Return to Babil
Edge gets us into the tower. This approach starts at B1F, not the 1F entrance used during the dwarves’ attack. We’re exploring different rooms, with a different enemy mix. The Ice weapons are still useful equipment, but this isn’t another tower full of things conveniently weak to Ice.
Area Enemies
Balloon can Detonate, so don’t leave several wounded ones waiting around. Rosa’s arrows are useful against them. Mad Ogre has very high magic defense; let the fighters concentrate on one at a time instead of trying several elemental spells in the hope that one will suddenly work.
EquipmentEquippable by Cecil (Paladin), Rydia (both forms), Rosa, Cid, Palom, Porom, Edward, FuSoYa. Power 10. Attack element: Holy. Effective against Ghoul, Undead enemies. Requires a bow-and-arrow pair. help against BladeMan and Grudger. Avoid Bolt against Grudger. If you don’t have the ideal ammunition, ordinary attacks and careful healing will still get you through; this isn’t a reason to abandon the dungeon for one shopping trip.
Keep Rosa available for healing and watch Edge in particular. Let him help with items when needed. He’s enthusiastic, but a bit overconfident given how often we have to keep healing him.
B1F: Two Chests
Take the Unihorn in the northeast, then follow the winding route to the HrGlass2 in the southeast, near the onward door. Check both before moving into B2F. These are small branches now and an annoying return trip later.
B2F: The Long Bridge
Follow the outer path until you reach the long bridge leading down to a chest. Heal before taking this detour: it contains four Mad Ogres.
Use focused physical attacks to reduce the number of enemies taking turns. Rosa heals; Rydia can help with recovery rather than wasting MP testing Fire, Ice, and Bolt against their magic defense. Don’t let Edge’s lower HP turn this into a loop of reviving him without healing him afterward.
The reward is the axe-icon Ogre. Cecil and Kain can use it, and it is useful against Giant-family enemies, but compare Accuracy as well as Attack. It can show a small Attack improvement while losing a noticeable amount of accuracy. Keep it as a matchup option; Equipment: SwordsEquippable by Cecil (Paladin), Kain. Power 75; Acc 80%. Attack element: Ice. and Equipment: Lances and spearsEquippable by Kain. Power 77; Acc 80%. Attack element: Ice, Projectile. Reusable Item spell: Ice2. remain sensible travel weapons.
Return along the bridge to the main path and continue to B3F.
B3F, B4F, and Back Again
On your first visit to B3F, walk past the onward doorway to collect Succubus from the southeastern chest. Then take that doorway into B4F.
Follow the eastern path around to Equipment: Ninja swordsEquippable by Edge. Power 32; Acc 90%.. Replace one of Edge’s Equipment: Ninja swordsEquippable by Edge. Power 25; Acc 90%. with it; keep the other Equipment: Ninja swordsEquippable by Edge. Power 25; Acc 90%. in his second hand. This is an actual weapon upgrade rather than a request to empty every slot and rebuild his outfit.
Continue into a separate section of B3F. Don’t mistake the floor decoration for a save point. Head toward the two northern doors: the left door is the save room; the right door is the onward route.
Use the save room. Again, use a Cabin instead of a ItemField/save-point recovery, restoring up to 1,000 HP and 100 MP. At higher levels, check your remaining deficits before continuing. if Rydia and Rosa have larger MP deficits. Or if you have lots of ItemField/save-point recovery, restoring up to 1,000 HP and 100 MP. At higher levels, check your remaining deficits before continuing., use a few of them back-to-back.
B5F: Treasure Before the Bridge
Leave the save room and use the other northern door. A short B4F connector leads into B5F. Before walking up its central bridge, go down and west to the chest containing 82,000 Gil. Yes, that many zeroes. This should help with the next shopping list.
The central northbound bridge is the story trigger. Before crossing, check that you have collected:
| Floor | Treasure |
|---|---|
| B1F | Unihorn and HrGlass2 |
| B2F | Ogre from the guarded bridge chest |
| First B3F section | Succubus beyond the doorway |
| B4F | Equipment: Ninja swordsEquippable by Edge. Power 32; Acc 90%. |
| B5F | 82,000 Gil west of the central route |
If anything is missing, this is a good point to backtrack. Keep a separate save if you like preserving earlier areas. When you’re ready, continue to the bridge for the next scenes and boss preparation.