Valfaris: Mecha Therion - Checklist

Quick list of all weapons, bosses, secrets, etc.

Level By Level

Every key item, unlock, boss (in order).

Stage 1 - Carnack's Mining Base

• ☑️ Shipbuster (Electroburst - Auxiliary)
  
• 👾 Flea (tunnel past Shipbuster, after Heart pickup)
  
• ⏏️ Crash-Burst (Module) *else Heart - Secret
  
• ⏏️ Reaper (Module)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris - Secret
  
• ⏏️ Hellhammer (Destroyer)
  
• ☑️ Jelly Queen (N/A)

Stage 2 - Ruins of Anvin

• ⏏️ Bunker-Buster (Auxiliary)
  
• ⏏️ Item Magnet (Module) *else Heart - Secret
  
• 👾 Flea (after Cerberus Wheels gauntlet, head down)
  
• ⏏️ Bringer Of Mayhem (Destroyer)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris - Secret
  
• ☑️ Living Core (Therion's Fist - Melee)
  
• ☑️ Ancient Fortress (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Grave Master Anvin (Plasma Sword - Melee)

Stage 3 - Plains of Tycrid

• ⏏️ Man o'War (Destroyer)
  
• 🎁 Blood of Valfaris (inside a blue cocoon, before Charron)
  
• ✴️ Charon (Draconis - Melee) *else Blood of Valfaris - Secret
  
• ⚛️ Condensed Soul Core (Mystery Weapon Pt.1/3) *else Heart - Secret
  
• ⏏️ Revenge-Burst (Module) *else Heart - Secret
  
• 👾 Flea (wasp tunnel, immediately after Revenge-Burst secret)
  
• ☑️ Cocoon of Kykris (N/A)
  
• ☑️ King Kykris (Wrath Of Kykris - Auxiliary)
  
• ☑️ Tycrid (N/A)

Stage 4 - Oceanic Wastelands

• ⏏️ Reflector Edge (Module) *else Heart - Secret
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (below Fenrir Class Destroyer)
  
• ☑️ Fenrir Class Destroyer Core (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Lord Carnack (Sword Of Carnage - Melee)
  
• 👾 Flea (after Lord Carnack, jellies section)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (after Lord Carnack, jellies section)
  
• ☑️ King Vykham (All-seeing Eye - Module)

Stage 5 - Outer City

• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (early on, after first checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (right afterwards, zoom-out section)
  
• ☑️ Gorgoroth (N/A)
  
• ⏏️ Bringer Of Light (Destroyer)
  
• ✴️ Frostbite Flea (Eris Ice Axe - Melee) *else Blood of Valfaris - Secret
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris *there's also a trigger here
  *and another right before it, that unlock gate to...
  
• ⚛️ Ectoplasmic Phial (Mystery Weapon Pt.2/3) *else Heart - Secret
  
• 👾 Flea (right before diagonal laser barrier)
  
• ☑️ Herrick (Energiser - Module)
  
• 🔳 Mech Upgrade (Rank 4 Weapons, 3 Modules)

Stage 6 - The City Wall

• 🔳 Blood Shatter Unlock (first checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (early on, after first checkpoint)
  
• 👾 Flea (after first checkpoint, by scaffold structure)
  
• ☑️ Hern (Heart of Xyla - Module)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris - Secret
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (*2) - Secret
  
• ☑️ Cerberus Wheel (N/A)
  
• ⏏️ Power Conveter (Module) *else Heart - Secret
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (midway during "blender" section)
  
• ☑️ Garrex (N/A)

Stage 7 - Fortress Ascent

• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (early on, before first checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (before second defense platform)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris - Secret
  
• 👾 Flea (after second checkpoint, around first spiked mines)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (*2) - Secret
  
• ➿ Valkyrie & Kalmah (Banshee's Soul or Titan's Soul - Module)

Stage 8 - The Cathedral

• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (early on, before first checkpoint)
  
