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Revision History Diary II. Introduction III. Basic Controls and Game Info Walk Through IV. Chapter I The War in Serdio 1A. Shana's kidnapped? Village on fire? Where have I been? 1B. Getting outta Jail Free with Shana 1C. Lavitz's Shack & Rosie the Dragon Slayer 1D. Knighthood & Volcano Villude 1E. Greham and his faithful...uh Dragon 1F Sharlie, Shana and a Silver Dragoon Walk into a bar... 1G Hero Contest and a Mournful Event 1H End of the Disk I V. Chapter II Platinum Shadow 2A: Tiberoa's Most Wanted Lloyd 2B: Babe in The Valley 2C: A Couple of Sole Survivors 2D: A Couple of Ships 2E: Rose Dart 2F: End of Disk II VI. Chapter III Fate & Soul 3A: Saving a village boy 3B: History Lesson 3C: Meet the Staff that Blocked the Dragon 3D: 3D= Da Divine Dragon 3E: Lloyd Manhunt 3F: End of Disk III VII. Chapter IV Moon & Fate 4A: Sand Trap! 4B: The Beginning of the End 4C: Magic City Aglis 4D: Law City Zenebatos 4E: Mayfil 4F: Big Blue Moon 4G: Wrapping it up 4H: Final Boss Optional Quests OA: Magrad OB: Dragoon Towers OC: Magician Faust VIII. Character Bios (Possible Spoilers) IX: Weapons, X: Additions XI: Dragoon Magic XII: Stardust Locations XIII. FAQ XIV. Game Tips XV. Copyright XVI. Thanks and Closing I. Revision History Diary ============================================================================= 7/31/01 Version Last: I'm eating crew... :) I updated a few things here and there no need to rreally download this FAQ the original last is the same as this one. I just fixed the line breask thats all 7/10/01 Version Last: That's it, I added some final strats and some other stuff. This FAQ is closed. I will not be adding anything else to it. So please restrain from sending me tips and other random stuff. This FAQ was fun to write, although soem of you had a problem with my opinion of the women in this game. I WROTE IT FOR FUN! I dont' feel that way, but I was tired of writing boring strait out of the game text FAQs so I loosened up for this FAQ. There's .000000001% chance I will add anything to this. -Dyson Turner 7/2/01 Version 1.48 Got a couple of the boss fights for the Dragoon Towers up. 1/14/01 Version 1.46 updated some stuff 1/13/01 Version 1.45 I got some new tips and boss strategies! 11/27 Version 1.4 Well, I got a the second quest up the Magician Faust Side Quest! 11/15 Version 1.31 I'm giving this bad motherSHUT YOUR MOUTH some 9 line paragraph breaks to make it resemble my better Wild ARMS guide. I'm sorry to all those i told i would add there help to my guide resubmit it to me your alternate boss strategies i will put them in now. 11/2 Version 1.31 I know I'm spelling badly when i can physically see it i cleaned it up since i have a new key board and the "W" works! 10/26 Version 1.3 Well, I did an optional quest... the other 2 will trickle in shortly. 10/15 Version 1.12 Well thanks to an anonymous person who told me you can go back to get more supplies before the Final Fight, also about Lavitz's Dragoon magic plus a tip! other than that, I did nothing. 9/1 Version 1.05 Celebrating close to a month of this guide, plus I got a name change and e-mail too. Look at my NEW e-mail addy, and please e-mail me there. 8/27 Version 1.01 Very minor update just a few more questions in the FAQ. 8/23 10:35 PM EST Version 1.0 There, finally the guide is complete. I made sure there aren't any spelling errors before I submit 1.0 The updates will now be weekly or BI-weekly incase I get new questions or new info. 8/22 Version 0.93 Almost there, just a few more sections like the last one and the optional sections which I can finish tomorrow so I'm 99% sure tomorrow is 1.0 Hopefully it will be done, and updates ill be scarce from that point on. So its almost good bye, and on to a new project. 8/21 Version 0.88 Wow! TONS of guide work today I steered away from the net and can't believe what I did in just one day. I'm glad I did 2 days work in justone sitting, I am quite tired and even though the day is still here I don't feel like continuing. Tomorrow if I can do as much or as close to as much as today and same goes for the next then this will be 1.0 before Friday! 8/20 Version 0.84 Well, I got a lot of work done today, guess what the day isn't over! This walkthrough should be complete by the end of next week, if I continue my dismal pace. 8/19 Version 0.81 Jeez, I did next to nothing today. Well, I had plenty non internet and non guide things today. But I did devote an hour to making this guide more complete. Progress is starting to get snail like, but I'll make up for it tomorrow. Which will be an online update day. 8/18 Version 0.8 Wow, I started this two weeks ago! Doesn't seem likely if you ask me, they flew right by. Memories... Anyway I changed my mind about stardust a few days ago and went through the game and collected all of them! Why do you care? Because I added a stardust section that's why silly! Chapter work is going steady and 1.0 should be ready in less than a week. Since 1.0 won't have the optional quests in them. 8/17 Version 0.78 No chapter work at all today, I wasted my day on other things. I had to reformat my Map since it didn't get saved correctly it is now working properly. Well this will be an online update day. 8/16 Version 0.77 I changed some things around and included information on Dragoon Magic, Additions, and all the weapons. Some major FAQ essentials if you ask me. Some minor chapter work was done, but getting that other stuff done is a huge step in the right direction! 8/15 Version 0.75 Made up for yesterday in a huge way, I finished the 3rd disk Yah! Later that day some guy told me that using instruction manual bios without their permission is copyright infringement, some bullshit like that. So the easiest thing to do was take them down and make my own bios. 8/14 Version 0.71, Well I barely scratched the surface of doing another chapter. Today I decided it would be better for me to do what I said yesterday with adding how to beat the bosses with everyone not with just who I used. 8/13 Version 0.7 Well, added those questions I got, I did some serious work yesterday. I'm thinking about adding a way to beat the bosses with all the characters because people are complaining they aren't using the characters I am using. Well maybe tomorrow the 3rd CD should be complete. 8/12 Version 0.63 ASCII Art has been added I got a chapter and a half done, I still haven't gotten around to putting up the few questions I have been asked I will get their soon though. 8/11 Version 0.62 I made up somewhat for the lack of work from yesterday I completed the section I was working on and did some heavy duty work on a new section. So basically I'm not at the point I would have liked to have been now but I'm getting there! Oh yeah I nearly forgot I added a new cool Tips section! 8/10 Version 0.61 Well its been a week since I started the guide got less work done today than usual I'll make up big time tomorrow, and try to get to the half way point of Disk 3. When I do its 2nd update online time! 8/9 Version 0.6 Finally the guide was posted plus the 2nd disk is complete. After a hard day work I'll submit it again =) No e-mails for the guide yet =( Come on people I can answer ANY questions! 8/8 Version 0.53 Well I did get some work done got past the half way marker nearly done with the 2nd disk! Yah! 8/7 Version 0.51 Started to work more on Chapter 2 got to nearly the half way marker on it, I'll resubmit when I'm done with this chapter. 8/6 Version 0.5 Well today's the Big Day, my first attempt to see if it's good enough to get posted so I won't be talking to myself anymore. I redid the first chapter and corrected most of my horrific grammar mistakes. I started some on Chapter II I changed the introduction. 8/5 Version 0.30 Huge Chapter Work today rewrote the last few to make more grammatical sense and finished off a lot of things. Tomorrow is the big day! Hopefully... 8/4 Version 0.25 Basically no chapter work, I decided to add frames around spoilers and boss fights also I redid the set up. 8/3 Version 0.2 Bios done, well almost and I did a few chapters on the first disk had to be redone totally. Plus I accidentally saved it wrong so I had to rework everything uh. 8/2 Version 0.0 Decided to start FAQ, lay out basic controls and up Chapter I half way done ============================================================================= II. Introduction Legend of Dragoon, how I kinda like thee. Even so when I first bought the game like I usually do I take notes on everything just incase I forget on a 2nd play through. Upon beating the game I then realized with a little tweaking my 57 pages of notes could become a FAQ. Then I thought this game probably has a million short crappy FAQs and my FAQ wouldn't make it. So I gave up, then I decided to check and only seen 2 at the time, and 1 very incomplete one. So I decided to start it here I am. I decided to do the FAQ on the just about the only Playstation game that doesn't have a million FAQs for it. In this FAQ and in the Walkthrough massive huge and big spoilers will be revealed these however unlike the others will be easily viewable and a warning will be before any spoiler. Because I hate being spoiled when I'm just trying to beat a boss its so annoying! III. Basic Controls & Menus +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Menus & Displays Select Menu Items, Command Icon or move cursor Directional buttons or Left analog Stick ^, V <, >, Scroll Through items list Directional Buttons or Left Analog Stick ^/v Turn Icon display on/off L1, R2 Confirm Selection X Button Open in Game Menu /_\ Button Advance Dialogue Boxes X Button Close menu/Cancel O Button +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Display area Names in Area Map Start Button Switch Map View L2/R2 Buttons Rotate Map Screen L1/R1 Buttons Character Moves Walk Directional Button Run Directional button + O Select character during combat Directional buttons Action/Talk/ X Button Addition Attacks X Button Increase Item Attack Power Tap X button Counter Attack Guard O button +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cha. 1-4 Random Place Status-See each characters individual status screen for a more in-depth look at them Item- Open up a mini list which includes Use It- Use an Item in your inventory (curative during regular game times only) Discard- Throw away an unwanted item List-See all the items and armor you have and who is equipped with what Goods-See important items Armed- View and or change each characters weapons Additions view and change each characters addition Replace Replace a character (all except Dart and some can't during important times) Config Configure the options Vibrate-Turns Dual Shock On or Off Sound- Change sound to either mono or stereo Morph- Change your Dragoon animation for either short of long Save When at a Save point you can save your game (a memory card is required with one free block) IV: Chapter I Serdio War +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1A. Shana's kidnapped? Village on fire? Where have I been? After the FMV opening you will be in the forest there will be a dragon, a big dragon. The woman sees it and then she sees our hero. The Red dude will haul ass, and so will the soldiers. This strange but hot woman will save you from the dragon, she will tell Red Dude that she is a Dragoon. She will also tell him that about the recent attack on the village nearby, Red Dude will run like he stole something (but he forgot to get her phone number, what a moron). Finally after 20 boring minutes you can control this red dude. (This was the point I wrote my first review on the game) Go down and enter the village. You will see some soldiers beating up some dude, we have to stop that fight time. These guys were pretty easy not too much struggle my red friend. At this point you will find out his name is Dart. (I prefer Red Dude but hey Dart is dumber) After talking to the beat up dude a save point will be near save here. Now keep going you will come upon the mayor after a few more fights he will say Shana was kidnapped. A big scary dude will see you, and tell you she went to Hellena. He will also want to fight (This is your first boss) ############################################################################# Boss Fight I: Sarge and the boys Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart Difficulty: Easy Item: Bandana This guy is a push over since at this point you don't know how to use Additions or if you do this guy will be a pushover. You should have got a burnout or some other generic magic item, if you do use it on him. A few of these and he will drop, his soldiers will then pick up their skirts and leave if you already didn't kill them. ############################################################################# After you beat these punks talk to the guy near the exit of the town he is a master at karate and will teach you about Additions. You are now on the world map and on a yellow line follow that yellow line to you gets to a forest. Once entering the forest you will see a man, he looks queer but these guys willbe useful in your quest. He will also uselessly show you how to use the items during battle time; this is useless who the hell doesn't know how to use items? Go to you reach a bridge a treasure chest awaits! Get the lack luster item and head out of the screen. A sort of a lame maze waits this maze is pretty easy to get through a little trial and error. Once you get out get your treasures you will be back on the world map. Follow the yellow brick...uh dotted line to Hellena prison. At first their looks to be no way in until a merchant cart comes jump on the back of that it (it goes slow so you can run and catch it) ok your in. Now go back to the room where the merchant is. He will be afraid and call a guard by making too much noise, time to fight some guards. After you destroy these dudes go back to the merchant and he will sell you some stuff buy from him if you didn't or ran out of supplies from the forest. This is a random battle free zone. What I mean is this you have to actually get caught to get into a fight try not to get caught if you can. (Plus no dumb chickens or crazy rats attacking you here, how can a crazy rat beat a man with a sword?) Now go to the right exit then across the bridge and that glow in the dark save point eye sore will be there. Save here. After you save you can fight those guards and go in the room if you want but you can go out of the screen and take the lift too. Head left and a sequence will start. A Green Dude who kicks mega ass will be beating up guards. He seems noble and trustworthy you guys get into a battle together (not against each other) and he decided to come with you his name is Lavitz (My favorite character and one of the only ones I liked.) When you leave it will be a loop sort of, finally you will come to an exit. When you go through the next screen a guard will meet and greet you, he's unavoidable. Head left and there will be about 20 guards, don't worry you won't fight these guys there is too many. Go towards the left set of guards you will notice something sparkle, it's a key, a key to Shana's cell! Possibly or it could be a key to a can of sardines anyway take it along, and get out of there before these slow guys find you. Now the first cell will be nothing but a skeleton I think and a treasure take the treasure. Now go to the next screen an unavoidable fight with 3 guards will presume. Beat the tar out of them and someone will hear your voice open up the cell and here comes Shana! She has been saved!!! After a little hanky panky in her cell she joins you. (She is very weak and all she uses is a bow and she never gets an addition so only use her in must situations likes this one.) Ok now find your way back to the entrance I suggest to save and speak to the merchant for some kick ass items. Now you will enter the fight with Fruegel, this is a little