Rance Quest:Hints and Tips

Good places to level up quickly
You'll be told in-game that the best map to farm level is Quest #97. Just try it and you will understand why. Though it is only for Characters lv 35 and under.

Other places that are good for leveling:


 * Quest #94 gives 1,500 to 5,000 EXP per battle. Red mines give 3,000 to 8,100 EXP. (45 and under)
 * Quest for money. Much easier and faster to finish (compared to other quests of it's level), has a good difficulty level (that means that you can get up to level 49 without penalty), possible to finish relying on Rance mostly, without changing the party (helps when you need to fast train just few characters, you need to take south-south-south-east-north-east route to do this). Red battle events give 4,000-16,000 EXP (the most exp are rewarded for battles against a group of level 40 mercenaries or against a group of 5 monsters, where two of them are huge whales). (49 and under)
 * Quest for up to lvl 55. Killing just two Silbarrel age 5 gives 12599 EXP. You will need a ranger to prevent surprise attacks and Silbarrel are very resistant to magic attacks. However, they have low health and are likely one shot by most of the decent physical attackers. You can just ignore the night horrors (easy to kill with Arms or light magic) and abandon quest when you are done. The nearby story battle is 5 repeated battle with 1-5 Silbarrel. 25k+ exp against 5 of them though it's quite difficult. If you do kill night horrors as well, a group of 5 (2 Silbarrel and 3 night horrors) gives 31.5k xp.
 * Quest #128 is pretty good - you can level there characters up to lvl 55. There are always 3 red mines on starting map you can just do them and cancel quest - your gold and experience is saved. Sometimes experience orb spawns on starting map so it it's there try to grab it before battles. Fight with 5 enemies gives 22k exp. Map is good because there are only one type of enemies, all weak to electric (except if you find Bones but they are probably easier than normal enemies). Just take your best Guard (or 2 Guards if low on lvl) and electric mage, preferable with magic barrier. At low levels you will probably lose one or two characters everytime you encounter 5 enemies, but you can just get another ones for them before win and exp someone else this way. The fact that after each battle everyone loses 1/8 of their max hp may be annoying but it shouldn't really bother you that much. On map #145 there are same enemies and there are no cannons that deal dmg after each fight but there red mines are sparse and you will just waste time fighting random encounters, reseting #128 and doing only those 3 red mines is faster way to experience. Also on #128 you ger 20% experience boost at start, and on #145 it's a little lower.
 * Quest #146 is also not bad if you still don't have #147 but want to exp high levels. Just farm on the right side of map (A2-A4,B4,C4), there should be good amout of red mines and you can exit in C4 to save items. The only drawback is that you will lost characters of one class when going to A2 so if that class were crucial for you, you will have to restart map.
 * Quest #147 for lategame farming exp/money.  Each floor prior to Floor 200 will have 1 lucky can can for a free level up, noted by a green star (no "!" marks).  It will be replaced by an asshole if you redo that particular floor. Green star with a "!" mark will reveal currently explored map. This is the fastest way to level way beyond 50 when paired together with raising lucky can can base EXP by the every-25-donated-items random event at Frostbyne. Apart from can can the map itself is rather bad for leveling. You can meet some nice enemies that will give you around 50k exp but it's pretty rare and you will fight mostly some weaklings that sometimes can give even 3 digit experience, so remember to always hunt for can can.
 * There will also be two special areas that may or may not occur within the map.  One area is the Room of Plenty, where lots of coins and chests will appear with no enemies.  The other area is Room of Sudden Death, filled with very high level enemies and traps.  These areas are repeatable and do not need to clear the quest for it to occur.

Having Brawlers with Prolonged Battle yellow skill is helpful in maximizing chance of enemy wipeout, thereby ensuring full exp bonuses from each battle. Be prepared for tough battles to be longer too.

Magnum Gauge
In Rance Quest Magnum, some quest have a bar that fills up with every completed battle (see image on the right). If the bar is full when you clear the quest, you'll get a bonus item. The bonus Item is often (if not always) rare with high bonus stats (8 or 9 bonus stats is normal.) The first time you'll fill the gauge in a quest the item you receive is fixed. Refer to the Quest Walkthrough page for information on what you'll get.

Note: Every time you redo a quest that magnum feature bar needs more and more battles to fill up so it's better to complete it as soon as you can!!! You also need a free space in the quest storage or else you won't get the bonus item! Once the bar starts blinking you'll know it's full.

