Dynasty Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends Item FAQ
Table of Contents
1. Version History
2. Before you Begin
3. Blue Items
4. Red Items
5. Bodyguard Items
6. Other Stuff like Contributors
1. Version History
Version 1.0: All the new red and blue items and the methods to get them.
2. Before you Begin
Along with new musou modes, new weapons, and new challenges, there are also
new items! Before you begin getting new items, remember that the red items
cannot be gotten on Novice mode. I’m not completely sure if you can get
them on Easy mode, but I know for sure that you can get them on Normal mode
and above. In fact, for all but one item, I recommend Normal mode for
getting the red items. The blue items can be gotten on any level from item
bags found on defeated generals and inside boxes. However, you must unlock
the appropriate levels and sides for the red items, then do certain tasks to
make the item appear. To unlock these sides, you must play through musou
mode with the appropriate character. For example, if you want to get the
Divine Helm, you must play through Lu Bu’s musou mode to unlock the
appropriate stage and side.
3. Blue Items
Mountain Quiver
Effect: Adds to your initial arrow count.
Range: +1-32 (Break Limit Max: +40)
Item Assessment: If you use arrows a whole lot, then you might want to
equip this. The only time this would really be helpful is when trying to
get Zhang Liao’s fifth weapon or killing Sun Quan from a distance on Yi
Ling.
Mountain Pouch
Effect: Increases the amount of life meat buns give you.
Range: +1-20 (Break Limit Max: +35)
Item Assessment: As much as we all sometimes want more life from meat buns,
it just isn’t practical enough to merit taking a spot, especially on Very
Hard when meat buns are hard to find. However, this combined with a Seven
Star Orb and a high luck weapon can mean you will always have life at hand
when you need it.
Bronze Flask
Effect: Increases the power of your charge attacks.
Range: +1-12 (Break Limit Max: +15)
Item Assessment: Out of the three new blue items, this is probably the most
useful. If you want a powerhouse character, equip a maxed out Tiger Amulet
and this. Not only will all of your attacks become more powerful with the
Tiger Amulet, your charge attacks will become even more powerful with the
Bronze Flask. However, this item still should not come before a maxed out
Elixir or Tortoise Amulet.
4. Red Items
Divine Helm
Effect: Prevents dizziness after strong attacks (meaning you won’t get
stunned from someone’s Charge 2 attack or any other attack that can stun).
Stage: Chi Bi, Lu Bu’s side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Kill all generals other then Dong Zhuo, including
reinforcements and sub generals.
Location: Near the southeast gate (the one that’s on the east side of the
level, not the one that’s near Dong Zhuo).
My Method: There are a lot of generals here and you must personally kill
each and every one of them, including Dong Zhuo’s sub generals. What makes
things worse is that there are constant ambushes and reinforcements that
happen, putting even more generals on the map that you need to kill. The
main generals are easy to find. However, the sub generals are the problem.
Jia Xiu is located near Li Jue and normally travels up the west side. Wang
Fang is also located near Li Jue and also heads north along the west bank.
Niou Fu is located in the center area with Li Meng and Xu Rong and normally
tries to get to Diao Chan. Zhao Cen is near Xu Rong, but can travel and
normally either tries to go west towards you or north towards Diao Chan.
To start off this level, head towards Li Jue and take out Jia Xiu and Wang
Fang. Make sure Wang Fang is dead before you kill Li Jue. Quickly go back
north and start making your way towards the middle boat. Zhao Cen should be
around here. Kill him as fast as possible, as he likes to die to your
troops. By the time you have all four dead, Dong Zhuo’s reinforcements
should arrive. Huangfu Song arrives near your gate captain on west side and
Zhang Chao shows up on the east bank. Go to Huangfu Song and dispose of
him. Now, go towards the ship that’s directly south of Diao Chan’s camp.
Niou Fu and Xu Rong should be there just waiting for you to kill them. Li
Meng should also be in the area, so don’t forget to leave him out. If you
have time before the Wu army attacks, take out Zhang Chao’s troops first.
If not, just start working on the Wu army. Once their entire army is dead,
kill Zhang Chao if you haven’t already and then go down the east bank and
get Guo Si and Li Ru. The item should appear. Grab the item and show Dong
Zhuo who is the man (or woman).
