Best Advice for Getting to Maniac/ Proud?

[yuzhonglu]

Currently on extreme. Should I continue going through the extreme quests or farm earlier (and easier) quests? Have ascension weapons for party (♥♥♥, Id, Eugen, Charlotte), but all weapons at level 75 except ♥♥♥ who is at 100.

Sigils are random crap I picked up along the way.

Also, when should I use Crewmate Cards?

[Visero]

plays End of Ragnarok on youtube and let the power of adrenaline rush flows inside u.

[Tanya]

Dont bother farming on extreme unless you are having issues, you should be able to beat extreme no problem just by upgrading the masteries of your character, even maniac aside from a few quests are easy enough for you to beat just by gettin the stats from the mastery tree.

Sigils just slap as many dmg cap as you can, you should have a few III at the least and crewmate cards better not use them at all aside from that 1 character that you really want to play with, the last weapon gets harder to get for a specific character the bigger your crew is.

[Suzaku]

If you're not struggling, might as well keep marching along.

If you want more sigils, run extreme Assault Formation for high-grade scraps and machine units. Trade them for vouchers. Use vouchers for level 3 transmutation and transmarvels.

I think new crew are at their maximum minimum starts (meaning level 60 with ~65% of their masteries unlocked) once you unlock Maniac difficulty. Feel free to recruit whoever you like at that point, but know that there's a boss to farm weapons from later, and the more people you have, the more spread out the chances of getting one for someone you like, so you might want to hold off on recruiting.

[Roscoe]

Basically, running missions via matchmaking. That's how I was able to speed through the difficulties. It'll take longer using your AI team.

[The22nd]

If you don't facetank everything you can cruise into proud with most of the mastery nodes unlocked. In proud you'll need survivability sigils because random projectiles and small AOEs start hitting for like 10-30k

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Just keep completing the latest quest until you reach Bahamut's Rage, the final quest. At that point you can go back and do older quests to awaken your Ascension weapon and then you just farm Bahamut's Rage over and over till you get the Terminus Weapon for your main or you lose interest.

[Tiasmoon]

Don't bother farming before maniac. You should do your farming on maniac or proud.

[Somnus]

just do the story, it should be easy enough without any grinding
you'll focus on grinding after that, no point in starting to do it before

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Messaggio originale di yuzhonglu:

Currently on extreme. Should I continue going through the extreme quests or farm earlier (and easier) quests? Have ascension weapons for party (♥♥♥, Id, Eugen, Charlotte), but all weapons at level 75 except ♥♥♥ who is at 100.

Sigils are random crap I picked up along the way.

Also, when should I use Crewmate Cards?

1. Get help from open session with other players when stuck. Proud mode is when you start getting nuked for not doing enough damage.

2. The good legendary ones are mostly from curio and transmarvel. Sigil enhance after you have access to tier V+ with good secondary trait.

3, Your other crewmate in knickknack shack will cap at level 60. They grow in level/ skill progression together with your progress into proud mode.

[Nepnep]

Messaggio originale di yuzhonglu:

Currently on extreme. Should I continue going through the extreme quests or farm earlier (and easier) quests? Have ascension weapons for party (♥♥♥, Id, Eugen, Charlotte), but all weapons at level 75 except ♥♥♥ who is at 100.

Sigils are random crap I picked up along the way.

Also, when should I use Crewmate Cards?

Just farm whatever you need to for your main (just the guy you are controlling). What you want is to "max out" whatever weapon you intend to use. (just pick one. it doesn't matter).

All your resources is to go into this guy. Your AI party can suffer in relative mediocrity. (1-2 weapon caps lower if only just to make them do a bit more damage)

Once you hit maniac, you start matchmaking more often (thus making ur AI party useless)

For sigils, you want some damage and some tanking ability. So Autorevive, Guts, Aegis, Dmg cap, and Tyranny are good options.

Also useful is Potion Hoarder and Improved Dodge (probably from Curio or transmute but it also depends on luck)

The level of the sigil don't matter so much. Also learn to dodge/block/jump. These are essential in NOT dying especially on Proud. Once you get to the end, you grind your Terminus weapons, about that time, you also get more sigils. That is when you start building your "endgame build"

For crewmates you have "two options".

1) Just recruit them at 60 so that you can play them earlier while they also benefit from some minor exp gains.
2) Recruit them after you get the Terminus weapon/Awakening Sigils for everyone you want.

[ɛքȶɨƈ ¯\(º_o)/¯]

I just went through them per difficulty and didnt go back to farm the lower ones after completion. I started Maniac with level 100 weapons so you should be fine as well if you pick the level 100 1 yourself. For proud I recommend to awaken your weapon up to the point of "beat manya 2 times on maniac", the last awakening can't be accessed until you're done with the last boss of proud if I remember correctly.

[Loxly]

You skip a ton of mastery grinding if you recruit new character after you beat chapter 0. You can beat the game even without grinding, just make sure you level your weapons and invest some mastery points to that 1 character you need to complete the single player content.

Also don't be too crazy on opening a new character after you beat chapter 0, i highly recommend only picking 1 new character as you grind towards the end game because BiS weapon RNG is dictated by how many characters you have unlocked so far. So if you have 15 characters, you might get everyone else weapon before even you can get 1 for your main.

[This PC]

You'll know when you hit a point where you should grind (You'll start failing quests, or at least getting much lower ratings and feeling a lot of friction), it might not be the same point as everyone else either. Once you do start grinding, it goes nyoom though, it's pretty fast *ahem* slimepede *ahem*. :D
If I can recommend transmuting sigils as much as you can, will keep your party afloat and you accumulate a hidden currency you can spend later on endgame sigils.
Once you have overmasteries, maybe try unlocking them as early as you can, without spending too much currency rerolling them, they can be pretty significant stat bonuses.
Also, keep an eye out for damage caps, if you realize you always do the same damage with the same ability (IE: I was consistently hitting for 53,994 with rackam's charged shot), you're probably over damage cap, and you need damage cap sigils.

[ffrotty]

always prioritize quests, if they're hard, grind out upgrades. repeat. i don't think that really happens, i was very underleveled while going through everything but i did swap party around to align elements to give that edge while underleveled. if you don't care about other people you want to wait til after the epilogue to unlock as they'll start at level 60 with a ton of mastery. it saves a ton of time over levelling them and grinding out mats.


prioritize unlocking all sigil slots. via masteries and fate story quests.
prio 2 is 100% all masteries
then prio 3 is forging all the weapons you can and spending points unlocking their masteries. this is best done on the 2 boss fights for the most large upgrade crack rocks, so don't do it until then.

also note, your party will be more successful based on which character you're controlling as the AI is a joke and does better or worse depending on what abilities you have equipped.

If I can recommend transmuting sigils as much as you can, will keep your party afloat and you accumulate a hidden currency you can spend later on endgame sigils.

bad advice. only transmute tier3 sigils. as soon as you can do that, you turn all your III+ sigils and below into tickets to transmute. even if t1 and t2 go into transwonder points (not sure about that) it's a waste of tickets

[This PC]

Messaggio originale di ffrotty:

even if t1 and t2 go into transwonder points (not sure about that) it's a waste of tickets

They do, I had something like 40 transwonder points when I hit the threshold to use them instantly, and they give you points even beyond, but they do give less points per ticket than tier 3 transmutes. What you say makes sense mathematically, but I also don't think it's worth holding off since they aren't completely wasted either and not everything has to be perfect min-max. ;p