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[Yajirobe]

In regards to new cycles, I've never used this feature yet because I'm paranoid about losing things.
Can someone explain to me exactly what's retained on a new cycle?

Items in the main party I'm told, what about on the special characters that had to be unlocked? Should I strip them first?
Once I reach post game again do I just have to pass a bill on each like noted above for P.K.? Or do I have to go through and beat them all again?

The x dem maps I have unlocked and beaten remain unlocked?
Charaworld? Boosts received from runs?
LoC maps?
Reincarnation stored levels/bonus stats?
All the bills I've passed etc?

When you unlock the uniques again they'll be exactly as you left them, Items, reincarnations, boosts from chara world.

LoC will stay, but the individual maps are earned by playing them in the story, and you'll have to clear a few of the chapter 1 missions to go back.
X-Dimension maps remain open, but they need to be beaten again (Although, this doesn't affect LoC access if you got access before NG+)

Bills passed depends, Evil Symbol bills stay passed, but Ordeals has to be passed again, and each individual Postgame character bill needs passing too.

P.K.'s bill will become available once you hit the post game if you had him, doesn't matter about finding him 5 times again, or so I'm told.

[Faolchu]

In regards to new cycles, I've never used this feature yet because I'm paranoid about losing things.
Can someone explain to me exactly what's retained on a new cycle?

Items in the main party I'm told, what about on the special characters that had to be unlocked? Should I strip them first?
Once I reach post game again do I just have to pass a bill on each like noted above for P.K.? Or do I have to go through and beat them all again?

The x dem maps I have unlocked and beaten remain unlocked?
Charaworld? Boosts received from runs?
LoC maps?
Reincarnation stored levels/bonus stats?
All the bills I've passed etc?

When you unlock the uniques again they'll be exactly as you left them, Items, reincarnations, boosts from chara world.

LoC will stay, but the individual maps are earned by playing them in the story, and you'll have to clear a few of the chapter 1 missions to go back.
X-Dimension maps remain open, but they need to be beaten again (Although, this doesn't affect LoC access if you got access before NG+)

Bills passed depends, Evil Symbol bills stay passed, but Ordeals has to be passed again, and each individual Postgame character bill needs passing too.

P.K.'s bill will become available once you hit the post game if you had him, doesn't matter about finding him 5 times again, or so I'm told.

Ok great and to receive the endings where you have to lose, the easiest way I'm thinking is to make a cannon fodder lv1 team since none of the original maps can scratch any of my team. In your opinion, is that the easiest route to go?

[Yajirobe]

That'd be the easiest way to go about it, although you could use less and just throw the uniques into your base panel to KO everyone.

But then you could screw up and lose the low levels before you KO your BP, so a group of 10 lv 1s is safer.

[Prinnish]

Do LoC Item Gods always have the next tier up weapon in Legendary? Or is that only for R39/40(holding another R40)?

Only if it's a Legendary R39. For example, go into a Legendary R17 item. The Item God on floor 100 will have a R18 item equipped. The R18 in this case might be common, rare, or legendary. R40 items are always legendary and are only accessible through R39 items.

[Yajirobe]

Do LoC Item Gods always have the next tier up weapon in Legendary? Or is that only for R39/40(holding another R40)?

Only if it's a Legendary R39. For example, go into a Legendary R17 item. The Item God on floor 100 will have a R18 item equipped. The R18 in this case might be common, rare, or legendary. R40 items are always legendary and are only accessible through R39 items.

Ahah! Thank you! I'm getting fed up with hoping for a legendary R39 weapon, levelled 2 items to 100 in LoC, and I've got a few R38s at legendary so I was planning to take them to 100 and reset for the Legendary R39, but wasnt 100% sure if they spawned or if itw as R39-40 exclusive.

[Neveryll]

Here's one I haven't been able to figure out.
What does the number next to status anomoly innocents correspond to?

I've heard that their level caps out at 100 so the logical conclusion would be that the number represents the percent chance of the resulting status effect but that doesn't seem right from my use in the past games. The main reason I'm asking is I'm toying with a status anomoly based set of monsters for a party instead of most of the main characters. Yes I know blasphemy of the highest order. :p The concept of such though is intriguing and I figured I would put status anomolies on all their weapons to maximize their effectiveness. I'm just curious how many of said innocents I will need to make it effective.

[Seventh]

P.K.'s bill will become available once you hit the post game if you had him, doesn't matter about finding him 5 times again, or so I'm told.

Do we have a concrete source on this? If so, that might make a lot of people more willing to NG+ - myself included.

