Titles question

[Cress]

I didn't see any guides yet, but are there any insane titles like the "Gung Ho" one from Symphonia? I mean, a title that you need to plan an entire walkthrough just to get it?

[OnlyOffensive]

dark enforcer maybe?

Certified knight is also pretty cool title, outfit for it is nice. DLC outfits are pretty good too though.

[Cress]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

dark enforcer maybe?

Certified knight is also pretty cool title, outfit for it is nice. DLC outfits are pretty good too though.

I meant titles like "finish the game without using items" or "beat the last boss at level 1" or something.

[[Lethalvriend]]

There are some achievements, like finishing the game under 15 hours (quite easy with skipping dialogue), not using items for a huge part of the game and there is also a low level one, will have to look up the specifics because the last time I played was 7 years ago and I'm taking it easy on my new run.

[OnlyOffensive]

Originally posted by Cress:

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

dark enforcer maybe?

Certified knight is also pretty cool title, outfit for it is nice. DLC outfits are pretty good too though.

I meant titles like "finish the game without using items" or "beat the last boss at level 1" or something.

I think no, there are achievments, but i dont think you get titles for them.

[Pink Steel Drills™]

Some titles are kind of a real pain in the arse .
Like Patty's title where you've got to cook 600 times .
Though you can literally just acquire it form the free DLC, praise be .
As for Achievements, some of the most difficult ones are beating the game up to right after Barbos and be under level 15, Acquire all Titles, 100% Monster Book completion, Bunny Guild Member is probably the most difficult, right next to the platinum .

[an unknown entity]

You can divide titles in ToV into general categories:

- Story-based titles (automatic)
- Level-based titles (automatic)
- Event-based titles (e.g. optional side quests)
- Miscellaneous titles

The only ones you have to worry about are the last two, especially the event-based ones which usually include things that can be easily missed. By "miscellaneous titles" I mean things like

- Opening ~85% of all treasure chests in the game and talk to a specific NPC
- Getting stunned 100 times with Karol
- Getting 100 Fatal Strikes with every character (one title each)
- Seeing each variation of Patty's mystic arte
- Stealing 100 items with Repede
- Completing the 100-man melee with every character (one title each)
- Completing the 200-man meele with every character (two titles each)
- Fighting ~200+ battles on "Hard" or "Unknown" difficulty

These things are not really missable, so it boils down to grinding them out unless you use each character frequently. Now, the two big daddies of the missable titles are, by a LONG shot

- The title for 100% monster book completion (Karol)
- The title for 100% collector's book completion (Estelle)

You cannot complete the collector's book before doing the monster book. Why? Because you have to have every single title in the game EXCEPT Estelle's book title unlocked to receive the final attachment for Yuri (the bunny ears) from the guy running the Bunny Guild, and that of course includes Karol's monster book title.

This basically makes Estelle's title equivalent to 100%-ing the entire game since you will have to do every single side quest that involves either a unique item, a title, or a special encounter, which means pretty much all of them.

Now, let's go over the monster book first. To complete this title alone, you need to, among other things

- use lenses on every single one- or limited-time story encounter (that's a given)
- NOT kill ANY Giganto monsters until you have started their proper side quest, as not doing so would prevent you from encountering alternate versions of them in the first postgame dungeon
- complete the first postgame dungeon, the Labyrinth of Memories, multiple times (missable)
- complete the second postgame dungeon, the Necropolis of Nostalgia
- fight every weather- and time-of-day-dependent monster spawn in the game at least once
- collect every "challenge" letter through side quests (for the arena quests)
- complete the 100-man melee with multiple characters due to unique encounters
- complete the 200-man melee at least once
- complete the team arena on "Savage" with multiple team layouts due to unique encounters
- complete the Fell Arms sidequest to unlock an optional superboss and beat him

Thankfully, there exists ample documentation of the PS3 version's monster book, so this is the least painful of the two book titles. The collector's book is in an entirely different league altogether, though. Let me give you a short excerpt of particularly notable things you need to do to complete it:

- Complete the monster book (just to reiterate that point)
- Complete every secret mission in a single playthrough
- Either beat the first arc of the game (boss in Ghasfarost) without using any items in combat to unlock and view a skit that awards a title for Yuri or start NG+ with all skits unlocked through the grade shop to do this on Nam Cobanda Isle at the end of the game
- Complete Professor Sicily's side quest, which, among other things, involves one special task per party member (things like escaping from battle 50 times etc.)
- Unlock every recipe in the game and have at least one character master ALL of them
- Complete Judith's ridiculously missable Brionac sidequest, which awards a spear. Without a guide, this is pretty much impossible
- Complete Yuri's almost equally missable "Dark Enforcer" side quest for a title
- Complete that waiter minigame in Dahngrest with every available character. This isn't necessarily difficult but extremely annoying. Raven in particular gets the worst version of this and you are basically expected to cheat by using a laptop or a piece of paper to "memorize" the patrons' insane orders at higher levels
- Complete the 100-man and 200-man melees with every character. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that you probably won't be as experienced playing with certain characters, potentially making this an agonizing task. One surefire way of doing this is overlevelling on your second playthrough with 10x experience and inherited Fell Arms, although it'll still be a monotonous grind
- Complete the Dog Map for Repede's "Big Boss" title. It's a chore and you might end up missing a few areas you can't really pointpoint
- Open ~85% of all chests in a single playthrough for Yuri's "Treasure Hunter" title
- Complete the "Border Repede" minigame with certain attachments for Repede equipped
- Complete the warehouse sidequest (a chore)

