First time through the game, I collected some of these and had no idea what they were used for. Needless to say, I never used them. After reading some posts on this forum, I find out they can be quite powerful if charged up using Rust of Knots.

Does anyone know a way to figure out how much charge a Rust of Knot gives Dark Matter? I heard DM can do up to 60K damage if fully charged, but I didn't see how many Rust of Knots it takes to fully charge them. Is there some way to tell how charged up the DM currently is?

Sadly, no.

But if you can buy 99 KoR (You need the Knight Of the Round Clan Rank) and turn off all gambits and turn one the gambit:



Then equip your party with weapons of varying attack power and giving one of them, the leader a really useless weapon *cough* Mythril Sword*cough* and stay near a save crystal, once your members have died from your onslaught of Knots then, you can revive them with your remaining party member(thats why we need a handy save crystal close by.). This method is very useful when Reddas or Larsa is around. It takes more than 99 KoR to charge, so you'll have to visit the clan shop twice...as for checking, it is wise to save and use the dark matter on yourself then if it does less then 60,000 do a soft reset and load the file again to charge.This way you can find out whether you charged it.

Here's a handy video, detailing the charging of Dark Matter

Edit: If you want to know, the relevant equation is


and since the damage of the KoR is=


It helps to Have Bubble Belt on, since it Increases the damage.

Also, The Esper Shemhazai has an attack called Devour Soul. This is exactly like the Knots Of Rust. Her Ending Technique the 'Soul Purge' Work exactly like the Dark Matter



Hope this helps



This message was edited by chromeKeyblade on Jul 24 2009.

you could just save your game nd then check how much dm dus the load agen + wen u use a dm the damage goes down to 0 =(

quote wyrm slayer

you could just save your game nd then check how much dm dus the load agen + wen u use a dm the damage goes down to 0 =(

Was this necessary, when I already said...

quote chromeKeyblade

...as for checking, it is wise to save and use the dark matter on yourself then if it does less then 60,000 do a soft reset and load the file again to charge.This way you can find out whether you charged it.

That was a shameless way to increase your post count...

This message was edited by chromeKeyblade on Jul 28 2009.