tougher. ############################################################################# Boss Fight II Fruegel and some Guards Element: Freugel: Earth Element: Guards: Void Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Shana Suggested Attacks Strategy: Difficulty Easy Items Knight Shield 4 Heal Leaves Pound away on the first 2 easy guards have your strongest character (should be Dart) fighting Fruegel. After those guys bite the big one two tougher ones will come. Just have Shana hitting Fruegel in the gut with arrows and Dart and Lavitz wailing away with Additions. If you have any attack items left use them on Fruegel. After a while all these guys will be gone. ############################################################################# Everyone will exit the Prison! ============================================================================= 1B Getting outta Jail Free with Shana Don't go towards the forest and try to go back to the village your way will be blocked (well you can't see it but the game says it...) A Fantastical new route will await you can go to a prairie. The wardens from the jail will be waiting, one will shoot Lavitz, and everyone hides and seeks time! A rabbit or cat or something jumps out of no where and the guards guard is down. (Moronic guards they know they hit someone) Take the left path, there will be a nice shabby hut there. Dart will tell a sequence about his past. *Minor Spoiler Alert* ******************************************************************* Dart will tell of his past about how he grew up in Neet. About how he is searching for the Black Monster, and how the Black Monster destroyed his village of Neet. How the Black monster killed his parents, how the Black Monster did terrible things. He also has his father's momento a red shiny stone. Lavitz will go into a spew about how he's a high knight for King Albert (No relation to Prince Albert) about the war on Serdio, about how he must return to the King. ****************************************************************** After 10 boring minutes of Shana having to listen to these guys tell their life stories you gain control back. Go North, and you will see a falling tree, did you go off path and see a little lake, beautiful stream but you couldn't cross it well, you can't knock the tree down either. So the next thing is to go back to the hut examine the place and you will find an axe. Well Lavitz and Dart believe that they can cut the tree and carry it across the lake, (men we are morons Shana knew better) the Tree falls down, it was a good attempt but useless. Head backs to the lake what's that! The tree did the work for you go across the Tree Bridge. Now exit through the screen on this screen or the next a family should be waiting there at first them seem afraid, but then they don't because you prove to be "nice" people. Lavitz offers them a stay at his house, and that's that. Now leave this place. Now you're back on the dotted line follow it until you come to the cave. Enter the Cave. There will be a treasure chest waiting for your greedy little palms, there is some generic item in it. Anyway you will fall into the stream there will be a treasure chest with something in it I think the sword I'm not sure. Now fall into the stream again hold right then down. This chest contains some money or the sword (I can't understand my notes so you get one or the other) Anyway leave this place and there will be a series of rocks. Lavitz will almost fall through the cracks. Dart will save him from falling. After this get the treasure chest on your way their. After this exit the screen you will see a treasure chest it contains something generic go the center path for the recovery point. Some people will train here I know I did its really worth it! When you're done beating the pants off of people go towards the right near the bottom. There will be a treasure here as well go back and a small animal should be running around catch it for a lameo item. Exit to the right there will be a save point here, I suggest you save. Now go up, and a huge Snake will appear yikes! ############################################################################# Boss Fight III Urobolus Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Shana Difficulty: Medium Item: Wargod Amulet This snake will be your hardest battle yet he won't be easy. He uses quite a bit of poison attacks. Your best bet is to use your strongest addition, if you trained at the recovery point this guy will fold pretty quickly. When he gets down to about half energy you'll get into trouble he will hide him self around a rock structure and Lavitz and Dart can't reach him. Have Shana keep using her trusty bow, (good thing you brought here for this fight ;) This is the time you will need all those items just have Lavitz and Dart throw items on him and have Shana attack as normal. Finally this guy should be toast. ############################################################################# Being curious Shana will look at the dead snake, itt was not really dead, all of a sudden Shana will turn into a human glow stick and that kills the snake. Whatever happen it sure packed a wallop( I know some you were thinking she did something else but she doesn't). Go left after this gets the items in the chest and proceed to the world map. ============================================================================= 1C: Lavitz's Shack and Rosie the Dragon Slayer Indels Castle, Capital Bale is the name of Lavitz home. This is a nice sized place and you should do some heavy duty exploring. After the first screen head to the left house a girl will be there she will paint a picture of Lavitz (a little too young for Lavitz but hey whatever makes his boat float...). Now go near the fountain, a wino will be there blocking the path. Now go to the right and use the item shop. After stocking up go to the inn rest of you want, then there should be a bar buy some booze (you can't drink them). Go to the next house where a man will be that there he will tell you about that stardust you have. When your finish chatting with him. Go to the right and you will find Lavitz's house but Lavitz wants to see the king. Go back to the beginning and head left then across this bridge until you reach the castle. There is also a hospital and a weapon shop too. Get healed and upgrade whomever you can. Now enter the castle, and there should be a new bow for Shana equip her with this. Continue upstairs until you find the King. After the introductions you will get a short FMV sequence explain the Dragoon Campaign or something to that effect. Now he will show you to your rooms, Shana will look out over the balcony. Soon Lavitz will join you again. The group will decide to go a town called Hoax for more info. Leave the castle and head towards Lavitz's House. Enter the house and Lavitz's mom will think that Shana is his bride and Dart is some vagrant (well not the vagrant part but what is he doing there????) Yes or no answers either way Shana will get pissed, she wants to make you some lunch, and Shana will help. Lavitz will give you four options 1. Fight with the swords. 2. Watch a porno flick in his room with him 3. Beat up some old ladies 4. Tour of the house. The middle two I made up =) seriously take the 4th option. Walk around the house he will tell you about things and about the castle and him growing up. The women will call you for the grub. After the grub Lavitz's mom will baby him, finally you can leave. Head back to the first screen and back to the world map time to go to Hoax. Follow the yellow dotted line to Hoax. Explore the town first, go around the city and up some stairs until you come to a run down looking small house. An old woman will be there *Minor Spoiler Alert* XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The old woman will tell you about Emperor Doyle, Doyle is the Uncle of King Albert. She will tell you how and why the war started, and that it wasn't anything major. You will find out more about this later. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX After speaking to the old windbag and checking the houses and talking to the commoner's head to the war strategy house. Discuss with a dude name Kaiser he will tell you about defense and things nothing real important. Since you explored already you should be ready so tell Kaiser of Lavitz that you're ready to relieve the guard. It will be nighttime now. Some arrows will be seen and the enemies are attacking. You will have a couple of random battles then one with the leader. ############################################################################# Boss Fight IV Sandora Elite Element: Dark Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz Difficulty Medium Item Healing Breeze This guy may or may not be tough depending on you. You should be basically healed up before you face this guy so don't threat too much. The basic idea is to keep your Hp's up and hit him with your best Additions if you have light based multi items use them he has Dark as his element. When he gets weak about half of his Hp's he will split into 3. This is where things gets a tad bit trickier, sometimes you have to just take a random gguess and miss, but your best bet is to wait for him to use magic and guard until then the one that uses magic attack. He will continue to do it until he is toast. ############################################################################# Right after the fight you don't have much time to breathe because a big Giant named Kongol waits. Kongol is the last of the Gigantos race. He wants to kill you this guy is a little tougher than the last fight. ############################################################################# Boss fight V Kongol Element Earth Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz Difficulty Hard Item Power Wrist This guy looks tough and he's is tough. His only fault is even though Dart and Lavitz are pretty slow this guy is slower. At first he will bash you with his Axe, when you take away half of his Hp's he will fling the axe and do the charging attacks. These charging attacks are pretty ruthless. Finally you can drop this big fella Dart will rush in and finish him like usual but Kongol will deflect this. ############################################################################# Remember the hot chick that saved you from the Dragon, well she's back to save you from the Gigantos! She will grab you and suddenly you will turn into a Dragoon. This is enough to stop Kongol and everyone stares at you like you were the fat kid in gym class who hit a home run. Well you will be knocked out. Then when you awaken you will know her name is Rose, Shana will think Rose is trying to get in on her man, Shana set's her strait. She will tell you of some recent events like the Dragon, and about Dragoons. When you get up Rose will be waiting by the exit, like the old man did in the beginning with Additions she will teach you everything about Dragoons. After you're done and learn all you need to know its time to go. ============================================================================= 1D. The Knight Hood and The Volcano Rose will be in your party you can now effectively use replacing command on the menu screen. Now its time to effectively replace Shana, and leave her there. (This was my main party through out the game) Level up and practice using Rose. Then head to the Marshlands. Walk Through you will see a lot of fighting going on, help out all the knights in the fight. You will have a lot of them back to back so make sure to do all your curing and blocking in battle. Finally you will face the Commander. ############################################################################# Boss Fight VI Commander and a couple of scrubs Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Rose Other characters: Shana Difficulty Easy Item This guy shouldn't be a problem, and if you decided on using Rose instead of Shana it would be a good idea because she is much stronger than Shana. Anyway the commander is the only real threat so have Dart use Dragoon Magic on him, have Lavitz use his best addition (should be Rod Typhoon) and have Rose use Whip Smack. This should definitely put a stop to all these guys. Shana: If you decided on keeping Shana, things are slightly different but not by much this is the first boss battle where you have a choice. Since these guys are pretty easy I think that Dart and Lavitz can handle it and have Shana get a few attacks in but mainly cure when necessary. She should be faster than Lavitz and Dart and the possibilities of her getting a 2nd turn here are great. So if she does cure then have her get an attack in. ############################################################################# Now go out of this screen and you will see the strong hold there will be some curative items in the treasure chest nothing major. Go towards the bottom and talk to the soldier who is on his last legs he will give you some accessory, talk to all the soldiers you can find (3 I think) Get all the treasure chest and go back to the original screen when you entered the strong hold. Get to the big oddly shaped tree and walk along the branches, this will take you to a before unreachable path go north from here. Shana will get ill and Dart will have to carry her the rest of the way, keep going to you get to the world map. Follow the dotted line to you reaches ha volcano save out side or enter. A huge fire Phoenix will come from no where, he will not see you, a minor sequence here. Go into the second screen a treasure chest should be on this scene. The next scene should contain a fork take the right path. A save point will greet you save here. Then exit this screen to the next screen. Keep going left Shana will run ahead of you, see where the slut went. She will be kneeling next to a huge statue. Rose will inform you that the Winglie's used this in the Dragoon Campaign, all of a sudden it comes to life. (Hope you saved earlier) ############################################################################# Boss fight VII Virage Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Rose Difficulty: Hard Item: 2 Healing, Body Purifier You can go for his arm to get rid of his powerful arm attack but it isn't necessary, you can simply turn into Dragoons and stomp this guy into oblivion, using Rose's Astral Drain is quite effective plus it gives back HP. So use it twice if she is a Level 2 Dragoon. Keep gunning for his head his body and arm in my opinion are a waist of time, because that won't kill him only his head will. Try to use both of your Dragoons magic and try to become Dragoons as much as possible. Use Lavitz for curative items. After a while this guy will topple. ############################################################################# Go to the right where you couldn't previously go there will be a man calling for help, you may have seen him before but you couldn't reach him any way speak to the man. Dabas is his name and Dabas will give you a Sapphire Pin. Now go back and SAVE another boss fight awaits proceed to the next screen. ############################################################################# Boss Fight VIII Phoenix Element: Fire Suggested Party: Dart, Rose, and Lavitz Other Characters: Shana Difficulty Semi Hard Item: Red Eye Stone This guy just doesn't seem as hard as the previous Virage fight. He has a few entire crew damaging attacks but nothing that will destroy you or kill the whole party. If you have a spear frost or two good use it on him, and have Rose turn into a Dragoon if you want but not Dart, because he is fire based the effort isn't worth it. After a few well placed Astral Drains and some additioning this guy will be toast. Shana: If you decided to use Shana for this battle, then you must be a Shana expert. Anyway I really wish I could have gotten rid of Dart instead of Rose or Lavitz because he is fire based and