Solo Throne Route

Edit: I rec my updated route https://pastebin.com/T5LRaGnV or Xazu's Firestarter route.

Solo Throne Route

This is a lone traveler route for Throne solo in Octopath Traveler II. There's a lot of excess money at the end, and there's a good bit of grinding, but it's not too bad with some of her abilities and experience modifiers (she has a L34 required ambush in chapter 4). Not optimal yet but works as is.

Last updated: 3/29/2023
Sample Video: https://youtu.be/2DjV4VxNMqY
NOTE: This was routed under 60 FPS, which takes longer between encounters, so 120+ FPS runners will get encounters in certain sections that may be more dangerous.

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Throne Solo Speedrun Route (credit to Laxlime/Sanjan for most of the early game chapter 1 stuff)

Technical settings/suggestions (mostly taken from Dalia's notes):
- Message Speed: Fastest
- Text Display: Short
- Screen Effects: Disable
- Dynamic Battle Camera: Disable
- Dynamic Boosted Attack Camera: Disable
- change game cutscenes to fast forward (carried between files, plus first load-in is always slowest)
- always switch to daytime if able, unless night is specified
- break/flee encounters you don't need to fight
- set battle speed to 2x as soon as you enter your first battle

Start Throne 1, do first battle
T1: (2x battle speed) Dagger/Axe to break
T2: Slice x3, Dark x3 or 4 hits total after broken
Walk to cutscene, ambush guy, then do second battle
T1: Pierce Through on Leader,     Dark on add A,         Axe on add 2
T2: Dark x3 on Leader,             Axe x3 on add A,     Slice x3 on add 2

Go to game parlor in back, "Yes" to wait for Mother (and go back again next cutscene)

Steal from 3 NPCs first map
- Shad S
- Dress
- Grape + Gold Ring
Steal from 4 NPCs and buy earrings next map
- Antique Coin
- Needle Dagger
- Ice S + Wind S + Light S
- Buy Unerring Earring, don't equip
- Silk Handkerchief
[Note: Steal the Silk Handkerchief last when approaching the dungeon]

In dungeon, ambush guy and get Shad S (try to skip second encounter, can opt to walk a bit)
Heal before boss if damaged

Pirro
T1: Darkest Night
T2: Shadow S
T3: Sword x4
T4: Shadow S
T5: Light S
T6: Defend
T7: LP Sword x4, Wind S
T8: Ice S
T9: Attack

Run back into New Delsta
Steal
- Ancient Cog (mechanic outside c1 dungeon)

Enter and exit New Delsta Harbor
Get Herb of Serenity, reset day/night at table for Soulstone shop lady

Shop:
- sell everything except Earring/Grapes/Plums (so everything at top and bottom)
- (Gold Items, Needle Dagger, Plum Basket, Olives, Herb of Serenity should be all)
Buy
- 1 ice s
- 3 shad m
- 1 light m
- 4 fire m

Break/Flee encounters to Scholar Shrine (freely use Latent to help break if desired or to get better turn order)
Enter Scholar Shrine (for the autosave, toss Shad M at encounter before entering)
Enter Scholar Guild (toss Shad M again)

Job to Scholar
- Learn Lightning Bolt + Analyze
- EM on

Enter Scholar Shrine again, exit
Get Ice M (toss Shad M at encounter third time)

Tag Winterbloom, "No" to starting chapter 2

TP Harbor of New Delsta
Boat to Totohaha Harbor (2nd option)
Steal
- Bottle of White Powder

Go to top right, get on boat and enter Cavern of Waves dungeon (MUST BE DAYTIME)
S+Q and walk to get JP Augmentor

TP Beasting Bay, take Boat to West Continent Canalbrine (2nd option)
Steal
- Fire S (80%)
- Thunder S (80%)
Armor Shop
- buy Critical Earring, don't equip
- JP Augmentor ON

Do missing item quest for 4k + Crit M
Exit and go toward Conny Creek (walk part of North Canalbrine to skip enc)
(break/flee weak enemies while charging latent as we need it a bit later)

