Final Fantasy IV WT (J)

Final Fantasy IV

Platform: Snes / SFC
Released:
 19.07.1991 (J)
 23.11.1991 (NA)

Based on: NTSC-J-version (SHVC-F4) (1991)



- You can pause the game during battle. This will stop the play time counter
from running.
- You have 46 slots for items in your inventory. The items you buy and
de-equip are not automatically stacked. Dropped items and items found in
containers are. Move items on top of each other to stack them.
- If you'd like to translate any of the Japanese words, use jisho.org or
similar resources.

- Throughout the game, you'll see a lot of changes in your party lineup,
as seen below. Whenever a character leaves, all the items they had equipped
will be lost, even if it's a character who eventually rejoins the party.
You should really try to avoid losing any (important) items like this.

   Mist no Doukutsu   |DK   |              |
   Chika Suimyaku     |D L  |Te            |
   Antlion Cave       |D L  |  Gl          |
   Hobbs no Yama      |D LR |  Gl          |
   Shiren no Yama     |D    |Te    PaPo    |
   Mukashi no Suiro   |C    |Te  YaPaPo    |
   Jiryoku no Doukutsu|C    |Te  Ya    Ci  |
   Zot no Tou         |C    |Te  Ya    Ci  |
   Babil no Tou 1     |CKLR |    Ya        |
   Eblana no Doukutsu |CKLR |              |
   Babil no Tou 2     |CKLRE|              |
   Fuuin no Doukutsu  |CKLRE|              |
   Babil no Kyojin    |C LRE|            Fu|
   Tsuki no Chika     |CKLRE|              |

- During battle and in the menu, your characters are positioned like so:
   2          2
    4        4
   1    or    1
    5        5
   3          3

- In the left formation, the characters in slots 1, 2, and 3 are in the
front row, whereas 4 and 5 are in the back row. In the right formation,
these positions are swapped. You can move characters to different slots
using the Narabikae command, and toggle the formation using Taikei.
- An enemy is considered to be in the front row if it's either closest
to your characters or their sprite overlaps horizontally with the enemy
who is closest to your party. As you clear out enemies from the front,
the row states are updated accordingly. Inflicting a polymorph ailment
may change an enemy's row from front to back due to their new, smaller
size.

- Stats:
 Lv       | ATP (Lv/4), Accuracy bonus (Lv/4), Eva multip.(Lv/16)(req. shld)
 Chikara  | ATP (Str/4), ATP multiplier (Str/8)
 Subayasa | ATP multip. (Spd/16), Eva&MEva multip.(Spd/8)\(Spd/32), ATB
 Tairyoku | DFP (Tai/2)
 Chisei   | Magic multip.(Black), Magic evade (Chi/8), MEvade multip.(Chi/32)
 Seishin  | Magic multip.(White), Magic evade (Sei/8), MEvade multip.(Sei/32)

- The physical damage you deal with a normal attack equals...

      ATPm * (Offense + CritP - enemy DFP)

   ATPm: ATP multiplier (ie. number of hit rolls)(1 by default)
   Accuracy: Success rate per hit roll

     -> Accuracy = total Accuracy / 98

   Offense = (ATP + rnd(0,ATP/2)) * et

     -> ATP = base ATP + weapon ATP
     -> e: elemental variable (2; 4; 0,5; 0)
     -> t: type bonus (4)

   CritP = base CritP + weapon ATP/2

     -> Crit% = base Crit% * wpnCrit / 98

       -> wpnCrit = 2 \ 3 (bow) \ 1 (dual wield)


- Physical damage received equals...

      (ATPm - character Evade) * (Offense - character DFP)

   Evade: Successful Evade rolls

   Offense = (ATP + rnd(0,ATP/2)) * t

     -> t: type resistance (0,5)


- Magical damage equals...

      (Mag-m - target MEvade) * (MgOffense - target MDF)

   Mag-m: Magic multiplier (ie. number of hit rolls)

   MgOffense = (base + rnd(0,base/2)) * e

     -> e: elemental variable (2, 4, -1)


- Default Accuracy for your characters is 50. Default Evade is 30.
- The character in slot 1 gains a 1,25x Accuracy bonus (not visible in
the menu).
- Press left or right during battle to access the Bougyo (Defend) and
Change (Formation) commands. While defending, the character's DFP is
doubled.
- You can switch weapons (and shields) mid-battle by pressing up in the
item menu.
- The vast majority of enemies in the game have only single digit DFP,
whereas MDF values do generally go up as you progress.
- DFP is doubled when the target is in the back row. Accuracy is halved,
possibly twice, if the attacker and/or target is in the back row and the
attacker isn't using a ranged weapon or doesn't have the unintentionally
permanent long range flag that comes from equipping a long range weapon.
- The status screen shows the character's Evade multipliers in front of
DFP/MDF rather than Evade rate, which is *very* misleading. Either way,
the two numbers indicate the number of evade rolls and the success rate
of each roll. Eg. an Evade of 3x20% would give you three evade rolls
with a 20/98 chance of success each.
- Armor can provide varying bonuses to Evade and Magic Evade, but I
haven't included these values in the equipment list mainly due to the
lack of space.
- Enemy Evade and Magic Evade are supposed to affect hit rolls the same
way, but they're not loaded into RAM properly and, thus, don't do anything.
- Magic multiplier is Chisei\Seishin/4 + 1. Magic accuracy is Base +
Chisei\Seishin/2. Black Magic, Summon Magic, and Ninjutsu use Chisei.
White Magic uses Seishin. Magic is unaffected by row.
- Some spells can be cast either on a single target or all targets.
Multi-casting divides the power by the number of targets. For healing
spells, even dead characters count in the menu, but not during battle.
The power is calculated individually, thus resulting in variation even
when the targets share the same defensive attributes.
- Spells that don't deal damage or heal HP only get one hit roll, even
when multi-targeting.
- There are a number of weapons that can be used during battle to cast
certain spells with 0 casting time and no MP cost. The weapon has to
equipped for this to be possible. Just press Confirm twice when the
cursor is on the weapon. The spells have fixed hit and power values
that are in no way affected by the user's stats. The enemy's MDF and
elemental resistance are still factors, however.
- You can find base power and accuracy values for magic in the Misc.
file.
- If an attack has a power value that exceeds 511, it will cause the
random variable to reach its cap of 255. This is mainly limited to
Meteo and the Fang items.
- There are seven elements - Fire, Ice, Thunder, Anti-Air, Holy, Dark,
and Drain - and four levels of elemental resistance - Weak, Weak x4,
Absorb/Resist, and Immune.
 × Elemental absorption only causes magical damage to be absorbed,
 whereas physical attacks will get a 0,5x power multiplier instead.
 × All flying enemies are weak to Anti-Air attacks and immune to ground-
 based attacks (ie. Quake, Titan).
 × Elemental immunity doesn't occur among enemies outside of Zombies
 nor is it provided by any equipment (with one exception).
 × The Dark element becomes irrelevant not far into the game, as it's
 only used by Cecil's Dark Knight weapons.
 × The Drain element never occurs on its own in an enemy's elemental
 resistance values. Instead, it's pretty much always included when an
 enemy absorbs some other element(s). Drain resistance only affects
 physical attacks, not magical.
 × Using a draining attack on an Undead enemy will reverse the effect.
 × There's also an eighth element, Element 80, that serves seemingly no
 purpose, as no weapon or spell uses it. If you force it on a weapon, it
 functions like a typical element. The element is still commonly found
 in resistance values, as, similar to Drain, it's pretty much always
 included when an enemy has 4x weakness to some other element(s). Despite
 its presence, it's not acknowledged by Libra, nor is Drain if that was
 ever set as a weakness.
- There are eight enemy types: Dragon, Machine, Reptile, Spirit, Giant,
Flan, Mage, and Undead. Not all enemies fall under any of these types,
however. Most don't.
- Minimum damage is 1. If the number of successful hits is 0, then it's
a miss. Max damage is 9999.
- At 255 DFP or MDF, a subject becomes immune to physical or magical
attacks. No enemy natively has defense this high.
- Magic is generally much more powerful than physical attacks, but you
need to use it with moderation to avoid running out of MP. Ether is
neither easy to come by nor very potent. Tents and Cottages are a great
way to recover both HP and MP, but you can only use those at save points
and on the Overworld. Aside from items and recovery points, you can also
use the Aspil spell to drain MP from enemies, provided their MDF isn't
too high. The spell only has a base power of 16, which the random variable
can boost up to 24. As a last resort, you could drain MP from another PC.
- An enemy's max MP equals max HP/16. Enemies don't consume MP for anything.
- A good number of enemies have counterattacks that are triggered by
certain actions, such as normal attacks or magic. The counter hits a
random character. Reflected magic won't trigger any counters.
- When dual-wielding, Edge receives no critical hit power bonus based
on his weapons.

- Critical hit rates and power vary between characters, as seen below.

              %  Pow  Hex               RAM address
 Cecil D   |  2   20 (14) |          1 | 7E2041~2
 Cecil P   |  3   30 (1E) |          2 | 7E20C1~2
 Kain      |  2   20 (14) |          3 | 7E2141~2
 Rydia     |  1   40 (28) |          4 | 7E21C1~2
 Rosa      |  2   60 (3C) |          5 | 7E2241~2
 Edge      |  8   25 (19) |

 Tellah    |  1   30 (1E) |
 Gilbert   |  2   30 (1E) |
 Yang      |  1   50 (32) |
 Palom     |  1   30 (1E) |
 Porom     |  1   30 (1E) |
 Cid       |  5   35 (23) |
 FuSoYa    |  0    0      |

- Due to a programming error, it's not only possible but often inevitable
that a character will permanently lose the ability to deal critical hits.
The inevitable cause is when a character is temporarily absent during an
event battle. There are a number of these throughout the game, and they
will cause nearly all characters to lose their criticals (all except Kain
and Edge).
- The other, avoidable, way for a character to lose criticals is by being
dead or petrified at the start of battle.
- The bug is not present in any version on any other system (PS1, etc.).
- Below, you can see where a character loses their criticals. If the
name is in brackets, it means the character would lose them if they
weren't already lost.

 Damcyan Jou    | Cecil D  Rydia
 Kaipo          |(Cecil D)(Rydia) Rosa
 Hobbs no Yama  |(Cecil D)(Rydia)(Rosa)              Gilbert
 Fabul Jou      |         (Rydia)                   (Gilbert) Yang
 Shiren no Yama |                       Palom  Porom  Tellah
 Zot no Tou     | Cecil P                             Cid    (Yang)
 Babil no Tou   | Any if killed by Jibaku in first Lugeie fight
 Final Battle   | Characters in slots 1, 2, and 3

- You can easily restore criticals or prevent losing them in the first
place through RAM manipulation. If you're playing the game on emulator,
this is a simple process.
- To restore criticals, follow these steps:
 1. Insert the appropriate values into the character's critical hit
  RAM addresses. 41/C1 for critical hit rate and 42/C2 for power.
 2. Enter the character's equipment menu.
 3. Turn off the "cheat." No need to save and reset as is typical.
- Rather than restore them, you can also just prevent the loss by locking
the values when coming up to one of the event battles.


- FF4 is the first Final Fantasy to utilize the famed Active Time Battle,
or ATB, system. Instead of battles that consist of rounds where every
subject gets one action, the ATB system revolves around a real-time
element that allows a subject to act as soon as their (hidden) ATB
counter reaches 0, although only one subject can act at a time. A
subject's Speed (Subayasa) stat determines how many ATB "ticks" is
required, and the length of a single tick varies depending on what
Battle Speed the game is set to, as seen below.
- The length of a tick can vary somewhat due to technical limitations.
- ATB = 5 * Cecil's Speed / Speed.
- Most spells and some command abilities have an additional charge time.
- Enemies have a 1 ATB charge for every action except for counters,
which are executed immediately and have no impact on ATB.

      ATB           Message

    1 | 12f         1 |  45f
    2 | 18f         2 |  77f       60f = 1 second
    3 | 27f         3 | 109f
    4 | 39f         4 | 141f
    5 | 49f         5 | 173f
    6 | 65f         6 | 205f

- You can also choose between two different ATB modes: Active and Wait.
In Wait Mode, time pauses when actions are executed and when in the magic
or item menu. In Active Mode, it does not.
- The iconic ATB gauge is, indeed, not yet present in FF4, and there's
no way to switch between characters that are ready to act (this wasn't
possible until FF6).
- A subject's ATB values can be modified by the ATB multiplier, which
is 16/16 by default, 12/16 at minimum, and 32/16 at maximum. The ATB
multiplier can be altered by Haste and Slow spells and items, as seen
below. Haste and Slow are, indeed, not any kind of status effects the
way they are in subsequent installments. Instead, they have a cumulative
effect on the ATB multiplier, just like damage/healing has on HP. The
multiplier affects *all* ATB values, including those associated with
status effects.

   Slow    |  +8      Haste   |  -3
   Slow+   | +16      Haste+  |  -8

- Normal enemies have slight variation in their Speed stats. The short
enemy list shows the minimum values. With few exceptions, these values
can be up to 3 points higher.
- If you'd like to know how high Cecil's Speed has to be for the enemy
to have x ATB, multiply the enemy's Speed by x/5.

- In a regular battle, all subjects start with ATB - x, where x is the
lowest ATB value among all subjects minus 1, meaning the fastest subject
starts at 1 ATB.
- In a pre-emptive battle, your party starts at 1 ATB, whereas the enemy
party starts at double the normal amount.
- The enemy can get the jump on you as well, with two different surprise
attacks. The regular one (fuiuchi) is merely a pre-emptive in reverse.
The other, less common, one is the back attack, where the enemy not only
gets the pre-emptive ATB advantage, but your party formation is also
flipped.
- The odds of getting a non-regular battle are determined by how the
party's average level compares to the enemy's average level.

- Exp is divided among active party members. Characters that temporarily
leave the party will gain Exp while MIA (the same amount as active
characters).
- HP and MP gains on leveling up are randomized to an extent. Gains for
the other five stats are fixed up to Lv70, after which the character
will get one of eight possible stat gain sets per level.

- The encounter rate in the game can be rather fickle. Sometimes you
can take 50 steps before another random encounter, sometimes only one.
- A given area has eight slots for encounters, with the following odds:
     1 | 43/256     5 | 32/256
     2 | 43/256     6 | 32/256
     3 | 43/256     7 | 16/256
     4 | 43/256     8 |  4/256

- Hold L and R during battle to flee. Doing so may cause you to drop
some gil (25% of what you would have won had you finished the battle).
Don't hesitate to run away from enemies that give you too much trouble.
- Running away is pretty much instant outside of ambushes, where you
can flee at earliest when the first PC gets their turn. In a normal
situation, fleeing occurs when the ATB ticks and you're holding down
L and R.
- The actual escape timer is only used when the enemy in slot 1 is Lv97
or above. There are a handful of enemies like this at the end of the
game. The timers are: 3 (97), 7 (98), and 10\15 (99). The Lv99 counter
starts at 10, but is set to 15 whenever the ATB ticks and you're not
holding L and R. In the other two cases, the counter will not reset.


