Board 8 > Punny finishes FFX. *hums Aurons theme*

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm giving Doubles to my main team, Tidus, Wakka, and Auron

My reasoning is that they've already gained so many levels being the primary monster hunters that they're already ahead of everyone and don't need Triple OD

alright

setting them to Comrade (Except the dying one, right?)

and then fighting Don Tonberry. here we go
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Omega is barely harder than storyline bosses
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Yeah, Omega isn't really hard at all.
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alright so uh

I just did it

took awhile for the tonberry to die

....everybody got a million AP

HOLY FUCK MAN
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Hmmm, would SOS Overdrive help even more?

Also I can't help but feel Auto Phoenix Would help as well
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nvm SOS OD can only be attached to a weapon

though I do think Auto Phoenix will help, I'll do that
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Auto Phoenix is good, as is Auto Haste.

You also still get AP from this method if you run.

(Auto Haste is from Chocobo Wings: Bribe Machea for 360,000 gil for 60 wings)
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About the Lvl 4 spheres, you want to bribe the Calm Land Chimeras for them. I think it's 200,000 Gil.
You can either run around in the Calm Lands until you encounter them, or you just fight them from the Monster Arena, which costs some Gil, but saves you the headache of searching for them. I suggest the Monster Arena.

The ideal strategy for getting red spheres is, again, the Monster Arena. There are two bosses that drop 40 items after Overkill. It's Kottos (purple guy with 4 arms who loves countering) or the Species Dragon creature (don't remember the name). I think Wakka with Attack Reels can OHKO either of them, if he's strong enough.
So just use a distiller or the ability before killing him, and you'll get 40 of your desired sphere. You might only get 2 if you're unlucky (1/8 chance). That means your drop would have been a 2 Dark Matters.
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I actually discovered that in my own , believe it or not!

He's in the same category as the ton berry and i used The Leon Sisters to kill him

Imagine my jaw dropping when I saw 40 spheres and how pissed I was after seeing how much time I wasted earlier

So yea guys! NOT DINGOS

KOTTOS

Dammit
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This topic makes me want to play FFX more and actually try and get all the celestial weapons/grind and fight the optional bosses.
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Once you have all the necessary weapons and the correct strategy, getting the sphere levels is easy. The grind comes when you realize you have 99 levels to go through for each character and you've got to do it one at a time to get everything.

I couldn't handle it after awhile.
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Glad the Don Tonberry method lives on.
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Maniac64 posted...

This topic makes me want to play FFX more and actually try and get all the celestial weapons/grind and fight the optional bosses.

this topic makes it look easy, eh?

Everybody is putting their heads together and sometimes someone comes up with something another person didn't know

Theres still grinding to do, but this was not nearly as hard as I thought it was gonna be

I cannot IMAGINE someone doing full sphere grids legit
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Don't tell SHINE but uh

I'm thinkin about going out of my way to platinum this game. >_>

if you know me, you know this isn't a normal occurrence but apparently you get money for trophies now
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It takes an absurd amount of trophies just to get 10 bucks, but hey, go for it.
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LeonhartFour posted...

It takes an absurd amount of trophies just to get 10 bucks, but hey, go for it.

I'm pretty much like, already there anyways. Ya know?

"May as well"
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so I just grinded for more spheres

Thanks purple sasquatch! I guess I'll need some lvl 4 spheres
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*Bribes a chimera brain from the Calm lands for 200k*

*Gets 2 spheres*

HNNNNRRRRRGGGG
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hey NFun, didn't you tell me to do something really weird?

I don't remember what it was
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Is there a good monster to grind stat spheres from?

I may as well be filling those up too
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*Bribes Chimera again*

*Misses*

WHAT THE FUCK
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I've heard stories about Wakka's Attack Reels being bad ass, but I can do more damage with a regular ass hit >_>

is there something I'm missing?
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Punnyz posted...

hey NFun, didn't you tell me to do something really weird?

I don't remember what it was

Equip Auron and Tidus with their Celestials, find a nice meaty boss, basic attack it with them both, then kill Auron and Tidus and flee. Immediately rematch the boss and attack it again.
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Punnyz posted...

I've heard stories about Wakka's Attack Reels being bad ass, but I can do more damage with a regular ass hit >_>

is there something I'm missing?

If you get 3 two-hits, you attack 12 fucking times.
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NFUN posted...

Punnyz posted...

I've heard stories about Wakka's Attack Reels being bad ass, but I can do more damage with a regular ass hit >_>

is there something I'm missing?

