____ __ _ __ _ __ ____ _ _ __ _____ _ ___ _ __ __ __ __ / __// // |/ /.' \ / / / __/.' \ / |/ //_ _/.' \ ,' _/| |/,' / // // / / _/ / // || // o // /_ / _/ / o // || / / / / o /_\ `. | ,' / // // / /_/ /_//_/|_//_n_//___/ /_/ /_n_//_/|_/ /_/ /_n_//___,'/_/ /_//_//_/ _______________________________________________________________________________ W A L K T H R O U G H / F A Q _______________________________________________________________________________ Platform: DS Written by threetimes Developer: Matrix Software October 2011 Publisher: Square Enix Version: 1.1 Release : February 2007 (EU) More on ???! _______________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................. SEARCH CODE _______________________________________________________________________________ To find a section of the guide select the Edit option on your toolbar and then Find and type the code. Or use Ctrl +F, (it's the Apple button for Macs +F) to bring up a box where you can type in the code. I. Introduction ..................................................... *INTRO II. Game Basics ...................................................... *BASIC III. Battle System .................................................... *BATT IV. Hints And Tips ................................................... *TIPS V. THE WALKTHROUGH .................................................. *WALK PROLOGUE 01. Altar Cave ................................................... *W01 02. Ur Village ................................................... *W02 03. Kazus Town ................................................... *W03 04. Castle Sasune ................................................ *W04 05. Sealed Cave .................................................. *W05 WIND CRYSTAL JOBS 06. Kazus and Mythril Mines....................................... *W06 07. Canaan ....................................................... *W07 08. Dragon's Peak ............................................... *W08 09. Tozus Town and Tunnel ........................................ *W09 10. Vikings' Cove ................................................ *W10 11. Nepto's Temple ............................................... *W11 12. The Enterprise ............................................... *W12 13. Castle Argus ................................................. *W13 14. Tokkul ....................................................... *W14 15. Chocobo Woods (Optional) ..................................... *W15 16 Village of the Ancients (Optional) ........................... *W16 17. Gulgan Gulch (and Chocobo Woods) ............................. *W17 18. Tower of Owen ................................................ *W18 19. Dwarven Hollows .............................................. *W19 20. Gysahl ....................................................... *W20 21. Subterranean Lake ............................................ *W21 22. Molten Cave (and Chocobo Woods) .............................. *W22 FIRE CRYSTAL JOBS 23. Dwarven Hollows 2 ............................................ *W23 24. Castle Hein .................................................. *W24 25. Castle Argus 2 and New Transport ............................. *W25 26. Wrecked Ship and Temple of Water ............................. *W28 27. Cave of Tides ................................................ *W27 WATER CRYSTAL JOBS 28. Amur, the City of Water ..................................... *W28 29. Amur Sewers .................................................. *W29 30. Goldor Manor ................................................. *W30 31. Duster (Optional) ............................................ *W31 32. Replito (Optional) ........................................... *W32 33. Saronia Compound ............................................. *W33 1. Northwestern Saronia 2. Southwestern Saronia 3. Northestern Saronia 4. Southwestern Saronia 34. Dragon Spire ................................................. *W34 35. Saronia Castle ............................................... *W35 36. Doga's Manor ................................................. *W36 37. Cave of the Circle ........................................... *W37 38. The Nautilus ................................................. *W38 39. Doga's Village (Optional) .................................... *W39 40. Sunken Cave (Optional) ....................................... *W40 41. Saronia Catacombs (Optional) ................................. *W41 42. The Temple of Time ........................................... *W42 43. Unei's Shrine ................................................ *W43 44. Ancient Ruins ................................................ *W44 45. The Invincible ............................................... *W45 46. Falgabard (Optional) ......................................... *W46 47. Lake Dohr (Optional) ......................................... *W47 48. Bahamut's Lair (Optional) .................................... *W48 49. Cave of Shadows .............................................. *W49 50. Doga's Grotto ................................................ *W50 EARTH CRYSTAL JOBS 51. Ancients' Maze ............................................... *W51 52. Eureka, The Forbidden Land (Optional)......................... *W52 53. The Crystal Tower ............................................ *W53 54. The World of Darkness ........................................ *W54 55. What Next? ................................................... *W55 VI. JOBS ............................................................. *JOBS 01. Job System ................................................... *J01 02. Jobs and Equipment ........................................... *J02 03. Jobs and Weapons ............................................. *J03 VII. MOGNET SIDEQUESTS ................................................ *MOG 01. Introduction to Mognet ....................................... *MOG1 02. Sidequests Summary ........................................... *MOG2 03. Topapa ....................................................... *MOG3 04. Sara ......................................................... *MOG4 05. Takka ........................................................ *MOG5 06. Cid .......................................................... *MOG6 07. Job Level 99 - Cards and Unique Equipment .................... *MOG7 08. The Four Old Men and Alus ................................. .. *MOG8 09. The Bonus Dungeon - ??? ...................................... *MOG9 VIII. LISTS ............................................................ *LISTS 01. Shops ........................................................ *L01 02. Equipment .................................................... *L02 03. Weapons ...................................................... *L03 04. Items ........................................................ *L04 05. Magic Spells ................................................. *L05 06. Monster Lists ................................................ *L06 IX. Credits .......................................................... *CRED X. Legal Bit and Contact............................................. *LEGAL =============================================================================== I. I N T R O D U C T I O N ............................................*INTRO =============================================================================== Welcome to my Final Fantasy III walkthrough! This is my first ever walkthrough for a Final Fantasy game, though I've written for a few other DS RPGs, including Dragon Quest V and VI, and I've used a similar style to those FAQs: chatty, with lots of detailed lists! I enjoyed playing FFIII despite the fact that the story has all the classic four crystals cliches, and there are only four characters. What's special about the game is the job system, where each character can take on a specialist class that changes their appearance and skills. Since there are 23 jobs, that makes a total of 14950 possible job combinations, and the probability of choice paralysis! I hope this FAQ will help you navigate the game and those choices, and I can guarantee that you will obtain 100% for all treasure! The arrangement of this FAQ is pretty straightforward: * The Game Basics section outlines the controls, what all the commands mean, and how to utilise the menu system to your best advantage. * The Walkthrough takes you through the game location by location describing where to find all the treasure, and giving strategies for all the bosses. * There are a couple of extra sections that feature the unique features of the game: the job system and the Mognet sidequests. * The Lists section includes lots of lists of items, stuff you can find, buy and equip, and monsters you'll encounter. SPELLING DISCLAIMER I use British English, but the game uses American so you might notice some discrepancies in the spelling of some words. The most common differences are defence/defense, and armour/armor. I use British spelling for anything I'm writing about, but where I'm quoting the game, or listing things from the game, I copy down the American version. Please don't complain! =============================================================================== II. G A M E B A S I C S ............................................. *BASIC =============================================================================== 01. Controls 02. Saving Your Game 03. Main Menu 04. Status Ailments 05. Shopping 06. Storage 07. World Map and Locations 08. Special Features 09. Characters 10. Jobs ------------ 01. Controls ------------ A Button - use to to talk to someone, to investigate something or activate a switch. Also used to board transport and to advance the message window. B Button - use with the directions buttons to run (unless you have pre-set the option to run). B is also the back/cancel command to exit the menu. Also used to exit transportation. X Button - use to access the menu. Y Button - use to chat with a current guest party member. R Button - use to access the menu. Also used with L to run away from battles. L Button - use to zoom the camera. Also used with R to run away from battles. Camera - The camera icon is displayed at the top left corner of the touch screen. Press with the stylus to see a close up view. Stylus - You can tap everything with the stylus, but it slows down the interaction and I wouldn't recommend it. -------------------- 02. Saving Your Game -------------------- You can ONLY save your game on the world map. Save EVERY TIME you leave a village or dungeon, and it's best to save before entering a new location too. You can have up to three separate save files. Quicksave is available at any time (except during a battle or event). This is your safety net if you find yourself lost or tired in a long dungeon and you don't want to Teleport out and have to do it all again. Make a quick save and quit the game. When you reload you can continue from this save, although the save itself will be erased. ------------- 03. Main Menu ------------- The menu screen shows an overview of all four characters with their current job, level HP and MP. Down the right side of the screen is a list of options: Item......View the inventory. - Use: select to use one of the characters choose one item and move it into a different position - Sort: automatic sorting by item/magic/weapons/armour - Key Items: see all important items Magic.....Select a character to view their equipped magic and make changes. Magic is arranged by Level and each job allows different levels of magic spells. Each character can equip up to 3 spells for each of 8 levels. - Use: Use a spell on a character - Learn: select to view all magic that has been found or bought and select to add this magic to that character. - Remove: Select currently equipped magic and you can remove it and it returns to the inventory. - Exchange: shows all characters. All the magic from the selected character will be transferred to the highlighted character and their magic will be acquired. Equipment..Select a character to view their current equipment: that includes: R.Hand Head Note that two weapons can be equipped, or L.Hand Body one weapon and a shield, or a bow and Arms arrows. - Equip: Select a weapon or armour slot to be shown all options to change equipment. - Remove: removes the selected equipment - Removes All: shortcut to remove all equipment at once. Status.....Select a character to view their full status screen. This shows current experience and experience to the next level. Current job and job level, HP and MP. MP is divided into 8 levels of magic and how much is available for different levels of magic depends on the job. Stats for: Strength : power of physical attacks Agility : turn speed Vitality : influences HP increase on level up Intellect: effectiveness of black magic Mind : effectiveness of white magic Attack : total with weapons Defence : total with armour Magic Defence: total with equipment Formation..Select one character and then another to exchange them in the list. This changes the order of the party so the lead character can be altered. Press A twice to move a character portrait to the right, placing them on the back row. Do the same again to move them to the left, placing them on the front row. Characters receive less damage on the back row but attack with less force with some weapons, such as swords or axes. Magic attacks are just as effective from the back row. Job........Select a character to view the current job and all jobs available. Choose a job and see the number of battles required for the adjustment phase. All equipment is removed so make sure to re-equip! Config.....Change the settings. - Text.Speed: Slow/Normal/Fast - Cursor: Default/Memorise - Default Move: Walk/Run - Main Hand: Left/Right (This changes where the camera and menu icons appear.) Quicksave..Save the game anywhere. This is a temporary save and will be deleted when loaded. It's really just an emergency measure. Save.......Only available on the world map. ------------------- 04. Status Ailments ------------------- Wellsprings! In town and dungeons you can find blue springs, ponds or fountains. These will heal the party's HP and MP, remove bad status effects or even remove KO status. Which ones do what varies according to location. Inn and Beds! In some towns and dungeons you can restore HP and MP by resting in a bed for free, or pay to stay at an inn. Some status ailments cannot be cured through sleep: Mini, Toad, Petrification and KO. Ribbons! The Ribbon headgear protects the wearer from ALL bad status effects and can be worn by anyone whatever their job. The Aegis Shield does the same, but can only be worn by some shield bearing jobs. Esuna! This spell cures all negative status effects except KO. - Subsides After Battle - .---------------.--------------------------.----------------------------------. | Ailment | Cure: Action/Magic | Effect | |---------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------| | Paralysis | Wears off / - | Paralyses body, cannot act | | Sleep | Hit to wake/ - | Fast asleep, cannot act | | Confusion | Hit to restore sense | Disorientation, hits randomly | | Gradual | / Stona | Body turns to stone over time | | Petrification | | | | Slow | Wears off / Haste | Slows down the character | | Stop | Wears off / - | Prevents from moving, cannot act | |_______________|__________________________|__________________________________| - Persists After Battle - .---------------.--------------------------.----------------------------------. | Ailment | Cure: Item/Magic | Effect | |---------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------| | KO | Phoenix Down/Raise, Arise| No HP and knocked out. Cannot act| | Petrification | Gold Needle/ Stona | Turns body to stone, cannot act | | Toad | Maiden Kiss/ Toad | Decrease attack and defence | | | | Can only use Toad magic | | Silence | Echo Herbs / - | Cannot use any magic | | Mini | Mallet / Mini | Physical attacks not effective | | Blind | Eyedrops / Blindna | Physical attacks less accurate | | Poison | Antidote / Poisona | Gradually reduces HP | |_______________|__________________________|__________________________________| ------------ 05. Shopping ------------ You can sell anything for half the buying price. Always buy consumable items in bulk as there's a discount if you buy 4 or more. The more you buy, the bigger the discount. To navigate the shop menu use the Right/Left directional buttons to see how many items they stock, and the Up/Down directional buttons to choose the number of items you wish to buy. The number of items for sale varies from shop to shop and sometimes you can buy duplicates of spells (for example) which can be useful. ------------------------ 06. Storage and Sorting! ------------------------ Select the Item menu and all things are displayed: weapons, armour, healing and battle items. The last item you bought or found will appear at the bottom of the list. Fortunately you can "Sort" them and this option puts everything in order. Items will appear first, with healing items over two columns on one page, followed by attack items and any magic spells not yet equipped. After that you'll see weapons and finally armour. Select Sort a second time and the order changes, with weapons appearing first, then armour and items, so you can arrange groups as you wish. You can also move individual items (and groups of the same items) around, for example, if you wanted Shurikens to appear at the top of the list to avoid having to scroll through a whole load of stuff during a battle, but keep the rest of the items easily available as well. To move anything, move the cursor to the "Use" option at the top of the page and select the required item (with A). Scroll through the list to where you wish to move it to, and press A again and the items will be exchanged. It's really useful to manually sort things in this way. Key Items are listed on a separate menu page. All items and equipment are available from the Item battle menu and the only restriction to the number of things you can carry is that you cannot have more than 99 of each item. However, there are ways around that. If 99 arrows (for example) are equipped to a bow user, you can also carry 99 in the inventory. Also, you'll be able to store excess items with a Fat Chocobo, when you find one. --------------------------- 07. World Map and Locations --------------------------- When you enter a new location the name of it will appear on the screen for a few seconds. Towns and villages will also appear on the world map on the top screen, marked by a blue dot, and caves and dungeons are shown with a brown dot. The item, Gnomish Bread and the spell Sight will show a more detailed map, including locations not yet visited. -------------------- 08. Special Features -------------------- Shining Spots! In towns and dungeons hold down the L Button to zoom in for a closer look at screen, or use the stylus to tap the camera icon at the top corner of the bottom screen. Sometimes an items such as a pot or rock with display sparkling spots. Press A on the area to trigger an event or find something. Allies! From time to time an additional party member will tag along behind the team. Talk to them using the Y button, or tap the chat icon at the lower right of the bottom screen. They will join in battles with a variety of skills, but they cannot be controlled by the player. Mognet! After completing events in the Sealed Mines and obtaining the first set of new jobs you will encounter a Moogle in every town. You can send letters to a select few characters in the game, once you've met them, and they will reply. The letter writers are: Topapa (Ur) Takka (Kazus) Sara (Sasune) Cid (Canaan) The 4 Old Men (Amur) Alus (Saronia) However, for this correspondence to yield anything useful you also must send 7 messages to real life "friends" using WiFi friends' codes. You can only send one message every hour, so it's a good idea to start sending them immediately! -------------- 09. Characters -------------- These descriptions are taken from the manual. Luneth An orphan raised by Nina and Elder Topapa in the village of Ur. Adventurous by nature, his curiosity gets the better of him as he tumbles into a hole created by the great earthquake. Arc Another orphan raised by Topapa, and Luneth's best friend. Unlike Luneth, he prefers reading over gamboling in the wild. His studies endow him with great knowledge that more than makes up for his shyness. Refia Raised in Kazus by the mythril smith Takka, whose rigorous training led her to run away from home...again. Ignus A loyal soldier of King Sasune's army, he narrowly escaped the Djinn's curse. His prime concern is finding the missing Princess Sara. -------- 10. Jobs -------- This game features a job system where characters can take on a vocation at will, and learn new spells, skills and abilities. However, these are job specific and if the job is changed the character does not retain anything learned. Each job has specific weapons and armour which requires an equipment change when the job is changed. New jobs become available each time a Crystal is found. Any character can take on any job and all jobs yield a special bonus item and stat bonus when reaching Level 99, but ONLY if you undertake the Mognet sidequest as well. Levelling up jobs is a function of any action taken during during a battle, and works independently from the experience gained for winning battles. Simply put, ANY of these actions taken during a battle will add points towards the job level: * Attack * Guard (not available for some jobs) * Item use * Use of Job's Ability Acquire 100 Job Points to raise the Job's level. As the Job level increases characters will be able to do more damage in battle, hit with better accuracy or heal more HP with spells, depending on the skills they have. One thing to be wary of is when you change jobs. There may be a transition time between jobs (which prevents you from changing jobs too often). During this time you have to fight a few battles before the new job's stats kick in. Job specific skills are available immediately, so you could change to a Thief to use their unlocking ability and then change back again to a Ranger (for example). =============================================================================== III. B A T T L E S Y S T E M ....................................... *BATTLE =============================================================================== ------------------- 1. Battle Commands ------------------ The battle system is turn-based. Your party takes turns to deal out damage or heal and then, it's the enemy's turn to do the same while you stand there and take it. You'll only see the first four commands on the battle menu screen and must scroll down using the Directional button to see more. You must select commands for all characters before the action starts. Some commands, such as magic and guard, won't always appear as they are dependent on the character's current job. - Attack - Hit the target using a weapon or barehanded. You can hit team members as well as the enemy (to wake them up if asleep for example). - Magic - Use a spell by selecting the magic and then the target. Some spells allow you to select multiple targets. Each spell only uses 1 MP. - Guard - Select this option to defend from an attack on the next turn. Reduces damage received. - Item - Choose an item from the inventory and then the target: an ally or enemy. Some weapons can be used as an item to cast a spell with NO use of MP. Use the UP button to see the currently equipped weapon. - Equipment - Change equipment during a battle. This does NOT take up a turn and another command can be selected after changing equipment. Remember that characters can equip two weapons, two shields, a bow and arrows, a weapon and a shield, or even two shields! Some weapons (such as harps) are two-handed so only one can be equipped. Changing equipment can allow for different elemental attacks to be used on different enemies. - Front/Rear - Move a character between the front and back line. Front line characters do more damage but have lower defence. Back line characters do less damage (unless they are using a bow and arrows or other long range weapon) but have more defence. Changing lines takes up a turn and occurs instantly. - Run Away - Escape. Use this command for every character and it only needs one to be successful for the whole party to flee. BUT if the party is attacked while attempting to run the damage is much greater, since defence is lowered. ----------------------------------- 2. Back Attacks/Pre-emptive Strikes ----------------------------------- Sometimes the enemies get the jump on your party and that means that they have an extra turn and your back line will be at the front. If you surprise the enemy you get an extra turn as well as the first turn. ---------- 3. Enemies ---------- Enemies appear singly, in pairs, or as a group of three, and that's the maximum you will ever see. Groups can be mixed, or identical, but that doesn't matter too much because magic can still be used to target a whole group. Encounters are random, but the rate of encounters varies a lot, from very low to quite high. Status magic is not every effective and it's better to attack with elemental spells and weapons rather than waste a turn trying to cause sleep, or blindness for example. However, weapon attacks with added effects, such as poison, are often effective Bosses are always visible and they will usually have two attacks on each round, with the more powerful ones able to make three, or even four attacks. They tend to use both all party magic and physical attacks. =============================================================================== IV. H I N T S A N D T I P S ........................................*TIPS =============================================================================== * Save a lot. Dungeons don't have any save points! * Guard a lot if you want a fight to last longer. If a party member is slow to act it might mean that they don't gain any job points, so make sure that everyone does something! * Most magic can be applied to one enemy/ally or ALL enemies/allies and each spell only uses 1 MP. Press the left D button to target all enemies and the right D button to target all allies. * Experience points from winning battles are divided amongst the team. If you want to level up someone on their own, then kill off the rest of the team (remove their equipment so they die more easily!) and they won't get any experience. * Buy consumable items in bulk! Buying 4 or more gives a discount that increases with the number bought. * Always search towns and nearby dungeons for free stuff before buying anything! * Each job raises the character's stats in different ways whilst they have that job, but ONLY vitality gives a permanent boost on levelling up. Giving high vitality jobs to characters will help to boost their HP. * Equip two weapons to fighter classes for additional attack power. Although 9999 is the maximum recorded amount of damage, in fact it's possible to cause more than that, but you won't know exactly how much. * If in doubt, level up!. Even just one extra level can make a difference in some boss battles. And the higher the level of a job, the more effective it will be. =============================================================================== V. W A L K T H R O U G H ................. *WALK =============================================================================== =============================================================================== 01. ALTAR CAVE .......................................................... *W01 =============================================================================== TASK : Find the exit and defeat the boss. Obtain all treasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Items [7] : Cave A - Leather Shield, Potion x3, Longsword, Antarctic Wind x2 [7] Cave B - Leather Cap, Bronze Bracers x2, Longsword x2, Bronze Knuckles, Sleep (Black Magic Lv.1) Wellspring : Yes. HP/MP restoration. Enemies : 001: Goblin, 002: Carbuncle, 003: Eye Fang, 004: Blue Wisp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The game begins with a boy falling into a cave and you'll quickly gain control and can name him. Choose "Confirm" to give him his default name of Luneth. He'll move a few steps and encounter three goblins for the first battle. He has 32 HP and is equipped with just a Knife with attack of +8 (and a Vest with defence of +1). Check the Equipment or Item inventory during the battle to see the details. The only thing you can do is to attack one goblin at a time as he doesn't have any magic or items. A helpful hand cursor appears on the goblin group and you can move it to choose any of the three. One attack with the knife should kill one and their attacks will hurt you for 2 HP so it's not hard to win, even if an attack misses altogether, which it might! You'll get 30 Gil and 3 experience points and might obtain an item too, most likely a Potion, but if you're very lucky you could get a valuable Phoenix Down. (Note that these are precious, since you cannot buy them anywhere.) After the battle there's nothing else to do as you don't have any items for healing, so carry on walking up the cave where you'll find two treasure chests. The left one contains a [LEATHER SHIELD] and you can equip this by clicking on the menu icon and then going to the Equipment menu. You'll see that Luneth has the option to equip TWO weapons or a weapon and shield. For now, just go with the shield. The second chest contains a [POTION] which you can use to heal up or wait until health is at around 10 HP before doing that if this is your only Potion. One more battle should raise Luneth's level to 2 and you'll notice that his job level rises too. Currently he's a Freelancer which means that he can equip most weapons and armour. Job levels rise faster than overall levels as they are based on actions taken during battle, not experience points. Each action: attack, guard, using an item or the job's ability (Magic) adds 20 points to the job level and 100 points are required to increase the level. So, five actions results in an increase. (There are some variations in the points awarded accorded to job and overall job level but this acts as a good basic calculation.) Walk a few steps to the north and you'll find a dead end, but a suspicious looking rock by the left cave wall. Examine this and press A and the rock is a switch that opens the wall of the cave. Carry on to the right and open another chest to find a [LONGSWORD] weapon. Equip this instead of the Knife and you could replace the shield so you have two weapons equipped with an overall attack power of 18. You don't need this power for the goblins so it's not really worth it, and even the slightly more powerful enemies in the next cave can be defeated with just the sword. The Blue Wisp might need two hits but it does more damage than the rest so again, the shield will help you out. Walk up the steps into another cavern where the enemies are a bit more varied. Go right to find a chest with a [POTION], and left for another chest with an attack item [ANTARCTIC WIND]. Hold onto this as it cast a powerful ice spell when thrown at an enemy. Back at the main path, walk up to a T junction and open a chest with another [POTION]. Go right where you'll see another chest at the side of the path with another [ANTARCTIC WIND]. Just a couple more steps and you'll arrive at a WELLSPRING. This welcome water heals all HP and MP. If you managed to make it this far without using a potion you can congratulate yourself on your ability to hoard. By this point Luneth should have reached Level 2 and with full health again you could spend some time fighting to raise your level to 3 if you wish: or to acquire some more potions from the enemies in preparation for the boss battle as there are no more items to be found. Walk left to the end of the passage and then, up, to enter the boss's lair. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - LAND TURTLE | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 04 | 111 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 500 | None | Altar Cave | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Potion 2 - Antarctic Wind 3 - Antarctic Wind 4 - Antarctic Wind | | 5 - Bacchus's Cider 6 - Bacchus's Cider 7 - Arctic Wind 8 - Arctic Wind | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 2/3 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o One way to deal with this battle is to equip both the sword AND the knife and relinquish the shield. That gives you attack power of 18, although your defence will be cut to 1. Just hack away and the boss will soon be defeated. His attacks hurt you for 4 HP with the shield and double that without, but you can always use a Potion if health is getting too low for comfort. If you've dashed straight through without levelling up at all, then throw an Antarctic Wind item which attacks with a low level Blizzara ice magic spell causing around 40 HP damage. (It's hard to read the numbers!) Your chances of getting an item drop are not good so don't expect one. After the battle Luneth gets the classic messages about being the chosen one, the world in peril, yadda yadda, you know the kind of thing. Anyway, your new task is to find companions. You're back on the world map, and you have the option to turn around and go back inside the cave to find more treasure. If you just want to carry on and find the next party member then leave this until later, but don't forget it! Luneth should be at level 2/3 with a Job level of 5/7 and you can save your game for the first time. Back inside the cave you start at the north, so walk down and right, and you can pass through a hidden opening in the east wall. This takes you into another section of the cave where you'll see two treasure chests, the first contains a [LEATHER CAP] and the second a [BRONZE BRACERS]. Equip these to head and arms respectively upping your defence to 3 without the shield. The enemies are the same as before with mixed groups of Carbuncle, Eye Fang and Blue Wisp. Return to the main cave and walk down into another new area. Walk to the left and up, and you'll find the hole where Luneth fell down to the lower floor. There three more visible chests in the cave. The first one contains another [LONGSWORD] which you can equip instead of the Knife, giving you even higher attack power of 20. The next has another [BRONZE BRACERS] and the third has a much more useful item, [SLEEP]. Go to the Magic menu and move the arrow cursor to the right, from "Use" to "Learn". You'll now see the Sleep spell highlighted. Press X to confirm and Luneth now has some magic. It's a Level 1 spell requiring 3 MP to use. Avoid the hole in the floor, which will take you down to the cave where you started out in case you missed anything. If you want to go down again, then you'll find a warp point behind the crystal inside the boss room which deposits you back on the world map. Check out the other two treasure chests at the left side of the cave. The first has [BRONZE KNUCKLES] which will increase your attack power even more to 22 if equipped with the sword, and a second [LONGSWORD]. All this extra treasure will save you money, always a good thing at the start of an RPG. Return to the world map and walk south to enter the town. You'll also see a picture of the world map on the top screen, and the location of the town and cave at the northwest of the continent. If you continue walking too far to the south the enemies are tougher, and the second town has a welcoming ghost which scares Luneth so he'll leave immediately. Just go to Ur. =============================================================================== 02. UR VILLAGE (PARMENI MOUNTAINS) ...................................... *W02 =============================================================================== TASK : Talk to the Elder, find Arc and rest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : South from Altar Cave Services : Item Shop, Inn (free), Bar, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop, Magic Shop Items [13] : Phoenix Down x2, Potions x5, Longsword, Eye Drops, Dagger, Cure (White Magic Lv.1), Antidote x2 Wellspring : Yes. Revive and HP/MP restoration Enemies : 001: Goblin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Classic RPG town stuff, you're told to see the Elder and given a warning about a cursed town that gives you the next destination. You'll get that information from the villagers at the left. The orange haired lady fills you in on the name and location of the King and his castle (to the west), and the local area. Enter the blue roofed elder's house and go through into the inner room where you'll find your mother, and the elder who reveals a bit about your history. Yeah, yeah, I think we can just about figure out the story now. Talk to him again and he tells you to go to Kazus. Before leaving the house turn to the left and check that blue fountain in the left corner and this will heal you. (The one at the right does nothing.) Leave the house and talk to the blue clothed person again and they tell you about using items on people. Use a Potion on them by selecting it from the item menu and they give you a [PHOENIX DOWN]. (If you don't have any potions, then wait until you do!) Walk right, past the other orange haired girl and through the trees to talk to an old lady who tells you about potions in the well. Hop down the well and open three chests for [POTION], [POTION] and [POTION]. The house nearby is an Inn with an Item Shop selling status healing items, and it might be advisable to buy a couple of these, but you can find some and you don't need potions if you're trying to save cash. (I had around 800 Gil). One thing to note is that the cost of items DECREASES if you buy more than 3 at once. So, 4 potions costs 190 Gil, 5 - 237, 6 - 285, 7 - 332, 8 - 380, 9 - 427 and 10 - 460. Buying 11 at once costs 506 Gil, which is just 6 Gil more than the price of 10 if you bought them all one by one! Go through the door next to the item seller and you're inside the bar. You'll hear about a couple of other currently inaccessible locations: Canaan and Nelv Valley. The girl at the right will dance and you can play chopsticks on the piano! ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Dagger | 60 | +9 ATK | Longsword | 100 | +10 ATK | Staff | 40 | +3 ATK | Bow | 100 | +10 ATK | Wooden Arrow | 4 | +6 ATK | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Leather Armour | 90 | +3 DEF | Leather Shield | 40 | +2 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Leather Cap | 15 | +1 DEF | Bronze Bracers | 80 | +1 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Poisona | 100 | White Lv.1 Removes poison ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Go upstairs in the shop and talk to the person who explains a little about your current job as a Freelancer. You can use low-level magic but your base attributes are low. Guess this isn't a job we'll be sticking with once there's a chance to change. Check the empty bed and you can rest for free, healing your HP and MP. Might as well, although it takes longer than just a second. Walk up to find the rest of the shops. The weapon shop is inside the top right house, with the arms shop next door. Buy the better armour but really that's all you need as you'll find a dagger in the village. There's a magic shop inside the left hut and you can buy one Poisona magic which you might as well! I bought 2 (scroll UP and DOWN with the D-pad to change the number, scrolling right shows you the number of items in stock, and she's selling 6 of them!) Walk up the grassy path at the middle right of the town to trigger a scene and meet **ARC**, Luneth's best friend, who runs off. Click on the upper left corner of the white flowers behind the girl, and you'll pick up a hidden [POTION]. Back in the village, head up the track behind the weapon shop and follow a grassy path to the storehouse, You'll encounter Goblins along the way. Face the door, standing at the water's edge, and you'll find a hidden [POTION]. Inside the storeroom talk to the blue person who explains about switches that open hidden hidden passageways in towns and dungeons. You'll see a shiny sparkle on the candle. Move close to it and click A to reveal a hidden passage to the right. Walk through the wall (you cannot change the camera to see it) and up the stairs in the next room. You'll discover 5 treasure chests, all yours for the taking! Starting at the left, the top row contains a [LONGSWORD], [EYEDROPS], and [CURE]: another magic you can equip. The bottom row has a [DAGGER] and [PHOENIX DOWN]. Return to the main room and walk close to the pots. Use the stylus on the camera icon at the top left of the screen and you'll get a close up view. This allows you to see the sparkles on two of the pots. The top right one contains an [ANTIDOTE], and the lower left one has a second [ANTIDOTE]. Return to the village, rest if you need to, and equip the Sleep, Cure and Poisona magic. Go to the Magic slot on the menu and press B to move the cursor to the upper tab. Move it to "Learn" to see the list of currently available magic, and select the spells to equip them. You can have up to 3 for each level, although as a Freelancer you can only use Level 1 magic. Then, exit to the world map. SAVE YOUR GAME! NOTE: you don't need to see the sparkles or use the close up view if you already know where to find hidden sparkle items. =============================================================================== 03. KAZUS TOWN .......................................................... *W03 =============================================================================== TASK : Talk to the ghosts and find the airship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : South from Ur Services : None available on this visit Items [5] : Mythril Helm, Staff, Zeus's Wrath, Potion x2 Wellspring : Yes. HP/MP restoration Recruit : Arc, Refia Area Enemies: 001: Goblin, 005: Killer Bee, 007: Berserker, 006: Werewolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll probably only encounter Goblins on the way south, but if you walk west onto the sandy patch of ground near Kazus you might run into a powerful Berserker enemy who can damage you for around 20+ HP! With double weapons and the Leather Armour and at level 3 I barely survived two of these attacks, but defeated it with two of mine. Be careful if you wander too far from the path! Fortunately there are no enemies inside the cursed town and you'll find Arc waiting for you. You can walk straight past him into the town, but there's no point unless you want to level up some more with Luneth on his own. Talk to him and ARC joins the party at Level 3 as a Freelancer (job level 1). He's equipped with a Knife, Leather Cap and Leather Armor. Give him two Longswords and a Bronze Bracers. I also equipped him with the Cure and Poisona magic. Explore the town. The building directly ahead contains a healing fountain and the one to the right hosts three shops but the shopkeepers are all ghosts and won't sell you anything. You could spend some time fighting those Berserkers near here now you have two party members, and just keep healing up at the fountain. In fact, this is advisable, and at least get both to level 4. Head left from in front of the healing building and you can edge through the trees to a pool. Skirt around the pool to find a hidden [MYTHRIL HELM] next to the tree at the north side of the first patch of sandy ground. There's also a hidden [STAFF] at the middle of the north edge of the second sandy area. Turn right from here and you can walk between the yellow/green and darker green trees. Go right, up, and left into a little clearing amidst the trees You'll find another hidden item [ZEUS'S WRATH] at the north side. This is a consumable item that casts lightning magic on enemies. There's nothing to find in the sandy patch of the ground between the rocks so return to the town. The shops are not open for business and the inn has no resting place, but go inside anyway. Chat to all the ghosts in here to discover more about why the town was cursed and get a hint about the smith's daughter from the ghost upstairs. You'll find a familiar FF name even though you cannot see him. The ghost in front of the counter is Cid. Being nice boys you decide you'd better help these people and Cid lends you his airship. (If only life was that simple!) Go behind the inn counter and check the shelves to find a hidden [POTION]. The smithy is behind the Inn, and there's a sparkle on the pot at the left of the furnace, which nets you a [POTION]. Save your game again on the world map. Check equipment and health before entering the mines at the back of the town if you intend to explore in there, but it's not advisable! If you decide to ignore that warning be VERY careful because a mummy and skeleton together can destroy you with their speed (having the first turn) and power (using critical attacks!).The mummy also uses poison on you. At level 3/4 you'll be dead unless you're very lucky, so take the hint and leave the mines for now! ----------- The Airship ----------- Instead, head for the sandy patch of ground to the west of Kazus, as instructed by Cid, and you'll immediately discover the airship! Talk to the girl you find and the smith's daughter, REFIA joins the party and tells you where to go to find a Mythril Ring. She is also a Freelancer and joins you at level 3. She's equipped with a Knife, Leather Cap and Leather Armor. I gave her the Leather Shield and Longsword. By the way, if you're thinking what I was thinking, that you can enter the cave with a third party member, it won't work as Refia leaves the party if you return to the village. To get her back, just exit to the world map. =============================================================================== 04. CASTLE SASUNE ....................................................... *W04 =============================================================================== TASK : Talk to the king and explore the castle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : West from Kazus Services : Bed (Castle and East Tower) Items [6] : Phoenix Down, 1000 Gil x2, Leather Shield, Bronze Knuckles, Blizzard (Black Magic Lv.1) [5] East Tower: Holy Arrow x20, Wooden Arrow x40, Bow, Potion [3] West Tower: Holy Arrow x20, Wooden Arrow x20, Wightslayer Wellspring : Yes. Bed rest restores HP and MP Recruit : Ingus Enemies : 008: Red Wisp, 009: Dark Eye, 010: Zombie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To fly the airship simply walk onto the platform with the helm and you'll be airborne. To land, press B and to fly again, press A. Use the shadow cast by the airship to judge where to land. You cannot go far since the airship cannot cross over the mountains and it cannot land on trees, but you CAN cross the lake to the northwest and enter a cavern there called the SEALED CAVE. However, it's best to follow the route of the story and visit Castle Sasune first, where you'll obtain lots more treasure and another recruit. Fly west and land outside the large grey building. Save your game before going inside. You'll find someone waiting for you. After a short chat the doors will be opened. Go through the wooden doors ahead, and KEEP GOING up the stairs to the top floor. Eventually you'll be in a large chamber with a red carpet and you'll discover that the king isn't quite his normal self. It seems that the king doesn't have the Mythril ring. Next stop, the cave to the north to find his missing daughter, and the soldier you met joins the party. The king tells you to search for the skeleton key and that there's a secret passage inside the sealed cave. INGUS joins as a Freelancer at Level 4 (even if the rest of the group are still at Level 3) with exactly the same equipment at the rest had: a Knife, Leather Cap and Leather Armour. Return to the ground floor and you can rest in the beds at the left and chat to more ghosts. Time for a little looting! Enter the door ahead again and there's a hidden opening through the left wall. You can recognise it by the darker hue on top of the dividing wall. Walk up to find a chest with a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Return to the hall and there's a similar hidden passage through the opposite right wall. Walk down the steps into a small room with two chests containing [1000 GIL] and [1000 GIL]. The steps down just lead to a large empty space with a pool and no treasure, so go up the other steps to the second floor. Walk left, to find two more chests. These contain a [LEATHER SHIELD] and [BLIZZARD] Level 1 Black Magic. Look closely at the top of the wall to the left of these two chests and you'll spot a discoloured area indicating another hidden passage. Follow this passage in the darkness, up and right, into a small room with a treasure chest containing [BRONZE KNUCKLES], another weapon. Leave the main building. ---------- East Tower (no enemies) ---------- Walk up the right side of the central keep and enter the tower. Climb to the third floor to find two treasure chests, with [HOLY ARROW x20] and [WOODEN ARROW x20] Lady Sara's bedroom is on the next floor and you can rest in her bed... Open the three chests to obtain: [BOW], [WOODEN ARROW x20] and [POTION]. After obtaining all this loot, leave the castle and save your game on the world map before entering the west tower. Adjust everyone's equipment and equip that new magic too. ---------- West Tower ---------- The encounter rate is quite high in here so keep an eye on health and don't let anyone's HP get too low. As well as the familiar Wisp and Dark Eye monsters you'll also encounter Zombies. You can use potions and the Cure spell on these undead enemies to damage them by 50 HP, or the Holy Arrows you found, but I'd suggest hanging onto those as you can defeat them fairly easily with ordinary weapons. A lot depends on your current level. If everyone is at level 3 to start with then it's harder but you'll soon level up. These enemies can inflict poison status and you'll need Antidotes or use the spell Poisona, especially since Poison status persists after a battle. Maybe keep one person on the back row and use them for healing: give them the Bow and fire arrows when they don't need to heal anyone. Remember to equip the arrows as well as the bow! Climb to the third floor to find two treasure chests with [HOLY ARROW x20] in the left one and [WOODEN ARROW x20] in the right. There's another chest on the next floor, but make sure everyone is at full health before opening it. You'll find a [WIGHTSLAYER] weapon but it's a trap! Without doing any extra fighting but not running away from battles my team were all at level 5 by this point. Before opening the chest check that all the new stuff has been equipped and that you have potions at the ready. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GRIFFON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 06 | 230 | 15 | 16 | 130 | 40 | Wind | Sasune: West Tower | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Potion 2 - Bomb Fragment 3 - Antarctic Wind 4 - Zeus's Wrath| | 5 - Silence Seal 6 - Tranquilizer 7 - Angel's Sigh 8 - Angel's Sigh| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 5 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o You can do a lot of damage with your double equipped weapons and the Griffon can only hit one person at once. However, its critical attack can take away half someone's HP so you'll need to heal that damage. It also has a Fire magic attack on everyone that does around 15-20 damage. You can get a quick win by using the item Antarctic Wind, which overkills causing more than 200 HP damage to the monster but it's best to hold on to this valuable item for the next boss battle. Make sure to equip the new Wightslayer for its better attack power and it should only take five strikes (with double weapons) to defeat it. The experience is divided between everyone so each person gets 32 points. After defeating the boss the encounter rate seems to dip and one time I left the tower with no more encounters, but that might be a rare fluke. After getting all the treasure and healing up again, leave the castle and fly east and north, across to the lake, to the Sealed Cave. =============================================================================== 05. SEALED CAVE ......................................................... *W05 =============================================================================== TASK : Defeat the Djinn and choose jobs for everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Northeast from Castle Sasune, across the lake. Items [4] : Potion, Cure (White Magic Lv.1), 500 Gil, Antarctic Wind, Eye Drops. Wellspring : No Ally : Princess Sara Enemies : 08: Red Wisp, 09: Dark Eye, 10: Zombie, 11: Mummy, 12: Skeleton, 13: Cursed Copper, 14: Larva, 15: Shadow, 16: Revenant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Skeleton, Revenant and Cursed Copper enemies are susceptible to Cure magic and holy arrows, but you'll kill them quickly just with weapons. To target an enemy or ally group with a spell simply press the cursor with the left button on the D pad. You can also use healing spells on all the party from the Magic menu by selecting the option to do so! Skeletons can blind and you'll need eye drops to cure that status effect, and Revenants use poison attacks. You enter from the north, so walk straight down the cave until you reach a dead end and a treasure chest that contains a [POTION]. From here, walk back to the junction and turn right. In the next larger cave walk up to find the second chest that contain [CURE] Lv 1 White Magic. Head back down the cave and continue along the only route (through a screen change) until you reach another large cave. There's a chest in the bottom left corner with [500 GIL]. This cave appears to be a dead end but head to the right and use the camera close up on the skull that's lying on the floor of the cave. You'll spot the sparkle which activates a switch, opening the wall in the cave. Follow the path and you'll find Princess Sara who joins the party together with her Mythril Ring, although you cannot use her as an active party member. Press Y to speak to her and she'll let you know that the Djinn is susceptible to cold attacks. This is what you've been waiting for! Equip the Blizzard magic to someone if you haven't done so yet, and be ready to use the Antarctic Wind item. Don't bother healing with potions now that Sara is with you because she'll automatically heal anyone who is injured (her Cure spell works on everyone at once) as well as sometimes using Aero magic to attack enemies. Continue walking to the right and then down the steps to the next cave. Walk down a narrow passage that turns to the left and you'll find new enemies besides the skeletons. At the lower left corner the passage turns to the right and down again to a dead end, where you'll discover a treasure chest with the item you need {ANTARCTIC WIND]. Walk back to the junction and go straight ahead, and then left, into a cavern. There's a chest at the lower left corner with [EYE DROPS]. The tunnel continues from the left side of this cave. There is nothing left to find so just run quickly down the passage into another large cavern and then, right, into the final area where Djinn awaits on a red platform. