SSSSS SSSSSSSS SSSS SSSS S S S S S SS S SS S SSSSS S S SS S S S SSSSSS S SSSSSSSSSS S S SSSSS SSSSS SSSSS SSSS SSSSS S S S S S S S S S S SSS SS S S S S S S S SS S S S SSSSS SSSSS SSSSS SSSSSSSSSS S SSSSS THE SECOND STORY Star Ocean : The Second Story Claude Scenario Walkthrough Version 2.1 Last Updated in 28/7/2003 By Joseph Andro Artanto Unpublished Work Copyright Joseph Andro Artanto 1999-2003. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ia. Introduction >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This walkthrough and future revisions of it can be found at : http://www.gamefaqs.com/ Information : ------------- Author : Joseph Andro Artanto E-Mail : aceaceblitzer@yahoo.com Website : http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dragon/3939 Pages : 59 Version : 2.1 Last Update: 3:43 PM 7/28/2003 This document copyrighted 1999-2003 Joseph Andro Artanto. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ia. VERSIONS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Version 0.1 (15/07/1999) The initial release. Write the walkthrough until Clik's disaster. *Version 0.2 (19/07/1999) End the disc 1 walkthrough, start the disc 2 walkthrough. Created the Contents table, completed the talent, item creation, skills, and super specialty list. *Version 0.5 (21/07/1999) Finished the disc 2 walkthrough. *Version 0.6 (23/07/1999) Minor correction, updated the item creation explanation. *Version 0.7 (27/07/1999) Minor correction. *Version 0.8 (31/07/1999) Created the logo! Created the bonus dungeon walkthrough. *Version 0.9 (1/08/1999) Deleted the controls content, exchange it with Game System section. Created the Killer moves list. Finished the bonus dungeon walkthrough. *Version 1.0 (5/08/1999) Highly seems to be the final version, minor corrections and a lot of typing corrections. *Version 1.1 (15/08/1999) Created the item creation data. Minor correction. *Version 1.2 (6/11/1999) Layout correction to make an easier to read FAQ. *Version 1.3 (28/11/1999) Minor corrections, Also, I have ICQ now, contact me in 55139575. *Version 1.4 (5/1/2000) New! Santa Boots! If you equip it and sleep at an inn, there is a chance that Santa will leave you a gift that you will acquire in the morning! Thanks to Jonathan Toellner for this info! I have a website now, it is in: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dragon/3939 *Version 1.5 (15/4/2000) Layout corrections. Minor corrections. *Version 1.6 (3/7/2000) Created the Author's Info section. Minor corrections. *Version 1.7 (20/7/2000) Solves the Field of Power problem, there is a spot where you can get out of there instantly, check at walkthrough section chapter 15. Major layout corrections. Minor corrections. *Version 1.8 (27/7/2000) Layout corrections. Minor corrections. *Version 1.9 (16/8/2000) Major Layout corrections. Major spelling and grammar corrections. Minor corrections. *Version 2.0 (7/7/2002) Nothing new. Honest. Just to say hi :) *Version 2.1 (28/7/2003) E-mail changed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ib. DISCLAIMER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unpublished Work Copyright Joseph Andro Artanto 1999-2003. This FAQ and everything included within this file cannot be reproduced in any way, shape or form (physical, electronically, or otherwise) aside from being placed on a freely-accessible, non-commercial web page in it's original, unedited and unaltered format. This FAQ cannot be used for profitable purposes (even if no money would be made from selling it) or promotional purposes. It cannot be used in any sort of commercial transaction. It cannot be given away as some sort of bonus, gift, etc., with a purchase as this creates incentive to buy and is therefore prohibited. Furthermore, this FAQ cannot be used by the publishers, editors, employees or associates, etc. of any company, group, business, or association, etc., nor can it be used by game sites and the like. It cannot be used in magazines, guides, books, etc. or in any other form of printed or electronic media (including mediums not specifically mentioned) in ANY way, shape, or form (including reprinting, reference or inclusion), without the express written permission of the author, myself. This FAQ was created and is owned by me, Joseph Andro Artanto (arsin@indosat.net.id). All copyrights and trademarks are acknowledged and respected that are not specifically mentioned in this FAQ. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> II. CONTENTS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I. INTRODUCTION/HISTORY/DISCLAIMER II. TABLE OF CONTENTS III. GAME SYSTEM IV. KILLER MOVES LIST V. PRIVATE ACTIONS VI. ITEM CREATION Talents Skills Item Creation Super Specialty VII. WALKTHROUGH Chapter 1, The Journey has Begun Chapter 2, The Kidnapping Chapter 3, The Treasure Hunter Chapter 4, Big City, Big Disasters Chapter 5, Warrior with Two Dragons Chapter 6, The Tournament Chapter 7, The Other One Chapter 8, Sanctuary of Linga Chapter 9, The Energy Stone Chapter 10, The Lacour Hope Chapter 11, The Energy Nede Chapter 12, Field of Knowledge Chapter 13, Field of Courage Chapter 14, Field of Power Chapter 15, Field of Love Chapter 16, Unpredictable Power Chapter 17, Antiproton Weapon Chapter 18, Unpredictable Attacks Chapter 19, Final Invasion VIII. BONUS DUNGEON IX. FUTURE REVISION X. DISCLAIMER XI. AUTHOR'S INFO XII. CREDITS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> III. GAME SYSTEM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _______ /Control\_______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Characters* Battle Triangle : Battle menu (strategy,items,magic,escape) O : Cancel, change controlled character (O then d-pad) X : Confirm [] + D-Pad : Manual move around battlefield Town/dungeon Triangle : Menu O : Cancel, Hold to run X : Confirm, check something []: Pickpocket World map Triangle : Menu O : Run,Cancel X : Confirm []: Private actions L1/R1 : Rotate view *Bunny* Used after you use "Come on Bunny" Super Specialty. Triangle : nothing O : nothing X : Get off from the Bunny, gone after you get off []: nothing L1/R1 : Rotate view *Synard* Acquired after finished the cave of red crystal (disc 2). Triangle : nothing O : Thrust X : Get off from the Synard [] + D-Pad : Move for/left/right/back slowly L1/R1 : Sharp left/right ________________ /Voice Collection\______________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You may have noticed this, every time you hear a voice (in battle), it is recorded to your memory card. When you have certain percentage of voice collection, you can get more difficulty level. 30% for the galaxy level, and 60% for the Universe level, in these 2 level, the enemies are much stronger and have more HP. If you reach around 75% you will get a level where you can listen to any music in the game. ____ /Menu\__________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.Specialty screen: this is the place where you can change the killer moves or spells you want. Also, you can turn on/off some item creation in here. In spells setting, you can nullify the spell by using the [] button. 2.Item screen: This is where you see all your inventory and items. If you press triangle, you will see another menu where you can arrange the item list by Alphabetical order, etc, and the other are item creation (where you could create some items),Super Specialty, and Precious Items. 3.Equipment screen: The place where you can change your characters equipment and accessories easily. 4.Skills screen: you can only learn skills after you buy certain pack of skills and press the confirm button to learn 1 level of the skill. If you learn certain combination of skills, you can get new item creation to help you in your quest. 5.Status screen: See your characters stats. 6.Option screen: Change the game config (message speed, controls, etc). 7.Combat: Configure the combat strategy and formation. a.Strategy: Strategy for all your party. For Fighter : 1.Attack with all MP! 2.Protect friends! 3.Conserve Killer Moves! 4.Spread out and attack! 5.Stay away from enemy! 6.Do nothing! For Magician: 1.Attack till all MP are gone! 2.Conserve MP! 3.Attack fleeing enemy! 4.Use no Heraldic spells! 5.Throw own body into attack! 6.Do nothing! For Rena : 1.Recover friends only! 2.Aid friends! 3.Aid self only! 4.Cast no spells! 5.Put self into attack! 6.Do nothing! b.Replacement: To change who join the battle or in the back. c.Formation: change the formations in the battle. 1. Linear Motion 2. Square Shift 1 3. Tri-Shift 1 4. Tri-Shift 2 5. Free-for-all 6. Upper Guard 7. Lower Guard 8. Square Shift 2 9. Astral Shift 10.Escape Shift 11.Assault Shift 12.Upper Caution 13.Lower Caution 8.Data a.Save: save the game into Memory card. b.Load: load a game from Memory card. ______ /Status\________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: The character's name, you can change his/her front name everytime. Race: The character's race. HP : Current HP/Max HP. MP : Current MP/Max MP. LV : Current Level. EXP : Current Exp. Next: Exp. needed to level up to next level. STR : Strength (physical attack damage). CON : Constitution. (defense). DEX : Dexterity (battle speed). AGL : Agility (Parry rate). INT : Intelligence. LUC : Luck (increase parry/accuracy and item creation success rate). STM : Stamina (HP/MP restored amount after the battle end). GUTS: Guts (affect guts success rate). ATK: Combination between your STR with your weapon attack power. AC : Defense, combination between your CON with armor defensive power. HIT: Accuracy. AVD: Avoidance, parry rate. MAG: Your current magic attack power. Fav.Food: If this has opened (just make that character eat his/her own fav.food), the fav.food will restore a lot of HP/MP to him/her. Weapon : Your weapons name. Armor : Body armor. Shield : Your shield (certain characters only can wear certain shield). Helmet : Your helmet. Greaves : Leg accessories. Accessory1: 1st slot accessory. Accessory2: 2nd slot accessory. When you press triangle button in status screen, the talent screen appear. If you press [] button, the overall attributes will appear (when the ATK overall attributes is fire, then your physical attack will be fire-element based attack. If it is in DEF slot, when you attacked by fire-element based attack, the damage will be reduced). The list of element (from left to right): Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning, Star, Negative, Light, Dark, Physical. _____________ /Ending System\_________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 86 endings, so you may want to replay this game over and over. To see different endings, see some Private Actions which affect the "Friendship" level and "Love" level or use "Publish" item creation or using Twins Tonic to change the levels. You may want to get different characters to see another ending. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IV. KILLER MOVES LIST >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is my killer moves list, I put in how many level you need to get and when you master the killer move after some proficiency. ______ /Claude\________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Phase Gun 7. Name : Ripper Blast Get : First time Get : Lv 38 Masters at : N/A Masters at : 270 P 2. Name : Air Slash 8. Name : Twin Slash Get : Lv 3 Get : Lv 45 Masters at : 200 Profiency (P) Masters at : 160 P 3. Name : Shooting Stars 9. Name : Dragon Howl Get : Lv 7 Get : Lv 53 Masters at : 300 P Masters at : 500 P 4. Name : Head Splitter 10. Name : Sword Bomber Get : Lv 12 Get : Lv 62 Masters at : 260 P Masters at : 420 P 5. Name : Energy Sword 11. Name : Mirror Slice Get : Lv 20 Get : Lv 70 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 460 P 6. Name : Burst Knuckle Get : Lv 28 Masters at : 100 P ______ /Ashton\________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Twin Stab 6. Name : Hurricane Slash Get : First time Get : Lv 45 Masters at : 100 P Masters at : 200 P 2. Name : Cross Slash 7. Name : Death Triangle Get : First time Get : Lv 53 Masters at : 100 P Masters at : N/A 3. Name : Leaf Slash 8. Name : Dragon Breath Get : First time Get : Lv 64 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 140 P 4. Name : Northern Cross 9. Name : Sword Dance Get : Lv 18 Get : Lv 70 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 400 P 5. Name : Piercing Sword 10. Name : Tri-Ace Get : Lv 22 Get : A treasure chest Masters at : 130 P Masters at : 140 P ______ /Precis\________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Rocket Punch 6. Name : Bang-Bang Attack Get : First time Get : Lv 49 Masters at : 120 P Masters at : 510 P 2. Name : Hop Step 7. Name : Bloody Mary Get : First time Get : Lv 57 Masters at : 140 P Masters at : 360 P 3. Name : Mole 8. Name : Bobot Super Beam Get : Lv 17 Machinery Item : SuperML Masters at : 160 P Masters at : 120 P 4. Name : Ally-Oop ! Get : Lv 25 9. Name : Barrier Masters at : 220 P Machinery Item : PlasmaB 5. Name : Parabola Beam Masters at : 200 P Get : Lv 38 10. Name : Holo Holograph Masters at : 240 P Get : Private Action * Masters at : 130 P *To get this killer moves, see a PA in Fun City in the Battle Stadium with Ashton and Precis. _____ /Opera\_________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Photon Prison 6. Name : Gravity Shell Get : First time Get : Lv 54 Masters at : 270 P Final Change : N/A 2. Name : Flame Launcher 7. Name : Lightning Bullet Get : First time Get : Lv 69 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 200 P 3. Name : Alpha on One 8. Name : Heal Star Get : Level 24 Machinery : Black System Masters at : 440 P Masters at : N/A 4. Name : Spread Ray 9. Name : Laser Bit Get : Lv 34 Machinery : White System Masters at : 540 P Masters at : 300 P 5. Name : Cold Wind 10. Name : Hyper Launcher Get : Lv 41 Machinery : Green System Masters at : 300 P Masters at : 500 P ______ /Bowman\________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Spirit Attack 6. Name : Death Siege Get : First time Get : Lv 35 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 100 P 2. Name : Poison Pills 7. Name WhirlWind Fist Get : First time Get : Lv 43 Masters at : 250 P Masters at : 400 P 3. Name : Pillory 8. Name : Burst Fist Get : First time Get : Lv 51 Masters at : 380 P Masters at : 200 P 4. Name : Firebird Attack 9. Name : Explosion Pills Get : First time Get : Lv 66 Masters at : 400 P Masters at : 200 P 5. Name : Secret Medicine 10. Name : Sakura Attack Get : Lv 28 Get : Lv 74 Masters at : N/A Masters at : 250 P ______ /Ernest\________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Dimension Whip 5. Name : Cloud Dust Get : First time Get : Lv 49 Masters at : 240 P Masters at : 100 P 2. Name : Spiral Whip 6. Name : Broken Heart Get : First time Get : Lv 58 Masters at : N/A Masters at : 200 P 3. Name : Arc Attack 7. Name : Thunder Whip Get : Lv 32 Get : Lv 65 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 200 P 4. Name : Thousand Whip 8. Name : Sonic Whip Get : Lv 41 Get : Lv 73 Masters at : 120 P Masters at : 100 P ____ /Dias\__________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Cross Slash 6. Name : Crescent Moon Flash Get : First time Get : Lv 48 Masters at : 120 P Masters at : 100 P 2. Name : Air Slash 7. Name : Hawk Scream Blast Get : First time Get : Lv 56 Masters at : N/A Masters at : 100 P 3. Name : Crescent Wave 8. Name : Full Moon Slash Get : First time Get : Lv 63 Masters at : 130 P Masters at : 100 P 4. Name : Chaos Sword 9. Name : Illusion Get : First time Get : Lv 70 Masters at : 120 P Masters at : 420 P 5. Name : Gale Stab 10. Name : Firebird Shock Wave Get : Lv 40 Get : Lv 78 Masters at : 130 P Masters at : 200 P _______ /Chisato\_______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Name : Twister 5. Name : Flame Thrower Get : First time Get : Lv 53 Masters at : 240 P Masters at : 200 P 2. Name : Burning Card 6. Name : Rising Dragon Get : First time Get : Lv 62 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 200 P 3. Name : Whirlwind 7. Name : Tear Gas Get : Lv 40 Get : Lv 68 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : N/A 4. Name : 10,000 Volts 8. Name : Preparation Get : Lv 44 Get : Lv 72 Masters at : 200 P Masters at : 240 P >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> V. PRIVATE ACTIONS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you see "[] private actions" in upper right corner when you near a town, your hero will be alone and all allies are doing their own private actions, this is a great thing to do as if you pickpocket someone without private actions, your allies "friendship level" and "love level" to you will be lowered...and its affect the ending story (...as I know from other people, there is 86 endings!). Also, if you do a private actions and talk to someone (including your allies) you may see an extra event and you may get some items and some of the PA affect the friendship and love level between you and other allies which is, again, affect the ending. There is one more thing, you should do pickpocket by using private actions, or your party friendship and love level with you will be lowered. JAA's NOTE: See the Private Action List (Claude) section for more info. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VI. ITEM CREATION >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Star Ocean : The Second Story has a great advantage than other RPG's, Item Creation, with item creation, you can make your own weapon by fuse a weapon and a mineral (like diamond, gold, etc), you can also make a book staring the author, cooking, or even make an illegal item!! all of this item creation is very innovative, and I think all RPG should have them. You can get into item creation command by entering menu screen, enter the item screen, press triangle button and choose item creation. Item Creation could be gotten by have someone learn certain skill (ex: learn skill Good Eye, Recipe, and Kitchen Knife to get Cooking command in item creation). If you level up certain item creation level, you may get super specialty skills (ex: level up the Cooking and Compounding item creation to lvl.4 on each characters, and you get Master Chef super specialty skill), all of these super specialty are more effective than original item creation, but if you want an easy reference of how you can get certain item creation or super specialty. Also, you need certain talents to make item creation have higher success rate. All of these talents are actually random; they are given to one of your character when you get them, some of them are really useful. Now this is a list and explainment about all item creations and talents. _______ /Talents\_______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originality : Usefull for make "Art" item creation. Dexterity : Usefull for pickpocket or hand-make item creation. Writing Ability : Usefull for "Writing" IC and "Musical Talent" IC- Specialty. Pitch : Usefull for "Musical Talent" IC (composing). Sixth Sense : Usefull for "Scout" IC-Specialty Sense of Taste : Usefull for "Cooking" item creation. Sense of Design : Usefull for "Art" and "Metalwork" IC. Sense of Rythm : Usefull for "Musical Talent" IC(compose and play). Love of Animals : Usefull for "Familiar" IC-Specialty. The Blessing of Manna : Only who have this talent can use magic spell. ________________________________________________________________________ JAA's NOTE: IC-Specialty means that item creation only can be used by accessing menu, and enter the "Specialty" choice. Also, the Blessing of Manna talent only used by magician (Celine, Leon, Rena, Noel). You can see your character talent by accessing menu screen, choose skills, and press Triangle button. ________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ /Skills (Non-Battle)\___________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This skills can't be used until you buy certain skill from the skill guild. Once you buy that skill, you can never buy that skill again, and if you get a new character, that skill can be used by that new characters. Skills can be used to increase stats and after certain skills learned, you can get certain item creation (ex: learn Good Eye, Recipe, and Kitchen Knife to get "Cooking" IC) or from the greenish coloured skills, your battle skill can be used (like Flip, you sometimes can automatically go behind the enemy and attack from behind with a certain probability). To learn the skills, easy, just press confirm button in the skill you want to learn. Also, in skill guild, you can talk to the explainer and the advisor to see what skills are gotten by buying certain "Pack of Skills" ("Pack of Skills" contain several skills like the pack of skills "Combat 1" contain several combat skills). Now this is the list. * Sketching * Musical Notation (Agility + 1% x skill level) * Tool Knowledge (Item sale price + 3% x skill level) * Mineralogy (Intelligence + 3% x skill level) * Herbal Medicine(Recovery by blue/blackberries + 3% x skill level) * Craft (Agility + 2 x skill level) * Esthetic Sense * Writing (Dexterity + 2 x skill level) * Effort (Experience points needed for next level is reduced.) * Perseverance (Skill point consumption is reduced.) * Patience (Constitution + 2 x skill level) * Danger Sense (Stamina + 3 x skill level) * Biology (HP + 10 x skill level squared) * Mental Science (MP + 5 x skill level) * Kitchen Knife (Strength + 20 x skill level) * Recipe * Good Eye (Recovery level increases.) * Whistling * Animal Training * Metal Casting (Dexterity + 2 x skill level) * Scientific Ability (Strength + 10 x skill level) * Fairyology (Intelligence + 1 x skill level) * Radar * Piety (Skills increased somewhat...?) * Playfulness * Functionality (Str, Dex, Agl, and Int + 6 x skill level) * Courage * Poker Face (Guts + 3 x skill level) * Copying * Mech Knowledge * Mech Operation _______________ /Skills (Battle)\_______________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This skills below can only be used in combat automatically (with certain probabilty, of course) * Below the Belt (Ignores enemy defense) * Strong Blow (Increase attack) * Flip (Go and attack behind enemy) * Counterattack (When you attacked, press X and he/she will counter) * Feint (Improve aim) * Mental Training (Increase attack) * Motormouth (Reduces time to cast spell) * Body Control (Prevent faint) * Spirit Force (Increase defend) * Parry (Parry enemy's attack) * Cancel (Eliminate the gap between killer moves and normal attack) * Gale (Increase combat speed) * Provocation (Make the enemy try to hit you using Select button) * Float (When you hit an enemy, it can fly away above) JAA's NOTE: "Float" combat skills only can be gotten in the bonus dungeon (thanks to Michael Welch(HooliganBoy1@webtv.net) for this info). _______________________ /Item Creation/Specialty\_______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the list of all item creation, with explainment, skills needed, item gotten if you succeed or fail, item needed, and support items (get it and it will make certain IC have higher success rate). IC-Specialty means that item creation only can be used by entering menu screen and choose specialty choice. ________________________________________________________________________ JAA's NOTE: If you have reached Energy Nede and have a Synard, I suggest you buy a magical rasp since it increase customize IC and blacksmith SS items, so you can make a more powerful items. To buy it, it is in Fake Gallery, it is in the snowy land. There are 2 main snow islands in Nede and several small snow islands between the main snow islands, land in one of the islands and go around until you changes the screen and you have reached the fake gallery. ________________________________________________________________________ ARTS ---- This item creation used for making art items from a blank canvas and a lump, some picture are portraits of a character, and some others are items that can be used in battle. Item needed : Magical Canvas (for picture),Magical Clay (for sculpture). Success : Portraits, Dolls, Balls. Failure : Useless Decorations, Weird Lump, Scribbles. Skills needed : Sketching, Esthetic Sense. Support items : Graphics Tool. Items gotten with Art: Magical Canvas: Revival Card, Extension Card, Discovery Card, Fol Up Card, Victorial Card, Mortalial Card, Fountain Card, Fairies Card, 'The Last Supper', 'The Scream', Portrait A(Claude), Portrait B(Rena), Portrait C(Celine), Portrait D(Bowman), Portrait E(Dias), Portrait F(Precis), Portrait G(Ashton), Portrait H(Leon), Portrait I(Opera), Portrait J(Ernest), Portrait K(Noel), Portrait L(Chisato). Magical Clay: Magic Rock, Super Ball, Tri-ball, Silence Card, Dummy Doll, Hexagram Card, Hyper Ball, Skanda, Bubble Lotion, Mirror of Wisdom, Jack-in-the-Box, Treasure Chest. ORACLE ------ This IC-Specialty give you a hint about something. Success : Hint. Skills needed : Radar, Piety, Playfullness. MUSICAL TALENT -------------- Compose a song or play a song. This item creation produces a song that can increase stats but with limited time. Item needed : Feather Pen (for composing),Conductor's Baton (for play). Success : a song that increase stats, enemy encounter, etc. Failure : do nothing, you lose the feather pen (composing). Playing a song have 100% succees rate Skills needed : Musical Notation, Musical Instrument. Support items : Music Tool. *all info below is available when the song is still playing* Piano: The Song of Salvation: every step you walk, restore hp/mp. The Song of Blessings: increases all parameters. Cembalo: The Ghost Dance: Aim is improved. The Fairy Dance: Dodging ability is improved. Illusive Shamisen: The Green Gale: Agl is improved The Secret Power: max hp/mp is increased. Silver Trumpet: The Evil Melody: Summon a VERY powerful angel to attack you. The Melody of the Gods: Success is achieved even without talent. Harmonica: The Strains of Battle: Encounter rate is increased. Strains of Loneliness: Encounter rate is decreased. Lyre: The Judgement: Attack power is increased. The Eternal Song: Def power is increased. Violin: Enter The Hero: Fight normal enemy. Hail the Goddess: Effectiveness of specialty command is increased. Organ: The Song of Healing: every step you walk, restore hp. The Song of Hope: every step you walk, restore mp. CUSTOMIZE --------- By combining a weapon and a mineral, you can get a weapon that may be stronger. This item creation is very useful since almost all best weapons only can be gotten by this item creation. Item needed : a weapon and a mineral (like crystal, gold, etc). Success : a great weapon but can also weaker weapon. Failure : useless weapon, like Dull Sword or Worn Knuckles. Skills needed : Craft, Metal Casting, Functionality. Support items : Magical Rasp (buyable). Here's some way to get the best weapons for all characters by Customize (you may need Magical Rasp to get some stronger weapons). The strongest weapon is in the lowest line of a character. Note if you see "(Weapon)" or "(Ore)" this mean you can use any weapon or ore to get certain weapons. *Claude: Minus Sword: Sharp Edge + Mithril Aura Blade: (Weapon) + (Ore) Eternal Sphere: Minus Sword + Mithril *Rena: Kaiser Knuckle: (Weapon) + (Ore) Sorceres Knuckle: Magical Glove+Rune Metal/Rune Full Moon+Sage's Stone Empressia: Kaiser Knuckle + Moonite *Celine Silver Moon: Silver Rod + Moonite Holy Rod: (Weapon) + Orihalcum Dragon Tusk: Holy Rod + Star Ruby, Ruby Rod + Orihalcum *Ashton Holy Cross: (Weapon) + (Ore) Gemini: Starlight/Pair Nuts + Meteorite Melufa: Psyzer + Damascus *Precis SD Punch: (Weapon) + (Ore) SDUGA Punch: UGA Punch + Meteorite UGA Punch: SD Punch + Damascus *Bowman Asura: Titan Fist + Rainbow Diamond Kaiser Knuckle: (Weapon) + (Ore) Titan Fist: Giant Fist + Rainbow Diamond Moon Fist: Rune Full Moon + Diamond *Opera Burst Box: Magic Box + Sage's Stone Pulse Box: Beta Box box + Orihalcum Seventh Ray: Light Box + Rainbow Diamond *Ernest Flare Whip: (Weapon) + Star Ruby Freeze Whip: (Weapon) + Kenja no Ishi Invisible: Light Whip + Mithril Dark Whip: Tanbunshi Wire + Damascus *Dias Whirlwind: (Weapon) + Meteorite Hard Cleaver: Breeze Hope + Rainbow Diamond Crimson D: (Weapon) + Star Ruby Soul Slayer: Crimson D + Sage's Stone/Hard Cleaver + Damascus Ruins Fate: Minus Sword + Damascus *Leon Book of Darkness: Strong Weapon + Damascus Heraldry: (Weapon) + Rune Metal Book of Chaos: Book of Darkness + Damascus Ancient Wisdom: Book of Chaos + Damascus *Noel Dragon Claw: (Weapon) + Moonite Serpent Tooth: Eagle Claw + Sapphire Grizzly Clasp: Dragon Claw + Iron *Chisato Shock Gun: (Weapon) + Mithril Cracker: (Weapon) + Damascus Freeze: Shock Gun + Sapphire Psychic Gun: Cracker + Sage's Stone IDENTIFY -------- Used for identifying items that have a question mark in front of the item word (like ?HERB,?WEAPON,etc). Item needed : Spectacle. Success : the ?xxx will be identified and show the real item. Failure : the ?xxx will not be identified and you lose the spectacle. Skills needed : Tool Knowledge, Mineralogy, Herbal Medicine. Support items : Element Analyser. METALWORK --------- Make a jewelry from a piece of metal. You may need certain character to make certain jewels. Very useful especially for creating an Atlas Ring (use R.Diamond with Claude). Item needed : a mineral Success : useful jewelry that increase stats or defend to certain elementals. Failure : Gaudy Earring, Weighty Ring, Scrap Iron, Useless Decoration. Skills needed : Mineralogy, Craft, Esthetic Sense. Support items : Pewter Container. * Cl-Claude, Re-Rena, Ce-Celine, As-Ashton, Op-Opera, Pr-Precis, Bo- Bowman, Er-Ernest, Di-Dias, Le-Leon, No-Noel, Ch-Chisato. Iron: Black Earring: Re, Ce, Op, Pr, Le, No Heavy Ring: Cl, Ce, As, Pr, No, Ch, Er Hard Ring: Cl, Ce, As, Op, Pr, Ch, Er Poison Check: Cl, Op, Di, Bo, Le, Ch Hard Pierce: Cl, As, Di, Pr, Ch, Er Paralyze Check: Re, Op, Di, Bo, Le Stone Check: Re, Di, Bo, No, Le Silver: Silver Ring: Cl, Ce, As, Pr, Le, Er Silver Baretta: Cl, Ce, Op, Di, Bo, Le, Ch Silver Pendant: Re, Op, Di, Bo, No, Ch Silver Charm: Re, Cel, No, Le Silver Idol: Re, As, Pr, No, Er Silver Cross: Cl, As, Di, Pr, Ch, Er Silver Pierce: Re, Ce, Op, Pr, No, Le Angel Hair: Cl, As, Od, Di, Bo, Pr, Ch, Er Gold: Necklace: Cl, Ce, Op, No Gold Crown: Re, Ce, As, Op Gold Ring: Re, Ce, Op, No Sturm Ring: Re, Ce, As, Op, Bo, No, Le Gold Idol: Re, As, No, Er Gold Bracelet: Cr, Di, Bo, Pr, No, Le, Ch Gold Pierce: Cl, As, Di, Bo, Pr, Le, Ch, Er Gold Cross: Cl, Di, Pr, Ch, Er Sapphire: Blue Talisman: Re, Ce, Op, Pr, No, Re, Er Aquaring: Re, Ce, Di, Pr, No, Le Feat Symbol: Re, Ce, As, Op, Bo, Pr, Le Water Ring: No, Le Purple Mist: Cl, Di, No, Ch, Er Anklet: Re, Ce, Di, Pr, No, Le Gale Earring: Cl, As, Di, Bo, Ch Ruby: Recoil Bracelet: Cl, Ce, Op, Pr, Ch Fire Ring: Ce, Le Blood Earring: Re, Ce, As, Op, Di, Bo, No, Le, Er Flare Ring: Re, Ce, Di, Pr, No, Le, Er Shield Pierce: Re, As, Di, Bo, No, Le, Er Berserk Ring: Cl, Pr, Ch Ruby Pierce: Cl, As, Op, Bo, Ch Crystal: Holy Ring: Re, Ce, As, Di, Bo, No, Le, Er Princess Ring: Re, Ce, Pr, Ch Glass Slippers: Re, Ce, Op, Ch Surrender Pendant: Re, Ce, As, Op, Bo, Le, Er Resist Ring: Cl, As, Di, Bo, Pr, No, Le, Er Reflection Ring: Cr, As, Op, Di, Bo, No, Le, Er Prism Ring: Cl, Op, Pr, Ch Green Beryl: Emerald Ring: Re, Ce, As, Di, Bo, No, Le Talisman: Re, Ce As, Bo, No, Le, Er Emerald Pierce: Re, Ce, No Crown: Cl, Ce, As, Op, Er Fairy Ring: Cl, As, Op, Di, Bo, Pr, Re, Ch, Er Green Bracelet: Re, Di, Bo, Pr, No, Le, Ch Might Chain: Cl, Op, Di, Pr, Ch Lot Bracelet: Cl, Op, Pr, Ch, Er Diamond: Pretty Idol: Re, As, No, Er Attack Earring: Cl, Ce, Op, Di, Bo, Pr, Le, Ch Thunder Ring: Ce, No First Earring: Cl, Ce, Di, Bo, Pr, Ch, Er Promised Ring: Re, Ce, As, Op, Pr, No, Le Flash Earring: Cl, Re, As, Op, Di, Bo, Pr, Le, Ch, Er Shiny Earring: Re, As, Op, No, Le Reverse Doll: Cl, Di, Bo, Ch, Er Star Ruby: Stardust Ring: Re, Ce, Di, Pr, Le Star Earring: Re, Ce, No, Le Star Necklace: Re, Ce, No, Le Protect Ring: Re, Ce, As, Op, Bo, No, Le Eclipse Ring: Cl, As, Op, Di, Bo, Pr, Ch, Er Ruby Pendant: Cl, As, Op, Bo, No, Ch Shield Ring: Cl, As, Op, Bo, Pr, Ch, Er Rainbow Diamond: Left Cross: Re, Ce, Pr, No, Le Dream Bracelet: Cl, Ce, As, Op, Di, Bo, Pr, Ch Regeneration Ring: Cl, Ce, As, Op, Di, Bo, Ch Healing Ring: Re, Pr, No, Le, Er Magic Mist: Re, No, Le, Er Magic Cross: Re, Pr, No, Le Zephyr Earring: Cl, Ce, As, Di, Bo, Pr, Ch, Er Atlas Ring: Cl, As, Op, Di, Bo, Ch, Er Moonite: Luna Tablet: Re, Ce, As, Op, Bo, Pr, Ch, Er Moon Earring: Re, Ce, As, Bo, Pr, Le Luna Talisman: Cl, Di, No, Le Moon Light: Cl, Ce, As, Op, Di, Bo, No, Le, Ch Insanity Ring: Cl, Op, Di, Bo, Ch Lunatic Ring: Re,Ce, Pr Er Lunatic Earring: Cl, Op, Di, No, Ch, Er Sage's Stone: Infinity Ring: Re, Ce, Pr, No, Er Mental Ring: Cl, Ce, Di, Bo, Pr, Le, Ch, Er Wise Ring: Cl, Ce, Op, Di, Bo, Pr, Ch Peep Half: Cl, As, Op, Di, Bo, Ch Misty Symbol: Re, Ce, Pr, No, Le, Er Peep Non: Cl, As, Op, Di, Bo, Le, Ch Mind Ring: Re, As, Op, No Wrecked Gem: Red Lotus Gem: Anyone AUTHORING --------- Make a book that learn certain skills but you cant go through level 5 of that skill. Item needed : Fountain Pen. Success : book that learn certain skills. Failure : Crumpled Paper. Skills needed : Writing. Support items : Word Processor Software. ex: (skill name):(book name) Herbal Medicine: All About Herbs Copying: Before Tea's Ready Good Eye: Choose Ingredients Kitchen Knife: Cook from the Heart Mech Knowledge: Engineering Animal Training: Forest Friends Craft: Gold/Silversmith Mental Science: Heart Barriers Musical Notation: Musical Theory Fairylogy: Mystical Beings Biology: Nature's Life Force Metal Casting: No Need for Words Counterattack: On Revenge Mental Training: On Training Tool Knowledge: Pocket Encyclopedia Scientific Ability: The Hermes Theory Mineralogy: The Land's Secret Recipe: Today's Dish PRACTICE -------- This IC-Specialty reduces exp needed to level up. Success : Reduces exp needed to lvl.up. Skills needed : Effort, Patience, Perseverance. SCOUT ----- Increase or decrease enemy encounter rate. Skills needed : Danger Sense. COMPOUNDING ----------- Make better medicine from 2 lower medicines. Success : Better herb. Failure : do nothing. Skills needed : Biology, Herbal Medicine, Mental Science. Support items : Antiseptic Gloves. Mandrake+Mandrake: Risky Liquid, Natural high, Crash Pill, Violent Pill Mandrake+RoseHips: Attack Bottle, Kamikaze Tonic, Smoke Mist, Flash Pot, Mandrake+Artemis Leaf: Liquor Bottle,Danger Pot, Sweet Syrup, Sour Syrup Mandrake+Wolfsbane: Lilith Tonic,Bubble Lotion,Fairy Toware,Melty Lotion Mandrake+Lavender: Nightmare Pot, Marine Drink, Smoke Oil, Maple Syrup Mandrake+Aceras: Energy Tonic, Risky Liquid, Hot Syrup, Herbal Oil RoseHips+Rose Hips: Cure Poison, Maple Syrup, Cure Paralyze, Mix Syrup RoseHips+Artemis Leaf: Cure Paralysis,Cure Poison,Marionette Pill,Skanda Compress RoseHips+Wolfsbane: NightmarePot,SuccubusCologne,DangerPot,ParalysisMist RoseHips+Lavender: Fresh Syrup, Holy Mist, Fruit Syrup, Sweet Syrup RoseHips+Aceras: Kamikaze Tonic, Succubus Cologne, Mental Pot Artemis Leaf+Artemis Leaf: CareTablet,LiquorBottle,FairyGlass,Danger Pot Artemis Leaf+Wolfsbane: Sour