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The final postgame boss is just painful. Every character I have is at least level 90, barring Cirno who's 89, and I still haven't beaten the fucker. I can get past the first stage usually by abusing Private Square and Sakuya's huge fuckoff Ice sword, and I can usually get past the second stage by using poisons and status afflictions, but I've never managed to beat the final form, and it's really soul-draining because I have to go through the first two forms again after re-juggling all my equipment and characters to fix whatever minor mistake I made the previous time around. Has anyone here beaten The Incident? And, how did you do it?

As an aside, Satori is my absolute favorite character. Status afflictions are great, and I love how you can actually use them against enemies. This must be like the only JRPG where they're not worthless. I also really like "Blue Mage" type characters.

So, where do you guys farm for character-specific crafting materials before beating the game? I find the whole process just agonizingly tedious, given that it involves going back to a stage like twenty levels beneath you, looking for an encounter with the necessary monsters, failing to get any items, running away, running into the same encounter another six times before you finally see the same monsters again, failing to get any more items, and so on ad nauseum. I just want one crow feather. Just one fucking feather. I'm not asking for a whole set or anything here. I feel like I must have slaughtered the entire tengu village twice over looking for a crow feather, not like they don't each have enough crow feathers to last a lifetime.

And, yes, I've equipped the gamer fan. Then again, maybe I used up all my good luck back in the Garden of the Sun when I got Petrification Breath and the Cockatrice Crest on my first run-through without farming.