Author Topic: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread  (Read 180769 times)

GuyYouMetOnline

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #210 on: September 06, 2011, 01:53:42 AM »
My strategy: Have Youmu as commander, and open by having her lower RES while Byakuren controls Kaguya. As soon as you get a  with Kaguya under your control, run from the battle. You'll fail to escape, but Kaguya actually will run away, leaving just Eirin. Eirin will then start spamming Hourai Elixer, which will fully heal her, so have Sakuya set up her heal-blocking field skill. You'll probably want Alice to Marionette Parrar to reduce damage from Eirin's occasional non-elixer moves, and Reimu to perform healing before and between Sakuya's field move. Have another attacker in the fifth slot, and have Byakuren buff up her and Sakuya (buff ATK and ACC), then just have them attack until Eirin dies.

The downside to this strategy is that you won't get EXP from Kaguya, nor will you get her bestiary entry, so if you really care about that, you'll need a different strategy, but if you're willing to miss that, the battle becomes a lot easier.

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #211 on: September 06, 2011, 02:22:51 AM »
Debuffing Kaguya's MAtk (For example, with Byakuren, who should already have piled on IND for control) makes her hit like a kitten.

Eirin can go down in a few hits to a Weapon Bless'd Nitori spamming Radiate, as her guns have slayer on both of them, although before she dies is a little risky, since her Starlight Arrow or whatever it's called hurts like hell.

Hooray! =D

Marisa's Lasers get slayer too with enough POW in her Mystic tree. She's nice. Nitori using Radiate is godly, though.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #212 on: September 06, 2011, 02:37:02 AM »
Radiate
By the way, there's a new patch that fixes some of the translation, and it's called Rage Eight now. Radiate does sound cooler but I guess this makes more sense.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #213 on: September 06, 2011, 03:19:06 AM »
Blargh, yeah. I called it Rage Eight in an earlier post but it's hard to break old habits!
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Anima Zero

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #214 on: September 06, 2011, 02:11:25 PM »
Got the last few treasures from stage 20, started stage 21.

Holy christ on two fronts here:

A. Good god near everything here kicks my tail.

B. Christ my lv50-53 people are getting twice the base xp gained from battle.

Managed to get the teleporter to a heal circle unlocked so killing stuff here hopefully shouldn't be that bad.

Also at 17/30 Irons for the Kusanagi Sword.  Yay.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #215 on: September 06, 2011, 04:53:09 PM »
Currently trying to face the two idiots on the river to youkai Mountain with a MACHOULI-HURRRRGH PARTY

It's doing pretty well. Patchy just critted cirno for about 6k damage. This is with Fire Bless, Attack and Accuracy up, mind you. I hope it goes well; these two require such a strict party setup ;.;

GuyYouMetOnline

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #216 on: September 07, 2011, 01:14:54 AM »
It's easy once Cirno's down, and if you want to kill her quickly, use Nitori. Have Byakuren buff her ATK and ACC while she sets herself to fire, then just Rage Eight the shit out of Cirno.

Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #217 on: September 07, 2011, 05:05:48 AM »
What's the fastest way to grind for Iron? I could really use the Kusanagi Sword for the final boss...

RegalStar

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #218 on: September 07, 2011, 01:20:45 PM »
Run the first six maps of Forest of Magic 2 seems to be the quickest method for me. Once you're done, leave and re-enter the dungeon about thirty times so things will respawn.

Anima Zero

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #219 on: September 07, 2011, 05:36:16 PM »
Made my Kusanagi Sword today, whee!  Took about 3-4 hours to gather up the rest of the Irons I needed to make it.

Now to finish collecting treasures and get some people grinded up to lv60 before going on to the final battles.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #220 on: September 07, 2011, 09:46:44 PM »
I'm coming up to the fight with Iku, although i'm still currently grinding.

Just a quick question; Is she considered a Dragon or Transcendent? Wondering if I should really bother betting the ingredients for Sakuya's Nagierling or whatever.

Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #221 on: September 07, 2011, 09:59:25 PM »
Edit: nevermind me, apparently I had to INSTALL the game with japanese applocale, and everything works, simply changing it won't do anything
« Last Edit: September 07, 2011, 10:20:46 PM by Namalbalbi »

Anima Zero

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #222 on: September 07, 2011, 10:02:33 PM »
I'm coming up to the fight with Iku, although i'm still currently grinding.

