Gallon's Shop

Gallon's Shop
Episode 2
Category:	Shop
Client:	Gallon
Info:	The greedy merchant, Gallon, runs a shop. What lies within!?
Reward:	0 Meseta
Author:	Sonic Team
Languages:	English, Japanese
Total XP
N H VH U 0 0 0 0 N H VH U 0 0 0 0

This isn't exactly a quest... I just want to invite all you hunters to my shop. Those of you looking for a change... welcome.

- Quest description

(Other parts of this quest to be added later.)

Overview

Gallon's Shop is a hub for many different activities and game features, including:

• playing minigames for "Gallon Points",
  • exchanging said points or meseta with Gallon for Music Disks and a Class Wall suitable for your character's class,
  • spending said points or meseta with Gallon to wrap presents of different colors,
    • showing presents to an NPC outside of the shop to unlock more wrapping paper colors,
• playing the Lucky Roulette with "Lucky Coins",
• bartering with Paganini through Hopkins for various items or enhancements, and
• trading 99 Photon Drops for a Photon Hoard with an NPC and vice versa.

To access Gallon's Shop, its minigames and the Lucky Roulette after the quest finishes loading, walk outside the Hunter's Guild where you begin to the outer Pioneer 2 hub, enter the left room between you and the bank/shop area and talk to the Transport Service NPC (XZ: -120, 40) at the counter.

Important NPCs Directory

NPC	Coordinates (XZ)
Shop/Games/Roulette Entry (Transport Service)	(-120, 40)
Present NPC to unlock Wrapping Papers	(320, -165)
Hopkins to access Paganini's room	(90, -220)
NPC for building/breaking Photon Hoards	(-110, 145)

Gallon's Shop and Gallon Points

Gallon's Shop
Episode 2
Category:	Shop
Client:	Gallon
Info:	The greedy merchant, Gallon, runs a shop. What lies within!?
Reward:	0 Meseta
Author:	Sonic Team
Languages:	English, Japanese
Total XP
N H VH U 0 0 0 0 N H VH U 0 0 0 0

This isn't exactly a quest... I just want to invite all you hunters to my shop. Those of you looking for a change... welcome.

- Quest description

(Other parts of this quest to be added later.)

Overview

Gallon's Shop is a hub for many different activities and game features, including:

• playing minigames for "Gallon Points",
  • exchanging said points or meseta with Gallon for Music Disks and a Class Wall suitable for your character's class,
  • spending said points or meseta with Gallon to wrap presents of different colors,
    • showing presents to an NPC outside of the shop to unlock more wrapping paper colors,
• playing the Lucky Roulette with "Lucky Coins",
• bartering with Paganini through Hopkins for various items or enhancements, and
• trading 99 Photon Drops for a Photon Hoard with an NPC and vice versa.

To access Gallon's Shop, its minigames and the Lucky Roulette after the quest finishes loading, walk outside the Hunter's Guild where you begin to the outer Pioneer 2 hub, enter the left room between you and the bank/shop area and talk to the Transport Service NPC (XZ: -120, 40) at the counter.

Important NPCs Directory

NPC	Coordinates (XZ)
Shop/Games/Roulette Entry (Transport Service)	(-120, 40)
Present NPC to unlock Wrapping Papers	(320, -165)
Hopkins to access Paganini's room	(90, -220)
NPC for building/breaking Photon Hoards	(-110, 145)

Gallon's Shop and Gallon Points

Gallon will sell a number of items, as well as wrap certain items into a Present, for 10,000 Meseta each.
Alternatively, Gallon offers these services with a payment of 30 "Gallon Points", earned at the minigame terminals near him.
A third option of spending Gallon Points appears if you speak with him while holding 300 or more Gallon Points.

Wrapping Presents

Global flag Wrapping Papers Type : Collection Complete (Hex) : 1FF Complete (Dec) : 511 Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 1FF00000 Bitmask (Dec) : 535822336

Most items, such as weapons, frames/armors and barriers/shields, can be wrapped.
Some items, such as consumables and units, cannot be wrapped.
By default, Gallon will only offer one kind of wrapping paper. There are more...
If you have any presents of a different color than those you can wrap, showing them to a man looking at Ragol (XZ: 320, -165) outside the shop will unlock alternative wrapping paper.
Note: Your present will not be lost in the process.

