You get to explore some of Norway’s beautiful west coast fjord regions in the first parts of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, including a viking settlement that will eventually evolve to become Stavanger as we know it today. But many people are wondering if there are in fact stave churches in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
There are no real stave churches in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but they have some Norse temples that look almost exactly like stave churches. However, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla takes place before Christianity comes to Norway, so there are no churches in the Norway region of the game.
Some people have found the Norse temple seen in the Norway region of AC Valhalla to look a lot like Heddal stave church, which is in reality found in Notodden, Norway. This is pretty much on the other side of the country compared to where AC Valhalla takes place.
So while the Norse temple in the game might resemple it and even have taken inspiration from it, it is clearly not meant to be either this stave church or any other stave church. The temples in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla are purely fictional.
Patch 7.1 added a lot of exciting content, but also added a problem for a lot of users. Upon going to Dalaran and certain other places, the loading screen would take forever to load, and there is luckily a solution to bypass this problem. After following this guide you will notice a very good improvement upon logging in, switching continents and loading Dalaran.
Here’s how to do it: Close WoW and open the Battle.net launcher. Click on “Options” and select “Game Settings“. Click on the “Streaming” tab and turn off streaming there. After doing this, save the settings, and your loading times are much better! This will not affect any of the in-game features unless you plan on using the Battle.net launcher to stream to Twitch.
Blizzard offered an alternative solution to the problem in which you could delete your cache folder in the WoW installation folder, but most people don’t get any better loading times by doing this.
Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals are two new currencies added in patch 8.1, with one for each faction. Despite being two different currencies in-game, they are essentially the same thing with a different name, and you obtain them by the exact same method.
There are a few ways to obtain these Service Medals, and we will list all of the different methods here:
1) Do World Quests in Warfront zones when your faction controls it. Right now this only includes Darkshore and Arathi Highland, but there will presumable be more Warfronts and included zones in future patches. Your faction will need to control the zone for these World Quests to show up, and the controlling faction gets 5 World Quests each day they control the zone. Each WQ gives you one Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medal, so you can get a total of 5 Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals per day per controlled zone.
2) Complete Faction Assaults. These show up every 19 hours after one begin (12 hours after one end), and last for 7 hours at a time. During this time you can go to your map to see special Faction Assault World Quests. Each faction has 5 of these WQs up at a time, but you only need to complete 4 of these to progress on the main Faction Assault Quest. This short quest first requires you to complete 4 WQs, then a small mission that typically takes a few minutes, and after this you are awarded with 5 Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals.
3) Do Warfronts. Each new Warfront cycle allows you to complete a quest for winning that Warfront, and these award you with 15 Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals. Since you can only do this for each new Warfront cycle, this typically gives you 5 extra Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals per week now that we only have two active Warfronts.
4) Open 7th Legion/Honorbound Paragon Caches. You get these Paragon Caches for every 10k Reputation you obtain after already being Exalted with 7th Legion/Honorbound. Each cache gives you 20 Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals. This method of obtaining the Service Medals is the only one that is not timegated behind daily resets or Warfront cycles, and there should pretty much always be a way for you to grind these reputations; either from World Quests on the other faction’s continent, by doing Warfronts, doing Warfront WQs, running Island Expeditions etc.
What to buy with Honorbound/7th Legion Service Medals
There are some interesting items for sale that requires Service Medals to buy. The vendors are called Provisioner Stoutforge for Alliance, in Boralus (TomTom coordinates: 66.82, 25.68, behind the boat) and Provisioner Mukra for Horde, at the Dazar’alor Docks (TomTom coordinates: 51.23, 95.05, near the portal trainer and quartermaster).
Some of the items you can buy include:
– Cloaks in basic faction colors (red or blue) for transmog.
– Heirloom items, including 3 trinkets (75 Service Medals each) and a tanking cloak (50 Service Medals).
– Four different mounts; 2 for Alliance and 2 for Horde. You get a Krolusk mount in your faction colors for 200 Service Medals, and a Moonsaber (Alliance) or a Dreadwing bat (Horde) for 750 Service Medals.