doesn't do much damage. Have Shana if you have them throw water items at Phoenix. Anyway it will take a few hits and leave Shana is your "curative character" for this fight. I suggest using Rose because at this point in the game she can become a Dragoon, and do damage to Phoenix. ############################################################################# After the boss fights that go to the next screen Dabas will be waiting he is selling items get them while there hot. Anyway exit to the north and welcome back to the world map. ============================================================================= 1E. Greham and his faithful...uh Dragon Once you entered go North, Shana will feel ill again from the stagnate Dragon air. Take her to the next screen automatically and she will be fine (damn this slut has problems :P Anyway go out of that screen and continue North you will fall in what looks like a Spider web. You will be in a weird looking room, and these strange mushroom looking things will be there touch all the mushrooms in this room. Also a recovery pond will be to the south I say do some serious leveling up down here trust me its worth it. This place has easy navigation, you basically just pick a route when you touch all the plants you will be able to reach the save point (SAVE here) Now go North a man name Greham who knows Lavitz will confront you time for a good ol' fashion boss fight! ############################################################################# Boss Fight IX Greham & Feyrbrand Element: Both: Wind Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Rose Other Characters: Shana Difficulty: Hard Item Platemail, Green Dragoon Spirit Ok this is a real battle none of that sissy stuff from earlier. These guys both have close to 500 hp I think. So together that's close to a thousand. Anyway hack away at the dragon first, using Rose's Astral Drain is a GREAT idea. Also use Dart's level 2 Dragoon magic. At first focus your attacks on the dragon. Then on Greham since the dragon has lower Hp's. Finally after a few Gust of Wind Dances (you should have reached it if you leveled properly by the recovery pond) some Dragoon Magic these guys bite the big one. Shana: If you decided on using Shana for this battle, then use her to cure Lavitz and Dart. I'm 99% sure Lavitz was mandatory for this fight, since he has a rivalry and a problem with Greham. So Have Lavitz using his best addition but focus in on blocking, because Greham will go right for Lavitz. Have Shana using her bow on Feyrbrand for some reason it did decent damage on this boss. ############################################################################# After the fight Lavitz will inherit the green Dragoon Spirit Yah you know have 3 fully functional and kick ass Dragoons at your disposal. Go back and save just incase your running low on energy, and exit this place. ============================================================================= 1F. Sharlie Shana and a Silver Dragoon Walk into a bar... Once on the world map head to Lohan, Once you get there you will be brought to the infirmary. Unfortunately to the doc it seems Shana days of hoing are over, and the only thing that can save her is some Dragoni Grass. Time to explore this crazy place!There is plenty of treasure, but I suggest hitting the inn item and weapon store. The weapon store is selling some pretty righteous stuff. But at the current time you will not have sufficient funds to afford these pricey and great weapons and accessories. Go out of the place and head to the southern right. And enter the shop I forget which one. Anyway one of them will have Dabas in it, he will tell you what he knows about Dragoni Grass. Anyway go to the street vendor and he's trying to sell you the water bottle for only a million Gs. Don't buy it keep this guy lower and lower to he finally gets it down to a reasonable FREE price. Leave this crazy place. Go back to where the dragon was at when you get back fall down the pit on purpose and use your newly required water bottle to fill with water. Now get out of the hole. Remember the place where the slut got better? Anyway there should be a big nasty plant in the road use the water on that.Once back on the world map follow the yellow line to the Shrine of Shirley. Anyway once there Rose will feel another Dragoon's presence in there. Don't bother with the treasure chest their all empty. Go north after you enter the place until you reach a set of stairs. There will be a key pad requiring a numeral password (no it's not Shana's birthday backwards!) Anyway go on up the stairs. Go up the stairs and open the treasure this will drop the floor and you will fall on a cart. The numbers 3 5 and 2 will be what you will see, which in coincidence is the number to the password. Go back down the stairs and enter these 3 numbers (actually since the password never changes you don't have to take the long yet fun cart ride) Now their should be a new passage way go their. A set of spiral stairs should be open go up them and you will slide back down. Hmmm check the two statues. Some where around here there are two identical statues but I went off of memory. Turn the gold one front and the silver statue left. The stairs are now climbable. Climb up the stairs a save point will be near by. SAVE here, you know a boss battle will be coming up. Keep going strait a man by the name of Drake will think you are thieves well its time to kick his ass! ############################################################################# Boss Battle X Drake Element: Wind Suggested Party: Dart Lavitz Rose Difficulty: Medium Item: None Immediately become Dragoons hopefully everyone's Dragoon Level is full. Become Dragoons immediately, to take off major life. Have Rose use Astral Drain. Have Lavitz use a Dragoon Addition and Dart if his level is 2 for Dragoons use the magic. This guy will use tricks when he gets down to half-life. He will throw 3 Bombs that roll towards you. Destroy them before they get their because if you don't these bombs will take off major damage. After he will put up a "wall" attack this wall because you can't attack him, he will continue to do this to he's about to die. He will also use curative items turn into Dragoons at every giving opportunity. He will perish ############################################################################# After he is defeated, you will find out Sharlie has no Dragoni Grass, bummer. Anyway she will off you her Dragoon Spirit if you defeat her, do not hit her just block. ############################################################################# Boss Fight XI Sharlie Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Rose Difficulty: Very Easy Item: White Dragoon Spirit Basically Guard and you will get a question, I don't remember the questions exactly but will tell you which to pick. Question 1: 1st Choice Question 2: 2nd Choice Question 3: 1st Choice Question 4: 1st Choice Question 5: 2nd Choice Question 6: 1st Choice The next 3 questions are individual and you can answer anything. Remember to keep guarding. She will be defeated ############################################################################# After you defeat her check you will help revive Drake, then check the building behind them for all the treasures that should of been in those chest nothing real major but there worth it since they are right there. ============================================================================= 1G Hero Contest and a Mournful Event Head back on the World Map and go back to Loan. There will be a sequence where the Dragoon will "accept" Shana. Anyway go towards the Tent where the Hero Contest is being held. It's near the spot where the street merchant is at a few screens to the left. Go to the Registration Desk. Just like EVERY RPG that features some sort of contest only the main character will be able to enter. Lavitz will inform you of not becoming a Dragoon you will start with full energy so there are no need to use a curative item. You will meet a friend that Dart goes back with his name is Master Haschel he enters the tourney as well. Talk to the man and the first round will start. ############################################################################# Dart vs. Goraga What a Big Cheater he will throw a poison item at you in the first round, not even giving you a chance to guard. If it poisons you use the purifier to get released of the poison. This guy shouldn't be a problem, just use some Additions on him and he will yield. Dart vs. Serfius He's a breeze guard when necessary and wield out Additions like there's no tomorrow. This guy does use some cheat items like power up when he hits half energy. If you have a water item use it on him, and just stick with the powerful additions. Dart vs. Danton Ok the competition is up a notch. Destroy him with Additions until he decides to start guarding. If he does, guard your self he will counter you with a throw or a punch. After a while he will drop this and attack like normal with Additions. After a while he will fall too, he isn't that powerful you just have to make sure you pull off every addition. Dart vs. Atlow Runner up in lasts years tourney and it shows why. Unlike the wimpy Shana he has a killer bow and arrow. He targets your pressure points with his bow and arrows these are pretty tough. You may have to use a few curative items; even tough this guy isn't that tough. If he catches you with his 5 pressure point attack you might as well say this is goodbye because if your weak this can kill you. Hopefully you can finish him off before it gets that deep. Dart vs. Lloyd This guy is IMPOSSIBLE to defeat. He has an incredibly high Evade rate in other words you can't hit him. So just guard and guard until he gets tired and you guys do your final blows Lloyd will win the Final Attack. ############################################################################# At the end of the tournament Lloyd will be first Dart will be 2nd and Haschel takes Third. After a short scene Lavitz will tell you everyone is waiting. Haschel will be introduced and he will be a playable character at this point. He also thinks you are dating Shana. To satisfy him you will walk with her to play the games, and not to look strange Lavitz gets with Rose, of course Rose doesn't want anything to do with Lavitz(heh watch him try and put his arm around her hilarious stuff!). Anyway play the games if you like their not a lot of fun well beaning the monsters is the other ones are one time only fancy's. When you're done goofing off its time to leave. Save at the save point first. Now head towards the exit and a solider will be there, King Albert has been kidnapped time to go back to Hellena! You can change Rose for Haschel but I suggest trying him first. I kept using Rose personally.Back on the world map head towards Hellena. When you get their the Bridge will close Lavitz will go for it kill the guards and let you all in. Everything is the same as the last time except the guards have been taking steroids and are a bit stronger to represent your new levels. Also like before all the battles are touched based which means you have to be caught and stopped in order to face a guard. The guy who was selling items in the beginning is still here, buy from him, especially some curative items. Remember that elevator that was "Out of Order" It's now in order and you have to use it. You can stop and get all the treasure chests if you chose its pretty tough getting them all and you will need a lot of going in out, their are a few worthy items to get but nothing major. When you are through collecting your gifts take the elevator UP. You will be in the part where all the cells were and Shana cell (well its looks about the same) Anyway you have to speak to the punk ass guards, they will drop the floor on you and speak of a beast. When you get back up talk to everyone and when you talk to Shana she will feel a shaft (maybe she should of opted not to wear the Short Shorts) Anyway check the wall behind her, and you will feel a draft too. But before this check the treasure chest for a Sachet. When you check the wall the beast that the guards spoke of will come. ############################################################################# Boss Fight XII Jiango Element: Earth Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Rose Other Characters: Haschel, Shana Difficulty: Hard Item: Sachet This guy isn't easy not by a long shot. Immediately use the Sachet on him and turn into Dragoons. Let Rose use Astral Drain, basically everyone should be using Dragoon Magic especially Lavitz. When that Sachet wears off their will be hell to pay because this guy kicks major ass. Hopefully your levels will be high enough to defeat this monster. If not get into some of this Random battles with the guards and get your levels up they should be around 14 or so if I remember correctly. If not someone tell me. Anyway a lot of Astral Draining will make this guy timber. Also make sure to keep Lavitz healthy in this one we don't want him dropping here, his level 1 Dragoon attack is pretty powerful against him. Party II: Haschel & Shana: Since this Shana's debut boss fight as a Dragoon, her Dragoon curing will come in handy. She should have the power to at least heal one character, which is better than nothing. Haschel should attack with Additions. Cure when neccesary. ############################################################################# After the fight everyone will leave. Shana will walk behind slowly. A small scene will occur where she reveals to old man Haschel her feelings Dart. After that go strait some guards will greet you immediately the unavoidable type. After you defeat these guys the rest of the way is spelled out for you and just follow the path until you get to the save screen. SAVE here, and go into the next screen a boss fight will presume... ############################################################################# Boss Fight XIII Fruegel, Guftas, Rodriguez Element: Freugel: Earth Element: Guftas: Dark Element: Rodriguez: Wind Suggested Party: Dart, Lavitz, and Rose Other Characters: Haschel Shana Difficulty Hard Item: None If you have Gust of Wind Dance it does wonders to Fruegel. My personal thing was to kill the dog first since he is pretty weak. Then get rid of that Bird because he does some pretty nasty attacks like one that messes with everyone plus one that picks a person up and drops them. Once you get rid of those guys Fruegel should be easy. Whenever you are able to become a Dragoon do so, especially using Rose's Astral Drain its marvelous on those weak times when you don't have many curative items. Finally this big guy should drop. Party II: Shana Haschel Have Dart turn into a Dragoon, and have Shana turn into one when necessary. Haschel uses his best Addition. I say have Dart turn into a Dragoon immediately, and have Shana wait for it, because the only down fall of her curing is that when her turn comes and you don't need it you wasted a cure. So when Haschel and Dart gets weak use Shana's Dragoon transformation then and only then, will it is really effective. Get rid of the dog first because he will cause problems but he usually goes first anyhow, then the bird save Freugel for last. With his two henchmen I mean henchpets gone, he really doesn't have nothing left. A few good attacks but this crew can stand up to it. ############################################################################# MAJOR SPOILER ALERT MAJOR SPOILER ALERT MAJOR SPOILER!!!!!!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX After the fight a sequence will begin where them with the hood who was seemingly over the High Warden will be there. He will jump in and take the Moon Gem away from King Albert. Lavitz must protect his king and he runs become a Dragoon and goes for the hooded man. The hooded man pulls out one dynamo sword and slays our Lavitz. Lavitz died =( and the hooded man will be revealed as none other than Lloyd! Lloyd will leave and Albert will inherit the Dragoon Spirit. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Okay now you should be back in Seles. A small scene will occur and you control Dart talk to everyone there. Now Albert is in your party and he suggests going after Emperor Doel. Now you will be back on the world map SAVE here. ============================================================================= 1H. End of the First Disk Now follow the yellow dotted line to Kazas. Once there you will be in a dark town setting there is much to explore here. You have a weapon shop, you also have a small place to your right that ask if you are a mercenary, say yes and get 100g. Go to the Weapon shop and this dude will claim he is the one who slain the dragon, he will then be arrested, moron. Anyway you can search in out and get equipped I highly suggest hitting the item shop for curative items. Now go north you will realize you can't barge into the castle. Bummer anyway might as well turn around and cry right? Wrong go in the opposite direction until you reach a secret looking town. Explore this place there should be an item shop here and even a fake weapon shop. Don't buy from the fake weapon shop those items barely work. Near here to the left actually is where you want to go. There will be a small boy here who I forget his name. He also asks questions the answers are 3rd 3rd and 2nd. He will then proceed in telling you things (I forgot what I played this part at 4 in the morning). SAVE at the near by save point you can go back into the small town and get any necessary items, but if you don't need anything just save and speak to him, he will show you the secret path to inside the castle. There are a lot of items here but none are really important you can live with out them. Head right until you see a really long rope, climb down that run strait to the ring and there should be some ladders shortly climb up those and exit this place. This is another random battle free zone. So if you want to have some fight just incase your levels were low you can but if you are low on curative items try your best to avoid these guys. Once you get into the next screen you will be near the front of the castle two guards will be to the north run up the stairs if you are fast enough. Then go north, once you enter you will see a few elevators on the bottom and a guard he's unavoidable head into the right room. When you get into the room you will see a huge purple column, two scientist will be talk to you. When they are done they will give you a very useful item that makes the elevators run. Go to the white flame to get cured then go down the stairs talk to the scientist down there and go down another elevator. You will see a machine you have to be fast to avoid the rocks and get to the other side. If you do get the Red Stone out of the chest You can go down to the dump underneath for a couple of items which aren't necessary. Go all the way back up the main level two guards will be controlling the big door instead use the one to your right. When you get up there kill the guard and go into the door. A scientist that the other two scientists spoke of called Mr. Magi will have a talk with you he will try to turn himself into a Dragon but ends up a dog moron. Anyway take the Blue Stone from the treasure chest behind him. Go back out to the main area kill the two guards patrolling the main elevator. Once you go up you will be in a place with many rooms. Go left there will be a woman in there speak to her and take the elevator up the third floor. You will be that in a training area 3 guard will practice they're training on you beat these guys and take the elevator again. You will be in a room with another man he is their leader plus he's the guy who kidnapped Shana. Dart will want to fight but then he decided not to the guy was just doing his job. He will say that Doel has changed and he wants you to stop him he will also give you a Yellow and very useful stone. These 3 stone Yellow blue and Red are important for the castle. Anyway go back down and towards the right. There will be an unavoidable fight with a guard Beat his Ass and go right, you will fight a different type of guard he's pretty tough but not by much. Keep going right and a small lift looking thing will be there take this and you will be in a small area with some treasure chest take the chest and leave this place. Now go all the way back to where the first 3 guards were and take the lift up to the 4th floor. You will be a nicely decorated room with a man in there and also a nice save point save at the point. Speak to the man once he is done yapping about his life save at the point. There will be a special machine where you have to put the yellow blue and red stone in. Which will open the door to the statue. Go in the elevator inside the statue follow the stairs until you meet up with our favorite Gigantos Kongol ############################################################################# Boss Fight XIV Kongol Element: Earth Suggested Party: Dart, Albert and Rose Other characters: Haschel, Shana Difficulty: Hard Item: None This guy won't be easy not by a long shot. Your best Defense is a good offense and a lot of wind items. After he gets hit with magic since he hates magic he will put up a magic barrier. Also you better have that Gust of Wind Dance learned pretty well if you want to take off massive damage. Kongol is a bit faster this time he might be slightly faster than Albert is now but overall he isn't really fast. He has no group attacks but some devastating personal attacks. I don't remember that Dragoon Magic breaks through the wall I think it doesn't so stick to the most powerful additions and pull them off so he won't counter. Party II: Haschel & Shana He is a lot tougher with this team but on the other hand he is too slow to do much to this group. So you really don't have much to worry about here, have Dart unleash his best Dragoon attack while in Dragoon mode. Have Haschel break him down with superior speed on Kongol. He is a bit faster but not much faster if you ask me. After one magic attack a magic barrier will go up, and this is critical to you sense this team isn't that physical. So I suggest you try and do as much damage as possible and since he can't put a wall up for Shana healing and Dragoon ADDITIONS he isn't much of a threat here. So have Shana heal whenever needed or user her stronger Dragoon bow. ############################################################################# Rose will want to finish him but Shana has feelings for the ol' Brute and you decide to leave him be. Go and SAVE at the save point, and go back where you fought Kongol at you can talk to him if you want but he doesn't say much. Keep going until you run into Doel ############################################################################# Boss fight XV Emperor Doel (Humanlike Form) Dragoon Doel (Dragoon) Element: Both: Thunder Suggested Party: Dart, Rose Albert Other Characters: Haschel Shana Difficulty: Human: Easy Dragoon: Very Hard Item: None Human: He has two swords he knows how to use him, bash him with Additions and if you have any Spirit Potions use them you want to have the special ready at your disposal. Keep hitting this guy with strong Additions and he will give up and... Dragoon: Turn into a monstrous Thunder Dragoon. This guy is a wicked Dragoon and even though Thunder based he still loves to use whole party damaging All element attacks. Turn into a Dragoon immediately or you can wait for Dart's Turn to come up and use the special because whoever uses the special has the most powerful attack. I suggested using Albert's Rose Storm every time his Dragoon comes up and Rose's Astral Drain and Dart's Final Burst a wicked combination of that will get him pretty bad and his all out elemental attack won't do much damage until Dragoon's wear off. After 2 or 3 rounds of Dragoon Magic he will put up the shield (I hate when he does this and I have to attack him because I'm still a Dragoon) at this point I'm pretty sure Albert will be back to normal just guard until his Shield Drops. The bastard loves to keep using that shield and some times it comes at inopportune times, well Guard whenever you see it. To regain energy and to only take that lovely half damage on his all Element attack. This will be the longest battle ever fought and in my opinion one of the hardest in the game. After some well-placed Additions kiss this Thunder Bastard Goodbye Party II: Shana Haschel Human: Have everyone attack like normal, with additions and Shana's bow. He can take off decent damage with the two swords but nothing really life threatening, a curing item will make everything better here. He will be licked and turn into a Dragoon... Dragoon: Damn he is tough with this party. Have Haschel attack him fast and hard with his best Additions, turn Dart into a Dragoon, and if you took too much damage during that human mode have Shana turn into a Dragoon, and heal whoever is needed. Dart's Final Burst does wicked damage to him. When he gets down to half-life this fuckin' bastard will use a shield. You can't penetrate it with weapons, Dragoon Magic, Dragoon Additions, items nothing. So just block if you still have Shana or Dart as Dragoons do, just basically have them do an addition on him so they won't waste the magic. This guy is tough and with this team the battle seems twice as long although they are faster than the previous. He also likes to bring the shield back so be weary of that some times it happens just as you turn into a Dragoon again which is very annoying. When you get him weak he shouldn't be much of a threat any more. Whoa was this a tough battle! ############################################################################# After Dart's Final Blow, Doel's Final words will be to stop Lloyd. He knows Lloyd is going to Tiberoa and that's where you will have to go. When he dies Haschel will inherit the Thunder Dragoon but none of his kick ass Elemental Attacks (damn...) Anyway after a short sequence you will be prompted to enter the 2nd Disk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ V. Chapter II. Platinum Shadow 2a. Tiberoa's Most Wanted...Lloyd Explore the beautiful town well first go towards the right and the party will notice a bridge its called "Claire Bridge". Strange Haschel's daughter is named Claire and Dart's mother is also named Claire. Huh? Anyway Albert who knows all will explain that the probability of that being the same person is not good, plus they don't look alike. Anyway explore this large town and all the people you will find out about this gang who have been disturbing the town lately. Head towards the bar but its closed at this town and mostly of the houses is closed as well. You can go into the big building with the doors that is a planetarium, which is quite similar to a church. Go into the room on the right and watch a young couple in love, seems like they were about to have a wild time but a group of peeping toms were gawking peeping toms = Dart & Comp. Head to the left room to get a short display about the stars and astronomy this town is big on that. After leaving here go north and enter the various open shops to stock up on items and other things to tickle your fancy. Now go north everyone will see Princess Emil coming. A small scene will occur with Princess Emille (she is quite the bitch =) anyway after that is over you can't get into the castle, you can climb the ladder to have a looksee. When your done fooling with the castle go back to the bar that was closed it is now open. Go in the bar and meet Kaffi, she talks a mile a minute speak to her a few times until it is night time. She will tell you to meet Fester who is big on stars and constellations and such. At first you will get no answer, finally he will open the door. When he does proceed in he will speak to you he is also an important figure at the castle. Anyway look through the telescope at the moon that never sets. Go back out of here and explore the town at night you will notice that nearly all the houses are now open but only one is of real importance. This house is where a man named Nello lives. Nello seems to love greenery (not cash) but flowers and such, this guy can sure talk a mouthful he bores poor Albert's face off all the way to the morning. When the morning arrives it seems that Albert has not visited this town, and everyone will agree on going to the Flower City of Donau. If you check the bar Martel will be there if you have collected some Stardust on the way then you might get an item, if you haven't it doesn't matter, exit this town. A new land equals new monsters bash on them if you want if your levels are a tad on the low side or if that battle with Doel was a barely surviving one then you need to level up. When you are done SAVE on the World map and go towards the barrens. When in the barrens go into the cave on your right to get the treasure from the chest. When you are done collecting your treasure head north. When you get there a guy named Mappy and few of his Gehrich gang goons will meet you time to do some battling... ############################################################################# Boss Fight XVI Mappy and Bandits Element: All: Dark Suggested Party: Dart, Albert, and Haschel Other Party: Rose/Shana Difficulty: Medium Item: This battle is an easy one turn into Dragoons if you feel its necessary. Its not really but if you want to beat these guys as fast as possible. I decided to use Haschel as the main suggested person cause this battle is more power based than the previous ones. So really the key here is to focus on the fast Mappy. When you get rid of him I don't think you have to beat the bandits all though it is possible, you should get rid of them first so they won't be much of a problem any longer. Party II: Shana and Rose If you decided on not using Haschel, then Rose is a nice choice for this battle. You can turn her into a Dragoon, since Astral Drain is still a very good idea in this particular battle. Shana should be left as the white mage as always and only attacking when everyone is at a conformable level of Hp's. This battle shouldn't give you that much difficulty so basically treat these guys like hard regular enemies. ############################################################################# When you are done with them Dart will go for his Death Blow but he accidentally drops his Red Dragoon Spirit, Dart and Mappy will run for it but Mappy gets it, bummer. Now exit from this places go towards the north over the small hill like thing and then to the right. You will be back on the world Map. ============================================================================= 2B: Babe in the Valley Follow the dotted line to Donau a flower city, there are flowers all over this place and it's quite colorful. Before you can do anything you will get a sequence where some of the gang were scaring a woman. Lloyd to the rescue! He saves the woman and scares off the gang she is highly thankful of the platinum hair wonder. Once that's over he isn't around so don't bother looking for him. Go to the house on the right the first one when you enter. A woman will be that there she will speak of the Mayor's son going to stop the Gehrich gang. She will give you a letter to show to the mayor. When you are done with her check out the church and the inn then go up the stairs to the north. If you want you can go to the left I think that's where Lloyd was there is a Weapon and Item shop here. There across from each over get tooled and weapon up. No go out of this place and go to the north up the stairs. When you get their show the letter to the doorman he will take you to the mayor. Once inside the mayor will give you some info on the Gehrich gang it seems they hang past the Valley of Zero Gravity more importantly the home of the