Lucky can can

 * Note: The description below, with exception to Quest #147: Malgrid Dungeon Xth Stratum, only applies for Rance Quest. In Magnum, lucky can can are random encounters and all 10 fixed-locations are removed.

By description of the game, there are only 10 in the world. Killing a lucky can can gives a maximum of 100,000 Base EXP or the total amount of EXP required to go to the next level, whichever is lower. This amount can be increased by donating items to the shop.

Note that the exp reduction from the map is applied, so you will only get the resulting amount. As she only gives 100,000, when you're in your 40+ levels you probably won't level up from it.

There should be 10 in the world, which are in fixed blocks of certain quests, but in random locations. They show up as a green event star (no exclamation mark), so it should be easy to determine that it is them and not some other unimportant event in the quest. Since you don't have to walk up to it to complete the quest, it's not recommended to fight them with low level characters, even though they are extremely easy to beat. You'd really rather get a free level for higher level characters, takes much less grinding compared to leveling up a low level character.

List of all lucky can cans (幸福きゃんきゃん)


 * 1) Quest #26 at D2. Diff: 4.
 * 2) Quest #37 at B3. Diff: 16.
 * 3) Quest #42 at B3. Diff: 23.
 * 4) Quest #48 at C2. Diff: 32.
 * 5) Quest #54 at C4. Diff: 28.
 * 6) Quest #75 at C1. Diff: 40.
 * 7) Quest #94 at B1. Diff: 39.
 * 8) Quest #121 at B3. Diff: 13.
 * 9) Quest #124 at D4. Diff: 33.
 * 10) Quest #126 at C2. Diff: 43.

NOTE: Quest #147: Malgrid Dungeon Xth Stratum will always have a lucky can can once at each level (See the Quest Walkthrough page.)

Abstinence Morurun (Non-Magnum)
Note: The following information applies specifically to vanilla Rance Quest. For Magnum (that includes the English version), please check the next section.

When a girl level 35 or above is H-ed by Rance, the girl will revert back to level 1, and her initial skill points go up by 2, up until +10 skill points after 5 Moruruns. If the girl is H-ed when she has reached her level cap (i.e. 70/70 in the case of Kenshin), her level cap will increase by 3. After the cap has been raised through this method 4 times (reaching at least Morurun Damage 5), the cap will then increase by 10 for every subsequent Morurun. So, Kenshin's caps would go: 70, 73, 76, 79, 82, 92, 102, 105 etc. This can be repeated indefinitely. However the more you do this, the more experience will be required for each re-level up.

Generally, all learned skills will be removed, thus you might want to H them ASAP, if you don't care about raising their level cap. Exceptions are two skills that can be learned through items - Rock On (acquired through a Rocky Chunk) and Familiar Knowledge (acquired through a Monster Girl Tamer Handbook).

EXP required for re-leveling is increased as well. For the first go, there is no penalty, but the second seems to cause an increase of EXP requirement up to level 37. Level 1 on second curse needs the same EXP as lv3 of the uncursed/first cursed. Level 2 on second curse needs the same EXP as lv4 of the uncursed etc.

The item equipped in the Special Item slot (the item that is gone if you remove them normally) is absorbed, meaning the stat is added to the character's stat. Other items are simply moved to the storehouse (except items that can't be removed).


 * Rock On and Familiar Knowledge items don't require you to wait until the girl gets H'ed by Rance to be absorbed. The moment you learn those skills and max cap them, you can immediately replace the item used with another item that can be absorbed for permanent bonus.

New-born Kenshin (Item was the bear sculpture increasing 10 attack):

HP 200/200

Attack 80

Accuracy 120%

Evasion 15%

Stun rate 30%

Critical rate 20%

Speed 25

0 for DEF, RSN, RSL

After being H-ed 5 times each next time will not give girl additional skillpoints, but still will raise required experience. Also Rance will start gaining a bonus 100 HP, 20 ATK, 20 MAG, 10 DEF, 10 RSN, 10 ACC, 10 EVA for each H session with a girl that has reached Morurun Damage 6 and over. Note Rance only gains this benefit from the girl that has the most H sessions, so if you have H-ed one girl 6 times, Rance will not gain this benefit when you H another girl 6 times.