– Some other items like a teleport ting (300 Service Medals), toys (125 Service Medals), and pets (100 Service Medals).
theHunter: Call of the Wild comes with only two of 15+ hunting reserves unlocked, so when you first boot up the game you can only choose to play on either Layton Lake District or Hirschfelden Hunting Reserve. These two are considered to be two great hunting reserves, but a lot of players might want to try their luck hunting in snowy Canada, the savannahs of Africa, or in the Patagonia mountain ranges.
So, how do you unlock new hunting reserves in theHunter: Call of the Wild?
In order to unlock more hunting reserves in theHunter: Call of the Wild, you need to buy them for real-life money. The new hunting reserves are paid DLC, and it is currently not possible to buy or unlock them using in-game money or anything like that.
So you need to be prepared to open up your wallet if you want to get new hunting reserves. Fortunately they are pretty cheap, and are frequently on sale for as low as around $4 each, so it is far from expensive to pick up a reserve or two.
The DLCs are bought from Steam, Playstation Store, or Microsoft Store depending on which console you are playing the game on.
Those who played during World of Warcraft vanilla probably faintly remember the classic Honor System where all PvP was based around getting Honor. This system was removed in the Burning Crusade prepatch, but it will make a return in World of Warcraft Classic, and this guide will teach you everything you need to know about the vanilla Honor System, allowing you to target the rank and rewards you want.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the vanilla Honor System was designed around spending a huge amount of time grinding Honor, so getting a high PvP Rank is an activity that will likely occupy 12-14 hours of your day. It is possible to get to around Rank 10 or so without putting in these insane hours, but 11 to 14 definitely requires an insane grind.
Anyway, let’s get into the basic of the vanilla Honor System!
The basics of the Honor System in Classic / vanilla
The Honor System is based around getting Honor Contribution Points (CP). You get this from the following sources:
– Killing other players to get Honorable Kills (HKs). Not all players are equal; higher PvP Ranked players will provide more CP than lower ranked players. Also killing the same player two or more times within a 24 hour period will decrease the CP gained. Each extra kill during these 24 hours get 10 % less CP than the previous kill, so the enemies essentially become worthless after you have killed them 6-7 times. The CP is also split amount all the players that participate in the kill.
– Fulfilling Battleground objectives. Whenever your team gets a point in WSG, get resource ticks in AB or things like that, all the members get CP.
To get to a higher Honor Rank, you basically want to get as much CP as possible each week.
Getting Rating Points from your Honor Contribution Points
Your CP will be locked during maintenance every Tuesday (US) or Wednesday (EU), and used to calculate how much Rating Points (RP) you get. During this time, your CP will be measured against all the other PvP players on your faction on your server, and a certain percentage get awarded with RP. This means that you are essentially competing against all the other PvP players on your own faction, and only 0.03 % of the players with most CP will get to the highest bracket of RP.
Here are all the brackets and the top CP earners that get awarded with each bracket of RP:
12 000 RP: Top 0.03 % of CP earners. 11 000 RP: Top 0.08 % of CP earners.
10 000 RP: Top 2 % of CP earners.
9 000 RP: Top 3.5 % of CP earners. 8 000 RP: Top 6 % of CP earners.
7 000 RP: Top 10 % of CP earners.
6 000 RP: Top 15.9 % of CP earners.
5 000 RP: Top 28.8 % of CP earners.
4 000 RP: Top 32.7 % of CP earners.
3 000 RP: Top 43.6 % of CP earners.
2 000 RP: Top 56.6 % of CP earners.
1 000 RP: Top 69.7 % of CP earners.
400 RP: Top 84.5 % of CP earners.
0 RP: The rest who got 15+ HKs that week.
This RP is what determines your Rank, and as you can see, the max amount of RP you can get in a single week is 12 000. However, only a few people will get this every week.
It’s also important to know that you get a 20 % decay of RP each week, so you start off with each week with 20 % less RP than the week before, assuming you didn’t get any RP that week. This does not play a big role when you are a low ranked player, but it will be a huge pain in the ass when you are Rank 10+!
