25th February 2007, 7:47 AM
Well that is VERY nice information to know. By extension, I assume any items I use I get to LOSE, so I'll keep that in mind too.
If I can permanently get a Ragnarok sword, I think that changes everything in regards to the ragnarok "sword or stone?" question. I always picked the sword before, since I could convert it into a better one and could learn Ultima using the Paladin Shield instead, having the best of both, but now I think Metamorph will be my friend. Too bad this beastiary doesn't have anything in the way of a list of possible metamorph results for all the creatures. Oh well, neither did the beastiary in Anthology. Oddly enough, the beastiary is incomplete. There are creatures I know I fought, as I find them repeatedly on the veldt, which do not appear, at all, in the beastiary. For example, the doberman, a monster you only get to fight one time in the whole game. That is when you are invading the camp east of Doma and you see this one chest in a tent and you can hit it, kick it, or let it alone. One of them gets you attacked by dogs, which are doberman.
If I can permanently get a Ragnarok sword, I think that changes everything in regards to the ragnarok "sword or stone?" question. I always picked the sword before, since I could convert it into a better one and could learn Ultima using the Paladin Shield instead, having the best of both, but now I think Metamorph will be my friend. Too bad this beastiary doesn't have anything in the way of a list of possible metamorph results for all the creatures. Oh well, neither did the beastiary in Anthology. Oddly enough, the beastiary is incomplete. There are creatures I know I fought, as I find them repeatedly on the veldt, which do not appear, at all, in the beastiary. For example, the doberman, a monster you only get to fight one time in the whole game. That is when you are invading the camp east of Doma and you see this one chest in a tent and you can hit it, kick it, or let it alone. One of them gets you attacked by dogs, which are doberman.
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