Ahhhhh.... Challenge3, now you're finally getting somewhere. |
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Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - General Information |
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Ahhhhh… challenge 3, now you're finally getting somewhere. This is definitely the easiest of the Caves challenges and, in my opinion, one of the easiest Challenges period so you're in for a treat! Two sidenotes, To all FOs, Nano Dragons are YOUR responsibility alone. Barta the crap out of them! It’ll go much faster for your party if you let FOs take them on alone. The other note is, if you haven’t yet noticed, the directions I give are based on the map, not on your character so when I say “exit north” that means the north door on the map.
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Non-TA |
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Recommended Team: 1HUmar, 2 HUcasts, 1 FO (you could have 2 FO but if its your first time, you may only want one). Estimated Completion Time: 30-33 minutes. Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area 9 (Non-TA) |
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1) Kill everything, exit west 2) While your team is killing things here, have one person go and break the boxes on the west end of the room, exit north 3) Kill everything here and exit West (through the two doors on the map). 4) Kill everything and continue west 5) Ok, puzzle now. 2 people needed, labeling them A and B. They can be whichever class you want. Have A go through the Northwest door (left of the door you entered from) and have B stand near the falling pillar (which covers a switch) thats in between the two doors, dont hit the switch yet. The other 2 people can get the 8 boxes near the locked door (beware of traps) and then they should just stay near the locked door for when it opens. A- You go through the hallway and warp, ignore the enemies in the next room and just run through the only other open door. At the end of this hallway is a locked door. B- When you see A get close to that door (its on the left side of the map), wait for the pillar to drop once more and then run towards the switch (as the pillar is rising, duh lol). A- When B hits that switch, the door in front of you will open, in front of you will be a floor switch and a pillar waiting to fall on it (the pillar is being upheld by the button B is on). Quickly touch (just touch, dont stand on) the floor switch and run back through the door that B unlocked, at this point youre done, just warp back and catch up with the party. B- if A was quick enough, they couldve gotten their switch and got back through the door before you got crushed, in any case, go catch up with the other two people from your group (the south door opened when A hit their floor switch). 6) Kill everything, exit south 7) A mini puzzle, easily solved, the fastest way to get through this room is to shoot (or hit with magic) the farthest left switch above the south door (which opens the south door). If the HUmar doesnt have a gun (and your FO cant cast magic for some reason), kill everything here to open the west door and get a handgun from the box. Remember, there is no need to fight the monsters here unless you need the gun so dont if you dont have to. 8) Kill everything, exit west 9) Yay! Another fun puzzle, this one only requires one person directly so that person is A. Have any of the party (except A) stand on the lone floor pad. A- Enter the laser field with 9 floor switches. WARNING If you hit any of the 6 wrong switches, there is an explosion which damages the party so follow my instructions exactly. A- when you enter the field, ONLY step on the Southwestern most one for now. This lets the other 3 people through a gate to the right of the lone floor switch. Once they’re all through, Move Northeast one pad to the center pad. This lets them through the next gate. Once they’re through, go Northeast again to the Northeastern most pad. This lets them through the last gate. At this time, any of the 3 people who are near the south door (that’s the exit to the next room) need to touch the lone floor pad near them, this lets A out of the field near the exit. To get there, A, you need to go back to the center pad, then walk west IN BETWEEN two of the pads. 10) Kill everything, exit west 11) Kill everything, exit south and warp to Area 10
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area 10 (Non-TA) |
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Estimated Current Time: 5-6 minutes.
1) For the first two rooms, just kill everything and exit east. 2) After going through the long hallway (with Traps in it), you will come to a big room with many monsters in it. Kill them all and exit east. 3) 2 warps in here…there’s a nice, neat way to do this. Have any two people go through the right warp (when they do, the left warp will open). The people who take the left warp will be trapped on the ones in the right warp will need to help them. To release them, the third switch from the trapped members must be pressed. Now, it only takes one person to do this, so why did I have you travel in pairs? The answer is easy, while one person releases the two trapped people, the other goes on ahead to open the path for the party. To go on ahead, make a left when you exit into the room with many switches, on the map, you’ll be in the northeast corner. Go through the wall and run down the hall. When you immerge, 3 big rocks will be in your way, hit the farthest right one with 6 weak hits to open it (its always 6 hits, weak or strong so use weak as its faster). Continue on past the locked door to another set of rocks. Break the farthest right one again to reveal access to a switch, press it to open the door. Exit through the door and warp to Area 11.
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area 11 (Non-TA) |
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Estimated Current Time: 10 minutes.