Syrup, Violent Pill, Hot syrup, Fruit Syrup Artemis Leaf+Lavender: Resurrection Mist, Medical Rinse, Wonder Drug Artemis Leaf+Aceras: Wonder Drug, Fresh Pot, Liquor Bottle, Herbal Oil Wolfsbane+Wolfsbane: Mad Mist, Stink Gel, Bitter Lotion, Melty Lotion Wolfsbane+Lavender: Bitter Lotion,Paralysis Oil,Melty Lotion,Stink Gel Wolfsbane+Aceras: Shock Oil, Bubble Lotion, Pixie Cologne, Lilith Tonic Lavender+Lavender: Medical Rinse,Mixed Syrup,Resurrect Bottle,Herbal Oil Lavender+Aceras: Resurrect Mist, Energy Tonic, Holy Mist, Fresh Syrup Aceras+Aceras: Fairy Mist, Resurrection Bottle, Skanda Ointment COOKING ------- Make better food from basic ingredients. Item needed : basic/rare ingredients. Success : better healing foods. Failure : bad tasting food that do negative status. Skills needed : Good Eye, Recipe, Kitchen Knife. Support items : All-Purpose Knifes. Thanks to Darrick C.Mattsen (WLDNCRZY14@hotmail.com) for this data. Seafood: Big Tuna--Restores HP 45% (Noel's Favorite) Broth--Restores MP 30% Salmon Omelet--Restores HP 29% Seaweed Miso Soup--Restores MP 20% Shark Fin Soup--Restores MP 40% Shrimp Au Gratin--Restores HP 26% Shrimp Pilaf--Restores HP 30% Shu-Mai--Restores HP 10% Sole and Fruit Sauce--Restores HP 22% Toro Tuna--Restores HP 20% Meat: Baby Rabbit Risotto--Restores HP 35% (Celine's Favorite) Beef Croquettes--Restores HP 30% Chicken Doria--Restores HP 48% Chicken Skewers--Restores HP 5% (Dias' Favorite) Ground Lamb Steak--Restores HP 40% Hamburger--Restores HP 19% (Ashton's Favorite) Jambalaya--Restores HP 46% Meat Dumpling--Restores HP 22% Potstickers--Restores HP 19% Steak--Restores HP 50% (Claude's Favorite) Grain: Daikon Miso Soup--Restores MP 10% (Bowman's Favorite) Fried Rice--Restores HP 26% Gruel--Restores HP 10% Hassaku Tea**--Restores MP 40% (Ernest's Favorite) Ishidaya Tea**--Restores MP 60% Pancakes--Restores HP 23% Rice Cakes--Restores HP 19% Rice Croquettes--Restores HP 12% Rice Omelet--Restores HP 20% Root Beer**--Restores MP 35% Shrimp Doria--Restores HP 21% Sweet Dumpling--Restores HP 12% Soy Milk--Restores MP 10% Usunigori Tea**--Restores MP 45% Yaegaki Tea**--Restores MP 50% Yukiyucho Tea**--Restores MP 55% Smelly Rice Cakes* Fruit: Aged Berry Juice--Cures All Status Apple Cider--Restores MP 40% (Opera's Favorite) Apple Crepes--Restores HP 15% Banana Crepes--Restores HP 18% Berry Juice--Restores MP 5% Orangeade--Restores MP 10% Orange Au Gratin--Restores HP 21% Orange Sherbet--Restores HP 10% Peach Ice Cream--Restores HP 10% Pickled Plum--Restores HP 2% Strawberry Mousse--Restores HP 14% Vegetables: Cabbage Roll--Restores HP 26% Carrot Ice Cream--Restores HP 12% Carrot Juice--Restores MP 13% (Leon's Favorite) Corn Potage--Restores MP 20% Green Potage--Restores MP 25% Quick Pickles--Restores HP 5% Rice-Bran Pickles--Restores HP 6% Spring Rolls--Restores HP 20% Squash Croquettes--Restores HP 22% Squash Spring Rolls--Restores HP 28% Vegetable Juice--Restores MP 26% Egg/Dairy: Bacon and Eggs--Restores HP 20% Chocolate Crepes--Restores HP 22% (Precis' Favorite) Custard Pudding--Restores HP 15% Egg Sandwich--Restores HP 19% Fried Eggs--Restores HP 18% Fruit Smoothie--Restores MP 8% Macaroni Au Gratin--Restores HP 10% Shortcake--Restores HP 16% (Rena's Favorite) Vanilla Ice Cream--Restores HP 10% Yogurt--Restores HP 5% FAMILIAR -------- Send an animals to buy something from a shop, useful when you in a dungeon, the animal changes as this IC level increased. Item needed : Pet Food. Success : you can several items from the animal. Failure : do nothing, you lose the pet food. Skills needed : Whistling, Animal Training. Skill level 1-Pigeon: Blueberry, Aquaberry, Spectacles, Blackberry Skill level 3-Crow: Rosehip, Wolfsbane, Lavender, Flare Bomb Skill level 5-Crane: Cure Paralyze, Mind Bomb, Mandrake, Resurrection bottle, Cure Stone Skill level 7-Hawk: Seafood, Fruit, Grain, Meat, Vegetables, Egg/Dp Skill level 9-Eagle: Aquaberry, Blackberry, Blueberry, Spectacles, Liquor Bottle, Aseras, Resurrect Bottle, Magical Canvas ALCHEMY ------- Changes iron into better and rarer mineral, you can changes rarer mineral as this IC level increased. You can only changes the iron with Blessing of Manna talent. You can only make certain mineral after you have certain level of Alchemy, you also need Lezard Flask to create a more rare minerals. Item needed : Iron. Success : better and rarer mineral. Failure : Rock, you lose the Iron. Skills needed : Scientific Ability, Mineralogy, Fairyology. Support items : Lezard Flask, Erlenmeyer Flask. Level 1: Silver, Gold Level 2: Ruby, Sapphire Level 3: Green Beryl, Crystal Level 4: Diamond Level 5: Star Ruby Level 6: Damascus, Rune Metal* Level 7: Orihalcon, Rainbow Diamond* Level 8: Moonite*, Sage's Stone*, Meteorite*, Mithril* *In order to make these, you must have the item "Lezard's Flask" SURVIVAL -------- Find items in the field. Success : foods, mineral, etc. Failure : do nothing. Skills needed : Herbal Medicine, Patience. Support items : Survival Kit. PICKPOCKET ---------- Steal an item from a people by pressing [] button near that people, you can get some rare item by using this IC-Specialty. Items needed : Bandit's Gloves (not 1-time only) Success : stolen items. Failure : do nothing and you cant steal anything from that people anymore. Skills needed : Courage, Poker Face. Support Items : Magician Hand (have high success rate). JAA's NOTE : you may must have the talent Dexterity or you have low- success rate. You can create Magician Hand by Machinery, and it can help you pickpocket a lot. REPRODUCTION ------------ Make same items by using camera. Some items cannot be copied because some reason (imagine if you can copy an angel armband). Items needed : Magical Camera, Magical Film. Success : Duplicated items. Failure : Blurry Photo. Skills Needed : Copying. Support items : Ririca (like magical camera, but more useful) MACHINERY --------- This IC is very usefull, it can produces machines or items that increase the success rate of some IC. This item creation can be used to get several Precis's and Opera's killer moves. Items needed : Material Kit. Success : Bombs, Machines. Failure : do nothing. Skills needed : Mech Knowledge, Mech Operation. Items gotten: Survival Kit, Ririca, Sankaku Flask, Nuclear Bomb, Peep- peep bomb, Protection Bomb, Music Box, Magician Hand, Text Software, Graphic Software, Tetrabomb, Assault Bomb, Half-Dead Bomb, Killer Poison, Mind Bomb. By Precis: Launcher, Plasma Barrier, Ultra Punch, One-Two Punch, Iron Punch, Straight Punch By Opera : White System, Black System, Green System, Booster Box, X Box, Black Box, Magic Box _______________ /Super Specialty\_______________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is kinda seems like item creation, but this super specialty used by everyone in your party to make something. To access it, enter menu screen, choose items and press Triangle button, now choose Super Specialty Skills. You can learn a super specialty if you level up certain IC level to level 4 (like to get master chef SS, level up cooking and compounding IC to level 4 and you get master chef SS). MASTER CHEF ----------- By combining 2 basic ingredients you can make more tasty food than original cooking IC. Items needed : basic/rare ingredients. Success : more healing effect food than regular cooking. Failure : junk and bad food. IC needed : Cooking, Compounding. Support items : All-Purpose Knife. Thanks to Darrick C.Mattsen (WLDNCRZY14@hotmail.com) for this data. Egg/Dairy+Egg/Dairy: Plain Omelet--Restores HP 66% Egg/Dairy+Fruit: Coconut Milk--Cures Status Abnormalities Egg/Dairy+Grain: French Toast--Restores MP 55% Egg/Dairy+Meat: Creamed Stew--Restores HP 70% Egg/Dairy+Seafood: Steamed Aspic--Restores HP 50% Egg/Dairy+Vegetables: Yogurt Salad--Restores HP 10%/cures Poison Fruit+Fruit: Pear Compote--Cures Status Abnormalities Fruit+Grain: Strawberry Mochi--Restores HP 55% Fruit+Meat: Muscat Grape Jelly--Cures Poison Fruit+Seafood: Sole & Wine Sauce--Restores HP 60% Fruit+Vegetables: Konyaku Jelly--Restores HP 40% Grain+Grain: Sweet Rice Cakes--Restores HP 80% Grain+Meat: Meat Fried Rice--Restores HP 60% Grain+Seafood: Shark Potstickers--Restores HP 70% Grain+Vegetables: Sake Lees Pickles--+ HP 10%/cures paralysis Meat+Meat: Sirloin Steak--Restores HP 80% Meat+Seafood: Bird's Nest Soup--Restores MP 70% Meat+Vegetables: Peking Duck--Restores HP 70% Seafood+Seafood: Sashimi--Restores HP 70% Seafood+Vegetables: Mushroom Soup--Restores MP 66% Vegetables+Vegetables: Fried Vegetables--Restores HP 50% ORCHESTRA --------- Use all music instruments and all song to make an orchestra. Very useful because in Orchestra status, your IC/-Specialty will be very rare to fail. Items needed : Conductor's Baton, enough music instrument and song for all your characters in your party. Success : an Orchestra (see above). IC needed : Musical Talent, Art. COMPREHENSION ------------- Increases skill points gained after lvl.up. IC needed : Practice, Survival. COME ON BUNNY ------------- Call a bunny which make you can't be attacked by enemies (world map only). Success : a bunny appear. Failure : do nothing. IC needed : Familiar, Scout. PUBLISHING ---------- Writes a book staring a character, you can sell it to a publisher, go back frequently and you get a lot of money. Success : a great book. Failure : Crumpled Paper. IC needed : Authoring, Machinery. Support items : Word Proccessor Software. IDENTIFY ALL! ------------- This SS very usefull because it can lower item price in the shop which conserve your money. Items needed : Spectacle. Success : Decrease or increase the price in the shop. IC needed : Identify, Metalwork. BLACKSMITH ---------- Make an armor from a mineral, this SS produces great armor which help you a lot. With Magical Rasp, you can create a Pallas Athena by a Mithril (this will reduce the element lowering effect by Atlas Ring). Items needed : a mineral. Success : powerful armor, robe, shoes, etc Failure : Perforated Armor. IC needed : Customize, Alchemy. Support items : Magical Rasp. Without Magical Rasp: Iron: Knight Shield, Plate Greave, Ring Mail, Plate Helm, Banded Helm Orichalcum: Neo Greaves, Barrier Shield, Barrier Armor, Hermit's Helm, Rare Gauntlets Damascus: Chaos Mail, Bloody Armor, Bloody Helm, Core Plate Moonite: Jeanne's Helm, Witch Boots, Jeanne's Shield, Jeanne's Armor Mithril: Mithril Coat, Mithril Dress, Mithril Shield, Mithril Mesh Meteorite: Star Greaves, Star Guard, Star Cloak, Star Necklace Rune Metal: Rune Shoes, Wizard Helmet, Wizard Mail, Rune Buckler With the Magical Rasp: Iron: All-Purpose Knife, Plate Mail Orichalcum: Odin Helm, Reflection Armor Damascus: Duel Suit, Algol, Duel Helm Moonite: Ishtar's Robe, Isis Tiara, The Armband of Kali Mithril: Pallas Athena Meteorite: Sylvan Helm, Sylvan Boots, Sylvan Mail Rune Metal: Mirage Robe, Flying Hawk Robes REVERSE SIDE ------------ Make illegal items from a paper, not too useful because it lower your love and friendship level, but the useful one is forged medals which make your exp. 1 more to level up. Success : illegal items. Failure : Bounced check (make your money down as the time goes by) IC needed : Pickpocket, Reproduction. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VIIa. DISC 1 WALKTHROUGH: Chapter 1, The Journey Has Begun ---------------------------------- In the beginning, you will make some choose in sound, battle system and difficulty (yes, there is a difficulty, but you must get certain percentage of voice collection to get it). After the opening story, you wake up in a forest, Shingo Forest by Expellian. Go south and a girl is attacked by a monster, beat that monster using the phase gun (around 3x). The girl runs away, so after her. She will introduce you as Rena Lanford and thanks for saving her. Now go to menu screen and choose skill, now press triangle and press it again, you will see the talent screen, if you have talent dexterity, continue the game, but if you don't, reset, as this talent will help you a lot in item creation or pickpocketing (it is okay if you don't want). Arlia Village ------------- Items in Arlia Village: Resurection bottle, 200F, Blueberry, Rose Hips, Leather armor, Strawberry Jam, Blackberry. Now go around the village and take all the treasure chest you found. Finally go to Rena's house (in the east area town, in southwest corner), she will introduce you to her mother, Westa. After some conversations, Rena will give you a tour, just go into all houses and Rena will explain something. Go back to Rena's house, after some conversation you will be upstair in a room, go out and walk around the 2nd floor (if you see a chest in Rena's room, you can only take it later). After some conversations with Westa and mayor Regis, you will sleep in Regis house. The next day, Regis give you a Long Sword and tell you to go to Salva, and also you can sleep whenever you want in his house (just talk to the maid). Enter Rena's room and you can take the chest now. Now go to Shingo Forest and enter some chat with Rena, finally head to Salva. Salva ----- Items in Salva: Portrait B, Heavy Ring. In this town, buy some better equipment for your hero, and also some healing items if you can. Now take all chests you see and talk to everyone to get some info, go to mayor Alen's house (north side of the town, in the center east big house), talk to anyone and take any chest you found, now leave. Claude will talk something when you leave Allen's house. There is nothing to do, so now head back to Arlia. In Arlia, you will be told that Alen has kidnapped Rena, so now head back to Salva again. Now I suggest you level up first (lvl 5 is fine). Chapter 2, The Kidnapping --------------------------- In Salva, prepare yourself first and now head to Alen's house. Enter the right room in the 1st floor, get the Rena's hairpin on the ground and move the statue in the corner to reveal a passageway. Enter it and save. Salva Underground Mine ---------------------- Items in the underground mine: Rose Hips, 2 Blackberry, Silver, Iron, 2 Gold, Spectacles. You will learn something about the dungeon in StarOcean2...there is a lot of split way, crossroad, and the dungeon is long. But, try to explore and remember the screen and make your own map in your brain or try to make your own map...map is far more useful in this kind of dungeon. Also, you usually warned about the boss place by save point, if you find a save point, usually near that save point is a boss. The enemy in this dungeon is not too hard if your level is high enough. If you find some signs about the dragon's nest, you can't enter now. If you find save point, save, heal, and head north. You will enter a strange room with an altar and Rena tied on the altar, it is bosstime now! Boss: Alen-Tax, HP: 400, Strong: Dark, Weak: Light This is a not too hard boss, with Rena as your back-up healing and if your level high enough, this boss is a whimp. After some conversations, Alen back to normal and apologizes. After some more conversation, Claude and Rena will leave Salva and head back to Arlia. In mayor Regis house, Claude tell Regis about Alen which is controlled by the stone. Regis ask Claude to investigate the sorcery globe, he agrees, Rena now join you as permanent allies. Rena will leave Regis house. Claude and Regis will have a conversation now, Mayor Regis tell Claude that Rena actually wasn't Westa daughter, Westa find her in Shingo forest. Regis tell Claude to sleep, but he notice something hit the windows, and Rena tell him to come down, do so. Now head to the bridge and you find Rena to talk. The next day, Go to Salva and talk to Alen in his house, talk to him again, and he will give you the Ring of Happiness. Now head to the Cross Castle. Chapter 3, The Treasure Hunter -------------------------------- Cross Castle ------------ Once you have arrived in Cross, it is night, so head to the inn (northwest house) and talk to the innkeeper, she will give you a free stay in the inn. The next day, you can travel around Cross freely. Items in Cross Castle: Woodshield, Leather Helm, 500F. _______________________________________________________________________ Do a private action in here first and see the 3 eyed man, YOU ONLY CAN GET OPERA BY DOING THIS PRIVATE ACTION (but if you want Ashton instead of Opera, skip this private action) _______________________________________________________________________ A lot of rumor in this city. First, the king want someone investigate the sorcery globe. Second, the prince rumored has run away. Third, a temple on top of the mountain and near a lake that can only be entered with the king's permission. And fourth, there is a demon bird on top of mountain in the west of the castle. Now you can buy some equipment here, but I recommend don't, money has a pretty major side in this game (especially if you want to buy a bandit gloves for 40.000F, which allow you to pickpocket, later in the walktrough). I recommend you to buy all the skill from the skill guild (it will allow you learn new skill which help you a LOT in your later quest, also if you buy one, it will always kept and even if you get new character, the new character can learn this skill) Go talk to the receptionist in the castle and register your name, she will give you a time to explore the castle, do so and get some chests, you may must talk to some people here and talk to a guard guarding the king chamber to finally meet the king. When you could, talk to the king and ask all the 3 choices, the king will send you to investigate the sorcery globe. The king also gives you a passport and 600F. When you return to center