Chrono Cross: How to Farm Shiny Materials

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Shiny materials are used in the crafting of Rainbow equipment in Chrono Cross, and they come in six different types. Those types are Shiny Dew, Shiny Ember, Shiny Leaf, Shiny Salt, Shiny Sand, and Shiny Soot, and they are all obtained by using Summons to eliminate foes. For those players that are trying to earn large quantities of Chrono Cross's Shiny materials, this guide details a farming strategy that is quite effective.

Prior to describing how to farm Shiny materials for Rainbow equipment crafting in Chrono Cross, a few words on exactly how they are obtained seem pertinent. As previously noted, these items are earned when an enemy is dispatched with a Summon, and the color of the Summon determines which material is granted. For full clarity, here is a breakdown of how the color of a Summon relates to the Shiny material that a player will earn:

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Since Shiny materials are only granted by eliminating foes with Summons, the key to farming these items efficiently is to target enemies that will not disrupt the color field. Indeed, a Summon can only be executed if the field is filled with its color, and foes that use a wide array of Elements in Chrono Cross will make maintaining such a field very challenging. Fortunately, there is an enemy-type that will almost never interfere with building a color field, and that enemy-type is the Mannequeen.

For the uninitiated, Mannequeens can be found inside the Tower of Geddon in the Dead Sea. If a player has already completed that area then they can instead fight these enemies in the Bend of Time, which is accessed by landing on the small island that is between Marbule and Water Dragon Isle. More specifically, Mannaqueens are in the