Various Tips

## Attack Area

Since Rogue Hero is turn based, making use of your opportunities and turns is vital to surviving and winning engagements. Attack area plays an important role in this, as certain attributes allow the player to deal damage around corners, which takes a turn for most monsters and the player to cross (you cannot move diagonally if there is a corner). However, this can be overcome with [3WAY], [3PENE], or [PENE]. If used logically, you can even damage enemies that might be in walls, like the Mini Reaper or Ghost Hat.

\*Ghost Hat taking damage while in wall

[3PENE] is an incredibly powerful attribute for this reason. It’s perfectly suited for clearing Monster Houses and allows for dealing damage around corners and two spaces away, giving you the upper hand in combat. It’s also a life saver when the player is afflicted with Panic G. As shown below, it deals damage to 4 spaces at a time, effectively increasing your damage output by 300%.

\*[3PEN] attacks in the east, northeast, and south directions.

## Gold Farming

\*Gold drops in a dungeon

At some point in the game, gold farming becomes something necessary, as there are two NPCs in the Gappoi Bar that demand a large sum of money. The first one wants 100,000 gold, which you may or may not have in your bank at the time. The second NPC wants 250,000. Paying both of these NPCs off takes you one step closer to accessing the Satan Dungeon, and even unlocks a basement room in your house.

Although going around clearing past dungeons is a viable option, it can be risky in higher level dungeons like Ice Dungeon or Fire Dungeon. Additionally, the amount of gold salvaged is not worth the time spent grinding through those levels. Instead, there is a much easier way to farm efficiently.

You will need:

* Two (or more) Holes Pierce
	+ with Gold Pierce
	+ with Greed Pierce (optional, but helpful)
* Meat Sword or sword with [MEAT] attribute

With these items, gold farming becomes a simple task. Equip them, and go into a low-level dungeon, preferably one of the My House Dungeons. Attack enemies with the Meat Sword. When they are afflicted with [MEAT] (you can see the indicator), they will drop gold as you use the provided setup above.

\*Meat application and gold drop

This technique works because the Gold Pierce overrides the drop of any monster/enemy to be gold. Because of this, every successful meat drop will be gold. Note that this also has side effects: If a thief steals items from you, and dies with [MEAT] applied as you have the Gold Pierce equipped, a small amount of gold will drop instead of your stolen item. To avoid this, unequip the Gold Pierce to get your item back. You can do this if you’re running low on meat as well, in order to farm a food supply before grinding monsters for gold.

The best dungeon to run this with is the Aqua Dungeon, as it rewards 3,200 gold at the end and goes on for 12 floors. This is a relatively safe dungeon, with easy to kill monsters and rare 2-3 items. This gives you plenty of enemies to kill, and lots of gold drops. Don’t forget that you can also sell the items you don’t need when you leave the dungeon for a lot more money.

Using this method, it’s possible to consistently get 14,000-15,000 gold (including sold items) every run, with each run taking about 15 minutes.