You can just do main quests and mandatory sidequests only on the first playthrough, the stat boosts won't be that much.

Most of the stat boosts on the first NG+ actually come from the weapon upgrades.

Thanks for the Siegfried + adornments!

Fight Goblot in Dead Dunes to get poisoned.

Thanks for the CBP! Works just like the 360 version.

Not trying to rush you, but just curious how close are you in releasing Siegfried garb mod?

To start with, how many enemies even have attacks that ignore (non-perfect timed) Guard? Probably 2 or 3?

There's already a schemata setup that makes you immune to everything while guarding without using Hoods, so really the only concern is those attacks that ignore normal guarding.

For the perfect attacks, don't forget that the dual blades weapons sold in Wildlands restore x% health for each perfect timed attacks, so making the timing window more lenient could potentially make you easily recover your health for free.

That being said, I agree with another poster in the other thread, that if this mod will be released, it should be placed under a different difficulty level. Since there is no more Outerworld battle score leaderboard, I don't have a problem with a mod like this, as this is now a completely single-player game.

Could save some time if you want to farm Thundara to get the lowest ATB cost.