In Northern Conning Creek Coast (DL14), toss Fire M
Same in Western Conning Creek Coast (DL14), toss Fire M again

Enter beach and get
- Wind L (65% steal)
- Rainbow Glass Bottle (chest)

TP New Delsta
Get inventor + two inventions
Go via water to Southern Clockband Highroad to get 6300

Go back a map, then to Borderfall
After bridge, get Thunder M at top of ladder (will get enc, chuck Fire M)
Tag Montwise (force encounter and chuck Fire M before entering too)

TP New Delsta Harbor, take boat to Harbor of Crackridge (first option)

Go toward Merchant/Gravell and chuck Wind L on railway map + get 6400 (+menu)

Menu:
- A Step Ahead

On Merchant map, get Thunder M and Merchant (for enc again, chuck Light M then any M)

MENU AFTER MERCHANT:
- Job to Merchant + Learn Collect, Sidestep, and Hired Help
- put on Boost Start + Grows on Trees

Enter Western Gravell Wilds
Get Thunder L, swap to NIGHT
Defend-> LP-HHR x1, HHG x4 the encounter (it's fixed at night)

[from here on, you have the 2 M and any other saved stones to use freely as you like]

Tag Gravell, exit and get Starsplitter
TP Gravell, exit and get 23500

TP Gravell
Item Shop:
- buy 21 Grape M
Equipment Shop/town:
- buy Quick Cloak (don't equip)
- sell Starsplitter
- Get Quartz Shield
INN for Latent

TP Gravell, exit
Go toward Ivory Ravine, turn to NIGHT early partway and use Defend->HHR x1, HHG x4 again for the Gravell battle
In Ivory Ravine, walk to get Lost Tribe Axe

TP Crackridge Harbor

Menu:
- A Step Ahead Off
- Job to Inventor
- Optimize Equipment

Go toward Oresrush, getting 1600 on the way and optionally catapulting axe/fleeing
Tag Oresrush, start C2, exit
Go to Northern Wellgrove Trail, go to NIGHT (Catapult Axe x3 encs)
Get
- Wind M (near entrance, hidden cave rightward)
Go to Eastern Wellgrove Trail
Get
- Fire M (right, broken house)
- 7200 (very bottom, before torches, rightward)
- Lychee L (near Wellgrove entrance but below it)
Tag Wellgrove

TP Montwise, go down rightward toward Merry Hills
After Montwise enc (Catapult Axe x3), menu

Menu:
- Step Ahead On
- Learn skills for 2 Thief skills + AC for Fleetfoot
- Job to Merchant
- DAY

Merry Hills Encs - HHB x4

Tag Merry Hills and get
- Herb of Clamor (left chest right before back area)
- Empowering Necklace (hidden behind statue in same area)

TP Montwise, exit
Menu:
- Evasive Maneuvers OFF, Fleetfoot ON
- Job to Inventor
- Lost Tribe Axe + Empowering Necklace/locked on

Go to Water Sprite Dungeon
Grind to [and keep at NIGHT]:
- Level 23
- 4000 JP
- 45,150 leaves minimum
[use stones/grapes/latents for safety as needed, Defend into Catapult Axe x4 to ensure some overkill exp/ranges]
[if 4000 JP first, learn Life in Shadows and put over Fleetfoot, until L23]

While grinding, loot:
- Enlightening Bracelet
- Pom L
- Rusty Staff
[don't bother going down ladder for Blessing In Disguise, it stalls enemy counter and way excess money anyway]

TP Merry Hills when done, use rightside inn for LATENT if needed, exit
Menu:
- DAY
- Job to Merchant
- Grows on Tree OFF
- Evasive Maneuvers ON

Assassins:
T1: LP Defend, HHM
T2: HHB x4
T3: LP Pom L, HHV x4
T4: (M/L/HHG if needed for rare range)

Menu:
- Job to Scholar + Learn until Extra Experience
- Job to Inventor
- Equipment + Lost Tribe Axe
- Extra Experience over A Step Ahead

TP Oresrush, do C2 (middle house)
Steal
- Sturdy Pickaxe
- horse coin
Go back to middle house, then to back all and steal kid's mask
Pick first option twice ("Yes", "Right")

