yet? Maybe there's still hope, Tressabro.

>>1410476
she does, but i'm not sure how to gauge its efficacy because it's a long time away and what sounds good now might not be that great by then

>>1410476
Bro...she already has it and she's still mid, Hujheb basically murders her.

>>1410483
It's over...

Now that they can just buff characters out the ass our JP foresight is kinda useless, I'm kinda spooked

heh i have less than 100 rubies, nothing scares me

I may actually roll for Nephti holy shit. I slept on Leon and I massively regret sleeping on Roland. On one hand, I've already got a ton of supports like Bargello, PrimEX, Rinyuu, Tat and Tithi. I can slot in any of them.
On the other hand, magic crit so Cyrus can do fuckoff damage and a source of Staff + Tome damage that isn't Cecily. Plus the foresight of her great 6* upgrades. I just hope she doesn't bankrupt me before Elrica and an actual hint comes out for LaL collab so I don't miss the man who did nothing wrong.

>>1410507
>an actual hint comes out for LaL collab
I'd bet it is version 2.12.0 in June as "special story and characters" reads crossover to me

>>1410510
Reads as side solistia to me.

>>1410356
I believe they fixed it unannounced, I tried increasing the level cal and it worked

I really regret wasting 1.2k rubies on the new year banner for ONE fucking prim ex.
That aside, is there any benefits of doing adversary fights except for hammy's? Like feat rubies or good rewards?

>>1410516
Won't be til the anniversary.

>>1410781
One Prim EX for 1.2k rubies is actually good bro...

>>1410781
Equitable allies you can summon without having worry about limited uses. Other than that upgrade mats and 40 gems/adversary.

>spend 900 stones to get a character to help you beat two lvl 100 NPCs for 400 stones
Still a better investment than 90% of gacha rolls I guess

>15 million leave evasion taking accesory
holy shit

>>1410899
Where's this?

>>1410904
Agapea. Trade/Barter NPC in the item shop. Looks like I gotta clear an Elite Floor (totally broke)

>>1410910
Haggle, not barter.

>>1410912
>>1410910
Had location wrong. She's in the NW most house in Agapea, not the item shop.

>A4 and U10 Nephti in 100 pulls
it was meant to be

>>1410843
>40 gems/adversary
Do I have to clear all levels of the adversary?

>the shop actually has nephti/solon awakening stones
holy shit i thought they'd never do this again

>>1410940
Rank 4/6 is a 10, rank 6/6 is 30.

having linde + hagen + ma'afa is pretty cool
now i can pretend h'aanit lent tressa linde

>galdera's origins as trial of truth
That was nice

>Happy architect and Bargello in 90 pulls
My decision to skip Bargello's banner paid off. Problem is whether or not I wanna gamble on getting Solon before pity because apparently his U10 adds great value.

Fucking hell, these rates are always brutal. Only had enough to do 80 pulls, got one 5 star, Yukes (new!). It was my first 10 pull too, so if that had of actually been the rate up traveler, I'd be golden. I've got 3 weeks, now I gotta do traveler stories all day every day to get more rubies, the new main story will have to wait.
>>1410957
I was actually thinking of buying the Nephti one if I could get her in this afternoon's pulls. I foolishly assumed awakening packs would be somewhere in the $15 to $25 range but nope, $69.99 plus another 15% tax, my country's economy is fucked.

>>1410934
NephtiGOD, what the actual fuck? Were they paid step ups? Because on normal banners, I don't think I've ever gotten anyone event to A2 in 100 pulls before (been playing since launch, used all my free rubies since then).

>>1410351
How long does it take for her to get set up w/ her Cheer points? Is it only 1/turn with her support skill?

>>1411122
One point per turn and her ultimate gives her 2 points every time you use it. Same passive also fills her ult gauge by 50% each turn. Wiki says her ultimate goes from 2 uses to 10 at level 10, can anyone here who pulled her confirm if it's just 2 uses for level 1 to 9 and then you need a dupe for it to go straight to 10 uses, or does it get more uses as you level it up?

>>1411142
Ultimate uses start at 2, increases by 1 every level until you get to 10 at U10. U4 has 5 uses, U5 has 6 uses, etc.

>>1411164
So caps out at 9 for U9? Bretty gud. Now to figure out how to beat these last lv100 NPCs for more rubies. How hard is the top floor of Master Training where you fight the last two lv100s at the same time?

>went back to clear hammy in adversary log
>the special task literally just left
...oh

>>1411167
F

>>1411164
>>1411142
Also she starts at a much higher ult gauge than anyone else (bar Nona). At U9 it starts at 90.

>>1411169
So let's see, just spitballin' here 'cause I don't have her yet to test. You generally want to get around 6 cheer points asap
>turn 1, use 1 BP to fill ult and get 1 cheer point at end of turn
>turn 2, use ult to get 2 points and another at end of turn, up to 4 cheer points now
>turn 3, use some BP to charge ult at least 50%, finish fully charging it at end of turn from passive and get up to 5 cheer points
>turn 4, ult for the second time, getting 2 cheer points and a third at end of turn
>start turn 5 with 8 cheer points
So her entire kit is fully online by the start of turn 5, because the most points she needs for her skills and passives is 8. Does she have a cap on cheer points? Her ultimate can actually benefit from having more than 8, since it buffs by 1% more per point.

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Dear God... these Holy Caits have the highest Exp turnout I’ve ever seen! 650,000! Add the 50% bonus you get from equipment and that adds up to 975,000 Exp! Goddamn!

>>1411220
Fucking sweet. Are there any guaranteed daily ones, or just random encounters? Hell Caits were pretty darn common, how about these ones?

>>1411212
Pretty sure the cap is nine points like all buffs.

>>1411220
i should catch up to story....

>looking at the hammy race tweets to figure out what I'm doing wrong
>every single team is the same
i guess i must be a masochist, for not following meta

>>1411428
yeah, races are bullshit and i generally don't like to play that way. i wish they had other challenges but i can't even think of any

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I forgot I hadn't read any of the bookmark memoirs and turns out most are worth 20 rubies each. Skipped through them all, I'll properly read them later, and ended up with 360 rubies. Did another ten pull (bringing me up to 90 pulls total counting the 80 I did this morning) and I got her!
Wild to think she wasn't even on my radar until yesterday, then I dumped it all to snag one precious copy of the cutest builder. I think Live A Live will be the thing at the end of the current road map, but Elrica could drop any week now so I'll have to keep looking for old sources of rubies to collect.

>>1411483
congrats bro, she's a ton of fun to use

>>1411485
Thanks! Don't have enough guidestones to max her 'cause Tatloch, Bargello and Sonia ate a lot, so it's off to the hunts we go!

>>1411483
Pretty sure Live a Live is the special chapter in June. If it was Side Solistia, it would be a 3.0.0 update.

>>1411492
4 months away? looking at it now, we shouldn't even have enough travelers before when JP got live a live nor solistia to fill in the time until then

>>1411428
>Every single team is the same
Not even remotely the case, it's just that Bargello and Sonia are the most convenient to pull and someone did an EX Tier with only gen pools.

>>1411433
The one before this asked you to clear Dancer Tower or Thief Tower EX5.

what the fuck i was not EVER going to expect canon pregnancy to start off the newest chapter

really wish i could play this on my PC

On the way to getting Nephti yesterday, I got Yukes. Today, I looked at his kit while leveling him up and wondered: why/where the hell would I ever use this guy? Even Millard would be more useful in Cleric Tower. I guess if someone just started their account and had zero other 5 star clerics they'd use him.

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This is it, I will drop this game if I can't get nephti before the banner ends REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1411875
>why/where the hell would I ever use this guy?
To boost Aedel.

Has the JP version explained what the fuck Vide is in Octopath 2? I hope they will, given we've gotten a lot more info about Octopath 1's mythology in this game.

