Octopath Traveler 2 Buy a Boat

Buy a Boat Route:

Start Partitio

Purchase: Fire Soulstone, Thunder Soulstone
Hire: nearest person

walk to avoid an encounter

Forced fight: Spear x1, Arrow of Fortune x2 on each

First encounter:
Spear -> AoF x3

Chest: $500, Light Soulstone

Inside Mannor first encounter:
Bow x1, Defend, AoF x3

BOSS: GIFF
Fire S
Light S
Spear x4 Giff
Thunder S (kills adds)
Spear x1
AoF x3

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Up until here just follow whatever is currently the fastest
Partitio 1 strat i.e. look at the Single Story route.
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Chest: $1600

Enter Crackridge Harbor and leave, then warp back.
Take Ferry to New Delsta

Chest: Slumber Sage

Go to Cape Cold Screen and get Osvald
Enter Cape Cold
Mug first guy on the left (Defend, Staff x1, Fireball x4)
Enter north house for chest: $2,000

Warp to Abandoned Village

Chest: Herb of Serenity

Refresh black market for soulstones nun
Sell: Heavy Coin Pouch, Silver Ingot, Gold Pocket Watch, Herb of Serenity
Buy: Ice M x3, Shadow Mx1, Light Mx4

Warp Oresrush buy Pickaxe
Warp Cape Cold

Walk towards Winterbloom, have backup Ms to kill annoying encounters, kill Winterbloom encounter with Shadow M

Once Possible learn EM
> Skill: Partitio Hired Help
> Skill: Osvald Lightning Bolt, Analyze
> Support Skill: Osvald Evasive Maneuvers

Tag Winterbloom Get Rusted Sword

Warp New Delsta anchoragetake ferry to Toto'haha anchorage, then to canalbrine
Go to Canalbrine and recruit Castti (requires healing grape)

Warp Crackridge anchorage
Walk Towards Gravell

2x Light M on Bridge screen
2x Light M on Outside Crackridge

Alternatively if still have Ms for some reason (potentially cait),
you can do Guards x4 + Soulstones instead, should kill *most* encounters

Change to night and soothe the debt collector,
talk to smith to get the Conquerer's Sword

Sell Sword
Teleport Totohaha anchorage and go to Tropu Hopu
Kill encounter in second screen with Ice M / Flee

Buy Boat














Money route:

Money Routing (Assuming killing no non mandatory encs, Chapter 1 buy nothing Strat)

Post Chapter 1 w/o selling small silver ore ~3471
Post Chapter 1 w selling small silver ore ~4671

Ferry: 2500

Post Ferry w/o selling small silver ore ~171
Post Ferry w selling small silver ore ~1371

Selling at Black Market:
21343

Non-negotiable purchases:
1x Ice M @ 1.7k
1x Shadow M @ 1.7k
2x Light M @ 1.7k
+4 for additional encounters
-> 13.7k

Waterways:
Lizzards @ 700
Chest @ 8k


Winterbloom Encounter: 700

Rusty Sword Quest:
7k
Rev Jam @2k

Bridge Encounter @ 800

-> 17.2k

Money Available pre Beastlings
17.2k + 13.7k -> 30.9k

Amount left for Soul Ms
30.9k
- 5500
-15000
- 1500
- 1000
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 23000

~ 7-8k for additional Soul Ms


Later Expenses:
Pickaxe @ 5500
HH Beastling @ 15000
Ferry New Delsta -> Toto'haha @1.5k
Ferry Toto'haha -> Canalbrine @1k