Dust An Elysian Tail
30 Achievements
400
15-20h
That's More Like It
Successfully complete a 1000+ hit combo
10
How to unlock the That's More Like It achievement in Dust An Elysian Tail - Definitive Guide
This can be done very easily, very early in the game with these two giants.
Now get to the first vertical right turn on the map (you'll see huge statues in the background), gather as many enemies as you can, stand in the corner and use B then Y repeadtly to power-up Lightning Storm after Lightning Storm, I climbed up to a 3000-something combo in a few seconds. Don't forget to run away before an enemy hits you and breaks your chain, or remove the pendant and re-equip all your highest power-ups to clean up the remaining foes.
If your stamina turns low or you turn red because of the Dust Storm, try to land a few hits with X to cool down, there's bound to be a blob in the group of foes, so if it gets too close between the electric shocks, try to counter him and hit him a bit to get some breathing space, however if you're around level 18/19 on Normal you should have little to no trouble. On Tough or Hardcore you might want to level up your Health, Defense and Fidget a tad more to play it safe, also stock up on food.
The trick here is that the Ugly Pendant divides your Attack, Defense and Fidget power by 10. So, if you remove all of your power-ups to keep your base attack, the pendant will only let you use a 10th of that (I have a base attack of 58 since I put some level gems in it, I only had 5 after equipping the pendant).
The video (not mine, btw.)will show you where to stand to get maximum efficiency, it suggests you spammed the Dust Storm, which can be a good strategy, but the Lightning Storm cranks up the hit count much faster.
Also, since you already leveled up quite a bit, you'll have some good gear as well to finish the job.
EDIT: Corrected the chapter number, and added a few clarifications and corrected typos.
The area in the video below is within the The Sorrowing Meadow. As you make your way down to the second mansion, you will have to deal with a phantom like enemy which you can only kill with projectiles. Have the phantom appear, but don't attack anyone, press "b" to fire a projectile, then press "y" to use the Dust Wind attack. Time your attacks, but once the wall of fire goes up, press "b" again and use your wind attack to chain a second fire attack.
Keep doing this and you will hit well over a 1,000 hit combo in this area. There are plenty of areas to earn this massive combo, but this is areas appears to be the easiest. If you happen to get hit, just jump back up and head back to the previous area and try again.
I prefered this solution since eventually it becomes a side-quest and needs to be done later in the game.
You need to get to chapter three, and have completed the four mansions in the story-based quest. I recommend doing the bottom-right mansion last, so you're near the save point for this achievement.
You'll want Fidget's electrical attack selected. Go up one room from the save point outside the bottom-right mansion in The Sorrowing Meadow, then go up one room. Now hold the B button, so that Fidget's electric attack is continuous. Just move up, through the room, by continuously jumping to avoid enemies, still holding B, until you get to two step-like cliff-hangs on the right side of the screen. You'll get a zombie-spawning phantom enemy attacking you, and there will also be a bug-spawning hive above you. Fidget's electric attack will home in on multiple enemies, causing your combo meter to start raising VERY quickly. Now just continue to hold B, continuing to use Fidget's electric attack, and continue just jumping above enemies until the achievement pops. My explanations aren't very good, so I've done a video to describe this method, which you can see below:
Head to the Sorrowing Meadow (graveyard) and visit the first of the four mansions for Cora. Now you'll have the wall jump and the choice of which mansion to visit next. Pick the Southeast one and make your way there. When you're two rooms north of the mansion entrance, you're in position.
Enter the room from the top - you'll see climbable walls on both sides, and to the left, a path with some spikes and a bug nest. Run past the bug nest and you'll encounter several zombies and a giant insect on the ground. Run just past them without fighting, and stop on the ledge while you wait for the enemies to approach.
Select Fidget's Lightning attack and start shocking the enemies who are following from the right. Once few if any remain, drop down and continue using lightning attacks on the many zombies below. Keep the shock going as long as you can, switching to melee attacks when Dust gets too red. Repeat this without missing or getting hit and you'll hit 1,000 before the room is cleared.
If you mess up, just exit from the top and start the process again. Also, if somehow you're killing everyone before you get 10K hits (which was not a problem for me), remove the augment you have equipped in order to reduce your attack power.
It does 1 damage so no risk of killing off enemies before your done. You unlock the slide mid way through chapter 2.
One last note after you hit 1000 move away and let the combo end if you are hit you will have to do it again.
Note 2: Also you will notice the combo nearly stops, IGNORE THAT, i have done this 3 times and every time got the same result
Note 3: This was done on easy and i'm not sure if it can be done on the harder difficulties, as you get hurt when you start to go red on Tough difficulty.
I've found the perfect place to do this in the Blackmoor Mountains, near the beginning there is a ledge you reach where you can hold down the button with Fidget's Lighting attack, will show it in the video, i have already got the achievement so it won't show it poppin but you will see the combo meter get well over a 1000.
I have attached a youtube video which shows some generally nice locations and such, but what I personally recommend is just getting the necklace called "Ugly Pendant". You might think it is useless because it only lowers all your stats, but this is exactly why you want it. You don't kill enemies in 3 hits, but rather you don't kill them at all, allowing yourself to get insanely high combos on just a few normal enemies. If you don't have the necklace you can simply buy it in a shop.
Now for the actual combo-getting hits, you can really do it with the first two spells that fidget gets and combining them with the dust storm.
All in all an easy trophy, go get it!
Combos are performed by attacking enemies and chaining hits in quick succession. After hitting an enemy, you have a few seconds to score another hit before the combo ends. Taking any damage will also cause your combo to end. Your combo counter is at the top right of your screen.
This mostly involves repeatedly firing projectiles in combination with dust storm on large groups of monsters. Projectiles track enemies and hit many times to increase your combo quickly. If you're already very high level and find yourself doing too much damage, unequip any items that add damage. You can also find an Ugly Pendant and equip it to lower your stats to 10%. Try to end your combo shortly after your combo counter reaches 1000 hits. Getting hit and having your chain broken even after surpassing 1000 hits will NOT earn you the achievement.
This can be done very easily, very early in the game on the first two giants you fight. If you're already past that part, you can also get it fairly easily on Rock Hounds in chapter 2. You'll regularly run into big groups of them. Further still, in chapter 3 you'll constantly run into big groups of zombies which should also make a thousand hits easy. My combo of choice is +
A lot of people like to get this one early on, if you choose to do so then here is a way to do it. If you mess up, then go to Options and reload the last checkpoint. This is in The Glade during the Prologue.
Video Credit to me.
If not, I found it easier in Chapter 3. At this area, if you mess up, go into the air tube and ride it to the top where you came from. Exit then re-enter the map to give it another shot.
Video Credit to me.
Tips:
Do not level Fidget too much, as she will be your primary source of attacks. Use your preferred projectile and Aerial Dust Storm around enemies while trying to shoot some projectiles here and there. Once you run out of Energy for the projectiles, do some sword combos to refill it quickly and take to the air again. Do not keep the Dust Storm too long as that will end up hurting you and ruining your combo. Also, this ties into C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER side quest which is needed for a trophy.
- set the difficulty to "casual"
- buy and put on the “Ugly Pendant” necklace (to be sure, you can take off all other clothes),
- switch magic to lightning,
- We find a couple of enemies and hold down the circle button until the desired result.