Star Ocean 4: Edge 30,000 Enemies / 255 Anthropology Setup

This video shows a great way to farm 255 Anthropology drops, as well as getting the 30,000 enemy trophy. I suggest luring the mobs to the bottom left of the stairs. Two mobs will just barely reach but will be in Ambush range.

Once you're set up and encounters were all killed in the positions you want, step back a bit and use Ocarina and sprint right into the mobs. You should be able to get about 5-6 150-200% Exp ambushes during this, and then a mob or two might stray away. Just beat the ambush and lure the mob that strayed back to where the pile usually is and kill that single encounter. Then backup, pop Ocarina again, and rinse/repeat for fairly consistent 150-200% ambushes.

Anytime you do not have a 200% ambush, there is a stray mob, or you didn't move out of the way enough when you popped Ocarina.

This is the fastest method I know of to get 255 Anthropology drops as well as the 30,000 enemy trophy.

Disintegration stone is the Anthropology drop. You might get lucky and get 4 in one 200% Ambush! Make sure to have Lymle and Myuria in your party as well, as some mobs drop Attack Seeds for their -ology drop. While it doesn't count toward their trophy, its a nice drop to have :).

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• Star
• Ocean
• The
• Last
• Hope
• Edge
• Battle
• Trophy
• Anthropology
• 30000
• Enemies
• Farm

[Growllanser]

This seems like a nifty way to get Edge to his 30,000 kill mark. However, I'm planning on using a turbo-controller in the Cardianon Mothership to get them automatically. I still plan on doing the 255 anthro drops and am wondering if there is a better place to do them then the PoC? The Purgatorium has a bunch of humanoid enemies, but they run away and won't be able to surprise attack. Has anyone tried the 7SD with all of the Syndoniast Delts and Gammas?

[sirrath]

@Growllanser You're better off doing the 30k and 255 at once in PoC. You can do both with a turbo controller. I never updated my GameFAQs FAQ for that, but you can find the details if you search google for automating arumat 30k in poc. You can do the same for Edge.

[sirrath]

Black Hole Sphere is a useful strat, but after so much killing it gets annoying switching back and forth so much. I'm lazy like that. :).

I agree on not bothering to have consistent 200% ambushes, but once you set it up you should be able to do 4-5 in a row. What I did was stand back some, use Ocarina, and immediately sprint forward. Even just 150% or 100% ambushes help out, so agree on the below comment to not necessarily bother with keeping 200% consistent.  This is just a setup video.

[Growllanser]

@sirrath Normally I'd agree, but since people who are wanting to do everything, multiple plays are required. Therefore, it's probably best to go for the anthropology drops here while going for 30,000 kills (or at least 15,000 kills) on the Mothership if you have a turbo controller.

[soyelDILI]

thank you for you strategy and your FAQ, only need 5 BT from edge, and 55 from faize to complete 100% BT

[IndispensablePG]

Dunno how you can manage 5-6 times in a row; I find it hard for me to keep them all together.

I just stick with two or three groups of dark raptors. I seem to get the rare drops consistently that way.

[borg2500]

Also, I personally had trouble keeping all the mobs grouped tightly for consistant 200% and I recommend not wasting time chasing the crawler guys around when escape and focus mainly on the 3 lizard groups and the lava guy. the crawlers will come back and aggro to you on there own eventually. The time it takes to chase them and try to hold them in the group outweighs that extra ambush time savings imo.

[borg2500]

This is a great method for both trophies but I have some tips that really speed this up. Have Bacchus in the party instead next to edge and remove all bacchus's equipment. Keep everyone on manual and at the start of each encounter, switch to bacchus and cast his black hole sphere and quickly switch back to edge and finish the enemies. Black hole sphere will never kill the enemies and it will group all the enemies together allowing multiple kills and saving a TON of time chasing them around.

[Shademp]

Thank you so much. Your setup helped me get this trophy much quicker than I otherwise would have. I was really inefficient at first (which is why the thing took 60 hours for me) but the process was sped up noticably when I used your setup. I got the "30,000 enemies" trophy half an hour ago. I'm so thrilled! =D