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Final Fantasy XIII |OT|
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firehawk12
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Naeblish said:
I think the slog through chapter 11's ending is a bit brutal because there's a bit of back tracking, Halo style. With 12 and 13, it's very easy to just waltz by everything if you need to/want to, so at least you can minimize the encounters you have to deal with.
Unknown Soldier said:
Heh me and a buddy at work have been comparing notes as we are playing pretty much at the same pace. He is a little ahead of me though and said 'beat the boss and you're pretty much in Pulse'.
It goes without saying I was incredibly pissed to have another hour of copy and pasted dungeon to wade through
Cid
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Well now this was pretty awesome, I just power leveled 80k+ CP in like half an hour time.
from the flower field near Vanille's eidolon fight, retrack all the way back to the tunnel, then back again, enemies should respawn in between, and they're all easy enough to die within seconds. End result was a cool 80k or so CP in a matter of half an hour. I think i'm gonna do this one or two more times now.
onken
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badcrumble said:
By the end I was using Fang/Lightning/Vanille, since there's pretty much nothing those 3 can't do. I did the majority of my grinding with the following equipment. Make sure you don't equip dash shoes, as the buff runs out a lot quicker than if you cast it manually. Get your weapons upgraded to tier 3 asap (no need to max out), that 6th ATB bar really comes in handy. When you've got all the traps you want then ditch the "best choice" and replace with "good choice" to farm ingots instead.
Fang
Maxed-out Lance of Kane (dragoon branch)
Genji gloves
Best available attack+
3rd best available attack+
Best choice
Lightning
maxed-out Ultima
2nd best attack+
imperial guard (she kept dying a lot)
6-element protection thingy (a LOT)
Good choice
Vanille
maxed out Erinye's Cane
best available magic+
royal guard
Good choice
Best choice
7Th said:
Yeah that makes much more sense actually because
a goddess who prevented Coccoon from being destroyed in first place wouldn't be too happy about the sacrifice Barthandelus had in mind XD.
It's interesting that they used themes taken from both
FFX and FFXII
PuppetMaster said:
Nice, how hard was the 5 star all missions trophy? Does the gold watch (or w/e increases 5 star time) help out a lot, or were they pretty easy regardless?
Just asking because I'm having a hard time getting 5 stars with even some of the earlier missions, but I haven't really started grinding a ton yet.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Woke up. Smoked a joint. Turned on FFXIII.
I had never opened up the menu while on a chocobo before, so that picture took me by surprise. I think I laughed at that for like 15 minutes.
I had never opened up the menu while on a chocobo before, so that picture took me by surprise. I think I laughed at that for like 15 minutes.
Finally,Gran Pulse...also got the Loremaster trophy and the theme opened up,it`s kinda plain though but still,a nice little extra,I see there`s like 8 other things that can be unlocked like that,not sure i`ll get them all...I plan on staying in Pulse for a while,even though I haven`t played around there yet,I want to upgrade and the like before moving on.
Scythesurge
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Last night was the first night I didn't get to play this game since it came out :-(
I want to be done with chapter 10 already
I want to be done with chapter 10 already
Dedication Through Light
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PuppetMaster said:
How many hours did it take you?
Alright, chapter 11 and the game opened up. Just did a few hunts and the battles have been pretty nice. Now that I can change leaders around, setting up different parties and paradigms has gotten even better.
People may not like it, but I quite like the fact that you can just retry battles at will. Gives you ample opportunity to reassess what went wrong, and figure out some new battle tactics/paradigms to compensate. Good stuff. I love this kind of on-the-fly customization.
People may not like it, but I quite like the fact that you can just retry battles at will. Gives you ample opportunity to reassess what went wrong, and figure out some new battle tactics/paradigms to compensate. Good stuff. I love this kind of on-the-fly customization.
Scythesurge said:
Yeah, chapter 10 was a floor or two too long imo. Easily my least favorite chapter so far.
