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Star Ocean: The Second Story Rhas a complex, mechanically deep item creation and special ability system. Drawing from lots of skills you can invest in and natural talents held by your characters, you can do some truly impressive things, such as turn weapons into new items, cook delicious meals, and even pickpocket items from basically every NPC in the game.
While every character can potentially use every Specialty in the game, those who have those intrinsic Talents related to those Specialties will have a much easier job when it comes to doing so successfully. Of course, there’s nothing stopping a character fromacquiringa Talent.
Talents, Explained
Talents are, broadly speaking, an affinity for certain Specialties. If a character has a Talent, they will be better at using a Specialty - this usually translates to higher success chances when trying to execute an action.
There are ten Talents in the game, and each character will have a random selection of them when they join the party. They are listed below, along with the Specialties they are related to:
Blessing of Mana
Alchemy
To view a character’s Talents, you’ll need to head to their Status screen.
The following Specialties haveno related Talents: Appraising, Compounding, Replication, Oracle, Train, Survival, Fishing. These Specialties are thereforeimproved only by special items and skill levels.
How To Get New Talents
It is possible for a character to’acquire' a Talent when they use a Specialty related to that Talent. When they acquire the Talent, they will get a nice bonus of100 SP and 100 BP, making it well worth your while to try and acquire new Talents for each character. For example, make a character Cook simple dishes when they have no Taste Talent, and they’ll eventually get the Talent and a bunch of extra points to spend.
Each character has a certain chance of acquiring a certain Talent whenever they use a related Specialty. Just keep using a Specialty with a certain character, and they will eventually acquire the Talentif it is at all possible.
Some characters are simply never going to acquire certain Talents. You can see this by checking the Talent list in the Status screen - for example, non-magical characters will never have theBlessing of Mana Talent, and Opera can never gain Wild Instinct or a Love for Animals - these Talents are missing from their Status menus entirely. The Talents that theycanacquire will appear in the Talent list butgreyedout.
To raise these chances significantly, you can use theOrchestra Super Specialty. As long as the effects of Orchestra are still active (as denoted by amusic note in the top right of the screen), a character will be far more likely to acquire a new Talent when using Specialties.
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