Just a quick question; Is she considered a Dragon or Transcendent? Wondering if I should really bother betting the ingredients for Sakuya's Nagierling or whatever.
She's actually considered an Aquatic so Sakuya's first crafted sword, the Claymore, is her best choice of weapon here.  I believe there's also a spear you can have by this point that has a slayer effect against her as well if you choose to bring in another physical attacker.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #223 on: September 08, 2011, 01:37:39 AM »
Taking some time off stage Tenshi to run around getting spells for my woefully neglected Satori </3

I managed to grab Sunburst, the murderous Fire spell with a slayer effect from the sunflowers, but I have had no luck with Petro Breath or Mind Blast ;.;

How long does it take to get those? It's frustrating.

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #224 on: September 08, 2011, 02:51:30 AM »
Petro Breath is a measly 1%, so it's hard.

Mind Blast is a 5% though, so it shouldn't be too hard to learn. Theoretically.

Anyway, I've hit Stage 21! Woohoo! Stage 20 boss was... really easy. She, like... couldn't deal any damage at all. I didn't even see a single Mist spell during the fight, which was strange. Youmu raped as usual, along with Marisa/Patch's water spells, and defense debuffs were nice to make Youmu deal a lot more damage. Little Legion took care of her death-activated nuke.

Oh well! Stage 21 I'll do... some other time :V It looks pretty cool, though.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #225 on: September 08, 2011, 04:26:17 AM »
Taking some time off stage Tenshi to run around getting spells for my woefully neglected Satori </3

I managed to grab Sunburst, the murderous Fire spell with a slayer effect from the sunflowers, but I have had no luck with Petro Breath or Mind Blast ;.;

How long does it take to get those? It's frustrating.
Petro Breath is hard to learn, 1% rate so 3% chance with maxed satori learning tree. However, Petro Cloud, the stronger version, is pretty much a guaranteed learn, and is available on Tenshi's stage.
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Serela

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #226 on: September 08, 2011, 10:18:39 AM »
However, Petro Cloud, the stronger version, is pretty much a guaranteed learn, and is available on Tenshi's stage.
It even has a base 100% petrification rate (Before RES or petrification resistance) too, but also costs a whopping 38 MP and a bomb, which should be kept in mind.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #227 on: September 08, 2011, 12:00:35 PM »
I like how my Byakuren makes all kind of bosses attack my party dealing 0 damage with her debuff that got enhanced by Sanae's Wind of Miracles :V.
Even the mtf Spirit World Challenger (120 RES) has to bow down before my Byakuren :V.

Anima Zero

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #228 on: September 08, 2011, 01:27:36 PM »
First stage 21 boss down.  Not really that tough to be honest when geared to block certain status effects.

Now to figure out how the hell I'm gonna do the final battles.  I've no problem with part 1 (Even if it took forever to finish it), but trying to drop part 2's 50k HP before I'm forced to fight the Lunatic version of part 3 (and likely die horribly) is still confusing me.  Probably gonna need another attacker to help Youmu out there in order to drop it quickly enough.

Let's see if I can remember my teams...

Team 1 : Sakuya, Satori, Sanae, Marisa, Nitori.  Commander - Aya

Team 2 : Alice, Byakuren, Reimu, Youmu, Patchouli.  Commander - Mokou

Formation is Poison Shield for both teams.

Methinks I should swap Patchy into team 1 and Sakuya into team 2.  That seems to be the best idea right now.

And I REALLY don't want to spend forever trying to grind crappy drop rate items in stage 21 either.  I got all of TWO item drops in stage 21 from grinding everyone to lv55-60, an Apollo Amulet  & a Trapezohedron.  Thanks game  :(.
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Anima Zero

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #229 on: September 09, 2011, 12:49:34 PM »
Ok, so switching Patchy & Sakuya around seemed to work better.  Gave my Sakuya a Mambele for its slayer effects against reptiles.  Worked well enough.

Unfortunately, team #2 didn't get into the final stage of the fight with enough resources and things went south 2 rounds in.  Thanks for spamming Minus dingbat.  At least the final battle music is pretty nice to listen to.

Decided to do some item farming in stage 21, crappy drop rates be damned.  Got a decent supply of equips (Strength Ring III which I immediately made into a Str Ring IV, Zeus Amulet, Reflexes, and something else).

Today?  Like 2 hours of farming (and resetting if I don't get the enemies I'm searching for) and I got all of two things...one of them not even being an item to boot.  Got a Drake Scale which is pretty nice.  Also encountered and wiped out my first Yukkuri King.  30k xps?  Worth it!

