This is important, because you basically need to buy the DX weapon from the 2nd town, you can opt for weapons for the 3rd town if you are not using Karna's throwing knives.

You will want to basically reach lv20+ roughly, or attain about 140 Str stat or more, either from buying and equipping better gear, or using consumables that buffs you, or reinforcing the gear to give you the highest raw attacks.

You can achieve high STR early with Duran but his attack animations is too slow to hit a monster that's needed to be killed to farm EXP and Gold. Karna and Adol (but basically any character once you reach late game portions of the map) basically works for this early on.

If you achieve the attack power and as a option, attain skills that lets you hit fast and far, you can find this monster in the Forest of Dawn.





To find this monster you go to the 2nd blue monument on the map, basically you will definitely come across it on the map icon since the location of the Golden Pikkard spawns exactly where the 'Forest Cave' icon is, and it's the biggest icon near the blue monument. You can pin it and that spot on the minimap in that location will be the monster's spawn point, it randomly spawns each time you enter the map or...

You could save and load the game at that exact spot to reset the entire map and respawn everything!

Don't mind the monster's atk and defense, it actually does not attack, only flees from you, and it's defense stats being that high means you only do 0 damage up until you reach 141 STR, of which you start dealing 1 damage or higher (more is better). Because of how fast the Golden Pikkard runs, you need to have quick attacks that can hit it with a large and quick area of effect. You can also opt to trap the animal in several spots on the map, though a bit harder and random to do.

Farming the monster is necessary later on when you get to the mid-late game portion of the map, you have to equip everyone with new gear which jumps up in STR and Def scaling quite well...

At the 5th town you go to, the weapons are at around ~15,000 gold each.
Not to mention the cost of refining those equipment starts to add up once you try to max out +9 stat to each effect on the weapon!

*** Do note that if you spam skills on the monster, and kill it, sometimes you end up learning new skills if you haven't, and is a good way to level up your skills (make sure to equip Warrior Seal 1~3 to shorten skill leveing drastically) ***