>>1411883
I got her too recently (Bargello's banner), is she good enough to warrant using a party slot on Yukes? Feels like this lil guy overinvested on boosting one character.
>>1411882
Best of luck bro, at least you have 3 weeks instead of 2. Have you cleared all content and read all stories yet?

>new chapter boss removes tressa ex's arrow buffs every turn
>my team usually relies on vim and vigor too
why don't i just lay down and die
still made it though

>>1411914
>Have you cleared all content
No, that's why I am not dropping this right now. But it's not much, barely reaches the pity even all the content rewards+dailies+hammy reward combined

>>1411900
They probably just reused the gods for the conveniency lol.

boy this shrine guardian is fat as hell

>>1411943
Barely still counts, good luck! And who knows you might luck out like I did last night and get her before pity.

is the sheep tied to solon or something?
i honestly can't find somewhere in-game that says something

>>1411983
What sheep?

>>1411988
it's a new keeper, a gold variant is in the premium shop but i don't see the normal version, so i assume it's tied to someone like hagen/linde/ma'afa/lolo

>>1411983
>>1411988
>>1411999
Yeah, you have to have Solon for the (non-paid) sheep to become exchangeable.

>>1411920
My blind run:
>Brought Tat, Nephti and Rinyuu so dumbass can't kill me.
>A2 isn't carrying weakness skill so Sarisa is breaking while she just sits there and does 4x Attack on break
>Lars is useless so Bargello is plinking away while conserving SP
>Tat has her 2x multitype, Cyrus is as bad as Lars
>Nephti in front of Rinyuu can't do anything but 7-hit ~900 plinks.
I had 2.5 effective rows. But I got him to red. Then he revives and the next two phases go well until he kills A2 with his 3x random all targeting her while on his last 5% of health and proceeds to wipe the rest of my team because I tried to revive with Rinyuu instead of maintaining the Gracious Prayer. 57 tediois turns for that. Almost as bad as my Largi attempts
I'm starting to understand why people look this shit up beforehand.

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Well, this was an exciting run,

>Solon
>Alaune (A2)
>EX Tressa (A4)
>Scarecrow (Recycled)
>W’ludai (Recycled)
>Z’aanta (Recycled)
>Olberic (Recycled)
>and of course...Nephti (A4)

>>1412087
>go in blind with a scholar or two with analyze
>reveal all weaknesses
>die and return
i've done this more times than i want to admit

>>1412087
i always do first run blind
if it doesn't work, then i readjust my team according to weaknesses
if it does work, then even if it's a pain, it's a lot more memorable so i find the experience worth it. sure, it can be frustrating, but if i used a guide then i don't feel like i really did anything

>>1412087
Cyrus ends up being useful in his last health bar. Faggot just wiped me because I missed a debuff turn. Should be able to beat him but fuck the fight is long. Last phase also drops the EOT buff removal.

are the elite wolf accessories even worth it
the second one seems nice but it needs the first one equipped too
i might just take whatever clear i can get to continue towards the elite kraken's first accessory instead, and the second kraken accesssory seems redundant due to buff caps

interesting, JP cotc is putting out a survey specifically targeted at cotc players, regarding a new game project square is working on that somehow involves the other similar rpg titles too
https://twitter.com/OCTOPATH_SP/status/1760612247473410359

>>1412318
The dungeon crawler is the only one that doesn't look like total trash.

>>1412318
Tried to do it. Even with an account I can’t do the survey. I have to have an account AND I need the Square Enix app on my phone.

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>>1410164
Damn, that Heaven OST is very similar to picrel. I wonder if it was from the same composer.

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>>1410164
What is the optimal nurturing distribution for each available keeper?

>>1413576
EATK on healers, PATK on sharpen cat, the rest get Spd or an offensive stat of your choice

>therion (7th), primrose (4th), soleil (2nd), and a fucking new rondo in 80 pulls
>but not nephti
Why so much luck now when I don't have enough to pity the banner character, but not when I do? I came to conclusion that gacha has consciousness and it's sadistic

Which route got the best farming efficiency in TS final board?

>>1413669
They rig it to fuck with your emotions. It's by design. You'll see the same thing happen on the gameboard, but with that you can at least easily see what's being rigged by closing it and rolling a different number of die.

is there any reason to hold onto arena champion tower awakening stones?
or should i trade them in to buy some stuff from the exchange, since i haven't bothered actually farming their fights

>>1413672
secret route if you can beat highest difficulty
but if you want an easy farm, take the route with all those little robots and just spam therion aoe fire

>>1413798
>is there any reason to hold onto arena champion tower awakening stones?
Have you A4'd all of the relevant champs?

>>1413932
yeah, and U10

>>1414201
shard em then

Which of the arena champs are worth grinding for their personal equipment and lvl 100?

>>1414370
Yan Long is the (3rd) best Staff damage unit in the game. His personal gives 150 attack and the A4 is wonderful for breakers.
Gertrude is a solid Axe nuker. Accessory's main bonus is the extra speed.
Glossom is Fan breaker/DPS that isn't limited like Tatoloch or FioreEx. Accessory increases is like Yan.
Tikilen can fill in Wind DPS well. Her 4-hit random wind skill is finicky, but her nuke still makes her worth slotting into wind teams. Accessory is like Yan but for Magic.
Hammy is a wonderful tank backpack. Phys/Ele dodge, granting ANYONE a 2-hit counter (which can proc for each character hit by a single AOE attack, keep in mind for Berecain NPC), and some niche Tome damage/breaking. Passive makes her heal frontrow buddy. Accessory increases Attack and reveals weaknesses. A4 is really powerful for both backpack and attacker roles.

>>1414370
if your team needs a job, they can fill it, especially for the job towers. easy awakenings help them stay competitive too
many of them are also atypical to their job so it's a neat niche to fill
>tikilen is an eatk focused warrior
>glossom, gertrude, yan long, and hammy are patk focused

>>1410476
She got TP and 6-star a while ago and it was the funniest update I've ever seen. The TP skill is just AoE combust kek. And the 6-star upgrade just makes her 3-hit priority skill give her 2 points now.
At least her new EX skill allows her to imitate Z'aanta's 5-hit skill two times a battle, lol.

took nephti along some hodgepodge teams against various arena champs, these overall damage buffs are insane, and she ramps up in no time unlike tatloch
it's also quite fun that she benefits both patk and eatk

>>1414575
the aoe combust also gives her 3 trap points, she gets a passive for 4 trap points on break which is easy thanks to swift triple shot, and her ex 5-hit gives her 5 trap points too
but we just got nephti with like 7 hits forever and even aoe effortlessly, so maybe global will come through again

>>1414897
what's the word on how she's expected to compare to upcoming must-pulls like santanos (sp?) or elrica? I've only got about 5.5K rubies so I've been avoiding this one but the hype seems real

JP is getting Nier round 2 and a guaranteed one of either Nier (twink not papa), Kaine or Emil. All look pretty good but I'd prefer Emil.

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Last time it was Nier: Automata.

Tomorrow JP gets its prequel, Nier: Replicant.
Nier - Merchant (Sword/Dark)
Kaine - Thief (None?)
Emil - Cleric (Tome/Dark)

>only got one nephti before 150
ouch
u10 isn't a priority right? it'd only save one turn

>>1415119
who knows, global could buff sazantos/elrica however they feel like, or even not at all

>>1415365
Yes, A1 and you can use a pet with BP boost to ult turn 1.

>fiore anecdote
ooh
>z'aanta's in it
oh no
>the stupidity music starts playing
OH NO

>>1415340
HOLY FUCK
>no Papa NieR
Yeah, I know it's because it's Replicant and not Gestalt. Fucking hate Replicant for phasing him out of existence.
But I would still the everloving fuck outta Kaine and my boy Emil.
Now I have something to look forward to after Sazantos, I pray global lasts long enough to get it.
>>1415397
OH YES

>>1415417
*pull the everloving fuck

>>1415417
>I pray global lasts long enough to get it
Why wouldn't it? COTC is doing a decent job of staying above water compared to others games IIRC

>>1415417
Pretty sure Papa Nier was American only. The Japanese version was Brother Nier.

