Actually Beating Level 835 Ethelwill Before His Final Form in Rune Factory 4... AT LEVEL 1

[@jojogacha974]

funny how they do the whole “power of friendship” speech even though you basically kick his ass without any help

[@blue_lux]

There's actual dialogue if we beat him before his final form? Wow. I'm even more impressed by this game

[@Ghost-ul8eu]

You don't actually need ng+ gear to beat him.Straight punch combined with a fire weapon and heavy spice can tear right through this boss.

[@mangady8961]

Youre currently at lv 1000 😏

[@asra-5180]

I was so weak, i had to rely on ambrosia. I could only do 5-15 damage to ethelberd. I need to find out how to get good equipment. But i can't find anything about that.

[@rickennmakesgames]

Look up John E Boy's weapon upgrade guide. You can theoretically get the Short Sword to have 900+ damage, but it takes a lot of time

[@Kahadi]

gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/635388-rune-factory-4/68229810

[@diamondseraph9369]

I lucked out while playing around in the Sharance Maze, I'm *_WAY_* under leveled but I had fists of light (1000+ attack) so I ran around killing thibgs with it....then I got a lvl 6 star saber from a chest (5150 wind attack, 1800 magic attack), a level seven dragon cloak (1250 defense, 1200 magic defense, strength 8, and vitality 4), and my current weapon, Hand of god with 7,500 attack and 2000 magic attack...I'm still only a level 156 but almost everything dies in only a few hits...

[@claudioanimemaniac]

Them crazy stats

[@chill6455]

Man i miss this game, I remember renting it before, but I dont remember this boss. Was he part of some end game event?

[@familyplayer1]

Will There’s multiple story arcs. You must have either not played enough of the story or the game to get here.

[@chill6455]

familyplayer1 I remember venti 'dying' before or after some credits. Dont remember much though this was like 3-4 yrs ago

[@familyplayer1]

Venti revives at least three or four separate times. The 3rd (and final) arc is literally a pretty boring arc where you randomly find a way to get her back.

[@CollectorTogami]

And good luck getting the third arc event to begin. It's completely random and cana take years of in game time.

[@ovrsurge4689]

wew lad. Was this done with save file editing or are those stats legitimate? I can't even imagine getting enough runeys or stat up items for 10000 hp

[@MetronaJ]

Its mostly the champion'a belt that gave all that hp

[@mingchen7704]

my question is how you manage to stay at lvl one after having to be forced to face a dozen boss to get to that point.

[@metastase895]

By activating the NO EXP ON/OFF Order. LV1 is the most fun way to play this game by far. Once any of your save files reaches Story Arc 2, this order becomes permanently available to all files. Alternatively, if you have NG+ unlocked in any file, you can Inherit Save Data from a LVL1 file into any save you want (even post-game) and that save will now be at LVL 1.

[@mingchen7704]

Trues, but that is an unholy amount of work for such a little pay off :p

[@metastase895]

@@mingchen7704 What do you mean by little pay off? If you're talking about unlocking perma LV.1, even from a fresh game you can speedrun Arc 1 in a bit over 1 hour and unlock the Order forever. If you're talking about NG+, yeah, that's a lot of work but the pay off is tremendous. With NG+ you can essentially have Open World playthroughs (even starting from LV1 and no skills with access to all locations and no story getting in the way) or you can create special runs with hundreds of custom animations via Staff Charges. That's like playing a different game every time. RF4 LV1 becomes one of if not the best game I've ever played in my life and I've been gaming since the 80's. Without LV1, RF4 is too easy to break even on Hard mode but with LV1 it's simply beautiful. No button mashing, all interconnected systems at peak depth.

[@mingchen7704]

@@metastase895 data transfer grant you location as well? when i did it, i still had to re explore all the locations, and has to get the airship license

[@metastase895]

@@mingchen7704 There is no restriction from which save you inherit data aside from the fact you can only do it once per save. That means you can have a post-game file inherit data from a fresh file and all stats/LVL/items progress will reset, but story progress and locations will remain unlocked since it's technically a post-game file so you can create an open world game like this. There are other fun possibilities you can do with it as well. Another example is to take a fresh (or even post-game) save where you're NOT married, then inherit data from a save you are married, have kids and thus White Stone/Dolphin Brooch in your Storage/Inventory. The save that inherited the data can now use White Stone/Dolphin Brooch to cause double damage and receive half. This effect stacks with Art of Magic and NO RES (from using 4 elemental cores in armor), leading up to -87,5% of physical damage even for a LV1 character.

[@Kahadi]

I'm curious, how did you manage to get these stats? I get that its New Game+, thus how you managed to stay at level 1, but I've never tried New Game+ myself, and from what another comment says, its resets items and stats, but saves story and location progress, right? If that's the case, though, how did you manage to get a Turnip's Miracle to craft the Gold Hairpin when that requires going to Rune Prana, which isn't available until after the Ethelwill fight? I get the video is 2 years old, so I won't be surprised if this doesn't get answered, but I'm also curious the build used. Clearly there's a lot of overwriting and such in the items, Leather Gloves can't get that powerful without it, but I'd love to know exactly what the build was, like what items were used for overriding and upgrading to get those stats without the equipment being level 10 (which would mean even Rarity tiers couldn't be maxed out)

[@siberiangopnik]

New game+ lets you inherit storage items, so they probably inherit a save file with turnip miracles in the storage box or theu just made the gold hairpin before inheriting the save file