• White & Pink (Default)
• Yellow & Blue
• Black & Yellow
• Light Blue & Orange
• Pink & Yellow-green
• Magenta
• Blue
• Yellow
• Vermilion
• Green

Buy a CD

• Disk Vol.1 "Wedding March"
• Disk Vol.2 "Day Light"
• Disk Vol.3 "Burning Rangers"
• Disk Vol.6 "NiGHTS"
• Disk Vol.7 "Ending Theme (Piano ver.)"

Class Walls

Global flag Gallon's Shop (WALL) Type : Once only Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 40000000 Bitmask (Dec) : 1073741824

By having 300 or more points, Gallon will give you the option to buy "????" which awards a barrier according to your class. These barriers are particularly useful to new characters who are just entering Very Hard as they require level 41 to equip and provide helpful stats along with moderate defenses to its respective class.
Note: You can only buy your class wall once per character.

• Hunter Wall
• Ranger Wall
• Force Wall

Minigame Terminals

There are two terminals that offer mini-games, along with a Guild Card Reader terminal, which award "Gallon Points". These points can be exchanged to have an item wrapped up in a gift box or to earn prizes. There is also a fourth terminal, the Lucky Roulette, which will be covered in the next section.

Button-Mashing Game

This game involves mashing the action button as many times as possible in 10 seconds. You will be awarded a number of points based on your performance.

# of Button Presses	Reward
30 to 49	1 Gallon Point
50 to 69	2 Gallon Points
70 to 89	3 Gallon Points
90 to 99	4 Gallon Points
100 or more	5 Gallon Points

Timing Game

This game involves trying to perfectly time when 8 seconds has elapsed. The more precise your timing, the more points are awarded.

Reaction Difference	Reward
0.50 to 0.26 seconds	1 Gallon Point
0.25 to 0.11 seconds	3 Gallon Points
0.10 to 0.01 seconds	5 Gallon Points
0.00 seconds	10 Gallon Points

Guild Card Reader

By having a minimum number of Guild Cards in your possession, the Guild Card Reader will give you a number of Gallon Points matching that minimum number.

# of Guild Cards	Reward
10 to 29	10 Gallon Points
30 to 49	30 Gallon Points
50 to 99	50 Gallon Points
100 or more	100 Gallon Points

Lucky Roulette

Global flag Lucky Coins Type : Currency Max Amount : 100 Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 000001FC Bitmask (Dec) : 508

A fourth terminal, located inside Gallon's Shop, allows one to play the Lucky Roulette.
To participate, Lucky Coins are required, which can be gotten from Phantasmal World #1, #2, #3 and #4.

Lucky Coins can be stored for up to a maximum of 100 Lucky Coins, after which quests will not give you any more until you use some to bring you below the cap.

Each Lucky Coin gives one roll on the roulette. The item received is dependent on the space that is landed on.

Global flag Roulette (SEIRYU) Type : Once only Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000001 Bitmask (Dec) : 1

Global flag Roulette (GENBU) Type : Once only Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000002 Bitmask (Dec) : 2

Chance	Person	Item gained
40%	Boy	50% Star Atomizer, 50% Sol Atomizer
30%	Natasha	50% TP Material, 50% HP Material
12%	Nurse	Scape Doll
10%	Paganini	Gods Shield "Seiryu" (Once) Gods Shield "Genbu" (Once) Photon Drop
5%	Gallon	Monomate
3%	Nol	Random rare weapon

The random rare weapon received is based on the current class:

Chance	Hunter	Ranger	Force
12%	DB's Saber	Varista	Slicer of Assassin
8%	Kaladbolg	Custom Ray ver.OO	Diska of Liberator
5%	Durandal	Bravace	Diska of Braveman
12%	Flowen's Sword	Visk-235W	Club of Laconium
8%	Last Survivor	Wals-MK2	Mace of Adaman
5%	Dragon Slayer	Justy-23ST	Club of Zumiuran
12%	Blade Dance	M&A60 Vise	Battle Verge
8%	Bloody Art	H&S25 Justice	Brave Hammer
5%	Cross Scar	L&K14 Combat	Alive Aqhu
12%	Brionac	Crush Bullet	Fire Scepter: Agni
8%	Vjaya	Meteor Smash	Ice Staff: Dagon
5%	Gae Bolg	Final Impact	Storm Wand: Indra

The rare weapon will be untekked and have a random amount of hit attribute. All other attributes will be 0%.

