------------------------------------------------------ Sega Ages Phantasy Star generation 2 Item Creation FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Version 1.1; last updated 12/03/08 Written by Jack Power Questions, additions, and comments can be directed to JackPower "at" aol "dot" com with "Phantasy Star" in the subject line. Version history 1.0; Initial release 1.1; Cleaned up some funky text in the charts, added a few clarifications. This document contains charts that are best viewed in Lucidia Console font. -------- Contents -------- Introduction Overview Who makes what How many battles Recommendations Tips ------------ Introduction ------------ This document is meant to be a definitive guide for the new item creation feature introduced in Phantasy Star: Generation 2. Though I dislike making huge charts for these sorts of things, I have received a lot of requests for it. That said, the information presented here is based on an endless array of chaotic and garbled notes I took back when I was playing the game obsessively, so I cannot guarantee its complete accuracy. When referring to the game characters in this guide, I will use their names from the original game's translation, which should be familiar to most players. However, when referring to the new items and such, I'll use my own rough translations for them and assume that the reader has enough knowledge of Japanese script to know what I'm talking about. Email me if you require assistance in identifying an item. -------- Overview -------- Like many gimmicks inserted into games these days, there is no way for the casual player to know how PSg2's item creation system actually works. Fortunately it is fairly simple. As you acquire new party members during the game, eventually you'll have to leave some of them home. Unlike in the original game, they can actually do something useful while sitting around at your place. When you enter your home, as in the original game, you'll be asked if you want to stop dilly-dallying and leave right away, so select gnoh to get to the menu. You'll see the following options: Storage Create Member Change Leave To set up party members to create items, first go to Member Change if necessary to leave certain characters at home. Then select Create to open a new window listing the party members and what they are doing. Characters in the active party will be grayed out, and those at home will be listed in white. Highlight a character at home and press Circle, then select either Create (left option) or Train (right option). Training lets a character earn experience points while at home and prevents them from contributing to item creation. Once you've selected which characters to contribute to item creation, go out and fight battles! After a certain number of fights, your team will have finished making something. Return home and you'll immediately get a message about the item they made. The completed item will appear in the Storage screen. You'll have to manually move it to your party's inventory from there. (Remember that you can highlight any item and press Triangle to see its description.) As soon as an item is made, the battle counter resets and you have the start the process over again. -------------- Who makes what -------------- The item you get depends entirely on two factors: The characters at home using the Create option, and how many battles you fight. As far as is currently known, there are only six valid combinations of party members for creating items. Each combination leads to one of six categories of items (four for equipment, one for expendable items, and another for cake). Here are the known combinations: Item1 Item2 Item3 Item4 Meds Cake Rudo Hugh Amy Rudo Amy Anna Kain Kain Anna Hugh Hugh Shir - - Shir Kain - - Note: These combinations can and will overlap, and there will be multiple possibilities for the kind of item you get. If you're going for a specific item, only have the listed characters for that category do any creating. If you were to put all 6 characters on item creation duty, they could potentially create anything from the list, but it would be chosen at random. ---------------- How many battles ---------------- To find out how many battles you have to fight to get an item, first find the item in the charts below. (This would have been one chart, but it wouldn't have fit into GameFaqs spacing requirements.) The