It seems that after being H-ed 10 times each next time won't give a bonus to Rance stats, but experience requirement for leveling will finally stop rising. After 11 Moruruns Kenshin had the same requirement to next level as after the 10th (613 exp).

Don't forget that although all other girls require level 35 to be H-ed, Kenshin only needs level 30 if you use her quest instead of castle event.

Stats gained through absorbed items has a limit. Health caps at +2000, (Magic) Attack / Defense at +500, Accuracy/Evasion/Stun/Resistance at +100, Speed at +50.

Abstinence Morurun (Magnum)
In Rance Quest Magnum the Morurun curse system was altered. A few main points are listed below:


 * Quests that cause a Morurun will now only do this the first time they are completed. For all subsequent Moruruns you'll have to do a castle event.


 * Only the first Morurun resets the level all the way to 1, and any subsequent H will result in a decrease in 5 levels.
 * The level requirements have also been changed to reflect the change in level drops. Level requirements are as follow: 35, 35, 38, 41, 44, 55, 65, 75, 85 and 95.
 * If a character is Morurun'd after a character has joined (so not when a character joins atl level 1, like Kenshin and Kibako) then the EXP requirement does not go above 4980 until they've recouped their levels. This holds true every time any character is Morurun'd, as long as it occurs after they've joined.
 * It is now possible to Morurun male characters and characters with the Immature skill. This ability unlocks after completing Quest #189: Kouhime's Tea Party. Note that there are still characters that cannot be Morurun'd. Please refer to the Skills page for more information.

Other than that, the system works the same as in vanilla Quest, with some small caveats here and there. Below is a general explanation.

When a character level 35 or above is Morurun'd by Rance, they will revert back to level 1, and their initial skill points go up by 2, up until +10 skill points after 5 Moruruns. If the girl is H-ed when they have reached their level cap (i.e. 70/70 in the case of Kenshin), their level cap will increase by 3. After the cap has been raised through this method 4 times (reaching at least Morurun Damage 5), the cap will then increase by 10 for every subsequent Morurun. So, Kenshin's caps would go: 70, 73, 76, 79, 82, 92, 102, 105 etc. This can be repeated indefinitely. However the more you do this, the more experience will be required for each re-level up.

Also, every Morurun, the ATK, MAG, DEF and RSN stats will be raised by 2%, until a max of 20% at Morurun Damage 10.

Upon being Morurun'd, a character will usually lose all learned skills. Exceptions are item skills, such as Rock On, Familiar Knowledge and Alice's Protection, as well as any skills learned through that character's A Day in Cidade event (Quest #134). Some skills learned through quests will be removed however, check the Skills page for more information.

The item equipped in the Special Item slot (the item that is gone if you remove them normally) is absorbed, meaning the stat is added to the character's stat.

After reaching Morurun Damage 6, Rance will start gaining a bonus 100 HP, 20 ATK, 20 MAG, 10 DEF, 10 RSN, 10 ACC, 10 EVA for each subsequent Morurun until the max of Morurun Damage 10 has been reached. Unconfirmed Note Rance only gains this benefit from the character that has the highest Morurun Damage, so if you have Morurun'd one character 6 times, Rance will not gain this benefit when you Morurun another character 6 times. Unconfirmed

Get a character with Publicity asap
The Publicity skill causes quests with explorable maps to give double the reputation they normally would, allowing you to level up your Charisma stat faster. This allows you to make more party switches per quest. Note that quests without maps do not double reputation through Publicity. In order for the skill to activate, a character with that skill needs to be in the active party when a quest ends.

There are two ways to get a character with Publicity. The first is to complete Quest #63: Leazish Horror Story. Completing this quest causes Lia to join, who has the skill. The other option is to create a custom character through a Character Ticket (can be bought from Frostbuy for 1000G), creating the character through Quest #129: Alice's Guest and then doing Quest #106: Dark Alice's Pay2Win Room. In this quest under Ability 2, Publicity can be added to that custom character. This costs 5000G to add, making it unfortunately rather expensive early on in the game. Note that if you already selected a skill for that custom character before, the costs may be higher. See the Custom Characters page for more details on that.

