Octopath Traveler | All Main Stories FAQ

Octopath Traveler | All Main Stories FAQ

What does All Main Stories entail?
- So, this basically involves completing all 4 chapters of all 8 characters in the game, so all 32 story bosses.

What console are you playing on?
- Switch!

Do you need to reset for a cait?
- No, thank god. Resetting for Caits in Single Stories is fine, but doing it for any of the longer categories is an absolute nightmare. Instead I'll be doing some classic Whistlewood resets!

What's the general strategy?
- The premise is basically, beat Dreisang and get the sorcerer class, from there just sweep most bosses with the sorcerer spells, with support from Aelfric's Auspices and Alephan's Enlightenment in some of the battles. Of course Hired Help is a massive aspect of the earlygame, and especially vs bosses like Dreisang and Mattias.

What team do you use?
- Because I need to complete the entire story of every character, my team changes a lot, but not as drastically as you might think. The first 3 slots are always the same; Cyrus, Tressa and Therion. From there I just take 1 character, finish their story, swap for another, all whilst chipping away at Cyrus' and Therion's stories. I start with Ophilia in slot 4, complete her story, grab Alfyn, beat Dreisang, then wrap up Tressa's story. From here I go Alfyn, H'aanit, Olberic then Primrose. I beat Lucia last as Cyrus is my starting character, this avoids having to sit through the credits until the very end of the run.

Why aren't you using the Primrose Sorcerer route?
- As much as I actually prefer Primrose as a character over *any* of the others in the game, the Cyrus route was what I learnt when I first played this category back in 2019, so I figured it'd be cool to wrap up unfinished business, given the route has changed drastically since my last PB!

What is your goal?
- I have absolutely no idea, for now it's just to have fun playing this game again, and I know I'll walk away with a large PB eventually, because my PB sucks and the route was old and bad. Ideally I finally achieve my dream in Octopath, which was always to get 1 WR at SOME point. I've come close many, many times over the years but missed the mark every time.

What is WR?
- 3:11:58 by teppou.

What are the grades? (A+/A/B/C)
- These are actually more for the benefit of the viewer, to see how good the segments were in my PB, with A+ being the best, and C being the worst. Shows easily that losing time to an A+ segment isn't that bad, but losing time against a C segment is really bad. It also allows viewers to see where I'm expected to be able to save large amounts of time.