RPGCrazied
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And be prepared. They are going to nickle and dime everything. Nothing is free I guess.
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
- Thread starter Kagari
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Just as I thought, both the game and CE arrived today. Played up until you reach the meteorite. Impressions so far:
- Opening was badass. Makes me miss Lightning a lot more now.
- Game is gorgeous. I don't think it's as wow worthy as 13 because it doesn't look much better, but it's still one of the most beautiful games around. New Bodhum is OMG beautiful.
- The music so far is ace. The track that played in New Bodhum at night was sick, as was the track that plays regularly during day.
- I like the characters thus far, lolz at Serah's line "Where these clothes come from?" That's a great explanation for her new outfit. Her clothes are a paradox!!! She should have said "Couldn't I have gotten my hurr did too?"
- Easy so far of course, but still fun.
Looking forward to playing more, unfortunately that won't be till tomorrow night.
- Opening was badass. Makes me miss Lightning a lot more now.
- Game is gorgeous. I don't think it's as wow worthy as 13 because it doesn't look much better, but it's still one of the most beautiful games around. New Bodhum is OMG beautiful.
- The music so far is ace. The track that played in New Bodhum at night was sick, as was the track that plays regularly during day.
- I like the characters thus far, lolz at Serah's line "Where these clothes come from?" That's a great explanation for her new outfit. Her clothes are a paradox!!! She should have said "Couldn't I have gotten my hurr did too?"
- Easy so far of course, but still fun.
Looking forward to playing more, unfortunately that won't be till tomorrow night.
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
Are the rap tracks still in?
RPGCrazied
Member
Where are those? I'm still in Episode 3 Part 1.
I found them on the Archylte Steppe. They were too strong for me to do anything with yet, but soon enough!
And re: giant flan. Lv 74 RAV for Serah, 81 COM for Noel, and still can't beat it. It seems to kill those two extremely quickly.
Edit: Most annoying part of the game so far =
Mog talking when entering Bresha Ruins at 300AF
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Deleted member 20920
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Found this
EDIT:Just noticed the watermark at the bottom. Not sure whether there's a copy without the watermark.
EDIT:Just noticed the watermark at the bottom. Not sure whether there's a copy without the watermark.
RPGCrazied
Member
Then that must be end game stuff. I'm only mid 30's on my roles. lol
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yeah, that's how I'm doing it too. I have to make both of them rather versatile since I'm not using monsters, you know?
I was a stupid once, though, and accidentally leveled up SEN on a big node and I didn't want to go back and do all the levelling I did since I had last saved... uh, since my last save was an hour prior, lol.
Eh, not using monsters isn't hard at the moment. It's only when the characters are solo, then I'll have to use them. I'm still levelling the monsters up, and I kind of find that fun. Is everyone using Potent items to level up their monsters so they get all bonuses, or are some people using items that cater to the monsters' strengths (ex: Mana - Rav/Med/Sab/Syn, Vitality - Sen, Power - Com)?
It really freaking was in the demo. I'm surprised they didn't nerf him. Given how great a Kichu apparently is, I'm looking to be surprised when I get one of those and try it out in a solo battle.
So do I. :/i wish this game had a hard mode or something
Yeah, seriously! I got 5 trophies in New Bodhum. It's crazy! I was grinding for the Clock Stopper trophy in the Bresha Ruins' tunnels since the monsters there do not chase you like the wolves do.
The Bresha Ruins' rap was removed in favour of an instrumental.
CountBlack
Member
Is there a way to make your odds better for taming monsters? Trying to get a Behemoth and having absolutely no luck
edit: Just tamed it as I posted haha
edit: Just tamed it as I posted haha
RPGCrazied
Member
The one I want, for the Noel theme. I guess we don't get avatars. 360 users get the gamer picture.
But 5 staring the final boss. Yea, right. I couldn't even do that in XIII.
360 users get the gamer picture.But 5 staring the final boss. Yea, right. I couldn't even do that in XIII.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You get a Fragment Skill that'll make taming easier when you collect all Fragments in (location spoilers)
Vile Peaks AF200 and AF10
Edit: lol, nevermind. But it's good to know!
I wish we got avatars. I wanna rotate it with my Super Puzzle Fighter Ken.The one I want, for the Noel theme. I guess we don't get avatars.
But 5 staring the final boss. Yea, right. I couldn't even do that in XIII.
StunandStab
Member
OMG, I just got to the boss in Episode 4,
Zenobia. This is so awesome, I can't believe we finally get to kill this mark that that Tonberry in XIII stole!
RPGCrazied
Member
DarknessTear
Banned
I did the controlling thing first. If that specific attack does too much damage, switch to a sen/sen/sen paradigm right before it lands on you, and then switch back to the role you want to use.
Thanks, yeah, just beat it.
How are you surviving the Flan hits at 30 but I can't at 70+ ;_;
I beat it with Serah and Noel's com at 25, the other roles are like lv10. It took a while, make sure to use a knight and delta attack.
Hmm, are you talking about the first time you encounter the flan or the second? The first was easy, but even at 70+ and with a maxed pulse knight, serah and noel can barely survive the AOE flan attacks the second time around.
