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.hack// G.U.
Vol. 3// Redemption
"That's why I'm here."
---In-Depth step-by-step walk through / FAQ
---(!!!!!)---This Guide has been written by Jon_Fireblade and only by
Jon_Fireblade. (Unless other wise stated)
You may not copy or reproduce it under any circumstances except for personal,
private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed
publicly without advance written permission. Use of the guide on any other web
site or as a part of any  public display is strictly prohibited, and a
violation of copyright. This guide was written for GameFAQS.com only and is not
for use on other web sites. Any requests to use this guide for anyhting
other then personal use will likely be denied. Thank You.
-----(Warning)-----
This guide may contain mild language but
no worse then what you'll hear in the Game.
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*Note*-For personal use on a computer I suggest using the 'select all' option
and then copy and paste this on a blank WORD PAD document. This program is the
most basic word processor document and comes standard on all Windows
computers.
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-----Table of Contents----
I) Intro. to guide
II) G.U. series
((Area words marked with (Q) are quest shop related areas))
C) Vol. 3- Redemption
-- Spreading Shadows --
1)Universal, Ocean's, Glide
2)Unseen, Alien, Elf Animal(Q)
3)Hidden,Forbidden, Hades
4)Hidden,Forbidden, Hades
5)Calm, Betrayal's, Longing
6)Gathering, Familiar, Mascot(Q)
-- No Choice --
7)Tournament:Round One
8)Wise, Calamity's, Water Mill
9)Tournament:Round Two
10) Glowing, Passive, Fairy(Q)
11)Tournament: Semi Finals
12)Undercover, Lakeside's, Metal Beast(Q)
13)Tournament:Final Round
14)Looming, Muddled, Seer(Q)
15)Running, Speed's, Rider(Q)
16)Tourtament: Title Match
-- Key of the Twilight --
17)Ethical, Prodigy's, Prophecy
18)Fading, Moonflower, Glory
19)Vulnerable, Barren, Safe House(Q)
20)Undetered, Legerity's, Goblin(Q)
21)Immersed, Crime's, Paraphrase
-- Preludes of Battle --
22)Hidden, Forbidden, Bulwark
23)Incensed, World's, Build-up
24) Fleeing, Dismayed, Emotion
25) Hidden, Forbidden, HolyGround
-- War of the Epitaphs --
26)Hidden, Forbidden, Dragonbein
27)Hidden, Forbidden, Battlefield
28)Hidden, Forbidden, Bulwark
29)Hidden, Forbidden, Radiation
30)Excited, Conflict's, Fate
31)Hidden, Forbidden, HolyGround
-- End of Vol. 3 / Post Game --
- 1)Doppleganger
- 2)Lost Weapons
- 3)Hidden Quest: Forest of Pain
- 4)Quest Champaigns
a)Highway Master
b)Stray Mecha Grunty
c)Lucky Data Collection
d)Chim's Kicker
e)Bikman Model
f)Chase The Bounty
- 5)Bike Missions
- 6)Normal Quests
- 7)Books of 1000
a)Lucky Animals
b)Items
c)Accessory
d)Weapon
e)Armor
f)Monsters
- 8)CrimsonVs
a)Basics
b)Getting Cards
c)Suggest Decks
-- III)Characters and Story Line --
- 1)Characters
a)Epitaph Users
b)'Background' characters
c)Other Important Characters
- 2)Story Line
a)Pre-Morganna Incident
b).Hack//SIGN
c)Time of Pluto Again
d)//Infection
e)//Mutation
f)//Outbreak
g)//Quaratine
h)//Legend of the Twilight
i)G.U Time period
j).Hack//Roots
-- Frequently Asked Questions --
- 1)Questions for All 3 Games
- 2)Questions for Vol 1
- 3)Questions for Vol 2
- 4)Questions for vol 3
IV) Credits
*Note- if you're looking for a specific place in the guide follow these
instructions to find it quickly:
1) Select the item you're looking for from the above table of
contents,and Copy it.
2) press and hold ctrl (then) f to open a small search  window.
Paste the title of what you're looking for in the shearch box.
3) Click on 'Find Next' until you see what you're looking for.
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Welcome back everyone. It's time to get started the the 3rd and final game
of the GU series.  I wanted to thank you all for sending me e-mails
saying you liked the guides for Rebirth and Reminisce.
I only hope to be able to deliver a guide just as good if not better.
So anyway, after playing Vol 3 in the GU series I'm still not sure what to
make of it. Some parts of it were enjoyable and yet others were on the verge
of being rather annoying. It is by far the most.......how do I say this......
.......different......Ahhh: It had so many good things in it that made
it a fun game. It's just that I honestly wish things would have turned out
a little differnt in the end. It has a different feel to it then any of the
other .hack games. It was good, its just that it was so different: it made
it feel like the odd ball of the series. I don't know. You'll just have to
see for yourselves.
Well anyway, enough of me going on like this. Lets get to the guide.
