[quote name='VintageTurtle']I have a method that I myself had to be told of since it is pretty obscure. To have RP for an upcoming boss fight all you need to do is defeat all the machines the night before, unlock the boss' gate, and then use Escape to leave the dungeon and teleport back home to rest for the night. Once you come back the next day the gate will still be open since you unlocked it on the previous night,
there will be no need at all to defeat any machines and you can simply run through the dungeon to the boss' door. I believe it only stays open for a single day after being opened though, so you have to do it back to back; Just make sure you sleep before 1am (that is the latest you can stay up until without catching the sickness status).
I never used too many monsters myself in Rune Factory, however every heal counts. Don't forget to have all your potion bottles filled up. How many do you have at the moment by the way? Probably at least three if not four, though if you have your forge all ready you probably skipped the festival bottle for the 1,000 pieces of lumber.
I know that one bottle is in Mist's sink and one is in the De Saint Coquelle basement in the bottom right corner area. One comes from the festival where you found the book and I forget about #4.
The Luck Blade is proper awesome with its percentage for critical hits. A definite upgrade indeed. Insect Skins can be won off of ants in the first cave; It might take you a while, it might take not long at all, just don't give up.
Ah yes, that random ice beamer was a pain in the neck. It almost isn't worth killing it since she spawns another one within a short period after your killing of it, so all I can recommend is to save outside the boss room with full HP and RP, your healing blue skull, your cache of pots, and make a marathon of trying to kill it.
Just make sure that you don't speed through Winter mate. Take it nice and slow.
If you need some boss advice take a look at the bottom of this page:
http://www.fogu.com/hm/rune_factory/story/story6.php
Just don't read too far (AKA when it says "When you are finally triumphant") or you could spoil a bit for yourself.
Edit: The last bottle comes from the festival where you compete with eggs, so you probably only have 2 bottles if not 3.[/QUOTE]
Wow, I never would have thought to try that. I bet that would be plenty to make the boss beatable. Having full RP.
Only have one bottle [Mists sink] (I skipped the festival one for the gold, I had plenty of lumber since I dedicated a couple days to nothing but chopping wood.) So I will run and grab the one from the basement. I had a bad feeling about skipping that bottle from the festival, but I was sick of having no money (was trying not to sell too much ore cause I wanted to have a bunch saved up when I was able to start forging.)
I have been using every minute of winter I can, for leveling up or forging weapons and such. But, by the time I got the cave open (I wasn't expecting a winter only condition) it was already halfway through the month. Now that I know about that trick for doing the dungeon leaving and coming back I don't think it will be a problem though.
Are they going to throw any more conditions like that out? Where you can only do the next caves on certain months.