08-17-2012, 07:38 AM | #151 |
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I've been trying to beef up my two Ice types to be able to join my Glaceon for the final battle, and I was able to get a second Eevee. I know it's recommended not to grind in the main story, but I don't want to rely on the same 4 other warriors/warlords (Oichi is only useful for her healing since I haven't gotten the travelling salesman yet) for every battle.
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08-18-2012, 03:50 PM | #152 | |
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Thanks for clearing that up an preventing me from wasting moneys! I ended up not deciding on an Eevee evolution an stuck with it until it evolved outta the blue after capturing the ice country! Oh an I noticed the completed world map is shaped like an Arceus holy crap o_o!
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08-19-2012, 08:52 AM | #153 |
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I've had Sessai almost since the beginning. She's Ice/Bug (her perfect link is Larvesta, however), but her damn Spheal won't evolve. Her max link is like 70%, so that's not the issue.
I have the dude whose perfect link is Cubchoo. I have the Froslass warlord, but no Dawn Stone. I was going to allow her to have a Glalie for the last battle. My damn dragons (mostly Deino) won't evolve either, and their links aren't maxed either. |
08-19-2012, 10:54 AM | #154 |
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I only had Glaceon and Froslass (and the latter died before she even got an attack off) for the battle. I didn't have any other Ice or Dragon types; I just brought my strongest Pokemon. Yoshihiro's fully evolved Conkeldurr tore through several enemies before it was taken out, and Gyarados was surprisingly useful, as long as I kept it away from a certain Pokemon that could one-shot it. Glaceon also took several Pokemon out, of course.
@jolteonjak- Spheal, and a large number of other Pokemon, evolve when certain stats get high enough. Spheal has to have 138 HP to evolve. Higher link does help, of course, as it translates to higher stats, but increasing the Pokemon's energy at the Ponigiri Shop (to max, preferably) gives your stats a slight boost as well. |
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Wheeee! I went in with just Glaceon and the rest of my mishmash team (Wigglytuff, Emboar, Gyarados, Empoleon, Scrafty) and won! Then beat the final battle on my second attempt! This marks the first time I beat an srpg without cheating. I um, I still kinda did things wrong like overlooking links until just before the end (why aren't these warriors pkmn gaining even alil exp... oh) and also taking over 19 hours to beat it when I've heard it can be done much faster. I never did learn what deligating stuff did cause none of my places ever leveled up. The game was really fun for the most part! But now there's tons of post-game stories and thats where the real difficulty will come from isn't it? I dunno about doing those!
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08-19-2012, 01:44 PM | #156 |
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Congrats, Lindz! As for the post game, that's where most of the content is. Each episode has a certain difficulty, so I would suggest starting with the available one or two star episodes and see how they go. I know there's a one star difficulty episode that is short (only four kingdoms) available from the start, so that might be a good starting point. Most of them aren't too difficult, and there's hours of content if you decide to do the post game. Give it a shot.
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08-22-2012, 11:22 PM | #158 |
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I had something strange happen the other night. I was doing the second of the three-part campaign, and one of my warriors decided to go off on his own little journey. Has that happened to anyone before? As a test, I saved and advanced the month to see if he'd come back, but he hasn't yet. I hope he comes back soon. I could really use his Beldum in my final battle.
Oh, and yes, the two campaigns I've done so far have been real short. It's a good thing the three Warlords can evolve outside of their own stories. Think I'll try Oichi's story in Spectra next now that I was finally able to get my hands on a Moon Stone. Anyone do that one yet? |
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@Lindz- If you beat all of them (or at least all of the main warlord episodes), you unlock an episode staring the Hero where you unify the land, so yes, I believe that's basically a harder version of the Main Game where you can wrap things up at your leisure. I haven't gotten there yet though, so I'm not entirely sure what it entails.
@jolteonjak- I've never had that happen before, but from the little I can find about it, they come back with a new Pokemon eventually. I'm not sure how long it takes (it's probably random, honestly), so if you really need him, just wait a few months, I suppose. I haven't done Oichi's yet. I've honestly been preoccupied with finishing another game and packing for college. I'ill probably start a long episode next, but I'm not sure which yet. |
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Did it in Japanese ... or maybe I was in the middle of doing it when I put the game down last? Don't remember.
I've had the going-on-a-journey guy vanish before. Mine was a Grovyle trainer who left iirc to make his Grovyle better. I'm pretty sure he came back eventually but I don't remember how many turns it took him. Might've been over twelve, I'm not certain.
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So that was a bit off. It's Okuni's story, a 4-star difficulty mission where I have to unite the whole land; and I start in Ignis. Put that one aside for now. I finished all 3 of the "starter" missions (the 3-way argument from each warlord's point of view). Now I'm on Ginchiyo's mission. I'm having a blast with it. I really enjoy being able to level up places to get the rarer Pokemon (Pikachu, Scyther, Blitzle, Larvesta (!)) I'm filling more and more perfect links, really grinding now. I just bought my second Guardian Charm, although I'm a little unsure of how effective they just are. I've heard of people leveling things up like crazy with these. I used it in a battle between a Sneasel and 2 or 3 Psychic types. I got just over 1%, and the link was in the 20's. The max link is much higher, so that's not the issue. Anyone else have any experience with them? |
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11-26-2012, 05:30 PM | #162 |
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Bit of a necro, but I found this for anyone who is having difficulty finding that one Perfect Link. Which is me. Also, in other news, I'm too lazy to go searching for Perfect Links and rely on the Internet to find them for me instead. :P Stay tuned.