Gigantos! Leave the mayor's house and go down the stairs. A woman will be that there with a few Gang members she will claimed someone grabbed her non-existent ass. Heh, anyway she will scare them off she will also ask to join you. Dart will be hesitant at first because I mean look at her? She looks like a prostitute if you ask me. She says she knows the valley pretty well and will guide you there. Meru is her name and she is now a selectable party member. Now go to the world map.Once there you can put her in your party to test her, I did she sucked and she hit Skid Row. I still kept the kick ass party of Dart Rose and Albert. Head through the barrens and back to the castle. You must go and see the king to get a permit to get to the valley so don't even bother going over there. Go towards the castle where you seen the guard. He won't let you in Naive young Meru will try to run him over he won't move an inch (I wish I had this dude instead of Meru :P ) Then a little more persuasion he will get "attracted" to Shana (Him catching boners looking at Shana won't help on the battle field) He maintains composure but won't let you in. You will get two options either one will do, either way you are not getting in. Now you need to find some one who can get you into the castle. Hmmm lets see Nello lets see what he can do. Nello is a dead end he doesn't want you going to the Valley plus he can't get you in. What about Kaffi! Even though the whole town knows her she still can't get you into the castle dang. Lets see hey didn't Fester mention he had a position surely he'll let you in! Of course but he isn't home... Oh well you tried you could of always said "Hey this is the King of Serdio here! Let us in!" But Albert doesn't want to be identified. Well try and find Fester (I had a tough time myself :P ) He's in the item shop looking in the telescope. He says he can get you in so follow him to his house and he will take you their pass the stalking guard. Once inside you will be taking to the main area and you can't save at the save point yet. Every time you move and try to do some 'ploring he won't let you so just follow his old wrankily ass. The king will think you are a bunch of thrillseekers but even so he will give you the pass all right. Now you can do some 'xploring' so now you can go nuts at that save point hey you can save as much as you want now! Ok once the thrill of that is over keep searching this place there are some people to talk to but no one is real important. Now leave a maid will call you back because the princess wants to meet you. Lisa will tell you why her sister as acting so strangely after a bump on the noggin a half of year ago she flipped. She is also 'cool' with the bandits and her 21st birthday is fast approaching, when a young royalty reaches their 21st they get the Moon Dagger. She will then invite you to a royal dinner. At the dinner she is only 'interested' in Dart and Albert, she cares not for the lap dancer the slutty girl the scary girl or the old geezer heh. Anyway she eats like an animal and if I were Dart and Al I wouldn't be interested in her either. Anyway after dinner its time to go to sleep. First Haschel will ask Rose about her coldness and never smiling, she forgot how. Then Albert decided he's going to hit the hay himself. Then Shana will nod off talk to Meru she's convinced Dart is a perv but she will eventually go to sleep. Then speak with Haschel he will speak about his daughter then he will go to sleep. Dang this room only appears to have 3 beds but some how 6 people are in them hope the fellas didn't have to double up =) After the awkward sleeping arrangements its time to do some exploring there still nothing of real importance rats leave this castle save at that save point, what fun! (For some reason I saved here like 6 times because I couldn't before) Now leave the town snatch up any items want and head towards the barrens. Once in the barrens go left instead of right, then go towards the mountains if you haven't checked this place out it looks like a lot of non descript mountains. Well its not look above you ahhh, enter the valley. Speak with the guard and he will open the gates. Wow this place is pretty crazy rocks floating all over the place things upside down those damn Winglies! Anyway a small sequence will occur when Meru kicks a rock and it 'kicks' her back, stupid kid. Anyway you can go snag that nearby treasure chest but that isn't really important. Follow the rocks until you exit the screen. Ok things getting rougher now, go up the small branch like thing, and wait for a small rock to come near when you get the! Icon jump on it with X it will take you to another landing. There is only one rock here so take that too. Take the last rock out of the screen. Things get pretty smelly here and this area really confuses me badly. There are 3 different routes each one is pretty difficult to get through one two ways lead to some generic items and the third will leave you to a boring save point. The items are good but no worth the trouble the third way is the ticket, it is sort of self-explanatory from here on. But you will have to go upside a few times to get to the save point. Once you get their SAVE. Notice that big statue? Yep it's a Virage all right. Does it kick a lot of ass? You better believe it. ############################################################################# Boss Fight XVII Virage 2 Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart, Rose, and Albert Other character's Shana, Haschel, Meru Item: Moon Serenade This guy like the other one has Arm body and head. His Head is the ticket to killing him but his arm is a bit more deadly that ever, Especially the left one, even though it can regenerate concentrate your attack on that left arm a well placed Madness Hero(if you have it) on it will get rid of it quickly the body can give you 'Fear' But don't fear just have some mind purifiers and block a lot. Albert's Rose Storm is quite effective just like it is through out the game. Astral Drain his head a lot and use Crush Dance on his arm. I think at this point Albert is your weakest Dragoon, so when he becomes normal and you are a Gust of Wind Dance whiz use that a lot especially on that arm. Keep going for his head this guy will crumble eventually. Haschel & Shana Meru Well go for his arm immediately if you are weak from some of the enemies in the valley I highly advise you to turn Shana into a Dragoon as fast as possible so she can use her healing powers. Haschel's purple Dragoon is effective but not really effective. Dart should use his best addition's possibly Crush Dance, at this point Madness Hero isn't that powerful. Keep going for the left arm, then go for his head you can have Shana curing for anything his other body parts do to you. If you decided to use Meru, she is very fast, and if you like speed over power then she is the ticket. If you at this point have a physical ring equip it to her since she has the lowest Hp's. Use her most powerful Addition it should possibly be her first one if you stuck with it. Meru is fast so have her get rid of that left arm as fast as possible ############################################################################# After the battle speak to everyone especially Rose surely knows a lot about Virages and stuff. Save at the save point or the world map. ============================================================================= 2C: A Couple of Sole Survivors Head to the The Home of Gigantos. When you enter a lot of arrows will be fired at you, you have to dodge dip and do whatever to avoid these. Go towards the treasure chest, get the treasure but do you notice something shiny? Well press yes and the arrows will go away. Run towards that gate it will be blocked the other exit is the same deal. Soon you will get into a fight, even though it seems like a boss fight it isn't Dragoons aren't even necessary so just ice these guys off with your best additions and magic item save your special for the real fight shortly. After the fight Haschel will question him about his technique apparently only students of Haschel know about that stance. The guy claimed he learned it from his leader Gehrich. Then Haschel will use his technique to smash the huge gate with his fist (Hey he couldn't do that before I guess him and Meru had a wild night =) Anyway continue on. Haschel will complain about his back and he needs to sit down a bit, Meru ask to "watch" him heh. Everyone will go in the room and he will hit her over the back of the head. He will also run pretty fast back problems my ass. Anyway when everyone comes out they will notice Meru knocked out and Haschel is no where to be seen. If you had Haschel in your party you will be prompted to replace him. Now then go the same pat he went and when you go through the door Kongol will appear (Jeez you haven't beaten this guy enough?) Anyway when you get in there a small sequence with Haschel and Gehrich will occur. Fight Time!(You get the option of putting Haschel back if you choose) ############################################################################# Boss Fight XVIII Gehrich & Mappi Element: Mappy: Dark Element: Gehrich: Earth Suggested Party: Dart, Albert, and Haschel Other characters Rose, Shana, Meru Difficulty: Hard Items: None These guys are pretty tough really tough. Take out Mappi he can use an instant death attack on any party member plus he is very fast. Have Al use his trusty Gust of Wind Dance on Gehrich. If you have some light magic use it on Mappi, get rid of him and this battle won't be so tough. Hit Gehrich hard and fast. He is pretty powerful having Haschel turn into a Dragoon is a good idea since this boss seems to be suspect to Haschel's Dragoon additions. Rose Shana Meru Well you have to use Haschel in this battle so you have to pick either one of these. If you went with Rose Astral Drain is _very_ effective against Mappy. Plus it has that great curing side effect. She also has wicked additions so she is a nice. At this point of the game Rose could have her final addition if you used her as much as I did during my second play through. If you decided on Meru then use her most powerful addition at this point she should have her second and possibly her 3rd Addition right about now, but you should focus on her speed since both Mappy and Gehrich are pretty fast. If you decided on using Shana then have her do her usual Dragoon curing, or if its not needed her Dragoon Bow can take off some decent energy from these guys. Remember to get rid of Mappy as soon as possible since he has that annoying habit of instant death. ############################################################################# After the battle the ground will start to shake a huge rock will fall, Kongol to the rescue, he will save you from the rock with his brute strength. He saved you because you didn't kill him in Doel's castle. He then joins your party woo hoo! Gehrich will tell you that Princess Emille is a fake and the real one is inside the castle! Now go down the stairs. When you go down there the Mayor's son will be there, Meru will kick his cage but as simple as flicking a light switch Albert will open the cage. The Dragoon Spirit must be around search for a shiny thing and now Dart is a Dragoon again! Now go back up and Kongol and Haschel will be waiting for you. Now exit this place. When you are back on the world map trudge through the Valley and then the barrens. When you get to the Barren's the Mayor's son will ask you to attend his wedding. Attend the wedding you don't have to but I did. When you get to Donau the wedding will already be starting so all you have to do is sit their and watch, when Lynn throws the bouquet Dart will grab it. Anyway go speak to the people in the town and stay at the inn if you got beat up during the last battle. Head back to the Barrens. You can head back to the castle but if you have over 1000g go back to Serdio. Go back to the town where the man gave you the water bottle the town name is Lohan and its in South Serdio. At first he will try and sell it to you for 100g but when Kongol touches it, it glows so he ups the price to a 1000g. Buy it anyway it is worth even though Rose will detest it. Head back to Tiberoa. If you plan to use Kongol now that you have him practice with him and his Dragoon, he may be slow but if you are the type who likes some one with vast strength a high HP value and Defense value then Kongol is your Gigantos. When you get back in Fletz hit the item shop hard (I hope Kongol's Dragoon didn't break your pockets) Anyway make sure your starting 3 has the best equipment money can buy sell other equipment if you need to. SAVE at the Inn, not in the castle because if your levels aren't high you won't be able to leave once you are in. Head for the castle when you think you are ready. The big guy will tell you vagrant guards have replaced all the normal guards. These guys will stop you whenever possible there is a strategy. Anyway take the right staircase to the outside stay behind the wall and when the guard isn't looking run to the next staircase. You have to have impeccable timing here you have to watch each guards pattern and when you know what they are about to do make a break for it. Finally you will be at the top at Princess Lisa's tower. Make your way in her room, and Dart will tell her about the switch. She will join you even with Lisa you will still have to avoid the guards make your way down her tower and then back into the main hallway with the fun Save Point. Now head towards the over tower the opposite of the original one, the one on the left. Emille's tower, guards will be stiff like always so your best bet is to use the same wait strategy. When you hit the top there is no avoiding those guards, but Rose will scare them off. Now hit Emille's room. Kongol's too big to fit in the room, to avoid him getting lonely Meru and Haschel will wait outside with him. Now search the room, notice the painting, and well press action next to it to be transported to another place. Once inside Shana will want to fly across using her Dragoon but this place seems to have a magic force field around it so turning into Dragoons is impossible. So speak to everyone and when you are through look next to Albert there should be a shiny spear press it and a bridge will appear everyone will cross it. Albert and Lisa will awaken Emille. Now she will join you there will be no stopping you from the guards. SAVE at the fun save point and continue on. You will be in the middle of the ceremony with the king handing the Moon Dagger to the fake Emille. The real Emille will stand next to her. The fake will no the gig is up but everyone surround her, she will reveal her true form... a regular looking woman...no way that's a Wingly! ############################################################################# Boss Fight XIX Lenus Element: Water Suggested Party: Dart Kongol & Albert Other 2 Parties: Shana & Haschel, Meru Rose Difficulty: Extremely Hard This won't be an easy fight by a long shot. I used this team to beat her because they boosted the highest HP level even though even with speed items she can still run circles around these guys but its worth it. So I decided on them anyway, she uses magic quite well, and most of the item she can get a good 4 hits in that might kill someone (probably not Kongol) Anyway if you have Dart's Red Eye Dragon summon use it as much as possible. Have him call the special since Kongol should only be a level one Dragoon he will morph after one attack. So have him feed Dart some sun Rhapsodies basically keep Kongol blocking and feeding Dart Sun Rhapsodies so he can continually unleash the dragon. After about 4 Red Eye summons and a few good gust of wind dances she will perish but she can get in up to 28 good hits before these slow pokes do it so you have to make sure you hit her hard and fast. A maxed out Gust of Wind Dance which each move connecting