Blue crystals, yellow crystals, red crystals...oh my!

[the_elf]

I know that certain enemies will leave a red crystal. Is there anything distinugishable that the red crystals do? In my experience, they seem to behave the same way as blue crystals.

Of course, yellow crystals have a chance of transfering a Job trait. I've actually failed at properly leveraging yellow crystals. I recently considered collecting Job Points and holding them, in hopes of picking up expensive traits from other dead humans. I'm thinking of starting the game again anyway, and I'll make sure to then.

But, the red crystals...?

[BG-57]

Once again, Aerostar's authorative (and exhaustive!) tome on gamefaqs to the rescue.

For generic humans, the color of the crystal is an indicator of the
unit's palette:

Ramza's units (palette 00) ............ teal-gray crystal
Hokuten units (palette 01) ............ bright blue crystal
Nanten units (palette 02) ............. red crystal
Death Corps units (palette 03) ........ yellow crystal
Glabados Church units (palette 04) .... purplish-gray crystal

Special humans and humanoid monsters will always drop teal-gray crystals,
regardless of their palette byte (although the poof of smoke that
accompanies crystal formation will be colored by the palette byte).

Standard monsters' crystal color is determined by the unit's 'tier' within
its species.

Tier 1 monsters (Chocobo, Goblin, etc.) ................ teal-gray crystal
Tier 2 monsters (Black Chocobo, Black Goblin, etc.) .... bright blue crystal
Tier 3 monsters (Red Chocobo, Gobbledeguck, etc.) ...... red crystal

[the_elf]

So, the color doesn't tell you what the crystal does for you? Huh. I always just noticed flat blue, yellow, and red. Never noticed teal-gray or purplish-gray.

I guess I'm just used to the yellow ones coming from humans since most of the humans I've encountered are Death Corps.

Thanks for the info, BG-57.

[BG-57]

Sure thing.

I suspect Aerostar hacked the game, since he knew stuff that you couldn't learn just by gameplay.