The last tip I have is to save often in case your bodyguards or some one
else gets a kill on accident.
Item Assessment: If you’re tired of feeling helpless when a general or a
gate captain does a Charge 2 or even just some random soldier hitting you
with a lucky shot, then this item is for you. However, you might want to
look for other items that may have more use.
Scroll of Accuracy
Effect: Attack x 2 but defense drops after getting knocked down (means you
get more attack for a small amount of time but your defense goes down).
Stage: Mt. Ding Jun, Dong Zhuo’s side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Defeat Huang Zhong.
Location: Dropped by Huang Zhong.
My Method: Step 1: Run to Huang Zhong. Step 2: Give whooping to Huang
Zhong. Step 3: Collect item he drops. Step 4: Finish level. Step 5:
You have now quit smoking in four easy steps! I mean you have now gotten
your item in four easy steps! >_> <_<
You might want to watch out for the ambush parties that show up when you
charge Huang Zhong and when you defeat Huang Zhong, but they should not be
major problems since you should be on Normal.
Item Assessment: Why did they make a Scroll of Accuracy have nothing to do
with accuracy? It should be called the Scroll of Worthlessness, or at least
the Scroll of Attack or something like that. However, there are better
items then this one. The names of those better items make more sense also.
Imperial Harness
Effect: Run over all enemies with any horse (means your horse acts like Red
Hare, but doesn’t run as fast as Red Hare).
Stage: You Ting, Nanman side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Before the East and West Forts fall, defeat Gan Ning and Sun
Shang Xiang.
Location: South of the northwest gate, on the small tip of land.
My Method: This item is deceptively hard to get. Kill Pan Zhang first.
This should trigger an ambush party of Dong Xi, Jiang Qin, and Ling Tong.
Kill all of them and Han Dang, then go towards Da Qiao. This should trigger
Gan Ning and Sun Shang Xiang to make ambushes on Meng Jie and Yong Kai
respectively. If Meng Jie or Yong Kai die, then you lose a fort and the
item along with it, so go directly to Gan Ning and take him out. Then go
directly to Sun Shang Xiang and take her out. Don’t mess around with Da
Qiao because Meng Jie and Yong Kai don’t last too long. Don’t worry about
Zhu Rong and his ambush, as he doesn’t go after the forts. Once Gan Ning
and Sun Shang Xiang are dead, the North gate should open and now you can get
the item and finish the level.
Item Assessment: If this item also made horses run as fast as Red Hare,
then things would be different, but since it doesn’t, just equip the Red
Hare Saddle instead. However, if you want to just have some fun and run
over generals with a brown horse, then equip it and have fun.
Seven Stars Blade
Effect: Makes it easier to receive high scores on your combos (I don’t
think this makes it easier for in game scores, but at the end when the combo
points are totaled up).
Stage: Combo Mania Challenge, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Get over 1000 combo points in 3 minutes.
My Method: I used Zhou Yu. I just did SST, ST, SSSSTT. This should get
around 55 combo points per combo. Do this about 20 times in the 3 minutes
and you have your item.
Item Assessment: Easily, this is one of the better items. This item is almost
necessary when trying to get the break limit items. It also helps when you are
getting the Musou Armor. The Musou Armor may be the best item for playing the
game, but this item is definitely the most useful.
Lightning Bow
Effect: Can shoot lightning arrows (like weapons with the lightning element).
Stage: Yi Ling, Yellow Turbans’ side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Huang Zhong must stay alive for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes,
a supply team will appear.
Location: Northeast camp, heads south.
My Method: You might want to set the difficulty on Hard for this item. I
would suggest you also use Zhang Jiao so that he doesn’t die. Head south and
take out all of Liu Bei’s sub generals and also Wei Yan (they should all be in
the same general area, which is near the two gates on the right side). Then,
I would take out Shamoke and Ma Dai and Guan Ping (sub generals of Ma Chao).