Llyranor said:
Exactly, one of the few reasons why the early chapter grind isn't so bad. The retry function is definitely one of the best additions to the series. It doesn't make battles easier, it makes them fair. No more backtracking from a save point bullshit or dealing with a new battle team with messed up paradigms against a tough boss.
Dedication Through Light
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psy18 said:
Give your team lots of buffs, mainly the one that makes your weapon whatever their weakness is and/or haste, then fight them, actually after doing that it should take only about 2 bouts of Relentless Assault to stagger each one.. Deceptisols if you have plenty of extras.
psy18 said:
They are susceptible to Fogga which prevents them from casting spells. Since that's 90% of what they do, they'll end up wandering for the majority of the fight while you smack on them. Makes them a cake walk. It helps if your leader can be Saboteur so you can pick the debuffs. Tossing a few extra ones (like Deprotect and Deshell) after you stick Fog helps bring them down even faster.
Revengeance
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Yeah, I upgraded one thing, and quickly realized I had no idea what the hell I was doing. I'd like more upgrading info also.careful said:
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Apparently there's a dude doing a no crystarium run whose made it up to the chapter 9 boss.
careful said:
Well, the argument is generally that you don't HAVE to upgrade at all throughout the whole game, really, and the only point where it may become necessary is in chapter 11 and beyond. However, there's also no harm in doing so beforehand. It's just that when weapon upgrading becomes more important, you'll actually have access to and money for materials that will make it much easier. And that doesn't happen till chapter 11.
Edit: Also, to this guy, because I didn't think you got an answer:
Skel said:
I don't remember the particular place you are talking about but:
Two things: One, you will have two major chances to go back to this area. One after you beat the boss of Chapter 11 (because you aren't forced to go to Chapter 12 after you beat the boss till you want to, and it's very obvious the action you have to take to move the plot forward), and again near the very end, in Chapter 13 maybe, where you have the option to warp back to Pulse before you fight the final boss, or something like that.
Two, you can't miss the weapons because you ultimately have access to all of them through the stores, I believe. I'm pretty sure that mission 46 upon completion will open up Gilgamesh Inc, which gives you access to all of the other weapons that you don't already have access to. So don't worry so much, there's virtually nothing truly miss-able in terms of items in this game.
Two, you can't miss the weapons because you ultimately have access to all of them through the stores, I believe. I'm pretty sure that mission 46 upon completion will open up Gilgamesh Inc, which gives you access to all of the other weapons that you don't already have access to. So don't worry so much, there's virtually nothing truly miss-able in terms of items in this game.
Me too, so i went on looking for a good guide. Found this:Revengeance said:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/fin...c_id=m-1-53941597&pid=928790&tag=topics;title
And a nice overview of all the weapons:
http://ff-13.info/category/weapons/
I leik Halo
Banned
I'm about 3 hours into the game, and I was wondering if the music gets better later on. The soundtrack just seems.......... so plain.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I leik Halo said:
There's a lot more variety later on. There's some nice jazz tracks, more vocals and singing, and even some chill-out and trance-like stuff.
The OST is movie-like and tied to the emotions on screen and the locals; it builds up as the game progresses.
I leik Halo
Banned
Kaijima said:
That's good to know. I really wish Uematsu or Mitsuda would fucking contribute something.
Zoe said:
Yep, that's pretty much what I meant. By the time weapon upgrading becomes more useful, you'll have access to all those wonderful materials (and the money necessary to purchase them). But since you will get tons of money later, there's no harm done in messing around with the drops you get off enemies, especially because in the long run, those materials don't mean anything.
Rpgmonkey said:Taking out turtles like Mario now.
Still kind of a boring grind, but it's much less repetitive than the Death method.
After getting one of them to drop a Traphezohedron, I upgraded Fang's weapon to the ultimate level and it made a huge difference. Now, I can actually take one of them out without the summon method. I still need shrouds, but that should change when I can make a MED/SEN/SYN combination with Fang, Lightning, and Hope respectively (I've come to the realization that I personally need to be the healer for most of my plans to work, and Lightning should make a moderately decent Sentinel for the moment).
