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Why would you buy it when you can read this document here for free? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== =============== ================= =============== Play 1 hour at least have 10 minutes rest ================= =============== ================= =============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .=====================. | Table of Contents | *press 'Ctrl' and 'F' keys together, then key in the '=====================' codes for the topic you want to read and press Find < Topic > .............................. < Codes > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | 1. Introduction ............................ [s010] | | 2. Guide Version ........................... [s020] | | 3. Characters .............................. [s030] | | | | 4. System | | - 4-1 Basic ............................. [s041] | | - 4-2 License Board ..................... [s042] | | - 4-3 Gambit System ..................... [s043] | | - 4-4 Mist Knack / Quickening ........... [s044] | | | | 5. Status .................................. [s050] | | [ Effect, how to cure, translation ] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 6. Walkthrough *UPDATED | | | | - Nalbina Fortress .................. sep001 | | - Royal City Of Rabanastre .......... sep002 | | - Giza Plains ...................... sep003 | | - Royal City Of Rabanastre .......... sep004 | | - Garamsythe Waterway ............... sep005 | | - The Royal Palace Of Rabanastre .... sep006 | | - Garamsythe Waterway .............. sep007 | | - The Nalbina Dungeons .............. sep008 | | - The Barheim Passage .............. sep009 | | | | - Royal City Of Rabanastre .......... sep010 | | - The SkyCity Of Bhujerba ........... sep011 | | - Dreadnough Leviathan ............. sep012 | | - The Ogir-Yensa Sandsea ............ sep013 | | - The Nam-Yensa Sandsea ............. sep014 | | - The Tomb Of Raithwall ............. sep015 | | | | - Royal City Of Rabanastre .......... sep016 | | - Giza Plains ...................... sep017 | | - Ozmone Plains ..................... sep018 | | - Jahara, Land Of The Garif ......... sep019 | | - The Golmore Jungle ................ sep020 | | - Eruyt Village .................... sep021 | | - Henne Mines ...................... sep022 | | - The Golmore Jungle ................ sep023 | | - The Paramina Rift ................. sep024 | | - Mt. Bur Omisace .................. sep025 | | - Stilshrine Of Miriam .............. sep026 | | | | - Mosphoran Highwaste ............... sep027 | | - The Salikawood ................... sep028 | | - Phon Coast ...................... sep029 | | - The Tchita Uplands ................ sep030 | | - The Sochen Cave Palace ............ sep031 | | - Old Archades .................... sep032 | | - The Imperial City Of Archades ..... sep033 | | - The Draklor Laboratory ............ sep034 | | | | - The Port At Balfonheim ............ sep035 | | - The Feywood ..................... sep036 | | - The Ancient City Of Giruvegan ..... sep037 | | - The Ridorana Cataract ............ sep038 | | - The Pharos At Ridorana ............ sep039 | | - Sky Fortress Bahamut .............. sep040 | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 6b. Side Area *UPDATED | | | | - Dalmasca Westersand ............... sep041 | | - The Barheim Passage ............... sep042 | | - Zertinan Caverns .................. sep043 | | - Garamsythe Waterway ............... sep044 | | - Cerobi Steppe ..................... sep045 | | - Nabreus Deadlands ................. sep046 | | - Necrohol Of Nabudis ............... sep047 | | - The Lhusu Mines ................... sep048 | | - The Great Crystal ................. sep049 | | - Pharos At Ridorana - Subterra ..... sep050 | | - The Henne Mines ................... sep051 | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game | | | | - 7a-1 Clan Centurio .................... [s7a1] | | - 7a-2 Mob Hunt (with strategy) ......... [s7a2] | | - 7a-3 Back To Barheim Passage .......... [s7a3] | | - 7a-4 Fishing Mini-Game ................ [s7a4] | | - 7a-5 80 Rare Monsters ................. [s7a5] | | - 7a-6 Cockatrice Find ................. [s7a6] | | - 7a-7 Balfonheim Race ................. [s7a7] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 7b. Sub-Event | | | | - 7b-1 7 Sisters ....................... [s7b1] | | - 7b-2 Bhujerban Madhu .................. [s7b2] | | - 7b-3 Julie The Female Spy ............. [s7b3] | | - 7b-4 Viera Lover ..................... [s7b4] | | - 7b-5 Pilika's Diary ................... [s7b5] | | - 7b-6 New Recruit - Jovy ............... [s7b6] | | - 7b-7 Ktjn's Decision .................. [s7b7] | | - 7b-8 Other Sub-Events ................. [s7b8] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 8. Esper / Summon .......................... [s080] | | [ How to get, limit break style ] | | | | 9. Optional Bosses ......................... [s090] | | [ All secret bosses in the game ] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 10. Magic & Skill ........................... [s100] | | [ Shops location ] | | | | 11. Weapons ................................. [s110] | | [ Usage, Shops/Locations ] | | | | 12. Shield & Armor .......................... [s120] | | [ Usage, Shops/Locations ] | | | | 13. Accessories ............................. [s130] | | [ Usage, Shops/Locations ] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 14. Secret Matters | | | | - 14-1 Sky Pirate's Den Characters ...... [s141] | | - 14-2 Rare Bestiary Hunts .............. [s142] | | - 14-3 Special Trading ................ [s143] | | - 14-4 Feed The Wild Saurian ............ [s144] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 15. Extra Informations | | | | - 15-1 Airship Flights .................. [s151] | | - 15-2 Maps Location ................... [s152] | | - 15-3 Bazaar Goods List ................ [s153] | | - 15-4 Usage Of Loot .................... [s154] | | - 15-5 Local Treasure List .............. [s155] | |___________________________________________________________________| | | | 16. Contact ................................. [s160] | | 17. Credit .................................. [s170] | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __ / | | | __ |_||__| ______________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ___ | __ _|_ __ __ __| __ _|_ ' __ __ | | | | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | _|_ | | |_ | |__| |__| |__| |__ |_ | |__| | | _____ \\ \______________________________________________________ .======================|_____________________________________________________/ =| 1. Introduction []___________________________________________________/ '======================( / \_/~~' [s010] _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ - About Me - Thanks for clicking on the guide. Hi, you can just call me Seph or Sephirosuy, caused of somebody like to jokes on my name, I could be acceptable if you call Zeph. Anyway, I'm a contributor of video games since December 2005, but this is not my proper job, though I wish to be. I love video games, and I don't just want to play video games for entertaining, but no way in my country allow me to exploit all my ideas, it's too bad for me. I won't give up, I try to prove myself that I'm not only a video game player, and that's why I became a video games contributor. Before I really get to my proper job in my life, I've spended all free times on the video games contribution, and this is one of my elaborately works, hope you enjoy the guide. - About the guide - This is a FAQs/Walkthrough for the game Final Fantasy XII, made by Square Enix. The guide is based on Sony Playstation 2 NTSC/J version, which released on 16th of March 2006. I will not explain much about the events during the game, but still include some SPOILERs of the game. Currently I'm revising the whole guide for matching with the US version, so that it could be used for both version. For easy understanding, I've written down both Japanese and English name for certain materials that had different names, so what I mean is the revised guide is actually can be used for both version of Final Fantasy XII. Some translations were included in the guide as well, but the actual names might be different with the English version. When using certain translator to view these Japanese words, the default font and the shape of non-Japanese words in the guide might run away, so I suggest don't open any translator or encode with different font type when you don't need to read those Japanese words. The guide was done by Notepad, I guess it could display everything properly, so recommend view this guide by Notepad if possible. In case you don't know how to encode, 'Right-Click' on the page, 'Encoding' -> 'Japanese Shift-JIS'. The lastest version of the guide will always comes to GameFAQs first. There's some other guides which can be referenced as well. I know somebody would like to read everything in once, but sorry for separated them, for certain reasons, I have to do this. - Ability List http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_ability.txt - 80 Rare Monsters http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_80_rare.txt - Bazaar Goods & Loots FAQ http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_bazaar_loot.txt - Accessories FAQ http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_accessories.txt - Armors/Helms FAQ http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_armor.txt - Gilgamesh Guide http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_gilgamesh.txt *** Maps *** - Crystal Grande Upper Layer Map in Giruvegan db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_crystal_grande_upper.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/crystal_map.jpg - Henne Mines Secret Areas http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_henne_secret.png - Necrohol Of Nabudis Analisis Map http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_nabudis.png - Pharos At Ridorana - Subterra Map http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_ridorana_subterra.png - Dewdrop Pebble Locations http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_dewdrop.png - 80 Rare Monsters Location Map http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_rare_01_20.png http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_rare_21_40.png http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_rare_41_60.png http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_rare_61_80.png |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ____ \__ \ / __/ __ \___\|__| ____________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ___ | | ' __| __ \ / __ __ ' __ __ | __ | | | | | |__| \ / |__||__ | | | | | |___| |__| | |__| |__ V |__ __| | |__| | | _____ \\ \______________________________________________________ .=======================|____________________________________________________/ =| 2. Guide Version []__________________________________________________/ '=======================( / \_/~~' [s020] _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Ver. Data M/D/Y -------- ----------- 0.1 3/21/2006 - covered minor walkthrough 0.2 3/23/2006 - walkthrough around 60% 0.3 3/24/2006 - more walkthrough added, corrected some error 0.4 3/26/2006 - more walkthrough added 0.5 3/28/2006 - "Side Quest" and "Esper/Summon" section added 0.6 3/31/2006 - completed main walkthrough - "Side Quest" and Esper/Summon" section updated 0.7 4/04/2006 - optional bosses added in "Side Quest" - fixed some errors in mob hunt section 0.8 4/06/2006 - minor upgrades for "walkthrough" section - minor upgrades for "Esper/Summon" section 0.9 4/13/2006 - more details for "Esper/Summon" section - Back To Barheim Passage added in "Side Quest" 1.0 4/21/2006 - Clan Centurio added in "Side Quest" - minor upgrades for Mob Hunt 1.1 5/11/2006 - "Magic Shop List" added - re-arrange "Side Quest" section - "Optional Bosses" splited out; more bosses. - completed "Esper/Summon" section 1.2 6/19/2006 - "Secret Matters" section added - Esper Limit Break requirement added in "Esper/Summon" - "Magic Shop List" became "Magic & Skills" - "Status", "Weapon", "Shield & Armor" section added - Urgrade "Optional Bosses" & "System" section 1.3 7/04/2006 - Translation and Details added in 'Special Trading' - Some more information in "Introduction" section - Completed "Shield & Armor" section - 'Cockatrice Find', 'Fishing Mini-Game' added under "Side Quest" section - 'Spirit Appearance' added under "Secret Matters" - more details on "Weapon" section. - "Sub-Event" section added. 1.3a 7/13/2006 - some correction on Gilgamesh optional boss. 1.3b 8/16/2006 - 'July The Female Spy' added under "Sub-Event" - 'Balfonheim Race' added under "Side Quest/Mini Game" - More details on 'Clan Centurio', '80 Rare Monters' and 'Fishing Mini-Game". - Corrections of '7 Sisters' and 'Special Trading'. 1.4 11/07/2006 - "Walkthrough" revised to Phon Coast. - Details on 'Back To Barheim Passage' section - 'Sky Pirate's Den Characters' added under "Secrat Matters" - "Extra Informations" section added (incomplete). 1.5 11/15/2006 - "Walkthrough" revised to Pharos At Ridorana. - 'Airship Flighs' & 'Maps Location' done "Extra Informations" section. - 'Pilika's Diary' added under "Sub-Event" section. - Minor revision on "Secret Matters" section. - "Side Area" section added (incomplete). 1.6 11/23/2006 - Done revision on the "Walkthrough". - Lot of "Side Area" added, the remaining area is Henne Mines. - Revision on all equipments section, "Secret Matter" & 'Mob Hunt' as well. - Minor upgrade on "Esper / Summon" and "Magic & Skill" section. 1.7 12/11/2006 - Discovered more extra stuff in the Hunt Shop for '80 Rare Monsters' - 'New Recruit - Jovy' and 'Ktjn's Decision' added under "Sub-Event". - Shop Statistic added in 'Necrohol of Nabudis' under "Side Area". - 'The Henne Mines' added under "Side Area" section. - More details on Gilgamesh fight under "Optional Bosses" - New strategies on Daedalus, Hydro and Fenrir bosses. - Strategies on 'Mob Hunt' (incomplete). - Correction and more details on 'Special Trading' section. - Correction on Fomalhaut under "Weapon" section. - 'Mist Knack/Quickening' added under "System" section. - Complete everything in 'Clan Centrio' section. - Correction on 'Bhujerba Souls', now changed to 'Bhujerban Madhu'. - Some more Esper battle details in "Esper / Summon" section. 1.7a (Merry Christmas) 12/25/2006 - Grammer correction by Morgan Gottfried up to Salikawood. - More details on "Esper / Summon" section. Limit Break Requirement changed to 'Esper Fighting Style'. - More strategies on 'Mob Hunt' section. - Minor upgrade "Character" section. - 'Other Sub-Events' added under "Sub-Event". 1.8 02/02/2007 - New Strategy on Hell Wyrm, under "Optional Bosses. - New Strategy on Yiazmat under 'Mob Hunt' or "Optional Bosses". - Some unidentified features discovered - 'Back To Barheim Passage', how exactly to get the extra reward. - '80 Rare Monsters', covered all the missing stuff in the Hunt Shop. - 'Fishing Mini-Game', the possible items and Ada's Trading. - 'Feed The Wild Saurian' added under "Secret Matters" section. - 'Bazaar Goods List' added under "Extra Informations". - 'Usage Of Loot' added under "Extra Informations". - 'Local Treasure List' added under "Extra Informations". - A few Drop/Steal item discover on various monsters (different location) SEP (1.9) 03/23/2007 - 'Entite Appearance' changed as 'Rare Bestiary Hunts' now it's covered more special monsters have certain spawning condition. - 'Local Treasure List' completed. - More Drop/Steal item discover on various monsters (different location). |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ____ |__ | |__ | __ |____||__| ___________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ___ | |__ __ __ __ __ _|_ __ __ __ | | | __| |/ __| | | |__| |/ |__ |___ | | |__| | |__| |__ |_ |__ | __| _____ \\ \________________________________________________________ .