area of the town, there is 2 wizard fighting, after some fight and conversations, she decided to join you in order to investigate the cross cave and get a treasure. You have 2 choices, the first is to let her join, and the second to not join you. But any of the choices will make her join you so it doesn't matter. Now, head to Cross Cave (near the sign). Before you go to Cross Cave, level up a bit and buy a few blackberries. Cross Cave ---------- Items in Cross Cave: Blueberry, 2 Sweet Syrup, Artemis Leaf, 2 Lavender, 2 Cure Poison, ?MINERAL, ?JEWELRY (Reverse Doll), Stink Gel, Feather Pen, 600F, Resurrect Mist, ?ITEM (Aquaberry), 2 Blackberry, Tri-Ball, Magic Canvas, Iron, Green Beryl, 700F, Ancient Treasure, Limits of the Wind (?). As I told you, all of the dungeons in StarOcean2 are like this, but again ,make a map in your brain or a paper to make thing easier. The enemy here are pretty easy, just make sure Celine and Rena have enough MP. At the north area (where there is a save point), an event occurs, and a secret passage revealed to the west, now heal and save. This room is filled with 5 treasure chest, 3 of them are normal items, 1 is the treasure and 1 is boss chest (the boss chest is the upright most chest), the boss in this cave is actually optional but I think you should fight it since you can gain a lot of exp and fol. Boss: 2 Gargoyle, HP: 1500 each, Strong: Dark, Weak: Light This boss is pretty easy, just make sure Celine attack with all MP and Rena as a back-up, and Claude as the fighter. As long as Claude dont trapped between the 2 gargoyles,Im sure you can win this battle. After that, leave the cave, in front of the way out, Celine ask if she can join you, now it is the real thing, make her join you, she is vital to your quest. Whatever, now go to Clik (a town near a lake and coast, but not the cave). If you somehow managed to get around 45.000 F, go to Herlie, a port town that more far than Mars village (read the sign if you can't find it, and if you dont have the talent dexterity, dont bother to buy it, but dont worry you can do pickpocket later on other planet by having a support item which help you a lot to pickpocket by machinery item creation) and buy a bandit gloves in one of the shops here. Also try to buy all the skills available in there, I recommend dont buy any equipment or you will be very short in money. To do a pickpocket, go near a people and press square button, if you fail you dont get anything and you cant steal from him anymore, but if you succeed you will get an item or fol. Chapter 4, Big City, Big Disasters ------------------------------------ Clik ---- Items in Clik: Lyre, Grain, Seafood. This city is pretty big, but before you enter the town, push that square button and do a private action here. Now talk to Philia, a girl near the fountain (north of the fountain), steal Mischief from her too if you have the bandit gloves and talent dexterity (simply reset if you fail) after that go out and enter the town as a group. After you go around and buy skills or equipment, talk to the captain of the ship (southwest area of the port) he tell you to go around first, upon entering the center square, a little thief stole your wallet. Talk to the 2 kids near the east ship and now go to the first area of the town, you find the thief near the bar. After some conversations, you will get a tour from Ketil now,and first,go to: * Ketil's house, in the Clik first area, centersouth house * On the way to the fountain plaza * Crepe shop, near the fountain * Ice cream shop, southwest near the fountain * Restaurant, near the way out to the first area * Clothes store, northwest near the fountain After you do all of them, talk to the kids in port, finally Ketil will be allowed to play with them. Now talk to the captain and he tell you to do last-minute check, go to fountain plaza, an earthquake will occurs. You automatically go to the hill north of fountain plaza, talk to the captain and he will give back the passport, now go upstairs and a tsunami will occurs. Talk to Ketil here and now level up first and go to the Mars Village. Mars Village ------------ Items in Mars Village: Silk Robe, Sour Syrup, Purple Mist, Silence Card. Now go find any chests and if you ready, go to the house in northeast (west area town). The elder of Mars will tell that the children was kidnapped by the bandits, and they want 500.000F and Book of Secret Seal. They hire a swordman called Dias and Rena recognize him. After some conversations, Rena decided to leave your party and join Dias. Go to item shop and buy 20 blueberries and several blackberries, you need them as Rena is not in your party but don't ever buy the flame blade as you find one in the forest. Talk to the elder to sleep. The next day, after some talk the elder give you the mud boots, you need it to pass the swamp in the forest. Now enter the forest in the north (west area town). Mars Forest ----------- Items in Forest: ?HERB (Rose Hips), Amber Robe, Resurrection Bottle, Dummy Doll, Flame Blade, Mandrake. Early, you will attacked by a group of bandits, they have HP around 500 each and except your level is pretty high, they should not be a trouble. This dungeon, is tough, you have to be in pretty high level or you will be in trouble with the enemy in here, you may have to go back to the village to sleep or buy more blue/blackberries. After defeating the 2nd and 3rd group of bandits, if you reach a save point, prepare yourself to fight a boss, save and heal. Now go east and north. Go to east first to get the Mandrake and go to west, on your way to west, one of the wizard come out and tell you that he is the leader of the bandits, prepare for a boss time! Boss: Vermillion, HP: 3000, Strong: Dark, Weak: Fire, Light. If you're level around 15 or so, he is no problem, use head splitters and normal attack with flame blade equipped to get an advantage. Celine's Energy Arrow and Ray will be important to stop his attack. After you defeat him, Rena and Dias come out, after some event you will back in the village. Now Rena will be back in your party. After some talk with Eglas and the Elder, try to go out of the town, Celine will after you and you will be back in Celine's house. Talk to Eglas and he will explain about how you cross to the continent of El. The next day, Eglas tell you to go to the Lacour continent first. Now go to Herlie. Chapter 5, Warrior with Two Dragons ------------------------------------- Herlie ------ Items in Herlie: Ring Mail, Sinclair Sabre, 1200F, Leather Boots. ______________________________________________________________________ JAA's Note: IF you want Ashton instead of Opera, read this chapter. If you want Opera instead Ashton, SKIP this section. Ashton, is a fighter like Claude, but with different sword, he will be your second-best fighting character in your party if you have him. But if you like far-projectile weapon, you may want Opera. I usually choose Ashton, because he is the second best fighter and Opera is weak and I dont like her far attacking weapon. ______________________________________________________________________ When you enter Herlie, talk to the two people near the entrance, they will tell there is a two headed dragon in Salva mine. Now go back to Salva and enter the mine (a passageway right near Alen's house). The soldier will let you enter and tell you there is a warrior who is after the dragon too. Salva Underground Mine (2) -------------------------- Items in the other section of the Mine: Maple Syrup, Brigandine, Iron, Aquaberry, Golden Bracelet, Cinderella Glass, Diamond, Star Ruby. After you go a few steps from the sign "dragon's nest", a warrior in a black robe appear from north way, go to the north way and pick up several chest there, now west and south and finally save in the save point. Go to east and you will find the warrior fighting the dragon. After some conversation, the warrior introduce as Ashton Anchor, and in order to free himself from the two-headed dragons, he ask to join you. You have 2 choices, let him join or leave him. If you let him join, Rena will name the 2 dragons Gyoro and Ururun. If Ashton in your party, you may do his sidequest now, or if you want, you can just go to Herlie and go to Lacour continent. But I think you should do his sidequest, as you get a lot exp and some good treasures from his sidequest. If you want to do his sidequest, go to Mars Village and go to Elder's house library, look at the bookcase and you get 3 choices, choose the last one. The party will suggest to get the Silver Goblet and Tears of the King. Now go to the Mountain Palace (left from the bridge that lead to Clik). Mountain Palace --------------- Items in Mountain Palace: Luna Tablet, Crystal, ?HERB (Artemis Leaf), ?JEWELRY (Shiny Earring), Resurrection Bottle, Cure Stone, Sweet Syrup, Crest Rod, Amber Robe, ?MINERAL (Damascus), Trikabut, Fairy Toilette, Damascus, Emerald Ring, Fairy Statue, Cestus, ?MINERAL (Orihalcum). The enemy in this dungeon is very hard, so build up your party first, the archers is the most annoying, so kill them first. This dungeon is very amusing, so again, make a map, but in the first area, go west not to north, as to north is for Opera's sidequest, but you may want to go there also as there are a few good items. As always, if you find a save point, save and heal. And now go to northwest, get the 2 chests and check the center area of the room. After some conversation, a boss appear and attack you. Boss: Nightmare, HP: 9000 The only thing to beware that this boss will cast Tetanus Wind, which is annoying, but if your level is 20 or so, your attack will hold him and will not let him counterattack. Use your best killer moves and spell to beat this boss. After some conversations, go back to the soldier and sleep. Now head to Lusgus Mountain which is west of Cross Castle. There is no item in there and the dungeon is short and easy, but the enemy here is tough, so beware. In the first area, go to the left path, now go straight and finally face the boss. Boss: Xain, HP: 20000, Strong: Fire, Wind. This battle is pretty hard because the demon bird is flying and keep attacking you from the air, but this bird will not cast any spell, so keep attacking with headsplitter and shooting star. Use Energy Arrow and make sure Rena have the Cure All spell. Otherwise, this battle is easy if your level high enough. If Celine or Rena MP gets too low, use blackberry to heal their MP. After some conversation, go out the mountain and head back to Salva Mine. In Salva Mine, go to where Ashton fight the dragon. In this point, the two dragons can't be released from Ashton and Ashton will join your party permanently. And this sub quest is finally done, now go back to Herlie. Chapter 6, The Tournament --------------------------- In Herlie, buy whatever you want and if you ready, talk to the captain and cross the sea to the Hilton port in Lacour. Hilton ------ Items in Hilton: none This is the port town of Lacour kingdom, however, buy all the skills and buy what you need. Also, you can buy some tool to do some item creation here. Now go to the inn and sleep here, there is an event. Now go out and go to the Lacour Castle. Lacour Castle ------------- Items in Lacour Castle: Star Ruby. There are a lot of people in here, so try to do some pickpocket here. You can't buy any weapons here, because the tournament in Lacour is starting, but you can buy several items and skills in here. Most people here are talking about the tournament. Now talk to the receptionist in the castle, she will tell there is no audience allowed when the tournament start, now try to leave the castle and Rena will talk something, now enter the castle again and talk to receptionist, she will register you for the tournament. She will tell you to get a sponsor from one of the weapon shop. There are 4 weapon shops in this castle, all of them are in the east center area of the town. Here is the list of what they offer: 1."Counterpunch" Bald man near a Cannon. Equipment : Sinclair Sabre,Brigandine,Buckler,Plate Helm,Silver Greaves. Items : Sweet Syrup,Mixed Syrup,Blackberry. JAA Comm. : This shop is has weak attack, but have high defense. 2."Knockout" Man with hat outside near the red arrow sign. Equipment : Long Edge,Leather Armor,Wood Shield,Leather Helm,Leather Greaves. Items : Sweet Syrup,Mixed Syrup,Blackberry. JAA Comm. : This shop have very high attack, but very low defense. 3."Slayer" Woman inside the door near red arrow sign. Equipment : Walloon Sword,Ringed Mail,Round Shield,Iron Helm,Iron Greaves Items : Fruit Syrup,Fresh Syrup,Attack Bottle,Violence Pill. JAA Comm. : This is a good sponsor, high attack and high defense. 4."Straight" Man with hat standing near woman in armor. Equipment : Gusguine,Banded Mail,Knight Shield,Banded Helm,PlateGreaves. JAA Comm. : Also a good sponsor, but have stronger attack than "Slayer". Whatever you choose, you now can build up your party now, but you have to sleep in Hilton's inn as if you stay in Lacour's inn, you will trigger the story and you can't leave the castle. If you ready, now sleep in the inn for free. The next day go to castle and go to the tournament place. Talk to the counter and register, after the talk, enter the waiting room and talk to all people here and a soldier tell you that the 1st fight has started. You now fight Amon Rau, before you do so, check your equipment and killer moves, I suggest you have the Head Splitter and Energy Sword killer moves equipped. ______________________________________________________________________ JAA's NOTE: You dont have to win the tournament, however, you only can finish the tournament at 2nd place, as you must lose to Dias, but I think you should try to get the 2nd place as you get the Sharp Edge sword (its not as strong as Long Edge, but it can be used to get the strongest weapon for Claude by customize item creation). ______________________________________________________________________ 1st Fight: Amon Rau, HP: 2000 Do constant normal attacks, if you have trouble beating him, I think you should reset and build up first, as you will have trouble defeating the 2nd or 3rd fight. After you win, talk to your party in the north area of the supporters place. After some talk, a soldier come and call Claude for the 2nd fight. 2nd Fight: Dol Adan, HP: 2750 Use constant normal attacks, you may want to use killer moves here, as he is pretty strong. If your level high enough, he will be down in no time. Before the next fight, you get another last check, use healing items if you get any high damage when you fight Dol Adan. 3rd Fight: Jose Duran, HP: 4000 Use all your strength here, use head splitters when he around 10cm near you (real cm) and run. If you do constant normal attacks, sometime he will overspeed you and hit you instead, so avoid head-to-head. Heal with Energy Sword if you have it. After you win, Dias will fight again and Claude will fight with Dias for the final battle in the tournament. Final Fight: Dias Flac, HP: ???? Altough you see his HP is 2500, he is undefeatable, never try to beat him, and DONT use any items in this battle. After some conversations, you get the 2nd place in the tournaments, talk to whoever has sponsored you and you will get all equipments and items you use in the tournament. After that, go to west area of the castle and north and enter Gamgee's house, he will give you the Sharp Edge sword. Whatever you do, don't get rid of this sword as you only can get Claude's strongest sword by fuse this sword with mithril (by customize). Now do anything you want in Lacour castle as if you finish the Sanctuary of Linga dungeon, this castle will completely empty (except the people in castle). Chapter 7, The Other One -------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ If you already have Ashton and dont want Opera, skip this chapter. But if you dont have Ashton and want Opera, read this chapter. First, go to Arlia and do a private action here, go to mayor Regis's balcony and talk to Opera, than go out of the village and enter Arlia as a group to the Shingo forest and you will see Opera's broken ship (YOU MUST SEE THIS EVENT TO GET ERNEST). ______________________________________________________________________ In order to get Opera, be sure to see private action in Cross Castle (the 3 eyed man) so if you haven't see it until now, its too bad, you can't get Opera. If you fullfilled above, Instead going to Linga, go back to Hilton port and enter the bar, after some conversation, Opera join you. Now go to Cross Castle and talk to the king, the king will give you permission and 10.000F after you done. Now head to mountain palace. In the mountain palace, go north in the first area, after you go through this dungeon pretty deep, there is an event and Opera will ask to join you as permanent member. 