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Doe
04/21/23 12:35:27 PM
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Therion was the obvious choice in 1 because he's hot as fuck and steals

I'm kinda between Temenos and Partitio. "Eliminating that devil called poverty" is just unfathomably based for a merchant class. But, he also seems like he'd be a side character in an RPG party. Unless his grandiose goal is a pretext for his story to explore him personally, but that might be a little high concept for Octopath, and I can't know until I select someone.

I don't tend to go for clerics because dogmatic institutions are lame, but the premise "doubt is what I do" is a good lead character premise.

Idk, are you locked to your first party member like in 1? If not I guess it doesn't matter.

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Doe
04/21/23 12:48:11 PM
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Bamp

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MaxEffingBemis
04/21/23 12:52:01 PM
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I heard Hikari was the best to start with, and yeah youre still locked into the 1st pick

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MARlO
04/21/23 12:54:50 PM
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Oswald is best to start with story wise, Hikari is best gameplay wise (and second best starting story wise)

Remember youre locked into them being all-time party member till you beat theyre story, so its best to have somebody that can dish out damage.

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HannibalBarca3
04/21/23 12:55:52 PM
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I started with Ochette but Partitio is a solid choice. In terms of gameplay Hikari is a beast once you build him up properly who can dish out insane amounts of damage.

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MARlO
04/21/23 12:56:12 PM
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I said theyre when I meant their.

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Doe
04/21/23 12:56:21 PM
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MARlO posted...
Oswald is best to start with story wise
I saw in someone's thread his villain is cartoonishly mustache-twirlingly evil which kinda turned me off

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Doe
04/21/23 1:02:41 PM
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Hikari is a dude?

Is Temenos a gal?

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HannibalBarca3
04/21/23 1:05:42 PM
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They're both guys albeit Hikari is a short dude.

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Giant_Aspirin
04/21/23 1:06:25 PM
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i went with Thorne so I'd have access to steal for the whole game. sometimes NPCs in town have some badass equipment

Doe posted...
I saw in someone's thread his villain is cartoonishly mustache-twirlingly evil which kinda turned me off

truth.

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SSJKirby
04/21/23 1:13:08 PM
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Temenos is a cleric, but he doesn't act like one

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ellis123
04/21/23 1:28:48 PM
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Doe posted...
I saw in someone's thread his villain is cartoonishly mustache-twirlingly evil which kinda turned me off
His story as a whole is bizarrely badly written. He just has a set of mechanics that are great as a starting character.

Doe posted...
Idk, are you locked to your first party member like in 1? If not I guess it doesn't matter.
Until you beat their story they are locked in. That said it's easy to get the stories done so you can "unlock" the slot fast.

In any case I feel that Hikari (super strong in combat + having your "MC" be the dueler makes it more personal) and Throne (steal + strong fighter + right next to Inventor to make someone OP) are the two strongest starter characters. Afterwards I would say Osvald (strong AoE + Analyze + very useful alt-steal), Ochette (insanely versatile in combat due to monsters, but kind of worthless outside of it... also has a bug that makes her the best character by an insane margin), and Agnea (reasonable in combat, but has a useful alt-steal if you level her up) are the others I would seriously consider. Of the two you mentioned Partitio is absolutely the most fun + is super useful, but you are pretty "money hungry" if you actually want to get into merchant dank. Tenemos has a fun story + is a healer, but beyond his writing I would say he is one of the least compelling characters to use. One of his abilities is more of a bandage to him not innately being a DPS for solo run stuffs (until you get level 80+, at which point the game is over + you can get the best grinding follower) and the other one is more a super flavorful info gathering option that Hikari kind of dumps on outside of literally one point.

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Doe
04/21/23 6:20:36 PM
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Religions in videogames being just true is always weird to me. It'd be cool if the story Temenos recited is more complicated than as shown but the previous game didn't use complex story as a selling point.

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YellowSUV
04/21/23 6:28:36 PM
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Hikari is probably the "best" choice for gameplay since he can dish out insane damage and his dueling ability gets him a lot of utility by allowing you to essentially choose from a wide variety of 5 bonus skills.