Weird change though.

>>1415421
SE is a fickle mistress.

>>1415340
Given NieR can extend break buy a turn with one of his skills, this more or less makes him the single best character released up to this point.

>>1415592
ok i am saving for these guys, how long do i have

>>1415604
You’re gonna be saving for a long-ass time then. The Nier Replicant characters won’t be out for another year.

>>1415609
since my pulls have been straight dog shit i got burned out so i am going into just log in bot for a while, this sounds perfect

>>1415631
What is the passive stone income per month anyway? 360?

>>1415634
higher than that since every few update theres like a 100 Rubie feat

>>1415643
Meant just from logins, no campaigns.

Man, this gameboard upgrade has been great. I've never bothered clearing out the monthly stuff from the three gameboard medal exchanges, but I just cleaned Wealth out with a couple good runs. Just have Fame to do now.
>>1415592
Holy shit that's unbelievably busted. I guess I'm gonna be skipping the limited Solistia travelers to save up more rubies, my only targets right now are Elrica+Alaune EX, Live a Live and Sazantos+Signa.
Speaking of Side Solistia though, are there any travelers from over that that are totally busted?

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>>1415678
>Sazantos+Signa
redpill me on these please. what's their deal and why are they on everyone's list just like bargello? I was going to get him anyway because chosen one turning evil is kino but now I'm curious

>>1415678
Temenos and Hikari stand out.

>>1415683
I just like the characters, but Sazantos is a strong damage dealer and Signa's a good all stats debuffer I think? Pretty sure I heard with H'aanit EX+Signa you can cap all stats down on all enemies.

>>1415592
It's only once per battle and only after 6 turns. You have to actually do the math on how much he's truly brining to the table. I'll compare him to brining morffins instead. Say you have an attacker and the damage they do is represented as 100, they get 3 turns of break damage so the final total is 100+100+100= 300. Say you replace him with Morffins who provides 30% potency up, but doesn't provide an additional break turn so the number would be 100 + 100 + 50 = 250, but then he provides 30% potency up so it's 250 +30% for 325. A gen pool character provides more damage over the course of those three turns and he can do it more than once per battle. If you don't have an ult debuffer then billy would provide 250 +20% for 300 the exact same amount NieR provides. Don't let yourself get swept away by a gimmick there's more than one way to skin a cat in this game.

>you can actually browse the travelers in travelers menu by swiping up down in the status screen without needing to go back to travelers screen everytime
I am a fucking idiot

>>1415683
Signa is a fantastic debuffer with a great ultimate. Probably the best.
Sazantos isn't as much of a priority as Signa because he's "just" a really really good sword (and light and fire) damage dealer... which is to say he's really good but can be replaced by other damage dealers (it's just harder cause he hits so many weaknesses), but they come together with shared pity so might as well. It's just a really high value banner where you can reasonably expect to get both units before pity with average luck.

>>1416025
>really high value banner
until global splits them again hehehehe

>>1415806
This anon's right. People get too excited by the new gimmicks which is why SQEX adds them, to get people to pull.
Personally I'm skeptical. It's not good in speedclears because of the 6-turn requirement, but it can only be used once per battle so it's not great in dragged-out fights either. Making your ultimate buffs/debuffs last through 3 turns of breaks also sounds tricky. What about ultimate buffs that don't increase in duration even at level 10? BP management is also an issue. How are you going to max boost attack with all of your units for all three turns?

>>1415691
Nice, I remember hearing Hikari's OP now that I think of it. Good to hear there's another busted cleric coming too.

>>1416025
>It's just a really high value banner where you can reasonably expect to get both units before pity with average luck.
Yeah, like >>1416028 said, it's gonna be two split banners with a shared pity as the format, so f2p will likely have to dump 4500 to (hopefully) get one and then spend the pity on the other one rather than splitting their rubies chasing them across two separate banners. Unless you get super lucky and pull one in your first ten pull, then swap to the other banner.

We will get hammy reward next wednesday, right?

>>1417427
Mebbe.

>>1417651
Am wilbe fukked ifn't mebbe

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>>1413580
I finally have enough power fruits to max this lil guy's p.atk, seems like a safe investment since he will always be on someone who wants more p.atk. Still have a few empowers left over and I'll get a few more when he hits level 10 two weeks from now.
Is putting the rest in hp after you've maxed their main stat the best way to build pets? As you can see from my pic, I already put some hp into this guy and several other pets to help with my Hammy clear because I noticed some characters were either just barely surviving or just barely dying.
>>1417427
I believe the stream that announced the Hammy Cup Race said the rewards will be sent out on March 19th, so three Tuesdays from now.

>>1417896
>march 19
I am done, I will not have enough to pity nephti even if I clear all the remaining game content. Sayonara bros.

>>1417905
Fug, RIP. Hopefully I'm wrong about the date then, or you get her from a lucky pull and don't have to complete the pity.

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If we’re lucky, we’ll get another new character soon.

Rumor has it we’re getting Ninalina and/or Levina within this update. Both are long overdue so here’s hoping for global buffs!

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finally took down elite wolf, and managed 5 turns too despite almost turning out catastrophically wrong
>this last octo weakness
wow what the hell, time for nephti to shine even more

Just thought of something. We have like...SEVEN Chance Encounters left. That’s it.

From Orsterra:
>Ninalina - Scholar (Dark)
>Lemaire - Dancer (Fire/Ice/Thunder/Wind/Light/Dark)
>Ogen - Apothecary (Ice)
>Sertet - Hunter (Wind)

From Solistia
>Grieg - Warrior (Fire)
>Morffins - Apothecary (Ice)
> Neha - Dancer (Ice/Dark)

That’s it. Everything else from here on in is Limited in some capacity.

Got a feeling they might either spread these Chance Encounters out or make new ones because we are now 4 months away from Side Solistia, and Part 5 of Octopath Champions of the Continent.

I recently started this game, and am not sure what I should actually be doing.
I recently beat all the Fame chapters. Should I focus on the Power and Wealth, or the Traveler stories? I feel aimless in the game.

>>1418531
progressing the main stories will unlock more features, so keep pushing as long as you are able. if you hit a wall, then consider working on your team, some equipment maybe, or guiding some new travelers
traveler stories are basically a source of rubies, do them when you need to summon to round out your team, or when you feel like it because they can take a lot of time
nephti is a very good target right now if you haven't gotten her already

>>1418531
I would start by doing as much of the traveler stories as you’re able to. Then focus on the Nameless Town as well as Elvis’s side story.

You’ll also want to do the Emberflame Stories as soon as you can. Getting yourself some Keepers and Divine Beasts will make the game MUCH easier for you.

Do as much of the Ultimate Tower as you can as well as any of the Job Towers as your level permits.

Then focus on the main Story. When you get to Part 2: Master of All, make DAMN SURE you get through the hunt quests and defeat the Battle Tested Veterans as soon as you can.

Oh and make sure that as you travel you find and defeat as many Elite Enemies as you can. They fill up the rooms in the Bonfire Battles.

>>1418541
>nephti is a very good target right now if you haven't gotten her already
Can you remind me how many pulls gets you a 5 star guaranteed? I have 600 free atm

>>1418558
For Travelers of Memory you need 150 fragments. That’s 4500 rubies you’ll be spending for one spark of the featured characters. For the others it’s 200 fragments (6000 rubies).

I know the Hell weapons get the +damage to hallows at rank 4, but does that also apply to any +damage to Hellfiends souls?

>>1418862
>I know the Hell weapons get the +damage to hallows at rank 4
Whoa, what? So, should I bother with the new heaven weapons, or should I just wait until I can get hell weapons to IV and invest in those?
Still feels like fortune weapons are the most relevant, is heaven gonna have content worth minmaxing some heaven weapons for?

