Midgard Safari

Safari Event

The Midgard Safari turns any monster in the world into raw material. You weaken the creature, aim with a Poké Ball, and take its Energy. Energy is traded with Red for better balls and for the two prize balls, which open up and drop a Doll to wear on your head, with EXP and DROP bonuses while the event is running.

Red, in the Prontera plaza

Midgard Safari

The safari has no arena window or sign-up: it happens wherever you're already hunting, on any map, against any monster.

Where it starts

The whole event goes through a single NPC: Red, in the Prontera plaza (44, 98). He's the one you talk to for the Poké Balls, to trade Energy, and to clear up questions about capturing.

Grab 10 Poké Balls: the batch for this round, for free.
Open the trade: the shop that only accepts Energy.
How the capture works: the explanation, and the number of creatures you've already captured.
What each Poké Ball is for: a summary of each of the eight.

The box isn't open all the time. It opens every 3 hours, always at the same times for the whole server, and closes 30 minutes later. The server announces it by broadcast the moment it opens.

The box opens	Closes	How much you get
00h · 03h · 06h · 09h · 12h · 15h · 18h · 21h	30 minutes later (e.g. 00h30)	10 Poké Balls per account

The batch is per account, not per character: if you grabbed it with one, the others on the same account already grabbed it too. If you miss the window, that batch doesn't carry over, you wait for the next one. Use @safari to check from anywhere whether the box is open, how long until the next round, whether you've already grabbed your batch, and how much Energy of each type you have stored.

How to catch

There are three steps, and the order matters:

Hit the monster first. The less HP it has left, the higher the chance.
Use the Poké Ball. It opens the same targeting window as when you tame a pet.
Click the monster you want. You pick the target, and it needs to be within 5 cells of you. Any farther and the ball won't even throw.

Success: the monster disappears from the map. It drops nothing and gives no experience: what you get is Energy.
Failure: the ball is used up and the monster stays where it is.
If the target dies before the ball reaches it, the ball is lost.

A boss goes into the ball, but doesn't fit inside. It releases the Energy and stays standing on the map, and this only works once per monster: trying again on the same MVP won't pay out again. On the plus side, you don't lose its drop or its card chance.

The capture chance

Two things decide it, and only two: how much HP is left on the target and its level. The ball you use comes in after that, multiplying that number. The monster's level sets the tier. A weak monster is easy to catch and pays little; a strong one barely gets caught at full HP, but pays well:

Tier	Monster level	Energy paid
Easy	up to 49	1
Medium	50 to 89	4
Hard	90 or higher	8

Every capture also has a 25% chance to yield one extra Energy.

The chance with the Poké Ball

This is the free ball, the one you'll throw the most. The chance rises as the target's HP drops:

HP left on the target	Easy	Medium	Hard
full (100%)	55%	5%	1%
half (50%)	75%	13%	4%
a quarter (25%)	78%	17%	6%
nearly empty (5%)	78%	21%	7%

The free Poké Ball is the entry point, not the answer for everything. It's great on Easy, where it hits the 78% cap already at half HP, and it gets worse as the monster's level goes up. A Hard monster pays 8 Energy exactly because it barely lands: to farm there you need a bought ball.

What each ball does with that number

Each ball has a multiplier (which pushes the chance up) and a cap (the most it can reach, no matter how good the situation is):

Ball	Multiplier	Cap	When it's worth it
Poké Ball	1,0x	78%	The free one, and the ball for Easy. On a hard monster it barely lands.
Great Ball	3,0x	86%	Three times the common one. It's the ball for Medium.
Ultra Ball	8,0x	93%	Eight times the common one. It's the ball for Hard, and works on any race.
Net Ball	10,0x	93%	Ten times, only on Fish and Insect. Outside those two races it's an expensive Poké Ball.
Nest Ball	10,0x	93%	Ten times up to level 49 and seven times up to 79. Nothing after that.
Dusk Ball	10,0x	93%	Ten times on Undead, Demon, and anything with the Shadow or Undead element.
Quick Ball	see below	93%	The only one thrown before hitting the monster.
Master Ball	guaranteed capture	100%	Never fails, on anything. Just one, and expensive.