- Status ailments/conditions:

 Doku (Poison) | Lose 1/8 mHP every 20+Tai ATB / 1 HP per step on the field
 Bleed         | -2 HP per tick for 30 ATB
 Kurayami      | Accuracy/2, Evade/2
 Chinmoku(Sil.)| Unable to cast magic
 Nemuri (Sleep)| Unable to act for 50 ATB - 2/3*Seishin
 Mahi (Stun)   | Unable to act for 50 ATB - 2/3*Seishin
 Stop          | Unable to act for 30/150/300/600 ATB
 Konran (Conf.)| Attack allies. Negated if physically attacked.
 Kaeru (Toad)  | ATP=1, DFP=0, ATP in *2, no crit, can only cast Toad/Esuna
 Kobito (Mini) | ATP=1, DFP=0, ATP in *2, no crit
 Buta (Porky)  | Unable to cast magic (ex. Porky/Esuna) or use specials
 Noroi (Curse) | ATP/2, DFP/2
 Float         | Unaffected by Jishin / trap floors on the field
 Berserk       | No control, Auto-Attack, ATP*1,5  (Kyousenshi)
 Bunshin       | Evade two physical attacks
 Reflect       | Reflect spells back at the caster for 30 ATB
 Sekika/Ishi   | Gradually turn to stone (essentially dead)
  Stage 1      | 1/3 petrified
  Stage 2      | 2/3 petrified
  Stage 3      | Fully petrified (yet able to act)
  Stage 4      | Fully petrified and kneeling (unable to act)
 Instant Death | Instant death (ID)

- Bleed, Nemuri, Mahi, Stop, Konran, Noroi, Berserk and Petrification <s4
are removed at the end of battle. All ailments are removed upon death.
- Gear can make you immune to all status ailments except Bleed and Stop.
- Enemies have a single stat to determine their resistance to ailments
that involve an ATB countdown. This value is Lv + 10.
- Normal enemies with Poison immunity are still very much susceptible to
Poison due to a programming error.
- Enemies with the boss flag (mainly, indeed, bosses) are immune to all
ailments (except Bleed) as well as Stop and Tornado.
- A regular attack with the added effect of a status ailment will inflict
that ailment at a 100% rate so long as the target isn't immune and the
attack hits them during their regular ATB charge, ie. it doesn't work
during an action's charge time or if the subject is in the action queue.
- Mahi and Sleep have the above ATB restriction even when inflicted with
a spell or a special attack. They also don't work if the target already
has either of them. Attacking a sleeping target will *not* wake it up.
Mahi and Sleep also prevent any other ailment from being inflicted.
- Due to a programming error, when calculating the duration of Nemuri or
Mahi, the resistance value overflows if it exceeds 63 (ie. 74 = 10, 99 =
25, etc.).
- The penalties from Toad and Mini are applied when attacks occur. They
don't actually have a direct, visible impact on the character's stats.
So, no, they don't trigger the critical hit bug.
- A subject in Berserk requires (at least) one extra ATB tick to get a
turn (more at the beginning of a battle), as their ATB resets after one
tick for some reason.
- A subject in Berserk can't be inflicted with another status ailment
(besides Stop)(and not because of the priority system). Esuna doesn't
remove Berserk, but Dispel does.
- Petrification generally happens in three or four stages, with few enemies
being able to petrify you instantly. Once a character is inflicted with
the first stage, a timer (20 + Tairyoku) starts counting down until it
advances to stage 3 and then stage 4 (incapacitation). Being hit by a
petrification attack again will advance the condition to the next stage
(resetting the timer in the process), including stage 2, which is skipped
otherwise.
- Due to a programming error, the first character's Sekika timer will
freeze if another character's stage 3 timer expires.
- When inflicting Petrification s1/2 with a physical attack (which only
the Break Blade can do legitimately), the game erroneously uses the ATB
formula for Stun/Sleep, thus making higher level enemies *more* vulnerable
to Gradual Petrification, not less (at least until the overflow).
- Reflect doesn't affect Quake, Meteo, Summons, or spells that have
already been bounced off of an opposing party's Reflect.
- While Dispel can remove Reflect, you have to bounce it off another
Reflect to get it through. Dispel doesn't affect bosses, though.
- Dispel is supposed to remove Stop, but it only works on the enemy. If
you use it on a PC, the character's ATB is unfrozen, but the character
is never cleared for command input unless the character is killed and
revived or Stop is inflicted again, and you actually let the timer expire.
- Casting Stop on enemies with Stun or Sleep will prevent the enemy from
properly executing actions once the Stop wears off, possibly resulting
in a soft-lock depending on the action. If it's just Attack, you can
(probably) still finish the battle. Otherwise, you have to reset.
- Casting Stop on characters with Stun or Sleep will prevent those ailments
from expiring, although you can still heal them with Esuna.
- The game also employs a status ailment priority system, where an
existing, higher priority ailment will prevent the subject from being
inflicted with a lower priority ailment. In practice, the whole system
is largely inconsequential, but even so, here's how it works.
- The ailments involved are divided into two classes, with ailments
lower on the list being lower priority. Additionally, physical attacks
place class 2 ailments above class 1, whereas magical and special attacks
place class 1 above class 2.
- Poison is not affected by priority when the attack is magical.
- Petrification s1-3 is not affected by priority when inflicted by
Sekikanirami or Yubisaki.
- Float does *not* prevent other ailments despite being handled in the
same byte as class 2 ailments.

       Class 1              Class 2
   Instant Death        Curse
   Petrification s4     Stun
   Toad                 Sleep
   Mini                 Confusion
   Porky                Berserk
   Silence              Petrification s2
   Kurayami             Petrification s1
   Poison


- Healing items:
   Potion       |   96 HP (8x8)           Dokukeshi        |   40 | Doku
   Hi-Potion    |  480 HP (8x40)          Megusuri         |   30 | Kurayami
   X-Potion     | 1920 HP (8x160)         Yamabikosou      |   50 | Chinmoku
   Ether        |   48 MP (8x4)           Otome no Kiss    |   60 | Kaeru
   Ether Dry    |  144 MP (8x12)          Uchide no Kozuchi|   80 | Kobito
   Phoenix no O | Revive w/ 5*Tai HP      Diet Food        |  100 | Buta
   Elixir       | 100% HP & MP            Juujika          |  100 | Noroi
   Tent         | 1000 HP, 100 MP (all)   Kin no Hari      |  400 | Sekika
   Cottage      | 100% HP & MP (all)      Bannouyaku       | 5000 | all

- Magic casting items:
   Bomb no Kakera    | F, 8x12  \a   Unicorn no Tsuno  | Heal Slp,Conf,Mahi \a
   Bomb no Migiude   | F, 8x64  \a   Mezamashidokei    | Wakeup (all)
   Akai Kiba         | F,50% cHP\a   Bacchus no Sake   | Berserk (self)
   Nankyoku no Kaze  | I, 8x12  \a   Hermes no Kutsu   | Haste+ (self)
   Hokkyoku no Kaze  | I, 8x64  \a   Kumo no Ito       | Slow+ (all)
   Shiroi Kiba       | I,50% cHP\a   Dou no Sunadokei  | Stop2 (all)(150 ATB)
   Zeus no Ikari     | T, 8x12  \a   Gin no Sunadokei  | Stop3 (all)(300 ATB)
   Kamigami no Ikari | T, 8x26  \a   Kin no Sunadokei  | Stop4 (all)(600 ATB)
   Aoi Kiba          | T,50% cHP\a   Vampire no Kiba   | Drain (8x64)
   Daichi no Drum    | Quake (8x80)  Lilith no Kuchizuke Aspil (8x32)
   Hoshi no Suna     | Comet (8x80)  Hikari no Curtain | Reflect (50 ATB)(slf)
   Bomb no Tamashii  | Jibaku        Tsuki no Curtain  | Refl (70) + Ph.Immun.
   Coeurl no Hige    | Death         Seijaku no Kane   | Silence (all)
   Ougi no Sho       | Random Summon Scape Doll        | Bunshin (self)

- Using a healing item outside of battle gives you max power. In battle,
the random variable is applied as normal.
- Just like in the Nes installments, the game returns to the item/magic
menu after healing, so healing multiple times in a row is still kind of
slow.
- The level 1 Cure spell is the most cost-efficient healing spell outside
of battle.
- You can use Tents and Cottages on the overworld and at Save Points,
- Resting at an inn fully heals your party. Some locations also have
recovery points.

- There are plenty of tempting rare drops in the game, but unlike in my
other guides, I'd have to recommend that you ignore most of them due to
the terrible odds: about 0,08% for the 4th slot item and 0,9% for the 3rd.
The overall drop rate is 5%. Getting a 3rd slot drop isn't that hard, but
most of the high profile items are slot 4.
- Using fast-forward may or may not help with rare drops. If you're not
getting that slot 4 drop even after several hours, you may need to delay
finishing off the last enemy in order to find the RNG sweet spot.

- The game has received extensive reverse engineering attention from
dedicated fans over the years. I consulted some of these people while
working on the guide and I am most grateful that they took the time to
answer my oblivious questions and, thus, help me sort out some of the
technical details.




        Baron / Mist no Doukutsu
        Kaipo / Chika Suimyaku
        Damcyan / Antlion Den
        Hobbs no Yama / Fabul
        Shiren no Yama / Mysidia
        Mukashi no Suiro / Baron
        Troia / Jiryoku no Doukutsu
        Zot no Tou
        Dwarf no Shiro / Babil no Tou 1
        Eblana no Doukutsu / Babil no Tou 2
        Genjuu no Doukutsu
        Sylph no Doukutsu
        Fuuin no Doukutsu
        The Moon
        Babil no Kyojin
        Genjuushin no Doukutsu
        Tsuki no Chika Keikoku




 ¤~~~~~~¤   Baron Jou   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                Default (Cecil):        Default (Kain):
   480 gil               Ankoku no Tsurugi ¤     Spear
   Ether                 Ankoku no Tate    ¤     Iron Shield
   Tent                  Ankoku no Kabuto  ¤     Iron Helm
 PC:                     Ankoku no Yoroi   ¤     Iron Armor
   Kain Lv10             Ankoku no Kote    ¤     Tetsu no Kote

- Once you're in control, you are to head to the top floor of the west
tower. Grab the items first, though, as you won't be able to get back
into the castle for quite a while.
- You'll start off with just one item in your inventory: Bomb no Yubiwa
(Unique, Temp).  (¤: Unique)
- Have a look at the settings.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Baron no Machi   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Shop:                             Items (nc):
  Potion                30 gil       Megusuri      (c)   Ether
  Phoenix no O         100 gil       Tent          (c)   Otome no Kiss
  Kin no Hari          400 gil       Kobito no Pan (c)   Tent
  Otome no Kiss         60 gil       Potion              Dou no Sunadokei
  Megusuri              30 gil       Potion              Kin no Hari
  Dokukeshi             40 gil       Potion              Phoenix no O
  Tent                 100 gil                           Kin no Hari
  Gysahl no Yasai       50 gil

- You may find some hidden items here and there.
- Nc-items are items obtained on the field through means other than
examining treasure chests.
- I've tagged certain items as 'Unique' or 'Artifact.' Unique items
are, indeed, unique, whereas Artifact items are available in a limited
quantity greater than one. Temp-items will inevitably be lost.
- You'll find a person named Namingway in the training room, who can
change your characters' names (he's even got Latin alphabets). You'll
run into him again in several other places.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Baron Region   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Lost & Found:
   Goblin Summon      (Goblin     \ 4)
   Cockatrice Summon  (Dive Eagle \ 4)

- Maybe level up first before heading to the first dungeon.
- Cecil's special attack Ankoku hits all enemies at 50% ATP but drains
his HP by 1/8 of mHP. It's non-elemental, but it's resisted by Undead
enemies, which cuts the damage down to 25% (1/8 normal damage). There
aren't any Undead enemies around here, though.
- Kain's special attack, Jump, is a long range attack with double the
power of a normal attack. It takes 4 ATB for him to jump and another 4
ATB for him to land the hit. While in the air, he can't be targeted by
actions.
- You can change the character you appear as on the field by hitting R.
This has seemingly no effect on how the game plays, though.
- The Sword Rats will use a powerful counterattack (Hari) whenever
they're hit, so it would be in your best interest to try to kill them
with a single blow (30 HP).
- If you want all the hidden summons, this is a good place to start.
Not to say you have to get them right away. You might get lucky and
get one of the above as you're going through the game. It'll probably
require some farming, though. If you get Cockatrice before Goblin, you
should get Goblin in North Damcyan instead. If you get Goblin first,
you might as well keep going. This is pretty much the best place for
getting Cockatrice (without Alarms, that is). While Goblin is pretty
much worthless, Cockatrice can be somewhat useful.

      -- Chocobo no Mori --

 Item (nc): Gysahl no Yasai

- Catch a chocobo and you can ride it (no encounters).
- You can't actually ride the White Chocobo, but instead, when you
catch one, you'll recover your MP.
- Then we have the Fat Chocobo, who will come out if you have some
Gysahl Greens to spare. You can use him to store your items, so keep
that in mind if you're too obsessed to let go of your uniques and stuff.
He's got 126 slots.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Mist no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                      Boss:
   Potion                Tent                  Mist Dragon
   Megusuri              Potion

- The first dungeon is quite short and simple.

[Boss]
- 465 HP, 700 Exp, 200 gil
- Try not to attack her in her mist form, otherwise she'll retaliate
with a powerful counterattack (20-30 pod).

      -- Mist no Mura --

- Kain leaves the party here, so better de-equip him, so you can sell
his stuff for some gil. He'll have a completely new set of gear when
he eventually rejoins.
- Characters who temporarily leave the party will gain experience even
in their absence.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Kaipo   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Shop:                                  Item (nc):
  Rod                    100 gil          Ether
  Tsue                   160 gil        PC:
  Yumi                   220 gil          Rydia Lv1
  Tetsu no Ya             10 gil        Default (Rydia):
  Fuku                    50 gil          Rod
  Kawa no Fuku           200 gil          Kawa no Boushi
  Kawa no Boushi         100 gil          Kawa no Fuku
  Tetsu no Udewa         100 gil          Tetsu no Udewa

[Boss: General]
- 221 HP / 27 HP. 869 Exp, 242 gil in total.
- You'll have to go through a fixed encounter (close enough to a boss)
with a General and 3 Baron Heis during the initial event. It's just you
alone, but at least you start off with max HP. I suggest you take out
the General after killing two of the soldiers, as he'll run away if you
kill all three soldiers.

- The item shop is carrying the same wares that you found in Baron.
- Rydia starts off with the Chocobo summon (7 MP).
- Mages like Rydia won't be impressing you with their physical attacks.
Magic is their game and it can be very powerful, so long as you have
the MP. How stingy you want to be with magic is up to you. You probably
don't want to end up facing a boss with 0 MP, although there's usually
a save point before a boss. Using the special rod spells allows mages
to deal at least some damage without consuming any MP, although they're
only viable in the earlier parts of the game.
- Mages have low HP and DFP, so keep them in the back row.
- You can use the Rod during battle for a simple special attack (1x28).
- Find Rosa in one of the houses.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Chika Suimyaku   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   Potion                Ether                 Shadow Blade    ¤
   Otome no Kiss         Ice Rod               Hades no Kote   ¤
   Tent                  580 gil               Hades no Kabuto ¤
   Bomb no Kakera        Bomb no Kakera        Hades no Yoroi  ¤
   Tetsu no Udewa        Potion                Hermes no Kutsu #
   Ether Dry             Hanetsukiboushi
   X-Potion              Ether               Default (Tellah):
   Phoenix no O          Nankyoku no Kaze      Tsue
   Potion                Dou no Sunadokei      Kawa no Fuku

 TPC:                  Boss:                     ¤: Unique
   Tellah Lv20           Octomammoth             #: Artifact

- Tellah is hanging around near the entrance and will join your party
when you talk to him. His initial spells are:
 × White: Cura, Esuna, Raise, Telepo, Confuse, Blink
 × Black: Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Stop, Aspil
- Using Tellah's Omoidasu command will make him cast a random spell on
all enemies from a pool of 8 spells: Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Toad, Death,
Tornado, Bio, and Break. There's a 15% chance of getting one of the first
four, 5% chance of getting one of the latter four, and 20% chance to fail.
The spell will cost the usual amount of MP. Multi-targeting is not possible
with Tornado and Death under normal circumstances.
- You may want to level up Rydia a bit further, though it's not strictly
necessary. I suggest you have Tellah use Black Magic, while Rydia covers
the healing. If you run out of MP, you can either head back to Kaipo to
rest or use a Tent (50 vs 100 gil). A Tent won't revive a dead character,
though. While Tellah has Aspil, enemies early in the game have little MP,
so you'll have to use it frequently. Rydia learns it too, but not until
Lv32. Tellah may not level up here, but even if he does, he's stuck at
90 MP and doesn't get any new spells from leveling.
 × Enemy MP is HP/16, in case you forgot.
- Use Thunder to take out Fly Killers quickly. Keep pressing left to
target all enemies. Once you have the Shadow Blade, Cecil can take them
out in one hit.
- Fang Shells are also weak to Thunder, but Cecil can take them out in
one hit, so I'd save the MP.
- Unless killed by the damage, the Shiipottsu will counter magic by fully
healing itself. They run away after attacking once. If you can't get them
before that, that's fine. It's no big deal. Either way, have Tellah drain
their 7 MP.
- Gigantoads use Toad when alone. They mostly come in groups of three, so
take out one, then wait for one of the remaining ones to attack and take
out that one last. You can one-shot them with Cecil and the Ice Rod. A multi-
target Blizzard isn't quite strong enough to one-shot them consistently.
- Organitoads use Toad as a counter. The Ice Rod isn't guaranteed to one-
shot them (unless you manage to hit them physically).
- This is probably the place where you'll have your first encounter
with undead enemies - Zombies, to be exact. The enemies in the Zombie
family are the only enemies who are straight up immune to an element,
that element being Dark, which is inherent in all of the Dark Knight's
weapons. As a result, a normal attack from these weapons will only deal
1 pod, barring a(n unlikely) critical hit. You can easily take them out
with two Fire spells, but you could just run away to save MP.
- Healing damages Undead enemies, but revival items and spells will not
instantly kill them. (That wasn't added until FF5.)
- Mini-Magicians counter Attack with Hold and spells with Aspil. Magic
is ineffective anyway, so have Cecil take them out with Ankoku. If you
get hit by Hold, there's no need to panic, as the effect wears off after
a while.
- The enemies in the flan-family really don't care to take damage from
physical attacks. Either use magic of the appropriate element or flee.
- You can use the Ice Rod to cast Blizzard with a power of 2x16 (needs
to be equipped). That'll let Rydia take out some enemies without using
any MP. Even the normal attack is worth using at times, since it's not
only Ice-elemental but also has a quad power modifier against reptiles
(Sahagin, Basilisk, Adamantaimai). It has limited accuracy even in the
front row (where mages generally shouldn't be), but it can still get
some nice results.
- At Lv12, Rydia learns Dejon, which warps you back to the previous area.
Not particularly useful. Telepo is the one that warps you out of a dungeon.
These spells don't work in some places.
- You'll reach a small overworld area after B3. Make sure you save and
use a Tent if you're low on MP. Once you jump down from the waterfall,
you can't return. The boss isn't far.