can get you about 700 Hp's off of her at this point of the game you can get close to that maybe 500 Hps. Either way its a good idea. Finally after a real tough fight and one of the toughest in the game she will drop. Shana & Haschel: If you decided to use Shana and Haschel you have a lot of speed on your side. You will definitely need Shana's Dragoon healing powers in this battle. Dart can do some heavy damage to her with his Dragon so use that a lot. Have Haschel NOT become a Dragoon because in my opinion you will need Shana for curing and Dart for his summon, and Haschel to give them as many Sun Rhapsodies as possible. Meru & Rose: Meru's speed is almost as fast Lenus's speed. So she is an ideal character for this battle too bad her HP's don't match Lenus's! So your best bet is to give her the Physical Ring. If at this point you have gotten a good Meru addition then use it on Lenus. Once during this battle Meru had two chances in a row, her speed comes in handy during this battle. Have Rose becomes a Dragoon for the high defense since I'm 99% you don't have two Physical Rings. Allow Dart to do his attack like I mentioned earlier. This will be your main form of attack through this battle Dart, and since this is the fastest or near the fastest team I had they had a good chance but the first team iced her off quicker since they had power. Alternative Lenus Strategy! By: GMan 14 pretty easy if you use my strategy! use it you wont be disappointed! ok your party shold be: dart (of course) albert (gust of wind dance) and... MERU! use meru because she can take lenus' attacks like 123... expessialy the ice attacks! most of the time guard with her till shes at full life only at that time attack with her! mostly always attack with albert (unless hes really hurting a few guards wont hurt!) and use his rose storm when i tell you to. right when lenus starts to use her magic attacks (very helpful) and once it wears off and shes doing some nice damage... and when your about to finish (this will make sure you secure the finish without losing anyone!) If dart has half hp or more attack with him. so probaby als gonna fall about once or twice no prob! get meru to use angels prayer, dart to use healing breez then you get a chance to attack with big al. mostly always use meru with the magic. dart with some healing breezes. oh ya pull off some of darts final burst all the times you can (get meru to use the magic to restore darts mp!) this match wont take long at all... if you follow my stradegy! actually this will be pretty easy if you do what i said! good bye lenus! oh ya! try to use the bandits ring on albert. elude cloak on dart (if you have it) it works! ############################################################################# After the hard battle she will still escape with the Moon Dagger. Rose will give you some info on Winglie's. The king will want the Dagger back, and you have to go by sea to get it. Where do 7 goofs like these find a ship? Donau of course lets go! ============================================================================= 2D: A Couple of Ships SAVE on the world map and head to Donau going back through the barrens again and making a right at the fork. Once there if you explored last time you were here like I told you, you will know where the dock is. Anyway head to the dock, you will see the ship waiting for you. Like the ship is you mother or something :) so dock ship already!When you are on the ship you will hear Shana's thoughts guess what else? You are Shana and here is where everyone is located in the order I fount them: Shana: Main part by the save point. Kongol: Down the stairs that are next to the save point. Meru: In the room behind the kitchen Haschel: Inside the Ship up the stairs and siting on the next set of Stairs, which lead to the control, room. Dart: Control Room Rose: Go up the ladder from the control room, keep going up she is on a small platform. Albert: Right above the room Meru is in, (he is hard to see because he is praying or kneeling) Shana will find Dart, Dart need's to find Rose to ask about the Black Monster. Rose isn't telling and she goes for a walk she finds Haschel, he's deep in thought about his daughter. He decided to go and find Kongol, Kongol will want to know more about Humans. Kongol wants to find "King of the Humans" Kongol wants to know what a friend is. Albert then hears Meru complaining so he goes to see what she's up to, he was victim to her little game. After that she wants to find Dart, she decided to play a game on him. He has to "Guess who?" I picked "This is highly unlikely but Kongol?" heh. Now she wants to go an adventure to find everyone, play along and go and find Rose. When you do you will see a FMV of a Ghost Ship approaching. ~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-= [Author's Rant: (This is a small rant written by Dyson) Does every fucking RPG have to have a ghost ship or some ghost filled place? I'm so sick and tired of busting up a ship just to see the shit sink. It's the same thing over and over. Other games that included ghost ships that i know of are Wild Arms, Breath of Fire IV, Grandia, Final Fantasy V. On the subject of ghost BOF III had the haunted mansion, Final Fantasy VI had the haunted train. Final Fantasy VII had the haunted place where Red XIII was from. Chrono Trigger also had a haunted place. I'm sick of ghost, ghost ships, and haunted things, Leave the crap back in the 80's!] ~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-=~-= (Back to the FAQ) The engine has been badly damage so you are stuck next to the ghost ship. Everyone will be on the main deck except Shana. Everyone gets on the ghost ship Shana is being attacked by 3 skeletons, 3 ghost knights protect her. She will join you again, jump back to the Queen Fury if you go down the stairs you can purchase some weapons you should already have the weapons they are selling. There is also an item shop and a free rest gets some curative items and some Angel Prayers they will be needed. Rest at the inn and save at the save point. Go back to the ghost ship, look around you will see white shadows floating touching those will result in a battle, so this is another random battle free zone. But this one is little bit harder than the other ones some times its nearly impossible to avoid the fights since the ghosts like to group together. There is a pattern involved though. At the ghost ship some doors are locked some are not. One door will contain a chest and a small message will appear on the bottom of the screen ignore this door. Now exit the screen and go down the stairs. Avoid the ghost and you will go to the captains quarters, you can't get in now without the proper key. So head up the stairs again. Then go left, when you are up their you will see a ghost that looks like a Purple Slimer follow him into a room. If you searched this area before you will notice there wasn't a treasure chest here before, try and open it and it will move. He will make three ghost come to life beat those guys up and he will run away. Follow him again to the next room. Grab the chest like you did the last time two ghost and a purple slimer will fight you. This guy is tougher than normal enemies if you are using Albert have him use his Gust of Wind Dance on the Purple one, have Dart and your other character beat up the skeletons. He will leave again, follow him to the next room, now 3 of them will pop out, and this is a pretty tough battle. Not a boss battle but I suggest turning into a Dragoon and trying your best these guys like to cast fear and other status aliments. When you are done with them you will get a sequence with the captain. See that sparkling thing near the top of the screen? Press action and you will see 4 ghost, each will give you a number jot down these numbers. Head out of this room back to the area where skanky Shana was about to be attacked and SAVE. Go to the room with the combination Treasure chest that I told you not to open. You have 10 chances to imput 3 numbers in a certain order. You can keep going back when you crack the numbers but you get less and less chances. When you are done with that SAVE again. Now go back to the Captains Cabin it should be open for you, he will tell you that the Black Monster has killed everyone. Once he's gone get the shiny object which is a key and head out of this room. There should be one more room which is still locked go to that room. When you go in their and enter to the left some more ghost knights will appear they will think Shana is a Princess who they are trying to save and that the rest of you are the Black Monster. Its go time! ############################################################################# Boss Fight XX Ghost Commander & Ghost Knights Element: All: Dark Suggested Party: Dart Albert Rose Other Parties: Kongol & Meru, Haschel & Shana Difficulty: Medium Item: Night Raid I suggest becoming a Dragoon immediately have Dart fire off the Special. If he is Level 5 already then that's perfect have him use two Final Burst on The Commander. He should drop after that then let everyone else just do more Dragoon Magic on the rest of the knights if that doesn't kill them one Red Eye Dragon summon should. Kongol & Meru: An unlikely pairing but an effective one, at this point Meru should be able to do some damage to the Commander with some good additions, basically have Kongol and her focus in on the Commander if you chose. Then once he's gone have Dart become a Dragoon and unleash the Dragon. This is the ideal strategy against this boss since the knights will always regenerate, and you have speed and power. Haschel & Shana If you went with Haschel and Shana you again have some speed on your side. This team is pretty well balanced when it comes to speed although the ghost knights aren't slow pokes. So the basic idea is to attack the commander you should hack away at him as much as possible, and when he gone have Dart unleash the Dragon. This is the best and only way I found that could really ice off all the guards at once. ######################################################################## SAVE after these fights just incase you don't have much recovery left in you. Head back to the room and proceed into the next room which was blocked by the ghost earlier there should be a treasure chest here and a cradle. Go to the cradle you will get a small sequence with a Ghost Mother. The ship will soon start to sink everyone will make it back except Dart Rose will try and grab him but she can't and they will both fall into the water. ============================================================================= 2E: What happen to Dart & Rose? HUGE SPOILER ALERT HUGE SPOILER ALERT HUGE SPOLIER ALERT HUGE SPOILER!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Dart and Rose made it to a cave, Rose will go deep into thought. She will look at Dart and think of Zieg. A FMV will start here where you see Rose trying to save Zeig but Zieg gets turned into stone, she looks at Dart because she thinks he resembles Zieg, and Zieg was also a Red Eye Dragoon. Apparently Rose is 11,000 years old and her and Zieg were two of the original Dragoons from the Dragoon Campaign. That explains why she knows so much about Virages and Dragoon history. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Spoiler over ok she will fall asleep with Dart's head in her lap awwww. Anyway when the morning comes a dog will awaken them accompanied by his master Pete. He will take you back to his village he will think you and Rose are Warrior Lovers (think about it they sort of have the same thing on Dart with one arm cut out Rose with the one leg hmmm). Anyway his mother is ill and she needs to be taken to the nearby city because of the hot springs. Now there is a little boat next to Pete's house you will get a couple of choices chose to go to the shore and leave town their isn't much here. Pete will stop you he will want you to help him and his Mother get to Fueno for the hot springs. Take them along, you will see a small; cavern go through it and you will be on the main land and a fairly large town will be there. Pete will take his mother to the clinic so explore this place with Rose. There is a weapon shop here buy weapons for Rose and Dart if needed come back here their are some good ones for the other characters as well. check the item shop they have some good stuff, this is a great place it blow a lot of money unless you are saving up for one of those 10,000 dollar items. Now head north through the town until you reach the dock the Queen Fury will be there. Kayla will be glad you are alive Meru will be getting off the boat speak to her she will tell you everyone is back at the inn. Go to the Inn and Kongol Haschel and Albert will be there. They will also be glad you are safe they will tell you Shana is up stairs Dart will go up there on his own. He will speak to Shana, Haschel, Meru and possibly Albert will be eavesdropping heh, when they are spotted they will run away. The conversation will continue and the lights will go out and...well who knows?. Anyway go back to the dock to speak to the captain he will give you info on Lenus apparently she is on a small island which can be reached by the undersea caverns. Go back to that weapon shop and equip everyone you use with new weapons there are some good choices here. Visit Pete's mother to see if she is all right. ============================================================================= 2F: End of Disk II Head to the cave it seems that there is no way to get passed and Albert thinks something is artificially making the water do what it does. Anyway head back to Lidiera to speak to the mayor take the boat that takes you to Pete's house to the 4 gentleman playing cards, one of these wino looking guys is the mayor. Tell him you want to see the monster and he will get one of the villagers to open the gate for you. Now go to Pete's house around the right side to reach the Gate that was opened there should be a couple of treasures and a valve here. Get the treasures and turn the valve. Head back to the shore and go to the world map. Save on the world map and head to the cave your way should be opened. So go North when you reach the next screen go left. Until you reach a fork in the road. Take the southern path keep going and another fork will be here. Now take the right path soon you will be at a staircase. Take a right here and soon you will come upon a save point. SAVE at the save point make sure you have some Fire items like Burn out and stronger ones. Make sure not to take Meru if you leveled her up she won't work well in the fight. If you still have a heat Blade use it and maybe even get into a random battle so your special will be up. Hopefully you will have a Level 5 Dragoon as Dart. Now proceed on, you will see Lloyd (Finally after all that searching you fount him) The sequence will show her giving Lloyd the Moon Dagger. She will want some lovin'(Listen close and you can hear her unzip Lloyd's pants) from Lloyd and he getting ready to give it to her but Dart and Company interrupted it. Lloyd will turn into a Wingly and fly away; Lloyd's a Wingly! Wow, this isn't a spoiler since it's clearly printed in the manual. Lenus will turn into a Dragoon the Sea Dragoon and the Sea dragon will be with her. ############################################################################# Boss Fight XXI: Lenus(Dragoon) and Sea Dragon Element: Both: Water Suggested Party: Dart, Albert Kongol Other Parties: Haschel & Meru, Shana & Rose Difficulty: Hard Item: Water Dragoon Spirit She isn't as tough here but she has a Dragon with her, too bad that Dragon is weaker than my dead Grandfather. Turn Dart into a Dragoon, two that's right two Red Eye Dragons will kill the Sea Dragon. Leave Kongol as normal since his defense is almost as high as the Dragoons. Hopefully you have an Accessory that can increase Dart's MP's. Hopefully you can