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>>1418862
no, the substat souls don't change
it's also a smaller bonus than arcane, 30% to both whereas arcane gets 40% to hallow

>>1418882
fortune 3 and arcane 4 are kinda sidegrades imo, pic related
this fortune wep has 53 patk/288 eatk, 131 eatk/-150 hp, 131 eatk/-150 hp
i like the arcane weps on characters who want two skill lines, and don't need damage limit up or the extra crit from fortune

Tonight will be the night.

If there’s a new character coming out, we’ll find out the n Twitter tonight.

>>1418631
wait, I didn't know I could spark her already (at ~5,000 rubies). How does she compare with some of the more anticipated characters like sazantos/signa/elrica, assuming they don't get any global buffs?

Ninalanna on Wednesday.

oh ninalana (or nina-lanna now i guess) is a dark scholar? that's kinda cool
...except i already have zenia, and ditraina will come before long

>>1419177
I guess they'll cycle Levinia and the painter dancer in the next few months?

>>1419177
don't forget that zendaya is meechee

>>1419022
She’s a good damage dealer for Axe, Staff and Tome. The main thing that was holding her back was her gimmick.

Initially you could only get her Cheer-On points by using her Ultimate...which was why you could use it 10 times. This meant you could only get a Cheer-On point every other turn (since her Ultimate Guage automatically filled up 50% every turn).

Now she gets a Cheer-On point every TURN, her Ultimate gives her two Cheer-on points so you’re able to exploit her gimmicks even better than JP could.

This alone keeps her from becoming an easy skip.

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So yeah...Tomorrow we get Nina-Lanna. She’s about 10 months late, has no global buffs to her...and she probably has a Paid Step-Up banner...

Anyone gonna pull for her at this point?

>>1419177
Zenia doesn't powercreep Nina-Lanna. Zenia doesn't lower dark res at all. and deals similar damage. Without Nina you'll have to bring Primrose and Paula to cap that res. down which isn't great.
>>1419184
God I hope they don't add LeMAO ever. That one is actually garbage. It's already bad enough that I have to deal with the occasional Yukes and Millard spooks. I actually had Yukes spook me twice with that wealth card during my Bargello pulls.

The one I want is Relicia the Cleric. They better release her during The Ringbearer Chosen 3, even if they have to make her a Global Exclusive.

>>1419403
>Anyone gonna pull for her at this point?
As a poorfag, I must skip all gen pool characters. I doubt I'll be back up to 4500 for Elrica, so I'm hoping she spooks me in the future. Already planning on using my 2nd anni selector on H'aanit EX. I really hope we get two selectors for second anniversary since it's gacha tradition to try and outdo each previous anniversary.

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>>1418531
here. This is my current party.
Is it better to focus on Limit Breaks or Awakening characters when I happen to come across guidestones?
I also feel like I have a lot of Exp nuts. Is there any reason why I shouldn't get my current team to their current max lvl?

>>1419579
Definitely do limit breaks with levels. Later on you’ll be hitting the level cap with ease. You wanna max it out as soon as you can, which is why you wanna unlock Hunts as soon as you can.

Normal Hunts
Expert Hunts
Otherworldly Hunts

That’ll get you 15 Character Guidestones a day.

>>1419587
Understood. And judging from the reply to my previous post a few days ago, I unlock hunts by pushing main story to the Master of All point?
Thanks for all the info. Master of Fame quest was great, I thought. Found Auguste surprisingly dastardly.

>>1419591
Yep. When you get to Master of All there’s gonna be subquests that allow you to unlock hunts.

You’ll also have the opportunity to unlock expert hunts when you defeat the Battle-Tested Weapon Veteran in each region. They’re level 80 so don’t fret if you can’t beat them right away. Their battle-tested weapons are CRUCIAL to what’s coming up in Part 3.

Also the more of Elvis’s story you do the more Otherworldly Hunts you unlock (three of them). They also yield materials to upgrade Elvis. It is a pain in the ass, but it feels oh so good once you get him completed. And the Guidestones you get from the hunts don’t hurt either. The thing that sucks is that you don’t get extra promotional Guidestones from doing Otherworldly Hunts, unless you’re dealing with the Bravely Default characters.

>>1419606
>battle-tested weapons are CRUCIAL to what’s coming up in Part 3.
NTA but they are? What do you need them for?

>>1419668
In Part 3 of the game, you begin forging weapons. The weapons Bestower of Wealth/Power/Fame can be made more powerful, but they’re a pain in the ass to forge. Each weapon has like...four levels to them.

Weapon I - Base weapon. Forge with regular materials.
Weapon II - Needs Weapon I plus Polishstones & Refinestones
Weapon III - Needs Weapon II plus Refinestones & Strenghenstones/Softenstones

Now getting the Polishstones, Refinestones, Strengthenstones and Softenstones are a pain in the ass since you need to defeat Elite Enemies to get them. Some respawn every 10 hours, others respawn every 20 hours. Be sure to make use of the Tower of Remembrance to cut down on your time.

However, keep in mind...the Battle-Tested Weapon is stronger than ALL Weapon III’s. You can get Battle-Tested Weapons by defeating the Veterans...or through Historical Fragments. But Battle-Tested Weapons are ESPECIALLY important because...

Weapon IV - Needs Weapon III + Battle-Tested Weapon.

Oh and each chapter has its own weapon set.

Prologue
Bestower of Wealth 1
Bestower of Power 1
Bestower of Fame 1
Bestower of Wealth 2
Bestower of Power 2
Bestower of Fame 2
I’cirlo Filler
Bestower of Wealth 3
Bestower of Power 3
Bestower of Fame 3

>>1419936
OH, I'm already past all that shit, I thought you meant we'd need them for some upcoming content. I just went straight to fortune weapons instead of wasting my time on the BoW/BoP/BoF grind.

>>1420004
You said you were on Master of All, do I figured Bestower of Wealth/Power/Fame was upcoming in your point of view.

Given that Bestower of All pretty much ends next month and Side Solistia starts in about four months it would be nice to know about the new mechanics coming up.

>>1420051
As I said above, NTA.

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Scored Nina-Lianna in 5 10-pulls. Gonna have to stop there.

If my sources are correct, Levina is coming up too. I need to save for her.

Anyone notice that they took the time to make Gofeld in the pic. And that he’s a unique sprite? I mean... I would think nothing of it, but they put in Falco’s sister Canary as a playable character so Gofeld is looking like a high possibility.

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So I'm kicking myself, but I blew my load on Haanit Ex and did not get her. These fragments I have will expire, correct?
What's the best use of them? The bronze guidestone shards?

Does Grade apply in the Adversary Log?
>>1420469
>These fragments I have will expire, correct?
Yes, the tab you clicked on gives you the remaining time before they vanish.

>>1420706
Right. Initially it paints the picture as if the ability to spend them expires, as opposed to the currency itself, should the banner ever return.

>>1420469
Get EX H’aanit’s Guidestones. 10 fragments for 30 shards is a big deal. That’ll get you 330 H’aanit Guidestones with four leftover to get you Bronze Shards.

If you’re not going for the spark, or in your case it’s too late to spark, go for Guidestones instead.

>But I didn’t get EX H’aanit!
You will. Eventually. EX H’aanit will be a Chance Encounter so when you get her, you’ll have an extra 330 Guidestones to use on her.

>>1420469
Boost berries become redundant with how many exp nuts you'll get. Nice boost, but it's not worth getting when there are better options.
Bronze shards are barely better than nothing only get them when they're the only option.
Excepting the seal, 5* shards are the best. Even if you want to break them down, 30 gold stones = 150 gold shards = 150 Bronze stones = 750 Bronze shards. Comparing 10 fragments = 750 Bronze to
10 fragments = 100 Bronze, Guides tones are the best investment in all cases.