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I'd like to re-cap quickly with what was said in the last guide and also
to add some new information to this guide so please read:
These are the major forms of Media in the .Hack// series:
Going in chronological order-
.Hack//SIGN (TV series),
.Hack//Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine (Games)
.Hack//Legend of the Twilight (TV)
.Hack//ROOTS (TV)
.Hack// G.U. Vol: 1 (Rebirth),2 (Reminisce),and 3 (Redemption)
(.Hack// G.U. Trilogy is a full length CG movie that's due for release
in Japan on January 25,2008. Add another 6 months and you get a rough estiment
on when it will reach the US. Also, it seems the movie will take an alternate
approch in telling the story. AKA: "This is how it could have happend")
Also note that there are bonus disks that come with each of the four original
games and one bonus disk (The Terminal Disk) that comes with the special
edition of .Hack//G.U.- Vol. 1-Rebirth.  Also on the normal game disk of
Vol. 2-Reminisce there is included the first episode of .hack//Roots, AND
also on the normal game disk of Vol. 3 is the 6th episode of ROOTs, Both of
which can be watched through the game's desktop under the movie player.
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Moving along:
This guide will take you step-by-step through Vol. 3 Redemption. I will
include the story events, Optional Quests, Hidden Quest, Books of 1000,
leveling up, boss fights, back ground information, and of course other little
odds and ends.
Just like in the last guide this walkthrough DOES contain spoilers, BUT again
like in the last 2 guides I will mark them before hand and have you play ahead.
You will notice that my standard line is: "Watch the scenes, and then come
back and read more." This allows you to play through the game and still enjoy
all the surprises the story has to offer without spoiling it for yourself.
SO DON'T READ AHEAD!!!!
For now lets get started with this game.
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.Hack// G.U.
--------------------C) Vol. 3- Redemption --------------------------
--- Game info.
Game length: Moderate
Average Game time: 25 hours (20-30 hours)
Difficulty: Medium-Hardish
----Over View---
--Gameplay: 9/10- Nothing's perfect but I really enjoyed the combat in this
volume. It felt like you were almost playing a different game instead of the
same game with a continued story line.
--Music: 10/10- It fits perfectly, and I mean Perfectly.
--Graphics: 9/10 - granted it can't compare to some
Final Fantasy CG movies, but it's the next best thing.
--Voice Acting: 9/10 - only on rare occasions did I
think it might have been better, but even then not by much.
--Replay Value: 8/10- Replay value ok. I mean it's a fine enough series
that you'll probably want to play through the games more then once.
--Story Line: 10/10- Really this one is an odd ball of the whole
series even more so the Reminisce. But then they were trying to make the
games feel differnt from each other.
Overall rating: 8/10 - I personally think it was just slightly under par
with the other two games. In the overall ranking I think it was pretty good,
but  not truly great. Still don't be dissapointed, that's just what I think.
I still say that as a series it's one of the best I've ever played: Good game
play, amazing music, great graphics, and a story worthy to be called .Hack// .
--- Getting started-
I'm going to mention here that you guys using my guide will probably enjoy
the game more than I did. The reason is that I'll be explaining things as you
go along and helping you out. Where as the first time I played the game I was
on the verge of going nuts from not being sure what to do and when to do it. I
mean there isn't a huge amount of stuff such as a game like Final Fantasy 12,
but there's enough that you'll probably be glad to have advice if you're
like me.
Ok then, First things first.
-------People Converting from Vol. 2 Reminisce.--------------
Those of us who went and bought the first and second game,
you will be glad to know that you will indeed keep the following things from
the last game: Items, EXP, party list, equipment, money, Guild Rank, affection
rating, and lots of other stuff. As long as you have the cleared data
from the second game you can keep all that stuff mentioned above. For now read
on and I'll walk you through getting your data converted.
-------People starting a new game from scratch.-------------
Well, for you who are starting new; this is going kind of suck.
When you start a new game you will be given a certain amount of stuff
to help you out, but honestly you got your work cut out for you. See,
people converting had the chance to earn  extra money, level up,
and do extra stuff before they started into the this game. You on the
other hand won't have that opportunity. Here's a list of stats for
when you start a new game:
Haseo:
-Level 93
-Skill level: TwinSword-20, BroadSword-20, Scythe-20
-Twin swords: Level 91 Wind Haven
-Broad Sword: Level 92 Wrath Fenlong
-Scythe: Level 75 Ticking Death
-Armor: Level 90 Vigil Dragon
-Accessory: Level 90 Simple Handbag
-Items: Healing Potion x15, Fairy Drop x10,Revival Medicine x10,
Life Scrolx2.
-Money: 15,000 GP
Honestly I don't know what to tell you other then good luck.
You're going to need it.
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As you put in the disk take time to watch the opening movie play before you
get to the main menu. Don't skip it. It's pretty good, not my favorite. But
good
As the main menu comes up notice that you no longer have the Convert Option
from Vol 1. Basicly you'll find it the same system as vol 2.
