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Just wondering if there's a particular build I should use for the Late Bloomer bonus unlock.
Also I seem to have hit a wall, not sure what the school does besides provide me with bonuses from 3 masters and my progress is slowing a lot. Top level character this far has been 81 which was my first character but having trouble even getting there, most top off at 75 and then I have trouble moving forward due to not winning any fights most of the time.
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You're at the point where it's more useful to be collecting offline EXP than winning fights.
What I would do is go back a few training levels to ones that I can kill relatively quickly and farm my average EXP gains up so that when I come back I'll have leveled up by just a tad more than I would have if I had just closed the game.
I leave the game closed anywhere from 8 hours to 2 days and come back to a character that is ~130.
Then I spend all my gold and Plat and close the game again after I farm my average EXP up.
I just keep this cycle going till leveling up becomes completely unreasonable with current EXP averages, then I promote my Disciple and repeat the process.
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Shame, I was having so much fun being active and watching fights in the game. Alrighty, thanks!
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You cant get late bloomer from offline gains. OLG increase with title (level of mastery) and Late Bloomer requires you be at Novice.
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with late bloomer its same like iwth other awards- focus on easy/fast ones first, then harder ones will get much easier once u got other awards first and progress into the game more
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It would mean putting off the acheivment for a while but I would think you could use meditation to get late bloomer while offline.
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To answer the original question, I did it with Sword&Shield and the Guard stance, on the theory that I couldn't pump my attack up enough to get first shots in often enough so I needed HP and damage resistance. I think my masters were around level 100-130 at the time. Could have done it earlier but I wanted to do it in one sitting.
On an earlier run (maybe with masters at level 80) I made it to level 49 with a blitz/dual sword guy before the progress just got too slow. I was losing way more often than I was winning and getting very little xp in the fights I did win. I could have done it in another day or two but I was impatient.
Use your masters to pump exp (Mentor, Discipline, and the 2 you get once you reach Grandmaster) and it gets much easier to progress.
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The easiest way to get late bloomer is to wait until you get the library, and research heavily into the mastery skills; leadership, and prowess (wisdom helps too as it speeds up research a lot) . leadership is important because it gives you more mastery points for new masters, and prowess gives you more fighting skill points, allowing you use lots of skill points to offset the stat difference you will be for being lower level.
When I got it I had average level 120 masters, all with level 5 prowess, form, and leadership, with a few points into disciple and mentorship. That disciple absoultely murdered everything without a problem, so I was a bit over-powered, and I would assume you could get away with it much earlier, but it isn't exactly a huge reward. Where you are at, just waiting for research and platinum to strengthen yourself is unfortunately the most you can do, but once you start being able to beat the grandmaster tournement, things will speed up a lot.
If your really close, but eventually the enemies are just too much and you can't kill them most of the times, a few points into meditation will let you get offline exp even though you are a novice still, and will let you get several times your average exp gain (as calculated from 10 best fights) That can help you close out probably 10 or more levels, if you are willing to let it sit for a little while.
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