at least use it two times, leave Kongol to feed him Sun Rhapsodies. Have him keep using the dragoon or Final Burst on Lenus. If Albert isn't that powerful as a Dragoon when he turns back to normal Gust of Wind Dance is VERY powerful. A few Gust of Wind Dances and Red Eye Dragon Summons she will die. Haschel & Meru Well the key here is to ICE off the dragon. That's Dart's job two Red Eye Dragons can kill this Dragon pretty easily. Have Meru feed Dart Sun Rhapsodies and when he doesn't need one have her get physical with a few well timed additions of her own on Lenus. Allow Haschel to hit her hard and fast he can become a Dragoon if you want him to, or you can just practice Additions on her :) Shana & Rose Dart's favorite skirts Rose and Shana. Well Rose is a bad ass, and her final Addition at its highest level can do heavy damage to this bitch. Remember to have Dart ice off the Dragon with a couple dragons of his own, then concentrate on Lenus it isn't that difficult. Have Shana maintain her healing job and have Rose turn into a Dragoon to ice this scantily clad female Dragoon off. Dart's Final Burst does premium damage to the water based Lenus. Finally after some battling this battle will be over. ############################################################################# Meru will now be able to become a Dragoon and you should have 7 Dragoon Spirits. So everyone is a Dragon now, at this point she's will run around for like 10 minutes over it. No one else really cares they just want to report about the Moon Dagger. Now head back to Fuena See how Pete's mom is doing. Apparently even at Pete's very young age he knows Dart's ho's are hot and wants hot babes like those when he gets older (Heh that's what being an Warrior is all about =). Pete will want to know how it is to be surrounded by beautiful women all the time you will get 3 choices Jealousy- This will make Shana mad, hilarious! Some times they are scary- This will make Rose mad. Some times they are loud- This will make Meru mad and she will chase Dart around the room! After the womanly fun go back to the ship to speak to the captain then speak to Kayla when you are ready. You can 'Control' the Queen Fury for 2 seconds. No free roaming just follow the yellow line again. Head back to Donau. Nothing of real importance here just go back to Fletz. Once you are back in Fletz go to the castle you will see Emille coming again like your first time here, but the real one is much nicer. Albert will be speaking to himself about how beautiful she is. (Notice when she names the pregnant child if it's a boy name it 'Al' hmmm) Now get pass the guard who has a crush on Shana he will let you passed automatically now. Go to the chamber of Sun but you can save your brains out at the Save point if you chose I know I did. =) Even though you couldn't retrieve the Dagger he doesn't care you did a lot by ridding the bandits and the Sea Dragon. He decided to hand down the story of the 7 Dragoons from the East as the new coming of age method. The King will also decide to throw a party for the heroes.Now it will only be Dart & Shana. Shana will express her deepest feelings towards Dart, Dart will lean in for a kiss but they will get interrupted by someone. He will make his 2nd attempt but will get interrupted again by a maid who said the party would be starting soon. You decide to continue this 'later' and look for everyone else. I forgot to mention that at this point everyone in the castle knows that Albert is the King of Serdio. So go up the tower that has Emille's room in it and Albert will be there, telling her a story but he will interrupt it because only "Serdio Royalty" gets to hear it. Pull him away from her, and go back down the stairs go near the kitchen and Meru and Haschel will be shoed out. Go to the Guest Room and you will see Rose she will be thinking about Dart awww. Anyway take her with you, now that's everyone except for Kongol where can he be? Go down to where the training area is to find him practicing. He will be thinking to himself about his human friends he seems to like having human friends, anyway take him with you. Now go to the lady making the dresses. She will offer a dress to Meru but she will decline because she can't dance in a dress. Rose will also decline because she will be naked without her sword, Shana will take one though. At the party Albert will be talking to Emille The King thinks its a good thing and that this insures the well being of the two lands. Kongol will be there speak to him speak to Haschel and a couple of women will surround you Haschel will take care of the skirts. Go towards the balcony and the maid will say Miss Rose wants to speak to you. She will be out on the balcony she will point you towards Shana. Rose will walk off and Dart kisses Shana. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ VI: Chapter III: Fate & Soul 3A: Saving a village boy You will enter the small water town called Furni. There is not much you can do here without access to a boat. So just go to the north and you will see a small sequence with a few of the local men and their leader Harris. Apparently a wolf has gone wild and is in the forest the wolf is owned by a boy named Teo. There is a large reward for the man who can bring down the wolf and rescue the boy. Well a big burly man will have some words for Dart but he is all talk. Now go to the left that until you reach the inn, goes to the bottom you will see a man behind a desk near a boat. At first he will think you are some of the men who are going to rescue the boy. He will give you an option chose that you are not the hunters, he will then realize that you are the 7 heroes who defeated the sea dragon. He will give you the boat permit for free, now its time to explore. From the inn go north then go to the item shop there is also a weapon shop near by so stock up on what you need for the rest of this journey. Finally head to the Mayor's House. The mayor will be excited to meet the 7 Dragoons from the east and will tell you about how the wolf bit his daughter Fa and how the boy Teo was her best friend. The girl is attracted to Shana, anyway she will sleep with the girl and the rest of the party has to speak to the mayor so they can sleep at his house for free. Then a scene will occur where Haschel over hears a song that Shana is singing to Fa. Haschel will want to know where she learned that, she says Dart taught her it, he got it from his late mother. Haschel will remember hearing his daughter singing that song and she was going to teach her daughter it, he will need some fresh air. Dart will be on the room and Albert will tell her to join him. Meru will follow Shana and listen in on the conversation. Shana will start feeling dizzy and will pass out Dart carries her back into the house. When you go back on your boat head to the place where the man blocked you earlier and get off, you can talk to the people there they aren't too important. Just head out of the screen and you will be on the world map. SAVE on the world map if you haven't while you were in town and go to the forest since there isn't anywhere else to go.When you are in the forest you will notice 3 different paths, two of those leads to plain old items. Go towards the upper right path and you will be in another screen with even more paths. The path near the bottom has a guard blocking it, the path towards the top is just a dead end at the moment go towards the place where you the little boy, that's Teo. When you try to speak to him he will run all the men from the town will surround him and the wolf Kamuy will run through all the men. Then he will leave with Teo on his back. Now take the left path. You will get another 3 paths the one to the north id the correct one, make sure you have your additions and characters healed before you go north.When you get their Shana will tell Teo that Fa really cares about him and wants him to come back home. The men will be back and the Wolf will once again bowl them over. He will also come after you so its boss fights time! ############################################################################# Boss Fight XXII Kamuy Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart, Albert, and Kongol Other Character's Rose & Haschel, Shana & Meru Difficulty: Very Hard Item: Darkness Stone This guy isn't a walk in the park or a forest. This guy has a high magic defense so Dragoon magic is almost useless against him. So if you do turn into Dragoons to defend against some of his physical attacks. Just bash this guy with your most powerful addition but even then it still doesn't dent him. Too bad this is a long fight and some curative items maybe needed. But if you have all 3 of them as high Dragoons and you are bash him with your best attacks you can possibly make it through it with everyone intact. Rose & Haschel Kamuy is one bad ass wolf, and he is very strong. Dragoon Magic is pretty ineffective here so if you want Dragoons use the additions. Haschel should have 5 rings shattering and a possible Hex Hammer. If you do use this on Kamuy, he is very tough, Dragoon Additions are basically the key this battle is long and drawn out additions will have to be done perfectly in order to succeed. Meru & Shana I wouldn't use Meru & Shana for this battle but if you have to you have to. Meru should use her best Addition at this point possibly if you level her up enough, Hammer spin, Cool Boogie just doesn't do enough damage. Have Shana do the curing in this battle and you may possibly live to tell about it. You will need a lot of curing from Shana, Meru dropped a few times in this long battle so make sure you have a plentiful stock of Angel's Prayer. ############################################################################# Ok when you are through with this guy he will be dead. But Shana has compassion for him and decides to use her Dragoon Spirit to revive him, when she does he turns back into a cub. When she does Harris okay's Teo and Kamuy going back to Furni. Go back to Furni and speak to Harris he gives you some g, talk to Teo and Fa if you want to as well. Go back on the world map and save. ============================================================================= 3B: History Lesson (Quick Note: If you felt this game has been low on FMV's you get eleventy billion of them here =) If you explored the forest you would of fount the way that went to Deningrad when you do Rose will excuse herself because she has to run errands Meru will do the same she wants to go and visit her parents. Now leave the forest and save on the world map if you were using Meru or Rose you will be prompted to change your party. Now follow the yellow line to Deningrad, which is a fairly large town. They have a Weapon shop with awesome armor, if you have 10,000g to blow then get some of the great and fandamntastic shit they got here! But don't forgetthose curative items. (You know if you have been using Meru or Shana or even Rose throughout the game curative items aren't that necessary since all 3 of them have magic that can cure your party. Since I used Rose but not Meru and Shana I needed them.) Go North until you reach a Church speak to the man on the left and a short story FMV will begin. Go to man near the top of the screen he is the librarian, the library is the building that was locked. Speak to him and he will open the library for you. When you are in the library you will be only able to control Dart. When you do speak to Kongol first he will be looking at the pictures in a book about the Winglie's. Dart will tell him what the book says. Go up the ladder to speak to Shana she was reading a book about the Divine Moon Objects. Go up the next ladder where Haschel the Librarian and Albert are. Speak to Albert he will be reading a book about Politics, but he tells you about the book he read previously about Dragons. Go over to Haschel and he will tell you about the Dragoons. When you speak to everyone speak to the Librarian. A FMV will start and he will tell you about the Dragon Campaign. He will now tell you to go upstairs to another room to know more about the Dragon Campaign. Go up stairs and he decides to tell you more about the Black Monster. Also the 2nd Sacred Sister is also from Neet and she survived the Black Monster attack. There was some special glass in the church in Neet and yet another boring FMV will begin telling you about that. When that's over you will be switched to Rose, who will be in Neet.You will control Rose there isn't much to do in Neet, so go north to meet the second sacred sister. She will be at the large grave honoring everyone who died during the Black Monster attack. You will get a sequence of the Black Monster attack. The Black Monster is looking for the moonchild the 2nd sister's mother will be killed by the Black Monster but she will not be killed. After this sequence Rose will offer to accompany them back to Deningrad. (This is a spoiler too, but I can't explain the game without spoiling this so I am sorry some spoilers are game effecting and some of them I can't keep secret, you can not read this section but I will talk about it later in the guide)You will now control Meru and a fireball will be thrown at her. A Wingly by the name of Guaraha threw the fireball and doesn't want Meru in the forest. He will let her in even though he doesn't want to so go north use the slick transporter and you will be in a village full of Winglies. The Bardel's will want Meru to leave because once a Wingly leaves the forest they aren't welcome. That's right Meru is a Wingly! The leader of the Winglies will come down and restore order. Meru's parents will come, Meru's mother will want to see her daughter but will be stopped by her father because she is a disgrace( I think dressing the way Meru does is more of a "disgrace" than leaving the village) After the spoiler a man named Guaraha will tell her about the Divine Dragon, they have a way to stop the Divine Dragon and this sequence will be over. Another but cooler FMV will begin of the Divine Dragon trying to break his chains. Now you will be back to the main people, save at the inn and go out of town you will see the two sisters with Rose. You will go back in town and start to speak them but then something will happen. Another FMV will start with the Divine Dragon flying over Deningrad and doing some minimum damage.Now Meru will rejoin your party and the sisters will invite you to go and see the Queen when you tell her that you are Dragoons. Now off to the castle you can save here to if you wish. When you go in the castle go north then up a flight of stairs into the Queen's Chambers, you will meet the Queen and a bitchy girl named Miranda. She is also a sacred sister, the 1st actually. The Queen will want to know how you plan to stop the attack. Rose will tell her about the Dragon Block Staff. Meru will tell them that's it's in the forest of the Winglies. You will be out of this room and find that Shana is missing, Go back near the throne room and take a right to find Shana on her knees and the White Dragoon Spirit in the air. She will feint and the White Dragoon Spirit will find Miranda. It will glow for her like it did with everyone else. She will now be a Dragoon, since Shana is powerless with a Dragoon, and even more powerless without one she will not be in your party any more. Now Miranda is so you trade the sarcastic bitch for the whiny ho. No difference really they have the same powers. Now head back to the world map and back to the forest. Now remember that dead-end? Well its still a dead end, but this time Meru will reveal she is a Wingly and she can open the path (I'm sorry I couldn't get around it =(. Now enter the forest of the Winglies. When you are there you will get fireballs thrown at you but eventually these two idiots will stop, so take the transporter to the main part of the village, you can now save at that save point where you couldn't before. Now speak to one