The Official Final Fantasy XIII Thread (56K Warning)

Im on my last mission,Mission 64, and its hell. Boss has over 15 million HP. I always take him down to half, approx 8 mil HP and he unleashes a deadly whirl attack, KOs my party... ahhh

Going to take a break from this, dont have much left to do in the game xcept beat him and farm gil and CP, all my Crystariums are 90% complete with less then a role left to complete..

Anyone have tips on gil farming?

Lol it rocks. Nuff said.

Did your game ever start working Hoax? :(

naaros

[QUOTE="HarDcore_RpG"]

Im on my last mission,Mission 64, and its hell. Boss has over 15 million HP. I always take him down to half, approx 8 mil HP and he unleashes a deadly whirl attack, KOs my party... ahhh

Going to take a break from this, dont have much left to do in the game xcept beat him and farm gil and CP, all my Crystariums are 90% complete with less then a role left to complete..

Anyone have tips on gil farming?

TheEldestGod

Congrats! now start farming that CP! in case your stuck on mission 54, the startegy works for gigantuar as well.

would you happen to know where i can farm gil?

[QUOTE="UbiquitousAeon"]

I'm trying to get the Growth Egg, but I'm stuck on Neoochu. How much HP should my party members have? I'm a bit shy of 7,000hp for most of them. I keep trying that death spell but it's not working. :evil:

HarDcore_RpG

I am having trouble with the boss on the Palamecia the priest like guy who owned the people around him :P He is a pain EpiphoneMan2008

ok , im in chapter 11 in taejin's tower or sumthin, so is it still possible to go back in that big field (where the gigantic turtles are) later in the game even if I move forward and go to chapter 12? I've only done about 5 missions and I want to do them all but Im worried that it might not give me the option to go back to previous chapter...johnlennon28

[QUOTE="johnlennon28"]ok , im in chapter 11 in taejin's tower or sumthin, so is it still possible to go back in that big field (where the gigantic turtles are) later in the game even if I move forward and go to chapter 12? I've only done about 5 missions and I want to do them all but Im worried that it might not give me the option to go back to previous chapter...TheEldestGod

[QUOTE="TheEldestGod"][QUOTE="johnlennon28"]ok , im in chapter 11 in taejin's tower or sumthin, so is it still possible to go back in that big field (where the gigantic turtles are) later in the game even if I move forward and go to chapter 12? I've only done about 5 missions and I want to do them all but Im worried that it might not give me the option to go back to previous chapter...johnlennon28

I've lost a little steam in FF13. I barely played it this week. Maybe a few hours altogether. I'm in the Tower on Chapter 11, but I don't know what it is. I just don't have that same desire to play it as often as I did. Honestly just thinking about acquiring all the weapons/items, 5-starring every mission, and maxing out the Crystarium is a little daunting. Maybe I just need to stop worrying about doing every little minor detail and just focus on beating the game right now. Then I can worry about all that stuff after.

I've lost a little steam in FF13. I barely played it this week. Maybe a few hours altogether. I'm in the Tower on Chapter 11, but I don't know what it is. I just don't have that same desire to play it as often as I did. Honestly just thinking about acquiring all the weapons/items, 5-starring every mission, and maxing out the Crystarium is a little daunting. Maybe I just need to stop worrying about doing every little minor detail and just focus on beating the game right now. Then I can worry about all that stuff after.

yokofox33

I've lost a little steam in FF13. I barely played it this week. Maybe a few hours altogether. I'm in the Tower on Chapter 11, but I don't know what it is. I just don't have that same desire to play it as often as I did. Honestly just thinking about acquiring all the weapons/items, 5-starring every mission, and maxing out the Crystarium is a little daunting. Maybe I just need to stop worrying about doing every little minor detail and just focus on beating the game right now. Then I can worry about all that stuff after.

Yeah, starting tomorrow I'm just gonna try and tear through the game. Well, not breeze through it but only worry about doing what's absolutely necessary to beat the game. I still like CP farming/grinding :P

Im on my last mission,Mission 64, and its hell. Boss has over 15 million HP. I always take him down to half, approx 8 mil HP and he unleashes a deadly whirl attack, KOs my party... ahhh

Going to take a break from this, dont have much left to do in the game xcept beat him and farm gil and CP, all my Crystariums are 90% complete with less then a role left to complete..

