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Forces are faster because better AOE clearing.

Set up: No Principal Skip.
Set message peed to Very Fast.

HUcasts: Go immediately to item shop and sell 4 monofluids and 2 monomates and buy 6 antidotes.
Forces: Sell cane, frame, and monomates. Buy zonde/barta (if available) and monofluids. Zonde works well against wolves.

Customize action menu (not necessary unless you want to). Put an inactive button in R+A slot (Sol Atomizers or leave it empty) so you can mash R+A through dialogue.

HUcasts: Feeding MAG is important. Antidotes & Antiparalysis (only if out of antidotes) with a heavy focus on raising Dex.

-Battle Training-

• Pick things up to sell
• Get as much experience as Kireek allows you
• 44 – 86 experience at the end of the mission to hit lvl 4 during the mission Fake in Yellow

-Claiming a Stake-

• Talk to the fat man in the large area to trigger the 3 capsules.
• If you have a telepipe from a random drop at this point, go the long way around to the capsule (past a locked door to the north of the fat man). Grab the capsule and telepipe back and collect the other 2.
• After collecting the 3 capsules, go talk to the fat man, he’ll lay down a telepipe
• You should have 173-204 experience after killing things to grow to lvl 4 during the mission Fake in Yellow o Only need to kill the last booma & gobooma at capsule 1 if you aren’t within the experience range.
• Purchase a telepipe if you have not found one (HUcasts: antidotes and a telepipe will cost 950 meseta)
• Go directly to mission counter to finish mission as there is no need to speak to the client to complete it

-Magnitude of Metal-

• After talking to Eleanor, lay down a telepipe and run back to the teleporter on Pioneer 2
• If you do not telepipe back to Pioneer 2, run to the MAG. Running to the MAG takes longer, however, your Mag will be hungry close to end of mission if done this way.

-The Fake in Yellow-

• If using a Cast, use traps on first group of 6 rappies (2nd spawn in 3rd room), before you speak to the Fake Rappy for the second time (you should level up, refreshing your traps), and one trap for each spawn in the room after
• If using a Force, try lining up rappies for barta to maintain TP.
• Once back to pioneer 2, go straight to mission counter.

-Journalistic Pursuit

• In Forest 1, when entering the long room with Gigoboomas, freeze/confuse trap them, open the laser fence, press the switch that opens the door, and exit the room
• NOL can be caught in between the monsters and will get stuck in the room if she does.
  • If this happens, pray that she heals herself when her health gets low
• going through the teleporter to Forest 2 will drag NOL along

-Native Research-

• Entering Forest 1, take the southern path
• Ignore the Boomas in the first room
• Run past the teleporter to Forest 2 and go to the locked room to the northeast
• Kill the boomas inside and run to the end of the next room and lay a damage trap down as the rappies stand up. RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN or you can shoot the damage trap
• Teleport to Forest 2
• Entering Forest 2, go east and kill the wolves in the first room
• Continue into the dead end room straight ahead and kill the Monest
• After collecting the Monest Data, go south
• Ignore the boomas and enter the standalone room to the west.
• The room will have a Hildebear and a teleporter to Pioneer 2

-Forest of Sorrow-

• Follow the same path as in Native Research
• Entering Forest 2, go south and find a baby Hildebear in the pocket room, examine it
• Continue south, you can ignore the gigobooma spawn and focus on the wolves. (2 Wolves -> 3 rappies -> Hildebear)
• Focus on the first Hildebear in the next room and everything that spawns after it (Hildebear -> Monest -> 4 Goboomas -> 2 Hildebears)
• Last room to the south east, kill all the Hildebears and examine the baby Hildebear

-Gran Squall-

• Find Bernie (laser door room). Tell him that you believe and he’ll join you.
• After entering Forest 2, go north, ignore the first Monest.
• Stop at the shop. (HUcasts: may not need to stop for supplies)

Clear Forest Upon completing missions, your traps will not be replenished. Stop by the medical center if you want to refresh your traps.

• TOUCH THE MONUMENT/TOWER/SWITCH IN FOREST 2!!!
• Pick up any Star Atomizers you find and keep them for later escort missions.
• speak to principal after killing the Dragon.

-The Lost Bride-

• Do this mission first after clearing Forest because Cicil does damage with techs (barta)
• Can be swapped with The Grave’s Butler

-The Grave's Butler-

• Do this mission first after clearing Forest because Matha does damage with techs (foie)
• Can be swapped with The Lost Bride
• Restock before next mission

-Secret Delivery-

• Do this mission after Lost Bride & Grave’s Butler because there is no escort
• BRING TELEPIPES.
• Do not talk to any npc except Elenor at the end of the mission (triggers fights)
• Shop after for mag food (& telepipes if needed). Next mission is a long one.

-Addicting Food-

• Do this mission here because you can potentially get a good AOE clearing tool in the previous missions
• BRING TELEPIPES.
• Multiplayer spawns, HUcasts:use traps often, but not recklessly. Forces: line up enemies for barta if you haven’t found Gizonde/Gifoie.
• There is a healing ring about half way through Caves 2 that is not out of the way
• You should hit lvl 11 by the time you get to Caves 3 which will upgrade what the shops sell
• HUcasts: There is a chance you can get a Brand from Caves 3 during this mission. If you don’t, you should be able to buy one from the weapon shop after hitting lvl 11.
• Opt to skip shopping after teleporting back to Pioneer 2 because next mission runs straight to the shops.

