Octopath Traveler - Ophilia FAQ

	Octopath Traveler Ophilia FAQ

Q: Why are you running Ophilia?
A: Idk, she was who I chose for my first playthrough, so I figured I'd give her a go first. I'll move onto other characters afterwards probably, I don't know which route will be the most fun without actually mapping them out.

Q: So what is the route for this run?
A: As you might be able to guess from the splits; Get Cyrus, Tressa, Therion, and then beat up Ophilia's story.

Q: Why those characters in particular?
A: There's basically 3 things you need to get a story done in quick time.
1) Evasive Maneuvers - A Support skill for scholar that reduces encounters
2) Merchant(s) - The Hired Help skill is just insanely good for blasting through at low levels, does far more damage than anything else
3) Money - To actually use Hired Help
So Cyrus gets the first, Tressa obv the second. Therion is there also because Armor Corrosive to reduce defense helps a bunch too, and picking up purple chests for extra cash also helps a lot.

Q: Could you not use less than 4 characters?
A: Yeah, you could. Say get Scholar and give it to Ophilia and skip Cyrus, the problem is that it'd not only be riskier by far, but at the moment I don't think it'd be faster either. You just lose so much by sacrificing any of the other 3.

Q: Do you get any jobs for the characters?
A: Only Merchant, for Ophilia. There are other fairly quick ones you can get for safety, but I'm skipping all the others for now.

Q: Why are you resetting the game/going in and out of an encounter
A: This resets the encounter count. Basically the way encounters work (this may not be true at all, but it's how I understand it) is that there's a counter that starts at some given number (say 80 or something) and every step you take, counts down, and if it hits zero you'd get an encounter. But exiting a map, whether it be by entering a new area or resetting, or stupidly by triggering an optional boss but not starting the fight, resets the count, so another encounter won't show up for a long while.

Q: So encounters can be completely controlled?
A: Nah, the number chosen is still random, so it might be 60, might be 80. Having evasive maneuvers reduces the amount you get drastically, but there are plenty of places in the run where sometimes you'll get an encounter, and sometimes you won't.

Q: What's WR?
A: https://www.speedrun.com/octopath | See: Splits

Q: Planning on doing other categories?
A: Yeah maybe, idk which though. There's 9 good categories for this game (Ignore All Main and All First, those are shit), but full game won't be something I look unless I do all the other 8. I could def see myself doing some other chars after this, but remains to be seen.