[Boss: Octomammoth]
- 2350 HP, 31 Spd, w:TD, A:H, 1200 Exp, 500 gil
- The boss does nothing but attack.
- Every two hits after the first one, the boss's ATB gets multiplied
by 1,9; 1,8; 1,7; 1,6; 1,5; 1,4; and finally 1,3, as indicated by the
boss's changing sprite. It's the new ATB value that gets multiplied,
not the original one.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Damcyan Jou   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                      TPC:
   Tent                  Kin no Hari           Gilbert Lv5
   Crossbow              Phoenix no O
   Hanetsukiboushi       Ether               Default (Gilbert):
   Ruby no Yubiwa    10× Tetsu no Ya (nc)      Yume no Tategoto (Unique)
   Potion            10× Seinaru Ya  (nc)      Hanetsukiboushi
   Dokukeshi         10× Seinaru Ya  (nc)      Shijin no Fuku
   Megusuri                                    Ruby no Yubiwa

- Tellah will leave the party here (de-equip his items) and be replaced
by Gilbert (aka Edward).
- Cecil and Rydia will lose their critical hits in the Tellah vs Gilbert
event battle (if they still had them). Unfortunate (unless you restore
them).
- Gilbert is a character who's more useful when he's supporting the party
by inflicting status ailments rather than directly contributing to dps,
although, for what it's worth, he *does* deal more physical damage than
Rosa or Rydia when no weaknesses are involved.
- He can inflict Sleep (or Confusion) with his normal attack and Sleep/
Confusion/Silence with the Utau command (25% chance each and 25% chance
of failure). His other two abilities are Kusuri and Kakureru. Kusuri
consumes one Potion and heals 15-20 HP to the entire party. Kakureru
hides Gilbert, so he can't attack, but he can't be attacked either. He'll
hide automatically when low on HP.
 × Don't forget that Sleep and Stun can only be inflicted during a subject's
 regular ATB charge. A sleeping subject will *not* wake up from getting
 attacked.
 × In the event that Gilbert is morphed into a Toad, using Utau will
 inflict Toad. A lot of enemies are immune, though, and even when they're
 not, it could easily miss.
- You'll also receive the Hovercraft (Hover Sen), which is able to cross
reefs or something.
- If you need healing, you can use the recovery pots on the third floor.
- If you try to go through the Chika Suimyaku again (through the south
entrance), your party will refuse to jump down from the waterfall.
- You'll find the next dungeon east of the castle. You might want to
return to the Chika Suimyaku to get Gilbert to Lv10 first. Without any
Fire magic, you should just run away from the Zombies.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Antlion Cave   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                                        Party:
   Potion          Kin no Hari         Phoenix Down              Lv15-20
   Kumo no Ito     Nankyoku no Kaze    Ether
   Tent            Lamia no Tategoto   Hijouguchi (Artifact)   Boss:
   Potion          Kumo no Ito         Sabaku no Hikari          Antlion
   Potion          Dou no Sunadokei     (Unique, Temp)(nc)

- A couple of reptiles here, too (Basilisk and Adamantaimai). You could
try putting Rydia in the front row, but definitely keep Gil in the back.
- The Lamia no Tategoto inflicts confusion, but Sleep is more useful,
even if it deals more damage.
- The Hijouguchi has the same effect as Telepo.

[Boss]
- 1100 HP, 5 Spd, 1500 Exp, 800 gil
- To avoid counters, stick to magic and Ankoku.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Kaipo   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 PC:                   Default (Rosa):
   Rosa Lv10             Yumi                  Kawa no Boushi
                         50× Tetsu no Ya       Kawa no Fuku
                                               Tetsu no Udewa

- Go give the Sabaku no Hikari to Rosa, and she will join the party after
the following event. She won't be hanging out with you for long, though.
- Edward has to beat a fixed encounter on his own, so make sure he's
fully equipped. You only have to land three hits. Damage doesn't matter
(so long as you don't miss). Rosa immediately loses her criticals as a
result of this battle. Cecil and Rydia will lose them again if you restored
them. Hey, at least Gilbert's still got his criticals.
- Rosa can equip staves, but she should probably stick to bows for now,
as then she can at least deal decent damage to flying enemies.
- Initial spells: Cure, Hold, Libra, Slow, Sight [Saitoro]
- You can inflict Stun with Hold, but it's not something you can afford
to use much. Rosa doesn't get Aspil, so you need to be more mindful of
her MP.
- Rosa has two special Command Abilities: Inori and Nerau. Inori (Pray)
may or may not heal the party for a double digit figure (50% chance), and
Nerau (Aim) is a normal attack with max accuracy.
 × Using Aim when Rosa is in slot 1 will cause her accuracy to overflow
 (resulting in an accy of 62%), so don't put her there.

 Lost & Found: Goblin Summon (Goblin \ 4)       \\\ North Damcyan ||


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Hobbs no Yama   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                TPC:                  Special:
   Tent                  Yang Lv10             Rydia's Fire
   Potion
   Kin no Hari         Default (Yang):       Boss:
   960 gil               Honoo no Tsume        Mother Bomb
   10× Seinaru Ya        Kawa no Fuku

- After the initial event, Rydia will learn to cast Fire.
- Switch formations, so you can have Rosa, Rydia, and Gilbert all in
the back row.
- The Cockatrice can use Kuchibashi, which causes instant petrification.
However, it's only used when it's the last remaining enemy and it's been
targeted by magic, and even then, you can cancel it and put them back
in their regular attack pattern by using a non-magical attack. If you
confuse them, they'll use Kuchibashi on their allies.
- Gargoyles use Tornado after attacking three times, which leaves the
character with single digit HP.
- Take out Skeletons with two multi-target Fire spells. You might also
run into the Bloody Bone, a stronger skeleton warrior. Magic isn't as
effective on them, but since they come with regular skeletons, it's
still worth using, and you can just finish them off with physicals.
- Spirits spam you with Fire (~30). Try to confuse or silence them with
Sing. All the enemies in the Spirit family will become completely inert
if you hit them with a Blizzard spell. If you multi-target it, only one
will be affected, however. These ones aren't very dangerous, though, so
it's not really worth the MP.
- There are two types of bombs here: the regular Bomb (55 HP) and the
Pain Bomb (111 HP). The bomb family's trademark move is Jibaku, in which
the bomb self-destructs and deals whatever HP they had left as damage.
Both of these two bombs attack twice before using Jibaku, but the Pain
Bombs have higher stats, including enough MDF to make all magic except
Chocobo ineffective. Neither of these drop anything, by the way.
- Yang (or Yan) will join your party as the fifth character when you
encounter the boss. The event battle prior to the boss will rob even
Gilbert of his criticals (and anyone else if you restored them).

[Boss]
- (11 000 HP) / 55 HP / 111 HP. (1900 Exp, 1200 gil) / 2418 Exp, 543 gil
- You might be looking at a little trouble here. The boss starts off
looking like a regular bomb, but after taking 1000 pod, it'll reveal
its true form. The boss will no longer attack, but will eventually
explode on you (regardless of any damage you deal), dealing ~90 pod to
your entire party. In the wake of the explosion, she'll leave behind
3 regular Bombs and 3 Pain Bombs, who will also give you the usual
self-destruct treatment.
- It's technically possible to beat the boss before she blows up, but
it's *very* unlikely when playing legit.

- Yang's weapons have 0 ATP, but he uses a different base ATP formula
that compensates for it: 2*(Lv+1) + Str/4.
- Yang has three unique Command Abilities: Tameru, Keri, and Gaman.
 × Tameru: Attack with double power and 2x ATB charge time.
 × Keri: Attack all enemies. Damage = ((ATPm/2)*ATP)/2) + rnd(0,ATP) -
 (ATPm/2) * enemy DFP. 1x ATB charge, 100% accuracy. Sadly, unaffected
 by weapon element. If the damage is below 1, it's a miss.
 × Gaman: Increases Yang's DFP by 5.


      -- Fabul Region --

 Lost & Found:
   Cockatrice Summon  (Cockatrice \ 4)

- Plenty of use for Ankoku here.
- One more time: Unless you're madly obsessed (or using fast-forward),
you should just ignore the hidden summons and pretty much all other
rare drops as well. Even then, it's probably best to get Cockatrice in
the Baron region once you have an airship.

      -- Chocobo no Mori --  (Northeast of Fabul)

 Item (nc): Gysahl no Yasai


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Fabul   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   Zeus no Ikari     (nc)  Hermes no Kutsu # (nc)
   Bomb no Kakera          Kumo no Ito
   Nankyoku no Kaze        Demon Shield    ¤           #: Artifact
   Potion                  Ether                       ¤: Unique
   Bacchus no Sake   (nc)  Deathbringer    ¤ (nc)
   Tent

 Shop:
  Honoo no Tsume         350 gil       Demon Helm             980 gil
  Koori no Tsume         450 gil       Demon Armor           3000 gil
  Ikazuchi no Tsume      550 gil       Akuma no Kote          800 gil

- You'll want to pick up a Koori no Tsume and Ikazuchi no Tsume, but
you don't have to buy them yet. They're also available in Baron.
- Once you're prepared, go trigger the scene in the throne room. Rosa
and Rydia will ditch the party afterwards (again, you should probably
unequip their gear), leaving you with just Gilbert and Yang. You'll be
fully healed and then fight a number of fixed encounters during the
events that follow. Rydia will lose her criticals again if they were
restored. Rosa won't, as she's already considered MIA when the events
begin. Yang will lose his after the last one (as does Gilbert if you
restored them), which is an event battle against Kain. It ends once
you fall below 25% HP.
 - It's technically possible to beat Kain, but he's got 65 000 HP, so
 it's not very feasible when playing legit. Even if you beat him, you
 gain nothing, and it doesn't change the events in any way.
- After the event battles, you'll get Rydia back for a while, but soon
you'll be left with no one other than Cecil.
- Head to the inn to trigger the next event, during which you'll obtain
the Deathbringer, a weapon that inflicts Instant Death, the only such
weapon in the game.
 × While the ID effect only works during the enemy's ATB charge, this is
 not likely to be an issue, since pretty much the only enemy you'll be
 killing instantly is the Zu, who uses a chain action that's executed
 faster than a normal action.
- The ship is waiting for you east of the castle. Once you get on,
you'll be separated from the rest of your party (de-equip everyone
other than Cecil). Gilbert will never return, and Rosa and Rydia will
both stay off the grid for a decent while.


      -- Mysidia Region --

 Party: Cecil Lv20

- Better not wander around too much.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Mysidia   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 TPCs:                 Default (Palom):      Default (Porom):
   Palom Lv10            Rod                   Tsue
   Porom Lv10            Hanetsukiboushi       Hanetsukiboushi
                         Kawa no Fuku          Kawa no Fuku
                         Tetsu no Udewa        Tetsu no Udewa

 Shop:
  Sankakuboushi          700 gil       Ice Rod                220 gil
  Daichi no Koromo       500 gil       Flame Rod              380 gil
  Gin no Udewa           650 gil       Iyashi no Tsue         480 gil
  Hikari no Tate         700 gil       Crossbow               700 gil
  Hikari no Kabuto      4000 gil       Seinaru Ya              20 gil
  Knight no Yoroi       8000 gil       Hi-Potion              150 gil
  Gauntlet              3000 gil       Yamabikosou             50 gil
                                       Cottage                500 gil

- Head to the temple to trigger the next event. You will then be joined
by the twins, Palom and Porom.
- Porom's initial spells: Cure, Hold, Libra, Slow, Sight
- Palom's initial spells: Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Sleep, Poison
- Both have two special commands. Porom has Futarigake and Usonaki. Polom
has Futarigake and Tsuyogaru.
- Whoever uses it, Futarigake involves both twins casting a powerful spell
together, either Puchi Flare (75% chance, 10 MP) or Puchi Meteo (25%, 20
MP). It'll use the Chisei stat of the one who chose the command. While
Puchi Flare has a higher base power (120 vs 80), Puchi Meteo usually does
more damage, since the power isn't divided. The casting time is rather
lengthy, at 3x regular ATB, randomly based on either twin's ATB. While the
regular Meteo is Holy-elemental, the twins' version is not. The command
can technically fail, but the odds are only 1/256.
- Usonaki lowers the Status Resistance ($AF) of all enemies by 5.
- Tsuyogaru increases Palom's Chisei by 16.
- 3 Sankakuboushis, 2 Daichi no Koromos, 4 Gin no Udewas, Hikari no Tate,
Hikari no Kabuto, Knight no Yoroi, Gauntlet, 2 Flame Rods, Iyashi no Tsue =
22 640 gil
- Better pick up some Hi-Potions (30 sounds good) and at least a few
Yamabikosous.
- You can use the Iyashi no Tsue during battle to cast Cure \all (24-36 HP)
and Flame Rod to cast Fire (3x16). They're not as powerful as the regular
spells, but at least it's free.
- Get at least a few levels for the twins. Below, you can see what spells
they'll learn.

            Palom              Porom

 Lv11 | Blizzara, Porky    Raise
 Lv12 | Fira               Protect
 Lv13 | Thundara           Cura
 Lv14 | Stop
 Lv15 |                    Silence
 Lv16 |
 Lv17 |
 Lv18 |                    Berserk
 Lv19 | Bio                Telepo
 Lv20 |                    Esuna
 Lv21 |
 Lv22 | Toad
 Lv23 | Quake              Blink
 Lv24 |
 Lv25 |                    Confuse
 Lv26 | Drain
 Lv27 |
 Lv28 |
 Lv29 | Dejon              Shell
 Lv30 |
 Lv31 |                    Mini, Dispel
 Lv32 | Blizzaga
 Lv33 | Firaga             Curada
 Lv34 | Thundaga


      -- Chocobo no Mori --  (South of Mt. Ordeals)

 Item (nc): Gysahl no Yasai


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Shiren no Yama   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                TPC: Tellah             Default
   Potion              Default (Tellah 2):     (Cecil - Paladin Lv1):
   Potion                Tsue                    Densetsu no Tsurugi
   Ether                 Daichi no Koromo         (Unique, Temp)
   Ether                 Tetsu no Udewa          Fuku

 Special:
   Cecil's Class Change (Paladin)            Bosses:
   Tellah's Forgotten Magic                    Scarmiglione
                                                (+4× Scarnants)
 Lost & Found:                                 Scarmiglione 2
   Noroi no Yubiwa  (Soul, Spirit \ 4)         Ankokukishi
   Lilith no Rod    (Lilith \ 4)

- Visit the chocobo forest again if you need to recover your MP.
- There's a new type of spirit here, Soul, but it has 0 Magic, so it's
no more a concern than the regular ones.
- You'll find three members of the zombie family here: Zombie (52 HP),
Ghoul (222 HP) and Revenant (250 HP). All are virtually immune to
Cecil's attacks (although that's going to change soon). Fira works
nicely, although you should start with Cure2 if you get the encounter
with 7 of them. You can also just run away if you'd rather save your MP.
- Liliths counter Attack with Hirateuchi, which can inflict Stun, Silence,
or Curse. Go with Fire.
- You'll bump into Tellah again in the second area.
- You'll fight the boss after the save point.