... and so on. Again, you could summarize this entire list as "Do everything else in the game" and it'd be accurate. So, regarding your initial question, I'd say there are no "ridiculous" titles if you were to look at any of them in isolation unless you are referring to the one tied to the collector's book. Missing even ONE uncompleted minor side quest stage will prevent you from unlocking that title in a given playthrough.

Expect at least two playthroughs if you follow a decent guide. If not, you are in for quite an arduous journey indeed. Doing all of this in your first run through the game would be absolutely insane (and needlessly restrictive to boot).

[Rogus]

Originally posted by Cress:

I didn't see any guides yet, but are there any insane titles like the "Gung Ho" one from Symphonia? I mean, a title that you need to plan an entire walkthrough just to get it?

Stahn have updated his guide from pt br to english. It's the last one with a gif from guide section you need to check out his guide it's pretty awesome and completeful.

[Cress]

Originally posted by an unknown entity:

You can divide titles in ToV into general categories:

- Story-based titles (automatic)
- Level-based titles (automatic)
- Event-based titles (e.g. optional side quests)
- Miscellaneous titles

The only ones you have to worry about are the last two, especially the event-based ones which usually include things that can be easily missed. By "miscellaneous titles" I mean things like

- Opening ~85% of all treasure chests in the game and talk to a specific NPC
- Getting stunned 100 times with Karol
- Getting 100 Fatal Strikes with every character (one title each)
- Seeing each variation of Patty's mystic arte
- Stealing 100 items with Repede
- Completing the 100-man melee with every character (one title each)
- Completing the 200-man meele with every character (two titles each)
- Fighting ~200+ battles on "Hard" or "Unknown" difficulty

These things are not really missable, so it boils down to grinding them out unless you use each character frequently. Now, the two big daddies of the missable titles are, by a LONG shot

- The title for 100% monster book completion (Karol)
- The title for 100% collector's book completion (Estelle)

You cannot complete the collector's book before doing the monster book. Why? Because you have to have every single title in the game EXCEPT Estelle's book title unlocked to receive the final attachment for Yuri (the bunny ears) from the guy running the Bunny Guild, and that of course includes Karol's monster book title.

This basically makes Estelle's title equivalent to 100%-ing the entire game since you will have to do every single side quest that involves either a unique item, a title, or a special encounter, which means pretty much all of them.

Now, let's go over the monster book first. To complete this title alone, you need to, among other things

- use lenses on every single one- or limited-time story encounter (that's a given)
- NOT kill ANY Giganto monsters until you have started their proper side quest, as not doing so would prevent you from encountering alternate versions of them in the first postgame dungeon
- complete the first postgame dungeon, the Labyrinth of Memories, multiple times (missable)
- complete the second postgame dungeon, the Necropolis of Nostalgia
- fight every weather- and time-of-day-dependent monster spawn in the game at least once
- collect every "challenge" letter through side quests (for the arena quests)
- complete the 100-man melee with multiple characters due to unique encounters
- complete the 200-man melee at least once
- complete the team arena on "Savage" with multiple team layouts due to unique encounters
- complete the Fell Arms sidequest to unlock an optional superboss and beat him

Thankfully, there exists ample documentation of the PS3 version's monster book, so this is the least painful of the two book titles. The collector's book is in an entirely different league altogether, though. Let me give you a short excerpt of particularly notable things you need to do to complete it:

- Complete the monster book (just to reiterate that point)
- Complete every secret mission in a single playthrough
- Either beat the first arc of the game (boss in Ghasfarost) without using any items in combat to unlock and view a skit that awards a title for Yuri or start NG+ with all skits unlocked through the grade shop to do this on Nam Cobanda Isle at the end of the game
- Complete Professor Sicily's side quest, which, among other things, involves one special task per party member (things like escaping from battle 50 times etc.)
- Unlock every recipe in the game and have at least one character master ALL of them
- Complete Judith's ridiculously missable Brionac sidequest, which awards a spear. Without a guide, this is pretty much impossible
- Complete Yuri's almost equally missable "Dark Enforcer" side quest for a title
- Complete that waiter minigame in Dahngrest with every available character. This isn't necessarily difficult but extremely annoying. Raven in particular gets the worst version of this and you are basically expected to cheat by using a laptop or a piece of paper to "memorize" the patrons' insane orders at higher levels
- Complete the 100-man and 200-man melees with every character. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that you probably won't be as experienced playing with certain characters, potentially making this an agonizing task. One surefire way of doing this is overlevelling on your second playthrough with 10x experience and inherited Fell Arms, although it'll still be a monotonous grind
- Complete the Dog Map for Repede's "Big Boss" title. It's a chore and you might end up missing a few areas you can't really pointpoint
- Open ~85% of all chests in a single playthrough for Yuri's "Treasure Hunter" title
- Complete the "Border Repede" minigame with certain attachments for Repede equipped
- Complete the warehouse sidequest (a chore)

