Ancient badges

[Bio-Thief]

I read some where that the badges don't boast damage vs the bosses. Is that true, are bosses not treated as their race for DMG buffs?

[Darnavir]

There are "monster bosses" and challenge bosses. The "boss monsters" (boss slime, boss fairy, boss spider etc.) count as the monster type and are affected by the badges. Challenge bosses (what you see in challenges, things like florzporb, arachnetta, emelda etc.) count as "challenge boss" type, have their separate damage type that affects them and are not affected by the badges.

[Fel]

Well, there goes my plan on finally taking down the first level of octobaddie with a full set of devilfish on everyone.
I'll just keep it as a "boss for later" as I get more WAs, anvils and so on.

[Bio-Thief]

Ok so buying more than 100 makes sense thanks. Yeah still haven't killed Octobaddie even once lol I thought of your plan

[Darnavir]

IDK about that. I got them way too late to have any use of them for normal monsters, but normal monsters generally aren't a problem (based on observed progression of others). Challenge bosses are the problem (both in SDs and outside), at least past early SD game.

Disassembled talismans are of some use for a while, but not too many - if you don't have a big problem with non-bosses now, don't get them, the non-bosses are getting less dangerous when compared to challenge bosses over time.

[Fel]

Well, it depends on what you call "normal monsters" I guess.
If you are trying to raise your area quest total completion (or whatever that's called, the game is not running right now) you need to defeat normal enemies at significantly higher levels, and probably a lot more waves of them as well (reducing the waves costs too much beyond the first few levels).
Getting the 3 seconds clear is probably not attainable for high difficulty unless you have really beefy equipment (I mean severe anvil, level 20 on all characters and such) but the other ones also become tricky as the difficulty rises and bonus damage to the species can play a role there.

[Darnavir]

A single 30-stack is enough for monsters in normal areas. You won't be keeping the areas on highest difficulties most of the time, especially when farming for clears/prestige points. 1 char can use it for clearing missions. If you spend hundreds of rubies on generally useless talismans (0 -> 30 can be useful, 50 -> 150 most likely isn't) when you are already low on rubies, you will miss them elsewhere.