Ruin machina's most powerful attack is "Copy of Actions". She (looks like one) has high magic stats and low physical stats. So, have Aulin heal or defend, Bell to heal and buff and Frain to use suicide cut. Make sure to have "Glitter of Moon" and "Wings of Spirit" which can be purchased at Froma. Go for an evasion build - Gold-rimmed rings, Shield of defending country, etc. "Copy of Actions as suicide cut" only deals 4000 damage on advanced difficulty and misses most of the time with the high evasion build. Never use Big Bang as "Copy of Actions as big bang" can deal 9000+ damage to all party members on direct hit... which means insta death from full hp at level 99.
Defeating Lanpancho by the Spirit Fountain using Wave attack
In the forest on the way to the Spirit Fountain there is a Lanpancho (guard station request 21). It's pretty easy to spot. It's in the West trees and I think it's the screen right before the fountain. Talk to it and choose to bully. It seems to be unaffected by most attacks, but Bell's Wave attack takes it down really easy. One hit for me.
Easily defeat mysterous ruin boss
Ruin machina's ability to copy your attack makes her a difficult boss, however, she cannot copy Aulin's "justice" spell, and when she tries, nothing happens, making this move good in both it does a huge amount of damage(sometimes) and wastes one of ruin machna's attacks if she copies it. The move is usually self sustaining as one of the possible effects is that of spirit tears, refilling all hp and mp, but you may need to cast a few defense spells or revives now and then, but other than that, i'd recommend using "defend" or "endure" with frain and bell.
Easy Screw farming for Machina Mail, Machina Blast armors
Farming materials for Machina Mail and Machina Blast takes a lot of screws which are a fairly rare drop. For each person to get from Leather to Machina Blast+3 it takes:
80 Screws, 4 Generators, 40 El Aldo Steel, 4 Genuine Liquified Oil, and 40 Refined Steel.
Most of the materials can be easily obtained on the frozen Islands North of Cureo once you have the boat. The only enemies on the islands are Thabit, Thabitor, and Thabitest.
El Aldo Steel can be pretty easily farmed at the cave East of Chasmus. After harvesting, go into Chasmus to reset the cave materials. The distance between the cave and Chasmus is short, although I found the little picnic area too easy to stumble into.
For the Refined Steel, I like the mine West of Lecom. There's two resource sparkles, one is only Refined Steel, and the other is Silver Ingot / Refined Steel.
The Machina Mail isn't actually that great compared to other armor you will have at the time you get the boat, but going up to Machina Blast is a big improvement (D. Power:340 HP Recovery+13%). Machina Blast+3 is the best armor (blacksmith says it can't be improved). It gives D. Power 569 HP Recovery+13%.
It is possible to have the armor for all 3 characters. Bell and Aulin aren't meant to wear it, so it must be upgraded while equiped and never taken off. Because of this, it's wise to collect all the materials for one of them to upgrade to at least Machina Blast before putting on the leather armor.
To purchase leather armor go to the dock area in Lecom and talk to the guy with swords laying in front of him.
If you need the tomes to manufacture Machina armors talk to the hidden guy in the southwest corner of Dandong. As soon as you enter Dandong walk West all the way and then South.
Fast EX Points
Right after u pass the first laser wall on the airship, there a door and inside is a robot who can heal you. Exit the room and walk back and forth to kill monsters... Have fun!
Find Easy Screws
Go to "Wrecked Airship". Go to the area where you meet a lot of "triple cancers and double hausbauts" -- that's the area before the first portal. Spam Laielow on both Bell and Aulin. Buy "Glitter of Moon" from Froma to regain mana. This is a good way to level up.
How to get Excalibur tome
First, go to DANDONG castle. Second, talk to the guy next to the tool shop, there is a quest called SEEK OUT A LEGENDARY MUSICIAN. Third, complete all of it there is eight part of it. You will get the tome if your done.
Machina blast armor for aulin
Put leather armor on her then upgrade to machina blast and even though it says she cant wear it she can.
Pass almost all guard requests
Just simply bypass guard requests! Get to the farthest castle you can with basic weapons! Don't buy any weapons until your as far as you can go! Even then don't bother upgrading them until I get to the final castle, buy those then upgrade them! It'll save you a ton of hastle and gold!
Quick level ups (all)
Nearing the second half of game, more preferably the airship nearing the end, go into as many battles as possible in the new areas where the enemies are tough and give a lot of gold and exp. If you do this at the airship (have well-stocked equipment from Froya via airship before entering), you will get a ton of money and 4k-20k+ exp depending on what you face. Same for skill points, but maybe not as high as 20k+ in one battle. All this should level your people a LOT and more quickly, and you can max out your skill levels easily. Note that the better quality/higher job class the skill is, the more sp it'll take.
Secret NPC's with Tome
This is not a cheat it's one of my expirience's! Go to places that you won't think of someone is hiding there cause I search every corner of the town's! They'll say "wow your the first one found me" then he's gonne give you tome's of manufacturers!!! Example: Dangdong entrance then go west then go down then youll find the Secret NPC!
Tip: Ending with Aulin
Im Korean user. I think no one doesnt know about ending with Aulin in this forum. So I will explain about ending with Aulin. In my case, at the first choice in the cave, I choose Aulin. Then I denied all of Fraiya's proposes. The most important thing is dueling with Fraiya. You must select defend to all of characters. Then fighting will finish in 3 or 4 turns. Thats it. If you clear the final boss so you are able to see ending with Aulin. Good luck.