Would like to get a High Ribbon, Gold Toga, and another Strength Ring III at least, then check to see if I can get any more equips with MYS resist to lower the damage from Minus.
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Anima Zero

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #230 on: September 10, 2011, 03:58:03 PM »
Today's "Item Get!" barrage includes:

Strength Ring III
Makai Ring
Magic Crystal (Patchy's 2nd character crafting item.  Wasn't even going for it, but I'll take it)
High Ribbon (Thank. You. God.)
Two new formations (One from Tenshi for wiping at least 101 times, another from Akyu for speaking to her with the last 4 digits of your play time being 00:00)

Probably gonna get that Gold Toga drop for the heck of it, then see if anything is worth going for in stage 20 or earlier.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #231 on: September 10, 2011, 11:09:15 PM »
X:00:00 time required?  Wow that's pretty obscure XD.  I know the wiki has a small blurb on formations but its under the gameplay section and doesn't really have anything about the requirements. 

I'm trying to get that poison formation but not sure if I'm doing it right.   :blush:

Serela

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #232 on: September 11, 2011, 12:07:24 AM »
Going "Screw you" to any sort of grinding for exp/materials for final boss. It can't be that bad without... we'll see how THIS goes. ;3

First phase seems like quite the battle of attrition, but very doable now that I've figured out my groove. Prolly gonna give it a serious try later. Nitori/Sanae/Marisa/Patch/Alice seems about required, though. Hee, should be fine...



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Serela

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #233 on: September 11, 2011, 01:26:26 AM »
Okay, got how to do the first phase of the final boss battle down easy!

...the game crashes in the dialouge between the first and second phase, though.

BLEH
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #234 on: September 11, 2011, 06:24:48 AM »
Can someone upload the newest patch files to filefactory? I'm in China and apparently I can't access mediafire (or even megaupload) here.

EDIT: I meant to post this in the patch thread, not here... oh well, the message still stands.

Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #235 on: September 11, 2011, 07:02:29 AM »
Can someone upload the newest patch files to filefactory? I'm in China and apparently I can't access mediafire (or even megaupload) here.

EDIT: I meant to post this in the patch thread, not here... oh well, the message still stands.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/cd97163/n/GoS_Eng_patch.rar

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #236 on: September 11, 2011, 11:09:40 AM »
I'm trying to get that poison formation but not sure if I'm doing it right.   :blush:
I think the requirements for gettin the Poison Shield formation is landing and killing an enemy with deadly posion.
Equip Satori with her Green Eye weapon, some IND+ acessories, max out her Trauma skill three for even more IND, cast Hyper Trigger on her with Byakuren and use Poison Art and you should be able to land deadly poison on an enemy.

Serela

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #237 on: September 11, 2011, 01:02:44 PM »
About Poison Shield, I believe you also have to beat Stage 8 first.

I couldn't get it before then, but got it instantly after killing an enemy with Deadly Poison afterwards. ...well, after I went to a healing circle, of course.

It's the only formation I've gotten at a healing circle other then Hakurei Shrine. Curious~

It's worth the tiny amount of effort (And The Green Eyes is a GREAT weapon because Poison Art kicks total ass for many many stages) it takes because Poison Shield is a friggin awesome formation for bosses and randoms alike; especially if you've got Alice in front Parrar'ing the back, it makes your team 10 times more durable.
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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #238 on: September 11, 2011, 03:16:53 PM »
Well I've been using her poison skill but I'm guessing Deadly poison is a different proc?  I'll give it a shot though using Byakuren's buff and stack IND.  Thanks. 

Also for the die 10 times formation, I've died 13 times so far and Komachi does not offer anything.  Did I miss my chance or something? 

Edit:  Ok got it, it's called Toxic in my game and didn't know ind increased the poison effects O.O.  Also it didn't take effect in the Scarlet Monastery healing circle but it did in the Sunflower Field, weird. 
« Last Edit: September 11, 2011, 03:29:22 PM by Kanoe »

Serela

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Re: Genius of Sappheiros revival thread
« Reply #239 on: September 11, 2011, 04:07:04 PM »
...oh. We've all been thinking it had to be Deadly Poison (which is different from Toxic) but apparently not. That makes it even easier to get, because you don't even need to forge The Green Eyes (although you probably should anyway)

Also, sounds like maybe it NEEDS to be the sunflower field healing circle. *Shrugs*

Also, it's actually a Die 25 Times formation. Not 10. We just -thought- it was 10, whoops~
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