The Quick Ball is the exception on this list: it only counts on the first ball you throw at each monster, while it's still at full HP, and on that throw it counts as if the target were nearly dead, still multiplied by eight: 93% on Easy and Medium, 64% on Hard, without you having hit the monster. Miss it and that's it: from the second throw on it becomes a common Poké Ball on that target.

Which ball to use in each situation

No ball works for everything, and that's on purpose: each one is the best buy in one spot. The condition only counts its multiplier within the niche; outside it, it becomes an expensive Poké Ball.

The monster is...	Use	Why
Level up to 49	Poké Ball	The free one already hits the cap here. Don't spend Energy.
Level 50 to 79	Nest Ball	This is its range: 10x up to 49 and 7x up to 79.
Level 80 to 89	Great Ball	The Nest already died off at 80. The Great is the cheap one that still works.
Level 90 or higher, any race	Ultra Ball	The universal choice for Hard, when no condition applies.
Fish or Insect, at any level	Net Ball	10x on those two races, and costs less than the Ultra.
Undead, Demon, Shadow, or of the Undead element	Dusk Ball	10x, and the best deal in the game for dark dungeons.
At full HP and you don't want to hit it	Quick Ball	The only one thrown before hitting the monster. One per monster, and only the first throw.
You can't afford to miss	Master Ball	100%, on anything. The price reflects that.

A worked example

A level 96 monster (Hard tier) with 20% HP:

Poké Ball: 6% chance.
Ultra Ball (8,0x): 48%.
Dusk Ball (10,0x), if it's Undead or of the dark element: 60%.

If it works, all three give the same thing: 8 Energy (9 a quarter of the time). The good ball doesn't pay more, it just misses less.

The Energies

The Energy's type comes from the monster itself. The race is what decides it; the element only matters within the two generic races, Brute and Formless.

Target's race	Energy
Demi-Human	Fighting Energy
Demon	Ghost Energy
Undead	Shadow Energy
Plant	Grass Energy
Insect	Insect Energy
Fish	Water Energy
Angel	Fairy Energy
Dragon	Dragon Energy

On Brute and Formless, the element decides:

Element	Energy
Fire	Fire Energy
Wind	Electric Energy
Earth	Earth Energy
Poison	Poison Energy
Ghost	Psychic Energy
Water	Water Energy
Holy	Fairy Energy
Shadow and Undead	Shadow Energy
Neutral, hard-shelled Formless (DEF 40 or higher)	Metal Energy
Neutral, everything else	Colorless Energy

Energy is not tradable: it can't be traded, sold, or sent by mail. Dolls, on the other hand, can. The scarcest in the entire bestiary are Psychic (11 species, none above level 73), Dragon (26 species, none above 89), and Poison. The most abundant are Fighting and Ghost, which together make up almost a third of everything out there.

Red's shop

Prontera (44, 98)

Red doesn't sell anything for zeny: everything there is paid for in Energy. The capture balls and the two prize balls sit on the same shelf, so read the name before you spend.

Item	Cost
Potion Bag	2 Grass
Max Elixir Bag	2 Water
X Attack	2 Fighting
X Sp. Atk	2 Ghost
X Speed	1 Electric + 1 Insect
Dire Hit	2 Shadow
Poké Ball	1 Colorless
Great Ball	2 Colorless
Ultra Ball	3 Colorless + 1 Metal
Net Ball	2 Fighting + 1 Earth
Nest Ball	1 Fighting + 1 Colorless
Dusk Ball	2 Fighting + 1 Poison
Quick Ball	2 Electric + 1 Colorless
Master Ball	8 Dragon + 3 Psychic + 5 Colorless
Premier Ball	6 Fire + 6 Water + 6 Grass + 6 Fighting + 6 Ghost
Cherish Ball	10 Fairy + 6 Dragon + 2 Psychic

The prize balls

Premier and Cherish

These two don't catch anything. They open in your hand and drop a Doll. The Premier is the bulk one, and sometimes comes up empty; the Cherish is the pricey one, always comes with a Doll and only drops the top two tiers.