... and so on. Again, you could summarize this entire list as "Do everything else in the game" and it'd be accurate. So, regarding your initial question, I'd say there are no "ridiculous" titles if you were to look at any of them in isolation unless you are referring to the one tied to the collector's book. Missing even ONE uncompleted minor side quest stage will prevent you from unlocking that title in a given playthrough.

Expect at least two playthroughs if you follow a decent guide. If not, you are in for quite an arduous journey indeed. Doing all of this in your first run through the game would be absolutely insane (and needlessly restrictive to boot).

Thank you for the detailed reply. I got the platinum for Tales of Symphonia in the ps3 version, and although it took me 6 playthroughs (because you need to choose one certain key item per playthrough, and there are 6 items in total, so you need them to be recorded in the collector book), it looks more simple than the Vesperia one.

[an unknown entity]

Originally posted by Cress:

Originally posted by an unknown entity:

You can divide titles in ToV into general categories: [...]

Thank you for the detailed reply. I got the platinum for Tales of Symphonia in the ps3 version, and although it took me 6 playthroughs (because you need to choose one certain key item per playthrough, and there are 6 items in total, so you need them to be recorded in the collector book), it looks more simple than the Vesperia one.

If you are going for completion, this guide on GameFAQs seems to cover every relevant side quest: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/241013-tales-of-vesperia-definitive-edition/faqs/76752

Furthermore, this site is an unparalleled resource for items, side quests, skits, and monsters in all versions of ToV: https://hyouta.com/vesperia/?version=pc&locale=eng&compare=2

[snakebitthegaurdian]

Good to know. So, if I'm reading this correctly, I can just get any title from skits in NG+. EX, Arenas Super EX...Practically unlosable. Levels and story stuff is unmissable. I guess I don't have to worry about escapes, huh? Might want a clarification on that one. Like in symphonia. Side quests, easy enough. FS's gonna be hard but doable. Maxing out every tech isn't necessarily hard but it'll be a grind. Etc. This is looking like a good three times. Symphonia was five. So, we'll see how this goes. Aye???

[snakebitthegaurdian]

Also, it'll take time maxing out every item. Thirty of everything will be expensive. But that's not hard. Just a gald grind to max out every inventory item.

[Hotel Security]

>So, if I'm reading this correctly, I can just get any title from skits in NG+. EX, Arenas Super EX...Practically unlosable.

You can? Based on what? Most skits don't give titles. You can buy all the skits in NG+ but I fail to see how this gets you titles.

What you can use are the DLC bonus packs which will shower you with titles so you don't have to get them. Personally I got them all myself but that can be a grind for some.

>I guess I don't have to worry about escapes, huh?

Actually, I believe you get a title for having XX number of escapes, I think with just Karol. I had to grind to get this one since I rarely ran from anything.

>Side quests, easy enough

Not easy enough. There are a LOT of scenes that are missable in this game. I used a "spoiler-free missables guide" which tells you where to go after most major plot events. I would have definitely missed some scenes had I not used this guide and sometimes you need to see a series of missable scenes to get a title.

>FS's gonna be hard but doable.

Yes, it's annoying but there's a method with the "Brutal" enemy that can be used later in the game for grinding this. I'd have to leave the game on for a half-hour to an hour at a time but it's not too bad. You can grind the 200 blue FSs for Judith the same way.

> Maxing out every tech isn't necessarily hard but it'll be a grind.

What? You don't have to max out any techs. You don't even have to unlock them all. This is a massive waste of time and will make you hate the game.

> This is looking like a good three times.

I got it all in three. Got almost all titles in the first run, including getting up to Level 200...I used Patty's XP-Up trick to get it pretty quickly in the Necropolis. The second run was me putting the game on Easy, turning on 20X XP, and speed-running to get the "beat it in 15 hours trophy"...turns out this is very generous as I did it easily under 5, especially if you skip all fights. I also got the "no items used" title during this run. The last run was for the low-level run. I put on the 1/2XP perk, avoided all enemies, and got it within a couple hours. Got all the trophies and titles after that.

>Also, it'll take time maxing out every item.

What? Why would you do this? This isn't skill and you're not accomplishing anything.

>Just a gald grind to max out every inventory item.

Oh, you mean purchaseable items. That's nothing. I had more money than I could use by the end of my run.