re: FF16 game thread non spoiler

Well to be fair literally everything is marked on your map like a Ubisoft marker. Whenever a side quest is available you get a message then just open youcmap and look for the green crosses or exclamation marks. You will get the same messages if there’s new stuff to smith or new stuff and the shop. I guess I didn’t 100% because I only completed one of the “challenge” stones you’ll find around. Each one is a based on one eikon and you have to go 4 levels of 3 rounds of enemies each with no healing. Each level they give you 2 of that icons 4 abilities and it is timed. You can see what wil laddn time like 10 magic burst or execute level 5 zanzuten and then the excesss will carry to the next round. I only did shivas. Tried Odins but I doubt anyone has gotten him yet I’ll just say he has a move that kind stops time or interrupts your actions and I couldn’t figure it out. Also some of the hunts I did look up where they are because not all give any real idea and the best hunts are how you get the mats to make the best swords armless and belts. But yeah well technically I JUST beat the final boss at 47 hours. I did skip the prologue though from the demo

Also some may prefer to run around on foot in some of the bigger wide open areas to farm ap, loot, find treasure. Once I got Chocobos I most rode. I will say there is NO NEED to xp grind. You will hit 50 if you do everything in the game and form the main quest. The best way to grind AP if you want skills is replaying missions or stages through the ariette stone and basically always have the accessory that gives 20% more AP from battle once you can buy it.

You’ll play a longggg time with just Phoenix and Garuda I started to think I missed something. Don’t worry all eikons are gotten through main story progression and that order is set in stone

And I cant stress enough do All Side quest. In the beginning they will be wack as frick like you’re serving soup to people and shite but they all build over the course of the game. Missing certain ones can result in things ranging from different dialogue,’missing out on the best swords and armor, and some of the best stuff comes from the rep vendor every quest gives some amount of it. Doing all quest I was only like 200 over what was needed for the final rep gift. So yeah

And like k said combat is easy as hell for a while. And remains so pretty much for mobs but then I notice some bosses would kill me. Which isn’t a big deal because they for some dumb reason put you right back in the phase you died in and fill your potion pouch. Only the hunts if you die make you respawn the nearest warp, It will force you to begin to figure out what skills work and which ones to leave and master those that work so you have them in any eikon while using that icons O ability. I’d say Shiva is by far the worse except her ultimate is actually super good and cheap so I suggest mastering it for another icon. Ramuh is behind her most likely

ETA NG+ auto skips the demo prologue when you pick hard mode all hail yoshi p for saving us 2 hours