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Yeah, it's almost a weird feeling of spending so much time exploring towns and stuff and then being like okay now time to actually do some story.

I've got all 8 main jobs unlocked for subclassing but have only done four Chapter 1s, and I've stumbled upon and ransacked two of the second batch of towns. One of them was just filled with 3-8% steals at first.

And since steal rates increase as Therion levels up, I've just been periodically fast traveling back to all cities to see what stuff may have jumped up to the 55%+ range that I may have skipped before. I've gotten more equipment too as they've gone from 3% to 8% or 15%.
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I'm a little confused on the stretch goals. There's a late one for expanding from 200 to 225 cards, but wouldn't unlocking all those other new races have already expanded the cards past 200?
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mnkboy907 posted...

I found a 3% steal for a +100 Elem. Attack accessory and took some time to get it and now Cyrus murders everything, broken or not.

Like damn, he's taking out enemies from a danger level 23 area while only level 13.
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I found a 3% steal for a +100 Elem. Attack accessory and took some time to get it and now Cyrus murders everything, broken or not.
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ninkendo posted...

Easy play order for me is to go in the order of the name since all 8 character's first letters spell Octopath

They're even arranged in a circle on the map based on spelling order.
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It's so hard to stop stealing stuff.
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GTM posted...

more importantly who won the crap app

__Haleigh__
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Spoilers for the day

Noms: ______Brett and Winston______
Power App winner: Bayleigh. She picked identity theft and it seems super OP. According to her, she can basically usurp the HoH and make her own nominations during the nom ceremony, and it's good until the final 8. HoH still gets veto re-nom that week though. IIRC production usually doesn't let them lie about what their powers are, so it's probably true.
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https://www.smashbros.com/en_GB/blog/index.html

Well this has been updating every weekday, so there's that.
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That was a bot bump. Look closer at the username, lol.
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Unlocking the Cleric job is kinda tricky if you're doing it right away. Don't think it would've been possible if I didn't have Cyrus.
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Fire
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htaeD posted...

started with the thief
is there anything I should definitely steal in the first town?

Once you're done with the first boss, there's a nice accessory that gives +80 SP, but with only a 3% success chance. The guy's at the top of town with the brown sidequest bubble.
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I've got Cyrus and Therion, and I'm currently ransacking Flamesgrace while debating on if I want to start Ophilia's story or not. I also went and unlocked Scholar as a sub-class right away, and temporarily gave it to Therion for the extra element coverage.
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Dad
Nigel
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Mystery;Xenoblade
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Most of the stuff to steal in Therion's town is easy, but going back to Cyrus' town, there's a lot more things with low percentages. Save scumming for it all is gonna get tedious, lol.
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I don't think that Splatoon save counted. Has to be in a single bold tag, unless GMUN changed things.
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For a little bit of background info, Octopath Traveler is a game of 8 characters with 8 stories. It is not the type of JRPG where they're all on a singular mission to save the world from Darkgod Evilman, instead it chooses to focus on telling smaller, mostly standalone stories of the 8 characters. The playable characters don't interact with each other during the individual story scenes (they're just there for battles), but there are various "party banter" scenes that are kinda like the skits from Tales or Disgaea games, so the party members do still talk and bond to a degree. But even though the characters don't get involved in each other's stories, the 8 stories do still intertwine in a world-building sort of way.

The game is pretty open and gives you an unusual amount of freedom for a JRPG. You choose your starting character, and they're your main character locked in your party until you complete their personal story. After finishing your main's initial chapter, you then can go out and explore the world and recruit the other 7 characters in whatever order you like, or you don't even have to recruit them all if you don't want to. The stories are broken down into chapters, and you can tackle them in any order you like. But the recommended levels go up a lot between chapters, so there can be some grinding necessary depending on how you want to play it (though the game does feature a Metal Slime-type enemy that can make grinding less obnoxious).

Each character has their own job class, their own unique talent, and a path action that let's them interact with the world. There's a sub-class mechanic where the characters can be any of the other available classes in addition to their main, and you can swap between any of the ones you've unlocked whenever you like. There's a ton of side quests and optional dungeons to explore, and many of the quests have multiple ways of completion with different outcomes based on the path actions you use.

The battle system features a Break mechanic, where enemies are shielded and you have to discover their weak points (like attacking with swords or using fire skills) to break the shield and leave them momentarily defenseless for big damage, as well as a boost system where you can stockpile BP and strategically boost your moves to gain various bonuses. Reviewers seem to unanimously praise the battle system as the game's highlight.

That's the gist of it, anyway. There is a demo of it available that lets you play for 3 hours of the game's various Chapter 1s, and all progress carries over to the full game.

Now because of the game's open-ended structure, everyone's going to be playing through it in different ways, so definitely mark and label your plot spoilers if you want to talk about it.
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XIII_rocks posted...

I dunno, Red is pretty high levelled in GSC

But isn't his team also way less threatening than the other post-game strong trainer battles from later games? So you really don't have to be near his level to still beat him. Like Snorlax is the only particularly tough one, IIRC.
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I guess the Japanese strategy guide has definitively answered the question. There is a post-game final dungeon and boss. I didn't read the topic on the OT board to find out more details, like if it's a group effort type of final chapter, but the topic is there on the first page right now clearly labeled if anyone wants to check it out.

My copy only just shipped this morning so I probably won't be able to start playing until Tuesday (going out of town Sunday and won't be back until late afternoon Tuesday). =/

Half tempted to download now and just return the shipped copy for store credit somewhere...

and by half tempted i mean the download has 20 minutes left
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Haha, as I was looking up and down the list I kinda thought Judge had a shot.
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Rachel doing all that math and being so so off was hilarious.
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Ivy
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Ok I'm probably done now unless update for page 2, lol.
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Zigzagoon posted...

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

yea unless we're talking black licorice I don't have a problem with either

We are talking black licorice

Oh well then that changes everything. Way to bury the lead.
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Peace___Frog posted...

Mobilezoid posted...

Licorice would be an improvement over how regular toothpaste tastes, though.

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bot where's new page...?
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Murderess is bipolar. Bot where's Quina?
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Well they were pretty adorable when they were bunched up together in the hammock a couple nights ago.
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Yoshi
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Reminder that Kaitlyn calls herself a life coach.
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Trading for Animal Crossing I guess.
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