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freshfeelingAfter several consecutive days of play the week prior, I got back to this run on July 5, 2025. This session was accidentally kind of grindy, and probably moreso than needed... which means it was on the boring side. Oh well, it happens.
First, I went to Drakenvale as planned and shored up my supply of Dragon Fangs.
I did a few little party swaps to try to find optimal ways to take down the encounters here, but mostly it involved the dragoon jumping (since I overlooked my very nice Holy Lance in favour of the Chicken Knife - whoops), the berserker using Rune Axe or Gaia Hammer, the chemist throwing out Romeo's Ballad and the bard attacking with Apollo's Harp. I may have made it a bit too efficient, actually, since I had no idea I had past 99 Dragon Fangs.
I had earned a fair bit of money so I went to the Phantom Village again and grabbed three more Coral Rings. If I want to fight Shinryu, and I think I will, then I'll need those. In the short term they might be fun against Leviathan.
Then I went to Istory Falls. Instead of using my brain or a death effect on the Gargoyles, I just had a hasted bard using Romeo's Ballad to keep them unable to resurrect.
Istory Falls was mostly pretty easy. A few of the encounters were bulky - like Tonberries, although those never actually hurt me - or otherwise tricky like the martial artist fellows who turn you old with Air Fist. There was nothing scary nor especially exciting in any way. We got a second Aegis Shield, a third Protect Ring, a fourth Reflect Ring, and a nice, new Titan's Axe.
We got to Leviathan, which is just kind of funny. The animation of the water and appearance of Leviathan is maybe nicer in this version but it's still not entirely clear what happened to the red fellow.
I decided to fight Leviathan. It's very easy to just walk away, and the fight brings me no benefit, but since I could do it with four Coral Rings equipped I thought it might be fun.
Leviathan isn't harmless and this fight wasn't entirely trivial, but fun was indeed had since Tidal Waves now healed my team. We didn't have any complexity in our offense and won handily.
Since I had a third tablet, I went back to the Sealed Castle at Kuza and picked three more weapons. None of these do anything for me so I compulsively made sure 9 consecutive weapons along the circumference of the room were used. I actually ended up selling several of them for a cash infusion afterward.
Since I was here, I realized the Exdeath's Soul enemies here drop Dark Matters and are quite susceptible to the Holy Lance, the Sage Staff, and especially Apollo's Harp. I decided to do a minor Dark Matter grind, too. This required a LOT of healing at the pot in the first room, but didn't use any consumable resources so I think it was a win in general.
I had taken some time to get more Turtle Shells as well (just south of Tycoon) and I spent my legendary weapon money on consumables, so I'm feeling quite prepared for the game's final areas.
This grinding, by the way, got the team very close to having mastered their jobs. We had all mastered bard a while ago, and chemist absolutely seems to be the slowest, but we're getting there. Given the relative lack of syngergies in these jobs though it doesn't matter too much. I believe Faris was the first to master all of our jobs and that happened during this play session.
I spent nearly 2 hours between the grindy parts and Istory Falls! I wanted to make at least a bit of progress into the Void.
Enemies in the first few areas of the void were pretty easy. My bard was able to lock down nearly every enemy with Romeo's Ballad, helped out by some Hermes Sandals. In the forest section, some enemies were less prone to Romeo's Ballad and were generally bulkier, like Moss Fungus.
It didn't take long to get to the first boss here, Naked Lady II: Electricalofisteri.
There are some really good strategies you can use in this fight, like Bone Mail and Reflect. I didn't think to do any special preparation. After a while I had Krile the chemist and Faris the bard both sing buffing songs and just had Bartz the berserker and Lenna the dragoon slaughter her with high-damage physical attacks. Easy peasy.
Due to time constraints, I had to be done, despite the limited obvious progress today. I saved at the save point before Omega.
I also did most of my equipment and ability preparations for Omega. I'm going to give fighting Omega an honest shot right away next time I play! I've realized, though, that I should probably go in with my berserker dead so that I can get my defenses in place before triggering Omega's potentially overwhelming counter attacks.
