re: Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Thread;No Spoilers 92% metascore

After another bit of careful googling, it looks like what likely happened was I got an upgraded version of those weapons as random loot, so it auto upgraded what I was carrying.

Starting in V stance weapon is so far and away her best weapon in the game.

It applies double burn in its second level rank. This becomes so massive in the very mid to late game.

With the cheater picto on and double burn picto you can open the fight with burning rain for like 60 burns with just the double burn picto. It will move you next you want to use the other fire move that adds but not the breaker moving you into defensive stance, this from just her will be over 100 burn. Her next round youll be in defensive stance so use pyrlose it adds more burn in defensive stance and breaks. This puts her into offensive stance for her second move with over 175 burn just from her alone no else yet. Use burning canvas and you can easily do 2 million ending over 320 burns

Maelle and Lune have undoubtable best weapons. Verso imo does too. Others dont have impossibly clear best, Versos cannot be gotten until act 3 but you can get Lune in act 2 if you can beat the final boss of side dungeon falling trees. Its her dark weapon. Two words electrify and crystal crush

You will find 6 of these 7 white nevron quest in areas throughout the first 2 acts which is mostly entirely the entire main story. Act 3 is simply the very final location and set piece as well as the entire world as a post game. It is incredibly important do all these quest, the first 6 of which are in act 1 and 2 and the final can only be reached when you can fly. Do not kill them and be nice to them. The eventual reward for doing this in act is 100 lumina points which is massive. The best luminas in the game cost 30 and 40 points.

As the where they are done they are almost all immediately in the area you find them. The next one you will find is slightly different it requires you kill a giant nevron the first of which you can find in the floating waters which you can and should kill it drops a great picto and the item needed for this. IF you dont though there are a ton more on the world map

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It’s in the immediate area.

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Well damn, I was hoping this wasn’t the case, because I couldn’t find either one

Are these kinds of items visually distinct, or are they a particularly color shiny, or something else?

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Theyre very straightforward. The only one that even slightly involves outside influences is the one i mentioned above involving burgeon skin which you should have killed one in the flying waters already before you even get to it.

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Did, in fact, just kill that one

I was literally just about to ask whether all of these items were enemy drops, or whether they are environmental pickups.

You finish Act 1 yet?

Act 2 is longer in main story as well as side content because the whole world eventually opens up incrementally except for the sky. Which has a fair amount of content in itself. The main story itself is really just a lean mean 20 hour experience of exceptional quality but there’s easily 60 hours of content for one play through. I’m obsessed with it so I have like 500 hours in it


Although there are certain “optional” post game ish areas in act three that definitely should’ve been part of the main story imo. They’re essential content for the experience to be total, 2 in particular. It’s my only complaint with the game I feel they ran out of time

If you do every piece of side content available in the sort of walled off gardens they create for you in each little story sector you will likely be leveled enough to demolish things even on expert.

If you mainline the main story only on expert youre going to have a hard time your first run of the game. This is just an unsolvable problem of video games like this imo there is no perfect progression scaling because you cant account for what actions every player will take regarding available side content, weapons, etc for wherever they are.

Maybe I have a clouded view on it now because as I said I have over 500 hours playing it and know it by heart so I could be wrong this is just how I see it. It is just in line with basically jrpg convention. The most difficult things in the game will not be contained in the main story, but there are some definite hard fights in this game on expert your first blind run outside of it. I just wouldnt consider the main story especially challenging which is fine

You never truly unlock fast travel. Like I said you do eventually unlock the ability to fly. This isnt really a spoiler its in the trailer. Its at basically the end of the game though regarding the main story. It never really bothered me, I really enjoy the map and sort of old school overworld map style jrpg of having to navigate a scaled down world as a larger figure.

It does get more frustrating on like your 10th playthrough where you know exactly where to go and when to go there to be the most optimal and efficient and you have to spend like 10 minutes swimming to one place then 10 to another etc

One piece of advice I will give you if you intend on taking down what is by far and away the most difficult piece of content in the game and the basically "super boss" of what id consider the games 3 post game super bosses, is distribute your lumina points evenly across all characters. It is the only fight in the game where they all must participate if you intend on doing it normally and not looking up a one hit cheese kill build