RP needed to reach each rank
Below is a table of each rank and how much RP you need. The titles are in brackets with Alliance first, then Horde.
As you can see, you pretty much need to get at least 5 000 RP + enough to combat the 20 % decay each week in order to rise to a higher Rank.
The 20 % decay is 11 000 RP when you have 55 000 RP at Rank 13, which means that you will need to be in the top 0.08 % of players to even stay the same, or in the 0.03 % of the players to even get 1 000 RP that week. Funfact: About 3-6 players per server are able to get enough RP to fight the decay you get at Rank 12-13 and push them up to Rank 14. This is why you won’t ever see more than a few Rank 14 players at a time.
Some tips for farming Honor Points in Classic
We will end this guide by giving a few tips on how to grind Honor Points, based on how it worked in vanilla. The community will obviously be a lot different this time around, but these tips will likely still be relevant.
– You need to have at least 15 HKs during a week to even get RP, or else it counts as 0 RP, no matter how many CP you got.
– Play with a team that can grind Battleground to maximize Honor gained per hour. And then begin to clock in as many hours as humanly possible if you want to get to a high Rank. It’s virtually impossible to get to a high Rank without plating with a pre-made group.
– It might not be a bad idea to stay away from the most popular servers, since these will likely have a lot of dedicated players that are trying to get a high Rank, making it more difficult for everyone involved.
– If you get to the top 0.03 % of the PvP players every single week, it will take you 12 weeks to get to Rank 14. But it’s extremely unlikely that anyone will be able to do this.
You start Forager with only 3 Hearts / Health and a short Stamia bar, so these are things you will want to upgrade as soon as you can. The method for increasing both of these are the same, and you have to use an item called Spirit Orb. This is a rare and valuable item, and each Spirit Orb is consumed on use. When using it, a menu will pop up, and you have the following four options:
– Increase your max Hearts by +1. – Inscrease your max Stamia. – Instantly gain a level. – Permanently increase your Damage dealt.
Most people find the Stamina upgrade to be the best, followed by Health on the second place. And after this they begin to work on the Damage incease. I would not bother with using any Spirit Orbs on getting extra levels, because you can easily level up by setting up a Lighthouse farm.
How to get Spirit Orbs
Now you know that you need Spirit Orbs to get more Health and Stamina, and the next step is to learn how to get the Spirit Orbs themselves. Firstly, you get a lot of Spirit Orbs by doing the puzzles and challenges in the game, including all the Dungeons. You will get 10-20 Spirit Orbs just by playing the game regularly, and it is usually a steady supply of them if you keep explording and doing puzzles.
It’s also possible to craft Spirit Orbs, and you need to use the Spirit Crystal structure to craft it. This requires the “Froststrike” skill, deep down in the right bottom corner of the skill tree. With this, use Crystals and Steel to craft the Spirit Crystal, and use this to craft a Spirit Orb.
Each Spirit Orb requires 10x Great Skull + 10x Purple Pigment + 5x Bottled Fairy to craft. The cost will not rise, but these are kind of difficult to get in the first place.
Like other structures, it takes a while to craft the Spirit Orbs from the Spirit Crystal, so have some patience when you want to craft Spirit Orbs to increase your Health and Stamina in Forager.
The Lighthouse is probably the best building in Forager, and it’s very easy to make a set-up with Lighthouses to make a huge amount of Coins (and Experience if you got the Capitalist skill). Each Lighhouse provides an AoE buff from where it is placed, increasing the resources gathered in this areas by 50 %. This might not sound like a lot, but the beauty of it is that they stack exponentially!
This means that you can surround an island with Lighthouses to get a multiplying effect, and with this you can find thousands of resource items by doing things like digging with your shovel or spawning some Skeletons that you can kill.
Spawning Skeletons with a Skeleton Rod is the easiest way to get Coins and Experience, and a few minutes worth of spawning and killing Skeletons will get you thousands and thousands of Bones. You should have all the upgrades to your Rods to that you can hold downt he mouse button to constantly summon more Skeletons, or else your efficiency will suffer a lot.