number on the left side of the chart is the number of battles it will take to make the item. Make sure to scroll up and find out what category the item is so you have the proper combination of characters working on it. In general, the number of battles fought grounds downh to the previous item. For example, if you were trying to make a SaberClaw, which takes 10 battles, and you only fought 9, you'd get a SteelScale instead. It has been suggested that the ggradeh you receive after each battle may make the battle count more or less towards your total, but this is hard to confirm. Also note that each category has an end point. Fighting more battles than necessary after qualifying for the last item on the list will not get you anything new. ------------------------------Item Chart----------------------------- #B Item1 Item2 Item3 Item4 01 02 03 04 05 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 07 StlScale CeramGear 08 « « 09 « « 10 SaberClaw Fibrila -------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 « « SilKnife 12 « « « 13 LsrScalpel WhtMantle « 14 « « « 15 TtnmSlicer « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 « « « 17 CeramDagger LaserShield « 18 « « « 19 « « « 20 CeramScale « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 « « TtnmEmel TtnmShield 22 « « « « 23 WindDagger « « « 24 « « « « 25 FlameSword « « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 « « « « 27 SilentClaw « « « 28 « « « « 29 « « « « 30 « « « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 « « LuminEmel WaveGun 32 « « « « 33 NapalmShot ThndrCrown « « 34 « « « « 35 « « « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 « « « « 37 IceSlicer GaleBandana PlasmaField « 38 « « « « 39 « « « « 40 « « « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 « « « « 42 « « « « 43 IceStaff « « « 44 « « WhiteBoots BlackBoots 45 « « « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 46 « « (no change) (no change) 47 LaserVulcan TtnmHarness 48 « « 49 « « 50 « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 51 « « 52 « « 53 PlasmaSword « 54 « « 55 « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 56 « « 57 LightngWhip ZirconChest 58 « « 59 « « 60 « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 61 « « 62 « « 63 WindStaff « 64 « « 65 « « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 66 « « 67 PlasmaCannon ZirconArmor 68 « « 69 « (no change) 70 « -------------------------------------------------------------------- 71 « 72 « 73 ChainSawd 74 « 75 (no change) #B Meds Cake 01 02 Antipoison 03 Monomate 04 « 05 « Shortcake ----------------------------------- 06 « « 07 Dimate « 08 « « 09 « « 10 « « ----------------------------------- 11 « « 12 « « 13 « MonblancCake 14 « « 15 « « ----------------------------------- 16 « « 17 Trimate « 18 « « 19 « « 20 « FruitTart ----------------------------------- 21 « « 22 « « 23 Monofluid « 24 « « 25 « « ----------------------------------- 26 « « 27 Difluid ChiffonCake 28 « « 29 « « 30 « « ----------------------------------- 31 « « 32 « « 33 Trifluid « 34 « « 35 « NaulaCake ----------------------------------- 36 « « 37 SolDew (no change) 38 « 39 « 40 « ----------------------------------- 41 « 42 « 43 « 44 « 45 « ----------------------------------- 46 « 47 StarMist 48 « 49 « 50 « ----------------------------------- 51 « 52 « 53 « 54 « 55 « ----------------------------------- 56 « 57 MoonDew 58 « 59 (no change) 60 « --------------- Recommendations --------------- With only a few exceptions, the items made through item creation cannot be bought or found anywhere else in the game. However, because you don't have a complete party roster until almost halfway through the game, not all of them are worth the trouble by the time you have access to them. The following is a list of items that I personally recommend. -Wind Dagger: Rudo + Kain, 23 battles 32 attack power, wind elemental, good bonuses to defense, dexterity, and luck. A good mid/late game weapon for Shir. -Flame Sword: Rudo + Kain, 25 battles 84 attack power, fire elemental; casts Foi when used. Good mid-game weapon for Rolf. -Silent Claw: Rudo + Kain, 27 battles 24 attack power, good bonuses to dexterity and luck; casts Vol when used. Good mid-game weapon for Nei. Still useful later for its free insta-kill tech. -Napalm Shot: Rudo + Kain, 33 battles 60 attack power, fire elemental. The most powerful gun Kain can