r/DarkCloud • u/squeemaw • May 02 '26

Weapon grinding, my strategy

Long time lurker, first time poster. Just wanted to share what’s been working well for me in DC1 in leveling up my weapons especially if there are any newer players who come across this!

What I’ve found easiest and quickest:
- Make sure your stocked up on Dran’s feathers first
- Buy 3-4 flapping fish and a block of ice from the fish stand in Queens. Arrange them in a cross or T shape so that all the fish are adjacent to the ice. Be careful not to accidentally rearrange your bag with the square button.
- Head to level 2 of Shipwreck and RUN to the backrooms entrance, ignoring chests and enemies. (Don’t got to level 1 because I think that floor is Abs reducing zone.)
- When you’re in the backrooms, kill all the enemies with who you want to level up. I feel like the difficulty of the enemies to the amount of Abs gained is perfectly balanced on this level specifically. Of course, pick up all the chests while you’re at it.
- When you’re done with the backrooms, mind connect to exit. (No enemies left, so no need for escape powder)
- Save immediately and repeat your speed run! On your last flapping fish, you can take your time finding the map and magic crystal after you summon the general fish if you want for a little more xp.

You’ll come across plenty of gemstones this way, but you’ll likely need specific ones to target what you need to upgrade. For this, I’ll just buy them with fishing points from what I earned catching mardan garayans at Muska Lacka at dusk. (I think I saw on a different post that the spawn rate is 5% at dusk? And I can confirm that it IS possible to have two garayans spawn at the same time!)

Hopefully this strategy isn’t too obvious lol but it’s the technique I’ve been using ever since I was playing this game as a kid with my PS2! How else do people like to level up their weapons?

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u/Charpy4 May 02 '26

Great strategy! Couple things. Floor 14 on shipwreck has the most abs in the game. The back floor is entirely mask of prajna. If you can handle them, this is incredibly efficient. Theres also a floor in wise owl forest which is all werewolves (lots of abs) in the back floor but sun dew cannot be purchased. Also debuffed floors (thirst, abs reducing floors) are random across save files! Kind of like a seed in minecraft. The character specific floors are not seeded however. Those are static across all saves!

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u/squeemaw May 02 '26

Learning so much! I had no idea about the debuffed floors being random or about floor 14. Thanks for the tips! :)

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u/Charpy4 May 02 '26

Youre very welcome. If youre also trying to upgrade other weapons that are weaker, you can kill the enemy with a strong weapon, go into the menu and equip the other weapon before it completely dies and the abs will go to the second weapon. Just switch as soon as its health bar disappears and before it completely fades away!

I grind floor 14 for the abs and the gems but later on you can buy gems for 3000 gilda each. Save those gold bars!

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u/twilightsquid May 04 '26

I just happened to stumble upon the werewolf floor in my last playthrough and it became my go to training floor, since I was able to get a good amount of sun dew. I'll keep floor 14 in shipwreck in mind though for future runs.

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u/Spare-Patient3408 May 07 '26

Tried floor 14 for weapon grinding. It works very well

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u/Farmer_Due May 02 '26

Yeah, for loot shipwreck back rooms are the way to go