Likewise digging with your Shovel will give you thousands of Coal, Sand, gems, Plastic and other rare items! This is probably less effective than summoning and killing Skeletons, but it’s a great method to get materials needed for crafting stuff. You will want to best Shovel you can get in order to get more rare items and a bigger radius for your digging.
You can farm any resource with the Lighthouse buffs, so feel free to get an animal there and give it Animal Feed to get thousands of Fibers, Meat, Eggs or Poop. The buildings won’t be affected by the Lighthouses though, so there is no use in making any building to produce things there.
With a good set-up, you can potentially get millions of resources in matter of minutes, and this is by far the best and easiest way to become a millionaire or a billionaire in the game.
PS. A lot of people seem to have trouble building the Lighthouses, and the problem tend to be that they try to place it on the ground. The Lighthouses can only be built in water, so try that, and you will likely get it to work.
We also can’t recommend a perfect spot to set up the Lighthouse farm, since all games randomly generates the islands, so the perfect spot will be different for everyone. Just look for an area where you can get down at least 8+ Lighthouses to get a good set-up, but the more the better.
How to get Lighthouses
In order to get the Lighthouses, you need the skill called “Optics” located directly two blocks to the right of the “Economy” skill that you can start with at level 1. With this skill you can use Steel, Bricks and Glass to make Lighthouses, and just like the rest of the buildings in Forager, the cost will exponentially grow as you make more buildings.
The Lighthouses are a building, so build them just like any other building, and they will be permanently placed where you put them. You can see their area of effect by looking at the area that get shaded, and when you have multiple, the shade will be stronger. So with a decent set up, the entire screen will be shaded almost purple like you can see in the screenshot above.
You can actually remove the shade if you wish by using this guide, but this will make it much more difficult to place more Lighthouses in the future, since you won’t know which area will be affected or not.
The Winterspring Frostsaber is one of the coolest mounts you can get in World of Warcraft Classic, but it requires a huge amount of dedication to get your hands on. This mount is sold by a vendor named Rivern Frostwind in Winterspring for 900g base cost, but the hard part about getting it is the fact that you need to be exalted with the Wintersaber Trainers faction.
The faction and subsequently the mount is only available to Alliance players, and there is no Horde equivalent in the game.
You start the journey towards your Winterspring Frostsaber by heading to the northern part of Winterspring and climb up the Frostsaber Rock. There are many stealthed frostsabers in the area, so try not to get dazed. There are no enemies on the rock itself. You will find Rivern Frostwind, the only intractable member of Wintersaber Trainers on the peak, and he will offer the quest you need to grind to any level 60 Alliance players.
Getting exalted with the Wintersaber Trainers
People have always considered getting exalted with the Wintersaber Trainers in WoW Classic or vanilla to be one of the longest, if not the longest grind in the entire game. The short explanation is that this faction gives you three different repeatable quests that you can do as many times as you can, and each turn-in gives you 50 or 75 reputation per quest.
You will likely be focusing on getting all the 42,000 rep you need by doing the 50 rep quests, so all non-humans will need to complete the repeatable quests 840 times, while players who play a human character will only need to do it 764 times due to the fact that they get a 10 % reputation bonus to all turn-ins.
Winterspring map with all the points of interest
Here is a map of Winterspring with all the areas that are relevant when it comes to grinding the Winterspring Frostsaber.
1 = Frostsaber Rock; pick up your quests here. 2 = Area to complete Frostsaber Provisions. 3 = Area to complete Winterfall Intrusions. 4 = Area to complete Rampaging Giants.
Part 1: Getting from 0/3000 Neutral to 1500/3000 Neutral
When you first interact with Rivern Frostwind of the Wintersaber Trainers, he will only offer you one of the three quests, and you will have to complete this until you unlock another repeatable quest at 1500/3000 Neutral rep.
This first quest called Frostsaber Provisions requires you to collect 5 x Shardtooth Meat + 5 x Chillwind Meat, dropping from Shardtooth Bears and Chillwind Chimaera in the area just southeast of the Frostsaber Rock.
