EOU2: Climbing a tree, 12F
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sirsystemerror1F-5F | B1 | 6F | 7F | 8F | 9F | 10F
11F | B2 | 12F | 13F | 14F | 15F
B3 | B4 | 16F | 17F | 18F | 19F | 20F
21F | 22F | 23F | 24F | 25F | B5
26F | 27F | 28F | 29F | 30F (1) | 30F (2) | 31F
Note that the screenshots in this part are a bit faux, due to them not saving properly the first time. Had to retake those that I could.
I'll start this off not with 12F, but with a few quests. The first one was to get Abigail...something. I don't know what. Apparently I already got her the materials. Second was the first of the DLC boss quests. Didn't realize it opened up at this point, and I'm at the right level, so let's go. The objective is to go into a previously-inaccessible section of 11F and dig up a hot springs. You find a spot, which, after some digging and accidentally destroying a tree root, pours heated water out and magically fashions itself into a hot springs. In the story mode, this also unlocks lewd outfits for the girls. Here, all it does it make you fight the Gentle Toad that shows up to crash the party.
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lol.
Okay, let's do this fairly. No binding, not even Poison x2, although that was more accidental than anything. On the way back for round 2, as this quest is actually repeatable, I got another Premium Chance Bud. So that's going to be nice. Note I may have been a level higher when fighting this thing, especially the second time. Again, had to recap these.
Really, the toad's attacks really aren't all that threatening. Periodically, it becomes fixated on what I'm assuming is one of your female party members, proceeding to Lick or Hug them. Guess whose party is all-female? Including Ichigo, apparently? Although regardless, Ichigo couldn't stop the licking, which could also panic. No problem, I could just pop a Medic Bullet or Refresh. The frog also becomes excited after licking or hugging sometimes, although only if it successfully gets them off (not if it's bound).
Did I say its attacks really aren't all that threatening? I meant there was one move that could be a thing - its Hydro Jump after it becomes excited. Nevertheless, Ichigo took one for the team here on this unexpected shot, Kei's Force Break got us back in action, and Varda's Ice Wall made sure that couldn't happen again, as shown in this screenshot. Stupid tool malfunctioning! If it wasn't for that, a shot of my half-dead party might be here. As for damage, most of it was dealt by Azura (Fire/Ice Rounds) and Devaki (Venom Curse/Link order).
It gives up 25000EXP a fight, and 40000EXP for completing the quest. The second time, I gave the quest experience to some of my other party members/sources of Grimoires. With this, everyone in my main party was at Lv32, around the same level of experience they were at after the Grimoire grind. Sadly, the hot springs you dig up here don't seem to be usable.
Also, didn't notice it had a conditional until I actually did it over again, even though I used an Analysis Scope! It's to kill it with Bash damage, although the reward is hardly worth it.
---
Also, showing off Cover Fire Lv10+10 before I forget.
Onto 12F proper, the objective is to navigate a maze to find some flowers. One enemy of note here were the armored beetles, common enemies throughout the Etrian series. Because of them and their conditional, it was best NOT to have the Poison x2 food on here! A Venom Curse put them exactly into position to be killed by Bash damage from Kei or Ichigo - I finally switched the former from Hrothgar's Sword over to the conditional from the Ambush Wolves. The HP and TP bonuses were just too good to pass up. This meant switching Refresh Lv6 for War Art Mastery Lv6, so she could continue to use Guard Slash.
There's a bunch of dragons around here (like the ones from B1 except not chumps) that are sleeping during the day, but you need to go there at night to actually get the flowers. The dragons are on the move during the night, but don't chase you.
These things are FOEs, which means it's time for a FOE pound-up.
---
This was just bullying during the day, really...them being asleep gave me all the time I needed to set up. To make matters worse for them, I also got a Frailty Curse Lv1 Grimoire to replace the ones I'd senselessly thrown away. On two of the three ones I fought during the day, I was using Guard Slash to weaken their defenses. For final one and where this screenshot is from (albeit with higher levels because of the screenshot issue), I instead used Frailty Curse and had Varda kick it out of sleep with Ecstasy, leading to these numbers. Lower than here, but still over 90% of their HP. Even in the instance of the first two, where I didn't do this one ultimate shot, they were too screwed up from the binds to do much. They were quickly worn down and defeated, just over the course of multiple attacks (Azura in particular could pitch in with elemental bullets).
