{"id":4237,"date":"2022-03-21T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T03:09:06","slug":"10-tips-for-starting-stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/10-tips-for-starting-stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for Starting <i>Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To say that <i>Stranger of Paradise<\/i> can be overwhelming is an understatement. There are so many jobs, so many stats, so much gear\u2014and that&#8217;s just all the backend stuff you need to manage. So here are some non-spoiler tips to help you out.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Let the Game Auto-Optimize Your Gear<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>An obscene amount of weapons and armor drop in <i>Stranger of Paradise<\/i>. You can easily pick up 300 new pieces of gear in a single story mission. You&#8217;ll notice that each one has a litany of basic stats, special stats, and synergy with specific jobs. To be frank, none of this matters until after you beat the story and grind to hit the gear level-cap. Thus, the rule of thumb is to just hit the \u201cOptimize Equipment\u201d button on the \u201cBattle Settings\u201d screen (and \u201cDismantle\u201d the rest at the \u201cSmithy\u201d) unless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4248\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JlAVIAUdU5r.jpg?resize=960%2C540\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JlAVIAUdU5r.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JlAVIAUdU5r.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JlAVIAUdU5r.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2026Unless You\u2019re Grinding a Specific Job<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The amount of job experience points you get in <i>Stranger of Paradise<\/i> is based on your \u201caffinity\u201d with a specific job. Just by having a job equipped, you will have some affinity with it and can unlock skills as you level that job up to boost your affinity even further. But here&#8217;s the thing, gear can also add bonuses to affinity, so you can really speed up leveling a job by equipping gear of that job type. On the other hand, you can level up other jobs along with the one you are playing simply by equipping gear with affinity for a different job. In fact, it&#8217;s totally possible to level a job completely without ever having to play it!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4247\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JSraIAA1K7R.jpg?resize=960%2C540\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JSraIAA1K7R.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JSraIAA1K7R.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1JSraIAA1K7R.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Don\u2019t Worry About Being Massively Underleveled<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As you get into the story, you&#8217;ll notice that your \u201cAvg. Equipment Level\u201d is far bellow the \u201cMission Level\u201d\u2014with a big red triangle with an exclamation mark inside it warning that you&#8217;re completely out of your depth. Ignore this. The best place to get gear to match the mission level is inside that mission itself. Just go into the mission, kill the first few enemies, gather their drops, and return to the save point to reset the room and heal. Do this a few times and you&#8217;ll have you&#8217;re whole party kitted out with mission-appropriate gear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FN566aNXsAcJptf.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><em>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fforigin\/status\/1503774537351155712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN<\/a> on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Spend a Minute or Two to Max Out Your MP<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Each mission you start with a paltry two bars of MP\u2014and in a game where MP is your most important resource, this is a huge handicap. Luckily, you can increase it. The easiest way to do so is by \u201cbreaking\u201d an opponents defenses and using a \u201cSoul Burst\u201d to explode them into a bloody crystalline mist. The trick, of course, is to break them before you deplete their HP. One simple way to do this with almost any job is to knock an enemy down with an ability or magic attack and then charge up a normal attack and bash them while they&#8217;re getting up. Of course, if you want to make it even easier, the Aeroaga spell is a multi-hit tornado designed to break enemies in a single cast\u2014it&#8217;s basically an \u201cI win\u201d button for black mages and sages. So while you&#8217;re grinding gear at the start of each story mission, use that time to max out your MP as well.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Your Max MP Can Go Down<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Just like the enemies in the game, you can have your defense broken. Not only does this leave you incapacitated for a few seconds, it decreases your max MP as well The big reason you need to wear the best gear you have. Once you&#8217;re gear is around 10 levels below the mission level, any random enemy can break your defenses in a single hit\u2014meaning you&#8217;re playing on extra hard mode with no MP. Dying also decreases your max MP so, if you die to a boss, be sure to backtrack and kill a few enemies to get it back to max. Going right back into the fight means handicapping yourself against a boss that already kicked your ass once, after all.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>It\u2019s Okay to Leave the Side Quests for Later<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As the gear you get in side quests is rarely useful in the next story mission\u2014they&#8217;re not really helpful in that department. So there&#8217;s no need to do them right as they unlock. That said, you should do them eventually because many unlock new jobs for your AI party members\u2014which is always nice. And if you do decide to do them right when they unlock, be sure to play in multiplayer: some are staggeringly hard with the AI party members alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FGvA6_pXwAwtXrf.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><em>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fforigin\/status\/1471481986338508800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN<\/a> on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Do Story Missions in Multiplayer (At First)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To be frank, your AI party members are garbage. They rarely draw agro and stand around doing nothing as often as attacking. So, it makes sense to want real people in your party instead. However, there is a major downside when it comes to doing a story mission coop: your partners have almost certainly done it dozens of times before and are basically speed running the damn thing. Do you want to explore the stage, find all the secrets, and listen to the character conversations that are vital to the plot? Then you don&#8217;t want to do it in multiplayer. Do it on story difficulty if you have to. (Subsequent runs and side missions, on the other hand, should totally be done in multiplayer\u2014it&#8217;s a blast.)<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Multiplayer Unlocks Fully After the Third Story Mission<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Multiplayer is really the key to this game\u2014especially once you complete the story. However, you do have to play a bit to unlock it. Completing the third story mission, \u201cAudience with the Dark Elf,\u201d will allow you to create and join multiplayer parties. &#8230;It&#8217;s just too bad that the net code is terrible and you&#8217;ll get more server errors than multiplayer games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FN566apXMAINIRt.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><em>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fforigin\/status\/1503774537351155712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN<\/a> on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Be a Team Player<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Want to be loved by your party in multiplayer? Pick White Mage or Sage as one of your jobs. These two classes allow you access to party-wide support and healing spells. Constantly casting Hastega basically makes you MVP by default as it not only increases movement speed but attack speed as well. Moreover, an occasional Regenga or Curaga will completely eliminate the need for potions\u2014which can then be used to resurrect downed party members instead. And if you want to really want your team to love you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1-gdakAE8u2G.jpg?resize=960%2C540\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1-gdakAE8u2G.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1-gdakAE8u2G.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOV1-gdakAE8u2G.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Be Sure to Unlock Your Command Abilities<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Each job has one command ability that can be unlocked (it&#8217;s the skill with the diamond background on the skill tree screen). Unlike other abilities, these can be used no matter which job you have currently equipped. These insta-cast spells are total game changers. The Knight skill, for example, casts \u201cProvoke\u201d which makes the enemies attack you alone for a short time. The Red Mage&#8217;s skill reduces your max MP but makes your MP auto refill. The Sage skill allows you to teleport\u2014basically making you invincible when dodging. But the real OP command skill that will make your multiplayer party love you? The Liberator skill, \u201cBravery,\u201d boosts the attack power of your entire party. Keep that and Hastega up for all major fights and your party won&#8217;t care if you personally do any damage or not.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Top image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fforigin\/status\/1485945829949009920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN<\/a> on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/10-tips-for-starting-stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin\/\">Click to Read<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Tips for Starting &lt;i&gt;Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin&lt;\/i&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,380],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-final-fantasy","tag-stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sop2.jpg?fit=1200%2C848&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}