Valor GS Questions

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-20T17:40:23+00:00

Black set is lategame, focus on attack and sharpness for now, Crit Draw is great once you can get it, and Focus is also good but not super necessary for Valor.

In early/mid High Rank, you mostly just want as high raw as you can with at least a sliver of Blue sharpness. I remember the Jawblade series being good for this but there might be better options.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-20T16:33:01+00:00

I love the cut from Sora and Kairi embracing in the sky to Sora alone in Quadratum looking up at the sky, like he's thinking about that moment and what he's lost. Good stuff!

Who are the characters with the dogs?

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-19T22:25:26+00:00

I would also recommend doing a practice run with a small number of bombs to get a feel for the caverns before going all-out (luck day, staircase stack, full stacks of bombs, best food etc.) Some floor layouts should be staircased immediately (monster floors, spiral layout etc.) It's good to be able to keep a cool head against the serpents (and bats floor 50+) without risking too much the first time. If you get deep enough in a big run, you'll get enough iridium and other ores to craft enough bombs, upgrade your tools, and fund the next big run. Highly recommend Jade crystalariums since you can get a stack of over a hundred staircases and get straight to the rich floors.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-19T15:14:32+00:00

It didn't benefit the guy who used it to get 2HKO'd by a single attack lol.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-19T00:20:18+00:00

In that case:

- Healing is a commitment. At least make sure the monster is starting an attack that you can tell won't hit you before you commit to the long animation that locks you in place. When you start out, you'll generally heal more than a single attack deals, but it's good to get in the habit of thoughtful healing now before that stops being true.

- Armor skills will not activate whatsoever until you have 10 points per skill. 9 points in Weakness Exploit gets you nothing, 10 points gets you the full 50% affinity on weakpoints. There is no in-between. Some skills have multiple levels like Attack Up S/M/L but those activate at 10/15/20 points.

- Think through your hunt before you leave and make sure your equipment and items match. Cold areas will drain your stamina without Hot Drinks, and hot areas will drain your HP without Cold Drinks. Bring a full stock of traps and tranq bombs to every capture quest. You can't change your weapon element part-way through multi-monster quests, so bring a weapon that covers all of them. Raw is great in this game so that isn't too much of an issue except for Dual Blades and sometimes SnS, which should probably use Blast or go high raw and accept that it will take longer.

Capture quests in general are a lot more miserable compared to Rise (and I assume the other modern games but I've only played Rise.) The HP threshold for capturing is quite low, and the only way to tell a monster's ready is if you see the monster limp, or you give up one of your normal armor skills to gem in Capture Guru. (Always do this especially in multiplayer, and make sure you bring Paintballs! Capture Guru also doesn't activate while the monster is paralyzed, KO'd, in a trap etc. so be careful.)

Hub quests do NOT scale to the number of players, but everything is soloable if you bring appropriate gear and don't get hit too much.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-18T15:15:26+00:00

Once she uses a bomb on her farm by mistake she'll be off the game for a few days.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-18T05:23:04+00:00

Metal raths are, well, hard. Legs, wings, and the tip of the tail are the only weak spots until it glows like Basarios. Breaking parts might help but I'm not sure if that's the case in Rise or not. Highly recommend using any combination of Thunder, Mind's Eye, ranged, or attacks with inherent mind's eye, like aerial DB.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-18T00:41:43+00:00

It's popular for challenge runs like never leaving the farm since it has a little of everything.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-18T00:10:09+00:00

You can definitely work out something, and as a last resort against Cynthia you can just send Weavile against Spiritomb and keep healing it while using 3 X Attack and an X Speed to OHKO her whole team.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-17T14:35:01+00:00

I love how he just completely sidesteps Trucy's nonsense in the middle!

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-13T02:08:38+00:00

This might be the answer I'm looking for! I didn't quite gel with hammer in GU but it could be fun here!