of those guys and he says he has the permission of the elder to fly you to the top, at the first room there are Winglies. In the next room you will find Meru's parents she will tell them that they are good humans and Gigantos and that they take care of her. There are transporters all over the place one leads to the weapon and item shop the other leads to the Bardel brothers' home. So take that one then one to the north. Apparently the Bardel's had a sister and the humans killed her. He will get mad and use a fireball on you, Dart will become a Dragoon and scare this punk ass off. Now leave here and speak to a Wingly who will bring you further up, you can now speak to Ancestor Blano, you don't get much words in because he tells you about the Divine Dragon escaping and he already knows you want the Dragon Block Staff. Blano shows you where it is and now it's your job to retrieve it. ============================================================================= 3C: Meet the Staff that blocked The Dragon! Ok speak to Blano and you will be brought to the Forbidden City where the Dragon Block Staff is held. Once you are there everything is strait forward until you reach a fork in the road. One goes south and it leads to an item the other one goes to another area with teleporters things get a little confusing here so you have to listen carefully if this place confuses you. Take the teleporter on your left it will take you to a place that's next to a teleporter so take that one and go inside the building.Inside there is a lot of teleporters so you have to pay attention. Don't take any teleporters unless you want what's in the treasure chest, if you don't care just go into the next area. In this area take the teleporter which will take you below where you were. Take the teleporter on the left once you are down there. Now go through the door. The next area is strait forward meaning you don't have two paths so just take he teleporters until you get to the exit.You will be in a large room, both or either Kongol and Rose will sense blood in this area. This was a coliseum where Winglies use to watch Humans; Gigantos and other species fight to the death. Once that's over head north towards the transporters and you will be in the next area. When you are there you will see a save point and a red transporter looking thing. Use that it's like a recovery pond. I would level up here and get my additions up to speed if you haven't done so then SAVE.Optional Area: (You do not have to do this part but advise it)Now go north and you are in the next area you will see 6 blue transporters, and you have to use a certain order. The trick is the pictures over the teleporters, each one represents each being Void, Minitos, Gigantos, Humans, Winglies, Dragoons. So basically it's like this using number 1 to 6, from left to right. X 3 4 6 5 2 1 Now Head to the "X" Its an elevator the next area has strait forward transporters so keep using them until you are near a door way a small sequence will start but that's interrupted by a Virage! ############################################################################# Boss Fight XXIII Virage 3 Element: Void Suggested Party: Dart Albert Kongol Suggested Attack: Every one Block Difficulty Easy Item: Healing Rain Just Block, that's it do nothing else unless you want to kill it you can but you don't need to. He has 10 lives and every round he loses one, so after 10 rounds and blocking he will die especially if you go into the fight with full energy. This fight is worth it if you are low in the levels. You need a pick up fighting him well guarding will give it to you. Haschel & Miranda Like above all you have to do is block for 10 rounds I advise equipping Miranda with a physical ring. Because this Virage can do some heavy damage if things come down to it in the later rounds have her turn into a Dragoon as Miranda to do a mass curing if Miranda's Dragoon level is high enough I don't really advise this though Meru & Rose Like the previous two just block you will need to definitely put a Physical Ring on Meru and hope for the best with Rose. After 10 rounds he's defeated. ############################################################################# Assuming you fought him or not you should be back at the save and recovery point. Don't go north instead take the other path. If you fought the Virage then a wise idea would be to save here and recover instead of wasting your healing rain. Head into the next area you will see some red devices and many robotic enemies. The object is stepping on the red devices so they can not catch you it sounds hard or it made seem hard but it isn't, you usually can make it to all of them with out them getting you. Once you turn each one blue a door will open. Go through it, and you will be in a room with blocks in it. These blocks are pretty strait forward if you take a wrong path is generally lead to an item or accessory. When you are done you will be taken back to some transporters. You will be transported to the next area. Here there will be a strait forward pathway you will see a funny looking thing coming out of the ceiling. Meru will recognize that as the Dragon Block Staff she will have a hard time getting it out, when she finally pulls it out it will turn around and reveal itself. ############################################################################# Boss Fight XXIV Grand Jewel Element: Earth Suggested Party: Dart, Albert, Kongol Other Characters: Rose Meru & Haschel Difficulty: Extremely Hard Item: Spectral Flash I hate this fucker, it took me days to beat him, and I wanted to break the Dragon Block Staff in half and cry. This guy is mega tough and one of the hardest bosses in the game. Logic should tell you that since it blocks Dragons it also blocks Dragoons. So all you can do is Additions, if you try to turn into a Dragoon you will barely touch him since he is a Dragon Block Staff. He will use some all-elemental attacks on you and if you are not prepared these can devastate you. I beat him the first time with just Albert standing and a well placed Gust of Wind Dance. So I suggest if you fail your first time that you think about leveling up or getting your additions as strong as possible if you want to make it through this fight. This fight will not be easy, especially if you depend on turning into Dragoons to win your battles. Rose, Meru, And Haschel Good Lord this was a TOUGH battle, and he is even harder with this team. So basically don't use Miranda because she gives barely any energy with her Dragoon curing. Have all 3 of these characters hit him hard and fast with whatever you got make sure you have your best and only your best additions ready at the beginning of the battle. If you feel your level's are low and you didn't fight the third Virage fight him for easy EXP. Anyway his all element attack were the death of me, I couldn't see a way around most of what he was doing. So basically these 3 are the weakest HP wise characters you can use so one of them has to have some high defensive magic stuff and the other character has to have a Physical Ring there is no other way jabroni. ############################################################################# After defeating him you will get a Dragon Block Staff now head right out of this screen. There will be a teleporter here use the teleporter to take you back to the beginning of this area, go out of this screen. Exit out of this place you will be on regular ground and it will start to shake. You will see the shadow of the Divine dragon everyone will run back to the forest of the Winglie's. Ancestor Blano will be there and he will give you a free trip back to Deningrad, but he is feeling weak. Meru's parents and other Winglie's will help.A FMV will show the Divine Dragon attacking Deningrad and the castle. Everything fallen to pieces bummer. After the cool FMV is over you will be in Deningrad. Miranda will leave your party to go strait to the damaged castle. Explore the newly shapened town, everything is still there but there in different places. The item and weapon shop and the inn are close to the exit of the town, I think the vast majority of items and weapons are still intact (Armor of Legend is still here and still expensive). When you are done looking at this garbage heap go and see what is left of the castle.Once there you will see Miranda slap a guard and she will find the other 2 sacred sisters. Go up the stairs things are slightly different in the destroyed crystal palace but not by much. Now go up the new path you will meet the other sister Wink. She will inform Dart that Shana is ok and is in the chamber with the Queen. You will get a small sequence of Shana glowing when the Divine Dragon attack. After the sequence you will be at an make shift inn, and Shana will be resting there. After this is over its time to head to the mountains to face the dragon, the Divine Dragon! ============================================================================= 3D: 3D= DA Divine Dragon! Go to the Forest and remember the path that the dumb guard wouldn't let you through? Well that's the way to the Mountain of the Mortal Dragon, after getting back on the world map save on it if you never did back in Deningrad. When you enter everything is strait forward so just keep going along the path. Until you reach a fork that is =P Take the right path to get an item, take the north path to get to the next screen. Head strait forward when you get into the next area there will be a few caves here. There is one on your left, which leads to a weapon or something for Kongol. There is also a cave near the top which leads to a item (Sun Rhapsody I think) Then their is a path take the path to get to the next area. After this everything else is strait forward until you get a small sequence where you hear some fighting. Now continue along the path until you reach the save point SAVE here. Select your party and equip your best Additions even if you are trying to level up earlier additions. Now head north until you hear some more fighting, everyone will stop and they will see that its Lloyd going toe to tow with the Divine Dragon. You now learn that the cool ass sword is the Dragon Buster, and just like its name implies it bust up dragons. A FMV will start of the Divine Dragon attacking. Everyone will recover after the attack and go full steam at the Dragon. ############################################################################# Boss Fight XXV Divine Dragon Element: Void Party I: Albert and Kongol Party II: Rose Albert Party III: Meru, Haschel (Do Not use Miranda she is USELESS for this battle) Difficulty: Extremely Hard Item: Flash Hall Party: I This was the party I used and it wasn't a picnic. During the first round Dart will automatically use the Dragon Block staff which reduces his attack and defense to a normal bearable margin, which in turn like the Grand Jewel your attack and defense are reduced. Now have Albert using his Gus of Wind Dance is that at this point you have failed to obtain his best Addition. Have Kongol using his best if he doesn't have his best a full power Inferno can be devastating. Have Dart using his best if you don't have his best use one that's preferably over 250% like Volcano, or Crush Dance. Take out everything on the Dragon Ball, the Dragon Ball is what allows him to do a very powerful attack on the whole party. With this gone go for the Cannon, which won't be easy to get rid of. After that if you use these 3 he's reduced to a weak arm swipe which shouldn't do too much damage to high defensive characters like these. Party: II Well much like party I but you are using Rose, Rose is much more faster than Albert and Dart and if you have the dancer shoes on her she is almost as quick as Meru, but pretty even with Shana. Equipping Rose with a Physical Ring is the idea since her hp isn't even in the same league as Kongol's. Like I said above have Dart use his most powerful addition, one that hits over 250% Albert using his most powerful or Gust of Wind Dance which can deliver 350% of power (If you are not a whiz at it invest in an Ultimate Wargod). I'm in a 3rd play through so I haven't tested it as of this moment, if it does work then it is very useful. Plus the fact she gives some HP's back to the party making Astral Drain still a useful form of magic. Like I said earlier defeat the canon and ball first they should go down easily. Then with those gone the rest of him should be easy. Party: III Well, if you are using Dart, Meru and Haschel things are a wee bet different. Since besides Miranda this is the fastest party but weak on strength. If you have Meru on level 20 I advise you to master Cat's Cradle since its nearly impossible to have her last one at this moment. If You don't Hammer Spin can do some damage, if I had Meru with some things to improve her sped even more you can get 2 turns and a possible but unlikely third turn use her as the healer. Have Dart doing his mastered or one that this over 250%. Have Haschel using Hex Hanger or Omni-Sweep if you have it, these will hit him hard and fast. Takes out his components first heal when you need and then go for the rest of him. Meru should be equipped with a Physical ring to help her very low HP and the arm sweep will do some serious damage to Meru. Alternate Divine Dragon Strategy! By GMan 14 if you follow this stradegy your difficulty for him him will change from fucking hard to very FUCKING EASY! you can win in atleast 5 mins! you are right dont change into a dragoon! use as your party: dart (obviously) albert (gust of wind dance) and well i used haschel cause i like him but i know you like kongol so you can use him. stack up on healing breezes and angels prayers! THE ONLY THING YOU DO WITH ALBERT IS ATTACK! it doesent matter is he has 1 hp attack! use the red eye dragoon stone (which brings down fire based attacks to half on haschel, well in your case, kongol) and use the bandits ring on albert (increases speed of him WICKED) and the thing that increaeses a guys hp by 20 points on dart (i dont know if you have that but if you do then this will work perfectly) remember always attack with albert. if you use the thing that increases darts hp by 20 points you barely even have to guard with dart (i didnt have to at all i dont i know about you though) use kongol (in your case) for all the magic (attack with him too if you like) oh ya and same as lenus use dart for the healing breezes after you revive someone cause then you know it...... GUST OF WIND DANCE! use alberts gust of..... and darts volcano and this battle should take a few minutes! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EASY!!!!!!! ############################################################################# Well the only reason I didn't use Miranda was because she had no additions and in addition mandatory battles she will not work well at all. When he's finished Dart will do the deathblow but Lloyd will cut out his eye. He will get the Divine Dragon's Dragoon Spirit although it has no reaction to him he keeps it anyway. Lloyd will disappear now go all the way back to the 2-cave area. Lloyd will be there everyone will surround him but he throws a fireball at you. Dart & Rose will fall down off the ledge. She will be talking to herself and when she wakes up Meru will be there to fly you back to join the rest of the party. Miranda will tell you about the Moon Object of her kingdom and everyone will figure that is Lloyd's next target. Now follow the path out of the Mountain and SAVE on the world map. Now head to the evergreen green forest and a sequence will begin where Wink (one of the sacred sisters) will be attacked by Younger Bardel. Bardel will throw a fire ball at the guards knocking them all off the ledge. He will prepare one for Wink but Lloyd to the rescue using his Wingly powers he will deflect the fireball. He will then whip out his umm Dragon Busterino and slay Bardel. But before he does