The Legend of Dragoon FAQ/Walkthrough

The Legend of Dragoon FAQ/Walkthrough

Table of Contents:
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1. Version History
2. Introduction
3. E-Mail Rules
4. IM Rules
5. Game Basics
6. Characters
7. Dragoons
8. Additions
9. Walkthrough: Chapter 1
10. Walkthrough: Chapter 2
11. Walkthrough: Chapter 3
12. Walkthrough: Chapter 4
13. Equipment
14. Enemies
15. Bosses
16. Stardust
17. Items
18. Song Lyrics
19. Outro
20. Credits

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----1. Version History----
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Version 1.1: Rose's Whip Smack addition was added to the guide, and some
weapons were done.

Version 1.0: The guide was started. We need to do Accessories,and Rose's Whip
Smack Addition.  Thats it for now.


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------2. Introduction------
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|Gbness's Introduction|
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Hello! This is my 17th guide, and the second guide that I am doing as a
co-author. My first was done with Aaron Baker, who was also a very skilled
writer. This time, I am writing with Stephanie Nutter aka Cyril. We were just
in a chat at one time, and then she noted that she was planning a co-author for
her Legend of Dragoon guide. I felt that I was a good writer enough to do this,
so I agreed to co-author the guide with her, since I was going to buy Legend of
Dragoon. $10 at Blockbuster for a pretty good game, not bad.

I must say that I am fortunate to be able to write with such a great author.
Legend of Dragoon is a great RPG for the PlayStation, even though it can't
really match up to a big number of the Final Fantasy games. I definitely
recommend you buy it if you don't already have it. Anyway... I will do the
first and second chapters, while Cyril does Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Anyway,
that's a wrap for me.


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|Cyril's Introduction|
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Hello once again to another FAQ by Cyril.  Once again, I write for RPGs.  I
am surprised by myself, actually.  I havent written for anything else.  Legend
ofDragoon has always held a special place in my heart.  Some call it the 'Final
Fantasy VIII killer' well, I am not too sure thats true, but without a doubt,
it's an amazing game.

My guide is on Chapters 3 and 4, or Disk 3 and 4.  They are probably the
hardest chapters in the game, but 3 is one of the easiest to write for.  I had
a lot of fun writing this guide, even though it took me quite a while.  I
wouldnt say this is my best guide to date, but its still pretty damn good. 
So...once again. Without further adeu, Cyril's (and Gbness's) Legend of Dragoon
Guide.


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---3. E-Mail Rules---
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This is for Gbness, by the way.

I love getting good emails, so you're free to email me with a question any
time, but I will not answer questions already answered in this FAQ. I prefer
e-mails with good grammar, and subjects with LoD <insert whatever here> or I
will delete them, sorry. Also, don't send me e-mails about other games with a
Legend of Dragoon subject, please. And don't bother sending things like:

"You friggin' idiot. Your guides suck, you suck, and everything about you
sucks. DIE DIE DIE!"

"BURN IN THE FLAMES OF HELL, YOU STUPID RETARD!!!"

"What the hell did you think you were doing writing all that garbage, you piece
of crap?

"I hope you fall down the stairs and break every bone in your body!"

"u su><0rz, eVrYtInG BoUt u sUx, dIe ass!!!!!!1"

I will laugh at e-mails like that and delete them.

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---4. IM Rules---
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This is for Gbness, by the way.

I recently closed my AIM list, so you can't IM me without me adding you. It's
Gbness, just the same as my contributor name, so e-mail me to be added. If you
are added, please remember the following things: I am on often, but I tend to
be on in the evenings and occasionally the afternoon the most, except on
holidays, when I am on usually in the morning.

I am usually quite busy (I have guides to write and tons of things to do
simultaneously), so don't IM me a lot, please. Also, I won't work for your
site. Ever. There are very few people I will trust to work for a site, and I
just plain have better things to do. So bottom line: be polite, don't ask me to
work for your site or harass me with annoying questions, and it's all good.

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---5. Game Basics---
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This section will run over the basics of the game "The Legend of Dragoon"  This
section will go over the areas like this:

Controls
Field (Encounters, items)
Menus (Commands, Saving)
Battle (Status effects, turns, Additions, Dragoon transformation)


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Controls
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X
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Your god.  This button is the main command button.  This is basically "yes".
When you press the X button, you are selecting a command.