I fought one proper during the night though, and this was much more annoying. Its signature move, Venom Heads, necessitated Venom Rings on the front row party members AND poison-resistant food. Even with that out of the picture, this move hurt!! It was mostly a matter of surviving it long enough to get the binds down. Even that wasn't quite enough on its own. This one took a bit of luck and some use of Nectars and Kei's Force Break. But I got it done.
Now, I fought one more during the night. One of the chests here had a Petrify Gas, and it just so happens these things have a conditional drop that requires petrification. I had a good strategy here: Ichigo uses Force and Hit-Taker, and otherwise follow my strategy of buffing Devaki...except have her use the gas instead!!
To my surprise, this worked first try! I wanted to try doing it again with a drop+ Grimoire, since the items you make from this can give you an EXP boost from a battle. I saved this result on a different slot beforehand because I had a funny feeling...and it's a good thing I did, because that turned out to be a huge fluke. I eventually just gave up and took the one. Would've loved to get a shot of the petrification being a success...but agian, they screwed up, so showing what I get form it will have to do.
---
After killing the last one, I rested until night, and set out to get the Snow Blooms without incident. And got the motherload of experience in the process - a little over 100K, which equaled one full level. Just to feel like TouyaShiro for a moment, and because I can't access the regular experience+ food yet, I try it with the pay2win DLC experience tripler. And holy crap, that was two and a half levels. And that's only my main party - the rest of the guild/Grimoire generators got 1/5 of this each as well!! But that's silly, so I didn't ACTUALLY do that...
I do a quest after this and incur a funny reset - handing it in with the wrong party. I'd almost accept that, but they really didn't need the extra EXP.
Moving on, I find Artelinde who's "still" standing here despite my seeing her for the first time in this spot. She asks us what we'd do if she asked us to leave, and drops some lore when we tell her we wouldn't be able to do that. She also warned of something terrible past here that no one can defeat. And that she won't stop us if we keep going.
"Not yet, anyway."
Also at the last minute, this floor introduces sliding block puzzles!! Joy. I grab the last treasure chest, containing Chinese Food 3, and move up to the next floor.
Putting that ugly mess of screenshotting behind...the party sits at Level 35. Don't even know how to spend all these points some people (or tigers) have. Well, doing fine as-is anyway, so probably will continue to do fine moving forward! And if not, I have the points to spare to make it fine!!
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11F | B2 | 12F | 13F | 14F | 15F
B3 | B4 | 16F | 17F | 18F | 19F | 20F
21F | 22F | 23F | 24F | 25F | B5
26F | 27F | 28F | 29F | 30F (1) | 30F (2) | 31F
Note that the screenshots in this part are a bit faux, due to them not saving properly the first time. Had to retake those that I could.
I'll start this off not with 12F, but with a few quests. The first one was to get Abigail...something. I don't know what. Apparently I already got her the materials. Second was the first of the DLC boss quests. Didn't realize it opened up at this point, and I'm at the right level, so let's go. The objective is to go into a previously-inaccessible section of 11F and dig up a hot springs. You find a spot, which, after some digging and accidentally destroying a tree root, pours heated water out and magically fashions itself into a hot springs. In the story mode, this also unlocks lewd outfits for the girls. Here, all it does it make you fight the Gentle Toad that shows up to crash the party.
---
lol.
Okay, let's do this fairly. No binding, not even Poison x2, although that was more accidental than anything. On the way back for round 2, as this quest is actually repeatable, I got another Premium Chance Bud. So that's going to be nice. Note I may have been a level higher when fighting this thing, especially the second time. Again, had to recap these.
Really, the toad's attacks really aren't all that threatening. Periodically, it becomes fixated on what I'm assuming is one of your female party members, proceeding to Lick or Hug them. Guess whose party is all-female? Including Ichigo, apparently? Although regardless, Ichigo couldn't stop the licking, which could also panic. No problem, I could just pop a Medic Bullet or Refresh. The frog also becomes excited after licking or hugging sometimes, although only if it successfully gets them off (not if it's bound).
Did I say its attacks really aren't all that threatening? I meant there was one move that could be a thing - its Hydro Jump after it becomes excited. Nevertheless, Ichigo took one for the team here on this unexpected shot, Kei's Force Break got us back in action, and Varda's Ice Wall made sure that couldn't happen again, as shown in this screenshot. Stupid tool malfunctioning! If it wasn't for that, a shot of my half-dead party might be here. As for damage, most of it was dealt by Azura (Fire/Ice Rounds) and Devaki (Venom Curse/Link order).