TP Winterbloom, go to tavern and start Throne C2
Do Sword Woman Quest

Get Empower Bracelet (dock before Save Point, go upward from dock to left hidden path then up ladder to get it)
(Catapult x3 any encs)

MENU:
- JOB TO MERCHANT
- A STEP AHEAD OVER EVASIVE MANUEVERS
- GO TO NIGHT

Bergomi (Winterbloom C2 boss):
T1: Defend
T2: HHB x4
- need L30 here, grind extra if you aren't

TP Gravell, ambush guy
Get Armsmaster weapons

TP Wellgrove, start Mother 3

Menu:
- Job to Inventor
- Axe on + Empowering Bracelet over JP Augmentor

SELL!

Sell at shop:
- gold items
- armsmaster sword and staff
(should have 210k+)

Steal
- church nun's habit clothes
- (optional) top left merchant's Wind M/L

Other:
- Use INN for Latent if needed
- enter Road to Mother's Garden and switch to NIGHT
- grind while looting (Defend -> Catapult Axe x4)

In Road To Mother's Garden, loot
- Stinging Dagger (before the dock, to its right after the fourth set of torches, hidden path rightward)
- Silent Bandana (take dock boat up past bridge into cave)

Menu:
- items menu, Silent Bandana on
- also Stinging Dagger on

[if you forgot latent, there's a Lychee L outside the orphanage btw]

Other:
- grind one more battle before save point, then enter save point area for cutscene
- go to top room, then switch to DAY
- steal key, and go to Mother's Garden, switching to NIGHT after cutscene

In Mother's Garden, get
- 13k chest (top left of hedge maze)
- refreshing jam (gray chest to the right just before final path to boss)

[I think this boss may pre heal you btw.] edit: nvm, nope

Mother & Mother's Aide [42k HP and 21k HP]
T1: LP Dagger, HP Thief (watch cursor)
T2: HP Thief
T3: Defend (resets cursor)
T4: LP AC, HHB x4 (first hit breaks)
T5: HHG x3
T6: Dagger
Notes:
- if you do not have Latent by T4, then do
T4: HHB x4
T5: LP AC, HHB x3

TP Montwise, do C3
- Stay at INN for latent
- job to Inventor + Axe
- go to NIGHT
- grind on way to father, need L33 with 1603/2403 EXP
- MERCHANT/NIGHT before boss

Father [58k HP]
T1: AC x3
T2: LP-Rev Jam, HHV x4
T3: HHV x3
- defend/delay last turn if he hasn't dialogued yet
- if first x4 hits a lot of 7k, can defend on T3 and HHV x4 on T4 if worried for range or finish w/ HH/stones
//It's possible HH Ruffians x3 is better than AC on T1, allowing some armor to be skipped, but this is untested at the moment.

TP New Delsta, do Throne C4
Ambush Cemetery guy
Enter sewers and menu:
- Extra Experience or Life in Shadows OFF, EM ON
- go to DAY and stay on it for rest of game

Go to Lostseed
- HHB x4 for any encounters
- Sell in Lostseed if needed (Lost Tribe Axe, Marietta, olive L, refresh jams, accessories, etc), 145k+ is safe
- Use INN for latent
- get Reinforcing Jam before entering last cutscene
- run to final boss, using HHB x4 as needed, heal if damaged

Claude, 68,000 HP, weak to Dagger Axe staff Thunder Dark (seals primary skills, but merch is still available)
T1: LP-AC x2, Reinforcing Jam
T2: HHA x4
T3: LP-HHA x3, Free Turn
- the last turn's assassins is a range to KO, but if he survives, use your Free Turn to toss an M/L/HHG+ to KO
- if you go first T2 and last T3, do T2:LP-HHA x4, Sidestep T3:Defend T4:HHA x4 to survive and KOing
- if he has not done a dialogue as of T3, use your Free Turn to Defend then finish with attack/HH/M/L
//may be worth testing T1 HH Ruffians x3

Steal key, skip cutscenes. GG.
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