Go ahead and start a new game. If you beat Vol. 2 and have
the data on the same memory card you will get a message that reads as follows:
-"If you have clear data from .hack//GU vol 2: Reminisce, you can use it to
begin .hack//GU vol 3: Redemption. Begin game by converting?"
Obviously you want to select "yes" because otherwise you'll waste all the work
you did in the last game.
You will be asked to chose the save file to start a new game with.
-Once you do that you will get another message:
"You will recive a bonus for converting clear data from Vol. 2 Reminisce.
If your inventory is full, items will be stored in you guild storage."
Sweet! Not only do you get to keep your stuff from the last game but they
give you a double reward for just beating the last game.
Here is the list of what you get: Holy Arrow x10,Hell Raiser x10,The Wheel x10,
Warrior Soul x15, Wizard Soul x15 and 10,000 GP. And last but not least:
a movie added to your desktop Movie player.
So anywho. Watch and enjoy the opening scenes, and there is a large amount
of them. So kick back and relax. Feel free to read ahead AFTER you finish all
those scenes. I mean like ALL of them. Come back when you arrive at your
desktop and we'll take it from there.
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Movie- Ovan and the Girl
Short Version/Main points: This game opens with a movie
that sheds some light on Ovan's past, which until this game
has been pretty clouded. The the Vets of the series will probably
flip a lid, like I did, when they see the cover of the book Ovan
was holding.
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In the Cut sceens following the opening movie you are given yet
more information. Ovan states the fact that once, seven years ago, there
was a godess that existed in the game. And of course those who havnt played
the original games are probably getting pretty pi$$ed I keep bringing it up
and they still have no idea what the F*** is going on. well good news for you
my firends. By the end of this guide I promise you will know everything
important that happened in the old games and everything else that goes
with it.
Back to the movies:
1- Aina was attacked by AIDA and could not be cured by Ovan's Avatar.
Well that sucks.
2-You realize that Ovan's incased arm is losing some of it's
effectiveness to restrain the powerful AIDA that infected Ovan.
Also, Ovan is depending on Haseo to come through for him.....
Wait a second, WTF!? What is AIDA going to do? Why is time running
out? What is it Haseo has to do?
"Tune in next time to find the answers......"
Next is the recaping on the first two games. YAY! Memory flash backs!
After the recap of past events you'll see Haseo talking to himself outloud.
Ahh, dont worry he's not crazy, I talk to myself all the time.........
....................WHAT?!, don't give me that look. It's not funny! Sometimes
it's good just to talk out loud and blow off some steam.......yeah whatever.
Anyway, Haseo points out that he saw Azure Kite when Shino got pked by Ovan
and sent into a coma. So naturally he thought Azure Kite had done the crime.
Lol, Poor Azure Kite had been framed all along. Leave it to Haseo to go after
the wrong guy.
Haseo goes on to say that it's very likly that Ovan's been pulling the strings
since they first met.....well, YEAH. Who did you think it was Haseo? Instead
of brewing over the fact you SHOULD be thinking about WHY Ovan whould do that
to you. Last time I checked Ovan wasn't insane, a little odd at times, but not
insane. And only insane people (or some one who has no heart what so ever)
would put you through hell like that. No....Ovan has a reason.
----Next sceen.
You see Yata Brooding over the situation at the Serpent of Lore.
Then as he's starting to draw some good conclusions when he suddenly hears
a voice from above sayin: DENIED FOOL!
Yeah, it sucks, but finially the big wigs at CC Corp. have had enough
of Yata's BS and are getting ready to boot him out the door.
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Well then, it seems as though things are not looking good.
This first section of the game will be dealing largely
with the aftermath of all the events that happened at the
end of Vol 2. I'll warn you now, alot of stuff happens
and not alot of it is good. And to be completely honest you're
going to have to deal with all this $hit first BEFORE you'll be able
to get to anything good and intresting.
Lets start things off with the e-mails. And make sure to start at the bottom
of the list and work your way up.
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-E-mail- Uchiyamada  : Conversion bonus features
Short version: Ok, when I first read this e-mail Everything was ok until
I read about the Doppelganger then I got confused as heck.
1) Id you check your movie player on your desktop you will find the 6th
episode of .hack//ROOTS. So that's cool.
2)If you defeated the Doppelganger and did all the stuff I told you to
in my other guides, then you got nothing to worry about. I'll cover when
you should go fight him and what not. And that won't be for awhile considering
you can't get the items from him until the Post Game section. So don't worry.
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-E-mail-  CC Corp. : Notice of Campaign Completion
Short version: It means all the Camaigns from Vol 2
are now over and your chance to get the special items from
those events is now passed. (Hopefully you maxed out the books
of 1000 before you started into the next game)
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-E-mail-  CC Corp : New Town Access
Short version: You can now go to Breg Epona. A new town for advanced
players. BUT it's not the last town you can go to, there's one more, but
that'll have to wait till later.
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-E-mail-  CC Corp. : Your Benefits as Holy Palace Champion
Short version: Basicly Canard has expanded to an Advanced level Guild.