1st to join, 2nd to not let Opera join. After that, more further in the cave, you see an event and a boss attack you. Boss: 2 Flare Lizards, HP: 5000 each, Strong: Fire, Weak: Ice. This is a tough boss, you really want Celine and Rena here, have Claude and Opera attack one of the lizard constantly with killer moves and normal attacks. Try to attack the lizard from behind, as if you get hit with the flame, you highly seems to die or at least near-death. So beware. When you reach the end of the palace, an event occurs. Now leave the cave and head back to Lacour continent and go to Linga. You may want to do a little quest, first talk to a traveler named Radol in Salva, tell him that Herlie is north of Salva, next go to Mars, and talk to Radol again, tell him that Herlie is further more to the east. Now go to Hilton and talk to Radol again, and tell him you can go back to Herlie by ship. Radol finally reach Herlie, talk to him in Herlie and he will give Chinke Slayer (dont get rid of this). After all of this finally go to Linga. Chapter 8, Sanctuary of Linga ------------------------------- Linga ----- ______________________________________________________________________ If you want get Precis in your party, read this section, but if you want Bowman instead of Precis, skip this. Precis can use long-range projectile attack, just like Opera, but Bowman is bad compared with Precis, he is weak and his attack range is very short also, almost all of his killer moves take a lot of time and not too useful. ______________________________________________________________________ To get Precis, enter Linga and you'll see Precis and Bobot there, after some conversations, buy some items in here and get out. Do a private action now, go to the bowman's pharmacy in west house (north area of Linga). You will see Precis with Bobot in here, she will take you to her house. After some conversation, she will ask to join your party and you get 2 choice. If you decided to take her, she will wait you in Linga's gate. Now Precis will be in your party as a permanent member. Now, enter Linga and enter the house just near where you meet the girl (Precis) with Bobot there. Prof. Keith is busy now, so go to the Bowman's pharmacy. In there, Bowman ask you to get a rare herb in sanctuary of Linga, then he will help you. Now enter the Sanctuary of Linga, just a cave near Linga. Sanctuary of Linga ------------------ Items in Sanctuary of Linga: Might Chain, Ruby, Mixed Syrup, Rainbow Diamond, Poison Check, Straight Punch, Twin Edge, ?GUARD (Rune Buckler), Cinderella Glass, Liquor Bottle, Lavender, Bubble Lotion, Rose Hips, Aceras, Mandrake, Artemis Leaf. A note of this dungeon, that you only could take one rare herb at a time. Clarisage is the easiest, but I don't know is this affect the story or the ending if you take the other one. Dilwhip, a new rare herb, but hard to find, you must not take any other regular herb (like lavender) in order to find it. The enemy in this dungeon is pretty easy, if you bring Precis, build up her first as she low on level now. Bring several blackberries and blueberries also. This dungeon is long and you may have to get back to Linga's inn several times. You will be easily get lost with all the crossroad and split way, but with several trips and hard work, you can do it. If you didn't find any rare herb (clarisage and Dilwhip), don't give up, just search and you will eventually find it. As always, if you find a save point in a purplish area, be ready for boss! Boss: 2 Vissayers, HP: 10000 each, Strong: Physical, Weak: Light, Lightning. Be carefull with this boss, they can swallow you characters, if all your characters get swallowed, it is game over. So try to trap one of them with normal attacks and with Celine's Energy Arrow, this boss is easy as long as you dont mess up. Now go all the way back to Linga (if you found one of the rare herb). In Bowman's pharmacy, Bowman finally will help you. He will go to Keith's house and calling him with a very loud voice. One of Keith assistant will come out and tell you to go inside. After some conversation, you will stay a night at Bowman's house. At that night, Bowman will offer to join you (if you have Precis, he will not offer to join. If you don't have Precis, let him join. The next day, head to Lacour Castle. Chapter 9, The Energy Stone ----------------------------- In the castle, a soldier ask are you the refugees, and you will noticed that all people here have excavated to the castle and other towns because of the monster attack. Go to castle and talk to the receptionist and talk to Gamgee (in the center stair) and he will give you a Plate Mail. Go to the laboratory (go east,east,and down the stair).Go to the main area of the laboratory and after some conversation, the little kid, Leon will tell you to get the energy stone to power-up the Lacour Hope. Leon now join you as a guest and also give you a link combo. Now go to Hilton port and be prepare to go to Hoffman ruins. Talk to one of the people in Hilton west area (near the ship) and he will ask are you ready to go to Hoffman ruins which is located in an island (dont worry, you can go back to Hilton anytime). After you land in the island go north and you will be in world map, I suggest you building up first to around lvl 32 as you can just go back to Hilton anytime, just talk to the sailor (or whatever he is) in the coastline. When you ready, go to Hoffman ruins in the center of the island. Hoffman Ruins ------------- Items in Hoffman Ruins: Cure Stone, Recoil Bracelet, Angel Hair, Light Box, Aquaberry, Dictionary, 2 Cure Paralyze, Holy Mist, 2 Green Beryl, Orichalcum, 1-up Pudding, Gold, HyperBall, Diamond, Liquor Bottle, Fruit Syrup, Material Kit, Peep-Peep Bomb, Hot Syrup, Peep Half, Blackberry, Hexagram Card, Paralysis Card, Sour Syrup, ?HERB (Artemis Leaf), The 'Spring', Shrum Ring. The enemy here is easy, except the Salamanders, their flame is dangerous so kill him rightaway and hold him before it can fire its deadly flame to you. The dungeon is...amusing!! Even with a map this is a confusing dungeon. If you find a switch, some of them only make your HP half from before, but some of them also create a hole to some treasure chests. Before you go inside, Leon will open the door and now, go to north way first, and get the chests, now go back and go left and save in the save point. Go down the lift and you will enter the main area of the dungeon. I cant help you much, just pick up every chest you found as a remark that you have entered that room, after and after, you will see a save point, save. Now as always, prepare for a bosstime. Boss: 2 Harphinxes, HP: 36000 each, Strong: Fire, Wind, ?, Weak: Light, Lightning, Dark. If you have Celine's Thunderstorm or Leon's Shadow Flare, use it, as they weak to lightning and dark. Concentrate your attack on one Harphinx and beware that they can cast Thunderstorm also, so when they cast it, hit them so they will die eventually, just make sure you cast Thunderstorm or Shadow Flare all the time and Rena as the healer. Now you have gotten the energy stone, now go all the way back to the world map and go to Hilton (I know its long and amusing). ______________________________________________________________________ As you leave, if you have Opera in your party and have seen the event where you see Opera's crashed ship, an event and conversation will occurs, and a boss attack you. Boss: Ghost, HP: 8600 its weak to light and this boss is very weak, no problem. After finishing the boss, Opera and Ernest offer to join you, choose 1st choice to get Opera and Ernest. Choose 2nd choice to not let them join. All is finished and now go back to Lacour Castle. In Lacour Castle, talk to receptionist and after a conversation, head to the Front line Fort (the only place you haven't visited in Lacour continent). ______________________________________________________________________ Chapter 10, The Lacour Hope ----------------------------- Frontline Fort -------------- There is no treasure here, although some weapon shop sells a pretty good items. After you ready, talk to the general in his office, the general is briefing the soldiers and Dias also among them. After some conversation with Dias and Rena, go outside (north from the general office) and talk to Dias. After that, talk to Rena. The next day, talk to all people, and go to the main hallway, a monster attack the fort, prepare to defend yourself and finally go outside to face the boss. Boss: Shin, HP: ???? This boss is undefeatable, but if all your characters die, game over. So defend yourself, it is best to use the strategy "stay away from enemy" but let Claude keep attacking Shin to hold him cast a spell. Also, use magics to hold its attack. After around 1 minute, the battle end. Several days later, the energy stone has not yet delivered. Talk to all people in this fort and sleep in the infirmary, a soldier will come in and tell you that monsters have attacked the fort again. Now Leon will came and if Precis in your party, he will give Precis Thunder Punch weapon. Leon now will activated the Lacour Hope and after the FMV, the monster get wiped away. After some conversation, you automatically will be back in Lacour Castle, the king decided to do an attack to the monsters. You will be in Hilton and after a conversation with Dias and others, the ship will be prepared to set sail. In the ship, Lacour Hope started to attack the monster but it wont work against Shin, the other monster attack you, beat them, and Shin will attack you again. Boss: Shin, HP: ???? He is still undefeatable, this time without time limits, so just lose to him. You wake up on the beach with Leon, after a conversation, go out to the world map and enter the village near the coastline and surrounded by forest. You find your party members in the village, Rena will hugs Claude and after some conversation, you asked to take care of Leon or leave him in this village. I suggest take him with you. Now go to the storage shed in the door to the west of this village to get items and buy some items (to get the items, just check the things in the back of the shed). Shed ---- Items in Shed: 2 Plate Mail, Rune Cap, Giant Fist, Metal Fang, 2 Silver Robe, Shield Sword, Veil Piercer, 2 Silver Greaves, Fine Shield. Before you leave the Shed, the guards will give you the ID Card. As you leave the village, an event occurs where Ronixis decided to after Claude in Expel planet. Now this is a good time for some item creation, if you have machinery item creation, try to get "Magician Hand" accessories by machinery (if you get material kit in the Hoffman Ruin, otherwise,later). ______________________________________________________________________ JAA's NOTE: Magician hand item is an accessory which increase the successful rate of pickpocketing, this item is absolutely needed for pickpocketing. There are other items that can be created by Machinery which increase other item creation succesful rate (like survival kit which help you to do successful survival item creation). ______________________________________________________________________ Now go to Eluria Tower (near the village). Eluria Tower ------------ Items in Eluria Tower: Meteor Ring, Steel Helm, Stone Check, Holy Mist, X-Box, 2 Crestier Guard, Trickster, Music Tool, Cure Paralysis, Sapphire, Aquaberry, Cure Stone, Star Ruby, Crystal, Ultra Punch, Fresh Syrup, ?GUARD (Core Plate), Murasame, Giant Fist, Liquor Bottle, Splinter. The enemy here, is pretty easy, but the one to be worried is the cold lizard, they like the salamanders in Hoffman Ruins but more powerful. This dungeon is pretty easy, in the first floor go north and get the chests and you will see a statue (used for getting password, but since you read this walkthrough you can skip it). Now head to the west stair and enter the 2nd floor. Now go left (yes, there is a passage in there) and get the chests (get that Trickster and equip it in one of your non- battle character, NOW). Now head north, save, and go under the light. Now keep heading to the next floor until you find a statue that ask the password, enter 1-A, 2-P, 3-O, 4-C, 5-A. Now get the chest in the screen (if you want, you can explore first to get more items) and head west. head west and up to the next floor. First go to left and check the red door first. Go trough the way and see an event, you will be back in Calnus. Items in Calnus: None. In this high-tech starship, you only get one chance to go around in here (although only in 1 screen), so try some pickpocket. After you done exploring, talk to Ronixis and after some conversation, you will be back in Eluria Tower and continue the journey. Now head to northwest and check another red door and go through. Save, heal, and head north to face Shin again. Boss: Shin, HP: 21000, Strong: All. 3 StoneStatues, HP: 2200 each, Strong: Dark, Weak: Light. This time, you can beat Shin, but be careful and be sure and bring Rena here. His most damaging attack is he throw something to you, so use an attack spell to stop him. But if your level high enough and you bring Rena, he will die soon. Now head north, you will find 3 passages, right first to get some chests. Now back, and choose left and get the chests. Now go back and head to center. Enter the right passage, go up to the next floor where you find the sorcery globe. After some conversation with the Ten Sages, a sage attack you. Boss: Berle, HP: ???? This is another unwinnable battle and you must survive until the battle automatically end, so stand guard and use strategy "stay away from enemy" and the battle end. After the battle end, you have a conversation and a FMV where Expel is destroyed, and you wake up in a forest in Energy Nede. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VIIb. DISC 2 WALKTHROUGH: Chapter 11, The Energy Nede ----------------------------- You will wake up in a forest in Energy Nede, Rena will tell that he know this place. After some conversation your party will be teleported to Central City's City Hall. The mayor of Central City, Narl will tell you about Nede's history. After some conversation, you can control Claude again. Central City ------------ Items in Central City: none. In this city, a tool shop sells a lot of items that allow you to use some item creation, so buy something in there, also, there is a hat named "Beret" that increases the success rate of any item creation. In the weapon shop, you can buy a lot of stronger weapon in there, but try to conserve your money. In the city hall, there is a publishing company that helps you publish your book (you can create the book using "Publishing" super specialty). After a while, you can go back to the publisher to get a lot of money. Before you head to North City, build up first. Also, you can try to get Claude strongest weapon: Eternal Sphere, by "Customize" item creation (combine the Sharp Edge + Mithril to get Minus Sword, and then combine Minus Sword + Mithril, I don't know if you need Magical Rasp first). Now head to North City. JAA's NOTE: When you leave city hall, go west, you will see a woman, she is Chisato and you only can get her if you see this event. North City ---------- Items in North City: none The people in this city know a lot more about Nede's and the ten sages, so talk to them to gain some information. When you reach the stair, Chisato will be near you again and run away. Now finish your shopping business here and go to the "Home" (northeast house). Talk to the receptionist, she will introduce you to Artis. After some conversation, a researcher will input Claude data. After the 2nd character in your party, a Synard will goes mad and Claude decided to attack the Synard. Boss: Synard, HP: 43000, Weak: Lightning. The important thing in this battle is to stop its breath. Use Celine's thunder-based spells and Rena as a healer. Make Claude attack constantly with normal attacks or killer moves (Twin Slash is great if you have it). If its cast it breath, run behind it and attack from behind. After some conversations, you will be transported into a house. A man come in and introduce himself as Noel. After some conversation, Noel decided to help you to catch a wild Synard. Now go to the Synard Cave. Items in Noel's House: Pet Food, 50000F, a skill book. In the world map, you notice there is a red barrier surrounding the map, it is the Nede's class 9 shield or Energy Nede. Now enter the Synard Cave. Synard Cave ----------- Items in Synard Cave: Dream Bracelet, Heraldry Teory, ?MINERAL (Moonite),Resurrection Bottle, Cinderella Glass, Flying Hawk Robes, Fruit Syrup, ?MINERAL (Meteorite). The enemy in this dungeon is easy; just hit them constantly with normal attack, the only thing to worry is the birds (?). This dungeon is really large, so you will be encounter a lot of enemy in here. In the first screen, Noel will talk something. Try to make a map, because this dungeon is pretty amusing, but once you get the way, this is easy. Once you reach pretty deep inside the cave, on the way to get the chest (filled with a flying hawk robes), you will see Chisato again. Now head back and choose the south way, take Chisato's ID card and go east. You will see the Synard here, but you still can't reach it. Go south, now west and down the stair, get the 2 chests on the center of the screen and save in a save point in the west center area, heal. Now head north to face the disturber. Boss: 2 Archmene, HP: 40000 each, Weak: Lightning. Since this boss is weak to lightning, use Celine's lightning-based spell. Have Claude and others concentrate the attack on one Archmene. The Archmene can move around the battlefield pretty fast and it can't be hit while it moves, so trap one archmene with 2 fighters and use lightning spell to destroy them. After some conversation, you get the Synard and you have a choice to let Noel join you or not. Choose whatever you want, and now you have a Synard, you can travel around the world map freely (not really free, sigh). First don't go around the new towns first, or you will be confused. Head back to Central City when you ready. Chapter 12, Field of Knowledge -------------------------------- Central City ------------ Head to the newspaper room in the city hall and talk to Chisato, she will offer to join you (you should). Now talk to Narl and he will tell you