n00b questions: Megid and Piping

[Omar]

Dark Sage, the rate we think is correct for a rare enemy to appear is 1/512.

blair_fc_uk, we mean you look at every enemy to see if any of them are their rare variety and if they are not, you pipe back up to P2 and back down again. The reason this makes rare enemies appear is because everytime you pipe up and back down again, the game loads a new set of rappies, which each have the 1/512 chance of being their rare variety. To pipe most effectively, you should find the biggest group of that enemy that is possible before you pipe (the ones I listed above for rappies and hildebears). Note that this is offline only however, as the online servers store the enemy information, so they do not change everytime you pipe.