The game offers quite a lot of ways for us to stack Incense pretty early on during Grand Trad. There are many ways we can farm Incense in Metaphor: ReFantazio. Since there are plenty of Incense types, each one will be different than the other, only some of them can be farmed. It can be difficult to pinpoint the specific option to pick up the Incense in the game. The guide will help you locate all the best possible locations for Incense in Metaphor: ReFantazio.
Locations For All Incense In Metaphor: ReFantazio
There are Nine different varieties of Incense items scattered throughout the world of Metaphor: ReFantazio, you will also find them from enemies as well.
Most of the Incense can be picked up from treasure boxes or looted from the bosses, only a few of them we can farm. Most of the farming takes place in the end game. With that out of the way, here we will look at all the Incense and where exactly in the game you can farm them.
#1 Health Incense
Effect – Health Incense affects your constitution, It raises your MAX HP by 5.
Locations:
- Inside the Regalith Grand Cathedral. But before Hulkenburg joins your square. Make sure to collect it during the segment.
- Eliminate Homo Jaluzo twice leading to the Kriegante Castle.
Farming Spot:
- Head to Tyrant’s Star, nearly the endgame area, here take out teeth-like enemies named Argent-Crown Homo Tenta and Or-Crown Homo Tenta to get Health Incense. Since it is an end-game area, all the rule of end game applies here, prepare to face the toughest enemies in the game.
#2 Magic Incense
Effect – Improves your Magic by 1.
Locations:
- Found in the Reception Chamber, Chapel, and Near Pews in Regalith Grand Cathedral. Search for Magic Incense before you destroy Black Magla Crystal.
- Also found in Man-Eater’s Grotto
#3 Energy Incense
Effect – Increases your MAX MP by 2.
Locations:
- Found inside a treasure chest in Man-Eater’s Grotto.
- Defeat Zorba, the first boss encounter in the game, found in Regalith Grand Cathedral.
Farming Spot:
- Same as Health Incense, Energy Incense can be farmed by stealing from teeth-like enemies named Argent-Crown Homo Tenta and Or-Crown Homo Tenta. The same principles follow here, just steal, don’t kill them.
#4 Strength Incense
Effect – Increases your Strength by 1.
Location:
Belega Corridor is an optional dungeon, if you haven’t done the side quest, you will completely miss the area.
- Found in the Belega Corridor. You will get access to the area by completing the A Bullish Embargo Side quest.
#5 Endurance Incense
Effect – Raises Endurance by 1.
Location:
- Located inside Hindgut, Giant Sandworm’s Belly.
#6 Hero’s Incense
Effect – Quickly offers a 100-point EXP boost to Archetype. A great Incense for the early game phases.
Location:
- Giant Sandworm’s Belly’s Entrance, Foregut, x2 in Hindugut.
- Trading with Man In Pain NPC
- Head to x1 Old Waterway and x2 in Old Reservoir inside Kriegante Castle.
- Found in the Altar Chamber, and reception Chamber in Regalith Grand Cathedral.
- You can found in Belega Corridor and inside Giant Sandworm’s Nest.
- Given by Characters in-game: More and Plateau.
- You will also get them as a pre-order bonus x10.
#7 Hero’s Fruit
Effect – Raises Archetype experience by 500, a better version of Hero’s Incense.
Location:
- Pre-Orde bonus x5
- Unlocking different types of Archetypes leads to Hero’s Fruit as a reward.
- Found in Abandoned Tomb at the lower level Blue object x2.
- Found inside Giant Sandworm’s Belly, in Hindgut.
- Look for them inside Man-Eater’s Grotto.
#8 Hero’s Leaf of Light
Effect – Raises the Archetype experience by 1,000, a more superior version of Hero’s Fruit.
This Incense is farm-able but it is not going to be easy, as you will have to face the toughest enemy in the game. But the reward in the end will be worth it.
Location
- Leveling up any Archetype after it has reached Master Rank.
- Inside the Treasure chests in Giant Sandworm’s Belly and Man-Eater’s Grotto.
Farming Spot:
- A drop from Pyrite Imitec (Common Kind), and enemies in the Giant Sandworm’s Belly – Foregut area dungeon.
Note: They are not going to go down easily, if you ever faced a common Imitec, you know how difficult it can get to take those down. Pyrite Imitec is the difficult version of a common Imitec, make sure to prepare before you head to defeat them. Three things you need to focus on here: Health, Buffing your squad, and lastly Gold Attack.
#9 Hero’s Jewelled Root
Effect – Increases Archetype experience by a whopping 3000, the ultimate version of Hero’s Incense.
Location:
- Completing More’s Rank up to 7 and 8.
- Handling over 13x requests.
Tips For Farming Incense In Metaphor: ReFantazio
To make the farming go faster, follow the tips mentioned below to make your character more suitable for item finding and techniques to grind items faster.
- For grinding, equip the Lucky Find a skill to raise your item discovery by 20%. Add it to each character to get a good amount of boost. That’s the reason why Lucky Find is one of the best skills in the game.
- Next thing you should focus on retreating rather than eliminating the enemies. Use Steal, get the item but don’t defeat the enemies, instead – retreat. So you can always come back later and grab the reward again. Escape Master on Bardon will help you successfully escape the squad battle.
- Change your Difficulty setting to Easy to make it simple to farm the incense. If you are having difficulties defeating enemies, then there is no shame in changing the difficulty for quick farming.
- Always steal the items don’t kill the enemies, steal, and then retreat afterward.
That’s it, use the methods and locations mentioned above to grab the Incense in Metaphor: ReFantazio.
