This is a pretty quick little guide that is intended to help you get the most
out of each battle rank as you go through the game. For those who aren't very
familiar with how SaGa Frontier's tier system works, here's a little
explanation: enemies in SaGa Frontier increase in difficulty not by how far in
the storyline you are, but by how many battles you have fought. It's still
sort of a mystery how this works exactly, but it seems to be a set number. So
there's only so much time to make use of each tier. This flow list is designed
to help you do that by taking the enemies with the highest chance of yielding
an item or skill and directing you to get it from that enemy. In that way, you
have split up the amount you have to do in one tier and you save yourself the
time of going for a rarity 4 item (rarity 4 is an enemy's rarest item / skill)
when it's rarity 1 with another enemy (rarity 1 is that StunNeedle you always
see the KillerBee drop).
Class Flow
Beast
Plant
Reptile
Insect
Bird
Slime
Artifact (these can be found in Mu's Tomb small treasure chest if nowhere else)
Undead
Human
Male Mystic
Female Mystic
Mec
Each tier will be lined up like this. You'll have it memorized in no time, and
it's pretty obvious what class each enemy belongs too anyway.
How this works: I am going to list skills and items. If you have 5 monsters on
your team (*coughRikicough*), there's no way you're going to get the full
benefit from this anyway. I have managed to follow this guide with Slime and
Suzaku on Blue's file, though. Basically, you want to absorb as many skills
with your monsters and not spend forever on it. If you try to get Supersonic
from a Hedgehog, you're wasting your time. I'm going to list the easiest place
to get it, but if you have 5 monsters, don't expect them all to get every skill
in here before time "runs out" (and by time running out, I mean before it's
going to become a grind to get the skills you want).
Also, it has come to my attention that you cannot miss any skills with your
monsters; some will be ungodly hard to get at the end of the game, but if you
can't make full use of this tier flow, you can always go back and get what you
missed later. If you see an item name, you'll want to get the item from that
enemy, assuming you want that item. I've listed all the items you need to get
from drops, so if you're going for every item, I find it easiest to get the
item there; if you don't want an item or a skill, skip it, of course, but
skipping skills will cheat your monster out of Max HP. Just make sure not to
waste time absorbing skills that your monster has pre-absorbed; that
information can all be found in Oulak's Monster FAQ, found at GameFAQs.
Lastly, check the bottom of the guide; it has a miscellaneous section. If
you're actually using this as a guide, not just a reference to what tier and
class an enemy is, and you want to get the most out of it, take heed to the
miscellaneous section early on. It has enemies that can only be fought in low
tiers. Since I don't know exactly what tiers and classes each enemy in that
list appears with yet, I don't have that information in there; maybe, with
time, I will figure all that out and add it to this guide. For right now, I
highly suggest going to the sewers near Dr. Nusakan's office in Koorong and
fighting a D-Tractor (it appears with rank one humans). It is the only enemy
in the game that drops the Bumper. Of course, if you don't care about having
every item, then just forget it. It's worthless as far as an equip goes.
*I only suggest absorbing MadAttack from Butch if you are on T260G's file,
because T2 can't get into TimeLord's Region (as far as I know he can't).
Everybody else would have more luck absorbing this from a Minotaur, who yields
it 100%. Not like rarity 2 is horribly hard to absorb, but 100% is better.
With the EarthDragon, pick your favorite, you only get to fight him once. I
recommend the SprigganSuit though. On T260G's file, you can get a
HyperionBazooka in one of his dungeons, so I would definitely pick the
SprigganSuit there.
Well, it looks to be the end here..... Again, thanks to GameFAQs and the guys
on its SaGa Frontier message board.
And also, don't plagiarize this. Please. Just don't. It's not even 10 KB.
