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So before today I've never done Savescumming on XC2 before. Mostly just never needed to, but now, I want to get all my missing rares out of the way on an old NG+ file I never finished so I can start a fresh file from the start when NS2 Edition releases, and finally go for 100% without any RNG worries.

Thus far, it has helped a great deal with getting two of my last three. The most important one, (thank goodness) Zenobia, I got off of two reloads of the only 4 Legendaries I owned, very quickly. I got one of two NG+ exclusives I was missing, >!Cressidus,!< Even faster on the very same savescum 10 rares into my stack.

However, I've of course hit a bit of a wall with the last one, >!Patroka,!< (Somewhere over 200 rares scummed since getting that second one with no such luck as before) And I would like a community estimate for what I'm in for.

I'm out of easy legendaries on my current placement in-game (ch. 5 Indol, though Temperantia is open.) and am assumedly about 6-8 hours or so hours away from even having any options open to grind for legendaries. (Never opened those superbosses on my previous playthroughs. Also I bought some things from the traveling bards so I'm down a couple dozen max levels on a few drivers.)

So, because I'm trying to be stubborn about this, how many savescums would you estimate it to take me to get my last rare on 617 luck, irrelevant bravery level; 2 below a tie between intelligence and Justice, and a stack of 99 Rare Core Crystals, (from your own experience with savescumming or simply grinding.)

Should I just hunker down and just savescum until it happens, or would I genuinely be saving time to work my way back up to level 99 and whatever necessary chapter and grind out legendaries instead.

(Another reason I'm reluctant and kinda wanna get it over with now is that I just wanna do the quests in one run and wouldn't care to do too many quests on this file only to then do them again later, but that's super trivial and I can pretty easily suck it up if it came down to it.)

Obviously I know as much as anyone that it's pure RNG and it can range from 'my next core' to 'never' no matter what I do, but on a principle of percentages, would you say a single remaining rare blade is at all a feasible chance to attain with a (technically) infinite supply of rare cores, or should I just give up for now and wait until I can grind legendaries? Or is the premise of my question just utterly unhelpful and I should go grind legendaries regardless?

I hope this doesn't come off as stupid, or anal or anything. Kinda just want to get this done before August. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

So I thought this was a unanimously understood thing, but apparently this happens to be a topic of high contention. So if you would, give me your honest opinion on this question pertaining to Donkey Kong Bananza. I have also asked this question on r/Mario to compare resilts, so I would appreciate you only answering *this* poll if you are more active over here.

I had the thought of a third option that denotes Bananza as a spiritual successor without calling it an honorary 3D Mario, but I didn't think about it until after I made the poll on r/Mario, so it would be unfair to include it here. You get the same original two options.

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