>>1420720
While I don’t entirely disagree with you, consider this:

The Overclass feature is coming sometime next year. With it, all 3-Stars and 4-Stars will be able to Overclass into 5-Stars. Like Ultimates and Torch Points, you’ll be able to gradually make characters into 6-Stars as well.

>6-Stars cap at level 100 and max out at level 120.
>6-Stars can enhance one of their skills.
>6-Stars also gain an EX Skill which can be activated under certain conditions
>6-Stars can equip three accessories, rather than just two. Including accessories that are level exclusive.

Now consider this: You need over 6,000,000 experience points to go from level 99 to 100. How much experience points are needed to go from 100 to 120?

Those boost berries will definitely start coming in handy at that point.

Heard this in the grapevine, but the next banner is gonna be

Either Levina or W’ludai/Lars. Both will be coming, it’s a matter of which one is first.[\spoiler].

>>1420846
I will OVERCLASS my wife Lucetta

>>1421390
Monday night will determine whether or not it’s a new banner.

Just tried the elite tower for the first time. It was not a pleasant experience.

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>>1421890
Yeah the Elite Tower is no joke. I just managed to get Octomamm to half his health before I got wiped out on my first attempt. I probably would’ve been able to do more if not for the fact that bastard knocked out Krauser before he could use his Ultra Spear moves.

Finally got my five free pets to level 10, what are your builds on them bros? Really wish resetting refunded the fruits you spend, it sets you back by like a month if you want to change them around for a specific battle which is shit for tweaking hp or speed.
My black-and-white cat is max p.atk and the rest in hp, seemed like an easy choice.
People keep advising to max e.atk on pets that heal, so I guess the white cat and the brown cat should have maxed e.atk and the rest in hp? Though I noticed the brown (visually orange) cat's p.atk is naturally larger than its e.atk.
The white rabbit has very high speed, so I'm thinking of just maxing its speed so I'll have a SPD pet to make one character definitely be able to go first and the rest of its points will go to hp as usual since some fights I find I need just a silver more hp to not die.
That leaves the black cat...SP maybe for characters that need extra SP or are focused purely on SP, such as Fiore EX and Alaune EX?
There's still a ton of endgame content I haven't cleared, so any advice from you more experienced fellas who've beaten everything would be appreciated, please and thanks.

I see there's a limited time mission for beating Herminia in the codex at rank 1. How high do the missions go?

>>1422511
it's just the rank 1 mission

>>1422529
Oh nice, I can manage that easily enough. Thanks.

can emu work again yet?

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After months of waiting, Levina is finally confirmed.

Time to grab this sexy redhead! Only four more Travelers of Memories left!

plus three Caits...

>>1422810
“Gimme back my keys, bitch!”

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Guess what guys?

Octopath Champions of the Continent is FINALLY releasing a global exclusive character!

IN CHINA!

Yay...?

>>1422812
To Levina's rape dungeon with you
>>1422890
What the FUCK? Didn't even know there was a Chinese server.

>>1422902
There will be. This is being done to celebrate the release of the Chinese server which I believe is coming in May.

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>>1422890
no fucking way it's literally ching chong

>>1422890
it's kinda sad that every game needs to do this to get all that playerbase and money, and every time the designs are the same boring stuff

After seeing how run down China is, how fucked up its people are and how catastrophically communist their society is, it makes me wonder how they able to find time to play a mobile game, let alone spend money on it.

>login
>sweep nameless town and collect dailies
>10 rubies from mail
>watch 5 ads
>logout

>>1422995
Left out
>0 elite fragments

>>1423023
Batch 1:
+20 Historic Fragments
+30 Bronze Wisdom Orbs
Batch 2:
+20 Bronze Wisdom Orbs
+30 Bronze Guidestones
+10 Memory Shards
+1 Boost Berry
The occasional boost berry if fine, but elite fragments are a once-in a month myth.

>>1422995
hey on the other hand, dailies are like 1% of your actual playtime in the long run
when you feel like playing, you can really sink a lot of time

The Wisdom Orbs are the biggest pain in the ass to get. Especially when you’re trying to level up all your 4-Stars and 3-Stars.

>>1423115
>insane man spouts gibberish

>>1423115
I've been in dire need of gold wisdom orbs forever

>>1423123
Enjoy your 5/week!

Are any of the guaranteed 5 star characters worth it if I pulled Theo as my MC and didn't do reroll shenanigans?
I did buy Promme. Figured a cleric for 3 bucks wasn't offensive.

>>1423133
>Theo as starter
>Didn't reroll
>Bought Promme
You should just start over.

>>1423133
those are all starter characters so they're fairly outdated. you can make em work if you like em, but you can earn a lot of solid characters too
promme's fine because you literally can't get him otherwise at least

>>1423161
I bought Promme and the $7 pass. I'm too far gone
>>1423170
I had read some things about Viola and Lynette being pretty strong, so was wondering if either were worth purchasing. I currently have Theo, Therion, Chloe A1, Ophilia, Kouren, Promme and Sirisa.

>>1423171
At this point? Go ahead and get them. At least you’ll have them in your party. Lynette is an excellent buffer and Viola’s an excellent debuffer.

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Scored big on my final Step-Up.

Chloe (A3) and Levina (A1). Also managed to get Primrose (Recycled) too.

Next banner’s not gonna be as exciting...

I already have Lars at A3 and W’ludai is Completed.

...so I’m gonna save for Canary next.

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>>1410164
>wanted to pull 2 paid steps to hopefully get the babe
>instead got this and shat my pants
Now i understand why they call it “spook”
Got Harley on the second step so I stopped, now i have 2 stones for the clown. Use them or shard them for the keepers?

>throw a 10 pull at Levinia
>get her and Olberic (new)
pretty cool
Now at 4.2k so should have enough to pity Elrica/AlruneX next month.

>>1423349
Just use them. Get your clown friend to A2 and beyond. And worry about recycling Awakening Stones into fragments once you’ve completed him.

>>1423349
i have a few regrets from characters i awakened and never actually used, or eventually benched. there's lots of sources for good accessories elsewhere too
imo do his story, and if you really like him then go ahead and awaken him

>>1423363
Are you sure 4.2k will be enough and not 6k

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>>1423648
It’s 150 fragments to spark a traveler of Memory on his/her banner which is about 4500 rubies (3600 paid).

If it’s a traveler outside the featured banner, then it’s 200 fragments which is 6000 rubies (4800 paid).

Pic related is Levina’s featured banner but it’ll apply to Elrica/EX Alaune on their banner as well.

>>1423658
I forgot about that, neat. Thanks anon, in that case you're totally right. Too bad I'm at 3.1k after today's couple of rolls

>>1423660
You probably have a month and a half minimum, given it seems likely they'll drop the sisters with BoA8.

Finally finished the latest story chapter. That final fight was one hell of a slug-out. Went in blind with my swiss army knife main story team, realized I was ill-equipped for the second set of weaknesses, built a more specialized team (forget to bring Nephti dammit) and beat it. Great time, now to try and grind up some of the new armor and such until the next chapter. Next main goal: finally get Feintz' sword from the top of the Ultimate tower. Should be a piece of cake these days.
>>1423662
nta but I really hope so, I only have managed to get 900 rubies since Nephti took 'em all.

Is there a way to see when and where you spent rubies? I purchased the Grand Explorer pass, but am not sure if I got the paid rubies.

Just noticed the arcane soul weapons have 4 rainbow slots; that's got to be the best (non-fortune) soul weapon so far, right? Or is there some other reason to choose between them?

>>1424911
Sadly multiples of the same Skill % Up do not stack.

>>1424923
balls, i was hoping there would be at most a 30% cap

>>1424926
Yeah I only found out after spending getting it perfect. Utter travesty, not indicated anywhere in the game despite stacking rules usually being clearly demarcated.