The thing that worries me is that I lost my way to get another three Traps by upgrading one of Fang's weapons and dismantling it, since I really do need Kain's Lance at this point. Although, doing that would require 1.5 mil gil on a weapon that I'm just going to get rid of... then I'll need another 1.5 mil to get another weapon of the same attack status, but I can't do that if that weapon is the only way to beat these turtles that hold the only key to a sensible amount of gil... Ugh, this is all so horribly circular. If they decide to make a XIII International, they really need to reconsider the post-game economy by either adding in alternate ways to get gil, an alternate way of getting a Trap, or both. As badcrumble said, it feels like there's a part of the difficulty curve just missing.
Oh well, time to grind on Adamantoises for the next 10 hours.
I caved and dismantled Vanille's Nirvana for 3 traps and I am still farming gil so I can upgrade and dismantle Fang's lance so then everyone will have their best weapons.
Gil is the worst part about the post-game grind. There really needs to be better ways to obtain it.
Clocked in over 73 hours now and it only took me 55 to beat the game :S. Almost 20 hours grinding for traps/gil.
Gil is the worst part about the post-game grind. There really needs to be better ways to obtain it.
Clocked in over 73 hours now and it only took me 55 to beat the game :S. Almost 20 hours grinding for traps/gil.
One bad thing about the speed of battles is you really don't get a chance to analyze, and therefore better strategize, damage being done. Have you noticed that the help text for the -ra spells say something like, "Does increased damaged when staggered"?
That's a bit misleading, everything does more damage when staggered. From my own tests, -ra spells do less damage to a single target than 2 regular spells, staggered or not. Anyone else trying to pick apart the damage system?
That's a bit misleading, everything does more damage when staggered. From my own tests, -ra spells do less damage to a single target than 2 regular spells, staggered or not. Anyone else trying to pick apart the damage system?
Revengeance
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Awesome, Thanks! Bookmarked for later.Naeblish said:
Question about dismantling.
So I just finished
and as a reward got the Tetradic Tiara. Now everything I have been reading says this should dismantle into Sprint Shoes, but I tried it twice and both times it turned into a Vial of Perfume.
Is it just a random chance to turn into different items, so I basically have to keep loading until I get the Sprint Shoes? Or how does it work exactly?
Thanks much.
So I just finished
Taejin's Tower and defeated Dahaka
Is it just a random chance to turn into different items, so I basically have to keep loading until I get the Sprint Shoes? Or how does it work exactly?
Thanks much.
dreamer3kx
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Just got up to Chap 10, wow some of these enemies are harder for sure, so how should I go about this Chap?
Dedication Through Light
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dreamer3kx said:
Theres a group of 10 of those slugs in that chapter that yield nice amounts of CP and in a spot that easy to respawn (you just jump up four legs and back). I stayed there and maxed the three mainroles of my characters Crysterium out. Its a perfect spot to do that. Thats all for that then run through the level
Chapter 12 was terrible. What the hell was the
Tempted to put Chapter 13 off for awhile because it looks just as horrible as Chapter 12.
Don't get me wrong, I like most of the game, the cast has been enjoyable, the story abit contrived, the villains are kind of lacking, and Rosch was not developed into one at all, but overall I do enjoy the game. But Pokemon Heart Gold has been waiting for awhile now...
Produclad? I get the FF7 reference but that things design was horrible, how did Rosch even fit in there?
Don't get me wrong, I like most of the game, the cast has been enjoyable, the story abit contrived, the villains are kind of lacking, and Rosch was not developed into one at all, but overall I do enjoy the game. But Pokemon Heart Gold has been waiting for awhile now...
dreamer3kx
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Dedication Through Light said:
So I should grind out the level before continuing through the story (missions etc..?) Can I get back to the open area if I decide to go through with the story?
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