====================|_______________________________________________________/ =| 3. Characters []_____________________________________________________/ '====================( / \_/~~' [s030] _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ --------------- NAME : Vaan |--------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Age : 17 A lighthearted hero who lost his parents, dreams of a Gender : Male day become an airship captain and having his own airship. Race : Hume He sets out from his home in the heart of Dalmasca to become a sky pirate. He looks on the future with an air of hope. Character Growth: HP [OOOOOOOO--] MP [OOOOO-----] Str [OOOOOOOOOO] Mag [OOOOOOOO--] Vit [OOOOOOOOOO] Spd [OOOOOOOO--] ----------------- NAME : Penelo |------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- She's lost her family in the recent war, lives among Age : 16 the same bustling streets as Vaan. Though a talented Gender : Female singer and dancer, she is no stranger to battle, having Race : Hume learned to fight from her brothers, who once belonged to an order of knights. She overcomes any obstacles in her way and exihibis strength of character in all she does. Character Growth: HP [OO--------] MP [OOOOOOOOOO] Str [OO--------] Mag [OOOOOOOOOO] Vit [OOOOOOOOO-] Spd [OOOOOO----] --------------- NAME : Ashe |--------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Age : 19 She is the daughter of Dalmasca King who dies in the war. Gender : Female Her whereabouts since the Archadian invasion are unknown. Race : Hume The rightful heir to the Dalmascan throne, she also leads the resistance, hope to bring peace back the kingdom again. Character Growth: HP [OOO-------] MP [OOOOOOOOOO] Str [OOOOO-----] Mag [OOOOOOOOOO] Vit [OOOOOO----] Spd [OOOOOO----] ------------------- NAME : Balthier |----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Age : 22 A man without a country, he nevertheless is a sky pirate Gender : Male with a code, stealing only from the wicked. Always with Race : Hume Fran as his partner since long time ago. He is neutral when it comes to the war. Character Growth: HP [OOOOOOO---] MP [OOO-------] Str [OOOOOOOO--] Mag [OO--------] Vit [OOOOOOO---] Spd [OOOOOOOOOO] --------------- NAME : Fran |--------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Age : ? One of the Viera warrior who good in bow skill. She is Gender : Female possessed of superior wisdom and stamina, also excels Race : Viera as an archer and plays an active part in maintaining the airship. A long time partner of Balflear. Character Growth: HP [OOOOO-----] MP [OOOOOOO---] Str [OOOO------] Mag [OOOOOOO---] Vit [OOOOO-----] Spd [OOOOOO----] ---------------- NAME : Basch |-------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- Age : 36 A former general of Dalmasca kingdom who has been Gender : Male victorious in numerous battles, he is a hero with a strict Race : Hume sense of justice. However, during the arbitration ceremony with the Arcadian Empire, he murders the King of Dalmasca. Find out the reason in the game... Character Growth: HP [OOOOOOOOOO] MP [OO--------] Str [OOOOOOOOOO] Mag [OOOOOO----] Vit [OOO-------] Spd [OOOOO-----] |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ___ | | | |_ | __ |_||__| ____________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ____ _ _ __ _|_ __ _ _ <___ \_/ |__ | |__| | | | ____> _/ __| |_ |__ | | | _____ \\ \___________________________________________________________ .================|___________________________________________________________/ =| 4. System []_________________________________________________________/ '================( / \_/~~' _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ 4. System 4-1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-----------O ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O Basic O O-----------O [s041] Select "New Game" come to the menu below, Config Menu: - Game start System: Controller vibration : on / off ( default is off ) Screen vibration : on / off ( default is off ) Subtitle : on / off ( default is on ) Smooth Edge : on / off ( default is on ) Sound : Pro Logic II / Stereo / Mono ( default is Stereo ) Screen Adjust Etc: - Default setting ** you can change this options during the game, it's under "Config". ------------- | Control | ------------- - Left Analog = Move character - Right Analog = Zoom / Turn camera view - D-pad = Change character / Move selection - Triangle = Open Party Menu - Square = Arrange the stuffs inside Party Menu / Open battle command - Circle = Works as "confirm/next" function / Open battle command - X = Works as "cancel/exit" function - L1 = Change page in certain option of Party Menu / Change target in battle - L2 = Zoom in / out the Map - R1 = Change page in certain option of Party Menu / Change target in battle - R2 = Zoom in / out the Map, Escape from battle - Select = Open Map screen - Start = Pause / Resume the game ---------------- | Party Menu | ---------------- Press "Triangle" button to view this menu, - Party = Set your battle member formation - Status = View character's statuses - Equipment = Change character's equipments - Licenses = View and upgrade character's License grid - Gambit = Set character's Gambit action - World Map = View the world map as well as the owned maps - Inventory = Check everything that're owned - Clan Report = Check the hunting process, bestiary, Sky Pirate's Den and adventure tips/hints. (named Clan Primer for US version) - Config = Change the game configurations, read below ----------------- | Config Menu | ----------------- You can find this under "Party Menu", Battle: Battle mode setting : wait / active ( default is wait ) Battle mode speed : slow OOOOOO fast Target line : on / off ( default is on ) Cursor position : memory / normal ( default is normal ) System: Controller vibration : on / off ( default is off ) Screen vibration : on / off ( default is off ) Subtitle : on / off ( default is on ) Smooth Edge : on / off ( default is on ) Sound : Pro Logic II / Stereo / Mono ( default is Stereo ) Screen Adjust Etc: - Default setting 4. System 4-2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------------O -------------------------------------------------------- -O License Board O O-------------------O [s042] Similar FF-X, activate the notes to raise up the attitudes of characters. For the License Board, it's no longer require the items like 'Sphere' in FF-X anymore, but it requires License Point 'LP' to learn the abilities on the board. This is very important since leveling up your character does not raise much of the stats, so you much use existing slot on the Licenses Board to strengthen your characters as well as the item usage, equipments and abilities could be learn too. So sometimes I mention "level up some more" in the guide doesn't mean to only level up your characters, you should active more other slots on the License Board to make them stronger. With the LP, characters can ativate the ability box on the License board with appointed amount of LP, and LP could be gained by defeating enemies. Each character will be awarded the same amount of LP even for those non active character (not in the main team) can also get the same LP after teamate have defeated enemy. LP will never disappear until the character has used them on the ability box. There is an existing guide about the abilities on the entire License Board, check this guide for the list of ability. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_ability.txt 4. System 4-3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------------O -------------------------------------------------------- -O Gambit System O O-------------------O [s043] Gambit System is allow player to set the actions of each character during battle, so that character can perform the actions as how the command has been arranged in the Gambit menu. At the beginning, players have only two Gambit slots for each character before activate any extra Gambit slots from License Board, the maximun slots for one character are 12. Within the Gambit menu, you can see the Gambit slot splited to three column, they are 'Gambit On/Off', 'Target', 'Action'. For the 'Target', you have to buy them from Gambit Slot before you can use it, and the Gambit target that you don't have will not display in the Gambit target selection list. Below is an example of the Gambit action: column 1 - column 2 - column 3 1. On - Ally: [KO'd] - Phoenix Down 2. On - Ally: [HP<50%] - Curaga 3. On - Foe: Nearest visible - Attack Result: - any member Dead/Ko'd, use Phoenix Down. - any member HP lower than 50%, cast Curaga. - encounter enemies, Attack the nearest target. *Curaga is named Curada in Japanese version As long as the Gambit actions is 'On'. character will always perform the upper Gambit action if the target's existing. From the example above, this character will only attack enemies if none of the characters lower than 50% HP or been Dead/KO'd. Let say if any member lower than 50% HP, he/she will stop attacking and cast Curada until the members are over 50% HP. Same as the 'Ally [KO'd]' Gambit, if anyone dead, he/she will use Phoenix Down before doing any other action. If you don't want to use Gambit action, you can just select the 'Gambit' option in the battle command menu to switch it off, select it again to switch on. If you just don't want a certain Gambit action, you can switch it off by selecting the Gambit Slot twice that's the action you don't want, remember it's inside your 'Gambit' under 'Party Menu'. 4. System 4-4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- O---------------------------O ----------------------------------------------- | Mist Knack / Quickening | --O---------------------------O [s044] *Before anything, I would like thank Shammer for his/her sincerely helps, this section is actually done by Shammer, not me. # Mist Knack = Japanese version # Quickening = US version --------------------------- < Mist Knack / Quickening > --------------------------- Mist Knack/Quickening may be performed once it has been licenced for that particular character. There are total of 18 Mist Knacks/Quickenings in the Licence Board, once the Mist Knack/Quickening is licenced by one character, no other character can licence the same one again. Each character may have up to 3 Mist Knacks/Quickenings licenced. ================================================ | Character | LVL | Name | ================================================ | Vaan | 1 | Red Spiral | | | 2 | White Whorl | | | 3 | Pyroclasm | |----------------------------------------------| | Penelo | 1 | Intercession | | | 2 | Evanescence | | | 3 | Resplendence | |----------------------------------------------| | Ashe | 1 | Northswain's Glow | | | 2 | Heaven's Wrath | | | 3 | Maelstorm's Bolt | |----------------------------------------------| | Balthier | 1 | Fires of War | | | 2 | Tides of Fate | | | 3 | Element of Treachery | |----------------------------------------------| | Fran | 1 | Feral Strike | | | 2 | Whip Kick | | | 3 | Shatterheart | |----------------------------------------------| | Basch | 1 | Fulminating Darkness | | | 2 | Ruin Impendent | | | 3 | Flame Purge | ------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- < Fusion Technique / Concurrences > ----------------------------------- When the required number of Mist Knacks/Quickenings have been performed, there will be an additional fusion technique at the end. Depending on the number and the level of Mist Knacks/Quickenings have been performed, different fusion technique will appear, each with different power and graphics effect. When multiple requirements has been met, the fusion tech with higher priority will be triggered. While Mist Knacks/Quickenings deal damage to one foe only, the fusion tech deals damage to all foes near the target. ================================================================= | Priority and Power | Name | Lv1 | Lv2 | Lv3 | ================================================================= | High | Black Hole | 4 | 4 | 4 | | | Luminescene | 3 | 3 | 3 | | | Ark Blast | 2 | 2 | 2 | | | Whiteout | - | - | 5 | | | Windburst | - | 5 | - | | | Torrent | 2 | 3 | - | | | Cataclysm | 7 | - | - | | Low | Inferno | 3 | - | - | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Doesn't matter how the name sound like or the graphics effect looks like, ALL mist knacks/quickenings and concurrences deals physical damage, and the mist knacks/quickenings damage is affect by the strength of the character that is performing it. None of it has any element effects. As for how to perform, player has to press the existing button during the Mist Knack/Quickening screen. Do the same thing for next turn till none of the skill button exists, press R2 to shift the chances, press the button when any of them exists again to chain the combo. Repeat as much as possible to make a higher combo. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ____ / __/ \__ \ __ /___/|__| ____________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ____ _|_ __ _|_ __ <___ | __| | | | |__ ____> |_ |__| |_ |__| __| _____ \\ \___________________________________________________________ .=================|__________________________________________________________/ =| 5. Status []_________________________________________________________/ '=================( / \_/~~' [s050] _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Don't be at loss when ally get negative status 5-1. --------------------- --| Negative Status |-------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- =============================================================================== | Status | Effect | Cure | =============================================================================== | Blind | Decreased attack rating by 50%. | Eye Drops, | | | | Remedy, Blindna| | | | Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Confuse | Uncontrolable and attacks ally. | Smelling Salts,| | | | Remedy (2), | | | | Esuna, | | | | Physical Hit. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Critical/ | HP less than 20%, | spells/Potions | | Lower HP | certain monster will show up. | to heal. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Dead/KO'd | Cannot participate in battle. | Phoenix Down, | | | | Raise, | | | | Arise. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Disable | All battle commands were sealed. | Remedy (1), | | | | Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Disease | Maximun HP drops to current HP amount. | Vaccine, | | | | Remedy (3), | | | | Cleanse. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Doom | Target dies when countdown reaches to 0. | Remedy (3), | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Immobilize | Moving ability was sealed. | Remedy (1), | | | | Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Oil | Get triple damage by fire element. | Handkerchief, | | | | Remedy | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Petrifying | Target becomes stone when countdown | Gold Needle, | | | reaches to 0. | Remedy (2), | | | | Stona, Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Poison | Get damage at set intervals. | Antidote, | | | | Remedy, | | | | Poisona, Esuna.| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Reverse | Increase HP when get damage, | Esuna. | | | decrease HP when get heal. | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Sap | HP decreasing. | Remedy (1), | | | | Regen, Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Silence | Magic command was sealed. | Echo Herbs, | | | | Remedy, | | | | Vox, Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Sleep | Cannot participate in battle. | Alarm Clock, | | | | Remedy (1). | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Slow | Decreased action speed by 25%. | Haste. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Stone | Cannot participate in battle. | Gold Needle, | | | | Stona, Esuna. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Stop | Cannot participate in battle. | Chronos Tear, | | | | Remedy (3). | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: * Esunaga is same as Esuna, the extra is can cure ally in an area. * Remedy (number) indicates the level of Lore requirement, without (number) means default level. _____________ / \ = Translation = \_____________/ ----------- | SPELL | ----------- - Arise = アレイズ - Blina = ブラナ - Cleanse = リブート - Esuna = エスナ - Esunaga = エスナガ - Haste = ヘイスト - Poisona = ポイゾナ - Raise = レイズ - Regen = リジェネ - Stona = ストナ - Vox = ボキャル ---------- | ITEM | ---------- - Alarm Clock = -ﾚ覚まし時 - Antidote = 毒消し - Chronos Tear = クロノスの-ﾜ - Echo Herb = やまびこ草 - Eye Drops = -ﾚ- - Gold Needle = 金の針 - Handkerchief = ぷらとり紙 - Phoenix Down = フェニックスの尾 - Potion = ポーション - Remedy = -恃\- - Smelling Salts = 気付け- - Vaccine = ワクチン ------------------- | Negative STATUS | ------------------- - Blind = くらやみ - Confuse = 混亂 - Critical = 瀬死 - Doom = 死の宣告 - Dead/KO'd = 戦閾不能 - Disable = ドンアク - Immobilize = ドンムブ - Oil = オイル - Petrifying = 石化中 - Poison = -ﾒ毒 - Reverse = 逆転 - Silence = 沈默 - Sleep = 睡-ｰ - Sap = スリップ - Slow = スロウ - Stone = 石化 - Virus = ウイルス 5-2. --------------------- --| Positive Status |-------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- =============================================================================== | Status | Effect | Cope | =============================================================================== | Berserk | Raises target physical attack, auto attack. | Dispel. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Brave | Raises target physical attack. | Dispel, Wither. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Bubble | Double HP, immune to Disease. | - | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Faith | Raises target magic attack. | Dispel, Addle. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Float | Evade from traps. | - | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Haste | Raises 25% action speed. | Dispel, Slow. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Invisible | Reduce chance of noticable. | any damage. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Libra | Can read various enemies status and traps. | - | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Protect | Reduces 25% damage received from | Dispel, | | | physical attack. | Expose. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Reflect | Spells will be bounced off to opponents. | Dispel. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Regen | Keep regenerating small amount of HP. | Dispel, Sap. | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Shell | Reduces 25% damage received from | Dispel, | | | magic attack. | Shear. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________ / \ = Translation = \_____________/ ----------------- | SPELL/SKILL | ----------------- - Wither = 攻撃破壞 - Expose = -h御破壞 - Addle = -ｍU破壞 - Shear = --h破壞 - Dispel = デスペル - Sap = スリップ <- Negative Status - Slow = スロウ ------------------- | Positive STATUS | ------------------- - Berserk = 狂戦士 - Brave = ブレイブ - Bubble = バブル - Faith = フェイス - Float = 浮-V - Haste = ヘイスト - Invisible = 透-ｾ - Libra = ライブラ - Protect = プロテス - Reflect = リフレク - Regen = リジェネ - Shell = シェル |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ___ | __| | _ | __ |___||__| ____________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ | | __ | | _ _|_ |__ __ __ __ |__ | | | __| | |/ | | | |/ | | | | | | | | |__|__| |__| | |\_ |_ | | | |__| |__| |__| | | __| _____ \\ \______________________________________________________ .======================|_____________________________________________________/ =| 6. Walkthrough []____________________________________________________/ '======================( / \_/~~' _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ ---------------------------| Nalbina Fortress |---------------------------- ------------------------ sep001 The game start with Tutorial, you just need to follow the commands in game, just skip this part if you want to go in the game directly. Use Right Analog Stick to zoom or turn the camera view, then use Left Analog Stick to move your character to the green point displaying in the mini map at the top right screen. Now get close to the person near the gate and press Circle to talk. Go in front the gate and press Circle again to open it. Next area start the battle tutorial. Press Circle (X in American version) to view the battle command, you have the following options: Attack with weapon, Magic/Skill, Item. More commands and actions will be added later on. After finishing off the first enemies, go forward to fight with a mini boss. Don't worry, it's a very easy boss, halfway through the battle Basch will finish it off. After the mini boss, defeat some more enemies and go to the entrance, now you are able to view the Map screen by pressing Select button. In the next section, you can using R2 to escape from battle. A potion is located in the right corner, and another is in the Northern area. Go upstair will see the Save Crystal, you can restore your HP/MP by pressing it. Nothing other then the Save Crystal is here so go up the following stairs. Defeat some enemies here, then enter to the last hall in the North area. This concludes the tutorial section. =============================================================================== ------------------------| Royal City Of Rabanastre |----------------------- -------------------------------- sep002 O --- Monster --- O Dire Rat Lv : 1 HP : 60 The "Equip" is added in the Party Menu, but so far you don't have other equipment to change to. Starting out in the pool, you have to defeat all rats around to trigger an event. Afterwards, "World Map" is added in the Party Menu, and you will come to the street. From current section, go to South-East area for an event. Next head to The Sandsea to the North-East and go inside to trigger another event. Let Tomaj explain Licenses. ** NOTE: you can actually view your current destination in the Map screen, your destination is marking as "X with a circle" in red colour, remember always view the Map if you get lost. After talking with Tomaj, you begin the first Mob Hunt mission which is Rogue Tomato, an enemy outside of the town, as for more details of other Mob Hunts, read 'Mob Hunt' section under "7a. Side Quest & Mini-Game". "Licenses" and "Clan Report" are added in the Party Menu (Clan Report was named as Clan Primer for the American version). Now head to the Eastgate through the central section (Southern Plaza), a Save Crystal can be found there. Next go outside to the Dalmasca Estersand, don't forget to equip the accessory that's given by Tomaj, the Orrachea Armlet. -------------------------- ---------------------------| Dalmasca Estersand |-------------------------- -------------------------- O--- Monster/Enemy ---O Cactoid Wild Saurian Wolf Lv : 1-4 Lv : 29-34 Lv : 2-9 HP : 72-224 HP : 6001-6551 HP : 94-155 Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Broad Sword - Earth Magicite - Antidote - Earth Stone - Hi-Potion - Pebble - Potion - Bone Helm - Potion - Virgo Gem - Leo Gem - Wolf Pelt - Cactus Fruit - Tyrant Bone - Wind Stone - Bundle of Needles - Tanned Hide If you go further, you will encounter more monsters, but it is unesessary to explore for now. Just go North-East direction will see the tomato enemy. Half way of through the battle, it will jump down from precipice, go down and finish it off. -------------------------------- ------------------------| Royal City Of Rabanastre |----------------------- -------------------------------- Back to Rabanastre Eastgate and talk to the Kytes. After the scene, you came to North End, just go forward until the Stairwell to Downtown (named Lowtown for American version) at East and enter. Before that, you can find your Tomaj in The Sandsea for reward, but you could find him later, he will still give you the rewards. ------------------------ ----------------------------| Downtown/Lowtown |--------------------------- ------------------------ Reach to Southern area here, enter Old Dalan's Place near the water way. Don't open the treasure chest in front of this room, it has some connections with a weapon called 'Strongest Halberd' which you can obtain it later. More details about this weapon, read the "Weapons" section, it's call Zodiac Spear on the US version. After the scene with Dalan, head to Southgate section through the circle gate that's nearby. You can see the first Gate Crystal here, it works as Save Crystal, the extra feather is teleport function. Choose the second option is to teleport, but you have to activate the Gate Crystal in other location to be used, and currently you don't have other places to go. Anyway, teleporting using the Gate Crystal requires an item called "Teleport Stone (Telepo-Stone)", which are fixed under "Loot" section in Inventory list. Before leaving the town, thing that you must know is about the clan. In the Northernmost Street section, go to the West area, there is a room you can't enter before you talk to the bangaa in front. Just speak with him to enter that room, the Clan Headquarter. Speak to the moogle named Montblanc at upstair to become a member of the clan. Later of the game you can always return him for rewards when your clan rank increases, when you defeated certain bosses and more. Also they're certain Mob Hunt missions you can only get from Montblanc. You can join as member anytime before you move on the final place of the game, you will still get the rewards. You can also find the clan shop in Bazaar section, where located South-West of here. Things that are selling in the clan shop will always update when your clan ranking increase. Again, the clan shop will only exist after you became a clan member. Next, go outside from Southgate of Rabanastre. =============================================================================== ------------------------------| Giza Plains |------------------------------ ------------------- sep003 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Giza Rabbit Hyena Slaven Urstrix Lv : 1-2 Lv : 2-3 Lv : 4-5 Lv : 3-4 HP : 70-105 HP : 95-115 HP : 280-302 HP : 170-190 Weak : Fire Weak : Water Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Cotton Cap - Earth Stone - Echo Herbs - Pebble - Fire Stone - Eye Drops - Earth Stone - Phoenix Down - Pebble - Tanned Hide - Headguard - Potion - Potion - Pebble - Large Feather - Water Stone - Wolf Pelt - Shortbow - Potion - Drab Wool - 50 gil - Pebble Werewolf Wild Snake Sleipnir Lv : 19-21 Lv : 3-5 Lv : 4 HP : 2200-2570 HP : 210-250 HP : 280 Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Earth Stone - Leather Plate - Broadsword - Kotetsu - Pebble - Molting - Potion - Snake Skin - Potion - Pebble - Telepo-Stone - Pebble - Quality Hide - Wind Stone - 30 gil - Gemini Gem (S) - Telepo-Stone (S) Keep going straight to the South, on the way encounter some enemies. When you reach the Nomad Camp, you can find a shop here and Save Crystal at the corner. Talk to Nomad/Masyua in front of the giant black crystal and choose the first option. Penelo joins with you after the scene. Now talk to the girl in front, leave this area you will get some items from Penelo. Gambit function added in the battle command. Now head to central South section, fight more enemies if you want, but make sure you DO NOT disturb that two giant beasts (Werewolf) walking around the South-West corner. Another Save Crystal is in the South section (Crystal Glade). Speak to Jinn near the dark crystal and choose the first option to begin the mission. Now you need to raise up the energy until 100% from the shining dark crystal, view the map screen to find out the location of all four dark crystals (exclamation mark), they're located in four different area. When the energy gets to 100%, you will be back at the Crystal Glade, and return to the camp. After the scene, you obtain 3 Potions and 2 Telepo-stone. Next, back to Rabanastre. =============================================================================== ------------------------| Royal City Of Rabanastre |----------------------- -------------------------------- sep004 Use the circle wall gate to Downtown/Lowtown. ------------------------ ---------------------------| Downtown/Lowtown |---------------------------- ------------------------ Penelo will leave the party before you entering Dalan's Place. You will obtain a key item, the Crescent Stone after speaking with Dalan. Now move to the Northern area which is the Storehouse 5. Remember the chest in front of Dalan's Place is the chest that you're NOT supposed to open, or else you'll lose an easy chance to obtain one of the strongest weapons later. Once you reach the Storehouse, Kytes will give some items to you. Now enter the left gate which leads to your next objective. =============================================================================== --------------------------| Garamsythe Waterway |-------------------------- --------------------------- sep005 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Dire Rat Ichthon Steeling Lv : 1-4 Lv : 3-4 Lv : 2-3 HP : 62-112 HP : 130-141 HP : 94-110 Weak : Water Weak : Thunder Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Eye Drops - Antidote - Fire Stone - Fish Scale - Bat Fang - Leather Shield - Potion - Phoenix Down - Libra Gem - Phoenix Down - Pebble - Rat Pelt - Pebble - Wind Stone - Rat Tail - Water Stone A Save Crystal is here. The right route leads to nothing, just run up the left route. Go East and then North, eventually you'll come to the North Spur Sluice, find the chest at the West end of this section for a Mage Masher. =============================================================================== ---------------------| The Royal Palace Of Rabanastre |-------------------- -------------------------------------- sep006 Save Crystal is just right behind you. Hit the golden statue/urn for the map. Start from now, DON'T touch that treasure chest on the right, one of the two chests there hiding an Elixir, do not open it if you want 'Strongest Halberd/ Zodiac Spear' weapon easily later of the game. For more details about this weapon, read the "11. Weapons" section. In the hall, go forward to watch an event. Talk to the soldier, then talk to the Palace Servent near the pole. Now press "Square" to call the soldier over, once he leaves his position, run past him, up the stairs and enter the door. The map of this area is roughly like this: __| |____________| | X__ A ____________B |____ | | | ____ ___| |____________| | ___ C _______D____ | | | | |_____ _____| |____________| _____ S_____ F ____________E | | | | | | |____________| | |______________ '----- | .