You may have missed watching the Treasure Sphere you start with. Journey's Start I believe it's called.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster |OT| G - A - F in position, it's showtime gurlz!
- Thread starter ULTROS!
- Start date
You may have missed watching the Treasure Sphere you start with. Journey's Start I believe it's called.
FFX-2 has been fun so far, but it seems very different from a normal RPG. I'm almost to chapter 5 and I feel like I haven't fought very much... I'm only around level 34. I've been hearing that Trema is super hard, so does that mean I'm going to have to grind 50+ levels in this one chapter? Seems odd.
Wolf Akela
Member
What are the odds of Dark Yojimbo dropping 4-slot BHPL+Ribbon? I have never seen a Ribbon. I'm starting to think it's easier to just farm Dark Matter.
Nervosity. Despite mstevens' advice, I kept counting, so I knew how many were left. The last 20 lightnings were hellish.
Thanks. Now I've finally got all celestial weapons. Next up, I'm gonna try Dark Valefor again, so I can finally get the last Jecht's Sphere from Besaid.
X-2 5th chapter is killing me, I forgot how much stuff is to do there, seemingly there is no end to it.
don't worry, that's normal, I'm in chapter 5 now and my girls are around 30 lvls. Then again, I probably will finish a game with the fiend team. Have you any good monsters trained?
Keep in mind that those kind of levels won't help you much with side stuff in chapter 5, but if you do it with your team, you'll level some, my fiend team is close to 50 lvls, and I haven't done even half of sidequests in chapter 5 (haven't used any tricks too), but I fought quite a few tournaments in the fiend arena.
For me really really rare, I haven't got single one with that combination, and I killed him more times I had wish to count. I got one with curse resistance added, though.
don't worry, that's normal, I'm in chapter 5 now and my girls are around 30 lvls. Then again, I probably will finish a game with the fiend team. Have you any good monsters trained?
Keep in mind that those kind of levels won't help you much with side stuff in chapter 5, but if you do it with your team, you'll level some, my fiend team is close to 50 lvls, and I haven't done even half of sidequests in chapter 5 (haven't used any tricks too), but I fought quite a few tournaments in the fiend arena.
For me really really rare, I haven't got single one with that combination, and I killed him more times I had wish to count. I got one with curse resistance added, though.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
For the sphere grid completion trophy, is there a method I should be following for max stats? Guides I've found all say different things.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jXaxEeKidi0
That video brought back a lot of memories. They had some very nice marketing for this HD release. This was sent in an e-mail. I'm happy I bought my copy.
That video brought back a lot of memories. They had some very nice marketing for this HD release. This was sent in an e-mail. I'm happy I bought my copy.
Max DEF, STR, MDF, AGL. Don't worry about HP, MP, MAG.
Get a few Luck Spheres to get your luck up to about 130.
Fill everything else up with MDF spheres since they're the easiest to farm. To save you time, after you do all of the post-game bosses, clear the Luck spheres and replace them with MDF spheres too.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Is it possible to defeat Pennance without maxish Luck? Not including Zanmato. Earth Eater is such a waste of time.
I suppose technically, yeah. It'll just take a lot longer because you'll be missing a lot and potentially not doing 99999 if you aren't critting.
Cheer, Cheer, Cheer, Cheer, Cheer and you should be fine.
Or Rikku's Ultra NulAll mix.
I could be approaching this wrong because I'm a FFX-2 noob, but right now I'm going through all the side stuff in chapter 5 and bribing bosses if they're too hard because I want to get the last dressphere (mascot) out of the way. Then, once all the episodes are complete, I'm going to go to thunder plains and train up to level 70. I don't want to get too high because I want to use thieves in Via against the level 80 boss to get the 99 chains. Then, I'll train up to 99 and try Trema.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Gha. I really want the platinum in this game as it's a goal I set out to achieve when I bought it. The time sink is way more than I thought it was. Thanks for the help
Ugh so frustrated. I slogged my way up to level 80 in the Via Infinito underleveled because I wanted to get this 99 chain trophy before I got too strong, so I wouldn't kill the boss.
Now that I'm up here hours later, I can't get the chain to work. I've tried 0 speed bracers, 1 and 2. I always get up to about 40 and then it starts over.
edit: Ahh the ole neogaf reverse psychology post. Got it... tried slowing down and it actually worked better.
Now that I'm up here hours later, I can't get the chain to work. I've tried 0 speed bracers, 1 and 2. I always get up to about 40 and then it starts over.
edit: Ahh the ole neogaf reverse psychology post. Got it... tried slowing down and it actually worked better.
This is amazing.
coolfighter1993
Banned
Anyone want to sell Final Fantasy X (Vita) to me for about £15? I don't want to spend £30 as I dislike X-2.
Yes, 85 should be fine.
FYI, if you just want the trophy, you can hit as many poles as you want on the way down.
Spectrasonic
Member
The trick is to win the race before you try the 5 chests race. The chocobo runs at half speed when you win the previous race.
Don't mind hitting the poles. You can hit the poles.
badcrumble
Member
Wait, for real?
