Star Ocean: The Last Hope

After getting Bacchus and if Lymle mentions that she and Bacchus are playing hide and seek, you'll notice that Bacchus is nowhere to be found. To find him, go to the men's bathroom and continously open the door. He should appear there briefly.

After getting Reimi for the first time, there is a harvest point near the save point, just outside of the Calnus. It is replenished as soon as you enter the ship so enter/exit the ship after every harvest to get an unlimited amount of blueberries, aquaberries, some quest and item creation components, etc.

When you land on Earth in the 1950's, talk to the man in glasses. After that, go to the building with the garage sign or back into the scientist's house and open the refrigerator. You should be able acquire black berries, fresh sage, mixed syrup, and aqua berries. Repeat this to max out your inventory with those items.

There are certain monsters that appear once per monster group. To increase your chances of encountering two of them per monster group, let them surprise attack you. This doesn't work on all monsters though. There are monsters that will always appear as a single unit per monster group, no matter how you initiated the battle.

Woodley is the first location in the game where you can start pickpocketing people, animals - and even your team mates (while inside the ship). Before you start pickpocketing like crazy, I must warn you that each of your party memnbers has a 2 or 3/ 10 chance of "catching" you stealing. Unfortunately, they won’t react and you’ll have no clue as to when you’ve been caught or not. But one thing is for sure though; if they caught you in the act, you’ll automatically lose an affinity point (your relationship for your party members will be affected negatively) so pickpocket ONLY if the target has a rare or uncommon item. Most of the items that you can get can be bought or simply trash so you shouldn’t have any problems deciding who to steal from.

First, you must teach Edge the Pickpocketing manual that can be bought from the bookstore. Purchase a Bandit’s Glove and equip it to him as a wrist accessory. Approach your target and press B to attempt pickpocketing. Your chances of success depends on your current skill level for pickpocketing vs the character’s pickpocketing resistance (also with levels 1-10). You can attempt as many times as it takes; however, they will only carry one item at a time. A pickpocketing list will added in various locations as you go through this guide so make use of it to help you decide your targets.

You can steal once from your team mates though only some of them has pretty valuable loot.

Faize - Monster Jewel
Bacchus - Defense Seeds
Sarah - Bracteate
Myuria - Green Beryl

Synthesis is a new mechanic that will be unlocked in item creation as soon as Sarah joins the team. In simpler terms, synthesizing an item means that you’re upgrading it. The good thing about synthesis is that you can combine even the simplest food item to a weapon, armor and accessory. Be careful though; synthesis is permanent. An item can only have up to four factors or additional effects.

Synthesis is fairly simple. Choose a weapon, armor or accessory you want to synthesize, then choose an item you want to combine it to. The game will let you see a preview of the bonuses to help you finally decide what to combine. Different items have different effects; some add ample bonuses to the stats or provide additional effects like auto-counter or attack absorption.

Some items that you may consider combining are the following:

Natto, Barrier Breakwater - +10-15% resistance of all status ailments
Crystal - increase chances of critical hits
Angel Feather + - +20 to all stats
Seeds - +XX% to various stats
Various foods - +FOL, +EXP, various stats
Fainting Potion - +80 guard
Minerals - add elemental damage to attacks, shoots elemental projectile when attacked

Synthesizing an item will change its name (e.g. "item-R01") to help you identify which item you have synthesized, if ever you have multiple copies of that item. Accessories are your best option to synthesize, since you don’t need to change them often unlike weapons and armors.

Defeat Gabriel Celeste at the end of the Cave Of The Seven Stars bonus dungeon. Then, use the elevator in En II to go down to the Old Road to Sanctuary. Speak to Barago to go to the entrance of a new bonus dungeon. In the Wandering dungeon, you will not know the enemies that will appear in battles, and the floors are generated randomly. There are no save or restoration spots. Defeat the Ethereal Queen on floor 20 to continue playing the dungeon endlessly.