Dark Gate return of experience (spoiler in it maybe)

[sigfried]

Hello,

it's been a while since i didn't post on rpg insanity and since there is so few information about dark gate i guess some clues (people will talk of spoiler anyway) are necessary for this game.

 

first of all, i'd like to thank the player here who describe several event with characters and at least 7 on the 8 endings. i won't add more unless that maybe ending 1 is probably accessible by buying "hard" mode.

maybe all i will say below about the gameplay has been mentioned in the review but it's good to know this :

Select your "action" :

the action you put first is the default one, then by being thief and probably trickster or something else, you gain "mug" which allow to attack and steal at the same time. it's very important to set it up early in the game to win lots of important items and collectibles (coin, silver, mythril and divine bead). the game will ask several time to collect them and you don't want to spent hours to do this.

 

it can be useful to set defend, steal and even "sing" to affect ennemies.

 

Select your "skill" :

needless to say this one is the most important. you will learn very quickly that brute force is not enough. exemple in the reverie forest, to kill them all, you require the poison spell of the support job. not only that but the mirror spell will become your friend versus the "dark hermit" and another boss (forget his name) who is a powerful magic user.

ultra reverie and ultra falcon swipe will be also some of your favorites but you cannot have it for all the jobs.that is unless you miss the next part.

i have really appreciated the elemental magic and recoveries althought they can be tedious to use for the latter. to properly heal your team during the heat of a hard battle, you need to select calmly the spell and the hero. however don't forget to say "OK" at the end. otherwise you will wait for something that will never happened.

regarding group magic, it's easy to combine and obtain super spell but when you face it, use the proper armor to resist it and also the next part.

Select your "passive skill" :

Clearly, this one is missable if you don't look correctly on the right of the screen. with this, you can tweak a class by adding attack +10%, use of sword even if you can't normally, have one weapon in each hand etc... select them carefully to succeed in every mission without having to change the equipment each time you change a job. it will spare you also to re-select your skill.

example : at the end of the game four 100 floors dungeon appears. the earth hermit is totally untouchable and never use magic so mirror will be useless. the only way to beat him is selecting job sword master for 4 characters, and having 1 hero dedicated to heal (ultra heal is better than aheal, don't forget clean state too). now add attack +30%, W blade (to equip 2 blades) and falcon swipe minimum. with this, you will end the battle quite quickly because this boss is only vulnerable to "critical" attack which happen well... never enough for this battle. in my case, only Leo was able to hit him but my fourth character was also able to do some damage while he was fist master with "sword eq" and "w-blade" equipped.

as you can see the gameplay is rich and you really need all these jobs in your pocket so collect them all.

About Collectibles :

Coin : i took them from the bird in the first mountain but lots of ennemis have them (toro mountain ? but i have forgotten)

Silver : golem were my favourite, easy to steal. you can also count on these "molecule" ennemies with dual magic but they are harder to kill. (silver mine)

Myhtirl : all the ennemies have them (myhtril mine)

Divine bead : Thor in floor 81-90 of the eastern cavern 100 floors dungeon. but at least you meet one as boss during the course of the game, so don't miss the opportunity. they give access to the special jobs, you don't need to finish the four 100 floors dungeons on the contrary of what you can think but for a 100% completion, you will finish the four 100 floors dungeon of course.

all of these mission delivers new jobs or important weapon.

Dark Gate mission :

finish them all in priority. they give you access to all the missing jobs in the list of the title screen. usually the bosses require tweak of your job to have falcon swipe or powerful magic or support magic (mirror, poison mainly).

Level 99 and all the jobs for all the characters (yes all, not only the main team) :

well, i recommend to use always the same 4 characters. just tweak the team to collect the event as indicated in the other topic here. fact is that in the 100 floors dungeon, the floor 81 to 90 will be your favorite. you can collect millions of exp and about 600 skill point for just killing a monster (and note that in some dungeon if you found a way to kill 91-100 ennemies, you collect up to 2 millions exp and more than 1K skill point (2 ennemies)). at some point, you will max out all characters way before the end so that you can alternate at your heart content after Ginga's Lab to see all the ending very very quickly.

i let this for future references, but again,i suppose it would have been great to built a proper walkthrough for this game. i had more or less the same kind of topic in mind for Alphadia 2 but couldn't open it since i was in holydays. maybe it would have been more useful than this topic but maybe also it will help some people to paly dakr gate (alphadia 2 has so good reputation that anyways, anyone will play it on the contrary of this one).