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - DJINN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 07 | 600 | 20 | 8 | 200 | 1400 | Ice, Water | Sealed Cave | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Potion 2 - Bomb Fragment 3 - Bomb Fragment 4 - Sheep Pillow| | 5 - Sheep Pillow 6 - Lamia Scale 7 - Bomb Arm 8 - Bomb Arm | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 7/8 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o The main risk with this guy is that he'll swing his sword twice at the same person and that can nearly kill them. He might also do a powerful critical attack on one, and that too, can nearly kill them. His third skill is Fire magic on one or all. To avoid disaster use Blizzard magic and the Antarctic Wind item because he has a lot of HP. One of these items and one magic attack, which will do over 100 HP damage with the caster at level 7, together with one round of physical attacks should suffice. (Or use two Antarctic Winds for a faster and less risky win!) Equip Shields to give extra protection from his fierce attacks. After the battle the team ends up somewhere else. It's the cave with the crystal! Now the four of you get a message which you cannot skip over... and the credits. That's the end of the prologue chapter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRYSTAL OF WIND - JOBS CHANGE, MOGNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You will be told about changing jobs at this point. Step on the circle behind the altar to return to the surface outside the Altar Cave with everyone at full health again. Save your game and make decisions about your future! Check the menu screen and you'll notice that the JOBS option is now available. Select this option to view the list of possible jobs: WARRIOR - best on the front row unless equipped with a bow. WHITE MAGE - back row: use Staffs as items in battle to cast Black magic. RED MAGE - front or back: versatile with weapons and magic. MONK - front row: no magic and needs to be close to enemies to do the maximum damage. BLACK MAGE - back row: same as White Mage. Staffs save on MP use. THIEF - front row: to steal stuff and get the first turn, but won't damage enemies if stealing. If you check the stats of all party members without any equipment before allocating jobs, you'll see that the ONLY difference between them is HP. At level 8 these are the numbers: * Refia has 112 HP * Luneth has 113 HP * Ingus has 117 HP * Arc has 115 HP This means that it really doesn't matter who takes on which job. A lot depends on how you prefer to play: you could make a party solely of fighters (Warrior and Monk) or mages. But it's probably best to opt for a balanced party. I always like stealing stuff and the thief unlocks doors for you. Mages are handy for their attack magic that targets groups of enemies. Since healing is easy enough with items, beds and wellsprings you might not want to bother with a White Mage, but having access to White magic is going to be useful for attacking undead enemies as well healing and so it's advisable. An alternative is to use a Red Mage for their magic versatility and ability to equip a wide range of stuff. Bear in mind that these jobs will be superseded when you find the next crystal and you'll probably want to change them again. My party was: Thief-Luneth, White Mage-Arc, Black Mage-Refia, Warrior-Ingus. The main drawback is that no-one can use the Wightslayer sword. Also note that the White Mage cannot equip the bow and will be relegated to the weak Staff for now, and only two of the team have MP for magic, although the mages have nearly doubled theirs. Adjust accordingly! By the way, if you're not sure about jobs, try out the Red Mage. When you get the next set of jobs most of them will only require 2 battles for transition from this job. Also, the fact that the Red Mage is an all-rounder gives you a taste of warrior type fighting and white and black magic They won't require job change when you're in mini form which also makes them useful. However, don't stick with the Red Mage for the rest of the game, as their lack of specialist abilities makes them less valuable as the game progresses. ------ Mognet ------ Walk to Ur and go up to the magic shop and left, and you'll find a Moogle waiting for you. Talk to him to connect to access the message system. This is the point at which you can start to send mail to other players in order to unlock the Onion Knight job, and various sidequests. With a Friend Code, simply send 7 messages (I just counted them out: One, Two, etc) to one other person. That's all you have to do! They do not have to reply. See the separate section for all the details about this. ------------- Sasune Castle ------------- Your airship is still outside the Sealed Mines where you left it, which is a bit annoying. If you return to Kasus nothing happens and Refia leaves the party saying she's not yet ready to meet her father. You must return to Sasune Castle first, and yes, you've got to walk all the way there, but it gives you a chance to fight enough battles to instigate the change of jobs. You'll be able to use the job's skills right from the start, but the stats don't change and appear in yellow. Thief requires 4 battles for the adjustment phase and the rest only need 2 so it won't take long for the change to take place. Princess Sara is waiting for you and events proceed in an orderly fashion. You receive the best present possible from the King: a [FOLDING CANOE] which is found in the Key Items inventory. Chat to everyone in the castle for a little extra information and climb the East Tower again to meet Sara once more if you wish to see a sweetly touching scene. Leave the castle and walk to the lake where you don't even have to select the canoe as it magically appears as soon as you touch the water. =============================================================================== 06. KAZUS AND MYTHRIL MINES ............................................. *W06 =============================================================================== TASK : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Services : Item Shop, Inn (free), Weapon Shop, Armour Shop, Magic Shop Items [2] : Mythril Sword x2 (cave) Wellspring : Yes. HP/MP restoration Ally : Cid Enemies : 11: Mummy, 12: Skeleton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This time the town's shop are trading and you can buy the handy Fire magic as well as Mythril armour which I'd recommend. I had over 5000 Gil by this point so money shouldn't be an issue, but you can find a couple of Mythril Swords for free so hold off on those. It's cute the way the characters light up to show you who can equip what. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Mythril Rod | 400 | +12 ATK | Mythril Knife | 500 | +14 ATK | Mythril Sword | 500 | +17 ATK | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Mythril Armour | 350 | +10 DEF | Mythril Shield | 190 | +3 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Mythril Helm | 130 | +4 DEF | Mythril Gloves | 120 | +3 DEF | Mythril Bracers | 120 | +2 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fire | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals fire damage Blizzard | 100 | Black Lv 1 Deals ice damage Sleep | 100 | Black Lv 1 Inflicts sleep ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ You won't have Refia with you for the shopping trip as she's gone back home to her father's smithy and says she can't come with you. Report back to Cid in the inn and he'll join the party instead, although not as an active member. Talk to the man near the first table for a hint about a secret passage inside the Mythril Mines. You can rest in the beds upstairs if you need to heal. Press Y to talk to Cid for more hints about what to do next and then visit Takka the smith again. He'll fit up the airship so you can ram through the rocks and reach Cid's hometown. After this scene Refia will have disappeared from the smithy. Head for the airship and take off and she'll be back with the team. Now you are at full strength again, it's a good time to head for the mines at the back of Kasus. Cid will also help out, using Fire magic on all enemies. ------------- Mythril Mines ------------- From the entrance, walk right, and up the old mine track that leads into a larger cave. Remember what you were told by the man in the inn, and check out the upper left corner of the cave where you see a lantern post. That opens the secret passage in the left wall .After that it's a one way route down, left, and up to the far end where you'll find two treasure chests containing: [MYTHRIL SWORD] and [MYTHRIL SWORD]. Equip them or sell them. =============================================================================== 07. CANAAN .............................................................. *W07 =============================================================================== TASK : Blast the rock and walk to Canaan. Cure Cid's wife, find treasure and talk to Selina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Southwest from Kasus, after blasting the rock to the west. Services : Item Shop, Inn (40 Gil), Bar, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop, Magic Shop Items [15] : Elixir, Gnomish Bread x2, Gold Needle, Potion, Great Bow, Iron Arrow x20, Blind (Black Magic Lv.2), 2000 Gil, 2000 Gil, Phoenix Down x3, Mallet, Gold Needle Wellspring : Yes, but nothing happens if you're alive. It revives the dead. Area Enemies: 05: Killer Bee, 07: Berserker, 21: Basilisk, 22: Bugbear ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALERT! DO NOT BUY THE GREAT BOW OR BLIND MAGIC. Back in the airship, fly towards the large rock at the southwest of the world map and you'll blast it automatically, but you also lose the airship and are now on foot again. Walk a short way to the west and then go south to find the small settlement next to a mountain. Enter the town and Cid leaves the party, after telling you to see King Argus if you want a better airship. Cid makes the hull but the king knows about engines. The chap near the fountain informs you about a secret gnome village somewhere in the woods to the south, but there's a mountain in the way! The man at the left has information about a magical healing solution that's hidden somewhere in the town. Intriguing! The mage type man in orange adds to the intrigue by telling you about a Mini scroll that changes you to the size of a gnome, so that's the secret! Walk up to the north of the village using the steps at the right of the magic shop, and you'll find a pond that you can walk through. Follow the stream down under the bridges until you reach some steps up to a patch of turf with a treasure chest. This contains an [ELIXIR]. Return the way you came. Talk to the pink clothed girl in front of the magic shop and she'll dance for you. Make your way to the house at the upper left of the town and you'll find Cid and his sick wife. Talk to his wife and you'll be able to cure her with the Elixir. It might seem a bit of a waste of a valuable item just to get rid of a cough, but one good turn always deserves another in an RPG if not in life. Check the light on the wall as instructed by Cid and it opens a secret passage in the left wall. Go down the stairs into the aircraft hangar where you'll find EIGHT! treasure chests!. Starting from left to right on the bottom row you'll acquire: [GNOMISH BREAD], [GNOMISH BREAD], [GOLD NEEDLE], [PHOENIX DOWN], [POTION], [GREAT BOW], [IRON ARROW x20], [BLIND]. A very nice haul, but we're not done yet! Walk through the water and climb the steps in the lower right corner of the room and you'll spot a dark patch on the stone floor. Go right, through a secret opening into darkness. Keep going right and you end up in another room with four more treasure chests. The lower two contain [2000 GIL] and another [2000 GIL], and the upper two net you a [PHOENIX DOWN] and another [PHOENIX DOWN]. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Mythril Rod | 400 | +12 ATK | Mythril Knife | 500 | +14 ATK | Mythril Sword | 500 | +17 ATK | Great Bow | 1500 | +18 ATK | Iron Arrow | 8 | +12 ATK | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Mythril Armour | 350 | +10 DEF | Mythril Shield | 190 | +3 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Mythril Helm | 130 | +4 DEF | Mythril Gloves | 120 | +3 DEF | Mythril Bracers | 120 | +2 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Cure | 100 | White Lv.1 Restores HP Thunder | 700 | Black Lv.2 Deals lightning damage Poison | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals damage and inflicts poison Blind | 700 | Black Lv.2 Inflicts blind ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Buy at least four Gold Needles, the Thunder magic and some Iron arrows if nothing else. Check out the house adjoining the Inn and you'll find Salina mourning the lost Desch. He's someone we're going to have to find I guess, especially as he bought the last Mini scroll. She tells you that he went to the mountains to the east so that's the next task set up. Before leaving the house check out the logs at the left of the sink to find a [MALLET] Go left, hugging the lower wall below the bookshelf so you're out of sight, and you'll find a hidden opening in the left wall of the room. It just takes you back into the central hall where you'll find a [GOLD NEEDLE] hidden in the visible wood pile. Stay at the inn to heal everyone if required and leave town. Save your game and head for the hills! =============================================================================== 08. DRAGON'S PEAK ....................................................... *W08 =============================================================================== TASK : Reach the top of the mountain. Obtain Mini magic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : East of Canaan Items [4] : Phoenix Down, Aero (White Magic Lv.2), Gold Needle, Mini( White Magic Lv.2) [3] : Wellspring - Mini (x3 - maximum) Wellspring : Yes. Revive, HP/MP restoration, status cure (On world map) Enemies : 17: Firefly, 18: Helldiver, 19: Rust Bird, 20: Rukh Ally : Desch Recommended Level: 8/9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk up the track and you'll encounter bird type enemies. Unfortunately you don't yet have any Aero magic to which they are vulnerable, but use your other magic if you've a mage or your best physical attacks. The Helldivers and Rukhs are a real nuisance with their instant petrification attack that you can only cure with the Gold Needle item. Firefly enemies are easy enough to kill with the Blizzard spell. However, search out the Rust Bird and steal from it because every item you can pinch is a Phoneix Down. When you reach a junction at the east rock face, head down the slope to find a treasure chest containing a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Back up the slope you'll arrive at a T junction. Go right and you'll soon find a second treasure chest with the magic you need: [AERO]. This is white magic so a White Mage can be useful at long last. Return to the junction and walk left to find another chest at the edge of the path. That contains a [GOLD NEEDLE]. As soon as you reach the top of the path a scene will start and you find yourself surrounded by a clutch of eggs and dragons. Speak to the figure in blue at the upper left and... you'll end up facing Bahamut. Not a good plan to fight this beast now, so select to Run Away. If you have a Thief that's easier to do as they have the Flee option. But even so, it's likely that the dragon gets in a strike before you manage it. They will do over 700 HP of damage and it's an instant kill, so at least you're in no doubt that this is a battle you couldn't win. --------------------------- World Map and Healing Copse --------------------------- Desch hands over the scroll [MINI] and decides to tag along with the party. He jumps off the mountain and the team follow, after which you all arrive at a new location on the world map. Don't worry if someone is dead and don't waste a Phoenix Down on them. Turn north and enter the forest and you'll be at a special healing place. Talk to the tiny gnome wandering around on the sandy ground to learn about the village to the south. These ponds heal, revive and cure bad status effects: left is the revival one, right is the status and the middle pond restores HP and MP. Check out your new Mini magic out and equip it and then use it on the lead character to talk to the Gnome. He'll give you another [MINI] spell so long as you've equipped the one you've got. In fact, if you equip this one and talk to him again he'll give you another! I got one for everyone. Sadly the selling price is only 1 Gil so you won't make any cash from the gnome's generosity. Press Y to talk to Desch, who explains that weapons won't do any damage when you're in mini form. Only magic is effective so you'll need to change to jobs that use spells, and ensure that anyone in mini form is protected in the back row. Desch will be with you for a while and he uses a physical attack on enemies and Thundara magic, although he didn't use this magic until after the Viking Cove. Now, the task is to find the gnome village but it's no use with just one person in mini form: everyone needs to be small. BUT if they are, you'll soon get killed since strength, vitality, attack and defence drop to 1 point. The trick is to change fighter jobs to mages. Red Mage is probably the most useful for the Warrior as it only requires 2 battles for the changeover, and Black Mage for the Thief. Fight a few battles to complete the change and then use the Mini spell, and you should manage the local enemies even though everyone is tiny. However, there's a less bothersome method. Simply find the location of the village and THEN make mini-mes of everyone. Ok, so walk south from the healing springs, past the first section of forest and hug the western mountain range. When you reach the southwest section of forest, change everyone into Mini. Just go to Magic, select the spell and then the option at the bottom of the page: "All Party Members". If you've done it correctly even Desch will change size, and you'll be inside the mini world of Tozus. (If you did as I did and used the Mini spell on just one person to start with, you'll find that the all person spell changes them BACK into their big form.) =============================================================================== 09. TOZUS TOWN AND TUNNEL ............................................... *W09 =============================================================================== TASK : Heal the doctor. Use the tunnel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : In the forest to the south of the Healing forest area. Services : Gnome Item Shop, Inn (80 Gil) and Item Shop, Magic Shop Items [6] : Mythril Bracers, Fire Staff, Fira (Black Magic Lv.3), Cura (White Magic Lv.3), Phoenix Down x2 Wellspring : None Ally : Desch Enemies : (Tunnel) 23: Mandrake, 24: Leprechaun, 25: Darkface ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You arrive at the east of the town and can walk right to exit to the world map. There's also a map on the top screen although it just shows the location on the world map. Talk to the gnomes you meet and you'll find out about a tunnel that takes you to the home of the Vikings... not quite what you might expect. Another gnome mentions the Living Woods and Doctor Shelco is ill. You'll also find a Moogle. The top left house contains some valuable stuff. There's a hidden [MYTHRIL BRACERS] by the table opposite the entrance door and a [FIRE STAFF] inside the left bookcase. The right bookcase yields a [FIRA] magic. Talk to the doctor and heal him with an Antidote item. As with Cid and his house, this one also has a secret and he'll reveal it to you by opening a passage that leads to Miralka Bash. Check out the pots in the corner of the room, to the left of the secret passage, and you'll find a hidden [CURA]. Walk along the passage and down the stairs to access two treasure chests with [PHOENIX DOWN] and [PHOENIX DOWN]. Leave and head back to village to do some shopping before continuing. The inn costs 80 Gil to stay but you shouldn't need that if you came straight from the healing forest. The really useful stuff is sold at the Magic Shop and you can stock up on spells for your newly created mages. Fire and Blizzard will probably suffice. The specialist gnome bread shop is worth a visit. Buy a couple or more of these items that allow you to see the whole continent at once. This has the same effect as using the spell Sight, which you don't yet have. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- GNOME ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Gnomish Bread | 200 | Shows a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fire | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals fire damage Blizzard | 100 | Black Lv 1 Deals ice damage Sleep | 100 | Black Lv 1 Inflicts sleep Thunder | 700 | Black Lv.2 Deals lightning damage Poison | 100 | Black Lv.2 Deals damage and inflicts poison Blind | 700 | Black Lv.2 Inflicts blind Aero | 700 | White Lv.2 Deals wind damage ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Return to the world map to save your game and check everyone's health and equipment. Stay at the inn or walk back to the healing forest to heal for free! Enter the Tozus Tunnel. My team were now a Red Mage, two Black Mages and a White Mage and everyone was at level 9 or 10. ------------ Tozus Tunnel ------------ Simple stuff here. Walk left, and then up, into the second part of the tunnel, and continue to the end where you emerge on the world map. There's nothing to find. Fight some monsters as you go, but the encounter rate is low and I only had two battles so it's easy enough to manage. Watch out for the Dark Face's Blizzard spell and critical physical attack, and keep everyone placed on the back row to minimise the damage. I only found the Leprechauns on a subsequent visit if you are determined to account for all enemies, but that's probably because I didn't linger on this first trip. You'll emerge in a grassy area surrounded with mountains, and you can return through the tunnel from the forest here, so long as you're mini size. The Vikings' Cove is inside the mountain to the north. Change back to normal size by casting the Mini spell on everyone again and hope you have the magic ability left to use a level 2 spell. If not, don't worry, as the Vikings' Cove has an inn. Retain the magic jobs as you'll soon have to revert to mini size again. =============================================================================== 10. VIKINGS' COVE ....................................................... *W10 =============================================================================== TASK : Find all treasure. Find out about the ship and dragon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the mountain to the north of the end of the tunnel from Tozus. Services : Item Shop, Inn (40 Gil), Magic Shop Items [6] : Spark Dagger, Viking Axe, 3000 Gil, Blizzara (Black Magic Lv.3), Thundara (Black Magic Lv.3), Fira (Black Magic Lv.3) Wellspring : Yes. Revive only Ally : Desch Area Enemies: 5: Killer Bee, 06: Werewolf, 07: Berserker, 21: Basilisk, 22: Bugbear, 23: Mandrake ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, it's very easy to simply race through the cave, chat a little to hear about the ship and the sea dragon, emerge onto the world map again and board the ship, only to find yourself fighting the dragon before you've even had time to pause. This is the Nepto Dragon and you cannot beat it. Your spells will do 0 damage and it has two attacks on each turn and each attack kills someone with around 5000 damage. Kind of not possible... Well, then, DON'T! This cove is really a town and you can talk to the Vikings and search for some useful items. Walk through to the first open area where a Viking is asleep on a bed at the left and the chap wandering around greets you in a cheery fashion and warns you about the sea dragon. You'll see a dark wall at the right and a small cave with a red treasure chest below the wall. There's a hidden opening out of sight in the upper side of that dark section. Turn down, facing the treasure chest and you'll find it. Walk down, right and down again to access the chest which contains a [SPARK DAGGER]. Back in the main cave walk up and chat to the group, one of whom mentions the Nepto Temple. Enter the doorway behind them to find the shopping cave. The mage standing at the back wall sells magic, although you don't need any as you'll find some free stuff in here. However, you should buy a few of the new Maiden's Kiss items. Rest at the inn before leaving. ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fire | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals fire damage Blizzard | 100 | Black Lv 1 Deals ice damage Sleep | 100 | Black Lv 1 Inflicts sleep Thunder | 700 | Black Lv.2 Deals lightning damage Poison | 100 | Black Lv.2 Deals damage and inflicts poison Blind | 700 | Black Lv.2 Inflicts blind Mini | 1000 | White Lv.2 Shrinks and unshrinks target ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Head up the steps and you're at the water's edge, although still inside the cave. Go left, to the far end of the path and turn down the screen. You'll discover another hidden passage leading through to a room at the west of the area. Talking to the Viking reveals the name of Pop again. Go down the steps to find another talkative chap and two treasure chests. The top one contains a [VIKING AXE] and the lower one has a whopping [3000 GIL]! They don't object to strangers stealing all their goods. There's a wellspring to the right of the cave that will revive the dead. Return to the main path and go right to find a Moogle. Stop just before that, where some light shines on the path, and turn down the screen again to find a hidden passage through the darkness. Walk down, right, down again, and left, into a small room with three treasure chests: The left one has [BLIZZARA] magic, the middle one contains [FIRA] and the right has [THUNDARA]. Back on the path, walk right, and down the steps to find Pop and a few other Vikings. The deal is: defeat the dragon and you can have the Enterprise sailing ship. Chat to the other Viking who tells you the truth about dragon: as soon as you enter the ship he will attack. Back on the path, you can fire the cannon, for fun. Walk up and the stairs ahead take you back to the world map, between two mountains. The ship looks tempting, just waiting on the shore to the west, but heed the warning and avoid it. Instead, walk north along the shore, and then west, to find a stone temple. =============================================================================== 11. NEPTO TEMPLE ........................................................ *W11 =============================================================================== TASK : Acquire Nepto's Eye and made the dragon whole again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : West from Vikings' Cove. Items [3] : Shell Armor, Shell Helm, Serpent Sword [3] : (Key Items) Nepto Eye, Fang of Water, Enterprise Wellspring : No Ally : Desch Enemies : 26: Petit, 27: Poison Bat, 28: Liliputian, 29: Wererat, 30: Blood Worm Recommended Level: 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter the temple and walk up to investigate the dragon head statue. There's nothing else to find inside this first room. Use Mini on everyone, as instructed, and enter the dragon's mouth. Use Level 1 magic on the enemies you meet, and you might find that Desch helps you out with his Thundara magic. Walk quite a distance to the right and eventually the path turns up and then right to a dead end. However, there are two holes in the floor. Drop down the first one (actually there are stairs, although you cannot see them from above) and head down to the lower left corner of the room. There are two chests here: the left one has [SHELL ARMOR] and the right contains a [SHELL HELM]. These can be equipped to a Red Mage, which is another good reason for having one with you at this stage. Return to the upper level and enter the second hole. Walk right to find a treasure chest with a [SERPENT SWORD] and another hole in the floor. This takes you into a rock walled cavern. Walk right, and you'll probably encounter the large red blood worm in here. One or two Fire spells should kill it. You'll see something purple at the end of the passage so make sure that everyone has full HP before approaching it. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GIANT RAT | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 11 | 900 | 24 | 29 | 1200 | 1500 | None | Nepto Temple | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Potion 2 - Bomb Fragment 3 - Antarctic Wind 4 - Zeus's Wrath | | 5 - Silence Seal 6 - Tranquilizer 7 - Angel's Sigh 8 - Angel's Sigh | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 10/11 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Use your highest level spells on the rat: Thundara, Fira and Blizzara. Thundara seems to be the best, doing nearly 350 HP damage to the rat. Level 1 spells and Aero only inflict around 70 damage to him. The main problem is that the rat also uses magic and one Fire spell on one character will kill them outright at this level. Revive with a Phoenix Down if they are your best magic user or if you want them to receive experience points. I managed this in two rounds, with 1 Thundara and 1 Thunder magic, with the rest of the team using level 1 spells. After the battle you'll pick up [NEPTO EYE], a key item, and everyone will be at full health for the return journey to the statue. Just as well, as the enemies are still up for a fight. Keep walking left to get back to the entrance room. Examine the statue and you'll put the missing eye back in its socket. You obtain the [FANG OF WATER]. Leave the temple and return to the Viking Cove. You cannot use the ship as it's no longer on the shore. (Might as well restore everyone to full size on the world map.) Talk to Pop again to officially receive the [ENTERPRISE]! Leave the cave again, from the north exit and the ship is now waiting on the shore. Embark on your seafaring adventures! =============================================================================== 12. THE ENTERPRISE ...................................................... *W12 =============================================================================== TASK : Explore the world! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ally : Desch Sea Enemies : 31: Killer Fish, 32: Hermit, 33: Sea Elemental, 34: Tangie, 35: Sahagin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After boarding the ship near the Vikings' Cove, sail west, and you'll end up in the middle of the sea in the middle of the continent. Check the map to see your location. Use one of the Gnomish Breads now, and you'll be able to spot blue locations that you haven't yet visited. It's not clear where you should go next but identifying all the locations on the world map is a good start. You'll notice that the ship is restricted to the inner sea, and that access to the outer circular sea is blocked by a whirlpool to the north. Have fun exploring and finding new enemies to fight, both at sea and on the land. You can save at any time while sailing or riding a Chocobo. The old locations are to the East and you can call back to Canaan to visit Selina, Desch's love, and chat to Cid, but you won't learn anything new. The new locations are dealt with in the walkthrough, but in brief they are: * Tokkul Village to the south. * Castle Argus to the northwest. * Tower of Owen to the north (west of the narrow channel with the whirlpool). * Gulgan Gulch to the west from Castle Argus * Village of the Ancients at the southwest perimeter of the map. One of the problems is that there isn't a revive wellspring, except in the Vikings Cove, and the new locations don't have an inn. I ended up having to return to Vikings' Cove to revive and save on Phoenix Downs, and to restore health. However, there is a Wellspring on the second floor of Castle Argus. See the next section for details of the castle and the treasure you can find there. =============================================================================== 13. CASTLE ARGUS ........................................................ *W13 =============================================================================== TASK : Obtain all the treasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : On the northwest coast Services : None Items [12] : 1500 Gil, 1000 Gil x6, 100 Gil x2, Bomb Fragment, Arctic Wind, Antarctic Wind. [9] : {Locked Rooms} Light Arrow x20, Killer Bow, Medusa Arrow x20. Book Of Light, Book Of Fire, Ice Arrow x20, Fire Arrow x20, Book Of Ice, Scholar Robe Wellspring : Yes. Revive and HP/MP restoration Ally : Desch Area Enemies: 40: Knocker, 42: Lizardman, 43: Gorgon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remembering that King Argus knew about airship engines, this might be the natural next destination. You can see the castle on the Gnomish Bread map, situated on the northwest coast. Sail there and enter what turns out to be a completely deserted castle. (Use Y/party chat for some comments about this.) However, there are some good things to find: tons of cash and a wellspring. You'll need the latter in case of disaster as there are some more powerful sets of enemies to find, both on sea and on the world map. Stop in the room on the second floor and get close up and personal to the candlestick in the upper right corner. You'll see that familiar sparkle. Press A and the wall opens for you. Walk through the opening and keep going straight through the next small room to the adjoining one. I had difficulty finding the hole in the wall, until I realised it was situated by the fourth floor tile down from the candlestick. Here you'll find three chests: The left one has [1000 GIL], and so does the middle one [1000 GIL], and yeah, it's the mother lode, the third one has the same amount of [1000 GIL]. From the small room, walk up the stairs into a another treasure room with 6 chests. Starting at the lower left the left three contain: [1500 GIL], [1000 GIL], [1000 GIL]. The ones at the right have [100 GIL], [1000 GIL] and another [100 GIL]. The stairs take you out to the ramparts. Walk left or right, and up to find a small wooden door in both corners' These doors are locked but you can open them with a Thief. Change job and you'll be given the message that you can open the door. There's no awkward lock-picking involved, as the thief is the master of unlocking (even if you didn't name her Jill). Inside the left door you'll find an office. Check out the large cupboard for that reassuring sparkle and press A to open the wall to the room at the right. Open three treasure chests to obtain: [LIGHT ARROW x20], [KILLER BOW] and [MEDUSA ARROW x20]. The light arrows inflicts lightning damage and the medusa arrows cause gradual petrification. These are more powerful than you'll require right now, but having the Killer Bow is a real bonus as it adds another +8 attack power to the Great Bow. Enter the right door to discover a treasure room with six chests. Opening them from left to right, starting on the bottom row, these contain: [BOOK OF LIGHT], [BOOK OF FIRE], [ICE ARROW x20]. The top row yields: [FIRE ARROW x20], [BOOK OF ICE], and [SCHOLAR ROBE]. The Book weapons and robe cannot be equipped by anyone, and you'll need to wait until you have access to new jobs. Back inside the central area, climb the stairs up to the large dining room. The walled area to the right of the table doesn't seem to have a doorway, but just go around the back and walk down the hidden stairs. You'll end up inside a small room with two treasure chests: the top one has a [BOMB FRAGMENT] and the lower one an [ANTARCTIC WIND]. Walk between the two chests and you can pass through the wall into the darkness and through to a tiny room with a single chest containing an [ARCTIC WIND] item. Return to the dining room and walk down the central stairs to reach the ramparts. Go right and find a wellspring that restores HP and MP, and there's also a revive one to the left. =============================================================================== 14. TOKKUL .............................................................. *W14 =============================================================================== TASK : Find the treasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : On the central south shore of the sea. Services : None Items [7] : Bacchus's Cider, Great Bow, Lamia Scale, Ice Staff, Serpent Sword, Kenpo Gi, Sonic Knuckles Wellspring : No Ally : Desch Area Enemies: 37: Griffon, 40: Knocker 41: Flyer, 42: Lizardman, 43: Gorgon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start off by sailing south of the central sea, where there's a small settlement on the nearby coast. Walk from the coast to the village of Tokkul. This place is a bit strange: the first two inhabitants run off when you talk to them and some of the houses are shut up. If you've already been to Castle Argus there's some connection to the lack of soldiers there. However, none of this will stop you from finding stuff lying around the place. Walk left from the entrance until you stop at a blue roofed house. Now, head up between this house and the yellow roofed one at the right. The collection of pots or debris hides a [BACCHUS'S CIDER]. Walk up to the small house and check the wall at the left of the blocked door to find a [GREAT BOW]. Find a hidden [LAMIA SCALE] by the tree above this house. Go to the house at the upper side of the village and you'll find a couple of blue clothed locals who will give you information about other locations: Sands to the west and a Village of the Ancients to the west. Both sound promising. A man below the house with lots of windows tells you about Castle Argus and people who live in the western mountains. Walk a bit further to the right onto the grass at the east of the village. You'll find an [ICE STAFF] hidden in the grass just below the sandy corner upper right corner. Enter the blue roofed Elder's house and talk to him to learn about the village's recent fate. The man in the small room at the right tells you to take the weapons they have, so do them a favour and do as he says. Investigate the fireplace and you'll end up inside a hidden room with two chests. The upper one contains a [SERPENT SWORD] and the lower one a [KENPO GI]. Check the middle of the pots to discover a hidden [SONIC KNUCKLES]. Finally, enter the blue roofed house to the right of the entrance. A child will run off into fireplace, so follow her and talk to the mother to learn that the soldiers who raided the place were King Argus's men. This is a good point to use the Y button or chat icon to find out what the rest of the team think. =============================================================================== 15. CHOCOBO WOODS (Optional) ............................................ *W15 =============================================================================== TASK : Ride a Chocobo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Southwest from Tokkul, inside a circular forest. Services : Chocobo transport! Area Enemies: (World map outer ring) 36: Parademon, 37: Griffon, 38: Lynx, 39: Hornet, 40: Knocker, 44: Red Cap, 45: Barometz, 46: Slime, 47: Tarantula. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The Slime is a rare green enemy, found at the northwestern perimeter. Thanks to Seferga for identifying this location as I had been searching for it for ages... Walk south from the Tokkul village and follow the edge of the coast until you can walk west If you cross the desert you'll see a strange whirling something, but it's not a monster although you cannot interact with it. The land narrows with water on both sides, but keep going and you'll spot a circle of forest surrounded with a circle of grass. Walk into the forest to find Chocobo Woods! Simply talk to a Chocobo and it's yours! You'll be back on the world map and can run all over the place without encountering enemies. There are many more hidden Chocobo Woods, but they all have the same function, to give you a fast, free, and enemy free ride. Chocobos have the same ability as the Folding Canoe, as they can cross the shallow rivers. This is quite a surprise as you can run all the way around the whole world map, only to discover that it appears to be floating in the sky....Be careful though, because you could find yourself without a Chocobo and far from safety. Press B and the Chocobo runs off. (Use fire magic on Parademons.) Wait until you've spoken to a kid at the Ancient's Village before completing this circumambulation, as he'll give you a reward! If you keep going west, past the Chocobo woods, you'll end up at this village on the edge of the world. =============================================================================== 16. VILLAGE OF THE ANCIENTS (Optional) .................................. *W16 =============================================================================== TASK : Shopping and information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : West from the Chocobo Woods. At the southwest corner of the map. Services : Item Shop, Inn (120 Gil), Bar, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop, Magic Shop Items [2] : Serpent Sword, (Chocobo reward) Gnomish Bread Wellspring : Yes. Revive only. Ally : Desch Area Enemies: 37: Griffon, 40: Knocker, 41: Flyer, 42: Lizardman, 43: Gorgon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Climb the first two sets of steps, where you'll find a Moogle, and walk left and around the corner to find a red haired kid tucked away just to the left of the third steps. Talk to him to get the challenge of riding a Chocobo all the way around the world. Continue along the left ledge to find a small house at the top left corner of the village. This is the weapon shop and if you've already purloined all the treasure chests inside Castle Argus there's not much to buy except for the Light Staff, unless you could use another Killer Bow. Don't bother with the other staffs as you'll find some more for free. The blue robed mage outside the shop declaims wise words about magic stuff, as do the rest of the mages. Back at the starting steps you'll find an Inn costing 120 Gil and an item shop. Stock up on Maiden's Kiss items because the Tower you'll go to next is full of toads, and buy a supply of Hi-Potions for emergencies. Walk right, behind the Inn and up the path a few steps where you'll see a tiny white flower at the left. Check this out to discover a [SERPENT SWORD]. The steps at the left lead to another mage who explains the nature of the world, and the significance of the Tower of Owen. The house behind him contains a revive wellspring. Behind here is a magic shop and another chatty mage. Buy the Teleport magic if nothing else! This will save a lot of hassle allowing you to leave dungeons and castles instantly. Stock up on the more powerful magic as well, especially if you're using two mages. Sight is cheap enough and allows you to view the whole map in the same way as using a Gnomish Bread. The armour shop is located at the top right corner of the village and the person outside here will tell you about the Chocobos. At long last you can upgrade the Mage's body protection with the Mage's Robe, but you'll find one for free at the next location. The Gi is for the Monk and the Flame Armor for the Warrior or Red Mage. There's nothing to find, so, after improving your equipment, head for the Chocobo Woods and undertake the world tour! Simply pick a Chocobo and run all the way around the outer ring of the land. Don't stop or press the B button. It's best to remove your right hand from the DS to avoid mistakes! Back at the village, drop off the Chocobo and talk to the boy, and he gives you a [GNOMISH BREAD] that you don't need. You can do the run again for another prize if you talk to him again. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Serpent Sword | 1500 | +25 ATK | Deals lightning damage Fire Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Fire Ice Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Blizzard Light Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Thunder Killer Bow | 4000 | +26 ATK | - Fire Arrow | 150 | +17 ATK | Deals fire damage Ice Arrow | 150 | +17 ATK | Deals ice damage Light Arrow | 150 | +17 ATK | Deals lightning damage ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Shell Armour | 1250 | +18 DEF | Flame Mail | 2400 | +21 DEF | Headband | 1200 | +8 DEF | Kenpo Gi | 2000 | +20 DEF | Mage Robe | 2000 | +13 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Sight | 100 | White Lv.1 Displays a detailed map Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ =============================================================================== 17. GULGAN GULCH AND CHOCOBO WOODS 2 .................................... *W17 =============================================================================== TASK : Acquire Toad magic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : A mountain cave, west from Castle Argus. Services : Moogle Items [4] : Toad (White Lv.2) x4, Mage Robe, Ice Staff, Fire Staff Wellspring : No Ally : Desch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pick up a Chocobo and run to the desert outside Tokkul. Go north, up the coast a short way, and then turn west between the mountains. You'll end up at the coast and an apparently dead end, but the Chocobo can cross the shallow water of the river. (If you walk here, you can paddle the canoe over the shallows.) You can see a dark shape swimming in the lake to the east, although you cannot reach the area now. Check the map and you'll see that this is to the west of the Castle. Maybe there's another route. Sail up the west coast and land near the Castle. Walk north to the end of the forested area and then turn to the west where there's a gap between the mountains. Walk to the west to find a forested area and another Chocobo Woods. Leave this for now and take the lower route, past that lake to a cave. There's a Moogle inside the entrance and a welcoming green robed person at the left. The poor things are blind but can see the future, as if that's any compensation for not being able to see to play video games. Chat to the rest of the doom-laden dudes before descending the stairs. You'll find a group of five of them in the next room and talking to the middle one prompts a scene. You're given the [TOAD] spell and told to enter the Tower of Owen. Equip the spell and talk to him again to get another one, and another and another if you have enough mages. Walk down behind the group where some some stairs are just visible. In the darkness, go right, and then, down, and left to enter a small treasure room. Open the three treasure chests from top to bottom to acquire: [MAGE ROBE], [ICE STAFF] and [FIRE STAFF]. Use Teleport to leave the cave and walk up to the Chocobo Woods. Pick up a mount and ride east to the Tower of the Owen. =============================================================================== 18. TOWER OF OWEN ....................................................... *W18 =============================================================================== TASK : Find the route to the top floor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : At the north of the inner sea. Items [9] : Echo Herbs x3, Spark Dagger, Bomb Fragment, Sonic Knuckles, Salmand Sword, Flame Mail, Zeus's Wrath Wellspring : No Ally : Desch Enemies : 49: Pugman, 50: Far Darrig, 51: Blood Bat, 52: Petit Mage, 53: Fury, 54: Aughisky Recommended Level : 14/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure everyone is at full health and with the best equipment for their class before entering the tower. You need the Toad spell, as well as back up Maiden's Kiss items and a few Golden Needle items. Hi-Potions will aid as a back-up to a White Mage, or as a replacement for their Cure or Cura spells. My party was Thief, Black Mage, White Mage and Red Mage and I started out with everyone at level 14. Floor 1 On entering the watery tower, walk left, down, and right, along the middle path to a dead end. This triggers a scene with Desch suggesting that it's time to take a dip. What he means is: turn the party into toads! The Far Darrig enemies use Thunder magic and Silence spells. One Ice Staff casting will put paid to one of them. Pugman uses Blizzard magic on everyone for not much damage, but the Petit Mage can do a horrendous amount of damage with double Blizzara magic if you meed two of them in a back attack!. They also inflict silence. At level 14 they killed two characters and forced me to use two Phoenix Downs or just start again. Use Fire magic on these critters and make free use of the Fire Staff to save on MP. Keep everyone healed at all times. As soon as you're all toads you'll enter a new area of the tower. Hop along down the path and you'll trigger a scene, and it's advisable to change back to human form. Simply cast Toad again on everyone from the magic menu. Walk left, and up to find the stairs up to the next level. Floors 2 and 3 On this floor walk down the narrow path and find a treasure chest to the right, containing [ECHO HERBS]. Go left, and up, to find the stairs. This floor has no treasure and is simple to navigate: go right, down, and left. Floor 4 You arrive at the right side of this floor and can see a treasure chest across the gap below you. Walk left for a brief scene, then down the narrow path, right and up, to reach the chest which contains a [SPARK DAGGER]. The stairs are at the top left of the floor. Floor 5 Once again you arrive at the right side of the floor and this is slightly more complicated. Walk all the way to the left for another taunt from the owner of the tower. Go back and examine the narrow path at the upper side of the path. Press A and you'll trigger a change and can walk down the path to the lower side of the floor. There's a treasure chest with [ECHO HERBS] at the top left corner, past the stairs to the next floor. Floor 6 It's just a single path starting at the upper right with nothing to do or find. Make your way around to the the stairs are at the lower right corner of the floor. Floor 7 Slightly more interesting as you start out at the middle of the south side of the floor. Go right, and up, and open two treasure chests: the left one contains a [BOMB FRAGMENT] and the right has another [ECHO HERBS]. Walk back and to the left, following the single path to the stairs in the upper right corner of the floor. Floor 8 You start out at the lower right corner of this larger floor. Go left, up, and right, to the upper right corner to find a treasure chest with [SONIC KNUCKLES]. Back all the way to the left and down, to find the stairs to the next floor. Floor 9 Not far to go now, and the boss is on the next floor. Walk left and down at the junction, and right to reach the first treasure chest. The route is obscured with the high walls, but it's simple to work it out. Open the chest to acquire the [SALAMAND SWORD]. From here, go left to the wall, and up, to open the second chest with another [FLAME MAIL]. Both these can be equipped to a Red Mage or Warrior. Walk down to the lower wall and all the ay right to find the last chest which contains an attack item: [ZEUS'S WRATH]. Climb the final stairs to meet the boss. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - MEDUSA | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 17 | 3000 | 35 | 22 | 1680 | 2600 | None | Tower of Owen |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 15 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o As the name suggests, Medusa's main threat is that she can turn people into stone and for that you'll need the Golden Needle item, but there's a good chance that her "Stare" won't have any effect at all. Her physical attack is a strike on one that hurts for around 50-100 damage and she might hit them twice, which hurts. She can inflict silence and use Blizzara, Fira and Thundara magic, which is dangerous if she does that on one. She gets two turns on every round so the real threat is if she uses magic twice on the same person, but that's unlikely to happen as she mostly uses her weaker hit and ineffective Stare. Use the Ice Staff with a mage and it should inflict around 200 - 230+ damage. Thunder does around 200 damage to her, and you might as well go all out with your Level 3 magic if you have mages. Thundara does over 350 damage. Fire off ice spells which seem to do more damage than anything else, and use arrows with that element if you have them. Of course you could always speed things up with a couple of thrown items, but I keep saving those... Desch stepped in to complete the coup de grace and finish the battle for me, and no-one died at this level which was a relief! After this, Desch does his stuff and you lose him as an ally. He instructs you to go to the island of the dwarves next... and Hey! You land back on board the Enterprise outside the tower, with everyone at full health. The whirlpool has gone and you can sail up through the narrow channel to the outer sea. =============================================================================== 19. DWARVEN HOLLOWS ..................................................... *W19 =============================================================================== TASK : Get back the Horn of Ice from Gutsco. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Island, west from the Tower of Owen in the outer sea. Services : Inn (80 Gil), Item Shop, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop Items [-] : None Wellspring : Yes. Revive only ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Land at the island and enter the mountain cave. There's a Moogle just inside the second cave. Talk to the dwarves to discover that they are in uproar because a valuable item has been stolen. Talk to the dwarf by the grey stone platform and he'll ask you to find Gutsco and retrieve the Horn of Ice. You're also told about the village of Gysahl. You'll have spotted that place if you did the Chocobo circumnavigation task. The three doors at the back of the cave lead to the various shops. The one at the right opens to the armour shop. The middle door leads to the weapon shop, which sells arrows that you might want to buy if you've been using a bow all this time. Enter the left door to find the Inn and Item Shop. The mage in here will give you a brief overview of the advantages and disadvantages of your current jobs. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Tyrfing | 2000 | +28 ATK | - Fire Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Fire Ice Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Blizzard Diamond Bell | 4500 | +42 ATK | - Iron Arrow | 8 | +12 ATK | Holy Arrow | 10 | +8 ATK | Deals light damage ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Ice Armour | 2400 | +20 DEF | Ice Helm | 1200 | +10 DEF | Ice Shield | 1800 | +6 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Flame Mail | 2400 | +21 DEF | Mage Robe | 2000 | +13 DEF | Kenpo Gi | 2000 | +20 DEF | ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ There are two sets of stairs leading down to the lower caverns. The one at the right takes you to a revive wellspring and a large rock that blocks access. The dwarves' treasure room is off to the left of this stairs, but there's no access here either. Go down the left stairs instead, and that takes you to a lake. You cannot walk further, but change everyone into Toads to paddle through the water into the Subterranean Lake. =============================================================================== 20. GYSAHL .............................................................. *W20 =============================================================================== TASK : Discover the Game Records, Gysahl Greens and Magic Keys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Southeast of the outer sea Services : Item Shop x2, Inn (120 Gil), Bar, Magic Shop Items [6] : Gysahl Greens x3, Magic Key x 2, Shuriken Wellspring : Yes. Revive only SPECIAL! : Game Records Area Enemies: 45: Barometz, 46: Slime, 47: Tarantula, 48: Cuphgel, Sea Enemies : 71: Anet, 72: Mermaid, 73: Seahorse, 74: Sea Serpent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll have spotted this place nestled under some mountains at the far east of the continent if you did the Chocobo ride. A dwarf also mentions it Gysahl. From the Tower of Owen, enter the outer sea and sail east, then south, following the ring of the outer sea until you reach the village. It's situated on the west coast of the outer ring of land, bordered with mountains. This place is worth a visit because of all the Level 4 magic sold although Libra and Silence are probably the only ones to bother with. It never seems worth while attempting to inflict status effects when there's a good chance they won't work. It also has a Chocobo rancher who tells you about a special Chocobo that likes Gysahl greens. Enter the small house over the bridge and talk to the man there. Check out the left pot at the back of the room to receive a free [GYSAHL GREENS] and there's another [GYSAHL GREENS] in the right pot. Walk right, past the field, to the area of grass and trees. Go down as far as you can go, keeping close to the river bank, and use the close-up camera to spot three sparkles in the grass. You'll pick up a [MAGIC KEY] to the right, another [MAGIC KEY] at the left, and [GYSAHL GREENS] in the upper tuft of grass. Enter the house behind the magic shop to find a bar and a dancer who'll perform for you. The door at the back of the room leads to the Inn and item shop that sells the Gysahl Greens if you want more. There's a BIG SECRET here. Walk through the right wall of the bar, between the plant trough and the small pot, into a dark passage that ends up inside a small room with a yellow cloaked mage. He reveals the game's records with the Bestiary and Achievements! The Bestiary lists enemies in numerical order with the number defeated, and shows a picture of each one, in situ. It also details the HP, Gil, Experience given, Level, and Attack and Defence. The Achievements list: - Clear Time (when completing the game) - Chests Opened (a percentage) - Enemies Defeated - Battles Fled - Max Damage - Max Hits The house behind the Inn contains a wellspring that revives the dead, and there's a Moogle outside. Cross the bridge to the north of the village and enter the small house to find an item shop that just sells one item: the Magic Key. These can be used to open those locked doors inside the Castle if you didn't bother to change jobs to a Thief, but you don't need to buy any after finding the freebies. Before leaving this shop, turn to the right and walk forwards and you'll go through a secret passage in the wall that takes you behind the counter. Open the treasure chest (it will be hidden behind the wall when you're next to it) to pinch a [SHURIKEN]. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Magic Key | 100 | Opens locked doors ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Toad | 1000 | White Lv.2 Inflicts toad or removes toad Mini | 1000 | White Lv.2 Shrinks and unshrinks target Break | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts petrification Shade | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts paralysis Libra | 3000 | White Lv.4 Displays weak points Confuse | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts confusion Silence | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts silence ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ =============================================================================== 21. SUBTERRANEAN LAKE ................................................... *W21 =============================================================================== TASK : Find Gutsco to obtain the Horn of Ice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Through the pool inside the Dwarven Hollows Items [7] : Gold Needle x3, Zeus's Wrath x2, 3000 Gil x2 Wellspring : No Area Enemies: 55: Bomb, 56: Manticore, 57: Stalagmite, 58: Sea Devil, 59: Merman, 60: Ruinous Wave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'll arrive at the lake after turning everyone into Toads in the Dwarven Hollows. Change back to normal before proceeding down the cave. There's only one way to go, across two bridges to the right. Open the visible treasure chest for a [GOLD NEEDLE]. Continue walking right through to the next cave where there's nothing to find. The stairs to the next level are found at the upper right. In the next cavern, go over the first bridge to find a chest with a [ZEUS'S WRATH] close to the second bridge. Left from below that bridge takes you to a second chest with another [ZEUS'S WRATH]. Go down from the next bridge and you'll find a chest in the lower left corner of the cavern. This one contains a [GOLD NEEDLE], and there's a second [GOLD NEEDLE] in a treasure chest at the far side of the bridge. You'll probably need these as the purple enemies use a petrification attack. The exit is at the upper right of the cavern. Inside the next cave, walk up to find a chest with [3000 GIL]. Walk right, and there's a second [3000 GIL] inside another chest. Check everyone's health before going further as you'll meet the prey as soon as you move to the golden floor of the cave. (I only ever encountered the Merman enemy in this watery cavern, so stick around until it turns up if you want to complete the Bestiary.) o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GUTSO | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 17 | 3500 | 35 | 24 | 2304 | 3500 | None | Subterranean Lake | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 17 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This tricky customer uses the Mini spell on the party, and that will cause problems for anyone who's not a mage. They won't be able to make a dent in him, and they will be vulnerable to any attacks. Change them back to normal immediately either by using Mini magic or the Mallet item. Level 3 magic from a mage inflicts around 350-400 HP of damage and you should use your strongest spells first, as usual. Don't bother trying out status ailments as they are bound to miss. Keep everyone in full health because he might hit the same person twice on one turn doing well over 200 HP damage and double that if he manages a critical hit. Mini targets everyone and the annoying thing about this is when you attempt to cure the status and he inflicts mini again. This was the first time I had to use a Phoenix Down when he walloped someone who was still in Mini form, If that happens, make sure to heal that person as fast as you can, with a Hi-Potion. This is a good time to use a couple of Antarctic Wind and Zeus's Wrath items. If someone is in mini form they can still inflict damage with these items, and they will cause around 350 damage. You really want to get this battle ended as soon as possible! But don't worry about using all your MP up on spells because the team will be fully healed at the end of the battle. You'll obtain [HORN OF ICE] after Gutsco collapses into the hoard of gold and disappears. Use Teleport to return to the world map and avoid having to walk back through the cave. Save your game on the world map and enter the Hollows again to speak to the leader and hand over the horn. He removes the barrier on the shrine so you can place the horn on the right side of the stone. Cue, more trickery! Talk to the dwarves to get instructions about where to go and what to do next. =============================================================================== 22. MOLTEN CAVE AND CHOCOBO WOODS 3 ..................................... *W22 =============================================================================== TASK : Find Gutsco, again! Obtain the Horn of Ice, finally! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Island at the northwest of the continent. Items [7] : Antarctic Wind x2, Freezing Blade, Phoenix Down x2, Hi-Potion, Impact Claws, Horns of Ice Wellspring : No Enemies : 61: Ballon, 62: Myrmecoleon, 63: Crocotta, 64: Adamantoise, 65: Red Marshmallow Recommended Level: 17/18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sail around to the western coast of the island and land. Walk into the forest and you'll discover another Chocobo Woods. It's probably worth while obtaining all the treasure, even if it means walking over more lava than strictly necessary. I'd suggest making two trips, the first to obtain most of the treasure and then, leave, heal up and save. On the second visit you can take the most direct route to the final room. Use the Ice Staff as an item, frequently, to save on MP use and to inflict massive damage on most enemies here. Watch out for the Crocotta that can inflict sleep, making the target very vulnerable to attack, and the Myrmecoleon that causes petrify. Save the items for the boss! It's best to have a Red or White Mage in here, with the Cure spell so you don't waste potions. B1 From the cave entrance, walk down and all the way left and then, up to find a treasure chest with an [ANTARCTIC WIND] item. Hopefully someone is wearing protective equipment because there's no option but to walk over the molten lava to progress further. Walk down the lava and head right until you can climb up shallow steps to find a treasure chest. This also contains an [ANTARCTIC WIND]. Walk back across the lava going straight ahead to reach the stairs in the lower left corner of the cave. Check on health after each lava excursion and use the Cure spell on everyone to top up HP. B2 You arrive at the right side of the cave. Walk up and left, and down through the lave, heading to the right where you'll find a chest with the valuable [FREEZING BLADE]. Equip this to a Warrior or Red Mage for extra damage to the enemies and remove the Salamand Sword if that's still equipped to someone. back through the lava and turn left at the junction (going under a lava river) and up at the next. You'll be on safe ground and will discover a chest with a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Check on health again before stepping back into the lava and wading through it, heading straight down the cave, to the lower left of the floor. Here, you'll find a chest with a [HI-POTION]. Back into the lava and walk all the way up, and left at the crossroads, to find the stairs to the next floor. B4 and B5 You enter at the right of this cave and should walk all the way to the left to reach a treasure chest with a Monk's weapon [IMPACT CLAWS]. Then, it's just a quick wade up the narrow passage to a second chest with a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Check the suspicious looking rock for a sparkle and press A to open the wall to the left of the treasure chest. Retreat at this point if you've been having any trouble and need to heal up. Otherwise, just carry on, up through this small empty cave to the final floor. B6 Check your equipment and health before moving forwards towards the fire crystal and a fiery Gutsco. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - SALAMANDER | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 19 | 5700 | 41 | 25 | 2744 | 3700 | Ice.Water | Molten Cave | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 18 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This is a much more straightforward tussle than the previous encounter with Gutsco as the Salamander doesn't use any annoying status changing spells and is weak to ice and water. Once again, use the Ice Staff as in item and your best weapons and ice spells. Blizzara will do over 500 HP damage and around 700 with a dedicated Black Mage, and it's also a good time to use a couple of Arctic or Antarctic Wind items. The weaker version does around 550 damage. I used the Thief to throw items and heal if necessary, the White Mage to heal or use the Ice Staff, and the Black and Red Mage to cast Blizzara or attack once the magic ran out. For most of the battle the only risk is if the boss hits the same person twice and manages a critical attack too. But when its health is low it will use a Fire Breath attack on everyone that does well over 100 HP damage and that might kill anyone that has been attacked once before. If health gets too low use a Hi-Potion to fully heal that team member. You obtain the [HORNS OF ICE] after defeating Gutsco again and receive the power of fire. Everyone is at full health again, even if they ended the battle dead. (Oops!) New jobs will have been added to the Jobs menu. To return to the world map walk back down the cave and around the lava to the far end where there's a teleport device. Save your game! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRYSTAL OF FIRE - JOBS CHANGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make new decisions about your future! Check the JOBS option to view the extended list of possible jobs: NEW! RANGER - best on the back row as they equip bows. Barrage is a multiple arrow attack that uses up 4 arrows. KNIGHT - front row fighter who can equip strong armour swords and shields. SCHOLAR - back row is the best for this job. They use books and have access to all the scholar defensive gear. Doubles the effect of items. GEOMANCER - another back row job as they only equip Bell weapons and mage robes. At least their magic doesn't use any MP. It's worth while experimenting with all these new classes and change over so that the transfer time is the minimum. But DON'T change to the Geomancer just yet as you won't have any weapons for them and you'll need to hang onto a good black mage. Really, you need to keep White Mage too, although the Scholar is handy in the next boss fight so... you can get by without a White Mage for a short while if you stock up on Hi-Potions and Potions. I went with this: Luneth - Thief to Ranger (4 battles) Arc - White Mage to Scholar (2 battles) Refia - Black Mage Ingus - Red Mage to Knight (2 battles) NOTE: the Knight has a special ability that triggers when someone else goes into the yellow HP danger zone, as they will stand in to protect them from death! Also, they can equip the Ultima weapon, the best weapon in the game that does not require a Job Level of 99 to obtain. =============================================================================== 23. DWARVEN HOLLOWS 2 ................................................... *W23 =============================================================================== TASK : Collect all the treasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Island, west from the Tower of Owen in the outer sea. Services : As before Items [16] : Ottershroom, Gauntlets, Scholar Robe, Scholar Hat, Knight Armor, Phoenix Down x2, Heroic Shield, Elixir, Killer Bow, Gold Needle, Book Of Fire, Book Of Ice, Book Of Light, Gysahl Greens, Magic Key Wellspring : Yes. Revive only ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sail around the corner of the island and return to the Hollow. Everyone knows you've been successful and you'll get new responses from the dwarven denizens. Talk to the leader who gives you a [MAGIC KEY]. Talk to the dwarf guard on the stairs at the right and he'll allow you access to the treasure room. Go down the steps and the rock has gone! Inside the cave you'll find 15 treasure chests! In order, from left to right they contain: Top Row [OTTERSHROOM], [GAUNTLETS], [SCHOLAR ROBE], [SCHOLAR HAT], [KNIGHT ARMOR], [PHOENIX DOWN], [HEROIC SHIELD]. Bottom Row [ELIXIR], [KILLER BOW], [GOLD NEEDLE], [BOOK OF FIRE], [BOOK OF ICE], [BOOK OF LIGHT], [PHOENIX DOWN], [GYSAHL GREENS]. Attempt to leave the Hollow and a scene unfolds as you're asked to go to Tokkul. You're also advised to use a Scholar to see the weak point of the foe you'll meet, although this can also be achieved by learning the Libra Level 4 magic with a White Mage. Sort out the jobs, stock up on Hi-Potions and ensure you've found all the items everywhere! If you're using a bow you might need to buy more arrows. Save your game and sail south, to Tokkul, where events take over for a while. =============================================================================== 24. CASTLE HEIN ......................................................... *W24 =============================================================================== TASK : Find the Royal Sword of Argus. Defeat Hein. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the "tree" in the desert outside Tokkul. Items [12] : Mini (White Lv.2), Holy Arrow x20, Phoenix Down x4, Bomb Fragment, Antarctic Wind, 3000 Gil, Zeus's Wrath, Royal Sword, Elixir, Rune Bow, Fang of Wind Wellspring : Yes. A pot restores HP/MP. Enemies : 66: Pharaoh, 67: Lemur, 68: Lamia, 69: Demon, 70: Dullahan, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk through the wall at the right to reach the adjoining room where you'll discover King Argus! Talk to him and the purple clothed soldiers to learn more about the situation. Walk through the wall again to the next room where the soldier at the top right will challenge you to a battle. He's a Demon. He's not really a boss, and only has 742 HP. He's weak to Light attack so Holy Arrows work well and use of an Ice Staff is very effective if you still have a mage with high job levels. Walk out of the room and into the fourth one where a little person will give you another [MINI] spell. The pot in here will heal HP and MP. Use the Mini spell to shrink everyone and enter the hole. At least, do so IF you've still got someone with enough MP to cast a level 2 spell. If that's the case, just change jobs and a Scholar can go back to a White Mage with no transfer battles, just as a Knight can revert to a Red Mage with no battles and you can restore the loss of MP at the pot. After entering the hole you'll officially be inside Hein's Castle. Cast Mini again to return to full size and adjust jobs if you wish. Floor 1 You arrive at the right side of tis floor. Walk left and down to the lower right corner of the cave to find a chest with [HOLY ARROWS x20]. Then, head up to the top left to find two chests with [PHOENIX DOWN] and [PHOENIX DOWN]. The exit to the adjoining cave is where you see green light at the lower left of the cave. Walk up the cave to find a chest with another [PHOENIX DOWN] and then up the left side of the cave to reach the stairs to the next floor Floor 2 There are three doors along the lower side of this squared cave, and the exit is in the upper wall You can find treasure inside the small rooms. The left door leads to a room with [3000 GIL] inside the left chest, and the right chest contains a [BOMB FRAGMENT]. I met Lamia in here for the first time. She's as dangerous as she looks, causing confusion or petrify, so don't take any chances. She's also weak to Light magic. The middle door leads to another two chests: the left one has an [ANTARCTIC WIND] and the right another [3000 GIL]. The right door leads to another small room with another [3000 GIL] in the left chest and a [ZEUS'S WRATH] item in the right one. That's the lot, so leave the floor by the stairs in the middle of the upper wall. . Floor 3 Walk straight up to find a chest with the valuable [ROYAL SWORD]. Equip this to the Knight if you have one. You'll probably encounter a headless rider in here. This enemy has 1000 HP and I just threw a Bomb Fragment at him from the front row which killed him outright. Might not do much for job levels, but it's an easy win when you're getting close to a boss. Go left and through a green lit opening into the adjoining cave. There's nothing else to find, so continue up the stairs to the next floor. Floor 4 You're outside now, on a path that leads up the side of the huge tree structure. Some way up the path you'll stop at a treasure chest that contains yet another [PHOENIX DOWN]. Floor 5 Back inside the tree, walk left to find a chest with a welcome [ELIXIR]. Return to the entrance and walk up, past a pond and a junction, and you'll find a treasure chest containing a [RUNE BOW]. Turn left at the junction to find the stairs to the next, and final, floor. Floor 6 You have time to check out health and equipment again before moving forwards to challenge the boss. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - HEIN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 22 | 4500 | 47 | 26 | 3464 | 4300 | None | Hein's Castle | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 20 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Hein isn't easy, especially if you've changed jobs and most of the team are weaker than before. He gets two turns on each round and uses a range of magic: Blizzara, Thundara, Poison and Sleep. Although the details suggest he has no weakness, after the first round or two he'll start using Barrier Shift. This changes his weakness, meaning that your Fira spells might suddenly do less damage if he's currently weak to ice and strong against fire. Luckily his use of this skill takes up one of his turns so it's not all bad news! By using the Scholar's special Study skill, or the Level 4 White magic spell Libra (bought at Gysahl) with a White Mage, you can find out exactly what that weakness is! Use attack items against him (with a front row character), and your highest level magic, and try to make sure you choose the ones that correspond to his current weakness. Since he starts the battle with no weaknesses you're safe to use any attack on the first round. His physical attack is a disdainful wallop with his cloak that can cause around 150-200 damage. If he uses a magic attack on one character then they will die, as it causes over 500 HP damage. Fortunately, he only used this attack once for me. The tricky bit is to use a Phoenix Down and fully heal the downed character on the next turn and hope you're clear about turn order! One time I got it wrong and ended up wasting a Hi-Potion on someone who was already fully healed. I took a chance on the second round, and threw an Antarctic Wind at him which did about 1500 HP damage as he was weak to ice on that turn. After that, he changed to fire weakness, so you could base your attacks on the chance that he'll do the same. The other problem is that he'll do a Barrier Shift change of status at the start of the round, after you've set all your attacks based on outdated information, so I'm not sure how helpful the Scholar's skill really is. On the plus side, the Scholar has another, even more valuable attribute: one of their skills is to double the effect of items, both healing and attack ones. If you keep the Scholar on the front row their attack items do even more damage. One suggestion is to throw two different items on one round, and there's a chance that one of them will be his weakness and the other will do a lot of damage too. I used the Ranger's Barrage with Holy Arrows, and ordinary physical attacks with the Knight. Celebrate your victory with triumphant music and get thanked by the Elder tree. The tree leaves the desert and returns to the Living Woods, and it frees the captive people. You're given the key item: [FANG OF WIND]. You gain control again on the world map, just south from Castle Argus, with everyone at full health. =============================================================================== 25. CASTLE ARGUS (2) AND NEW TRANSPORT B ................................ *W25 =============================================================================== TASK : Talk to King Argus and then meet Cid to obtain the airship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Castle Argus is at the west of the world map. Services : None Items [3] : Elixir x2, Wheel of Time Wellspring : Yes. Revive and HP/MP restoration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Tokkul Village and everyone is happy the prisoners have been released. I was hoping to find some treasure inside that fireplace in the first blue roofed house now the kids were safe, but there's nothing to find. No-one gives you any reward for all your efforts and no-one opens a shop. Go back to Castle Argus to talk to the inhabitants and find any treasure you didn't acquire earlier. Make your way to the upper left door at the back of floor 2 where you had to unlock the door. Inside, you'll find a magic researcher who'll give you [ELIXIR x2]. Inside the dining room on the third floor talk to the king. He gives you the [WHEEL OF TIME] and tells you to take it to Cid in Canaan. Talk to the guys sitting at the right of the table and they explain how to open the locked doors and tell you where to find the hidden treasure. Walk down the stairs to the outer area and talk to more soldiers for extra details about the story. From the shore south of Castle Argus, sail east and land. You should be close to Canaan, the village on the coast. Walk up to the back of the village to find Cid's house, and talk to him for a scene. Press the A button to turn the Enterprise into an airship. You can only land on water. Cid tells a story, and eventually you'll be able to leave and take flight. The airship cannot cross mountains, but that won't matter. Simply fly to the edge of the map and a scene will occur, after which you're in a new section of the map. To return to the previous world, just fly west, to the large floating island. Press B to turn back into a ship and you can sail on the swirling sea in the new world. Sail or fly over to the largest island at the east. You avoid enemy encounters when flying, but there are no enemies on the sea or in the air in this new world. Land on the shore and walk up to the grey temple like building to enter the Temple of Water. Walk straight through the first two rooms until you reach a small water shard. But it's protected by some kind of force field. Leave the temple and go inside the nearby mountain to explore the Cave of Tides. Except, don't. You need to find someone first. The world is round, so if you fly off the edge of the map to the south you'll return at the north. =============================================================================== 26. WRECKED SHIP AND TEMPLE OF WATER .................................... *W26 =============================================================================== TASK : Heal the girl and find an ally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Off the small island at the northeast of the new land Items [3] : Blood Sword, Zeus's Wrath, Crystal Shard Wellspring : No Ally : Aria Area Enemies: None ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sail or fly to the small island at the northeast and land on the shore. Enter the grounded ship as there's nothing else to do on the island and there are no enemies. You won't find anything on the deck so turn left and walk through the hidden opening to go down some stairs. Descend the stairs in the middle of this deck and you'll find two treasure chests on the lower deck. The one near the stairs contains a [BLOOD SWORD] and the second one has a [ZEUS'S WRATH]. Equip the sword if you're using a Knight as he heals HP when attacking. A girl called Aria is lying on a bed with a green robed caretaker. Talk to him and use something from the bag to restore health to Aria. I went with the cheapest option, a Potion, and that seemed to work. She tells you what to do next, to take the crystal shard to the Temple of Water and joins the party! You'd think she' wear something warmer after being ill, but maybe she's tougher than she looks. Use Y to talk to her and she'll help you out in battles. You can return to the floating continent with her in the team with no problems. Fly to the large island just to the south of the wrecked ship and land on the southern shore. Walk to the temple building and go straight through until you reach the altar room. Aria will pick up the [CRYSTAL SHARD] although the item doesn't appear in any inventory. Leave the temple and don't bother exploring elsewhere as there's nothing to find. =============================================================================== 27. CAVE OF TIDES ....................................................... *W27 =============================================================================== TASK : Find the Water Crystal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the mountain on the large island. Items [1] : Blizzaga (Black Magic Lv. 4) Wellspring : No Ally : Aria Enemies : 75: Cockatrice, 76: Poison Toad, 77: Twin Heads, 78: Roper, 79: Agaliarept Recommended Level: 20/21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Save your game before entering the cave. Enemy encounters begin as soon as you enter the cave. Use Lightning on the Roper, Poison Toad, and Agaliarept, and anything you like on the Twin Heads. All these enemies have nearly 1000 HP and the Roper might paralyse someone, but that status effect disappears after the battle is over. The blue Agaliarept uses low level Blizzard magic. These battles are easy enough to win but you'll need to keep everyone in good health which requires multiple uses of the Cure spell. Use the lower level fire and blizzard spells with a mage to save the more powerful thunder ones for the boss. Don't run out of Hi-Potions or MP before meeting the boss. It would be better to teleport out and re-stock rather than risk defeat. Aria might turn up and heal everyone with Cura, but she only did this once for me, so I wouldn't rely on that. She will also cast the Protect spell on a rare occasion. Walk down and follow the only route to a blocked door and a short scene. After Aria does her stuff you can continue. In the next room, walk along the narrow bridge and down the cave to the adjoining cave. Keep walking left, over a short bridge, and down the stairs to the next floor. Go left again, following the only path across the first two bridges, and then ignore the third bridge. Walk down the fourth bridge to find the exit. You're now in a much larger cavern and there's a treasure chest to find. Walk up the stairs, and right, across the higher bridge, and follow the path next to the cave wall until you reach the lower right corner of the floor. You'll probably run into the Agaliarept enemy here, also weak to lightning. The treasure chest contains the spell [BLIZZAGA], level 4 Black magic. I used the Ottershroom at this point, having forgotten that my Scholar didn't have high enough level magic to use the Teleport spell. Leaving the cave also helps to raise levels with a second trip and maybe change the jobs you've set if you find any difficulty with the monsters in the cave. I changed the Scholar back to a White Mage which doesn't require any transfer battles. Stock up on at least 30 Lightning arrows at the Village of the Ancients if you're using an archer, and duplicate lightning staffs if you wish. Once you've got the treasure you don't need to take the detour again and will just walk right, across the bridge, and down the cave to find the stairs that lead up to the final room. Inside the next cave just walk around the central pool to find the stairs down to the final floor. You'll find the large purple Cockatrice enemy here that can hit you for a whole lot of damage. Use any attacks on it to destroy it fast. There's still time to make minor adjustments before walking forwards to the Water Crystal altar, and after some scenes you'll meet Kraken. My party was: Ranger/Job Level 16, White Mage/Job Level 20, Black Mage/ Job Level 32, Knight/Job Level 13 Everyone was at Level 21. Aria doesn't take part in this battle. To survive the powerful magic of this boss, everyone needs to have over 700 HP, but if you don't mind the loss of one or two Phoenix Downs it's perfectly possible at this lower level. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - KRAKEN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 24 | 8000 | 55 | 27 | 5280 | 5500 | Lightning | Cave of Tides | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 21 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This boss is easy in a way, because he only uses ice magic and the Blinda spell which has a low chance of blinding a physical attacker if you've a mixed party. It won't matter if a mage is blind. The only problem is that he has two turns on each round and he could kill someone with a single Blizzara attack that did over 700 damage to my Ranger, twice! Other than that his normal physical attack does around 200 HP damage. Keep everyone at full health if you can manage it, and keep those with less HP on the back row. (I had everyone except the Knight on the back row.) Attack with Lightning elemental weapons, magic and items, especially if you're fielding a Scholar, doubling the effect. Use Cura on every round with a White Mage or Hi-Potions for anyone whose HP is low. A Ranger using Barrage with Lightning arrows can inflict nearly 1000 damage to him and Thundara from a Black Mage will do around 800. Use the Blood Sword with the Serpent Sword on a Knight to inflict additional elemental damage. Just keep doing that for a four rounds and he'll be calamari. Things happen after the battle and you're told to find Doga, on the continent of Dalg. You awaken in a new location with everyone at full health and some nice new jobs to investigate! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRYSTAL OF WATER - JOBS CHANGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make new decisions about your future! Check the JOBS option to view the extended list of possible jobs: NEW! DRAGOON - the spear wielding jumper who can fight from the back row. Their skill has them jump and leave the battle for a turn until they crash down from above, inflicting powerful damage. DARK KNIGHT - front row fighter with special weapons that deal damage to monsters that divide. Their skill uses up some HP when activated. BARD - back row song specialist who doesn't use MP but plays different harps to generate some useful effects. VIKING - front line fighter with high defence. Their skill makes enemies target them and no-one else, if it works. Very useful for powerful single enemies and bosses. Put them on the back row with two shields and see them shrug off damage! EVOKER - back row mage who needs summons magic to be useful. You might want to wait until you've seen the cost of the new equipment before making decisions about new jobs. I had around 25000 Gil by this point but that's not enough to treat everyone to new gear. One suggestion is to change the Black Mage to a Viking, or Monk, giving them a boost to HP and adding another powerful physical attacker to the mix for the upcoming boss. Or just stick with the Knight for now. I went for the Monk, for a change, and saved on expense by giving Refia the Impact Claws and Sonic Knuckles. Refia - Black Mage to Monk Luneth - Ranger Arc - Knight Ingus - Red Mage =============================================================================== 28. AMUR, THE CITY OF WATER ............................................. *W28 =============================================================================== TASK : Find a way into the sewers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : In the middle of the western continent Services : Item Shop, Inn (200 Gil), Bar, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop Items [6] : Gysahl Greens x3, Black Garb, Thief Gloves, Black Cowl Wellspring : Yes. Revive only Area Enemies: 84: Black Flan, 85: Hellgaroo, 86: Vulcan, 87: Dracrocotta, 88: Magician ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This town is divided into 9 sections with bridges over the water, and situated on the southeast continent of the new world map. The airship is waiting for you on the water nearby. Take some time to explore the town, before leaving to explore this brave new world! Except, that you'll find that your ship has been chained up and won't move. You can discover why and what to do by talking to people in the inn, but there's no requirement to do that. The old man near the beds will give you a Job description for all current jobs. The couple of people at the right side of the inn will tell you to do this. Go upstairs and talk to the people in the bar for more information about the location of the person who locked up the ship. It seems they are to south, across a bog and you need some special shoes. Before leaving the upper room attempt to play the piano and see what happens next! The shops are on the central section, and the Inn where you wake up is at the middle left section. The Moogle is found on the middle back area. Talk to the red-haired girl at the entrance to be treated to a very weird dance. The house over the bridge to the right contains an old man called Gil, who will lead you to the sewers entrance. It's over the bridge behind his house and he opens the gate for you. There's nothing to find inside his house even though it's full of jumbled objects. But you can find some useful equipment once you get access to the sewers so hold off buying anything for a little longer. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Battleaxe | 7400 | +65 ATK | - Main Gauche | 7000 | +35 ATK | - Thunder Spear | 8000 | +45 ATK | Deals lightning damage Selene Bow | 16000 | +63 ATK | - Boomerang | 9000 | +40 ATK | - Iron Arrow | 8 | +12 ATK | - Holy Arrow | 10 | +8 ATK | Deals light damage Madhura Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | - ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Viking Helm | 5500 | +19 DEF | Viking Mail | 8000 | +38 DEF | Heroic Shield | 3500 | +9 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Thief Gloves | 2500 | +11 DEF | Black Garb | 5000 | +30 DEF | Black Cowl | 4000 | +15 DEF | Black Belt Gi | 6000 | +33 DEF | Chakra Band | 4500 | +17 DEF | ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ What equipment you buy is very much dependent on the new jobs you've chosen. Don't buy anything your team cannot equip! And note that there is nothing on sale for mages. Time to change tactics and consider dropping the Black Mage for a Bard maybe? Hmm...the good equipment is for a Viking or Monk. If you can afford that super bow, then sticking with a Ranger might not be a bad idea. Descend into the water and walk around to the island behind where there's a field. You can pick some plants and obtain [GYSAHL GREENS x3] at the top right corner, and another two of them at the upper middle and right. Leave the island and go left, down, and left again, under a bridge, and then up to north side of the town where you'll discover a small wooded island. Use the close-up camera to see a sparkle on the grass just to the right of the steps. Pick up a [BLACK GARB]. Edge around the front of the grass and check out the tree at the right side of the clearing. You'll find a hidden [THIEF GLOVES]. Check the left tree to find a [BLACK COWL]. The black stuff is good for the Ranger and I hung onto that job. ---------------------- Exploring Outside Town (Optional) ---------------------- Although you cannot use the airship you still have the Folding Canoe. Simply walk to the water at the east and you'll start using the canoe. Paddle along the river to the northwest of the continent and you'll end up at the shore of the place where the Water Temple and Cave of Tides is located. Canoe to the east from Amur and disembark on the south side of the shallow river. Walk further east into a large wooded area and the then, south. You'll discover a Chocobo wood at the southwestern corner of the woods, bordered by the water and the mountains. Once you have a Chocobo you can travel a long way to the north, running along the western coast of the continent. Be careful though, because if you walk to the northwest you'll come across double rows of grey statues that appear to blow up as you move forwards. In fact, after passing through two sets of them, they will kill the team. Best avoided! There's a second Chocobo Woods at the north. Find the desert and you'll see a wood at the northwest that you have to cross to reach a landlocked lake. To investigate the boggy area south from Amur, run a Chocobo south and west following the edge of the coast. You'll see a castle and a dark patch of ground in front of it. If you step onto that ground, the Chocobo will run off and you're left inside the marsh and will die. The world is a dangerous place! =============================================================================== 29. AMUR SEWERS ......................................................... *W29 =============================================================================== TASK : Find Delilah and obtain the Levigrass Shoes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside Amur, at the southeast corner of the river. Items [7] : Cat Claws, Diamond Bell, Hammer, Kaiser Knuckles, Power Bracers, Poison Dagger, Levigrass Shoes Enemies : 80: Darklegs, 81: Gigantoad, 82: Twin Ligur, 83: Stroper Recommended Level : 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After kitting out the team and deciding on jobs, or at least, testing some out for now. Walk over the bridge behind Gil's house and go down into the water as he showed you. Walk down the river and enter the sewers from the south side of the island at the lower right corner of the town. I bought plenty of cheap iron arrows to use with the bow and the ranger devastated all enemies. Floors B1 - B3 Cross the sewer and go down the stairs next to the right wall. On the next floor walk down to enter the sewer, then up the steps on the path. Go up, left, and back down into the water. Walk through the water straight to the left and up the steps. Walk down and right, and open the treasure chest on the pathway, to obtain a [CAT CLAWS] before heading down the stairs. This next floor is simple. Walk right, along the raised path to the stairs in the upper right corner. When you reach the middle of the path there's a scene. Those four weird dancing men who rushed off into sewers are trapped. You fight four Gigantoads, in an easy battle. Although they will poison someone, that's simple enough to cure with a Antidote, and other than that there's not much to worry about. Simply attack with lightning if you have magic, or just your best weapons or items. After the battle it's essential to talk to all four of the men, so I've heard. Anyhow, do so, and continue down to the next floor. There are still enemies so be cautious and heal up after the battle. Floor B4 Now its gets a little more complicated as there are treasure rooms off the main room. There's a fairly obvious passage through the darkness, near the bottom of the stairs, directly to the right to the first bridge. This takes you to a small room with two chests. The top one has a [DIAMOND BELL], the first weapon you've found for the Bard and the other one contains a [HAMMER]. This is where I first ran into the somewhat elusive Stroper enemy, although they also appear elsewhere on this floor. Return to the previous room and cross the bridge, and keep going left to end up in another hidden room. The chest where you enter has a [KAISER KNUCKLES], another weapon for the Monk. Go down the steps into the water and up onto the path at the left where you'll find two more chests. The lower one contains [POWER BRACERS] that massively increase defence for a Monk, and the upper one a [POISON DAGGER]. Return to the main floor and continue walking up the passage, and follow it all the way around to the lower right corner of the floor where the stairs take you to the final floor. Floor B5 Walk to the right to meet with Delilah and eventually you get the key item: [LEVIGRASS SHOES]! and you'll be teleported out of there with no need to use any spells. You won't be at full health, so heal up at an inn and buy anything else you need before you leave. If you're using a bow and arrows, buy 99 Iron and Holy arrows. You can find the 4 weirdos on the grassy island at the lower right of the town and they have been added to the mailing list, as The 4 Old Men, so you might as well send them a message with Mognet. =============================================================================== 30. GOLDOR MANOR ........................................................ *W30 =============================================================================== TASK : Find and defeat Goldor to release the ship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Behind the bog on the southeast continent Items [13] : Golden Sword x11, Wyvern Claw, Chain Key Enemies : 89: Lost Gold, 90: Gold Eagle, 91: Gold Warrior, 92: Gold Bear, 93: Gold Knight, 94: Nightmare Recommended Level : 23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cut down the number of enemy encounters on the way to the Manor, then grab yourself a Chocobo! Walk to the east, crossing the river with the canoe, and then south at the forested area, to find the Chocobo woods at the west of the mountain range. From here it's a quick stride back to the west, and then south, between the sea at the west and the mountains to the east. You'll reach a sandy desert and another patch of trees just south from the dirty brown patch of bog. With the Levigrass Shoes in your inventory the Chocobo will walk over the bog, and so will you if you're on foot. Save your game and enter the Manor. I used a team of Luneth: Ranger, Arc: White Mage, Refia: Monk, and Ingus: Red Mage, on the first visit to get the treasure and then, changed to Viking for Ingus. An alternative is to use a Thief to unlock the doors without wasting a Magic Key. Floor 1 All the Gold enemies have around 1000 HP and no weak points, apart from the Gold Eagle that's weak to Wind, the Aero White magic spell. Basically you can you can attack with anything you've got. Enemies include the huge Gold Bear that really looks intimidating! The Nightmare horse will attack with a sleep spell, or use Stare, that might confuse someone. Watch out for these status effects as someone who is confused can really hurt the team if they attack them. The Gold Knight and Gold Warrior cast Thunder magic on one, and might manage a powerful critical attack that is the only time you might be at risk. I used barrage with iron arrows, a staff to cast magic with the mage, the front-line monk hitting hard, and the Red Mage with spells. Walk straight up the large entrance hall into the next room. This is a library but there's nothing to find in the shelves. Walk down to the bottom wall, ignoring the side halls, and you'll find a row of 12 treasure chests! You'll obtain [GOLDEN SWORD x11] and the final chest yields a [WYVERN CLAW], yet another weapon for the Monk. Not a bad haul. At this point I teleported out as the encounter rate is quite high and the alternative is to walk back to the first room and get into lots more battles. If you want to return to town at this point, walk back over the bog and into the small patch of trees. Yep, it's another Chocobo woods! Catch a bird and hotfoot it back to town to sell off those Golden Swords (attack power is only +5) and maybe change jobs now you can afford more equipment. The swords sell for 2500 each, so if you keep one (for completion purposes) and sell the rest that nets you a tidy sum of 25,000 Gil. I bought the Viking stuff and changed the Red Mage to a Viking as well as buying another 99 Iron Arrows. Back in the large entrance hall, ignore every locked door except one. It's half way along the central passage to the right. Open the door with a Thief or Magic Key and turn to the left inside the next room to find the opening to the next floor. I found the Gold Eagle in this room and finally had a reason to use the Aero magic, at least, I would have, except one barrage and one hit from the monk destroyed the birds. Keep heading left to access the stairs up to the next floor. Floor 2 You arrive at the lower right corner of this large room, and the exit is at the upper left corner. The walls are high, and you cannot see far, and the encounter rate is high too! Turn left at the first junction and then up, and left again into a more open section. Walk left to the wall, down, and left again around the corner of the wall. Go all the way up the corridor to the top wall, and then, left, and back down to the lower wall. Left again and run up to the exit stairs. Floor 3 Check on health, formation, and equipment and get ready to rumble! With all the battles fought in here my team had reached Level 25, which is probably about a good level for this fight. Ranger had the Selens Bow, Viking the Battleaxe and Hammer, White Mage only had access to a couple of staffs that weren't going to be of much use, and Monk had Wyvern Claws and Kaiser Knuckles. As soon as you take a couple of steps inside the next room a scene will start. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GOLDOR | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 26 | 9000 | 53 | 28 | 6560 | 9900 | None | Goldor's Manor | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 25 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Barrage with Holy Arrows did over 1000 damage and the Monk managed around 600, but provoke with the Viking missed so i wouldn't recommend that! It's likely that Goldor will make effective use of the Blind spell and you'll need to heal this if an attacker is afflicted. He might cast it on just one, but more usually on the whole team at once, but you cannot heal everyone at once. Prioritise the fighters, and forget about the support. However, he also cast Silence on everyone and that isn't good if you've run out of items and are relying on a mage to heal and cure status effects. My Viking was pretty useless given the Job level was low, (only 2) but that kind of thing won't matter too much as Goldor is easy to defeat, and does very little actual damage. After the battle things don't go quite as expected, but you should walk up to the platform and pick up the [CHAIN KEY]. Everyone will be at full health so you can cast Teleport to get of there fast, or walk back. There are still enemies to fight, although the encounter rate is very low, and there's a short cut back through the gap in the walls. Walk directly right, close to the lower wall of the maze floor and you don't have to take the longer route. Exit the manor, pick up a Chocobo and return to Amur to unlock the ship. ------------------- Return of the Ship! ------------------- You can reach a lot of places now. Some are optional, and don't involve the main storyline, and others might trigger the appearance of a very challenging optional boss, so those are best left until later. One thing to be really careful about if you don't want to be forced to continue with the story before you're ready. DO NOT fly over the desert in the northwest continent as you risk getting blasted with a cannon, and losing the ship, although it's not a game over. * Duster is the most obvious place to visit. It's a tiny island at the north of Amur, all alone in the middle of the map. * Replito is a lot further off, at the northwest tip of the northwest continent. You'll find summons magic here, and some useful items. * West coast of NE continent - Chocobo Woods and a pond (Enemies : Dracrocotta, Vulcan, Black Flan, Hellgaroo) =============================================================================== 31. DUSTER (Optional) ................................................... *W31 =============================================================================== TASK : Buy Bard's Harps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Small island off the west coast of the northwest continent Services : Item Shop, Inn (320 Gil), Bar, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop Items [2] : Earthen Drums x2 Wellspring : No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fly northwest from Amur towards the tiny island all alone off the coast of the northwest continent. You'll find some handy shops and items for free. The item shop is inside the Inn, as usual and the equipment shops are to the left of the Inn. The weapon shops sells lots of harps for the Bard, which would cost you a pretty penny if you purchased them all. I decided to wait on the Bard for now. It's worth buying a Feathered Hat if nothing else, as this can be equipped by every class, and Rune Bracers give more protection for mages. Don't buy the Lamia Harp as you'll find a free one in a later dungeon. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Diamond Bell | 4500 | +42 ATK | - Madhura Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | - Loki Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | - Lamia Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | Inflicts confusion Dream Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | Inflicts sleep ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Gaia Vest | 7500 | +35 DEF | - Bard Vest | 5500 | +32 DEF | - Feathered Hat | 6000 | +10 DEF | - Rune Bracers | 5000 | +11 DEF | Protects from some status ailments ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Chat to the man outside the Inn to find out that the Dalg continent to the south will blow away anything that comes near. You might have already discovered this when exploring as the ship will veer away from the continent if you get too close. You'll get a hint about a better airship in Saronia. The town is populated by geomancers who'll try to convince you to try out this job, and bards who will make you wonder if your game has frozen as they pause before and after telling you something profound. Two of them mention Bahamut, and another inhabitant speaks of the unique Dark Blade sword. All in all this is a great place for hints. Walk up behind the house at the right of the inn and use the close-up view on the grass at the top right corner of the area. You'll find an [EARTHEN DRUMS] item, a battle item that makes an earthquake. (It's to the right of the bard who squawks about Chocobos.) Walk up the left side of the trees behind the arms shop, and use the camera again to see another sparkle at the upper left corner of the grass where you'll pick up a second [EARTHEN DRUMS]. (The nearby bard talks about a sound when you get items. I thought they were going to mention the sound of one hand clapping or deliver a haiku, but maybe that was the idea!) It's all very enigmatic. =============================================================================== 32. REPLITO (Optional) .................................................. *W32 =============================================================================== TASK : Buy summons magic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : At the northwest corner of the northwest continent. Services : Item Shop, Inn (200 Gil), Magic Shop Items [5] : Turtle Shell x2, Elixir x2 Phoenix Down Magic : Evoker summons x5 (buy) Wellspring : No Area Enemies: 95: Hellgaroo Mage, 96: Needle Monkey, 97: Catoblepas, 98: Sorceror, 99: Sand Worm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the village of evokers, and the magic sold here is very specialised, for summoning various creatures to aid in battle. It's only worth while buying all these summons spells IF you intend to use them! At the moment only the Evoker job can summon anything, but later on you'll get the Summoner and Sage and have more cash to buy them. They are learned in the same way as normal magic so if you use more than one job you'll need multiple summons. The locals will tell you about Bahamut and Leviathan which might whet your appetite for a challenge, and the chap at the north of the village gives a hint about fjords to the south, but I'll save that information for later. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Gnomish Bread | 200 | Displays a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Escape | 100 | Summons Lv.1: Summons Chocobo Icen | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Shiva Spark | 7000 | Summons Lv.3: Summons Ramuh Heatra | 7000 | Summons Lv.4: Summons Ifrit Hyper | 7000 | Summons Lv.5: Summons Titan ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Search the village for some items using the camera close-up to spot the sparkles. The single tree above the left entrance wall hides a [TURTLE SHELL], and there's a second [TURTLE SHELL] hiding in the second tree to the left, above the upper left house. You can walk left into a little clearing just behind this tree. Use the camera again to spot a sparkle. It's on the visible tree at the upper edge of the clearing. You'll acquire a nice [ELIXIR]. You can do the same thing over to the right of the town, behind the pond. With the close-up view, walk to the right, through the trees, and down where you'll meet a man called Gulgan. Investigate the tree to his left for a [PHOENIX DOWN]. You'll spot a house with a blue roof set back in the trees. Walk around to the back of that house and you'll enter a secret doorway and find yourself inside. There's a secret passage through the right wall of the first room that leads to a small room with a treasure chest containing an [ELIXIR]. A green-robed man in the second room gives a hint about the treasures to be found in a cave underneath that triangular shaped island. The one at the far southeast corner of the world map. Of course, you need to find a way to dive beneath the sea to find it. All in good time! If you plan to use an Evoker, buy all the summons and equip them to the magic menu for that person. Use the special command "summon" to call one. You might have to remove any other magic to allow room for the summons. Depending on your magic levels you'll get multiple uses of each summons. =============================================================================== 33. SARONIA COMPOUND .................................................... *W33 =============================================================================== TASK : Find Prince Alus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : In the desert on the northwestern continent Services : 1. NW: Inn (320 Gil), Item Shop, Magic Shop (closed), Library (closed) 2. SW: Armour Shop (closed), Bar 3. NE: Inn (320 Gil), Item shop, Magic Shop x2 (closed), Weapon Shop x2 (1 open/2 closed) 4. SE: Chocobo Items [13] : SW Saronia - Gysahll Greens x11, Wind Spear, Dragon Mail [1] NE Saronia - Elixir Wellspring : None Area Enemies: 95: Hellgaroo Mage, 96: Needle Monkey, 97: Catoblepas, 98: Sorceror, 99: Sand Worm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As you fly over the desert area you'll spot massed ranks of blue roofed buildings and then a large white castle. Fly too close to the castle and events take over and you lose the ship, but it's not game over, thankfully. You'll end up on the ground with yellow and red clothed troops. Talk to them if you wish, but if you enter the building you'll be up against three guards who won't let you pass. For now, leave the castle and explore the area. It's a walled enclosure and you cannot leave to the world map, but you can save your game. In fact, those blue buildings are part of four distinct settlements surrounding the castle, with two to the left and two to the right of the compound There are even battles while walking between the towns. 1. Northwestern Saronia - upper left 2. Southwestern Saronia - lower left 3. Northeastern Saronia - upper right 4. Southeastern Saronia - lower right Systematically loot and shop in all these places to discover what to do next. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i. Northwestern Saronia - upper left ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Services: Inn (320 Gil) , Item Shop, Magic Shop (closed), Library (closed). The first person you meet mentions a tunnel under the castle, although that's not gonna help at the moment. To the right is an Inn and Item Shop and there's a Magic Shop next to the left wall, but it's shut. The Saronia Library building is found at the end of the central street, and it's closed as well. The magic is the same as was for sale at the Village of the Ancients. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ii. Southwestern Saronia - lower left ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Services: Armour Shop (closed), Bar Wellspring: Yes. Revive only Special: Fat Chocobo This is a bit more interesting as it's a watery town with sections divided by channels connected with bridges. Walk down into the water and up the middle narrow channel to talk to an old geezer on a small island, He mentions the missing Prince Alus. From the start, head to the right, and up, to find an open door. Go inside a room with bookshelves and speak to the red clothed man. He'll summon a Fat Chocobo!. You can store items with the Chocobo and retrieve any you left. Walk through the hidden passage in the darkness, in the middle of the right wall of this house. It goes up, left, down and left, basically taking you around the outer wall of the house, and then to a room at the far left. In here you'll find 11 treasure chests! You'll acquire [GYSAHLL GREENS x11] Back at the entrance, head left to find a closed Armour Shop although the orange haired man nearby suggests that a weapon shop has defied the king's orders to close. From here, walk up and left, crossing bridges to reach the Wellspring house. If you walk down the outer narrow path an old man will ask about a 10 year old boy. Return to the entrance and walk straight ahead, over two bridges to the back of the town where you'll find a tavern. Inside you'll be greeted with a scene and a battle with three Gold Knights. Nothing difficult about that, and afterwards you'll acquire a new ally: Prince Alus! Use Y to talk to him and get a little more information about his situation. Return to talk to the robed man at the end of the narrow path and he'll give you a free [WIND SPEAR]. You can get another free piece of kit from the orange-robed old guy in the middle of the town: the [DRAGON MAIL]. The minor drawback is that he's standing on a tiny island. But you can reach that by going down steps at the lower right of the town, or at the lower left, in front of the armour shop. Walk up the middle channel of water to reach him. You'll only get these items while Prince Alus is still in tagging along so make sure to obtain them now! ----------------------.--------.----------.