Garuda is easy if you use the Eksir Berries. If you just mainline the game without exploring and doing sidequests, he's a much harder boss. I remember that's how I beat it on my 1st playthrough on PS2.
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Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age |OT| You Had One Job!
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Garuda is easy if you use the Eksir Berries. If you just mainline the game without exploring and doing sidequests, he's a much harder boss. I remember that's how I beat it on my 1st playthrough on PS2.
Yeah, somehow I kinda miss the old system lol I'd to worry less about locking in a single job
Big Chungus
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lol who should i pick first then?
FinalFanXtreme
Member
I'm stuck at
and cannot beat it. I'm level 23... I've tried everything
death wall boss
If it's the first one, run away to the door. The second one, interact with the braziers to make it halt it's movement for a brief time
wondergorls
Member
You can Run or I just used mist quickening's if you now how. I was ten levels below you too.
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Deleted member 57681
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Whatever you pick first doesn't really matter for any character imo. Until you get your second job, everything is pretty monotone anyway, attack anything and a bit of cure here and there.
I picked this combination for Basch and went Bushi first btw. Because Katanas look rad.
TurnipFritters
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Garuda is easy if you don't use Eksir Berries because you can have Vossler nerf its defense and tear it apart with the bow you get from one of the Hunts (I think it's the rocktoise in the mines?)
robotzombie
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I have Ashe as a White/Time mage, any reason she should be equipped with rods over using a crossbow?
FinalFanXtreme
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On 1 I run then it goes to 2. If I run from 2 it goes back to 1???
That part when bosses hit critical HP is always the best part of boss fights. Some of them start spamming end game spells at you during mid game.
Fight the 2nd. He is much easier.
FinalFanXtreme
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I push the buttons on second and it causes him to haste. I get within two hits of KO him but I die. I'm grinding now to get LP and EXP. I have double XP and LP items equipped
Pinko Marx
Banned
More magic for cures? That's about it really. I feel like the Magick lores offset this tho so there's really no need to be equipped with a rod.
For black mages at least certain rods augment an element for more damage.
robotzombie
Member
does the healing rod give people you hit regen? So you can set up your healer to attack your party and give them Regen?
I am sort of enjoying the game now, just got to back to Rabanastre after unlocking the 2nd board but I'd be lying if I said that I'm finding it even remotely challenging. The story is like eh! grabs my attention from time to time but loses me ever so often.
Why are these guys (the party) even sticking together anyways? Fran and Balthier sticking with each other makes sense, as does Vaan and Penelo, same applies for Basch and Ashe....but what's making these 3 small teams stick with each other ?
Why are these guys (the party) even sticking together anyways? Fran and Balthier sticking with each other makes sense, as does Vaan and Penelo, same applies for Basch and Ashe....but what's making these 3 small teams stick with each other ?
Absoludacrous
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At my favorite part of the game, grinding the mine bridge. Anything I can do to make the skeletons span forever? I can only get to like a 50 chain before they stop coming up
I always did a grind in the Sandsea. I had a 645 chain last night before I went to save. Think I did 300-500 chains before I hit that large one. Just one big circle of zones.
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Deleted member 57681
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Whaaaaa
Interesting, I know others has the boy right about to raise his arms. Never knew about the boy/mom animation frame.
Replaying this after 11 years makes me appreciate more Vayne as a villain. He is not crazy powerful like Kefka, Sephiroth or Kuja, he is not straight evil HAR HAR like Mateus, Ultimecia or Yu Yevon. No, he is the fucking Frank Underwood of Ivalice. He is ruthless beyond contempt, a mastermind schemer that takes his time to escalate the ladder and achieve his ambitions.
The scenes where
The only bad part is the final battle and
Certainly a more adult kind of villain and, above else, a gray villain which isn't evil for the sake of being evil.
Discuss!
The scenes where
Vayne goes back to Archades toreport to his father and justify his actions in Rabanastre and its posterior assassination are excellent. Both scenes finish with "and so house Solidor lives on" but in whole different contexts, it reminds me a lot of "a Lannister always pays its debt" from GoT.
The only bad part is the final battle and
Vayne transformation into an ugly aberration from hell. I liked the fact that he is a Monk character fighting-wise, sadly little afterwards they throw the idea out of the window.
Certainly a more adult kind of villain and, above else, a gray villain which isn't evil for the sake of being evil.
Discuss!
FinalFanXtreme
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I'm interested in this as well...
Yeah works just like Measures, which give buffs based on the one equipped.
Absoludacrous
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The boy raising his arms is very specific to how the method worked in IZJS. ZA does RNG slightly differently, so you can't necessarily rely on that the same way. I think people have reported seeing it because the vast majority of times, that's where people choose to open their chests, and they get lucky with rng.
Using steps I was able to somewhat consistently reproduce the chest spawning on the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th zone-ins to the outside from the auto-save. So then it was a matter of finding the bow in those spawns. I found another bow on the 6th zone-in, but this one on the 2nd was by far the easiest to reproduce (though even still it can be challenging to get it to spawn consistently).
Megalosaro
Banned
He's a great villain and one of my favorites in the series.
