Onion Knight Grind

[Vambran]

1 - Get Character LvL 99
2 - Get Job Class LvL 99
3 - Fight Dragons in the Crystal Tower Till they drop Rare Onion Armour and a Sword.

Now you have the best Melee class in the game. Although with no super dungeons its just for show now.

[gallocadmio]

Hope they update us someday with content to have a motive.

[Katie]

I have *3* Onion Swords and no Onion Armors. I am in disbelief.

And yeah, it's not worth it. I did it just so I could say I did and to see if what it was all about. It's totally not worth it.

[Katie]

Finally found mine. The armor took forever. I have like 10 shields.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2619639220

[JayCub3]

I did this out of curiosity and to get all my characters to Maximum stats. (Be sure to switch to the Viking class before leveling up to get maximum HP growth).
According to the bestiary, I killed a total of 66 Yellow Dragons, 88 Green Dragons, and 73 Red Dragons.

In the end, I wound up with 5 Onion Swords, 4 Onion Helms (exclusive drop from Yellow Dragons), 4 Onion Armors (Red Dragons), 4 Onion Gauntlets (Green Dragons), and 24 Onion Shields. My Elixirs are also maxed out.

This was a lot easier than getting the rare drops in Final Fantasy IV.

I did not max out job levels for all of my characters for each job class. However, I did make sure to get each job class to 99 with at least one of my characters.

Overall, I had a lot of fun with this one, and really can't wait until FFV arrives.

[HandgunAmmo]

Farm the dragons while leveling up. Leveling up and farming Onion gear doesn't need to be two steps. Honestly farm the swords first and the Onion Knights can equip good armor already. I maxed out all four characters level 99 with full Onion closer to release.

1. Farm exp and Onion Swords
2. Farm exp, Onion levels, and the rest of the Onion Armor.

Breaking these into three separate tasks will make this process so much longer.

[Keytee Tamira]

Originally posted by Vambran:

1 - Get Character LvL 99
2 - Get Job Class LvL 99
3 - Fight Dragons in the Crystal Tower Till they drop Rare Onion Armour and a Sword.

Now you have the best Melee class in the game. Although with no super dungeons its just for show now.

Well, the reward is that you simply STOMP the final bosses of the game.

In a way, it makes sense. The true reward for grinding to such great heights, is the ability to become a walking invincible machine of destruction. In my opinion, that's what every JRPG should allow.

[Pure Mind Games]

Originally posted by Keytee Tamira:

Originally posted by Vambran:

1 - Get Character LvL 99
2 - Get Job Class LvL 99
3 - Fight Dragons in the Crystal Tower Till they drop Rare Onion Armour and a Sword.

Now you have the best Melee class in the game. Although with no super dungeons its just for show now.

Well, the reward is that you simply STOMP the final bosses of the game.

In a way, it makes sense. The true reward for grinding to such great heights, is the ability to become a walking invincible machine of destruction. In my opinion, that's what every JRPG should allow.

I agree, I love getting super powerful that my character just has to look at the enemy and they die.

[NosAnalogD]

Originally posted by Katie:

Finally found mine. The armor took forever. I have like 10 shields.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2619639220

I'm surprised this was done in under 30 hours

Hmm...maybe I should try an Onion Knight only run next playthrough

[Keytee Tamira]

Originally posted by NosAnalogD:

Originally posted by Katie:

Finally found mine. The armor took forever. I have like 10 shields.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2619639220

I'm surprised this was done in under 30 hours

Hmm...maybe I should try an Onion Knight only run next playthrough

Onion Knights are Super Weak without Onion Equipment, even if you're Job Level 99 and Level 99

[NosAnalogD]

I know. It would be a challenge run.

[onionwarrior298]

Sorry to butt in, but I got almost 1 set of Onion Equipment on the go, with the exception of the Onion Gloves. The only problem, is that this "Green Dragon" won't drop the Onion Gloves, no matter how long of a grind I did. Is there a statistic for the rare drops of the 3 dragons? It has already been, what, 2 months now that I grinded?! And I STILL haven't got the last piece to the Onion set.

[Loruichi]

how long did it take you guys to get the first onion ?
I'm att about 25-30H grinding Red Dragons and killed 53 so far with no sword. got 7 or 8 shields and about 50-60 elixirs

[Lars]

Well... before that. Use Black Belt and get HP to 9999 because of their high Vitality. Once you leveled enough up with them til 9999hp then use whatever class you like and knock yourself out fighting dragons.

The standard easiest way to level up is attacking those Qum Qum enemies spawn from Bluck i guess. So it all depends on your preference

[Eyeburn]

The onion knight grind is true to the original, minus the weapon upgrade glitch. That said, it's also why it's terribly dated. Grinding to 99 is whatever. Grinding the job to 99 is whatever. The truly horrible part of this grind is the dragon encounter rate.

I did this grind on the DS version years ago, and having the ??? cave to ensure dragon encounters DRAMATICALLY speeds up the equipment grind, and even then it took quite a while. For now, on the pixel remaster, this grind is dozens upon dozens of hours, and in no way worth the time.