Blue Dragon Game Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Welcome to our Blue Dragon strategy guide. We've prepared a complete walkthrough, together with some useful hints on character development, lists of achievements and secrets. If you want to know all the secrets of this fine X360 jRPG, you've come to the right place.

Krzysztof "Lordareon" Gonciarz

A few hints to get you started:

- Don't avoid random encounters. Fighting is essential to developing your characters, and the more you fight, the easier it will be to eventually beat the most difficult bosses.

- Try to be patient about searching all the territories you visit. You find numerous amounts of gold this way, as well as some minor items and experience. Even if you search a spot and the speaker will say "Nothing", it's still worth to do it. Why? Well, in Jibral Town you will meet a so-called Nothing Man, who will gladly exchange all the "nothings" you've found for some truly valuable items. You can find him under the bridge that leads to the Castle.

- Examine the game manual and be aware of the abilities that you can learn in certain shadow classes. Basically, it's like this: all your characters should have a primary class that will eventually be elevated up to level 99 (for the stat boost), and a few secondary classes that you will raise up to level 30-40, just for the abilities.

- Each character must be trained in Generalist shadow class, there's no other way.

- Buy all the spells you can find in shops. You probably won't have money-related problems in the game and magic is definitely a good think to invest in.

- The "official" way to max your stats is Barrier Magic class. By using Field Barrier ability you can gain experience from weak enemies without even fighting them (that saved up time all right). This ability is very costly in versions 1 and 2, so accept the fact that one of your characters will have to reach lvl 50 of Barrier Magic to get you Field Barrier 3 (defeating an enemy only costs 1MP then).

- Shadow Experience (SP) is actually more important than character experience (EXP). It is said that you have to be around lvl 50 to beat the game. It's not really that necessary, provided you have high shadow classes. I beat all the bonus quests (which are more challenging than the ending itself) on level 45 - just by mastering shadow classes.

- Be careful when selling your accessories. Some of them might come in useful later in the game, when you are to face a certain tough boss with elemental-based attacks. Even seemingly useless items can save your day, you never know.