His final boss is probably the hardest to defeat though.

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Doe
04/21/23 6:44:17 PM
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Okay wait I don't think Temenos is even a believer. DUDES GOT THE STAFF. idk man. Cool concept for an inquisitior though

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ellis123
04/21/23 7:55:34 PM
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Doe posted...
Okay wait I don't think Temenos is even a believer. DUDES GOT THE STAFF. idk man. Cool concept for an inquisitior though
Ye, his writing is super fun. He's complex in a fun way, the narrative that surrounds him is super compelling, etc. It's just that he is probably the single weakest combat character in the game + his day/night skills are probably the worst combo (getting people to follow you is a lot less busted when it's level locked, and inquisition is flavorful but super tedious for how little it gives overall).

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Doe
04/22/23 7:49:56 AM
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Osvald you need a lawyer! They have no motive on you

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Irony
04/22/23 8:44:04 AM
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You're only locked into the first pick until you clear their fourth chapter then you can switch them out

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Dathrowed1
04/22/23 9:04:34 AM
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Whoever represents the first "O" in "Octopath"

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Tyranthraxus
04/22/23 9:12:50 AM
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SSJKirby posted...
Temenos is a cleric, but he doesn't act like one
He's not a cleric. He's an inquisitor

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Doe
04/22/23 12:53:12 PM
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I have to admit Temenos is pretty screwed over. Osvald gets a cool focus supercharge latent ability, while Temenos... gets to play the game.

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Tyranthraxus
04/22/23 1:02:25 PM
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Doe posted...
I have to admit Temenos is pretty screwed over. Osvald gets a cool focus supercharge latent ability, while Temenos... gets to play the game.

Best one is Thron. She can basically go infinite.

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Scintillant
04/22/23 1:04:58 PM
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Doe posted...
I have to admit Temenos is pretty screwed over. Osvald gets a cool focus supercharge latent ability, while Temenos... gets to play the game.
Temenos's latent ability is OP against bosses

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ellis123
04/22/23 1:23:03 PM
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Doe posted...
I have to admit Temenos is pretty screwed over. Osvald gets a cool focus supercharge latent ability, while Temenos... gets to play the game.
Ye, he's pretty boned for mechanics. He'll eventually get a pretty lololol nuke for his second EX, but that really is more a bandage than something that really makes him compete for damage against the top options.

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Irony
04/22/23 1:26:00 PM
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Temenos is the 2nd strongest character after Hikari

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Doe
04/22/23 2:00:18 PM
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Irony posted...
Temenos is the 2nd strongest character after Hikari
Perhaps eventually, he just feels declawed at early levels. If you dont ready his ability at an inn then you're just not gonna be able to question 90% of npcs.

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Tyranthraxus
04/22/23 2:02:51 PM
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Doe posted...
Perhaps eventually, he just feels declawed at early levels. If you dont ready his ability at an inn then you're just not gonna be able to question 90% of npcs.
That's not true. Once you unlock subjobs he can get a sub like dancer that has skills to break anything.

Some of them you have to go a little bit out of the way for but most of them you can get 1 license by chapter 1.

I think apothecary is the only one that's in an obnoxious place.

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Doe
04/22/23 2:03:31 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
That's not true. Once you unlock subjobs he can get a sub like dancer that has skills to break anything.
Second job is kinda past early levels at least that's how I remember it in Octo 1

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Tyranthraxus
04/22/23 2:07:27 PM
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Doe posted...
Second job is kinda past early levels at least that's how I remember it in Octo 1

Octopath 2 is different. Normal jobs are early game, advanced jobs are basically impossible to get until the end. Literally in the case of the conjurer where you have to beat Hikari's story just to get access to the place to do the quest for it.

Inventor is an exception it's right outside Thron starting area

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SuperShake666
04/22/23 2:15:19 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Octopath 2 is different. Normal jobs are early game, advanced jobs are basically impossible to get until the end. Literally in the case of the conjurer where you have to beat Hikari's story just to get access to the place to do the quest for it.

