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Capturing the monsters you want at the right rank!

By PlasticRhombus

How to farm for monster skills without going insane.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Loot, Secrets

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Capturing Monsters

The main thing you need to know-- The same rank of monster skill will always drop in the same chest location from the same encounter.

For example, this image is the results from an encounter against 2 Ice Tortoises who gave a 3-chest drop. In a previous encounter, I had seen the 3* in the left chest. The next time I encountered 2 Ice Tortoises and they dropped 3 chests, I knew if this was the drop with the 3*, it would be in the left chest.

You can exploit this by using a Bill of Godly Fortune on an encounter with the enemy you're looking for to check which chest it's in, alt+f4 quit the game if you opened the wrong chest and reload the autosave.

The same encounter doesn't always drop the same loot set, Gold Fungi took forever to drop from its encounter, but every time it did it was in the center chest.

I'll also concede, I learned this the hard way when I was farming for Little Gold Nugget in Forsaken Maiden x__x learn from my mistakes lol

EDIT: There do appear to be a few monsters this is inconsistent with, notably the very Ice Tortoise in my screenshot (It actually might *just* be the Ice Tortoises?). It seems some areas have two (possibly three?) drop tables the monster is a part of. It still seems it will generally be helpful for you to just act as if it's consistently true though, I will say I spent maybe 3 hours looking for the 5* Skeleton in the one area he shows up in, and it was the left card each one of the three times I saw it during that time.

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A.L.I.V.E. 18 Mar, 2024 @ 8:17pm

3. The location of the treasure is random.
This means that if you have an encounter that would give you a salve and two monster skill cards, the location of those cards are always randomly assigned. Because of this, I will always pick the left card and eventually you will get the thing you're looking for.

4. It gets easier once you beat the secret boss in post game.
Now I'm not sure if its because of the frequency I was getting treasures, due to in game effects, but because I always was getting treasures after battles I noticed something. When walking through the final area with mobs it would give me more encounters with enemies I hadn't maxed their skill card out with yet. I fight them, pick the left treasure and in like an hour have most of the maxed out cards. But regardless, beating the secret boss in post game makes it really easy to do this for reasons you'll find out when you beat it.

A.L.I.V.E. 18 Mar, 2024 @ 8:17pm

2. The drop table depends on the location of the monsters.
This means as you progress through the game, the drop tables will improve and you'll get better items and monster skills. Mainly you'll always see a specific item like for example; a Salve, one star skill card, and a two star skill card. Some locations have more common drops and more rare drops. You could see for example, a level 1 star with a level 2 star in one encounter, then a level 2 star and a 3 star in the more rare drop in that same encounter set up in the same area. If you can't find the high enough skill you're looking for that means either you're unlucky or there is a higher level area that has a higher chance. Especially at later parts of the game, you will be able to get enough money to where buying bills of fortune are not much of a problem and can always use it on the encounters which has a monster you want a skill in.

A.L.I.V.E. 18 Mar, 2024 @ 8:17pm

I think there is some clarification here that needs to be added.

Each encounter you have has the possibility of dropping treasure. What treasure an encounter drops depends on a few things.

1. What creatures are in the encounter.
If you have a slime, a wolf and a wasp in your encounter, this means that it will select one of those three monsters to provide you with their drop table. It also seems to favor lower level monsters from my experience making it harder to get the rarer drops when you have a mix of monsters in that encounter, but this could just be observation vs statistical fact. If you have all of the same monster you will get treasure from their drop table every time.

PlasticRhombus [author] 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:59pm

Unfortunately, that's pretty contrary to my experience. Just got the 100% yesterday, wrote this guide early on and spent the whole game confirming that this is accurate. The "drop sets" appear to be in fixed positions, I've never seen that-- the same rank drop in different positions.

Lumamaster 21 Sep, 2022 @ 9:46am

I don't think this is the case. I've been farming for the monster skills for some time now, and the higher rarity skills never drop in a consistent manner. I'm on the 2x Ice Tortoise encounter now and the 3* skill has dropped in all 3 slots at some point or another (and I never got lucky).

Metalmine 17 Sep, 2022 @ 4:25pm

Interesting. we'll have to aggregate all the drop sets.

PlasticRhombus [author] 17 Sep, 2022 @ 5:42am

It's consistent. I think it's more based on "drop set" than the encounter though, individual encounters definitely have multiple drop sets.

Metalmine 16 Sep, 2022 @ 12:49pm

is this a one-off or is this consistent behavior?

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