Now, at this point, I know there's tons of guides on leveling and grinding and the like, but most of them are from the perspective of the second character. The first time through is a bit more difficult, since you don't have all the parallel quests and storyline quests to go through. So here's my tips on getting through your first character as painlessly as possible.
- Just because the game says you should tend toward a certain build based on racial choice doesn't mean you have to. Just because a male Majin has the highest health and a boost to defense at max stamina doesn't mean you can't build them as a ki blaster. Some races will be more difficult to break their "established roles" at the start, but I encourage you to experiment and have fun.
- Train with as many mentors as possible. Mentors give you skills you don't get via the RNG. You can build their relationships the fastest by using their skills in battle and bringing them along for Parallel quests. A couple of them require you to bring them items that you get either from stores, crafting, or certain parallel quests, to get past a certain point in their training, but the majority of them only require you to do use their skills and bring them along. However, don't feel that you need to load up on their skills specifically to raise their approval; you can use Vegeta's Gallick Gun as the only skill you get from him in order to raise his approval just fine.
- Gather the Dragon Balls. The Dragon Balls give you some awesome stuff after gathering them; Supers, Ultimates, money, costumes, and levels. And searching for them is a great way to get xp. You need to defeat Time Patrollers in parallel quests in order to get a chance at getting a Dragon Ball. And there are three really easy quests in order to get a Time Patroller to spawn; Prepare for the Attack of the Saiyans, which is available at the start, The Explosion of Namek, which isn't available until you've gotten through the Namek Saga, and Great Ape Festival, which is one of the last ones you can get. There's other ones where Time Patrollers spawn too, but these are the ones I've found most reliable when it comes to getting them to spawn. Be warned though, the latter two can be tough if you're not at the proper level for them.
- Don't worry about building for PVP your first time through. Get through the story first before thinking about how to plan for fighting others. There's a LOT of skills and costumes that you won't have access to until late game that you'll want when fighting people, so you NEED to survive the story mode to get them. And to get through story mode, since you lack a taunt ability, you need to build toward DPS.
- Learn to throw and vanish dodge. These two abilities saved my ass several times over the course of the story, and not knowing how to do them early on is why my ranks were initially so low. Throws are the only real reliable way to get through someone's guard (I don't care what the game says about Guard Crush, I can't really get it to work with any real frequency, due to enemy tendency to Vanish), and Vanish is the only way to survive getting hit from behind.
- Don't play a Saiyan as your first character. I know it's tempting, but don't. You're going to want to go Super Saiyan, and the only way to get it before the end of the Android Saga is to complete a quest with very specific conditions in order to unlock it, and those conditions can be easily missed. Extremely easy to miss, in fact. Save yourself some frustration and play a Human, Namekian, Frieza Race or Majin your first time through. They're all equally good, despite lacking the Super Saiyan transformation.
- Have fun. If you're not having at least a little bit of fun from the game, it's not worth your time. And even when it gets frustrating, there's stuff worth looking forward to. For example, even though the quest where you had to play as Ginyu pissed me off, I knew there was more to the game than that. And once I got control over the character I'd been building, I was having fun again.
These are tips based on what I learned on my first character through. I'm currently working on getting all the master skills (almost finished with that), and I've created and kept a female Saiyan and Human after testing out a few other builds and seeing how I like to play. But these tips that I learned via my own trial and error have benefited me throughout the game. For now, have fun, and stay beautiful freaks!
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