Saving Dragoon power

Try save your Dragoon power for the Bosses.

More healing per turn

Equip the Dragon Helm together with the Therapy Ring. The Dragon Helmet increases your maximum HP by 50% and the Therapy Ring restores your HP each turn by 10%.

Restoring status

If someone is petrified, you cannot use him/her and transform into a Dragoon in order to heal the status. Instead, make sure you always have everyone with Maximum SP and are alive. When there is someone that cannot move (make a turn), just use the "Special" command and the bad status will be healed.

Switching additions

Do not switch additions all the time,. You can get the one you are on a lot stronger and with more SP.

Final addition

To get the final addition for all characters except Miranda and Shana, master the previous ones. You will then get their 7-hit master combo. Most of them gain SP of over 100 and damage over 400 %.

Hitting additions easier

The key to landing your combos from additions is immediately pressing X when the box turns gray. If you do, it will make it a perfect shot and you can do more damage to your opponents. If you are too slow, you will do less damage. Also, stick with an addition that you can learn, such as Dart's Volcano attack. If you need practice hitting the combos and learning the additions, try to encounter enemies in older areas of the game which will you an advantage over them.

Easy way to master additions

Go to the Forest near Seles. Go to the area where the Merchant was located (with small rabbit-like creatures) and just run around. The battles happen quickly in this area and your opponents are easy to kill.

When you encounter an enemy that uses "Physical Attack Barrier", you can level up your additions without killing the enemy. When the barrier disappears, wait for it to use the barrier again. Then, you can again level up your additions.

To master all additions, walk around on the world map. This is the fastest way to find enemies.

In the Valley of Corrupted Valley, before you fight the second Virage, go to the spot where the save point is located, near the Virage statue. This is the perfect location to level up your additions. Almost all of the battles have one of the enemies being a Spider Urchin. This enemy will often use a physical attack barrier. When he does, you can use your additions on him and he will not die. You will still get SP and level ups for that addition.

Easy experience

If you are at the Phantom Ship, stay there. Run into the blue flames and fight them. You will get experience easily.

Find the Unlimited Speed Up (in valley) and unlimited magic sig. Stone. In Disc 2, between the valley and Home of the Gigantos, you will find a Blue Bird. Place Shana in your party. Since she is your fastest character she will go first. Fire at the bird with Shana -- she never misses. Then, have your next character use magic sig. Stone which will paralyze the enemy for their turns. Have next character use Speed Up on Shana. Doing so will cause Shana to go twice in a row. The bird should be defeated before it moves three times, giving you 1000 exp.

Easy money

Keep playing the Chef aboard the ship to get as much money as needed.

Maximum percentage on items

Some of the items allow you to determine their strength by pressing X button. If you have a controller with a turbo feature, enable it and hold X. You will get to the maximum percentage, which is 270%.

Dart's Soul Eater weapon

You may not like the amount of HP you lose when you block when you have the Soul Eater equipped. Well to avoid this, equip the Therapy Ring so that you recover what you lost.

Faster Kongol

Equip Kongol with the Bandits Shoes and his speed will increase from 30 to 50, making him just as fast as Dart. His higher defense and attack, not to mention less hits with additions, will make him a suitable character for anybody to use.

Ultimate Wargod

You can buy an Ultimate Wargod in Lohan. It makes your additions perform perfectly without any penalty. It may cost 10,000, which may be very hard to get at this point in the game. However, it makes battles much easier and your Dragoons will still level up.

Quick additions for Dart and Rose

Choose the addition you want to master immediately before you battle Michael, the black dragon. Since Michael cannot be hurt unless you hit the weak point, you can keep attacking his armor without harming him. This allows you to use your addition until it is at maximum. This also can be done with Pots and Blue Birds, but they run away.

Defeating Lloyd

Equip an item that prevents you from dying instantly, such as the Talisman. Transform into a Dragoon and his instant death attack will not kill you. Keep in mind that he will use his Dome attack -- do not transform everyone into a Dragoon, unless you are using Miranda.

Defeating S.Virage

Wait until it uses up its ten lives. Just make sure all your characters have a high HP before its final attack, which does a lot of damage.

Defeating the second Viarge Boss

You will have to fight a stronger Viarge Boss in the Gravity Breakdown Valley . Take out his left hand (the hand on the right side of the screen) first and he will not be able to do his instant death attack until it returns. After you take out his left hand, concentrate on his head. If his hand comes back, destroy it again. You will win the battle after doing 1,600 damage to his head. The following is a list of how much health each part of has:

Head:1600 HP
Left Arm: 320 HP
Right Arm: 320 HP
Body: 600 HP

Defeating The Dead Captain and 4 Dead Knights

When you get to the end of the Ghost Ship, you have to defeat the Dead captain of the ship and the 4 Dead Knights. However, if you kill one of them after a certain amount of time they will come back to life with full health. Get all of the Knights and the Captain to a red health meter. Once they are low enough, use either Dart's Explosion ability or Kongol's Grand Stream and Meteor Strike magic abilities. Also, if you have any of your Dragoon Spirts to level 5 you can use their Dragon ability to make sure they are defeated.

