Puppet Show

Attack of the Coin Creeps | Pudding Time | Tin Parade | Puppet Show | Crystal Road

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Puppet Show is a Hunting Zone that is available from the Huntland.

“ Take on the Hunting Zone's "Puppet Show" to acquire race-specific items required for job changes. You have only a limited amount of time to control your units, so trounce the puppets quickly within the time allowed! ”

— In-game tip

Items

These items are obtainable in Puppet Show. Papa Puppet may drop items not in this list.

Species-type Items
Low Tier Serenity Shoot Benevolent Fang Claw of Fate Forlorn Stone	High Tier Wisdom Flower Tail of Insight Pelt of Knowledge Shell of Madness

Strategy

“ Take on the Hunting Zone's "Puppet Show" to acquire race-specific items required for job changes. You have only a limited amount of time to control your units, so trounce the puppets quickly within the time allowed! ”

— In-game tip

Puppet Show is a single battle where your total control time—the time you utilize to position your units—is limited. Elapsed time is subtracted from the total after each turn. A total time of 12.0 seconds is allotted for both Hunting Zones 1 and 2. The battle completes if time expires during your turn or if only 0.1 seconds remain at the start. It appears the minimum time for any move is just below 0.3 seconds.

The enemies that appear in a Puppet Show stage consist of Casting Puppets and one other type: sword-wielder, spear-wielder, or archer. Each Hunting Zone has one of the types. New enemies, possibly the Puppet King, will spawn each turn until time has expired. It is not yet clear whether a certain amount of time needs to expire before the Puppet King has a chance of appearing.

Papa Puppet always drops two species-type items and one rare ore/particle. The regular Puppet enemies will only drop race specific items of a high or low tier. It is possible for a single enemy to drop two items upon defeat, presumably both a low and high tier. In Zone 3, it is possible for some enemies to drop up to three items.

Defensively, all puppets have higher Magic Defense than Defense. Weapon puppets take about 35% damage from Magic, compared to enemies with equal Defense and Magic Defense. Staff puppets take about 28% as much damage from Magic as Physical, and Papa Puppet takes about 43% as much from Magic it does from Physical.

Enemies

• Casting Puppet — Defense +50%: Area (1), Magic Defense +50%: Area (1)
• Piercing Puppet — Thrust Away, Vertical (1)
• Projectile Puppet — Arrow, Cross (1)
• Slashing Puppet — Sever, Lateral (1)
• Papa Puppet (Varies) — Breath Attack: Area (1), Sever (1 Row), Thrust Away (1 Column)

Hunting Zones

Each hunting zone contains puppets of different weapon types. All hunting zones contain Casting Puppets.

Drop rates with two values means that there are two separate items can be dropped by the enemy.

Zone 1: Archers (LV1-19)

• Projectile Puppet
• Casting Puppet
• Papa Puppet (Spear)
• Available species-type items:
  • Low tier (52%, Projectile Puppet) (22% and 22%, Casting Puppet)

Zone 2: Spearmen (LV20-39)

• Piercing Puppet
• Casting Puppet
• Papa Puppet (Sword)
• Available species-type items:
  • High tier (52%, Piercing Puppet) (22% and 22%, Casting Puppet)
  • Low tier (52%, Piercing Puppet)

Zone 3: Swordsmen (LV40-69)

• Slashing Puppet
• Casting Puppet
• Papa Puppet (Bow)
• Available species-type items:
  • High tier (80% and 20%, Slashing Puppet) (22% and 22%, Casting Puppet)
  • Low tier (17%, Slashing Puppet)

Papa Puppet always drops two species-type items and one particle or ore.

Choosing the Zone Based on the Item(s) You Need
If you only care about one of the low-tier items, you get slightly better return on stamina in Puppet Show Zone 1. If you care about both item tiers equally, use Zone 2. If you only care about the high-tier items, use Zone 3. See this post for exhaustive details.

Trivia

• Version 5.5.0 moved all Puppet Show quests to the Huntland.