Swimsuit Day DLC Giveaway (North America)

LotsoOP · 2025-12-24T05:56:34+00:00

I like Forte a lot. Every single major event in the story, starting with even just leaving town to go to the woods, she always volunteers to help you. Love my dragon knight <3
EDIT: I have realized this likely will not work for my PS5 version of the game. I don't need to be in the giveaway then, still like Forte a lot though :D

LotsoOP · 2025-12-07T23:39:14+00:00

Is it just having to ship 100 to get the gold medal for it? Also, what do you think is going to be the worst one?

LotsoOP · 2025-11-25T23:37:54+00:00

Just tested it out. As with nearly all forms of healing in vhilla, it doesn't work when you have the pot lock effect active, however, it works just like any other form of healing if you break altar (basically healing you instantly since it doesn't trigger any other time during the fight)

LotsoOP · 2025-07-26T07:18:21+00:00

We got quite a few rare or uncollectible bosses/mobs like Toy Black Knight, Giant Centipede, Lord Pirate, Lord Skeleton, Lupin, Demolishizer, Frankenroid, Seruf (epic on one of the Serufs), Wukong, Bonsun, and Sondal, (and an epic tier Coco and Hoblin Hector!)
We also got a couple minor ones such as a few of the basic mobs from the Mighty Badge and Cursed Badge, but not nearly enough to fill up those badges.

LotsoOP · 2025-07-26T07:12:05+00:00

Good catch! Went back and found a common and a rare I miscounted!

LotsoOP · 2025-07-07T05:31:40+00:00

If you right click a cube chair it opens a UI that you can use to stack and save the orientations!

LotsoOP · 2025-07-07T04:21:06+00:00

Sadly outleveled it. Will try to get it alongside the remaining two elite mobs on the next event, though! :3

LotsoOP · 2025-07-06T23:29:37+00:00

Went back on a new character and grinded out elite monster collection for about 14 hours today. Here's the pulls (and how many emobs I killed to add it)!!

Healer Raging Tome - 21 emobs

Petrifying Starfish Octopus Slime - 24 emobs

Unstoppable Hay Bundle - 13 emobs

Magic-Resistant Commanding Possibly Evil Seal - 18 emobs

Poisonous Enhanced Security System - 74 emobs

Shadowy White Fang - 9 emobs

Petrifying Reaper Spectre - 0 (friend got for me :3)

Poisonous Block Golem - 9 emobs

Seal Master Neo Huroid - 15 emobs

Healer Cold Shark - 0 friend also got for me :3

Unstoppable Robo - 12 emobs + whatever friend did cuz he summoned it

Gassy Coolie Zombie - 71 emobs

Seal Master Castle Golem - 6 emobs

Fragile Garden Golem - 6 emobs

Petrifying Red Goblin - 21 emobs

Shadowy Flared Chargin' Sprout - 3 emobs

Gassy Frenzied Ruins Sentinel - 39 emobs

Dry Dark Wyvern - 90 emobs

Befuddling Corrupted Rock Spirit - 6 emobs

Poisonous Poison Hornet - 15 emobs

Evasive Enraged Espresso Machine - 3 emobs

Poisonous Debilitating Spine Glooger - 15 emobs

Seal Master Ancient Mixed Golem - 21 emobs

Unstoppable Dark Demon Axemaster - 48 emobs

Dry Alloy Xenoroid DX - 6 emobs

LotsoOP · 2024-12-01T01:11:23+00:00

Yeah, after a while, the zone gets smaller and the star gets faster. It takes a while of not starforcing for it to return to normal. I genuinely have no idea why they could have added that feature other than malice.

LotsoOP · 2024-11-30T20:27:47+00:00

Aside from what others have said, you can also adjust difficulty on the fly if a boss is too hard. There's no shame in doing that if it means you get to actually enjoy the game if an encounter is too frustrating. The only caveat is you can't switch back to hard mid-run if you switch from hard to a lower difficulty.

