Shift Stone Scarcity

[thelogicalghost]

... is driving me a little insane?

I'm loving this game (currently team is at lvl 33) but looping around over and over again to try to proc the shifts I want *and* get their eggs to drop is monotonous and frustrating, yet I don't want to spend a limited resource on monsters that I at least *can* farm, I looked up that shift stones can drop from certain reward boxes, but I can't just buy 50 of them and roll the dice.

How do the rest of you deal with this? Do you just put on a podcast and loop for hours?

[Conan The Librarian]

The way I'd recommend:

1. You want a shifted monster which can be found in the wild? Just farm that (a loop of 4 encounters) till you get what you want, then hatch that.

2. For things "more rare" (especially your starter), use a shift stone.

Do this? You won't really feel starved for shift stones. Other than that, renewable sources exist indeed:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851743162

See "Shifting Tips" section

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2326800740

Also great guide on this subject

[thelogicalghost]

Oh wow hi dev reply! Thank you so much for this awesome game, I've been super enjoying it thus far and am telling all my friends!

Re: the topic, I've read the guides and based on that, for example, I set up a loop in the Blue Caves. I felt like I was being clever because I mapped out a 4-fight loop to try to get a light Frosty and a dark Fungi on alternating fights. I guess I'm just frustrated because this game has been so good at moving quickly, making me feel like I was constantly progressing SOMEHOW and rarely needed to stop and grind, but suddenly I'm doing these repetitive loops that aren't accomplishing anything so long as the dice don't fall in my favor.

But maybe I just needed to vent. :)

[Nomad]

Once you can farm reward boxes in infinite arena Shift stones arent quite as bad to get, but yes, they are a very precious resource if you are relying on just the ones you get by playing through the main story.

Also, yeah, Conan is super active both here and on the community discord. The devs in general communicate with the community a lot. As a result, the disposition between the players and Moi Rai is super positive. Moi Rai is awesome, and the community on the discord is great. People are super helpful on there. You should consider joining if you haven't.

[Xaelon]

I forget at what keeper rank you can buy them at but I use monster bells to farm shifts if the RNG isn't cooperating.

I look up on the wiki and see if there are any 3 packs of whatever I want and head there. Defeat pack, ring bell, repeat until desired egg drops.

[steffire3]

The moment I read the Wiki early game and found out that Shifting Champions are a premium to acquire; I decided to nab every last one of those Stones during the adventure including the Switch variants that are useful to swap an already Shifted monster.

However if the Player wants to continue farming for more Champion Egg Drops to form more teams then the need to farm Shift Stones becomes a necessity long past the adventure's supply.

At the end-game when all the single-time locations are exhausted. The quickest way I've been able to farm for Shift (or any variant) Stones without Rng being a factor is by the Infinity Arena's reward currency for it's vendor as the others here have mentioned.

If the Infinity Arena method is desired then it's very important to defeat all the adventure's Champion Monsters including the two in Forgotten World to unlock the final Keeper Rank that also makes Shift Stones available to farm at the arena.

It also helps to have a strong team that can Tank strikes then stack Damage to get farther in the arena to earn more currency to spend on arena Shift Stones.