id love to know if you make any progress? I just beat the first mid boss and i feel like im struggling hard despite having experience with SMT and EO
Slowly chunking away at the Alchemy. The main thing I'm trying to figure out is if Legendary Ingredients can be extracted or if they are only for getting rare items. I've extracted 12 Turnips so far (Root.dat on head, Soil.dat on body) and I've mostly gotten X.Reanimator.i, rarely Upgrade.i and super rarely Healing Chain.i.
Needless to say, I've been reloading a ton to work on this. I'm still only at the beginning of Alchemy as well since I have very little time with work. Once I understand more about how Alchemy works, I'll probably post the Spreadsheet. Never really done anything like this before but I do like it quite a bit.
@Dataerase, if you could let me know if it is possible to extract Legendary Ingredients, I would appreciate it. For now, I'm moving forward and leaving the Turnips alone.
Of course but I'm not very far into the game personally. I've found that it is best to set up the MC as a support caster. Getting Priest.prg for the basic 3MP heal and then a weapon prg. I found the Mischief.bow early on while climbing up to the first boss which has a pretty darn good chance of confusing foes. She wasn't doing much damage but that confuse saved me more times than I can count. Later on, once I had access to shops that could sell better, more specialized prg I bought ArrowSpec.prg and have been golden.
I have put almost all points into Int and Tec to get to 20 to have the ability to buy all her Oracle abilities. If your MC is an Oracle, that is what I recommend. After that, all in on Agi. While leveling, always divert one of three points into either HP or MP. I highly recommend having all dolls at 50HP before the first boss but definitely before the second midboss as they hit like a truck and you don't want to be like me and have to spend 500K on replacement Reanimator.i. A very costly mistake on my part.
If you can, I recommend using some kind of weapon that does status effects such as Mischief.bow or SinnerKnife.ktn as these can help your actual damage dealers hit hard. The unfortunate thing about the MC Doll is that at least at the beginning(depending on if you got Oracle, Mysterian or the third one I've yet to get after the beginning 20 questions) is that all your abilities are based around knowledge of the Labyrinth. Oracle for Foe knowledge in battle and Mysterian for Map knowledge. Unless you go pure stat boosting(Str with ktn or swd, Int with Magician.prg(very strong boss melter imho)) you will be regulated to support for those who clean up basic mobs such as Knight, Paladin, Cyborg, Witch, ect..
I don't have as much time to play as I'd like, I work overtime hours right now to pay the bills, but I'll try to compile as much info as I can. I've somehow become obsessed with this game.
It is by no means professional and I am not the best with google spreadsheets but I will clean it up sometime this week and post it. I'll be slowly adding to it. Right now I'm at 313/484(roughly 64%) of just Head/Body Linear Channel Ritual. I've been experimenting with Extraction as well, trying to find the hard percentages of Sync Stats and Item Extraction. You have no idea how much time you saved me, so I really do thank you Dataerase. I think I did close to 50 Turnip Extractions and was wondering if I was just extremely unlucky. Not uncommon for me as my drop rates on Monster Hunter games is horrid.
Now that I know Legendaries are not able to become .dats that makes experimenting with them quite interesting. I'm curious to see if they are only good for Extraction or if some really interesting Synch alchemy stats can be found.
If it helps to know for time sake, most synergies are material to material and don't require being on a specific bodypart/channel (except in the case of 3 material and 5 material synergies that transmute the center (body).) All the two material syngeries that work on head/body should work on leg/body or arm/body as well (unless theres a bug which some players have reported for the advanced rituals, i will eventually get to these). Of course, if you're recording all the channel edgecases with energy production as well then it's more complicated.
If you want to email me the chart before sharing it with folks feel free and I can tell you if anything on it is wrong or if you're missing an extraction on anything.