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Visions of Mana

All Ancient Ruins Locations

By
Jarrod Garripoli

As you explore the various areas in Visions of Mana, you will undoubtedly come across some ancient ruins that have high level enemies residing in them. In fact, as soon as you leave Tianeea at the beginning of the game, you can run into your first ancient ruins in the "Charred Passage" iconCharred Passage. These ruins are special, not just because of the strong enemies, but also because they house very powerful weapons within its locked gates. This page will detail the locations of all the Ancient Ruins, as well as how to unlock them.

The Ancient Ruins are meant to be done towards the end of the main story.

Opening the Ancient Ruins

If you get all of the treasure chests in each of the areas, you will notice that the ones with ancient ruins will have a blue circle that you cannot quite reach, which will essentially stop you from getting a single chest in those regions. In order to get to those chests, you will have to do battle with all of the high-leveled enemies in the ruins. Each of the ruins will function the same, as defeating the enemies outside will extinguish the nearby torch, then light one of the ones by the locked door.

Defeat all of the enemies in the vicinity and you will unlock the seal that allows you to go inside the ruins. However, things aren’t done quite yet, as there will be one final set of enemies in there. To make things a little tougher, one of those enemies will be a Nemesis, so the battle will be more challenging. The Nemesis will typically be the same kind as one of the other enemies you fought at the ruins, although the Nemesis will usually have attacks not seen by the normal variants. Emerge victorious in that battle and you will unlock the chest, which contains one of the better weapons for your characters!

(1 of 5) Each of the ruins will have sets of enemies above level 50.

List of Ancient Ruins

All of the Ancient Ruins are found in areas that are in between the towns and other dungeons. For example, the Charred Passage is your first opportunity to see a ruin, although you aren’t going to be doing one at like level 3 or so.

All of the ruins will have single rounds of enemies to fight in order to open up the last area. The only exception to this rule is the ruins in "Zawhak Desert" iconZawhak Desert, where you fight the little elemental slimes. Each set of enemies will be two rounds, so you’ll have to do battle with some reinforcements before you extinguish the torch there. The fight with the Nemesis is still just a single round.

Extant Miasopia Battle Guide

For the most part, all of the Nemeses you face in the Ancient Ruins aren’t all too challenging, as they aren’t particularly dangerous. However, "Extant Miasopia" iconExtant Miasopia is the exception here, as it is one of those cloud-type enemies. For starters, Extant is immune to all normal physical attacks, so you’ll need to do one of two things. The first is to simply use magic, with it being weak to fire and immune to water; the rest of the elements do normal damage. The other way is to bring "Val" iconVal into the battle and have him use "Flame Saber" iconFlame Saber to augment your characters’ weapons. He learns this skill from the Rune Knight class (Wind Vessel), with it being the third node. Doing this will enable your characters to deal damage with melee strikes.

(1 of 4) Physical attacks will deal no damage to this Nemesis.

Of course, that’s not the only reason that this Nemesis is annoying, as most of its attacks have the chance to inflict Frozen on your characters. Thus, it’s a good idea to have "Null Freeze" iconNull Freeze on someone, then trade in some "Niccolo Coin" iconNiccolo Coins to get "Resist Freeze +" iconResist Freeze + (if you’ve unlocked that in his shop). This ensures that your characters won’t get frozen, although the latter ability still has a chance ("Resist Freeze" iconResist Freeze + only offers 60% protection).

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Guide Information
  • Publisher
    Square Enix
  • Platforms,
    PC, PS4, PS5, XB X|S
  • Guide Release
    31 August 2024
  • Last Updated
    24 September 2024
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