There are 3 bonuses for achieving this.
1) Your @home is now located in Breg Epona.
2) You can use alchemy on weapons that have a difference of 20 levels.
3) When viewing your guilds storage you can press Tri-angle and exchang the
item for money. (Although your better off just selling it at the guild shop)
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-E-mail-  Atoli : About Moon Tree
Short version: She talks about the aftermath of the event that
took place at Moon Tree. Remember that the Crowning ceramony for Haseo,
the thing with Moon Tree, the Battle with Sakaki, and then Facing off with
Ovan: All happened on the same day. My guess this is somewhere within a week
afterward. Haseo did mention he needed some time to himself before he could
move forward. I'm willing to bet he took a couple days off.
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-E-mail- Anonymous  : The Power of the Avatar
Short version: Bascily someone knows who you are and what's
going on. However he refuses to give you his name. But he's
let you know that instead of Divine Awakening you can now
perform Avatar Awakening.
Anyway, he says he's your unseen ally. That's cool. Personally I
think it's the guy who wrote the Terminal Disk. AKA a head cc corp.
programming engineer who resigned after...........well, lets just say
he was co-leading the project that created the avatars. Which just happens
to be the project that caused the fire at the CC Corp. building and destroyed
80% of the first version of the game.
............And you want this guy messing with Haseo's character?!
Not really, the fire wasn't his fault. It was the other guy......
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-E-mail-  Anonymous : Growth of the Avatars
Short version: Ok, here's what I was saying in my last guide about
the Lost weapons having the potential of being the Ultimate weapons
for the Epitaph users.
Remeber the weapon Haseo got in the last game (Ticking Death?).
Well if you collect enough Virus Cores by using Avatar Awakening
you can upgrade the weapon and it will become stronger. I'll walk you
through the process in the guide so don't worry for now. Besides the only
weapons I would suggest doing this for is Haseo, Atoli, and Kuhn.
The others are optional and not really nesscary. I was able to get 4 out of
7 weapons fully upgraded by the end of the game. So really it wasn't that much
trouble and not really a big pain.
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Ok, next thing you should do is flip over to the News. You might as well look
at this and get it out of the way now.
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-News-    :
Short version:
-There's a new Online Jack. The first one
in this game isn't greta, but the other two
are really good. But, watch it anyway, it's
still rather funny.
-The internation space station is having problems
and if they continue it's going to fall out of orbit.....
well that sucks.
-Some cars are seriosuly Jacked up. Stupid people should know
better then to let a computer drive for them.
-There is an extreely odd topic about the Arena and how the
rules have changed......What the CRAP?!
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Lastly look on the Forums. Remember that you're seeing the
aftermath of everything that took place in vol 2.
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-Forums-    :
Short version:
-Some ppl talking about Moon Tree and see black spots.
-Version update for Crimsion VS
-Some ppl commenting about the news
-More ppl talking about black spots
-And Pics on the Apkallu.
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when that's done it'll be time to finally log-in.
There's some stuff on the Offical Forums, not really
important, just view it quickly then log-in.
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-------Town:     Mac Anu        -------
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Open your menue to see all the new stuff they got for you.
1- You can check the growth (level) of the lost weapons under
your menue now.
2- Avatar Awakening can be leveld to to a max of levle 10 at which
point it will do the most damage. (I only ever got mine to level like lvl 6)
Then, transfer over to the new town.
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-------Town:     Breg Epona        -------
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This town will be your base of operations for about 3/4 of the game.
Your first order of bussiness is to head to the new @Home. It's located
at the back of the city, you can use a warp point to get there or you can
walk/Ride the Steam bike. Your choice. I would take time to look at what's
for sale in the new shops. This city is the 2nd biggest one in the game.
At first I really didn't find this one that likable, it was a bit bright
for my taste. However, after taking some time to slow down and appreacate
it: it really is rather detailed and after awhile I decided I liked it.
By contrast the new @Home is kinda dark......
Well, what ever.
Generally speaking I think it's pretty cool.
Silabus and Gaspard are there and metion its time for a grunty event.
Then Atoli appears out of no where and scares Haseo: Blind spot again.
At anyrate, talk to Death Grunty to get on with the event and on with
the story line, of course you can't help but chuckel at Death Grunty and Haseo.
You'll get some key words and this'll be the first area for the game.
Also, talk to death grunty and view the books of 1000. I had 4 of the 8
max out right then and there. Then turn around and take the money you just
got off Death Grunty and buy the new Guild Expansions. Lastly, the items you
got as Game Convertion Bonus, yeah, I'd just sell them because to me they're
worth more in GP to me then actually using them in battle. It's up to you
but it's a good way to earn some extra cash.
-Equipment and Items-
Ok, Add Atoli and Silabus to your party. Then head back into town. Make sure
to stop at the Weapon and Armor Shop. Pick up the following things:
---(NOTE
If you have the Doppleganage Weapons and the Lvl 100 armor from
beating the game's hidden quest then Haseo won't need a weapon and
armor upgrade for about half the game.