use. Highly recommended. -Ice Slicer: Rudo + Kain, 37 battles 40 attack power, good bonuses to dexterity and luck. Good late game weapon for Anna. Highly recommended. -Ice Staff: Rudo + Kain, 43 battles 38 attack power, water elemental, good bonuses to defense, dexterity, and luck; casts Wat. Good late game weapon for Amy. -Plasma Sword: Rudo + Kain, 53 battles 110 attack power, good all-around bonuses; casts Gigaj when used. Good mid/late game weapon for Rolf. -Lightning Whip: Rudo + Kain, 57 battles 48 attack power, thunder elemental, good bonuses to defense and dexterity; casts Zonde when used. Most powerful whip for Anna. -Wind Staff: Rudo + Kain, 63 battles 36 attack power, wind elemental, great bonuses to defense, dexterity, and luck; casts Zan. Good late game weapon for Amy. -Plasma Cannon: Rudo + Kain, 67 battles 80 attack power, good bonus to dexterity. Second most powerful single-hit gun. -ChainSawd: Rudo + Kain, 73 battles 138 attack power, good all-around bonuses. Second most powerful sword. -Laser Shield: Hugh + Kain, 17 battles 44 defense power. Good mid-game protection for Hugh or Kain. -Thunder Crown: Hugh + Kain, 33 battles 32 defense power, good bonuses; casts Zonde when used. Second most powerful headgear for Nei and Amy. Highly recommended. -Gale Bandana: Hugh + Kain, 37 battles 17 defense power, good bonuses; casts Shunera when used. Best headgear for Shir. -Zirconium Chest: Hugh + Kain, 57 battles 52 defense power, good bonuses. Best armor for Hugh and good mid-game armor for Rolf. -Luminous Emel: Amy, Anna, Shir, 31 battles 40 defense power, good bonuses; casts Fanbi when used. Good mid-game protection for the ladies. -Plasma Field: Amy, Anna, Shir, 37 battles 72 defense power, good bonuses; casts Sagaj when used. Second most powerful cape, can be used by any of the female cast (and is the best armor some of them can equip). Highly recommended. -White Boots: Amy, Anna, Shir, 44 battles 10 defense power, good all-around bonuses. Arguably the best footwear for the female party members. -Wave Gun: Hugh, Rudo, Kain, 31 battles 48 attack power. One-handed, usable by any of the male cast. Recommended for Hugh and Kain when facing high-defense enemies. -Black Boots: Hugh, Rudo, Kain, 44 battles 10 defense power, good all-around bonuses. Arguably the best footwear for the male party members. -Trifluid: Amy + Hugh, 33 battles These TP-restoring items cannot be bought anywhere and are a rare commodity. Brew up a few for an emergency. -StarMist: Amy + Hugh, 47 battles Restores everyone's HP. Cannot be bought, but Shir can sometimes steal them from stores. However you get them, they are definitely worth it. The same goes for Sol Dew (cures status ailments) and Moon Dew (revives one party member). -Cakes (various): Anna + Shir This is delicious cake; you must eat it! Cakes have various properties that are listed below. They cannot be bought anywhere, so get your women-folk in the kitchen if you want some. -Shortcake: restores 80HP (5 battles) -Monblanc Cake: restores all HP (13 battles) -Fruit Tart: restores 80TP (20 battles) -Chiffon Cake: restores all TP (27 battles) -Naula Shortcake: restores all HP&TP (35 battles) ---- Tips ---- -Don't run away from a fight. It won't count towards making an item. -The game doesn't care how strong the enemies are. Feel free to squash bugs around Paseo all day if you like; they'll still count. For this reason, you may want to do as much creating as possible before the biomonsters are replaced by tougher robots. -Save several battles before your goal! You might make a mistake in counting fights, or it may end up that the game weighs each battle differently based on your grade. If you save and reset, the number of battles you won will be retained. -Category 3 and 4 items are particularly difficult to get, because each combination of three party members also counts for one or more combinations of two party members. You might end up getting a Silent Claw when you're going for a Wave Gun, or a Naula Cake when you're trying for a Plasma Field. Because of this, it's especially important to save several battles ahead in these situations. -Some created items have a built-in elemental property. These can still be changed at the upgrade station just like any other weapon! You can make your Napalm Shot be ice elemental or non-elemental, for example. [This is the end of the file. Thanks for reading!]