• 👾 Flea (before first checkpoint, floating mines area)
  
• ☑️ Light Giver (N/A)
  
• 🎁 Blood of Valfaris (coffin after underground checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (*2) - Secret
  
• 🎁 Blood of Valfaris (*2) *coffins right after Kalmah & 2 Valkyries
  
• ⚛️ Aberrant Chassis (Mystery Weapon Pt.3/3) *else Heart
  
• ☑️ Undead Kyrkris & Undead Tycrid (Hypercore)
  
• ☑️ Zharn (N/A)
  
• ⏏️ Rally (Module) *else Heart
  
• ☑️ The Heart of Jelly (N/A)

Stage 9 - Vroll's Throne Room

• ⚛️ Soul Eater Forge (Destroyer)
  
• ☑️ Gargoyles (*4)
  
• ☑️ Mecha Vroll & Mecha Head (N/A)

Secrets

List of Secrets in order of appearance.

Stage 1 - Carnack's Mining Base (2/2)

• ⏏️ Crash-Burst (Module) *else Heart
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris

Stage 2 - Ruins of Anvin (2/2)

• ⏏️ Item Magnet (Module) *else Heart
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris

Stage 3 - Plains of Tycrid (3/3)

• ✴️ Draconis (Charon) *else Blood of Valfaris
  
• ⚛️ Condensed Soul Core (Mystery Weapon Pt.1/3) *else Heart
  
• ⏏️ Revenge-Burst (Module) *else Heart

Stage 4 - Oceanic Wastelands (1/1)

• ⏏️ Reflector Edge (Module) *else Heart

Stage 5 - Outer City (3/3)

• ✴️ Eris Ice Axe (Frostbite Flea)
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris *there's also a trigger here
  *and another right before it, that unlock gate to...
  
• ⚛️ Ectoplasmic Phial (Mystery Weapon Pt.2/3) *else Heart

Stage 6 - The City Wall (3/3)

• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (*2)
  
• ⏏️ Power Conveter (Module) *else Heart

Stage 7 - Fortress Ascent (2/2)

• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris
  
• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (*2)

Stage 8 - The Cathedral (3/3)

• 🅾 Blood of Valfaris (*2)
  
• ⚛️ Aberrant Chassis (Mystery Weapon Pt.3/3) *else Heart
  
• ⏏️ Rally (Module) *else Heart

Stage 9 - Vroll's Throne Room (0/0)

• ⬛ (N/A)

Weapons & Auxiliaries

Destroyers are found as normal pick-ups. Melee weapons are exclusively dropped by bosses. Auxiliaries are 50/50.

Destroyers (6)

• 🔲 Hellwraith (starter)
  
• ⏏️ Hellhammer (Stage 1)
  
• ⏏️ Bringer Of Mayhem (Stage 2)
  
• ⏏️ Man o'War (Stage 3)
  
• ⏏️ Bringer Of Light (Stage 5)
  
• ⚛️ Soul Eater (Stage 9)

Note Soul Eater is crafted from 3 "Mystery Weapon" parts (see Secrets sections above). Once these parts are obtained, they'll automatically forge at a designated location in Vroll's Throne Room.

Soul Eater can only be upgraded once, and only in NG+ (70 Blood Metals, 7 Blood of Valfaris).

Melee (6)

• 🔲 Bathoryn (starter)
  
• ⏏️ Therion's Fist (Stage 1) - Living Core (boss)
  
• ⏏️ Plasma Sword (Stage 2) - Grave Master Anvin (boss)
  
• ✴️ Draconis (Stage 3) - Charon (boss)
  
• ⏏️ Sword Of Carnage (Stage 5) - Lord Carnack (boss)
  
• ✴️ Eris Ice Axe (Stage 5) - Frostbite Flea (mini-boss)

Note Draconis is dropped by a secret boss (see Secrets sections above).

Likewise, Eris Ice Axe is dropped by a secret enemy.

