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"God's Beard!"
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so im 20 hours in now and overall the game still sucks ass, but goddamn is the battle system good. itd even be better than 12's if i could just fucking change characters in battle with the goddamn triggers so sazh doesnt act like a fuckup all the time casting enfrost on everyone before faith. on that note, who's idea was it to not let me pick my leader the instant i can make my own party?
Meier said:So do people typically just use Vanille, summon and then death spam whole they're down? I keep getting it to about 2 million with regular fighting but then i end up dying once it roars and can't keep up my healing.
just retry right away when it stands up
death is only for the beginning
as you max out your Crystariums and upgrade your equipments
you can slowly switch over to fighting it normally
make sure to upgrade your 3 clay rings for everyone
this helps tremendously
start off fighting adamtortois the normal way first before adamantois since those are much weaker
Trickster said:
BehemothvsDog is still the best place to farm CP in endgame
but the difference now is u will be fighting turtles in between
doing 10 x behemouth fights will net you around 120k cp with growth egg, and around 3 tp
save
fight a turtle until it drops an ingot or trapz, and u'll get 80k cp
go back to farm tp/cp again then fight turtle again
Trickster said:
gamefaqs.
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growth egg
Then go to Edenhall and start farming Adamantoises, they give a whooping 80k CPs everytime with growth egg, equip collector's catalog and conn. catalog so you can get Platinum Ingot (sell for 150,000 gil) and Traps (for upgrading to tier 3 weapons) in the meantime as well.
There are youtube vids on how to beat Adamantoises with a underdeveloped party, mainly involves Sazh.
Windom Earle
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Meier said:So do people typically just use Vanille, summon and then death spam whole they're down? I keep getting it to about 2 million with regular fighting but then i end up dying once it roars and can't keep up my healing.
I never use summons or death, but I have a maxed out crystarium
jiggle said:
I think the Ochu pack gives you more CP and also better items. The strategy is very interesting. Check the gamefaqs CP farming guide for more info.
"God's Beard!"
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ok, so ive been saving cp with half my characters for the past 5 hours or so because i didnt like all 3 of their crystal sets, and had about 30000 each. i finally unlocked all 6 trees, and i notice that hopeless has some great debuffs. happily i shoot along, assuming that ill get the first 4 or 5 skills. like 2 seconds later, all my cp is gone! what the fuck is this bullshit? 10000 to get cura for snow when his main badass skills cost like 700? this game is broken as fuck.
Crash Station
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Cep said:
Even the extra roles aren't balanced. Why can Fang learn "enhanced" synergist spells while someone who actually has it as a default role can't?
At least they chose the best character to be broken.
Trickster
Member
Cep said:
Yeah true, I was totally looking forward to maxing out all 6 roles for my character, then it turn's out that the 3 "side" roles for each character is this pathetic side role with hardly any stats or skills, and they cost a shit load of cp.
*sigh* I miss the spheregrid from FFX, best leveling system ever.
Rahxephon91
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Yeah the fact that gaining roles outside of your main 3 isn't rewarding is a real poor choice. I can't really experiment with the characters. I wanted to make Light a Sentinel as that made more sense then her being a medic but screw that idea.
Okay, I just killed the Long Gui without any elixirs or summons and had no problem. I was scared as hell during the beginning of the fight :lol but as long as you have a sen sen sen for ultima/roar and maxed out crystarium you'd be fine. I was almost scared to complete my last mission due to all the comments on here about them being so tough but as long as you can kill an adamantoise normally within 2 mins(without death of course) you'll have no problem taking these down.
Vanille and Fang make excellent synergists due to Shellra and Protectra.
Rahxephon91 said:
Vanille and Fang make excellent synergists due to Shellra and Protectra.
FateBreaker
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:lol :lolCep said:
Rahxephon91
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I had no idea they had access to those abilities. I did think though, that they would be useful as Synergists. Hopefully a International version will allow us to really pick and chose the classes much easier.Cynar said:
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Thanks for letting me know... I really doubted it, but I was curious. I'll probably pick up a Japanese copy for dirt cheap someday just to be a completest.Kagari said:
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'm glad you've got a head on your shoulders but many people in this world don't :lolTrickster said:
Rahxephon91
Banned
Well since its easier to import this time I have a feeling I will. I've already played through XIII 3 times and I'm sure I will find some fun in an International version.