The quest items will have about 35 % drop rate from these mobs, so it takes quite a few kills to get all the ten you need in total. You also cannot stockpile them, but must get 5 of each, turn in the quest, re-accept it, then get 5 + 5 new items. Once you have 5 of one of the meats in your inventory, this will stop dropping.
Each completing of the quest takes between 20 and 40 minutes depending on your luck with the drops, and can even take longer if many people are fighting over the same mobs. Each turn in gives you 50 reputation per completion, so this first step of the journey will take 30 turn-ins, which will take about 15 hours if we use 30 minutes as an average completion time. This is not the fastest method to get rep with the Wintersaber Trainers, but as said, it’s required for the first part of the grind, and might be a good alternative if the Winterfall Village (needed for the other quest) is too crowded with other farmers.
The Meat will only drop from a single player, so it is recommended to do this part of the reputation grind alone.
Part 2: Grinding to exalted with Winterfall Intrusion
After you reach 1500/3000 Neutral, Rivern Frostwind will offer another quest called Winterfall Intrusions. This is generally accepted as the quest that is fastest to complete, so you will be completing this until you hit Exalted.
The Winterfall Intrusion quest requires you to go just east of Everlook in the area called Winterfall Village. Here you need to kill 5x Winterfall Shaman and 5x Winterfall Ursa before heading back up to turn it in. This repeatable quest can and should be completed in a group to make it faster and easier for everyone.
The mobs themselves are not that difficult, but they have a somewhat long respawn time, so you might have to wait a bit to get all the kills you need, especially if there are horde who farm the area for Timbermaw Hold reputation. It sucks being stuck waiting with 9/10 total kills, but that will happen many times during the grind..
Each turn-in will give 50 reputation, and you will need to complete this quest 810 times to get from 1500/3000 neutral to hit Exalted (requires 40 500 reputation in total). Each completion take roughly 15 minutes, so you can complete 4 quests per hour, netting you 200 reputation per hour of grinding. This means that you are looking at spending just over 200 hours farming this quest, and exactly 217.5 hours in total including the first quest – and that’s not considering any time spent being unlucky with spawns, getting ganked etc. So it’s a crazy grind.
If you grind for four hours per day it will take you just over 49 days to get it done. And if you are crazy enough to dedicate 12 hours a day, it will still take you just over 16 days to get it done.
Optional third quest
When you hit 0/12000 Honored, a third quest becomes available. This quest is called “Rampaging Giants”, and takes you further south to Frostwhisper Gorge to kill 4 x Forstmaul Giant and 4x Frostmaul Preserver. These mobs are elite, so many classes have trouble even killing them, and this quest will probably work best in a group setting.
It takes roughly twice as long to reach Frostwhisper Gorge as it does to reach Winterfall Village, so it’s generally not worth going down here, even considering that you have to kill fewer mobs. The only reason to really go down there is if there are many people grinding the furblogs, in which case you might have to wait a long time for them to spawn. If that’s the case, it might very well be worth taking a few trips down to Frostwhisper Gorge to kill the giants.
Some tips regarding Timbermaw Hold reputation
You don’t strictly need to do this when grinding for the Winterspring Frostsaber, but with a little bit of preparation you can get Exalted with Timbermaw Hold as well. Basically you want to complete the Timbermaw quest chain in Winterspring until you get the quest “Winterfall Activity” which takes place in the same area that you will be grinding for the Winterfall Intrusions repeatable quest.
When the Winterfall Activity quest is done, just grind the Wintersaber Trainers as written above. You will naturally kill a lot of furblogs during this part of the grind, and each kill will give you 10 reputation with the Timbermaw Hold. In addition, 25 % of the furblogs killed will drop an item called Winterfall Spirit Beads. You will need to save this item, because you can turn in 5x Winterfall Spirit Beads for 150 reputation with Timbermaw Hold.
The reason why we want this is because you won’t get any reputation from killing mobs after hitting Revered with Timbermaw Hold (except for a few rare mobs), so at this point the only way to get rep is by turning in Winterfall Spirit Beads (or Deadwood Headdress Feather which drops in Felwood).