------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Gaia Vest | 7500 | +35 DEF | - Bard Vest | 5500 | +32 DEF | - Scholar Robe | 5500 | +20 DEF | - Scholar Hat | 7500 | +11 DEF | - ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iii. Northeastern Saronia - upper right ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Services: Inn (320 Gil), Item shop, Magic Shop x2 (closed), Weapon Shop x2 (open/closed) The first woman you meed tells you about the island of Duster, in case you hadn't already visited Walk to the upper side of the town to find a small house with an open weapon shop. Buy the Wind Spear, to go with the one you're given once you've met Alus. You can obtain three Thunder Spears for free and that's enough to equip two Dragoons, but the Wind one is going to do a bit more damage to the flying boss. There's a second weapon shop that's closed and the locals will talk about a powerful knight in Saronia, and mention the name of Garuda. Check out the group of three trees below the closed weapon shop, and you'll see a sparkle on the south tree. You'll find a valuable [ELIXIR]. One of the two magic shops sell things you've seen before, apart from the new Blizzaga spell, and the other has some tasty new level 5 magic, but they are closed for the time being. The item shop inside the Inn sells the Ottershroom for the first time, and, although expensive, it's a valuable stand-by in case you ever need to escape from a dungeon and don't have access to the Teleport spell. You'll also find a blue robed mage who'll give you a run-down about your current jobs ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP (open) | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Gnomish Bread | 200 | Displays a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP 1 (open) | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Thunder Spear | 8000 | +45 ATK | Deals lightning damage Wind Spear | 10000 | +50 ATK | Deals wind damage ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP 2 | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Fire Rod | 10000 | +25 ATK | Casts Fira Ice Rod | 10000 | +25 ATK | Casts Blizzara Light Rod | 10000 | +25 ATK | Casts Thundara Golem Staff | 13500 | +30 ATk | Casts Break Rune Staff | 18000 | +33 ATK | Casts Erase Wizard Rod | 20000 | +20 ATk | - ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 1 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Break | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts petrification Blizzaga | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Deals ice damage Shade | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts paralysis Libra | 3000 | White Lv.4 Displays weak points Confuse | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts confusion Silence | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts silence ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 2 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Thundaga | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Deals lightning damage Raze | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Causes KO to weak enemies Erase | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Dispels beneficial magic Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally Protect | 5000 | White Lv.5 Increases defence ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iv. Southeastern Saronia - lower right ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Services: Chocobo A Moogle is waiting just to the right of the entrance, but of much more interest is the Dragon Spire found up the steps in the middle of the town. Leave that for a moment and head to the upper right of the town to pick up a Chocobo for a quick tour of the whole area without having to fight! That's all you'll find here, although the locals will give some fighting advice - spears and lances are effective against flying enemies. Maybe it's time to change jobs to a spear/lance wielder if you haven't already done so. I wasn't that keen on the Viking as they are very slow to act, and changed to a Dragoon, because I like jumping, although normal battles are over too fast for it to be a useful skill. However, you'll soon realise that this job is the one that you're being pushed towards, with all the free equipment you've obtained. Take the hint! =============================================================================== 34. DRAGON SPIRE: SE Saronia (Optional) ................................ =============================================================================== TASK : Find all the treasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the township of southeast Saronia Items [12] : Dragon Mail x3, Phoenix Down x2, Dragon Helm x4, Thunder Spear x3 Magic : None Ally : Prince Alus Enemies : 95: Hellgaroo Mage, 96: Needle Monkey, 97: Catoblepas, 98: Sorceror, 99: Sand Worm Recommended Level: 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The prince will aid you with the spell Aero, or Confuse, from time to time. Climb five floors of the tower, fighting the fun enemies, although what a Sand Worm is doing in a stone tower I've no idea... It might afflict someone with Blind status that requires healing after the battle. The encounter rate is quite low and I only met two groups on the way to the top. Take out the Sorceror as fast as possible in case it casts Fira on one, which might kill someone outright. The Hellgaroo also casts magic, Blizzara, and hope it's on the whole and not one team. The Catoblepas and Needle Monkey might cause poison status which needs to be healed or it persists. Don't bother to search for anything hidden or for treasure chests because there's nothing at all. When you reach the sixth floor you'll be at the top of the tower. Walk right to find a room with six chests, starting at the top and going around clockwise, they contain: [DRAGON MAIL], [PHOENIX DOWN], [DRAGON HELM], [THUNDER SPEAR], [THUNDER SPEAR] (yes, a another one so you can equip two!), [DRAGON HELM]. It's the same deal in the room to the left of the stairs, with another six chests to open. Starting at the top, going clockwise again: [DRAGON MAIL], [DRAGON MAIL], [DRAGON HELM], [THUNDER SPEAR], [PHOENIX DOWN], [DRAGON HELM]. =============================================================================== 35. SARONIA CASTLE ...................................................... *W35 =============================================================================== TASK : Enter the castle and defeat the boss. Acquire the Nautilus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Northwest continent, inside the Saronia compound Services : None Items [20] : Ice Rod, Rusty Mail, Medusa Arrow, Dragon Hammer, Main Gauche, Tome Of Fire, Tome Of Ice, Golem Staff, Scholar Hat, Boomerang, Selene Bow, Tome Of Light, Rusty Mail, Viking Helm, Earthen Bell, Dragon Helm, Gaia Vest, Viking Mail, Phoenix Down x2 Wellspring : No Special! : Nautilus airship Recommended Level : 26/27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before entering the castle with Alus fight enough battles to complete the transfer for any new jobs. It's faster to find enemies to fight inside the Dragon Spire. Use at least one Dragoon, although you'll have enough equipment for two of them! In fact, if you have two it will make things a lot easier and you could even field three of them. Equip the two dragoons with two spears each, as well as all the Dragon armour. You should have found the Wind Spear, and bought another, recalling advice about effective weapons for flying enemies, and the fact that Aero magic is effective against birds, consider a team with 2/3 Dragoons and a White Mage. Although you'll rest for the night after entering the castle this DOES NOT RESTORE HEALTH! Sleep at the inn in NW Saronia and check your stock of Hi-Potions. Save your game! Vital, because you might not succeed at these relatively low levels. On my first attempt at level 25 it was a bit of a wake-up call as everything else had been plain sailing up to this point. Approach the castle gate with Alus and you'll be allowed through, and a boss fight follows in quick succession. My team consisted of a Ranger/Job Level 28, Dragoon x2/Job Level 4, White Mage/Job Level 32 o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GARUDA | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 28 | 10000 | 57 | 29 | 8800 | 10200 | Wind | Csstle Saronia |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 26 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Okay, so no surprises here, as we knew it was a flying bird called Garuda from the well-informed Saronians. Garuda is powerful and uses Lightning magic on the whole party as well as physical attacks, although those don't hurt too much, doing around 150 HP damage. He has two turns on each round, although he doesn't seem to cast the magic twice on one round. If he did, that would be instant death for everyone... If you're using the Dragoon,s have them jump so they don't get damaged, and attack with double spears. Cast Aero with a White Mage, and use other non-elemental attacks from your fighters. Barrage with the better Medusa Arrows managed around 1500 hurt to him with my Ranger, but he died on the first lightning attack so I wouldn't advise this job. The real difficulty in this battle is not damaging him, but not getting killed from the crushing Lightning magic. This reduced everyone's HP by around 500-600 HP, leaving them all in the yellow danger zone, apart from the jumping Dragoons. The higher anyone's Magic Defence stat, the less damage this attack will do, but the Dragoon has low M.Def, so their only hope of escaping unharmed is if they are in the air. And your only hope of survival is that he doesn't do this attack twice in a row: but he will. Your best protection might be to use Cura on every round. Aero does around 400-500 damage to Garuda, but it's better to keep everyone healthy and avoid deaths. However, with a White Mage at Job level 32, they don't heal for enough. You'll also need to use Hi-Potions to supplement Cura, because if he uses magic again on the next turn, the party won't have high enough HP to sustain the damage. Once the party gets badly damaged it's going to be downhill from then on, and you won't be able to recover fast enough to survive. You could try using a Phoenix Down and Elixir to fully heal someone, or fight more battle in the Tower to raise levels higher, both overall and for the jobs. This was the first time I had a total defeat and I was grateful for the fact that there wasn't a long dungeon to go through first! This time he didn't use Lightning on the first two rounds and I used a Bacchus's Cider item (my only one!) on the White mage to make sure they always had the first turn. Ranger (on the back row) got the brunt of the physical attacks both times, but managed to heal with a Hi-Potion. The Dragoons jumped and caused around 1800 damage to him for each, with double spears. Ranger did around 1800. Third turn and he killed Ranger and badly hurt mage one Dragoon, with lightning. But that didn't matter because the two dragoons were still alive and one more jump attack killed him. Apres Jump As in ski jump, you know, after ski-ing it's time to relax, and go treasure hunting! The team is at full health and inside the castle bedroom. Exit to the south and leave the castle to save your game. Re-enter and wander around chatting to the mages in the left tower room to find out where to go next, and talk to the engineers in the right side room to find out how to travel! Yes, the [NAUTILUS] is yours. Back inside the bedroom, go up the stairs and up again to reach the King's chamber and talk to Alus. He'll officially tell you to take all his stuff! You'll hear about quite a few other possibilities by talking to everyone. The engineers are thinking about a ship that goes underwater but the expert is missing... you're told about a the Temple of Time and Noah's Flute. There's an undersea temple south of Saronia, between two horns. Of more immediate use is a secret passage to the treasure room on the first floor of this tower. Return to the bedroom and check the top of the right wall. Yes, that not so obvious discolouration marks the start of that secret passage. Walk through, going straight, until you reach some stairs down to the treasure room. Open 12 chests, from top to bottom and left to right: [ICE ROD], [RUSTY MAIL], [MEDUSA ARROW], [DRAGON HAMMER], [MAIN GAUCHE], [TOME OF FIRE], [TOME OF ICE], [GOLEM STAFF], [SCHOLAR HAT], [BOOMERANG], [SELENE BOW], [TOME OF LIGHT] Continue down to a lower floor and keep walking down the stairs until you reach en empty room. There's another secret passage through the wall at the right. Walk straight through to the final room, with 6 more treasure chests. Again, from the top, you'll acquire: [RUSTY MAIL], [VIKING HELM], [EARTHEN BELL], [DRAGON HELM], [GAIA VEST], and [VIKING MAIL]. Back upstairs, re-enter the left tower with the mages and check the wall at the right for another secret passage. Walk right, through the darkness, then down the stairs into a small room. There's another hidden passage through the wall at the left, close to the stairs. This takes you up and around the room and back inside the adjacent room. Descend the stairs until you reach a long narrow room. Two chest are found at the lower left, and a helpful servant who says that the next part of the passage is closed. But you can see a room at the left, even thought you cannot access it. For now, open the two treasure chests to obtain [PHOENIX DOWN] and [PHOENIX DOWN]. This generosity made me forgive the lack of juicy drops from beaten bosses. -------------------------- Shipping Out and Shopping! -------------------------- Walk back outside the castle, or teleport out, and you'll arrive inside the white area just in front of the castle, and next to a golden ship. Enter, and fly away. Or go and do some shopping for magic now that the shops are all open in the various townships. Definitely buy the better Curaga magic, Protect, and Raise. At long last you don't have to use Phoenix Downs if someone is knocked out. If you buy al the magic at the left shop in NW Saronia it's gonna cost a lot: 30,000 Gil to be precise. Buying the better rods as well, was too expensive for me, so, unless you've been selling off stuff or fighting a lot of battles, you won't be able to buy everything. Make a point to get the valuable Rune Staff as this allow you to cast Erase to remove buffs on bosses, and will be an essential piece of kit for later in the game. The locals will have new things to say, at least, in the NE area, and you can access the Library in the NW area. There's no-one to talk to but lots of books to read! Check each shelf for an extract from various books. although one or two don't reveal anything. Only the 6 larger shelves facing you have books to read. The ones at the left give more information about Desch and his father, and the second row at the left tells you how to get past those statues: you need the four fangs. The top left shelf tells of the secret of the Dark Blade Way in the mountains west of Saronia. The others have stuff about dark and light and transportation. By the way, there's a Chocobo Woods outside the compound if you walk and canoe due west from the south wall. It's inside the woods between the start of a second river and a small lake. Walk up between the two, towards the mountains to the west. =============================================================================== 36. DOGA'S MANOR ........................................................ *W36 =============================================================================== TASK : Find Doga's Manor and enter the Cave of the Circle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : In the middle of the southern continent. Services : Item Shop, Magic Shop Items [-] : None Wellspring : Yes. Revive and HP/MP restoration Ally : Doga Area Enemies: 101: Simurgh, 102: Harpy, 103: Gargoyle, 104: Chimera ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The nice thing about the upgraded ship is that it's a lot faster, but you cannot land on water, or on trees, and it cannot cross mountain ranges. Oh, and you can no longer sail, anywhere, anytime again, so it's a bit frustrating if you missed out on killing any sea monsters. Change one of the Dragoons to something else now, preferably a Thief or Mage as you'll be running across locked doors and a mini-me section soon. Fly to the southwestern tip of the south continent and make your way through the mountains following the grassy path to a house. As soon as you arrive there's an air battle with two Chimera. At least, that was the first time I encountered air enemies. On the ground you'll find new foes, including Gargoyles. Enter the Manor and meet Doga. He mentions Unei as well as Xande, and he explains their roles in the past and present, after which he joins the party! You're told to go to the Cave of Circle through a secret passage in his room. This is Moogle Manor! Send mail from the first one you meet before going up the stairs. In the next room you'll find masses of them, with helpful information as well as shops. The Magic Shop is at the right counter and sells Level 6 magic, even though you won't be able use this yet, if your levels are still too low to use anything higher than level 5. At level 29 you will have 1 use of Level 6 magic, ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Firaga | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals fire damage Bio | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals non-elemental damage Warp | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Creates rift to another dimension Aeroga | 10000 | White Lv.6 Deals wind damage Stona | 10000 | White Lv.6 Removes petrification Haste | 10000 | White Lv.6 Increases attack speed Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ Enter the next room, which is Doga's study and talk to the Moogles. You can heal HP and MP at the pot between the desk and cupboard, and revive by checking the book on the desk. After that, go to the candle in the top right corner and press A. The wall shakes, revealing the secret passage. Turn right at the candle to walk into the darkness. Simply go right, in a straight line, until you emerge in another room. Check the hole in the upper wall and shrink the party! You may wish to make a Thief so you can escape battles with no loss of defence, and make everyone else capable of casting magic if you don't do this. I did both! =============================================================================== 37. CAVE OF THE CIRCLE .................................................. *W37 =============================================================================== TASK : Accompany Doga to the Cave of the Circle and upgrade the ship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside a hole in Doga's room inside Doga's Manor. Items [-] : None Wellspring : Yes. Revive and HP/MP restoration Ally : Doga Enemies : 105: Demon Horse, 106: Rock Gargoyle, 107: Bovian, 108: Dread Knight, 109: Flyer Mage Recommended Level: 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies are not hard to defeat, especially if Doga jumps in with his Flare magic, and have around 700 HP each. It's worth while fighting them if you're short of Gil. The gargoyle and mage are weak to Wind magic so use Aero on them, and anything else you like on the rest. Level 3 or 4 magic should deal with all groups, if Doga doesn't kill them first. Use the Thief to steal items. You could stay in here for a while, since Doga is so useful, and you've got that restoration pot nearby. Walk along the narrow path to the first warp circle. Enter it to reach the second path, where there's another warp circle at the end. The third section of path goes up a gentle slope and ends at the third warp circle. That's all there is and it's a short and easy trip. In the next area, walk forwards and Doga will cast a spell to allow the ship to travel underwater. He tells you to go south from Saronia to find the Temple of Time between Cape Twin Horn and find Noah's Lute. You'll use this item to wake up the sleeping Unei. Doga is off to do his own stuff and find the Key to Eureka. It seems there's another ship to discover as well: anything called the Invincible sound good to me! He sends you back outside the manor to the world map. Make sure to change back to full size! You can enter the Manor at any time to use the restoration pot or buy things. =============================================================================== 38. THE NAUTILUS ........................................................ *W38 =============================================================================== TASK : Explore underwater. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Wherever you left it. It appears on the world map as a blue torpedo shape Services : None Sea Enemies : 110: Noggle, 111: Abtu, 112: Sea Dragon, 113: Kagura, 114: Charybdis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To enter the underwater just land on the sea (press B) and you'll dive down. This will NOT work in the floating world. Enemies are different and movement is slower, although the map is basically the same, with all the continents showing as dark land masses. There are all kinds of places that can be reached now, some of which contain unique challenges: new summons monsters as well as lots of lovely treasure. All these are optional, and it's really up to you when and if you undertake these challenges. It's not a bad idea to find them all and acquire at least some of the free treasure now, and you can return later to finish them off. * Doga's Village (magic shopping!) * Sunken Cave (lots of treasure) * Saraonia Catacombs (Odin summons) Take care when fighting underwater monsters as they often appear in groups of three. Kagura are weak to lightning and Charybdis are quite tough, especially if they turn up in a group. =============================================================================== 39. DOGA'S VILLAGE (Optional) ........................................... *W39 =============================================================================== TASK : One stop magic shopping! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Underwater from the east point of the southern continent. Services : Magic Shop x6! Items [-] : None Wellspring : No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You might have noticed a town next to a lake at the east of the south continent of Dalg. It is surrounded with mountains and there is no access from the air. After the events with Doga on the south continent of Dalg, fly back to the south of the continent and then hug the coast, heading northeast past this inaccessible town, until you reach the eastern tip of the land. Dive down here, and you'll see a channel through the rock. Just follow it to a dead end, and return to the surface and you're flying above that pool by the town!. Land on the grass and enter Doga's Village. Talk to the black mage with the bright yellow hat, and they run the magic shop, although it's nothing special, just the same as in NW Saronia. There are moe shops at the ends of each bridge. Down the left one you'll find the summons magic, which is the same as that sold at Replito, From here, walk right, to the next mage shop selling level 5 magic, which is the same as the second shop in NW Saronia. Go right from here to find some new very expensive level 7 magic, including the cure-all Esuna and protective Reflect White magic. The next shop, heading to the right again, sells Level 4 magic found at one of the SW Saronia shops. Finally, the shop in the middle area (below the tree) sells level 6 magic, exactly the same as the stuff sold inside Doga's Manor. There's a Moogle too, and this place is handy if you're missing some magic and want a one-stop shopping trip. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 1 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 2 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Escape | 100 | Summons Lv.1: Summons Chocobo Icen | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Shiva Spark | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Ramuh Heatra | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Ifrit Hyper | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Titan ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 3 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Thundaga | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Deals lightning damage Raze | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Causes KO to weak enemies Erase | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Dispels beneficial magic Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally Protect | 5000 | White Lv.5 Increases defence ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 4 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Quake | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Deals earth damage Breakga | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Inflicts petrification Drain | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Absorbs life Curaja | 20000 | White Lv.7 Restores a massive amount of HP Esuna | 20000 | White Lv.7 Removes all status ailments Reflect | 20000 | White Lv.7 Creates a magic-reflecting barrier ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 5 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Break | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts petrification Blizzaga | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Deals ice damage Shade | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts paralysis Libra | 3000 | White Lv.4 Displays weak points Confuse | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts confusion Silence | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts silence ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 6 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Firaga | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals fire damage Bio | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals non-elemental damage Warp | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Creates rift to another dimension Aeroga | 10000 | White Lv.6 Deals wind damage Stona | 10000 | White Lv.6 Removes petrification Haste | 10000 | White Lv.6 Increases attack speed Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ =============================================================================== 40. SUNKEN CAVE (Optional) .............................................. *W40 =============================================================================== TASK : Acquire lots of treasure! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : On the seabed below the small island at the southeast of the map. Items [15] : Tiger Claws, Chakram, Dual Tomahawk, Ancient Sword, Diamond Shield, Metal Knuckles, Diamond Helm, Cognitome, Air Knife, Diamond Mail, Loki Harp, Diamond Bracers, Phoenix Down, Elixir, Diamond Gloves. [4] Trapped Chests - Trident, Aegis Shield, Reflect Mail, Triton Hammer. Enemies : 115: Dozmare, 116: Sea Witch, 117: Killer Hermit, 118: Ologhai, 119: Kelpie, 120: Aegir Recommended Level: 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The place I wanted to investigate was that small triangular island at the southeast of the world map, so I dove down and found an entrance on the right side of the undersea rock. Simply move the ship to the hole and you'll enter the Sunken Cave. This isn't necessary for the story, but it's good if you're short of cash (I was down to 5000 Gil) and need some free stuff. There are lots of new nice enemies in here too, most of which are weak to Lightning magic and have around 1600 HP. However, you will encounter two enemies that are quite challenging. The Peryton has over 9000 HP and the Zombie Dragon 11000 so treat those like bosses. I'll say more when I get to them. A Dragoon with double Lightning Spears is a good choice for one party member. The flying Dozmare is the exception to the Lightning rule, and is weak to wind as I'll sure you know by now. Enemies tend to appear in groups of three and their critical attacks might do around 400-500 damage so it's quite easy to have someone die if they are targeted twice. For this, you'll need Raise and the better curative and attack magic. The encounter rate is high too, so having a Thief on the team to enable you to attempt to flee without compromising defence is a good plan, at least, if you come here at relatively low levels: I was at 30, which was really too low. I targeted one enemy at a time using lower level magic rather than attempt to take them all out at once. It's not that easy but you'll be well rewarded with all the treasure you'll find, and it's going to make your team much stronger. By the time I finished the second cave I'd run out of magic for any more Raise spells and retreated! But at least I earned 15000 Gil and another level for everyone. Cave 1 Walk down the cave and over the wooden bridge to the left to find the stairs down to the next cavern. Cave 2 Head to the right of the cave first, staying close to the outer wall and you'll find a chest a bit further down this side of the cave, close to the pool. It contains a [TIGER CLAWS] weapon. Return to the stairs, and go to the upper left to find a treasure chest with a [CHAKRAM]. There's another chest at the lower left of the cave with a [DUAL TOMAHWAK]. The stairs are below the larger pool at the lower right corner of the cavern. Cave 3 This cave has tons of treasure, so let's be orderly about it! First of all, walk straight down, over two bridges, and head to the left to open the first one, giving you an [ANCIENT SWORD]. Go over the third bridge to discover a nice hoard of four chests. From left to right they contain: [DIAMOND SHIELD], [METAL KNUCKLES], [DIAMOND HELM] and [COGNITOME]. Head back over two bridges and go left, over another bridge. Open the chest near the bridge for an [AIR KNIFE]. Open three more chests on this platform. From right to left they contain [DIAMOND MAIL], [LOKI HARP] and [DIAMOND BRACERS]. Walk down, over the next bridge and get a [PHOENIX DOWN] from the upper left chest, and an [ELIXIR] and [DIAMOND GLOVES] from the two below the hidden exit. You'll see a small pointy rock below the single chest and the hidden passage lies to the left of this. Cave 4 Inside this small cavern are four more chests: and it looks as if you can just lift the contents and high tail it out of there, but not so fast! Each chest is a trap and is guarded by a different powerful monster. They are not really bosses, just ordinary enemies, placed in a special situation. The location listed in the table is where they appear in numbers. You can find the Aegis Shield and Reflect Mail more easily elsewhere if you don't want to bother with it all but the shield is valuable because it protects from all status effects. Upper left chest - [TRIDENT] o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - PERYTON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 41 | 9650 | 92 | 27 | 9600 | 2400 | Wind | Doga's Grotto | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 36 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Use Wind based attacks, the Air Knife, Wind Spear, and Aeroga magic will be very effective. That means a Thief, Dragoon and White Mage will be a good team. Heal up after the battle and open the next chest. Upper right chest - [AEGIS SHIELD] o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - ZOMBIE DRAGON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 41 | 11000 | 90 | 27 | 15000 | 2880 | Light | Ancient Ruins |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 36 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Anything called a zombie something in a Final Fantasy game is good news. You can kill with kindness! In other words, they are weak to healing magic. A Hi-Potion will damage them for 500 HP and a Phoenix Down will kill them. That's the cheap way to success! Or just use your best Curaga spells and any Light/Holy attacks if you don't want to waste a valuable Phoenix Down. Lower left chest - [REFLECT MAIL] o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - DEATH CLAW | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 38 | 3800 | 85 | 26 | 7500 | 680 | None | Cave of Shadows |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Black Hole 3 - Lilith's Kiss 4 - Raven's Yawn | | 5 - Shining Curtain 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Black Musk 8 - Chocobo's Wrath | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 33 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Really simple stuff as this "boss" has about the same HP as enemies you've been fighting here and elsewhere. Lower right chest - [TRITON HAMMER] o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - EATER | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 35 | 2700 | 75 | 25 | 1020 | 945 | DarkBlade | Falgabard: Cave | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 30 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Even easier, at least, if you kill it outright, or use magic. This enemy is weak to attacks from the Dark Blade job's weapons. If you don't have this class yet, or don't have anyone using it, then DON'T attack with ordinary weapons because it will divide, and create a clone of itself. It can do this again and again, although the maximum number of enemies is three, so there's some restriction. Teleport out, save your game, and float back to the surface. =============================================================================== 41. SARAONIA CATACOMBS (Optional) ....................................... *W41 =============================================================================== TASK : Obtain Odin summons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Cave accessed from the seabed, south from the Saronia compound. Items [14] : Golem Staff, Rune Bell, Aegis Shield, Reflect Mail, Holy Lance, Phoenix Down x4, Elixir x4, Catastro Level 6 Summons. Wellspring : None Enemies : 121: Kyklops, 122: Boss Troll, 123: Fachan, 124: Cenchos, 125: Balor STEAL/DROP : Gungnir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fly to the Saronia compound in the northwest continent, and dive down near the south wall, to the east of the shallow channels. You'll end up next to a dark opening in the north rock wall. Go inside the Catacombs, a watery sewer type place. Only the Cenchos (4000 HP) has a weakness to lightning and the rest of the enemies have no weakness at all, but only have around 1600 HP. Balor uses the Blizzara spell on the team, but despite the its fearsome appearance it won't hurt you too much. Floors 1 and 2 Follow the only paved path through the first two rooms. Floor 3 At the third room you arrive at a T junction. Turn right, and up some steps to access a chest at the left containing a [GOLEM STAFF]. Help yourself to the contents of another two chests just to the right, with a [RUNE BELL] in the left chest, and an [AEGIS SHIELD] in the right. It's worth while coming in here early on just for this shield as it protects against ALL status ailments. Return to the T junction and go left, and up the steps. You'll find a treasure chest on the landing after the steps, with the [REFLECT MAIL]. Continue going left, and up, and right, past the exit stairs, to find another chest with a [HOLY LANCE]. Floor 4 Inside the next room, walk straight up, next to the right wall, to find a hidden passage in the upper right corner. Go through the darkness to a small side room with 8 treasure chests. The lower four contains [PHOENIX DOWN x4] but you have to fight a mini=boss monster as soon as you open one! This is just an ordinary Cenchos that you've probably already defeated. Just be aware that it gets two turns on each round and you'll have to fight one for each treasure chest you open. The top row contains [ELIXIR x4] and again, there's a monster trap in each one. This is an Ouroboros that only has around 2600 HP and is also weak to lightning. I left after this, not yet ready to face Odin at Level 34. He has the unique weapon, Gungir, that can be stolen by a Thief, but you need a high level to manage this, and even then there's only a very small chance of obtaining it, either by the thief or from him dropping it. According to the Brady guide you need a Thief job level of at least 71 to have a good chance of stealing this weapon. Now, at over Level 14 it each action gives you 18 job points so that would be 6 actions in one battle to get 1 job level. Anyway that's what I did but I waited until near the end of the game to do it, when the Thief already had a job level of 62, and just kept stealing stuff to raise job levels. Floor 5 Odin awaits when you enter this room, and you still have a chance to check health and equipment. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - ODIN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 40 | 31000 | 81 | 35 | 20000 | 16800 | None | Saronia Catacombs | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Gungnir 4 - Gungnir | | 5 - None 6 - None 7 - None 8 - None | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 40 (Thief Job Level 71) | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o With a Thief job level of 72 I stole the weapon on the second attempt. Just keep trying it and don't kill him until you have the weapon! Of course, there's a minor drawback to that strategy because he will use a powerful Zantetsuken move that causes around 1000 HP damage to everyone: maybe more than that if your armour isn't good, or you were silly enough to let a mage fight on the front row. He gets two attacks on each round so that move, plus a physical strike, could kill anyone outright. His usual physical attack isn't too bad on its own, but if he targets the same person twice that could be troublesome. If you have to wait for the Thief to steal, have the rest of the team guard, and a mage use Protect and Haste. A Dragoon is helpful in this battle when you're ready to attack as you can keep them in the air for a turn, as is a Viking, who can wear two shields, stand on the back row and Provoke. After the battle you'll obtain the Level 6 summon spell, [CATASTRO] that summons Odin. And of course, you'll have the [GUNGNIR] weapon too! (By the way, you're now inside that room you could see from inside Saronia Castle, and you can catch a glimpse of the treasure chest you opened if you look to the right.) Teleport time now! Save your game and fly off to the next destination with a job well done, and with full health. =============================================================================== 42. TEMPLE OF TIME ...................................................... *W42 =============================================================================== TASK : Dive underwater and explore the temple to acquire Noah's Lute. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Underwater, south of the Saronia continent. Items [10] : Diamond Helm, Diamond Bracers, Defender, Diamond Mail, Lamia Harp, Behemoth Knife, Blood Lance, Protect Ring, Diamond Gloves, Diamond Shield, Noah's Lute Wellspring : No Enemies : 126: Dira, 127: Chimera Mage, 128: King Lizard, 129: Pterodactyl, 130: Wyvern, 131: Behemoth, 132: King Seahorse, 133: Dragon Recommended Level: 32/34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cape Twin Horn is the area at the south of the Saronia continent, as Doga told you. Fly to the southern tip of the northwestern continent and dive down inside the sea that's half circled with two "horns" of land. You'll be outside a temple like building on the sea bed. Move towards it and you'll enter on foot. Although most enemies have around 1500 HP the Dira fairy type winged enemy has a whopping 5000 and the Behemoth has 12500! Fortunately she seems to appear alone and won't be too hard to defeat, although he's a bit trickier. One jump from a Dragoon should put paid to her with Wind Spears. Most enemies in here are weak to Wind, with the Seahorse and Lizard weak to lightning. One way to handle this dungeon is to make two trips, using a Thief on the first run through and unlocking all the doors to obtain all the treasure. Teleport out and then heal up and return with your strongest party with a couple of Magic Keys to open the essential doors. Make sure you either have a White Mage OR the Ottershroom item to escape from the dungeon because there's no boss battle and no full healing afterwards! I had rather stupidly changed by White Mage to a Bard and forgot to buy an Ottershroom so had to walk out again. You might find that a Black Mage isn't really doing as much damage to enemies as before. Floor 1 Inside the first room are three stairs that lead to new areas, but the first two have locked doors, although there's treasure to find. Walk down, and left, to find the first door and use a Magic Key or Thief ability to unlock it automatically. Walk around to the right side of the new room to access the single treasure chest containing a [DIAMOND HELM]. Do the same for the second door, that's just a short distance to the left of the first one. Inside you'll find a chest with [DIAMOND BRACERS]. Walk back to the right of the area, and down the steps into the water. Walk up, to the next steps, and right, to find the stairs down to the next floor. Floor 2 This is a small room and easy to find the way! Walk to the right, past the stairs for the single treasure chest that has a [DEFENDER] sword. This is very handy because it can be used as an item to cast the Protect spell. Floor 3 Another large floor with locked doors and stuff to pinch. You start at the left and should walk past the steps that lead into the water to find the first door in the lower right section. Unlock the door and go right to find a chest with [DIAMOND MAIL]. Back at the main floor, go down into the water and up to the top left section to find another locked door. Inside are two treasure chests with the left one having yet another contribution to the diamond gear with [DIAMOND GLOVES] and the right containing a [BEHEMOTH KNIFE]. If you're using a Thief, this knife, together with the Chakram will give them much higher attack power. The final door is at the top right of the floor and takes you up higher. Floor 4 This is just a corridor with no doors or options other that to walk through: up, right, down and out! Floor 5 You arrive at the upper side of a large room, having descended again and this is where I encountered the Behemoth for the first time. He's bloody big and blue! He has no weakness so use your very best, most powerful attacks. Guard if you must because his physical attack is very strong and two on one weaker character will destroy them. In fact, just one critical attack can do that. I found that the dragoon's jump attack was no use at all, only doing around 600 HP damage to him. After two people died I fled and used my fail-safe Ottershroom to escape to avoid wasting any Phoenix Downs. I changed jobs to use a Viking with the Dual Tomahawk and Dragon Hammer. Now, there's a secret passage in this room. Turn to the right when you enter, and walk BEHIND the waterfall along a narrow path next to the north wall, to the right of the room. You'll pass through the wall into darkness. Continue and go down the long staircase to access three treasure chests at the left. The left most one contains [BLOOD LANCE], the middle one has [PROTECT RING[ and the right one has the [LAMIA HARP]. Continue down the sequence of steps and turn left at the bottom. Unlock the door to a small room with a chest that contains a [DIAMOND SHIELD]. The final door isn't locked and is at the lower right side of the area. Go inside and check the small plinth to acquire [NOAH'S LUTE]. There's no boss battle. After fighting more battles in the optional dungeons I had enough Gil to buy the Evoker's summons, but didn't know who to drop... Instead I tried out the Bard instead of the White Mage, but the Sing command isn't available unless you equip a Harp: go to Duster for a large selection! You cannot equip both a harp and a knife because a harp is a two-handed weapon. You need to buy all the harps and exchange them for their different effects. =============================================================================== 43. UNEI'S SHRINE ....................................................... *W43 =============================================================================== TASK : Use Noah's Lute to awaken Unei and receive another Fang. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : West from Saronia, inside a mountain cave. Items [1] : Fang of Life Wellspring : No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fly to the south of Saronia and hug the coastline until you can fly west along a narrow strip of grass. You'll find a mountain with a cave opening. Use your Sight magic or a Gnomish Bread to see the precise location. There's also an inaccessible town location behind the mountains. Enter the cave to find a sleeping woman. Talk tot he red parrot on the nearby perch and it will explain. It seems she won't wake up, ever. If you come here before finding a certain item, that's all that will happen. Once you've obtained Noah's Lute, come here for a scene and Unei will awaken. She tells you to go to the Ancient Ruins to the north to get the Invincible Ship and she joins the party. She also gives you the [FANG OF FIRE], the third fang. =============================================================================== 44. ANCIENT RUINS ....................................................... *W44 =============================================================================== TASK : Explore the ruins to find the Airship ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : A mountain cave west from Saronia. Services : Inn (200 Gil), Item Shop, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop Items [5] : Reflect Mail, Black Belt Gi, Chakra Band, Faerie Claws, Rune Bell. Wellspring : No Ally : Unei Enemies : 134: Pyralis, 135: Silenus, 136: Gaap, 137: Azrael, 138: Eater, 148: Zombie Dragon Recommended Level : 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fly around to half way up the western coast of the NW continent and find a way through the hills to this cave. Use the Sight spell or a Gnomish Bread to identify the location: it appears with a brown marker. Some enemies divide and multiply and only magic attacks are safe to use, to prevent this. The large green dragon Pyralis is weak to ice and water. I used a Thief, White Mage, Evoker and Viking even though there are no locked doors in here, but a Black Mage would be more helpful! Unei might appear in her support role and cast Haste on the whole party, or powerful Holy magic on a single foe. Floor 1 There are enemies inside the first area, although the encounter rate is low, and you'll find some red-clothed men wandering around after walking down and right from the entrance. They explain about the cave collapse and after that, approach the rocks and Unei will do her stuff and the way is cleared. Go down the room and left and up the first set of steps into a small room with a treasure chest in the upper right corner. This contain [REFLECT MAIL]. Back in the first area you enter the second opening into a new floor. Floor 2 The exit to the next floor lies to the right, but first of all check out three rooms at the upper side of the floor. There are more red clothed chaps here: the advance party! Enter the left opening to find an Inn! Just talk to the red robed man and pay 200 Gil. The other man in here sells the usual items. The central room offers a weapon shop and the third room hosts an armour shop that sells the upgraded mage robes. Both the white and black robes will be good purchases although buying both might be more than you can afford. If you have to pick, choose the White Robe as more classes can equip that one. You won't find either of these, so spend your cash on them and you won't regret it! If you don't have enough cash, stay around the area for a while and fight until you do, and heal up again at the Inn. (Although you'll be able to buy these robes somewhere else much more accessible after completing this dungeon. ) ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Defender | 28000 | +95 ATK | Casts Protect Blood Lance | 28000 | +95 ATK | Absorbs life Medusa Arrow | 300 | +23 ATK | Inflicts gradual petrification ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Diamond Shield | 18000 | +14 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Diamond Helm | 20000 | +21 DEF | - White Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Black Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Diamond Mail | 32000 | +40 DEF | - Diamond Bracers | 10000 | +13 DEF | - Diamond Gloves | 10000 | +15 DEF | - ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ From the shops, walk down, and right, to find the stairs down to the next floor. Floor 3 This is a large floor with a number of smaller treasure rooms to loot. Start by walking down, right, and down again at the crossroads. Go left to find some stairs into a small room, and walk straight up to open a single treasure chest that contains a [BLACK BELT GI]. Back to the junction and turn right. There's another doorway and another room with a [CHAKRA BAND] inside the only chest. Return to the junction and walk a couple of steps up to a second crossroads. Go right and through the opening into an even smaller room with a chest at the upper left containing [FAERIE CLAWS]. Back at the junction, go left for another doorway leading to a small room with a chest at the upper right corner. This one has a [RUNE BELL]. From the crossroads head up, and right, and down to reach the stairs to the next floor. Floors 4 and 5 There's no more treasure to find and just a single route through the next two watery floors. Go right in the first room, and left in the next one. In the first one I encountered the Silenus and Gaap enemies for the first time and the former is another dividing enemy! Don't use Spark summon as it might miss altogether. Floor 6 In this penultimate floor, make your way down the stone pavement to the stairs in the lower left corner. You'll probably meet the multiplying Eater enemies in here. The maximum number is three, so it's not as bad the Muddy Hands in a Dragon Quest game, but you'll need to be careful when fighting them if you're got single attacks. Try and target each one for some damage before launching a group attack or trying to take them all out on one round. Any kind of magic attack would be good, as that won't prompt them to divide. A Zombie Dragon turned up at this point for me, but you'll know what to do with that if you've completed the Sunken Ruins. If not... use Holy/Light magic and weapons, and if in doubt throw a Phoenix Down at it for an instant kill. Floor 7 Well, it seems the Zombie wasn't a boss because there are more battles to fight on the next floor, mostly against the Pyralis and more Zombie Dragons. Walk down the only path to the stairs in the lower right corner. Floor 6 At long last, this looks promising as you arrive at a floor with a central walled area surrounded with water. Walk around and up the narrow path to the north wall where there's a ladder. Climb up and you're on board the ship! You'll also be at full health again. Exit the ship down the stairs. To board the ship again stand in its shadow and press A. Use A again, while flying, to go over mountains. Use B to stop the ship. Steer at the helm. As well as explaining all this Unei will call forth a Fat Chocobo and show you the vending stores and free Inn. She leaves with the final directions: go to the Cave of Shadows, north of Amur and recover the Fang of Earth. After getting it you must return to Doga's Manor. =============================================================================== 45. THE INVINCIBLE ...................................................... *W45 =============================================================================== TASK : Claim the Invincible Airship and use it to visit new locations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Where you are! Services : Inn (rest in bed for free), Item Shop, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop Items [-] : None Wellspring : Yes. Bed rest restores HP and MP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk over to the helm at the right of the deck and press A to launch the ship onto the world map and save your game! The ship travels quite slowly, and it doesn't go underwater (for that you'll need to return to pick up the Nautilus) but it does hop over hills, although it cannot rise up over any mountains as you'll soon discover. You might have noticed low hills blocking some areas of the world map, and it's these hills that the ship can transcend. Fly up to the hill and press a directional button to move, and the A button to rise up. That will allow the ship to "hop" over the hill and it will go back to the normal altitude on the far side. In fact, you can test it out immediately by finding the route to the village on the Saronia continent, south of the Ancient Ruins, and north of Unei's Shrine. See the next section! By the way, you can STILL use the Nautilus. It's shown on the world map where you left it outside the Temple of Time to the west of Saronia. With this ship under your command you can reach these optional new locations: * Falgabard inside the mountains west from Saronia * Lake Dohr on the Floating Continent * Bahamut's Lair on the Floating Continent I didn't do the two in the Floating Continent until later, but if your levels are high enough, it's possible now. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Sleep Arrow | 200 | +20 ATK | Inflicts sleep Poison Arrow | 200 | +20 ATK | Inflicts poison Medusa Arrow | 300 | +23 ATK | Inflicts gradual petrification Magic Arrow | 250 | +27 ATK | - Dark Knife | 30000 | +99 ATK | - Rune Axe | 35000 | +110 ATK | - Dragon Lance | 40000 | +117 ATK | - ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Diamond Shield | 18000 | +14 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Diamond Helm | 20000 | +21 DEF | - Diamond Mail | 32000 | +40 DEF | - Diamond Bracers | 10000 | +13 DEF | - Diamond Gloves | 10000 | +15 DEF | - White Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Black Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Gaia Vest | 7600 | +35 DEF | - ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Quake | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Deals earth damage Breakga | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Inflicts petrification Drain | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Absorbs life Curaja | 20000 | White Lv.7 Restores a massive amount of HP Esuna | 20000 | White Lv.7 Removes all status ailments Reflect | 20000 | White Lv.7 Creates a magic-reflecting barrier ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ =============================================================================== 46. FALGABARD (Optional) ................................................ *W46 =============================================================================== TASK : Acquire weapons and armour for Dark Knights. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the mountains at the southwest of the northwest continent. Services : Inn (640 Gil), Item Shop, Items [9] : Kiku-Ichimonji, Blessed Hammer x2, Demon Shield, Hi-Potion, Demon Mail x2, Kotetsu, Ashura Wellspring : None Cave Enemies: 135: Silenus, 136: Gaap, 149: Death Claw, 152: Valefor, 153: Haniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the village of the Dark Knights that can only be reached with the Invincible. There's a Chocobo Woods to the east, next to a small lake. From Saronia, fly west, over the large area of forest, keeping close to the mountains at the south of the trees. You'll soon enter a gap between two mountain ranges and spot a low hill in the grass to the south. Hop over this hill, and fly south. Rise over another hill and you'll be at the village. There's a revive wellspring inside the house at the right of the Inn and the magic shop doesn't sell anything special, but the other two shops do! However, don't buy the Demon stuff or the Ashura because you'll find those for free here, and you'll grab a better alternative weapon, with a few minutes fighting as the only cost. If you like using the Ranger (I do!) then buy the bow and arrows, which are the most powerful ones in the whole game! (Although you will find a better bow later on... so maybe not.) Also, note that the arrows can be thrown by a Ninja so they won't be wasted when/if you change jobs a bit later. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Gnomish Bread | 200 | Displays a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Demon Mail | 25000 | *38 DEF | - Demon Shield | 12500 | +12 DEF | Protects from some status ailments ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Ashura | 16000 | +100 ATK | Effective against dividing enemies Yoichi Bow | 42000 | +70 ATK | - Yoichi Arrow | 500 | +40 ATK | - Demon Axe | 40000 | +116 ATK | - ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ You'll be given some advice concerning the cave of Shadows that you must use Dark Blade techniques to defeat the monsters there, so I guess it's time to switch to this job if you've done already attempted it. At the upper left of the town you'll find a blue mage standing next to a cave entrance who warns you about the monsters inside. I nipped in quickly to open the treasure chest in the first room without running into any trouble. Now, there's something a bit special about this place besides the cave. Head to the top of the village and go right, (from the dark knight that tells you about the Cave of Shadows), through the trees by the rock face, to stand facing the waterfall. Walk forwards and you'll find yourself inside a cave! There are no enemies and no treasure, but you'll find an orange-robed old man at the north. Talk to him and you'll be in a battle. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - SHINOBI | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 46 | 11000 | 102 | 30 | 8800 | 3700 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Black Hole 3 - Lilith's Kiss 4 - Raven's Yawn | | 5 - Shining Curtain 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Black Musk 8 - Chocobo's Wrath| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 37 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o He isn't really a proper boss as he only gets one attack per round and you'll encounter more of his kind inside a later dungeon. But he does have a powerful physical assault that might hurt a front row fighter for over 1000 HP, and also causes poison and blind status I managed to steal a Black Hole item from him with a Thief at job level 53. Beat him and he'll give you the [KIKU-ICHIMONJI] katana which is effective against dividing enemies. Walk back down the cave and into the river and you'll be able to follow the water course through the village and around to the south side of the little island with a large rock in the middle of it. Use the close-up view to spot two sparkles in the grass at the left of the rock. The one by the lower edge of the island reveals a [BLESSED HAMMER], so you can now double wield those! And the one at the upper left of the rock hides a [DEMON SHIELD]. There are two more sparkles to the right of the rock with the lower one yielding a [HI-POTION] and the upper one the [DEMON MAIL]. Leave town and save your game before venturing into the local cave. Take up the Dark Knight job so you can attack the dividing enemies without them multiplying. The other way to defeat them is to use magic, but don't attack them with ordinary physical attack, at least, unless you WANT them to divide! Beware of using the Dark Knight's Souleater skill because it hurts them as well s hurting enemies. My team was an Evoker, White Mage, Ranger and Dark Knight. -------------- Falgabard Cave -------------- The green Haniel and Valefor enemies, and the yellow Silenus and brown Gaap, will divide if hit by any other attack except magic or by a Dark Knight. Be cautious around the Valefor especially if there's more than one of them s they have a very powerful physical attack. Open the visible chest to obtain a [BLESSED HAMEMR], a powerful weapon for a Viking. Walk to the upper right of the cavern and go through the wall into a short hidden passage, down and right, into the adjoining cave. Follow the river up the cave to find a chest at the right, with a [DEMON MAIL]. From here, go right again, through the rock wall into another hidden passage. This takes you right, up, and left, into the upper cavern. The lower treasure chest contains a katana, the [KOTETSU], and the upper one has yet another katana, the [ASHURA]. Equip both the Kiku-Ichimonki and Kotetsu for the highest attack power. Of course, you'll have to forgo a shield, but attack is best form of defence, most of the time! Either walk out of here, or Teleport. =============================================================================== 47. LAKE DOHR (Optional) ................................................ *W47 =============================================================================== TASK : Obtain the Leviathan summons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : The lake to the west of Castle Argus on the Floating Continent. Items [14] : Phoenix Down, Heavenly Wrath, Earthen Drums, Arctic Wind, Hi-Potion x3, Elixir, White Musk, Aegis Shield. Platinum Hammer x2, Bacchus's Cider, Turtle Shell, Lilith's Kiss, Raven's Yawn, Black Hole, Reflect Mail, Black Musk, Leviath (summons) Enemies : 139: Ouroboros, 140: Plancti, 141: Sea Lion, 142: Remora Recommended Level: 40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flying the slow Invincible, head for the tiny island at the extreme southwest of the world, You'll be back at the floating continent. Go to the western middle area of land, southwest from Castle Argus where there's a lake with something swimming in it. There's a low hill to jump over at the south of the lake and you can park the ship on the grass near this hill. Descend the stairs and SAVE YOUR GAME! Approach the lake to start paddling the canoe and you'll be inside the cave beneath the lake. A Viking is a good job to have for this cave, and really anything else you have, depending on whether you have the final Earth Crystal jobs on not. (I used a Thief while attempting to level up this job to steal from Odin.) Most enemies are weak to lightning and only have around 2000-3000 HP. Note that you cannot return here after defeating the Leviathan and the Remora enemy is only found in this location. Floor B1 Watch out for the Ouroboros enemies that appear in groups of three and can petrify someone with a single blow. They are easy enough to kill having only just over 2000 HP. Walk right, and down to the wall to find four treasure chests. The left one has a [PHOENIX DOWN], and the next one contains a [HEAVENLY WRATH] item. The upper one the two at the right has an [EARTHEN DRUMS], and the lower one contains an [ARCTIC WIND]. From here, head up and right to open a row of treasure chests. Starting from the left they contain: [HI-POTION], [HI-POTION], [HI-POTION], [ELIXIR]. It's just a quick step down to the stairs. Floor B2 Go left, and up and you'll see a single treasure chest as you turn the corner. This contains a [WHITE MUSK]. From here, go to the upper right corner of the cave for four more treasures. The left chest contains an [AEGIS SHIELD] which completely protects from status effects, so equip that to a Knight, Dragoon or Viking. Next one has a [PLATINUM HAMMER], also handy for a Viking, and the last two have items: a [BACCHUS'S CIDER] and a [TURTLE SHELL]. Use the hammer as it adds lightning to attacks and the Ouroboros are weak to that element. The exit is down in the lower right corner of the cave. Floor B3 Walk left, and down, past the small pond, to find two items in chests. The left one contains a [LILITH'S KISS] and the right has a [RAVEN'S YAWN]. From here, walk up, heading to the upper right of the cave and turning left to find a group of three chests. The first one, starting at the right, has a [BLACK HOLE] item, and the next has another [PLATINUM HAMMER], and the left one contains [REFLECT MAIL]. Keep walking left a little further to find one more chest with a [BLACK MUSK] item. Go back to the middle of the cave and keep heading left, and down to find the stairs to the final floor. Floor B4 Check health before proceeding further, although there are still ordinary enemies on this floor: I encountered the pretty pink-haired Remora in here for the first time. Make your way along the only path to the jetty at the bottom of the cavern and walk up. You'll see Leviathan ahead so just press A to chat. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - LEVIATHAN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 42 | 32000 | 85 | 36 | 20000 | 17100 | Lightning | Lake Dohr |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 42 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o With double Platinum Hammers equipped on a Viking this is pretty easy. Use Heavenly Wrath items with a Scholar, or Hyper with an Evoker, and any weapons with Lightning effects. The boss has two turns on each round but its physical attack is nothing to bother about. However, Tsunami is a powerful water magic flood that hurts everyone for around 500 - 700 HP. After the battle you obtain the Level 7 summoning spell, [LEVIATH]. Equip this to an Evoker or Summoner. You'll also be fully healed, which is generous! Teleport out and save your game. =============================================================================== 48 BAHAMUT'S LAIR (Optional) ........................................... *W48 =============================================================================== TASK : Obtain the Bahamut summons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Southeast of the Floating Continent, over a low hill. Items [14] : Heavenly Wrath, Earthen Drums, Phoenix Down x2, Arctic Wind,. Golem Staff, White Musk, Bacchus's Cider, Chocobo's Wrath, Turtle Shell, Euyros Bow, Elixir, Kotetsu, Bahamur (summons) Enemies : 143: Grenade, 144: Drake, 145: Greater Boros, 146: Sabertooth Liger Recommended Level: 42 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You need the Invincible to reach this place on the Floating Continent. This mountain cave is situated at the far southeast of the world map, inside the outer sea. It's southwest from Gysahl, the village on the perimeter, and south from the Vikings' Cove. Fly over the wooded area and you'll see the cave opening hedged by mountains. Jump over the low hills to the east of the cave and save your game! This time you need a team that can use Wind elemental magic. A White Mage, or better still, a Devout would be a good choice. Use a Dragoon to escape the boss's powerful magic if you wish, or those jobs with high magic defence. Most of the enemies in here have around 3000 HP, although the Queen Lamia has double that. The bright blue Grenade is weak to ice and water, which is totally counter intuitive, and the blue Drake is weak to wind because it's airborne. The Greater Boros is the brother of the Ouroboros and also weak to lightning. Floor B1 The first floor is in a cross shape with two treasure chests at the ends of the left and right paths. Go over the bridge to the central island crossroads and turn left for the first two chests. The upper one contains a [HEAVENLY WRATH] and the lower one has an [EARTHEN DRUMS]. Cross back to the right side of the cavern for a [PHOENIX DOWN] in the upper chest and [ARCTIC WIND] in the lower one. Walk straight down to find the stairs. Floor B2 This is a one way route heading left, down, up and around to the exit at the lower right corner. On the way open five treasure chests as you find pass by. They contain: a [GOLEM STAFF] inside the one at the upper left corner, a [WHITE MUSK] where the path turns right, a [BACCHUS'S CIDER] where the path turns down, and a [CHOCOBO'S WRATH] in the left and [TURTLE SHELL] in the right chests by the stairs. Floor B3 Turn left where you enter to open a nearby chest with a [EURYTOS BOW]. The next one on the path up the room has a [PHOENIX DOWN] and the third an [ELIXIR]. Just to the left of this one is a chest with a [KOTETSU]. Check your health before walking over the wooden bridge to the end of the cave. I encountered the Queen Lamia and Ligurs in this room , so hang around and fight some extra battles if you want to add them to your bestiary. This battle is actually fought outside the cave, on the world map, although there's no chance to save before it starts. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - BAHAMUT | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 45 | 34000 | 90 | 37 | 20000 | 16500 | Wind | Bahamut's Lair |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 45 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This is very easy at level 45 if you have Aeroga magic and a high job levelled mage to cast it! Use Wind based weaponry like the Air Knife and Wind Spear, or just your most powerful hits with your front line characters, and the Bahamut will be dead before he gets a chance to use his powerful Megaflare magic. If he does use that, heal immediately with Curaga. Afterwards you'll get the Level 8 summoning spell: [BAHAMUR]. It's a bit annoying that you cannot use Teleport to escape this dungeon, because if you do it sends you back outside to the area where you fought him, and that's surrounded with mountains. The only way out is to walk back through the cave. Yes, a bit of good old-fashioned back-tracking is required. If you use a Thief or Evoker simply select the Flee command or Escape summons and run away from most battles. It won't take long, and the route is straightforward. =============================================================================== 49. CAVE OF SHADOWS ..................................................... *W49 =============================================================================== TASK : Reach the cave and acquire the Fang of Earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : In the mid section of the eastern continent, northeast of Amur. Items [11] : Black Musk, Dark Claws, Kotetsu, Tranquilizer, Lilith's Kiss, Genji Gloves, Kiku-Ichimonji, Genji Shield, Genji Helm, Genji Armor, Fang of Earth Ally : Invincible (when flying) Enemies : 135: Silenus, 136: Gaap, 149: Death Claw, 150: Hellish Horse, 151: Chronos, 152: Valefor, 153: Haniel, 154: Vassago, Area Enemies: 100: Frostfly, 102: Harpy, Frostfly Recommended levels : 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Although Unei said this was to the north of Amur, it's not exactly north, more northeast. It's situated at the east of the bulge in the middle of the eastern continent, at the far side of the desert. Fly north from Amur, over the desert and you'll see a wide grassy path going north, and then east. Each section of this route is blocked with a low hill that you can hop over. Press the directional button in the direction you want to go and the A button when you meet a hill and you'll rise over it. You'll also encounter airborne enemies just to make things more awkward, but the Invincible acts as an ally and fires in support. ______________________ | < \ < C | < | | v v | v v |v v / ^ ^ | | | | | |__ \ | | | < \ \___| v v |____| < \ | |____|_____| | In words: up, right, down, down __________________| v v |____|_____|^ ^ | again, right, and down. You're | > > | |CAVE|_____| | here: A. From here, go right, up, | ____>___>_v_v| |_^__| .|^ ^ | up again, and right, and right | | | | D ____| | again. to reach here: B. Go up | | / |___________/ | | over three sets of hills, left, and | | __| v v v|___________|^ ^ |^ ^ | up to reach here: C. Go left, past | | | | | > > | the first turning down and go down \ |v v_____/__^__/ ^ ^ >____>____| the second turning, over three sets Start \ | > | | ^ of hills to reach the cave: D \|_____>____v v |_ ^ ^/ B | / A > |________| When you arrive at the wooded area outside the mountain cave, take a quick nap to replenish any HP and MP loss, and climb down the stairs to the ground. Save your game! But maybe make a separate save file in case you find the enemies too difficult in here and wish to do some sidequest dungeons before attempting this again. It just saves you the return trip... Enemies all have around 4000 HP and most are weak to Dark Blade attacks. It might be worth while to use two Dark Blades as you'll find more equipment for them in here. Evoker is handy if you find that that Black Magic isn't working as well as you hoped and they have the Chocobo escape option which is nice. If you managed the cave in Falgabard you should be okay in here. A White Mage, Black Mage, Evoker and Dark Knight should be an effective party for the enemies and the boss, or maybe a Geomancer if you have a fighter you don't have time to train in magic. Just give them that job and switch back to their more powerful one before tackling the boss. Or simply make a second Dark Knight. This place is big and boring, with lots of dark passages that seem to go on and on... Floor B1 Some of the enemies are exactly the same as those in the Falgabard cave, Inside the first cave you'll find a trainee Dark Knight at the left. Walk right, through a hidden gap in the eastern wall and into a smaller cave with a single treasure chest. This contains a [BLACK MUSK] battle item. Back in the main cave, walk down, and right, to find a treasure chest nestling against the upper wall just before you turn down again to find the stairs. This one has a [DARK CLAWS] weapon. You can talk to another Dark Knight figure just to the right of the cave, in the bones, before going down the stairs, and he'll give you a [KOTETSU]. Floor B2 You arrive at the lower wall of the this cavern. Walk right, and up, but stop about half way up the passage and turn left into a hidden passage through to a small cave. The treasure chest in here has a [TRANQUILIZER] attack item. The path through to the next room is also hidden, but just keep walking left from the upper right corner. In the next room you'll find another chest with an item: [LILITH'S KISS]. Head down the cave and through another dark passage that takes you roughly south. When you reach the next cave, go left to find yet another dark passage that takes you to last cave on this floor. Walk down the stairs to the next floor. Floor B3 This next floor has two hidden side passages, but there's nothing to find in the cave the first one leads to so you can safely ignore detours. You start out at the upper right of the cave, so walk down to the lower wall, left, and up to the top left. Here, go right, through a short hidden passage to the stairs. Floor B4 This cave also has detours in the guise of paths leading off the first cavern, but again, ignore them. Walk right from the stairs, through the dark passage, and immediately go down to find a long hidden passage that takes you in a southeasterly direction into the lower cave. After that, walk left to open the visible treasure chest with [GENJI GLOVES], an accessory for the Dark Knight. Go down the stairs. Floor B5 Nightmare floor. Nothing to find but lots of hidden passages linking one cave to the next. You start out at the upper right corner. Walk straight down and though a passage that takes you to the upper left room. Go left a couple of steps, staying close to the lower wall, to find the next passage that crosses diagonally to the lower right. From this room walk down and then left, into another longer passage heading diagonally up to the middle left cavern. Finally, walk left, and down, through a passage to the lower left cave where you'll find the stairs down: walk right to reach them. Floor B6 You arrive at the upper left side of the floor in a large cavern. Walk right, where you'll find a long dark, but straight, passage. In the next cavern walk all the was down to the bottom wall and then, left, through another straight passage to the far side. There's a treasure chest with another katana, the [KIKU-ICHIMONJI] and the stairs down to the next floor. Floor B7 You cannot miss seeing the treasure chest as you arrive at this floor. It contains the [GENJI SHIELD] which I didn't bother to equip, preferring double Kiku katanas for their awesome attack power. This floor has the same arrangement of passages as the previous one, maybe the developers got as tired of planning new floors an I am of traversing them, by this point! Anyway, it's just right, down, left, and down the stairs, and we're nearly there. Floor B8 Walk right, across the bone bridge and open the treasure chest to obtain a [GENJI HELM] which gives a very nice boost to defence. Floor B9 In this next cave, walk right, through the wall and along the dark passage to a small cave with the final chest. This one contains [GENJI ARMOR]. You should have the full set! Walk up the bones to the small stone altar at the far end. and attempt to take the Fang of Earth. Time to make major decisions about the team, if you intend to change anything. I was having so much fun with the Geomancer's Shadowflare magic, I decided to stick with that, making my team: Geomancer/Job Level 6, Evoker/Job Level 14, White Mage/Job Level 48, Dark Knight/Job Level 11. This set-up gave everyone pretty high magic defence, which is helpful for this boss, but no worries whatever team you field, he won't multiply! o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - HECATONCHEIR | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 43 | 28000 | | 14400 | 8000 | None | Ancient's Maze |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Black Hole 3 - Lilith's Kiss 4 - Raven's Yawn | | 5 - Shining Curtain 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Black Musk 8 - Chocobo's Wrath | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 38 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Although he looks big and tough with his long weapon, appearances can be deceptive and even his critical attack on a mage only managed 500 HP damage or so. He does get two turns on each round, but he doesn't have the power to kill anyone outright. I healed with Cura on every other round and used SoulEater, Terrain and Summons with the others. Any team would be effective on this boss as he really doesn't have anything special. He might cast some Quake magic, but he didn't do that for me. You obtain [FANG OF EARTH] and should cast Teleport or use an item because it would be the worst idea of all time to walk back through that place. Everyone is at full health after the battle so all that's left is to board the ship and hop and skip your way back through the hills. It's a lot easier getting out than it was getting in! =============================================================================== 50. DOGA'S GROTTO ....................................................... *W50 =============================================================================== TASK : Visit Doga's Manor and find Unei and Doga. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Northeast on the south continent. Items [10] : 10000 Gil x2, Rising Sun, Lust Dagger, White Musk, Chocobo's Wrath, Phoenix Down x2, Eureka Key, Syrcus Key Enemies : 155: Peryton, 156: Ogre, 157: Cyclops, 158: Nemesis, 159: Humbaba, Recommended Level : 39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You were told to return here, but the Invincible cannot navigate the grassy path up the manor. You have three options: walk, pick up a Chocobo in the woods at the southwest of the continent, or fly back to the Ancient Cave and use the Nautilus which is still parked outside! You can view its elongated blue shape on the world map. From the Cave of Shadows, it's a short distance if you fly due east off the edge of the map and you'll be back at the northwest. That's what I did anyhow, and it's a relief to be able to fly fast again. Once you arrive at the Manor there's a brief scene and a warp point appears. Step into it and you'll be inside Doga's Grotto. Enemies' Hp averages out at around 5000, although the Peryton has nearly 10,000 so you'll need all your skills. Only the Nemesis has a weakness, and that's to fire. Nemesis does a Stare attack that might confuse someone. I had it happen to my White Mage who proceeded to half petrify two of the team since they had the Golem staff equipped. Maybe check out your weapons before letting this happen! Floors 1 and 2 Walk around the outer circular path to the far side of cave where you'll find the stairs down to the next floor. There's a treasure chest immediately to the left containing [10000 GIL] and another one at the exit stairs, also with [10000 GIL]. Just walk around the only path to reach it. Descend the stairs to the lower floor. Floor 3 This is a larger area with three exits and a pool. Walk left, staying close to the upper wall of the cave, to reach some stairs in the upper left corner. There's a small cave with some goodies. The left treasure chest contains [RISING SUN] a throwing weapon and the middle one has another weapon, the [LUST DAGGER]. The right one just has an item, [WHITE MUSK]. There's another cave at the lower left of the main floor, but it contains nothing at all, so don't bother. Return to the entrance and walk right to find the exit stairs. (Note: I got back attacked twice, by a pair of Cyclops, in these two smaller caves and they killed my poor Evoker both times. Be careful!) Floors 4 and 5 Walk right, and you'll see a treasure chest by the upper wall. It contains a [CHOCOBO'S WRATH]. The exit is a short distance down the cave and the next cave has an obvious chest just by the stairs. This has a welcome [PHOENIX DOWN]. The cave is another one with just a single path circling the empty hole. You'll find another [PHOENIX DOWN] inside a chest by the exit stairs. Check health, equipment and jobs before entering the final room. I met the Humbaba and Ogre for the first time in this final room, and Hellfire did for them very quickly! If you're finding that you're having to heal too much for comfort, use Hi-Potions rather than MP to save it for the up and coming bosses: yes, two of them. By this point my team were at level 40. I'd have liked a Dragoon to avoid damage while jumping and do a lot of it when landing, but it was going to take too many battles to change jobs, so I decided it would be better sticking with the Dark Knight. As you're soon gonna find out, the two old cronies have ganged up on you, and, although you don't have to fight them both at the same time, you DO have to fight them consecutively. (One after the other for those without a dictionary to hand. :p) You do NOT get a chance to heal up in between the battles, so be ready for some nifty use of Phoenix Downs and Elixirs if you are at low levels. And 40 is low, you'd normally expect to be at about the same level as the bosses. My team were: Geomancer/Job Level 13, Evoker/Job Level 16, White Mage/Job Level 51, Dark Knight/Job Level 16 o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - DOGA | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 45 | 22800 | 89 | 40 | 13600 | 12000 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 40 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Doga's tail lashing attack does around 350-450 damage and he gets two attacks on each turn. That's not so bad, but I used a Turtle Shell/Protect spell on those with the weaker defence, as a precaution. Having three of them on the back row might help too, and I used Haste on the White Mage to ensure they got the first turn on each round. The best Souleater attack and summons were only doing around 2500 damage, but the ordinary attack from the Dark Knight did over 4000 and the Geomancer cast the powerful black magic spell that does over 7000 damage, so it only took three rounds to kill Doga. He might use Quake magic though, and that can hurt everyone for around 10000 HP loss depending on magic defence, armour and position. He didn't use this in my battle though. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - UNEI | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 44 | 21800 | 86 | 42 | 16000 | 12600 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 40 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This battle starts where the previous one left off, with whatever HP and MP remaining, but any boosts you used won't be in place any more. I did exactly the same, after healing everyone on the first round! This isn't as simple. She did a Tornado magic attack on everyone that reduced HP to around 9 on two of the team, although the spell missed two of them. She followed this up with a physical attack on a weak party member, which meant that they were dead. That needed a Phoenix Down and an Elixir. She also casts Haste and Protect on herself. Do the same for a couple of the team, as before, but doing so on everyone will take too long, unless you've got a Bard. Use Heatra with an Evoker to have a chance of either hurting Unei or fully healing the team. Holy does around 12000 damage to a back row mage, with Protect in place, but much more than that if not, and is likely to result in an outright kill. If it's later on in the battle, don't bother reviving that person, as she seems to just use this magic when she's nearly down and out. However, she used it twice, and I was lucky that one person survived... Another option would be to use items with a Scholar for double the effect, or whoever can equip the reflect armour. There are many ways to defeat her, but this way works. (What is the lesson we're supposed to learn from kids killing old folks. :O Maybe it's the Final Fantasy version of euthanasia...) Anyway, I digress. After the battle you'll receive the [EUREKA KEY]. Doga tells you to go to the Syrcus Tower, which is guarded by four statues: the ones that killed you if you didn't have all four Fangs. Following some more very coherent chatting from the near death Doga and Unei, you also get the [SYRCUS KEY] that opens the door to the tower. These keys are both found in the Key Items' inventory. The party will be back at full health, but still inside the grotto, so either walk back out, or teleport back to the world map outside Doga's Manor. Go inside if you want to know how the Moogles deal with recent events! =============================================================================== 51. ANCIENTS' MAZE ...................................................... *W51 =============================================================================== TASK : Acquire the Earth Crystal jobs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Northeastern continent, through the paired statues. Items [15] : Elixir, Crystal Shield, Lilith's Kiss, Crystal Mail, White Musk, Crystal Gloves, Crystal Helm, Dual Haken, Break Blade, Phoenix Down x2, Chocobo's Wrath, Protect Ring, Holy Lance, Hellish Claws Enemies : 164: Iron Claws, 165: Greater Demon, 166: Unei's Clone, 167: Thanatos, 168: Bone Dragon, 169: King Behemoth, 191: Hecatoncheir Area Enemies: 160: Death Needle, 161: Ligur, 162: Aeon, 163: Minotaur Air Enemies : 100: Frostfly, 101: Simurgh, 103: Gargoyle, 104: Chimera, Recommended Level: 40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you dropped off the Invincible, go and pick it up again and fly to the northeastern continent. You should be at the position to the west of the desert north from Amur. Here you'll see the series of paired statues, but if you attempt to fly between the first set, you'll be rebuffed and blocked by some kind of invisible barrier. Head down the stairs in the ship to walk through all four pairs. With all four Fang items each pair will be destroyed.While on foot you'll encounter new enemies, including the powerful Minotaur. By the way, if you're searching for monsters, try flying up the west coast of this area and land on a small grassy area at the coast. You'll encounter the Vulcan enemy as well as the usual Hellgaroos, Black Flans and others, and a Chocobo woods by a small lake. Return to the ship and fly through, heading north, and then east, to jump over the small hill. Fly further east to the large compound, and enter the door to the Ancients' Maze. Go straight through the next door into the central room where you'll find the Earth Crystal on a stone altar. Any team will manage this battle with ease. I went with a weaker team of Ranger, Black Mage, Viking and White Mage, just for fun,.which took a little longer than the similar Hecatoncheir battle. But it's not worth while changing jobs for this battle as you'll be getting nice new jobs after it! o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - TITAN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 46 | 29000 | 96 | 44 | 27000 | 13500 | None | Ancients' Maze |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 40 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o All this guy does is hit you with a long sword. He gets two attacks on each round, and one of these might be critical. That can hurt for well over 1000 HP damage, depending on position and job. In other words he can kill someone if HP is not at the maximum. His other skill is Quake, but that's pretty weak and will hurt everyone for around 200-300 HP. Protect will help for the weaker characters, and Haste on your healer so they get the first turn. Leave the maze after the battle and make decisions about these new jobs. The Earth crystal tells you to go to the Syrcus Tower, which just means making your way through this maze to the tower. The enemies mostly have around 10,000 HP but the Hecatoncheir has a whopping 28000 if you meet him, although I didn't. This isn't going to be too difficult, there is no "end" boss, and you acquire some nice treasure. Unei's clone is easy enough, and only uses snowstorm, a magic attack on everyone, that's not too powerful. Thanatos uses breakga on one, that actually missed my devout completely. But you might run into the challenging King Behemoth on the final floor... so be on your guard! Floor 1 Re-enter the building and go right, and up, and left, making your way around the lava filled pools to reach a single treasure chest that's situated close to the north wall, near the stairs to the next room. Go through the wide opening. Floor 2/ Room 1 Turn left to find two treasure chests: the left one has a [CRYSTAL SHIELD] and the right one has a [LILITH'S KISS] item From here, go right, and up the room following the hallway to the left where you'll find a chest with [CRYSTAL MAIL]. Then, walk up to the corner for another chest with a [WHITE MUSK]. From here, go down, and right, and up to the upper right corner of the floor, to find a single chest with [CRYSTAL GLOVES]. This is where I first met the Bone Dragon that can be easily defeated with Holy attacks and white magic. The opening to the next room is in the top right corner. Floor 2/ Room 2 Go straight forwards to find a treasure chest next to the north wall of this room, which contains a [CRYSTAL HELM]. Walk down the area as far as you can go and you'll find three chests in front of a lava pool. The left one has a [BREAK BLADE], the middle one a [PHOENIX DOWN] and the right one a [CHOCOBO'S WRATH]. Walk back up the room, heading over to the right when you can, and up to the top right corner where you can walk right into the adjacent room, But first, go left to find the last treasure chest in here. It contains the [DUAL HAKEN], the second most powerful axe in the game! The Greater Demon appeared here, and it has the surprise trick of summoning an Iron Claws to the battle. Floor 2/ Room 3 There's just one route through here, down, up, down and up again, as the room is divided with walls and long narrow lava pools. Half way down the third section you'll see an obvious treasure chest which contains a [PHOENIX DOWN], and there's a another one near the exit stairs, containing a [PROTECT RING]. Floor 3 This floor is mostly lava, with just a narrow path circling the inner area, well, not really a circle, more a rectangular shape. You arrive at the south side of the floor. Walk up to find a chest with a [HOLY LANCE] and you'll see another chest across the lava. From here, go left or right to walk around to that chest, which contains [HELLISH CLAWS], handy for a Black Belt, and they have a chance to inflict poison. Be careful in this room because you might encounter the huge purple King Behemoth and this monster casts Meteor. That can hurt your whole team for up to 1500 HP each! But I went through here many times before running into it, so it's not going to turn up often. Treat it as a boss, because it has 45000 HP. That's all the treasure, and once you exit this room you'll be outside the Crystal Tower, inside the grassy compound. SAVE YOUR GAME! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRYSTAL OF EARTH - JOBS CHANGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEVOUT - back row mage who casts all White Magic. SUMMONER - back row mage who casts all offensive summons. NINJA - front or back row fighter. If throwing weapons, then the damage is the same on the back row, allowing them some additional defence. BLACK BELT - front row powerhouse, with the highest vitality, allowing characters to boost their HP, permanently! MAGUS - back row mage with all Black Magic. SAGE - back row mage with ALL magic, including summons, although these have the same random effect as when used by an Evoker. I changed Luneth to a Ninja, very nice as he can use those dividing enemy weapons and the Genji equipment as well as being able to throw arrows and other weapons in a pinch. Refia became a Black Belt to help boost her HP, and Boost is very handy on powerful enemies: best just done once. Arc became a Devout which gave him many additional uses of high level white magic, and for the time being I left Ingus as a Viking and equipped him with double shields, put him on the back row and used Provoke on every round to make him the sole target of attacks (most of the time) while the rest were transferring jobs. =============================================================================== 52. EUREKA: THE FORBIDDEN LANDS (Optional) .............................. *W52 =============================================================================== TASK : Acquire treasure and shop for Level 8 magic, summons and Shurikens! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the door on the first floor of the Crystal Tower. Services : Magic Shop, Weapon Shop, Armour Shop Items [18] : Fuma Garb, Chocobo's Wrath x2, White Musk x3, Elixir x4, Phoenix Down x3, Shuriken x4, Omnirod, [6] Trapped Chests - Ribbon, Moonring Blade, Masamune, Excalibur, Elder Staff, Ragnarok. Wellspring : Yes. Revive and HP/MP restoration Enemies : 170: Abaia, 171: Sleipnir, 172: Haokah, 173: Acheron, 174: Oceanus, 213: Ninja Recommended Level: 45 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk directly through the open door and press A on the barrier to use Doga's Key. This creates a warp point into the cavern of Eureka. You can warp out again from here. It's worth-while getting to the final cavern because you'll find the best shops in the game! Ordinary enemies aren't too difficult, only having around 7000 or 13000 HP, apart from the Ninja who has 24000. The challenging bit is getting past all the bosses, although they are optional in that you have to open a treasure chest to trigger the battles. You can easily Teleport out of here, which returns you to the world map inside the Crystal Tower compound. Make a save and do the whole thing in stages, especially if you're not confident about beating all the bosses in one run. By using a Thief you can escape from additional battles. Floor B1 The first cavern has a circular path with the exit at the south side, and two treasure chests half way down either side. Go left, along the narrow path and right at the junction to open two chests. The upper one contain [FUMA GARB] and the lower one, [CHOCOBO'S WRATH]. If you're using a Black Belt this is their best armour so it's worth while popping in this far, even if you don't intend to go any further! The corresponding two chests down the right hand path contain [WHITE MUSK] in the upper one, and [ELIXIR] in the lower one. Floor B2 Walk down, and along the left path to find some stairs in the upper left corner. These take you into a small cave with a chest containing another [WHITE MUSK]. Cross to the right side of the cavern to find a similar set of stairs into another side cave with three treasure chests. The left one contains a [WHITE MUSK], and middle one a [CHOCOBO'S WRATH] and the right one yields a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Back in the main cavern, go down and left, behind the rock wall, to where a treasure chest is waiting in the middle of the area, tempting you to open it. It contains the valuable [RIBBON] headgear which protects from all status effects, but it's a trap! Check health first, and then battle a Ninja o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - NINJA | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 47 | 24000 | 96 | 46 | 28400 | 14400 | None | Eureka | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Black Hole 3 - Lilith's Kiss 4 - Raven's Yawn | | 5 - Shining Curtain 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Black Musk 8 - Chocobo's Wrath | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 45 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o He's fast and furious and is likely to get the first turn unless you have a very agile Thief or Ninja in the party. He'll do two attacks on each round and each one is a sword thrust that inflicts poison and blind status as well as doing over 1000 points of damage. Hopefully he doesn't target the same person twice or they might be knocked out. I wouldn't bother healing the poison status, as it's more important to restore health and attack him as hard as you can. A Dragoon is a good choice for this battle to get out of the way of his attacks, or do the Viking provoke trick to deflect his attacks from the rest of the team. I used a Black Belt, Thief and Dragoon to inflict lots of damage and the battle was over pretty quickly. Make your way to the bottom of the cavern and go left, and down, to find some stairs that lead down to a small ledge with a single chest containing a [SHURIKEN]. Return to the main cave and head right, to the exit stairs in the lower right corner. Floor B3 Turn left at the bottom of the stairs and walk to a landing with a chest containing an [ELIXIR]. Back to the main path, simply follow it down and left. There's an obvious chest with another [SHURIKEN] and another one near the exit stairs with a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Floor B4 Follow the only path until you reach a platform with something spinning slowly on it. You might meet the Oceanus enemy in here that casts Earthquake on everyone. This is the [MOONRING BLADE] and if you take it, you'll have to fight Amon. (He's not quite as big or dark as Amon in Shadow Hearts Covenant, and he doesn't have that awesome Die! Scumbag! special skill, but he's still pretty powerful.) o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - AMON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 48 | 33500 | 96 | 46 | 26800 | 20350 | None | Eureka | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 46 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o He uses a wide range of magic attacks: Thundaga, Blizzaga and Firaga has two turns on each round, usually making a physical attack on one and then doing an all party magic blast. He has high defence and is pretty resistant to physical attacks and I found that my usual power attacks didn't have half as much effect as I was expecting. All this means is that you need to keep everyone healed, and keep plugging away at him. Maybe summons magic would work better, but he's one of those that does a Barrier Shift on the second or third round, and that partially explains the lack of effectiveness of physical attacks. Ideally you need a Scholar's Study skill, or just cast Libra with a mage. Other than that, use non-elemental weapons and magic to attack him, ignoring his shifts. Watch out for Acheron who turned up for the first time inside this room, and continue down the path into the next cavern. Floor B5 There are two special items and and one boss in here. Go left at the crossroads and open the treasure chest on the platform for the [OMNIROD] black magic weapon. Head to the right to find a platform with a sword floating above it. Pick up the [MASAMUNE] and fight a boss! o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - KUNOICHI | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 48 | 29000 | 96 | 46 | 29200 | 14500 | None | Eureka | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Black Hole 3 - Lilith's Kiss 4 - Raven's Yawn | | 5 - Shining Curtain 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Black Musk 8 - Chocobo's Wrath | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 46 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This can be a tricky battle to win. The awkward part is that this pretty pink foe has a devastating sword strike that can inflict well over 1000 damage if it's critical, and on a front-line team member. Combine that with her Aeroga all party magic and a Haste spell so she takes the first turn, and she gets THREE turns. If you're unlucky you could find yourself with a dead team-mate. Use Protect or Reflect magic to help defend against the damage. The Dragoon is VERY useful here, equipped with the Gungir and Blood Lance. Jump out of the way and heal up when they attack! After this battle everyone will be fully healed, and even the dead are revived! Return to the crossroad and carry on down the path. There's a treasure chest containing a [PHOENIX DOWN] just before you find the stairs. Floor B6 I just wanted to do some shopping by this point, so carried on straight through this floor, and the next, to reach the shops on B8. You might want to heal up before fighting the rest of the bosses and I found it was a good point at which to take a breather. It's a linear path, but turn to the right at the far end stairs, and you'll find a stony platform with a sword on it. Take the [EXCALIBUR] and fight the owner, although it's not Arthur, King of the Britons. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GENERAL | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 48 | 35000 | 105 | 46 | 30000 | 15600 | None | Eureka | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 46 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o I don't know why he has an axe when you're fighting for a sword, but he does. He's a Viking type boss, although he uses magic as well. Try Reflect on some of the party who have lower magic defence, and his Death magic might miss, which is handy, since it wastes one of his two turns. Or use Protect to bolster anyone with less defence. Most of the time he just slashes with his axe, and as long as you keep everyone healthy it's simple enough. Floor B7 Walk straight through and use the warp if you just want to reach the shopping cave, or feel in need of some free HP/MP restoration. I met the dandy Sleipnir steeds in here for the first time. They are so cute but their magic isn't, as they cast Toad on the whole party, or blind on one team member. The Acheron and Oceanus also turned up in this last floor, and the former can easily kill someone on one turn with two slashes of their sword. Turn left at the crossroads to find a rocky platform with the [ELDER STAFF], which casts Cura for free! Pick it up to trigger the battle. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - SCYLLA | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 49 | 35000 | 104 | 46 | 10800 | 16200 | None | Eureka | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 46 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Scylla is a multi headed mage who casts a range of spells: Holy, Flare, Thundaga, Blizzaga and Firaga. Its physical attack is pretty strong and will hurt for over 10000 HP and it has two turns on each round, usually hitting with a spear on one, and casting magic on the second. It also will heal if you let it live long enough to get a chance! Equip a Ribbon to someone and Aegis Shield to a Viking, Dark Knight or Knight to prevent her annoying status effect of petrification. Start with protective magic: Haste on your healer will help, or use bard songs to good effect. The handy thing about this battle is that using powerful physical attacks will take them out before they get a chance to do much damage. (My Job level 78 Thief, protected by a Ribbon, was doing 9999 damage with the Moonring Blade and Lust Dagger, which was nice!) The team will be fully healed after this battle. Cross to the other side of cave where you'll find a beautiful golden sword. This is the [RAGNAROK] blade. I'd suggest leaving this fight until last, when you've gained a level or two, and I'd advise making a save outside beforehand. Also, buy the Arise magic so you don't have to rely on using Raise or Phoenix Downs that leave the characters with very low HP. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - GUARDIAN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 49 | 33700 | 107 | 46 | 31600 | 16500 | None | Eureka | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 48 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o The Guardian is a fist fighter and stands on one leg ready to slug you. His strike can hurt for nearly 1500 HP damage, and might cause confusion if you don't have status protection. Hit the afflicted person with low grade weapons to return them to their senses. (It's a good reason for hanging onto them and it's essential to do this as fast as possible especially for a powerful fighter as they might just end up killing someone, or themselves.) The boss uses Reflect on himself, so don't use magic or attack items on him if he does that. Using Haste on your healer helps make sure they get the first turn in case of death. I found this the most difficult fight, despite having two of the team protected from confusion, because he managed to target the other two. I ended up with two people dead and it took a bit of nifty footwork (or just sheer luck!) to survive. Floor B8 - SHOPPING! You'll need masses of cash to buy all the magic, and if you have to prioritise, then Arise is probably the most valuable spell as it restores someone to life with full HP. There's a health recovery wellspring at the right side of the cave and a revive one at the left. The top left chest contains an [ELIXIR] and the top right one has a [SHURIKEN]. It's the same for the bottom two: an [ELIXIR] in the left one and a [SHURIKEN] in the right. There's another secret in this cave: oh you sneaky developers thinking we'd be so glad of the springs and free stuff we'd forget about checking for secret passages! Walk right, behind the the lower right chest, and you'll go through the darkness, following the inside of the rock wall, up, and right, and down, to reach another shopkeeper. If you're going to use a Ninja for the final battles (and it's a good idea) buy up as many Shurikens as you can afford. Their attack power is 200 and and you'll do copious damage, but lose the Shurikens. It's a very costly way to battle, but it's an option for those dedicated to raising levels and cash. The Apollo Harp is the final weapon for Bards which casts Aura on the whole party with the Sing command. ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 1 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Flare | 60000 | Black Lv.8 Deals fire damage Death | 60000 | Black Lv.8 Causes instant KO Meteor | 60000 | Black Lv.8 Calls down meteors Tornado | 60000 | White Lv.8 Deals wind damage Arise | 60000 | White Lv.8 Revives ally and restores HP Holy | 60000 | White Lv.8 Deals light damage ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 2 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Catastro | 40000 | Summons Lv 6 Summons Odin Leviath | 50000 | Summons Lv 7 Summons Leviathan Bahamut | 60000 | Summons Lv 8 Summons Bahamut ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR/WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Shuriken | 65500 | +200 ATK | Can only be thrown Crystal Shield | 50000 | +20 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Crystal Mail | 50000 | *55 DEF | - Crystal Gloves | 50000 | +30 DEF | - Crystal Helm | 50000 | +31 DEF | - Apollo Harp | 60000 | +60 ATK | Inflicts silence ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ This is a really good place to stay for a while, fight the random enemies, raise some cash and job levels for as long as you like, and utilise the wellsprings. Teleport out of here and SAVE YOUR GAME! Then, re-enter the Crystal Tower and climb to the top floor. =============================================================================== 53. CRYSTAL TOWER ....................................................... *W53 =============================================================================== TASK : Climb to the top of the tower and... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Inside the Ancient's Maze compound on the northeast continent. Items [22] : Elven Bow, Chocobo's Wrath x3, White Musk x2, Lilith's Kiss, Fuma's Garb, Elixir x5, Phoenix Down x5, Shuriken, Crystal Mail, Crystal Gloves, Crystal Shield, Crystal Helm Enemies : 175: Gomory, 176: Bluck, 177: Doga's Clone, 178: Azer, 179: Platinal, 180: Kum Kum, 181: Shinobi, 184: Dark General, 185: Yellow Dragon, 186: Green Dragon, 187: Red Dragon, 188: Glasya Labolas, 190: Thor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's not a bad plan to acquire all the treasure, teleport out and save your game before proceeding with the final run ending with the boss. That way, you won't waste too much effort if you mess up, and you'll gain a level or three with the additional dungeon crawling involved. Of course, this is based on a game where you haven't done all the sidequests. If you do those first, then levels will be that much higher, and job levels too, so you won't have much difficulty. I started out with everyone at level 43 and job levels of only 7 apart from the Viking with 22. Preparation! Beware, A mistake can cost you dearly. I went in here blindly and ran out of Level 3 magic before I realised it. Then, I planned to use a Phoenix Down on someone and mistakenly selected my only Ottershroom... That left me with only one option, to WALK all the way out through the Ancient's Maze... Actually it was pretty easy to do. I changed jobs to a Thief and used Flee, with a Viking using provoke in case it failed and the other two using Run Away, and that way we escaped every battle. Fortunately the encounter rate seemed to be much lower with only one or two for each room. So, take in additional Ottershrooms, and buy up Hi-Potions in bulk if you're planning to do the whole thing. Add some antidotes and eye drops to save on using MP for healing minor bad status effects: the Shinobi inflicts both of these. Ensure that everyone has the very best equipment you can find or buy and that you've bought all the magic you need. Ideally, if you're using the Summoner, finish up fighting the optional summons monsters, although you can buy these summons inside the optional Eureka dungeon. Enemies have either around 10000 HP or 200000 and only the Azer has a weakness, to ice and water, and uses a Flame attack on all. All the rest have no weakness at all so just use your strongest attacks and save on MP for the boss battles. Most enemies appear singly and I used the same strategy for each one. Ninja attacks, Viking provoked from the back row, Devout used a rod as an item, and Black Belt boosted on the first round and attacked on the second. That put paid to most of them with just two rounds and very little damage, although sometimes the provoke command will miss or the enemy might use an all party magic attack. Don't use provoke if there is more than one enemy, you're better off attacking. But don't forget to change equipment to equip a weapon, or change back to double shields. Of course there are many alternative jobs and strategies to use, and a lot depends on your job levels. This is just one example. Be aware that the encounter rate is pretty high and you might want to leave the less important items or use a Thief or Evoker to escape from some of the battles. (I did that on the second run through after getting all the treasure.) Most of the high HP single appearance enemies get two attacks on each turn. One more thing, when you reach the upper floors you're likely to encounter very powerful dragons that can wipe out someone with just one blow, at least, at levels of 50 or so. If you don't intend to try and defeat these dragons, then the only option is to run away. This is another good reason for keeping a Thief on the team, for their Flee ability. Change to something else (a Ninja would be good) when you enter the final area. A Summoner has the Chocobo Escape summons but this is a weak Kick to an enemy and not an escape command. Floor 1 Walk up the room and climb the steep steps. If you go straight through the open doorway it takes you to a bonus dungeon called Eureka, after Doga's key removes the barrier. See the separate section if you want to tackle that. From the top of the steps head to the right: the exit is at the upper left of the floor so it saves a little extra walking to go right first. Stay on the higher floor and edge around the wall to find a treasure chest in the top right corner. This contains the powerful [ELVEN BOW]. Walk to the right wall and down beside it to find a second chest that has a [CHOCOBO'S WRATH]. For more items, go down the narrow stairs and turn right, around the short wall, for a chest with a second [CHOCOBO'S WRATH]. There's a second chest at the lower left corner of this area, reached by walk left from the bottom of the stairs, and down between the pillars and the wall. It contains [WHITE MUSK]. Back up the stairs, go left, and up, to circle behind the round section that lead into Eureka. You'll find a chest with a [LILITH'S KISS] but cannot go any further. Walk back to the front and go left, and up to get a [CHOCOBO'S WRATH] inside the chest on the left side of the circular path. From here, walk back to the stairs at the left of the floor and go down to find a single chest with [FUMA'S GARB]. There's another chest at the left of the pillars before you enter the doorway to the next room. This conatins a second [WHITE MUSTK]. I encountered a purple pair of Blucks in this corner for the first time, which was a welcome relief after so many Doga's Clones: they only have 6720 HP each so this is a easy peasy, although they might summon a Kum Kum just for extra fun: it casts Blizzaga on the whole pary which can hurt for quite a bit. (And you might get a lucky drop of a Shell Breaker, my first one in the whole game!) Approach the door and Unei's Key will magically open the way. It's another floor very similar in layout to the first one although you'll meet new enemies. Floor 2 The Shinobi appears in pairs and has a very powerful sword attack doing well over 10000 HP damage, and inflicting blind status as well. However I got a Raven's Yawn from them so I didn't mind. You arrive at the upper left of the floor and should walk down the stairs and then, turn right, and up to the top of the corridor to get an [ELIXIR] from a chest. Back down to the lower wall, and go right, up a few steps, and right, to open a chest with a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Head right, and up the stairs, and keep going up, and to the left, to find a chest at the back of the floor with another [ELIXIR]. Return to the stairs, heading to the right wall, and down a second set of stairs. Then, go left, along the lower wall, to reach the stairs to the next floor. Floor 3 This floor has more healing items, but nothing else. However, there are two side areas that lead into secondary rooms at the top left and right, each of which has one treasure. It's a lot of extra walking and fighting for not much reward... Don't go left, as it's a dead end. Instead, walk right, around the wall, down, and up to the end of the corridor to open a treasure chest with an [ELIXIR]. From here, go down a few steps, and right, through a small, but invisible, gap in the wall, and make your way around to stairs at the upper right corner of the floor. You'll be inside a smaller room. Walk up, left, and down the stairs to find a treasure chest with [PHOENIX DOWN]. Go through the hidden opening in the left wall, just below that chest. Walk left, down, left, up and left again to traverse the darkness. You'll emerge in a room with a treasure chest containing a [SHURIKEN]. Go up the stairs, left, and down to find the stairs back to the main floor. Follow the hallway down the stairs, right, and up again where there's a treasure chest at the left. Open this for a [PHOENIX DOWN], and walk up a few more steps to open a second chest with an [ELIXIR]. Walk right to find yourself at the edge of a large circular hole in the floor and keep to the lower side of the hole. There's another [ELIXIR] in a treasure chest at the far right wall. Walk to the upper side of the hole to find the exit to the next floor. Floor 4 Simply walk straight ahead into the dark opening as there's nothing to find in this room. Floor 5 You arrive at the upper side of this room. Walk right and down, to find an opening in the right wall. It's not totally hidden as it lies between two narrow pillars under an archway. Go down, up, and around, following the open pathway which eventually leads to the left. You'll be able to walk up the stairs to the next floor. Floor 6 This is a simple floor with the exit straight ahead and two paths to the left and right. Go left to the corner and up for a treasure chest with a [PHOENIX DOWN]. Back to the centre, and do the same to the right where you'll find a chest with a [CRYSTAL MAIL]. You might run into the Thor enemy here, which uses Lightning on everyone. They appear in pairs, but are easy enough to defeat. Floor 7 It's the same deal here, and you can just go straight ahead up the stairs to the next floor But first, find the four treasure chests. Go left for the first one, visible by the upper wall, that contains [CRYSTAL GLOVES]. Go up the left path to the end and open a chest with a [CRYSTAL SHIELD]. Back to the centre and you'll find a chest to the right with a [PHOENIX DOWN], and follow the path up to the end for a [CRYSTAL HELM]. I found a nice new enemy on floor, the huge Red Dragon! Actually this is a bit of a surprise after the easier enemies so far, as the dragon has 99999 HP and is at level 70. One strike killed my Level 50 Dragoon and I decided to run away. But you might want to try this battle and attempt to steal the Onion Shield, Onion Armor or Onion Sword. Floor 8 This is the top floor and there are no more random encounters. Check health and equipment before entering the mirror. I'd suggest completing Eureka before you tackle the final area. That gives you some lovely new equipment as well as the chance to buy Level 8 magic and as many Shurikens as you can afford! I used my Thief to Flee most battles on the route back up the Tower and changed to a Ninja near the end (it only takes one battle to transfer from Thief to Ninja). By using the Elder Staff to cast Cura any damage received didn't use up MP or Hi-Potions. Although Level 50 is high enough to defeat Xande, you'll need higher levels for the remainder of the bosses: 55 is recommended, but the higher you are the easier it will be! QUICK ROUTE After getting all the treasure, this is the fast route through the tower. Floor 1, go up the stairs and left to the exit. On Floor 2 go down the stairs, right to the second junction, up, right, up, right, and down the stairs. Then, go left along the lower wall to the exit. On Floor 3 go right, around corners until you can head through a small opening to the right and up to the exit stairs to a side room. From here it's up, left, and down, through a hidden passage to the left side room, and up some stairs. Then, down the left wall to the exit stairs back to Floor 3. Back on this floor, just follow the passage until you reach the circular area, and the exit is at the middle of the upper wall. On Floor 4 it's straight ahead through the door. On Floor 5 go right, through an opening in the right wall, and follow the path down and around, back to the exit in the centre of the floor. On the next two floors simply walk straight up the stairs and through. It really doesn't take long. THE MIRROR - POINT OF NO RETURN! Approach the central mirror for a scene and a reassuring message, followed by more scenes as help is gathered... after which you're inside a new area and cannot return to the Crystal Tower. ESSENTIAL THINGS! * Elixirs! * Arise spell (Phoenix Downs are no use in most battles as the person is likely to be die again before their health is restored). * High Job Levels (aim for 40-50 at least, the higher the better). * Ribbons/Aegis Shields on everyone (you can find 4 Ribbons inside the World of Darkness). * A dedicated healer. * Either the spell Erase OR the Rune Staff to cast it. Many bosses and enemies cast Protect and Haste on themselves and you'll want to remove that status. * More than 3000 HP. The more, the better. GENERAL ADVICE (for those at low levels) * Don't attempt to run from battles inside the World of Darkness, unless you have a Thief or the Escape summons. * Obtain all the Ribbons first, before fighting the 4 bosses. It means more battles and more walking around, but it might save the day. * Fully heal after every battle. * Keep the person who can cast Arise alive at all costs! WHAT TEAM? Theoretically, there as as many ways to kill the final boss as there are stars in the sky. Well, not quite, but given that there are 23 jobs and you could use ANY combination, even 4 Freelancers, that's a lot of options. By raising job levels to 99, and obtaining the special bonus equipment for each class with its stat boosting bonuses, even if you don't raise overall party levels beyond that of the final boss, you can easily field an overpowered team. Assuming you don't have the time or inclination to do all that, then there are sensible options to consider. Two mage type characters and two physical attackers is a good balance: Devout, Summoner, Knight and Ninja for example. Or you could go for a defensive set-up with a Viking, Knight, Black Belt and a Devout or Sage. The Ninja is a popular choice for the final team because of the high damage they can do from the back row with the Shuriken throwing weapon, but the drawback is that those weapons are very expensive to buy and the Ninja is vulnerable to magic, even in the back row. The Dragoon is another powerful attacker, especially if you equip them with the Gungir and Blood Lance combination to offset the fact that they often miss out on healing magic. Even the Bard can be a good choice with their range of support tunes, and the Lamia attack harp causes more damage to bosses since it removes a percentage of HP. The drawback to using a Bard is that you'll have to remember to change the harp to get the effects you want. Ideally, select the team that has the highest job levels and make it so you can use all the best equipment you've obtained. It would be silly to let an Ultima weapon go to waste! =============================================================================== 54. WORLD OF DARKNESS ................................................... *W54 =============================================================================== TASK : Find and defeat Xande... and then... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location : Through the mirror on the top floor of the Crystal Tower. Items [4] : Ribbon x4 Wellspring : None Enemies : 182: Shadow Master, 183: Kage, 189: Yormungand, 190: Thor, 192: Hydra, 193: Queen Scylla, 194: Garm, 195: Twin Dragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My team were all at Level 50/51 and everyone had 2450-2500 HP, which is really not quite enough to take you the whole way to the end. The jobs on this first run through were: Ninja/Job Level 17, Dragoon/Job Level 30, Devout/Job Level 26, Black Belt/Job Level 33. You will get a full heal after the major bosses so don't worry about running out of MP. And don't forget about using those precious Elixirs if you need to replenish MP before that! My second run had levels of 53 at the start and higher job levels: Ninja/Job Level 20, Dragoon/Job Level 44, Devout/Job Level 33, Black Belt/Job Level 40, with HP of 2500-2800. That slight increase made a world of difference. I'd got a Level 99 Thief that was an alternative, since they managed to hit for 9999 on every turn. However the Ninja has the advantage of being able to throw Boomerang type weapons and Shurikens from the back row. You're inside the purple world of darkness and there's only on way to go: up! A few steps towards the stairs and you're stopped by a weird looking dude. Ah I see, he's after eternal life, makes sense, I guess. Anyway, it's battle on with Xande! o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - XANDE | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 50 | 49999 | 110 | 48 | 34000 | 250000| None | Crystal Tower |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 50 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o His physical attack will hurt for around 800-1000 HP so that's not too bad, although of course he has two attacks on each round. He will probably cast Protect on himself which means that your attacks won't do as much damage as they should, but you can ignore it and bash away. Or, use a Shell Breaker item to dispel his protection. I only had one of these, and had wanted to save it in case of more challenges, but there isn't an equivalent spell so that's the only option. (Edit: YES, THERE IS!) I waited until he cast Haste as well and then used the Shell Breaker. His Blizzaga magic harms one or everyone for varying amounts, (probably between 500-1000 HP if it's on all and around 1500 on one, depending on job and back or front row position. He also casts Firaga, and might use Thundaga too as well as Quake. I cast Haste on my slow Devout, and Protect on a couple of the team as well, and that worked pretty well to avoid too much damage to anyone. He was dead in four rounds, and I only healed once... (And afterwards remembered that I had the Rune Staff that casts Erase!) ANOTHER BOSS?!? However... this is not the end, and you meet the rather spectacular Cloud of Darkness. This is an impossible_to_win battle, hence, no strategy and no details! It uses Lightning magic which can easily kill someone, Haste, and Bad Breath which causes horrid effects, such as Toad. You cannot damage it at all. Just don't waste any MP or items! RIBBONS ARE GOOD FOR BOYS AND GIRLS! And... you've still got work to do! Everyone will be at full health again and you can chat to the people down the stairs for additional encouragement, but nothing else. Walk forwards to arrive in a new location with a large pink warp in the middle of 4 blue paths each of which ends with a warp. These lead to an area with a boss and treasure. Explore all these areas to find enough Ribbons for everyone, and to fight them all to raise levels for the final battle. You don't need to obtain ALL the Ribbons if you have Aegis Shields for some of the team, but you DO need to defeat all four bosses. if you don't, the final boss will blast the team with an attack that wipes you out. The order in which you fight these bosses doesn't matter, but some are tougher than others! Watch out as there are enemies in this central area and ordinary enemies are pretty much versions of the bosses you fought in Eureka. A couple of extra tips: if using a shield wearer, keep them equipped with two shields while walking, and change equipment to attack. Using the Hellish Claws with a Black Belt usually causes poison to random enemies, which adds a nice little bonus HP loss if they survive that long! Equip Ribbons to those with lower magic defence, until you have enough status protection to go around. Keep everyone at full health at all times and don't take any chances! One way to handle this place is to obtain all the Ribbons BEFORE fighting the four bosses, and that way you avoid those pesky status effects. Or equip the Aegis Shield to those jobs that can use them. 1. Southwest Warp Walk left, to the end of the path, and up onto the purple cloudy path. I had a back attack with two Kages here which wasn't easy to win. They inflict poison and darkness status which means that your attacks do less damage, as well as the effect of being on the back row. Anyway, moving on, follow the path to the right and open a treasure chest for a [RIBBON], But, it's a trap and you have to fight Xande's Clone. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - XANDE'S CLONE | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 49 | 39000 | 109 | 45 | 24800 | 15000 | None | World of Darkness | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS: None | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 50 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Yes, it's the same as before, with him casting Haste and Protect and using magic on all or one. Somehow it's much easier, or maybe that's because I cast Erase with the Rune Staff. Return along the purple path and go up at the next blue junction (it's the second path to the left of the arrival point) where a warp takes you into a separate room to find a blue crystal and meet the boss of this area. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - ECHIDNA | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 55 | 99999 | 117 | 46 | 66666 | 66666 | None | World of Darkness | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 51 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o One wallop from this freaky boss caused around 15000 damage to my poor Ninja and inflicted silence status. Not that it mattered too much... Echidna has two turns and might also cast Tornado magic on one or all, which missed the mark every time. Drain is a very weak attack that sucks up a small amount of HP from a back row character and around 800 from a front row. Quake is an all party spell that shouldn't do too much damage, except to a Ninja! Use Protect to cut down the damage and keep everyone healthy. Keep up the pressure and eventually you'll win this battle as Echidna doesn't have any tricks up her elongated sleeves. Hmm, well she does have one. She might cast Death magic on one, but this is most likely to miss, and it's a rare attack. You won't win any prizes but a Warrior of old appears for a chat, and the team is fully healed. Go back inside the warp, down the purple path, and return to the warp that takes you back to the central hub. One down, three to go! 2. Southeast Warp Step through the warp and walk straight ahead from the arrival point to find a treasure chest. Open this to acquire a [RIBBON] and fight another Xande's Clone. From here walk left or right to make your way along the obvious blue path to the far north of the area. Enter the warp to find a brown crystal. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - AHRIMAN | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 55 | 99999 | 107 | 46 | 66666 | 66666 | Wind | World of Darkness | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 53 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This flying critter is a magic user, casting Firaga and Blizzaga on the team, and sometimes healing itself. It can cause petrification which you must heal immediately, or protect with Ribbons and Aegis Shields. Its Firaga magic on everyone did a lot more damage, nearly 1000 HP loss to and killing one outright. When it also hit with petrification on that same round I was down to two active team members... Fortunately its physical attack isn't too damaging and it only has two turns on each round. Use Curaga on most rounds and a Dragoon can equip the Blood Lance to heal up from their jumping attack. Use Aeroga or other Wind based attacks and weapons for extra effect. The team will be at full health again after this battle. Return to the central floor through the two warps. 3. Northeast Warp Follow the blue path around to the right, and up, until you reach the upper left corner, where you'll find a treasure chest with the [RIBBON] and another battle with Xande's Clone. Continue down from here, following the only path to the next warp. I encountered Yormungand here, for the first time. This yellow dragon has 30,000 HP and gets two hits per round, casting the powerful earthquake spell that spells danger for everyone. Cast protect to be safe and heal up immediately! By this point my team were at level 54, which was reassuring, and I still had two bosses to go, before the big one. Enter the warp and approach the red crystal. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - TWO-HEADED DRAGON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 55 | 99999 | 151 | 46 | 66666 | 66666 | None | World of Darkness | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 54 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Ouch! Two hits on my back row Ninja nearly killed them outright! Cast Protect on those without shields, and hope it doesn't target your healer first, because they will die. It doesn't do much more than this, but might afflict someone with silence if they lack a Ribbon. It's quite tough to damage and you'll need the best defensive gear to stay alive. On a re-run I tried this battle with a Viking using Provoke and that was very effective. It worked every time bar one, and the Viking just glanced off the damage with their two shields and on the back row. (Job Level 47.) However, the fight lasted a lot longer, which is no bad thing in this game! Walk all the way back to the start, and return to the central room. 4. Northwest Warp Leave this hard battle until the end, when you'll have slightly higher levels. Walk along the only path and you'll see the treasure chest, but it's on a higher path and you have to follow a winding route of purple stuff to reach it. Go right, up, and left, and keep heading southwest. I met the yellow Yorumungand in here as well, and you should treat this as a mini-boss as it has 30,000 HP. It casts Protect on itself which is a bit annoying Open the chest to get a [RIBBON] and fight another Xande's Clone. From here, it's just a short distance back to the junction and up to the warp at the northwest corner of the path. Check health and approach the turquoise crystal. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - CERBERUS | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 55 | 99999 | 123 | 46 | 66666 | 66666 | None | World of Darkness | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 55 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This damn three=headed dog gets three turns on each round which makes this a LOT tougher to win. Do your best to keep everyone fully healed and use an Elixir on a mage character to replenish their MP if you need to: permitting the free use of Arise! Each hit can do around 800 HP damage even to someone on the back row, and double that on the front row characters. I wished I'd remembered to put my Dragoon on the back row! Two strikes killed my Black Belt outright... and when the Devout caught it too, that was game over... Oh well, it was time for some dinner anyway. Another day, another dinner, and another level or three made all the difference. Cerberus also might use magic, casting Blizzaga, Firaga and Thundaga on the whole team, so both magic defence and overall defence are important. It can inflict poison too, just to add insult to injury! But if you've got all four Ribbons you'll be protected from that. Of course, using Curaga on every round is essential unless everyone is at full health and a couple of Protect spells won't go amiss if you can pull that off quickly. After raising levels some more (to 58) I went with a team that included a Viking instead of a Dragoon, and used Provoke on every round to divert the bulk of the attacks away from the rest of the team. With that strategy the Cerberus was like a playful puppy! 5. Central Warp Enter the central warp after making any adjustments to equipment or the team, and move up the screen when you arrive at the new location. Follow the glowing lines of the path, from one square platform to the next. There are still random encounters in here and you might encounter a yellow version of Cerberus, called Garm, but it doesn't have as much HP, just around 20000, although its three heads can still do some damage. Paired Thor enemies won't trouble you much, as they only have around 12000 HP each. A Twin Dragon is a blue version of the Two-headed Dragon and this one has nearly 35000 HP so it's no pushover. The Hydra is a blue version of the Echidna. One nice thing is that all these enemies are susceptible to the Black Belt's poisonous Hellish Claws! Eventually you'll spot a large platform with a pink warp. Check everything again and use an Elixir to restore full MP to your mages. This is it! FINALLY! After my disaster with the Cerebus I had to re-think everything, and just could not decide on the final team. Devout seemed to be essential given I had a high job level, and Arise and curing spells were things I couldn't do without. After that I was left with a Ninja, Thief (at job level 99) Viking, Dragoon, and Black Belt. The drawback with the Black Belt is that they have to be on the front row and wait a turn to use Boost for the maximum damage. Likewise the Dragoon, taking two turns to use Jump, even though the damage is fantastic. I had neglected to raise levels for another mage type job: Bard would have been good, or a Summoner or Sage, but I had to work with what I had. The other problem was that my levels were too low, with HP well under 3000. I waited until I'd got everyone to Level 55 and over 3000 HP before tackling the Crystal Tower again. That gave me levels of 59 for the final fight and I went with the Viking, Devout, Ninja (with 10 Shurikens), and a Black Belt. To be honest, this was overkill as no-one was ever in danger with this defensive set-up. Only the Black Belt was on the front row. PARTY - Level 59 Luneth - Ninja (43) Arc - Devout (52) HP: 3299 HP: 3323 Masume Elder Staff Lust Dagger Rune Staff Ribbon Ribbon Genji Armor White Robe Genji Gloves Protect Ring Refia - Black Belt (69) Ingus - Viking (49) HP: 3589 HP: 3288 Hellish Claws Aegis Shield Dark Claws Crystal Shield Ribbon Crystal Helm Fuma Garb Crystal Mail Protect Ring Crystal Gloves o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - CLOUD OF DARKNESS | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 60 | 120000| 120 | 55 | 99999 | 70000 | None | World of Darkness | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS: None | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 58-60 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This is a case of survival of the fittest, and there's a good chance it won't be you! Obviously higher levels mean a better chance, but if you had trouble with Cerberus's three attacks, then don't expect to win, as the COD has FOUR attacks per round. Equip everyone with a Ribbon or Aegis Shield to prevent any bad status effects resulting from her Bad Breath attacks. But that's a minor detail compared to the Lightning magic and Particle Beam all party spells that can easily kill anyone without full HP. She also hits out randomly causing around 500-1500 damage, and casts both Haste and Protect on herself. The boss has two tentacles and one has to be hit with physical attacks and the other by magic or you won't do any damage to them. But you don't HAVE to destroy them, just target the main gal herself. I killed one and not the other, and then targeted the main body which killed her just as effectively. The magic one does her boosts and Bad Breath if that is troublesome, and the physical one uses the more damaging Lightning magic, assuming you have Ribbons for everyone. Check out these two tentacles with the cursor: one is at the left on screen, but you need to press the down button to target it, and the other is above her head (press up). This one, to the right of her and above her head, is immune to physical attack, and the other is immune to magic. Choose your attacks to suit! When you've destroyed one tentacle you'll get a cracking sound that might make you think you've defeated the boss, but it's just that one part. When she boosts with Haste or Protect, act to dispel that magic with a Shell Breaker item, Erase spell or the Rune staff. Particle Beam will hurt everyone for around 1000 - 2000 HP depending on the usual things: position, job and any protection in place. ALWYAS heal damage on every round, and don't take any risks with health even if she's boosted herself. Health should be prioritised over dealing damage! I found that the Ninja throwing a Shuriken from the back row was still not always getting 9999 damage, just a few HP short of that, so I'm not sure of the benefits of the Ninja over a Dragoon, Knight, or my level 99 Thief, given their crappy defence. Also, there's a chance your expensive Shurikens might miss altogether. Use Protect on front row people and Haste on a slow Devout. Heal on every round with Curaga or Curaja and use Arise to revive the dead with full health. Keep a watch on the healer's MP and use an Elixir on them before it gets too low. Throw ALL your shurikens with the Ninja, keeping them on the back row to cut down a little of the damage. I used Boost once with the Black Belt and attacked on every other round. With this team, the Viking was my secret to success! By placing them on the back row, with two shields and using Provoke on every round, they deflected all the physical attacks. Of course, that doesn't work with the all party magic stuff and it makes the battle last longer, but it cuts down the risks considerably. With a Protect spell on the Viking her attacks did no damage at all! ALTERNATIVE TEAM I thought I'd try something different since I'd heard that the Bard could be very effective for this battle, and it's true! PARTY - Level 60 Luneth - Ranger (47) Arc - Bard (22) Elven Bow Apollo Harp Yoichi Arrow - Ribbon Ribbon Black Garb Bard Vest Protect Ring Diamond Bracers Refia - Sage (15) Ingus - Knight (22) Omnirod Ragnarak Elder Staff Ultima Weapon Ribbon Ribbon White Robe Crystal Mail Protect Ring Crystal Gloves The Knight was on the front row, with the rest on the back. The Apollo Harp gave everyone such high protection on the first turn that the Sage took no damage at all from Lightning attack. Barrage with the Ranger inflicted around 7000 damage to the main body, but any arrows hitting the right tentacle will bounce off, causing no damage. On the second turn I went with the Lamia Harp and healed with the Sage. The harp damaged all three parts of the Cloud for 9999 for the main section and a bit less for the other two. Summons for Bahamut and Leviathan both missed! Particle Beam and Lightning on one turn nearly did for the Thief, but no-one died. I used the Lamia Harp on one round and the Apollo on the next, with the Sage healing, using the lower level summons or high level Flare magic. With the Bard using Aura you can get away with the Sage not using Curaja on every turn. By the way, the Rnager is useless for this battle. If you use barrage it's likely to target the right tentacle and it's easy to run out of Yoichi Arrows. The great thing with the bard is that you can see how much damage you're doing and how much HP is left. It's pretty easy at this level. If you dropped the Ranger for another fighter this would be good team. =============================================================================== 55. WHAT NEXT? .......................................................... *W55 =============================================================================== ENDING!!! Yes, there is one, and you don't have to do a thing, beyond keep pressing buttons or tapping to advance to the next screen. Watch all the scenes, and the cute credits. After that you are given a chance to save the current level and item data. This save has three gold stars. Load that save and you'll be outside the Ancient Ruins with your end game levels and next to the Invincible. You can now go and find and defeat the Iron Giant, and acquire all that Job Level 99 stuff, and fight those dragons on the upper floors of the Crystal Tower. Hell, you can even beat the the Cloud of Darkness again! But you'll need to rest first as this is one boss battle that doesn't give you full health restoration: I wonder why not? ACHIEVEMENTS! My first thought was to head for Gysahl and check out the Achievements. The Ribbons obtained inside the World of Darkness will give you that satisfying 100% chests opened. Here are my final stats, but bear in mind I was writing a FAQ and left the game running for hours at a time, and I'm a VERY slow player. My Achievements Clear Time: 99:59:59 Chests Opened: 100% Enemies Defeated: 1514 Battles Fled: 49 Max Damage: 50498 Max Hits: 32 =============================================================================== VI. J O B S ............................ *JOBS =============================================================================== 1. Default Job - Freelancer 2. Wind Crystal Jobs - Warrior - White Mage - Black Mage - Red Mage - Monk - Thief 3. Fire Crystal Jobs - Ranger - Knight - Scholar - Geomancer 4. Water Crystal Jobs - Viking - Dragoon - Dark Knight - Evoker - Bard 5. Earth Crystal Jobs - Devout - Summoner - Ninja - Black Belt - Magus - Sage 6. Wifi Only Job - Onion Knight Each job specialises in a particular battle command, and each one acquires a special weapon or piece of armour when they reach level 99 for that job. However, the major drawback is that you don't get this extra bit of equipment just by reaching level 99! Oh no... you've got to do various side-quests based around the Mognet Wifi letters. If you do that, and gain the reward, then each piece gives various boosts to stats, and this is shown in the information below, as well as in the equipment charts' section. I don't like the way the jobs have been implemented in this game. There's no incentive to reach a particular job level in order to unlock more powerful ones, and there's no real challenge to complete to acquire new jobs, other than following the story and the annoying Wifi letters task. The game doesn't explain how the stats work, how to work out the transfer battles required, how many points you need to increase job levels, or how the different jobs affect overall stats. There's just too much left unexplained. Of course, clever people have managed to ascertain all this, and you can find specialist FAQs that give all the technical details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. DEFAULT JOB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Freelancer - FREELANCER - Battle Command: MAGIC: Cast Level 1 White and Black magic. Level 99: Celestial Gloves Defence: +40, Magic Defence: +18 Bonus : +15 to all stats Max Stats - STR: 52, AGL: 52, VIT: 52, INT: 52, MIND: 52 MP per level - LV1: 50 Positive: All rounder who can equip all kinds of armour and use level 1 magic. Negative: Abilities are below average and they are not expert at anything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. WIND CRYSTAL JOBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Warrior - White Mage - Black Mage - Red Mage - Monk - Thief - WARRIOR - Battle Command: ADVANCE: Increase attack power at the cost of lowered defence. Level 99: Gigantic Axe Attack: +155 Bonus : +20 Strength Max. Stats - STR: 71, AGL: 71, VIT: 63, INT: 45, MIND: 45 MP per level - N/A Positive: Equips swords, knives, axes and some bows. Skilled with swords. Negative: Cannot use magic. - WHITE MAGE - Battle Command: MAGIC: Cast Level 1 to Level 7 White magic Level 99: Angel Robe Defence: +45, Magic Defence: +48 Bonus : +28 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 52, AGL: 63, VIT: 63, INT: 45, MIND: 71 MP per level - LV1: 99, LV2: 47, LV3: 29, LV4: 32, LV5: 18, LV6: 16, LV7: 10 Positive: Excels at defensive and restoration spells. Can use staves to cast offensive magic without MP cost. Negative: Low attack power and defence and cannot use Level 8 spells. - BLACK MAGE - Battle Command: MAGIC: Cast Level 1 to level 7 Black magic. Level 99: Lilith Rod Attack: +110. Bonus : +20 Intellect. Max. Stats - STR: 52, AGL: 63, VIT: 63, INT: 71, MIND: 45 MP per level - LV1: 99, LV2: 47, LV3: 29, LV4: 29, LV5: 18, LV6: 16, LV7: 10 Positive: Excels at attack magic and can equip some bows as well as staves. Negative: Low attack power and defence. - RED MAGE - Battle Command: MAGIC: Cast Level 1 - Level 5 White and Black magic Level 99: Crimson Vest Defence: +50, Magic Defence: +25 Bonus : All Stats +10 Max. Stats - STR: 52, AGL: 52, VIT: 63, INT: 63, MIND: 63 MP per level - LV1: 49, LV2: 33, LV3: 21, LV4: 16, LV5: 11 Positive: Can equip a wide range of weapons (knives, swords, bows and staves) and armour, and uses both kinds of magic. Negative: Cannot become a master of either black or white magic. - MONK - Battle Command: RETALIATE: Counterattack an enemy when hit with a physical attack. Level 99: Shura Gloves Defence: +45, Magic Defence: +19 Bonus : +20 Strength Max. Stats - STR: 85, AGL: 63, VIT: 71, INT: 38, MIND: 45 MP per level - N/A Positive: Skilled at martial arts, and powerful attacker Negative: Restricted weapon use and cannot use magic. Most bosses use magic attacks so their skill is of limited use. - THIEF - Battle Command: STEAL: Attempt to pilfer an item from an enemy. FLEE: Escape from battle with a high rate of success. Level 99: Gladius Attack: +130 Bonus : +20 Agility Max. Stats - STR: 63, AGL: 99, VIT: 63, INT: 45, MIND: 38 MP per level - N/A Positive: Can steal items during battle and help with escaping. Opens locked doors without a Magic Key if placed in the lead on the field. High agility stat. Flee can be very useful. Negative: Only equips knives and boomerangs. Stealing isn't that useful. Cannot use the guard command ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. FIRE CRYSTAL JOBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Ranger - Knight - Scholar - Geomancer - RANGER - Battle Command: BARRAGE: Perform 4 ranged attacks that targets random enemies. Level 99: Artemis Bow Attack: +122 Bonus : +10 Strength, +10 Agility Max. Stats - STR: 71, AGL: 85, VIT: 63, INT: 45, MIND: 45 MP per level - N/A Positive: Skilled with bows and arrows on either front or back line of party. Negative: Only equips bows and 2 boomerangs. Need to find/purchase arrows. The ranged attack uses up 4 arrows. - KNIGHT - Battle Command: DEFEND: Brace against an attack. Better than just guarding. The knight also acts to shield any team member whose HP falls into the yellow danger zone. MAGIC: Cast Level 1 White magic. Level 99: Save the Queen Attack: +140 Bonus : +10 Vitality, +10 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 85, AGL: 45, VIT: 85, INT: 45, MIND: 52 MP per level - LV1: 99 Positive: Powerful warriors for close-range combat. Defends allies and has high defence. Can equip the very best swords and heavy duty armour. Negative: Very slow and might not get a turn. Level 1 magic isn't that useful. - SCHOLAR - Battle Command: STUDY: Examine an enemy's status and discern weakness. MAGIC: Cast Level 1 to Level 3 White and Black magic. Level 99: Omnitome Attack: +130 Bonus : +10 Intellect, +5 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 63, AGL: 71, VIT: 38, INT: 99, MIND: 45 MP per level - LV1: 46 LV2: 26, LV3: 15 Positive: Items used have double the effect. Useful to know weaknesses. Negative: Only equips books. Low defence and must be in front row to throw items at enemies. Consumes items and attack ones are in short supply. - GEOMANCER - Battle Command: TERRAIN. Randomly draw out powers of nature to damage enemies. (Cave-In, Wind Slash, Shadowflare, Whirlpool, Earthquake, Ice Storm, Magma, Ice Pillar) Level 99: Blessed Bell Attack: +130 Bonus : +10 Agility, +10 Mind, +10 Intellect Max. Stats - STR: 52, AGL: 71, VIT: 52, INT: 71, MIND: 52 MP per level - N/A Positive: Magic is powerful and costs nothing to cast, but it's random! Negative: Only equips bells and is pretty weak in defence. Good for the early game, but the random nature of the magic makes them less use later on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. WATER CRYSTAL JOBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Viking - Dragoon - Dark Knight - Evoker - Bard - VIKING- Battle Command: PROVOKE: Lure an enemy to target the Viking. This also decreases the enemy's defence. It only works for one round though and has to be repeated, but it's the first action in a round, despite the Viking's low agility. Level 99: Mighty Hammer (lightning effect) Attack: +145 Bonus : +20 Vitality Max. Stats - STR: 99, AGL: 45, VIT: 71, INT: 45, MIND: 52 MP per level - N/A Positive: Powerful fighter that is skilled with hammers and axes. Provoke is very useful for deflecting attacks away from weaker team members, especially when equipped with two shields, and on the back row! Negative: Low agility. The provoke command might not work so that's a wasted turn. Also, it's not much use with magic attacks that target the whole team. - DRAGOON - Battle Command: JUMP: Leap into the air for one turn before unleashing a powerful attack. Level 99: Magic Lance Attack: +145 Bonus : +20 Strength Max. Stats - STR: 52, AGL: 63, VIT: 63, INT: 71, MIND: 45 MP per level - N/A Positive: When in the air the dragoon is invincible and jump is effective against flying enemies. They only use spears, but it's possible to steal the powerful Gungir with a Thief, without having to rely on reaching level 99 to obtain their best weapon. With a Blood Lance as well, they will heal themselves on each attack. Negative: Only uses spears. The fact that they are not present for one round while in the air, leaves the rest of the team more vulnerable to attack. It's no use having a Dragoon survive if everyone else is dead! - DARK KNIGHT - Battle Command: SOULEATER: Sacrifice own HP to attack all enemies. Level 99: Murakumo Attack: +140 Bonus : +20 Agility Max. Stats - STR: 71, AGL: 52, VIT: 71, INT: 52, MIND: 52 MP per level - N/A Positive: Especially effective against enemies that divide and multiply. Negative: Only uses swords and some knives. Their souleater skill uses up their HP making them less valuable against powerful bosses. - EVOKER - Battle Command: SUMMON: Call forth a magic beast to attack enemy or aid party. Level 99: Royal Crown Defence: +33, Magic Defence: +36 Bonus : +19 Intellect, +10 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 63, AGL: 52, VIT: 45, INT: 45, MIND: 71 MP per level - LV1: 99, LV2: 41, LV3: 41, LV4: 41, LV5: 41, LV6: 36, LV7: 27, LV8: 13 Positive: Uses summoned monsters. Negative: The effects of this are unpredictable. Each summons has a white and black magic effect which the player does not control Low defence and can only equip staves, as this is a mage type class. The first five summons have to be purchased. - BARD - Battle Command: SING: Uses a harp to cause various effects in battle. Level 99: Ballad Crown Defence: +35, Magic Defence: +35 Bonus : +10 Vitality, +10 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 45, AGL: 63, VIT: 63, INT: 63, MIND: 63 MP per level - N/A Positive: A range of songs allows the bard to effect both enemies and allies. They act at the start of a battle giving another advantage. Songs do not use any MP. Negative: A mage type that only equips knives and harps. Expensive as all harps must be bought to enable each effect, and you must remember which one does what! With the Sing command each harp enables these effects on the whole team: Madhura Harp - (Minne song) Shell increases defence of all allies Loki Harp - (Minuet song) Increases attack power of all allies Lamia Harp - (Requiem song) Damages all enemies based on a percentage of their HP, and the more they have, the more it hurts. It's especially useful for bosses. Dream Harp - (Paeon song) Heals the party (for a small amount while job levels are low) Apollo Harp - (Elegy song) Aura reduces damage for all allies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. EARTH CRYSTAL JOBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Devout - Summoner - Ninja - Black Belt - Magus - Sage - DEVOUT - Battle Command: MAGIC: Cast all White magic, from level 1 to level 8. Level 99: Holy Wand (Casts Curaga) Attack: +110 Bonus : +20 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 45, AGL: 52, VIT: 63, INT: 52, MIND: 99 MP per level - LV1: 30, LV2: 28, LV3: 25, LV4: 19, LV5: 35, LV6: 32, LV7: 20, LV8: 8 Positive: High MP and can use White magic from Level 1 to Level 8. Almost essential in the final dungeons. Negative: Only casts white magic and only equips staffs and rods. Has a tendency to die easily! - SUMMONER - Battle Command: SUMMON: Call forth a magic beast to attack enemies. Level 99: Astral Bracers Defence: +47, Magic Defence: +20 Bonus : +10 Intellect, +10 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 45, AGL: 45, VIT: 53, INT: 85, MIND: 85 MP per level - LV1: 99, LV2: 41, LV3: 41, LV4: 41, LV5: 41, LV6: 36, LV7: 27, LV8: 13 Positive: Uses summoned monsters with powerful elemental attack magic. Their summons ignores reflect magic on enemies. Negative: They have the same amount of MP as the Evoker. Have to buy the first five summons, and the last three can be bought as well, although they can be won through fighting bosses in optional dungeons. - NINJA - Battle Command: THROW: Throw a weapon from the inventory at an enemy. Level 99: Muramasa Attack: +140 Bonus : +5 Strength, +10 Agility, +5 Intellect, +5 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 71, AGL: 85, VIT: 52, INT: 52, MIND: 52 MP per level - N/A Positive: Deals high damage with thrown weapons, which are just as effective from the back row. Very fast. Negative: Loses any weapons thrown (even Boomerangs!). Fairly weak in defence. - BLACK BELT - Battle Command: BOOST: Increases power of next attack. Can be used more than once to charge up a high amount of energy, but if at a low level the second Boost will cause a self-destruct reaction that damages the character. Boost does not decrease the Black Belt's defence. Level 99: Master Dogi Defence: +54, Magic Defence: +23 Bonus : +10 Agility, +10 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 99, AGL: 71, VIT: 99, INT: 38, MIND: 38 MP per level - N/A Positive: Storing up energy to unleash a very powerful attack is good. Front-line fighter with claws and fangs. Highest vitality in the game, allowing increased HP on levelling up. Negative: Having to wait before unleashing an attack is not so good. Cannot equip shields and has low magic defence, although that's offset if they reach level 99 and obtain their best armour. - MAGUS - Battle Command: MAGIC: Cast all Black magic from level 1 to level 8. Level 99: Millenium Rod (Casts Blizzaga) Attack: +110 Bonus : +10 Intellect, +10 Mind Max. Stats - STR: 45, AGL: 63, VIT: 52, INT: 99, MIND: 52 MP per level - LV1: 30, LV2: 28, LV3: 25, LV4: 19, LV5: 35, LV6: 32, LV7: 20, LV8: 8 Positive: High MP and can use Black magic from Level 1 to Level 8. Very effective on groups of enemies. Negative: Only uses black magic and only equips staffs and rods. Of less use against bosses with no weakness. - SAGE - Battle Command: MAGIC: Casts all levels of White and Black magic as well as summons. Level 99: Sage's Staff Attack: +110 Bonus : +10 to all stats Max. Stats - STR: 38, AGL: 38, VIT: 63, INT: 85, MIND: 85 MP per level - LV1: 49, LV2: 43, LV3: 36, LV4: 30, LV5: 23, LV6: 17, LV7: 10, LV8: 4 Positive: Can use all magic spells and summons, making them very versatile. With plenty of Elixirs the lack of MP for higher level magic shouldn't be a problem. Negative: Slow, and the summon skill isn't that useful because the effects are not predictable. Has more lower level magic but less higher level than the Magus or Devout. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. "SECRET" JOB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Onion Knight - ONION KNIGHT - Battle Command: MAGIC: Casts Level 1 - Level 8 Black and White magic Level 99: Onion Blade Attack: +150 Bonus : +7 all stats Max. Stats - STR: 99, AGL: 99, VIT: 99, INT: 99, MIND: 99 MP per level - LV1: 49, LV2: 43, LV3: 36, LV4: 30, LV5: 23, LV6: 17, LV7: 10, LV8: 4 Positive: Access to Level 8 magic from the beginning. Equips nearly everything. Negative: Very low overall stats compared to other classes until they reach level 93 when they start to speed up, until they end up with the maximum. Have to complete the Wifi/Mognet sidequest to obtain this job. =============================================================================== 02. 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+ - - + - + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Heroic Shield | + + - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Demon Shield | + + - - - - - - - - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Diamond Shield | + + - - - - - - + - - + + - - - - - - - - - + Aegis Shield | + - - - - - + - + - - + + - - - - - - - - - + Genji Shield | + - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Crystal Shield | + + - - - - + - + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Onion Shield | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- HEAD ARMOUR | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Leather Cap | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Mythril Helm | + + - + - - + + + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Shell Helm | + + - + - - + + + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Headband | + - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - + + - - - - + Ice Helm | + + - + - - + + + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Feathered Hat | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Scholar Hat | + - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Black Cowl | + - + + - - - + - - - - - - - - + + - - - - + Chakra Band | + - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + - - - - + Dragon Helm | + - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Viking Helm | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Diamond Helm | + + - - - - - - + - - + + - - - - - - - - - + Ribbon | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Genji Helm | + - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Crystal Helm | + + - - - - + - + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Onion Helm | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Royal Crown | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - Ballad Crown | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- ARMS ARMOUR | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Bronze Bracers | + + + + + + + + + + + + + - + + + + + + + + + Mythril Bracers | + - - - + + + - - + + - - + + + - - + + + + + Mythril Gloves | + + + + - - - + + - - + + - - - + + - - - - + Gauntlets | + + - - - - - - + - - + + + - - - + - - - - + Thief Gloves | + - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Rune Bracers | + - - - + + + - - + + - - - + + - - + + + + + Power Bracers | + + + + - - - + + - - + + - - - + + - - - - + Diamond Bracers | + - - - + + + - - + + - + - + + - + + + + + + Diamond Gloves | + + + + - - - + + - - + + + - + + + - - - - + Protect Ring | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Genji Gloves | + - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Crystal Gloves | + + - - - - + - + - - + + + - - - - - - - - + Onion Gauntlets | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Celestial Gloves| + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shura Gloves | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Astral Bracers | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ =============================================================================== 03. JOBS AND WEAPONS .................................................. *G03 =============================================================================== .-------------------. | F = Freelancer | |-------------------| | WR = Warrior | | M = Monk | | T = Thief | | WM = White Mage | | BM = Black Mage | | RM = Red Mage | |-------------------| | RA = Ranger | | K = Knight | | SC = Scholar | | G = Geomancer | |-------------------| | V = Viking | | DR = Dragoon | | DK = Dark Knight | | E = Evoker | | B = Bard | |-------------------| | BB = Black Belt | | NJ = Ninja | | MG = Magus | | DV = Devout | | SU = Summoner | | SA = Sage | |-------------------| | OK = Onion Knight | |___________________| ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- DAGGERS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Knife | + + - + - - + - - - - - - + - + - + - - - - + Dagger | + + - + - - + - - - - - - + - + - + - - - - + Mythril Knife | + + - + - - + - - - - - - + - + - + - - - - + Spark Dagger | + + - + - - - - - - - - - + - + - + - - - - + Main Guache | + + - + - - + - - - - - - + - + - + - - - - + Poison Dagger | + + - + - - + - - - - - - + - + - + - - - - + Behemoth Knife | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Air Knife | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Dark Knife | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Lust Dagger | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Gladius | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- SWORDS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Golden Sword | + + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Longsword | + + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Wightslayer | + + - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Mythril Sword | + + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Tyrfing | + + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Salamand Sword | + + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Freezing Blade | - + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Serpent Sword | - + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Royal Sword | + + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Blood Sword | - + - - - - - - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Ancient Sword | - + - - - - - - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Defender | - + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Break Blade | - + - - - - + - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Excalibur | + - - - - - + - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Ragnarok | - + - - - - - - + - - - - + - - - - - - - - + Onion Sword | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Save the Queen | - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Onion Blade | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Ultima Weapon | + + - - - - + - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- KATANAS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Ashura | - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Kotetsu | - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Kiku-Ichimonji | - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Masamune | - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - + - - - - + Murakumo | - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - Muramasa | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- STAVES | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Staff | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + - + + + Fire Staff | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + + + + + Ice Staff | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + + + + + Light Staff | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + + + + + Golem Staff | - - - - + - + - - - - - - - + - - - - + + + + Rune Staff | - - - - + - + - - - - - - - + - - - - + + + + Elder Staff | - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - + + Holy Wand | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - Sage Staff | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - Mythril Rod | - - - - - + + - - - - - - - + - - - + - + + + Wizard Rod | - - - - - + + - - - - - - - + - - - + - - + + Fire Rod | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + + + + + Ice Rod | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + + + + + Light Rod | - - - - + + + - - - - - - - + - - - + + + + + Omnirod | - - - - - + - - - - - - - - + - - - + - + + - Lilith Rod | - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Millenium Rod | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- BOWS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Bow | + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Great Bow | + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Killer Bow | + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Rune Bow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Selene Bow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Yoichi Bow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Eurytos Bow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Elven Bow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Artemis Bow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- ARROWS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Wooden Arrow | + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Holy Arrow | + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Iron Arrow | + + - - - + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Fire Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Ice Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Light Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Sleep Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Poison Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Medusa Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Magic Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Yoichi Arrow | - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- FISTS/CLAWS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Bronze Knuckles | + - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Sonic Knuckles | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Impact Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Cat Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Kaiser Knuckles | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Wyvern Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Tiger Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Faerie Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Metal Knuckles | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Dark Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + Hellish Claws | - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - + ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- SPEARS/LANCES | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Thunder Spear | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Wind Spear | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Heavy Lance | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Blood Lance | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Trident | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Dragon Lance | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Holy Lance | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Gungir | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + Magic Lance | - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- HAMMERS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Hammer | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Dragon Hammer | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Triton Hammer | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Platinum Hammer | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Blessed Hammer | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Mighty Hammer | - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- AXES | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Viking Axe | - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Battleaxe | - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Dual Tomahawk | - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Rune Axe | - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Demon Axe | - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Dual Haken | - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - + Gigantic Axe | - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- THROWING | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Boomerang | - - - + - - - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Chakram | - - - + - - - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Rising Sun | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Moonring Blade | - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - + Shuriken | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Book of Fire | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Book of Ice | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Book of Light | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Tome of Fire | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Tome of Ice | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Tome of Light | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Cognitome | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - + Omnitome | - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- BELLS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Diamond Bell | - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - + Earthen Bell | - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - + Rune Bell | - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - + Blessed Bell | - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - ________________|______________________________________________________________ ----------------.