Failed Shapeshifting Tribulation

[Dobbers]

So one of my Yaoguai cultivators failed their tribulation and became a giant monster. What I want to know: is it possible to "get them back"? Can I somehow tame and possibly turn them back into a Yaoguai for another shot, or do I have to just put them out of their misery?

[Kain Yusanagi]

Originally posted by Dobbers:

So one of my Yaoguai cultivators failed their tribulation and became a giant monster. What I want to know: is it possible to "get them back"? Can I somehow tame and possibly turn them back into a Yaoguai for another shot, or do I have to just put them out of their misery?

No, it's not. There's a mod called Tie The Knot which allows you to communicate with them and doing so with wild animals will tame them, including cultivator beasts, but it's buggy and weird and they can randomly start attacking someone who walks through a tile in range of their initial aggro range (pretty sure you can't do this on other maps, so in-sect beasts only). It does have a unique message about taming a beast to strengthen defenses, though, so it definitely seems intended.

You might be able to knock it unconscious and then feed it food to tame it like a normal animal, as well; maybe even use the WOLOLO-type skills to convert them to your side.

Otherwise, I don't think you can even feed them a rebirth pill to convert them back to yaoguai.

Many people actually actively get yaoguai cultivators to GC stage and then fail the tribulation to make them convert and then kill them for the soul pearl, beast blood, and hide.

[Kamiyama]

How hard is the tribulation? I'm considering a tiger yaoguai for my sect leader. They get an easy artifact and have good combat stats. Is there anything I can do to prepare for it?

Is 41 days too soon?

[Infern]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

How hard is the tribulation? I'm considering a tiger yaoguai for my sect leader. They get an easy artifact and have good combat stats. Is there anything I can do to prepare for it?

Is 41 days too soon?

Yes 41 days is too soon... However, if you want to delay it with "cheats" i would recommend you using the chinese mod editor thing... Allowing you to change the "Thunder time" to infinite with a few commands.

[Myth Alric]

From what I heard 200 days or above is where you want it for newbie players. People say you can prepare in 40 days but you need to know what you are doing. I have not gotten that far with a yaoguai so I can't say for sure. From what I heard the biggest issue is that you face a tribulation for each element and they are happen right after each other.

[Myth Alric]

Without mods you can also make a reincarnated one too. The tribulation time seems to be based off the number of intelligence traits(is that what they are called?), rather than their quality. So it isn't true that more powerful ones have a shorter time period, you can make some really strong ones with a very long time period. I actually found some good ones just rolling randomly without reincranation too.

[VoiD]

Originally posted by Myth Alric:

From what I heard 200 days or above is where you want it for newbie players. People say you can prepare in 40 days but you need to know what you are doing. I have not gotten that far with a yaoguai so I can't say for sure. From what I heard the biggest issue is that you face a tribulation for each element and they are happen right after each other.

tbh a complete new player might lose their guy in 200 days unless they are reading 200+ pages of guides and following everything.

I'd go for 400+, if at all.

[Jorlem]

I had one of my yaoguai survive her shapeshifting tribulation the other night. She had a tier two GC, 10-12 purchased levels in the protection skill, and every technique I could scrounge up that boosted qi shield more than subtly, max qi, and qi regen. Then I equipped her with the Taiyi Scroll and a Turtle Shell, a Sacred Talisman of Qi Regeneration, fed her a spirit stone and a qi regen pill, and put her on a Magic Altar. She also knew the spells Innate Qi and Firestorm, the latter of which did about 10k damage to the cloud every time I fired it off. (She was regenning around +220, IIRC. Her qi bar barely dropped through the entire five tribulations, even with me constantly casting the spells as soon as their cooldowns finished.)

I did have to restart once, as my sect leader decided to guard her, and died without the buffs she had.

[Erios]

You can delay shapeshift tribulation via camping on the map without cheating. The timer doesn't go down while they are in camp, and each one lasts 30 days and takes only a few seconds to send them on another one.

That's the strategy I use to get my 5 day tribulation reincarnator yaoguai. Camp them for 120 days, then speed cultivate them to PS and wipe the challenge then rebirth them and carefully curate them to what I want with their godlike stats. (because of 10 shards, lovingly handpicked in reincarnator)

[OverlordMae]

Or you just permanently send them on adventures, timer wont tick when they are off the map and they are a bit useful in the meantime.

[Jorlem]

Originally posted by Erios909:

You can delay shapeshift tribulation via camping on the map without cheating. The timer doesn't go down while they are in camp, and each one lasts 30 days and takes only a few seconds to send them on another one.

That's the strategy I use to get my 5 day tribulation reincarnator yaoguai. Camp them for 120 days, then speed cultivate them to PS and wipe the challenge then rebirth them and carefully curate them to what I want with their godlike stats. (because of 10 shards, lovingly handpicked in reincarnator)

What do you mean by "speed cultivate", if I may ask?

[Kain Yusanagi]

Originally posted by Jorlem:

What do you mean by "speed cultivate", if I may ask?

Set them to "cultivate" or, once you've become able to learn it, Meditation, and force them to cultivate hard and power them through breakthroughs even if it isn't the right season/weather to do so.

[Exothermically Eclectic]

Alternatively, do their cultivation through sending them on adventures to the cultivation areas; they get a chunk of cultivation xp and their timer doesn't count down.

[Kain Yusanagi]

That isn't really "speed cultivation", though?

[Exothermically Eclectic]

No, which is why I said "alternatively".
As in, it's an alternative to speed cultivation, because the speed doesn't matter, they're off-map so their tribulation timer doesn't move. As I said in that post.