As long as you save up all the Winterfall Spirit Beads you get by killing the mobs until you hit Revered, you should have no problems getting Exalted with the Timbermaw Hold without any additional hassle.
Getting Exalted with Timbermaw Hold will get you a cool trinket called Defender of the Timbermaw, which summons a furblog to fight besides you. The reward might not be the best, but it’s hardly any extra work when you are going to grind for the Winterspring Frostsaber anyway.
A few tips to making it easier to grind the Winterspring Frostsaber
Here are a few additional tips to making the grind easier, in no particular order.
– Pick up some mount speed increasing items like the Carrot on a Stick. A lot of your play time will be spent traveling between the Winterfall Village and Frostsaber Rock, so it’s worth changing your trinkets to get some extra mount speed while traveling (but change back before attacking mobs again). You can also use Mithril Spurs on your boots and an enchantment on your Gloves for some extra mount speed.
– A great tip for making it much easier to farm the mount is to always play with a group, preferably 4 other people if you can manage to find enough players that are also crazy enough to do the grind. Since the main quest to do is killing mobs, all kills by party members count. However, you will not get credit if you are in a raid. And as mentioned earlier, don’t group for the first quest since only one person can loot the meat.
– Find a good podcast or a streamer to watch. This grind takes a mindbogglingly long time to complete, so make sure to set up a second monitor to watch a TV show or a streamer, or find a great podcast to listen to while doing this.
– Some people think that they should do this without an epic mount (in order to save money by not having to buy two epic mounts), but please don’t try this. You will be traveling for almost half of the grind, so a regular non-epic mount will slow you down considerably and make the grind much longer!
– You should get some decent gear before beginning. This grind will be very annoying if you play in green or blue gear, and you should aim at getting at least gear from Molten Core or Zul’Gurub to not make it more difficult than it has to be.
Buying the Winterspring Frostsaber
Once you hit Exalted, Rivern Frostwind will sell you the mount for 900g, which is a lot of gold in WoW Classic or vanilla. However, the extremely long grind will likely lead you to getting way more gold than that, so that should not be an issue. Just sell any world drop epic you find, all the Runecloth you will pick up from the furblogs etc. and this won’t be a problem at all. I actually bought both the Winterspring Frostsaber and two additional epic mounts when I first did this grind in vanilla, but I got pretty lucky with the drops while grinding.
Remember that you can only use the mount on the character you did the grind on, so keep that in mind before you begin.
Soy sauce is one of the most important seasonings in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, especially if you enjoy cooking Japanese-style dishes. Like many other ingredients, you cannot buy it straight from the start. Instead, you’ll need to unlock a few mechanics, gather the right crops, and process them before soy sauce becomes available in your kitchen. Here’s a detailed guide on how to get soy sauce and make the most of it.
Unlocking the Seasoning Maker
The first step to producing soy sauce is getting access to the Seasoning Maker. This is the special maker machine required to turn raw crops into sauces, condiments, and seasonings.
You unlock the Seasoning Maker recipe once you reach Level 9 in Cooking Skill.
To raise your Cooking Skill, keep cooking meals regularly in your kitchen. Even simple dishes like Fried Egg or Salad will gradually increase your level.
Once you reach the required level, you can craft the Seasoning Maker yourself.
Seasoning Maker Recipe:
3 Iron Ingots
3 Silver Ingots
2 Gold Ingots
Make sure you have upgraded your tools and unlocked mining deeper into the mines to access silver and gold ores.
Growing Soybeans
Soy sauce is made directly from Soybeans, so you’ll need to grow these on your farm.
You can buy Soybean Seeds from Olive Town General Store.
Soybeans are a Fall crop, so they can only be planted during the Fall season unless you grow them in your Greenhouse.
Once planted, they take 7 days to mature and continue to regrow after each harvest, making them a very efficient crop.
Harvest a good amount of soybeans since they are also useful for other recipes and can be sold for decent profit.