[Boss]
- 3500 HP, 8 Spd / 200 HP, 2-5 Spd. 3400 Exp, 2400 gil.
- The Scarnants have the typical zombie characteristics. A single Fira
will quickly dispatch them.
- Scar counters with Thunder (~40) and also uses it once lone. He dies
when below 1001 HP.

- Return to heal and save.

[Boss]
- 3523 HP, 9 Spd, w:FHA, A:I, 3600 Exp, 2500 gil. Back attack.
- His only non-counter action is his normal attack, which poisons you.
If Cecil is poisoned, you won't be able to Berserk him. You can use the
Tsue to cast Poisona during battle.
- He's, indeed, considered a flying enemy, so Quake won't work here.
- Better refrain from using Fire magic as well, as he counters it with a
gas attack that slows your whole party. Bio works great, if you have it.

- Return to save. You'll be fully healed after the next event.
- De-equip Cecil before you approach the monument. He's about to go
through the Class Change, and, as a result, he'll restart at Level 1
and lose all his current equipment.

[Boss]
- 4520 HP, no xp / gil
- Do nothing and he'll just die. If you attack him, it'll take longer.
You'll have to heal yourself in that case. It's possible to beat him
into submission as well, but it takes a while and you should save your
Hi-Potions.

- Since the Paladin is considered a different character, Cecil will
have the ability to deal critical hits again even if he lost them as
a Dark Knight. His critical hit rate and power are indeed a bit higher
now (3\30 vs 2\20).
- Cecil is now able to learn and use some basic White Magic spells.
- Cecil's new special ability is Cover (Kabau), which allows him to
take hits for others. He'll also do it automatically whenever one of
your characters has low HP (unless he's badly injured himself).
- Tellah will regain all his forgotten spells. He's still stuck with
just 90 MP, though.
 × White: Hold, Silence, Protect, Shell, Slow, Haste, Berserk, Reflect,
 Dispel, Libra, Cure, Curada, Curaga, Raise, Minimum, Sight, Levitate
 × Black: Toad, Porky, Dejon, Poison, Fira, Firaga, Blizzara, Blizzaga,
 Thundara, Thundaga, Bio, Tornado, Sleep, Break, Drain, [Meteo]
- The few spells Tellah does *not* get are: Death, Quake, Flare, and Holy.

- While Cecil can now damage all Undead enemies (often with increased
power thanks to the Densetsu's Light element), there are simply too many
of them here. Continue to rely mainly on Fira as you level up Cecil to
Lv20 or so. At Lv20, he'll reach a solid hit count of 4.
- While you'll soon find weapons with higher ATP, the Densetsu no Tsurugi
may still outperform them thanks to its higher accuracy. It does depend
on the situation, though. There's a Fire-elemental sword you may want
to use in one dungeon, and an Ice-elemental one you'll want to use in
another. There's also a sword that can inflict Sleep, which can be
fairly useful. Even if you unequip it, you can't actually get rid of
the Densetsu. You can't even store it.
- Remember to always use the level 1 Cure spell when healing characters
with magic outside of combat. It's the most cost-efficient.

- Return to Mysidia and talk to the elder. After that, you can use the
teleporter in one of the houses to return to Baron (and Mist).


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Mist no Mura   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                       Shop:
   Bomb no Kakera (nc)   Kin no Kamikazari     Muchi             3000 gil
   Bomb no Kakera (nc)   Fuku                  Dancing Dagger    5000 gil
   Bomb no Kakera (nc)   Ruby no Yubiwa        Shijin no Fuku      70 gil
                         Henge no Rod (Unique)

- The Kin no Kamikazari increases Chisei by 10, and the Henge no Rod
increases it by 5. Combined, they would boost the Black Magic multiplier
by 3 or 4. Neither Tellah nor Palom can equip the former, however. For
now, give it to Porom for the defense. Tellah can use the rod, but he's
(mostly) better off with the Thunder Rod in the next dungeon.
- You can use the Henge no Rod during battle to cast Porky with 100%
accuracy (in stark contrast to the regular spell). Unlike the other two
polymorph ailments, Porky has no impact on ATP or DFP. On characters,
Porky is about the same as Silence, but on enemies, the difference is
far more noticeable. While both of them prevent the use of regular magic,
Porky also prevents the use of special abilities. The rod will remain
useful until the end of the game, provided you don't lose it.
- The Dancing Dagger can be used during battle to perform a magical
attack with a base power of 8x40. Get at least one for Palom and maybe
one for Cecil if you didn't level him up that much. Either way, the
enemies in the next dungeon have MDF ranging from 13 to 22, so the
special attack will do 144-376 pod. With a 4x50 ATP, Cecil will do
188-300 pod on the same enemies with a normal attack.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Baron   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                TPC:
   2000 gil                              Yang
   Zeus no Ikari                       Default (Yang 2):
   Baron no Kagi (Unique, Temp)(nc)      Kawa no Fuku

 Shop:
  Thunder Rod           700 gil            Honoo no Tsume        350 gil
  Nejirihachimaki       450 gil (Str +5)   Koori no Tsume        450 gil
  Kenpougi             4000 gil (Str +3)   Ikazuchi no Tsume     550 gil

- Head to the inn to find Yang. Talk to him, and you'll have to fight
a couple of knights (280 HP) followed by Yang himself. He's got 62 000
HP, but the battle ends when you attack him with Cecil after he's used
two kicks. You can end it by taking his HP to 0 as well, but that's
hardly ideal. Either way, he re-joins the party. You'll also get the
Baron Key, which you can use to open the doors to the weapon shop and
the Mukashi no Suiro.
 × In the Yang fight, he's supposed to use a normal attack on Cecil
 before each kick, but this doesn't happen due to a programming error.
- Combined, the Nejirihachimaki and Kenpougi will increase the ATP multi-
plier by 1, and ATP by 2. Yang obviously needs these, but Cecil should
probably stick to the heavy armor, as switching to the kung fu gear would
drop his DFP by 12.
- Use the Thunder Rod during battle to cast Thunder with a power of 4x16.
- In case you forgot, Yang's Keri does damage that equals:
 ((ATPm/2)*ATP)/2) + rnd(0,ATP) - (ATPm/2) * enemy DFP
- So, if he has an ATP of 7x70, the damage comes out as 105 (210/2) + 0~70.
- Buy three extra Nejirihachimakis and put them in storage.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Mukashi no Suiro   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   1000 gil              Zeus no Ikari         Hermes no Kutsu (Artifact)
   Hi-Potion             Dou no Sunadokei      Ether
   Ether                 Kumo no Ito           Kodai no Tsurugi (Unique)

- Go with an Ikazuchi-Koori combo for Yang. Equipping two claws of the
same element won't have any additional effect. When equipped with two
claws, the accuracy modifiers are combined and divided by two.
- The Ice Rod *could* be of some use here, if you don't mind hot-swapping
between that and the Thunder Rod. It won't make a big difference, though.
- You'll encounter Baron Konoeheis in the last two areas. As you likely
already noticed, they have nasty counterattacks for both normal attacks
and magic, Mini and Porky, respectively. Yang should be able to take them
out with a single hit, if not with a normal attack, then certainly with
Tameru. If needed, you can heal Porky with the Henge no Rod, although the
actual spell is only 1 MP, so not a big difference. Using the rod on the
knights isn't the best idea, since it doesn't stop them from casting Porky.
It does miss frequently due to the low accuracy, but even so.
- Don't forget that polymorphing enemies may result in an enemy getting
switched from front row to back row due to their new, smaller size. This
happens in the 2x Baron Konoehei encounter, for instance.
- The Kodai no Tsurugi is weaker and less accurate than the Densetsu no
Tsurugi. The only thing it has going for it is that it inflicts Curse,
which just isn't useful enough to compensate for the lower damage.
- There's a save point at the end.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Baron Jou   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                      TPC:
   Ether                 Hermes no Kutsu       Cid Lv20
   Ether                 Hermes no Kutsu
   Unicorn no Tsuno      Hi-Potion           Default (Cid):
   Unicorn no Tsuno      Hi-Potion             Kizuchi
   Phoenix no O          Tent                  Shuujin no Fuku (Artifact)
   Phoenix no O          Tent
   Bacchus no Sake       Ether               Bosses:
   Bacchus no Sake       Elixir (nc)           Beigan (+ Migiude & Hidariude)
                         Ether  (nc)           Cagnazzo

[Boss]
- 4444 HP, 8 Spd, 4800 Exp (+10 for each arm), 3000 gil
- Beigan will revive the arms if you take out both of them. Destroy only
one of them (the closer one), then focus on the main target. You should
probably damage the other arm as well at some point, as once the body
is gone, the remaining arm(s) will use Jibaku, dealing up to 444 pod.
- Might not want to use the Dancing Dagger's special here. He casts
Reflect on himself in response to magic, and while it won't affect the
special attack, you don't really want him to redirect his Reflects on
your characters, since that would make it harder to heal, at least with
magic. I'm sure you have a decent supply of Hi-Potions, but even so.

- Loot the east side of the castle before heading into the throne room.
Better go save the game as well.
- De-equip everything off Palom and Porom.

[Boss]
- 5312 HP, 48 MDF, 15 Spd, w:I/T, 5500 Exp, 4000 gil
- He's weak to Ice normally and weak to Thunder when surrounded by
water. The water goes away when he's hit with a Thunder spell, which
also prevents him from using Tsunami and Haste (unless it was queued).
Tellah's -ga level spells will do ~4000 pod, so you can easily make
this quick.
- Tsunami's base damage is 4% of his cHP. It ignores MDF.
- When below 701 HP after taking a hit, he'll retreat into his shell
and heal himself for 531 HP. Hitting him while he's hiding in his shell
won't prompt him to heal again, but once he's out, you can re-trigger it.

- Palom and Porom will be gone after the following event, and there's
nothing you can do to get them back (even though the item menu pops
up when you examine their bodies).
- On the plus side, Cid will join your party, and you'll also get the
airship, Enterprise.
- Cid's unique Command Ability, Shiraberu, is just... Libra... and
that's it.
- You can sell the elemental rods now.


      -- Chocobo no Mori --  (on the island northwest of Kaipo)

 Item (nc): Gysahl no Yasai

      -- Chocobo no Mori --  (south of Troia)

 Item (nc): Gysahl no Yasai


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Agart no Mura   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Item (nc): Hokkyoku no Kaze

 Shop:
  Spear                   60 gil       Iron Helm              150 gil
  Boomerang             3000 gil       Iron Shield            100 gil
  Iron Armor             600 gil       Tetsu no Kote          130 gil

- South of Baron.
- The enemies in the neighborhood might be too much for you to handle.
The Eblana region has the same encounters. Feel free to try them at some
point. Maybe get a few levels in the Troia/Mythril region first.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Mythril no Machi   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items (nc):
   Mythril no Tsue      Mythril Knife        5000 gil

 Shop:
  Mythril Sword         6000 gil       Mythril Armor       17 000 gil
  Mythril Knife         3000 gil       Mythril Helm          3000 gil
  Mythril no Tsue       4000 gil       Mythril Shield        1000 gil
  Mythril Hammer        8000 gil       Mythril no Kote       2000 gil
  Uchide no Kozuchi       80 gil
  Diet Food              100 gil

- South of Fabul / Northeast of Mysidia.
- Mythril Hammer, 2 Mythril Armors, 2 Mythril Helms, 2 Mythril no Kotes,
Mythril Shield + a bunch of Kozuchis and Diet Food = ~63 000 gil
- Upgrading Cecil's armor will only give him an increase of 5 DFP and
3 MDF. Maybe pass up on the Mythril Armor. Definitely forget about the
sword, and sell the knife. Hang on to Cid's default weapon if you're
planning on fighting enemies in Cave Magnes before the boss (although
you can buy one in Troia as well).


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Eblana Jou   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   Hi-Potion             Nemuri no Ken   *¤      Coeurl no Hige
   Unicorn no Tsuno      Bacchus no Sake (nc)    Hijouguchi       #
   Mezamashidokei        Bacchus no Sake (nc)    Ether
   Kin no Hari           Bomb no Tamashii        Hermes no Kutsu  # (nc)
   Otome no Kiss         10 000 gil              Cottage
   Cottage               10× Kuchifuuji no Ya    Blood Lance     *¤
                                                 Gin no Sunadokei #
               *: Trap                           Ether
               #: Artifact                       Ether
               ¤: Unique                         Gin no Ringo    *

- This is the abandoned castle on the continent with the huge tower
sticking out from the giant hole.
- There are no random encounters here, but the trapped chests feature
enemies that you won't encounter normally for a good while.
- One of the chests in the left tower is a monster-in-a-box; you'll
have to fight a Stale Golem and 4 Skulldiers for the Nemuri no Ken.
 × The skeletons can Curse you, and the Golem can put you to sleep.
 Cecil and Yang can one-shot the skeletons with the appropriate
 elemental weapons. A multi-target Firaga will also dispatch them
 easily, although it would be a better idea to take out the Golem
 with Blizzaga. An instant kill with Break is also an option.
- The Nemuri no Ken will deal a little less damage than the Densetsu
no Tsurugi due to its lower accuracy, but it's still worth using at
times for its Sleepstrike ability.
- As already explained at the beginning, if a normal attack fails to
inflict an ailment even though the target isn't immune, it's because
the hit didn't land during the target's regular ATB charge. Unless the
enemy is rather slow, you'll need to hit them right after they attack.
With multiple enemies, it's not that simple, and you may need to take
queued actions into account.
- One of the chests in the right tower is also a monster-in-a-box;
you'll have to fight a Lamia and two Coeurls for the Blood Lance.
 × Careful with those counters. Magic is safe with the Lamia, but
 the Coeurls counter pretty much everything. A multi-target -ga spell
 is likely, but not guaranteed, to take out the cats. If you've just
 saved, you might as well risk it. You can safely hit them with the
 Nemuri no Ken so long as you get the timing right. Lamia is immune to
 both Sleep and Stun, but everything else works, so just take your pick.
- And, finally, one more trap in the basement; you'll have to fight
3 Baasa Ogres for a Gin no Ringo / Silver Apple.
 × These guys hit pretty hard and have 254 MDF, but most ailments are
 still good (all except Porky and Toad). If all else fails, you can
 just use a Dou no Sunadokei.
- The apples increase max HP (by 50 or 100). You'll find three silver
ones in the game (barring any rare drops). I'd save them for Rydia.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Troia (& Mythril) Region   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

- Equip the Nemuri no Ken (if you have it) and Flame Claw while in this
region. It's mostly Hell Needles and Wood Eyes.
- Hell Needle is the last enemy in the Needlemouse family. Their Hari
has a base power of 80. Stun them or turn them into pigs to avoid the
counter. All the other enemies are immune to Porky except for Cait Sith.
When there are Wood Eyes in the back, you can just use the rod on a
single target. That's still better than nothing. Or maybe try confusing
one of the trees.
- Yang can easily handle the Wood Eyes and Death Beauties, although
they're generally in the back row. He might still be able to one-shot
them, nonetheless.
- Twin Snakes are trivial due to their low HP.
- And then there's Cait Sith, the first enemy in the Coeurl family.
Their trademark special attack, Blaster, inflicts either Instant Death
or Stun, typically the former. I'm sure you'd rather have neither, so
make sure they're not the last enemy standing (at least not without
Sleep or Porky), and you can avoid it.
- Don't hesitate to use those Tents when on the overworld. That's what
they're there for.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Agart / Eblana Region   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Lost & Found:
   10× Medusa no Ya (1-3) / Break Blade  (Kurotokage \ 4)
   Bomb no Migiude  (Flame Dog \ 3)

- Like I said, these guys might be a little too much. If you're not feeling
that ambitious, you don't need to bother.
- Equip the Ice Claw, and Yang can easily take out Kurotokages and Flame
Dogs. Flame Dogs have a nasty solo action, but since they're in the front
row, that's not likely to be an issue.
- Turn the Moruzu into pigs to prevent them from both healing and fleeing.
- Try to put the Rudras to sleep with the Nemuri no Ken. If there are
three chicks, kick 'em.
- The Medusa Arrows will instantly kill enemies that aren't immune to
Petrification. It can still fail if you don't hit the enemy during their
ATB charge.
- In the unlikely event that you manage to score a Break Blade, you can
go ahead and just stash it in your storage as a trophy. While it boasts
a nice ATP figure, the accuracy is just a bit too limited, and the added
Petrification effect is too slow to be of any significance (requires two
cycles).