Anyone have tips on gil farming?

HarDcore_RpG

If you haven't done the Treasure Hunter trophy, you've got a ton of things left to do! I'm almost platinumed it, just missing weaponary from Sazh and Snow, then I've completly finished the game.

Okay!, That fight is the most fun fight in the game. Everytime he uses deadly whirl, switch to the tortoise paradigm. If you can't survive (or are currently using it), then you have to equip accessories that reinforce physical resistance. Aka, Generals Belt, Champions Belt, Imperial Amulet etc. Also, for every character, equip a Gale Ring (40% wind resistance), after he sprouts his last few wings, his wind attack really does damage. Posion is super important here, never forget it!

You're overpowered, this fight should be really easy if you follow the tips, I completed this when I had every role except one maxed out with no problems. Was a ton of fun.

For gil farming, I'm farming gold nuggets of shao long guis and platinum ingots of long guis and adamantortises. You'll get a ton of dark matter and trapz too!

I've lost a little steam in FF13. I barely played it this week. Maybe a few hours altogether. I'm in the Tower on Chapter 11, but I don't know what it is. I just don't have that same desire to play it as often as I did. Honestly just thinking about acquiring all the weapons/items, 5-starring every mission, and maxing out the Crystarium is a little daunting. Maybe I just need to stop worrying about doing every little minor detail and just focus on beating the game right now. Then I can worry about all that stuff after.

yokofox33

Believe me, 5 Starring every mission is beyond easy with the Gold Watch and choccoboes. Maxing out the crystarium after mission 55 is also very easy, (near mahabara with the Behemot and giant dog thing). If you get bored, switch it up and go to the faultwarrens, there's a ton of CP to be had there. Well, that treasure hunter trophy will be the longest thing you've ever done. But it is still enjoyable.

i meant the fight with sazh's eidolon

Man, I just spent the past hour and a half on Atticus (mission 51) and I must say, that dude is a total @$$. He's not really much of a heavy hitter, and as long as you have a SEN in your group you're not going to have to worry much at all. The problem with Atticus is that he has tons of HP and takes forever to kill. If you take too long he will cast DOOM on you. Once that happens you may as well hit retry.

Now, if you're going for the plat like I am, not only are you going to want to beat the mission but you're going to want to 5-star it, too. On my first few attempts I destroyed him easily enough - all it took was a bit of patience. The problem is I was taking almost 15 minutes to kill him each time! Geez! Well, I finally worked up the perfect strategy that put him down in 7 minutes and 12 seconds. 5 more stars for me!

So, in case any of you are having trouble with this bum, here's what I did....

You are going to want your strongest Commando, Ravager, and Sentinel. Mine were Fang, Lightning, and Snow. Yours most likely are too. Anyway, throw those guys in there and equip them with their best offensive gear for Fang and Light and give Snow the best deffensive gear. What I did was removed all their stuff and hit optimize and chose what position I needed them in. Its a very effective option, believe it or not.

Your paradigms should look like this:

COM/COM/SEN

RAV/RAV/SEN

SAB/COM/SEN

SYN/COM/SEN

MED/COM/SEN

SAB/SAB/SEN

Okay, as you may have noticed, my leader (Fang) uses almost every role. Obvioulsy you have to have an atleast almost maxed out crystarium. If you don't then I wouldn't even bother trying to 5star this guy. Anyway, the most important two things to remember are to keep a SEN in your party the entire time as well as a damage dealer to keep dude destracted and his chain guage up. The way you'll start battle is put the shroud "fortisol" on your party before the cutscene. You won't need any others.

Have the SAB/SAB/SEN set as your default. You'll jump into battle and immediately debuff him. The only things you really need are DEPROTECT and DESHELL, but SLOW is good, too. As soon as those are on him switch to RAV/RAV/SEN. Your goal for now is to get his chain guage up a bit. You'll likely not stagger him and honestly don't need to. You just need to get it up around 400 - 500 percent so your attacks do more damage. The only time you should switch paradigms until then is to re-debuff him when he throws them off. If and when that happens switch to SAB/COM/SEN. Lightning will keep his chain guage up while you manually debuff him. Just DESHELL for the moment. Then switch back to your previous paradigm and continue building his chain guage.