BUT: I'm sure it's safe to assume that there are a couple ppl who
perhaps bought the games out of order OR just didn't bother to get the
doppleganger items that are so very very useful. That being the case I
figure for the sake of arguement. I will not use any of those weapons
during the normal game play while writing this guide.
(Even tho it'll be a serious pain in the @$$)
Haseo:
TwinBlades- lvl 101 (wp shop in Breg)- Fire att and Drain 10%hp
Broad Sword- lvl 101 (wp shop in Breg)-Fire att and Drain 10% sp
Scythe- lvl 101 (wp shop in Breg)- Light att and Drain 10% hp
Armor- lvl 101 (arm shop in Breg)-   -25% Phy and -10% Magic
Accessory- lvl 95 (2nd game)- +10% speed, red stone x2
(decrease arts sp consumption)
Silabus:
lvl 101 sword-Move the materials to his new weapon
lvl 101 Light armor- *dido for materials*
Leave accessory as is for now (Lvl 95)
Atoli:
level 101 Robes
Like I said above: If you followed my guide from vol 2 you should have
the Doppleganger weapons and also the Armor from beating "The god Eater" in the
Hidden Quest for Vol 2. That Equipment will actually last you for almost half
the game before you need to upgrade your equipment. In other words, Haseo
doesn't really NEED anything at the moment.
Also, MAKE SURE to go to the magic shop where they sell scrolls and pick
up a few Sanity scrolls. It allows you and Atoli to learn the spell to cure
confuse. You WILL need this.
-Also make sure to buy about 40 items that also Cure Confuse (Lucid Soda)
and give about 30 of them to Atoli. Also Buy a bunch of the item
called Wonder Soda (it cures any negative effect) and also give some to
Atoli.
Save then head for the Chaos Gate.
Ok, then off we go.
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------- 1)Universal, Ocean's, Glide -------
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Area Type: Field
Area Level: 96
Party: Haseo, Silabus, Atoli
My Level: 100
First off, assuming you followed my guide for the last game. Your will
be well prepared for this first section of the game.
Bascily for this mission you need to run around to three different hills and
be marked with the Grunty sent. Once you do that you can go to the last hill
and locate Melo Grunty.
Before we get to that, I need to metion some things first.
1) Hopefully you took the time to max out your level before moving
on the vol 3. If you did so you will note that you exp is 999/1000
Fighting just one enemy on this field will alow you to gain a level.
2) If you took the time to Max out your Skill Levels from Vol 2. You will
note that by using your skills (of each weapon type) just once, you will
gain a Skill Level (lvl 21). This will grant you the level 3 arts for your
Scythe, Broad Sword, and Twin Swoards. These skill are you LAST arts
you will be able to gain for each type of weapon. From here on out, every
time you gain a skill level (22-30) you will decrese the amount of SP needed
to use the skill. In other words it's still a good idea to gain as many skill
levels as possible.
4) Now that you have your final arts available to you It's be a good idea to
set them to your skill trigger:
Tri-Angle: Ghost Faclon
Square: Armor Break
Circle: Reaper's Dance
X: (Put anything you like here, it's up to you)
3) If you picked up the equipment I suggested, make sure to give it to Silabus
and Atoli once they get to level 101.
Hopefully you were smart enough to do the bike trials from the old game and if
you did them all you got the Tridal Muffler: this will make you invisable to
monsters while on your bike. So obviously you should use your bike to get
around. (note: use your bike and get all the symbol fragments to open the
Beast Temple. You shouldn't have to fight anuthing usless you want to)
-There are two small hills on the East (right) side of the map. You need to
visit the one in the more to the south (on it's own little island)
Go here first to meet up with Wise Grunty.
-Once done then head for the West side of the Map (left) The hill on the island
most to the south is where you can locate Gao Grunty.
- The hill more toward the north from above mentioned position, is where you
will locate King Grunty.
-> Once you get to all three locations you will get a message from Death
Grunty and then you can locate Melo Grunty on the hill beside the Beast Temple
which is located in the North West corner of the map. Once you talk to him
the mission will end. Then use the Platform near the Beast Temple to get back.
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-------Town:     Breg Epona        -------
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When you arrive back, head for Canard's @Home.
watch the scene then log-out.
Read these from the bottom up.
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-E-mail-  Melo : Thanks
Short version: Like the title sugests, he's just
saying thanks for the help.....even tho he's not real.
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-E-mail-  Anonymous : Reguarding the Sacrament
Short version: bascily you dont need to worry about this
just yet. I'll be covering the Lost weapons in my guide. So
no Worries......yet.
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-E-mail-  Pi : Emergency
Short version: Something's going down, and you need to hop over
to Raven's @Home in Mac Anu..... Well Obviosuly you already know
about Yata getting the Boot, but you don't know the other half.
And no, it's not going to be good news.
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-Forums-    :
Short version: You'll find some Pics in here.