Processing Soybeans into Soy Sauce
Once you have both soybeans and the Seasoning Maker, the process is straightforward:
Place Soybeans into the Seasoning Maker.
Wait for the machine to process them.
Collect your freshly made Soy Sauce once it’s ready.
It’s a one-to-one ratio, so each soybean gives you one bottle of soy sauce.
Using Soy Sauce in Cooking
Soy sauce is an essential ingredient in many recipes, particularly in Japanese cuisine within the game. Some dishes that require soy sauce include:
Simmered Fish
Soy Sauce Ramen
Tempura Soba
These recipes often give higher stamina recovery and are great for long farming or mining days. Cooking advanced dishes with soy sauce also helps you level up your Cooking Skill even further.
Tips for Stocking Up on Soy Sauce
Since soybeans are limited to Fall, it’s smart to grow as many as possible during that season and stockpile them.
If you have the Hydroponic Planting or Greenhouse, you can grow soybeans year-round, ensuring an endless supply.
Keep multiple Seasoning Makers if you plan on mass-producing soy sauce, as this will save you processing time.
Getting soy sauce in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town requires patience and preparation, but once you have it, you’ll open up a whole new world of cooking. It’s one of those ingredients that pays off in the long run, both for stamina and profit.
Giving gifts in Persona 5 Royal is a simple way to squeeze extra Confidant points out of days that would otherwise just be a nice chat. Royal also opened gifting up beyond the romance options, so you can show appreciation to many of your male confidants too.
Used smartly, gifts shave entire hangouts off maxing the people you care about most, which means more free time for studying, palaces, or a lazy night at Leblanc.
How gifting works in Persona 5 Royal
Gifts are offered at the end of non rank-up hangouts. If the game tells you a confidant will rank up the next time you see them, you will not get the “Give a gift” prompt at the end of that scene. You only see that prompt when you hang out, gain some points, but still do not reach the next rank threshold. Think of gifts as the bridge between ordinary hangouts.
Royal’s other big change is scope: you can give gifts to several male confidants in addition to the romanceable girls. That includes teammates like Ryuji and Yusuke as well as a few adults, which makes planning your shopping runs more meaningful than in the original release.
Within the gift pool there are two useful “universal” options:
Heart Ring for women and Silver Bangle for men. These are pricey but extremely safe picks that consistently give a strong boost when you are unsure what someone likes.
Some items are romance-only and will not appear as selectable unless you are dating that character. Notable examples are the Heart Ring and Heart Necklace for the girls.
Step-by-step: how to give a gift
Buy gifts ahead of time. Stock up when you pass through shopping areas so you always have a couple of safe picks in your bag.
Invite or accept a hangout. If the UI says “Your bond will deepen soon,” skip gifting for that outing and enjoy the rank up. If it says you will not level yet, keep going.
Finish the scene. At the end of a non rank-up hangout, the game offers “Give gift.”
Choose an item. You will see the familiar music notes, with better-matched gifts showing more notes and giving a bigger point injection.
Keep it moving. Those points apply immediately, helping push the confidant to “Rank up available” the next time you meet.
I like to treat gifts as a safety net: if I am one good reply short of a rank, I hand over a favorite and lock in the next level before scheduling my day.
Where to buy gifts
Tokyo has several reliable stops that carry most of what you need. The exact shop names matter if you are hunting for specific items.
Shibuya Underground Mall This is the first real gift hub you unlock. You will find cosmetics, accessories, snacks, and sports gear here, which cover a surprising number of tastes. Many favorite items on most lists come from this corridor.
Shibuya Central Street, Rocinante Discount Store Great for Snack Pack and Cup Noodles Set, which are both strong choices for certain confidants, especially Ryuji.
Shinjuku at night The general store and flower vendor have staples like the Flower Basket and Rose Bouquet that show up in multiple “best gift” lists, including romance-only options.
Akihabara Electronics and hobby shops here sell items like the Electric Toothbrush, Robot Vacuum, Local Mascot Set, Motorbike Figure, and cheap keychains that many confidants appreciate.