Ma Dai and Guan Ping might be hard to find, but if left alive, they will start
killing off your peasants. Once these two are dead, save your game and then
kill Ma Chao next. If killing Ma Chao brings about the death of Huang Zhong,
then restart the game and don’t kill Ma Chao. Killing Ma Chao does a huge
number on Shu’s morale. However, if you don’t kill Ma Chao, your peasants
split up into two groups, with one group going into the Stone Warrior Formation
and the other going towards Ling Tong. The item should appear right about now
if Huang Zhong is still alive. Go into the camp, get your item, and kill Huang
Zhong. Huang Zhong will also start killing peasants if you let him. There
should be three ambush parties that come along. One in the Stone Warrior
Formation (Liu Bei’s troops led by Wu Lan) and two in the southeast camp
(Huang Quan and Zhuge Liang). Kill all these troops so that you can keep at
least one peasant group alive. Also, if you can, kill Ling Tong. Your
peasants should stay alive for a good amount of time, but it won’t be long.
Once at least one group of peasants escape, kill Liu Bei to finish the level.
Item Assessment: This is a good item for Huang Zhong or Xiahou Yuan. Also, if
you tend to use the bow a lot, you should consider this weapon. It’s good for
dealing lots of damage to a lot of people at a long range.
Seal of Darkness
Effect: Imperial Seal has twice the effect (the Imperial Seal is the Musou for
10 Seconds bonus you find in boxes).
Stage: Guan Du, Yuan Shao’s side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Enter the southeastern castle and get a cut scene of Cao Cao not
being in the castle. Yuan Shao will then order a search for Cao Cao and the
item will now appear.
Location: Near the northeastern fort.
My Method: Take out Guan Yu first. Try to get him before he gets kills Yan
Liang automatically. Cao Hong and Cao Ren should be the next two you take out.
Cross the bridge and knock off Zhang Liao. When you enter the castle where
Cao Cao is shown to be when you look at Unit Info, you will get a cut scene
of Cao Cao not being there. Yuan Shao will then order a search of the forts.
The item should appear. Grab the item, search each fort like you would search
for the supply depot under Original mode, and then finish the level.
Item Assessment: While having musou for an even longer time is fun, it’s not
as important as other items. I believe if you equip The Art of War and the
Seal of Darkness, you will get 40 seconds of musou time! Imagine forty seconds
of Gan Ning’s musou!
Beast Harness
Effect: Shows the position of the last horse you rode (it will be a star on
the small map).
Stage: Speed Demon Challenge, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Get to the goal in under 1 minute and 30 seconds.
My Method: The easiest path to take is the left path and then the center path.
I would suggest using someone with semi decent to good speed, like Lu Xun or
Da Qiao. First, go left and knock Lu Bu off his horse. Quickly get on Red
Hare and hope that Lu Bu doesn’t knock you off. If Lu Bu does knock you back
off, then restart. Now, continue to go left. Do not try to run over archers
because about 3 will fire, then one more will fire, and the last archer will
fire a charged arrow. If you try to run over archers, one arrow is bound to
hit you. Instead, go around archers. You can run over everyone else. Once
you get to the end of the left path, pass through the gate. Your time should
be under 1 minute. If it’s not, then I would suggest you restart again. Now,
take the center path. There’s not much here other then memorizing where the
spikes are. If you go left or right, the archers will probably knock you off
your horse. Once you get to the end of the middle path, either perform your
musou attack while still on your horse all the way to the goal or, if you are
confident in your skills, just ride to the goal. There are a whole lot of
archers here, but it is possible to make it to the goal without getting hit
or using the musou. The musou attack on your horse will make it so that the
archers cannot hit you off your horse. However, at the end of your musou, your
horse will stop for a second. However, this should not be a problem.
Item Assessment: This is one item that should be automatic instead of being
an item. Unless you are constantly frustrated over not being able to find Red
Hare after getting knocked off, I would suggest equipping better items.
Marching Drum
Effect: Increases the rate at which your units morale increases (this affects
all ally units alive as well as your own).
Stage: Nanman Campaign, Yellow Turbans’ side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Defeat Zhuge Liang.
Location: North of the southern gate where the peasants escape, just southwest
of the bridge.
My Method: Zhuge Liang will appear as an ambush either after a certain amount
of time or after you get too far south. Just kill enemy generals until Zhuge
Liang shows up. Run directly to Zhuge Liang because he will put the peasants
in danger. If you lose all the peasants, you lose the level, so don’t let too
many peasants die. Defeat Zhuge Liang and the item will appear. Just finish
the level normally and don’t forget to pick up the item.