Field: Talks to people, Searche's location directly in front of you
Menu: Select, go onto sub-menu
Battle: Select, Addition, Boosts Multi items

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O
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O is basically the contrast of X.  It is no, or 'deselect'.

Field: Nothing
Menu: Cancel your choice
Battle: Cancel the choice, Counter in Addition


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Triangle
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This brings up the menu screen.

Field: Brings up the menu screen
Menu: Only works on the items and weapons screen.  Sorts your items by type.
Battle: None

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Square
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None.  Square has no use in Legend of Dragoon.

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L1 and R1
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Only works on the field screens.  In dungeons, press this to make the icon
above darts head and exits to the screen disappear.  Press it again and they
will reappear.

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L2 and R2
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These only work in battle.  Pressing these buttons in battle makes doing
additions easier.  it changes the screen position.  The easiest screen position
to do additions by is from behind the characters.  You can change the screen
position at the beginning over every characters turn, if needed.

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The Field
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Towns
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Towns are encounter free locations in which have shops.  They also have NPC's
(Non Player characters, or non playable characters)   Types of Shops include:

Inns: These restore the Hp and MP to the entire group, not only the current
party.

Clinic: This restores the status of all members in the group.  Unless more then
two of your characters have status effects (or they have multiple status
effects on them) then this is a rip-off and should be avoided.

Item Shop: Sells you Items which will help you on your journey.  These may be
healing or attacking items.

Weapon Shops:  These sell you weapons, and accessories.

Inns and Clinics are marked with a "Yellow" entrance, while shops have a 'Blue'
entrance.

In certain towns, you can find a woman named 'Martel'.  She will take any of
the Stardust that you have found.  Look in the Stardust section for more
details.

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Dungeons
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Dungeons are locations where you will fight random encounters with enemies.
You can find items in dungeons, as well as bosses.  In dungeons, there is a
revolving arrow that changes color as Dart walks.  This arrow signifies how
close Dart is to an encounter.

Blue: Clear, not near an encounter

Yellow: An encounter is going to happen soon

Red: You are only a few steps away from an encounter!

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Action Icons
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Every once in a while, when Dart goes near something, a little yellow icon
appears.  This icon is called an action icon.  By pressing X at an Action icon,
Dart will do an action he normally would not perform just through the normal
area of gameplay.  Some actions include Jumping, and using teleporters.

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Menu Screen
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The Menu screen is the screen that you will see quite often in Legend of
Dragoon.  You must press the Triangle button to view it.

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Status
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The Status screen shows the characters' stats, as well as their skills.  If
they have Dragoon skills, then those will be shown as well.

On the top left is the characters portrait.  This works as a guide to tell you
which character it is, and you will learn these quite quickly. The stats by him
are:

Name: The characters' name.  This only effects you storywise.

Level: The current level of the character.  This rises as you fight and gain
EXP through battles.

D'Lvl: This is the characters' Dragoon level.  The maximum is level 5, and can
only be obtained if you have the appropriate Dragoon Spirit for each character.
You start at level 1.

HP: The total health the character has, and the maximum.  If you had 90/100 HP
hee, you would have a maximum of 100 health, though you have 90 left.

MP: This will only rise if you have a Dragoon Spirit.  It starts off at 20 once
you get a Dragoon Spirit, but as you progress through battles gaining SP, it
rises.  At Dragoon Level 2, it goes to 40, at level 3 it goes to 60...At level
4 it goes to 80, and at level 5 it is at 100.  There is items that allow your
MP to go higher then 100, though the maximum MP for a character is 250 (which
can be obtained by equipping an Amulet and a Magical Hat on the same character).

EXP: The Current EXP of the character, and the EP to the next level.  If the
number was 100/250, you would have 100 EXP, and would need 150 more to get to
the next level.
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The lower part of the status area is the Stat and Dragoon area.

Directly below the character pictures are the stats and  Dragoon section.  This
section shows the spells of your Dragoon form, the characters stats, and the
strength of each Dragoon Stat.