If you get 3 two-hits, you attack 12 fucking times.

like, each hit is like 9k-10k

Okay, sure, it does around 20k more

but it doesn't seem like its worth the effort trying to set up the slots when I can just easily hit attack and do 100k easily
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I'm grinding Earth Eater here

I'm trying to figure out a quick way to kill him, but the overdrives are just ...I dunno, they've seemed to have lost their effectiveness

I already mentioned Wakka

Auron's seemingly does like 2 hits for around 10k-20k each

and Tidus' only does like 5k per hit

again, hitting attack does 100k >_>
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Auron has auto phoenix still

so basically all I'm doing is hitting earth eater, getting killed by flare, auto phoenix, and repeat

if Auron dies, just use a turn reviving him

and using haste when necessary

can't help but feel theres a better way >_>
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What weapons are they using?
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Celestials
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hmm. Pretty sure celestials ignore defense.

Attack Reels are good when you start batting near the damage cap and need multiple hits to fuck things about.

Also invest in Quick Hit.
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Flare is an automatic counter

Quick Hit doesn't help with that
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HE KEEPS HITTING AURON

STOP THAT

Fuck
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where can i get purple strength and defense spheres
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Punnyz posted...

like, each hit is like 9k-10k

Okay, sure, it does around 20k more

but it doesn't seem like its worth the effort trying to set up the slots when I can just easily hit attack and do 100k easily

Maximum damage with 1 hit is 99999

Attack Reels does 12 hits
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like I said, the 12 hits don't do that much. they do like 10 k each

But I guess its because I haven't min maxed the sphere grid and maxed out Wakka's attack

actually that shouldn't be, right? He does fucking max on his regular attack >_>
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Punnyz posted...

min maxed the sphere grid

what is this heresy?

you max-max the sphere grid
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Punnyz posted...

where can i get purple strength and defense spheres

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Juggernaut, Tanket
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theres only 4 purple spheres, right?

Those two and Luck and M defense, right?
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uh, no

there's one for every stat

just fight species monsters for them
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does anybody know how many luck nodes there are? I actually tried finding this answer by myself but can't find anything definitive

trying to figure out how much Fortune Spheres I need
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Punnyz posted...

trying to figure out how much Fortune Spheres I need

Way too many. I think there is about +20 luck on the grid at first but might be even less than that.
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Fenir = Agility Spheres

orin whatever = gambler spirits

pter=evasion

Hornet=Accuracy

Vidatu=MP spheres

Jumbo Flans=Magic
BUT it takes too fucking long to kill him

Ironclad=HP Spheres

Bomb=door to tomorrow

Sleep Sprout=teleport sphere

Fafnir Light Curtains

Nega Element=two stars
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I didn't think it would happen AGAIN but this playthrough is at a screeching halt once more

I'm gonna grind for at least 30 agility, evasion, and accuracy spheres before I continue on

I'm paving the way on the sphere grid using Tidus and in doing all of this, it will guarantee that most people will get 255, which is apparently the max, on most of their stats

I probably won't do this for magic though, like I said, the Boss Flan just takes too long to take down, thus grinding him will be like 5x longer than the other spheres

so, How hard is it to 100% FFX2? <_>
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it occurred to me that I kept skipping over the empty nodes, I COULD be using this opportunity to be filling them with something useful. I also didn't realize at first that opening a key node leaves an empty node open.

while I won't be doing anything weird like changing nodes nor maxing out Luck, I'll be at least maxing out what I can in a "May as well" manner. Since I"m already here

I'm saying "May as well" alot but its whats snowballing me out of control

OH WELL
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In addition to the other purple spheres, there's also Luck Spheres from Spherimorph 2.0 (original creation)

Celestial Weapons ignore defense with Attack and all similar abilities (status busters, breaks, Quick Hit, etc.), but ODs don't ignore defense. That's why your overdrives are currently not doing the crazy damage you'd expect. As you bring that strength stat closer to 255, you'll find Wakka's Attack Reels doing 1.2 million, eventually. You won't hit those numbers against Dark Aeons, but Monster Arena creatures don't have anywhere near as much defense. Most Area or Species bosses can be OHKO'd by Wakka's AR. Original Creations won't go down quite as easily.

Unrelated, but you'll also want to use Anima's OD sometime, if you haven't used in a while. 1,6 million with one action is just beautiful (I remember this worked on the wolf)
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100%ing FFX-2 is like a million times easier than X, the leveling system is much more traditional and there is no customising weapons so there's 0 "grind 99 of X item per character to create their ultimate armor" and such.
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The only problem with FFX-2 100% is that there are a ton of random conditions and scenes that get you % points that you basically need to follow a walkthrough unless you're willing to do it over multiple playthroughs.
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The only problem with FFX-2 100% is that you have to play FFX-2
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I've attempted multiple times to play through and 100% FFX-2, but even with following guides step by step, I was always missing .1% or so by the end of chapter 2, so I've given up on the game altogether.
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