Once his chain guage is around the middle you'll want to switch to COM/COM/SEN and eat away at his life bar. Again, only switch paradigms if his debuffs where off. For the rest of the fight the only one you'll need on him is DEPROTECT. By now your own buffs should have worn off, so switch to SYN/COM/SEN and manually cast Haste and Bravera on bothFang and Lightning. As soon as they take you'll switch back to your previous paradigm and continue chipping away at his HP. Just Debuff him and Buff your party as needed and get back to the fight. He'll go down in no time. While you have a MED in your paradigm list just in case, you shouldn't need it at all. Snow takes little damage as a SEN in this fight and his HP regen works better than it probably should.

7 minutes! Beat that! :P I hope this helps you guys! Now I'm off to combat the big dogs!

I kicked that boss's ass in the Tower earlier today. I had it staggered and the chain was just about to end, and it had a decent amount of health left, but Lightning Scourged it for a massive amount of damage and killed it right before it ended. So sweet. I almost jumped out of my seat with how awesome it was.

And very nice guide, EG! I'll be sure to try and find it for when the time comes!

Man, havent played for a long time, so anyone here plat it yet?Bloodseeker23

So happy! I just unlocked my Treasure Hunter Trophy last night and platinumed it! Took me 106 hours playtime but every second was enjoyable, except the last ten minutes which was filled with anxiety! Wasen't sure if I got them all.

ok Im in ch 11 just finish taejn's tower but so far I havent had any troubles with any enemies or bosses, they're all easy to beat, how many chapters there is and does it gets harder? Ive played ff10 and 12 and I remember having a lots of frustrating moments on those games because of the hard difficulty which is what makes it more rewarding and satisfying to beatjohnlennon28

Very impressive guide, EG! It'll definitely help down the road when I'm attempting to plat this game. I just did some grinding today and managed to get everyone up to a respectable amount so I can continue on and finish Chapter 11. *high five*hazelnutman

I kicked that boss's ass in the Tower earlier today. I had it staggered and the chain was just about to end, and it had a decent amount of health left, but Lightning Scourged it for a massive amount of damage and killed it right before it ended. So sweet. I almost jumped out of my seat with how awesome it was.

And very nice guide, EG! I'll be sure to try and find it for when the time comes!

[QUOTE="johnlennon28"]ok Im in ch 11 just finish taejn's tower but so far I havent had any troubles with any enemies or bosses, they're all easy to beat, how many chapters there is and does it gets harder? Ive played ff10 and 12 and I remember having a lots of frustrating moments on those games because of the hard difficulty which is what makes it more rewarding and satisfying to beatTheEldestGod

Wheres a good lving spot at gran pluse? I've been staying at and area with 2 of those 4 wolf looking thingsgives (1760 per group) andkilling thesehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-uFwoxm3Y(6600 every time) I can barley kill them without getting the first strike. And when is a good time to stop grinding and move on with the story? been using: com(lighting) - rav/sen (snow) - medic/sab/rav (hope)

[QUOTE="TheEldestGod"][QUOTE="johnlennon28"]ok Im in ch 11 just finish taejn's tower but so far I havent had any troubles with any enemies or bosses, they're all easy to beat, how many chapters there is and does it gets harder? Ive played ff10 and 12 and I remember having a lots of frustrating moments on those games because of the hard difficulty which is what makes it more rewarding and satisfying to beatjohnlennon28

Wheres a good lving spot at gran pluse? I've been staying at and area with 2 of those 4 wolf looking thingsgives (1760 per group) andkilling thesehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-uFwoxm3Y(6600 every time) I can barley kill them without getting the first strike. And when is a good time to stop grinding and move on with the story? been using: com(lighting) - rav/sen (snow) - medic/sab/rav (hope)

shadow13702

Make some Speed Shoes - they give Auto-Haste for 1minute or so which is fine for most regular battles. On boss battles, I'd recommend switching someone in who has the Haste spell so it'll last longer though.

