Chapter 8

Go to five water sources for the task. Ten for the ability to get more water at the City Water Source. Thanks to Aster Selene for this info.

Recipes
Water Extraction Methods	Auto	Distilled Water
The Harry Chronicles	Harry's events	Cole Medapaid
Legendary Forging Book	Rose's Shop	Meteonite, Halmolium, Super Pure Water, Meteor Gloves, Meteor Boots
Forgotten Arts	Escha's Shop	Brother Call, Elixir, Sun Flower, Aroma Materia
Mythical Materials	Escha's Shop	Mystix, Yggdras, Velvetis
Ultimate Stellard Cuisine	Escha's events	Golden Extract Soup, Millionaire's Full Course
Weapons - DLC 2	-	Golden Blue Staff, Golden Wing Staff, Plan Board, Operation Plan Board

• Areas Unlocked: Sea of Eternity, Tunnel of Plants, Water Garden of Origins, Forest of Miracles, Path to the Altar, Altar of Spirits, Drifting Cemetery, Heaven's Vine, Heaven's Vine - Root Division, Heaven's Vine - Sapling, The Furthest Village, Castle of Mirages

After finishing that task, you'll have two more things to do in this chapter; find Keith, and fight the Water Lord. You can go straight to the Water Lord, but you have to stop at Faav Village to unlock the area Keith's at. You'll be doing a lot of exploring this chapter. Either way you go, you'll want to be prepared for a fight.

At the Castle of Mirages, you'll eventually hit a dead end. You need to fight all the enemies in the area to unlock the way. They're tough. After doing both tasks, you will get Keith in your party.

Right at the end of the chapter, you'll get a trophy. Shame there's no Raoul or Kortes swimsuit action. But especially Raoul.

Let's see, you get a trophy for...

• The event right before fighting the Water Lord
• Beating the Water Lord
• For finding Keith
• Escha's Sweets Fair
• For the Water Festival event after you "complete the check"
• And you can't forget the one for clearing the chapter.

Equips! The "Easy Platinum" Set

Disassemble a Ziegel Nugget to get Silver Groundwater. Do it now before you go wtf later.

I created a set, right here, that carried me through the hardest fight in the game... on Story Watcher difficulty. This is a very viable set for those of you who just want the platinum.

This is also good for property grinding for ultimate equips. You'll want a pretty decent set like this to take care of the bosses easily.

You have that Gunade Ring that Raoul gave you, right? Because you need it. It has Attack Huge Enhance, Defense Huge Enhance, and Speed Huge Enhance. You can create these yourself, but it's luck based, as you need to rare material farm (via bosses, perhaps) to get the properties you need.

First, toss your Gunade Ring's properties into a Blue Crystal Ring (use Ingredient Zero and Cost Down). Then transfer to Supplement - Rainbow. These properties total 24 PP, so make sure you can afford that.

Yep, it was that easy. Getting stuff from any supplement to about any other item is trivial and I'll leave it to you. Among the items you can create, five will directly take that supplement.

In the event that you're feeling more experimental (you may have some decent properties from bosses, but only a few), you can get PP Frame Maximization by using a Plant Oil (from Chapter 5) with Transfer PP +7 / PP Frame Expansion in a Supplement - Red, then getting the LV3 Property.

Weapons	Armor	Accessories
White Winged Bell	Riveted Shirt	Gunade Ring
Magia Sumonitora	Meteorite Armor	Dragon Shield
Lunic Charm	Dragoon Coat	Spirit Belt
Demonkin Ring
Bloody Claws
Mythical Beast Sword
Ancient Heat Bunker
Operation Plan Board

Escha's weapon... just wait till free time.

Personally, my accessories were Gunade Ring (minus the better speed effect) and Dragon Shield (with More Explosive Power). These served me well, so actually bother getting good effects on your equipment. Trust me.

Also, Synthesis Skill Increase (Medical Solution) is very, very helpful (though 15 PP). It gives items an additional skill slot. But only experiment with this if you really want to. You'll have to use it for high end synths, but for now it's for fun.

By the way, with this setup, I beat the Lord of Water on Despair difficulty. Which is NG+ exclusive, but I was playing on a fresh file. It was a close battle because she took out both my alchemists in one swoop, but I DID IT. I was about level 49 for the fight, which was primarily because of all the life task exp bonuses I got.

Chain Tutorial

Oh, right, and here's a mini-tutorial on what the crap the chain stuff is about. It can help.

By now, you've surely noted that items all have elemental attributes, and if you followed my earlier tutorial, you'd know that the Elemental Attribute properties can grant new ones to items. Well, to chain, you spam skills of the same element consecutively. No gaps between earth skills, for instance. The catch is that the item MUST be of the same element as the skill element you're spamming. Something like a Supplement - Red can only have fire skills, but a Rainbow one can have any element applied. There is an exception. Maybe a glitch? But if you have, say, an earth skill on a Burning Gas (Fire/Wind exclusively), you can put it in the last slot to start the earth chain. This works with single slot items too, but either way it MUST start the chain.

And this is relevant because you should be able to use Chain [Element] skills as well as Chain Effect to help you out.

But here's an example for you to try out, if you wish:

• Demonkin Ring
  • Supplement - Rainbow - Chain Water, Chain Effect, whatever earth
  • Sword Manipulation Ring - Add Earth
  • Alto Metal - Attribute Absorb, Ingot+
  • Sand Dragon Scale - Whatever earth x2

Note that the order DOES matter. Press square to move items around. A chain of 1024 results in +30 Effect thanks to Chain Effect. Synthesis Skill Frame Increase can give you up to 3 further slots, using that setup. At level 99, you'll use this technique to get 999 Effect items.

And do note how much the chain drops if you put, say, a fire skill on the Alto Metal.