----- | | | |___ |______ You start at S, and don't care about the passages at right side. Some soldiers are blocking your way at point A,C,E. All you need to do is press "Square" to provoke the soldiers away from blocking you. First provoke the soldiers at E from F area, while they're coming, run to the passage below of the map. Now no more soldiers at E, so go to B and provoke the A soldier. Then go to D, examine the Lion Signet on the floor and use the Crescent Stone that was given by Dalan before, and the Faint Wall at X will be activated. Now provoke the C soldiers from D, then run back to E and provoke the F soldiers. Go back to the passage below and move to X. Inside the secret passage, just go to the end of the passage and check the switch on the left wall, push it to unlock the door on the other side here, open it to next area. After the scene, you will obtain Goddess's Magicite, now just run to upper level through the stairs to trigger another scene. =============================================================================== --------------------------| Garamsythe Waterway |-------------------------- --------------------------- sep007 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Dire Rat Ghost Ichthon Steeling Lv : 1-4 Lv : 5-6 Lv : 3-4 Lv : 2-3 HP : 62-112 HP : 324-334 HP : 130-141 HP : 94-110 Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Thunder Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Dark Magicite - Eye Drops - Antidote - Fire Stone - Dark Stone - Fish Scale - Bat Fang - Leather Shield - Echo Herbs - Potion - Phoenix Down - Libra Gem - Glass Jewel - Phoenix Down - Pebble - Rat Pelt - Pebble - Pebble - Wind Stone - Rat Tail - Telepo-Stone - Water Stone Gigantoad Imperial Swordsman Lv : 5-6 Lv : ? HP : 341-346 HP : 150-160 Weak : Fire Weak : - Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 50 gil - Potion - Horn - Leather Helm - Potion - Water Stone In the Water Way, Balthier and Fran join the party. Also a Save Crystal is just in front of you. Go down Balthier will explain more about the Gambit functions. After that, "Party" and "Gambit" options have been added in the Party Menu. Next, check the dead bodies on left side, then leave here. Next section, turn left from the junction, hit that golden urn for the map. Now you need to go central section. Explore the corners in different areas can find some gil and items, as well as Escutcheon shield. Another Save Crystal is in the South-East section. Go to the bottom to meet with Ashe, and she will join as guest character for now. Defeat the Imperial Swordsman after the scene, move to next section, prepare to cast Fire spell with Fran. BOSS : Flan x4 HP : 360-420 Very easy, just take them down one by one. Reached the central section, can find a Save Crystal here, now prepare for the boss battle before open the gate which leads to Overflow Cloaca. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Firemane | O=======================================O | Lv : 7 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 3571 - Grimoire Togail | | Recommended: > 6 | | Weak : Water - Phoenix Down | | Minimum Lv : > 4 | | ELE. : Fire - Potion | | Average Lv : > 4 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Consider this is the first real boss in the game, nothing hard actually. This boss is weak against Water. It can Poison you, just remember to cure it. Because of Ashe only performs the attacks during the battle, keep healing her, she can help lot. =============================================================================== --------------------------| The Nalbina Dungeons |------------------------- ---------------------------- sep008 O --- Enemy --- O Imperial Hoplite Imperial Magus Imperial Marksman Imperial Swordsman Lv : 9 Lv : 8 Lv : 8 Lv : 8-9 HP : 283 HP : 205 HP : 180-220 HP : 180-237 Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Potion - Potion - Potion - Potion - Phoenix Down - Phoenix Down - Phoenix Down Currently you have lost all your inventory, but will get them back soon. Search around this place for some items before leaving, use the Save Crystal near the exit. Afterwards, defeat three Seeq enemies by using Vaan and Balthier. Fran rejoins party after this battle. Next area, you will get your items back as well as the map before the Save Crystal. Don't open the other treasure chests here, like the one in front of the Dalan's Place and the Elixir in the palace, it has some connections with 'Strongest Halberd' weapon which you can obtain later. Read the "11. Weapons" section for more details about this weapon, again, it's call Zodiac Spear as well. Next place, defeat the imperial militaries when necessory. An event happens when you come to the central North area. The Judge has opened the door, get in there to meet with Basch, and he will join as guest character. =============================================================================== --------------------------| The Barheim Passage |-------------------------- --------------------------- sep009 Bomb Battery Mimic Flan Mimic Lv : 6-8 Lv : 7 Lv : 6-7 Lv : 7-8 HP : 317-347 HP : 520 HP : 280-294 HP : 334-340 Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Fire Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bomb Ashes - Alarm Clock - Green Liquid - Earth Stone - Echo Herb - Eye Drops - Potion - Eye Drops - Fire Stone - Iron Scraps - Topkapi Hat - Iron Scraps - Gold Needle - Mage's Habit - Water Stone - Iron Sword - Leather Gorget - Caramel - Dark Mote - Water Mote - Pebble Seeker Steeling Suriander Tiny Mimic Lv : 6-7 Lv : 7 Lv : 9 Lv : 7-8 HP : 375-551 HP : 298 HP : 430 HP : 211-217 Weak : Earth Weak : Earth Weak : Water Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bat Fang - Antidote - Antidote - Earth Stone - Smelling Salts - Armguard (S) - Horn - Eye Drops - Taurus Gem - Bat Fang - Horned Hat - Iron Scraps - Wind Stone - Eye Drops - Telepo-Stone - Leather Headgear - Crooked Fang - Wind Stone - Storm Stone - Potion - Telepo-Stone - Antidote Zombie Mimic Lv : 7-8 Lv : 7-8 HP : 277-286 HP : 334-340 Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Dark Mote - Dark Stone - Earth Stone - Foul Flesh - Eye Drops - Kilimweave Shirt - Iron Scraps - Alarm Clock - Iron Sword Run down and go into the right room to get some gil. A Save Crystal is in the other corner. Now head to the tower and examine the switch, Balthier tells you to get an energy source to active it. Talk to the Bangaa at the bottom to get a Fuse Tube, now you can active the switch. Press the switch at the tower and another near the Bangaa to open the gate. Before leaving, buy the Blizzard magic from the Bangaa merchant. Next area, defeat the zombie and kill the Battery Mimic to keep the battery energy from depleting. You need to kill all Battery Mimics in the following sections to gain battery energy. In the Great Eastern Passage, turn back to the broken railway on the right to find the urn, hit it for the map of this place.Go into the right station to find two more Battery Mimics, some Flans are here too, use the Fire spell against them if you want to kill them faster. After that, head to South, then go West from the next section. There's a switch in the North-West end, and you must press it to open the Southern gate, back to South route. Find the Save Crystal after the scene, then advance to the next area. Another Save Crystal in the South-East railway, after this is the boss fight, so make sure you save you game here, learn the Blizzard magic before the fight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Mimic Queen | O=======================================O | Lv : 10 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 4073 - Knot of Rust | | Recommended: > 10 | | Weak : Ice - Rose Corsage | | Minimum Lv : > 8 | | ELE. : Thunder - Storm Magicite | | Average Lv : > 8 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Some small mimics join with the boss, killing them is just a waste of your time, just focus on attacking the boss, now Basch has slightly higher offensive power, so don't let him die during the fight. Thunder spell will heal the boss, but Bizzard spell deals the most damage, that's why you should buy it from the Bangaa at the beginning of this area. -------------------------- ---------------------------| Dalmasca Estersand |-------------------------- -------------------------- You Appear in the Dalmasca Estersand after the scene. Leave here and go South. Next section, if you go East it leads to the entrance of Nalbina, you can go there and activate the Gate Crystal first. South is connected to Giza Plains. South-West is back to Rabanastre, and this is your current destination. If you need a map for this area, head North, a Moggle is selling the map for 50 gil, and you can also find a shop and Gate Crystal here. Enemies around here are fairly easy opponents, but you probably will see the t-rex namely Wild Saurian in the section before Rabanastre, try not to disturb it. =============================================================================== ------------------------| Royal City Of Rabanastre |----------------------- -------------------------------- sep010 After arriving in Rabanastre, everyone leaves your party. Starting from now, the Moogling is available, you can use them to warp yourself to other sections, just talk to the moogle beside the Moogling. By the way, your next destination is Downtown/Lowtown. ------------------------ ----------------------------| Downtown/Lowtown |--------------------------- ------------------------ Talk to Dalan in his place at South to obtain Sword of the Order, also remember DON'T open the treasure chest in front of his place or you will lost the easy chance to obtain a strongest weapon. Now you can see the Western area marked as your destination, so reach to there, then talk to the Rabarastran/Balzac who's sitting on the box, Basch rejoins the party. -------------------------------- ------------------------| Royal City Of Rabanastre |----------------------- -------------------------------- Now back to the street, head to East area for some event. Enter The Sandsea and go upstair to find Balthier and Fran, and they will return to the party. If you haven't gotten your rewards for Rogue Tomato hunt, talk to Tomaj. Now head to Westgate, go into the Airship Terminal (named Aerodrome for American version) on your right hand side. Speak with Balthier in the terminal and choose the first option twice will go to other place by airship. =============================================================================== ------------------------| The SkyCity Of Bhujerba |------------------------ ------------------------------- sep011 Lamont join as guest character. Out to the street, the moogle in the junction is selling the map for here and the next place that you're going, prices are 70 and 650 gil. Go East section through the South area, on the way are some shops, have a look at the shops if you're needing some itmes. After that, run down the stair after Save Crystal in East section to the mines. ----------------------- ----------------------------| The Lhusu Mines |---------------------------- ----------------------- Skeleton Skull Defender Slaven Steeling Lv : 8-9 Lv : 8-11 Lv : 10-11 Lv : 7-8 HP : 557-563 Lv : 476-708 HP : 780-802 HP : 446-462 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Weak Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bone Fragment - Antidote - Aevis Killer - Antidote - Bronze Chestplate - Bone Fragment - Earth Stone - Armguard - Dark Stone - Dark Stone - Eye Drops - Bat Fang - Echo Herb - Iron Helm - Pebble - Eye Drops - Iron Helm - Pebble - Tanned Hide - Pebble - Pebble - Wind Stone Beware of the traps in this place, you can't see them unless your character has Libra status. The traps appear as a red light on the ground. Here is the first place that will you find the traps, there are more and more traps in the later parts of the game. First, just go to West, then turn North. Don't fight the Skull Defender or Skeleton in a group. Go until the Northern cave for a scene. After that, you will being chased by four bosses, flee from the fight you can't win at your current level (you can fight them later in a side quest). Rush to the exit of the mines, the music stop after you successfully escape from them. Afterwards, go back to outside. If you can handle the Skull Defender and Skeleton, go to the road leading North which has lot of these enemies, chain them for 10-20 minutes, you will probably get lot of Bone Fragments, sell all them afterwards. This place is really a best place to earn gil for your current level, earn at least earn enough gil to buy items before advancing the story. ------------------------------- ------------------------| The SkyCity Of Bhujerba |------------------------ ------------------------------- Now back to Bhujerba, you have to do some propaganda to raise the bar until 100%. Just press "Square" button to do it, keep a look out and don't ever let the guards see you while doing it. Do it to the man who's holding a blue colored book to raise the percentage faster. Once you've done this, watch the scene. There's a board inside the inn, like the one in Rabanastre, at The Sandsea, which allows you to receive more Mob Hunt missions later. Now check the map, your next goal should be shown to the North. Move to the North, talk to the guard on the right, and choose the first option. =============================================================================== -------------------------| Dreadnought Leviathan |------------------------- ----------------------------- sep012 O --- Enemy --- O Imperial Gunner Imperial Magus Imperial Swordsman Mastiff Lv : 9 Lv : 9 Lv : 10-11 Lv : 11 HP : 562 HP : ? HP : 615 HP : 535 Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Potion - Potion - Potion - Potion - Phoenix Down - Phoenix Down Vossler joins as a guest. Use the Save Crystal in the first section. Take the door that's closeby to advance. In the first passage, find the treasure chest to the South, it should be a Handaxe, but possible it's random, just have a try on it. Now check the map to see a mark that's shows your current objective. go to the connected area and take the door at the bottom to reach there. There is another weapon which is quite useful for your current status, located in the Sub-Control Room, Assasin's Dagger, move West in that room, it's hiding in the last chest. In the area before you reach your objective, a fight awaits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Judge (x2) | O=======================================O | Lv : 11 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 2245 - 300 gil | | Recommended: > 13 | | Weak : - - Hi-Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 10 | | ELE. : - - Potion | | Average Lv : > 10 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Imperial Swordsman x3 Imperial Magus x1 You just need to take down the Judges to end the battle, but the other enemies won't let you do this easily. If you're planning for a long fight, I recommend you kill the Imperial Magus first. During the fight, make sure to set a Gambit to use Phoenix Down on your ally and put it to the top, just in case. If your opponents gang up on your character, he/she will be KO'd instantly. Next section, you can find a shop in left room, System Access Key and the Save Crystal in right room, rescue Ashe in the second room to the right. After that, you will obtain Manufacted Nethicite. Buy some recovery items from the shop. If you got extra gil, buy the accessory call Gauntlets, it's to increase chances of successfully blocking for the shield users. Now head back to the previous area, encounter some more enemies, remember you can go back to the Save Crystal to heal your party. Move to the control room, run upstairs and operate the system with the System Access Key that you got before. Now you must leave this area within 60 seconds. Check the map and you can find two more panels that have the same usage, you will probably need to operate the system again before you get to the West area (where you began this place), so just go to the appointed area and operate it for another 60 seconds to flee. There's another battle awaiting in the West. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Judge Ghis | O=======================================O | Lv : 14 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 4120 - Dark Mote | | Recommended: > 14 | | Weak : - - Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 12 | | ELE. : - | | Average Lv : > 12 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Imperial Swordsman x3 Kill that three swordsmen immediately before focusing on the main boss. If you have Mist Knack/Quckening move, just use it. Always keep your allies a more then half HP. Send two characters with shields to close combat, and you control the other character to heal them, depending on the situation, if they still have a lot of HP, you don't need to heal either. ------------------------------- ------------------------| The SkyCity Of Bhujerba |------------------------ ------------------------------- After defeating the boss, you arrive back to the Airship Terminal/Aerodrome in Bhujerba. Now go around armor shop area and speak to the guard again, choose first option to Dalmasca Westersand. --------------------------- --------------------------| Dalmasca Westersand |-------------------------- --------------------------- There is a Gate Crystal when you appear in Dalmasca Westersand, you need to go West from here. =============================================================================== -------------------------| The Ogir-Yensa Sandsea |------------------------ ------------------------------ sep013 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Alraune Danbania Speartongue Urutan-Yensa Lv : 11-14 Lv : 10-14 Lv : 11-13 Lv : 13-14 HP : 615-694 HP : 966-1159 HP : 1095-1768 HP : 710-780 Weak : Wind Weak : Thunder Weak : Fire Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - Bacchus's Wine - Horn - Earth Magicite - Earth Stone - Echo Herbs - Water Stone - Earth Stone - Handkerchief - Fish Scale - Aries Gem - Echo Herbs (S) - Mace (S) - Water Mote - Frog Oil - Phoenix Down - Succulent Fruit - Water Stone - Telepo-Stone - Potion (S) - Pebble - Pebble - Potion (S) - Yensa Fin (S) Salamand Entite Yensa Lv : 45 Lv : 13-15 HP : 48042 HP : 1010-1032 Weak : Water Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Electrum - Barbut (S) - Ether - Dark Mote - Feystone - Earth Stone - Fire Crystal - Gold Needle - Salamand Halcyon - Pisces Gem (S) - Yensa Scale Just head up to the tower, follow the only route to West, on the way you'll face some enemies. You can chain off all Alraune in the first section, you can get a loot call Succulent Fruit from them, each sell for 363 gil, just bring them back and sell to the merchant in Dalmasca Westsand from before. In the second section, Vossler joins as a guest character again. This area branches off in a couple routes, but they end up in the same place. If you go West, you can find a Save Crystal and a moogle, to the South-West, you will meet an item/accessory/magic merchant and a Gate Crystal. The West route is recommended, but if you want to buy something, you'd better go both routes. Another place of importance is the Zertinan Cavern, it's an optional place which hides an Esper. This place is connected to many locations, and this is one of them. Right now isn't the time to find this Esper, if you can't defeat the monster inside easily, don't try to fight the Esper. Please check "8. Esper / Summon" for more details on the Esper. =============================================================================== --------------------------| The Nam-Yensa Sandsea |------------------------ ----------------------------- sep014 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Alraune Danbania Speartongue Urutan-Yensa Lv : 11-14 Lv : 10-14 Lv : 11-13 Lv : 13-14 HP : 615-694 HP : 966-1159 HP : 1095-1768 HP : 710-780 Weak : Wind Weak : Thunder Weak : Fire Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - Bacchus's Wine - Horn - Earth Magicite - Earth Stone - Echo Herbs - Water Stone - Earth Stone - Handkerchief - Fish Scale - Aries Gem - Echo Herbs (S) - Mace (S) - Water Mote - Frog Oil - Phoenix Down - Succulent Fruit - Water Stone - Telepo-Stone - Potion (S) - Pebble - Pebble - Potion (S) - Yensa Fin (S) Axebeak Yensa Bull Yensa Lv : 13-15 Lv : 13-15 Lv : 16-18 HP : 922-954 HP : 1010-1032 HP : 1212-1234 Weak : Water Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Drops/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - Barbut (S) - Barbut (S) - Dark Mote (S) - Dark Mote - Dark Mote - Fire Stone - Earth Stone - Earth Stone - Rainbow Egg - Gold Needle - Gold Needle - Small Feather - Pisces Gem (S) - Pisces Gem (S) - Warp Mote - Yensa Scale - Yensa Scale In the North-East area from where you came West out of Ogir-Yensa, talk to the moogle, then follow the Urutan-Yensa that he points out. In the Next section, you will probably see the Urutan Eater fighting with the Urutan-Yensa. Defeat it with the help of the Urutan-Yensa. After that, talk to the moogle again. Then head back to Ogir-Yensa and up the ramp for a scene. Go back to where you found the moogle for an event. After that, talk to the moogle again. Then examine the flower for Eksir Berries, an item quite useful for the next boss. In the first section, go to the small island which is connected by two suspension bridges, hit the statue/urn to get the map. Now keep heading West. Defeat the enemies here and you can level up faster for your current status. The Southern section is connected to the Zertinan Cavern. Again, you don't need to go there for now. In the Central/South-West section you can find HP<1000 Gambit at the end of the bridge. But it seems it has been changed in the American version. In the West section you can find the shop which is the same merchant that was by the Gate Crystal section from before, and now he's selling Hi-potions. After this, go into the cave there, you're able to save your game without a Save Crystal. The next area is a boss fight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Garuda | O=======================================O | Lv : 16 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 6754 - Giant Feather | | Recommended: > 15 | | Weak : Dark - Gold Needle | | Minimum Lv : > 12 | | ELE. : Holy - White Fang | | Average Lv : > 12 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Use the Eksir Berries, then keep attacking until it dies, pretty easy. Now the merchant come to this area too, buy some Eye Drops from him. Also buy the Argyle Armlet accessory if possible, it's immune to Blind status effect. In front of the Gate Crystal. Check the Way Stone and choose first option to get into the tomb. =============================================================================== -------------------------| The Tomb Of Raithwall |------------------------- ----------------------------- sep015 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Lesser Chimera Lich Ragoh Lv : 15-18 Lv : 18-20 Lv : 16-18 HP : 1014-1080 HP : 1164-1180 HP : 1400-1440 Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Drops/Steal Drops/Steal Drops/Steal - Fire Stone - Aero Mote - Earth Stone - Gold Needle - Dark Stone - Eye Drops - Handkerchief - Glass Jewel - Winged Helm - Hi-Potion - Phoenix Down - Solid Stone - Small Feather - Pebble - Pebble - Taurus Gem - Smelling Salts - Hi-Potion Seeker Tallow/Candle Zombie Lv : 15-16 Lv : 16-17 Lv : 15-18 HP : 773-794 HP : 1303-1317 HP : 870-880 Weak : Earth Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drops/Steal Drops/Steal Drops/Steal - Antidote - Broadaxe - Alarm Clock - Bat Fang - Echo Herbs - Antidote - Blood Sword - Fire Stone - Eye Drops - Crooked Fang - Green Liquid - Kilimweave Shirt - Smelling Salts - Pebble - Buckler - Taurus Gem - Hi-Potion - Foul Flesh - Wind Stone - Dark Stone Lost Soul Skull Warrior Zombie Mage Lv : 17-18 Lv : 17-18 Lv : 15-18 HP : 970-980 HP : 882-890 HP : 970-980 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drops/Steal Drop/Steal Drops/Steal - Bone Fragment - Alarm Clock - Balance Mote - Dark Stone - Bone Fragment - Dark Stone - Telepo-Stone - Broken Spear - Telepo-Stone - Blazer Gloves - Dark Stone - Foul Flesh - Antidote - Golden Shield - Pebble - 60 gil - 200 gil - 200 gil The Way Stone in front doesn't work yet, just go down from the stairs. Cross the bridge, and the Demon Wall awakes, it has around 20,000 HP, so you better avoid to fight for now, just run to the door behind you. If you defeat it, check the jewel in the wall to raise up two bridges which lead to the secret area. But before defeating the other Demon's wall in the next area, it won't work. In the secret area, you might get the Evil Slayer sword from the chest, but you might just get some gil. You can back here to fight it later, now just head to next area to face the second Demon Wall. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Demon Wall | O=======================================O | Lv : 16 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 10332 - Quality Stone | | Recommended: > 15 | | Weak : Holy - Gold Needle | | Minimum Lv : > 12 | | ELE. : - - Solid Stone | | Average Lv : > 12 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' At the start of the battle, run up to the Demon Wall and start attacking. The fires to the sides are used to stop the boss from moving, examine it and choose the second option to turn it off, BUT if it turns to blue fire, the boss will speed up to crush you. If you have bad luck and it turns blue, hurry and examine the other fire and turn it off to stop the speeded up boss. Don't worry, there're only two of them with blue fire. Remember to cure from the Blind status with Eye Drops or Blindna. Equip Argyle Armet if you had bought it before. The Demon Wall has a skill that can remove one of your characters instantly, and also knows Doom, you can't heal it for now since your Lore of Remedy has not reached a higher level yet. Keep your MP for Mist Knack/Quickening to deal a lot of damage at once. After beating this Demon Wall, if you backtrack to the previous place to finish off the first Demon Wall, you can press the shining jewel on the wall, and it will raise up two bridges. Save your game by using the Gate Crystal outside, because if you don't do so the chest in secret area won't appear, for the American version you don't need to do this. After that, just go through the bridge to the secret area, this area won't display in the map screen. Next section, run down and you can see three Way Stones, so far only one of them works. Hit the statue/urn behind for the map. Go either to the left (South) or right (North) section, either way, you should go both ways to unlock the hidden passage, so it doesn't matter where you go first. There is a Green Pedestal in the South section and an Orange Pedestal in the North section. If you found the Way Stone, it means you have found the Pedestal, it's nearby. After checking the Pedestal, use the Way Stone to go back to the central area quickly. Then go to the other section. Do the same thing for the other Pedestal to unlock the hidden passage. In the next section, continue on to have your first Esper Battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Belias | O=======================================O | Lv : 20 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 15943 - Aries Gem | | Recommended: > 15 | | Weak : Water - Ether | | Minimum Lv : > 12 | | ELE. : Fire - High Arcana | | Average Lv : > 12 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' His attack is powerful, but the speed is slow. As you might discover, Vossler will probably perform the combo attack on his turn, so you'd better support him and not let him die. In the middle of battle Belias will cast Protect and Shell. If possible, cast Protect to you front line character as well. Always keep your allies over 300 HP when Belias' life bar near to half, prepare to receive his Firaja. After that, heal your Oiled ally before he/she get fire damage. After that you gain Belias Esper, you can find it on you License board now. Go into inner area of the West, watch a scene, and you will get the key item, Dawn Shard. Level up a little more in this place for the next fight. Once you have doen, leave this tomb using the Way Stone here. Use the Gate Crystal in the entrance, then go down the steps. After some events will fight Vossler in the airship. --------------------- -----------------------------| Airship Shiva |----------------------------- --------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Vossler | O=======================================O | Lv : 20 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 9318 - Black Belt | | Recommended: > 17 | | Weak : - - Hi-Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 15 | | ELE. : - - Potion | | Average Lv : > 13 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Imperial Swordsman x3 Fran in Berserk, isn't a bad thing. Her speed and damage become increased, but you're not able to control her, just leave her in berserk. Some swordsmen join in the battle too. Each of them has 854 HP, needless to say, kill them immediately, then only focus on the main boss. He will cast Reflect later so becareful if you plan to cast spell on him. When he's nearly dead, his chance of combo hits will be highly increased, move character who's spotted by the boss away and it can slightly reduce his combos and turns. =============================================================================== ------------------------| Royal City Of Rabanastre |----------------------- -------------------------------- sep016 You'll be back here after some scenes. Go out to have a quick discussion. Now you can buy some more advanced items from the shops. Make sure to buy Esuna magic if you've got enough gil, also learn it as soon as you've enough LP. Starting from now, you can trigger a sub-event in Nalbina. You will miss this when you reach the Mosphoran Highwaste later on, and the reward for finishing this event is a Salamand Halcyon, it is a rare treasure/loot which is used in creating the Arcturus weapon. Make sure you don't miss this event if you want the treasure. To start this, go to Nalbina and find the guards who block the way going North, that leads to the Mosphoran Highwaste. You can see July who is sitting in front of them, talk to her, then move towards the guards for a scene. Then hire a chocobo from the stable nearby and rush the guards, he will run away. Afterwards, July thanks you with the reward, but she wants you to find her over in Archades to get it. Later when the walkthrough reaches Archades part, I will explain it in further detail, or you can just check the details of this event under 'July The Female Spy' under the "7b. Sub-Event" section. Back to the storyline, go South from Rabanastre to reach the Giza Plains. =============================================================================== ------------------------------| Giza Plains |------------------------------ ------------------- sep017 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Gigantoad Hyena Ichthon Wooly Gator Lv : 19-20 Lv : 18-19 Lv : 19-21 Lv : 21-22 HP : 1469-1489 HP : 940-960 HP : 1304-1326 HP : 2233-2263 Weak : Fire Weak : Water Weak : Thunder Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 50 gil - Cotton Cap - Eye Drops - Alarm Clock - Horn - Fire Stone - Fish Scale - Braid Wool - Lambent Hat - Green Beret - Light Woven Shirt - Hi-Potion - Potion - Potion - Phoenix Down - Smelling Salts - Water Stone - Wolf Pelt - Water Stone - Wind Stone - Eye Drops - Potion - Sirius (S) Storm Elemental Great Tortoise Silicon Tortoise Mardu Entite Lv : 25 Lv : 20-21 Lv : 36-37 Lv : - HP : 14830 HP : 3816-3838 HP : 12852-13172 HP : 48042 Weak : Ice Weak : Fire Weak : Fire Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Feystone - Aries Gem - 100 gil - Ether - Storm Crystal - Pebble - Aged Turtle Shell - Electrum - Storm Magicite - Phoenix Down - Aries Gem - Feystone - Storm Stone - Turtle Shell - Officer's Hat - Mardu Halcyon - Water Magicite - Water Crystal - Storm Crystal - Water Stone - Telepo-Stone - Soldier's Cap Note: you can only get the Lambent Hat from Gigantoad by Steal Now it's the rainy season, some monsters have changed. Central section you will meet moogle and a seeq, they can tell you how to get to Ozmone Plains, which is your current destination. Continue forward to the South-West to reach the Ozmone Plains. On the way you may find some withered trees, cut them off to form a bridge in the South-East to unlock that section. This is actually for Gilgame/Gil Snapper hunting mission and item for Cockatorice Find side quest as well. Spend some time to find all six withered trees around, so it's easier for you when you go hunting the Gilgame/Gil Snapper later. The trees are in the Nomad Village, Crystal Glade, Starfall Field, Toan