SurrealTiggi said ...

@Woofels: Wicked, just one trial away then ^_^

Also, if anyone managed to solve that monkey, moon, star, mite thing without looking it up, you're a liar...Or I'm just an idiot

Oh good, I was afraid I was the only one that couldn't figure the stupid thing out. It was OBVIOUS once I saw the solution on YouTube, but geez, it was obscure.

It's official a casino that is even more broken than the one in Final Fantasy XIII-2.

Playing last night these were the hands.

Hand 1
Me: 19 cards 8 + 9 + 2
Dealer: Black Jack King + Ace

Hand 2:
Me: 20 Queen + Queen
Dealer: Black Jack 10 + 4 + Ace + 6

Hand 3
Me: 19 9+4+6
Dealer: Black Jack Queen + Ace

Hand 4:
Me: Black Jack 7 + 6 + 8
Dealer: Black Jack King + Ace

4 freaking black jacks in a row for the dealer? What the hell is that seriously.

Slot's felt entirely random which is right, and that platoon game was to tired to play properly, so cant comment.

But wow that Black Jack was some b/s dont know if my game just [censored] out or what, but thats ridiculous.

As for Double cross will wait till Atobe's around on the weekend and just cheat that with her controlling one character and me the other.

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Other than that I finished off Hamlin and all its side quests in entirety this weekend, The derwin quest again annoyed the sweet[censored] out of me as it took over 5 hours and 172 fights to catch all three of those monsters. By the time I got to tomb stone trailer stuff was running from me in terror already my guys were so over leveled.

Still loving the hell out of this story, characters and the world, but christ I am getting annoyed with some of the bs like those capture rates.

Platoon is also "trickable"
If you keep a few rules in mind, you can clean up. Havn't been back to the casino, running around using the "seek fortune spell"

One rule that seems to stick he entire game is "Left to right"
Companions will always summon familiars from left to right, Platoon rules work on the same concept.

It seems a lot of mechanics are very basic, and therefore easy to predict and abuse...

@Teb

I'll try platoon tonight then, just that black jack thing pissed me off something fierce lol. Not even at real world Casino's have I ever played Black Jack where the dealer gets it 4 times in a row

I think the random difficulties and stuff are to stop you from abusing the system. It might be a cheap way of keeping the story on track and stopping you from overlevelling (not that it stopped you )

@Teb

If they wanted to stop over leveling I wouldnt of had to spend 5 hours trying three creatures and 172 fights only reason I did that was for that freaking derwin quest.

The capture rates just seem ridiculous.

land up on fairy isle I manage to catch a wishing wambat on the first try and the stuff wasnt running away from me. Land up in tomb stone trail the stuff runs in terror I did not get one heart on a creature and most of the stuff was dieing in 2 - 3 hits.

Just seems there is no general capture rate to these things.

Got some good hours in this weekend.

Sorry guys but im not lying, i got the Trials riddle first time and didnt cheat, just seems simple so i followed what i felt and got it right

Anyway, the second nightmare wasn't anywhere nearly as hard as the first, disembarked from Castaway Cove and just ventured out to other islands... and got my ass whipped

Then decided to head back and level up till all the enemies ran from me.
Tonight i will venture to Autumnia and continue the story.

I haven't played my ni no kuni since friday

One thing that worries me is metamorphasising my familiars.
I'm still using my original ones and have captured anothers but i'm not too sure which would be more benficial.. hmm maybe its too early in the game to be making such thoughts

@Posty

I swopped all my familiars out by the time I finish in Almamoon

Familiars level so quickly back up to scratch it's no real worries, also evolved all of them to their second forms. Few levels away from having a couple of my others evolve to their third forms.

See no reason i holding them back once you've got all the abilities, they level up so damn quickly again and come back 10X stronger.

@Woofels

Alright cool,
Think ill try capture those cat like creatures and a few others form the Cove area and level them up.

So maybe instead ill focus tonight on leveling my familiars instead
Then I hit some of those bountys out at sea, man they smacked me in two-three hits

The cat creatures are awesome, I caught a Purloiner and leveled him up, cant remember what the evolved forms name is but it's become my main attacker.

I am level 30 with it at the moment and its attack is sitting on 138 weapons, badges and lots of chocolate included

Best part is he attacks way quicker than the origional mite, so often get counters even during their usual attack sequence instead of just when I time it.

The little big horn aswell makes for amazing attack/defense. Bit more balanced out in that terms so he hits for alot less than the cat thing currently sitting on 123 attack but with 120 defense plus resistance to physical attacks If i need to tank my way a tuff enemy he does the job damn well.

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Found dream combo is basically

Oliver - Attacker, Defender, Healer
Esther - Magic Attacker, Physical Attacker, Healer
Swaine - Attacker, Attacker, Defender

Swaine does really well with the heavy damage creatures.

Ah you see, thats what i was worried about.
Need to switch out my familiars then

Mite has done he's job but he's just not getting stronger in the sense that i want him to. Got so many treats and stones that getting a Purloiner would be awesome.

Your combo's are pretty much exactly like mine just a case of weaker familiars for me

Oh man i just wanna get home and get going

I have most of mine on final form. My cat-with-a-sword kicks arse.

Also found my first winged cat familiar. to cute
I had him on level 1 when I killed a Tokotoko. Instant jump to level 19

Mmmm... quite a bit of DLC news filtering through. I wonder if I should wait a while and see what new pops up? New familiar being released tomorrow already

Lol,
SO i came home yesterday all ready to start capturing some familiars and what do you know, already had a Prrloine, Big Horn and those tomb stone like guys.

My crew is looking good now, just leveling up and completed some of the bountys i couldn't beat before.

Aw man, then headed to Autumnia and.. wow, got owned.
Soon!

Pffffft... The dlc announced for yesterday was the draggle, which I got two weeks back... Strong bugger though...

Derwin has the worst quests ever.
The latest one you have to capture three specific familiars, then level them to final. He is also very vague about which final form. Prat... I want to fight his ass in the solleseum

@Teb

Yeah Those derwin quests are beyond annoying, especially when it takes so long to catch everything. Dont mind the leveling tokotoko plus veil spell = quick ass leveling lol.

One extreme pet peeve in this game is the way some attacks intterupt yours. Not because they hit, but because the animation starts playing and your own spells or attacks just get reset to zero.

Fought a boss last night, you have to whack him with a certain spell 3 times to win, but it took me 12 casts, because every time I start charging my (long) spell, he would throw out a quick one that reet my timers again... ARGHARGH

If you need experience to level up quickly and have access to the ship, sail to ugly duck island which is the lowest of the three islands above the continent with ding dong dell, there's an enemy called a Toko which gives you 2000 experience points for killing it, only catch is its really fast and will outrun you if you approach it from the front, so you have to catch it off guard. As long as you're +/- level 30 with decent familiars you should be fine as if you don't kill it in a few hits it runs away, a nice way around this is to put it to sleep first. I hope this helps anyone who's struggling or wants to power level a bit. A side note, to make it spawn quicker cast the gateway spell to the other world and back to encounter it more frequently.