How to farm raptures? It’s way too grindy for me now…
Don't know if you discovered it, but this is how I grind for raptures, provided you are a high enough level:
Before going on a mission, in the party screen:
- Set Viviene to Martyr stance
- Set her Martyr Support Skill to Martyr's Call
- Set hero to Guard stance
- TAKE NO OTHER COMPANION, but if you do, make sure to set them up with a stance that is more support than damage oriented
Then:
Go for a Ruin Investigation mission
Get an encounter with a lone goblin, if you have to kill other enemies, then do so, BUT DON'T KILL THE GOBLIN, we need him alive so that the battle doesn't end (duh), and since he is the weakest possible enemy in the ruins he won't accidentally kill Vivienne
The grind:
Spam Martyr's call - it gives rapture progress on use and gives a +80% boost to further rapture progress gain. It also stacks with itself, so if you spam it long enough, after a while you will gain one rapture level per Martyr's call use.
Spam Hero's Guard Support on Vivienne, mostly as a way of skipping his turn, but also to make sure she survives, after all Martyr's call also aggro's enemies to her.
Continue the process until you get enough Raptures to get her to upgrade. Then do it again to get her to upgrade again, and again, and after you get her to the final stage, realize one of two things:
- Upgrading Vivienne is a pain, and it's hard to say if it is meant to be a pain
- You still can't give her any weapons, unlike anyone else.
P.S. to CM: I don't hate upgrading Viv, but she is easily the most grindy of them all. Even Fern takes less time to reach Elder Stage. Viv really needs a rebalance imho.
Howdy, playtester here to say that the process you listed for Vivienne's rapture grind can be sped up by having the Hero stance swap instead of using an ability since it is mechanically faster to hit the swap stance button and select a different stance, the stance menu can be opened while abilities are resolving so you only have to one click and no mouse movement when your turn comes, and also stance swapping has no ability card that pops up when used so it saves about a second each time you do it just based off that alone. Also, if you really want to grind out her rapture it is best to wait until you've gotten past the Withering Grove as there are some bonuses to Rapture gains you can utilize after that. I have personally passed several ideas to the dev on how to give Vivienne more Rapture sources but if, how, and when those get implemented is ultimately up to CM.
Also, Vivienne not being able to use weapons is an intended mechanic. In fact, any lingering mentions in-game of Vivienne having weapons, a helmet, or a shield for in moments of environmental interaction like in the smith's shop are considered bugs and if any are spotted it would be a great help to report them.