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Log-in.
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-------Town:     Breg Epona        -------
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Warp over to Mac Anu.
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-------Town:     Mac Anu        -------
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Head for Raven's @Home. Watch everything that happens and
we'll deal with it as best we can afterward.
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Movie- Sakaki Arrives
Short Version/Main points: Sakaki is a B@$tard. That really sums
up alot. But That wont do since I'm writing a guide here: Bascily
Sakaki got Yata fired and is now running the whole game.
-Traslation->
You...... are........ SCREWED!!!
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Ok,anyway.
As you leave Raven you'll get a mail which is what you'll be wanting to read.
So Log-out and while the game is loading you're desktop read ahead:
1-Yata is off somewhere in their real world being all emo. He's pretty
pi$$ed and yet terribly depressed at the moment.
2-Sakaki is now watching you 24/7 from the Serpent of Lore.
3-You will be spending the first half of the game rebeling against Sakaki's
rule over "the World" while trying to figure out a way to over throw him.
4-Last but not least: Things are going to get worse. ALOT worse before it's
going to get better.
"What does that mean?"
"It means buckle your seat belt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye bye."
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-E-mail-  Silabus : Lets go on a quest
Short version: Questing time. Lets head out.
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But first:
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-E-mail-  Pi : Reguarding Sakaki
Short version: Pi says that Sakaki is indeed the Game's head
Admin. Of course that sucks for you, but anyway. Pi says she'll
try to figure out what exactly CC Corp. was thinking when they
gave him the job.
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If your smart you could probably guess why Yata got the boot.
But she'll be e-mailing you after awhile with all the details so hang
tight for the mean time.
For now you need to slack off in terms of being the Bad @$$ hero of the series
and try to enjoy yourself a little. What better way to do that then doing a
quest with two of the crazziest guys around?
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-Forums-    :
Short version: Gives you some good hints about
the quest you'll be doing shortly. This makes
things no fun for me. =(
They bascily stole my job.....well anyway. I'll
still be coving the quests anyway; after all I'm
sure you all like me better anyway; Or will by the time
this game is done. =P
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Log-in.
Head to Breg Epona.
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when you get here I should mention something. You should know
that leveling up in this game is rather hard. Infact it got so
bad that I had to go to areas that were 4 levels higher than Haseo
just to gain a decient amount of exp.
As far as I can tell there are two reaons for this:
1-I noticed that the last game was a little more difficult to gain
levels then vol 1. And Now vol 3 is even harder then vol 2.
2- With out giving away too much, you do not need to be level 150 to
beat the game. In fact you could probably do it at level 125. So
really you only need to gain about half the levels avabilable.
Anyway, I do have to set some kind of standard while writing this guide.
And I've managed to come up with 5 check points you need to meet for
the first half of the game.
For right now you, need to reach level 107. That's six levels higher
then you are at the moment. Right now is the best time do this. Reason being:
You will need to train with Atoli and Kuhn for the majority of the game and
once you reach level 107 you will only need to gain 2 or 3 levels at a time
from here on out. (At least for awhile)
Also there's another reason you'll want to go out and train: You need to
upgrade Haseo's Lost Weapon ASAP and the sooner you do that the better.
Ok then, place Atoli and Kuhn in your party and lets go gain some levels.
Note- Hopefully you followed my last guide and used Kuhn in your fight with
the 'god eater'hidden quest. If so, Atoli and Kuhn will be level 101.
Anyway, buy Kuhn the level 101 steam gun and amor at the weapon's shop and
give it too him for usage in owning monsters.
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Area Type: Field
Area Level: 105
Party: Haseo,Kuhn, Atoli
My Level: 101
The biggest thing I can say is that if you work on using your Rengeki
attacks as much as possible, you will benfiet in the following ways:
1: It trains your skills to get better which means you lvl 3 arts cost less
SP when used.
2: It Boosts the Exp you can get from battles, which ussally puts it up
to about 200+ exp instead of like 150ish Exp. And trust me it makes a
difference.
3: This builds the Moral guage faster, and therefore you can use
Avatar Awakening. Read on for more info.
Go, level up, collect items, and use Avatar awakening AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!
((For best result use on a enemy parties that have: 1 large monster
and 2 small monsters, OR 2 large Monsters.))
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News Clip:
"Having problems with AIDA infection? Want to get that nasty AI out of
your brain? Use new and improved Avatar awakening. Removes AIDA in just
one blast. Try it today! =D
Warning: may cause loss of consiousness or extensive brain damage"
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Anyway, you need to get about ohhh.....85 virus cores to fully upgrade
Haseo's Lost Weapon. It could take awhile, and you probably wont get it
done anytime soon. But you should really considering doing it for Kuhn
and Atoli too.
-Granted you cant fully upgrade the weapons (lvl 4 upgrade)
till you are level 140 to beat the Beasts of Seal. However, if you get
them upgraded to lvl 3 (second best upgrade) near the beggining of the
game, then they are really quite usefull.
