First few reincarnations, losing interest quickly

[Bard]

I was so sold on this game through the first reincarnation, always excited to open up the next zone and see what new enemies were there to summon.

Currently at the end of my third reincarnation, and find I'm struggling to keep playing. I dread clicking the button, because it means I'll be stuck back clicking through all of the same boring quests to progress to the same endpoint with little in the way of new content, just slightly reduced Destiny grind.

I'm a bit taken aback with how fast the game went from 100 to 0 for me. Like I know new content can't keep going forever, but going from the satisfying crawl through the first reincarnation to just the tedium of farming more herbs for the tea party and farming dung to make manure.

Are the different chronicles wildly different, or is it mostly the same path with a different end point? Will I still be farming dung?

[JayXan]

Mid-game to late-game does slow down and goes from fast exploration to building power to yourself. I have been playing this game for years and am at the end of the content. But, what I found most interesting mid-game where you are was maxing out units and unlocking powers for my main character. At the point I am in the game all thats really left is to farm sin.

Side question, have you unlocked sin and all of the major upgrades that it gives? Might be a good time to take a break? This is a game that I personally have stopped playing for large chunks at a time (Usually at the end of major content bits so that sort of gated me.)

My late game goals were to use sin to get the required max of everything to do in the game so I dont ever have to switch my favorite party when I am trying to rush a reincarnation.

It is kind of fun to get strong enough to rush through a reincarnation in literally an hour and have some more sin to spend.

[Nico]

Somehow I only had to farm Dung in my first reincarnation, since from the second onwards I had the dragon baby, who had dung regen, so I could simply tell Sloth to make Manure and somethign else that I need, like buying medicine and making potions and simply wait a while. The herbs were also easy thanks ot the herb regen of the forest fairy. There are many things that speed up your reincarnation, usually my only problems were the leather farm for the tent and the mushroom farm for Norn, but by leaving Norn behind and pelt regen with later summons they also became really easy.

Especially ending 2 adds quite a bit of story to your normal run, so if you're bored you can simply go for it, it will also force you to beat the first 2 areas of the desert due the final boss being that strong. It will also give you 1000 max destiny, making quick ED1 runs for Sin quite a bit faster.

Though I guess many of the upgrade actions will stay pretty similar every run, even though they will often become way easier due to faster destiny gains or some resource regen or due to to stuff like the Sin upgrades which increase your instant and loop action efficiency reward or dungeon reward, so you get the needed resources quicker. And for the tedious stuff like making goddes statues or holy water you can simply use Sloth and then just wait.

[EdwardFace]

> by leaving Norn behind and pelt regen with later summons they also became really easy.

Is it possible to leave Norn behind and still do ED1/2? Looking at the story map, I’m afraid if I leave her behind I would get locked into a bigger ending than I could manage.

[Synthar]

whatever you do d1 is always possible, no questions asked
and norn is only required for the 5th ending, every other ending makes norn optional
the only problem with wanting to leave norn behind is that you need around 2k destiny BEFORE leaving the village, to do that you need some blessing and destiny upgrades

after you can do that, fast reincarnations become possible (1 hour and a few min, so you can do one DR and try to get as many sins as possible)

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the game is a slog at times and you WILL be grinding quite a bit, but if you set it up right, you can do so with minimal interaction

ed 2 storyline opens an interesting new mechanic iirc, that is something to look forward to

if you want to have minimal interaction with the game for some time, you can get an ending, dont reincarnate, just do a few DRs each day to get more inspiration, buy everything you can buy with inspiration, then push habit efficiency (stat up comes later)
at least that is what i did at a few points, i was still interestetd in the game but didnt want to constantly DO anything, so i only did some DRs each day and waited until i wanted to interact more with the game again

didnt see that it was an old thread, ignore the latter half xD