Sprites

The sprites can be your best friends or your worse enemy in the world of Grand Fantasia. In the game they act as the tradeskill system, pet system and money sink rolled into one. Sprite depends a lot on your attention and care in order to be happy and successful. This guide will attempt to de-mystify some facts about sprites and things about them that you may or may not know.

My sprite is unhappy what should I do ?
- A sprite mood changes depends on a number of things. How successful they are in crafting and harvesting. The more successful they are the better their mood becomes. The more times they fail the faster their mood sours. There is a huge random factor in this. If your sprite is unahppy or neutral mood (with the green wide eye stare) you can talk to them and it has a chance to bring them back to the happy mood. This may not work at all times as there seem to be some sort of internal chance rolling that happens to see if the mood improves. You may try spamming talk a few times but sometimes it work sometimes it doesn't. Also good or bad random events can drastically change the mood of your sprite and change the sprite's relationship level with you. If you want a quick fix, the sprite vendor sells sprite candies that elevates the mood by one level for 45 silvers (pretty expensive for beginners). If your sprite's mood is bad there's an even bigger chance they can fail their activities which means they get even more depressed. Make sure a sprite is in a positive mood (normal, happy or elate) before attempting to craft or harvest something or there is a big chance it will fail. Your sprite having low energy will also affect's it's mood. Having too low energy and the sprite will outright refuse to do anything until it has rested for a bit.

What happens if my sprite is too unhappy with me?
- It will run away if it has enough of you. If that happens your sprite will be unavailable to you for around 15-20 minutes. But it will eventually come back but you will lose a chunk of reputation with the Sprite Messanger faction (important later in the game). Your first sprite will take far more abuse from you than other sprites you call into service.

Will my sprite fight with me ?
- No, not really. They are a type of "support pet" that means if you summon them into the world they will have buffs that gives you bonus (depending on what type of emblem they have on them). Each sprite have 2 slots of sprite emblem that they can wear. The buff will affect you as long as you have your sprite out but it cost energy/stamina for having your sprite out. Your sprite will also automatically loot things for you. Once a sprite has used the emblem you cannot take it off them but can be replaced with another of the same or higher level. You cannot place a lower level emblem to overwrite a higher level one.

Any tips for keeping my sprite happy ?
- Yes, keep them working. Sprite that are idle for too long will have their mood and relationship with you decay. I've tested it by having one sprite idle for a whole day and there is a major drop in mood and relationship levels. This means... don't afk online for too long. Keeping your sprite active creates a happy sprite because their activities generates happiness points as well as more chance of having positive events that increases relationships.

How do I keep my relationship with my sprite high?
- Keep their moods happy and keep them active. Keep it working. Remember a successful sprite is a happy sprite. But sometimes even the happiest of sprite will have some disaster befall on them, if that happens just buy a sprite candy and keep the mood up (yes it's expensive but also a quick fix), another is to talk to them and hope their mood improves or keep them active and hopefully the next harvest or craft will elevate their mood. There is quite a bit of luck involve in this.

How do I level up my sprite?
- Keep them busy with activities such as harvesting and crafting. A meter on the sprite's detail info page indicates their next "level up". When the bar is full you can talk to the sprite vendor in any capital city which will evolve your sprite to their next form. Tier 1 sprites will only have a head which means they cannot wear sprite costumes. Tier 2 sprites will have a body as well which unlocks the body costume.

I'm tired of my current sprite, can I change it?
Yes, you can set your sprite free into the wild by sacrificing them at a sprite king's altar. Note, be sure your sprite's XP bar is 3/4th full (at least 75%) before you sacrifice them to the sprite king. If the bar is too low you will be rated lowly and may recieve negative faction hits with the sprite messanger faction. You may also recieve an evaluation letter from the sprite king which evaluates how you treat your sprite. It may praise you or cide you depending on how you treat your sprite and give you gifts for your sacrifice. I think the higher your evaluation the higher the quality of the gifts. At around C rank it is composed of a bunch of green and white quality items. An "A" rank gift can include several greens and blue quality items as rewards.

My sprite is an epic fail in it's job, is there anyway to help ?
There is an item called Sprite King Blessing that guarantees your next sprite's crafting to be an instant success. Currently the only way to gain a Sprite King Blessing is thru the magic alchemy clay (a cash shop item). Sprite King Blessing 1 guarantees any items below level 30 to be crafted with 100% success. Sprite King Blessing 2 applies to lvl 45 and below while Sprite King Blessing 3 applies to level 60 and below. These items are very valuable, rare and hence very expensive.