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freshfeelingThis session was played on March 18, 2023, after a roughly 1-year break. Whoops.
I thought that getting back on the train in Edo without really remembering what I was doing in the game would be tricky but it really wasn't that hard. I think in all my GameFAQs posting - recently mostly in Final Fantasy riddle topics - I had stumbled though some conversation about useful spots for stat gains in Final Fantasy Legend II and I figured I could use some of that inform this playthrough and get 'er done.
I also had happened to have had a long run of several lengthy Switch games since the previous year to explain the absence. Darn this company remastering all my formative years.
Since the Hermit in Venus' World respawns on the same spot each time you enter his room, and has the same rank as Edo enemies while always appearing alone, I decided to go grind Hermit for a bit. This is a slow and boring process but it worked. I bought a lot of inexpensive, low-quality weapons to waste in these fights so that I could grind longer and with less expense. As a bonus, I remembered to remove some of my stat-boosting armors that had been hindering growth; I still intended to use these down-the-line, but for stat grinding it made sense to take them off.
I was really trying to get the whole team's agility up - other than maybe Fari, who was fine - so they could act more quickly and hit more reliably. There was a great battle where I had Bart using a Rapier, Fari using a Psi Knife, Kril using some kind of flail and Lenn using a Dagger, such that I was kind of aiming them toward those agility gains. With the battle down to a single Wh.Belt enemy, it was taking ages to take him out. When it finally happened though, Bart, Kril and Lenn all gained agility and Fari gained HP. It was glorious.
I did several "cycles" of Hermit grinding, getting the fully-rested party into the sewers and then fighting Hermit and occasionally other enemies until I was out of uses of Cure and Thunder. It is hard to make this sound interesting, although I can at least reiterate that it seemed to work.
Finally, I topped up on shopping around the various worlds and headed back to Edo to investigate Echigoya's ship. I bought a Dragon Helmet for Bart at Echigoya's shop, too, replacing his strength-affecting Giant Helmet. Having beaten up crabs for like 90 minutes, my HP totals looked like this now:
We'll start by heading to the docks next time.
I thought that getting back on the train in Edo without really remembering what I was doing in the game would be tricky but it really wasn't that hard. I think in all my GameFAQs posting - recently mostly in Final Fantasy riddle topics - I had stumbled though some conversation about useful spots for stat gains in Final Fantasy Legend II and I figured I could use some of that inform this playthrough and get 'er done.
I also had happened to have had a long run of several lengthy Switch games since the previous year to explain the absence. Darn this company remastering all my formative years.
Since the Hermit in Venus' World respawns on the same spot each time you enter his room, and has the same rank as Edo enemies while always appearing alone, I decided to go grind Hermit for a bit. This is a slow and boring process but it worked. I bought a lot of inexpensive, low-quality weapons to waste in these fights so that I could grind longer and with less expense. As a bonus, I remembered to remove some of my stat-boosting armors that had been hindering growth; I still intended to use these down-the-line, but for stat grinding it made sense to take them off.
I was really trying to get the whole team's agility up - other than maybe Fari, who was fine - so they could act more quickly and hit more reliably. There was a great battle where I had Bart using a Rapier, Fari using a Psi Knife, Kril using some kind of flail and Lenn using a Dagger, such that I was kind of aiming them toward those agility gains. With the battle down to a single Wh.Belt enemy, it was taking ages to take him out. When it finally happened though, Bart, Kril and Lenn all gained agility and Fari gained HP. It was glorious.
I did several "cycles" of Hermit grinding, getting the fully-rested party into the sewers and then fighting Hermit and occasionally other enemies until I was out of uses of Cure and Thunder. It is hard to make this sound interesting, although I can at least reiterate that it seemed to work.
Finally, I topped up on shopping around the various worlds and headed back to Edo to investigate Echigoya's ship. I bought a Dragon Helmet for Bart at Echigoya's shop, too, replacing his strength-affecting Giant Helmet. Having beaten up crabs for like 90 minutes, my HP totals looked like this now:
We'll start by heading to the docks next time.