On the far left is the stats of the basic character.  The far left stats are
the characters stats without their equipment.  The stats in the center line are
the equipment bonus's the equipment gives to the character.  The stats on the
right of this section are the total stats.  So if Dart had a base attack stats
of 40, and his weapon gave him 15 attack, his total stat would be 55.

The Spells are on the far right, and depends on each character.  These spells
and their costs can be found in the Dragoon section of the guide.  The
percentage to the side on each stat means how much stronger the character is in
Dragoon form.  If the attack stat is at 170%, then a normal Dragoon attack will
do 70% more damage then the physical attack of the character out of Dragoon
form.  If Defense is at 220%, then the character will take less then half
damage from physical attacks.

Each stat means:

AT-Attack: This stat represents the strength of the characters physical attacks
on an enemy.

DF-Defense: The higher this stat is, the less damage a physical attack from an
enemy will do to the character.

MAT-Magic Attack: This stat shows the strength of a characters' magical
attacks. The higher this point, the more damage the character will do with
magical attacks.

MDF-Magical Defense: This stat shows how muchor little damage you take from
magical attacks.  The higher the number, the less damage you will take from
magical attacks.

Speed: This stat is not improved as you gain levels.  The higher this stats is,
the faster you will go in battle, and the more turns you will take.

A-HIT-Attack Hit: The higher this stat is, the higher chance your character
will hit with a physical attack.  This stat does not increasewhen you gain a
level, only through the equipment.

M-Hit-Magical Hit: The higher this stat is, the higher chance your character
will hit with a magical attack.  This stat does not increase when you gain a
level, only through equipment.

A-AV-Attack Evasion: The higher this stat is, the lower the chance is of a
physical attack hitting you.  This stat does not increase as you gain levels,
only through equipment.

M-AV: The higher this stat is, the lower the chance is of a magical attack
hitting you.  This stat does not increase as you gain levels, only through
equipment.


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Item
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There are three commans from the items menu. Each have different uses.  You can
only have a maximum of 32 items in your inventory at a time.

Use: this selection allows you to use items in your inventory.  Out of battle,
you can only use restorative or healing items.  Such items include, but are not
limited to: Body Purifiers, Healing Breeze's, and Sun Rhapsodies.

Discard:  Because of the maximum item limit for your inventory, you will need
to discard items at times.  This selection allows you to do such.  Select the
item you wish to discard, and then select 'yes'.  This will permanently discard
the item.  Once you discard an item it is impossible to get it back.

List: this section shows the list of items that you have in your inventory.
You can not use or discard items from this area. If you press the Triangle
Button on this screen, you can sort through your items.

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Armed
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This command lets you change the equipment of the character of choice.  Here,
you will see the characters current equipment at the top of the screen, and
there is a list in which you can scroll down on the bottom right.  Not all
charachters can use all weapons and armor.

The stats on the far left are the base stats, the stats in the center are the
stats your current equipment gives you.  The stats closet to the equipment list
are the stats after improvements from the equipment.

Some weapons, while weak, have special status effects that they cause that may
be more beinificial then just the sheer strength of a single weapon.  Make sure
to check things before equipping them, as stats do not mean everything.

Note that only one person can equip said item.  If you only have one of each
item in your inventory, only a single character can equip it.


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Additions
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This command allows you to select the additions for your party members.  Not
all members have additions, though most do.  The list is at the bottom of the
screen, as is the power.  The strongest additions are not always the best, as
you may need more SP.   Your goal is to have a mix of the best SP and physical
attack percentage.

Each addition has five levels, in which each time it levels up, the stats and
the SP rise.  the level rises after 20 complete uses of the said addition.  To
Select an addition for a character, bring the cursor over it, and press X.  You
can only have one addition equipped at a time.


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Replace
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You can only have three members in your battle party at a time.  Every other
character is 'waiting'.  These members can be accessed at any time by pressing
this button. Select the character you wish to leave your battle party, and then
click on the character that you wish to join it.  You can not switch Dart out
of the party other then at select times.


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Config
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This command allows you to configure the way the game is played.

Vibrate:  Dual Shock controllers have a vibration feature.  if you want this
option on or off, you should change this.  Selecting 'yes' means it is on, and
selecting 'no' turns the feature off.

