Offensive +8 Diamond Chip Farm #1 | Weapon Attack Up & Crit Up - NieR: Automata
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2019
- So we're gonna be taking a bit of a detour from Pascal's village for a little while. After doing that DLC arena with my current chip set, I knew I could do better. I just need to have maxed Weapon Attack Up and Crit Up chips, as well as max Shock Wave and Ranged Attack Up.
I don't think I even had ANY Crit Up chips on during that DLC match. After farming all that, I'm pretty sure I could kill quite a few more enemies before the time runs out!
The chips would also be pretty much necessary for doing the Flooded City DLC arena. Assuming I wanna do it, I'd have to farm these chips sooner or later anyway.
This canyon that I fell into like 3 months ago, at basically the very start of my playthrough, isn't bad for getting Weapon Attack Up, and some Critical Up. You can even drop into it from the access point pretty fast. The problem is getting back up. It takes forever. I need to find a better place to maximize my CPS (chips per second) intake.
But at least... props for still finding new ways to stop Emil's shop, I guess? I'm pretty sure there's still countless ways that I haven't yet thought of. - Hry
the best way i found to farm was weapon chips was at the very last mission where 9s has to hack the tower right when dev and pop show endless machines spawn wear a item drop up chip and farm until they say they cant hold out much or whatever then continue on and restart
Well, that requires lots of grinding to do... Though I have not much to share... I don't know much about different type of chips, but I came safely assume diamond chips are the best ones out there x_X
Yeah diamond means they cost the least. Base chips at their lowest space cost are 4, then it's 5 for +1, 6 for +2, 7 for +3, 9 for +4, 11 for +5, 14 for +6, 17 for +7, and 21 for +8. If you have enough diamond chips, you could have a base chip that costs 11 space, and just fuse them with nothing but diamonds to still end up with a diamond +8 chip. It can just take a LONG time lol.
This game is so fucking cool, everything comes together in it storyline gameplay, graphics sound especially music and so many attacks you can pull off not to mention fan service lol it has literally everything except a decent world map that doesn't have beach with sea, true jungle and larger forest maps, not enough mountains/caves, needs gardens and a lot more tree's, there's no snow areas, has a wide open sand area with almost nothing to do in it, not many variety of enemies other than robots, I wish it had larger scale special attacks though as well. Those are the only issues I found with the game, I wish it had a sequel with these characters in it that had everything in my vision too :/
Best place to farm Critical Up chips is from Small Bipeds in Chapter 10 -01_2 (2B Requests Backup) AND the advantage of choosing this is you can also farm Weapon Attack Up from Medium Bipeds at the same time. This chapter has a huge number of enemies, hence the high efficiency. You can also farm Down-Attack Up here and Ranged Attack Up from Goliath Bipeds and Medium Flyers respectively, though nobody really farms Down-Attack Up because of its limited use. For farming Weapon Attack up exclusively, Chapter 17-01 has higher efficiency because of the continuous drops of Medium Bipeds, though you need to know when to stop or you'll get one of the bad endings.
Yeah these are good spots to farm, though I didn't have the luxury of chapter select here because I hadn't beaten the game at the time lol.
@@Shin_FTW Wow, if you were grinding this much while still in the main story then killing the enemies must have been a walk in the park.
@@Vendemiair This was more towards the end, but yeah the enemies were never all that hard, not even when I was lower level. When I first started the game, I fell down that canyon when I was Lv6, after I'd killed that Goliath in front of the shopping mall as a Lv5. Now in "NG+", I can no-damage that canyon at Lv4 lol. It's because, since I was so high level in the story, I adopted the habit of letting most enemies attack me first before I killed them, forcing me to either Perfect Evade or Counter them and kill them with a counterattack.
That made things tougher for my own challenge - no damaging as much as I could. At the end of Route A when all the machines are swarming the City Ruins and you have to get back to the Resistance Camp to help them, I fist killed all the machines that were swarming. Iirc I didn't get hit, but it was a cluster lol. The opening room of the "Become as Gods!" part is probably the hardest to avoid damage in. So many attacks, so many loud explosions and music to cover up the sounds/animations of machines attacking, so it's hard to see the attacks coming lol.