Chance	Hit
10%	0
35%	10
35%	20
10%	30
7%	40
3%	50

Paganini's exchange

By bringing a minimum number of Photon Drops to Hopkins (XZ: 90, -220) at a different part of Pioneer 2 during this quest, he will take you to Paganini to exchange them for one of a selection of items depending on the number brought.

Items

WARNING: Only carry the minimum amount of Photon Drops needed in your inventory, as Paganini will take all of them for the trade.
You will be asked to confirm the exchange multiple times before it is finalized.

This exchange is notable for, among other things, the Photon Sphere that allows you a more cost-effective and faster option of adding attributes to weapons, as a Photon Sphere adds 30% to a non-hit attribute (so long as the attribute is 70% or less) instead of, for example, spending 100 Photon Drops to add only 25% to that attribute.

1 Photon Drop
AddSlot
Assist Barrier
Recovery Barrier

20 Photon Drops
Magic Water
Parasitic Cell Type D
Berill Photon
Red Barrier
Blue Barrier
Yellow Barrier
Nei's Claw (Replica)
Broom
Flower Cane

50 Photon Drops
Blue-black Stone
Magic Rock "Heart Key"
Photon Booster

99 Photon Drops
Photon Sphere

Adding specials to ES weapons

Global flag ET Paganini (ES SPECIAL) Type : Unlockable Flag (Hex) : 2 Flag (Dec) : 2 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000020 Bitmask (Dec) : 32

If the player brings Paganini the data from the terminal at the top of The East Tower, the "Modify ES Weapon" option will be available for the character that completes this sidequest, though it can be completed on any difficulty. (Paganini will no longer be accessible in this quest for that character once you have done this, and Hopkins will only state that, "My father is working on a huge project right now.", as an alternative method of checking completion.)

• Start the East Tower quest
• Talk to Hopkins in the lab (he is in the same place you would find him in Gallon's Shop for accessing "Modify ES Weapon" after sidequest completion)
• Kill Epsilon at the top floor of Control Tower, then interact with the terminal (you will receive a Quest Board item).
  • Upon killing Epsilon, player teleporters (via Telepipe or Ryuker) can no longer be created, and any that are active will be turned off. The gate in the Lab leading to the Central Control Area will also become locked. If you use the provided teleporter before interacting with the terminal, you will be forced to redo the quest to properly complete the sidequest.
• After clearing the quest, make sure to talk to Hopkins again before handing in the quest at the Hunters Guild.

This allows the player to add a special attack to their ES weapon, with the available specials depending on the number of PDs in the player's inventory and the ES Weapon in question.

# of PDs	Specials Offered
20	HP Revival*, TP Revival*
30	Blizzard, Burning, Tempest
40	Berserk, Chaos, Geist, Gush, King's, Spirit
50	Arrest, Demon's, Hell
60	Jellen (21), Zalure (21)

^{* HP Revival and TP Revival refer to passive recovery over time, similar to the HP/Revival and TP/Revival units.}

Note that ES Knuckle cannot receive HP Revival and TP Revival, ES Psychogun can only receive HP Revival and TP Revival, and ES Windmill can only receive HP Revival, Jellen, TP Revival, and Zalure.

Adding attributes to weapons

Global flag WT Paganini (ATTRIBUTES) Type : Unlockable Flag (Hex) : 2 Flag (Dec) : 2 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000040 Bitmask (Dec) : 64

As a prerequisite, first the player's character must collect the East Tower data for Paganini (see Adding specials to ES weapons above for directions).