Get the leader (center of back row) into the red and the rest in the yellow. Use Shana's Star Children, which will do about 350 to 400 damage to each.

Defeating the Divine Dragon

A controller with an auto-fire (at least 260%) feature is required for this trick. Have Rose and Meru in your party. Equip Meru with the Therapy Ring. Equip Rose with something to raise her magic att. Equip Dart as desired. Stock up on Spark Nets. Get to the Divine Dragon, but do not turn into a Dragoon. When it is Meru or Rose's turn, use a Spark Net and turn on the auto-fire feature. Attack Divine Dragon, not the Divine Ball or Cannon. Use Additions for Dart.

Defeating Jiku (Merv Frama in Zeig's body)

This is not a hard battle, but you cannot use Dart's Dragoon Spirit. Just concentrate on using additions. If you have the Red Eye Dragon Armor equipped on Dart, Jiku will not be able to do much damage when he uses moves such as Final Burst and other magic attacks. All Jiku will use is the Dragoon's Magic and normal attacks. After dealing about 10,000 damage or more to Jiku, he will die and reveal himself as Merv Frama.

Defeating Merv Frama (final Boss)

Merv Frama has three different forms. Use the following steps to defeat all the forms.

Stage 1
In the first part of fighting Merv Frama, you will notice that he has four tentacles. Take them out so that he cannot keep doing a lot of damage. Next, concentrate on Merv Frama himself. Try and keep hitting your additions attacks. If you have Miranda on your team, use her Dragoon magic to heal you team. If necessary, transform into one of your Dragoons (Kongol is suggested). Do not use Dart's Divine Dragoon Spirit just yet. Keep using Miranda to deal some damage and heal. If you have Kongol's Gold Dragon Magic Move (he will learn it at Dragoon level 5) you can use it, but it will not do too much damage. After dealing a large amount of damage (about 10,000 or more) he first stage will die. His health meter will not turn yellow or red. An intermission sequence will begin.

Stage 2
The next battle is during the fourth generation. This battle is a little tougher than the first. You will notice that his health is now in yellow. Do the same as the first battle, but this time use Miranda to do a little damage and guard when her health gets low. Use her to heal the others when necessary. Once again do not use Dart's Divine Dragoon Spirit yet. Keep using additions to lower his health. Later on, he will pull a member of your team in himself. After about five moves, he will throw him at one of your characters which will do a lot of damage to both. He will also use annoying exploding balls that will cause great damage. After doing another 10,000 damage or more, he will go to his next stage. Once again, his energy will not go to red. Once this stage is over, another intermission of the fifth generation will occur.

Stage 3
The final battle is during the sixth generation. It is time to use Dart's Divine Dragoon Spirit. Once he transforms, use his second magic attack twice (if you have enough MP). The magic attack uses 50 MP, and so does the first. After using all of your MP, use Dart's attack. If you get perfect, you will see his move with the Divine Dragoon Spirit (which can do a lot of damage). If he is not dead after using all of Dart's Dragoon power, use your additions and Miranda to heal if necessary. After you defeat Merv Frama, you will see Dart re-transform into the Divine Dragoon to deliver the final blow.

Dart's ghost

When you find the real Emille at the Twin Towers of Fletz, walk around the guard who is at the main entrance to the castle (without talking to him). Leave and reenter the castle. Emille will walk through the guard, and he in turn will fall through Dart.

Blue Birds

In between the "Valley Of Corrupt Gravity" and "The Home Of The Gingantos" are Blue Birds. These birds are extremely hard to kill because each attack you deal only gives takes 1 HP. These birds also run away frequently and always reduce your HP by 10 percent each time you attack. If you are lucky to beat one of these birds, you will be rewarded with 1000 exp.

To destroy a Blue Bird easily, throw a Sactel at it. It will take 10% damage of off it and will be destroyed. The Blue Bird is located between "Home Of Gigantos" and the "Valley Of Corrupt Gravity". The Sactel is a non-element item.

Healing

The following trick allows you to heal without a Mind or Body Purifieron stock. Later on in the game when you have Dragoon Spirits, turn Dragoon and the status will be gone.

Stronger magic item

Note: A controller with a turbo feature is required for this trick. When using a magic item that requires you press X, enable the turbo for that button and your attack will be much stronger.

Temple traps

When you are in the temple looking for the Dragoni plant to save Shana on Disc 1, there are several traps set to delay you progress. The first is a number combination -- the combo is 352. Almost directly after that are two statues that must be turned in the correct direction to allow you to reach the top of the stairs. There statues are gold and stone. Leave the gold statue facing the front and turn the stone statue to the left. As soon as this is done, you can run up the stairs to find help for Shana.

Summon Dragons

Get At least 20,000 Spirit Points for any character and you will be able to summon dragons.

To summon dragons when you are a dragoon, get your dragoon level to 5.

Free water bottle

When you reach the town of Lohan, you must save Shana. To do this you will need to get a bottle to hold water. After speaking with Dabas, go down the stairs to reach the ground level of the town. When you do this, a merchant will get your attention. He has a bottle, but wants to sell it for an amazingly high price. Keep telling him to take down the price he will eventually offer it for 100g. Select the second choice of "..." and the merchant will give you the bottle for free.

