[PS2] Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria

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Today I got my party destroyed from the transferring effect.

Do you mean when your characters get knocked off the screen and ejected from battle? I had that one time fighting the winged boss on top of that ledge, and Lezard and someone else went bye bye. After a few rounds they came back. There is some sort of thing/item to cure this, but I forgot what it is.

Man you guys are far ahead.

I’ve only gotten to Surts Volcanic Mountain of MAGMANTIC FUN! Man this place is hard. I want to save up 2000 to get that heal 200% of your curative items, looks useful. Also, this place is full of nasty stuff, like divinity voids, that bridge that I’m not too sure how to cross without falling off (probably use crystals to teleport myself), and some of the monsters are tough!

I’m glad I restored the RMD down 50% and RST down 50% as it’s helping me slice and dice the baddies. The bad thing about lava levels is

1. Lezard is mainly a fire wizard and his great magic, Animate Earth does fire magic, which I discovered that it is in fact a fire element attack, rather than just a non-elemental damage.

2. Furthermore, frigid damsel, his weakest attack (aside from the seal stone negating ice damage) is the only real spell that will harm all enemies. Fire storm is good, however some will absorb it while other will negate any of it’s effects.

Also, I jumped into the lava just for fun. I sorta expected a game over, instead you only take maybe 200 damage if you bathe in there.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Spatula

that bridge that I’m not too sure how to cross without falling off (probably use crystals to teleport myself), and some of the monsters are tough!

Okay. I managed to get the grip of how to do it after falling 10x and battling the same enemies OVER and OVER. Man, my healing items went to dust!

Anyway, what you need to do is look at the bridge itself from the map. You need to avoid the one with gaps because you'll definitely fall. A straight-walking monster patrols the area; wait for it to go to a "stable" (that means no gaps) area (usually the near-farthest in the map screen) then you double crystal. After teleporting (DO NOT JUMP), there is something that will come your way.. a crawling monster type, freeze it and stand on top of it (don't take too long now). Now you'll see a flying one in the distance. Jump and double crystal it while holding the jump button. Switch position and lands you to the next area.

Hope that helps.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

You are over-complicating it. Just don't jump on the bridge, that's it. Run over it and freeze the flying enemies and switch places with the bugs.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Just elaborating because it took me forever. But alas, what you said sums it up.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Terminus

Just elaborating because it took me forever. But alas, what you said sums it up.

Yeah I understand, it took me falling through the ground about 6 times before I figured it out myself. Kept trying to do long distance teleporting because I thought that was the key.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

So you mean I can keep going back and forth on the bridge as long as one foot is always on the bridge, ie, not jumping? Man thanks! Just gotta work on my crystal powers then.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Anyone else having a bitch of a time dealing with those wild trolls over in the Crawsus Forest Ruins or whatever? Apparently the key is using the flamberge and hitting them with frailty (which would be nice if that effect actually ever went off).

It's also confusing as hell as to which sealstones to put where, according to the FAQ the boss is an earth monster where as everything else seems to have the lightning element on it, making this confusing as hell.

Fun.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Spat, don't worry about the characters you don't use. Save up 4000 magic crystals to restore the sealstone "Experience friend law" to share EXP for EVERYONE, combine that with "Experience pig law" that doubles EXP, fight in the last dungeon before the end of chapter 3.

Specifically, in the room with the sealstone "Wrath of bread alone" and get 150k EXP per fight. I kept fighting there, and the necessary characters reached level 40+ in no time, plus the other characters I don't use are around level 25 now.

The only catch is, bring plenty of restorative items. And with "Experience pig law", you won't get any money from fights. Pretty damn worth it though. This is what I call power leveling.

[edit] The dungeon I'm refering to is called "Palace of venerated dragon" or something.

How ya doing, buddy?

I just got to the beginning of Chapter 6 and damn Tri-ace, I love your random plot twists. I think this tops the one from Star Ocean 3.

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When the game first started I always wondered what lezard was doing 200 years in the past. He didn't seem like a bad person at all either. After the fight between Hrist and your party that occured during chapter 4 I thought maybe Lezard vanished because he was blown into the future or something, and thats when he turned crazy in stuff. Boy was I wrong.