It gives up 25000EXP a fight, and 40000EXP for completing the quest. The second time, I gave the quest experience to some of my other party members/sources of Grimoires. With this, everyone in my main party was at Lv32, around the same level of experience they were at after the Grimoire grind. Sadly, the hot springs you dig up here don't seem to be usable.
Also, didn't notice it had a conditional until I actually did it over again, even though I used an Analysis Scope! It's to kill it with Bash damage, although the reward is hardly worth it.
---
Also, showing off Cover Fire Lv10+10 before I forget.
Onto 12F proper, the objective is to navigate a maze to find some flowers. One enemy of note here were the armored beetles, common enemies throughout the Etrian series. Because of them and their conditional, it was best NOT to have the Poison x2 food on here! A Venom Curse put them exactly into position to be killed by Bash damage from Kei or Ichigo - I finally switched the former from Hrothgar's Sword over to the conditional from the Ambush Wolves. The HP and TP bonuses were just too good to pass up. This meant switching Refresh Lv6 for War Art Mastery Lv6, so she could continue to use Guard Slash.
There's a bunch of dragons around here (like the ones from B1 except not chumps) that are sleeping during the day, but you need to go there at night to actually get the flowers. The dragons are on the move during the night, but don't chase you.
These things are FOEs, which means it's time for a FOE pound-up.
---
This was just bullying during the day, really...them being asleep gave me all the time I needed to set up. To make matters worse for them, I also got a Frailty Curse Lv1 Grimoire to replace the ones I'd senselessly thrown away. On two of the three ones I fought during the day, I was using Guard Slash to weaken their defenses. For final one and where this screenshot is from (albeit with higher levels because of the screenshot issue), I instead used Frailty Curse and had Varda kick it out of sleep with Ecstasy, leading to these numbers. Lower than here, but still over 90% of their HP. Even in the instance of the first two, where I didn't do this one ultimate shot, they were too screwed up from the binds to do much. They were quickly worn down and defeated, just over the course of multiple attacks (Azura in particular could pitch in with elemental bullets).
I fought one proper during the night though, and this was much more annoying. Its signature move, Venom Heads, necessitated Venom Rings on the front row party members AND poison-resistant food. Even with that out of the picture, this move hurt!! It was mostly a matter of surviving it long enough to get the binds down. Even that wasn't quite enough on its own. This one took a bit of luck and some use of Nectars and Kei's Force Break. But I got it done.
Now, I fought one more during the night. One of the chests here had a Petrify Gas, and it just so happens these things have a conditional drop that requires petrification. I had a good strategy here: Ichigo uses Force and Hit-Taker, and otherwise follow my strategy of buffing Devaki...except have her use the gas instead!!
To my surprise, this worked first try! I wanted to try doing it again with a drop+ Grimoire, since the items you make from this can give you an EXP boost from a battle. I saved this result on a different slot beforehand because I had a funny feeling...and it's a good thing I did, because that turned out to be a huge fluke. I eventually just gave up and took the one. Would've loved to get a shot of the petrification being a success...but agian, they screwed up, so showing what I get form it will have to do.
---
After killing the last one, I rested until night, and set out to get the Snow Blooms without incident. And got the motherload of experience in the process - a little over 100K, which equaled one full level. Just to feel like TouyaShiro for a moment, and because I can't access the regular experience+ food yet, I try it with the pay2win DLC experience tripler. And holy crap, that was two and a half levels. And that's only my main party - the rest of the guild/Grimoire generators got 1/5 of this each as well!! But that's silly, so I didn't ACTUALLY do that...
I do a quest after this and incur a funny reset - handing it in with the wrong party. I'd almost accept that, but they really didn't need the extra EXP.
Moving on, I find Artelinde who's "still" standing here despite my seeing her for the first time in this spot. She asks us what we'd do if she asked us to leave, and drops some lore when we tell her we wouldn't be able to do that. She also warned of something terrible past here that no one can defeat. And that she won't stop us if we keep going.
"Not yet, anyway."
Also at the last minute, this floor introduces sliding block puzzles!! Joy. I grab the last treasure chest, containing Chinese Food 3, and move up to the next floor.
Putting that ugly mess of screenshotting behind...the party sits at Level 35. Don't even know how to spend all these points some people (or tigers) have. Well, doing fine as-is anyway, so probably will continue to do fine moving forward! And if not, I have the points to spare to make it fine!!
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