Once again, we are in Filgaea (or however you want to write it), but only in name. It seems that there are things known as Golems scattered about the world and they are believed to be a part of a lost technology. The main character, Dean, has been obsessed with them ever since finding his first bolt when he was a young boy. He idolizes a famous Golem Hunter (the name escapes me) and hopes to one day become one himself. He lives in a small village with a number of folks including his good friend Rebecca. Dean and Rebecca go out exploring one day and Dean approaches her about leaving the village in order to follow his dream, but it's clear that she isn't ready just yet. Things heat up while they are out when a large piece of a golem comes crashing down into a cave. Upon investigating, they find a girl sitting in the hand of a golem's left arm. Dean manages to scoop her up just before the floor collapses. She remembers only two things; her name (Avril) and the name "Joney/Johnny Appleseed". After a conversation back home, Dean decides to start his journey by helping Avril. Obviously very fond of Dean, she decides to join up. The trio reminded me very much of Vyse, Aika, and Fina from Skies of Arcadia, of course, but there is much more to them. From there, you end running into all sorts of characters including a fellow hell bent on destroying every golem he finds as a sort of revenge, a golem hunter who you help out of a pinch, and plenty of others. There are, of course, additional factions who you are often given a peak out (clearly of a different level of technology) who are also searching for J. Appleseed as well as Avril herself. I've just arrived at the technologically advanced city of Lailabel with about 13 hours on the game clock. There is, of course, more to the story (as there are TONS of scenes throughout), but I don't wish to spoil too much.

I'm in love with the Knight Blazer re-mix, which you don't actually get until AFTER the game, when you unlock the cameo.

(I had no idea that Dean was into little girls...) Refrencing Carol when he beats a boss with her

Paladienne (Yulie) asks you to find her brother but then by the end of Wild Arms 4, Kresnik is already dead. As well, you see Raquel and Arnaud in the Mirapulse pub but then if Kresnik is still alive, then that sort of implies that the quartet never met yet. :s

Cradle

just beat nightburn,then a cave fell on him.. i think hes dead? lol

I require pics of Nightburn, he is awesome. Anyone know his English VA? It's the only decent one there.

Those four sentinels, I sure do hate getting one shoted by them.. lol

Persephone time.. and she heals! im only 47, i guess i should go train somewhere.. shes kicking my ass

I did beat the sol niger, so dunno why she is besting me. That gatling attack, kills you in one hit

I didn't do the towers unil i was well into my 60's, and I left them in my 70's.

I'm now at the end with everyone at 100 with sheriff stars and a few violators.

First off you'll need the following items.
Hen Badges
1 Growth Egg
Force Carrot
Speed Skates
Two Dog Leashes
Optional
Punching Glove
King's Crown

And Asgard. I'll talk about these items here as well.

First off, make Hen Badges and a Growth Egg. Put the Hen badges on Dean and anyone else you want, and the Growth egg on him as well.

Next, you'll need speed skates. If you can make them, that's the best.

Finally, the hard part.

Warp that first dungeon place(very first, the one that dean went to with his shovel and had tutorials and such), get on asgard and hover over the water to the nearby Aztec temple-like place.

Leave and then warp to Wayward Path(S) in Northwest Filgaia. Look to the southwest, and on the mountain range on the right is an area Asgard can Falcon Punch through. Go through and north is Inferno. (By the way, south is TF System Tower F).

Go to inferno, Leave and Save. Come back.

This is the fun part. You'll have to run from every fight, in and out of here.

F1: A chest with 2 duplicators, you'll need them, take N crystal.
F2: Take SE crystal. (directly to the east as you enter)
F3:Turn directly east, jump and use your anchor hook, take the crystal
F4: Take SW crystal.(Directly to the west)
F2: Take W crystal.
F6: Stomp dive the blue switch in NW corner to change position of big bridge,
then get across the bridge to S side, open chest for two Holy Berries, take
W crystal.
F7: Take SW crystal.
F6: When you get back, the bridge's position has reset, now you can reach E crystal.
F2: Step on blue floor switch to cause the bridge to start rotating. Hop on
rotating bridge and use AH to reach N side, open chest in NE corner for
5 Mega Berries, take N crystal
F8: There's a save point in SW corner, stand on AH floor plate and use AH to
hook on white orb above you. While you're traveling, drop down onto rotating
bridge and make it to W crystal.
F11: Stand on AH floor plate and use AH to hook on white orb above you, then drop off on the other side, take NE crystal.
F13: Use Duplo on Duplo chest for what we've came here for, the Full Carrot. Take the S crystal.
F11: Head back across using the AH, take E crystal.
F8: Save point. Take S crystal
F2: Go SW up the stairs to reach the S crystal to F1 and leave.