First. Dang, so even at your level, the second battle is that hard?
Do the people calling this game easy not remember like FF7 and FF8? Those games were super mega easy. I don't think I ever saw a game-over on FF7. Already seen a handful in this game. Usually I just had forgotten to switch a paradigm or buy a phoenix down but FF7 was "push x to win" from what I remember.
I'm not sure how hard it will be, but I don't have the HP to survive the initial hits + poison.
Move the levers. One up and one down (I forget which) but you'll see it disappear with the other enemy still behind it (moving them otherwise will make both vanish)
Sir Abacus
Member
lolwut? You didn't 5 star Orphan?
Hint: If you have a sentinel in anything but Combat Clinic for that fight you're doing it wrong.
That fight should be perma "I AM NO ONE'S SLAVE" and 999% staggers.
CountBlack
Member
Just tried it, lost within 30 seconds.
I 5 Starred the first one thinking I was a boss..I was so wrong.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Edit: lol, we don't agree on Sonic music, but at least we can agree on this.
You shouldn't even need Combat Clinic a lot since that battle is so easy. Healing with Potions actually seemed rather sufficient. :O
I used Light/Fang/Snow for that one. Super-easy with Army of One to drive up to 999% post-stagger, and then Com/Com/Com.
Zoe
Member
In the dark, yeah, it's supposed to be tough.
Sir Abacus
Member
Light/Fang/Van here. Just went nuts with RAV/SAB/SYN to RAV/COM/RAV. RAV/COM/MED for when I need to top off before something big. Still five starred it on the first round without even needing aggression. Imperil lets your ravagers do an absolutely retarded amount of damage.
Thanks!
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Absolutely. Imperil was probably my favourite debuff in that game, lol.
Sir Abacus
Member
Actually I used Hope on the last boss not Vanille come to think of it. Same outcome though.
Loading up Light with anything ATB related also helps to keep spamming AO1.
Loading up Light with anything ATB related also helps to keep spamming AO1.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Not really. Based on what I can see, the bonuses work like this:
Small Nodes:
Potent material bonus - 30%+ growth to all stats
Power/Mana/Vitality bonus - 60% growth to the specific stat that the material is targetted towards
Big Nodes:
Potent material bonus - 50%+ growth to all stats
Power/Mana/Vitality material bonus - 110% growth to the specific stat that the material is targetted towards
If you're working on a SEN, I'd increase their Vitality more because they don't really need STR/MAG enhancements. They're tanks. They're there to tank and act as bait, not fight or cast spells.
In essence, it's really up to you as to how you want to grow your monsters. Want a strong Com? Either use potent or power materials. Want good Ravs or Meds? Use either potent or Mana materials.
That's what I did too. The ATB gear in that game really helped with that sort of thing.Sir Abacus said:
This is no Treasure Hunter esque-trophy in this game. And I think you can rebuy stuff from Chocolina if you feel like you need something.
I never really sell weapons in RPGs, lol. I like keeping them and collecting them for some reason.
StunandStab
Member
I love the boss music.
Sir Abacus
Member
I haven't been grinding and I'm doing fine in Sunleth.
* Make sure you buy your highest available weapons
* Make sure you level your primary RAV monster and your primary MED monster
* Buff/debuff on boss fights (you have opened up the SAB and SYN roles for Serah and Noel respectively by now, right?)
RPGCrazied
Member
Ok. Someone help me with this fragment. I'm trying to get this Outdoor Watch. I've literally been all over both Yaschas Massif's timelines. I can't seem to find it. I know you have to have mog throw, which I do.
I even found this map, but even at the location, I still can't figure out where to throw mog. It's listed as 19 on the map. Cause its all in Japanese.
I even found this map, but even at the location, I still can't figure out where to throw mog. It's listed as 19 on the map. Cause its all in Japanese.
Ok. Someone help me with this fragment. I'm trying to get this Outdoor Watch. I've literally been all over both Yaschas Massif's timelines. I can't seem to find it. I know you have to have mog throw, which I do.
I even found this map, but even at the location, I still can't figure out where to throw mog. It's listed as 19 on the map. Cause its all in Japanese.
It's to the left of the 19th, you'll look down in the valley to the north and throw mog there.
edit - I wish I kept track of how many/where I collected Wild Fragments; made it annoying trying to figure out where I got them. And I think I'm only missing one from the Casino
I bought the items at Yaschas. My only MED is the Cait Sith which frankly is doodoo.
And I have both SAB and SYN but the internet told me they are crappy cause this game is so easy
Sorry for the image quality
I didn't notice it either, but I looked right now since I'm in the area trying to get a Green Chocobo haha.
RPGCrazied
Member
Is it the night-time or day-time version of the area that this item is in? Maybe I'm in the wrong one.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
LOL.
Just play the game the way you want to play it. I'm using Sab and Syn liberally, and used them quite liberally in the original XIII.
I think there's a better MED monster in AF003 New Bodhum in the Shallows area, but it's apparently a rare encounter or something?