Item Assessment: This item is one of the better items, however, it might not
really merit a spot in your item list. It’s good because it keeps generals on
your side alive longer, however, on Hard and Very Hard, your generals will
still die pretty fast.
Divine Gauntlet
Effect: Get the Attack x2 item and even guarding enemies take damage (if you
get the War Axe, then your regular attacks will still deal damage to enemies
who block).
Stage: Wu Zhang Plains, Dong Zhuo’s side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Defeat Wei Yan, Jiang Wei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Guan Yu, and Zhang
Fei to make a supply team show up.
Location: The supply team will show up in Liu Bei’s camp and then head south
towards the southwestern most gate.
My Method: You do not have to kill Jiang Wei, Wei Yan, and Zhao Yun before the
7:30 minute mark. However, Fan Chou does have to die before the 7:30 minute
mark for Guan Yu to appear. If Fan Chou does not die before the 7:30 mark,
ally troops will appear instead of Guan Yu. What you do is absolutely nothing
until the 7:30 mark (I played hopscotch on haystacks while waiting for Fan
Chou to bite the dust). You might want to start moving towards Liu Bei’s area,
since that is where the supply team shows up. If you can make it to the
area south of Liu Bei’s plateau at around the 7 minute mark, you should be
fine. Remember, DON’T KILL ANYONE! Not even a private. Fan Chou should die
to Ma Dai and Ma Chao at around the 7 minute mark if you didn’t kill anyone.
If you do start killing people, Fan Chou’s morale will rise and he won’t die.
Once Fan Chou is dead, wait for the 7:30 minute mark. Guan Yu should appear.
Now, everyone should start going after you. Kill Jiang Wei, Wei Yan, and
Zhao Yun first if possible. Make sure that these three are dead before the
other three all die. You should get a cut scene of the falling star event
(the one that would trigger the items for the Survival Guide and the Defender
items). Once you get this cut scene, finish off the rest of the generals. The
supply team should appear once all six generals are dead. Defeat the supply
captain and then finish the level. You can do all of this on Normal mode.
Item Assessment: Unless you have really high luck, this item won’t help much.
War Axes do not show up very often unless your luck is high. However, it is
helpful against those generals that do nothing but block (Zhen Ji always
seems to block! ~_~).
Master’s Cloak
Effect: Automatically perform the mid-air evade (like pressing block in
mid-air to recover and land on your feet)
Stage: Balancing Act Challenge, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Knock over 100 enemies off the bridge in 10 minutes.
My Method: The character I used for this is Zhao Yun, although there are
many others that are good for this challenge. You want a character that
doesn’t move around a lot when he attacks and also has a move set and a musou
that has a wide range. The enemies will come at you in this order:
1 General in front of you
2 Archers in front of you
1 General in front of you
1 General in front of you and 2 Archers behind you
1 General in front of you and 1 General behind you
1 General and 3 Archers in front of you and 3 Archers behind you
1 General, 2 Archers, and 3 Soldiers in front of you and 1 General and
2 Soldiers behind you
Go through at least four rounds and you will have 100 kills. Always try to
knock the archers first because of the fact that they can hit you from a
distance.
Item Assessment: Unless you’re not that great at hitting block while in the
air, I suggest you use another item. This item really doesn’t help much, other
then giving you one less little thing to worry about. I normally mid-air
evade on instincts.
Legendary Scroll
Effect: Even guarding enemies take damage during your Musou attack (if an
enemy blocks, your musou still hits him).
Stage: Siege at He Fei Castle, Meng Huo’s side, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Defeat Zhuge Liang before the East and West Gate open and
before the South Gate closes.
Location: On the boat where Zhu Rong is.
My Method: First, make sure you are on Meng Huo’s side and not Zhu Rong’s
side. These two can be confused easily. Now, the requirement for the East
Gate opening is Cao Ren being defeated. The requirement for the West Gate
opening is Zhang He being defeated. You cannot defeat either of these two
generals before Zhuge Liang is dead. The South Gate closes if you pass through
the South Gate. To get to Zhuge Liang, you can enter through the East Gate
(the western gate) and then head towards Zhuge Liang. Kill Zhuge Liang before
you kill anyone else. Killing generals tend to allow for gates to be open.