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Troia no Machi   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items (nc):
   1000 gil              Ether
   Ether                 Scape Doll (Artifact)

 Shop:
  Great Bow             2000 gil       Kizuchi                 80 gil
  Honoo no Ya             30 gil       Hanetsukiboushi        330 gil
  Koori no Ya             30 gil       Ruby no Yubiwa        1000 gil
  Ikazuchi no Ya          30 gil       Kai'inshou          10 000 gil

- The village surrounded by vast forests northwest of Baron.

      --  Troia Jou --

 Items:
   Tent                  Ether                 Hisohisou       (nc)
   Tent                  Ether                  (Unique, Temp)
   Hi-Potion             Ruby no Yubiwa        Bacchus no Sake (nc)
   Hi-Potion             Ruby no Yubiwa

- Find Gilbert, and you'll obtain the Hisohisou.
- Once you feel prepared, head north to find the Chocobo forest / village.

      -- Chocobo no Mura --

 Items (nc)
   Gysahl no Yasai     Gysahl no Yasai     Gysahl no Yasai

- Since you can't land your airship on forests, you'll need to use one
of the Black Chocobos found here to reach the cave east.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Jiryoku no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                          Party:
   Hi-Potion             Hi-Potion                 Lv~30
   Unicorn no Tsuno      Kumo no Ito
   Ether                 Dou no Sunadokei             #: Artifact
   2000 gil              Yousei no Tsume   ¤          ¤: Unique
   Ether                 Hijouguchi        #          t: Temp
                         Tsuchi no Crystal ¤t (nc)

 Lost & Found:                                Boss:
   Mindflayer Summon  (Mindflayer \ 4)          Dark Elf &
   Bacchus no Sake    (Ogre \ 1)                Dark Dragon
   Kyojin no Kote     (Ogre \ 4)                 (separate phases)

- You can't use any metallic equipment in this dungeon. The solution,
of course, is to run away from all battles (or use non-metallic gear).
- The boss is waiting for you in the crystal room. Make sure you use
the second Save Point nearby first.
- You're not getting that Mindflayer summon without Alarms.

[Boss]
- 65 000 HP (Elf 1) / 3890 HP, 9 Spd (Elf 2) / 3927 HP, 11 Spd (Dragon), W:H
- 6000 Exp, 5000 gil
- Your first battle with him is scripted, and will end in your defeat.
However, after the scene that follows, you'll not only fully regain
your health, but will also be able to put your heavy gear back on as
the magnetic field disappears.
- He still uses Tornado in the second battle, but it can only hit one
character. He technically has 23 890 HP in this battle, but he transforms
after going below 20k.
- In dragon form, he alternates between a regular physical attack and
Dark Breath, an attack that deals 25% mHP damage to your whole party.
Fire-resistant gear could bring it down to 10%, but there's no legitimate
way to *obtain* any such gear at this point in the game. You'll just
have to make do.
- Inflict Slow if needed.
- In case you want to give him a taste of his own medicine, Tornado
works on his dragon form.

- Grab the crystal afterwards.
- The Densetsu no Tsurugi works well on the enemies here, just as it did
for the boss.
- The Yousei no Tsume inflicts Confusion, which isn't bad, but it hardly
matters when Yang is killing most enemies in one hit. More importantly,
however, it has a quad power modifier against giants, such as the Ogres.
It does bring down his base damage a bit, since it has no accuracy bonus,
but he's probably still able to one-shot the other enemies. It also gives
him Speed +3. You can store it after this dungeon.

- Before you trigger the next event in Troia, go stock up on Hi-Potions.


      --  Troia Jou --

 Items:
   Hi-Potion             Great Bow             Yamabikosou
   Bannouyaku            10× Honoo no Ya       Gin no Ringo
   Ether                 10× Honoo no Ya       Ether Dry
   Ether Dry             10× Ikazuchi no Ya    Ether
   Elixir                10× Koori no Ya       Bannouyaku
   Yamabikosou           10× Koori no Ya       Hi-Potion

- Go see the women in front of the crystal room. After that, you can go
loot the stuff in the hidden treasure room. Keep the Great Bow for Rosa.
- Return to your airship, and you'll soon find yourself in the Tower of Zot.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Zot no Tou   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                  Default (Kain 2):       PCs:
   Flame Mail              Wind Spear       ¤      Kain, Rosa
   Flame Sword (trap)      Mythril Shield
   Jigoku no Tsume  #      Mythril Helm          Special:
   Flame Shield            Mythril Armor           Telepo (Rosa)
   Daichi no Hammer        Mythril no Kote
   Shisai no Robe        Default (Rosa 2):          #: Artifact
   Magma no Ishi (nc) ¤t   Shuujin no Fuku  #       ¤: Unique
                                                    t: Temp
 Lost & Found:
   Iyashi no Tsue / Rune no Udewa / Rune no Tsue / Ougi no Sho (Marionator)
   Scape Doll       #  (Marion)

 Bosses:
   Magus Sisters (Dogu, Magu, Ragu)
   Barbariccia

- You will no longer have access to this dungeon once you clear the
events here.
- You can return to Troia, but you'll automatically return to Zot once
you board your airship again.
- The chests look rather different here.
- The Flame Mail and Flame Shield make the wearer weak to Fire and
resistant to Ice.
- Yang should go with a Fire-Ice combo, but you can ditch the Ice later.
The Hell Turtle is the only enemy resistant to Fire, but they're only
found on 1F and 2F. Even when an enemy resists the element of one the
claws, the element they're weak to will take priority.
- You don't have to fight the flans if you'd rather save the MP. Aspil
still works well on most of the enemies here. This is, sadly, the last
dungeon where that's the case. Some enemies have MDF figures that are
equal to or just a little above Aspil's base power value, so it can
still work with favorable RNG. Eventually, though, even that won't help.
- Kick doesn't hit flans, and it's not because they have max DFP. It's
a very redundant attribute, though, since the damage would still be 0
even if it did hit them.
- The second chest you find is a monster-in-a-box; you'll have to fight
a Flame Dog for the Flame Sword. Switch to that unless you're already
one-shotting everything with the Nemuri no Ken. That one's also good
for inflicting Sleep on flans and back row enemies. At least switch to
the Flame Sword for the bosses.
- The Jigoku no Tsume inflicts Poison, which is completely insignificant,
but you should still equip it, since it boosts accuracy and Strength.
- You can use the Daichi no Hammer during battle to cast Quake, which
does a fair amount of damage (1x200) to all (non-flying) enemies. Good
for taking out flans, not that you'll be running into many of those,
since you're pretty much at the end of the dungeon. The weapon is also
Fire-elemental.
- The Shisai no Robe gives you Seishin +5.
- You'll fight the Magus Sisters immediately after the Save Point on 5F.

[Boss]
- 2590 HP (right), 4599 HP (middle), 2591 HP (left), 7 Spd
- 2500 Exp and 3000 gil each
- Their 'Delta Attack' is just regular spells reflected off Magu (~200-
400 pod). It's not some special attack that wipes you out like in FFX.
- Magu (the middle one) is able to bring her sisters back to life, so
take her out first.
- Aspil works well in case Tellah needs a refill.

- Return to save and heal. De-equip Tella, as he's going to be leaving
your party during the next event, whereas Rosa and Kain rejoin.
- Tellah's duel with Golbez results in Cecil, Yang, and Cid losing their
criticals.
- Set Rosa's gear as soon as you gain control. Give her the Daichi no
Koromo to make her immune to Petrification. Switch to the Shisai no Robe
after the boss. You can keep Kain in the back row, as he'll only be using
Jump in the next battle.

[Boss]
- 8636 HP, 18 Spd, 9000 Exp, 5500 gil
- Easily the toughest boss so far. While in her Whirlwind Mode, she uses
a nasty Tornado + Yubisaki combo. She also gets a functioning Evade (4x45%)
and is immune to magic during this time, not that you have any, since you
just lost your sage. You can cancel the mode by using Jump, but you may
not be able to prevent every Tornado. Quickly use a Hi-Potion to heal the
character hit by it. With a little luck, Yubisaki won't hit the same
character multiple times, in which case you can just ignore it. You also
don't want her to attack any character that was hit by Tornado. She can
deal up to 440-550 pod with max RNG. A single Hi-Potion might not be
enough, You can use a second one if you want to be safe, or you can just
hope for the best and prioritize offense, with Rosa casting Haste instead
of healing. If you're having too much trouble, it's time to whip out that
Kumo no Ito.


      -- Agart --

- Go use the Magma no Ishi on the well. Afterwards, you can fly down the
hole to reach the Underworld. You won't be able to come back up until
after the next dungeon. Get some Ice Arrows for Rosa. Hang on to the
Flame Sword for a little longer.
- If you got the Blood Lance, don't bother using it. The high ATP is
offset by the second worst accuracy in the game and a -10 penalty to all
stats. It also lacks the Anti-Air element, whereas the Drain element is
resisted by any enemy that absorbs anything.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Dwarf no Shiro   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                Items (nc):           Party:
   Hi-Potion             5000 gil              Lv~40
   Elixir                Gysahl no Yasai
   Ether                 Gysahl no Yasai     PC:
   Kuro'obi Dougi   #    Gysahl no Yasai       Rydia
   Dwarf no Ono          Bacchus no Sake
   Power Wrist           Bacchus no Sake          #: Artifact
   Gin no Sunadokei #    Ecchi na Hon     ¤       ¤: Unique
   Elixir
   Ether               Default (Rydia 2):    Bosses:
   Cottage               Muchi                 3× Calca & 3× Brina
   Cottage               Daichi no Koromo       (+ Calcabrina)
   Cottage               Gin no Udewa          Golbez

 Shop:
  Flame Sword         14 000 gil       Flame Mail          30 000 gil
  Honoo no Yari       11 000 gil       Flame Shield          1250 gil
  Dwarf no Ono        15 000 gil       Shisai no Robe        1200 gil
  Kurayami no Ya          40 gil       Shisai no Boushi      2000 gil
  Juujika                100 gil       Rune no Udewa         2000 gil
  Kobito no Pan          100 gil
  Bannouyaku            5000 gil

- You can't explore much of the castle initially (can't buy any gear yet),
but it opens up after the boss.
- De-equip all the items Cid has. He will no longer be joining you in
battle once you trigger the scene in the throne room.
- You're looking at two bosses in a row.

[Boss]
- Calca (blue, back): 1369 HP, Brina (red, front): 369 HP, 16-19 Spd,
1000 Exp, 500 gil each
- Calcabrina: 5315 HP, 11 Spd, 12 000 Exp, 5000 gil
- If dolls of only one type are present, they'll transform into Calcabrina.
If Calcabrina has less than 101 HP left, it'll split into the six dolls again.
- While the blue ones have more HP, they don't have boss benefits, so you
could inflict Mini or Stop.
- Calcabrina hits *very* hard, almost reaching quad digits in the worst
case. It can also inflict Confusion and Stun. It also technically has
nasty counters for elemental spells, but the only way to trigger those
is by using items.
 |
[Boss]
- 4001 HP, 27 Spd, w:FH, 15 000 Exp, 10 000 (+1000) gil
- Rydia rejoins the party here.
- He just spams you with Fira, Thundaga, and Bio (~100-300 pod).
- Reviving the three dead characters might be too much trouble than it's
worth. You can probably manage with just Cecil and Rydia.
- Kain should use the Flame Sword (if he's in) while Cecil uses the Densetsu.
- Technically, he has 23 001 HP, but the battle ends after he falls below
19 001.

- Rydia is no longer able to cast White Magic.
- New spells: Fira, Blizzara, Thundara.
- New Summon spells: Dragon, Titan, Shiva, Ramuh, Ifrit.
- Give Rydia that Kin no Kamikazari you got earlier if you still have it.
- 2 Shisai no Boushis (Cecil, Rosa), 3 Rune no Udewas (Rosa, Rydia, Yang).
- The Honoo no Yari would've been useful in Zot, but it's a bit too late
for that now. You certainly don't want to use it in the next dungeon.
- The Dwarf no Ono gives you Str&Tai +5 and Mag&Spd -5. Maybe worth giving
to Kain until he gets that Ice Spear, and it's not far. Note that it's
actually long range, not that you really want Kain or Cecil in the back
row, since your more fragile characters would have to take their place
in the front.
- Don't forget that equipping a ranged weapon gives that character the
permanent long range flag. I suppose you could consider it compensation
for the lost criticals.
- The Kuro'obi Dougi (Str +5) should go to Yang for now. You can give it
to Cecil or Kain later if you don't mind the low defense.
- The Power Wrist gives you Str +5. Worth using despite the low defense.
The stronger ones aren't *that* much stronger.

- A hidden path in the pub leads to the Kaihatsushitsu, or the Developers'
Room. One of the bookshelves there holds the legendary Ecchi na Hon, which
can be used for excitement (no real effect). Perhaps it features artwork
of Barbariccia from Final Fantasy Dimensions 2?
- Use the hidden path in the basement to reach the next dungeon.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Babil no Tou 1   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   10× Koori no Ya       Phoenix no O
   10× Koori no Ya       Killer Bow
   Ether                 Nankyoku no Kaze
   Green Beret   #       Ice Shield     *       #: Artifact
   Koori no Yari  *      Ice Armor      *       *: Monster-in-a-box
   Icebrand       *      Hokkyoku no Kaze
   Neko no Tsume         Hi-Potion
   Hi-Potion             Ether Dry
                                            Boss(es):
 Lost & Found:                                Hakase & Barnaba
   Scape Doll    #  (Furaudo Puppet)           (+ Gattai Mecha)
   Rune no Tsue     (Marionator \ 3)          Lugeie

- You will no longer have access to this dungeon after a future story event.
- You can't use Telepo or Dejon here.
- When alone, Flame Dogs spam you with Honoo, which deals 20% mHP damage
(10% with Fire resistance, 40% with weakness) and can hit all characters.
Once again, you can use Porky (but not Silence) to prevent it, although
if all three of your fighters are one-shotting them, it's not likely to
be necessary. As such, it's better to have Rydia use the whip than the
Henge no Rod, so she can stun enemies (except when they're too fast, like
the Flame Knight).
 × Characters with decent Magic Evade can easily avoid attacks like Honoo
 when the enemy has 0 Magic.
- The Rune no Tsue is the one rare drop I have to recommend getting. It's
only slot 3, so it's *significantly* easier than a slot 4 drop. 1F is the
best place. Just run away from the other battles. If you have a fast-forward
option, use it. You can get one in a few hours (IGT).
- The Rune no Tsue is pretty much the best staff in the game. It's got
Seishin +10, Silencestrike and Magekiller. There's another staff with
Sei +15, but by the time you get that, Rosa's Seishin could be so high
she won't even need those extra 5 points.
- There are two trapped chests on the second floor (Eyes + Stone Golem
& Eyes + Chimera) and two more on the fourth (Eyes + Flame Dog & Eyes +
Naga). The Eyes have 254 MDF.
- The Neko no Tsume is pretty much Yang's best weapon, with high accuracy,
Str & Spd +5, and Sleepstrike.
- You'll start running into Chimeras above 3F. When alone, they spam you
with Blaze, which deals 25% mHP damage (10% with Ice resistance, 50% with
weakness) and can hit all characters. They're immune to Porky, Sleep, and
Stun, and they resist all three main elements, so maybe have one of your
fighters switch to a non-elemental weapon. You might want to use Jump on
them when they're in the back row. If Rydia has Cockatrice, you can also
use that.
- With two save points and flans only common on two floors (4F and 5F),
it's unlikely Rydia will need to do any draining.
- The first Save Point is on the fourth floor.
- The Ice Armor and Ice Shield make the wearer weak to Ice and resistant
to Fire.
- Medusas spam you with Yubisaki until there's only one enemy left. Mainly
a concern when you get ambushed.
- On the 6th floor, you can see a chest that you can't reach. Just ignore
it. (It's the last Hi-Potion you find in the new areas, although if you come
back here later, it'll still appear to be closed even if you've opened it.)
- The second Save Point is on the seventh floor. You'll find the boss on
the floor above.