to get the power of Nede's from the 4 fields. Narl then give you the Rune Codes. Try to leave, and Narl will give you another Link Combo. Now you can choose what to be finished first (Knowledge, Power, Love or Courage). I will arrange the walkthrough from the easiest, so the first one is Knowledge, Courage, Power, and Love. And I also arrange what city you should visit in order, the first one is Giveaway, Fun City, L'Aqua, and Armlock. First, go to Giveaway (in the snowy land). Giveaway -------- Items in Giveaway: Fairy Glass. Buy some items in here and try to do some private actions. This city is not important to the story, but you can gain the secret information of North City from here (later). Now head to the Field of Knowledge (in an island in the north sea). Field of Knowledge ------------------ Items in Field of Knowledge: Jeanne's Helm, Alpha Box, Mirror of Wisdom, Rune Metal, Fruit Syrup, Great Punch, Fairy Glass. This is the easiest of all 4 fields, so the enemy shouldn't be much trouble (only those knight with big shield and wizards which can be a trouble). The objective in this dungeon is to activated all 6 balls around the center light door. You can teleport around using the yellow square. If you press confirm button in front of the mirror, you will be teleported to certain area. After you activated all 6 balls, return to the first area and go out to world map and save (heal in an inn if you need). Now go back to the field and enter the center mirror, be ready to face the bosses. Boss: Magic Hand, HP: 60000 Work Box, HP: 30000 Guard Box, HP: 30000 2 Magic Boxes, HP: 30000 each This boss is pretty easy, but one thing to worry is the magic hand can fire a big laser that cross the battlefields, so don't let any of your characters in the centerline. First, destroy the boxes first and then the magic hand (spread your fighter into 2 direction, Claude attack the Magic Hand, the other fighter attack the other enemies). Claude will hold the Magic Hand before its laser shot. Use Celine's mass attack spell constantly (like Lunar Light or Southern Cross, if you have it). After you defeat the guards, you will see an event and you will gain the Jewel of Intelligence. Chapter 13, Field of Courage ------------------------------ Fun City -------- Head to Fun City (one of the 2 towns in the big continent). Items in Fun City: none Fun City has a lot of attractions and you can play some of them now (although you dont need it to end this game). There is a shop that sells pretty good items in here, and you may want to play a bet in Bunny Race, cooking contest or the fighting tournament. You can try the fortune teller here that give you info about your quest like how many % you have succeed in item creation,etc. After you play some and finish the business in here, head to Field of Courage. However, if you want a REALLY useful item by pickpocket, here is the place, try to steal from the bunny that sells tickets in bunny race room, you will get the bunny shoes which make the user will be running very fast in the battle. You may want to try the bunny race here, because you can get the bunny shoes which help you a lot on a lot of battles. Field of Courage ---------------- Items in Field of Courage: Sour Syrup, Stone Check, Mithril Greaves, Jeanne's Shield, Seltzer, Liquor Bottle. All you need to do is follow my guide, the enemy here is not much of trouble, if you want all chests in here, go explore (although the treasures are not worth to get). First, head northwest, west, north, west and you reach a small altar. Check the altar and you get the Warrior's Statue. Head all the way back to the first screen and go east, east and up the stair. Save and heal, now head east to face the boss. Boss: Guardian, HP: 130000, Strong: Earth,Water,Fire, Weak: Dark. This is easy, have Claude use Twin Slash constantly and the other fighter/s trap him from behind. Use Celine's best spell or Leon's Shadow Flare (he weak to Dark) and use Rena as a healer (as always) and he will be history soon. After you finish him, you will see an event. After that, he give you the Jewel of Courage. Chapter 14, Field of Power ---------------------------- L'Aqua ------ Head to L'Aqua now (a port city near Fun City shore). Items in L'Aqua: none You cant do any private actions in here, so if you want some pickpocketing, hold it (although the items stolen are pretty good). There is not much to do here, there is no shop. When you ready, head to Field of Power (go to the road in the snowy mountain). Field of Power -------------- Items in Field of Power: Rune Full Moon, Melty Lotion, Assault Bomb, Jeanne's Armor, Marvel Sword, Blackberry, ?GUARD, Atlas Ring. ______________________________________________________________________ Note: Kill at least one group of Yeti, if you dont, you will stuck in this dungeon forever, be sure to save outside and use a backup file. Okay, this is pretty amusing; the enemy in here is strong and has high HP. In certain places, you will fight Yeti, in the battle, hold the Yeti's to not touch the switch in your back, otherwise, the battle end and rocks fall from above and you cant go trough the way, so try to spread your fighter to hold them and kill them quickly. This dungeon is pretty hard, you may have to be here a while if you want to finish this dungeon on your own. ______________________________________________________________________ There is a shortcut of the Field of Power if you get all the caves closed off on you. There is a ledge. To the left between the first and Second caves going up from the bottom of the mountain through the upper right cave that actually goes through. Go out on the ledge and it gives you scene about great scenery and asks you if you want to yell and make an echo. If you tell it yes it causes an avalanche, which dumps you on the ground and you end up outside of the field of power again. But don't call if you haven't get the Gem of Power. Also, be sure to get Atlas Ring in this mountain. When you reach a big bridge with a save point in front of it, save and heal and when you walk in the center of the bridge, prepare for a boss. Boss: Guardians, HP: 130000, Strong: Fire, Water, Earth, Weak: Dark. This is the same guardian when you fight it in Field of Courage, so use the same strategies. Just do your best as you have high level this time. After the battle, go north and enter the ruins, check the altar. After the event, you will get the Jewel of Power. Chapter 15, Field of Love --------------------------- Armlock ------- Head to Armlock this time (in the same continent with Fun City). Items in Armlock: none This town has the best buyable weapons, so visit the shop. There is also a saleswoman where you can buy some minerals and tools. When you ready, go to the Field of Love (floating in the air in the center of the map). Field of Love ------------- Items in Field of Love: Serpent Tooth, Holy Rod, Resurrection Mist, Hot Syrup. The enemy in here is pretty easy, except the master wizard and breakwings, if you already in high level (around 65), this dungeon should be pushover. This dungeon is straight forward and very easy, so you shouldn't have much trouble with it. You can check the red balls to turn around the way to go through. In the first area, go right to get the Serpent Tooth, now go west and west again. Check the ball and go north (right way). Check the ball and get the chests. Go back and choose the left way. Go north, save and heal. When you reach the end, someone in your party will be hostaged by Lover and she attack you. Boss: Lover, HP: 60000, Weak: Light 2 Breakwings Use light-based spell, and you will be save. Have all your fighters attack Lover and she will die soon. She can cast some spell so try to use head-to-head attack style. After she dies, she will release the hostage. After an event, you finally get the last jewel, the Jewel of Love. Chapter 16, Unpredictable Power --------------------------------- After you have cleared all 4 fields, go back to Central City and talk to Narl. Narl will suggest to invade Fienal (the ten sages HQ). After some conversation, your party decided to take a rest before the attack. The next day, you will be transported to L'Aqua. You will use a Herash to go to Fienal. Fienal ------ In Fienal dock, go north and you will be in the world map, head to Fienal. Once you enter Fienal, the sages have been waiting you. After some conversation and FMV where Calnus finally destroyed (the most awesome FMV in this game!), the sages summons some robot to attack you. Boss: Takicodus, HP: 25000 miel64, HP: 18000 Just attack the big gun and ignore the small robot (sorry, I forgot this bosses name). Use all your best spells and killer moves. Claude's Twin Slash is a great Killer Moves to use. After you defeat the boss, the sages summons one more robot and attack you. After you destroy the second wave, Claude decided to attack the sage. Boss: Marsilio, HP: ???? This is another unwinnable battle, so simply lose to him. After you beaten, Marianna will sacrifice herself to save you. The next day, after some conversation, Narl tell you to go to Armlock, do so. In Armlock, you will be waited by someone, and he tell that Narl has waited you in the sealed door. Go north and talk to Narl, he will transport you to the secret research lab. Chapter 17, Antiproton Weapons -------------------------------- After some conversation, Narl leave you. Now go after him, save, and go north to enter the research lab. Abandoned Research Lab ---------------------- Items in the Lab: Mind Ring. There is no random encounter here, so search the Mind Ring around here first (go right first). When you enter the main hall of the lab, you meet Narl. After the flashback video, after Rena to the first area of the lab (in the grassland). Go to south end and see a conversation, now go back to the main hall. After some conversation, go back to Armlock. Now go to Mirage's house (center west of the town). Mirage will try to decipher the data. After a conversation, Mirage tell you to get a rare metals in Minea's Cave (a cave near Armlock). Minea's Cave ------------ Items in Minea's Cave: Fruit Syrup, ?MINERAL (Damascus), Fresh Syrup, Meteorite, Lightning Gun, Mithril Mesh, Liquor Bottle, Smith Hammer, Aceras. Dont try to explore now, because when you defeat the boss of this dungeon, there is no random battles in here (but if you found a chest near you, take it). The enemies here are the Evil Waters, which is pretty easy. When you reach a save point, save and heal and go north to face the big Barker. Boss: Barker, HP: 150000 Be sure to bring Rena in here (with Cure All) because his only attacks, "Lose Patience" is very powerful, it will do damage around 3000-4000 to your party. Have Claude constantly attack him with Twin Slash, and the other fighter keep using multi-hit killer moves. Use Celine's/Leon's best spell if you bring them. Try to heal all your characters as fast as possible. After you defeat the boss, you get the rare metal. Now there is no random battle here, so search some chests you miss earlier. Now head back to Armlock. In Armlock, go to Mirage house and give her the rare metal, he will work now. Mirage will give you N.F.I.D which make you a free pass to enter Fun City. Now go to Fun City. Chapter 18, Unpredictable Attacks ----------------------------------- After some conversation, they tell you that they have input the program ten sages into their virtual battle simulation. Three days later, Mirage will come and give you the new weapons. She will give Claude the Sacred Tear, Rena got the Fallen Hope, and she also give the others Void Matter that surrounds the others weapon with antiproton. Now you can talk to the man and choose a)Train (you fight ordinary monsters), b)Rest ,c)Go see Narl. Choose c) when you ready to fight a boss. After some conversation, one of the sages attack you. Boss: Marsilio, HP: 150000, Strong: Fire,Earth,Lightning,Dark. This time he is beatable (the same boss you fight in Fienal part one). He is a close-combat sage, so fight him with head-to-head strategy and trap him so he cant move. Try to cast your strongest spell and be sure to have Rena in this battle. He is fast, so try to equip as many your characters with Bunny Shoes as possible. After you defeat him, try to leave the battle arena, and you face again one of the sages. Boss: Shigeo, HP: 160000 This boss is a long-range sage, so trap him with your fighters, use all your best killer moves and spells. If you have high level and use Eternal Sphere, this is an easy boss battle. After you beat the sage, go to Armlock. When you enter, Mirage is attacked by one of the sages and the sage attack you. Boss: Berle, HP: 170000, Strong: All. This is the same boss when you fight him in the Eluria Tower. As always, bring Rena. Magician is not too useful, so try to use fighters and trap him. He can use a barrier that can't be destroyed by anything, so set your strategy to "stay away from enemy" until he wear off the barrier. Use multi-hit killer moves to easily beat him. After you beat him, Mirage is only injured. When you try to leave Armlock, a messenger from Narl come in and tell you to come to L'Aqua as soon as possible. So check if you ready for the final dungeon. Now head to L'Aqua. In L'Aqua, enter the infirmary and talk to Narl, After some conversation, Narl suggest you to take a break before invade Fienal. In the shoreside, you will see something that may can be used for you to know who with who paired for the ending. The next day, Narl gives you the Crest of Enchatchment. Now the Herash will be ready and you reach Fienal. In the dock, simply talk to the man to go back to L'Aqua. Now go to Fienal for the final dungeon. Chapter 19, Final Invasion ---------------------------- Check your items and equipment, and now enter Fienal (you should build up to around level 70). As soon as you enter Fienal, 3 sages attack you. Boss: Ruprecht, HP: 105800 Jibril, HP: 45500, Weak: Earth,Fire,Lightning,Dark. Nicolus, HP: 85200 This battle is tough, while they have fewer HP than other sages you fight before, they are powerful. First, quickly hit Nicolus before he can swallow the other characters. Concentrate your attack on one sage, and use mass-attack spell so they will stun the others in a while. Once you kill Nicolus, kill Ruprecht which can cast Lost Mental and do some physical attacks. And then finally kill Jibril. Bring Rena here is absolutely must. Once you defeat them, you can enter Fienal. Items in Fienal: Spark Whip, Advanced Heraldry, Mithril Shield, Left Cross, Nuclear Bomb, Resurrection Mist, Pet Food, ?ITEM, Beta Box, Lotus Eater, Atomic Punch, Mithril, Titan's Fist, Sylvan Boots, Rune Shoes, Fresh Syrup, Liquor Bottle, Spark, Clap Rod, Duel Helm, Sage's Stone. The hard enemies here are the huge green-white bird, the green salamanders, and a kind of Vissayer's (that yellow/blue blob), but if you have high level and have the best equipment you will be okay. This dungeon is very long, you can use a lot of way to reach the top, so use whatever you want. After you reach the fifth floor, and find a save point, save and heal, head north and face the 2 sages. Boss: Decus, HP: 160000 Vesper, HP: 180000, Weak: Water, Strong: All except water. This battle is pretty hard, because they can cast powerful spells and have pretty high HP. You may want to use Leon instead of Celine since Vesper is weak against water. Try to concentrate on one sage, but use mass-attack spells to prevent the others to attack your party. Vesper is fire-based, so if you use fire-based attack, it will only heal him, use Claude's Mirror Slice and the others keep using multi-hit killer moves to shut their mouth. Try to equip as many Bunny Shoes in your party as possible. After you defeat them, go up to the sixth floor. 6th floor main puzzle: This is quite amusing, so I will only tell you the objective of this puzzle. There is no random battles in here, so relax. SE: Special event. 1S: 1st switch needed to open the door to the exit switch. 2S: 2nd switch needed. 3S: 3rd switch needed. ES: Where exit switch located. SE: First, go right, then north, press the middle switch in this room and go east, now press the right switch and go north, north, and take the chest. 1S: Now head back to the first area and choose the left switch. Now check the lone switch (orange switch once it activated). 2S: Go east, east, north, check the middle switch and go west, west, check the lone switch (green switch). 