As far as how Publicity works, it doesn't actually give you any more reputation. Instead, it makes getting all the repuation more efficient. Normally, a quests can pay out up to double the initial reputation stat. Every time the quest is cleared, the amount of reputation awarded will be halved (rounded down, if need be, unless it's 1 point). This means a quest needs to be completed many times before all reputation is exhausted. However, when a quest is completed under the effects of Publicity, all reputation is awarded with one run-through. This skill also works if you've already completed a quest once, it's just less efficient that way.

An example: Say a quest offers a maximum of 40 reputation. The initial amount awarded is 20. Without Publicity, this would require 7 playthroughs of that quest to get all the reputation. 20->10->5->2->1->1->1. With Publicity however, we get all 40 with just one playthrough, saving up to 6 playthroughs. If the quest had already been cleared once, we'd still reach 40 if we use Publicity the second time, so 20->20.

There's one caveat, though. A quest that starts with an odd amount of reputation points (like 15), must be completed the first time with Publicity to get all the reputation. Because of rounding, the game will always result in paying out 1 fewer point, regardless of when Publicity is used, once the quest has been cleared once. This isn't terrible or run-ending per se, but you'd probably want all the reputation you can get, especially for later Worlds.

Rance Castle
Once you clear Quest #20: Rance Castle, Complete, Rance Castle becomes available in the menu. When you select it, you are brought into a menu where Rance can talk to his various party members. For most non-custom characters, the first few times you speak to them they will gain 1 skill point. These skill points are permanently added to the character's total, so they stay after a Morurun or use of a Skill Again Special Item.

It is also possible to Morurun eligible characters here. This will be denoted with a pink heart symbol (any girl Rance can H) or the word Morurun (for Immature girls or men, only available after clearing Quest #189: Kouhime's Tea Party). Generally speaking, you want to Morurun a girl through their relevant Quest(s) first, then Morurun them every subsequent time in Rance Castle. The quest-based Moruruns only work one time each anyway.

Upon seeing an event, the castle will be closed for cleaning, preventing the player from seeing any more events until any quest is cleared. Quest #16: Scouting at the Bar is really good for this as it is just a couple of textboxes. If you clear Quest #137: Cockroach Extermination Continued, then the castle will become available at all times.

There are two more things of note:


 * Sometimes, a character that can be Morurun'd may not immediately show up when selecting the Rance Castle screen. This particularly happens with characters that appear in the same room, like Kenshin, Katsuko and Torako. When that happens, select any other screen, then switch back to the Castle screen. If a character appears in the guest room, just add them to the active party to make them appear every time.
 * Some characters cannot be Morurun'd, at least not in World 1.

Donate items instead of selling them
All items, however rare they are, will only sell for 10G. But if you donate 25 items to the Frostvine shop ( if you sell, it will just be 250G), a rare item will show up in the shop. Every 25 items a rare item will be on sale.

As long as there are items to unlock, new rare items will appear upon every 25 donation. Some rare items are only sold once, and can be re-unlocked again on 25 donations. Unlockables are: all food item ranked B and A, T-shirt(armor), and hanny zippo(accesory). Sometimes when you donate 25 items there is no event in the shop (statistically one out of four times). Perhaps it's due to leaving all B-rank items in shop without buying them. But it seems that if you don't buy them chances to get A rank items increase.


 * Another Tip: Clearing #83 again and again will give you lots of clubs and other items to donate.

Quest #101-#104
These quests give you a free 1 level for your entire party (only apply to people under level 40). So please take this quest wisely.

In this, the "entire party" includes those that are in your waiting slots, not just the 5 characters you picked out for your team.

Btw, if you really want to watch the event but still don't want to get free level, just close the game before the quest finish.

You get Charisma points for these, so you might as do them regardless of the free levels.

Hammer
Hammers have very high attack power rating. However, most are capped by the attack skill (500 at attack 1, 1000 at attack 2, and 2000 at Weapon Attack 3). This may cause some frustration. With Hammer skill at 2 star, damage limit is removed, so even your attack 1 can do 1000+ or more damage (WARNING !! this feat is removed with 1.1 patch). On a downside, the accuracy of hammers is really low, decreasing your accuracy by -10~-99. And hammer always has a chance to miss (15% for Weapon Attack, and 25% for other skills) no matter how high your accuracy is. Thus, it is best used with Crane (personal weapon adds few ATK, but 100% stun rate), or someone who can do good stunning. Stunned enemies cannot dodge, so hit rate becomes 100%. This information may help you make a good team.



Hammer has 2 skills.

