White Knight Chronicles International Edition

Lists compiled, written, formatted and edited by Bellamonte (andreameda, Dominic Beaumont)

Sources: Some drop rates Brady Games' Official Strategy Guide Item availability from Unknown_PC's Georama Unlockable List

Contributions:

• Eternal_Spoon
• pasufarin
• AstralBlades

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Version 1.01 (22 Fev 2010)

• Corrected a few typos here and there
• Removed the accessories recrafts (thanks to Eternal_Spoon)
• Edited the shopping list
• Added notes about Chromium Pearls in the enhancement section

Version 1.02 (24 Fev 2010)

• Added a few contribution
• Major update of the material chart
• Some harvest locations added
• Ennemy size added
• Quest in which you can find the ennemies added (small ennemy locations comming soon)
• Boss checklist added in the chart

Well here it is. The international version synthesis chart. This chart is meant for different types of people:

• Players going for the 450 synthesis trophy
• Players looking for materials in order to bind new items
• Players wondering what items are needed for a given synthesis
• Players wondering what items are needed to buff weapons for future synthesis

However, it is not meant for:

• Players looking for EVERY binding recipes in the game
• Players looking for "special" item locations needed for further binding over 450 synthesis (such as coins).

The synthesis system in White Knight Chronicles is pretty simple. Once you get to Albana, the desert town, you will come to a point where you must act as a mailman in order to gain access to Phibianacci's place. Just before you complete the quest "The Southern Gate", you'll get access to the Binding Post, so take advantage of it.

Now how it works. The binding post toads offer you different recipes to craft different items. To increase the variety of items the binding toad offer, you'll need to donate items in exchange of points. Those points will raise your level and unlock different binding recipes. Note that the max level is 12, and is reached with about 210 000 points.

This guide will provide a table contaning 453 synthesis. Those have been selected among the lowest level items/armors/weapons in order to reach a total of 450 faster. See the Synthesis Lists.

Now, the hard (and most time consuming) part will be collecting all the material needed for all those synthesis. To make things easier, I provided a structured table containing the amount of each material needed to bind the 453 recipes listed. See the Material Chart.

You will also need to buy some weapons from shop in order to save binding material and time. See the Shopping List.

On top of those bought weapons, you will need some others (and accessories too), that can only be acquired through binding, therefore leading to recrafts. See the Recraft Chart.

Finally, you will need to enhance those weapons to bind them into stronger weapons. See the Weapon Buff Chart.

The guide also provide a list of weapons sold in each city once you reach the end of the game. This list might come in handy if you're looking to buy a given weapon for whatever reason. See the Shop Weapon List.

Here's how you should work in order to reach 450 in a structured and somewhat quick (lol) way.

1. First beat the game.
2. Then you need to earn money. You're free to spend it as you will, but it can easilly make binding faster and easier. The perfect goal would be to save 10,000,000G. Yes thats a LOT, but it'll also unlock the second hardest trophy in the game :P.
3. Buy the weapons in the Shopping List. You will eventually need them.
4. Then you need to gather the material needed to bind everything mentionned in the Synthesis Lists. In order to do so, refer to the Material Chart for location where to find items.
5. Now you need to raise your binding post level to 12. The fastest way to do so is by donating Chromium Pearls, Guardian Pearls and Elemental Shards. Those net you lots of points and are easilly found all around.
6. When you have the material needed, you can start binding some items. You're free to bind when you want, but the key is to keep track of what material you used. I suggest updating both the Material Chart AND the Synthesis Lists every time you bind/enhance an item.
7. Slowly work your way till you've done all the given synthesis.
8. Rant about your devotion to the game :P.

Here is a list of the different shops you can find in the game along with the weapons you can find in them. Note that the columns are city names. This is due to the fact that for a given city, in case there are multiple shops, they will all be selling the same gear.

The first thing you should do when going for 450 bindings, is buy the weapons found in that shopping list. The weapons needed to crafts all 453 recipes have been compiled and that list shows the exact amount you will need in order to do so.

A good idea would be printing the chart out and checking the weapons you buy in order to get them all in one go. You can also save the world and just copy the table in MS Excel anc virtually check them :P.

Note: Please note that there are accessories to buy in Greede (the only items in that table you need 7 of). Buying those will save you 350 Steel Ore and 350 Crystal :P. (Thanks to Eternal_Spoon from PS3trophies.org)

The synthesis checklists are divided into 4 categories as follow:

• Weapons
• Armors
• Accessories
• Consumables

The game keeps track of your bindings by adding a red checkmark left of the binding recipe once you've done it once. Still, it would recommend printing the lists out and manually checking the recipes once it has been done once.

I would also recommend updating the "Needed" column of the Material Chart every time you bind an item. That way, you will always know how many of each items you still need.

Keys for this table:

• #: The synthesis number according to this FAQ.
• Name: The weapon name.
• Lvl: The level needed to equip the weapon.
• GR: The guild rank needed to both bind AND equip the weapon.
• Type: The weapon type, goes as follow:
• ax: Axes
• bo: Bows
• ls: Longswords
• sp: Spear
• ss: Shortswords
• st: Staves
• Material 1: The first material needed.
• Material 2: The second material needed.

Keys for this table:

• #: The synthesis number according to this FAQ.
• Name: The armor piece name.
• Lvl: The level needed to equip the armor.
• GR: The guild rank needed to both bind AND equip the armor.
• Type: The armor type, goes as follow:
• C: Chest
• A: Arms
• L: Legs
• F: Footwear
• S: Shields
• Material 1: The first material needed.
• Material 2: The second material needed.

Keys for this table:

• #: The synthesis number according to this FAQ.
• Prefix: Color/type/prefix of the item.
• Name: The name of the accessory.
• Lvl: The level needed to equip the accesory.
• GR: The guild rank needed to bind the accesory. (Thanks to AstralBlades over at PS3Trophies.org for pointing out there are no GR requirements to equip accessories)
• Material 1: The first material needed.
• Material 2: The second material needed.

Keys for this table:

• #: The synthesis number according to this FAQ.
• Name: The name of the item.
• Version: The version of the consumable.
• Material 1: The first material needed.
• Material 2: The second material needed.

The recrafts are called as such since they imply binding some items you've already bound before. If that makes sense :P. They are divided in two sections:

• Weapons
• Accessories

Keys for this table:

• Name: The weapon name.
• Need: The amount of that weapon you need to rebind.
• Type: The weapon type, goes as follow:
• ax: Axes
• bo: Bows
• ls: Longswords
• sp: Spear
• ss: Shortswords
• st: Staves
• Material 1: The first material needed.
• Material 2: The second material needed.

Please note there used to be accessories recrafts in this section. A friend (Eternal_Spoon) over at PS3trophies.org pointed out that you can actually buy those accessories in Greede, therefore saving you 350 Crystals and 350 Steel Ore. Refer to the [Shopping List].