3S: Now go east, east, north, west, check the right switch and go west, north, and check another lone switch (purple switch). ES: Go back to south, east, check the left switch, east, south, check the middle switch, east, south and check the lone switch (the exit switch). Now head north from there, west, check the left switch, north, west, north, check the middle switch, east, and finally north to go to 7th floor. On the 7th floor, find a save point and save and heal in there. Be ready to face the 9th sage. Equip your battle-party with wind elemental defense acc/equipment before you face him and try to equip the Bunny Shoes to all of your fighters. Boss: Cyril, HP: 300000 This battle will take a while because he has a lot of HP. He can cast Wind of Death that can cause around 4000 damage to your party, so use anti once the battle begins and use angel feather to your fighters. Try to trap him and dont let him moves a cm, combine 2 or 3 multi-hit killer moves and fire-based spells. If he start casting the Wind of Death, you cant hurt him, so be sure to use wind-defense and cast Anti to reduces the damage. Use Rena's Fairy Light to heal all your characters quickly. After you defeat him, go north and go all the way to the 9th floor, down again to the 8th floor and finally go up again to the 9th floor. In this floor, find a save point, heal, go up 3 floors and now be ready for the final battle. Boss: Indalecio, HP: 500000 (Limiter: On) Good luck, he is pretty hard. Use Anti and Angel Feather on the fighters. In the beginning, he will cast some wave that protect him from enemy approaching, so use a spell to nullify it and attack him with multi-hit killer moves. Use your best spells, and don't conserve any items here because this is the final battles. After you drain his HP far enough, he will cast the Time of Truth, where he will combined with Filia. Once he combined, he will be very fast and can fly around the battlefields. Equipping your fighters with Bunny Shoes is very important in this battle. He can cast high-grade mass attack spell like Southern Cross or Explode. Try to attack him constantly before he cast powerful spells, his time to cast spells is very short, so trap him. Make sure Claude equipped with Eternal Sphere, Pallas Athena, and an Atlas Ring (2 Atlas Ring will be great) and keep using Mirror Slice on the battlefield. The only point to win this battle is on the first round of the battle (when he cast the divine wave), if you have reach him and trap him with multi-hit killer moves, he will be history. Boss: Indalecio, HP: 1500000 (Limiter: Off) Good luck, use above strategy and be sure you have a high level (around 100) or you will be in trouble. After you kill Indalecio (no matter you fight him with limiter on or off). The Crest of Enhancement, will hold the Crest of Annihilation and transform its damage into Energy Nede's. After the FMV and anime sequences, enjoy 1 of the 86 endings!!! Congratulations, You have end this game!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> VIII. THE BONUS DUNGEON: CAVE OF TRIALS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> To reach the bonus dungeon, save in front of Indalecio and go all the way back to Fun City, now head to the battle stadium and talk to an old man here, say yes when you ready. Now you in Arlia, note that behind you is a strange penguin, talk to him and told him "You silly Vern Vern" and he will kick you back to Fun City. Now head out of Arlia and ride your Synard to a solitary desert island with a red dot on it. Now enter the Cave of Trials. The system is pretty easy, you enter a floor of dungeon, after you reach the end, you will fight a boss and if you beat it, he will let you down to the next floor. This cave contains 13 floors with one boss each, so be ready and be sure to bring a lot of resurrection bottle. I suggest you equip Claude with Eternal Sphere, Reflective Armor, Pallas Athena, Bunny Shoes, and 2 Atlas Ring, this will keep you alive a long time. Try to equip all your in battle-characters with Bunny Shoes. --Floor 1: Heraldic Ruins-- ------------------------- Items in floor 1: Fruit Nectar, Nuclear Bomb, Tri-Emplem, Juicy Beed, Blueberry, Link Stock, Wonder Drug. Pretty easy, you commonly fight a group of knight with a big shield, but sometimes you fight the warlocks, hit them first as they are annoying. This first floor has no real puzzle; it is just an original dungeon. Go all the way and take treasures (be sure to get the Link Stock). When you reach a switch, pull it and enter the now-unclosed door, be ready to face the first floor boss. BOSS: Dark Feather, HP: 160000 2 Weird Knights, HP: 23000 each, Strong: Fire,Dark. Try to focus on Dark Feathered, as she can petrify you (which is very annoying), so try to trap him and don't let her move. Use multi-hit killer moves to easily beat them. When you beat them, she will congratulate you and give you the first floor treasures, The Bunny Shoes. --Floor 2: Love Alley-- --------------------- Items in floor 2: Purify Leaf, Resurrection Mist, Reflective Armor, Link Combo. This floor is pretty easy, the enemy is not too hard except the giants as they can hit you hard. The puzzle is pretty confusing, but follow my guide. When you enter, read the stone and you have to turn all the stone statues of a person to certain direction (N,S,W,E) where someone they love is there (except Cistina). Feria: East (Luke) Milene: South (Luke) Luke: North (Milene) Llyod: East (Cistina) Yuffie: South (Llyod) Sharon: West (Yuffie) Cistina: South (Nobody) Also, it is pretty hard to not miss the Link Combo, to get it, just press the confirm button between Luke and Milene statue. When you have the right combination, you hear a blimp, now head to the first area of 2nd floor and head north to a now un-closed door, now face the boss. BOSS: Blood Gerell, HP: 60000 5 Huntingels, HP: 20000 Easy, just be sure to not let the enemies split and copies themselves, otherwise, you can face a horde of enemies, so split your fighters and use mass-attack spells. After you defeat them, he will let you pass to the 3rd floor and give you the Seraphic Garb. --Floor 3: Single Path Cave-- --------------------------- Items in 3rd floor: 2 Fruit Nectar, Juicy Beef, Dream Crown, Sylvan Mail, Tokkoyaku, Slayer Ring. The enemies to look out here is the Weird Goat and the Warlock, also, Blood Gerell appears here as normal enemy. The puzzle is pretty confusing, when you enter a room, certain red blocks is filled into all the yellow boxes in the first screen of this floor, so you must travel in certain orders to change the boxes to red. This is kinda hard to explained, but this is a map, the number (1-16) is the number of screen you must travel. _________________ |11 |10 | 7 | 6 | |___|___|___|___| |12 | 9 | 8 | 5 | |___|___|___|___| |13 |16 | 1 | 4 | |___|___|___|___| |14 |15 | 2 | 3 | |___|___|___|___| There, you should travel 1-16. 16: Where the stair up to floor 2 is and also where the stair down to floor 4 is, and this room is also the room with the yellow boxes. So you should go east from the 1st room (16), and south, east, north, north, etc. When you hear a blimp, the door opens, so enter and fight a boss. BOSS: 3 Dream Shades, HP: 35000 each This boss is pretty easy, just trap them with your fighters and they will be die soon. Be warned when they have a clock on their head, hit it immediately, as it can stop time and hurt you badly. Claude's Mirror Slice will be very usefull in here. After you defeat them, you get the Magical Drops. Now the stair to the 4th floor is opened, enter it (at this time, you may want to go back to the world map and save). --Floor 4: Dancing God Altar-- ---------------------------- Items in 4th floor: Fruit Nectar, Peep Non, Black Earring, Resurrection Mist, Purify Leaf, Seraphic Garb, Extinction. The enemy here is the Punkponks, they are annoying because when they hit you, you will be knocked very far, so try to use your timing very well. There is no puzzles, except that you can walk trough certain walls in certain places. One of the 2 chests in the first room is filled with "Extinction", Leon's best spell, so be sure to get it. Go to northeast end of the level, and pull the lever. Now go back to the first room and be sure to have a character with "Sense of Rhythm" talent, "Pitch" talent, and perfect Musical talent level (9 or 10). Now enter the now-opened door in the center of the room. You will find a kind of god that ask you to play music for him, choose the character who have above requirements and if you successful in pleasing him, he will give you the "Illusive Shamisen". Now head to the northwest end of the level and you will find a robot, which is a boss. BOSS: Miil 32, HP: 190000, Strong: All. This is pretty hard if you don't have right party, so be sure to bring head-to-head fighter like Claude, Ashton, or Dias. Celine's Explode works well to stun him for a while, bring Rena just in case. His weakness is when he try to hit your character, he must be in certain distance. After you defeat him, you can go down to the fifth floor. --Floor 5: Lady's Revenge-- ------------------------- Items in 5th floor: Fresh Syrup, Slayer Ring, Juicy Beef, Fruit Nectar, Fairy Ring, Wonder Drug, Seraphic Garb. The enemy here is pretty tough, the Dragon Axe is have a great attack power and when they trap you, you highly seems to die. When you pass a door in the first room, a strange woman appears and ask you some question, answer anything and he will summon a beast to attack you. BOSS: Weird Beast, HP:???? This is a VERY LONG battle IF you want to defeat it, as it immune to magic and if you hit it with physical attack, it only do 1 damage. However, you CAN run, so run when you want. Otherwise, it is very weak. After you run, Puffy will run. Now go deep in the dungeon and you will meet Puffy again, and she is attacked by monsters, you now have a choice to help her, choose to help her and you will be attacked by a boss. BOSS: 3 Dream Shades, HP:35000 each Same as the boss fight in floor 3. After you defeat them, Puffy will run and drop something, check it and you get the "Weird Slayer" (can be used to kill any monster with "weird" word in front of the name). Now go deeper in the dungeon and you will meet Puffy again. She tell you that the key to the next level is in the beast but the beast have ran away. So search the beast in every single room and you eventually will find it, equip someone in the battle-party with a Weird Slayer (usually Rena) and fight it. BOSS: Weird Beast, HP:???? Very easy, just hit it once with a character equipped with a Weird Slayer and it will die soon. Also, if you want, you can increase your profiency level in here. After you defeat it, it will drop the Red Lotus Gem, which is the key to the next level. So head to where Puffy is and check the locked door, now it is opened and go down to the next level. --Floor 6: Burglar's Nest-- ------------------------- Items in 6th floor: Cure Poison, Dream Crown. The enemy here are the funny thieves, the original one is very easy, but the metalfunny (the grey one) is hard to kill because they can take only 1 damage every 1 attack, and they have around 200 HP, so be patient, otherwise, the enemy here are the enemy you fight earlier. If you have "Funny Slayer" equip it (from Radol), it can kill enemy with "Funny" word in front of the name. This is a short dungeon, so first go northwest. This room is filled with a lot of metalfunny statue, but go north and take the 2 chests first. Now head back to the statues room and check the most bottom right statue, you will hear a door opened in distance. Although it is rare, sometimes, a santa appear here, he sell all of the rare mineral, Santa boots, Tri-Emblem, and Go-Home Frog. They are VERY expensive (a santa boots originally cost you 10.000.000 Fol!), but if you have money, just buy the Tri-Emblem (great accessories) and Go-Home Frog (this when used can teleport you out of a dungeon). But if you want, you can buy Santa Boots (if you equip it and sleep at an inn, there is a chance that Santa will leave you a gift that you will acquire in the morning), although it is very expensive. Now head to southwest, in the next room, go west and north, now be ready to face a boss. BOSS: Dream Shade, HP: 35000 3 Funny Thieves, HP: 3 Funny Thieves Lv.99, HP: 40000 The boss is very easy if you have a Funny Slayer, but if you don't, this can be considered moderate boss. First, split up your fighter, make Claude attack the Funny Thieves lv.99, and make the other attack the Dream Shade. Dont ever attack the original Funny Thieves because your magician can kill them in one hit. Use you best spell constantly and dont let the Funny Thieves lv.99 near your spellcaster, he is very fast, so be sure to equip your fighters with a Bunny Shoes. Multi-Hit killer moves is usefull here, especially Claude's Dragon Howl. When you defeat the boss, you get a Funny Slayer. Note that the path split into two direction, if you want to go back to floor 1 of this trials, choose left path and check the blue floor tile, if you want to go to 7th floor, choose the right path (I suggest you escape first, since the next floor is hard). --Floor 7: Goddess Altar-- ------------------------ Items in 7th floor: Tri-Emplem, Fresh Syrup, Resurrection Mist, Ganze Sea Urchin, Cracked Gem, Purify Leaf, Peep Non, Weird Slayer, Bunny Shoes, Ishidaya Tea, Yukiyoshi Tea. The enemy here is hard! The combination between the archers, Funny Thief lv.99 (!), and the knight type enemies is very deadly. So be sure to have a high level (around 110). This dungeon is pretty long, but it is straight forward. When you reach the center room, you will see an altar with a stone tablet near it. Go east first, take any chests you find in the intersection, and you eventually will get the Cracked Gem (walk through the wall). Now use "Metalwork" Item creation on the Cracked Gem, and you eventually get another Red Lotus Gem. Now go back to the altar room and check the altar (you may want to go to west and get some rare treasures in there). When you ready, check the altar and put the Red Lotus Gem on the altar, the door in north will be opened now. Now enter the door and be ready for a bosstime. Boss: Mithril Eater, HP: 600000 This gonna be a long fight, he is pretty easy, he just like the big barkus you fight in Minay's Cave, but he is more powerful. Be sure to bring Rena here because his "Lost Patience" attack will damage you a lot (around 7000). Trap him with your fighter and use multi-hit killer moves to kill him. After you beat it, you get the Million Staff, equip it on Celine (if you have her) since it is her best weapon (with awesome magic attack power). Now choose the left path first to get the 3 chests. Now head back and choose the right path to the next floor. --Floor 8: Food God-- ------------------- Items in 8th floor: Lavender, Funny Slayer, Seraphic Garb, Amoeba Soup, Ooze Cocktail, Slime Jelly, Million Staff, Fresh Syrup, Ganze Sea Urchin, Wonder Drug, Peep Non. The enemies to be look out is the Weird Devil, as they do lots of damage and can drain your MP, bring someone equipped with Weird Slayer to kill them quickly, otherwise, the enemies are just powerful. When you reach the inner north end area, you meet a kind of food god, he ask you to give him food, just give him a low-level food, keep feeding him and feed him a rotten food (like rotten sashimi, raw milk, bad tasting stew, etc) and he will reveal his true form, he is actually Puffy! Now the door is open. Before the stair, there is a boss waiting you. BOSS: Erysin Beast, HP: 450000 This boss is not too hard, but, he can swallow your character right there and have high chance to not ever let the character free anymore. However, he is slow, so use multi-hit killer moves and spells to kill him. After you defeat it, you get the Gelatin Steak. --Floor 9: Sealed Coffin-- ------------------------ Items in 9th floor: Artemis Leaf, Valiant Boots, Resurrection Mist, Wonder Drug. The most annoying monster here is the Weird Mollusk, as it like the Erishin Beast who can swallow your character all time, kill it quickly with a Weird Slayer. There is no puzzle here, so just go straightforward to the next floor. But when you have end the 12th floor and got a treasure from the boss there, go back here and check the coffin, a boss appears. BOSS: Wise Sorcerer, HP:700000, Strong: Earth,Fire,Star,Physical. Dream Shade, HP:35000 Well, it is hard, he can cast powerful spells and can use strong physical attack. Try to spread out your fighter and kill the Dream Shade first and finally trap the sorcerer, slow but sure he will die. After you beat him, you get the Laventine Sword, this sword has a whooping 3000 attack power, and the only sword which can match the Eternal Sphere. --Floor 10: Decision Point-- -------------------------- Items in 10th floor: Fresh Syrup, Valiant Boots, 2 Valkyrie Boots, Rainbow Diamond, Sage's Stone, Funny Slayer, Bunny Shoes, Purify Leaf, Tri-Ace, Million Staff, Meteor Swarm. The enemy to lookout is the mind flayer and life flayer, the mind flayer can drain a lot of your MP, and the life flayer can do a horrible amount of damage, otherwise, the enemies are just tough. The puzzle here is somewhat hard to explained, but all of the room are divided by 4 by 4 line, and all of them have certain colors, however, you can only light up five squares. When you in the green one, you can travel safely, the yellow one will drain your hp/mp, and the red one will drain your hp/mp fast. Now here is a map. _____________ |R |G |G |G2| R: Red |__|__|__|__| Y: Yellow |Y |G |R |R | G: Green |__|__|__|__| G1: Entrance to this floor |G |G |Y |Y | G2: Exit/Boss |__|__|__|__| |G1|Y |R |R | |__|__|__|__| R: Red Y: Yellow G: Green G1: Entrance to this floor G2: Exit/Boss Note that almost all of the rare items are in the red/yellow ones, so becarefull. Also, be sure to get the Meteor Swarm, it is Celine's best spells and the Tri-Ace, another Ashton's killer moves. When you reach G2, try to climb the stair, a boss appear and attack you. BOSS: Geo Guardian, HP:400000 He is just the same boss when you fight him in 2 of the fields, but he is much more powerfull. Be sure you have high defense and Lightning elemental defense equipment, because he can do thousands of damage to you. Try to trap him between your fighters and don't let him attack, bring Rena for back-up healing. After you beat him, you get the Valiant Guard. Now head to the eleventh floor. --Floor 11: Dragon's Den-- ------------------------ Items in 11th floor: none. You now starting to fight boss-type normal enemies in here, so be sure to don't give them