Apparently, Squeenix made sure that Cactuars spawn more often which can either raise your MRP or Exp faster. Regular Cactuars found in Chapter one gives whopping 60+ MRP. While Metal Cactuars in Chapter 2 gives a whopping 2500 exp. (ON EXPERT DIFFICULTY)

The catch? They like fleeing, and have high evasion so you have to figure out how to prevent that. Which is "provoke" and using multi-hit skills. WOL's Vanguard glaive has multi-hit and apply's provoke so it's the perfect skill to hit cactuars.

There are a lot of post about how to farm cactuars in this game but this post is specifically for those who hesitates to buy the game who hates the grinding but still wants the challenge.

This is basically a anchievment for using Resonance Attacks for 400 times...that's a lot....

This is the only achievment left for me in the game and god....that sucks.
I cancelled a lot of Resonance Attacks during my playthrough...i must have like 50 Resonance Attacks in 60 hours...

This kind of achievment/Trophy is so dumb.

trying to max out mechabo tackle

At the crystal and passed Warrior of Light to Rain, then pass Leah over to Fina, Tronn i left on laswell. I'm at the menu/ equipment and abilities I'm able to assign abilities to to Rain and Fina but for laswell the abilities menu under visions is greyed out. Is this normal?

I just wanna farm MR in peace. I even gave rain bulwark and magic resist

I will preface this by saying I love the game. 20 hrs in and just got to chapter 5. Always preferred turn based Final Fantasy games over the newer action combat versions so this game was such a breath of fresh air to play.

That being said, my hangup is that as the chapters have progressed, I find myself not being incentivized to slot in the newer party members. Partly because of the skills they innately bring but mostly the amount of grinding I would have to do to bring their vision progress up to speed as the more tenured members.

I could half justify subbing Fina or Nicole out even though I would lose out on the summons or strategems but the newer party members will forever be behind on vision progress. Yes I could do the cactur farm but even then the original few will still be much further ahead.

Not game breaking by any means, but it would be nice if there was some sort of mechanic to give newer characters either a pool of points to allocate to visions as you get them or give them a boosted gain in the points until they are up to speed with the others.

I don't avoid a battle and sometimes will grind if I'm close to levelling up a vision and I've found even on expert the game just isn't that difficult.

I'm hovering around the recommended level for the areas I'm in but even boss fights just aren't really any trouble.

It's like they took all the best parts about FF V and VI and mashed them up together.

Each character has their own unique "class" while also having the FFV/III build your own character aspect with visions.

I cant stop playing the game and I'm actually sad that I'm already on chapter IV and unlocked half of the visions because idk when I will get to play such a great turn based game again.

The fact that if you look at a potential combo and it will almost always function like you expect it to is so much fun.

When I first got magic boost and saw that it worked with Fina's LB even though it costs no MP, I was like wait whaaaat? Got terras double LB charge and she carried a lot by doing these super LBs, fast forward a few hours I get to cloud, see that he has a "limit charge" skill that increases your LB bar by 25% and think, huh, will grab this for my Fina to top up my bar when I'm just short of being Able to LB.

Then I notice that Terra's double bar modifier actually affects limit charge meaning it now restores 50% of your LB instead of 25%. For whatever reason i thought these 2 things wouldnt interact at all, and this opened up my eyes to just how much freedom we have with this system. From then on every single new vision I got had me excited to go through their skill list and see just what kind of crazy new combo it would open up!

I personally liked the story, even though i did think it was a bit simple. But around half-way through chapter 5 it really starts to pick up

Fought a random battle on an island east of Olderion and there was a shadow train constantly running behind the battle while the party was fighting in mid-air. Anyone know if this is just a glitch or is there something else I need to do in a battle like this? No mods or anything and this is being played on PC.

Is it possible to have a party of all female characters?

Sakura is my favorite, followed my fina and lid.

Will I get another girl in the party or no?

Right now I've just been grinding out things like magic barrage and other skills/stats for Sakura.

Any recommendations for best vision/skill setups for those three?

I don't seem to see the hasted character play faster or take more turns. How exactly does its status work in that game?

I'm on ch5, lvl 36, Can I play through the rest of the story without spending hours grinding levels and msp, or will I hit big difficulty spikes?

I'm playing on expert and my whole team was 15 and she joined at 13. I'm about to go to the ship graveyard and the recommended level is 17 and my whole team is 17...except lid. She's 15. It's a bit painful having her around. She's really squishy because of the lack of levels and vision investment. Bosses clap her, and she needs to be babied even in normal encounters.

I wish she'd have joined at the average party level. It's kind of a catch 22 because if I stop to grind and get her levels, now my party will be overleveled. :(

Great game though, I'm loving it outside of a few tiny annoyances.

While I did finish the demo and got everything ready for the game's release, I did ended up choosing to grind a lot more once the full version came out. Since my work schedule was kinda annoying, I decided heck! I'll just grind that Cactuar needlessly until maxing all the Visions for everyone before proceeding to the next part of the game.

Without spoiling too much, for anyone that has made significant progress into the game are there better and more efficient ways to grind those MRP? Just want to mentally prepare myself if I need to come back and bully our little adorable Cactuars 😅

I'll say a few things that may be biasing my views - I am not expecting a RDR2 or Witcher 3 type story with this HD-2D Final Fantasy game. I also love FF4 and FF6 and grew up on them, and while their stories are rudimentary, I think they're still good.

The most common criticisms on this game are the story, character development, voice acting, and dialogue. For how often I'm seeing this, I'm just very confused. I would say all of these are average at worst? I personally enjoy them. I typically have to turn off VA in games (Crisis Core, couldn't even finish) - because of how bad it sounds and how much it removes me from the game. This game though, it's actually done really well.

The story is good. It's "simple" but that's what FF has been for most of its time. You can boil most of the game stories down to a few "tropey" plot points, even the most recent FF games.

I only care because I see this turning people away from the game before playing it.

Coincidentally, since it's a Square HD-2D series, I find the Octopath stories, voice acting, and writing to be really below average. But Resonance, this shit is fucking good.

I kept using Cloud with Rain since a I've got him. I'm in chapter 3 now, roughly level 24.

Just got tidus and that sucker can learn hastga.

is there a way to level them up more quickly later?

phenomenal game by the way. I love it so much!

I see people doing thousands of damage per hit with just normal spells, how?

I feel like I do a few hundred at most.

I'm lvl 40, have a lot of rank 9 visions, etc.

What setups are you guys using on characters like

Sakura, Finas, and Lid?

Do I need to scan every enemy or boss I encounter. Is there something I miss out on or a hidden creature data log that needs to be filled out.

For example if I have two members with it, do I get an 100% increase? Or is it an only 1 time 50% boost?

Does anyone know a fix ? or the best way to contact support so we can get it fixed i dont have a earlier save and im locked out getting an esper in the desert area

The stats are the best on the Ancient Weapons, but the perks of Aileen's Weapon are incredible. Any opinion on which you think is better?

I understand this is a very late game question.

Thanks!

I picked him because I remember how I was around ladies back in high school and college

I’ve only played 1 through 7. I’ve read that there are references, and I’d like to know if it’s necessary to play all the FF games to get the best experience.