Spectrasonic
Member
Yup, I didn't believe it either at first. Really strange that it exists.
Why didn't I know this before holy... I may just be about to fall in love with you.
badcrumble
Member
That must make it almost trivial to accomplish, then.
badcrumble
Member
Just tested and that's definitely not true.
badcrumble
Member
It's still very very iffy, but yeah. If you do everything right you'll still end up with at most a 1-2 second lead on the other chocobo after getting 5 chests, I think. Running into walls and taking curves too wide is the biggest obstacle to success.
Spectrasonic
Member
Uh, yes it does. Here, I just made a Youtube video showing step-by-step how to do the Remiem Race trick:
http://youtu.be/RVRJTY1uBOs
Awesome.
I just finished Chocobo Master. I did it in about 45 minutes and I think it was around 15 tries total.
Now have the two hardest mini-games out the way (for me), both Chocobo races. Both of which I could not do when I first played X on the PS2.
I think my reflexes may be getting better in my old age!
I just finished Chocobo Master. I did it in about 45 minutes and I think it was around 15 tries total.
Now have the two hardest mini-games out the way (for me), both Chocobo races. Both of which I could not do when I first played X on the PS2.
I think my reflexes may be getting better in my old age!
Awesome.
I just finished Chocobo Master. I did it in about 45 minutes and I think it was around 15 tries total.
Now have the two hardest mini-games out the way (for me), both Chocobo races. Both of which I could not do when I first played X on the PS2.
I think my reflexes may be getting better in my old age!
opposite seems to be true for me, I found everything being harder in FFX this time around, finally I gave up on chocobo catcher and I now vividly remember why I said back then, that FFX is a great game, but I'm not doing most of side stuff ever again (><)
I cannot beat Trema. I've tried about 10 times and I'm just going to give up. I'm even doing the "stress free" way of bribing paragon and trying to mix miracle drinks, but I can't get them off because Rikku dies in one attack when she's an alchemist. Even when she does get one off, it doesn't last long enough to get anything done. I have no idea why it isn't working for me.. I'm using all the best accessories I have access to, too.
So it looks like I'm going to have to do a new game + and try creature creator. Is there certain creatues I can get early on and train all game that can take on Trema?
Thanks
So it looks like I'm going to have to do a new game + and try creature creator. Is there certain creatues I can get early on and train all game that can take on Trema?
Thanks
badcrumble
Member
If you can possibly get the Adamantite accessory from the Gunner's Gauntlet, it ought to keep her alive as an Alchemist long enough to get that one Mix off. Then try switching off to Mascots with Auto-Protect learned?
I think the trick to this game is to complain about it... and then succeed.
Somehow did it. The biggest thing I changed was I put my adamantite on Paine (Mascot with break hp limit and invincible accessory for break damage) to make at least one almost indestructible character. Then, since I kept having issues with Rikku dying on the first turn, I gave her the GG that is +20 def every time you move. I started her on Mascot -> Dark Knight so she would have some defense as she moved around, and then brought her back to alchemist. Did a similar thing with Yuna till she got to mascot. Then I buffed everyone, sucked Trema's MP, and then did a Stamina Spring to double everyone's HP/
Once that foundation was set, it was fairly smooth.
Phew!
Somehow did it. The biggest thing I changed was I put my adamantite on Paine (Mascot with break hp limit and invincible accessory for break damage) to make at least one almost indestructible character. Then, since I kept having issues with Rikku dying on the first turn, I gave her the GG that is +20 def every time you move. I started her on Mascot -> Dark Knight so she would have some defense as she moved around, and then brought her back to alchemist. Did a similar thing with Yuna till she got to mascot. Then I buffed everyone, sucked Trema's MP, and then did a Stamina Spring to double everyone's HP/
Once that foundation was set, it was fairly smooth.
Phew!
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
After playing FFX on Vita and PS3 I think the Vita version is better.Particularly the load times. Really surprised how much better they are on Vita. Haven't started X-2 yet.
For anyone that is going to work on the FFX-2 beastiary, I found this really useful guide.
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=82035
It even breaks which monsters are on which floors, so I'm just going through the whole thing and crossing them out as I oversoul. Hope this helps!
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=82035
It even breaks which monsters are on which floors, so I'm just going through the whole thing and crossing them out as I oversoul. Hope this helps!
I have to admit, friends ending up so much more powerful than the actual party was pretty disappointing. Kind of drained my excitement for the whole thing.
Yeah, I quickly surmised that was going to be the case, so the only time I ever used fioends outside of the arena was to kill Trema, and that was because they'd already beaten him in the arena. The arena largely seems to be tuned to the increased power level of fiends, so it worked out well as a means of keeping either half of the game from being too easy/difficult. Likewise, Major Numerus was a nice little strategic challenge, but even he got dwarfed in power by my fiend team once they beat him a few times and I fed them his drops.
Really isn't much grinding. They level up quickly, the best abilities aren't difficult to come by, they use the same accessories you'd want for YRP, and the only stat you'd really need to "grind" through feeding items (HP) is the easiest one to build by far.