Spam Mission 7 until the crown or tiara drops (they are actual drops from the boss of that mission, not a mission reward). If you get a crown, upgrade it to max (star), then upgrade that again (I forget what catalyst you need) to get Speed Shoes. If you get a Tiara, upgrade it to max (star), then dismantle it for the Speed Shoes.

And yeah, after I got Haste on Sazh, I refused to play without it, lol. Without it, the battle system feels soooo slow.

Just put Sazh into my Party. I never knew Haste was that awesome. Are there other ways to get the ATB Bar to speed up so fast? I can barely fight without haste now since w/o it, everything feels soooooo slow.. Like playing Noel's Running Speed and then switching over to Tager.. lolShoooryuken

I just make sure to have Shrouds at all times, and if I'm in a fight that takes longer than a Haste buff duration, then I'm doing something wrong xD

[QUOTE="shadow13702"]

Wheres a good lving spot at gran pluse? I've been staying at and area with 2 of those 4 wolf looking thingsgives (1760 per group) andkilling thesehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-uFwoxm3Y(6600 every time) I can barley kill them without getting the first strike. And when is a good time to stop grinding and move on with the story? been using: com(lighting) - rav/sen (snow) - medic/sab/rav (hope)

TheEldestGod

How hard is the Wladislaus btw? Im pretty sureI can't kill him withall my chac being lv 3 max.

Yeah, its a bummer, but the ending is one of the best i've ever seen. TheEldestGod

I hated the ending

[spoiler] There were so many questions left open that I was like "WTF? they really introduced all those characters and don't even wanna give me the slightest bit of info on what happened to them, like Hope's dad, Team NORA, Rygdea, the people of Cocoon!? It's like they were worthless when it was all over. It also went way too quick, I wanted to see more of what happened afterward, like maybe Snow and Sarah's wedding? People of Cocoon rebuilding and trying to create a new place to live, just something that tells us what everyone's up to like FF 10 and 12. [/spoiler]

Final Fantasy X still has the best ending of the series for me

[QUOTE="TheEldestGod"][QUOTE="shadow13702"]

Wheres a good lving spot at gran pluse? I've been staying at and area with 2 of those 4 wolf looking thingsgives (1760 per group) andkilling thesehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-uFwoxm3Y(6600 every time) I can barley kill them without getting the first strike. And when is a good time to stop grinding and move on with the story? been using: com(lighting) - rav/sen (snow) - medic/sab/rav (hope)

How hard is the Wladislaus btw? Im pretty sureI can't kill him withall my chac being lv 3 max.

[QUOTE="TheEldestGod"]Yeah, its a bummer, but the ending is one of the best i've ever seen. TheWestCoastDon

I hated the ending

[spoiler] There were so many questions left open that I was like "WTF? they really introduced all those characters and don't even wanna give me the slightest bit of info on what happened to them, like Hope's dad, Team NORA, Rygdea, the people of Cocoon!? It's like they were worthless when it was all over. It also went way too quick, I wanted to see more of what happened afterward, like maybe Snow and Sarah's wedding? People of Cocoon rebuilding and trying to create a new place to live, just something that tells us what everyone's up to like FF 10 and 12. [/spoiler]

Final Fantasy X still has the best ending of the series for me

i had to sell my copy :-(

i had to sell my copy :-(

gizmo_dave100

[QUOTE="gizmo_dave100"]

i had to sell my copy :-(

-Hoax-

i had to sell my copy :-(

right now im in front of the last boss of chapter 11. i that the point where i wont come back to grandpulse until i finish the game? how the hell does teleporting work in this game? if i want to go back to the beginning of chapter 11.. am i supposed to run the whole way? this cant be true..Shoooryuken

[QUOTE="gizmo_dave100"][QUOTE="-Hoax-"] Did you finish the game?TheEldestGod

[QUOTE="TheEldestGod"][QUOTE="gizmo_dave100"] yeah, just didnt get to go back and so some other things i wanted to, saturday nighti lost my phone and spent about 240-260 quid so am totally skint till pay day :-(gizmo_dave100