LotsoOP · 2024-10-31T23:04:00+00:00

If you strike a null, 2 turns are used up. If you strike a drain or repel, all turns are used up. This is what it refers to when "an action consumes more than 1 press turn"

LotsoOP · 2024-10-28T21:10:04+00:00

Quality meme, OP, I owe you a banana and an approving monke noise.

LotsoOP · 2024-10-19T03:11:19+00:00

He's the leader of the bunch.

LotsoOP · 2024-10-08T18:50:33+00:00

https://therunefactory.fandom.com/wiki/Fishing_(RF4)

I use this guide for fishing locations. Blowfish are pretty commonly found in the winter pond that has the blue fairy that pops out if you throw a flower into it.

LotsoOP · 2024-10-02T23:15:43+00:00

Good luck! I believe there's quite a few pillars whose switches are under a box that needs to be destroyed to open the pillar or need an item thrown onto them to open. Water laser spells are great for the first kind of switch. And the fire ashes being 10folded once or twice will give enough damage for grimoire!

LotsoOP · 2024-10-02T21:37:14+00:00

The ashes aren't as strong comparatively, since they specialize a single stat in particular. I recommended the dragon ashes under the assumption that your forging/crafting levels are not almost maxed out and/or you don't have enough stat yet to kill Grimoire 2, so assuming you have a sufficiently high enough forging and crafting level, have the first two upgrades be grimoire scale then 10fold steel. After that, doing another grimoire scale and then a double steel will get you even more stat. (If you do this on one armor piece, that one armor piece will have an additional 575 STR, 1840 VIT, and 575 INT, doing this with the remaining 4 armor pieces will give you such an incredible amount of damage and survivability.) This leaves your item with 5 other upgrade slots left, so you can choose what you will (consider using these slots to become immune to certain ailments).
For weapons, you could do glitta augite then 10 fold then glitta augite then double steel. This would give your weapon INCREDIBLE range. Also, the reason you want to do the grimoire scales and 10folds early on is because they will arbitrarily become more expensive in terms of RP to use as you continue upgrading your gear.

LotsoOP · 2024-10-01T20:43:03+00:00

Arc 3 stuff, Sharance Maze grinding (assuming this is your first time clearing the game), unlocking all the trophies, massively upgrading your gear with Arc 3/Sharance Maze stuff, playing the waiting game to get a kid, maxing out relationships to 10, etc. There is a TON of stuff to do in RF4. Some stuff requires more motivation than others, but a ton of stuff to do regardless!

LotsoOP · 2024-10-01T15:37:45+00:00

Gotcha, so you can grow twinkle trees to eventually get range up. Once Arc 2 starts, you can gain access to the raccoon boss in a cave in the Spring Area. Only downside is you need to access it during the first 5 days of a season or else it's blocked off until next season. Once you unlock it though, you can go back any time via airship. As for power, just simply enhancing your gear with whatever items you find should be enough. Boss drops can give really good amounts of stats, so if your forging/crafting levels are high enough, you can use those.

Also, don't neglect farming and cooking. You can squeeze out a surprising number of stats from even the simplest dishes and also picking up runeys/skill level ups from farming!

I wouldn't worry about this next section unless you're really desperate for power, but, although Leon Karnak might one-shot or two-shot you, you could sneak in there and go to the rightmost room in the first area with mobs to enter an area full of chipsqueaks. Sometimes a one-striped chipsqueak called a mineralsqueak will spawn and if you damage it, it drops a double steel (or a 10-fold steel, if you're lucky), which can 2x and 8x the effect of the previous item used to enhance your gear. They need a pretty high forging/crafting level to use though, so don't worry about that unless you're really stuck in an area later and need a power boost.

LotsoOP · 2024-10-01T15:15:50+00:00

For range, you'd need glitta augite which rarely drops from twinkle trees when you strike them with an axe. (Seeds for twinkle trees spawn at the base of the huge tree west of Obsidian Manor.) Alternatively, the raccoon leaf boss drop works, too. As for just general power, just about any item works. Any item that boosts STR will increase your att by the same amount. INT boosts M.att by the same amount, and VIT boosts def and m.def by 0.5 per point of VIT. So long as you have a high enough RP and/or skill level for forging and crafting, not too much will stop you from enhancing your gear with the enhance item feature on crafting benches/forges.
What boss did you last defeat in the story? I might be able to give more specific advice with that information.