Then if that character also brings Paganini the data from the terminal in Seabed during The West Tower quest, the "Enhance weapon's Photon" option will be available for the character that completes this sidequest, though it can be completed on any difficulty. (Unlike East Tower, there is no easy way to check through Hopkins if you have already completed the West Tower sidequest, as Hopkins in this quest will say the same "My father is working on a huge project right now." line, both before completing the previous sidequest as well as after completing this one.)

• Start the West Tower quest after having completed the East Tower sidequest
• Talk to Hopkins in the lab (he is in the same place you would find him in Gallon's Shop for accessing "Enhance weapon's Photon" after sidequest completion)
• Traverse the Seabed Upper levels until you find and access the terminal containing the Research Data (you will receive a Quest Board item).
  • Unlike the previous sidequest, you do not have to continue onto the Control Tower to complete this sidequest. Simply access the terminal and then Telepipe or Ryuker back to Pioneer 2.
• Return to the lab and talk to Hopkins before ending the quest

This allows the player to add and boost attribute percentages on their weapons for a set amount of PDs, at 4 PD per 1%, or 20 PDs per 5% on an attribute. A Photon Sphere can also be used to add 30% to an attribute, but only if the attribute in question is at or below 70%. There are some restrictions to adding attributes:

• a weapon cannot have more than three attributes (Excalibur, Lame d'Argent, Sealed J-Sword, and Tsumikiri J-Sword cannot have more than two, and ES weapons can't have any at all),
• Hit cannot be added to a weapon,
• an attribute cannot exceed 100%.

Photon Hoard

Photon Hoard フォトンのカタマリ A stockpile of 99 high purity crystal photons. Through advancements in technology, it somehow takes up less space in your purse. Type : Photon</onlyinclude> Max Stack : 99 Hex : 031014

Photon Hoard (commonly abbreviated as "PH") is an item that is equivalent to 99 Photon Drops, allowing the ability to store and carry more Photon Drops than normally capable.

Usage

Prior to the introduction of Photon Hoards, storing and making trades using large amounts of Photon Drops was complicated by the issue of only being able to hold or trade one stack of 99 Photon Drops at a time.

Photon Hoards thus allow for easier management of Photon Drops without having to store them separately in multiple banks (or by irreversibly converting stacks of Photon Drops into Photon Spheres), as Photon Drops have multiple other uses.

Availability

Main article: Gallon's Shop

In Gallon's Shop, by speaking with a man wearing military garb (XZ: -110, 145) within the room next to the quest counter, one can convert 99 Photon Drops into a Photon Hoard and vice versa.

You must speak with them twice in a quest sitting, while also holding at least one of either a Photon Drop or Photon Hoard, in order to activate this feature.

Note: In order to break a Photon Hoard down into a stack of Photon Drops, you must not be carrying any Photon Drops beforehand.

Trivia

Photon Hoards do not exist in normal gameplay, as they and their feature to supplement Photon Drops are unique to Ephinea, added in an update on June 16th, 2019.

Main article: Photon Hoard

By speaking with a man wearing military garb (XZ: -110, 145) within the room next to the quest counter, one can convert 99 Photon Drops into a Photon Hoard and vice versa.
You must speak with them twice in a quest sitting, while also holding at least one of either a Photon Drop or Photon Hoard, in order to activate this feature.
Note: In order to break a Photon Hoard down into a stack of Photon Drops, you must not be carrying any Photon Drops beforehand.

Trivia

Normally, one could only purchase a Class Wall by having 300 to 310 Gallon Points. On Ephinea, however, it is possible to purchase one while having more than 310 points.

Photon Hoards do not exist in normal gameplay, as they and their purpose of supplementing Photon Drops are unique to Ephinea, added in an update on June 16th, 2019. Gallon will sell a number of items, as well as wrap certain items into a Present, for 10,000 Meseta each.
Alternatively, Gallon offers these services with a payment of 30 "Gallon Points", earned at the minigame terminals near him.
A third option of spending Gallon Points appears if you speak with him while holding 300 or more Gallon Points.