[Boss]
- Hakase: 4936 HP, 11 Spd. Barnaba: 4832 HP, 6x86 ATP, 31 Spd
- Gattai Mecha: 4518 HP, 9x114 ATP, 31 Spd
- After their initial blunders, they'll settle into a simple routine,
where Barnaba merely attacks and Hakase provides support by using
Chiryou (Esuna) on Barnaba.
- Try to take them out at the same time. If you take out Hakase first,
Barnaba will self-destruct using Jibaku. If you take out Barnaba first,
you'll have to face Gattai Mecha, who attacks twice then self-destructs.
Getting killed by Jibaku results in the character losing criticals.
 |
[Boss]
- 9321 HP, 27 Spd, 10 101 Exp, 4000 gil, Lugeie no Kagi (Unique, Temp)
- He starts off by poisoning your whole party, but it won't have time to
take effect, as he regularly uses Chiryou on your whole party. His Sleep
counter won't be much of an issue for the same reason. The only thing
you have to worry about is his Laser, which has a 20% cHP base power. If
you quickly dish out a good amount of damage, it's not going to one-shot
anyone other than possibly Rydia.
- Give Yang Lightning Claws for maximum ownage.

- Use the key on the locked door on the 5th floor. De-equip all of Yang's
gear (or at least the rare stuff) before going in. Give his Green Beret
and Kuro'obi Dougi to Cecil or Kain.
- Once Yang is gone, it's time to leave the tower. Another scene will
take place, and you'll find yourself on the overworld with no way to
return underground.


      -- Baron Jou --

 Special: Enterprise upgrade

- Go talk to Cid's assistants on the east side of the castle. They'll
proceed to modify your airship, so you can use it to pick up the
Hovercraft. This allows you to access the cave on the Eblana continent.
You know, the continent where the Tower of Babil sticks out and where
you also find the abandoned Eblana castle (which you should check out
once Edge joins if you ignored it earlier).


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Eblana no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                      Party:
   Shuriken              Elixir                Lv40-45
   Bannouyaku            Hi-Potion
   Vampire no Kiba       Cottage             PC:
   Potion  (nc)          Hi-Potion             Edge Lv25
   Potion  (nc)          Kumo no Ito
   Ether                 Gin no Sunadokei #  Default (Edge):
   Tent                  Phoenix no O          Kunai
   Hi-Potion             Phoenix no O          Kunai
   Bomb no Tamashii      Kin no Hari           Green Beret      #
   Shuriken              Blood Sword     *¤    Kuro'obi Dougi   #
   Elixir                Ether Dry             Mythril no Kote

 Lost & Found:                           *: Trap
   Kyojin no Kote (Stale Golem)          #: Artifact
                                         ¤: Unique
 Shop:
  Chikara no Tsue       2000 gil       Ice Armor           35 000 gil
  Icebrand            26 000 gil       Kuro no Robe        10 000 gil
  Koori no Yari       21 000 gil       Ice Shield          10 000 gil
  Kunai                 4000 gil
  Killer Bow            3000 gil
  Doku Ya                 70 gil

- You should get Edge to join your party as soon as possible and get
the items afterwards.
- The Chikara no Tsue does ok damage but also inflicts Berserk, so don't
use it if it doesn't result in a kill. If you got the Rune Staff, you
don't need it.
- The Kyojin no Kote is a relatively common drop (*if* you get a drop),
but the Stale Golem itself is a rare encounter, so you'll need to use
Alarms. I suggest you use 10 (once you have them), then reset, so you
don't lose that many of them. You can't get it from the trapped chest
encounter.
- You'll find an underground settlement on the B2 floor.
- The chest in the save room is a monster-in-a-box; you'll have to fight
two Stale Golems for the Blood Sword.
- At the end of the cave (right after the save point), Edge will join
your party as the fifth and final party member. The event battle here
will *not* affect your criticals.
- Edge has three Command Abilities:
 1. Ninjutsu: Ninjutsu skills are basically spells. You'll start off
  with just one (Katon). Not much use for them.
 2. Nageru: Nageru allows you to throw ninja stars and some regular
  weapons. The damage is usually pretty good, but keep in mind, everything
  you throw will be lost in the process. The damage equals Edge's Lv *
  ATP (+ 0~98 random). The weapon's element/type modifiers are ignored.
 3. Nusumu: Nusumu allows you to steal items from enemies. It's the same
  item that's first on their drop list (as in, nothing too impressive).
  You can steal multiple times from the same enemy. The chance of success
  equals 50 + Edge's Lv - enemy SR.
- Triple digit HP is not going to cut it, so you'll want to spend some
time leveling up Edge. At Lv40, he'll have about as much HP as Rydia,
which isn't great, but I guess it'll have to do. Eventually, he'll have
about as much HP as Rosa. Start off building up here, but maybe move to
the first level of the tower later, where you can possibly score the Bomb
summon.
- Edge can equip Yang's claws, but can't match his ATP. Even so, if you
find Edge's damage output a bit too underwhelming even after getting a
bunch of levels, you could try giving him the Neko no Tsume and see if
it that makes him more useful. He'll get better eventually, though.
- The three elemental claws can boost Edge's damage output substantially
when applicable. Fire and Ice have very limited use, but at the very
least hang on to the Lightning Claw.
- If you want to give Edge the long range flag (with a Boomerang or the
Engetsurin), note that the long range weapon has to be equipped either
in his right hand or as his sole weapon. Again, once the flag is on, it
stays on, regardless of what the character equips.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Babil no Tou 2   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                      Special:
   Unicorn no Tsuno      Ashura                Suiton & Raijin (Ninjutsu)
   Gin no Sunadokei      82 000 gil
   Ogre Killer (trap)    Hi-Potion               Boss:
   Lilith no Kuchizuke   Jigoku no Tsume (nc)      Rubicante
                         Hi-Potion
 Lost & Found:
   Bomb Summon   (Remedy Bomb \ 4)
   Rune no Tsue  (Sorcerer    \ 3)
   Bacchus no Sake/ Nejirihachimaki/ Power Wrist/ Kyojin no Kote (Baasa Ogre)

- You'll be exploring different areas of the tower than last time, and will
no longer have access to these areas once you complete the events here.
- Watch out for those counters (Blaster, Yuuwaku), Cecil and Kain should
be able to take out Coeurls with a single normal attack. Lamias often
appear in eggs, so you can get one free hit in, with the next one likely
resulting in a kill. If Rydia needs a fill up, Lamia eggs are her best bet.
- Lamias are immune to Mahi and Sleep. Coeurls are immune to Mini and
Toad. Baasa Ogres have 254 MDF and are immune to Porky and Toad.
- If Rydia has reached Lv49, she could wipe out whole groups with Break,
but it does have limited accuracy.
- If you got the Rune no Tsue, Rosa can do some nice damage to Baasa Ogres.
- If you think you're up for it, B1 is the best place for scoring the Bomb
summon, with two common Bomb encounters. Again, just run away from the
other battles.
- The chest on B2 is a monster-in-a-box; you'll have to fight 4 Baasa
Ogres for the Ogre Killer.
- The Save Point is on the north side of B3.
- The boss awaits you on B5. Before you get to fight him, you'll have
to go through an event battle with Eblana Ou and Eblana Ouhi. You don't
have to do anything in that one, though, as the battle ends on its own
Edge learns Suiton and Raijin during the scene that follows.

[Boss]
- 34 000 HP, 38 Spd, W/A:I, 18 000 Exp, 7000 gil
- Ruby's kind enough to fully heal you right before the battle begins.
- He'll counter regular attacks with Fira (~70 pod to all), so just hold
back if you need time to heal. His most dangerous attack is Kaenryuu
(~2000 pod, F), which he uses at a slow pace, but even if it kills someone,
you have plenty of time to revive them. You don't even necessarily have to
revive them yourself. For some reason, Ruby will revive any dead characters
if you cast Fire magic on him (using a Bomb Fragment works too, but Ifrit
doesn't).
- He'll absorb Ice-elemental magic when he's blocking with his cape. If
you're not sure Rydia can get the spell in before he puts it up, use
Blizzara instead of Blizzaga. Even if it gets absorbed, it'll only heal
him for at most ~1k. Same goes for Suiton.
- Using a summon will prompt him to cast Blizzara on himself (1000+ pod).
Blizzaga still does more damage than Shiva (9999 vs 6000). If Rydia hasn't
learned Blizzaga yet (Lv39), just go with either Shiva or Blizzara (4000).
- For some reason, the cape, indeed, only affects Ice magic. Ice-elemental
weapons will still deal considerable damage regardless.

- The door behind Ruby leads you to the Crystal Room, but you won't be
able to take more than a few steps here before a trap floor sends you
falling down a bunch of floors. This isn't one of the areas you've
previously explored, though. Just keep going, and you'll soon obtain
the second airship, the Falcon.
- Mother Lamias don't counter normal attacks with Yuuwaku.
- Check the north door on 7F for a buggy, hidden item. There are four
more of these in the upcoming dungeons.


      -- Dwarf no Shiro --

 Item (nc):                               Special:
   Luca no Kubikazari (Unique, Temp)        Falcon upgrade

- Initially, the Falcon is unable to fly across lava, but you can quickly
take care of that by visiting Cid in the Dwarven Castle.
- You'll also need the Luca no Kubikazari in order to enter the Sealed Cave.

      -- Babil no Tou --

 Theft: Alarm (Eyes)

- If you're crazy enough to go for those slot 4 drops, you'll want to
hoard up on Alarms by returning to the Tower of Babel (through the main
entrance) and stealing them from the Eyes. These can help you with many
different drops, so, hypothetically, if you were going for everything,
you'd need at least 300 of them or something. If all you really want to
do is score a Kyojin no Kote or two, you don't really need more than 20.
If you're really going for hundreds of them, kill off some of your party
members to speed things up.
- Keep in mind, once you complete the Fuuin no Doukutsu, you will
never be able to enter the tower again, and there are no (practical)
alternate sources.
- When used, the Alarm item will trigger an encounter with the last set
of enemies in the area.

      -- Kajiya no Kukuro no Ie --

 Items:
   Bannouyaku (nc)         Soma no Shizuku (nc)
   Hi-Potion  (nc)         1000 gil

- In the southeast corner of the Underworld.
- The Soma no Shizuku increases a character's mMP by 10. You'll find
two of these in the game (barring any rare drops).
- The chest is quite well hidden. Check the walls *very* thoroughly.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Tomera   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   Zeus no Ikari           Kaijuuzukan (nc)
   Nankyoku no Kaze (nc)   Ether Dry
   Bomb no Kakera          2000 gil

 Shop:
  Ashura                7000 gil       Diamond Armor [Daiya] 40 000 gil
  Chain Whip            6000 gil       Diamond no Kabuto     10 000 gil
  Ogre Killer         45 000 gil       Diamond no Kote         5000 gil
  Kuchifuuji no Ya       100 gil       Diamond no Udewa        4000 gil
                                       Diamond Shield        15 000 gil
                                       Kin no Kamikazari     20 000 gil

- A town in the southern region of the Underworld.
- Chain Whip, Daiya Armor, Daiya no Kote = 51k.
- I'd stick to the old Str-boosting gear (Power Wrist, Green Beret,
Kuro'obi Dougi), but the choice is yours. Grab a Kin no Kamikazari for
Rydia if you missed it back in Mist. No need to buy another Kotetsu if
you just get the gear in the Fuuin no Doukutsu. It's on the first two
levels (check the second and last doors from right to left along the
north wall on B2). Don't finish the dungeon yet, though, unless you're
passing up on the optional dungeons.
- The Kaijuuzukan casts Libra when used and also works on bosses unlike
the regular spell.

      -- Underworld 2 --

 Lost & Found:
   Daichi no Drum (Undergrounder \ 3)

      -- Underworld 3 --

 Theft:
   Ether          (Gloom Wing)
   Kumo no Ito    (Araune)

- On the southern part of the Sylvan region, you'll find some enemies
you can't encounter anywhere else.
- For whatever reason, the victory music doesn't fade out as quickly
here as it normally does. It can easily fool you into thinking you got
an item drop even though you didn't.

- You now have access to three new dungeons: Fuuin no Doukutsu, Sylph
no Doukutsu, and Genjuu no Doukutsu. Only the first one is mandatory,
but the others are (also) filled with nice magic items, so check them
out too once you feel like you're up for the task.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Genjuu no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   Phoenix no O          Kikuichimonji   ¤     Kaijuuzukan
   Ether                 Phoenix no O          Nezumi no Shippo ¤t
   Hi-Potion             Kaijuuzukan           Kaijuuzukan
   Hi-Potion             Defender (trap) ¤     Kaijuuzukan
   Cottage               Ether                 10× Yoichi no Ya
   Hi-Potion             6000 gil              Yoichi no Yumi   ¤
   Poison Axe            5000 gil              Ether Dry
                                               Elixir

 Lost & Found:                            ¤: Unique
   Rune no Tsue     (Shoukanshi \ 3)
   Daichi no Drum   (Arukenii   \ 3)
   Kamigami no Ikari / Kin no Sunadokei / Kin no Kamikazari / Kin no Ringo
    (Rairyuu)

 Special:              Bosses:               Theft:
   Asura Summon          Asura                 Kumo no Ito (Arukenii)
   Leviathan Summon      Leviathan

 Shop:
  Kotetsu             11 000 gil       Hikari no Robe      30 000 gil
  Dengekimuchi        10 000 gil       Aegis no Tate       20 000 gil
  Yousei no Rod         5000 gil       Tenshi no Ya           110 gil
  Hadou no Tsue         7000 gil

- On an "island" west of the Dwarf Castle.
- Cast Levitate on your party to avoid getting damaged by the floor
(50 points a step). You'll need to cast it again whenever you move to
another area.
- Most of the enemies have 33-36 Speed, so inflicting ailments with
normal attacks can be difficult.
- The Sataknights and Satan Juniors are fairly tough, but they have no
ailment immunities. The Juniors counter any damage with Confuse, but,
once again, inflicting Porky will easily prevent that. If you don't
have the Henge no Rod, use Toad instead. Their SR is a bit too high to
make Mahi/Nemuri all that useful.
- Bloody Reds try to confuse you as their third action. You can confuse
them or petrify them.
- Aspil works ok on Arukeniis (18 MDF). Steal some Spider Web while
you're at it. Inflict Porky to save time.
- Aspil works best on Belfegors (12 MDF), but using magic on them puts
them in Tornado Mode, and you can't easily cancel it, so you better
finish them off quickly afterwards or inflict Chinmoku or Toad.
- The Rairyuus only spam you with Inazuma, which does 50% max HP damage
with no Thunder resistance. Use Tornado if you have it (Lv51). Getting
back attacked by two of them could get ugly, but at least it's unlikely,
seeing as they're the least common enemies here. If things aren't looking
too good, don't hesitate to flee.
- The last chest on the B3 floor is a monster-in-a-box; you'll have
to fight 5 Sataknights for the Defender. Give this one to Kain if you
already got the Hikari no Tsurugi.
- After passing through the cave, you'll find the Genjuu no Machi.
- There's a hidden teleporter on the B4 floor that takes you to the
Yoichi no Yumi. There's another hidden teleporter in this room that
takes you back to the world map. Try not to use it on accident.
- Dengekimuchi, 2 Hikari no Robes, 2 Aegis Shields = 110k.
 × Get a Hadou no Tsue (Will +10) if you didn't get the Rune no Tsue.
- There's a free Yousei no Rod (Chisei +10) in the Sylph Cave, but if
you really can't wait, it's only 5 grand.
- There's a Save Point in one of the houses on the B5 floor. Use it
before challenging the bosses.
- On the bottom floor of the library, you'll find two human NPCs who
are actually Asura and Leviathan. Defeat them to obtain their summons.

[Boss]
- 31 005 HP, 86 Spd, 20 000 Exp
- She casts Protect (DFP +5), Raise (no effect) and Curada (2000-3000
HP) while relying entirely on counterattacks to deal damage. Bring her
speed down by using a Kumo no Ito or by casting Slow twice, then hit
her with Reflect. Rydia can still use Quake and summons, though. You
can also Berserk your fighters. Even if she's able to keep boosting her
DFP with Protect, it shouldn't affect your physical damage output much.
- Keep in mind, Reflect wears off after a while, but Slow makes it last
longer.
- You can get her to cast a spell on loop if you just attack her once
during the casting time of the spell or after the spell (but before she
starts casting the next spell).