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Ok, I'm willing to bet you realize now just how difficult it's going
to be to level up. So I'm sure you won't be suprised at me saying you'll
more then likly need to go to several More areas before you get to level 107.
So just continue to level up and come back when you're there.
I know this is a pain in the @$% but it simply needs done now. Trust me, you'll
be thanking me later. I made the mistake of only geting level 104. Not a good
idea considering that I nearly died several times. So trust me: Get to lvl 107.
--I had to go to a lvl 106, 107,and a 109 before I reached level 107.
As a side note: In level 107ish areas you will proabaly encounter an enemy
called "captian Hook". They will counter with paralize, which gets highly
annoying. Use your  Hold and Relase Broad Sword. It uses the least amount
of hits (less chances to get counter attacked) yet still gets the job done.
---Ok once you've reached level 107, add Silabus and Gaspard to
your party. Go to the armor and weapon shop and buy new lvl 101 weapons
and armor for them. Once done head over to the Quest shop and accept the
new quest.
When done get ready to head out to a new type of area:
(Note: I thought you might like to know that you now have access to
all types of fields for the series which are as follows:
Lost Grounds/Landscape, Field, Jungel Cave, Temple Dungeon, Highland Field,
Tower Dungeon, and finially Forest Dungeon.)
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----- 8)Dubious Dog
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------- 2)Unseen, Alien, Elf Animal(Q) -------
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Area Type: Forest Dungeon
Area Level: 97
Party: Haseo,Silabus, Gaspard
My Level: 107
Block 1:
Use a Fairy Orb to reveal the map, and then a Speed Charm on Haseo.
You don't need to fight anything usless you want to. I just used
Smoke screens before I got near monsters, this turned me invisable
for about 3 or 4 seconds. Anyway, all you need to worry about is
just getting to block 2.
Block 2:
As you come to the first room in the 2nd block you'll see a sceen.
Follow Haseo's leading and just work your way toward block 3.
Block 3: If you look closly at the map you'll see several paths
branch off. All of them head south. You need to make for the one
in the middle right. It's the only square room at a dead end
that has nothing in it (No treasure chest or Chim Harvesters).
In other words: Use the following directions if you don't get it-
First split: Go East
Second Split: East
Third Split: Go south
When you get there-
You will discover the HeatWave Hound. Beat him to pulm, or become
Doggy chow. Just use your scythe, and at level 107 it wont be all
that hard. This fight was NOT easy when I did it the first time at
level 102.
When you're done you'll atuo finish the quest.
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As you finish up, you'll get an e-mail, so do the only logical thing
and log-out to find what it says.
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-E-mail-  Pi : Redguarding Sakaki 2
Short version: Ok, here's the deal.
Sakaki is using the lie that he can control AIDA
and therefore can solve CC Corp's problem. Of course that
isn't true but leave it to the thick skulls running the company
not to notice. Ok anyway, Sakaki only had one major condition
under which he agreed to do this: He gets to be the
tyrant of the ‘The World’ and dictator of  G.U.
AKA- he's going to try and make your life miserable.
Anyway, Pi want to meet with you. She has some
neat little things to show you.
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You can glance over the other e-mails if you want.
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-E-mail-  Gaspard : Have Fun?
Short version: Self explantory
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-E-mail-  Silabus : Thanks!
Short version: Just saying things are looking up.....
yeah well, he doesn't know that things are about to
get very bad.
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-E-mail- CC Corp.  : Notice of Campaign Commencment
Short version: The Chaotic Pks Campaign is back-Fun.
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-Forums-    :
Short version: Just some ppl complaining
about being owned by the Black List Pks.
I'm sure we can fix that. But not just yet.
we got other things to worry about at
the moment.
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Well, log-in.
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-------Town:     Breg Epona        -------
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Invite Pi and Atoli to Join
your party. While here, buy some equipment for Pi.
Then,Warp over to Dol Dona server.
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Now, before you go running off to start in on the next event.
I want you to go and upgrade Haseo's Lost Weapon first.
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Area Type: LandScape/ Lost Grounds
Area Level: None
Party: Haseo,Pi,Atoli
My Level: 107
When you get there, walk up to the Scythe and select it.
(If you don't have the scythe with you just walk to the
platform and access your guild storage, that is if you've
been keeping up on your Guild upgrades too)
Hopefully you have enough Virus Cores by now to upgrade
Haseo's Scythe to lvl 2 upgrade, other wise it won't
even be worth your trouble.
Head back to town when done.
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-------Town:     Dol Dona        -------
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Head out to the new area.
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Area Type: Landscape/Lost Grounds
Area Level: None
Party: Haseo,Pi, Atoli
My Level:107
Ok, when you get here Pi will start talking to you.
Come back and read when you gain control over Haseo.
-Ok, Basicly Pi installed a program to Haseo's character that
will allow you to Area Hack. In other words, exploit the bugs
in the system. To do this walk forward toward the edge of the
walkway. You will see the screen flicker and hear white noise.
