Dro Kulix (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} drokulix) wrote,@ 2008-05-09 08:55:00 |
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let me show you my pokemans
A note about zealous berry farming in Pokémon Diamond (and Pearl).
Before I start: If you're playing, and you don't have a Sitrus or Lum Berry, get on DS Wi-Fi with me so I can hand you some. I'll tell you why in a moment.
I'm not extraordinarily interested in this whole Poffin thing. The berries that matter to me are the ones that do things without nasty side effects. In particular, these are the only things I'd bother to do with a berry:
At this point, the following are the berries that concern me most:
If you are seriously playing, and are to the point where you can plant berries, plant Lum and Sitrus ASAFP. Bonus points if you've already gotten to the Berry Master's house and can buy Growth Mulch, which, when used correctly, will reduce the time it takes to grow. (By how much exactly I'm finding conflicting figures, but at worst it's 75% of the normal time.) Spread the mulch before planting the berry, plant the berry, and then water it. When it's practical and you won't get in trouble for it, water every four hours. Try not to go much longer than eight hours without watering as a general rule, but for a more exact gauge, watch the color of the soil: Brown is fine, greyish brown means you waited too long, and orange is in between. All of the plants I deal with can yield up to five berries. If it's not five yet, keep watering it until it is. If you plant a row of four, gather the full yield, and then plant four more, you've netted 16 with more on the way, and that's a hell of a start.
If you want to get started and don't yet have access to Sitrus Berry, Lum Berry, or Growth Mulch, get on DS Wi-Fi with me and I hook you up.
Why am I offering this? It's simple: If I had the same resources way, way earlier in the game, I would have gotten more use out of them. I just finished the eighth gym and only now am I expecting a yield of Lum Berries large enough to be useful. It happens that I have over 120 Sitrus Berries now, but that's only due to some fairly aggressive gardening and heavy utilization of Fly (which is your friend when trying to grow more than ten plants at a time).
So, that's it. Ax and you shall receive.
A note about zealous berry farming in Pokémon Diamond (and Pearl).
Before I start: If you're playing, and you don't have a Sitrus or Lum Berry, get on DS Wi-Fi with me so I can hand you some. I'll tell you why in a moment.
I'm not extraordinarily interested in this whole Poffin thing. The berries that matter to me are the ones that do things without nasty side effects. In particular, these are the only things I'd bother to do with a berry:
- Plant it to grow more of the same.
- Use it as an item, because it does something like restore HP or cure a status.
- Let a team member hold it so that it is used without spending a whole turn on it in battle. This is the most crucial in my opinion. After all, have you ever used an item to clear up Confusion only to have Confuse Ray used on you the very next turn? It's most frustrating.
At this point, the following are the berries that concern me most:
- Sitrus Berry and, to a lesser extent, Oran Berry. In the DP games, Oran Berry restores 20 HP, while Sitrus Berry restores an amount I'd say is around 25% of the user's max (though this number seems to be inconstant). Oran Berry is extremely easy to grow. Sitrus involves a bit more patience, but at some point 20 HP just isn't enough.
- Lum Berry. This one is extremely hard to grow; unfertilized, it apparently takes 48 hours to yield. But...it will cure an arbitrary status ailment, be it Burn, Poison, Paralysis, et cetera. Against certain enemies this could be a crucial hold item. That said, I haven't actually used one yet because I've been too busy trying to farm them, so I can't say whether it remedies in-battle statuses—in particular, Confusion. So...
- Persim Berry. My insurance in the event that Lum Berry doesn't do volatile status, it cures Confusion. Not hard to grow.
If you are seriously playing, and are to the point where you can plant berries, plant Lum and Sitrus ASAFP. Bonus points if you've already gotten to the Berry Master's house and can buy Growth Mulch, which, when used correctly, will reduce the time it takes to grow. (By how much exactly I'm finding conflicting figures, but at worst it's 75% of the normal time.) Spread the mulch before planting the berry, plant the berry, and then water it. When it's practical and you won't get in trouble for it, water every four hours. Try not to go much longer than eight hours without watering as a general rule, but for a more exact gauge, watch the color of the soil: Brown is fine, greyish brown means you waited too long, and orange is in between. All of the plants I deal with can yield up to five berries. If it's not five yet, keep watering it until it is. If you plant a row of four, gather the full yield, and then plant four more, you've netted 16 with more on the way, and that's a hell of a start.
If you want to get started and don't yet have access to Sitrus Berry, Lum Berry, or Growth Mulch, get on DS Wi-Fi with me and I hook you up.
Why am I offering this? It's simple: If I had the same resources way, way earlier in the game, I would have gotten more use out of them. I just finished the eighth gym and only now am I expecting a yield of Lum Berries large enough to be useful. It happens that I have over 120 Sitrus Berries now, but that's only due to some fairly aggressive gardening and heavy utilization of Fly (which is your friend when trying to grow more than ten plants at a time).
So, that's it. Ax and you shall receive.