Ball	Comes With a Doll	Legendary	Epic	Rare	Common	Shiny
Premier Ball	70%	5%	15%	30%	50%	3%
Cherish Ball	100%	25%	75%	-	-	10%

The tier percentages apply to openings that came with a Doll. When the Premier comes up empty, it gives back a consolation kit: 3 Potions and 3 Max Elixirs. Shiny is rolled separately, after the tier: any Doll can come out Shiny. A Legendary or Shiny Doll is announced to the entire server the moment the ball opens.

The Dolls

Top costume slot, with a bonus

Dolls take up the top costume slot, so they don't take the place of any equipment. They grant EXP and DROP, and the rarer the tier, the bigger the bonus. They're tradable: you can trade, sell, and mail them.

The bonus is temporary and lasts only while the Midgard Safari is running. When the event ends, the Doll stays with you, just as a costume from then on.

Tier	EXP Rate	DROP Rate	How Many
Legendary	+18%	+18%	9
Epic	+15%	+15%	8
Rare	+12%	+12%	3
Common	+10%	+10%	7
Shiny	+20%	+20%	27 (one of each)

Each card shows the piece on the character. Hover over it to see its art.

Legendary

Bulbasaur

Charmander

Squirtle

Pikachu

Mew

Eevee

Vaporeon

Jolteon

Flareon

Epic

Venusaur

Charizard

Blastoise

Gengar

Arcanine

Chikorita

Cyndaquil

Totodile

Rare

Butterfree

Clefable

Togepi

Common

Ivysaur

Charmeleon

Wartortle

Caterpie

Metapod

Slowpoke

Vulpix

Shiny

Every Doll has a Shiny version, with swapped colors and +20% EXP and DROP, regardless of its original tier. It's rolled after the tier, so even a Common can come out Shiny, and in that case it ends up worth more than a regular Legendary.

Bulbasaur Shiny

Ivysaur Shiny

Venusaur Shiny

Charmander Shiny

Charmeleon Shiny

Charizard Shiny

Squirtle Shiny

Wartortle Shiny

Blastoise Shiny

Arcanine Shiny

Butterfree Shiny

Caterpie Shiny

Chikorita Shiny

Clefable Shiny

Cyndaquil Shiny

Eevee Shiny

Flareon Shiny

Gengar Shiny

Jolteon Shiny

Metapod Shiny

Mew Shiny

Pikachu Shiny

Slowpoke Shiny

Togepi Shiny

Totodile Shiny

Vaporeon Shiny

Vulpix Shiny

Support Items

Red also sells the safari's consumables. The four flasks scale in reverse of your level: they're worth a lot early in the game and lose strength until level 99.

Item	What it does
Potion Bag	Opens 10 Potions.
Max Elixir Bag	Opens 10 Max Elixirs.
Potion	Restores 107 to 173 HP.
Max Elixir	Restores 14 to 25 SP.
X Attack	ATK for 30 minutes: +50 at level 1, dropping to +20 at 99.
X Sp. Atk	MATK for 30 minutes, on the same scale as X Attack.
X Speed	ASPD for 30 minutes: 7% at level 1, dropping to 2% at 99.
Dire Hit	Critical Damage for 30 minutes: +25% at level 1, dropping to +10% at 99. Doesn't affect crit rate.

Tips

Each ball has its own critter: Poké Ball on Easy, Great Ball on Medium, Ultra Ball on Hard. Throwing the ball for free at a level 90 critter is wasting a ball, it only lands 8% of the time.
The situational balls are the best in the game within their niche: Net on Fish and Insect, Dusk on Undead and Demon, Nest on low-level critters. They're 5x, more than the Ultra, and cost less.
The Quick Ball has to be the first thing you do to the monster. After you hit it, it's worthless there.
MVPs don't disappear from the map: throw a ball at it before killing it. The Energy comes for free and you don't lose the drop.
Psychic and Dragon are the two that lock the Master Ball and the Cherish Ball, and they don't exist on high-level critters. Save every one that drops.
The Premier is the volume ball and the Cherish is the quality one. The Premier still uses Fighting and Ghost, which are the two easiest Energies to gather.