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Malakriss said:

When you complete a playthrough you get the trophies for all 3 of your characters. So you can do that part in 2 but it would be a complete slog to do the initial team to 99. The bigger issue is there appears to be certain NPC chain abilities that can only be gotten by a single main character (most only require them in your party). For example, Chirry the girl who saves Angela will only give her chain ability if Angela is you main character. This is due to the flaw that when you enter towns that have no combat you are a party of 1. I believe Angela, Charlotte, Hawkeye, and possibly Kevin have unique missable chain abilities because of this.

We've also discovered another side effect with the seeds in regards to NG+ and rolling gear for Class 3 and 4. Because the loot pool is determined by when it dropped if you get a gold seed when you are only class 2 then it's impossible for that specific seed to roll the class 3 gear. Same deal with rainbow and class 4 gear, and the first few of each type of seed you get in a playthrough is always before your class up points so they become dead zones in seed planting and you have no idea where they occur in a stack of 80 until you start planting. For ??? seeds you should roll them 1 by 1 as you acquire them. Apparently if you save the seeds up they can duplicate but this is not true if you immediately plant them and get the class items, you should get all 6 in 6 rolls.

50/50 Li'l Cactus ability is +200% CS at start of battle. Post-game boss chain also gives another +100% CS at the start of battle. So if your party has a character with an AOE class strike you can use it immediately on every battle.

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Not always the case on abilities. For example I got the cat ability on my 2nd playthrough after the fire dungeon with Hawkeye in my party but my main was Riesz. I also got Kevin's ability when we did his fight in the forest but I guess that wasn't in town. Some might just be fucky? Most of these haven't been particularily amazing though, the good ones tend to be the ones you get for the class 4 unlocks. Do you need these for the achievement though? I assumed they meant you only needed the ones you put points in, so basically hit 99.

The no dupe thing I've read wasn't true, but the first 6 I opened were indeed 1 of each. Worth noting I guess that they are basically assigned a class when you loot them, but this class is more like a "side" and a character. For example if you open 3 seeds and you get main character dark side, 2nd character light side and main character light side, then change your classes or change your entire character(NG+) and reopen them, you will still get main character dark, 2nd light and then main character light again, just to whatever your current character and classes are. Useful for NG+ preparations if you know what you're going with, since you can manipulate which char is second or third to fit your seeds if you don't want to farm a full set.

There's a shitton of broken skill stuff tbh, the CS definitely make trash packs a joke, the no item used lets you use the super strong items like the item that instantly puts all 3 debuff on a boss without consuming them(they also don't reduce the usage per fight so you can technically spam rez items once you have it), you can make mp completely irrelevant for your entire team which lets you spam strong spells over and over(obviously favors Angela the most). And then in general balance isn't so great, Angela lategame is stupidly OP compared to the other characters, she basiclaly makes all the endgame trivial even when not maxed out.

Oh and on achievements, you need 3 playthroughs, because you need the big boss of each 3 pairings.

The wall boss is a huge difficulty spike, and there's a few other annoying bosses, but it gets easier over time.

Angela gets OP as fuck eventually once you start not having mp issues. Try reclaim and later reclaim II, with both it's 3mp per power attack, you can spam triangle a few times to get a bunch of mp back. Near the endgame you get a broken as fuck skill if you play as Angela main that gives 10mp every 5s in combat, and then it gets hard running out. Postgame you get even better crap so you don't even need to waste a skill on Angela herself for mp. Also at some point you can just afford the mp nut items anyway so you can just chug these. She becomes full retarded postgame, where you basically run around just spamming spells.


Anyway finished the game entirely, all achievements done, took 37hours for the whole thing so it didn't feel like a chore, last playthrough on NG+ with already lvled chars took 3h30 total. Was alright but they definitely should have worked on challenging/scaling content. NG+ is just a joke and the postgame content wasn't nearly challenging enough imo. Still was nice overall, I'd say like a 7/10 or so.

Rajaah said:

In ToM, what's up with the ??? Seeds? I've been farming for a good half hour in MH and haven't seen a single one. Characters just got to level 38, so maybe they don't drop until then. I'd like to keep moving with the story if ??? Seeds drop everywhere after this. I can't remember from the SFC version. Farming a loop of rabites around the class change room is getting pretty old.

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They only drop from 38+ monsters, so the dungeons that open up after the Sanctuary of Mana part. You can get a bunch in chests in these dungeons by just running through, 6 of them and supposedly they will always yield one of each job, but I've read conflicting reports.