If you want to preserve the spirit of the thing (which I totally understand because I have gone without spoilers for several games), don't click on the link or you'll learn all the things you wish you hadn't!
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Double post BECAUSE I CAN.
Here is a link to all of the evolutions of the Pokemon. It seems that they're mostly stat-based, with a few others mixed in. But since stats are determined mostly from Link...I don't see this mattering much.
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This is perfect! SPP's is way too bulky with the larger art. While I'm here, can anyone recommend a quest or two that allows for some grinding please? I have only "evolved" Oichi (and the hero, but that's mandatory) so far. |
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For grinding, my advice is to box Nobunaga in to the Dragon-type castle town by conquering the surrounding trio of Ghost, Steel, and Ice, ... but to then deliberately leave one of these towns pretty vacant. Not entirely vacant -- force him to launch a serious attack -- but vacant enough that he will dare to attack it. He'll usually split his army up, and that way you can push the invaders back in a revenge-battle without worrying about accidentally beating the game. I think I give much more detailed advice on how to do this around where I linked you in that post (there or earlier), so look for it if you like. I know it's a lot to read through, but I was pretty exhaustive in trying to help people maximize their experiences with the game.
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Thank you Talon. I'll give it a try.
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The game actually does that?
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When you open the game out of its shrink wrap and plastic case and pop it into your DS, brand new, there is a story that you complete first. Being long-time Pokémon fans, we all referred to this as "Story Mode," but that's a bit of an erroneous label. Really, it's just the first of over thirty stories. But because it's the first story you experience, and because it's the story where you play as the nameless hero (in nearly all of the stories which follow you choose to play as one of the other NPC warlords), the "Story Mode" label stuck. Anyway. When you're nearing the completion of this first mission, there isn't much left to do. The game's fun is centered around advancement. Advancement of troops, acquisition of territory, so on and so forth. Well, by the end of the first mission, you've done all that, so really, there's nothing left to do but to beat the game. (To draw a comparison with Pokémon, compare it with the original Red or Blue games and place yourself in the position of the player who has already beaten every single trainer there is except for the Elite Four, gotten every single hidden item you can access, etc. There's nothing left for you to do except take on the Elite Four. I mean, that's what your entire game has been building towards, right!?) So you go to beat the game. And you do. And then you're told, by the game, that:
The thing is, we didn't really appreciate how Pokémon Conquest was set up. ^^; It was very, very erroneous of both fans and the game developers to style the game as a "Story Mode" followed by a "post-Story Mode set of extras". Which is totally how it's set up in the menu and shit. But like, no. No, no, no. ^^; What fans called "Story Mode" is really just 1/32nd of Story Mode. "Story Mode" in its truest sense for Pokémon Conquest is indeed all of these missions. If you were to put Pokémon Conquest down after beating only the first story, you'd have only witnessed the first thirty-second or so of the game's content. Furthermore, ... Spoiler: show So why is the comic funny or relevant? Because everyone who ever plays the game can relate to it. Everyone who's ever played it has felt a knot in their stomach when that message of Oichi's came up and felt like something truly terrible just happened. Just look back through this thread to find all the people, self included, who were concerned about this.
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Pretty sure serebii didn't lift anything from the game itself, but instead tried to pull several things from memory or something. Some pokemon also don't have information stored. Gyarados is a beast. I have been following Talon's advice because I don't have any desire to play through 30 more chapters of almost exactly the same thing. It flies, it swims, it knocks people back, and it hits friggin' DIAGONALLY. So many perfect plays - Gyarados just kicks people around so they get eaten by luxray thunders. Those attacks aren't great on their own, but...I ship sailor man and electric queen. Hard. They travel together.
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Fun fact: Veekun has a pretty comprehensive in-progress Conquest 'dex that you should check out.
It's comprehensive in that it gives a lot of good dump data on Pokémon/Warlords (including evo methods and link percentages), though it does lack some information on abilities and some other more minor details. |
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Progress on Hideyoshi's mission, I finally got a Zorua! I'm missing one person from being able to use the Anorith code. =\ |
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I found the Veekun dex and it is excellent and helpful.
I beat Story. I found it a little upsetting that "Omnipotent" healed me to full every turn. If that is what the game turns into when I'm done with it, I'm just going to take my time >_> no rabid clear everything for me! I discovered in Nixstorm that having Rhyperior and Luxray on the same team is bad on a field where positioning is next to impossible. I discovered in Dragnor that Lightningrod is a wonderful ability to boost Rock Wrecker to OHKO the other three members of the team (you know, the ones not OHKO'd by Icy Wind). The ending was fun and I have been promised a team full of eeveelutions plus arceus.
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Link grinding is simple and easy. Instead of just grinding on the local populations (which give less link), "trap" an enemy Warlord in Aurora by leading him through strings of empty kingdoms and taking up the slack. Try to use a weaker Warlord instead of, say, Mitsuhide because the AI for the "early" kindgoms trains for less link. My Warlord (who I was amused to see was a part of Ieyasu's mission) trains for crappy link, but Nobunaga's Chomp was at like 700 power by the end of the story mode.
Then, when you have them in Aurora, vacate the neighboring kingdoms. The enemy Warlord will rise to the bait, attempt to take the kingdom, and you take it back for lots of link.
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