But as a result, it prepared me well for the Flooded City's Special Rank DLC arena. It helps with practice for Very Hard too, but just knowing that one hit means death... it makes me nervous, even if I'm not likely to get hit xD
@@Shin_FTW I've never had the opportunity to encounter the canyon machine again. I've complete all the main routes, I did the side mission that the canyon machine gave to me (I was playing as A2), but for some reason he/she never appeared again. Do you have any tips?
@@pbgamer25 I had this exact same issue and I thought I accidentally kill it in my start of the game but I manage to find it at the chapter select where I just started encounter the forest area..it just happen to appear there 🤣... I think it's some bug..hope u can find yours soon
Sinon still best girl
Which chips are you using?
For the farming, for the DLC, or just in general?
@@Shin_FTW in general, I just started playing.
And which chip is the one when you evade 2b makes a blue hologram (kind of)
@@jessesunbae8435 Ah I see. Well you don't need to worry about offense too much. Between Normal and Hard, enemies don't take more damage or have more/less HP. They die just as fast, and without offensive chips you will be able to kill things pretty fast if you do all side quests to level appropriately. So, you wanna focus on defensive chips to keep you alive, or ones to make things smoother.
So for starters, there's an in-game android body in the desert, which I have a video showing the location of (if you load from the access point in the middle of the desert and head left, you'll find it). That body can give you either Deadly Heal or Offensive Heal. Offensive Heal recovers a % of the damage you deal to enemies as HP for you, and Deadly Heal recovers a % of your max HP with every enemy you kill. Deadly Heal +3 gives you 30% of your max HP every kill, and Offensive Heal +6 recovers your HP by (iirc) 50% of the damage you deal.
On top of that, Shock Wave is another great chip. It's an offensive one, but it's nice because it adds a long-range shock wave to all of your melee attacks. This not only adds damage to enemies you hit up close, but allows you to hit them from very far away as well. I go up to +6 with that. You find them off of Small Bipeds in the desert.
There's also Anti Chain Damage. This makes you invincible for a period of time after every time you're hit. A +3 chip is all you need, since it gives you 2 seconds of invincibility after every hit. This prevents you from being stunlocked. These drop from machines in the Forest.
Auto Heal is another. After a certain amount of time of not taking any damage, you will automatically recovery a % of your max HP every second. At +6 I think it's 12.5% of your max HP every second, if you don't get hit for 6 seconds. Either that or that's the +8 chip's recovery after 4 seconds of not being hit. +8 might be 25%. You never need more than a +6 chip for the main game.
I also like to use Counter. Just a base Counter chip is fine. You can get them from... iirc the Medium Bipeds in the City Ruins, or in the Desert. Having Counter on gives you a block/parry move, where if you flick your left analog stick towards an incoming attack just before it hits, you will block the attack, stun the enemy, and can followup with a light/heavy counterattack (as if you perfect evaded). There are rare instances where you won't be able to use evade to cancel an action, so it's nice to be able to block an incoming attack in those situations.
Also there's Auto Collect Items, which is a must-have quality of life chip. You buy it at a shop, from the same people where you get a Dynamic Scanner (for the story). It's also where you get Evasive System, which slows time for a brief moment when you're nier a projectile. Another shop chip (that you get much much later) is Item Scan, which shows items and chests on your mini map.
You can also find Max HP Up chips from enemies in the Forest, which gives you up to 2x your max HP. Ranged Defense Up and Melee Defense Up, also from Forest enemies, give you up to 80% ranged/melee damage reduction, so if you combine that with the HP Up chip, that basically reduces all damage by 10x if you have them at +8. Still doesn't stop the one DLC arena enemies from oneshotting you lol.
It really depends on the character you're using, what chip set you go for. I have a notepad document that has my chip set for each one I think. Also you'll wanna make sure your chips are diamonds. That means they take up the least space possible for their level.
