Intro
You can find 1 of each Battle Tested Item by just progressing the game and looting them off of NPC's, however this guide provides a way to farm multiple copies of those weapons... and will be your preferred method of getting them early as well.
You need to farm NPC's in certain towns and hope the item drops off of them after the fight.
There's a 2% chance it's going to drop and the only way to continually fight these NPC's is with Characters like Hikari or Ochette so make sure to over level them to make the grind easier on yourself.
Ochette is probably going to be your go to if you started on the Eastern Continent but be warned she can only summon monsters during her NPC fights which makes farming with her much more difficult than Hikari. You'll have near instant access to 5 of the 7 Battle Tested fights just by exploring the Eastern Continent.
The Battle Tested Staff is only a jump across the river in Canalbrine as well so ideally you'll want to start as Osvald and start scouring the Eastern Continent for other characters ASAP.
The only missing weapon so far is the Spear, it's NPC's location is currently unknown but its speculated location is a Judge NPC in front of the court house in Timberian.
Preparation
Farm / Buy Bottled Nightmares. You can get them in New Delsta Flats off of black market sellers for 3000 leaves each. Just stand in front of the tables and keep cycling Day / Night time until the proper NPC's show up, it's a Nun on the right hand table that sells them.
Save before fighting the special NPC's so you don't waste resources.
Spam Bottled Nightmares in battle against these NPC's to blind / poison / confuse and put them to sleep.
After which just defend and watch the counter tick down. For every bottled nightmare you use you can defend for 2 turns and then throw another one to refresh the debuffs for 3 more turns...
It takes anywhere from 5 to 6 bottled nightmares to kill one of these NPC's passively by defending... so roughly 15 to 18 turns of defending.
Battle Tested Weapons NPC Locations
*Videos provided by Spellborne
Continent: Crestlands
Village: Montwise
NPC: Guard (Day Time - Standing at top of staircase upon entering village)
Weapon: Battle Tested Shield
Continent: Toto'haha
Village: Tropu'hopu
NPC: Young Man (Day Time - On wooden docks middle of village)
Weapon Drop: Battle Tested Blade
Continent: Brightlands
Village: Clockbank
NPC: Elderly Man (Day Time) (Top of Pub - Need to Ambush / Knockout NPC during Night then switch to Day)
Weapon Drop: Battle Tested Dagger
Continent: Brightlands
Village: New Delsta
NPC: Tutor (Day Time - Standing near Inn on the main road upon entering village)
Weapon: Battle Tested Bow
Continent: Harborlands
Village: Canalbrine
NPC: Cleric (Day Time - Inside Church at alter)
Weapon: Battle Tested Staff
Continent: Winterlands
Village: Cape Cold
NPC: Villager (Day Time - on far right side of village standing outside last house)
Weapon: Battle Tested Axe
*Current location of Battle Tested Spear NPC is unknown. Speculation is a Judge in front of the court house in Timberain. (Needs confirmation)
Continent: ??
Village: ??
NPC: ??
Weapon: Battle Tested Spear
Continent: Harborlands
Village: Conning Creek
Location: Sail south west of Conning Creek and search treasure in water.
Weapon: Double Tomahawk
Unlock All Inventor Skills
*Video provided by CoatTee
How To Enter Infernal Castle / Beneath The Wall Dungeon
*Video provided by Urshiko: COTC
Secret end game Lv. 55 dungeon outside of Stormhail.
You must have 3 of the following 4 characters recruited: Ochette, Agneas, Temenos and Partitio.
Use their abilities to get 3 NPC's to follow you, then walk across the bridge.
The boss of this dungeon is: The Dreadwolf from Octopath 1 and boasts 150,000 HP
Spreadsheet Resources
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