How many Flan did you need to kill for RAINBOW PUDDING ?

[Brother MEX]

I was lucky, accourding to the Bestiary I only needed 24 Red Mousse, 61 Purple Bavarois and 268 Yellow Jelly for getting my first Rainbow Pudding
Now I am on the way back to Agart for giving it to Puddingway for advancing the Namingway quests.

[Electric Cupcake]

I don't remember. Rainbow Puddings are easy to get.

I got 2-3 by the time I got a single pink tail.

[MOIZEBINGUS]

Yeah as long as you just wait till you're farming pink tails it's easy. You don't really need "???? Love" until the 2nd or 3rd play-through anyway. Don't bother doing it earlier if you plan to go for Adamant armor or you're just wasting your time.

[Brother MEX]

Originally posted by cmoscarell:

... Don't bother doing it earlier if you plan to go for Adamant armor or you're just wasting your time.

Isnt that the purpose of games like FFIV ? ... to waste time

[MOIZEBINGUS]

Originally posted by Brother MEX:

Originally posted by cmoscarell:

... Don't bother doing it earlier if you plan to go for Adamant armor or you're just wasting your time.

Isnt that the purpose of games like FFIV ? ... to waste time :MFF_Tonberry:

So when I went for adamant armor I actually remoted into my PC from work, I'd intiate Flan Princess Battles, and then check back in 3 or 4 minutes while I did other, productive stuff. I had Cecil set to just autocast Cura and had the counter augment. They do a lot of damage, but him casting cura constantly kept my party alive, and with the elixirs and high ethers they drop I was set indefinitely.

[Brother MEX]

Originally posted by MOIZEBINGUS:

Originally posted by Brother MEX:

Isnt that the purpose of games like FFIV ? ... to waste time

So when I went for adamant armor I actually remoted into my PC from work, I'd intiate Flan Princess Battles, and then check back in 3 or 4 minutes while I did other, productive stuff. I had Cecil set to just autocast Cura and had the counter augment. They do a lot of damage, but him casting cura constantly kept my party alive, and with the elixirs and high ethers they drop I was set indefinitely.

I currently level Edge SOLO in Antlions Cave while playing MechWarrior Online ... does it matter which enemy I kill last ?
As I currently have killed approximatly 500 Goblins and havnt gotten the Goblin Summon until now

[MOIZEBINGUS]

Originally posted by Brother MEX:

Originally posted by MOIZEBINGUS:

So when I went for adamant armor I actually remoted into my PC from work, I'd intiate Flan Princess Battles, and then check back in 3 or 4 minutes while I did other, productive stuff. I had Cecil set to just autocast Cura and had the counter augment. They do a lot of damage, but him casting cura constantly kept my party alive, and with the elixirs and high ethers they drop I was set indefinitely.

I currently level Edge SOLO in Antlions Cave while playing MechWarrior Online ... does it matter which enemy I kill last ?
As I currently have killed approximatly 500 Goblins and havnt gotten the Goblin Summon until now :MFF_Mog:

The Goblin one was tough, I actually got it in the antlion cave too on my 2nd run, though I wasn't explicitly grinding for it. I'd love to know WHY they settled on numbers like 0.4% drop rates (or 0.8 with treasure hunter - wee!!!). Even if they'd made it 2%, it would have still been tedious. They should've just made the treasure hunter augment harder to get, and made it boost the drop rate by more than it does.

I'm pretty sure the Artemis bow was the hardest thing for me to get. I had SIX ribbons by the time I got that bow, and must've killed 600 cary's.

[Brother MEX]

Originally posted by Brother MEX:

I currently level Edge SOLO in Antlions Cave while playing MechWarrior Online ... does it matter which enemy I kill last ?

Originally posted by MOIZEBINGUS:

... , I actually got it in the antlion cave too on my 2nd run, though I wasn't explicitly grinding for it...

I asume you were on AUTO-battle and killed the YELLOW Goblin last ?

As the yellow Goblin is named Domovoi and only drops potions, I fear that the position and/or order in which you kill enemies has an influence on which item you get.
With AUTO-battle you kill the Domovoi as the last one, and I fear that I will only get potions because of that ... just got a bronze hourglass in a auto-battle where I killed the yellow goblin last, so at least the drop isnt from the last killed enemy exclusively as the Domovoi only drop potions & tents.

[Spooniest]

I got it by accident just loading up a save file to check on something one day last year. I feel bad cuz everyone is always going on about how hard it is to get this drop.

[Lamori]

I am still trying to get my rainbow puddding trying to decide if i should continue to get some of the extra stuff or just beat it and go for 2nd lay threw

[Brother MEX]

IF you want to have all party members at the same level too, I suggest you farm rainbow pudding as soon as possible as the first item, even before starting to farm the Summon Goblin & Cockatrice items !
Unlike the Summon Creatures items, at least a single rainbow pudding is used for advancing in the Namingway quest series, and because of that it makes sense to farm rainbow puddings as soon as you get the airship.

When you cast the STONE black magic spell on a party member, it is petrified and doesnt receive XP until you cure that.
If you are lucky, you might also get the Summon Goblin item while farming rainbow puddings !

[Malum]

I farmed them in Antlions cave and tracked each flan battle... It took me 41 attempts without Treasure Hunter augment.

(I mistakenly believed that Namingway/GoingMyWay gave you the Treasure Hunter augment at the end of his quest line, so having it equiped was impossible for hunting Rainbow Pudding).

[Sabarok]

For rainbow pudding? Exactly 50 battles (200 Flans) when I got mine.

Pink Tail is where I was luckiest. My first time through the final dungeon, I entered the room with the flan princesses. I used a siren so I could add them to my bestiary. Fought one battle, and a pink tail drop. I didn't even know what it was for, so I continued going through the dungeon :D

I'm currently working on the blue tail. 260 battles and counting to get my first blue tail. I've taken Cecil from 84 to 95 almost entirely on blue tail.

[Malum]

@Sabarok

That luck is INSANE!

You probably don't know this (because you said you didn't know what the pink tail was for), but in the original game if you used a siren (or "alarm" as it was called in some releases) and defeated the Princess Flans, you only had a 1 in 64 chance of it dropping.

Doesn't sound so bad does it? However, in the original SNES release, there were no sirens/alarms, and so you had to random battle the Princesses, which were a rare spawn. ALSO a 1 in 64 chance of even appearing.

Long story, short... Any time on the SNES cart you got into a battle in that room, you only had (assuming you were 100% guaranteed to win the upcoming fight) a 1 in 4096 chance of getting the pink tail.

Knowing this, hearing someone randomly getting it on the first go without even knowing about it makes my jaw nearly hit the floor.

Grats on the insane luck!

[Brother MEX]

I killed my first 6 Flan Princesses today ... no luck with Pink Tail until now

At least I got my 2nd rainbow pudding after wasting a lot of sirens for these monsters that look like a PUNSCHKRAPFERL
https://youtu.be/Gx2gkp2ABk0

[Brother MEX]

Originally posted by Crosseyed Mie:

... Rainbow Puddings are easy to get.
I got 2-3 by the time I got a single pink tail.

Because of the Flan Princess which drops at least 10 times as many Rainbow Puddings as Pink Tails, this is true IF you want to WAIT UNTIL the end on the moon.

Killed 255 "Punschkrapferl" until now and only got a single Rainbow Pudding and ZERO Pink Tails