And when fusing 2 chips to make a new one, the game determines how much space the new chip takes up by adding the combined space of the two chips you're fusing, cutting that in half, rounding up or down (depending on what you're fusing), and then adding 1, 2, 3, or 4 space depending on what level you're making. If you're fusing two base chips, two +1 chips, two +3 chips, two +5 chips, or two +7 chips, the game rounds DOWN. So if you have a diamond +1 chip (that costs 5 space) and combine it with a +1 chip that takes up 6 space, you will still make a diamond +2 chip, because the game combines the 5 space and 6 space (making 11), and rounds it down to 10, so it's as if you fused two diamond +1 chips anyway.
If you're fusing two +2, +4, or +6 chips, both of them need to be diamonds if you wanna make a diamond +3, +5, or +7 chip.
These are the diamond space values for every chip level:
Base = 4
+1 = 5
+2 = 6
+3 = 7
+4 = 9
+5 = 11
+6 = 14
+7 = 17
+8 = 21
If you have any chips of those levels that cost more than 2 space higher than that, destroy/sell them. Only keep the diamond ones and ones that cost up to 2 space higher than diamonds. Those you can still work with (a diamond +2 and a +2 that costs 8 space will make a +3 that costs 8 space, which you can still fuse with a diamond +3 to make a diamond +4).
Hopefully this wasn't too much info overload. If it is, you're not really meant to understand it until you start trying it yourself. Then this stuff will probably click xP
@@Shin_FTW ey man thanks for this. Wanted to ask for your notes regarding chip locations. Thanks
Are there really +8 chips or are +6 chips the limit of an individual chip?
All chips can be upgraded to +8 but you need to finish a side quest called Lord of the Valley. After finishing it, you can ask the NPC machine lifeform called Canyon Machine to upgrade your chips beyond +6
@@Vendemiair OH MY GOD! Thank you! I already found him, but I forgot he can do that.
@@NicheXCC You're welcome 😄. But honestly, grinding to +8 is really such a pain. I've gotten Attack Up and Critical Up to +8 and I think Offensive Heal too, and was grinding Shock Wave to +8 when I stopped. I only did that for the challenge arenas, but I know I'm not skilled enough for the Flooded City arena on Special Rank where one hit will kill you. I haven't completed some of the other arenas too, but maybe I'll revisit the game in the future.
i still don't understand how plug-in chips work ;-;
It increases your stats. Each chip has different purposes/benefits for your character. You just need to choose and equip it. Upgrade it too whenever possible.
What sense do this if u got 99lvl? For satisfaction?
You mustn't have tried/seen the Flooded City's Special Rank DLC arena xP
The farming diamond chips aspect of the game is pointless unless you're aiming for challenging gameplay experiences and completing some really difficult arena matches. Other than that there isn't really much endgame substance to the game other than grinding chips and slaughtering machines to reach level 99 and experimenting different combat styles via weapons, weapon sets and chip sets. Of course you can redo main quests on harder difficulties after acquiring your grinded high tier chips and had completed a perfect chip build with pure diamonds or w.e. The game is still fun regardless.
"difficult arena matches"
That's exactly what this was for. For normal gameplay I only go to +6 on any chips, and really only the defensive ones. I'll do Deadly Heal +3 and Offensive Heal +6. Going to +8, and even doing offensive chips in general, was specifically for the Flooded City and Desert Special Rank arenas.
And they also serve use for doing a replay build after resetting your level to 1 with said Flooded City Special Rank reward. Not for Very Hard. Defensive chips are useless on that mode.
On very hard either get good at counter or staying out of the way and at a distance anything sneezes wrong at 2b 9s A2 they will collapse like a ballerina going for her dramatic ending.
What mission his ??
It's not a mission but rather grinding to get better chips for the DLC arenas. If you grind too much during the main story you'll become overpowered and even bosses will be a joke to fight.
@@Vendemiair just the way I enjoy playing 👍
@@Vendemiair still. what chapter is this?
@@chiryosaki5682 It's been quite a while since I played NieR, but I think the areas shown here are already accessible once you reach the City Ruins, which I believe is chapter 2. The deep canyon is just beside the entrance to the Machine Village, which you will visit in chapter 5.