Destiny of an Emperor II Secrets, tricks, cheats, etc
You may be wondering what exactly constitutes “secrets”. Well, they’re not really secrets, just the more rare aspects of the game that generally are the topics of e-mails.
1. Final weapons/armor – Let me first say I am still missing a few final weapons. Here is a list of them though.
Great Armor – best armor you can equip. You can find this in several chests, from Chen Cang to Luo Castle.
Sky Helmet – better than the Wind Hat. There are two of these (without duplication); in Luo Castle and the mountain east of Chang An.
Fortune Shield – best shield by far. Only one that I know of, and it is seven spaces east of the weapon/armory shop in Chang An. Duplication highly suggested, then you can have 5 of them or more.
Snake Spear – given to you by the old man in the northwest corner of Chang ‘An.
Qing Gang Sword – I’ve found one of these in my lifetime and it was one of my last run-throughs of the game. Cao Pi at Si Li Citadel dropped it. It’s possible one of the generals he has with him drops it randomly.
Thunder Axe – In Wu Zhang Yuan Gate. Search the main road inside that is going south (“Check” the left-most passage going south, shouldn’t be hard).
Li Guang Bow – have not found this yet. Chances are it is a random general battle item, or it is somewhere on the ground that you must check towards the end of the game.
UPDATE – Connr from the lordyuanshu.com forum has stated that he received the Li Guang Bow from the Jia Xu ambush battle (right after defeating Cao Cao). Considering this is an ultimate bow fighting fight, Connr is probably right. Edit: after trying the battle over and over, it can be confirmed that the Li Guang bow is dropped from the Jia Xu Zhang Yun Li Zhong battle.
Zeng Zong Saber – Still has not been found by me. I’ve heard others finding it but I have not had the luck. I would imagine this ZengZong Saber is dropped from someone late in Wei…
2. Item duplication trick – First I’d like to thank Samuel Lee once again as I would have no idea this existed if not for him. As far as the trick, your top character must have a full inventory and a weapon equipped, along with the item that you wish to duplicate in the inventory. Drop this item. Un-equip and then re-equip your weapon. DO NOT MOVE. “Check” the ground to find your duplicate-desired item. Drop it again, but you’ll notice it’ll stay in your inventory still. However when you do “Check” again, you’ll pick up the item. Congratulations, you just duplicated an item.
One important thing to note is that there are certain things you can’t duplicate (because you can’t drop these items). Evidently there are those who can even override this to drop important items such as the Zheng Letter that you get after killing Yuan Shu. With this you can use it on random generals that you see, and it recruits some (like Zhou Yu). Again I haven’t seen any of this for myself as I wasn’t able to drop/duplicate the Zheng Letter.
This is especially useful with items like the SpdShoes, Gauntlet and the Treatise. You can only find one of each but you can make five of them (so each character has all three items).
3. Ba Castle and Yi Ling Castle can be skipped entirely. Ba Castle is accessible when you first sail to south Shu (after the Pang Tong death event). Instead, you can just go to Ba Citadel and continue on to conquer Shu. When Liu Zhang dies, Ba Castle turns over to your side. Yi Ling is similar. After the Wu Alliance at Chi Bi, you can sail towards Nan Jun and Yi Ling, but skip Yi Ling and go to Nan Jun. The Nan Jun battle will be harder with Niu Jin joining the normal participants and their defense will be skyrocketed. Afterwards, Yi Ling Castle is yours without a fight.
4. Arrays / Tactics
Forum or Destiny of an Emperor 2 Tactics / Arrays
5. Low-level game
I personally have no tried a quest such as this, but Taishi Ci has.
6. Other
– Never talk to Zhang Bao after Zhang Fei and Guan Yu run off to defend Shu. His lack of intelligence is alarming and you’re better off leaving him be and using that as an open slot (especially if you plan on recruiting generals through the Zheng Letter trick).
Xun Yu dropped the LiGuang bow at Qishan Citadel for me.
yo guys, i know this topic is pretty old but i want to state that i got the Li Guang Bow from the Jia Xu Battle, i believe Zhang Liao drops the Zeng Zong but i tried like 60 times using save states and nope
Thanks for the response Cao Zhang. Yes that Jia Xu battle is where there are a bunch of archers right? I have always heard that is one of the top spots to get the LiGuang
Exactly, Lord…Cao Pi and Jia Xu both dropped the Qing Cang sword for me in my new tests, but i just cant get the damn Zeng Zong, no matter how many tests i do
That dang ZengZong Saber. I know someone else got it and posted on here, and I feel like I got it maybe one time after writing this guide but I don’t recall who dropped it if I did.
I did have the ZengZong Saber!
I was finishing with Cao Cao after they made an fire ambush and surprising Cao Cao dropped me that saber
idk if he dropped me randomly but believe me he dropped me that after I use save states for 54 times
actually when I fought with Du Xi and Cao Xiu ( random ) Duxi dropped me an snake spear.
So Cao Cao dropped the ZengZong Saber? Interesting, good job doing the save state trick to make it happen.
Xiahou Shang dropped me an YouYuu bow that I gave to Huang Zhong when we want to join him
what is a Gauntlet used for?
Xiahou Shang dropped me a Youyuu bow. I remember that bow, when I went to a cave to find that bow and I gave to Huang Zong to join him