Pity he has to wait for the post-game though.

[myskaros]

Here's one I haven't been able to figure out.
What does the number next to status anomoly innocents correspond to?

I've heard that their level caps out at 100 so the logical conclusion would be that the number represents the percent chance of the resulting status effect but that doesn't seem right from my use in the past games. The main reason I'm asking is I'm toying with a status anomoly based set of monsters for a party instead of most of the main characters. Yes I know blasphemy of the highest order. :p The concept of such though is intriguing and I figured I would put status anomolies on all their weapons to maximize their effectiveness. I'm just curious how many of said innocents I will need to make it effective.

Yes, corresponds to % chance to afflict with that status. I'm pretty sure this only applies to normal attacks, and remember that the target can be resistant to the effect as well.

Do we have a concrete source on this? If so, that might make a lot of people more willing to NG+ - myself included.

Pity he has to wait for the post-game though.

Do I count as a concrete source? >_>

[Seventh]

Always!

[Faolchu]

Does anyone know how many item levels your granted from the mystery rooms with the 7 mobs?
Trying to figure out if grinding for spheres only or if those are acceptable.
I'm at 180 at lvl 65

[myskaros]

Does anyone know how many item levels your granted from the mystery rooms with the 7 mobs?
Trying to figure out if grinding for spheres only or if those are acceptable.
I'm at 180 at lvl 65

Good Fortune = 3 levels
Great Fortune = 5 levels
Level Sphere (green) = 5 levels
Level Sphere (yellow) = 10 levels
Level Sphere (red) = 15 levels
Ambush room = 5 levels

Item Boost gates #1-10 = 1 level each
Item Boost gates #11-17 = 2 levels each
Item Boost gates #18-19 = 3 levels each
What this means is, no matter when you start taking Item Boost gates, you will get 1 level per gate for the first 10 gates that you enter.

If you take all 19 Item Boost gates, they are worth 30 levels total.

[Neveryll]

Here's one I haven't been able to figure out.
What does the number next to status anomoly innocents correspond to?

I've heard that their level caps out at 100 so the logical conclusion would be that the number represents the percent chance of the resulting status effect but that doesn't seem right from my use in the past games. The main reason I'm asking is I'm toying with a status anomoly based set of monsters for a party instead of most of the main characters. Yes I know blasphemy of the highest order. :p The concept of such though is intriguing and I figured I would put status anomolies on all their weapons to maximize their effectiveness. I'm just curious how many of said innocents I will need to make it effective.

Yes, corresponds to % chance to afflict with that status. I'm pretty sure this only applies to normal attacks, and remember that the target can be resistant to the effect as well.

Thank You Kindly. I guess this just means I'll be farming a bit for my team.

[Prinnish]

100 base levels just from going through the item, +30 for strict Item Route, and +25/50/75 for RP Level Spheres.

So with all red spheres in RPing, that's... 95 levels to gain through the normal Item World stages. Meaning, 19 separate ambushes, Great Luck fortunes, or green level spheres. It actually seems easier to get to 300 now... o:

[Yajirobe]

So I've just finished my Crowbar, I went with 4 ATK and 2 MV, is this any good?

HP 181740
SP 91020
MV 3
ATK 3100254
DEF 113700
INT 68340
RES 102360
HIT 1020900
SPD 113700

I had 8 Gladiators (and currently 8 Gladiators in already) while levelling, and then learnt it'd cap ATK without them.

But yeah, does that look ok for a Crowbar? xD

[myskaros]

100 base levels just from going through the item, +30 for strict Item Route, and +25/50/75 for RP Level Spheres.

So with all red spheres in RPing, that's... 95 levels to gain through the normal Item World stages. Meaning, 19 separate ambushes, Great Luck fortunes, or green level spheres. It actually seems easier to get to 300 now... o:

I've heard resetting to get red spheres in RP is like gouging your eyes out with a vacuum cleaner, so more like 50 levels from RP (Yellow spheres are the default in RP, red is rare. You only get green in IW.) So 120 levels during IW. Since you should have passed all bills after level 70, you can keep resetting after the first boss kill for floors 80/90/100, so that's 15. Add in the reset for floor 60 (if you pass bills on the first 5 towns, you'll never get a mushroom on 60) and you only need to get 100 levels "naturally" in the IW.

In my personal experience, if I don't watch out for how many levels I'm getting each set of 10 floors, I fall behind really quickly, so it may sound easy, but there's still a fair bit of resetting, unlike Disgaea 3 where you can overshoot without even trying.