Hills, Gizas North Bank and Throne Road sections. For the details of Gilgame/Gil Snapper or Cockatrice Find side quest, check "7a-2 Mob Hunt" and "7a-6 Cockatrice Find". =============================================================================== -----------------------------| Ozmone Plains |----------------------------- --------------------- sep018 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Black Chocobo Hybrid Gator Mesmenir Red Chocobo Lv : 19-23 Lv : 21-22 Lv : 20-22 Lv : 19-22 HP : 1116-1180 HP : 2233-2253 HP : 1528-1568 HP : 1116-1164 Weak : Thunder Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Thunder Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Water Holy - Aries Gem - Destrier Mane Holy Drop/Steal - Bacchus's Wine - Storm Magicite Drop/Steal - Chocobo Feather - Braid Wool - Tanned Hide - Chocobo Feather - Dark Magicite - Fire Stone - Iron Carapace - Fire Stone - Gysahl Greens - Gold Needle - Bronze Mace - Gysahl Greens - Pebble - Echo Herbs - Taurus Gem Viper Wu Zaghnal Zu Lv : 20-21 Lv : 20-22 Lv : 23-24 Lv : 21-22 HP : 1410-1430 HP : 1689-1729 HP : 3157-3179 HP : 1880-1896 Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - 40 gil - Dark Magicite - Aero Mote - Dark Magicite - Aries Gem - Earth Magicite - Large Feather - Pebble - Earth Magicite - Gemini Gem - Remedy - Quality Hide - Eye Drops - Hi-Potion - Rod - Tanned Hide - Large Feather - Quality Hide - Pebble - Kogarasumaru - Vanish Mote - Wind Magicite Enemies are getting stronger, don't fight them in groups. Central section leads to Zertinan Cavern, but theres no need to go there for now. An Esper is hiding inside this cavern, but the monsters inside the cavern are very tough, come back here later when you are stronger. Head to the Southern section. You can see a NPC warrior fighting with some monster, join the battle if you want. Go the West route to get to the next place, beware the black or red Chocobos, they always come in groups. =============================================================================== -----------------------| Jahara, Land Of The Garif |----------------------- --------------------------------- sep019 A Gate Crystal with moogles are here, you can buy the map from them. Talk to the right warrior on bridge for a scene. After that, will come to next area, a shop is here. Now talk to the High-Chief Zayalu (opposite of the shop) to get Jaya Stick. Now go North-West and speak with the War-Chief Supinelu and give him the Jaya Stick too, choose the first option twice and cross the bridge. In the following area, just get close to the warriors in front, choose the first option during the dialogue to trigger a scene. Larsa joins as guest character, he's Lamont that joined with your team before. Nothing to do now, just back to Ozmone Plains, and you can take the chocobo for free, also obtain Onion Bolt from the Garif if you passed the Jaya Stick to him. --------------------- -----------------------------| Ozmone Plains |----------------------------- --------------------- O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Black Chocobo Hybrid Gator Mesmenir Red Chocobo Lv : 19-23 Lv : 21-22 Lv : 20-22 Lv : 19-22 HP : 1116-1180 HP : 2233-2253 HP : 1528-1568 HP : 1116-1164 Weak : Thunder Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Thunder Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Water Holy - Aries Gem - Destrier Mane Holy Drop/Steal - Bacchus's Wine - Storm Magicite Drop/Steal - Chocobo Feather - Braid Wool - Tanned Hide - Chocobo Feather - Dark Magicite - Fire Stone - Iron Carapace - Fire Stone - Gysahl Greens - Gold Needle - Bronze Mace - Gysahl Greens - Pebble - Echo Herbs - Taurus Gem Viper Wu Zaghnal Zu Lv : 20-21 Lv : 20-22 Lv : 23-24 Lv : 21-22 HP : 1410-1430 HP : 1689-1729 HP : 3157-3179 HP : 1880-1896 Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - 40 gil - Dark Magicite - Aero Mote - Dark Magicite - Aries Gem - Earth Magicite - Large Feather - Pebble - Earth Magicite - Gemini Gem - Remedy - Quality Hide - Eye Drops - Hi-Potion - Rod - Tanned Hide - Large Feather - Quality Hide - Pebble - Kogarasumaru - Vanish Mote - Wind Magicite Now head to the Eastern area of Ozmone Plains to trigger an event, in the same place you can find a Save Crystal. After that, go into the jungle. =============================================================================== ---------------------------| The Golmore Jungle |-------------------------- -------------------------- sep020 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Gargoyle Great Malboro Malboro Panther Lv : 23-24 Lv : 22-23 Lv : 22-23 Lv : 21-23 HP : 1436-1494 HP : 1630-1750 HP : 1573-1693 HP : 1299-1519 Weak : Ice Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Demon Eyeball - Bucchas's Wine - Earth Stone - Coeurl Pelt - Hi-Potion - Earth Stone - Elfin Bow - Libra Gem - Storm Magicite - Virgo Gem - Remedy - Storm Magictie - Vanish Mote - Malboro Vine - Smelling Salts - Vanish Mote If you haven't learned the Esuna spell yet, don't fight the monsters here escpecially the Panther, it can Petrify your character anytime. Anyway, try to steal the Coeurl Pelt from them, then sell them for some gil. A seal is blocking the way to East area, go there will trigger an event. After that, Fran will lead you to a new road, follow the new road to next place. =============================================================================== -----------------------------| Eruyt Village |----------------------------- --------------------- sep021 The Gate Crystal of this place is just at the entrance. Have a look at the shop that's nearby. Go to the central area and run up the circle bridge. In the next area, cross the only bridge there to trigger a scene. After that, just leave here and return to Ozmone Plains through Golmore Jungle. If you got enough gil, buy the Drain magic. --------------------- -----------------------------| Ozmone Plains |----------------------------- --------------------- O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Black Chocobo Hybrid Gator Mesmenir Red Chocobo Lv : 19-23 Lv : 21-22 Lv : 20-22 Lv : 19-22 HP : 1116-1180 HP : 2233-2253 HP : 1528-1568 HP : 1116-1164 Weak : Thunder Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Thunder Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Water Holy - Aries Gem - Destrier Mane Holy Drop/Steal - Bacchus's Wine - Storm Magicite Drop/Steal - Chocobo Feather - Braid Wool - Tanned Hide - Chocobo Feather - Dark Magicite - Fire Stone - Iron Carapace - Fire Stone - Gysahl Greens - Gold Needle - Bronze Mace - Gysahl Greens - Pebble - Echo Herbs - Taurus Gem Viper Wu Zaghnal Zu Lv : 20-21 Lv : 20-22 Lv : 23-24 Lv : 21-22 HP : 1410-1430 HP : 1689-1729 HP : 3157-3179 HP : 1880-1896 Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - 40 gil - Dark Magicite - Aero Mote - Dark Magicite - Aries Gem - Earth Magicite - Large Feather - Pebble - Earth Magicite - Gemini Gem - Remedy - Quality Hide - Eye Drops - Hi-Potion - Rod - Tanned Hide - Large Feather - Quality Hide - Pebble - Kogarasumaru - Vanish Mote - Wind Magicite When you reach the plains, talk to the injured soldier and give him a potion. Speak with him again and choose the first option to borrow a chocobo, then leave for previous section of Ozmone Plains. Now pay attention to the left side, go until the area with the other chocobo, and you now have to go to South-East at the place with the chocobo tracks on the ground, this path doesn't exist in the map. Back to the soldiers area where you borrow the chocobo when you get further in the story, you can find some items on the ground. In the ext section you will see some dead bodies in front of the cavern. All you need to do is enter that cavern without chocobo. =============================================================================== ------------------------------| Henne Mines |------------------------------ ------------------- sep022 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Jelly Nightmare Redmaw Seeker Lv : 19-25 Lv : 24-25 Lv : 23-24 Lv : 22-23 HP : 1813-2018 HP : 1630-1688 HP : 1134-1202 HP : 1094-1110 Weak : Fire Weak : Holy Weak : Earth Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 500 gil - Dark Magicite - 100 gil - Antidote - Pebble - Hi-Potion - Crooked Fang - Bat Wing - Telepo-Stone - Remedy - Ice Shield - Crooked Fang - Water Magicite - Smelling Salts - Pebble - Smelling Salts - Yellow Liquid - Grimoire Togail - Red Fang - Wind Stone - Snowfly - Taurus Gem - Bloodsword - Wind Magicite Thunderbug Tyranorox Lv : 23-24 Lv : 26-27 HP : 2083-2193 HP : 4073-4413 Weak : Ice Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Red Fang - Alarm Clock - Remedy - Earth Magicite - Storm Magicite - Pebble - Iron Scraps - Tyrant Hide - Charged Gizzard - War Hammer In the first junction, go to the right side to find a switch, press it to open the road South. In the Phase 1 Shaft section you can find the map. Back to the junction, turn West. You will face lots of bats in the next passage. The following sections are South-West, then go East. In the East section you will encounter the dragon in the junction passage. Defeat it isn't a big problem for your current levels. Reach to the four-way junction in the Eastern area, press the switch and back to the dragon's section. Once you press that switch, you will be surrounded by many Jellies, prepare Fire spells for them. You can just run away if you don't want to fight them. Now move North, the gate has opened. After a scene, you'll see a Gate Crystal here, continue North for a boss fight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Tiamat | O=======================================O | Lv : 25 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 49993 - Hi-Potion | | Recommended: > 20 | | Weak : Earth - Leo Gem | | Minimum Lv : > 18 | | ELE. : Wind - Ring Wyrm Scale | | Average Lv : > 15 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' At the beginning the boss only keeps its attacks on one person. Be careful of its Aero spell, it could hurt the characters in one area. If you see the boss is charging it, make sure all your character are ready to use healing items or spells. However, you can take control of a character to evade this move, just run further from the targetted person, once you are out of the Aeroga range, you won't get any damage, the recommended area to run is behind the boss. Same tactics go for its other area attack, Disablega. But even if you run from the Disablega, your allies will still get Disable status, cure them with Esuna. When the boss is left with around 20% HP, its defense power will be increased, but you can kill it with a Mist Knack/Quickening combo before it bursts up, you probably used a lot of MP in the battle, so if you can't get a full bar to perform the Mist Knack/Quickening, you can try and cast Drain to kill off the boss. =============================================================================== ---------------------------| The Golmore Jungle |-------------------------- -------------------------- sep023 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Gargoyle Great Malboro Malboro Lv : 23-24 Lv : 22-23 Lv : 22-23 HP : 1436-1494 HP : 1630-1750 HP : 1573-1693 Weak : Ice Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Demon Eyeball - Bucchas's Wine - Earth Stone - Hi-Potion - Earth Stone - Elfin Bow - Storm Magicite - Virgo Gem - Remedy - Pebble - Foul Liquid - Smelling Salts - Gilt Measure - Malboro Vine - Malboro Vine Coeurl Diresaur Hellhound Lv : 36-38 Lv : 28 Lv : 37-39 HP : 4240-4466 HP : 6941 HP : 3570-3790 Weak : Ice Weak : Wind Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Coeurl Pelt - Earth Magicite - Alarm Clock - Quality Pelt - Float Mote - Dark Mote - Storm Magicite - Hi-Potion - Fire Magicite - Warp Mote - Tyrant Hide - Red Cap - Libra Gem (S) - Hi-Potion - Remedy - Pebble - Leo Gem (S) - Tanned Hide Dark Skeleton Treant Panther Lv : 37 Lv : 23-24 Lv : 21-23 HP : 4663 HP : 4284-4384 HP : 1299-1519 Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Burgonet - Balance Mote - Coeurl Pelt - Capricorn Gem (S) - Earth Magicite - Quality Pelt - Dark Magicite - Lumber - Storm Magictie - Death's Head - Phoenix Down - Warp Mote - Sturdy Bone - Aquarius Gem (S) - Libra Gem (S) - Telepo-Stone - Pebble Back in Eruyt Village. Move to Golmore Jungle and now you can cross the seals there. If you go through the South seal, you will reach Feywood. From Feywood, search around North-East to find a road to Paramina Rift, which is the next place that you have to go. If you go through the East seal, you can find the Gate Crystal, this route also leads the Paramina Rift, but before getting there you will have a tough boss battle, this may be the first problem of the game. If you cannot beat it, you can always skip this fight by going the Feywood route, but make sure you save your game before entering the battle, that way you can skip this fight if you can't beat this boss. Let see the boss at the North from Gate Crystal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Elder Wyrm | O=======================================O | Lv : 20 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 15943 - Emperor Scale | | Recommended: > 25 | | Weak : Wind - Succulent Fruit | | Minimum Lv : > 22 | | ELE. : - | | Average Lv : > 17 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Treant x2 A tough battle, I recommend your characters are over 25 level, otherwise you must plan a perfect strategy to fight. Two Treants join with boss, kill them as soon as possible. The special skill from the boss can send you lots of bad effects which are Blind, Confuse, Silence, Oil, Slow, Sap and Poison. If you get these bad statuses, cure them as soon as possible, or try changing out one of your members immediately when the boss readies Sporefall, so you do have a chance to heal your allies after freeing from these bad statuses It's better if you have some accessories immune to the status effects from this boss. Esuna spell can cure most of the bad statuses except for Oil, if you get Oil, the fire spell from the boss will probably take more then 2000 HP. Again, an optional way awaits. If you can't finish this boss off, I suggest not wasting time on this fight. Reload your game, remember this boss is always here, back for reavange when you're stronge even. By the way, don't fight the monsters in the Feywood, just rush out to the North-East for the next destination. =============================================================================== ----------------------------| The Paramina Rift |-------------------------- ------------------------- sep024 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Dark Skeleton Emperor Aevis Garuda-Egi Lizard Lv : 26 Lv : 27 Lv : 26-27 Lv : 24-26 HP : 1548 HP : 5900 HP : 2997-3065 HP : 2342-2562 Weak : Holy Weak : Thunder Weak : Dark Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Burgonet - Ice Magicite - Gold Needle - Fire Magicite - Dark Stone - Ice Stone - Hi-Potion - Float Mote - Dark Magicite - Horn - Holy Magicite - Horn - Death's Head - Leo Gem - Holy Stone - Pebble - Sturdy Bone - Wyrm Carapace - Kogarasumaru - Pointed Horn - Capricorn Gem - Hornite - Large Feather - Magick Gloves - Telepo-Stone - Telepo-Stone - White Incense - Fire Crystal (S) Skull Knight Slaven Warder Twintania White Wolf Lv : 25-28 Lv : 27-28 Lv : 27-28 Lv : 24-25 HP : 1873-1933 HP : 2623-2743 HP : 4917-5257 HP : 1498-1608 Weak : Holy Weak : Ice Weak : Thunder Weak : Thunder Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Capricon Gem - Fire Magicite - Blue Fang - Crossbow (S) - Dark Magicite - Gemini Gem - Ice Magicite - Ice Stone - Hi-Potion - Gold Needle - Ice Stone - Ice Magicite - Remedy - Slaven Harness - Smelling Slats - Phoenix Down - Sturdy Bone - Tanned Giantskin - Wyrm Carapace - Quality Pelt - Jujitsu Gi (S) - White Rang - Loherngrin (S) - Tanned Hide Wild Onion Yeti Ice Ice Elemental Leshach Entite Lv : 26-27 Lv : 27-29 Lv : 