Wrapping Presents

Global flag Wrapping Papers Type : Collection Complete (Hex) : 1FF Complete (Dec) : 511 Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 1FF00000 Bitmask (Dec) : 535822336

Most items, such as weapons, frames/armors and barriers/shields, can be wrapped.
Some items, such as consumables and units, cannot be wrapped.
By default, Gallon will only offer one kind of wrapping paper. There are more...
If you have any presents of a different color than those you can wrap, showing them to a man looking at Ragol (XZ: 320, -165) outside the shop will unlock alternative wrapping paper.
Note: Your present will not be lost in the process.

• White & Pink (Default)
• Yellow & Blue
• Black & Yellow
• Light Blue & Orange
• Pink & Yellow-green
• Magenta
• Blue
• Yellow
• Vermilion
• Green

Buy a CD

• Disk Vol.1 "Wedding March"
• Disk Vol.2 "Day Light"
• Disk Vol.3 "Burning Rangers"
• Disk Vol.6 "NiGHTS"
• Disk Vol.7 "Ending Theme (Piano ver.)"

Class Walls

Global flag Gallon's Shop (WALL) Type : Once only Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 40000000 Bitmask (Dec) : 1073741824

By having 300 or more points, Gallon will give you the option to buy "????" which awards a barrier according to your class. These barriers are particularly useful to new characters who are just entering Very Hard as they require level 41 to equip and provide helpful stats along with moderate defenses to its respective class.
Note: You can only buy your class wall once per character.

• Hunter Wall
• Ranger Wall
• Force Wall

Minigame Terminals

There are two terminals that offer mini-games, along with a Guild Card Reader terminal, which award "Gallon Points". These points can be exchanged to have an item wrapped up in a gift box or to earn prizes. There is also a fourth terminal, the Lucky Roulette, which will be covered in the next section.

Button-Mashing Game

This game involves mashing the action button as many times as possible in 10 seconds. You will be awarded a number of points based on your performance.

# of Button Presses	Reward
30 to 49	1 Gallon Point
50 to 69	2 Gallon Points
70 to 89	3 Gallon Points
90 to 99	4 Gallon Points
100 or more	5 Gallon Points

Timing Game

This game involves trying to perfectly time when 8 seconds has elapsed. The more precise your timing, the more points are awarded.

Reaction Difference	Reward
0.50 to 0.26 seconds	1 Gallon Point
0.25 to 0.11 seconds	3 Gallon Points
0.10 to 0.01 seconds	5 Gallon Points
0.00 seconds	10 Gallon Points

Guild Card Reader

By having a minimum number of Guild Cards in your possession, the Guild Card Reader will give you a number of Gallon Points matching that minimum number.

# of Guild Cards	Reward
10 to 29	10 Gallon Points
30 to 49	30 Gallon Points
50 to 99	50 Gallon Points
100 or more	100 Gallon Points

Lucky Roulette

Global flag Lucky Coins Type : Currency Max Amount : 100 Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 000001FC Bitmask (Dec) : 508

A fourth terminal, located inside Gallon's Shop, allows one to play the Lucky Roulette.
To participate, Lucky Coins are required, which can be gotten from Phantasmal World #1, #2, #3 and #4.

Lucky Coins can be stored for up to a maximum of 100 Lucky Coins, after which quests will not give you any more until you use some to bring you below the cap.

Each Lucky Coin gives one roll on the roulette. The item received is dependent on the space that is landed on.

Global flag Roulette (SEIRYU) Type : Once only Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000001 Bitmask (Dec) : 1

Global flag Roulette (GENBU) Type : Once only Flag (Hex) : B Flag (Dec) : 11 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000002 Bitmask (Dec) : 2

Chance	Person	Item gained
40%	Boy	50% Star Atomizer, 50% Sol Atomizer
30%	Natasha	50% TP Material, 50% HP Material
12%	Nurse	Scape Doll
10%	Paganini	Gods Shield "Seiryu" (Once) Gods Shield "Genbu" (Once) Photon Drop
5%	Gallon	Monomate
3%	Nol	Random rare weapon

The random rare weapon received is based on the current class:

