Grindy Achievement Guide

It's about the farm and grinding achievements.

WARNING
Spoilers ahead!!!

Obtain all gear

This Achievement can be grindy and boring as ♥♥♥♥.

You need to posses every armor piece in the game once.
You can sell it after it was in your inventory or throw it away.
There are a few missable pieces and those can give you trouble.


Get 50 GP and buy the Bandana at the Potos Store before you leave.


In Republic of Tasnica is a Merchant, who sells the Gold Ring.
When you enter always go the rightmost possible path and up.
You can see him from a balcony.
Only avaible after defeating Dark Stalker boss.


After clearing the Mana Palace before heading to Pure Land there is Neko
on the right side of the entrance, You need to walk around the back side of the palace to reach him. He will sell you 3 missable armor pieces.


And now the real grindy ones:

Arm Guards and Rings
Farm em as soon as you see the related monster in a fix spot.

- Guardian Ring
have fun with slaughtering Doom Swords for this piece of crap in Mana Palace or Mana Fortress

- Ninja Gloves
prepare to kill tons of Dark Stalkers in Underground City or the Mana Fortress

- Dragon Ring
kill Ice Thugs for this one in Pure Land and only there

- Watcher Ring
get this from Eggplant Man in Pure Land
the can rarely be spawned by Shape Shifters in Mana Fortress but do not bet on this

- Imp's Ring
the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ghosts in Pure Land and only there

- Amulet Ring
Tsunamis in Mana Fortress will drop these, unlikly missable

- Faerie's Ring
better grab 3 of these by killing Wolf Lords in Mana Fortress, best armor piece for this slot


Armor
You'r safe here, all avaible in Mana Fortress.

- Vampire Cape
kill Fiend Heads for this one

- Power Suit
best one for the boy, obtain it from Wimpers

- Faerie Cloak
recieve the best grily dress from Master Ninjas


Headgear
Better watch out for good farming spots, but you can get them all in Mana Fortress.

- Cockatrice Cap
slaughter Basilisks for this one, few in Underground City, only ONE in Mana Fortress

- Amulet Helm
get this from National Scar in Mana Palace or Mana Fortress

- Griffin Helm
only obtainable in Pure Land from Griffin Hands, best one for the boy

- Faerie Crown
smash the golden buckets for this one, called Mace Menace, best headgar for the girls
Mana Fortress


If you possesed all of those rarities and the Achievment is still missing,
revisit ALL vendors around the wolrd include Neko and buy whatever crap they have.

Good luck hunting!

All weapons at level 9

Get every Weapon to it's max.

That means all weapons upgradet to lvl 9 except the sword.
This one you will get via the two locked Mana Spells from Dryad after defeating Thanatos.

You don't need to lvl them!

If you miss an orb during playthrough you can get them later at some points.
Last option is by obtaining them from the Mana Fortress enemys.
Because of the new zone system in Mana Fortress, it is quite easier to farm specific enemys.

All orbs are listed include the boss orbs:

Sword's Orbs
1 Mantis Ant - boss
2 Pandora Castle - chest - after Wall Face battle in Pandora Castle treasure room
3 Great Viper - boss
4 Northtown Ruins - chest
5 Tasnica - talk to the king after defeating Dark Stalker
6 Mana Palace - chest
7 Thunder Gigas - boss
8 Using Mana Power from Dryad after defeating Thanatos, only avaible in last boss fight


Spear's Orbs
1 Tropicallo - boss
2 Pandora Castle - chest - after Wall Face battle in Pandora Castle treasure room
3 Santa's House - chest
4 Northtown Ruins - chest
5 Gold Tower - chest
6 Aegagropilon - boss
7 Mech Rider (3) - boss
8 Tsunami - enemy in Mana Fortress


Glove's Orbs
1 Biting Lizard - boss
2 Moogle Village - chest
3 Ice Palace - chest
4 Metal Mantis - boss
5 Palace of Darkness - chest
6 Red Dragon - boss
7 Wolf Lord - enemy in Mana Fortress
8 Wolf Lord - enemy in Mana Fortress


