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Auto Haste/Phoenix/Protect work?
I hear I need Def+20% as a passive too.
Is it worth it to have someone with Ribbon though?
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Auto Haste/Phoenix/Protect work?
I hear I need Def+20% as a passive too.
Is it worth it to have someone with Ribbon though?
You don't need Ribbon and since he's never going to kill anyone, you don't need Auto-Phoenix. Auto-Haste, Auto-Protect, Auto-Potion, and Def +10/20%.
Gah. I was hoping you weren't gonna say that. Ah well , time to bribe some monsters.
XJF
Member
You can always just wait it out. Try it
Thought that was fixed in the International version and therefore the HD Re-release?
OmegaDL50
Member
You can always just wait it out. Try it
But if you do this you won't get the damage bonus for hitting the reels within the time limit.
Really the trick to getting the last x2 is to hit the button when the x1 at the bottom of the screen, it will land on the x2 pretty much every single time.
No wonder I keep missing it. I would always do it while the 1 was in the middle. The start of the reels is annoying too since the timer doesn't start as soon as it appears
I just lost about 2 hours of effort in the Omega Ruins tonight. First time one of those giant tombstones with freaky hands petrified my entire party and I lost about an hour of progress. So I started again and equipped Yuna with stoneproof armor, then one of those floating thunder things confused my entire party and killed me. Another hour gone.
I'm done for the night and I'm now going to walk back to the save point after every 4 battles or something because fuck going through that again.
I'm done for the night and I'm now going to walk back to the save point after every 4 battles or something because fuck going through that again.
OmegaDL50
Member
Use Provoke on Spirits, they will at that point constantly cast White Wind on you repeatedly.
And the Demonoliths are susceptible to Silence so they can't do anything but Claw you.
Yeah I do use silence buster on the demonoliths. As for the spirits, I'll try provoke. My other problem is I'm swapping everyone in and out to give them the xp. I'd probably be fine if I was just trying to kill them as fast as possible.
Taking Lulu and Kimahri through the Sphere Grid shows me just how much I used them...and it's sad.
Almost done, then to grind out a few more Fortune Spheres, then off to Penance!
I suppose I'll revert to my old save before I started grinding to actually beat the game at some point, too.
Almost done, then to grind out a few more Fortune Spheres, then off to Penance!
I suppose I'll revert to my old save before I started grinding to actually beat the game at some point, too.
Wolf Akela
Member
I wouldn't go through Omega Ruins without No Enc. The encounter rate there is absurdly high. I did most of my capping beside the save point.
Only if you aren't doing Luck.
Juat won the Attack Reels for Wakka and now working on Status reels for him in the League. I've learned that when it comes to the goddamn Psyches, the tricks is the play the game like your very first game with the Goers: Rush in and score once, then spend the rest of the game playing keep away.
Trent Strong
Banned
Are there dresspheres in X-2 that are essential and others that aren't all that usefull? Gunner seems like a pretty weak dressphere and I hate to spend time grinding with it if I don't need to. Especially when I'd be neglecting spheres that seem more important like black and white mage.
Off the top of my head, I would say Trainer, Black Mage, and Samurai were not very useful.
Dark Knight, Gun Mage, Alchemist, and Berserker I found pretty great.
Obviously Mascot is also very good.
Oh I have that. I was planning on using it to run back to the save point when I ran low on mp, but looks like I need to go back more often. Also, I'd rather get the random enconters while exploring the cave instead of just running around the save point for 2 hours then just going through the entire thing with no encounters on. I find leveling less fun when I'm not exploring.
Here's the thing: IMO, when you are in the Omega Ruins, it's better to concentrate on the three main party members that you are using, make them such that they are strong enough to tackle the Monster Arena. From there, hunt One-Eye for Triple AP weapons. The rest can catch up on Sphere Level quickly with the Don Tonberry trick.
I never found much use for Warrior myself. Trainer also shows up way too late in the game to be of use.
Alternatively, Gun Mage is very helpful once you learn a few blue bullets. And Paine's Festivalist is great, particularly in the earlier chapters.
Spoilers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u942Z6UvaeA#t=116
Anyone knows the song at 1:55?
Anyone knows the song at 1:55?
Trent Strong
Banned
Wolf Akela
Member
OmegaDL50
Member
You might want to master Warrior for Yuna though, just so she has access to her elemental sword attacks for her Mascot Dressphere.
Outside of Dark Knight's Black Sky, and Moogle Beam, the Elemental Sword moves are her only means of doing damage when using Mascot.
