Cait Farming: Location, Weakness, and Rewards

Caits are rare enemies players can encounter all over Solistia in Octopath Traveler 2. Read on to check out where they are located, how to farm and capture Caits, their weaknesses, and what rewards they give!

How to Farm Caits

How to Farm Caits
Rare Chance to Encounter Across All Region Equip Cait Powder Accessory Unlock The More Rare Monsters Support Skill Transform Enemies to Caits With Dancer

Rare Chance to Encounter Across All Region

Caits are cat-like enemies found everywhere in Solistia. They have high evasion stat and are quick to run away when sensing danger. Be prepared to defeat one quickly as you encounter them since they'll most likely flee from you before you can reap the rewards.

Solistia Map and List of Regions

Equip Cait Powder Accessory

Increase the chance of encountering Caits by equipping the Cait Powder accessory to your party. You can acquire one in a chest in Tropu'hopu and another by completing the My Beloved Catharine Side Story in Clockbank.

Unlock The More Rare Monsters Support Skill

Skill	Job	Description
More Rare Monsters	Hunter	Raises the chances of encountering rare monsters. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)

Increase the chance of having Caits appear in your encounters by unlocking the support skill More Rare Monsters. This can be achieved by having Ochette in your party or having someone get Hunter as their secondary job since it will increase the chance of encountering rare monsters.

Do note that these support skills will not stack with each other, and having one character have it is enough to increase the likelihood you'll encounter one.

Hunter Job Skills

Transform Enemies to Caits With Bewildering Grace

When using Agnea's dancer skill, Bewildering Grace, there's a slight chance you'll be able to transform enemies into a Cait. This only works on normal enemies and has a random chance of happening when BP is maxed out.

Defeat the transformed enemies as soon as possible, as they'll try to flee like their wild counterparts.

Dancer Guild Location and Skills

How to Beat Caits

How to Beat Caits
Secure Victory Using Hikari's Merciless Blade Use Soulstones Utilize Break and Boost Use Characters' Latent Power Use Hired Help Job Skill

Secure Victory Using Hikari's Merciless Blade

Map	World View

To easily beat any Caits you encounter, bring Hikari along and make him learn the skill called Merciless Blade. It's an offensive skill that allows Hikari to deal a fixed 3000 damage against an opponent.

However, obtaining Merciless Blade isn't easy since you need to defeat the Young Man NPC in Tropu'hopu to learn the skill. The Young Man has max strength and hits like a truck, so it's recommended to be adequately leveled when attempting to learn from him.

List of All Learned Skills

Use Soulstones

Caits can be easily defeated with Soulstones. Soulstones deal magical damage, which means that they can hit enemies without fail. They also deal high damage so you don't have to worry about a Cait's shield points.

Utilize Break and Boost

Break a Cait's shield by exploiting their weaknesses. While they are in a break state, the enemy will be stunned, has lowered defense, and cannot move for one turn, meaning that you can take this opportunity to unleash your strong attacks against them!

Maximize damage while enemies are in this state by using Boost to enhance your attacks, spells, and skills.
Break and Boost System Guide

Use Characters' Latent Power

Latent Power is a new game mechanic that provides a powerful unique ability to each character. There are latent powers such as letting players access strong skills, replenishing BP, changing spells' focus to a single enemy to make it strong, and many more. It's wise to utilize this mechanic when fighting Caits.

All Latent Powers Explained

Use Hired Help Job Skill

Skill	Job	Description
Hired Help	Merchant	Pay money to summon hired help to the battlefield.

A skill with high accuracy, such as Partitio's Hired Help, is effective against Caits. Use boost to increase the hit rate since, even with its high accuracy, it doesn't always hit.

Octopuff Travelers have a high evasion rate, so choose the one that can be summoned with 7000 Leaves for a higher chance of hitting the enemy.

Merchant Job Skills, Support Skills, and How to Get

Cait Rewards

Gives Massive Amounts of Leaves, EXP, and JP

Caits	Stats	Reward
Normal Cait	HP: 5 SP: 2 Weakness:	EXP: 1000 EXP JP: 150JP Leaves: 3000
Chubby Cait	HP: - SP: 4 Weakness:	EXP: 2000 EXP JP: 1000 JP Leaves: 50000

Defeating a Cait should be on your farming priority list, as successfully killing one grant the player 3000 Leaves, 1000 EXP, and 150 JP. Keep in mind that encountering a Cait is very rare and hard to hit, and they typically escape during the start of a fight.

Meanwhile a Chubby Cait gives 50000 Leaves, 2000 EXP and 1000 JP.
EXP Farming Guide: How to Level Up Fast

Skills That Increase EXP/JP/Leaves Gained

Skill	Job	Description
Hard Worker	Dancer	Receive additional JP after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)
Extra Experience	Scholar	Receive additional EXP after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)
Life in the Shadows	Thief	Receive additional EXP and JP after battles at night. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)
Grows on Trees	Merchant	Receive additional leaves after battles. (Equipping multiple characters with this skill will have no added effect.)

You can boost the amount of EXP, JP, and Leaves you obtain defeating Caits by having the following skills equipped in your party.

List of All Support Skills

How to Capture Caits

25% Chance of Capturing With Ochette

When using Ochette, you have a 25% chance of automatically capturing the Caits when defeating them if you're lucky enough. Capturing one will allow you to use the Cait's skills to buff your allies or debuff enemies.

Best Monsters to Capture

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