Boomerang's Orbs
1 Spikey - boss
2 Spring Beak - boss
3 Frost Gigas - boss
4 Vampire - boss
5 Blue Spike - boss
6 Underground City - chest
7 Blue Dragon - boss
8 Master Ninja - enemy in Mana Fortress


Bow's Orbs
1 Wall Face - boss
2 Jabberwocky - boss
3 Boreal Face - boss
4 Northtown Ruins - chest
5 Gorgon Bull - boss
6 Kettle Kin - boss
7 Snow Dragon - boss
8 Metal Crab - enemy in Mana Fortress


Axe's Orbs
1 Fire Gigas - boss
2 Moogle Village - chest
3 Fire Palace - chest
4 Imperial Castle - chest
5 Gold Tower - chest
6 Dragon Worm - boss
7 Fiend Head - enemy in Mana Fortress
8 Fiend Head - enemy in Mana Fortress


Whip's Orbs
1 Thieve's Ship - chest
2 Talk to Jema after defeating Jabberwocky
3 Mech Rider - boss
4 Doom's Wall - boss
5 Imperial Castle - chest
6 Hydra - boss
7 Hexas - boss
8 Mace Menace - enemy in Mana Fortress


Javelin's Orbs
1 Kilroy - boss
2 Matango - chest
3 Minotaur - boss
4 Mech Rider (2) - boss
5 Lime Slime - boss
6 Snapdragon - boss
7 Axe Beak - boss
8 Whimper - enemy in Mana Fortress

All magic at level 8

You have two ways to do this:

You can lvl up your magic during the playthrough like it is meant to be.
It is easier now, because the girls get their MP back after lvl up.
Always keep your Farie Walnuts stacked.

Or you do it like me:
In late game after clearing Pure Land and high lvl, both girls have 99 MP,
first go to the wind palace. (it is found in Four Season Forest near the Sprite Village)
The Sprite's Grandpa will refill all your HP and MP when you talk to him plus save your game.
Select the cheapest spell for every Mana Spirit to a shortcut you like to lvl up for the girl.
Now starts the porno grind.
Simply press the shortcut hotkey and press right button once.
It will now select the Sprite.
Cast the spell.
Directly after the Mana Sprite disappears and the girl is holding it's weapon again,
press the hotkey and press right once.
Now the boy is selected for the spell to cast on him, do so.
Now repeat.

The girl will not be interrupted by the spell effect and the sprite and boy will be selected automatically
by pressing right button once, because the spell animation is still running on selected partymember.

It is boring as ♥♥♥♥, but an easy and cheap way to grind up.

Don't use the girls magic in places where you have no weapons in hand,
or you will only get around half spell cast xp!



For the sprite it is more fun to do:

Go into Mana Fortress.
Put Mana Absorb from Luna to one hotkey and every spell you like on the second one.
It can be a cheap one or expensive, it dosn't matter.
Start spamming Mana Absorb to lvl it up around rank 2.
Now you can cast the spells you like to grind up magic lvl on everything.
If you ran low on mana, cast Mana Absorb on any monster.
Beware of Wimpers and Master Ninjas, they use Wall.
Shape Shifter's don't have Mana.
Slash your way to the end, a room with 3 Master Ninjas to the left and 3 Mace Menace to the right.
Spam your attack magic on all 3 Mace Menace at once, so they don't die to quickly.
If they die, exit the area to the north, go direclty south and repeat.
Mace Menace give you the highest amount of exp, so it is a good grinding spot for lvl up too.

After both girls reach lvl 8 with every Mana Spirit they have you unlock the Achievement.

Visit all locations on Flammie

This one is a little bit annoying, because you have to fly around very carefully on the map with Flammie. Just land on every position that gives a text box when you'r over it.

Maybe i will add a map in the future, if i can find a good one.
Or screenshots...