Bridge over the fast river

After you save Shana on Disc 1 from Hellana, you need to go to the prairies. You will end up in a shed and will hear about Dart's past. If you saw the river that is too fast to cross already, leave the shed and go to the top of the screen to get to the cliff. The party will decide that the tree can be used as a bridge, but they have nothing to cut it down. Return to the shed, and grab the ax. Go back to the tree and cut it down. The tree well fall the wrong way. However, go to the fast river and the log will floating down, creating a perfect bridge.

Material Shield

The Material Shield is located just right of the entrance to Doel's Chambers on Disc 1. The box it is in is hidden behind the pillar at the top of the ramp, just after you fight Kongol for the second time. The Material Shield protects one character from physical attacks for three turns and is a reusable item.

Hidden Quest

On Disc 3 after you defeat Lloyd and acquire the three moon objects, return to the area with the save point and take a ride on the teleport pad on the right side of the screen. After playing around with the different teleport pad combinations you will eventually arrive at a spot where you meet a hologram-type image of an old wizard from the Dragon Campaign. After more playing around with the teleport pads you will arrive at a room with three doors and crumbling stone paths to a cone shaped stone island floating in the center of the room. Get to it and the island will fall. You will end up in a basement chamber where you will actually battle the 11,000 year old wizard. Most of the Winglie's magic has withered with time, but not this wizard. He will bombard you with powerful magical attacks (sometimes three in one turn). If your levels are high, then he should not be too much of a problem.

Finishing the storyline

After you reach Disc 2, it is possible to go back to all the places that you visited in Disc 1. Not only do you get to see how things have changed, you can to finish some storylines that were brought up in that disc. For example, go to the Dark Castle Town, and see what the great commander under Dole is up to, or Check on Lavits's mother.

Stardust locations

Check all piles/tables/shelves in houses and towns. Most of the houses will have at least one Stardust hidden somewhere. For example, in the well near Lavitz's house, at King Albert's castle in the lower area (search the furnace), and on the boat under the fountain (where you give the man the good spirits -- get off the boat and search the back of the little house).

Dragoon Stone Locations

Dart
You start with his stone at the beginning of the game but you cannot use it until you defeat Kongol at the Battle Of Hoax.

Lavitz/Albert
To get the Lavitz Dragoon stone, you have to defeat the Green Tusked Dragon and the man who turns into the Jade Dragoon. Albert will then inherit the Lavitz Dragoon stone at the end of the Disc 1.

Shana/Miranda
You will get Shana's Dragoon stone after getting to the temple and defeating the Bandit. Then answer the questions that the ghost asks you. Miranda will inherit Shana's Dragoon stone on the Disc 3.

Rose
After defeating Kongol at the Battle Of Hoax you will get Rose with her Dragoon stone.

Haschel
You will get Haschel's Dragoon stone after defeating Emperor Doyle at the end of Disc 1.

Meru
You will get Meru's Dragoon stone after defeating the Blue Sea Dragon and Lenus.

Kongol
After you get Kongol go back to the City Of Loan and walk to where the man who sold you the bottle is located. You will automatically walk up to him. After talking he will sell Kongol's Dragoon stone for 1,000G.

Side quest

The following is a list of side quests (in order) in the game.

Catch the rabbit (in limestone caves): chase the rabbit looking animal - Poison Gard.
Lavitz painting (in Bale): Talk to painter girl - Picture of Lavitz.
Save the 7th Fort (in Marshland): Eliminate all enemies - experience and gold.
Monster Contest game (Lohan, Battle arena): Win the contest - free tickets.
Kongols Dragoon spirit (Lohan, must have Kongol): Buy from the who sold the water bottle - Dragoon Spirit.
Shana's Parents (Seles, Disc 2): Talk to parents - Good vibrations.
Lynn's wedding (Donau, after freeing Lynn): Do to Doau - Kate's Bouqet.
The Vegetable Julian (Queen Fury): Chop fast - 1 gold.
Kill Teo's wolf (Woods): Find and kill wolf - Reward gold in city.
Fight Ghost (Vellweb): Look for ghost past snowslide - Sword for dart.
Talk to Nello, Lisa, Emial (Fletz, Disc 4): talk to them - Good vibrations.
Shana's Parents 2 (Seles after Shana leaves party): Talk to parents - Sad vibrations.
Dead Dragoons (Vellweb, Disc 4): Kill dragoons - Respective Dragoon Stones.
Faust (Flandel, Collect 50 Stardust): Get Vanishing Stone and fight Faust - Phantom shield.
Three Dragoon Spirits (Mayfil): Kill all 3 dragoon spirits on way to moon- Destone Armulet

Glitch: Mistranslation

When you get the final addition for Albert and fully complete it, he will say "Blossom Storm" but the on-screen text for it will be "Flower Storm".

On the addition screen for the character Haschel, there is an addition listed as "Flurry Of Styx". On the battle screen, after he performs it, "Ferry Of Styx" will appear as well as commented by the voice-over.