- Better go heal up before taking on the other one.

[Boss]
- 50 001 HP, 53 Spd, w:T, 28 000 Exp
- Ootsunami does 25% mHP damage to all. He'll use Blizzara once or twice
between each of those.
- Might want to use Slow (and Berserk) again.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Sylph no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:
   10× Tenshi no Ya      Hijouguchi   #        1000 gil
   Kaijuuzukan           Otome no Kiss         Cottage
   Hi-Potion             Otome no Kiss         10× Honoo no Ya
   Otome no Kiss         Ether                 10× Koori no Ya
   Yousei no Rod         Akai Kiba     *       10× Ikazuchi no Ya
   Bomb no Tamashii      Shiroi Kiba   *       Ether
   3000 gil              Aoi Kiba      *       Hi-Potion
   Bannouyaku            Engetsurin   ¤*       Mage Masher     ¤*
   2000 gil              Avenger       *       Elixir
   Kaijuuzukan           10× Medusa no Ya  *   Neko no Tsume
                         Elfin Bow    ¤        Jigoku no Tsume #

 Lost & Found:
   Ribbon           (Toady Witch \ 4)        #: Artifact
   Noroi no Yubiwa  (Dream Evil  \ 4)        ¤: Unique
 Theft:                                      *: Monster-in-a-box
   Bannouyaku       (Malboro)

- A cave in the northwest part of the Underworld.
- This one's not as linear as the Genjuu no Doukutsu. The path splits
when you take the first stairs down. The northern path leads to the six
trapped chests, whereas the southern path leads to the Sylphs' home. At
the end of both paths is a warp that takes you back out.
- There's quite a bit of stuff here, so watch your inventory space.
- Malboros always start off with Kusai Iki (Toad, Mini, Porky, Silence,
Darkness, Confuse), and they'll use it again after a few other attacks.
Fortunately, it only affects a single character and it misses if the
character is immune to even one of those ailments. You can use gear like
the Rune no Udewa (Rosa, Rydia, Edge), Nejirihachimaki (any), or Ruby no
Yubiwa (any).
- As for dispatching them, Toad works when there are no other enemies
present. Typically the case on B1 and B3. On B2 and B4, they're usually
tagging with Mamons or Mamons and Dream Evils. If it's just Mamons, you
could try your luck with Break. When there are both Mamons and Dream
Evils, there's only one Malboro, so you can just use a single target
Toad. Stun only puts them on hold for 13 ATB, but it's still something.
Rydia won't be stunning anyone when she's using the Henge no Rod, but,
like I said, you could equip Edge with the Neko no Tsume.
- Mamons are only immune to Porky, Mini, and Toad.
- Dream Evils are immune to Stun, Sleep, and Break. Just go with Quake.
Or maybe try your luck with Toad if no Mamons are present (mainly on B1
and B3).
- The Toad squad is in no way dangerous, just annoying. Once you take
out the Witch, the toads will do nothing. You can prevent her from
commanding the toads by inflicting Toad. Aspil works well on the Witch.
- The six chests the teleporter leads you to are all trapped. You'll
want to be extra cautious with number 5.

 1: Akai Kiba         | 6× Evil Dreams
 2. Shiroi Kiba       | 6× Evil Dreams
 3. Aoi Kiba          | 6× Evil Dreams              123
 4. Engetsurin        | 2× Mamons, 2× Malboros      456
 5. Avenger           | 4× Malboros
 6. 10× Medusa no Ya  | 2× Andagurandas

- The Avenger is a Holy-elemental, two-handed sword with Auto-Berserk.
Might want to use it on the boss in the Sealed Cave.
- There's one more monster-in-a-box closer to the Sylphs' place, in a
little room only accessible through a hidden passage; you'll have to
fight a Toady Witch and 6 Toady Toads for the Mage Masher.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Fuuin no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Party:                Boss:
   Lv45-55               Demon Wall               ¤: Unique
                                                  t: Temp
 Items:
   Kotetsu               Hikari no Tsurugi ¤   Hi-Potion
   Ether                 Fuuma Shuriken        Phoenix no O
   Kaijuuzukan           Elixir                Seijaku no Kane
   Hi-Potion             Hikari no Curtain     Ether Dry
   Ether                 Kotetsu               X-Potion
   Hikari no Curtain     Kurozukin         ¤   Ankoku no Tsurugi    (nc)
   Phoenix no O          Ether                 Yami no Crystal   ¤t (nc)

- This is the cave near Tomera. Use Luca's Necklace to gain access.
- You'll have to fight a number of fixed encounters with some Assault
Doors here. They use a nasty attack called 9th Dimension that instantly
kills the target, and they can also transform into another monster (a
Chimera Brain or a Yellow Dragon) when their HP gets low. Many of them
only lead to empty rooms, but the Experience is quite good. There are
15 of them in total, but only 3 of them are completely mandatory.
- Miss Vampires use Hitomi (Konran) as their 4th action unless they're
the only type of enemy left.
- Chimera Brains use Blaze as their first of three actions. Petrification
is the only ailment worth hitting them with.
- The first Save Point is on B2, behind the fifth door.
- When you first reach B3, you'll be in a little room with two chests.
The exit is south, but it might be a little hard to notice.
- There are no encounters below B3.
- The second Save Point is on B4. You'll encounter the boss on B5 after
grabbing the Crystal.
- Check the stairway leading to B5 to find another unintentional hidden
item. You can also check one of the ropes nearby to fight 6 Dream Evils.

[Boss]
- 28 000 HP, 86 Spd, 23 000 Exp, 8000 gil
- You have very little time until he gets close and starts instantly
killing your characters with Crushdown. If all else fails, you can
level up to Lv55, at which point you can utterly destroy him with Holy
and Flare. I myself build up at the Sylvan Cave. Better have something
playing in the background while grinding. May I suggest 2D streamers
from Japan?
- Cecil needs an Agility of 35 to push the boss from 1 ATB to 2. The
only piece of gear that can boost his Agi is the Kurozukin (+3).
- In the unlikely event that you've managed to score a Ribbon, you can
equip that to make a character immune to Instant Death.

- De-equip Kain right before you reach the entrance, as he'll leave the
party again.


      -- Dwarf no Shiro --

 Special: Falcon upgrade 2

- Go see the king. After the scenes that follow, you'll be able to use
the Falcon to return to the Overworld. Once the path is open again, you
can use it with either airship.
- Note that, while you can already give Kukuro the Adamantite, he won't
be done until you get the Whale.
- If you don't have an Ikazuchi no Tsume, pick one up either in Baron
or Fabul. Edge should use that in the next dungeon.

      -- Mysidia --

- After the scene here, you'll have the, er... Whale (Madousen). Inside
the Whale, you can rest and access the Fat Chocobo without using any
greens. Examine the crystal to fly to the Moon and back. To simply fly
around, examine the thing north of the crystal. The Whale is slower than
the airships, though, and you can't take it to the Underworld.

      -- Adaman Tou no Doukutsu --

 Item (nc): Adamantite (Artifact, Temp)

- Trade the Nezumi no Shippo for a chunk of Adamantite.
- This place is on a little island near Mythril no Mura. You'll have
to use the Hovercraft in order to reach it.

      -- Kajiya no Kukuro no Ie --

 Item (nc): Excalibur (Unique)

- Kukuro will use the Adamantite to upgrade the Densetsu no Tsurugi
to the Excalibur.

- The Odin summon is also now available (in Baron). Feel free to pick
that up if you think you're up for it.


      -- Fabul --

 Items (nc):                      Special:
   Ai no Frypan (Unique, Temp)      Sylph Summon
   Houchou      (Unique)

- This little side quest has a very limited time window, so it's now
or never. The quest involves running back and forth between Yang in
the Sylph no Doukutsu and his wife in Fabul. Like so:
 1. Find Yang in the Sylph Cave and talk to the fairies. Perhaps you
  already did. If not, take the southern stairs on B2. Cast Levitate
  to avoid floor damage.
 2. Talk to Yang's wife in Fabul to receive the Ai no Frypan.
 3. Use the pan on Yang and receive the Sylph summon.
 4. Give the pan back to Yang's wife to receive the Houchou.
- The Houchou is a weapon to be thrown by Edge and it deals fairly
substantial damage. Better save it for a special occasion.
- Even if you miss this quest, you can still get the Sylph summon later.
- Trophy note: Getting the Houchou is *not* required for any Trophy.


      -- Moon Surface --

 Lost & Found:
   Bomb Summon (Remedy Bomb, Dark Grenade \ 4)
 Theft:
   Ether       (Black Pudding, Lunavirus)

- There are only 3 locations here: The Crystal Palace, Genjuushin no
Doukutsu (in the donut-shaped valley), and another place that doesn't
have a real name.
- Try hitting Dark Grenades with Thunder.

      -- Lunar Settlement --

 Shop:
  Ether               10 000 gil
  Ether Dry           50 000 gil
  Elixir             100 000 gil
  Kaijuuzukan            980 gil
  Gysahl no Fue       20 000 gil

- South of the Crystal Palace is a cave inhabited by a bunch of Hummingways.
- The Gysahl no Fue is a consumable that lets you access the Fat Chocobo
on the field.

      -- Tsuki no Chika no Tsuuro --

 Items:
   Kin no Ringo (trap)     Hoshi no Suna      Tsuki no Curtain

- In order to reach the Crystal Palace, you'll have to go through two
small caves. The first one is just a little west of the palace. You'll
have to go through these caves every time you want to leave or enter
the final dungeon.
- The first chest you find is a monster-in-a-box; you'll have to fight
2 Prokaryotes and 2 Eukaryotes for a Kin no Ringo. This one increases
a character's max HP by 100. There's another one in the final dungeon


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Tsuki no Tami no Yakata   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Item (nc):      TPC:              Default (FuSoYa):
   280 gil         FuSoYa Lv50       Hadou no Tsue       Hikari no Robe
                                     Shisai no Boushi    Diamond no Udewa

- You'll be joined by FuSoYa, who will accompany you for the next dungeon.
 × FuSoYa has no critical hits natively.
 × Using FuSoYa's unique Command Ability, Seishinha, puts him in a trance
 for 10 turns, during which time your party regenerates 10 HP every 6 ATB.
 Don't bother using it unless you specifically *want* him to become idle
 for the rest of the battle.
- Check the door leading to the crystal room for some gil. You can also
check the healing panel for a "monster-in-a-box" (2x Majinhei, no item).
 × These Majinheis use a completely different AI script than the normal
 ones. They just spam Sekika Nirami.
- Once you return to the Blue Planet, you'll automatically end up inside
the Giant of Babil, and you're stuck there until you're finished. Grab
the Defender from storage as well as some Lightning Arrows (Ikazuchi),
if you have any. Lightning weapons deal quad damage to machines (and
not because of the element), and all the normal enemies in the next
dungeon are machines.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Babil no Kyojin   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                PC:                   Bosses:
   Shuriken              Kain                  Shitennou
   Hi-Potion                                    (Scarmiglione,
   Ether               Default (Kain 3):         Rubicante,
   10× Yoichi no Ya      Gungnir         ¤       Cagnazzo,
   Alarm                 Genji no Tate   #       Barbariccia)
   Gin no Ringo          Genji no Kabuto #     Seigyo System
   Soma no Shizuku       Genji no Yoroi  #      (+ Geigeki System &
   Elixir (trap)         Genji no Kote   #          Bouei System)

 Theft:
   Alarm               (Searcher)            #: Artifact
   10× Ikazuchi no Ya  (Kikaihei)            ¤: Unique

- You will no longer have access to this dungeon once you complete the
events here.
- You can't drain MP from any of the enemies here, but there's a save
point at the end, right before the bosses.
- This is your last chance to hoard up on Alarms.
- You can use a single target Thunder spell to cause Kikaihous and Kikaiheis
to malfunction and start attacking their allies.
- Stun works very well on Tekkiheis thanks to the overflow (if it hits).
Status ailments won't help you with any of the other enemies here.
- Use Tornado on Kyojinheis and Kikairyuus, or at least the latter. The
Kyojinheis take good damage from Lightning weapons, so it might not be
needed for those. The dragon is the only enemy here who isn't a machine-
type, despite both their name and appearance.
- The last chest you find is a monster-in-a-box; you'll have to fight the
Last Arm (9500 HP) for an Elixir. You may want to save before this one,
as it might permanently lock you into battle by constantly inflicting a
massive 150 ATB Stop with Denjiba. If below 1001 HP, it'll self-destruct.

[Boss: Shitennou]    FITHA    Attacks of note
- Scar:  20 000 HP   WAAAA     -
- Ruby:  29 000 HP   AWAAA     Firaga, Kaenryuu
- Cag:   20 000 HP   AAWAA     Ootsunami (25% mHP \all)
- Barb:  30 000 HP     Ww      Maelstrom (single digit HP \all)
- 99 Spd, 62 500 Exp, 10 000 gil
- You'll be fully healed before the battle.
- You'll be fighting each of the Four Elements again in a single battle,
one at a time. They're technically split into two pairs, where each pair
is combined into one enemy, with their HP pool being shared and the boss's
appearance and elemental attributes being altered on the fly. Once below a
certain HP threshold, Scar is changed into Ruby and Cag is changed into Barb.
- The first of each pair has to spend an actual turn to set their resistances.
This action will remain part of the boss's action loop, even though it
becomes redundant after the first time.
- For whatever reason, the Holy spell deals normal damage to an Undead
enemy even if it's supposed to absorb Holy, Scar 2 being the only enemy
with such a combination. Holy-elemental weapons will still be resisted,
though. Eg. the Defender will deal about 1 grand more damage than the
Excalibur. The Flame Sword and Icebrand would substantially outperform
even that against the first two bosses respectively, but it really doesn't
have to be that precise. Elemental spells and jutsu will get the job done
easily.
- All of these fights are simpler than when you first fought them. Ie. Ruby
doesn't use his cape, etc.
- Scar only deals damage with normal attacks, but the damage can be pretty
high (1000 pod), and the bosses are very fast. Cecil likely doesn't have
the 40 Speed that's required to push them to 2 ATB (not unless he's Lv65+),
but that's fine. At least Slow will carry over from the first of a pair to
the other.
- If you finish off the first of a pair when their action was queued, the
boss that follows will perform that action instead.
- Barbariccia uses Maelstrom as her fifth and last action in her AI loop.
Try to be ready for it.

- Return to save.
- FuSoYa will leave the party after the next boss. If he's still using his
default gear, you can just keep it on, since it's stuff you can just buy.

[Boss: Seigyo System]              Action
- Seigyo:  30 000 HP,  38 Spd     Reflect (self)
- Geigeki:   3000 HP   31 Spd     Touka Laser:  10% mHP dmg \all
- Bouei:     3000 HP, 111 Spd     Kaifuku: Heal 10% mHP (main orb)
- 50 000 Exp, 10 333 gil
- If you take out both of the small orbs, the big orb will kill a couple
of your characters with Buttai 199, and then simply revive them (the orbs,
not your characters).

- Your party will consist of the five main characters for the rest of
the game.


      -- Kajiya no Kukuro no Ie --

 Shop:
  Shuriken            20 000 gil
  Fuuma Shuriken      50 000 gil
  Yoichi no Ya           140 gil

- A new shop is available.


      -- Baron Jou --

 Special:              Boss:
   Odin Summon           Odin

- Now that you've been to the land of the summon monsters, you can fight
Odin in the Baron Castle. Just head to the basement from the east tower.

[Boss]
- 20 001 HP, 53 Spd, W:T, 18 000 Exp
- He'll attack 3-1 times, then use Zantetsuken, which will pretty much
annihilate you (3000-6000 pod to all). Do try to take him out before that
happens. Start off with a Kumo no Ito, then dish out as much dps as you
can. Holy and Flare should bring it home, once again.
- A trickier alternative would involve avoiding the first two Zans with
Jump and then using a Thunder-casting item when he's preparing for the
third Zantetsuken, which will result in an instant kill.

- You can store the Ikazuchi no Tsume (and other claws) at this point.
They've served you well. A couple of them could still be of use when
farming certain rare drops.