All Locations, tried to sort em a bit.

- Potos Village
- Potos Village Cannon Travel Center
- Potos Village Outskirts
- Water Palace
- Neko's

- Pandora
- Pandora Castle
- Pandora Ruins
- East Kippo Village
- Kippo Village

- Northwest Gaia Lowlands
- Southeast Gaia Lowlands
- Southeast Gaia Lowlands Cannon Travel Center
- Witch Castle

- Sprite Village
- Wind Palace
- Forest of Seasons
- Forest of Seasons Cannon Travel Center
- Great Forest
- Great Forest Cannon Travel Center
- Matango
- Fung Castle
- Cave of the White Dragon

- Lofty Mountains
- Mandala
- Mandala Temple

- Republic of Tasnica

- Kakkara
- Kakkara Cannon Travel Center
- Kakkara Desert
- Fire Palace
- Moon Palace

- Todo Village
- North Frozen Forest
- North Frozen Forest Cannon Travel Center
- South Frozen Forest
- Santa's House
- Tropics
- Crystal Forest
- Neko's Crystal Forest Branch
- Ice Palace

- Southtown
- Southtown Cannon Travel Center
- Northtown
- Northtown Ruins
- Imperial Palace

- Gold City
- Gold City Tower

- Mana Palace
- Pure Land
- Mana Fortress

- Lighthouse Isle
- Turtle Shell Island

Complete the guide

You need to kill every Monster once and you need to forge all weapons.
Talk to everyone, explore the areas, and you will be fine.


These characters are easy be overseen:

Nr 40 - Elman, the girl's dad.
You can find him in Pandora Castle in the beginning,
or later in his house in Pandora.

Nr 43 - Walrusker
Talk to any Walrusker in Todo Village on Icy Country.

Nr 46 - Pecard, he is the keeper of the light house.
It's not hard to find, just look out for a large grey tower in the ocean when you fly around with Flammie.


Missable Monster in order of appearing and their common spawn places.

Nr 10 - Polter Chair: Witch Castle
Nr 11 - Werewolf: Witch Castle
Nr 13 - Ma Goblin: Earth Palace
Nr 14 - Goblin: Earth Palace
Nr 15 - Chess Knight: Earth Palace or Pandora Ruins
Nr 16 - Zombie: Pandora Ruins or Northtown Ruins
Nr 17 - Tomato Man: Pandora Ruins or Northtown Ruins
Nr 18 - Evil Sword: Pandora Ruins
Nr 26 - Sand Stinger: Desert before Sandship or Fire Palace
Nr 32 - Dark Funk: Fire Palace or Northtown Ruins
Nr 34 - Specter: Ice Palace or Northtown Ruins
Nr 35 - Red Drop: Fire Palace or Northtown Ruins
Nr 37 - Robin Foot: Fire Palace or Northtown Ruins
Nr 38 - Mystic Book: Ice Palace or Fire Palace or Imperial Palace
Nr 39 - Weepy Eye: Ice Palace or Northtown Ruins or Golden Tower
Nr 41 - Grave Bat: Northtown Ruins or Palace of Darkness or Underground City
Nr 42 - Ghoul: Northtown Ruins or Underground City
Nr 43 - Wizard Eye: Northtown Ruins or Golden Tower
Nr 44 - Imp: Northtown Ruins or Palace of Darkness
Nr 46 - Emberman: Imperial Palace or Palace of Darkness or Golden Tower
Nr 48 - Dark Ninja: Imperial Palace or Palace of Darkness or Golden Tower
Nr 52 - Fierce Head: Palace of Darkness or Underground City
Nr 59 - Steelpion: Mana Palace Outskirts or Underground City
Nr 65 - Gremlin: Mana Palace
Nr 69 - Mushgloom: Pure Land
Nr 70 - Ice Bandit: Pure Land
Nr 71 - Needlion: Pure Land
Nr 72 - Griffin Hand: Pure Land
Nr 74 - Eggplant Man: Pure Land or rarely can be spawned by Shape Shifter
Nr 75 - Ghost: Pure Land

Reach the Ending

Watch the credits until the end where it say's The End! XD

Famous last words...