Kichijoji Royal’s new neighborhood adds a stationery store that carries the Fountain Pen and Watercolor Postcard, both clutch picks for several confidants.
Tsurukame Diamond in the Underground Mall This is the jewelry shop that sells the Heart Ring and Silver Bangle, your universal, high-impact emergency options. They are expensive, but if time is tighter than money, they pay for themselves.
Smart gifting to maximize Confidant points
Match a Persona. Whenever you hang out, carry a Persona of the same Arcana as the confidant for an extra point or two from the scene itself. Gifts stack on top of that, and it all adds up over a schedule.
Save the expensive stuff for the right moment. Drop a high-value gift when you know you are one outing short of a rank. I keep one Silver Bangle and one Heart Ring in my bag for this purpose and only use them when they can flip “not yet” into “rank up next time.”
Remember romance-only locks. Heart jewelry and a few luxury items only work if you are dating that character. If the game will not let you select an item, that is usually why.
Yes, you can gift after Rank 10. If you are chasing Thieves Den records or just want the scene, gifting is still possible even with maxed confidants. It will not change ranks, but it does count for certain in-game rewards.
You cannot force gifts into rank-up scenes. If today is a rank-up event, enjoy the story. Gifts will not appear. If you need a gift prompt, schedule a day that would be a regular hangout instead.
Quick picks that rarely miss
If you just want reliable items without memorizing full lists, these consistently deliver strong boosts and are easy to source.
Universal safety nets
Heart Ring for the girls, Silver Bangle for the guys. Pricey, but they are almost never wasted. Buy at Tsurukame Diamond in Shibuya Underground Mall.
Women, by archetype
Ann likes sweets and cute luxuries. Chocolate Truffles or Uji Matcha Flan always land.
Makoto leans practical and stylish. Designer Perfume or the Motorbike Figure are great.
Futaba enjoys nerdy or novelty picks. Dragon Sword Keychain and Best of KGB49 work well, and romance-only jewelry if you are dating her.
Haru appreciates refined items. Glass Vase or Flower Basket are dependable.
Takemi and Kawakami both respond to a mix of cosmetics and small luxuries. Black Mug, Designer Perfume, Star Mirror, and Idol Pins are all solid.
Men, Royal-only options
Ryuji likes fitness and comfort picks. Wrist Weights or Cup Noodles Set are efficient.
Yusuke responds well to artful or sweet items. Watercolor Postcard or Castella are cheap and effective.
Sojiro appreciates quality everyday items. Fountain Pen or Castella get you there.
Akechi is easy to please with Omni-Vitamin or the Electric Toothbrush from Akihabara.
These are not the only answers, just the ones I reach for when I want to be done shopping in 60 seconds.
Troubleshooting when the gift prompt will not appear
You are about to rank up. The scene is a rank-up event, so the gift option is disabled by design. Hang out on a day that does not rank up.
You already had enough points. If the hangout itself pushed you to the threshold, the game will transition to a rank-up next time rather than offering gifts. That is normal.
Wrong audience or locked item. Some items only appear for romance partners, and a few NPCs simply do not take gifts. When in doubt, fall back on the Heart Ring or Silver Bangle on eligible targets, or pick from the safe lists above.
A simple shopping plan that works all game long
Early May: Clear a lap of the Shibuya Underground Mall and pick up a few inexpensive crowd-pleasers like Castella, Chocolate Truffles, and a Black Mug.
First Shinjuku night: Add a Flower Basket and Rose Bouquet to your stash.
First Akihabara visit: Grab Local Mascot Set, Motorbike Figure, and one electronics splurge if you can afford it.
First Kichijoji visit: Buy a Fountain Pen and Watercolor Postcard from the stationery store.
Whenever cash is healthy: Invest in one Heart Ring and one Silver Bangle from Tsurukame Diamond. Save these for tight timelines or important confidants where you do not want to gamble.
Used this way, gifting feels less like guesswork and more like a proper time-management tool. The right present on the right day gets you back to the good stuff faster, and in Royal there are simply more people you can treat right.