-------------------------------------------------------------- HARPS | F WR M T WM BM RM RA K SC G V DR DK E B BB NJ MG DV SU SA OK ----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------- Madhura Harp | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - + Loki Harp | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - + Lamia Harp | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - + Dream Harp | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - + Apollo Harp | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - + ________________|______________________________________________________________ =============================================================================== VII. M O G N E T S I D E Q U E S T S ...............*MOG =============================================================================== 01. Introduction to Mognet 02. Sidequests Summary 03. Topapa 04. Sara 05. Takka 06. Cid 07. Job Level 99 - Cards and Unique Equipment 08. The Four Old Men and Alus - True Heroes and Saronian Legend 09. The Bonus Dungeon - ??? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION TO MOGNET .............................................. *MOG1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After completing events in the Sealed Mines and obtaining the first set of new jobs you will encounter a Moogle in every town. You can send letters to a select few characters in the game, once you've met them, and they will reply. However, for this correspondence to yield anything useful you also must send 7 messages to real life "friends" using WiFi friends' codes. You can only send one message every hour, so it's a good idea to start sending them immediately! There are four options: Send Mail : A Nearby Friend/A Faraway Friend/Topapa (first name) You need a broadband connection to contact the faraway friend, and their friend code. (Find codes at GameFAQs FFFII board.) You don't have to write anything to send mail to the FF denizens, just tell the Moogle to send a message. View Mail : Select to read mail from friends and FFIII denizens. Address Book: Friend Roster/Enter Friend Code/Display Friend Code. Here you can enter friends' codes and find your own code. Moghouse : From Nearby Friends/From Faraway Friends. Select one to use the DS wireless function to receive mail from nearby, or connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi for long distance messages. You must connect through this option before any friend code will become clear and not greyed out. The game does NOT keep a record of how many letters you've sent to the Final Fantasy III denizens, but it does show all the ones you've received. Scroll down the list to see them all, and each new one has the helpful "NEW!" against it. After sending a message, leave the Moogle, and check back immediately for a response and you'll get one if the conditions have been met. Note that the quests are interconnected, and some of them are dependent on where you are in the game. If nothing seems to be happening, then make more progress with the story. There might be another reason for inactivity! I thought I'd sent 7 messages to an online "friend" but although I had lots of letters from Topapa, the last one hadn't appeared, so I sent one Wifi letter, and up it popped. So, if you find the same thing happens, you might have miscounted the number sent. You do NOT have to get a response from the online contact. Start by sending mail to Topapa and keep doing so to trigger the Onion Knight job sidequest early on in the game. Note that you CAN send messages to the FF denizens and get mail from them without contacting external friends, but you CANNOT trigger any of these sidequests if you don't. They are not essential to beat the game, but give you access to another job, extra equipment, and an extra dungeon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02. SIDEQUESTS SUMMARY ................................................. *MOG2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a summary of who, where, and what you have to do to open the various quests. .---------------.------------.------.--------------------.--------------------. | NAME | LOCATION | MAIL | QUEST | RESULT | |---------------+------------+------+--------------------+--------------------| | Topapa | Ur | 4 | Kids in Altar Cave | Onion Knight Job | | Takka | Kazus | 5 | Find Orichalcum | Ultima Weapon | | Sara | Sasune | 4 | Pendant | Blacksmith | | Cid | Canaan | 4 | Find Orichalcum | Ultima Weapon | | The 4 Old Men | Amur | 4 | Secret Dungeon | Iron Giant | | Alus | Saronia | 4 | Secret Dungeon | Iron Giant | |_______________|____________|______|____________________|____________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03. TOPAPA - THE CHILDREN ARE IN TROUBLE! .............................. *MOG3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take the Nautilus back to the Floating Continent (it's a lot faster) and fly through the mountains to Ur Village at the northeast of the eastern lands. Enter the lower left house to find the Elder Topapa, and hear his request to look for the children inside the Altar Cave. Walk or fly north to the mountain and enter the cave. (Go right, to enter the secret side chamber first if you forgot to get the treasure in here earlier in the game, although it won't be much use to you now). Head straight down the cave and follow the path to the left and up to find the hole in the cave floor. There's a scene, and you'll find the kids in a bit of bother with 3 Bomb enemies. Kind of simple stuff if you left this until later in the game, but in case you came here early on, they each have 375 HP and will blow up if you don't kill each one quickly. Don't go for them all at once (unless you're so strong you can) and target them one at a time with any ice weapons, magic or an Arctic Wind. They give you a [CRYSTAL FRAGMENT] that grants you the ability to change jobs to ONION KNIGHT! The crystal doesn't feature in your inventory as such, but the job will be there if you check the jobs menu. Leave the cave by the way you came in and return to talk to Topapa if you want his official thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04. SARA - HELP! ....................................................... *MOG4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sara writes with news of world shattering importance: her pendant broke and you, the four heroes, potential saviours of the known world, are the only ones who can help. Okay, a hero's gotta do what a hero's gotta do... so fly over to visit her in Castle Sasune. That's the big grey one at the west of the eastern continent on the Floating world, due east across the sea from the other castle. Call in on the Princess at the top of the East Tower. After a hug and kiss with Ingus (joking!) she hands over [SARA'S PENDANT] which appears in your Key Items inventory. Hmm, who do you know who fixes things? Takka, that's who, the blacksmith in Kazus. Make your way to the town to the east from the Castle and find Takka in the house behind the Inn. He says he can't do anything with it, If you've sent enough letters to him you'll have one titled "The Legendary Smith", but you need to get one more letter before you can track down this person. I'm not sure if you have to have the broken pendant first, or not, but I had it, and sent the fifth mail to Takka after which the crucial one arrives: see the next section! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05. TAKKA - ORICHALCUM! ................................................ *MOG5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the reply to your fifth letter to Takka, telling you about a metal that can cut anything. It triggers the appearance of the Legendary Smith he mentioned in the previous letter, but he doesn't tell you where to find this person and he won't say anything useful if you visit him now. So, don't bother. Now you can find the Smith, and she's waiting for you INSIDE the township of Northwestern Saronia. That's the one with the library. She's standing behind the Inn at the right, on the grass in front of the trees. Ingus will ask her to fix the pendant and the screen goes black for a few seconds which made me think something bad had happened to my game, but no, it's okay, that's just her secretly fixing it I guess. You get [SARA'S PENDANT] back from her. In return she asks you to find Orichalcum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06. CID - SOMETHING IN THE BASEMENT! ................................... *MOG6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cid hints at a monster in his basement. Visit Canaan on the Floating continent and call on Cid's house at the back of the town. Talk to him for extra details and go left, down the stairs to the basement where you'll find this winged monster floating around at the left of the treasure chests. This is a sort of boss in that it might be a challenge, although you will find the same monsters on the world map around the Ancients' Maze, I think... o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - AEON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 43 | 10060 | 96 | 28 | 10200 | 3200 | None | Canaan, Cid's House | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (8% chance overall) | | 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion | | 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 40 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o As with most bosses, this critter has two turns on each round. Its best attack in Earthquake which hurts everyone for around 500-1000 HP depending on the usual things, of levels, jobs, equipment, and position. Most of the time it just punches a couple of people for less damage. After the battle Arc will pick up the [UNKNOWN METAL], a Key Item. Talk to Cid afterwards and he'll identify it as [ORICHALCUM], and the name changes! Leave Cid now, as there's nothing else to know from him, and the next task is find the Smith again. I don't know how you're supposed to know where to find her... she's not in Saronia and no-one there will give you any information, but she's at Falgabard further to the west. You need the Invincible to jump over the low hills on the way. She's waiting next to the river, at the right of the weapon shop. Once again the screen goes black as she goes off to work, but within a a couple of seconds she's made the thing you most desire, at least, in a Final Fantasy game: the [ULTIMA WEAPON]! This powerful sword can only be equipped by the Freelancer, Warrior, Red Mage and Knight. NOTE! The entrance to Eureka must be unlocked before this final stage is possible. It's inside the first floor of the Crystal Tower, the final dungeon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07. JOB LEVEL 99 - CARDS AND UNIQUE EQUIPMENT .......................... *MOG7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She tells you she going to travel now, and that's exactly what she does! To acquire the Level 99 equipment for any job you must seek her out again. When you visit one place and find her, she'll move on and her location is random. Thanks to the GameFAQs boards I discovered that the best way to track her down is to move between two locations, go to one, check, if she's not there, leave and visit the other one. The closest and easiest to reach are Gysahl and the Healing Woods and the best way to travel is on the Nautilus. It took me about 16 visits all told, back and forth between these two locations before she finally deigned to appear in the Healing Copse. She's standing at the right and very obvious! Another time it took 5 visits and she appeared inside the Chocobo hut, and for my third test run she appeared on the first visit to Gysahl, so it really is random. What was odd is that I'd mastered a job but she did nothing... The reason being that the character was currently using a different job. All that effort for nothing. :( Take the hint! Find her and she'll give you the appropriate job card as well as the unique piece of equipment. LEGENDARY SMITH LOCATIONS Floating Continent Ur - inside the well Sasune Castle - East Tower, Floor 3 Healing Copse - (north from the gnome village and due west from Gysahl) Village of the Ancients - in the Inn Gysahl - Chocobo Farmhouse over the first bridge Dwarven Hollows - path to the lake Surface World Replito - inside the house at the far side of the village Saronia Castle - in the basement Doga's Village - in the middle of the magic shops, by the tree Ancient Ruins - in the Inn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08. THE FOUR OLD MEN AND ALUS - TRUE HEROES AND SARONIAN LEGEND ........ *MOG8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After sending and receiving four missives to both the 4 Old Men and Alus you'll be ready to find something hidden, that only true heroes can handle! The 4 Old Men's letter titled Sea Voyage gives a hint about a huge shadow, somewhere. Alus won't tell you anything at all, even if you visit him again, and neither do his soothsayers. And the old men just say the same things they said after the rescue in Amur Sewers. This is another of those secrets that the game only hints at, and you're left to search everywhere: or read a strategy guide. :p Fly the Nautilus to the southwestern edge of the south continent of Dalg on the surface world. Set a course due west, for the island that marks the Floating Continent and half way there you'll see a circular shadow on the sea. Dive down, and head into that shadow from the sea bed. There's NOTHING on the sea bed to indicate that anything is there. You'll arrive inside a dungeon, named ??? This is it! The final secret of FFIII. Turn around, leave, and SAVE YOUR GAME! Just in case you don't win first time, which is very possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09. THE BONUS DUNGEON - ??? ............................................ *MOG9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk forwards for a short scene, after which you'll encounter the Iron Giant. If you want to fight some nice coloured dragons first, then walk back and forth close to the entrance and you'll eventually encounter a dragon. This is where you can fight to level up the party BEFORE the tacking the boss at the end of the path. I saved after each battle, left the area and flew back to the floating continent and to Gysahl's Inn for healing: it's only 120 Gil for the night. These are like mini-bosses while your levels are still low (at around 60) so here's the information on the three dragons and what they drop. Fight them often enough to acquire all the Onion equipment and tank out your Onion Knight! Obviously with a high job level for this class (99) you can overwhelm the Iron Giant. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B A T T L E - RED DRAGON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 70 | 99999 | 150 | 50 | 60000 | 14666 | D16*| None | Crystal Tower/Seacave| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (100% chance) | | 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Elixir | | 5 - Elixir 6 - Onion Shield 7 - Onion Armor 8 - Onion Sword | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 65 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o My strategy with this dragon: Ninja throws, Bard plays Apollo Harp on the first round, Viking uses Provoke and Sage/Devout heals with Curaja. Next round, Lamia Harp with the Bard and the rest as before. The dragon only has two attacks although it is capable of doing a powerful physical strike that caused nearly 1800 HP damage to the Viking, despite two shields and being on the back row. Its other attack is Lightning on one or Blizzaga and Firaga. When I forgot to use the Apollo on one round the Viking died after a critical strike doing over 2000 damage, so I needed that Arise spell! on my very first battle I got the drop of an Onion Shield. You could try fielding a Thief and stealing instead, but since you're going to get something it's probably not worth while bothering unless you have a high job level Thief. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B A T T L E - GREEN DRAGON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 60 | 89999 | 129 | 45 | 45000 | 13330 | None | Crystal Tower/Seacave| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (100% chance) | | 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Elixir | | 5 - Elixir 6 - Onion Shield 7 - Onion Gauntlets 8 - Onion Sword | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 60 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o I tested out a different team this time, all at level 62 against the green dragon with a Dragoon, Knight, Bard and Sage. Again the Bard went first with the Apollo harp to protect everyone and the Dragoon jumped. Sage cast curaga and Knight hit with double swords on the front row. Second round, Bard used Lamia harp, and Sage cast Flare with good results. The Dragoon landed and the Knight hit again. Third round repeat the first. It also uses Blizzaga and Firaga on one or all and two attacks each round. This was a better team with no deaths, but then the green dragon is weaker than the red. YELLOW DRAGON o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B A T T L E - YELLOW DRAGON | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 50 | 79999 | 107 | 40 | 30000 | 12000 | None | Crystal Tower/SeaCave| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS (100% chance) | | 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Elixir | | 5 - Elixir 6 - Onion Shield 7 - Onion Helm 8 - Onion Sword | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 55 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o This one is easy if you've already defeated the other two dragons! It uses Blizzara and Thundaga and has two attacks per round just the same. o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | B O S S - IRON GIANT | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LV | HP | ATK | DEF | EXP | GIL | WEAK | LOCATION | |----+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------------+----------------------| | 81 |199999 | 255 | 155 | 99999 | 99999 | None | Underwater Cave | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DROPS: Nothing | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Recommended Level: 80 | o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------o Meteor will kill everyone if they have 3000 HP, and my Dragoon only managed to do 400 damage to him WITH the Gungir and Blood Lance. But that was at level 55, just to see what would happen. The other bad news is that it has four attacks on each round. It might just slice with its weapon which can kill someone outright, even with some protection in place: look at the stat for attack! I will defeat him eventually, but it might take a while to raise levels high enough to do so. Watch this space... In the meantime...the sure fire way of defeating him is to get all the Onion Knight equipment from the dragons and raise everyone's OK job levels to the maximum, giving you a hugely over-powered team. The reward for beating him is the [METAL CARD]. Knock yourself out! =============================================================================== VIII. L I S T S ............................. *LIST =============================================================================== 01. Shops 02. Equipment 03. Weapons 04. Items 05. Magic Spells 06. Monster Lists =============================================================================== 01. S H O P S ...........................................................*L01 =============================================================================== 01. Ur Village 02. Kasus 03. Canaan 04. Tozus 05. Vikings' Cove 06. Village of the Ancients 07. Dwarven Hollows 08. Gysahl 09. Amur 10. Duster 11. Replito 12. Saronia i. Northwestern Saronia ii. Southeastern Saronia iii. Northeastern Saronia 13. Doga's Manor 14. Doga's Village 15. Ancient Ruins 16. Invincible 17. Falgabard 18. Eureka Note that anything purchased can be sold for half the amount paid. Items and equipment that are found (such as Phoenix Downs, or an Air Knife) will only fetch 1 Gil. 01. UR VILLAGE ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Dagger | 60 | +9 ATK | Longsword | 100 | +10 ATK | Staff | 40 | +3 ATK | Bow | 100 | +10 ATK | Wooden Arrow | 4 | +6 ATK | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Leather Armour | 90 | +3 DEF | Leather Shield | 40 | +2 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Leather Cap | 15 | +1 DEF | Bronze Bracers | 80 | +1 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Poisona | 100 | White Lv.1 Removes poison ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 02. KASUS ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Mythril Rod | 400 | +12 ATK | Mythril Knife | 500 | +14 ATK | Mythril Sword | 500 | +17 ATK | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Mythril Armour | 350 | +10 DEF | Mythril Shield | 190 | +3 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Mythril Helm | 130 | +4 DEF | Mythril Gloves | 120 | +3 DEF | Mythril Bracers | 120 | +2 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fire | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals fire damage Blizzard | 100 | Black Lv 1 Deals ice damage Sleep | 100 | Black Lv 1 Inflicts sleep ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 03. CANAAN ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Mythril Rod | 400 | +12 ATK | Mythril Knife | 500 | +14 ATK | Mythril Sword | 500 | +17 ATK | Great Bow | 1500 | +18 ATK | Iron Arrow | 8 | +12 ATK | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Mythril Armour | 350 | +10 DEF | Mythril Shield | 190 | +3 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Mythril Helm | 130 | +4 DEF | Mythril Gloves | 120 | +3 DEF | Mythril Bracers | 120 | +2 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Cure | 100 | White Lv.1 Restores HP Thunder | 700 | Black Lv.2 Deals lightning damage Poison | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals damage and inflicts poison Blind | 700 | Black Lv.2 Inflicts blind ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 04. TOZUS ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- GNOME ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Gnomish Bread | 200 | Shows a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fire | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals fire damage Blizzard | 100 | Black Lv 1 Deals ice damage Sleep | 100 | Black Lv 1 Inflicts sleep Thunder | 700 | Black Lv.2 Deals lightning damage Poison | 100 | Black Lv.2 Deals damage and inflicts poison Blind | 700 | Black Lv.2 Inflicts blind Aero | 700 | White Lv.2 Deals wind damage ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 05. VIKINGS' COVE ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fire | 100 | Black Lv.1 Deals fire damage Blizzard | 100 | Black Lv 1 Deals ice damage Sleep | 100 | Black Lv 1 Inflicts sleep Thunder | 700 | Black Lv.2 Deals lightning damage Poison | 100 | Black Lv.2 Deals damage and inflicts poison Blind | 700 | Black Lv.2 Inflicts blind Mini | 1000 | White Lv.2 Shrinks and unshrinks target ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 06. VILLAGE OF THE ANCIENTS ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Serpent Sword | 1500 | +25 ATK | Deals lightning damage Fire Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Fire Ice Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Blizzard Light Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Thunder Killer Bow | 4000 | +26 ATK | - Fire Arrow | 150 | +17 ATK | Deals fire damage Ice Arrow | 150 | +17 ATK | Deals ice damage Light Arrow | 150 | +17 ATK | Deals lightning damage ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Shell Armour | 1250 | +18 DEF | Flame Mail | 2400 | +21 DEF | Headband | 1200 | +8 DEF | Kenpo Gi | 2000 | +20 DEF | Mage Robe | 2000 | +13 DEF | ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Sight | 100 | White Lv.1 Displays a detailed map Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 07. DWARVEN HOLLOWS ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Tyrfing | 2000 | +28 ATK | - Fire Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Fire Ice Staff | 3500 | +20 ATK | Casts Blizzard Diamond Bell | 4500 | +42 ATK | - Iron Arrow | 8 | +12 ATK | Holy Arrow | 10 | +8 ATK | Deals light damage ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Ice Armour | 2400 | +20 DEF | Ice Helm | 1200 | +10 DEF | Ice Shield | 1800 | +6 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Flame Mail | 2400 | +21 DEF | Mage Robe | 2000 | +13 DEF | Kenpo Gi | 2000 | +20 DEF | ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 08. GYSAHL ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Magic Key | 100 | Opens locked doors ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Toad | 1000 | White Lv.2 Inflicts toad or removes toad Mini | 1000 | White Lv.2 Shrinks and unshrinks target Break | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts petrification Shade | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts paralysis Libra | 3000 | White Lv.4 Displays weak points Confuse | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts confusion Silence | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts silence ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 09. AMUR ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP. Use at any time. Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Battleaxe | 7400 | +65 ATK | - Main Gauche | 7000 | +35 ATK | - Thunder Spear | 8000 | +45 ATK | Deals lightning damage Selene Bow | 16000 | +63 ATK | - Boomerang | 9000 | +40 ATK | - Iron Arrow | 8 | +12 ATK | - Holy Arrow | 10 | +8 ATK | Deals light damage Madhura Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | - ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Viking Helm | 5500 | +19 DEF | Viking Mail | 8000 | +38 DEF | Heroic Shield | 3500 | +9 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Thief Gloves | 2500 | +11 DEF | Black Garb | 5000 | +30 DEF | Black Cowl | 4000 | +15 DEF | Black Belt Gi | 6000 | +33 DEF | Chakra Band | 4500 | +17 DEF | ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 10. DUSTER ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Diamond Bell | 4500 | +42 ATK | - Madhura Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | - Loki Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | - Lamia Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | Inflicts confusion Dream Harp | 10000 | +60 ATK | Inflicts sleep ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Gaia Vest | 7500 | +35 DEF | - Bard Vest | 5500 | +32 DEF | - Feathered Hat | 6000 | +10 DEF | - Rune Bracers | 5000 | +11 DEF | Protects from some status ailments ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 11. REPLITO ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Gnomish Bread | 200 | Displays a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Escape | 100 | Summons Lv.1: Summons Chocobo Icen | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Shiva Spark | 7000 | Summons Lv.3: Summons Ramuh Heatra | 7000 | Summons Lv.4: Summons Ifrit Hyper | 7000 | Summons Lv.5: Summons Titan ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 12. SARONIA "Open" = on the first visit. Item shops are open, but other shops are closed until events are completed. i. Northwestern Saronia ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ ii. Southwestern Saronia ----------------------.--------.----------.------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Gaia Vest | 7500 | +35 DEF | - Bard Vest | 5500 | +32 DEF | - Scholar Robe | 5500 | +20 DEF | - Scholar Hat | 7500 | +11 DEF | - ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ iii. Northeastern Saronia ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP (open) | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Gnomish Bread | 200 | Displays a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP 1 (open) | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Thunder Spear | 8000 | +45 ATK | Deals lightning damage Wind Spear | 10000 | +50 ATK | Deals wind damage ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP 2 | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Fire Rod | 10000 | +25 ATK | Casts Fira Ice Rod | 10000 | +25 ATK | Casts Blizzara Light Rod | 10000 | +25 ATK | Casts Thundara Golem Staff | 13500 | +30 ATk | Casts Break Rune Staff | 18000 | +33 ATK | Casts Erase Wizard Rod | 20000 | +20 ATk | - ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 1 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Break | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts petrification Blizzaga | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Deals ice damage Shade | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts paralysis Libra | 3000 | White Lv.4 Displays weak points Confuse | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts confusion Silence | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts silence ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 2 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Thundaga | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Deals lightning damage Raze | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Causes KO to weak enemies Erase | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Dispels beneficial magic Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally Protect | 5000 | White Lv.5 Increases defence ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 13. DOGA'S MANOR ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP (open) | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Firaga | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals fire damage Bio | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals non-elemental damage Warp | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Creates rift to another dimension Aeroga | 10000 | White Lv.6 Deals wind damage Stona | 10000 | White Lv.6 Removes petrification Haste | 10000 | White Lv.6 Increases attack speed Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 14. DOGA'S VILLAGE ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 1 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 2 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Escape | 100 | Summons Lv.1: Summons Chocobo Icen | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Shiva Spark | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Ramuh Heatra | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Ifrit Hyper | 7000 | Summons Lv.2: Summons Titan ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 3 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Thundaga | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Deals lightning damage Raze | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Causes KO to weak enemies Erase | 5000 | Black Lv.5 Dispels beneficial magic Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally Protect | 5000 | White Lv.5 Increases defence ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 4 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Quake | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Deals earth damage Breakga | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Inflicts petrification Drain | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Absorbs life Curaja | 20000 | White Lv.7 Restores a massive amount of HP Esuna | 20000 | White Lv.7 Removes all status ailments Reflect | 20000 | White Lv.7 Creates a magic-reflecting barrier ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 5 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Break | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts petrification Blizzaga | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Deals ice damage Shade | 3000 | Black Lv.4 Inflicts paralysis Libra | 3000 | White Lv.4 Displays weak points Confuse | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts confusion Silence | 3000 | White Lv.4 Inflicts silence ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 6 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Firaga | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals fire damage Bio | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Deals non-elemental damage Warp | 10000 | Black Lv.6 Creates rift to another dimension Aeroga | 10000 | White Lv.6 Deals wind damage Stona | 10000 | White Lv.6 Removes petrification Haste | 10000 | White Lv.6 Increases attack speed Curaga | 5000 | White Lv.5 Restores a great deal of HP Raise | 5000 | White Lv.5 Revives ally ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 15. ANCIENT RUINS ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Maiden's Kiss | 100 | Removes toad Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Mallet | 100 | Shrinks and unshrinks target Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Defender | 28000 | +95 ATK | Casts Protect Blood Lance | 28000 | +95 ATK | Absorbs life Medusa Arrow | 300 | +23 ATK | Inflicts gradual petrification ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Diamond Shield | 18000 | +14 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Diamond Helm | 20000 | +21 DEF | - White Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Black Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Diamond Mail | 32000 | +40 DEF | - Diamond Bracers | 10000 | +13 DEF | - Diamond Gloves | 10000 | +15 DEF | - ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ 16. INVINCIBLE ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Potion | 50 | Restores 50 HP Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Sleep Arrow | 200 | +20 ATK | Inflicts sleep Poison Arrow | 200 | +20 ATK | Inflicts poison Medusa Arrow | 300 | +23 ATK | Inflicts gradual petrification Magic Arrow | 250 | +27 ATK | - Dark Knife | 30000 | +99 ATK | - Rune Axe | 35000 | +110 ATK | - Dragon Lance | 40000 | +117 ATK | - ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Diamond Shield | 18000 | +14 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Diamond Helm | 20000 | +21 DEF | - Diamond Mail | 32000 | +40 DEF | - Diamond Bracers | 10000 | +13 DEF | - Diamond Gloves | 10000 | +15 DEF | - White Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Black Robe | 27000 | +31 DEF | - Gaia Vest | 7600 | +35 DEF | - ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Quake | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Deals earth damage Breakga | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Inflicts petrification Drain | 20000 | Black Lv.7 Absorbs life Curaja | 20000 | White Lv.7 Restores a massive amount of HP Esuna | 20000 | White Lv.7 Removes all status ailments Reflect | 20000 | White Lv.7 Creates a magic-reflecting barrier ______________________|________|_______________________________________________ 17. FALGABARD ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- ITEM SHOP | Cost | Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Hi-Potion | 600 | Restores 500 HP Gold Needle | 100 | Removes petrification Echo Herbs | 100 | Removes silence Eye Drops | 40 | Removes blind Antidote | 80 | Removes poison Ottershroom | 2000 | Teleports party out of dungeons Gysahl Greens | 150 | It could be used to attract something... Gnomish Bread | 200 | Displays a detailed map ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ MAGIC SHOP | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Fira | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals fire damage Blizzara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals ice damage Thundara | 1500 | Black Lv.3 Deals lightning damage Cura | 1500 | White Lv.3 Restores a large amount of HP Teleport | 1500 | White Lv.3 Teleports party out of dungeons Blindna | 1500 | White Lv.3 Lv.3 Removes blind ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Demon Mail | 25000 | *38 DEF | - Demon Shield | 12500 | +12 DEF | Protects from some status ailments ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+----------------------------------- Ashura | 16000 | +100 ATK | Effective against dividing enemies Yoichi Bow | 42000 | +70 ATK | - Yoichi Arrow | 500 | +40 ATK | - Demon Axe | 40000 | +116 ATK | - ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ 18. EUREKA ----------------------.--------.----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 1 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Flare | 60000 | Black Lv.8 Deals fire damage Death | 60000 | Black Lv.8 Causes instant KO Meteor | 60000 | Black Lv.8 Calls down meteors Tornado | 60000 | White Lv.8 Deals wind damage Arise | 60000 | White Lv.8 Revives ally and restores HP Holy | 60000 | White Lv.8 Deals light damage ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- MAGIC SHOP 2 | Cost | Type and Effect ----------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------- Catastro | 40000 | Summons Lv 6 Summons Odin Leviath | 50000 | Summons Lv 7 Summons Leviathan Bahamut | 60000 | Summons Lv 8 Summons Bahamut ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ ARMOUR/WEAPON SHOP | Cost | Effect | Notes ----------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------ Shuriken | 65500 | +200 ATK | Can only be thrown Crystal Shield | 50000 | +20 DEF | Protects from some status ailments Crystal Mail | 50000 | *55 DEF | - Crystal Gloves | 50000 | +30 DEF | - Crystal Helm | 50000 | +31 DEF | - Apollo Harp | 60000 | +60 ATK | Inflicts silence ______________________|________|__________|____________________________________ =============================================================================== 02. E Q U I P M E N T ..................................................*L02 =============================================================================== 1. Body Armour 2. Shields 3. Head Armour 4. Arms Armour - Stat Bonus on Level Up - STR = Strength (increases power of physical attacks) AGL = Agility (determines turn order in battle) VIT = Vitality (determines how much HP increases on level up) INT = Intellect (increases power of Black magic) MND = Mind (increases power of White magic) *P = Protects from *E = Equipped by OK = Onion Knight only ----------------.-----.-----.---------------------.---------------------------- 01. BODY ARMOUR | DEF | MDF | STR AGL VIT INT MND | NOTES/ITEM USE ----------------+-----+-----+---------------------+---------------------------- Vest | 1 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Rusty Mail | 1 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Leather Armor | 3 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Mythril Armor | 10 | 3 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Mage Robe | 13 | 13 | -- -- -- +1 +1 | -------------------------- Shell Armor | 18 | 9 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Ice Armor | 20 | 9 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Kenpo Gi | 20 | 8 | -- +1 +1 -- -- | -------------------------- Scholar Robe | 20 | 23 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------------------- Flame Mail | 21 | 11 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Knight Armor | 25 | 7 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Black Garb | 30 | 18 | -- +2 +2 -- -- | -------------------------- Reflect Mail | 30 | 30 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | *P Some status ailments White Robe | 31 | 45 | -- -- -- -- +5 | -------------------------- Black Robe | 31 | 45 | -- -- -- -- +5 | -------------------------- Bard Vest | 32 | 28 | -- +2 -- -- +2 | -------------------------- Black Belt Gi | 33 | 18 | -- +3 +3 -- -- | -------------------------- Dragon Mail | 35 | 13 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Gaia Vest | 35 | 25 | -- -- +3 -- -- | -------------------------- Viking Mail | 36 | 5 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Demon Mail | 38 | 17 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Diamond Mail | 40 | 19 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Genji Armor | 45 | 22 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Fuma Garb | 47 | 30 | -- +3 +3 -- -- | -------------------------- Crystal Mail | 55 | 24 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Onion Armor | 60 | 40 | +5 -- +5 -- -- | *E Onion Knight only Angel Robe | 45 | 45 | -- -- -- -- 20 | *E White Mage only Crimson Vest | 50 | 25 | +10 +10 +10 +10 +10 | *E Red Mage only Master Dogi | 54 | 23 | -- +10 -- -- +10 | *E Black Belt only ________________|_____|_____|__________________________________________________ ----------------.-----.-----.---------------------.---------------------------- 02. SHIELDS | DEF | MDF | STR AGL VIT INT MND | NOTES/ITEM USE ----------------+-----+-----+---------------------+---------------------------- Leather Shield | 2 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Mythril Shield | 3 | 3 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Ice Shield | 6 | 4 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Heroic Shield | 9 | 6 | +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 | *P Some status ailments Demon Shield | 12 | 8 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Diamond Shield | 14 | 10 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Aegis Shield | 16 | 17 | -- -- -- -- +4 | *P All status ailments Genji Shield | 18 | 13 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Crystal Shield | 20 | 15 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P Some status ailments Onion Shield | 30 | 30 | +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 | *P All status ailments (OK) ________________|_____|_____|__________________________________________________ ----------------.-----.-----.---------------------.---------------------------- 03. HEAD ARMOUR | DEF | MDF | STR AGL VIT INT MND | NOTES/ITEM USE ----------------+-----+-----+---------------------+---------------------------- Leather Cap | 1 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Mythril Helm | 4 | 3 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Shell Helm | 6 | 5 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Headband | 8 | 3 | +1 -- +1 -- -- | -------------------------- Ice Helm | 10 | 6 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Feathered Hat | 10 | 16 | -- +2 -- -- -- | -------------------------- Scholar Hat | 11 | 16 | -- -- -- +1 -- | -------------------------- Black Cowl | 15 | 10 | -- +2 -- -- -- | -------------------------- Chakra Band | 17 | 11 | -- -- +2 -- -- | -------------------------- Dragon Helm | 18 | 9 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Viking Helm | 19 | 5 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Diamond Helm | 21 | 10 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Ribbon | 23 | 20 | -- -- -- -- -- | *P All status ailments Genji Helm | 25 | 15 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Crystal Helm | 31 | 17 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Onion Helm | 40 | 40 | -- -- -- +5 +5 | *P All status ailments (OK) Royal Crown | 33 | 36 | -- -- -- +10 +10 | *E Evoker only Ballad Crown | 35 | 34 | -- -- +10 -- +10 | *E Bard only ________________|_____|_____|__________________________________________________ ----------------.-----.-----.---------------------.---------------------------- 04. ARMS ARMOUR | DEF | MDF | STR AGL VIT INT MND | NOTES/ITEM USE ----------------+-----+-----+---------------------+---------------------------- Bronze Bracers | 1 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Mythril Bracers | 2 | 4 | -- -- -- +1 +1 | -------------------------- Mythril Gloves | 3 | 1 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------------------- Gauntlets | 8 | 4 | +1 -- +1 -- -- | -------------------------- Thief Gloves | 11 | 8 | -- +3 -- -- -- | -------------------------- Rune Bracers | 11 | 13 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | +P Some status ailments Power Bracers | 13 | 9 | +2 -- +2 -- -- | -------------------------- Diamond Bracers | 13 | 16 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | -------------------------- Diamond Gloves | 15 | 7 | +3 -- +3 -- -- | -------------------------- Protect Ring | 18 | 18 | +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 | -------------------------- Genji Gloves | 20 | 14 | +4 +4 -- -- -- | -------------------------- Crystal Gloves | 30 | 15 | +4 -- +4 -- -- | -------------------------- Onion Gauntlets | 50 | 25 | +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 | *P All status ailments (OK) Celestial Gloves| 40 | 18 | +15 +15 +15 +15 +15 | *E Freelancer only Shura Gloves | 45 | 19 | +20 -- -- -- -- | *E Monk only Astral Bracers | 47 | 20 | -- -- -- +10 +10 | *E Summoner only ________________|_____|_____|__________________________________________________ =============================================================================== 03. W E A P O N S ......................................................*L03 =============================================================================== 01. Daggers 02. Swords 03. Katanas 04. Staves/Rods 05. Bows 06. Arrows 07. Fists/Claws 08. Lances/Spears 09. Hammers 10. Axes 11. Throwing 12. Books 13. Bells 14. Harps Stat Bonus on Level Up STR = Strength (increases power of physical attacks) AGL = Agility (determines turn order in battle) VIT = Vitality (determines how much HP increases on level up) INT = Intellect (increases power of Black magic) MND = Mind (increases power of White magic) ITEM USE = A number of weapons have an additional use as an item to cast various spells. The spell is listed. EFFECTS = Some weapons deal additional elemental damage or inflict a status ailment. The element or ailment is listed. *E = Equipped only by one job OK = Onion Knight only ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 01. DAGGERS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Knife | 8 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Dagger | 9 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Mythril Knife | 14 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Spark Dagger | 23 | -- +2 -- -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Main Guache | 35 | -- +3 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Poison Dagger | 40 | -- +4 -- -- -- | -------------- | Poison Behemoth Knife | 78 | +8 -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Air Knife | 89 | -- +6 -- -- -- | -------------- | Wind Dark Knife | 93 | -- +5 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Lust Dagger | 110 | -- +8 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Gladius | 130 | -- +20 -- -- -- | -------------- |*E Thief only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 02. SWORDS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Golden Sword | 5 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Longsword | 10 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Wightslayer | 15 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Mythril Sword | 17 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Tyrfing | 28 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Salamand Sword | 30 | -- -- -- -- -- | Casts Fire | Fire Freezing Blade | 32 | -- -- -- -- -- | Casts Blizzard | Ice Serpent Sword | 25 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Royal Sword | 50 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Blood Sword | 55 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Absorbs life Ancient Sword | 80 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Paralysis Defender | 95 | -- -- +5 -- -- | Casts Protect | --------------- Break Blade | 125 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Gradual petrify Excalibur | 132 | +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 | -------------- | --------------- Ragnarok | 140 | +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 | -------------- | --------------- Onion Sword | 156 | +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 | -------------- | --------------- Save the Queen | 140 | -- -- +10 -- +10 | Casts Reflect | *E Knight only Onion Blade | 150 | +7 +7 +7 +7 +7 | -------------- | +E Onion Knight Ultima Weapon | 155 | +15 +15 +15 +15 +15 | -------------- | --------------- ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ** All Katanas are effective against enemies that divide. ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 03. KATANAS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Ashura | 100 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Kotetsu | 105 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Kiku-Ichimonji | 115 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Masamune | 132 | -- +10 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Murakumo | 140 | -- +20 -- -- -- | -------------- | *E Dark Knight Muramasa | 140 | +5 +10 +5 +5 +5 | -------------- | *E Ninja only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 04. STAVES | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Staff | 3 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Fire Staff | 20 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | Casts Fire | --------------- Ice Staff | 20 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | Casts Blizzard | --------------- Light Staff | 20 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | Casts Thunder | --------------- Golem Staff | 30 | -- -- -- -- +3 | Casts Break | --------------- Rune Staff | 33 | -- -- -- -- +4 | Casts Firaga | --------------- Elder Staff | 85 | -- -- -- -- +6 | Casts Cura | --------------- Holy Wand | 110 | -- -- -- -- +20 | Casts Curaga | --------------- Sage Staff | 110 | +10 +10 +10 +10 +10 | -------------- | --------------- Mythril Rod | 12 | -- -- -- +1 -- | -------------- | --------------- Wizard Rod | 20 | -- -- -- +5 -- | -------------- | --------------- Fire Rod | 25 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | Casts Fira | --------------- Ice Rod | 25 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | Casts Blizzara | --------------- Light Rod | 25 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | Casts Thundara | --------------- Omnirod | 93 | -- -- -- +10 -- | -------------- | Gradual petrify Lilith Rod | 110 | -- -- -- +20 -- | Casts Death | *E Black Mage Millenium Rod | 110 | -- -- -- +10 +10 | Casts Blizzaga | *E Magus only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ *Two-handed weapon: one hand wields the bow and the other hand equips the arrows. ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 05. BOWS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Bow | 10 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Great Bow | 18 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Killer Bow | 26 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Rune Bow | 42 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------- | --------------- Selene Bow | 63 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Yoichi Bow | 70 | -- +5 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Euytos Bow | 95 | +5 -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Elven Bow | 109 | -- +5 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Artemis Bow | 122 | +10 +10 -- -- -- | -------------- | *Ranger only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ *Used with a bow or thrown by a Ninja. ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 06. ARROWS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Wooden Arrow | 6 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Holy Arrow | 8 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Light Iron Arrow | 12 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Fire Arrow | 17 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Fire Ice Arrow | 17 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Ice Light Arrow | 17 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Sleep Arrow | 20 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Sleep Poison Arrow | 20 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Poison Medusa Arrow | 23 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Petrification Magic Arrow | 27 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Yoichi Arrow | 40 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 07. FISTS/CLAWS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Bronze Knuckles | 12 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Sonic Knuckles | 28 | -- +2 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Impact Claws | 34 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Cat Claws | 42 | -- +3 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Kaiser Knuckles | 50 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Wyvern Claws | 51 | -- +4 -- -- -- | -------------- | Wind Tiger Claws | 82 | +5 -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Faerie Claws | 89 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------- | --------------- Metal Knuckles | 100 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Dark Claws | 115 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Hellish Claws | 121 | -- -- +5 -- -- | -------------- | Poison ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 08. SPEARS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Thunder Spear | 45 | -- -- -- -- -- | Casts Thunder | Lightning Wind Spear | 53 | -- -- -- -- -- | Casts Aero | Wind Heavy Lance | 84 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Blood Lance | 95 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Absorbs life Trident | 108 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Dragon Lance | 117 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Holy Lance | 125 | -- -- -- -- -- | Casts Holy | Light Gungir | 140 | +10 +10 -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Magic Lance | 145 | +20 -- -- -- -- | -------------- | *Dragoon only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 09. HAMMERS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Hammer | 55 | -- -- +1 -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Dragon Hammer | 70 | -- -- +4 -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Triton Hammer | 110 | -- -- +5 -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Platinum Hammer | 115 | -- -- +2 -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Blessed Hammer | 120 | -- -- +3 -- -- | -------------- | Lightning Mighty Hammer | 145 | -- -- +20 -- -- | -------------- | Lightning | | | | *E Viking only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 10. AXES | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Viking Axe | 33 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Battleaxe | 65 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Dual Tomahawk | 73 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Rune Axe | 110 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------- | --------------- Demon Axe | 116 | +2 -- +2 -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Dual Haken | 122 | +3 -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Gigantic Axe | 155 | +20 -- -- -- -- | -------------- | *E Warrior only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 11. THROWING | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Boomerang | 40 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Chakram | 50 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Rising Sun | 70 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Moonring Blade | 110 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Shuriken | 200 | -- -- -- -- -- | Throw and lose | Used by Ninja ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 12. BOOKS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Book of Fire | 32 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------- | Fire Book of Ice | 32 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------- | Ice Book of Light | 32 | -- -- -- +2 +2 | -------------- | Lightning Tome of Fire | 53 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | -------------- | Fire Tome of Ice | 53 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | -------------- | Ice Tome of Light | 53 | -- -- -- +3 +3 | -------------- | Lightning Cognitome | 78 | -- -- -- +5 +5 | -------------- | --------------- Omnitome | 130 | -- -- -- +10 +10 | -------------- | *E Scholar only ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 13. BELLS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | ITEM USE | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Diamond Bel | 42 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Earthen Bell | 88 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | Paralysis Rune Bell | 98 | -- -- -- -- -- | -------------- | --------------- Blessed Bell | 130 | -- +10 -- +10 +10 | -------------- | *E Geomancer ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ ----------------.-----.---------------------.----------------.----------------- 14. HARPS | ATK | STR AGL VIT INT MND | SONG EFFECT | EFFECTS ----------------+-----+---------------------+----------------+----------------- Madhura Harp | 60 | -- -- -- -- +5 |Increase defence| --------------- Loki Harp | 60 | -- -- -- -- +5 | Increase attack| --------------- Lamia Harp | 60 | -- -- -- -- +5 | Damage enemies | Confusion Dream Harp | 60 | -- -- -- -- +5 | Heal HP | Sleep Apollo Harp | 60 | -- -- -- -- +10 | Reduce damage | Silence ________________|_____|_____________________|________________|_________________ =============================================================================== 04. I T E M S .......................................................... *L04 =============================================================================== 1. Out of Battle Items 2. Restoration - In and Out of Battle 3. Battle Items 4. Key Items Shop bought items sell for half price. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. OUT OF BATTLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gnomish Bread Effect: Shows a detailed map - displays the whole continent and important locations, though with no names. Press A to exit the map screen. Cost : 200 Gil Buy : Item shop in Tozus, Replito, NE Saronia, Falgabard Find : Canaan x2 Drops : N/A Gysahl Greens Effect: It could be used to attract something... Cost : 150 Gil Buy : Gysahl, Amur, Duster, Replito, NW Saronia, NE Saronia, Doga's Manor, Ancient Ruins, The Invincible Find : Gysahl x3, Dwarven Hollows x1 Drops : N/A Magic Key Effect: Opens locked doors. One time use. Cost : 100 Gil Buy : Gysahl Find : Gysahl x2, Dwarven Hollows x1, Amur x3 Drops : N/A Ottershroom Effect: Teleports party out of dungeons (Teleport) Cost : 2000 Gil Buy : Replito, NE Saronia, The Invincible, Falgabard Find : Dwarven Hollows x1, Drops : N/A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. RESTORATION - IN AND OUT OF BATTLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of these items can be bought at many of the shops, but the Elixir and Phoenix Down cannot be purchased. Obtain items from treasure chests, enemy drops or from stealing successfully! I won't bother listing all the sources of the common shop bought items, but you can rest easy knowing all the locations of all Phoenix Downs and Elixirs! Antidote Effect: Removes poison Cost : 80 Gil Echo Herbs Effect: Removes silence Cost : 100 Gil Elixir (D16, D17, D18, D19, D21) Effect: Fully restores HP and MP Cost : N/A (Sell for 1 Gil!) Find : Canaan, Dwarven Hollows, Castle Hein, Castle Argus (x2), Replito, NE Saronia, Sunken Cave, Saronia Catacombs (x4), Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair, Ancients' Maze, Crystal Tower (x5), Eureka (x4), Drops : Red Dragon, Green Dragon, Yellow Dragon, Odin, King Behemoth Eye Drops Effect: Removes blind Cost : 40 Gil Gold Needle Effect: Removes petrification Cost : 100 Gil Hi-Potion Effect: Restores 500 HP. Cost : 600 Gil Maiden's Kiss Effect: Removes toad Cost : 100 Gil Mallet Effect: Shrinks and unshrinks target Cost : 100 Gil Phoenix Down (D1, D10, D20) Effect: Revives ally. Cost : N/A (Sell for 1 Gil!) Find : Ur (x2), Castle Sasune, Canaan (x3), Dragon's Peak, Tozus (x2), Molten Cave (x2), Dwarven Hollows x2, Castle Hein (x4), Replito, Dragon Spire (x2), Saronia Castle (x2), Sunken Cave, Saronia Catacombs (x4), Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair (x2), Doga's Grotto (x2), Ancients' Maze (x2), Crystal Tower (x5), Eureka (x3) Drops : Agaliarept, Aughisky, Barometz, Basilisk, Berserker, Blood Worm, Blue Wisp, Bugbear, Carbuncle. Cuphgel, Cursed Copper, Dark Eye, Dark Face, Darklegs, Dracrocotta, Dullahan, Eye Fang, FarDarrig, Firefly, Flyer, Fury, Gigantoad, Goblin, Gorgon, Hellgaroo, Hermit, Killer Fish, Leprechaun, Lilliputian, Lizardman, Lynx, Mandrake, Mummy, Poison Toad, Red Wisp, Ruinous Wave, Ruhk, Shadow, Skeleton, Stroper, Tarantula, Twin Ligur, Twin Heads, Werewolf, Xombie. Abtu, Aeon, Ahriman, Amon, Azrael, Bahamut, Behemoth, Bone Dragon, Bovian, Cerberus, Charybdis, Chronos, Cyclops, Dark General, Demon Horse, Dira, Doga, Dozmare, Dragon, Drake, Eater, Echidna, Flyer Mage, Gaap, Gargoyle, Garuda, General. Goldor, Greater Demon, Guardian, Gutsco, Haniel, Harpy, Hein, Hellgaroo Mage, Humbaba, Iron Claws, Kagura, Ling izard, King Seahorse, Kraken, Leviathan, Ligur, Meduas, Minotaur, Nemesis, Noggle, Ogre, Peryton, Plancti, Pterodactyl, Pyralis, Queen Lamia, Remora, Sabertooth Liger, Sand Worm, Scylla, Sea Dragon, Sea Lion, Silenus, Simurgh, Thanatos, Titan, Two-Headed Dragon, Unei, Valefor, Vassago Wyvern, Xande, Zombie Dragon Rust Bird (all 8 ranks contain a Phoenix Down) NOTE: All these enemies have a Phoenix Down as the 8th ranked item, meaning that it's only got a 1.5% chance of dropping, and it will be harder to steal requiring a high job level for a Thief. However, these drop groups are the largest of them all. It would have been easier to write out all the enemies that DON'T carry Phoenix Downs... :p The RUST BIRD is unique as the ONLY monster to carry 8 of them. It's found on Dragon's Peak, the mountain near Canaan. Potion Effect: Restores 50 HP. Cost : 50 Gil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. BATTLE ITEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- None of these items are sold anywhere and they have to be found from treasure chests, gathered as drops from enemies, or stolen from those same enemies. Angel's Sigh (D4, D5) Effect: The mighty cure-everything effect {Esuna) Cost : N/A Sell : ? Find : N/A Drops : Knocker, Red Cap Giant Rat, Griffon, Lamia, Lemur, Slime, Tangie. Antarctic Wind (D3, D5) Effect: Deals ice damage (Blizzara) Cost : N/A Sell : 500 Gil Find : Altar Cave (x2), Sealed Cave, Castle Argus, Molten Cave (x2), Castle Hein Drops : Adamantoise, Anet, Land Turtle, Mermaid Merman, Sahagin, Sea Elemental, Sea Serpent. Giant Rat, Griffon, Lamia, Lemur, Slime, Tangie. Arctic Wind (D3, D12, D14) Effect: Deals intense ice damage (Blizzaga) Cost : N/A Sell : 750 Gil Find : Castle Argus, Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair, Drops : Adamantoise, Anet, Land Turtle, Mermaid Merman, Sahagin, Sea Elemental, Sea Serpent. Aegir, Balor, Boss Troll, Cenchos, Frost Fly, Hydra, Kelpie, Killer Hermit, Ologhai, Sea Witch, Sorceror. Black Flan, Dread Knight, Roper. Bacchus's Cider (D3, D14) Effect: Increases attack speed (Haste) Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : Tokkul, Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair, Drops : Adamantoise, Anet, Land Turtle, Mermaid Merman, Sahagin, Sea Elemental, Sea Serpent. Black Flan, Dread Knight, Roper. Black Hole (D12. D15) Effect: Exit to world map or escape from battle (Warp) Cost : N/A Sell : 2000 Gil Find : N/A Drops : Aegir, Balor, Boss Troll, Cenchos, Frost Fly, Hydra, Kelpie, Killer Hermit, Ologhai, Sea Witch, Sorceror. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, Platinal Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand Black Musk (D13, D15) Effect: Instant kills an enemy (maybe!) (Death) Cost : N/A Sell : 2500 Gil Find : Lake Dohr, Cave of Shadows, Drops : Abaia, Acheron, Haokah, Kyklops, Magician, Oceanus, Sleipnir, Thor. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, PLatinal Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand Bomb Arm (D2, D11, D14) Effect: Deals fire damage (Firaga). Cost : N/A Sell : 750 Gil Find : N/A Drops : Crocotta, Djinn, King Behemoth, Red Marshmallow, Rust Bird. Balloon, Bomb, Fachan, Grenade, Rock Gargoyle, Vulcan. Black Flam, Dread Knight, Roper. Bomb Fragment (D2, D5) Effect: Deals fire damage (Fira). Cost : N/A Sell : 500 Gil Find : Castle Argus, Tower of Owen, Castle Hein Drops : Crocotta, Djinn, King Behemoth, Red Marshmallow, Rust Bird. Giant Rat, Griffon, Lamia, Lemur, Slime, Tangie. Chocobo's Wrath (D13, D15) Effect: Casts Flare. Cost : N/A Sell : 2500 Gil Find : Bahamut's Lair, Doga's Grotto, Ancients' Maze, Crystal Tower (x3), Eureka Drops : Abaia, Acheron, Haokah, Kyklops, Magician, Oceanus, Sleipnir, Thor. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, Platinal, Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand Earthen Drums Effect: Deals Earth damage (Quake) Cost : N/A Sell : 1250 Gil Drops : None Find : Duster (x2), Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair Heavenly Wrath (D4, D13, D14) Effect: Deals intense lightning damage (Thundaga). Cost : N/A Sell : 750 Gil Find : Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair Drops : Knocker, Red Cap. Abaia, Acheron, Haokah, Kyklops, Magician, Oceanus, Sleipnir, Thor. Black Flan, Dread Knight, Roper. Lamia Scale (D2, D14) Effect: Inflicts confusion (Confuse{ Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : Tokkul Drops : Crocotta, Djinn, King Behemoth, Red Marshmallow, Rust Bird. Black Flan, Dread Knight, Roper. Lilith's Kiss (D11, D15) Effect: Sucks out monster HP (Drain). Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : Lake Dohr, Cave of Shadows, Ancients' Maze, Crystal Tower Drops : Balloon, Bomb, Fachan, Grenade, Rock Gargoyle, Vulcan. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, Platinal, Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand Raven's Yawn (D12, D15) Effect: Casts Tornado. Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : Lake Dohr Drops : Aegir, Balor, Boss Troll, Cenchos, Frost Fly, Hydra, Kelpie, Killer Hermit, Ologhai, Sea Witch, Sorceror. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, Platinal, Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand Sheep Pillow (D2) Effect: Puts enemy to sleep (Sleep) Cost : N/A Sell : ? Find : N/A Drops : Crocotta, Djinn, King Behemoth, Red Marshmallow, Rust Bird Shell Breaker (D4, D15) Effect: Removes positive status effects such as Reflect or Haste (Erase) Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : N/A Drops : Knocker, Red Cap. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, Platinal, Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand. Shining Curtain (D13, D15) Effect: Sends the caster's magic flying back to them (Reflect) Cost : N/A Sell : ? Find : N/A Drops : Abaia, Acheron, Haokah, Kyklops, Magician, Oceanus, Sleipnir, Thor. Azer, Bluck, Death Claw, Garm, Glasya Labolas, Gomory, Hecatoncheir, Kage, Kum Kum, Kunoichi, Needle Monkey, Ninja, Platinal, Queen Scylla, Shadow Master, Shinobi, Twin Dragon, Yormungand. Silence Seal (D5, D11) Effect: Prevents enemies from casting spells (Silence) Cost : N/A Sell : 1000 Gil Find : N/A Drops : Giant Rat, Griffon, Lamia, Lemur, Slime, Tangie. Balloon, Bomb, Fachan, Grenade, Rock Gargoyle, Vulcan. Tranquilizer (D5, D11, D13) Effect: Causes paralysis (Shade) Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : Cave of Shadows Drops : Giant Rat, Griffon, Lamia, Lemur, Slime, Tangie. Balloon, Bomb, Fachan, Grenade, Rock Gargoyle, Vulcan. Abaia, Acheron, Haokah, Kyklops, Magician, Oceanus, Sleipnir, Thor. Turtle Shell (D12, D14) Effect: Increases physical and magic defence (Protect) Cost : N/A Sell : 1500 Gil Find : Replito (x2), Lake Dohr Drops : Aegir, Balor, Boss Troll, Cenchos, Frost Fly, Hydra, Kelpie, Killer Hermit, Ologhai, Sea Witch, Sorceror. Black Flan, Dread Knight, Roper. White Musk Effect: Casts Holy Cost : N/A Sell : 2500 Gil Find : Lake Dohr, Bahamut's Lair, Doga's Grotto, Ancients' Maze, Eureka (x3) Drops : N/A Zeus's Wrath (D4, D5) Effect: Deals lightning damage (Thundara). Cost : N/A Sell : 500 Gil Find : Kazus, Tower of Owen, Subterranean Lake (x2), Castle Hein, Wrecked Ship Drops : Knocker, Red Cap. Giant Rat, Griffon, Lamia, Lemur, Slime, Tangie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. KEY ITEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job Cards (Key Items) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are all obtained from the Legendary Smith when a character fully masters a job: that is, reaches Job Level 99. Bard Card Black Belt Card Black Mage Card Dark Knight Card Devout Card Dragoon Card Evoker Card Freelancer Card Geomancer Card Knight Card Magus Card Monk Card Ninja Card Onion Knight Card Ranger Card Red Mage Card Sage Card Scholar Card Summoner Card Thief Card Viking Card Warrior Card White Mage Card ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chain Key Description: A key required to free the airship from the chains. Obtain : In Goldor Manor, after defeating Goldor. Use : Releases the airship from it's chains near Amur. Eureka Key Description: The key that opens the way to Eureka. Obtain : In Doga's Grotto. After defeating the bosses. Use : Opens up the warp into Eureka, found inside the Crystal Tower. Fang of Earth Description: A crystal sliver brimming with the power of earth. Obtain : In the Cave of Shadwos after beating Hecatoncheir. Use : One of the four fangs needed to destroy four pairs of statues. Fang of Fire Description: A crystal sliver brimming with the power of fire. Obtain : From Uuei, after waking her with Noah's Lute. Use : One of the four fangs needed to destroy four pairs of statues. Fang of Water Description: A crystal sliver brimming with the power of water. Obtain : From the Nepto Dragon after replacing its eye. Use : One of the four fangs needed to destroy four pairs of statues. Fang of Wind Description: A crystal sliver brimming with the power of wind Obtain : From the Elder Tree after defeating Hein Use : One of the four fangs needed to destroy four pairs of statues. Folding Canoe Description: A magic Foldable canoe used to cross shallow waters. Obtain : Gift from King Sasune after beating Djinn. Use : To cross the lake and retrieve the airship. Horn of Ice Description: Obtain : Defeat Gutsco inside the Molten Cave. Use : Releases the Fire Crystal. Levigrass Shoes Description: Shoes designed for crossing bottomless bogs. Obtain : Inside Amer Sewers. Use : Allows access to Goldor Manor. Metal Card Description: Obtain : Reward after defeating the Iron Giant Use : Nepto Eye Description: The Nepto Dragon statue's missing eye. Obtain : From the Giant Rat inside the Nepto Temple. Use : Used to repair the statue. Noah's Lute Description: A lute whose timbre may raise Unei from her sleep. Obtain : Inside the Temple of Time. Use : To awaken Unei from inside her shrine. Orichalcum Description: A chunk of legendary metal. Obtain : Cid identifies the Unknown Metal as this, and it changes name! Use : Hand it over to the Legendary Smith at Falgabard. Sara's Pendant Description: A broken pendant Obtain : After mailing 4 letters to Sara via Mognet, she sends a letter titled "Help". Visit her at Castle Sasune to receive the Pendant. Use : Give to the Legendary Smith to fix. Sara's Pendant Description: A perfectly restored pendant Obtain : From the legendary smith in Northwest Saronia, after fixing it.. Use : Return it to Sara. Syrcus Key Description: The key that opens the way to the Crystal Tower. Obtain : In Doga's Grotto. After defeating the bosses. Use : To open the Crystal Tower. Unknown Metal Description: A chunk of unknown metal Obtain : After defeating Aeon, the boss inside Cid's basement at Canaan. Use : Give to the Legendary Smith to obtain the Ultima weapon. Wheel of Time Description: An advanced device. Also called a perpetual engine. Obtain : Gift from King Argus Use : Give to Cid in Canaan to create the airship. =============================================================================== 05. M A G I C S P E L L S ............................................ *L05 =============================================================================== 1. Magic Levels and Jobs 2. Black Magic 3. White Magic 4. Summons 5. Sources of all Magic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. MAGIC LEVELS AND JOBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----.------------------------.-------------------------.---------------------- MAGIC| Black Magic Jobs | White Magic Jobs | Summon Magic Jobs -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 1 | Freelancer/Black Mage | Freelancer/White Mage/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Red Mage/Scholar/Magus | Red Mage/Knight/Scholar | | Sage/Onion Knight (OK} | Devout/Sage/OK | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 2 | Black Mage/Red Mage/ | White Mage/Red Mage/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Scholar/Magus/Sage/OK | Scholar/Devout/Sage/OK | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 3 | Black Mage/Red Mage/ | White Mage/Red Mage/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Scholar/Magus/Sage/OK | Scholar/Devout/Sage/OK | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 4 | Black Mage/Red Mage/ | White Mage/Red Mage/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Magus/Sage/OK | Devout/Sage/OK | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 5 | Black Mage/Red Mage/ | White Mage/Red Mage/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Magus/Sage/OK | Devout/Sage/OK | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 6 | Black Mage/Magus/Sage/ | White Mage/Devout/Sage/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Onion Knight | Onion Knight | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 7 | Black Mage/Magus/Sage/ | White Mage/Devout/ | Evoker/Summoner/Sage | Onion Knight | Sage/Onion Knight | -----+------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------- LV 8 | Magus/Sage/Onion Knight| Devout/Sage/Onion Knight| Evoker/Summoner/Sage _____|________________________|_________________________|______________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. WHITE MAGIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Although white magic is mostly curative and protective there are some powerful attack spells as well as additional handy spells that help out with location and movement. --.-----------.---------------------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Effect --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Cure | Restores a small amount of HP. Damages undead enemies. 1 | Poisona | Removes poison status 1 | Sight | Displays a map of nearby surroundings when on the world map --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | Aero | Deals a small amount of wind damage 2 | Toad | Transforms target into toad, or restores normal form 2 | Mini | Shrinks target to tiny form or restores normal form --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | Cure | Restores a large amount of HP. Damages undead enemies 3 | Teleport | Teleports party out of a dungeon or escapes a battle 3 | Blindna | Removes blind status --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Libra | Displays target's HP and any weakness 4 | Confuse | Inflicts confusion 4 | Silence | Inflicts silence --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | Curaga | Restores a great amount of HP. Damages undead enemies 5 | Raise | Revives ally from KO status with a small amount of HP. | | Kills undead enemies 5 | Protect | Increases target's defence --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | Aeroga | Deals a large amount of wind damage 6 | Stona | Removes petrification and gradual petrification status 6 | Haste | Increases target's agility --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | Curaja | Restores a massive amount of HP. Damages undead enemies 7 | Esuna | Removes all status ailments except for KO 7 | Reflect | Creases a magic reflecting barrier that bounces spells back --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | Tornado | Reduces an enemy's HP to 1 HP. 8 | Arise | Revives an ally from KO status with full HP 8 | Holy | Smite enemy with divine light __|___________|________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. BLACK MAGIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are nearly all attack spells, and the higher the level of the magic, the more damage is caused. --.-----------.---------------------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Effect --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Fire | Deals fire damage 1 | Blizzard | Deals ice damage 1 | Sleep | Inflicts sleep status --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | Thunder | Deals lightning damage 2 | Poison | Inflicts poison status 2 | Blind | Inflicts blind status --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | Fira | Deals a great amount of fire damage 3 | Blizzara | Deals a great amount of ice damage 3 | Thundara | Deals a great amount of lightning damage --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Break | Deals earth damage while gradually petrifying the target 4 | Blizzaga | Deals a massive amount of ice damage 4 | Shade | Inflicts paralysis status --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | Thundaga | Deals a massive amount of lightning damage 5 | Raze | Inflicts KO status on all enemies below the caster's level 5 | Erase | Removes beneficial magic on enemies --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | Firaga | Deals a massive amount of fire damage 6 | Bio | Deals damage by mutating any bacteria attached to target 6 | Warp | Send target to another dimension. Teleports party to previous | | floor of dungeon if used out of battle --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | Quake | Deals damage by shaking the earth 7 | Breakga | Instantly petrifies target 7 | Drain | Absorbs HP from target --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | Flare | Deals damage by detonating a massive amount of fire and energy 8 | Death | Inflicts KO status on target. Restores HP to undead enemies 8 | Meteor | Rains down meteors on all enemies. Might also damage party __|___________|________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. SUMMONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evokers and Sages cast one of two spells when summoning. This is something the player does not control so it's wise to consider the risks if you don't get the result you wanted. The first five summons are purchased at Duster, but the last three are rewards for beating the optional summons bosses, although in fact they can be purchased as well! (Inside the final room of Eureka, the optional dungeon in the Crystal Tower.) --.-----------.-----------.---------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Spell | Effect --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 1 | Chocobo | Escape | 1. Chocobo Dash - Party escapes battle | | | 2. Chocobo Kick - Weak attack on one enemy --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 2 | Shiva | Icen | 1. Mesmerize - Stuns all foes | | | 2. Icy Stare - Ice damage --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 3 | Ramuh | Spark | 1. Mind Blast - Stuns all foes (if it works) | | | 2. Thunderstorm - Lightning damage --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 4 | Ifrit | Heatra | 1. Healing Light - Restores a lot of HP to party | | | 2. Hellfire - Fire damage --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 5 | Titan | Hyper | 1. Clobber - Earth damage to one | | | 2. Stomp - Earth damage to one --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 6 | Odin | Castastro | 1. Slash - Physical attack on all foes | | | 2. Protective Light - Casts Reflect on all allies --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 7 | Leviathan | Leviath | 1. Demon Eye - Instant KO on all (if it works) | | | 2. Cyclone - Wind damage on all foes --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 8 | Bahamut | Bahamur | 1. Aura - Aura on party | | | 2. Rend - Instant KO to one enemy __|___________|___________|____________________________________________________ Summoners cast a unique spell that's a sure-fire attack, although the Zantetsuken KO spell might not work. --.-----------.-----------.---------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Spell | Effect --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 1 | Chocobo | Escape | Chocobo Kick - Attack on one enemy --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 2 | Shiva | Icen | Diamond Dust - Ice attack on all --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 3 | Ramuh | Spark | Judgement Bolt - Lightning attack on all --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 4 | Ifrit | Heatra | Inferno - Fire attack on all --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 5 | Titan | Hyper | Earthen Fury - Earth attack on all --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 6 | Odin | Castastro | Zantetsuken - Instant KO on all --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 7 | Leviathan | Leviath | Tidal Wave - Water attack on all --+-----------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------- 8 | Bahamut | Bahamur | Mega Flare - Non-elemental attack on all __|___________|___________|____________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. SOURCES OF ALL MAGIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - WHITE MAGIC - --.-----------.-------.-------------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Cost | Source --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Cure | 100 | Find: Ur Village, Sealed Cave. Buy: Canaan 1 | Poisona | 100 | Buy: Ur Village 1 | Sight | 100 | Buy: Village of the Ancients --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 2 | Aero | 100 | Find: Dragon's Peak. Buy: Tozus 2 | Toad | 1000 | Gift: Gulgan Gulch x4. Buy: Gysahl 2 | Mini | 1000 | Gift: Desch (Dragon's Peak). Gnome (Healing Copse) x3 | | | Buy: Vikings' Cove --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 3 | Cura | 1500 | Find: Tozus. Buy: Village of the Ancients, NW Saronia, | | | Falgabard, Doga's Village 3 | Teleport | 1500 | Buy: Village of the Ancients, NW Saronia, Falgabard, | | | Doga's Village, 3 | Blindna | 1500 | Buy: Village of the Ancients, NW Saronia, Falgabard, | | | Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Libra | 3000 | Buy: Gysahl, NE Saronia, Doga's Village 4 | Confuse | 3000 | Buy: Gysahl, NE Saronia, Doga's Village 4 | Silence | 3000 | Buy: Gysahl, NE Saronia, Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 5 | Curaga | 5000 | Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Manor, Doga's Village 5 | Raise | 5000 | Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Manor, Doga's Village 5 | Protect | 5000 | Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 6 | Aeroga | 10000 | Buy: Doga's Manor, Doga's Village 6 | Stona | 10000 | Buy: Doga's Manor, Doga's Village 6 | Haste | 10000 | Buy: Doga's Manor, Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 7 | Curaja | 20000 | Buy: Doga's Village, Invincible 7 | Esuna | 20000 | Buy: Doga's Village, Invincible 7 | Reflect | 20000 | Buy: Doga's Village, Invincible --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 8 | Tornado | 60000 | Buy: Eureka 8 | Arise | 60000 | Buy: Eureka 8 | Holy | 60000 | Buy: Eureka __|___________|_______|________________________________________________________ - BLACK MAGIC - --.-----------.-------.-------------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Cost | Source --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Fire | 100 | Buy: Tozus, Vikings' Cove 1 | Blizzard | 100 | Buy: Tozus, Vikings' Cove 1 | Sleep | 100 | Buy: Tozus, Vikings' Cove --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 2 | Thunder | 700 | Buy: Canaan, Tozus, Vikings' Cove 2 | Poison | 100 | Buy: Canaan, Tozus, Vikings' Cove 2 | Blind | 700 | Buy: Canaan, Blind, Vikings' Cove --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 3 | Fira | 1500 | Find: Tozus, Vikings' Cove. | | | Buy: Village of the Ancients, NW Saronia, Falgabard, | | | Doga's Village 3 | Blizzara | 1500 | Find: Vikings' Cove. | | | Buy: Village of the Ancients, NW Saronia, Falgabard, | | | Doga's Village 3 | Thundara | 1500 | Find: Vikings' Cove. | | | Buy: Village of the Ancients, NW Saronia, Falgabard, | | | Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Break | 3000 | Buy: Gysahl, NE Saronia, Doga's Village 4 | Blizzaga | 3000 | Find: Cave of Tides. Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Village 4 | Shade | 3000 | Buy: Gysahl, NE Saronia, Doga's Village, --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 5 | Thundaga | 5000 | Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Village 5 | Raze | 5000 | Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Village 5 | Erase | 5000 | Buy: NE Saronia, Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 6 | Firaga | 10000 | Buy: Doga's Manor, Doga's Village 6 | Bio | 10000 | Buy: Doga's Manor, Doga's Village 6 | Warp | 10000 | Buy: Doga's Manor, Doga's Village --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 7 | Quake | 20000 | Buy: Doga's Village, Invincible 7 | Breakga | 20000 | Buy: Doga's Village, Invincible 7 | Drain | 20000 | Buy: Doga's Village, Invincible --+-----------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------- 8 | Flare | 60000 | Buy: Eureka 8 | Death | 60000 | Buy: Eureka 8 | Meteor | 60000 | Buy: Eureka --+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------- - SUMMONS - --.-----------.--------.------------------------------------------------------- LV| Name | Cost | Source --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Chocobo | 100 | Buy: Replito, Doga's Village --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 2 | Shiva | 7000 | Buy: Replito, Doga's Villag --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 3 | Ramuh | 7000 | Buy: Replito, Doga's Village --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Ifrit | 7000 | Buy: Replito, Doga's Village --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 5 | Titan | 7000 | Buy: Replito, Doga's Village --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 6 | Odin |Catastro| Saronia Catacombs. Defeat Odin | | 40000 | Buy: Eureka --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 7 | Leviathan |Leviath | Lake Dohr (Floating Continent) Defeat Leviathan | | 50000 | Buy: Eureka --+-----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------- 8 | Bahamut |Bahamut | Bahamut's Lair (Floating Continent) Defeat Bahamut | | 60000 | Buy: Eureka __|___________|________|_______________________________________________________ =============================================================================== 06. M O N S T E R L I S T S ............................................*L06 =============================================================================== 1. Enemy Dropped Items Ranks 2. Numerical Monster List 3. Alphabetical Monster List View the in-game Bestiary when visiting the secret room in the Inn at Gysahl. This lists enemies in numberical order showing the number defeated, and a picture of each one, in situ. It also details the HP, Gil, Experience given, Level, and Attack and Defense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. ENEMY DROPPED ITEMS RANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemy items are a little unusual in that there are 21 groups of possible dropped items, each of which has 8 possible drops with predetermined chances. All enemies fit into one of these groups. Individual enemies also have an overall chance of yielding a drop, and that usually varies from 2% to 3%, so it's not a major or noticeable difference. If the rate is significantly higher I've shown it with a special note. I'm including this information so you can see why drops are hard to obtain and are not something to rely on. However, despite the low odds good things still happen: I got a Phoenix Down from the first battle I won with a Goblin! You can steal these same items with a Thief's Steal skill, but you can ONLY steal ONE item per enemy in any battle, even though each enemy carries 8 items. PERCENTAGE CHANCE OF DROPS PER RANK Rank 1 - 18% Rank 2 - 17% Rank 3 - 15% Rank 4 - 12% Rank 5 - 10% Rank 6 - 7% Rank 7 - 4.5% Rank 8 - 1.5% DROP GROUP 1 (D1) 1 - Potion 2 - Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion 5 - Potion 6 - Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down DROP GROUP 2 (D2) 1 - Potion 2 - Bomb Fragment 3 - Bomb Fragment 4 - Sheep Pillow 5 - Sheep Pillow 6 - Lamia Scale 7 - Bomb Arm 8 - Bomb Arm DROP GROUP 3 (D3) 1 - Potion 2 - Antarctic Wind 3 - Antarctic Wind 4 - Antarctic Wind 5 - Bacchus's Cider 6 - Bacchus's Cider 7 - Arctic Wind 8 - Arctic Wind DROP GROUP 4 (D4) 1 - Potion 2 - Zeus's Wrath 3 - Zeus's Wrath 4 - Angel's Sigh 5 - Angel's Sigh 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Heavenly Wrath 8 - Heavenly Wrath DROP GROUP 5 (D5) 1 - Potion 2 - Bomb Fragment 3 - Antarctic Wind 4 - Zeus's Wrath 5 - Silence Seal 6 - Tranquilizer 7 - Angel's Sigh 8 - Angel's Sigh DROP GROUP 6 (D6) 1 - Wooden Arrow 2 - Holy Arrow 3 - Iron Arrow 4 - Ice Arrow 5 - Light Arrow 6 - Fire Arrow 7 - Medusa Arrow 8 - Yoichi Arrow DROP GROUP 7 (D7) 1 - Gold Needle 2 - Gold Needle 3 - Gold Needle 4 - Gold Needle 5 - Gold Needle 6 - Gold Needle 7 - Gold Needle 8 - Gold Needle DROP GROUP 8 (D8) 1 - Eye Drops 2 - Eye Drops 3 - Antidote 4 - Antidote 5 - Eye Drops 6 - Eye Drops 7 - Antidote 8 - Antidote DROP GROUP 9 (D9) 1 - Potion 2 - Maiden's Kiss 3 - Echo Herbs 4 - Mallet 5 - Maiden's Kiss 6 - Echo Herbs 7 - Mallet 8 - Hi-Potion DROP GROUP 10 (D10) 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Hi-Potion 3 - Hi-Potion 4 - Hi-Potion 5 - Hi-Potion 6 - Hi-Potion 7 - Hi-Potion 8 - Phoenix Down DROP GROUP 11 (D11) 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Bomb Arm 3 - Bomb Arm 4 - Tranquilizer 5 - Tranquilizer 6 - Silence Seal 7 - Lilith's Kiss 8 - Lilith's Kiss DROP GROUP 12 (D12) 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Arctic Wind 3 - Arctic Wind 4 - Turtle Shell 5 - Turtle Shell 6 - Black Hole 7 - Raven's Yawn 8 - Raven's Yawn DROP GROUP 13 (D13) 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Heavenly Wrath 3 - Heavenly Wrath 4 - Tranquilizer 5 - Tranquilizer 6 - Shining Curtain 7 - Chocobo's Wrath 8 - Black Musk DROP GROUP 14 (D14) 1 - Potion 2 - Bomb Arm 3 - Arctic Wind 4 - Heavenly Wrath 5 - Lamia Scale 6 - Bacchus's Cider 7 - Turtle Shell 8 - Earthen Drum DROP GROUP 15 (D15) 1 - Hi-Potion 2 - Black Hole 3 - Lilith's Kiss 4 - Raven's Yawn 5 - Shining Curtain 6 - Shell Breaker 7 - Black Musk 8 - Chocobo's Wrath DROP GROUP 16 (D16) 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Elixir 5 - Elixir 6 - Onion Shield 7 - Onion Armor 8 - Onion Sword DROP GROUP 17 (D17) 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Elixir 5 - Elixir 6 - Onion Shield 7 - Onion Gauntlets 8 - Onion Sword DROP GROUP 18 (D18) 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Elixir 5 - Elixir 6 - Onion Shield 7 - Onion Helm 8 - Onion Sword DROP GROUP 19 (D19) 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Gungnir 4 - Gungnir 5 - None 6 - None 7 - None 8 - None DROP GROUP 20 (D20) 1 - Phoenix Down 2 - Phoenix Down 3 - Phoenix Down 4 - Phoenix Down 5 - Phoenix Down 6 - Phoenix Down 7 - Phoenix Down 8 - Phoenix Down DROP GROUP 21 (D21) 1 - Elixir 2 - Elixir 3 - Elixir 4 - Protect Ring 5 - Elixir 6 - Elixir 7 - Elixir 8 - Protect Ring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. NUMERICAL MONSTER LIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are the numbers given to monsters in the game's bestiary: in groups of 5. 01: Goblin, 02: Carbuncle, 03: Eye Fang, 04: Blue Wisp, 05: Killer Bee, 06: Werewolf, 07: Berserker, 08: Red Wisp, 09: Dark Eye, 10: Zombie, 11: Mummy, 12: Skeleton, 13: Cursed Copper, 14: Larva, 15: Shadow, 16: Revenant, 17: Firefly, 18: Helldiver, 19: Rust Bird, 20: Rukh, 21: Basilisk, 22: Bugbear, 23: Mandrake, 24: Leprechaun, 25: Darkface, 26: Petit, 27: Poison Bat, 28: Liliputian, 29: Wererat, 30: Blood Worm, 31: Killer Fish, 32: Hermit, 33: Sea Elemental, 34: Tangie, 35: Sahagin 36: Parademon, 37: Griffon, 38: Lynx, 39: Hornet, 40: Knocker, 41: Flyer, 42: Lizardman, 43: Gorgon, 44: Red Cap, 45: Barometz 46: Slime, 47: Tarantula, 48: Cuphgel, 49: Pugman, 50: Far Darrig, 51: Blood Bat, 52: Petit Mage, 53: Fury, 54: Aughisky, 55: Bomb, 56: Manticore, 57: Stalagmite, 58: Sea Devil, 59: Merman, 60: Ruinous Wave, 61: Ballon, 62: Myrmecoleon, 63: Crocotta, 64: Adamantoise, 65: Red Marshmallow 66: Pharaoh, 67: Lemur, 68: Lamia, 69: Demon, 70: Dullahan, 71: Anet, 72: Mermaid, 73: Seahorse, 74: Sea Serpent, 75: Cockatrice. 76: Poison Toad, 77: Twin Heads, 78: Roper, 79: Agaliarept, 80: Darklegs, 81: Gigantoad, 82: Twin Ligur, 83: Stroper, 84: Black Flan, 85: Hellgaroo, 86: Vulcan, 87: Dracrocotta, 88: Magician, 89: Lost Gold, 90: Gold Eagle, 91: Gold Warrior, 92: Gold Bear, 93: Gold Knight, 94: Nightmare, 95: Hellgaroo Mage, 96: Needle Monkey, 97: Catoblepas, 98: Sorceror, 99: Sand Worm, 100: Frostfly, 101: Simurgh, 102: Harpy, 103: Gargoyle, 104: Chimera, 105: Demon Horse, 106: Rock Gargoyle, 107: Bovian, 108: Dread Knight, 109: Flyer Mage,110: Noggle 111: Abtu, 112: Sea Dragon, 113: Kagura, 114: Charybdis, 115: Dozmare 116: Sea Witch, 117: Killer Hermit, 118: Ologhai, 119: Kelpie, 120: Aegir, 121: Kyklops, 122: Boss Troll, 123: Fachan, 124: Cenchos, 125: Balor, 126: Dira, 127: Chimera Mage, 128: King Lizard, 129: Pterodactyl, 130: Wyvern, 131: Behemoth, 132: King Seahorse, 133: Dragon, 134: Pyralis, 135: Silenus, 136: Gaap, 137: Azrael, 138: Eater, 139: Ouroboros, 140: Plancti, 141: Sea Lion, 142: Remora, 143: Grenade, 144: Drake, 145: Greater Boros, 146: Sabertooth Liger, 147: Queen Lamia, 148: Zombie Dragon, 149: Death Claw, 150: Hellish Horse 151: Chronos, 152: Valefor, 153: Haniel, 154: Vassago, 155: Peryton, 156: Ogre, 157: Cyclops, 158: Nemesis, 159: Humbaba, 160: Death Needle, 161: Ligur, 162: Aeon, 163: Minotaur, 164: Iron Claws, 165: Greater Demon, 166: Unei's Clone, 167: Thanatos, 168: Bone Dragon, 169: King Behemoth, 170: Abaia, 171: Sleipnir, 172: Haokah, 173: Acheron, 174: Oceanus, 175: Gomory, 176: Bluck, 177: Doga's Clone, 178: Azer, 179: Platinal, 180: Kum Kum, 181: Shinobi, 182: Shadow Master, 183: Kage, 184: Dark General, 185: Yellow Dragon, 186: Green Dragon, 187: Red Dragon, 188: Glasya Labolas, 189: Yormungand, 190: Thor 191: Hecatoncheir, 192: Hydra, 193: Queen Scylla, 194: Garm, 195: Twin Dragon, BOSSES 196: Land Turtle, 197: Djinn, 198: Nepto Dragon, 199: Giant Rat, 200: Medusa, 201: Gutsco, 202: Salamander, 203: Hein, 204: Kraken, 205: Goldor, 206: Garuda, 207: Odin, 208: Leviathan, 209: Bahamut, 210: Doga, 211: Unei, 212: Titan, 213: Ninja, 214: Amon, 215: Kunoichi, 216: General, 217: Guardian, 218: Scylla, 219: Xande, 220: Xande's Clone, 221: Cerberus, 222: Two-Headed Dragon, 223: Echidna, 224: Ahriman, 225: Cloud of Darkness, 226: Iron Giant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. ALPHABETICAL MONSTER LIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [B] = Story Boss with a drop Rate of 8% WM = World Map - A - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Abaia | 42 | 6970 | 8000 | 2700 | D13 | None | Eureka Abtu | 29 | 1128 | 2880 | 550 | D10 | Lightng | Surface World.WM Acheron | 44 | 13600 | 12000 | 6600 | D13 | None | Eureka Adamantoise | 21 | 800 | 700 | 270 | D3 |Ice,Water| Molten Cave Aegir | 31 | 1740 | 5600 | 860 | D12 | Lightng | Sunken Cave Aeon | 43 | 10060 | 10200 | 3200 | D10 | None | Surface World.WM Agaliarept | 21 | 930 | 1000 | 200 | D1 | Lightng | Cave of Tides Ahriman [B] | 55 | 99999 | 66666 | 66666 | D10 | None | World o Darkness Amon [B] | 48 | 33500 | 26800 | 20350 | D10 | None | Eureka Anet | 14 | 268 | 400 | 100 | D3 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Aughisky | 15 | 235 | 400 | 105 | D1 | None | Tower of Owen Azer | 45 | 17560 | 13200 | 7400 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Azrael | 34 | 1950 | 1020 | 640 | D10 |DarkBlade| Falgabard: Cave ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - B - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Bahamut [B] | 45 | 34000 | 20000 | 16500 | D10 | Wind | Bahamut's Lair Balloon | 18 | 386 | 450 | 125 | D11 |Ice,Water| Molten Cave Balor | 32 | 1660 | 4400 | 760 | D12 | None | Saronia Catacomb Barometz | 18 | 264 | 330 | 88 | D1 | Fire | Floating Con.WM Basilisk | 09 | 100 | 150 | 44 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM Behemoth | 37 | 12650 | 6900 | 4668 | D10 | None | Temple of Time Berserker | 04 | 28 | 14 | 22 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM Black Flan | 22 | 880 | 1100 | 260 | D14 | Fire | Surface World.WM Blood Worm | 11 | 165 | 240 | 62 | D1 | None | Nepto Temple Blood Bat | 14 | 208 | 380 | 100 | D9 | Wind | Tower of Owen Bluck | 44 | 6720 | 8400 | 1655 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Blue Wisp | 01 | 14 | 4 | 10 | D1 | None | Altar Cave Bomb | 16 | 315 | 400 | 110 | D11 |Ice,Water| Subterranean Lk Bone Dragon | 43 | 14000 | 11400 | 7800 | D10 | Light | Ancient's Maze Boss Troll | 32 | 1600 | 4000 | 740 | D12 | None | Saronia Catacomb Bovian | 29 | 730 | 2640 | 500 | D10 | None | Cave of t'Circle Bugbear | 09 | 110 | 180 | 46 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - C - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Carbuncle | 01 | 10 | 2 | 5 | D1 | None | Altar Cave Catoblepas | 26 | 1260 | 1600 | 390 | D7 | None | Surface World.WM Cenchos | 32 | 4000 | 6600 | 1500 | D12 | Lightng | Saronia Catacomb Cerberus [B] | 55 | 99999 | 66666 | 66666 | D10 | None | World o Darkness Charybdis | 30 | 1350 | 3120 | 600 | D10 | Lightng | Surface World.WM Chimera | 28 | 1250 | 2400 | 475 | D7 | None | Surface World.WM Chimera Mage | 33 | 1540 | 3280 | 615 | D7 | None | Temple of Time Chronos | 38 | 4100 | 1280 | 320 | D10 |DarkBlade| Cave of Shadows Cloud of | | | | | | | Darkness [B] | 60 |120000 | 99999 | 70000 | N/A | None | World o Darkness Cockatrice | 20 | 890 | 800 | 185 | D7 | None | Cave of Tides Crocotta | 19 | 500 | 500 | 135 | D2 |Ice,Water| Molten Cave Cuphgel | 18 | 240 | 360 | 94 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM Cursed Copper | 06 | 42 | 105 | 52 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Cyclops | 39 | 4700 | 6800 | 1000 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - D - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Dark Eye | 05 | 43 | 95 | 20 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Dark General | 48 | 20000 | 13800 | 8600 | D10 | None | Crystal Tower Darkface | 09 | 168 | 200 | 53 | D1 | None | Tozus Tunnel Darklegs | 22 | 940 | 1000 | 220 | D1 | Fire | Amur Sewers Death Claw | 38 | 3800 | 7500 | 680 | D15 | None | Cave of Shadows Death Needle | 40 | 4060 | 6400 | 1550 | D10 | None | Surface World.WM Demon | 23 | 742 | 1008 | 316 | D6 | Light | Hein's Castle Demon Horse | 29 | 710 | 2640 | 480 | D10 | None | Cave of t'Circle Dira | 33 | 5000 | 3280 | 610 | D10 | Wind | Temple of Time Djinn [B] | 07 | 600 | 200 | 1400 | D2 |Ice,Water| Sealed Cave Doga [B] | 45 | 22800 | 13600 | 12000 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto Doga's Clone | 45 | 18500 | 16000 | 5000 | N/A | None | Crystal Tower Dozmare | 31 | 1650 | 4400 | 780 | D10 | Wind | Sunken Cave Dracrocotta | 23 | 1050 | 1250 | 290 | D1 | Ice | Surface World.WM Dragon | 38 | 11000 | 7200 | 9000 | D10 | None | Temple of Time Drake | 37 | 3260 | 7600 | 1650 | D10 | Wind | Bahamut's Lair Dread Knight | 29 | 740 | 2880 | 510 | D14 | None | Cave of t'Circle Dullahan | 23 | 1000 | 1008 | 320 | D1 | None | Hein's Castle ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - E - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Eater | 35 | 2700 | 1020 | 945 | D10 |DarkBlade| Falgabard: Cave Echidna [B] | 55 | 99999 | 66666 | 66666 | D10 | None | World o Darkness Eye Fang | 01 | 11 | 3 | 7 | D1 | None | Altar Cave ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - F - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Fachan | 32 | 1620 | 5600 | 745 | D11 | None | Saronia Catacomb FarDarrig | 14 | 177 | 360 | 98 | D1 | None | Tower of Owen Firefly | 09 | 92 | 130 | 36 | D1 | Ice,Wind| Dragon's Peak Flyer | 12 | 139 | 300 | 82 | D1 | Wind | Floating Con.WM Flyer Mage | 28 | 680 | 2880 | 520 | D10 | Wind | Cave of t'Circle Frost Fly | 26 | 1200 | 1920 | 430 | D12 |Fire,Wind| Surface World.WM Fury | 16 | 216 | 380 | 102 | D1 | Wind | Tower of Owen ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - G - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Gaap | 34 | 1800 | 1020 | 623 | D10 |DarkBlade| Falgabard: Cave Gargoyle | 28 | 1250 | 2400 | 470 | D10 | Wind | Surface World.WM Garm | 52 | 19960 | 14400 | 6700 | D15 | None | World o Darkness Garuda [B] | 28 | 10000 | 8800 | 10200 | D10 | Wind | Csstle Saronia General [B] | 48 | 35000 | 30000 | 15600 | D10 | None | Eureka Giant Rat [B] | 11 | 900 | 1200 | 1500 | D5 | None | Nepto Temple Gigantoad | 20 | 838 | 1000 | 230 | D1 | Lightng | Amur Sewers Glasya Labolas | 52 | 22800 | 13800 | 8400 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Goblin | 01 | 7 | 1 | 10 | D1 | None | Altar Cave Gold Eagle | 23 | 935 | 1400 | 320 | D7 | Wind | Goldor's Manor Gold Warrior | 24 | 1130 | 1500 | 330 | D7 | None | Goldor's Manor Gold Bear | 24 | 1090 | 1500 | 340 | D7 | None | Goldor's Manor Gold Knight | 25 | 1100 | 1500 | 350 | D7 | None | Goldor's Manor Goldor [B] | 26 | 9000 | 6560 | 9900 | D10 | None | Goldor's Manor Gomory | 45 | 19976 | 12600 | 7000 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Gorgon | 13 | 145 | 320 | 86 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM Greater Boros | 37 | 3280 | 7600 | 1700 | D7 | Lightng | Bahamut's Lair Greater Demon | 42 | 10750 | 11400 | 4800 | D10 | Light | Ancient's Maze Green Dragon | 60 | 89999 | 45000 | 13330 | D17*| None | Crystal Tower Grenade | 46 | 2305 | 7600 | 1400 | D11 |Ice,Water| Bahamut's Lair Griffon | 06 | 230 | 130 | 40 | D5 | Wind | Sasune W. Tower Guardian [B] | 49 | 33700 | 31600 | 16500 | D10 | None | Eureka Gutsco [B] | 17 | 3500 | 2304 | 3500 | D10 | None | Subterranean Lk ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ * 100% drop rate - H - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Haniel | 37 | 3400 | 1280 | 1450 | D10 |DarkBlade| Cave of Shadows Haokah | 43 | 7200 | 8000 | 2900 | D13 | None | Eureka Harpy | 30 | 1650 | 2080 | 460 | D10 | Wind | Surface World.WM Hecatoncheir | 43 | 28000 | 14400 | 8000 | D15 | None | Ancient's Maze Hein [B] | 22 | 4500 | 3464 | 4300 | D10 | None | Hein's Castle Helldiver | 08 | 120 | 120 | 38 | D7 | Wind | Dragon's Peak Hellgaroo | 22 | 888 | 1250 | 270 | D1 | None | Surface World.WM Hellgaroo Mage | 25 | 1093 | 1400 | 370 | D10 | None | Surface World.WM Hellish Horse | 38 | 4360 | 8000 | 690 | D10 | None | Cave of Shadows Hermit | 13 | 173 | 240 | 66 | D1 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Hornet | 15 | 260 | 300 | 78 | D8 | Wind | Floating Con.WM Humbaba | 39 | 6740 | 6800 | 1100 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto Hydra | 63 | 33800 | 14400 | 8500 | D12 | None | World o Darkness ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - I - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Iron Claws | 41 | 5760 | 7600 | 2000 | D10 | None | Ancient's Maze Iron Giant [B] | 81 |199999 | 99999 | 99999 | N/A | None | Underwater Cave ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - K - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Kage | 47 | 12000 | 9200 | 3900 | D15 | None | World o Darkness Kagura | 29 | 1143 | 3120 | 580 | D10 | Lightng | Surface World.WM Kelpie | 30 | 1420 | 5600 | 850 | D12 | Lightng | Sunken Cave Killer Fish | 13 | 135 | 240 | 64 | D1 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Killer Hermit | 31 | 1680 | 4800 | 820 | D12 | Lightng | Sunken Cave Killer Bee | 02 | 18 | 12 | 12 | D8 | Wind | Floating Con.WM King Behemoth | 50 | 45000 | 15200 | 10800 | D21 | None | Ancient's Maze King Lizard | 33 | 1560 | 3280 | 620 | D10 | Lightng | Temple of Time King Seahorse | 33 | 1405 | 3600 | 680 | D10 | Lightng | Temple of Time Knocker | 13 | 131 | 300 | 60 | D4 | None | Floating Con.WM Kraken [B] | 24 | 8000 | 5280 | 5500 | D10 | Lightng | Cave of Tides Kum Kum | 46 | 9600 | 8800 | 3600 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Kunoichi [B] | 48 | 29000 | 29200 | 14500 | D15 | None | Eureka Kyklops | 32 | 1580 | 4000 | 720 | D13 | None | Saronia Catacomb ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - L - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Lamia | 23 | 850 | 840 | 310 | D5 | Light | Hein's Castle Land Turtle [B] | 04 | 111 | 20 | 500 | D3 | None | Altar Cave Larva | 06 | 44 | 120 | 30 | D8 | Light | Sealed Cave Lemur | 19 | 752 | 600 | 150 | D5 | Light | Hein's Castle Leprechaun | 09 | 142 | 200 | 52 | D1 | None | Tozus Tunnel Leviathan [B] | 42 | 32000 | 20000 | 17100 | D10 | Lightng | Lake Dohr Liger | 41 | 5870 | 6400 | 1200 | D10 | None | Surface World.WM Lilliputian | 10 | 118 | 229 | 58 | D1 | None | Nepto Temple Lizardman | 12 | 155 | 320 | 84 | D1 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Lost Gold | 23 | 928 | 1400 | 310 | D7 | None | Goldor's Manor Lynx | 16 | 265 | 270 | 76 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - M - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Magician | 23 | 1040 | 1400 | 300 | D13 | None | Surface World.WM Mandrake | 09 | 120 | 180 | 48 | D1 | Fire | Floating Con.WM Manticore | 17 | 375 | 400 | 112 | D7 | None | Subterranean Lk Medusa [B] | 17 | 3000 | 1680 | 2600 | D10 | None | Tower of Owen Mermaid | 15 | 364 | 450 | 123 | D3 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Merman | 17 | 345 | 450 | 118 | D3 | Lightng | Subterranean Lk Minotaur | 41 | 5960 | 6800 | 1640 | D10 | None | Surface World.WM Mummy | 06 | 52 | 100 | 24 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Myrmecoleon | 19 | 494 | 500 | 130 | D7 | None | Molten Cave ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - N - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Needle Monkey | 25 | 1100 | 1400 | 380 | D15 | None | Surface World.WM Nemesis | 39 | 4720 | 6800 | 1050 | D10 | Fire | Doga's Grotto Nepto Dragon [B]| ?? | ??? | ??? | ??? | N/A | ??? | Floating Con.WM Nightmare | 25 | 1120 | 1900 | 360 | D7 | None | Goldor's Manor Ninja [B] | 47 | 24000 | 28400 | 14400 | D15 | None | Eureka Noggle | 30 | 1210 | 2880 | 540 | D10 | Lightng | Surface World.WM ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - O - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Oceanus | 44 | 13200 | 12600 | 6800 | D13 | None | Eureka Odin [B] | 40 | 31000 | 20000 | 16800 | D19 | None | Saronia Catacomb Ogre | 39 | 5680 | 6800 | 950 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto Ologhai | 30 | 1415 | 4800 | 840 | D12 | Lightng | Sunken Cave Ouroboros | 36 | 2660 | 7200 | 1300 | D7 | Lightng | Lake Dohr ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - P - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Parademon | 16 | 245 | 270 | 72 | D6 | Fire | Floating Con.WM Peryton | 41 | 9650 | 9600 | 2400 | D10 | Wind | Doga's Grotto Petit | 09 | 103 | 200 | 54 | D7 | None | Nepto Temple Petit Mage | 13 | 196 | 380 | 101 | D7 | None | Tower of Owen Pharaoh | 20 | 580 | 600 | 145 | D8 | Light | Hein's Castle Plancti | 35 | 2260 | 7200 | 2260 | D10 | Lightng | Lake Dohr Platinal | 47 | 19976 | 13200 | 7600 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Poison Toad | 19 | 800 | 900 | 190 | D1 | Lightng | Cave of Tides Poison Bat | 09 | 98 | 220 | 56 | D8 | Wind | Nepto Temple Pterodactyl | 33 | 1570 | 3280 | 640 | D10 | Wind | Temple of Time Pugman | 14 | 171 | 360 | 96 | D9 | None | Tower of Owen Pyralis | 37 | 6550 | 14400 | 1760 | D10 |Ice,Water| Ancient Ruins ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - Q - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Queen Lamia | 39 | 7200 | 12000 | 4400 | D10 | None | Bahamut's Lair Queen Scylla | 52 | 34780 | 14400 | 10000 | D15 | None | World o Darkness ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - R - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Red Dragon | 70 | 99999 | 60000 | 14666 | D16*| None | Crystal Tower Red Marshmallow | 18 | 510 | 500 | 140 | D2 |Ice,Water| Molten Cave Red Wisp | 05 | 39 | 70 | 18 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Red Cap | 18 | 252 | 320 | 87 | D4 | None | Floating Con.WM Remora | 36 | 2720 | 7600 | 1354 | D10 | Lightng | Lake Dohr Revenant | 07 | 70 | 130 | 34 | D8 | Light | Sealed Cave Rock Gargoyle | 29 | 720 | 2640 | 490 | D11 | Wind | Cave of t'Circle Roper | 20 | 815 | 900 | 200 | D14 | Lightng | Cave of Tides Ruinous Wave | 16 | 296 | 450 | 120 | D1 | Lightng | Subterranean Lk Rukh | 09 | 155 | 150 | 42 | D1 | Wind | Dragon's Peak Rust Bird | 09 | 135 | 150 | 40 | D20 | Wind | Dragon's Peak ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ * 100% drop rate - S - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Sabertooth Liger| 37 | 3300 | 7600 | 1800 | D10 | None | Bahamut's Lair Sahagin | 13 | 190 | 150 | 70 | D3 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Salamander [B] | 19 | 5700 | 2744 | 3700 | D10 |Ice.Water| Molten Cave Sand Worm | 26 | 1290 | 1920 | 420 | D10 | None | Surface World.WM Scylla [B] | 49 | 35000 | 10800 | 16200 | D10 | None | Eureka Sea Dragon | 27 | 2550 | 4680 | 1120 | D10 | Lightng | Surface World.WM Sea Elemental | 12 | 155 | 250 | 67 | D3 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Sea Lion | 35 | 2275 | 7600 | 1325 | D10 | Lightng | Lake Dohr Sea Witch | 31 | 1660 | 4400 | 300 | D12 | Lightng | Sunken Cave Sea Devil | 17 | 339 | 450 | 116 | D3 | Lightng | Subterranean Lk Seahorse | 14 | 278 | 450 | 119 | D3 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Sea Serpent | 17 | 530 | 700 | 406 | D3 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Shadow | 07 | 66 | 120 | 32 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Shadow Master | 46 | 10000 | 8800 | 3800 | D15 | None | World o Darkness Shinobi | 46 | 11000 | 8800 | 3700 | D15 | None | Crystal Tower Silenus | 35 | 2120 | 1020 | 900 | D10 |DarkBlade| Falgabard: Cave Simurgh | 28 | 1220 | 2080 | 450 | D10 | Wind | Surface WorldWM Skeleton | 06 | 57 | 105 | 26 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Sleipnir | 43 | 7000 | 8000 | 2800 | D13 | None | Eureka Slime | 17 | 240 | 330 | 90 | D5 | Fire | Floating Con.WM Sorceror | 26 | 1270 | 1600 | 400 | D12 | None | Surface World.WM Stalagmite | 17 | 284 | 400 | 115 | D7 | None | Subterranean Lk Stroper | 21 | 1100 | 1100 | 250 | D1 | Lightng | Amur Sewers ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - T - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Tangie | 13 | 225 | 250 | 68 | D5 | Lightng | Floating Con.WM Tarantula | 18 | 240 | 330 | 92 | D1 | Fire | Floating Con.WM Thanatos | 42 | 11800 | 11400 | 5000 | D10 | None | Ancient's Maze Thor | 50 | 12540 | 9600 | 4000 | D13 | None | World o Darkness Titan [B} | 46 | 29000 | 27000 | 13500 | D10 | None | Ancients' Maze Twin Dragon | 54 | 34920 | 15000 | 11000 | D15 | None | World o Darkness Twin Liger | 22 | 960 | 1100 | 240 | D1 | None | Amur Sewers Twin Heads | 19 | 910 | 900 | 195 | D1 | None | Cave of Tides Two-Headed | | | | | | | Dragon [B] | 55 | 99999 | 66666 | 66666 | D10 | None | World o Darkness ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - U - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Unei [B] | 44 | 21800 | 16000 | 12600 | D10 | None | Doga's Grotto Unei's Clone | 42 | 10000 | 14400 | 8500 | N/A | None | Ancient's Maze ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - V - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Valefor | 38 | 4240 | 1280 | 320 | D10 |DarkBlade| Cave of Shadows Vassago | 38 | 4440 | 1280 | 320 | D10 |DarkBlade| Cave of Shadows Vulcan | 26 | 2200 | 1750 | 560 | D11 |Ice,Water| Surface World.WM ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - W - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Wererat | 10 | 130 | 220 | 60 | D1 | None | Nepto Temple Werewolf | 03 | 24 | 12 | 14 | D1 | None | Floating Con.WM Wyvern | 36 | 1825 | 6000 | 1300 | D10 | Wind | Temple of Time ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - X - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Xande [B] | 50 | 49999 | 34000 |250000 | D10 | None | Crystal Tower Xande's Clone[B]| 49 | 39000 | 24800 | 15000 | N/A | None | World o Darkness ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ - Y - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Yellow Dragon | 50 | 79999 | 30000 | 12000 | D18*| None | Crystal Tower Yormungand | 52 | 30560 | 13800 | 8800 | D15 | None | World o Darkness ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ * 100% drop rate - Z - ----------------.----.-------.-------.-------.-----.---------.----------------- NAME | LV | HP | EXP | GIL | DROP| WEAK | LOCATION ----------------+----+-------+-------+-------+-----+---------+----------------- Zombie | 06 | 17 | 100 | 22 | D1 | Light | Sealed Cave Zombie Dragon | 41 | 11000 | 15000 | 2880 | D10 | Light | Ancient Ruins ________________|____|_______|_______|_______|_____|_________|_________________ =============================================================================== IX. C R E D I T S ....................... *CRED =============================================================================== This FAQ is written in memory of Psycho Pengiun. R.I.P. I'm dedicating this FAQ to Steve McFadden, known as Psycho Penguin, who died in June 2011. PP was a huge fan of Final Fantasy games, wrote guides for many of them, and loved this one. His ambition was to write for them all, but he stalled after FFX-2 and his walkthrough for the NES FFIII was never completed. Although his name isn't on this FAQ, he was the inspiration for me to attempt my first ever Final Fantasy guide. He always said that writing FAQs must be fun, and his FAQs were often funny and always clear to read. Rest in peace dear Penguin. You will never be forgotten. http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/9471.html - Thanks to GameFAQs for accepting my FAQs and for the message boards to ask for friend codes. - Thanks to the Brady Strategy Guide for the equipment stats, and Level 99 job stats. - Thanks to the other writers of FAQs for this game. Check them out, they are excellent! - Thanks especially to Seferaga for locations of some elusive monsters. - Thank you to Permlessgirl for helping me with the WiFi nonsense! - Thanks to LBoksha for clearing up some uncertainties. - Thanks to Dabored for telling me about missing finds in Ancients' Village and SW Saronia, and about an awesome dance number in Amur! - Thanks to SnyperWolf for coming up with the answer to my question about the number of job combinations - A special thank you to my friends: siara79, Sashanan, ShadowB86 and Saikyo Mog for their help and support. =============================================================================== X. 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Emails must be titled: FINAL FANTASY III FAQ/WALKTHROUGH and can be sent to me at: threetimes.ajh (@) gmail (dot) com UPDATE - 12th October 2011 Added an alternative strategy for the COD and some more details about the ??? bonus dungeon.