1) For the first two rooms, kill everything and exit North. 2) In the third room, kill everything and exit west, warp. 3) Unless you really need the items, run past the boxes to the north door 4) Puzzle: Have two people run to the east side of the room where there is a laser square guarding a floor switch, have the other 2 stay at the west end of the room. I’ll call the two at the east end A and B and the others C and D. A- press the floor switch for B. B- run into the laser square and stand on the floor switch. Note to C and D, only two of these switches are right, so don’t hit any other switches that I don’t tell you too. C- Run to the back row of switches and hit the farthest left one (its closest to the south wall). D- Hit the middle switch in the first row of switches. C and D- Exit north. B- get out of the laser square. A- as soon as B is out, get off of your switch and catch up to C and D. 5) Kill everything, exit west 6) Kill everything, exit north 7) Kill everything, exit north and take a right in the hallway 8) Kill everything in this room and the west door will open. ONE person go that way, the others wait at the locked Northeast door. There’s a switch to unlock the NE door in the western doors room, hit it and catch up with the party. 9) There are four switches in this room which open the North door, and killing all the enemies opens the east door. You’ll have to do both. The switches require a handgun and there’s one in the northwest section of the room, the west section of the room, the southwest section of the room and the southeast/east section. I’m sorry I can’t remember which ones require the gun (I believe the Northwest and Southeast are in trees and require guns but check them all, I’ll look into so I can make the guide perfect). Anyway, once all four switches are hit and all the monsters are killed, send 2 people north and 2 people west. North party is A, east party is B 10)
Party A - Warp, have once member stay on the floor switch while the other follows the path of lights through the room (veering from the path will result in an explosion). Once the member is through the room, the one holding the floor pad can warp back and catch up with Party B. The member who is still here, DO NOT WARP IN THAT OTHER WARP YET! stand on the floor pad in that room first! Party B - Have one person stand on the floor pad and wait for the member of Party A to get onto their floor pad across the river. Meanwhile, the second member (and member from Party A if they’re quick enough) can be fighting monsters to kill time (and protect the person on the switch). As soon as both floor pads are held down, the north door opens. Go ahead and head through that door to warp to Area 12 (oh and person from Party A, once the door is open you’re free to warp ;) )
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area 12 (Non-TA) |
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Estimated Current Time: 18 minutes. 1) Kill everything, exit east 2) Kill everything, exit north 3) Kill everything, exit north warp to Area 13 (easy area eh? Even though those 3 rooms probably had a lot of monsters in them, at least no puzzles right?)
Challenge Mode - Stage3 - Area 13 (Non-TA) |
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Estimated Current Time: 21-22 minutes.
1) Kill everything, exit north 2) Kill everything, exit north 3) Puzzle time (been a little while eh?). Have 1 person go left and 1 person go right, the other 2, go up the center to the locked door. Person A is left, Person B is right. A- Stand on the floor pad to raise the two pillars in front of B. B- Hit the switch under the right pillar and then stand on the floor pad which is past the two pillars, this raises the two pillars in front of A. A- Hit the switch underneath the right pillar and then stand on the pad past the two pillars which raises the next two pillars in front of B. B- hit the pad under the right pillar and then step on the switch past the two pillars (sound familiar?). A- Hit the switch underneath the right pillar (again lol) and that should open the locked door. All four people rejoin and exit north. 4) Kill everything and exit east 5) Go up the North path. 6) Kill everything in the next room, continue up the north path and hit a switch which unlocks the east door in room 5. So run on back and go through the east door. 7) Kill everything and exit east. 8) Kill everything in this room and wait a second. There’s a puzzle in the works. Let one person through the laser fence, they will be called A. A- Warp, continue eastward after you warp and you’ll come into a room with a floor switch (its on the right side of the room-once you go through the doorway), touch it, then warp. You’ll warp back into the room you originally left from. But by this time, your party will have exited east (or if they’re nice [by nice I mean SLOW lol] they’ll still be there). Anyway, exit east. 9) Kill everything, exit south 10) Ok this room is where the puzzle is, there’s a door that only opens after you’ve hit 4 floor switches. A already hit one of them! The others are spread amongst fake switches, so ill clear the confusion! One is just to the left of the doorway you enter from (in the bushes a little), another is to the right of where you enter (you can’t see it, its in the river, do 3 weak hits in the general area of the river edge and you’ll start hitting it-you’ll hear your hits connecting and see a little spark, just make sure to hit it 3 times), the last is also in the river but its near the locked door (on the side you’re on so you can’t see it unless you angle the camera weird), hit it 3 times like the other. Then the door should open, go through it. 11) Watch for traps in the hallway and when you exit, kill everything and exit east. Hit the switch and that opens the west door, go that way. 12) Final room! Kill everything, exit south and you’re done! Estimated Completion Time: 30-33 minutes
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - TA |
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Recommended Team: 2 Hucasts and 2 Fonewearls. Good TA time: Less than 21 minutes. Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area9 (TA) |
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HUs drop one scape doll for the Forces. Don’t get the boxes in the second room, DO NOT have your FO go to get the floor switch in room 5, have your FO hit the left switch in room 7, It would probably be smart to have a HU do the 9 floor pad puzzle in room 9.
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area10 (TA) |
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The only major difference is to have your FOs take the right warp so they can be the ones to get to Area 11 first and start killing things first. Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area11 (TA) |
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FOs can start using their fluids now (I would suggest using dolls to die for TP in Area 12 so save your fluids til then) and drop their mates for HUs. Have your FOs be the ones to get the switches in room 4. Have a HU hit the switch in room 8. Have your FOs go north in room 9. Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area12 (TA) |
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No difference, just kill crap quicker by using more magic (but that goes in every area not just this one!). Die for Tp if you must. Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Area13 (TA) |
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Have your HUs do the puzzle in room 3. If one of your FOs needs Tp, have them be person A in room 8 (After A warps, if they go north instead of east, it leads to a health ring). DO NOT WAIT FOR PERSON A TO WARP BACK TO ROOM 8, MOVE ON AND CLEAR OUT ROOM 9 AND START HITTING SWITCHES IN ROOM 10. That’s all, doing that will shorten your time. Like I’ve said before, feel free to try again if you aren’t satisfied. Good luck!
Challenge Mode - Stage 3 - Credits |
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Guide by: Lionheart
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