OMG you are very behind!:-)

Since I wrote that, I have gotten the Elpis Sword already - admittedly I watched a video that gave me the solution (from Casual Chrono I believe, who not only shows but adds explanation as to why things work), where I used my standard Sesta team but then did damage at a crucial point inside AF so that Picky could not counter it. In retrospect the battle might not have been so hard except (a) mostly I just didn’t want to spend time giving it the ATTENTION that it needed (like Sesta does more than sufficient damage, it’s just tricky mechanics to have to work around there), and (b) I have Sesta pigeon-holed in my mind as a noAF, barrier-piercing goddess, despite seeing people like skuLd_14 make use of her inside AF, and again that bit about not wanting to spend time thinking about it, I just did not even consider that as an option.

While I was crossing things off of my list, I also caught up to finish a few other things like Time Anti-Spiral as well. skuLd_14 (aka AE_MagicTeam)'s video looked really good to me, but it was crucial to have Uquaji, whereas at the time I literally could not get him b/c I had forgotten about him for a year or so and had to wait 24 hrs between each respawn of his earlier forms. That was a really fun one actually, but there too I did use that solution rather than spend the time to come up with my own.

Speaking of, now I remember what I wanted the Elpis Sword for: I should now be able to do a 1TnoAF for the harpooning horror Wyverus, or at least I finally have all the pieces I wanted in order to make the attempt. If I am going to fight it well over a hundred times, then I do not want to be clicking a bunch of buttons to make it go down, so for me it is a 1TnoAF or bust!! :-D It might even enable me to find a 1TnoAF for Ishmaelithan too… though that likely needs additional power from somewhere. I also should finally be able to finish the rewards from the AD for Benedict’s ensemble, b/c my Sesta previously was not doing sufficient damage, even with Violet Lancer’s overthrow, but someone trying it said that their Sesta was enough, so apparently that sword will make a big difference.

What about you - do you have a goal for AE that you want to aim for next? Fwiw, don’t forget that if you do all 3 chapters of the Winmrest Episode before Dec. 31, you get ~1k CS, and then you get some additional (much smaller) reward for merely watching the prologue of the newest Octopath Symphony - that at least would take very little time.:-)