Chance	Hunter	Ranger	Force
12%	DB's Saber	Varista	Slicer of Assassin
8%	Kaladbolg	Custom Ray ver.OO	Diska of Liberator
5%	Durandal	Bravace	Diska of Braveman
12%	Flowen's Sword	Visk-235W	Club of Laconium
8%	Last Survivor	Wals-MK2	Mace of Adaman
5%	Dragon Slayer	Justy-23ST	Club of Zumiuran
12%	Blade Dance	M&A60 Vise	Battle Verge
8%	Bloody Art	H&S25 Justice	Brave Hammer
5%	Cross Scar	L&K14 Combat	Alive Aqhu
12%	Brionac	Crush Bullet	Fire Scepter: Agni
8%	Vjaya	Meteor Smash	Ice Staff: Dagon
5%	Gae Bolg	Final Impact	Storm Wand: Indra

The rare weapon will be untekked and have a random amount of hit attribute. All other attributes will be 0%.

Chance	Hit
10%	0
35%	10
35%	20
10%	30
7%	40
3%	50

Paganini's exchange

By bringing a minimum number of Photon Drops to Hopkins (XZ: 90, -220) at a different part of Pioneer 2 during this quest, he will take you to Paganini to exchange them for one of a selection of items depending on the number brought.

Items

WARNING: Only carry the minimum amount of Photon Drops needed in your inventory, as Paganini will take all of them for the trade.
You will be asked to confirm the exchange multiple times before it is finalized.

This exchange is notable for, among other things, the Photon Sphere that allows you a more cost-effective and faster option of adding attributes to weapons, as a Photon Sphere adds 30% to a non-hit attribute (so long as the attribute is 70% or less) instead of, for example, spending 100 Photon Drops to add only 25% to that attribute.

1 Photon Drop
AddSlot
Assist Barrier
Recovery Barrier

20 Photon Drops
Magic Water
Parasitic Cell Type D
Berill Photon
Red Barrier
Blue Barrier
Yellow Barrier
Nei's Claw (Replica)
Broom
Flower Cane

50 Photon Drops
Blue-black Stone
Magic Rock "Heart Key"
Photon Booster

99 Photon Drops
Photon Sphere

Adding specials to ES weapons

Global flag ET Paganini (ES SPECIAL) Type : Unlockable Flag (Hex) : 2 Flag (Dec) : 2 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000020 Bitmask (Dec) : 32

If the player brings Paganini the data from the terminal at the top of The East Tower, the "Modify ES Weapon" option will be available for the character that completes this sidequest, though it can be completed on any difficulty. (Paganini will no longer be accessible in this quest for that character once you have done this, and Hopkins will only state that, "My father is working on a huge project right now.", as an alternative method of checking completion.)

• Start the East Tower quest
• Talk to Hopkins in the lab (he is in the same place you would find him in Gallon's Shop for accessing "Modify ES Weapon" after sidequest completion)
• Kill Epsilon at the top floor of Control Tower, then interact with the terminal (you will receive a Quest Board item).
  • Upon killing Epsilon, player teleporters (via Telepipe or Ryuker) can no longer be created, and any that are active will be turned off. The gate in the Lab leading to the Central Control Area will also become locked. If you use the provided teleporter before interacting with the terminal, you will be forced to redo the quest to properly complete the sidequest.
• After clearing the quest, make sure to talk to Hopkins again before handing in the quest at the Hunters Guild.

This allows the player to add a special attack to their ES weapon, with the available specials depending on the number of PDs in the player's inventory and the ES Weapon in question.

# of PDs	Specials Offered
20	HP Revival*, TP Revival*
30	Blizzard, Burning, Tempest
40	Berserk, Chaos, Geist, Gush, King's, Spirit
50	Arrest, Demon's, Hell
60	Jellen (21), Zalure (21)

^{* HP Revival and TP Revival refer to passive recovery over time, similar to the HP/Revival and TP/Revival units.}

Note that ES Knuckle cannot receive HP Revival and TP Revival, ES Psychogun can only receive HP Revival and TP Revival, and ES Windmill can only receive HP Revival, Jellen, TP Revival, and Zalure.