 ¤~~~~~~¤   Genjuushin no Doukutsu   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Lost & Found:                                       Items:
   Soma no Shizuku / Ribbon  (Ankokumadoushi \ 3/4)    Genji no Kote   #
   Artemis no Yumi           (Tsuki no Megami \ 4)     Genji no Tate   #
   Rune Axe                  (Majinhei \ 4)            Genji no Yoroi  #
                                                       Genji no Kabuto #

 Theft:                                   Special:              Boss:
   10× Artemis no Ya (Tsuki no Megami)      Bahamut Summon        Bahamut

- Ankokumadoushis use Tornado when alone (with an Attack/Tornado loop).
- If all enemies are Tsuki no Megamis, they'll throw some hits at you
before using their special attack, Houyou, which will fully heal the
target while at the same time causing full Petrifaction. After that,
they'll run away.
- Ankokumadoushis are only immune to Toad, and Tsuki no Megamis are only
immune to Porky and Toad. Both are very vulnerable to Mahi thanks to the
overflow, although it can be difficult to hit them during their ATB charge.
Safer to just have Rydia use the Henge no Rod on the mages.
- You can steal Artemis Arrows from the Megamis. They're the strongest
arrows by far and have quad power against dragons. Rosa should stick to
a staff, though, to boost her Cure magic.
- Use Tornado on Majinheis and Skull Dragons. If there are two Majinheis,
you might want to beat up the other one to save MP. In the unlikely event
that you have Cockatrice, use that on Skull Dragons instead.
- Before you can reach Bahamut, you'll have to take care of three fixed
Behemoth encounters, easily predicted when you're forced on a single
tile wide path. They rely almost entirely on counterattacks to deal
damage, and you're going to have to eat quite a few of those. Instant
ownage stuff doesn't work, since they have the boss flag, and offensive
magic potency is limited thanks to their 254 MDF. Use only the strongest
attacks and cast Blink to avoid damage. If Rydia has Bomb, she should
use that to save MP. Don't use Holy-elemental magic (Holy, Meteo) or
they'll retaliate with Maelstrom, leaving your whole party with single
digit HP. These guys won't respawn, so you can safely warp out to save
and recover your health whenever needed.
- Unfortunately, there's no save point here. It's not a long dungeon,
though.
- Assuming you've already got Asura and Leviathan, you can fight Bahamut
for his summon.

[Boss]
- 45 001 HP, 86 Spd, 35 000 Exp
- Bahamut will count down from 5 and then unleash Mega Flare, which
deals fairly massive damage, anywhere between 1000-6000 pod. You can
Reflect it, but you don't have enough time to cast it on everyone.


 Items (nc): Ougi no Sho, Ougi no Sho           \\\ Genjuu no Doukutsu ||

- If you got Bahamut, you can now find three new hidden items by checking
the bookshelves in the shops in the Summon Monster town and the bookshelf
at the Sylphs' place.

 Item (nc): Ougi no Sho                         \\\ Sylph no Doukutsu ||

- Trophy note: If you didn't get the 100% hidden items Trophy, you're
probably missing one or both of the two elusive chocobo forests: one on
the island northwest of Kaipo, the other south of Troia.



 ¤~~~~~~¤   Tsuki no Chika Keikoku   ¤~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~¤

 Items:                                                    Party:
  B1 | Kuroshouzoku     ¤*     B5 | Shiro no Robe    ¤       Lv60-70
  B2b| Kenja no Tsue    ¤*     B5 | Crystal Helm     ¤*
  B2a| Firebute         ¤      B5 | Akai Kiba
  B2a| Dragon Shield    ¤      B6 | 10× Artemis no Ya
  B3 | Dragon Helm      ¤      B6 | Cottage
  B3 | Dragon Mail      ¤      B6 | Fuuma Shuriken
  B3 | Dragon no Kote          B6 | Minerva Bisuche   *
  B4 | 10× Artemis no Ya       B6 | Kin no Ringo           ¤: Unique
  B4 | Elixir                  B5b| Mamori no Yubiwa  *    *: Trap
  B4 | Shiroi Kiba             B7 | Ribbon
  B4 | X-Potion                B7 | Ribbon
  B4 | Hoshikuzu no Rod ¤*     B8 | Fuuma Shuriken
  B5 | Crystal no Tate  ¤*     B9 | Elixir
  B5 | Mamori no Yubiwa        B9 | Gysahl no Fue
  B5 | Crystal Mail     ¤*     B10| Fuuma Shuriken
  B5 | Crystal no Kote  ¤*     B10| Fuuma Shuriken

 Monster-in-a-box:                                    Items (nc):
   Kuroshouzoku      | 2x Majinhei                      Rod
   Kenja no Tsue     | 2x Ankokuma., 2x TsukiMegami     150 gil
   Hoshikuzu no Rod  | Behemoth                         Murasame   ¤
   Crystal no Tate   | Blue Dragon, Red Dragon          Masamune   ¤
   Crystal Mail      | Behemoth                         Holy Lance ¤
   Crystal no Kote   | 2x Red Dragon                    Ragnarök   ¤
   Crystal Helm      | Saurus Zombie, Ankokuma.         Crystal    ¤t
   Minerva Bisuche   | Ankokuma., 3x TsukiMegami
   Mamori no Yubiwa  | Behemoth

 Lost & Found:                                   Bosses:
   Ankokumadoushi  | Ribbon           (4)          Hakuryuu
   Tsuki no Megami | Artemis no Yumi  (4)          Dark Bahamut
   Majinhei        | Rune Axe         (4)          Plague
   Ahriman         | Mamori no Yubiwa (4)          2× Lunasaurus
   Blue Dragon     | Ryuu no Hige     (3)          Tidaliathan
   Red Dragon      | Hiryuu no Yari   (3)          Zeromus
   Red Dragon      | Crystal Ring     (4)
   Behemoth        | Chikaradasuki    (3)
   Face            | Glass no Mask    (4)
   Purin Princess  | Pink no Shippo   (4)


- You'll likely run out of space here unless you use a Gysahl Flute. You
can use the one you find near the end.
- There are two Save Points: one on B5 and another on B7. The one on B5
isn't near the main path, though.
- Throughout the caves, you'll find some pedestals holding some of the
most powerful equipment in the game (mostly weapons). They're all guarded
by powerful bosses, so before examining them, make sure you've recently
saved somewhere, so you won't lose too much progress should you die. While
they're all optional, if you can't handle them, you probably can't handle
the final boss either.
- On the first levels, you'll find the same enemies as in Bahamut's Lair.
It's not until about halfway through that you start seeing some new faces.
- You'll no doubt notice the change in scenery once you descend below B7.
During these last levels, you'll encounter the nastiest, most powerful
enemies in the game. You also won't be able to use Telepo beyond this point.

- Use Stop or Tornado on Kinryuus. Their Inazuma deals 50% mHP damage (10%
with Thunder resistance), and they counter all attacks with Makitsuki (Mahi).
- Saurus Zombies inflict Mahi with their normal attacks. If Cecil gets
stunned, you might want to use Tornado or Cockatrice.
- Blue Dragons are nothing to worry about, although they do resist all
elements, so Cecil and Kain will only deal 50% damage.
- Red Dragons have similar stats as Blue Dragons, but only resist Fire.
When alone, they use Nessen (~1000 pod to all, F).
- Ahrimans will spam you with Shi no Senkoku to inflict Doom / Death
Sentence on you. An all-out attack will hopefully take them out before
anyone falls. Flare/Holy would help, but it's a pretty common encounter
(on B5 and B6), so you might want to save your MP.
- Casting Thunder magic on a Li'l Murder is not a very good idea. This
is the only enemy around here that you can drain MP from. Then again,
the places where they're common are close to the save points.
- The little room on the B5 level where you find the Akai Kiba is the
so called 'Pink Puff Room.' It's the room quite close to the path that
takes you to B6. This is the only place in the game where you can
encounter the Purin Princess aka Pink Puff. If you have a huge load of
Alarms, you could try to get a Pink Tail, which you could trade for an
Adaman Armor with the tail collector. If you don't have enough Alarms,
you can forget the whole thing. It's too late to get more of them, and
without them, you can only rarely encounter these guys. Even if you do
manage to obtain the armor, I would advise against using it due to the
permanent elemental weakness that comes with it.
- Either way, the Puffs come in groups of 5 and have 20 000 HP. They're
kind of annoying to deal with because of how they Berserk your characters.
 × Trophy note: Since the Ribbon now blocks Berserk, you can easily use
 Bahamut while farming.
- You should already be familiar with the Behemoths. They'll counterattack
constantly, so choose your attacks wisely. Don't use magic besides Blink
and maybe Bomb. If it's too much of a pain, just run.
- Face will Reflect both parties (which makes healing rather difficult)
and then start throwing some nice little spells like Holy and Flare at
you (~2000). If you just spam Attack with all characters, you might take
them out before they even pull off that first Holy.
- Zemus Breath is surprisingly harmless, as he thinks it's a good idea
to spam you with Libra. Mindblast can stun you, but tends to miss. Even
when it misses, it still causes Bleed. They take a while to beat down,
since they have high HP and 254 MDF.
- In stark contrast, hanging out with Zemus Mind is nothing short of
unpleasant. After attacking you a couple of times, he'll cast a Confuse
spell that affects your entire party. Run like a bitch.
- Breath and Mind are the only enemies in the final area.

- The hidden path on B1 leads to a dead end with the first optional boss,
Hakuryuu. At least grab the two items on the way even if you're not taking
on the boss yet.
- The B2 floor would probably be the best place to try to get your
Artemis Bow (if you're patient enough). It's not really something Rosa
should be using, though, since it has -10 Mag.
- Check the stairs leading down on B3 for a hidden item (toss it).
- There's one last hidden item (150 gil) in the first doorway on B5.
- The Dragoon gear and Mamori no Yubiwas grant resistance to all three
primary elements (Fire, Ice, and Thunder). Spread those around and you
can have four of your five characters resist the three main elements.
- The path splits on B6. The hidden path takes you to a dead end with a
save point and one of the optional bosses (Dark Bahamut). If you need to
heal up, it's faster to get to the other save point by taking the main
path on B6.
- The Minerva Bisuche increases Strength, Vitality and Speed, but lowers
Magic (+/-15). Again, not recommended.

[Boss: Hakuryuu]
- 32 700 HP, 43-46 Spd, A:FIT, 55 000 Exp + Murasame
- You can't really use the Attack command, since it'll get countered
with Slow. That means Cecil and Edge will just have to idle about and
maybe throw some Hi-Potions (Edge could throw stuff at the boss, but
it's hardly necessary). Flare and Jump is the way to go. The boss's
attack cycle has him attack 5 times then use Maelstrom. You can use
Holy once at the beginning, but then you need to get ready to heal.
- The Murasame increases Str, Tai, and Sei by 5 and decreases the other
two by 5.

[Boss: Dark Bahamut]
- 60 000 HP, 80 Spd, 64 000 Exp + Ragnarök
- He starts off with Mega Flare right off the bat, and it definitely
hurts (~3000). However, so long as you refrain from using Summons,
that'll be the only one you'll see.
- After breaking the ice, he'll just spam reflected Flares (~1200) and
occasionally heal 6000 HP. Hardly anything to worry about.

- Two more bosses on B7, right next to the second and final Save Point.

[Boss: Plague]
- 33 333 HP, 29-32 Spd, w:A, 31 108 Exp, 550 gil + Holy Lance
- Another easy one. He'll inflict Death Sentence on your whole party,
and then it's just a race against time to finish the battle before the
reaper claims you. Even if you run out of time, you can squeeze in a
Phoenix Down as your characters are falling, so it's very much possible
to survive it.

[Boss: 2× Lunasaurus]
- 23 000 HP, 254 MDF, 86 Spd, w:F, 59 000 Exp
- Using the Attack command will prompt them to enter 'Bio mode,' where
they Reflect themselves and start throwing reflected Bios at you (~2000).
Once one of them is down, the remaining one can't do anything other than
counter with Honoo (or Kaifuku if you use a Summon).
- If you already got the Ragnarök, Cecil can hit them for max damage.
Berserk may not help, since then Cecil will target either one in random.
The Crystal Mail also just makes him immune to Berserk.
- You might want to do some preparations before you put them in Bio mode
(if you do that at all). Their regular script is Attack, Honoo, Attack x4,
Kusai Iki (all). Again, a character will evade Kusai Iki completely if
they're immune to even *one* of the ailments (Toad, Mini, Porky, Silence,
Darkness, Confuse), You can use gear like the Crystal Mail, Shiro no Robe,
Rune no Udewa, Ruby no Yubiwa, and Nejirihachimaki.
- If you Shell them, the Reflect will fail, and they'll try to cast Bio
at each other in vain.

- The last pedestal is on B8.

[Boss: Tidaliathan (Taidariasan)]
- 50 000 HP, 38 Spd, 61 000 Exp + Masamune
- His loop is: double Ootsunami (50% mHP), Attack x3, Ootsunami (25% mHP),
Attack x2. Magic is countered with Blaze (25% mHP, Ice).

- Once you've gotten all the items, return to save and prepare for the
final boss. If you don't mind the hike, you could leave the dungeon to
spend some of the money you've made. If you'd like to level up, try to
score some rare drop(s) at the same time, so you can potentially take
out two stones with one bird. The Exp requirement per level caps at Lv70,
from which point on, each level is 160-200k Exp depending on the character.
Lv99 requires a total of 8-10 million Exp.
- After Lv70, a character will receive one of eight possible stat gain
sets per level, some of which actually reduce stats. If you're feeling
obsessive, these are the best ones:
                                              Lv70
         Str Spd Tai Chi Sei         Str  Spd  Tai  Chi  Sei
 Cecil  | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 |      | 85 | 41 | 70 | 36 | 41 |
 Kain   | 3 | 3 | - | - | 3 |      | 73 | 48 | 63 | 12 | 39 |
        | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 |
 Edge   | 2 | - | 2 | - | - |      | 59 | 54 | 47 | 34 | 25 |
        | - | 3 | - | 3 | - |
 Rydia  | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 |      | 36 | 33 | 34 | 63 | 54 |
        | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 |
 Rosa   | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |      | 48 | 32 | 42 | 22 | 71 |

- De-equip anything that might lower Rosa's and Rydia's Magic (Artemis
Bow, Minerva Bisuche) and equip stuff to boost it instead (Kenja no Tsue,
Hoshikuzu no Rod, Shiro no Robe, Kin no Kamikazari (Rydia)). If Cecil has
41 Speed (Lv70+), he can replace the Kurozukin with the Crystal Helm. You
can also replace it if the Kurozukin isn't enough to boost him to 41 Speed.
- You'll be fully healed for the final battle.
- There are three event battles before the real battle begins. The first
two have FuSoYa and Golbez fighting Zemus. The third one ends when you
use the Crystal with Cecil.
 × The characters in slots 1, 2, and 3 will lose their criticals as a
 result of the first two event battles (unless you lock the values).

[Boss: Zeromus]
- 49 500 + 65 498 HP, 101 Spd
- He starts off in an invincible state, but removes it right away as his
first action (not noticeable when playing legit). As such, if you use a
Kumo no Ito too quickly, it'll miss. It'll only take a few seconds at
lowest battle speed. Just wait until the music ramps up.
- He mostly relies on Big Bang (~2000), which comes with visual effects
I don't think you should look at. He'll always shake on the previous turn.
- Black Hole will negate support magic, so you can forget about Haste.
You can (and should) still slow Zeromus, though. It doesn't affect that.
- You'll want to avoid those Flare counters (~2000), so only have Rydia
summon outside of Beta phase (ie. before the first Big Bang and after his
full HP recovery).
- He changes his Magic stat for every attack (as seen in the enemy list).
If you trigger a counterattack while he's charging for an attack, you
can end up powering up or powering down the attack being charged. Eg. a
Flare counter will cut Big Bang's damage by half.
- He'll fully recover his HP once when he falls below 16 001 HP (can be
avoided with reflected magic). His subsequent attack pattern includes
Flare as a normal attack. His final attack pattern, when below 12 001 HP,
consists only of a low power Meteo (~1000) that can easily miss some of
your characters.
- His Bio is a lot more powerful in the 2023 version (~1200 pod), so Rydia
should just use Flare instead of Bahamut.
- Trophy note: If the final boss is the last enemy added to your bestiary,
you won't trigger the Trophy until you've gone through the ending and
saved a clear data file. (Loading that file just puts you outside the
final dungeon. It's not a New Game+ thing.)





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