KingJ2002
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I finally beat the game after 60+ hours (did some grinding in gran pulse) and i got to say... this game is ultimately a disappointment... mainly because the entire time i'm playing through the game the story never grabbed me... in fact i spent most of the time confused and hating to hear "fal'cie, l'cie, etc.". Final Fantasy X had me the entire way through... i love the story and IMO it's still one of the best RPG's i've played because of it... but this... i felt so unattached to this game... but for the sake of seeing a decent ending I kept on.
I really cant say too much good on the gameplay either... the core battle system needs to be refined (the delay in switching paradigms is awful), the lack of a true open world annoyed me... I mean for there's too many areas i cant go back to
, the lack of being able to run from battles, the limited paradigm system, the crystarium inconsistencies... meh.. I cant see myself grinding for better weapons and going through the missions. I just wanted this to end... luckily i rented this from gamefly so it's going right back
i know there's some of you that will disagree with me but I just wanted to throw my 2 cents out there on this game... im hoping FFXIII Versus or FFXVI brings a better chapter to the FF games.
with so much hype and time to bring this game out... it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
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IMHO Tales of Vesperia is still the best JRPG out on 360 / PS3
I really cant say too much good on the gameplay either... the core battle system needs to be refined (the delay in switching paradigms is awful), the lack of a true open world annoyed me... I mean for there's too many areas i cant go back to
(and the damn owl plane was such a tease)
i know there's some of you that will disagree with me but I just wanted to throw my 2 cents out there on this game... im hoping FFXIII Versus or FFXVI brings a better chapter to the FF games.
with so much hype and time to bring this game out... it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
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IMHO Tales of Vesperia is still the best JRPG out on 360 / PS3
firehawk12
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Rahxephon91 said:
I guess the idea was that they wanted you to use characters in the entire party before sticking to your favourites. I know after I finished the game, I used Sahz and Sentinel once in my 30 hour post-game grind for very specific missions.
BeeDog said:Yeees, finally got all 6 Traps from the Eden turtle.
What the hell should I do now? :lol
I hate you!
ive killed that turtle so many times ive actually maxed out everyones 3 main roles and still havent got 1 trap
just 1 thats all i need.
then ill just upgrade and dismantle a few times.
i have over 3 million gil now cos of the amount of ingots ive gotten but not 1 sodding trap
Windom Earle
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BeeDog said:Yeees, finally got all 6 Traps from the Eden turtle.
What the hell should I do now? :lol
Finally create ultimate weapons for your main party. Also get Genji gloves if you haven't already. Then start killing Shao Long Guis for Dark Matter and create even more powerful accessories. K?
Rahxephon91 said:
It is pretty rewarding if you want to do certain things. med/med/med, rav/rav/rav, com/com/com, etc. can be very useful.
I also think it makes sense to give Fang certain battle specific buff abilities, because she is all about raw power!
Making the side roles "expensive" didn't bother me either. CP are easy to grind.
schennmu said:
Since my "main" party is Fang/Light/Sazh, I've been finding the COM/COM/COM paradigm very effective
Depending how much CP I gather from doing the last missions and such (I have the egg), I think I'll build on Fang's RAV role. Tri-Disaster is just too good to pass up!
Braz the Mad
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I wasn't entirely disappointed with the game, I just wish the toughest thing in it was something cooler than a big dinosaur that casts ultima for no apparent reason. Basically it seems like the game devs were like "oh yeah, a challenge, um take that big thing that looks cool and give it a more powerful AOE. Awesome! Aaaaaand done!"
Cornbread78
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Le-mo said:
Wow, I have to agree, maybe it's because I'm only at the 5th chapter so far, but I liked WKC a lot better thus far. Let's just say I still get the theme music stuck in my head periodically, LOL
I've been told it get's better after Chapter 9 , so that's what I'm holding out for.
mjemirzian
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Zoe said:
farming for weapon materials? farming for cp? that doesn't count as grinding?
I got tired of having to hold up on the analog stick for minutes just to reach the next 'mission' so I gave up early on due to the tedium.
"God's Beard!"
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For real. Every time I think of grinding, it reminds me of my friend who couldnt get past the snake in FF VII, so he just grinded outside the chocobo farm until he got to lvl 76, killed the snake instantly and moved on. Kid was nuts. he used to adjust the gameshark codes one character at a time just to see what would happen to his games. weird shit is what.Cep said:
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