>>1424933
>>Yeah I only found out after spending getting it perfect
*spending an hour getting a single skill boosted twice to almost perfect %

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Levina gave me a good run:

>Primrose (Recycled)
>Chloe (A3)
>Lionel (A4)
>Bargello (Completed)
>Solon (A2)
>Alfyn (A4)
and of course...
>Levina (A3)

I hope Canary treats me well too.

I feel like I'm starting to get bodied. I'm at Master of All Ch3, and am not able to beat the Black-Clad Shadow for the Emberflame quest after getting my first divine beast.
I'm not strong enough to attempt the Expert Hunts I just unlocked either.
With a 70, a 60, and the rest early 50s, I feel like it must be my equipment that is hindering me. How do I approach getting better equipment at this point?

>>1425185
If it’s equipment, just grind a bit until your team gets the latest gear.

If you’re still having trouble at that point, do another chapter. I’m pretty sure that the Emberflame boss is level 30 though.

Also, don’t forget to do your daily dose. Exp grind and do your hunts. And make sure you’ve done the Elvis story too.

>>1425185
>I'm not strong enough to attempt the Expert Hunts I just unlocked either.
You absolutely should be, I was killing those in my 50s. Grind the boards and get a Fortune weapon for each of your main DPS and spec their stats to match their skillset.

>>1424923
Damn, this is really good to know thanks
>>1424933
Sorry I had to learn it from such misfortune on your part

>>1425191
>If it’s equipment, just grind a bit until your team gets the latest gear.
Latest gear from the Smithy? I haven't bought any gear, rather just used items I've picked up or gotten from Path actions.
The quest is lvl 50, and he has a pretty high amount of shields. Thinking I might need to change up my party to tackle it, since I've been using a "one team fits all" approach which has worked up until now, but clearly isn't cutting it now.

>>1425273
If it’s Master of All you’re dealing with then Chapter 3 should still be piss easy at this point, even though they ramp up the levels from 20 to 65. Even more so if you have level 50 characters in your party.

Is your one-team-fits all balanced? Does it cover all 14 weaknesses? If not, you might need to start replacing some people. If you have 5-Stars, replace the 4-Stars. Period,

The difficulty starts to get more serious once you reach Master of All chapter 8. Make sure you’ve got ALL your teammates equipped with Meteor Gear and is at least level 65.

As for the boss of Emberflame 1, you really shouldn’t be struggling against her. Not at level 50. But if you still are:

>Make sure your equipment is up to date. And make sure all 8 of your party members are wearing it.
>Re-Evaluate your team. If a well-balanced team doesn’t work, get one that focuses on the boss’s weaknesses.
>Time your breaks. Remember that breaks only last on the turn it happened and the turn afterwards so ideally bring your enemy’s shields to 1 before you execute the break in order to maximize the damage.
>Remember that debuffs are your friend. Lower your enemy’s attack to reduce your damage. Lower his defense to deal more damage to him and end the battle quickly.
>Oh and don’t forget to pull for new travelers. The more you have, the better you can customize them.

Finally getting around to doing all of the "defeat 100 of enemy x" feats. Is there really only one alluring barrette I or are there multiple / a tier II to make this go faster?

>>1425600
i think here is one in the exchanges

>>1425842
There isn't; that's the repellant barrette II.

>need to build another damage cap weapon
the new chapter can't come soon enough, that weapon set's souls are so much better than stalwart

What the FUCK do I do with Bronze/Silver/Gold Guidestones?

>>1426970
Increase level caps for 3/4/5 stars chars respectively and upgrade ultimate abilities.

>>1426993
Is it ever a good idea to spend the silver on awakening 4 stars?

>>1427002
Sure it is. Don’t worry too much about it. Silver and Bronze Guidestones are easy to come by and if you rub short you can always pull a banner for more, use the exchange or a combination of both.

>>1427002
It is best to use your silver stones on awakening 4* characters to awakening III so you can get their awakening IV accessory by buying their Awakening Stone from the exchange (which are in various places, some in the gameboard exchanges, some in memory shard exchanges, some in heroic exchanges, however NOT from the Awakening Shard exchange [yeah I know]).

>>1427046
4-Star Awakening Stones not appearing in the Awakening Stone Exchange is a good thing. If they did, getting them would be painful. I’m just glad I’ve got 52,000 awakening Stone Shards squirreled away.

>>1427205
>I’m just glad I’ve got 52,000 awakening Stone Shards squirreled away.
I've got like 500 but I'm only on day 80.

Did anyone get their Hammy cup race rubies today who made a video submission? I got the community rewards but not my personal ones and that has never happened before. I was worried there was an issue with my form submission all month and I think that might have been the case. I didn't want to try and submit the form twice because they said I could be my submission voided and even be banned if I tried submitting multiple times.

>>1427304
I got mine, you might have to reach out to them.

>>1427309
Fucking hell, I need those 300 rubies desperately. Thanks bro, gonna contact support. Wish I could DM them on twitter where I posted my vid but it says I need to pay for premium X and fuck that.

>>1427310
Best of luck.

Did first step of Lars/W'ludai, got nothing. The bastards at SQEX did it again, they successfully baited me.

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>>1427312
Thanks bro. 12 hours ago I got an automated reply from support saying they'd received my inquiry, hope I can hear back from a human being soon. Though it makes me nervous, given the last time I contacted Square Enix support (it was for a different mobile game), they refused to help me and politely told me to go fuck myself. I wish I could just contact Square Enix Limit directly. He's the COTC community manager, the black guy from the streams, who personally handles each of the cup race submissions. Does anyone know how to reach him? Does this game have an official discord, or just a fan one?
>>1427507
Sorry to hear bro, that used to be me. I got burned too many times by the 100 free rubies pull and this time, even though I'm still missing Lars, I resisted. You can resist next time too!


And on a totally unrelated note to those replies, does anyone know if they've fixed the bugged gold guidestones from the codex yet? I still haven't claimed them, but I'm wondering if it's just the gold guidestones that are a reward from completing a certain number of traveler stories, or if it's ALL gold guidestones in the codex. Specifically, pic related. I was clearing some boss fights in the adversary log to get myself more summons, when I noticed some bosses don't give summons and instead reward 100 gold guidestones for beating their rank 3 fight. Has anyone here claimed these guidestones and can you attest that these ones aren't bugged? I'd really like to know, since there are rubies beyond these fights that require you to claim the pictured gold guidestones first.

>>1427878
claimed hammy's guidestones the other day, watched it eat my normal ones still. but I'm at ex1 at least for every adversary, and hammy only ate the equivalent of her 100 log guidestones, so if the normal ones from log were bugged for some reason it should've eaten more than that, but it didn't
i think their interim solution has been all those daily guidestones we've been getting

>>1427878
>does anyone know if they've fixed the bugged gold guidestones from the codex yet?
They're never going to.

>>1427878
>Has anyone here claimed these guidestones and can you attest that these ones aren't bugged?
Those work normally.

>>1427896
>>1427978
So these ones are safe? Nice, thanks guys

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>>1427878
It's just the band log guidestones that are bugged, the rest is fine.

>>1428096
You really don't

guys you didnt tell me there was a gertrude cup!!

>>1428290
Read your notices bro

>>1428290
Speaking of cup races, Square Enix Customer Support got back to me about my borked Hammy submission and, as I feared, they told me they couldn't help me at all.
>for further assistance regarding the 'Cup Race' rewards, you will need to reach out to the moderators on the respective platform you have posted the video on. We understand that you have sent a message awhile ago but would ask of you to reach out once more. Please note that the moderators on X would be able to assist further with this concern.
So they basically told me to go try screaming into the void. Do they want me to contact twitter mods who have no idea what a cup race is? I think they're trying to tell me to message whoever runs the official COTC twitter for help, but maybe they don't realize you can't DM someone on twitter who isn't following you unless you pay for X Premium. Does anyone know a way to contact SQEX_Limit? I'll try tweeting (Xing? I don't know what you call it on X) at them but considering they completely ignored it last time, I'm likely shit out of luck. Now I'm scared to try submitting my Gertrude clear if this is how they handle any issues related to the cup races.