Impulse 【インパルス】 is an AOE attack that have +75 to stun chance. There is no damage limit, however attack power is halved.

Mattock Crush 【マトクラッシュ】 is a single hit attack that have +100 to Attack and -50 to Accuracy. There is no damage limit and your attack power does 2.5x more damage.

Hammer have a very low hit rate on Flying/Floating targets. It's somewhere around 25~40% Max hit rate.

Spear
Use spear and upgrade Spear Mastery 【槍の知識】to 2 stars for ranged attacks.

Multi-Thrust 【槍連撃】, a 2-4 hits x0.6 attack, is reusable in the same battle; Gale Thrust 【疾風突き】 +5% Attack and +5 Speed is stackable for the current quest duration.

Spear Mastery provides versatility in expense of firepower as compared to Sword Mastery.

Escape
Though it may seem shameful to make a run, even against weak enemies, and a total waste of Skill Points to increase your chances of escaping, it is actually one of the most important skills in my opinion. You must recall that your attack skills are numbered. Wasting them on weak mobs would cause you to not have enough attacks for the strong ones, or bosses. Escaping can help make some long quests slightly easier.

Pressure/Suppression (Intimidation)
【威圧】(Intimidation) is a very unique skill that not many possesses. Two characters bearing this skill would be Kenshin and Kibako. The skill description says that it gives 20% rise that weak random enemies you encounter would run away, which can save you a lot of time and trouble for clearing quests(provided you are as strong, if not stronger than these mobs).

How this skill works and the effectiveness of it is heavy reliant on your party's average level vs the dungeon/quest difficulty. For example, even if Kenshin/Kibako is Lv52, but your other 4 party members are Lv30s doing a dungeon level difficulty of 36. You'll still run into random encounters very often, because your party average level is only 34.

There is an innate rate which monsters will run in encounters if your team average is higher than the quest lvl, those skills boost this rate

Athena 2.0
Athena level is always 1, has no skill points, and can only attack three times at max. However, she has 5 yellow skills that allow her to increase her stats after each battle if the corresponding stat is lower than that of the person in the front to the left of her (meaning she must be in the back row). Also, her HP and number of attacks are reset after battle.

The yellow skills (from top to bottom): Attack learning (+3), Hit learning (+2), Speed learning (+1), HP learning (+5), Critical learning (+1).

The Black Bracelet and The Hikkikomori - Why is this character suddenly pulling out of party!?
The character equipping the Black Bracelet (魂の枷) will lose his motivation, and is removed from party immediately. There doesn't seem to be any advantage. A gloomy atmosphere floats about it. Basically, don't ever equip it.

On that note, the sorcerer Aten Gnu also has a passive "Hikkikomori" skill which gives her a 20% chance of withdrawing from the party after the end of every battle. Why? "Because it's bothersome."


 * Characters with above conditions won't retreat on maps without random battles, such as the final cockroach extermination quest.


 * In Rance Quest Magnum, you should save 5 of these as they will be required for a quest. 5 more for a new character. They will be exchanged into Alice's coins, enabling any character (except Amu) to learn Alice's Blessing (A L I C E 加護) for 1 SP.

Improving Shop Weapon and Armor Quality
As each weapon and armor is purchased from the shop, its quality will improve by 1 rank, up to 5th rank (In Magnum, item quality can go to 9th rank (9)). Each rank boosts the ATK or DEF base by 5%. This also affects the rank of weapon and armor drops obtained in quests. The best way to take advantage is: buy the equipment 4 times, until (5) is shown on the equipment. Then go hunt for it in a dungeon. This will get you the same ranked item that would be even better than from the shop. Sample picture showing the stats improvement from the rank number after item name (picture include).

To unlock the upgraded weapons, purchase the same Rank B equipment at least once. After Rance reaches Lv 32, an upgraded version of that weapon will be available on next shop visit. The upgraded weapons are レイピア改,　バスターソード改,　ハンマーＢ改,　スピア改,　ロングボウ改 and ナックル改.

