Well I'm normally a Resident Evil 4 running BUT i have always wanted to try a Tales of Game. I love the Tales of Series and I got all of them on PS 3 that came out for that and now Tales of Berseria that came out for PS 4. My Question is this has anybody messed with NG + yet. What grade you should use to get what unlock or things to give you the advantage stuff like that ? Also do you think i should grind for Herbs upgrade or would those not be allowed ?
NG+ is still a work in progress from what I know (myself included). In NG+ is everything allowed that the game offers, including herbs enhancment aswell, so therefore go ahead and grind them. As for Grade, well, pretty much everything except Half Exp (I think that was the only negative option). You can go all out for it.
that's well and dandy but when it comes to the Herbs. How far should you go with your status. Herbs aren't that easy or should i say common enough to find so. Say I have to go up to 9,999 that would take forever on everything. so that is what i wonder about that one
Well, it took me around 1200 hours and then some more to get my setup for NG+ runs in Zestiria, so this is nothing suprising that it will take long but Berseria is more gentle when it comes to herb farming. I'm currently looking into the herb respawn mechanic with closer looks to see how it is possible to loop certain spawns as it is possible to manipulate the respawns to a certain extend. There probably will be no rule to limit herbs, so maxing out will be the result in the end.
You could start runs as soon as you want and kinda work up on it (I did this in Zestiria), so you get runs down, can practice and also afterwards collect herbs for the next run to have better stats then. Dunno what to say what aim for stats but getting Attack, Arte Attack and Focus as high as possible would be the start. The rest is not that important, atleast for Any% (will probably be run mostly on Easy or Normal).
The Question is where would be the best Route to farm for those 3 types of herbs. I have not found where ever Herb is yet. So this will be helpful to know where and i Could look into it as well
It is kinda hard to explain. But for starters, when you have a global amount under around 50 herbs currently spawned then the respawn starts to trigger. 118 herbs are there in total overall, I havent done a full list by now but here is a set of sheets where I wrote down stuff regarding, aswell as my old route for a long term rundown of herbs.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AdkNaXOPNDa1NkB27dV39fONLj7cgF5hxgKa3RQUTnE
Next thing to note is, that there are priorities in what herbs respawns based on an internal list (which no one has any idea how it is setup). So if you save and load and pick up a herb, find a herb that has been respawn, then load again before you picked that one up, pick up a different herb and the same herb respawns again, then you can maybe start a loop of farming by using the herb that respawned as your starting herb, save and load to reset the priorities (we think that they get a block flag after being picked up, but this is still a bit of speculation) and can start over again.
One spot is working for me that is Stonebury and Haria. In haria I currently have the Red Lavender on the top of the list when ever I pick a Herb. I use the 2 Herbs of Stonebury to work a loop that goes like this:
Save outside Stonebury > Load for safty again > Pick up the first herb in Stonebury > Teleport Haria > Pick up the Red Lavender that spawned > Teleport in front of Stonebury > Save > Load > Pick the other Herb in Stonebury > Teleport Haria > Pick up the Red Lavender > Teleport in front of Stonebury > Save > Load > Repeat.
This way I can currently farm per full cycle 3 Red Lavender (Attack) and 1 Red Verbena (Defense). It is a start to max out Attack on everyone and I maybe find other spots where I can abuse this way for the other types properly (still figuring out how to set them up properly).
So, yea, this is much info and stuff, but you probably will get how it works fairly quickly.
Thank you :D hopefully this won't be a total pain because i'am looking forward to running this awesome Tales game. I mean pretty much have the route down for the game that's not a problem. Also I heard that it takes about 13,000 grade to unlock everything. I have 8616 at the moment. So i'm assuming i will need about 11,000 or 12,000
You can cut the 2 1k HP probably to save yourself 1k but yea, 13k for every option except Half Exp (which would be pointless to take). Oh believe me, it will be a pain, this is always a pain xD ^^ It is just tedious grindy stuff you have to do.
oh i'm always down for the grind don't get me wrong LOL just hyped to get into it. Unlike other Tales games you get the Devils arms and enough grade then you can be on your way. But at least with Devil arms you are actually fighting to get them stronger which is actually fun :D
Yea, they tuned it down in Zestiria with the grind for equipment and skills and in Berseria they cut it totally now as you cant take over equip, so it is now all base stats and execution aswell as some drop luck maybe.
So another Question that wasnt clearly answered and its not in the Rules does Difficulty matter? Im new to speed running and still at farming and setting up the rout so thats my question. I think about 9k Grade is good to go for a run