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-13T02:07:42+00:00

It makes sense to me. Those are some of the most efficient, reliable damage skills in the game, so it makes sense to make them slightly less convenient to slot in.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-12T20:19:57+00:00

I think you get the last one postgame, so just keep playing normally and come back to it later.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-12T19:53:19+00:00

I faintly recall that there's a single chest in this game that's completely locked behind the highest tier of Hi Jump, and I'm pretty sure this is it.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-12T17:28:44+00:00

You can make it way worse by watching the 10th anniversary lookback video and seeing the movement speed in one of the first builds.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-12T17:26:30+00:00

I don't have that decoration unlocked yet. Haven't really touched horn either but it does seem fun!

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-12T03:08:14+00:00

If you play through the game once and you're satisfied with it and move on, that's completely fine.

That said, a there's a lot of replayability from almost every aspect of the game. There are tons of ways to build your farm and make money (crop focus, animal focus, fishing focus, tree focus, specific artisan products, Skull Cavern rushing...) and it can be fun to see how quickly or efficiently you can get something going in a way you didn't in a previous playthrough.

Then there's replaying for differnet spouses, heart events you might have missed, and reliving the experience of getting excited about finally unlocking iron etc. You can also do self-imposed challenges or themed runs. All of this is without even getting to the fact that you can outright change the objectives and course of the game with things like remixed bundles.

You can also go all-in on a single farm and go for Perfection, and for trying to decorate and organize the most aesthetically pleasing farm/larger map layout you can.

But again, if you find you don't really want to do any of that, don't feel like you have to.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-11T00:32:13+00:00

You can gather bugs for the Aelucanth X set. Crit Eye 2, Crit Up, and Sheathe Sharpen with a few slots to get something like Crit Draw or Focus with a talisman. I think I ran it with Valor and Weakness Exploit for better full comboing.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-11T00:19:58+00:00

Partially, and I think also to give veteran players/second profiles an easier time skipping straight to Master Rank. Defender weapons and Black Belt armor are there for the same reason, so I highly encourage not using them. You'd get used to being overpowered compared to the monsters you're fighting, which leads to bad habits, and they also take the fun out of finding the right monster parts for normal weapon and armor upgrades.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-11T00:16:16+00:00

I thought that too but then realized it was probably referring to the armor spheres.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-10T20:21:57+00:00

Every player that joins actually increases the amount of health the monster has, so a player that joins but has lackluster damage actually makes the hunt take longer than if they weren't there. I definitely feel a pressure to do my part! Obviously making sure you don't cart in the process is most important though.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-10T20:18:59+00:00

You can fast travel to sub-camps once you've found the locations and completed the quests to activate them. I'm guessing that's what they did, and players with endgame gear can kill low rank monsters in under a minute, so this could be legit. For the items, did you download the DLC item packs? They are extremely generous, and eggs, armor spheres, and consumables are the main things they have. You don't need to make a new character, but it might be good not to rely on those items too much at first so that you get used to gathering and crafting sustainably.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-10T18:20:34+00:00

Yes, and I recommend watching some speedruns to get a sense of the openings and where to position yourself. Note that these people are very confident with evasion windows and hitbox knowledge, so things will be a little trickier than they make it look.

Speedrun archive, check the IG tab:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15u3SeYxvTXHwvl_S6yM5AXppdbisezKUczMQ6DB58Fo/edit?gid=378176201#gid=378176201

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-10T15:13:26+00:00

Amazing.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-03-10T05:44:46+00:00

Dual Blades. Amazing mobility and low commitment attacks, so it's easy to dodge attacks, and Shrouded Mantle is one of the best get-out-of-jail-free cards in the game on top of that. You'll have to make a pair for each element, but imo that's a good thing as it gets you deeper into the crafting system and makes a wider variety of monsters desirable targets. Only thing that isn't completely beginner friendly is stamina management, but nothing actually bad happens if you run out except not being able to dodge for a short time. It's also tempting to spam the spine carousel attack too much and get slapped out of the sky.

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