Also learning Warrior's Sentinel to unlock and learn SOS Protect is required to unlock the special attack and Ribbon ability for the Mascot for all three girls.
Outside of Dark Knight's Black Sky, and Moogle Beam, the Elemental Sword moves are her only means of doing damage when using Mascot.
Also learning Warrior's Sentinel to unlock and learn SOS Protect is required to unlock the special attack and Ribbon ability for the Mascot for all three girls.
Ahh, thank you very much. I checked the whole soundtrack when it was track 3, xD!
Amazing OST!
So I guess I'll have to play FF X-2 now!
I wish there was an option to automatically activate there spheres if I had the required spheres while I passed them. It's taking forever to activate all these spheres x_x
Your entire life. You might as well quit now since you'll never finish it.
Your entire life. You might as well quit now since you'll never finish it.
I'm going to win our race
A day or two.
Getting your agility higher than 170 is pointless - you get no benefits. Also, ignore evasion. There's no need to raise it.
You should raise your Accuracy to 255 though.
I mean, after this Blitzball thing, it's just grinding Gil and Exp. And I can do that much faster than you can I bet.
In amount of matches please.
Tournament - 3 games
League - 8-10 games (I believe)
You need to win 2 Tournaments and two Leagues to get all Wakka's reels and his sigil. That would be if you were going to Reset Data. Since you're not going that route, you'll need to play more League games.
Tournament prizes you can reset by exiting out of the blitzball menu 3 times, so that's no problem. League...you may end up doing 4 or more times.
Too late for that :lol Have maxed out all skills except MDef, Magic, and Luck. Currently working on MDef
Real talk. It'll be faster if you reset the team data so you can reset the prizes. If you do it like that it's like 26 matches total. That's assuming you power up Wakkas Celestial weapon anyway. You should because it's really useful with Attack Reels
At the very minimum you'll end up having to do at least two extra leagues (so 46 matches), and that's if you're reloading your save. Resetting data is by far the best way to go.
Guess I should max both out if I'm going to settle for 50 luck?
Get a bit more Luck and you can ignore both.
Wolf Akela
Member
Fought One Eye. Cast all the buffs and get wiped by 11k damage to everyone. I thought I needed a lot more grinding just to farm Triple AP weapons on him. Looked up the wiki and found he only had 150k HP, so I just two shot him the next try. So much gil selling excess Triple AP weapons. Super easy MDef spheres. Love it!
Uuugh still have Gagazet and Calm Lands before I get Clear Spheres. I wanna focus on stat maxing already.
Uuugh still have Gagazet and Calm Lands before I get Clear Spheres. I wanna focus on stat maxing already.
clem84
Gold Member
I'm 39 years old and I don't know if my reflexes have gone to shit in the last 12 years or not, but there is no way in hell I'll be able to dodge 200 lightning bolts in a row. This morning I kept trying and in roughly 30 minutes I was able to dodge TWO lightning bolts. Then I thought since my HDTV has a slight lag maybe it's making the process incredibly difficult so I transferred my save to the Vita to try it on that machine instead. SAME RESULT. I would dodge maybe like 1 lightning bolt out of every 30 that came down. I have no idea how I was able to do this 12 years ago.
So my question is this. Are there ANY strategies, anything that can make the process easier?
So my question is this. Are there ANY strategies, anything that can make the process easier?
clem84
Gold Member
Oh thank you. I'll try that.
OmegaDL50
Member
Yes, which makes the easier to get Cry in the Night compared to the original FFX-2 release which didn't have an arena. You could basically hunt Tonberries until one Oversouls then run away and fight the single Mega Tonberry in the Arena to rig the results for the Blue Bullet in your favor.
You need to beat Grand Cup: Hard 3 times. After that Shady Duo, Tonberry the Ripper, and Areq & Arroja are added to the roster of tournament matches from that point on.
Thankfully for a monster to appear in the battle simulator you don't need to beat them in the Tournament, just encounter them. Win or Lose they'll show up, the exception being the tournaments that give a game over.
I wouldn't worry too much about leveling the 'wrong' Dressphere. Sure, some spheres are better than others, but almost everything brings something unique and useful to the party. At the same time, a lot of the spheres have just a few good abilities surrounded by filler or their usefulness is because of their stats instead of abilities, so you're not really dependent on maxing out a sphere to get the most out of it.
Regardless, like others have said Trainer and Festivalist feel a bit weak to me. Paine's versions of both spheres are probably the most useful.