>>1428664
try on facebook
been working everytime for me
and i am a retard

>>1429143
Thanks, I tried doing my Gertrude submission on X one last time and this time it worked perfectly and I got some screenshot evidence that my "response has been recorded" so this one should work. If it doesn't work out, I'll try facebook next time. Still hope I can get my 300 Hammy rubies though, I'm desperate to restock after Nephti took everything from me. If you guys ever get issues with receiving your Cup Race rewards, remember that contacting customer support will get you nothing and only the guys who handle the X and Facebook accounts matter.

i think this game has completely ruined other turn based RPG gachas for me

>>1429702
the bar is pretty low, to be fair

>>1429702
combat is sweet, but everything else is kinda shit

>>1429702
I never liked the other Gachas to begin with.

By the way, who’s ready for Canary next week?

>>1429702
I just hate how anemic the side content is. There's the main story, character quest and absolutely nothing else. Meanwhile AE, the game it mimics, has fifty billion side episodes, fifty or so free characters, multiple gameplay modes and all on a much smaller budget.
It just isn't that creative.

>>1430191
I honestly think the stingy gacha is part of what makes the combat good, if it were easier to get all the OP characters the combat would be too easy and you wouldn't have to think through the strategy as much.

>if it were easier to get all the OP characters
The problem isn't getting characters, it is getting five fucking dupes.

>>1430418
let someone make combat easy if they want to, not everyone is good at games nor wants the same level of challenge
as long as the lower end of characters are usable, then people can self-impose challenge and use their favorites too

>>1428664
Discord might be your only option.

>>1430269
Funny that you should mention the multiple gameplay modes because a lot of people think that's unnecessary bloat. COTC doesn't have that big a budget allocated to it either but I otherwise agree.

>>1430269
AE?

>>1432188
Another Eden, I guess?

>>1431394
Speak for yourself, it's easy to go 80+ pulls without a five star, let alone the featured one on banner or something that isn't a year one dupe.

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Tomorrow’s the next Tavern Talk which features the 2.9.0 update (can’t believe there isn’t a 2.8.1 update)

Here’s what we can expect based on the Roadmap:

>Emberflame Story 2: Featuring Dogs
>Another batch of Special Tasks
>Elite Tower 3: Featuring Audrey II
>Another batch of Adversary Battles: Featuring Tytos
>Canary from the Sacred Blaze given the full Nephti treatment is highly likely.

Anything else beyond that point is extra.

how good is that new memory traveler? had about 900 rubies and got her on 300 pull

>>1432886
Levina? She’s serviceable. But she got released too late so there’s others that outclass her.

>>1431690
>Discord might be your only option.
Link? I'm getting desperate here. I noticed the twitter team actually replied to another person's similar issue under the Hammy cup race tweet on March 19 so I thought "oh, they're going down the line because this guy having a problem with his Hammy cup rewards has his post right next to mine and they will actually reply to me next" but no, a week later and they've continued to ignore my attempts to reach out in the manner customer service advised me to.

kek, Canary has received "significant" buffs.
If only this game gave enough rubies to pull for anything other than the occasional OP limited character every few months.

Whales winning as always, that's a shit load of buffs for Canary. Best shield cracker in the game and her ult now also gives Solon's potency up but instead of it being +100% to one ally it's 50%...to all eight party members!

Devs still working on the guidestone bug. No date yet, but they said a notice will come out in game and it'll be fixed in a future update then it'll be safe to use the bugged guidestones.

Did the virtual equivalent of waiting in the parking lot and catching someone on the way to their car as Square Enix continues to ignore my Hammy cup race rewards issue. Managed to convince one of the guys from today's Tavern Talk to whisper me over Twitch. This is what they got back to me with:
>Yes, Unfortunately, it seems the form was not filled out. In order to be fair to players who've had similar issues, we cannot give out the rewards. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you do run into a similar problem, please do reach out during the entry period on our socials (X or FB) and we will be able to take care of the issue in order to avoid it happening again. Thank you for your understanding!
So in other words: fuck you, you get nothing. They're stating that anyone who has this issue is not going to get anything, so they have to make sure to give me nothing and zero assistance so that we're all screwed over fairly. They even had the gall to advise me to reach out on X if this issue happens during the event period in the future, which is exactly what I did back on Feb 14th and was ignored.
I really wish Square Enix didn't have their hooks in so many IPs I love, it sucks giving them money. They aren't getting another dime for this game though.

>>1434362
Wait what, did you not fill out the form?

>>1434546
I did. As explained further up itt, I filled out the form, hit submit, screen changed (more like a refresh like when you don't fill in a mandatory field but everything was filled in fine), and I was wary of mashing the submission button multiple additional times because they warn us that they'll void your rewards and ban your account if you attempt multiple submissions from the same account. I covered that base too though and decided to be safe rather than sorry by immediately leaving them on message on X back on Feb 14 asking them to message me if there turned out to be any issues with my form submission whatsoever. I assumed everything was fine because they never contacted me (which is something I've actually seen them do on X with other players, including on the Hammy cup race post itself). Turns out they had just ignored my message and now it's too late according to them.

>>1434584
Sucks dude but time to let it go.

>>1434602
Yeah, working on that now. Just hope I don't come up 300 rubies shy of getting Elrica in the future.

>>1434604
How big is your pile? I just hit 4.5k after burning some on successful yolo rolls on Hannitex and Nephti. No Solon though.

>>1434623
1500, sadly. Nephti set me down to zero. The stream today showed we have at least 3 weeks, and I think I might have close to 1000 in traveler stories to do. Still have the lv100 Hell NPCs to do too, so there's probably around 1000 in hard content I've yet to beat.

Oh shit, some good news in the end after all. Good enough that it flipped this mess on its head.
Limit himself just messaged me on twitter to say he found my submission for the Hammy cup and my rewards should be coming "soon!". Jeez, then what was up with that twat on Twitch stonewalling me? I could tell from his demeanour on stream that if I could just talk to this guy, the one who personally takes care of all our cup race submissions, he'd be able to handle things. I guess the takeaway is, never try to do things through the main customer service mooks and do whatever you can to get in direct contact with the person who actually handles the matter.

>>1434641
Curious, who was the guy who replied to you earlier? Glad to hear it worked out.

>>1434656
Thanks! They didn't identify themselves, it was the Twitch account simply named "Square Enix". I think any of the community managers can use that account if they want, but they also have their own personal accounts they use like "sqex_dan". I'm actually not sure if it was even one of the two Octopath community managers based on the messages they were sending me. The person spoke much more like a customer service rep with canned lines and replies whereas the messages I just got on X from Limit himself felt more "real" in their conversational tone while still be professional enough. It was someone who had access to the cup race info because they confirmed my Gertrude submission is fine but my Hammy one wasn't there (Limit said he found it though), though they didn't even realize which cup race I was talking about until I mentioned it was the Hammy cup two or three times to them.

>>1434660
Ah, makes sense. I've seen Dan and Limit before and they're absolutely much more personable.

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For those who didn’t see the Tavern Talk here’s a quick summary:

3/27 - Canary the Sacred Blaze traveler (and Falco’s sister). Emberflame Story 2(4 Dogs and Divine Beast, Lykaos). Adversary Battles of Tytos, Sonia, Delvecchio, Aide and Lykaos, Elite Tower Floor 3

4/03 - Ophilia/Z’aanta Banner

4/10 - Lemaire. 2 more cats. Adversary Battles of Auguste, Gomel and Judah.

Be sure to complete Master Tower Floor 2 for a Veteran’s Seal and Elite Tower 3 for up to 200 rubies.

Next Tavern Talk is on 4/22. Assuming that the final Chapter of Bestower of All is on 4/25.

>>1434169
>already lost them all by trying to sell them and crashing the game
Glad to know some people will get to use them at least...