Now, The full carrot makes it that if you get the first turn in a fight, you get a full force bar. With a full force bar, you can summon Equites. With the speed skates, you always get the first turn. The summon gets stronger when you're with your allies, and the dog leashes make sure that your other two characters are always paired up. The sword medium makes sure you are able to move to them whenever. Dean at level 100 does 20k damage per enemy. The most EXP i've gotten was in Coyctus and was (88k x 2) X 6 (Monopoly Gourd which i'll get to in a moment). The Kings crown aids in leveling in coyctus because one enemy in there takes half damage from physical attacks, and you can finish them off.

You only need to be level 70-72 to beat up the towers. After which, get to the black market (Hmm, what was it now, it was something > Girl in that city near the desert > peaches to Jet > Fang to guy in Laila Baile for the black pass). You can whore out your other three characters for itams. I reccomend you first get the 20+ level carrots to get dean to 100(Really he should be 80 by the time you're out of there and you'd only need one), then start getting sherrif stars (all the A badges), the school outfits, Violators (Basically just get TIny flowers, Gunstar Signs and Chick Badges, those are the hardest of the lot to get, and you'll only need 3), and various badges that are hard to get.

Just a checklist
First 3 characters to level 100
6 Sherrif Stars
3 Violators
1 of each costume

After you get everything, get 6 Level apples (faster than getting 3), ever those three to 60 and level them up to 100.

That's pretty much what I did, took a few hours of work.

i managed to kill Kartikeya, first time..took like 30min!but i cant do it soloing with greg.

Heavy Crush does take alot off, but he doesnt have that much MP and it takes 94mp a cast. I wish you could save after the first one ;/

Make the badge that makes mp consumption half. It's A rank and i don't feel like seeing what it is.

Also give him a laurel crown, mist cloak and a red pepper. You'll restore like 1k hp per round and dodge half of his physical attacks.

Elvis an FEREYDOON
:(

Hint for the duel fights:

USE GEMS (and the Sea Medium).

That is all

I did it, thanks for the tip.. I did use the sea medium.. didnt use any gems.. Doom Bringer was doing an ok job. I only healed like 3 times. Elvis is the only one left! Any tips for him? I hate carol.. lol

Sea Medium is the worst idea i've ever heard. Power Medium+those badges i told you and i killed Elvis in 3 turns. Heavy Crush > Hi-Blast or Gems. there's ALWAYS a weakness panel for them in the solo fights.

Honestly I did Perspherone > Ferydoon > Elvis > Kartekiya, that's pretty much easiest to hardest. Hell, Kartekiya was the only one that actually ended up attacking me.

yay, finally! all towers done.. Tower O time. Is the black market open yet, or do i have to do O first?

It's open, just be sure to get the black pass of course. Do you have the wolf fang or whatever it was called from Jet?

Tower O

remember my leveling trick, you don't even have to touch dean or your main 2 character's levels. I first got dean to 100 then those two, THEN started getting badges. I didn't do Tower 0 until everyone was 100 and had a sherrif star.

Worst idea? While it's a longer strategy, it's also much much safer since you pretty much can't lose.

Also, it's a strategy you can use regardless of what badges you have, so for people who don't want to spend time getting the right badges or overlevelling, it works. I was only level 45-55 without Sheriff Stars (except one on Dean but that doesn't count for duels)/Violators/Dual Casts and still won easily.

There IS no main game left, that's the last dungeon.