Auxiliaries (4)

• 🔲 Blade Tempest (starter)
  
• ⏏️ Electroburst (Stage 1) - Shipbuster (boss)
  
• ⏏️ Bunker-Buster (Stage 2)
  
• ⏏️ Wrath Of Kykris (Stage 3) - King Kykris (boss)

Modules

Most Modules are found in secret areas (see Secrets sections above), the rest are boss drops. Except Reaper, that one is a normal reward.

Modules (12)

• ⏏️ Crash-Burst (Stage 1) - Secret
  
• ⏏️ Reaper (Stage 1)
  
• ⏏️ Item Magnet (Stage 2) - Secret
  
• ⏏️ Revenge-Burst (Stage 3) - Secret
  
• ⏏️ Reflector Edge (Stage 4) - Secret
  
• ⏏️ All-seeing Eye (Stage 4) - King Vykham (boss)
  
• ⏏️ Energiser (Stage 5) - Herrick (boss)
  
• ⏏️ Heart of Xyla (Stage 6) - Hern (boss)
  
• ⏏️ Power Conveter (Stage 6) - Secret
  
• ➿ Titan's Soul (Stage 7) - Valkyrie & Kalmah (boss) *see note
  
• ➿ Banshee's Soul (Stage 7) Valkyrie & Kalmah (boss) *see note
  
• ⏏️ Rally (Stage 8) - Secret

Titan's Soul and Banshee's Soul seem to drop either randomly or dependent on who dies last (Kalmah or Valkyrie). Either way, only one of the two will drop, which means the boss needs to be defeated twice (i.e. NG+; but there might exist an alternative: win the fight, equip the module, restart checkpoint stage and win the fight again).

Bosses

List of bosses and their drops (if any). Some bosses like Ancient Fortress merely act as preludes (and get skipped straight to main boss after being defeated/retrying). Secret bosses (see Secrets section above) will drop Blood of Valfaris in NG+.

Stage 1 - Carnack's Mining Base

• ☑️ Shipbuster (Electroburst)
  
• ☑️ Jelly Queen (N/A)

Stage 2 - Ruins of Anvin

• ☑️ Living Core (Therion's Fist)
  
• ☑️ Ancient Fortress (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Grave Master Anvin (Plasma Sword)

Stage 3 - Plains of Tycrid

• ✴️ Charon (Draconis) *else Blood of Valfaris
  
• ☑️ Cocoon of Kykris (N/A)
  
• ☑️ King Kykris (Wrath Of Kykris)
  
• ☑️ Tycrid (N/A)

Stage 4 - Oceanic Wastelands

• ☑️ Fenrir Class Destroyer Core (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Lord Carnack (Sword Of Carnage)
  
• ☑️ King Vykham (All-seeing Eye)

Stage 5 - Outer City

• ☑️ Gorgoroth (N/A)
  
• ✴️ Frostbite Flea (Eris Ice Axe) *else Blood of Valfaris
  
• ☑️ Herrick (Energiser)

Stage 6 - The City Wall

• ☑️ Hern (Heart Of Xyla)
  
• ☑️ Cerberus Wheel (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Garrex (N/A)

Stage 7 - Fortress Ascent

• ➿ Valkyrie & Kalmah (Banshee's Soul or Titan's Soul)

Stage 8 - The Cathedral

• ☑️ Light Giver (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Undead Kyrkris & Undead Tycrid (Hypercore)
  
• ☑️ Zharn (N/A)
  
• ☑️ The Heart of Jelly (N/A)

Stage 9 - Vroll's Throne Room

• ☑️ Gargoyles (*4) (N/A)
  
• ☑️ Mecha Vroll & Mecha Head (N/A)

Blood of Valfaris

List of locations of all fixed (non-secret) Blood of Valfaris locations. There are none before Stage 4. *WIP*

Blood of Valfaris

• 🅾 Stage 4 (below Fenrir Class Destroyer)
  