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Here are a list of Canary’s changes.

>>1434826
Just be sure to replace “Canary Fakes” with “Thief’s Evasion “.

>>1434826
Loving how global buffs are always amazing now as opposed to the early ones with Lional, Nicola and Mulrusso. This are so good. Makes me really wish I had the rubies to spare for this banner, especially since I've had to skip every Sacred Blaze banner other than the very first one with Odette. Maybe I should do a cheeky ten pull...

What sort of catch-up mechanics are in CotC for players who start from the beginning around now?
Also, what is the expected time to go from the creation of a new account to the current place in the main story, either in JP or EN?

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Not bad for just 800 rubies.

>>1435087
but i like nicola and molrusso. it is honestly pretty nice that they got 3x shield hit instead of just a normal 3x dagger, and 3x wind instead of a normal wind hit though

>>1435875
they added a weakness to the master of fame/wealth/power bosses but aside from that your catch up mechanic is using new characters which are significantly stronger, and keepers which are another power boost. there's also tons of freebies these days
it's hard to gauge the time because of which but it will honestly a lot of hours

So what are you guys naming your dogs? I've got Barky and Guardy thus far.

>forgot to do Gertrude cup
>300 for canary, nothing of course
:/

How many new pets are there? I still haven’t max level the previous ones yet

>>1436035
4

>>1436035
4 Keepers at the start of the Emberflame Story, then two more later on.

>>1436035
There are about 4 more in the exchange, but you need awakening stones + their respective traveler to unlock them
Linde - Haanit
Hagen - Zaanta
Lulu - Lolo
Dunno what's the sheep name - Solon

>>1436194
5. Forgot about Maafa , Tatloch pet.

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Based Limit, my Hammy cup rewards arrived today with the maintenance compensation in the new update.
My cheeky ten pull for Canary got me nothing, and I failed my Will save to resist trying again...ended up getting 4.5* Canary in 50 pulls! My first Sacred Blaze traveler since Odette way back in the day. Also got a 4.5* Ophilia dupe along the way. I've been shoving her dupes into awakenings instead of U10 like everyone says, so she was already A3 before this dupe. I had to choose between getting her A4 accessory and U10. Went with U10. I made the right choice, right? Probably should've asked before spending it.
>>1436035
>I still haven’t max level the previous ones yet
If you can, try to incorporate killing the following 3 caits into your dailies: the snowy cait east of Flamesgrace, the copy of that snowy cait on the second floor of bonfires of battle in the frostlands section, and the chubby cultured cait (or whatever the highest tier "normal" cait is called) in the Isle of Caits in the Middlesea. That should net you around a million extra exp for your pets a day. By doing that and putting the pets on my hunt team and cait ads, I was able to max out all the free cats and the free rabbit we got from the first pet batch weeks ago, sometime last month iirc.

>>1436211
Don’t forget about the Black Dragon. That’s like 250,000 experience right there.

PSA: once you have the four new doggos, make sure to use "inquire further" on Mist, the little cat sitting next to the cait cleric in the Sacred Spring. This will cause two new collection points to spring (pun unintended) up, effectively tripling your daily stat fruit gains for your pets.
I was surprised to discover today after getting them yesterday that for some reason, the guy in Nameless Town who fetches all your daily stuff did not automatically collect from these two additional collection points, only the first one. It's probably bugged like how when Emberflame Story first got added and he didn't automatically grab the collection point there, so make sure to pop into the spring every day until they fix this.

And on the topic of empowering pets with stat fruits, I was pleasantly surprised to see we can raise their stat caps even higher with each new divine beast we get. I had been wondering why game8's pet raising guide recommends to max all pets' hp to 500, then pick ATK or EATK and raise it to 50, then adjust speed as needed and if there's any room left, give them some SP. We only had enough room to max a single stat and slightly raise one other at first, but now it all makes sense.
>>1436529
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it 'cause I already do it every day anyway. The drop rate for that accessory must be crazy low, I've only gotten it twice since the dragon released.

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Pulled ToT

>>1437449
Nice

i wasn't expecting the emberflame story so start off so hilariously
i love ditraina, can't fucking wait for her

>>1438963
The end with the divine beast is fantastic too. Really good Emberflame update. I'm looking forward to the cait cleric, I don't know JP even has her yet.

>>1439332
JP has gone isla -> kilns -> rique
dunno why they skipped feintz, but yeah aviete's not there yet either and now we have the mysterious thief cait too

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This Sacred Blaze banner has been PURE SEX! I’ve sparked characters to A4, but never have I gotten so far with a character, that they are past the point of Sparking (I ended up sparking Zenia instead)

>Cardona (A3)
>Dorothea (A3)
>Joshua (A4)
>Olberic (Recycled)
>EX H’aanit (A3)
>Tithi (A3)
>Zenia (A4)
>Canary (Completed)

This is by far, the best I’ve ever done on a banner! Bless the Sacred Blaze!

I just used the pile of gold guidestones we've been getting to finish uncapping Nephti and Prim EX and I realized after my current batch of 8 in my hunt team, I only have 7 other 5 stars to uncap and my roster is done.
So I gotta ask: does leveling up to six star cost more of a character's guidestones, or does it use something else? Because if it requires more, than I should probably start accumulating spare guidestones for my best characters, right? And if it doesn't, I guess the best play is to just stick 8 random five stars in the hunt team and break down their spare stones to get generic gold guidestones for future five stars.

>>1439900
Simple answer: No.

It doesn’t matter what Class your character is as 3-Star, 4-Star or 5-Star. You need 2000 Guidestones to break the level cap and you can only do it by 20 levels.

If you class your character up, that cap is raised by another 20 levels.

So let’s say you have a 5-Star. His level caps at 80. But if you use the Guidestones, you’ll be able to max out his level at 100.

When you Overclass that character, he caps out at 100 and the Guidestones you use will have his max level increased to 120.

So it doesn’t matter whether you use the Guidestones now or later.
3-Star: Caps at 40, Max at 60
4-Star: Caps at 60, Max at 80
5-Star: Caps at 80, Max at 100
6-Star: Caps at 100, Max at 120

So let’s say you have a 5-Star and you increase his level cap to 90. When you Overclass him to a 6-Star, that level cap will now be 110. You will still need another 1540 Guidestones to push that cap up another 10 levels to 120.

>>1440109
Ohhh, so it's retroactive like when classing up a 4.5*. So once I've spent those 2k getting them from 80 to 100, they'll already be set to pop right up to 120. Nice, thank you very much. Guess my hunts will just be farming unnecessary stones to break down into universal ones then.

>>1440113
If you’ve maxed out a character’s level you don’t need to put him into hunts anymore. Switch out to another character and get his/her Guidestones so that you can max out that person’s level.

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The Atlasdam bartender is the richest man in all of Orsterra.

>>1440118
The issue I'm talking about is not having anyone's level left to max. I've maxed all 4 stars, all 3 stars and have 15 more 5 stars to go (my current hunt team of 8 plus 7 more). So once everyone's maxed I'll just be farming extra stones to trade in for universal stones to help any future characters I pull.
>>1440843
I regret succeeding on that 1% chance.

>>1441886
Don't forget about Ultimates. 65 guidestones for 5*s to go from U1 -> U9, 115 for 3* & 4*s to go from U1 -> U10. Band log has given me the stones to max ultimates for 90% of my roster, if I actually had the bronze and silver orbs to do them all.
Other than that, 5*s give the most value in the shard economy for gold, silver and bronze shard exchanges.

>>1441886
I wish I had that problem.

The hunts are a slow go with like 15 Guidestones a day for 8 people. It takes a long-ass time to get people to 100, assuming you aren’t using Universal Guidestones to speed up the process a bit.

Is there a recommended way around the debuffs in the 3rd elite tower boss' ultimate? My first thought is that theo might actually be useful again but that just seems too improbable to be true

>>1442571
Break fast so he doesn't ult.