Unlock Requirements for Purchasable Weapons & Armors:

- Lv 23: Rank B Weapons & Armors

- Lv 32: Rank B upgraded Weapons

- Lv 43: Rank A Weapons & Armors

- Lv 49: 1 Rank CC & Rank AA Armors

Getting Jewels
Jewels (宝石) appear as an open blue jewel case with a gem inside it. You can start obtaining it randomly from any dungeon, once you've triggered an event with Crane that talks about it and have Quest #80 unlocked. Once you get one, you can take quest #80 to exchange it for a +20 level-cap item. You can repeatedly and indefinitely obtain the jewel and exchange it, however you can only have one jewel at a time - you won't gain another one until you've traded the current one you have.

Note: jewels have a high priority for rare item drops. If you trade in a jewel for a Forbidden Talent you are therefore indirectly giving up on one such item.

High lv item
Class Civilians can learn skill "Open Luck(開運)", makes item better that comes from Treasure Box.

Character Tomato Puree (トマト・ピューレ) has skill "Increased Treasure Box".

This combination is very useful at item farming.

Additional useful combination : Kenshin/Kibako ("Horror to weak Enemy"), Biscuitt, and Crane ("Open Treasure Box" and "Stealth Movement")

If you want to search good item for hard quest need fight strong boss, then i know 2 map you can find: #93 and #126. That's 3 note:

- Try complete 3 bonus below mini map, it will lv up your item and may be

lower the lv need to use item, you see, the bow need lv 50 to use but when i complete 3 bonus the lv is 47.

- #93 you need go right-right-right-up-up-left-down-left-left-up-up (all square) to finish 3 bonus and #126 you should go right-down-right-up-right-down-down-down-left-up to finish 3 bonus.

- #93 easier and found more item than #126 but #126 have a treasure near finish green event that always usually give good item.

And this is results after i finish #93, may be you will luckier than me.

Ah, if you want a warrior to use spear or ranger use claw( or dagger, sorry i don't know what is it but it very rare) you can find here, i found a good spear and Rizna is using.


 * Recommend party for #97: One high level sorc with lots of moves, one high level guard, one civilian with open luck (prefer Lia with her lighting attack to kill Hani), Tomato and some rangers (I need to use up to 5th ranger, which mean there are at least 16 treasure chests, thanks to Tomato). Blocks with yellow bonus item: D4, B4, C3 and B1, follow the long route.ランス・クエスト_20130227_002316.jpg

- #227(Boss 100 - World 3 only) is the best place to get high level items. Prepare a team with: Merim(Master ID and Open Luck), one or two rangers with max Open Chest and Tomato(Idk if her "xxx Love" skills work though). Start quest and open all the chests, reload if no chest or nothing good came out. Fight mobs in 4x red mines(cockroaches, sumoes, flexgrapes...) then fight the boss in red star at center to clear(Ice Gigas and 2x Happy).

Merim Tser
Merim has a skill that allows you to identify all treasures when you receive them. This means that you won't be able to use the 3 bonuses to strengthen the item, but alternatively it means you don't have to spend money to gamble on a level 6 item that turns out to be a bone.

I've received some nice equips (level 9 even) with her in the party, and it saves a lot of money. Note that she has another skill that makes all monsters target her, so she may die quickly.

Organizing your quests
Quests are displayed by default in the order of their number. It is possible to put favourite quests (that you often use) to the beginning of the list by checking the upper left button above quest description. It is useful for such quests as N80 (where you exchange treasure box for level enhancement item), N88 (where you get a book with monster handling skill), N126 (good for leveling and gathering items) and any other quest that you like. Also it is possible to temporarily remove quests from the list by checking the upper right button above quest description. Quest will be moved to the list of unused quests (accessed by clicking a grey button in the upper right corner of the screen) and will remain there until dragged back to the main list. Be careful though, if quest becomes active again (this can happen with quests N13 "Alice mansion" and N16 "Scout in Bar"), it will still remain in that list, so check it from time to time.

Crane rumors
Crane is known as a person who knows a lot of secrets. She attracts a lot of rumors. If you have her in a party, you will see some events where random people give hints about new party members. You can check those hints at page 35 on information screen (second button to the right from the system menu).

Multiple attack skills
Though the attacks will be randomly targeted, skills like Bow's Multi-Shot 【弓連射】 and Spear's Multi-Thrust 【槍連撃】 are to be activated at the character panel for maximum number of attacks on weak enemies or for multiple stuns.

If skill is activated on an enemy, attack will end prematurely even if it only takes 1 hit to kill.

Damage Cap
Damage caps work differently in recent versions. Previously, 500 damage was the absolute maximum with Weapon Attack 1.