-When that happenes, press the R1 button on your controler to
hack the bug in the area.
-Then approch the point where the graphics swril. Select it and
chose to warp.
-Pi will explain everything too you, so if I didn't cover something
I'm sure you'll understand in a bit.
-Come back and read when you reach the Outer Dungeon.
--Outer Dungeon--
When you arrive Pi presents a short explaination of where it is you are.
Basicly one of the side affects of AIDA being present in 'The world' is
that these dungeons were produced.
These dungeons are on the rim of the game, on the very edge. They are at the
point of being part of the game, and yet at the same time not. In other
words these dungeons are the middle ground between the Game and the rest
of the Network.
Well now. Time to get a move on. You need to head along the path from
the North East corner of the dungeon to the South East corner of the
dungeon.
It's kinda a pain but you can do it. Also, you will meet monsters here.
You can chose to fight them or chose not to. I leave it to you. When it comes
right down to it you've already leveled up to where you need to be for awhile,
so I don't see a good point in fighting usless battles. The only benfiet I can
think of is getting Rengeki EXP and virus Cores from Avatar Awakening.
Anyway, make your way along the path,you should watch out for little boxes
that like to shoot lasers across your path, they can be painful. You'll know
when they're about to fire when the glow yellow.
when you get to the end watch the scenes and enjoy.
Afterward use the Platform to get back to town.
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When you get back, Pi decided to head off to search for Yata in the
real world. For now you need to take the next step which mean reading
your new e-mail.
Log-out.
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-E-mail-  Sirius : Got A minute?
Short version: He need to talk to you about
the new type of tournament that comming up.
Well, if it's important enough for him to contact you.
Then it's important enough to go and take a look.
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-E-mail-  CC corp. : Notic of the Sage Palace Tournament
Short version: Ok, basicly there's going to be a special
one time tournament that is based on Pkers. Those who have
the most Kills since they began the game get picked to be
in the tournemant. Unfortunitally that also mean PKKs too...
.....like Haseo. So yeah.
As a side note, like Haseo said: It's odd that Taihaku
resorted to using cheap taunts? Maybe it has something to do
with being tickeled by AIDA at the end of Vol 2.?
Also, Lumina Cloth and Breg Epona
are PK possible towns. In other words you can now get killed
while in the town......
F#%*  !!!!!
That sounds like it'll be lots of fun. YEAH, Fun like pouring
lemon juice on a paper cut.
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-E-mail-  Pi : Outer Dungeons
Short version: She re-caps on Outer Dungeons and what not.
She does mention that right now there's no other threat in the
dungeons other then the Outer Bugs.
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-Forums-    :
Short version: Just some Pics, and a topic about a
new type of chim.
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Well, lets get a move on and head to Lumni Cloth.
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Transfer over.
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You see some scenes. Watch first then read ahead....this is important.
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Movie- Holwing sword
Short Version/Main points: What has four eyes, is incredably evil. And roars?
"Your Mom?"
Not exactly. Anyway, that thing that spoke out of Taihaku's sword: Well lets
just say it is the true source. The Source of everything. And right now, it's
sleeping, waiting to be awakened. It's waiting to be brought back out of the
ruins and shadows of the events from seven years ago.........
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When everything is over with, save then log-out.
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-E-mail- Silabus  :Meeting time
Short version: You need to drop by Canard's @Home.
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-E-mail- Sakaki  :Letter of Inventation
Short version:
OH F#5& monkeys.....
Well, boys. That's it: Check Mate. Sakaki's got
Haseo cornered. Now Haseo really DOES have to take
part in the tournament. Peachy.
well there is at least one good thing. If Haseo Survives this,
he'll have conquered all three levels of the Arena. The first in
the game's History....that is IF he survives.
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-E-mail-  Sirius : About Taihaku
Short version: Says he's counting on you to pull
through for Alkaid and Taihaku.
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Log-in.
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Transfer to the sigma server.
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Head for canard, When you get near there, you'll
see some scenes with Gaspard and Silabus.
After the scenes there's not alot to do but log-out.
There's some posts on the Official forums that annouced the rules
for the toury. Anyway this is totally not cool.
Check your e-mail.
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-E-mail-  Kuhn : Lets meet up
Short version: Take Atoli and Kuhn and go to
the lost ground and then to the outer dungeon.
You need to have another meeting.
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-E-mail-  Silabus : About Gaspard
Short version: just some stuff, bla bla bla.
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-Forums-    :
Short version: Some ppl complaining about pkers, which
is understandable. Then Some stuff about the new CrimsonVS
update, which I find unimportant considering that I won, got
my rank to #1, AND beat the title match all with the same deck.
And then there's some pics in the Apkallu.
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-"crimsion VS"-
Load up CrimsonVS.
Go under Deck and Complie the folowing deck:
1st: #074 'Gemme Some Chim'
2nd: #081 'Dancing Lion'
3rd: #081 'Dancing Lion'
General: #020 Endrace the Exqusite
Register this deck for battle. And I can pretty much