How can you not lose thanks to the sea medium? While the first 3 busses never hit me and i got them down in 3 shots, Kartekiya actually attacked and i'd be dead several times over without the extra hp the Sword medium gives you. The high HP, along with a Red Pepper for extra hp regen, a laurel crown to double hp regen, and I was pretty fine. I never mentioned using sherrif stars for the towers, that's crazy hard to do.

As an alternative to using dean in that first fight, give avril a power medium, and a sea/mountain for the other two.

I meant go in and fight the final boss, then reload an earlier save to do optional stuff. If you do it the other way around, the final boss won't be any fun at all. I guess you have to go through the dungeon an extra time to get a clear save with optional stuff done, but I thought it was worth it.

The Sea medium was the one with healing, wasn't it? With that, you can stay on a Leypoint and heal forever, using gems as often as possible (which is pretty often).

Kartikeya's attack shouldn't even do 3000 damage, while your HP should be over 4000 by then (unless you use GC points), so there's no overkill here. You also can step out of the way of his Lock-On Death attack most of the time, so he may not even get off that move. I used the Sea Medium strategy and found the battle pretty easy, so I know it works. I never said it was the best strategy, just that it works.

I was just noticing in an earlier post you mentioned Sheriff Stars, but re-reading it, I realize you said AFTER the towers, so I apologize. You do mention levelling to 70 which is quite overkill. I went into the first one at 45 or so and just waltzed through them in order (Kartikeya's was last, so I was around 55 or so by then). Heck, I barely hit 70 by the end of the game.

Oh, well I walked out of the towers at 70(dean at 78).

How could you get your hp over 4000 with a sea medium, at level 50ish when at 100 a person with a sea medium has 5400 hp at best? I could barely break the required 5000 to survive.. Either Fery's or Kartekia's special attack, which did 5000 damage. I couldn't even have that much on dean, so it ended up having to trap him in the corner and revive him every time he died. And since he's the only one that did any reasonable damage (Finest Arts was like, 7 or 8k back then)

At level 55 or so? 4000 HP's about where you'd be at. Even if you're not, some Silver/Golden Suns will fix that. You still have more than 3000 so Kartikeya's duel fight won't overkill you.

For Fereydoon's 5000 damage attack... you're not supposed to survive it. That's why you have revival. But that's not a duel anyways. The normal fights take different strategies.

And for some reason my Finest Arts was doing 11k there. Not sure what I was doing differently. I know I had a Beserker Badge but I don't remember if I had a Cat's Paw by then.

If you have a reviver, getting killed isn't that big of a deal. Stick him/her on a leypoint for Ley MP Regen, and just revive/heal. Earth hex is probably best for that, since you can halve Stone Bullet from there. Your characters should get instant turns after reviving, so move them back out and attack. You can also still try to use the Wind LP for your attackers, though I suggest only putting one there so he can only kill one at a time. Stone Bullet shouldn't kill you on the Wind LP anyways. (Note: I'm assuming Sea Medium here. Otherwise this won't work too well.)

If you have any badges that resist earth, use them. Especially for your healer/Wind elemental attacker.

Give Dean the Sword Medium and spam Sonic Vision as much as possible. If you can get a Punching Glove, that helps even more. You should be able to synth one by this point (I actually was able to get a Sheriff Star before that fight). That should do 10k+ damage for 50 FP. Not bad. (Luck Medium works here as well, but the damage will be less.)

When he charges up for his big attack (the instant death+damage one), if you can, MOVE away from him. He can only use it on hexes adjacent to him, so if no one is there, he'll just guard and waste his turn. Having Jump/Isolate/Gather around helps here, but I didn't bother with those. If you have Holy Grails and can block the instant death, try using Invincible as well. It might help.

Also, I'll note that you're supposed to do that tower second, but it shouldn't make a big difference. I was probably around your level there anyways (thinking I was a level or two below honestly), so you should be able to do it.

I have a Punching Glove for Dean, and with his Finest Art he only does about 3500 a hit. I haven't missed any purchasable weapon upgrades and I've put all of the Dragon Fossils I've found in the Attack stat, so I don't know where all of my damage has gone. I've been doing really low damage on regular enemies for a long time in the game, too.

Edit: Ah, I've had him with the Luck Medium for the whole game mostly for stealing items. I'll try it with the Sword medium.