When he came back to assist you with the battle against Odin my thoughts completed changed. He's the same old Lezard as before. And meeting the future Lenneth at the beginning of chapter 6 confirms a ton of things. The game is also a sequel! Who would've thought a game that took place hundreds of years before the first would still manage to be a sequel? =p This also makes sense because of Lezard's words at the very end of the first game (good ending that is)

In the end this just makes Lezard more of a badass. He goes into the past through Dipan and plays everyone and changes the future in the process. It also makes sense now why Brahms had Silmeria in the first game since he was supposed to rescue here at the point Lezard screwed everything up.

Now I still haven't beat the game yet. I saved and quit after Lenneth joined my party. I figured I would save the fun for tomorrow. I mean how often do you get 2 valkyries and the lord of the undead on your team? It does please me as a valkyrie profile fan that the story turned out this way. I still wonder if the game explains whats up with Arngrim though. Or if it leaves it up to the player to figure it out. Don't spoil it for me if it explains more before the end. :3

FELIPE NO

So, if you don't jump on the bridge you don't fall? Dammit, it took me like 12 tries to cross that thing. Anyways, when you cross the first segment of the bridge (there is only one foe) wait there till you see a flying foe far from the right, just freeze him and teleport and that's it.
By the way, what's the name of the last dungeon of chapter 3?.

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EDIT: Niiiiiiice!!!!!! The song from Palace of the Venerated Dragon. Nice remake for the fans...

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Does anyone know where I can find a Green Darkness Rune... so I can make body passage. According to that guide on gamefaqs, I should be able to make one by the time I got to Valhalla But I'm pretty sure I haven't found any green darkness runes.

Thanks for the fun.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hydras drop the item in the Crawsus Forest Ruins.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Scarletdeath

Spat, don't worry about the characters you don't use. Save up 4000 magic crystals to restore the sealstone "Experience friend law" to share EXP for EVERYONE, combine that with "Experience pig law" that doubles EXP, fight in the last dungeon before the end of chapter 3.

Specifically, in the room with the sealstone "Wrath of bread alone" and get 150k EXP per fight. I kept fighting there, and the necessary characters reached level 40+ in no time, plus the other characters I don't use are around level 25 now.

The only catch is, bring plenty of restorative items. And with "Experience pig law", you won't get any money from fights. Pretty damn worth it though. This is what I call power leveling.

[edit] The dungeon I'm refering to is called "Palace of venerated dragon" or something.

Scarlet, what is the LAST dungeon in Chapter 3? I don't want to miss this and I don't want to advance too much. I want to take my sweet time in 3. I just finished the Volcano dungeon with the magma boss, and headed to Crell Mon. The new dungeon, some thunder mountain, just opened up.

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So, if you don't jump on the bridge you don't fall?

Basically yeah, you'll probably have to fight 1 or 2 monsters on the bridge, but that's a hell lot quicker than having to do the whole jog with the divinity void again.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The Experience Pig Law is in Palace of the Venerated Dragon?

Most amazing jew boots

I know I may sound like I'm repeating myself, but is this Venerated Dragon that I keep hearing of is on the map with the high mountains with thunder and lightning? Man, I seriously want that walkthrough guide.

I'm 25 hours into and I think Alicia is at 22 or 23, I know that's pretty small, but I haven't had any serious powerup/level up sessions as of late.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Spatula

Scarlet, what is the LAST dungeon in Chapter 3? I don't want to miss this and I don't want to advance too much. I want to take my sweet time in 3. I just finished the Volcano dungeon with the magma boss, and headed to Crell Mon. The new dungeon, some thunder mountain, just opened up.

Chapter 3 - Starting from Coriander,
you go to Something Mountain Ruins
and then to Optional #1 - Ancient Forest
then Villnore,
Optional #2 - Turgen Mine,
Something Temple On The Lake,
Kalstad,
Sahma Desert,
Something Volcano Cavern,
Crell Monferaigne,
Optional #3 - Chateau Obsession,
Crawsus Forest Ruins,
Dragonscrypt and finally
Palace Of The Venerated Dragon.

Dragonscrypt and Palace of blah blah is linked, so they count as one final place.

And the double EXP sealstone is obtained in Chateau Obsession.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

What, how do you activate Chateau Obsession? I never got that, do you talk to one of the villagers or what? Also, chapter 3 is long, now thinking about it. Chapter 1 was just that small little tunnel to Dipan, and chapter 2 was leading up to the Western Hemisphere.