TurnipFritters
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One of the most satisfying sections of the game is that part of Ozmone Plain where like five Wus will swarm you as soon as you enter and you just, like, let Black Mage Ashe delete them with Foe: Wind-weak -> Aero.
Freeglader
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First I would argue that Ashe is the main protagonist and many of the events of the story revolve around her. Basch is her defender. There are reasons why Balthier is sticking around that will become revealed in the course of the story. Fran seems to just go wherever Balthier goes. The party keeps Vaan and Penelo around because they have proven themselves as capable fighters and they need all the help they can get. The pair are deeply vested in the plight of Dalmasca and also seem to be motivators for the older party members who see them as the future. It is for people like Vaan and Penelo that they are fighting the empire, to attempt to right the wrongs of the past and secure a better future. Also, Vaan wants to serve Ashe similar to how Basch does.
Big Chungus
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uhh isnt that pic above sort of a spoiler?
DeaDPo0L84
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Still trying to farm for the halycon piece for the arcturus in the sandsea...FUCK
Good thing I don't have an archer!
Absoludacrous
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Anyone can equip it without a license! Go crazy!
Actually after trying out Trial mode with them once, I gave everyone their crappy weapons and went back to playing the game normally. I didn't actually want to use them, just wanted to solve the puzzle of getting them.
ironjoe989
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Spiritwalker
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The Larsa one? That's just promo art for the original PS2 release, iirc. It's ancient.
MisterShine
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As someone who does not know the story of this game, no that picture doesn't tell me anything other than it is a posed picture of the two of them
who I know are brothers
Freeglader
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It's definitely not a spoiler
FlutterPuffs
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So yeah, Cat-Eared Hood + Trial Mode....
I bought 3, went until level 30 twice.
Made around 1,000,000 gil.
I bought 3, went until level 30 twice.
Made around 1,000,000 gil.
TheContact
Member
The struggle is real
Part of life is making decisions. I think it's about time you've made yours lol.
Vanilla ff12 sucked. The graphics were jagged and blurry and the voice acting was weak and the license board was plain. There weee no classes and everyone shared the same board. Trust me you didn't miss much. You were better off playing this version
I agree, every boss dies so quickly...
Spiritwalker
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Ah yeah, must've gotten it from a trial then. I do have a steal gambit on Vaan. I'm in the optional part of Barheim so these weapons are useful, but they don't feel OP. Groups of enemies there can still wreck my party.
I haven't really used any technicks yet. :x
EDIT: I do agree with y'all though, the game is super easy except for some optional areas and hunts. Was hoping they'd make it harder for this version, but it feels just as easy as the original. I guess you can still do lvl 1/solo runs though.
MisterShine
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Jungle area spoilers:
I fought a sorta-plant-dragon and for the first time I actually had to try! Has a nasty AOE debuffer & afflictions that was a pain in the ass. Had a good time.
It is definitely an easy game, kinda disappointing? Final Fantasy hasn't ever been SMT or anything but they're usually not 98% cakewalks. I think the character building is good but there's a lot of auto-pilot.
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
Are any hunts and quests missable btw? Early on I took on the hunt to kill that giant chicken creature, but I put it aside and now it's rain season and the villagers moved away. Can I still finish the hunt eventually?
Also, is there even a point to some of the little sidequests? Like, at the very beginning, there was this merchant that wanted you to deliver a package to his buddy outside the city gates. I never got anything from doing it. Or in the Garif village, one of the elders gives you something to deliver to the War-Chief. There was no reward or anything. Does it affect anything at all?
Also, is there even a point to some of the little sidequests? Like, at the very beginning, there was this merchant that wanted you to deliver a package to his buddy outside the city gates. I never got anything from doing it. Or in the Garif village, one of the elders gives you something to deliver to the War-Chief. There was no reward or anything. Does it affect anything at all?
It's funny because I remember constantly struggling with XII growing up and that's why I never really got further than the halfway marker and now I find it pretty easy save a boss or two. Granted, the turbo button helps, but I love learning new ways to break the system. It's part of the reason why I also love VIII and it's junction system.
FlutterPuffs
Member
They made the main quest easier, yeah. Apparently it was one of the main complaints about the game.
The fun has always been in the hunts though.
Pinko Marx
Banned
That feel when you reach a new story area and see a bunch of new spells and equipment in shops.
Mmmmm this game is SUPERB.
Mmmmm this game is SUPERB.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Is it just me or is it impossible to buy more than a few new equips when they unlock? I want to re-outfit my party but I could only afford one or two new weapons... and no armor.
Just got to the Tomb of Raithwall, and did like one hunt so far, for reference.
Monk's easy access to HP and Strength licenses has made Ashe obscenely stronger and more resilient than the rest of my party.
Just got to the Tomb of Raithwall, and did like one hunt so far, for reference.
Monk's easy access to HP and Strength licenses has made Ashe obscenely stronger and more resilient than the rest of my party.
Pinko Marx
Banned
The game offers plenty PLENTY of side content. Just slow down and enjoy some of it. There aren't just hunts either, but side quests that you need to find through talking to folks. Run around Rabenastre and find some. Some side quests open up after finishing hunts as well so keep that in mind.