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Items can be used for many things. But sometimes you need to get a lot of them for various situations. So what do you do? You go [[Exactly What It Says
Item farming is where you go [[Exactly What It Says
Since this is done in almost all MMORPGs, no straight MMORPG examples please.(Notable subversions are fine.)
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* The ''[[
* ''[[Castlevania
* This could possibly be considered ''subverted'' in ''[[
* This is how train upgrades are obtained in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
** Oh, and ''[[Phantom Hourglass]]'' as well, to a lesser extent.
** Link's equipment in ''[[Skyward Sword]]'' can be upgraded in the same way with materials. You need some bugs (and a Net to catch them with) for upgrading your potions.
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Imagine]]'' removes the need to farm monsters by letting players gather "remains of Tokyo" (basically, refuse) which can be sold to NPCs or recycled to craft weapons.This is surprisingly the fastest way to earn money:completing a level 70-ish dungeon rewards the player with the equivalent of 20-30.000 Macca, while the same amount can be gathered in about 15 minutes while standing in a level 14 zone.
* Starting with ''[[
** Berries come in handy, too, particularly since a Pokémon can use it, rather than forcing you to spend a turn using a Full Heal or other status-healing item. The Lum Berry in particular is useful since it can cure any status problem. Unfortunately, this berry takes several days to grow.
* Happens a lot in things like ''[[Farmville]]'' and ''[[Mafia Wars]]'', you need to repeatedly do jobs to get the loot items needed to do the new jobs. Gets ridiculous towards later goals.
* ''[[
* Happens all the time in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', especially if you want all the weapons, upgrades, items, and equipment, you need to grind through side games and levels to afford the bolts for everything, lest you want to keep going through [[New Game+]] over and over.
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' has numerous examples of this over its long history.
** One of the earlier examples is the best equipment in ''[[
** In ''[[
** ''[[
** Much like ''[[
** Enemies in ''[[
** The items you can use to [[Item Crafting|upgrade and modify your weapons and armor]] and upgrade your [[Summon Magic|Aeons' stats and abilities]] in ''[[
** Most obvious is ''[[
*** ''[[
** ''[[
* Half of ''[[Recettear]]'' (the other half being selling what you've farmed).
* In ''[[Atelier Series]]'' you need to do this to find ingredients for your items.
* This isn't ''necessary'' in ''[[
* ''[[Might and Magic]]'' games saw a fair bit of this - some items and all spells could be bought, but most of the cool stuff could only be collected from dead high-level monsters. A twist: monster drops were determined randomly when you looted the corpse, so by saving just before looting, you could reload and try again if you were dissatisfied with the take. If you were determined enough, you could use the fact that some creatures occasionally dropped more than one item (the corpse didn't vanish after the first drop) to outfit your whole party with super items from ''one'' dead dragon... if you had the patience.
* Often necessary for crafting/upgrading certain items and equipment in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''.
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