Inventor is an exception it's right outside Thron starting area

You can get Armsmaster at any point, provided you have a rusty weapon.

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Tyranthraxus
04/22/23 4:16:24 PM
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SuperShake666 posted...
You can get Armsmaster at any point, provided you have a rusty weapon.
You have to run through level 40 areas to get there though.

The normal jobs are all in level 10 areas.


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Doe
04/22/23 5:16:33 PM
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TFW no beastling bf

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Doe
04/22/23 5:22:17 PM
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I like the east continent as a group with Temenos holding it together. His questionable ethics means it's totally believable he'd meet a murderer and a thief and think "ah yes traveling with you is a great idea". While he'd pick up Ochette for being connected to the coming nightfall

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Flauros
04/22/23 5:33:08 PM
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Furry monster girl is best choice.

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HannibalBarca3
04/22/23 10:18:49 PM
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Flauros posted...
Furry monster girl is best choice.
She cute
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kingdrake2
04/22/23 10:23:08 PM
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Flauros posted...
Furry monster girl is best choice.

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Doe
04/23/23 10:01:16 AM
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Crick gets so fed up with Temenos' shit that I'm wondering if the narrative is leading to Crick fighting him

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Doe
04/23/23 12:41:31 PM
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Did this game just not sell? There's like no fanart

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Irony
04/23/23 12:43:36 PM
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Yeah can't find any porn of it

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MedeaLysistrata
04/23/23 12:44:22 PM
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What does the church do

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Tyranthraxus
04/23/23 12:58:13 PM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
What does the church do

Seems mostly useless. They're more like the YMCA if the YMCA also owned a PMC

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HannibalBarca3
04/23/23 1:07:09 PM
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Doe posted...
Did this game just not sell? There's like no fanart
It's all on Twitter which is hell to navigate because there's no proper tagging system. It also didn't do so well in Japan sales wise IIRC.

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Tyranthraxus
04/23/23 1:08:51 PM
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Pixiv probably best for fanart. The tagging there is very robust

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HannibalBarca3
04/23/23 1:14:00 PM
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Pixiv doesn't have much sadly, I checked. Plus it's my understanding that artist from there are jumping ship for twitter anyways.

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ellis123
04/23/23 1:14:54 PM
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Doe posted...
Crick gets so fed up with Temenos' shit that I'm wondering if the narrative is leading to Crick fighting him
Crick is a good boy. He would never fight with Temenos. >:0

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The problem is that breaking isn't really that hard when you want to do it. He is pretty reasonably #2/3 for breaking, but unless you are pretty desperate for a break just getting hits from Hikari/Throne/Oswald tends to be fine if you don't want to perma-break with Ochette.

Tyranthraxus posted...
You have to run through level 40 areas to get there though.

The normal jobs are all in level 10 areas.
To be fair it is trivially easy to go through high level areas in this game by just running away when you have the one Cleric passive. While none are near as easy to get as Inventor Armsmaster is one that you could easily get access to at an extremely low level if you know what you need for it (there are a couple of super easy rusted weapons to get that are available at any level). It's just that there is no way that you would ever get it normally on a first playthrough that fast without a guide, unlike with the "literally outside of a character's starting city" Inventor.

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YellowSUV
04/23/23 3:09:09 PM
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Doe posted...
Did this game just not sell? There's like no fanart

Game is selling well in America. It is one of the top 20 sold games in America this year, and it actually increased in rank over last month indicting good word of mouth sales.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuFHYbxagAAHLKr?format=jpg&name=medium

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YellowSUV
04/23/23 3:35:01 PM
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Irony posted...
Yeah can't find any porn of it

I don't think that is necessarily correlated with how popular something is. I would guess there isn't much porn because the art style is not your typical anime style and is rather muted.

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Priere
04/23/23 8:01:57 PM
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HannibalBarca3 posted...
She cute
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She craves the meat

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HannibalBarca3
04/24/23 7:06:19 PM
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True but Castti will make sure she eats her veggies.

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