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Mechat Crash Site
Follow Jiro’s advice and drink from the pond. Walk around the area to get some equipment. Approach the piece of junk that block the way out and push it. You’ll find a Sone Bracelet in a chest behind it. Go further to finally finish the game’s introduction.
Near Mechat Crash Site
This is how the ‘world map’ looks in Blue Dragon. Shu is seen from a greater distance and by pressing the right trigger you turn on your battle ring. It lets you engage monsters in battle in a way that you prefer: one at a time, all at once etc. Later on, it will also enable you to use field magic abilities. You can now engage you first monster fight. To do so, catch both Poo Snakes and Ancient Katydids in the circle, then choose to fight them simultaneously. The monsters will fight each other, thus letting you get more XP with less fighting to do. Head north, through the gate. You can get some stuff from chests around the area first.
HINT: It’s been said a thousand times when talking about jRPG’s, but let’s recap: don’t avoid combat! There are no “random” encounters in the game and you have full control over when and where to fight, but don’t try to rush trough the game’s levels without engaging anything. This kind of attitude will come back at you during the nearest boss battle.
Eastern Lot Wilderness
Go forth. When you go past a tree, knock it over to get to a chest on the ledge. A little big further, you’ll see a new type of enemy – Fat Rat. It’s good to make it Monster Battle the Katydids. Get past the scorpions and eventually you will reach a village.
Sheep Camp
Look around the area. You’ll see a few chests with items here. Use the Accessory Shop and buy enough equipment so that all the characters have full sets of Stone-based accessories. Also, buy some healing potions and perhaps a Slow spell. To use it, you have to train one of your characters in Support Magic class.
Western Lot Wilderness
There are new enemies here – Green Grunts. You can make them fight the scorpions if you like. When you get to the other side, you’ll face the first boss. When you hear the voice say “Checkpoint”, heal up all your characters. Also, you might want to have two Black Magic users for the fight.
Boss – Flamboyant Dinoram
The first boss in the game is quite troublesome in fact. If you started to believe that your characters are doing great, this is the time you meet your match. The best way to deal damage to this beast is to use Black Magic (preferably Flare) on its Horn. Focus Shu and Kluke on attack, and make Jiro heal them up whenever necessary. You’ll need a lot of health and magic potions. The monster has two attacks: Tremble and Mow. The former deals a lot of damage to a single character, while the latter strikes all of them for a little less HP. Besides, the boss constantly heals itself up (this is why you need two attackers to beat it!). It has about 500HP.
After the battle regenerate your strengths and save your game.
After fighting the boss, search a narrow alley to the east to find a handy item.
Go north and west to find a gigantic drill machine. After a short scene you will be able go get inside it.
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