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Throné is the thief ofOctopath Traveler 2, and is one of the more useful characters as a result. She’s fast, she’s strong, and she can nab some incredibly useful healing items from enemies - even bosses! You’ll find her making her home in New Delsta, the biggest city in Solistia.
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If you decide to start the game with Throné, you’ll begin her first chapter automatically. However, if you started with one of the other seven characters, you’ll have to make your way to New Delsta and confront some hooligans bullying a puppy in daytime before you’re able to recruit Throné.
Battle Phase: Pursuers
After the opening scenes, Throné and co. are thrust into a battle before you can even take your first steps!You are up against twoPursuers - basic mook enemies that shouldn’t pose any threat to you.
In addition to Throné, you have two temporary party members along for the ride. They’ll leave the party soon enough, so make use of them while you have them!
The Pursuers are weak to both Daggers and Axes, as well asDarkness(which Throné can exploit through Darkest Night), so everyone is able to hit their weaknesses. When you hit an enemy’s weakness, it will reduce their Break Points (symbolized by the shield with a number on it) by one per strike.When they reach zero, enemies are Broken and cannot attack until the turn after the nextand take extra damage until then.
Use your simple attacks to Break the two Pursuers. On the next turn, use your Boost Points to empower your stronger skills -Darkest Night and Slice. This should easily defeat them.
Dungeon Phase: Underground Waterway
After the fight, it becomes clear that Donnie is no longer for this world and it’s up to the trio to escape with their lives. You’re prompted to head to the left, buthead to the right instead to find a chest that contains a Protective Ring. This accessory increases your defensive stats. Equip it to Throné.
Now,move to the left, as the minimap in the lower right corner of the screen instructs. You’ll encounter morePursuersas you move through the sewers, but you should be able to handle them very easily.
When you reach the wooden bridge that leads south, take it to reach a chest containing aHealing Grape. Further along to the left on the original path, you’ll hit a cutscene - this sequence serves as the tutorial to Throné’s nighttime Path Action,Ambush. This allows Throné to knock NPCs unconscious, as long as it is nighttime and she is at a high enough level.
There are other characters who can knock NPCs out (Hikari, Castti, and Ochette) but their methods involve an element of risk or require resources.
After the cutscene,climb up the ladder, walk along the ledge to the left, and then down the other ladder. Sneak up behind the guard anduse your Path Action to knock him out.
Battle Phase: Pursuer Leader
This is another easy battle, but it’s against more enemies than usual. There aretwo Pursuers backing the Leader up, but you can deal with them easily.
The Pursuer Leader is weak to Axes and Darkness, so only Throné and Scaracci can lower his Break Points. Keep Pirro focused on Breaking and defeating the Pursuers, and use the other two to Break the Leader.
Town Phase: New Delsta
After the scenes, you’ll be in the New Delsta Backstreets with the objective of making it back to the hideout.The hideout is the game parlor located at the back of the area, to the right of the buildings in front of you. When you enter the game parlor, you’ll meet Father. After this scene, walk forward a few steps and then select the option to wait for Mother to meet the matriarch of the nest.
After the harrowing scenes, you’ll be on top of a building in the backstreets again.Climb down the ladder and return to the game parlor. Inside, Father will reveal the identity of the traitor and send you to kill them by infiltrating Diamante’s Estate, where the traitor is on a job of their own.
This is when you’ll get the tutorial for Throné’s daytime Path Action,Steal. This is one of the many ways that you can acquire items from NPCs, which is also available to other characters (Osvald, Partitio, and Agnea). Throné’s method is simple, it lets youattempt to steal items from NPCs with a chance of getting caught. Failing will reduce your reputation in the current area by one step - if your reputation falls to zero, you’ll have to pay off a bartender in a tavern to recover it.
Throné’s success rate will increase with her level. The rarer items, however, will always have a low success rate when stealing.
Walk to the front of the map and then up the stairs to the right -the Brothel Girl here is your target. Use your Path Action andsteal the Brothel Girl’s Clothes. It’ll have a 100 percent success rate, so don’t worry about your reputation.
With the disguise complete,head up the stairs to the right into New Delsta proper and then all the way to the right to enter Diamante’s Estate.
Dungeon Phase: Diamante’s Estate
After being escorted in by the guards,Ambush the guard outside the room. Once that’s complete, save your game and start moving up to the higher floors in the Estate. You’ll be accosted by random battles here, and you’re alone, so don’t be afraid to use Healing Grapes if you get low on health. Alternatively,purchase the HP Thief skill- this is a very useful move for Breaking enemies weak to Dagger attacks, too, as it hits twice.
Before climbing the grand stairs in the middle of the lobby,open the chest to the left for 1,200 leaves. There’s another chest in the room at the top of the stairs that contains aShadow Soulstone, which is an item you can use in battle to deal Darkness damage.
There are two more chests to open on the upper level - aLong Swordin a red chest near the dead guards and anInspiriting Plumat the far end of the corridor.
Save your gameandpurchase some Healing Grapes from the convenient Peddlerbefore entering the room to the back. Walk through the broken window to start the final cutscene before this chapter’s boss.
Boss Phase: Pirro
Pirro, the surprise boss of the chapter, has five Break Points and three weaknesses.He is weak to Swords and Darkness.
As he is not weak to Daggers, you cannot use HP Thief to quickly reduce Pirro’s Break Points. Instead, you’ll have torely on normal sword attacks. Once you have a healthy stock of BP stored and Pirro’s close to being Broken,don’t shy away from Boosting a regular attack to drain his Break points quickly. Once broken, unleash aboosted Darkest Night(orSurprise Attack, if you have it).
Every now and then, Pirro will useHesitation- this is basically him skipping his turn. Don’t worry about it.
When he’s been damaged significantly, Pirro and Throné will have a short conversation. This signifies thesecond phaseof the fight. Pirro will become resolved, gain a boost to his physical attack, and will no longer hesitate.
When Pirrosteels his resolveand a strong aura surrounds him, it’s a sign that he’s going to use his ultimate attack, which will deal a lot of damage.If you’re able to deal with all of Pirro’s Break points with a boosted regular Sword attack here, do so. Otherwise,heal up with a Healing Grapeand pray that you have the defensibility to survive.
Apart from steeling his resolve and charging his ultimate attack, Pirro doesn’t have any special tricks up his sleeves. Justheal when you get low on health. If you find yourself running out of Healing Grapes, you may need to restart the game and purchase more from the Peddler.
After the fight, the chapter is over. If Throné is your first character, you’ll be dropped outside New Delsta, otherwise you’ll simply resume your conversation with her.