Now, characters can now naturally exceed any damage cap. However, the damage will be reduced if it's higher than the damage cap listed in the skill's description. So--for example--if your character is strong enough, Weapon Attack 1 can deal 700 damage even though the damage cap is 500.


 * 1) To further understand more about the damage cap:

Example: 【武器攻撃１】 has a damage cap of 500. 【武器攻撃2】 has a damage cap of 1000 and 【武器攻撃3】 has a damage cap of 2000. There is a skill known as 【ダメージ上限】 that can raise this limit by +100% at max rank. If you set up your characters that have high P.Atk or M.Atk, it's very ideal to learn 【ダメージ上限】 and max rank it to take advantage of the extra damage your basic attacks can do. For example, If you're going to use hammer, it's a must to learn that skill.

Stun Chance Cap
It does not matter how high you raise your Stun parameter, maximum chance for stunning an enemy is 75%. This can be checked by reading the battle log (bottom right hand corner) after you make a hit. Can be raised beyond 100% for bosses with higher resistance.

Note:


 * 1) Stun only applies to physical attacks, including Ranged and AOE. Paramount in higher Worlds.
 * 2) Higher non-magical damage on stunned enemies.
 * 3) Stun takes precedence over poison. A poisoned enemy will be 'miraculously' cured after being stunned as game mechanics allows only 1 active negative status.

World 3
Last world of magnum game, which has a lot of changes compare to previous worlds:


 * Skills: First thing can be seen is all the stats up yellow skills (strengthen attack...) will become white skills (passive skills), thus you don't need to equip them for full effects. There are also new "bonus damage" skills from 3 to 5 after you get "bonus damage 2". Some character's skills are changed also (for example Rance's "Brutal Attack" can get to 3 uses max).
 * Monster: As showed in ingame Tips, they are 4x stronger, some can even ohko your characters even with proper equipment (for example Valkyrie can 5000~10000 per hit ignore defense) and some bosses will take forever to kill (even with a lv150 average party, it's impossible to kill Anmos or Gunagun, while Black Dragon will need all your moves). In some quests, Battle Note will show up in boss fight, it's wise to assassinate them asap, list of quests so far: #64, 65, 72. There are also 2 new monsters: Philanthropist Gates same as Gates 95 but apparently "older", he gives a lot of exp (1 million is the highest so far) and can be seen very often, most of the time is with a Valkyrie; Gold Coin, they are gold coins just like the name, no action but high evade and HP, each coin dropped after killing them will give 2000 gold (Scaling with Copandons passive so switching in Copandon when you encounter them can yield up to 80 000G). "Weak monster" does not exist in this world, thus Kibako and Kenshin's unique skill intimidation "威圧" is useless.
 * Quest: Not much changes beside from 2 new unique quests: Boss 100 and Boss 200. Both are good for getting items, the first one's boss is Ice Giga - fast and hit hard, even at 99% tolerance you will still be stunned often. The second one's is Kaito, same as the one in #192, Guard with 4000 Def will receive ~9000 damage per hit (note that he still can deal two hits per turn). Another noticeable change is in #77, all the Green Stars will warp you to next +10 floors by default, which makes the quest a lot easier than in previous world (not with Full Kalar though).
 * Other:


 * 1) All the S-rank M-items will show up in shop.
 * 2) All characters are morurunable in this world from the beginning, and infinitely so.
 * 3) All unique equipments are removable(Angel's Mirror, Stealth Suit, Stealth Tech, Harumaki, Hiroshi-kun, Remnant), be careful when removing them though, for example Hiroshi-kun turn out to be Civilian/Sparta only.

Quick save
Even though your "suspend" point save files will be destroyed when you resume the game, you can back up those files and restore whenever you want. There are 3 files in total,


 * RanceQuestMagnum_930.ASD
 * RanceQuestMagnum_930_DAT.ASD
 * RanceQuestMagnum_930_INF.ASD

("ランス・クエスト_930" in JP release). This can be convenient, for example, when you get rare items in quests and you don't want to lose them.


 * This can be helpful in quest #147, because random encounters there can wipe out your party.
 * Also in quest #199, right before the final event (the quiz event). This is highly recommended, because it's a very long quest, and one wrong answer will fail the quest. You can also abuse this to re-roll the effects on the rare unique equipment you get from clearing the quest.