-The Value of Money-

• Do this after Addicting Food so you can shop for weapons/tech discs (Brand, Partisan, Autogun/Gifoie, Gizonde, Razonde, Rafoie, Rabarta)
• Look at armor shop to see units. Look for /Arm units.
• Resupply mag food and healing items.
• When talking to the guy, select the bottom option for both dialog choices to progress. Run back to the client and she’ll tell you to talk to him again. Talk to the guy again then talk to the client one last time to complete the mission.

-Soul of a Blacksmith-

• The weapon reward and the element is preference, but for the sake of speed, go with the fire element.
• When selecting the weapon reward choose sword.
  o There is a decent chance that it will have hit% stat.
• HUcasts: Check shops for /Arm Units because you can’t equip an autogun yet.

-Waterfall Tears-

• Use only heavy attacks on NPC’s because you can’t combo. Hit and run until they become vulnerable again.
• First fight target the Hunewearl. Avoid her techniques if she uses them and ignore the ranger.
• Second fight, stand close to the door opposite of where you came in. She spawns a telepipe after you defeat her.
• Stop at the shop after to get mag food and check for /Arm units & slotted armor.

-Black Paper-

• Caves 1: longest layout, single player spawns.
• Caves 2: same layout as Waterfall Tears Caves 2.  After waterfall/rainbow room (and after switch door), go right after killing enemies.
• Caves 3: follow the open rooms.
• Careful about the fights. NPC’s can heal spam. The fight in Caves 3 is especially dangerous because he can cast Barta. Deals about 70-90 damage based on resistances. Run in a circle around him.
• Before teleporting to Pioneer 2, open boxes in the last room. They contain at least Star Atomizer, a Brand, and a Psy Armor.
• Shop, the caves next.

Clear Caves

• TOUCH THE MONUMENT/TOWER/SWITCH IN CAVES 2!!!
• Kill De Rol Le, speak to the principal afterwards.

-Letter from Lionel-

• Say Yes to the mission lady (Mash A).
• Open the second shortcut in Forest 2 in the third room (button locked door).
• Speak to Lionel IMMEDIATELY after finding each body part.
• After you find his head near the end of Forest 2, you can either clear Caves 1 or go looking for his body right away
• His body parts are found in this order: Head (Forest 2), Arm (Forest 2 after killing a Hildebear), Leg (Forest 1 in a stream), Leg (Caves 2, can be seen across the water), Torso (Pioneer 2, after finding the body part in Caves 2 and speaking to it, there is a man outside of the mission room who will hand you the body)

-Knowing One's Heart- The final spawn for this missions (Sinow Gold & 4 Gillchics) is right in front of the door you need to travel through.

-Dr. Osto's Research-

• Talk to Sue in the boxed in room after killing Dubchics (4th room) Clear Mines
• TOUCH THE MONUMENT/TOWER/SWITCH IN MINES 2!!!
• Kill Vol Opt. v1

-The Retired Hunter-

• Select “!!” dialog option (Hold back and mash A button) 4 text boxes faster.
• Opt to do this mission first in order to get a Buster and/or Gigush/Halberd. Doing this quest immediately after clearing Mines will allow you to pick up an early Buster and Halbert/Gigush which makes clearing the rest of the missions a lot easier.

-Doc's Secret Plan-

• After clearing the first room run down the parallel hallway to the left to touch the switch
• After touching the switch, run back through the hallway and down the other one. It is faster than clearing the room beyond the switch.

-Unsealed Door- Saved till later because it has De Rol Le refight.

• Unlocked by completing Dr. Osto’s Research
• The Mines 2 map is exactly the same as Dr. Osto’s Research
• 2nd fastest Mines 1

-Seek My Master-

• To prevent failure, use Star Atomizers when npc’s health gets low
• Save photon blast for second to last spawn. (8 gunners). Stand close to the middle and it will hit all of them.
• Be careful with text right at the end. Talking to Shino after the telepipe is laid down will waste time because cutscene.
• Do before Soul of Steel because telepipe at the end of mission to go shopping.

-Soul of Steel-

• This mission is unlocked by completing Doc’s Secret Plan & Unsealed Door
• Never stop mashing text.
• Talk to the first NPC and tell him you’ll leave, Montegue will walk to the terminal to progress the mission.
• When following Ult, you can get ahead of her a bit to end the escort earlier. Going too far will make you fail and have to follow her again.
• Be a ninja.
• When avoiding detection, the actual range of the NPC’s sight is the lenth of a partisan.
• Enemy NPC with Katana can oneshot with a crit and spam resta.
• What ticking?
• Shoot the rubble leading to the locked door so you can make it past the laser fence.
• When looking for Ult, follow the route Elenor took, follow the blue arrow.

-From the Depths-

• Feed your Mag
• Talk to the NPCs to trigger them. The Force NPC will attack you out of cutscene.
• Upon getting to Ruins 3 Ash will join you. He likes to get hugged by Belras. He will be paralyzed. He is useless.
• After Meeting Ash, go through the door to the northwest in the 3rd room to go press a switch.
• Following the path as if you were going to clear the ruins, press the button and telepipe to Pioneer 2 and walk to the teleporter back to Ruins 3.
• After going back to Ruins 3, go through the south western door in the 3rd room and take the teleporter. Go in the room and touch the switch. Run back to the teleporter and travel to the north western room.
• After you and Ash stop the machine, telepipe back to Pioneer 2, go shopping, and turn in the mission. NOTE: WAIT FOR THE TRIGGER AFTER STOPPING THE MACHINE. If you do not wait for the trigger and you telepipe too early, you softlock the game.

Clear Ruins