Sound: Some televisions only have a MONO feature, while others have both Stereo
and MONO.  Stero changes the sound between both speakers, while MONO keeps it
equal through both.  Stereo is usualy preferred.

Morph: This will allow you to shorten Dragoon Transformations.  If you are sick
of seeing the transformations, choose 'short' and the transformations will be
much faster.  Normal is what you see normally.


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Save
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This option allows you to save your game.  You can only save your game at said
save points.  These include:

The end of each chapter
The world map
At light objects found in dungeons in which this guide refers to as a 'save
point'.

You need one block of free space to save. Each save takes and additional block.
 This game only examines the Memory Card in Slot 1.


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Battle
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This section is to help with the battles in Legend of Dragoon.  I am mainly
here to give you the basics, ao here we go.

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Elements
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Each living creature in the world of Endiness (the world in which the
characters of Legend of Dragoon live) has been born with an element.  This
element can be one of eight, and the element you were born with gives you a
natural skill when inside of it.

There are eight elements:

Fire
Water
Wind
Earth
Light
Darkness
Thunder
Non-Elemental

Each character in the game is born with one of these elements.  And these
effect the way the character acts in battle.  A character who is Water
elemental will take more damage from his opposng element, Fire, and vice-versa.

An Earth elemental character will have more skill and power (so it does more
damage) with an earth elemental attack item or spell then one with Wind. If the
Earth elemental character used a Wind object, the item would have less power
then it would normally if used on another character with a different element.

If a Light elemental character attacked a Darkness elemental monster, they
would (udually) do more damage then a Water elemental character attacking the
same monster.  The Darkness elemental monster would also do more damage back to
the light elemental character.

Note that Thunder and Non-Elemental monsters and party members do not have this
same problem, but nor do they have any strengths or weaknesses to exploit on
enemies.

Elemental forces are as follows:

Element         Opposite
Fire              Water
Earth             Wind
Light           Darkness
Water             Fire
Wind              Earth
Darkness          Light


Each element also has a specific color attached to it.  To tell each Monsters
element, you just need to put the cursor on him as if to attack him.  The color
of the bar where his name is will tell you his element.  The colors are as
shown:

Element:         Color:
Fire              Red
Water            Blue
Earth           Brown
Wind            Green
Light          Yellow
Darkness      Dark Blue/Black
Thunder        Purple
Non-Elemental    Grey

You must learn to use elements to your advantage in battle, or you will never
master this game.


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Stats
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Character levels and stats have a large effect on the battle.  You can see a
specific characters stats by going to their status screen on the Menu.  Stats
do a variety of things.  On each stat, the higher the better.

AT-Attack: This stat represents the strength of the characters physical attacks
on an enemy.

DF-Defense: The higher this stat is, the less damage a physical attack from an
enemy will do to the character.

MAT-Magic Attack: This stat shows the strength of a characters' magical
attacks. The higher this point, the more damage the character will do with
magical attacks.

MDF-Magical Defense: This stat shows how muchor little damage you take from
magical attacks.  The higher the number, the less damage you will take from
magical attacks.

Speed: This stat is not improved as you gain levels.  The higher this stats is,
the faster you will go in battle, and the more turns you will take.

A-HIT-Attack Hit: The higher this stat is, the higher chance your character
will hit with a physical attack.  This stat does not increasewhen you gain a
level, only through the equipment.

M-Hit-Magical Hit: The higher this stat is, the higher chance your character
will hit with a magical attack.  This stat does not increase when you gain a
level, only through equipment.

A-AV-Attack Evasion: The higher this stat is, the lower the chance is of a
physical attack hitting you.  This stat does not increase as you gain levels,
only through equipment.

M-AV: The higher this stat is, the lower the chance is of a magical attack
hitting you.  This stat does not increase as you gain levels, only through
equipment.


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The Flow of Battle
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This section is going to descrive the flow of battle.  The Legend of Dragoon
uses a Turn Based battle system.


There are always three characters in your battle party.  These characters are
selected either by you, or the game, depending on the location you are at.
Each character comes with a base set of stats that helps them damage enemies in
whatever ways they can.

When a battle starts, the character or enemy with the highest speed will go
first.