• 🅾 Stage 4 (after Lord Carnack, jellies section)
  
• 🅾 Stage 5 (early on, after first checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Stage 5 (right afterwards, zoom-out section)
  
• 🅾 Stage 6 (early on, after first checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Stage 6 (midway during "blender" section)
  
• 🅾 Stage 7 (early on, before first checkpoint)
  
• 🅾 Stage 7 (before second defense platform)
  
• 🅾 Stage 8 (early on, before first checkpoint)

There's also those stealth "Spy Flea" bugs that skitter away. They always drop Blood of Valfaris. There's 1 per Stage (total 8). See next section.

And at least 3 coffins that drop Blood of Valfaris upon breaking, as well as 1 blue cocoon.

• 🎁 Stage 3 - Blood of Valfaris (inside a blue cocoon, before Charron)
  
• 🎁 Stage 8 - Blood of Valfaris (coffin after underground checkpoint)
  
• 🎁 Stage 8 - Blood of Valfaris (*2) *coffins right after Kalmah & 2 Valkyries

Spy Fleas

Locations

• 👾 Stage 1 - tunnel past Shipbuster, after Heart pickup
  
• 👾 Stage 2 - after Cerberus Wheels gauntlet, head down
  
• 👾 Stage 3 - wasp tunnel, immediately after Revenge-Burst secret
  
• 👾 Stage 4 - after Lord Carnack, jellies section
  
• 👾 Stage 5 - right before diagonal laser barrier
  
• 👾 Stage 6 - after first checkpoint, by scaffold structure
  
• 👾 Stage 7 - after second checkpoint, around first spiked mines
  
• 👾 Stage 8 - before first checkpoint, floating mines area

Upgrades

Upgrades Costs

• Rank 2 - 20 Blood Metal
  
• Rank 3 - 30 Blood Metal, 1 Blood of Valfaris
  
• Rank 4 - 40 Blood Metal, 3 Blood of Valfaris
  
• Soul Eater (Rank 2) - 70 Blood Metal, 7 Blood of Valfaris

Hellwraith

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased shot size

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Additional spread shots

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased shot size

Hellhammer

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

Bringer Of Mayhem

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Jump to more targets

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Jump to more targets

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Jump to more targets

Man o' War

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased flame size
  
• 🔹 Periodically erupts meteors

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased flame size
  
• 🔹 Erupts more meteors

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased flame size
  
• 🔹 Increased meteor power

Bringer Of Light

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Emits powerful energy pulses upon encountering stronger foes

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased energy pulse power

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased energy pulse power

Soul Eater

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased wave span

Bathoryn

🔸 Rank 2 🔸 Rank 3 🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Therion's Fist

🔸 Rank 2 🔸 Rank 3 🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Plasma Sword

🔸 Rank 2 🔸 Rank 3 🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Draconis

🔸 Rank 2 🔸 Rank 3 🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Sword of Carnage

🔸 Rank 2 🔸 Rank 3 🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Eris Ice Axe

🔸 Rank 2 🔸 Rank 3 🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Blade Tempest

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Additional lock-on targets

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Additional lock-on targets

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Additional lock-on targets

Electroburst

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Decreased charge-up duration
  
• 🔹 Increased blast duration

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Decreased charge-up duration
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Decreased charge-up duration
  
• 🔹 Increased power

Tank-Buster

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Wrath Of Kyrkris

🔸 Rank 2

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 3

• 🔹 Increased power
  
• 🔹 Increased blast size

🔸 Rank 4

• 🔹 Increased power

Totals

Total Blood of Valfaris per run should be: 32 (or 34 in NG+)

Total Blood of Valfaris needed to upgrade every Weapon & Auxiliary: 67

Total Blood Metal needed to upgrade every Weapon & Auxiliary: 1420

Finis?

This guide is a bit WIP. I'd like to add some extra lists and reference images later. And clean things up a little.

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