FELIPE NO

Talk to someone at Crell to activate it. Talk to everyone if you're not sure; including people in the tavern, the inn, etc.

And this is the only long chapter so far. I just completed chapter 4 very soon after I did chapter 3. This game is generally pretty short. I like how Okami is better than VP2.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Honestly the only thing that makes this game "long" is the incessant levelling up (which again is a somewhat good way of making full use of the battle system), but I wish they'd stick more optional dungeons just for kicks so you don't feel like you're doing the same thing again and again. It doesn't even have to do anything with the story. Sometimes I just want to send my "marines" into the battlezone and let them have it. GO GO GO!

If there weren't any end bosses for each chapter, you could probably just crystal most of your way past baddies and go straight through in probably less than 7 hours, I'm guessing.

::LOL final dungeon and all of the party still at lvl 1.::

OH SHI~.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You don't need to level at all... I was severely under-leveled compared to most, and using the double experience orb + Double check in the right boss fights would jump me 3~5 levels at a time, which was plenty honestly. Release the characters you aren't using; the stat boosters give more to your stats than leveling actually does.

Levels = near worthless save for more DME and to reach the proper release levels. Sure, you could wait and "perfect release" for the most boosters at the end, but why make the game unnecessarily more difficult your first time through? Just release them as you are able (but keep two of your favorites for when the story characters leave; Adonis and Phyress for me) and you're levels/stats will be fine to make it through the game.

Just need to make proper use of status effects / Seal Stones and try really hard to hit enemies from behind. I was in the late 30s and early 40s at the end of the game and still didn't have any trouble with the last boss. Toughness+Survival are the only two skills you NEED and learning skills is faster when you are underleveled anyway should you choose to learn more than that. =)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Are you kidding. This game is easy as heck.

I didn't bother much with leveling if not for those super weapons/acc. When those characters leave, the weapons they leave behind has ATK+1200500 and the other has ATK+800. Because of the setup I mentioned in my earlier post, all my characters are around level 40 at the beginning of chapter 4.Of course, the characters that are supposed to be level 45 for those items are already level 50.

Also, don't release characters unless you have difficulties. It's always better to train them a little and give them better equipment before you release them when you really need to. You'll get much better items and stat boosters.

By the way, at my level, everything you fight, including bosses, dies in your first wave of attack if you gave everyone weapons that has special attacks.

Also for my personal opinion, I kept Adonis, because he is cool like that (and good stats) and Xehnon, because he has the highest MAG among the other mages, and he has more spells than the rest. I prefer to use a well balanced team, with all the 4 classes.

[edit] What the hell, 1200

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I concurr. The game can be pretty easy if you know what you're doing, especially with the double exp egg and double-check or whatever to mass level up. I find I balance the difficulty by releasing my einherjar relatively quickly as I recieve them. Makes it fun to use new characters as I get them. To attempt to enjoy the game how it should be enjoyed. I frown upon using 3 main characters, I only did that near the beginning of the game when I didn't know much better.

I think Tri-Ace made a nice setup here for the addicted VP2 gamer, with many areas to compensate for the difficulty and fun factor.

I as well praise a well balanced team of all the classes. Xhenon is the shit.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

How can you guys defeat bosses the first time with full 5 bonus? I find that pretty hard, take a look at the Magma boss for example. I think I was down to 1 bonus orb and I basically got shit for it >_>.

Maybe if I were to take them down the 2nd or 3rd time they'd be easy, but then they don't net as much experience.

I was speaking idiomatically.

^ High level, tweak your equipments, accessories, equiped skills, and make sure you have special attacks in your weapons. The R1 dash helps considerably to move about while prevents the boss from attacking you. Do remember that you can split up your team members. Make some of them your decoys while the rest goes in for the kill.

Also, that magma thing is weak against ice and absorbs fire if it wasn't obvious enough.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Nah really, fire gets doused by water/ice elements? Get outta town.

I just beat the Crawsus Forest Ruins and it wasn’t so bad, except for falling in those damned poison pools. The boss was probably the easiest, compared to the mini bosses, which the siding mages can be tough to handle.

I got the double EXP sealstone, and carry that with me to basically every boss fight now.

NOW ONTO THE PALACE OF THE HYPERVENTILATING DRAGON!

(Is this where I can find the EXP friend share sealstone?)

FELIPE NO