RolStoppable said:
Want more affinity tricks? If you are in a town to pick up sidequests, make the lead character someone who you don't like in your party. The lead character engages in random conversations with the other party members while accepting sidequests, which either nets two or four hearts. This also works when you return to a named NPC to confirm the completion of a sidequest. If you are fighting enemies and have filled up all three blue bars, execute a team attack for the final blow. Your three active party members will gain one heart between each of them (so three hearts total) while the team attack ends quickly (only one strike needed) and nets you one blue bar for killing an enemy with a team attack. So if you engage in another battle soon afterwards, it's often possible to rinse and repeat this tactic. This is something that really adds up over time, even though it seems kinda pointless. If your allies in battle show a sad face on their HP information (happens frequently, especially against more powerful enemies), run over to them and motivate them. Likewise, do the same when they got knocked down or paralyzed. The button prompt that appears every now and then during battles nets three hearts for two affinity links if you hit it perfectly (so if Reyn has dodged an attack in a Shulk/Reyn/Sharla party, Shulk+Reyn and Reyn+Sharla improve), or one heart for two affinity links if you are little bit too late. The game is long, but it also takes a long time to max out all affinity links between your party members. While I already mentioned an easy late-game trick to raise affinity, it doesn't hurt to keep the above things in mind. |
Semi-spoiler of the gameplay variety, not the story kind:
There's an even easier and haxier way to raise affinity than that. I can't remember their names, but their are two unique monsters that allow you to max affinity in minutes. One of them puts a character to sleep every time it is hit, and another lowers morale every time, so all you have to do is form a party of characters you want to make good friends, load the CPU characters up with weak or unoffensive skills, and let them keep auto-attacking the UM so you can keep running up to them and waking them up/encouraging. You can go from basically no affinity to max in around 15 minutes. The only drawback is that you have to wait until close to the end of the game, because these monsters are somewhat strong.
One of them is located on the far end of the Eryth Sea.