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First, I went to Drakenvale as planned and shored up my supply of Dragon Fangs.
I did a few little party swaps to try to find optimal ways to take down the encounters here, but mostly it involved the dragoon jumping (since I overlooked my very nice Holy Lance in favour of the Chicken Knife - whoops), the berserker using Rune Axe or Gaia Hammer, the chemist throwing out Romeo's Ballad and the bard attacking with Apollo's Harp. I may have made it a bit too efficient, actually, since I had no idea I had past 99 Dragon Fangs.
I had earned a fair bit of money so I went to the Phantom Village again and grabbed three more Coral Rings. If I want to fight Shinryu, and I think I will, then I'll need those. In the short term they might be fun against Leviathan.
Then I went to Istory Falls. Instead of using my brain or a death effect on the Gargoyles, I just had a hasted bard using Romeo's Ballad to keep them unable to resurrect.
Istory Falls was mostly pretty easy. A few of the encounters were bulky - like Tonberries, although those never actually hurt me - or otherwise tricky like the martial artist fellows who turn you old with Air Fist. There was nothing scary nor especially exciting in any way. We got a second Aegis Shield, a third Protect Ring, a fourth Reflect Ring, and a nice, new Titan's Axe.
We got to Leviathan, which is just kind of funny. The animation of the water and appearance of Leviathan is maybe nicer in this version but it's still not entirely clear what happened to the red fellow.
I decided to fight Leviathan. It's very easy to just walk away, and the fight brings me no benefit, but since I could do it with four Coral Rings equipped I thought it might be fun.
Leviathan isn't harmless and this fight wasn't entirely trivial, but fun was indeed had since Tidal Waves now healed my team. We didn't have any complexity in our offense and won handily.
Since I had a third tablet, I went back to the Sealed Castle at Kuza and picked three more weapons. None of these do anything for me so I compulsively made sure 9 consecutive weapons along the circumference of the room were used. I actually ended up selling several of them for a cash infusion afterward.
Since I was here, I realized the Exdeath's Soul enemies here drop Dark Matters and are quite susceptible to the Holy Lance, the Sage Staff, and especially Apollo's Harp. I decided to do a minor Dark Matter grind, too. This required a LOT of healing at the pot in the first room, but didn't use any consumable resources so I think it was a win in general.
I had taken some time to get more Turtle Shells as well (just south of Tycoon) and I spent my legendary weapon money on consumables, so I'm feeling quite prepared for the game's final areas.
This grinding, by the way, got the team very close to having mastered their jobs. We had all mastered bard a while ago, and chemist absolutely seems to be the slowest, but we're getting there. Given the relative lack of syngergies in these jobs though it doesn't matter too much. I believe Faris was the first to master all of our jobs and that happened during this play session.
I spent nearly 2 hours between the grindy parts and Istory Falls! I wanted to make at least a bit of progress into the Void.
Enemies in the first few areas of the void were pretty easy. My bard was able to lock down nearly every enemy with Romeo's Ballad, helped out by some Hermes Sandals. In the forest section, some enemies were less prone to Romeo's Ballad and were generally bulkier, like Moss Fungus.
It didn't take long to get to the first boss here, Naked Lady II: Electricalofisteri.
There are some really good strategies you can use in this fight, like Bone Mail and Reflect. I didn't think to do any special preparation. After a while I had Krile the chemist and Faris the bard both sing buffing songs and just had Bartz the berserker and Lenna the dragoon slaughter her with high-damage physical attacks. Easy peasy.
Due to time constraints, I had to be done, despite the limited obvious progress today. I saved at the save point before Omega.
I also did most of my equipment and ability preparations for Omega. I'm going to give fighting Omega an honest shot right away next time I play! I've realized, though, that I should probably go in with my berserker dead so that I can get my defenses in place before triggering Omega's potentially overwhelming counter attacks.
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