Anyone happen to know how to manipulate the RNG for soul drops in AoS? (Aria of Sorrow)

[JoJoFan87]

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[Slimothy]

Oldschool GBAvania player here, saw the thread and wanted to offer help.

Nothing I know of manipulates the RNG in a way usable by humans. Aria has a broken Luck stat so the only way to raise your soul drop chances is to have the Soul Eater Ring, and be playing on Hard Mode. Otherwise you're gonna need to find a good place to farm the enemy you're trying to get the soul for.

[William Shakesman]

Rewind when you kill. RNG is based on the frame you kill them so if you rewind and kill them again (Frame perfect timing isn't gonna happen so long as you rewind to where you need to act again) you can keep rerolling the kill.

Will that fix the awful odds? LOL NO

[davidb11]

I've never heard of Aria having a broken luck stat.
The only one I've heard of having a broken luck stat is Dawn of Sorrow.

[Slimothy]

Originally posted by davidb11:

I've never heard of Aria having a broken luck stat.
The only one I've heard of having a broken luck stat is Dawn of Sorrow.

I recently learned this when examining some randomizer speedruns, and patches exist to fix it as well and I noticed a proper improvement. I was getting drops and souls at a reasonable pace instead of rare occurrences. (turns out it suffers from the same issue as Dawn, you need thousands of points to even influence it which is impossible)

[davidb11]

That is so weird. I never realized.
Good thing the Randomizer for it does make Luck work I believe.

[benjymlewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J7n9MMsFIc

Speedrunners have a way of manipulating Creaking Skull to drop its soul on first encounter.

There likely exists other methods for Manticore or other enemies too, however I don't know if they have been discovered yet.

[Leviathan]

Originally posted by benjymlewis:

There likely exists other methods for Manticore or other enemies too, however I don't know if they have been discovered yet.

I don't think they have, because I think Manticore would be great for speedruns.

[Voliver]

The last thing I did on AoS was trying to drop Final Sword from Final Guard, took me about 3hrs. The drop rate for items in this game is very painful. Luck stat should increase more when leveling up to ease the drop rate. But as far as I know, there are some guides on the internet that show how to manipulate CERTAIN soul drops as long you have the same stats shown on the guides, but it's limited, if there are no guides for the item/soul you are looking for, you will have to farm these the normal way