a chance. The Owlbear has a lot of HP and high defense (although you get a lot of exp), also, the Weird Mages can cast the powerful Explode spell, so kill them quickly with the Weird Slayer. You also can meet the Guardian again in this floor. This is a short dungeon, after several screens, heal and be ready for a boss! BOSS: Dragon Tyrant, HP: 550000 This boss is hard because it seems can block any attack, except magic, so use your best attack spells. Use one fighter as a decoy and use your best attack spells. This is going to be a pretty long fight, be ready to revive your characters a lot. Also, bring Rena here is absolutely necessary. Once you beat it, he'll give you the Float skills. When you try to enter the next floor, you couldn't. So teleport back out of the dungeon. The next time, you have a choice to enter the dungeon with only 2 characters, say yes. Now enter the 12th floor with 2 characters (note that after you open the door in floor 12, you can back to the 9th floor, check the coffin and fight the boss, after you defeat it, you can enter the 12th floor with entire party. --Floor 12: Hall of Warriors-- ---------------------------- Items in 12th floor: 2 Battle Suit, Bunny Shoes, Valkyrie Guard. The enemy here is just same as the 11th floor, but with less quantities, it maybe because you fight with only 2 characters. The puzzle here is to open the door to the 13th floor (last floor), you need 2 items, the first one is the Laventine Sword in the 9th floor after you defeat the Wise Sorcerer (you can only fight him after you defeat the boss of this floor), the second one is an item you get after you defeat the boss of this floor. So you need to go back to the 9th floor after you defeat the boss of this dungeon to go to the 13th floor. Also, the boss in this floor will never disappear unless you defeat the final boss in the 13th floor. BOSS: Phoenix, HP: 350000. Strong: Fire,Wind. This boss is relatively easy, make sure Claude equipped with Atlas Ring and he will die soon. Use your 2nd character to heal your main character. Try to catch and hit him before he can use his Master Attacks. After you defeat him, you get the Holy Sword and the Seiken Farewell. Now go back to the 9th floor and fight the boss to get Laventine Sword. Now head to the 13th floor. --Floor 13: Holy Nest of Angels-- ------------------------------- Items in 13th floor: Valiant Mail, Valiant Guard, Angel Armband. Good luck, the enemy here is a powerful boss-type enemies, so beware. The puzzle is easy, just flip 2 levers in the side of this floor to open the door which lead to the final boss. When you reach the inner area, an angel attacks you. BOSS: Gabrie Celesta, HP: 1000000, Strong: Star,Light. She is also probably the most powerful boss in SO2 game as well. All of her attacks can do well over 5000 points of damage/hit. While she only has three spells as far as I've seen; Noah, Star Flare, and Foehn, all will do 9999 damage to all characters without resistance, usually around 8000-9000 to those with. Most dangerous is her "wheel of death" attack, where she spins around the room at speeds significantly faster than Bunny-Shoes running, damaging anything. She is also immune to damage, both magical and physical, in this state. The key to defeating Gabrie Celesta is attack magic. Even Noel's attack magic will be more favorable than fighter characters. Normal attacks by fighter characters will usually do 0 damage even if they connect, and even the most powerful killer moves will tend to do less than 1000 points of damage without a critical hit. Magic spells are the only way you can consistently do a decent amount of damage to her. Assistance spells are a must, especially Anti in case she gets to cast a spell. Basically it is smartest to use one or two fighter characters as decoys to keep her busy while your magic users are casting spells.I usually have Claude as a decoy with the Eternal Sphere normally attacking; while it won't do any damage, the multi-hits the stars provide will stun Gabrie Celesta long enough to keep her from changing targets to a spell caster. You'll have to do plenty of reviving and use lots of MP recharging items to finish this fight. Be ready for a long, drawn-out battle though; it has taken me as many as 45 minutes to beat her. After you beat her, she'll give you the Silver Trumpet. With this instrument, you can summon the tougher version of the angel!! Congratulation, you have beaten the bonus dungeon of Star Ocean: The Second Story!!! When you play the "Evil Melody" song by Silver Trumpet (remember to compose it first), you fight the another version of angels, The Iselia Queen. OPTIONAL BOSS: Iselia Queen, HP: around 2500000, Strong: Dark,Negative. Be sure to equip dark-elemental defense equipment so you can resist her dark spells. She is identical to Gabrie Celesta, but she is a dark- elemental angel, so use Celine's Meteor Swarm instead Leon (since Leon most spells is dark or negative elemental). Your may want your party to be 2 fighter, with 1 spell caster (probably Celine) and Rena as healer (Noel's healing is too weak even if he equip a Million Staff). In the first round, try to control Rena and cast Anti. Give the "hold her spell" tactics to the 2 fighters (maybe Claude, Ashton or Opera). If you use Ashton, make him cast the Tri-ace all the time, and Claude hit her normally with Eternal Spheres (or equip the Levantine Sword with an angel armband). Use spell caster to your advantages, and Rena as a healer. When she attack with something like a cross fence, control the character attacked manually and avoid the fence attack (as this attack will be the most annoying attack). Also, she can petrify your character, so try to avoid head-to-head attack (Claude's Dragon Howl and Opera's Alpha on One is great). This is going to be a very long battle, so be patient. When you finally defeat her, you'll get the second Levantine Sword. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IX. NORTHCITY LIBRARY DATA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here is a long word of North City library data. To see it, just talk to the operator and ask what you want to see, however, there is a secret information that can only opened by certain event (see the secrets section). 1. Information about God's Ten Wise Men. a. The era of peace. b. The mendacity of the Ten Wise Men. c. The last days. 2. Information about Energy Nede. a. The renunciation of power. b. The birth of Energy Nede. c. Energy Nede now. 3. Information about Heraldry. a. The origin of the Heraldic Arts. b. The power of Heraldry. c. An explanation of the Heraldic Arts. 4. Information about Heraldry Stones. a. What is a quadratic sphere? b. What is a quadratic key? c. About resonation effects. 5. Information about the Crest of Annihilation. a. What is the Crest of Annihilation? b. The Big Crunch. c. Controlling the Crest of Annihilation. 6. Information about Heraldry Weapons Research Institute. a. What is the Heraldry Weapons Research Institute? b. An overview of the institute. c. The closing of the Heraldry Weapons Research Institute. 7. Information from Heraldry research Institute Reports. a. Stabilization of antimatter through LEA metal. b. The time/space shield and its applications. c. Creation energy generation device. 8. Secret Information. Ten Wise Men Defense Plan, Phase I. a. Main Plan. -> (Project Planning Documents) b. Research Report. -> (Research Reports) c. Apology. -> (Letter of Apology) d. Post-event Report. -> (Final Report) *The words with "()" means that the sub-words is changed, when you see the sub from north city library, it is not with "()" but when you see it by Rufus, it is with "()". Now I will write all of the secret informations section only, since you can read the others in North City library. Note that every sub contain 3 files. __________________ /Secret Information\__________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Project Planning Documents- ---------------------------- File 1: Rebellions against the planet Nede have broken out in 24 different frontier planets. It appears that several of the technologies of the planet Nede have been leaked to the forces of undeveloped planets, so we suspects that Nedian conspirators are cooperating with the rebel forces. We must quickly develop new weapons in order to suppress the rebel forces. File 2: Based on the research of Dr.Lantis, it was discovered that by applying technologies derived from Heraldry science to make modifications to the DNA of people, it is possible to create bioweapons that have Heraldry powers much more powerful than normal. File 3: A military supreme council decided that the aforementioned bioweapons should be urgently put into practical use and used for the defense and control the frontier planets. The code name for the project was decided to be 'Ten Wise Men Defense Plan, Phase I'. Under the direction of Dr.Lantis, the construction of the ten bioweapons began. Depending on the results of the plan, they planned to continue to Phase II, Phase III and into the construction phase. -Research Reports- ------------------ File 1: The close-in combat weapon [Marsilio]. The remote projectile -attack weapon [Shigeo]. The base-defense special weapon [Berle]. These three weapons were completed. In addition, development was started on the strategic weapon [Decus] to be used to control these three weapons. File 2: The two information gathering agents [Ruprecht] and [Nicolus] were completed. Together with the information analysis agent [Jibril] completed earlier, these agents were assembled under the command of the civilian control agent [Vesper]. In addition, the agent named [Cyril] used to monitor the Ten Wise Men was also completed at the same time. File 3: Dr.Lantis' last surviving family member, his daughter Filia, was the victim of a terrorist attack by rebel forces opposed to the Ten Wise Men Defense Plan. However, the military decided upon a policy of concealing the truth from Dr.Lantis. -Letter of Apology- ------------------- File 1: Dr.Lantis suddenly activated all of the defensive mechanisms within the laboratory, and completely sealed of the interior of the laboratory. It appears that he somehow became aware of the terrorist attack during experiments on the information gathering agents [Ruprecht] and [Nicolus]. He holed himself up inside the laboratory and appeared to have made some kind of modifications to the Ten Wise Men agents. It appears that as soon as the military gives permission, security forces will need to enter the laboratory and capture the person Dr. Lantis. File 2: The Ten Wise Men who came out of the interior of the laboratory began indiscriminate attacks on facilities in their vicinity. It appears that, for some reason Dr. Lantis had changed their ultimate objective from the 'control of frontier planets' to the 'annihilation of the entire universe'. An entire squadron of mechanized troops that entered the laboratory was completely annihilated. In order to destroy the Ten Wise Men who continued to run out of control repeatedly, a request to call out the Planet Nede Occupation Forces will be made. File 3: As the result of a pitched battle, the security forces succeeded in driveing the Ten Wise Men into the interior of the laboratory. When the interior of the laboratory was entered, the interior was found to be an empty shell. It appears that somehow Dr. Lantis had confined the Ten Wise Men in Eternity Space and left them in outer space. Although the Ten Wise Men could not be completely destroyed, there is no method of releasing the Eternity Space except for entering a release password from outside, so they will not cause much trouble. The Ten Wise Men will thus probably be left wandering through outer space of Eternity. -Final Report- -------------- File 1: A person who had committed suicide inside the laboratory was confirmed to be Dr. Lantis himself without a doubt. Thus, this matter came to a resolution. However, one troubling thing was that the remains of the thought routines of Dr. Lantis and his daughter Filia had been left in the computers inside the laboratory. It is feared that perhaps Dr. Lantis had converted his own consciousness into a computer program which was embedded into the as-yet incomplete Indalecio. File 2: Because of this series of incidents due to the Ten Wise Men Plan, 80% if the entire forces of Planet Nede had suffered crushing blows. The frontier planets seized this opportunity to start a coordinated revolt. It became more and more difficult to suppress these rebel forces. Seeing the gravity of the situation, the supreme council of the planet Nede made the decision to migrate the entire population to an artificial satellite. File 3: This artificial satellite named Energy Nede, which would be completely surrounded with a Class 9 super energy field. This would halt the advance the rebel forces upon the original planet Nede. However, this would also cut off all interaction between us Nedians and the outside world. Together with our migration to Energy Nede, it was decided to impose an information blackout on this entire series of incidents. Thus, all of the facts related to the Ten Wise Men Defense Plan will be purged from history. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> X. REVISIONS PLAN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -Mmm...just searching for typing failure, name failure, and other minor corrections. -Try to make more detailed walkthrough. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XI. DISCLAIMER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unpublished Work Copyright Joseph Andro Artanto 1999-2002. This FAQ and everything included within this file cannot be reproduced in any way, shape or form (physical, electronically, or otherwise) aside from being placed on a freely-accessible, non-commercial web page in it's original, unedited and unaltered format. This FAQ cannot be used for profitable purposes (even if no money would be made from selling it) or promotional purposes. It cannot be used in any sort of commercial transaction. It cannot be given away as some sort of bonus, gift, etc., with a purchase as this creates incentive to buy and is therefore prohibited. Furthermore, this FAQ cannot be used by the publishers, editors, employees or associates, etc. of any company, group, business, or association, etc., nor can it be used by game sites and the like. It cannot be used in magazines, guides, books, etc. or in any other form of printed or electronic media (including mediums not specifically mentioned) in ANY way, shape, or form (including reprinting, reference or inclusion), without the express written permission of the author, myself. This FAQ was created and is owned by me, Joseph Andro Artanto (arsin@indosat.net.id). All copyrights and trademarks are acknowledged and respected that are not specifically mentioned in this FAQ. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XII. AUTHOR'S INFO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FAQs : * Star Ocean 2 FAQ * Star Ocean 2 Claude's Scenario Walktrough * Star Ocean 2 Rena's Scenario Walktrough * Final Fantasy Tactics Deep Dungeon Guide * Heroes of Might and Magic II FAQ * Heroes of Might and Magic III FAQ * Suikoden II FAQ/Walkthrough E-Mail : aceaceblitzer@yahoo.com Website : http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dragon/3939 Anyway, that's all! for more info about me, visit my website: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dragon/3939 Beware, I havent updated my website for around... 2 years! ^_^ Feel free to asks questions about any other RPGs besides Suikoden 2! Support me when I've begun creating faq for Suikoden 3!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XIII. CREDITS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (The credits list is created without any particular order) *Thanks to IanKelley (ikelley@mail.sas.upenn.edu), so I can finish the game and help me to understand about the item creation. *Thanks to PrasetiaG (prasetia@telkom.net) killer moves info, so I can finish the killer moves list. *Thanks to Catman (corygg@iname.com) for his Opera and Ernest's best equipments. *Thanks to Darrick C.Mattsen (WLDNCRZY14@hotmail.com) cookbooks. *Thanks to WalterWilliams (wildwalt@mailcity.com) for his skills and item creation list. *Thanks to Michael Welch (HooliganBoy1@webtv.net) for his informations on Float skills, etc. *Thanks to Jonathan Toellner (Trunks861@mail.com)for info on Santa Boots *Thanks to Cartman3704@aol.com for his info on Dias's best equipments. *Thanks to everyone who give me info, question, suggestion, and critics. Here they are: Chris, Lancelot Camelot, John Ray, Galaxie15, Jasmine, King Oberon, Dan Nicholson, Kelly, RPG20dbsm, DBNMF, Aurafox@aol.com *And finally thanks to Me, Joseph Andro Artanto (arsin@indosat.net.id), Okay, goodbye, and if you have any comments or questions about RPG's simply e-mail me (arsin@indosat.net.id) or contact me by ICQ(55139575). You can visit me at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dragon/3939 *And finally, special thanks to Enix, Tri-ace, and Links, for producing this great awesome RPG! Information : ------------- Author : Joseph Andro Artanto E-Mail : aceaceblitzer@yahoo.com Website : http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dragon/3939 Pages : 59 Version : 2.1 Last Update: 3:43 PM 7/28/2003 That's all! Hope you have fun reading this guide! ^_- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unpublished Work Copyright Joseph Andro Artanto 1999-2003.