Adding attributes to weapons

Global flag WT Paganini (ATTRIBUTES) Type : Unlockable Flag (Hex) : 2 Flag (Dec) : 2 Bitmask (Hex) : 00000040 Bitmask (Dec) : 64

As a prerequisite, first the player's character must collect the East Tower data for Paganini (see Adding specials to ES weapons above for directions).

Then if that character also brings Paganini the data from the terminal in Seabed during The West Tower quest, the "Enhance weapon's Photon" option will be available for the character that completes this sidequest, though it can be completed on any difficulty. (Unlike East Tower, there is no easy way to check through Hopkins if you have already completed the West Tower sidequest, as Hopkins in this quest will say the same "My father is working on a huge project right now." line, both before completing the previous sidequest as well as after completing this one.)

• Start the West Tower quest after having completed the East Tower sidequest
• Talk to Hopkins in the lab (he is in the same place you would find him in Gallon's Shop for accessing "Enhance weapon's Photon" after sidequest completion)
• Traverse the Seabed Upper levels until you find and access the terminal containing the Research Data (you will receive a Quest Board item).
  • Unlike the previous sidequest, you do not have to continue onto the Control Tower to complete this sidequest. Simply access the terminal and then Telepipe or Ryuker back to Pioneer 2.
• Return to the lab and talk to Hopkins before ending the quest

This allows the player to add and boost attribute percentages on their weapons for a set amount of PDs, at 4 PD per 1%, or 20 PDs per 5% on an attribute. A Photon Sphere can also be used to add 30% to an attribute, but only if the attribute in question is at or below 70%. There are some restrictions to adding attributes:

• a weapon cannot have more than three attributes (Excalibur, Lame d'Argent, Sealed J-Sword, and Tsumikiri J-Sword cannot have more than two, and ES weapons can't have any at all),
• Hit cannot be added to a weapon,
• an attribute cannot exceed 100%.

Photon Hoard

Photon Hoard フォトンのカタマリ A stockpile of 99 high purity crystal photons. Through advancements in technology, it somehow takes up less space in your purse. Type : Photon</onlyinclude> Max Stack : 99 Hex : 031014

Photon Hoard (commonly abbreviated as "PH") is an item that is equivalent to 99 Photon Drops, allowing the ability to store and carry more Photon Drops than normally capable.

Usage

Prior to the introduction of Photon Hoards, storing and making trades using large amounts of Photon Drops was complicated by the issue of only being able to hold or trade one stack of 99 Photon Drops at a time.

Photon Hoards thus allow for easier management of Photon Drops without having to store them separately in multiple banks (or by irreversibly converting stacks of Photon Drops into Photon Spheres), as Photon Drops have multiple other uses.

Availability

Main article: Gallon's Shop

In Gallon's Shop, by speaking with a man wearing military garb (XZ: -110, 145) within the room next to the quest counter, one can convert 99 Photon Drops into a Photon Hoard and vice versa.

You must speak with them twice in a quest sitting, while also holding at least one of either a Photon Drop or Photon Hoard, in order to activate this feature.

Note: In order to break a Photon Hoard down into a stack of Photon Drops, you must not be carrying any Photon Drops beforehand.

Trivia

Photon Hoards do not exist in normal gameplay, as they and their feature to supplement Photon Drops are unique to Ephinea, added in an update on June 16th, 2019.

Main article: Photon Hoard

By speaking with a man wearing military garb (XZ: -110, 145) within the room next to the quest counter, one can convert 99 Photon Drops into a Photon Hoard and vice versa.
You must speak with them twice in a quest sitting, while also holding at least one of either a Photon Drop or Photon Hoard, in order to activate this feature.
Note: In order to break a Photon Hoard down into a stack of Photon Drops, you must not be carrying any Photon Drops beforehand.

Trivia

Normally, one could only purchase a Class Wall by having 300 to 310 Gallon Points. On Ephinea, however, it is possible to purchase one while having more than 310 points.

Photon Hoards do not exist in normal gameplay, as they and their purpose of supplementing Photon Drops are unique to Ephinea, added in an update on June 16th, 2019.