Jade Cocoon 2

Hint: Easy start:
To get an advantage when beginning a new game, choose to take a Fire monster and start in the Earth Forest. By the time you get other monsters, your attacks will be far higher than other wild monsters and you will have an easier transition no matter what elemental forest you choose.
Dandi.

Hint: Easy money:
Enter Barren Earth, the fourth Earth Forest. When you get there inside, at quite few of the Ogre Vines there will be either a Cute Gem or a Lovely Gem which sell for good money.
Meric_152.

Hint: Cheaper items:
At the Lounge, take any job. Go to Kikinak. The prices of the items will be cheaper.
AnJeLLExEyEs.

Hint: Rare Eggs:
Collect Inferno Books and Twill Mugworts from the Fire Tower Forest and buy some Luch Eggs (five is best) from the Kikinak Company. Then, enter the Wind Patina Forest and take a left to the second Ogre Vine. Inside is a plant that merges items. Place the Luch Egg inside, then place the Inferno Book or the Twill Mugwort in. Do not place them in the reversed order or you will not get anything good. Save the game before doing this so you can reset and try again if it does not work the first time.
Meric_152.

Buy any egg at Kikinak & Company (or use any other egg you may have picked up that you do not need) and buy a few Flame books (Blaze and Inferno books also work). Go to any wind level and find the item merging flower. For the first item, choose an egg, then choose the Flame book (in that order). Note that the eggs are random. Some eggs you get are the rare Mau or Drac eggs.
Danial MacDougall.

Buy or collect several eggs which you do not need. Take them to the merging plant in the Wind Patina forest. Always put the egg as the first item and another item as the second. The outcome depends on which items you put in to start with. This results in good eggs when you put Lovely or Cute Gems as the second item.
Josephgballard.

Hint: Water Drac:
Defeat Levant in the Dark Forest. Then, Cure will be back to being human. Talk to her and after a little while she will post a job on the work board saying that the reward will be a Drackich (Water Drac). Water Drac cannot be created at item merging.
Meric_152.

Hint: Metallic Monsters:
It is possible in the game to achieve a Metallic Monster with a 1 in a 1000 chance. To get one, merge your monsters and hope for the best. When the monster is merged, its best stat will be boosted +100.
Alfred M. Cruz.