I'm happy for any suggestions and stuff.

Please ignore my bad english and spelling, im not used to it.
If there are things described way to complicated feel free to correct me
and give a better way to describe them easier.

This is my first serious guide on steam, so tell me if you like it or not and if not why?!
I can learn best from my mistakes!

If you need more detailed information about something specific feel free to ask.


Credits to
"eteirbos" for picking out that the girl's dad is a missable character
"moeddi" for picking out the easy to miss Gold ring from Tasnica Store
"xWing" for some additions and notes
"didymos1120" for correcting the 6th Boomerang Orb location

[john.okleberry]

- Watcher Ring
get this from Eggplant Man in Pure Land

I found the easiest place to get this one is in the underground/ancient city. There is an Eggplant Man at the end of the train and right next to a door with only one nearby enemy that is pretty weak. Decent opportunity to level up Popoi's magic while repeatedly taking this one out too. Just an additional thought having just completed the game with all achievements today. Nice guide! My least favorite was the Basilisk farming using the waterfall room with 4 of them in the Underground/Ancient City. I got lucky on the Ghosts in the Pure Land- I hear they are the worst for a lot of people. Once you get to the Mana Fortress you can put on a movie or show and just farm away on the others. The basilisk is one you don't want to have to farm in the fortress if you can help it for sure.

[Ulyaoth]

If you miss out any Orb, you can farm enemys in Mana Fortress.
In your case it would be Master Ninjas.

[IamW]

I somehow missed a Boomerang Orb (propably the one in the Underground City) and I'm right before entering the Mana Fortress. Can I somehow get the Orb I'm missing since I can't reenter the Underground City?

[FafnirChaos]

I just started this up again after 2 years of not playing it... Noticed that like me not many people played through the entire game, only 17% of the people who bought this actually beat the game which isn't that hard to do.... I'm just blown away by that... we'll soon it will be close to 18% as I finish this before LoM gets released.

[Cmdo.Delta]

Someone made a map: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1305252893

[BalrogRPG]

For leveling magic the natural way there is a halfway point that I like to use. When you arrive in Northtown and are tasked to go to the Northtown Ruins the Imperial Palace will have 3 enemies spawn there. The entrance to the palace is directly next to an inn so it makes it easy to spend all your mana take a quick rest and rinse and repeat. This gets everything you have to level 4 rather quickly making later grinds or natural progression less tedious.

[XT]

Can you still cheat and get an extra sword orb like the old days?

[StormTehSinner]

To add something useful to this guide:
In the cave before meeting Axe Beak in Pure Lands you can fight Ice Bandits, one Eggplant Man and one Ghost. Pretty good farm spot for Dragon Ring, Watcher Ring and Imp Ring, IF you can handle Needlions because they can be really tough.

(PS: Still being pretty lucky, griffin helm took me just 15min and imp's ring dropped on the 6th Ghost I killed and my 2nd watcher ring from the 2nd eggplant man I killed in Pure Land. ;D
Only the dragon ring took me a good half an hour to get. I hope this kind of luck sticks around till the end :D)

[StormTehSinner]

Guardian Ring -> First f***ing Doom Sword I killed in the Mana Palace...
Am I really THAT lucky right now or did they adjust the drop rates? This can't be real...
(sry for abusing this as a journal of luck ;D )

[StormTehSinner]

Just replaying the whole game to get all the achievements and what should I say? Luckiest savegame ever... just got the "Watcher Ring" from one of the Shape Shifter just outside the Mana Palace on my way to Underground City! ;D
Cockatrice Cap after only like 20 Basilisks killed.
And right before getting to Kettle Kin I got my hands on the Ninja Gloves aswell. Without even farming. :D