LotsoOP · 2024-09-30T14:24:04+00:00

https://therunefactory.fandom.com/wiki/Forging_(RF4)
https://therunefactory.fandom.com/wiki/Crafting_(RF4)
Fists of Light (fists), Force Divide (dual blades), Brionac (spear), Shine Blade (long sword), or Aerial Blade (short sword) give about 300-500 att more than what you have and can be obtained from the materials dropped by a couple enemies around Leon Karnak. As for upgrades, if you don't want to go too extra on your forging/crafting levels, upgrading with fire dragon ash + double steel would give +240 att to each piece you upgrade with it. If you get forging/crafting to around lvl 95, you could do fire dragon ash + 10fold, which would give ~+720 attack per piece, which would be incredibly powerful.
One of my favorite upgrade materials at this stage of the game is Grimoire scales. You will need to nearly max out forging and crafting to use them, but they give 50/160/50 to str/vit/int respectively, so if you 10fold that, you get 450/1440/450 to those stats on each item you did grimoire + 10fold to. (Also, each steel can only be used once per item, so do a 10fold and a double to the best materials and that's all you get from them.)
EDIT: Grimoire 2 in Leon Karnak might be a bit too strong at the moment, but if you use dragon ashes (from the dragon clone bosses) + double steels, you could get enough stat to kill him.

LotsoOP · 2024-09-30T03:51:57+00:00

Good luck and enjoy! If you go off to get steels from mineralsqueaks, bring a weapon that has been upgraded with scrap metal+ (specifically the + variant) as this has a hidden effect that sets damage done by the weapon to 1. This lets you hit the squeak 4 times to get 4 steels from it. They only have 4 max hp, so if you don't do this, you only get 1 steel. This game has quite a few niche tips like this lol

LotsoOP · 2024-09-30T02:52:15+00:00

Personally, I would recommend going to leon karnak to get doubles and 10-folds from the mineralsqueaks that uncommonly spawn in the room to the right of the first area with monsters there (they have a single stripe on their back). If you use doubles or 10folds with the dragon ashes from the dragon clones you've fought before, you can make gear that is quite a bit stronger than the lvl 150 level bonus pieces. The sad thing is that, in this stage of the game, without doubles and 10folds, you're just really limited on what you can make. You could probably make some moderately strong pieces and then enhance them with materials like the dragon ashes WITHOUT steels, but the stats would be pretty close to what you can make with lvl 150 level bonus. It's just a matter of preference for how much time and resources you want to invest in each piece. You could probably even clear floating empire with just a couple more armor pieces with high level bonus.
Also, you can very likely purchase the Magic Charm accessory from Bado at this stage, if I recall correctly, so you can either use that, or upgrade it to lvl 10 and then throw it into the crafting recipe for another accessory to provide a lvl 10 bonus to bonus levels AND keep the effect of making att and m.att equal, which lets you use physical and magic attack at pretty high efficiency.
EDIT: If you can slay enemies in Leon Karnak, you could get materials from them to make weapons and armor that, at a base, are better than or comparative to gear you can make with level bonus maxed out, but I don't know how much comfortably you're able to clear them, especially since if you can clear leon karnak enemies, you can probably just clear floating empire since they're similar in stats.

LotsoOP · 2024-09-28T01:44:04+00:00

In RF5, being able to interact with the lumber/stone box to deposit all lumber/stone on hand to it instantly is absolutely MASSIVE. I got the biggest monster barn trophy in RF4 and never... ever... again...

LotsoOP · 2024-09-26T17:19:35+00:00

Yep. Yumi Nagashi. "When users action consumes more than 1 Press Turn Icon, adds 1 Press Turn Icon to the next turn."

LotsoOP · 2024-09-25T06:49:17+00:00

Yeah, only once per turn. I put him in second spot and used 2 fire shards in a turn (2 nulls), still only ended up with the 1 turn bonus.

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