Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

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[Credits Farming] Fastest Way To Farm Polytan Without DLCs
By RoyalDragon
This guide is for those that doesn't touch any Additional Content DLCs, and want to achieve it as fast as possible.
   
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Intro
This guide is for people that doesn't touch most DLCs, especially those Additional Content DLCs. And of course, you want to get the 100 million Credits achievement.

NOTE: As long as your CREDITS HELD are 100mil+, YOU ARE QUALIFIED, not current Credits. To check Credits Held, go to the Menu, then Nepedia, then Play Data, it's there. So spend your bloody credits as you please and dont worry a single thing.

Requirements
Credits UP, which is crafted from a Plan, which is a Hidden Treasure in MS Mountain Peak. Then to craft it, you need Time Bangle, which is crafted from a Plan, which came from a Chapter 3 Chirper Event. It's hard to get it, but worths. Trust me.
Iffy's Qatar, which is a reward from Colosseum. You need to summon all the Sisters first, then craft the bonus Colosseum fights.
Discs with Red (button?) Level 5 and preferably high level Yellow. Gives the Red one "War" - Credits Up lv5, and Yellow anything that increases Critical Rate, preferably "Baseball' - lv5 critical rate.

Setup
You only need 2 girls for this , which is Neptune / Noire (or high leveled Plutia if you bought her) and IF. The point of this is to let the first girl gets enough hits to gain EXE, then use IF's EXE Drive to end them at once, before the Polytan has any chance to fight back.

Equip Neptune with any weapons that has "Slash" attack (Claymore, Esperance,Demon Blade Curse,...), which makes her attack very wide, enough for 3 Polytans to be hit if positioned correctly. Then equip Sharicite (Chapter 7 Overlord Momus drop) to her. In short, focus in increasing her AGI and TEC as much as possible, so she can attack first and do not miss any hit. Then to her combo, use 2 High Rush and 1 Nep Slash in the Rush category, and remove all of her EX Finish, it wastes more time performing all those.
If you're using high leveled Plutia (high enough to out-AGI IF), then switch Sharicite for Move Memory, so you no longer need to HDD ON at the start, wasting way less time.

Then move on to IF, equip Iffy's Qatar for the most insane damage, Histy's Bookmark, and standard Cellphone Strap. Anyway, try to increase her damage as much as you can, high TEC as well, but AGI between the first girl and ~800, so she can attack right after the first girl, before the Polytan has any chance to attack. Also equip the Disc mentioned above to her.
IF's EXE Drive also has one of the shortest time to perform, making her very ideal to use.
Endless Grind.
The first girl with wide attack hit 3 polytans to get 50 combos. If her move speed is low, then she might need to HDD ON to reach them. Then IF go in and use EXE Drive to kill them all. Note that her EXE must be aimed carefully at the middle Polytans to hit all of them, or yeah, you wasted time killing 2 and left 2 alive.
Repeat for like 30 times, take a break, go to shop, sells those newly acquired items , save game, repeat.



That's it, hope you waste as little time as possible doing this nightmare. Good luck.
Extra - Reducing The Grind Time
Credits to Seb for this idea.

In this game, you can sell your stuffs for 20% the price of items, or 50% price of the Accessories or Costumes, and this will still count as the credits you gained. So in order to massively reduce the grind time, when you're at least 54 millions, or preferably 58 millions, buy all the stuffs in the Accessories and Costumes shop, then sell them. REPEAT until you get the achievement.

Explanation:
Since you get back 50% of what you spent, for example you use 50 mils to buy then sell, you will get back 25 mils to rebuy, we can use this Math formula to calculate it: X * (1 + 1/2 +... + 1/2Y) , with Y is 2 to infinite plus.
So if you have 54 mils, it becomes: 54 * (1 + 0.5 + 0.25 + 0.125) = 101.25 mil, so after selling 3 times, you should get the achievement.
In a better case, having 58 mils only requires 2 loops of selling: 58 * (1 + 0.5 + 0.25) = 101.5 mil.
Best way which requires selling only once is at 67 mils, but needs harder grind so it's not recommended.
Please note as it has diminishing returns, having one to two less mil (52-53) requires another loop of selling since 53 * (1 + 0.5 + 0.25 + 0.125) = 97.5, and another additional loop if you only have 51. And it's practically IMPOSSIBLE for 50 mils as the total of (1 + 1/2 + .... 1/2Y) will always be less than 2 (and only equal to 2 when Y is at infinite, which is impossible).
7 Comments
Seb? 25 Jun, 2023 @ 5:54pm 
Ahh no worries I’m happy to help 👍
RoyalDragon  [author] 25 Jun, 2023 @ 3:27am 
Thank you, I think the key point in our difference is your loop of selling and buying that helps to massively reduce the time it takes. My stupid head only focuses on farming and avoid selling lol.
I will put it onto my guide, cheers mate! :Chiaki_DGR:
Seb? 25 Jun, 2023 @ 2:19am 
also useful guide i forgot to mention it, i wouldnt have known about this if it wasnt for this.
Seb? 25 Jun, 2023 @ 2:18am 
i didn't have any dlc. I used: level 99 MAGES. with taurus rod, goddess bangle, sharicite and level 5 credits up.
Level 99 Uni with linear railgun, hunter's charm, sharicite and level 5 credits up with a few processor optimisations
And level 99 Vert with holy dual lance, shiitake bracelet, Histy's bookmark and level 4 credits up.

Using MAGES.'s 1250SP mechanical paradox attack followed by Uni's (in processor form) 1250SP brave cannon attacks I was able to wipe them out half of the time in two attacks. If some survived I used vert to clean up if any survived and it always yielded 134k credits per round plus the extra 50k for clearing the Colosseum match. (I also made sure to sell my items won)
Seb? 25 Jun, 2023 @ 2:17am 
(my comment was too long oops) With this setup I made it so that all 3 characters could attack before the polytans could. MAGES. had like a 50% ish crits and rarely missed along with Uni in processor form basically having confirmed crit. They'd deal on average 840k damage in 2 attacks.

It only took around 4-5 hours aswell id say.

Also when I reached 57 million credits I made a new save file, sold my whole inventory and kept buying costumes and selling them and yeah that's about it. :steamthumbsup:
RoyalDragon  [author] 25 Jun, 2023 @ 1:12am 
Hmm my guess is that you have bought some DLCs to help you with grinding, or maybe you have done somethings that I'm not aware of, I'm not so sure. Can you share it ?
Seb? 24 Jun, 2023 @ 11:54pm 
i only needed to defeat 800 polytans for the achievement... how come it took you so long?