For instance, if you kill Xiahou En, the East Gate opens. Killing Zhuge
Liang first before any other generals should make the item appear. Also,
remember that you have to enter the center area to get to Zhuge Liang. This
will trigger the archer trap. Now, get the item and finish the level.
Item Assessment: If you use your musou attack often, this item can help you
out a whole lot. It can allow you to do damage to blocking enemies, which is
really helpful.
Musou Armor
Effect: Prevents getting knocked back when hit by an arrow (you will still
take damage, but you will not get your attacks interrupted or knocked off a
horse).
Requirements: Get overall over 12000 Combo Bonus Points (or 99999 in game
points).
My Method: When you get 3000 Combo Bonus Points (25000 in game points), you
will get a blue blinking question mark in the very last box on the item list.
When you get over 6000 Combo Bonus Points (50000 in game points), the question
mark turns yellow. When you get over 9000 Combo Bonus Points (75000 in game
points) the question mark turns red. Once you get to 12000 Combo Bonus Points
(99999 in game) you will get the item. How do you get so many Combo Bonus
Points? I got the blue question mark just going through the musou modes.
I got the yellow question mark just getting all the fifth weapons. I was doing
nothing special and no really great combos (a couple of perfects here and
there, but not often). When I started going for the break limit items, that’s
when the question mark changed from yellow to red and then red to the item.
The Seven Star Blade does help in getting more combo points. Just play through
the game normally and eventually the item will show up. There’s no special
way of making the item appear faster, unless you want to play a stage over and
over again and get 30 Perfect Combos on the level.
Item Assessment: The item that takes the longest to get is also the best new
item. This item turns archers into the most annoying enemies ever in the
history of gaming into just minor annoyances. Archers will still do damage to
you and should still be the first people you take out, but they will no longer
disrupt your combos and knock you off your horse.
5. Bodyguard Items
BG Healing Scroll
Effect: Bodyguards will heal self only once (like how generals and gate
captains do for 100 life).
Stage: Ironman Challenge, Xtreme mode
Requirements: Get over 350 total points.
My Method: I used Zhou Yu because he’s quick for Speed Demon and he’s great
for Combo Mania. He is tough to handle on the Balancing Act, but you don’t
have to do really great on Balancing Act if you can get great scores on
Speed Demon and Combo Mania. For tips on each challenge, look at this FAQ
for the Seven Stars Blade, the Beast Harness, and the Master’s Cloak. I
got around a 150 for the Speed Demon, but then only knocked off around 60 guys
in the Balancing Act. I did get close to 1000 combo points in Combo Mania,
which translated into 190 more points added to my overall score. My total
was 406. If you do poorly on one event, you can make up for it on the other
events.
Item Assessment: This is the item I normally equip on my bodyguards. It’s the
only red item for bodyguards. However, if you can keep on getting meat buns
and have high luck on your weapon or have a high Seven Stars Orb on, you don’t
really need your bodyguards to do healing on their own because you will
probably find plenty of meat buns. If this is the case, then you can equip
something else on your bodyguards to make them more powerful or give them more
defense.
More to come in later updates!
6. Other Stuff like Contributors
This is where the copyright and contributors and anything else I want go.
If you have any good strategies about any of the items, feel free to e-mail me
them at lightning345@yahoo.com I want good strategies though, not anything
that is simple or too obviously. Little tips and tricks and such. If I like
what you say, I'll put it in my FAQ. Just don't send me spam or hate mail or
such. If you don't like my FAQ, then don't read it. You don't have to tell me
that you hate it. I quite frankly don't care.
Contributors:
Muni Shinobu: For making the first and greatest FAQs on DW3: XL. His FAQs
helped me get all the items and weapons.
The people on the DW3: XL message board who constantly try to help people in
getting items and fifth weapons. They were the ones who asked for this FAQ
and helped me find better ways of getting the items.
And that's it. Have fun getting the items!
This document is copyright 2003 by Rampidzier. You may use this FAQ on your
site or anywhere else, just don't try to make a profit on my FAQ. Otherwise,
you won't like the consequences. ^_~
Yes I copied and pasted. Deal with it.
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