25 Lv : 45 HP : 1616-1736 HP : 4237-4477 HP : 14830 HP : 48042 Weak : Earth Weak : Thunder Weak : Thunder Weak : Thunder Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Arctic Wind - Feystone - Electrum - Phoenix Down - Demonsbane - Ice Crystal - Ether - Succulent Fruit - Ice Magicite - Ice Magicite - Feystone - Wind Magicite - Remedy - Ice Stone - Leshach Halcyon - Phoenix Down - Tanned Giantskin - Ice Crystal - Float Mote - Telepo-Stone To the Northern part is where you have to go, or you can explore around this wide area first. South-East exit leads to Feywood, The Southern area is connected to The Stilshrine Of Miriam, you will go there later. The Central section triggers a scene. After the scene, move to North-East area for your next destination. The enemies here are not too hard, explore around for some treasure. If you find the Yeti, try to steal the Tanned Giantskin from them, which can be sold for 672 gil for each. =============================================================================== -----------------------------| Mt. Bur Omisace |--------------------------- ----------------------- sep025 A Gate Crystal and two shops are here, you can find some advanced spells from the seeq. Forward to the North, next turn East and you will see the entrance of this building. Enter the building, some events happen in the hall, then Larsa leaves the party. Buy one or two Ice Shields from the shop, because you're going to face an Ice elemental boss in the next destination. However, you can get this shield from a drop from one the monsters there if you are lucky. Now back to the previous area, talk to the moogle around the Gate Crystal for a chocobo, if you don't want to fight your way to the next area, but it'll cost you 600 gil. Go back to Paramina Rift, then head South, continue past the Save Crystal to reach the next place. =============================================================================== -------------------------| The Stilshrine Of Miriam |---------------------- -------------------------------- sep026 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Blood Gigas Balloon Darkmare Dragon Aevis Lv : 28-29 Lv : 28-29 Lv : 31 Lv : 29-30 HP : 2729-2849 HP : 1878-1936 HP : 4739 HP : 5479-5819 Weak : Wind Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Bomb Ashes - Chronos Tear - Antidote - Earth Magicite - Chronos Tear - Dark Magicite - Goggle Mask - Festering Flesh - Fire Magicite - Demon Mail - Storm Magicite - Gemini Gem - Handkercheif - Grimoire Togail - Wyrm Carapace - Phoenix Down - Scorpio Gem - Scorpio Gem (S) - Echo Herbs (S) - Recurve Crossbow - Leo Gem (S) Facer Ghast Miriam Guard Miriam Facer Lv : 28 Lv : 27-29 Lv : 28 Lv : 29 HP : 3246 HP : 1706-1826 HP : 6827 HP : 5540 Weak : Wind Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Aquarius Gem - Dark Magicite - Earth Magicite - Festering Flesh - Pirate Hat - Red Fang - Potion - Smelling Salts - Solid Stone - Paramina Crossbow - Hi-Potion - Telepo-Stone Redmaw Zombie Zombie Warrior Crystalbug Lv : 29-27 Lv : 26-28 Lv : 27 Steal HP : 1617-1738 HP : 1924-2044 HP : 1878 - Feystone Weak : Earth Weak : Holy Weak : Holy - Ether Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Crooked Fang - Dark Magicite - Dark Magicite - Ice Shield - Dark Stone - Festering Flesh - Red Fang - Festering Flesh - Handkercheif - Wind Magicite - Foul Flesh - Icebrand - Taurus Gem (S) - Capricorn Gem (S) Oiling/Oil Tower Lv : 27-28 *Two unknown monsters, HP : 2818-2838 Reaper Mage and Reaper Claw Weak : Water will appear when you back here later, Drop/Steal they're near the Way Stone in the main hall. - Golden Staff And they're belonged to Nightwalker monster. - Handkerchief - Sagittarius Gem - Telepo-Stone - Yellow Liquid Cross over the long bridge to find a Gate Crystal before the entrance. Inside there, search the central area to see a Pedestal of the Dawn. Let your leader character equip the Dawn Shard that you got in the Tomb Of Raithwall before, examine the stand and choose the second option. For the Japanese version, you have to choose Ashe as your leader. Follow the passage until the next pedestal, do the same thing with the Dawn Shard as before. On the way you'll encounter some enemies, don't fight them in groups especially the Dragon Aevis. In the next area, get ready to destroy the green crystal/Crystalbug, its magic is quite strong, prepare to heal for each turn it takes. After defeating it, the real Save Crystal appears in the same place, use it to restore your HP and save your game too. Now down to the central passage, then move South in the next area, examine the giant blade there to open the room in North, use the Way Stone inside that room to return the main hall. Go down the West stairs in the main hall, in the next area the West passage will come to three way section. Here follow the right (North) passage until you get to a huge statue, rotate it to face East. In the following section, find the second statue in the South, rotate it to face North. Move to the East section, before the third statue, a boss awaits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Vinuskar | O=======================================O | Lv : 27 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 15138 - Damascus Steel | | Recommended: > 28 | | Weak : - - Knot of Rust | | Minimum Lv : > 23 | | ELE. : - - Thief's Cuffs | | Average Lv : > 16 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Cast Protect on your team before opening the door. If you're wearing some heavy equipment, your action speed will be slowed down because of the magnet, but it isn't a big problem. Just cure your characters from negative statuses. The boss can cast Slow on your members. It will probably perform Sword Dance before it dies, this move can hurt all your characters in an area, make sure to heal your characters when needed. The entire battle is easy. After the boss, go into the room and rotate the statue, this one should face West, you can also find the map behind the status. Back to previous area to see the giant blade has raised up. Now go to main hall and use the Way Stone back to the inner area. Head to Southern section, make sure you have some Alarm Clocks item. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Mateus | O=======================================O | Lv : 30 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 34259 - Ether | | Recommended: > 28 | | Weak : Thunder - High Arcana | | Minimum Lv : > 25 | | ELE. : Ice - Pisces Gem | | Average Lv : > 20 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Ice Azer x5 Must set Gambit to use Alarm Clock when alies get Sleep. Some Ice Azer join the battle, they are not your friends. Finish off them first. Ice Shield helps lot for this battle, equip it. Don't use elemental attack, just keep on your normal attack. The Blizarja from Mateus causes 700-900 damage to all targets, so keep your characters over 900 HP unless you have Ice Shield. If you're a zodiac gems collector, you can steal the Pisces Gem from the boss, this gem is quite rare. Now you've got new Esper, Mateus in the License board. Continue to South, get Sword of King after the scene. On the way going back to the Way Stone, you might encounter Negalmuur, which is a rare monster. This monster will keep summoning the Ghastes, if you want to kill it easier, send Silence to Negalmuur to stop the it from summoning. Now go back to Mt. Bur Omisace, use the Gate Crystal to teleport there if you want. ----------------------- ----------------------------| Mt. Bur Omisace |---------------------------- ----------------------- Something has changed since your last visit. Prepare your team before moving on, a fight awaits in the building. Before that, Haste magic is available in the shop, buy it if you have enough of gil, also buy the Regen if possible. Go out to Paramina Rift and cast all support spells like Protect, Haste and Regen (if you have bought it) to all characters, then back to Bur Omisace to save your game on the Gate Crystal, so you can begin the next fight with all these support statuses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Judge Bergan | O=======================================O | Lv : 30 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 17200 - Ether | | Recommended: > 30 | | Weak : - - Hi-Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 28 | | ELE. : - - Ruby Ring | | Average Lv : > 20 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Judge x3 Kill the three Judges behind your team, and be sure you focus the lowest HP Judge first. For the main target, he can cast Dark, Watera and Aero randomly, also his normal attack. For safety, set one of your character stay behind to heal other characters, for characters who have shield, I recommend equiping the Gaunlets accessory, which increases your chance of successfully blocking. The battle takes place in a long passage, sometimes you can use the length of the passage to delay the attack from the boss. After getting a hit at one of the ends, run to the opposite end, but make sure the boss is still targeting on your leader. While the boss is chasing your leader, let your other two character deal some damage to him. Meanwhile, cast Regen on the character that you are using to lure the boss. After that, speak to the Acolyte who's walking around stairs outside the building, and you will get Stone Of The Condemner. With this stone, you can go back to Stilshrine Of Miriam to fight the hidden Esper, it's call Zeromus. To find this Esper, go Stilshrine Of Miriam and use the Stone Of The Condemner to the Way Stone in main hall, and you will be warped to a secret room, go next door the fight it. But of cause it's very strong for now, go find this Esper when you're stonger. Check the "8. Esper / Summon" section for the details, and this is call Zeromus esper heading. Your next destination is Archadia, from the locations that you've been so far, it's North from Nalbina West Entrance. So if you've already activated the Gate Crystal there, and if you still have some Teleport Stones, just teleport there from the Gate Crystal here, if not, you should backtrack to Rabanastre city, then take the airship to Nalbina Fortress. Additional notes: Some advanced items are being sold in both Rabanastre and Nalbina shops, have a look at the shops. I recommend buying the Foe: Lowest HP Gambit from the shop in Rabanastre, it targets on the lowest HP enemy in the group, which makes you defeat the lowest HP enemy, easy for many random battle, just spend 50 gil to own it. =============================================================================== ------------------------| The Mosphoran Highwaste |------------------------ ------------------------------- sep027 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Fire Elemental Humbaba Python Lv : 25 Lv : 32-33 Lv : 29-32 HP : 14830 HP : 5403-5523 HP : 3016-3346 Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Feystone - Beastlord Horn - Great Serpent's Fang - Fire Crystal - Echo Herbs - Gold Needle - Fire Magicite - Sledgehammer - Quality Hide - Fire Stone - Storm Magicite - Tanned Hide - Tanned Giantskin - Wind Magicite - Telepo-Stone (S) - Bone Helm (S) Seeq Cateran Slaven Wilder Vulture Lv : 32-34 Lv : 30 Lv : 30-31 HP : 3770-3920 HP : 3218 HP : 4022-4090 Weak : Fire Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 116 gil - Earth Magicite - Black Cowl - Pebble - Firefly - Bundle of Feathers - Phoenix Down - Gemini Gem - Eye of the Hawk - Six-fluted Pole - Pebble - Giant Feather - Water Stone - Tanned Giantskin - Wind Magicite - White Fang - White Fang Ash Wyrm Clay Golem Worgan Lv : 45 Lv : 32 Lv : 29-31 HP : 32579 HP : 6393 HP : 2011-2231 Weak : Eart Weak : Wind Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Koga Blade - Chronos Tear - Fire Magicite - Leo Gem - Earth Magicite - Libra Gem - Wind Crystal - Iron Pole - Quality Pelt - Ring Wyrm Scale - Solid Stone - Smelling Salts - 800 gil (S) - Hi-Ether - Throat Wolf Blood - Gold Needle - Steel Poleyns (S) Beware of the Fire Element in the second section, it has 14,830 HP, tough enough for your current level, but if you defeat it you could gain lots of EXP. Another tough monster is the Ash Wyrm, but you probably won't encoutner it for now. In the Central section you can find a Gate Crystal and shop. Assuming you've noticed the Shrine of Winds that are around, once you've touched it, the stones will be raised up to the sky and form a road in the sky. As for what is in the sky? There's an optional Esper awaiting, Exodus. Later when you have reached the Phon Coast, backtrack here for the quest. All you need to activate are the Shrine of South, North-West and West to form the correct road, if you don't want to solve this puzzle yourself, check the "8. Esper / Summon section", look for Exodus/Exdeath Esper. Hint: the chocobo at North-East area can help. But do remember the Esper is quite tough for now, make sure to save the game before going for a try. The South connects to the Dalmasca Eastersand, the North-West is where you have to go. Cross over the big suspension bridge to reach Salikawood. =============================================================================== ----------------------------| The Salikawood |----------------------------- ---------------------- sep028 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Antares Bakamy Brown Chocobo Green Chocobo Lv : 33-46 Lv : 35-36 Lv : 32-35 Lv : 33-34 HP : 6458-7888 HP : 4501-4576 HP : 3718-3922 HP : 3786-3854 Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Weak : Thunder Weak : Thunder Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Water Water - Earth Magicite - 133-139 gil Holy Holy - Insect Husk - Antidote Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Molting - Diamond Armor - Antidote - Chocobo Feather - Vanishga Mote - Storm Magicite - Chocobo Feather - Gysahl Greens - Metal Jerkin (S) - Vanishga mote - Earth Magicite - Smelling Salts - Remedy (S) - Gysahl Greens - Wind Magicite Malboro King Pumpkin Head Sprinter Wyrdhare Lv : 34-35 Lv : 32-33 Lv : 33-34 Lv : 34-35 HP : 4501-4621 HP : 2739-2859 HP : 4070-4138 HP : 2849-2959 Weak : Holy Weak : Ice Weak : Water Weak : Fire Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dark Magicite - Balance Mote - Astrakhan Hat - Aries Gem - Malboro Fruit - Handkercheif - Blue Fang - Fine Wool - Thorned Mace - Pebble - Bundle of Feather - Magoroku - Virgo Gem - Storm Magicite - Fire Magicite - Stardust - Succulent Fruit - White Fang - Water Madicite - Screamroot - Taurus Gem (S) - Echo Herbs (S) NOTE: Some monsters show after you've defeat King Bomb. Before the following suspension bridge you will see a Save Crystal. In the next section after the Save Crystal, go in a South-East direction to find the map inside that golden statue/urn. In the Central section the Gate Crystal can be found. East is where you have to go for now. Chain the Pumpkin Heads for possible Succulent Fruits to sell, most of them were sleeping, so you do have some advantages in fighting them. **Below is the information of optional places West leads to Necrohol Of Nabudis, go North-West can reach Nabreus Deadlands, and these two places are connected to each other. If you're going to find the Chaos Esper, you must go through these two places. And as I mentioned in the ealier in the walkthrough, the chests that you're not supposed to open are related to the Strongest Halberd/Zodiac Spear in Necrohol Of Nabudis. If you have followed the walkthrough, the 16 chests are definitely in the Nabudis, check this map below find the 16 chests. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_nabudis.png Before that, I would like to tell you, the monsters in Nabudis are very tough, and you need to defeat an optional boss in Salikawood only then can you reach to Nabudis. From the Gate Crystal, go North to fight this boss. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | King Bomb | O=======================================O | Lv : 34 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 37596 - Bomb Fragment | | Recommended: > 38 | | Weak : Water - Bomb Shell | | Minimum Lv : > 35 | | ELE. : Fire - Fire Crystal | | Average Lv : > 23 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Bomb x3 Better prepare a Flame Shield for your characters for this battle. Three more mini bombs join in the battle, their self-destrustion deals great damage, but you can kill them before they explode. Remember to cure Oil status before the boss casts Fire, Fira or whatever Fire elemental attack. Not much HP for this boss, but the hardest part is the fact it can to fully restore its HP, it mostly will restore when the life bar is left around half. When you see it running away from you (decribed as "Crying for some help"), it is possible it will spawn new mini bombs or restore HP. What you can do is perform Mist Knack/Quickening when the boss has around half its HP bar left, and hopefully your Mist Knack/Quickening combo will kill it. Again, if you couldn't beat it for now, remember you can always run away from the fight. For your next destination, move to the Eastern part and talk to the Moogle Boss (not the boss that would fight you) to find out that he needs the moogles around to build the gate. Now find 9 other moogles in the wood, they're displayed as exclamation marks on the map screen, search for them in Forest Bungalows and speak with them. After finding the last moogle, choose the first option during the dialogue to follow them back to the Eastern area. Now a new road has opened up, before leaving here, speak with the Moogle Boss for an accessory, Quasimodo Boots. Then follow this road to next place. =============================================================================== -----------------------------| The Phon Coast |---------------------------- ---------------------- sep029 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Air Elemental Archaeosaur Bagoly Lv : 25 Lv : 36-38 Lv : 37-38 HP : 14830 HP : 12251-12591 HP : 4610-4720 Weak : Earth Weak : Ice Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Feystone - Gold Needle - Aries Gem - Wind Crystal - Leo Gem - Bent Staff - Wind Magicite - Storm Magicite - Bundle of Feathers - Wind Stone - Tanned - Telepo-Stone Tyrant Hide - Wind Magicite - Fumarole (S) - Large Feather - Pebble - Multiscale (S) Piranha Pyrolisk Silver Lobo Lv : 35-37 Lv : 36-37 Lv : 34-35 HP : 4305-4469 HP : 6262-6330 HP : 3131-3241 Weak : Thunder Weak : Ice Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Bundle of Feathers - Eye Drops - Chronos Tear - Gold Needle - Libra Gem - Eye Drops - Storm Magicite - Quality Pelt - Ichthon Scale - Taurus Gem - Telepo-Stone - Pisces Gem - White Fang - Wind Magicite - Water Magicite - Vanishga Mote - Sorcerer's Habit - Steel Mask (S) - White Fang Bangaa Pirate Iguion Mandragora Lv : 35-37 Lv : 36 Lv : 34-37 HP : 5381-5531 HP : 5002 HP : 2739-3099 Weak : Water Weak : Thunder Weak : Fire Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 80 gil - Aries Gem - 380 gil (S) - Aldebaran - Eye Drops - Pebble - Bucchus's Wine - Frogspawn - Platinum Sword - Fire Magicite - Ice Magicite - Succulent Fruit - Hi-Potion - Pointed Horn - Vanishga Mote - Remedy - Phoenix Down - Water Magicite - Survival Vest (S) Once you reach will see a Save Crystal. A pretty big area here if you wish to explore, if you don't, just head to South-East for a scene. Same place can find a shop and Gate Crystal, through the board around here can find more side missions. If you haven't take the 16 treasure chests in Nabudis, at South-East most of this area, you can see 16 treasure chests there, don't open anyone of them, reason is they had some connections with the 16 treasure chests in Nabudis, if you open the chests here, those were inside Nabudis will disappear. One of the chest in Nabudis was hiding the weapon, 'Strongest Halberd'! Read the "Weapons" section for more details about this weapon, or read the section above (Salikawood) for the location of it. By the way, Zodiac Spear was the name for American version. Now go to North-East, there is another Save Crystal in the last part, pass there reach to next place. =============================================================================== --------------------------| The Tchita Uplands |--------------------------- -------------------------- sep030 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Bellwyvern Coeurl Lizard Malboro Overking Lv : 38 Lv : 36-37 Lv : 36-37 Lv : 36-38 HP : 8267 HP : 3944-4264 HP : 5191-5411 HP : 4775-5255 Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Fire Crystal - Coeurl Pelt - Blue Fang - Dark Magicite - Reflectga Mote - Hi-Potion - Fire Crystal - Malboro Fruit - Remedy - Quality Pelt - Fire Magicite - Putrid Liquid - Spiral Incisor - Storm Crystal - Pointed Horn - Vanishga Mote - Pebble - Storm Stone - Pebble - Virgo Gem - Barrel Coat (S) - Embroidered Tippet - Adamant Hat Earth Elemental Serpent Feral Croc Lv : 25 Lv : 35-36 Lv : 39 HP : 14830 HP : 4982-5302 HP : 9713 Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Earth Crystal - Aries Gem - Antarctic Wind - Earth Magicite - Bacchus's Wine - Aries Gem - Earth Stone - Quality Hide - White Fang - Feystone - Wind Magicite - Wind Magicite - Tanned Hide - Blood Wool - Orichalcum Dirk (S) Go East can find the Gate Crystal around central area, same place a boy was there. Speak with the boy to receive a hunting mission, and he would give you Soul Ward Key which is a key item that you need for next place. There's another Save Crystal located in Eastern area, and one is around the central South. Now go North of this place, go into the cave. =============================================================================== ------------------------| The Sochen Cave Palace |------------------------- ------------------------------ sep031 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Focalor Gorgimera Iguion Imp Lv : 36-37 Lv : 38-39 Lv : 36 Lv : 37-39 HP : 4513-1687 HP : 4266-4386 HP : 5002 HP : 4390-4710 Weak : Ice Weak : Water Weak : Thunder Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dorsal Fin - Bundle of Feathers - Aries Gem - 130 gil - Ichthon Scale - Fire Magicite - Eye Drops - Antidote - Pisces Gem - Pebble - Frogspawn - Blue Fang - Power Rod - Telepo-Stone - Ice Magicite - Demon Feather - Storm Magicite - Gold Needle - Phoenix Down - Scorpio Gem - Balance Mote - Hammerhead (S) - Pointed Horn - Storm Magicite Pit Fiend Striker Wendigo Zombie Knight Lv : 37-39 Lv : 37-38 Lv : 37-38 Lv : 36-38 HP : 4390-4710 HP : 5129-5549 HP : 5458-5878 HP : 3693-4053 Weak : Earth Weak : Wind Weak : Thunder Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Eye Drops - Earth Magicite - Gemini Gem - Capricorn Gem - Demon Feather - Maggoty Flesh - Hi-Potion - Dark Magicite - Remedy - Kagenui - Ice Magicite - Hypnocrown - Scorpio Gem - Pebble - Kiku-Ichimonji - Maggoty Flesh - Wind Magicite - Telepo-Stone - Maggoty Flesh - Pebble - Scorpio Gem (S) - Gemini Gem (S) - Gokuu Pole (S) - Vanishga Mote Abysteel Zombie Warlock Lv : 36-38 Lv : 36-38 HP : 6898-7138 HP : 7625-7985 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dark Crystal - Alarm Clock - Red Fang - Dark Crystal - Spiral Incisor - Forbidden Flesh - Vampyr Fang - Capricorn Gem - Telepo-Stone Just follow the path to North, use the Soul Ward Key to unlock the door. On the way, don't fight the enemies in group. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O====================================O===================================O | Mandragora Prince | Onion Queen | O====================================O===================================O | Lv : 37 Possible Steal: | Lv : 37 Possible Steal: | | HP : ~9000 - Four-leaf | HP : ~9000 - Onion | | Weak : Fire Clover | Weak : Earth | O====================================O===================================O | Alraune King | Pumpkin Star | O====================================O===================================O | Lv : 37 Possible Steal: | Lv : 37 Possible Steal: | | HP : ~9000 - Gimble Stalk | HP : ~9000 - Jack-o'- | | Weak : Wind | Weak : Ice Lantern | O====================================O------------------------------------ | Topstalk | O====================================O .--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv : 37 Possible Steal: | | Recommended: > 38 | | HP : ~9000 - Tomato Stalk | | Minimum Lv : > 35 | | Weak : Water | | Average Lv : > 24 | -------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Needless to say, you should focus on killing one of them. At the beginning, they just running around, find your target and cast Dispel it, attack before the other bosses come together, and remember never ever be surrounded. Attack your target again when they are separated. If you could handle this battle well, try steal the loot/treasure from each of them, they're holding some pricy things. Steal Four-leaf Clover from Mandragora Prince, Tomato Stalk from Topstalk, Onion from Onion Queen, Gimble Stalk from Alraune King and Jack-o'-Lantern from Pumpkin Star. After this you can return to the boy in the Tchita Uplands Gate Crystal section for your rewards, of cause you could find him later if you want.. Now go either left or right door, through the passage to North. You can see the Save Crystal, but it's the Crystalbug again, do prepare your team before you touch it. Next section is Mirror of the Soul, quite complicated, make sure you take the map at the East. Move to North come to Fall of Time section, here's a hidden treasure awaits to be exploded. Look at the map now you can see you're currently at the place with five different pathes, which is the Fall of Time section, the small area in the middle was the hidden treasure, but you can't reach there before you solve some little puzzle. See below to solve it. Reference map: (_ ___ ___ ___ ___ _) 1N 2N 3N 4N 5N | | | | | _|____|____|____|____|_ ( ) ( S ) (_______________________) | | H | | | | | | _1S___2S___3S___4S___5S___ ( (M) (M)= where you get the Map S = start here H = hidden treasure -The hidden treasure at H is blocking by waterfall. -So once you visit the central section from the right (Eastern) path you're reached to S. -From S follow this route: S > 5S > 1S > 1N > 4N > 4S > 2S > 2N > 3N > H -If you follow so, the waterfall which blocking in the central will disappear. -Enter to H for your treasure, you will get either Koga Blade, Iga Blade, Elixir, Dark Matter or gils. Afterwards, head to North. In Destiny's March section, run to South, West, North and finally back to East, the secret path to the West will be unlocked which leads to the arena of an optional boss. Now you can't open the arena yet, for more details of this boss, you can check the Hell Wyrm/Majinryuu under the "Optional Bosses" section. Continue to North when you done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Ahriman | O=======================================O | Lv : 38 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 62149 - Death Powder | | Recommended: > 38 | | Weak : Holy - Maduin Gear | | Minimum Lv : > 35 | | ELE. : Dark - Sky Jewel | | Average Lv : > 25 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Just keep attacking, always cure the negative status. When the boss left around 50%, it will send you Doom repeatedly. Besides that, the boss can always create one or more of its own shadow, the shadow has not much HP, so you better defeat them for first, but sometimes the shadow will automatic disappear. When it has created many shadows, try running around until some of them were gone. Same place, search the side for possible random treasure with Elixir and Phoenix Down. After all, continue to North until the last area, operate the panel above and will go upper level. You can see the Gate Crystal there. After that, follow this passage which leads to outside. =============================================================================== ------------------------------| Old Archades |----------------------------- -------------------- sep032 Here you can buy the double experience accessory from the shop. Western area, a Save Crystal. Talk to the soldier guarding on the stairs, then pay 1,500 gil to Informant Jules. Now find the NPC known as Lucky Man, but you need to speak with the NPC only they would show the actual name. Afterwards, talk to Jules again, and then find the NPC know as Beasley. After some events, you can enter to the Imperial. =============================================================================== ----------------------| The Imperial City Of Archades |-------------------- ------------------------------------- sep033 Lot of shops are around, and now the item shop is start selling X-potion, you better purchase some of it for the next battle. Inside the last shop of North-East section, you can buy the map from the moogle who looking at the bookcase as well as the map for Tchita Uplands. Eastern area is Aerodrome/ Airship Terminal, and a Save Crystal is inside there. Ok, if you've done the July The Female Spy event in Nalbina, now you can find her in the magic shop, talk to her for your reward, Salamand Halcyon. It's a treasure/loot to trade for the Arcutus (Atk +44) gun type weapon. In South-West around the weapon/armor shop, talk to the taxi guard, Jules appear again, pay him 2,500 gil. Now you need 9 Pinewood Chops/White Leafs for the taxi/cab. To get Pinewood Chop/White Leaf, you have to talk to the right pair of people. When you speak to one of them, commit his/her tale and a sentence will appear on the top left screen, now you have to find the appointed NPC and tell him/her the tale. If you get it correctly, the Pinewood Chop/White Leaf awarded. In the current section, Nilbasse, you could get 6 Pinewood Chops/White Leafs, go other section for more, you can find 28 pair of people for Pinewood Chop/White Leaf. Here is the list of NPC who give you the tale and who will receive the tale. Note: You must talk to the NPC once only he/she show the address name. Nilbasse section Determined Researcher --> Ex-Researcher Gentleman Onlooker --> Eager Crier Senior Researcher --> Failed Researcher Aspiring Starlet --> Eaded Star Worried Husband --> Materialistic Women Athletic Women --> Avid Reader Molberry section Reminiscing Lady --> Family-minded Girl Daughter-in-Law --> Man from Giza Talented Woman --> Akademician Would be Judge --> Judge's Wife Avid Traveler --> Traveling Gentleman Ardent Women --> Ardent Man Poor Husband --> Poor Wife Proud Mother --> Tutor Look-alike --> Look-alike Rienna section Philosopher of Cuisine --> Dangerous Chef Lazy Profiteer --> Researcher's Wife Green Seller --> Vegetable Seller Good Brother --> Waiting Women Tarot Reader --> Happy Nolist Tour Leader --> Bhujerba Lady Lucky Man --> Romantic Lady Trant section Music Appreciator --> Lutenist Smitten Man --> Smitten Women Farce-Goer --> Girl on an Errand Boutiquere --> Moneyed Gentleman Historian --> Perceptive Man Builder --> Artisan Architect After collecting 9 Pinewood Chops/White Leafs or more, speak with that taxi guard again to go other section. If you get all 28 of it, go any shop and trade them to Chopmaster for the Sandalwood Chop, which use as the entry key for the Terrace section at North, there's a part of 80 Rare Monsters hunting and the Cockatrice Find side quests. So if you've decided to clear these side quests later, is better you get all 28 Pinewood Chop/White Leaf now, and do forget to trade for the Sandalwood Chop. From here, go South for Gate Crystal, go North for an event. Back to around taxi station, Jules once again appears. After that, talk to taxi guard and choose second location, watch a scene. =============================================================================== -------------------------| The Draklor Laboratory |------------------------ ------------------------------ sep034 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Hecteyes Imperial Hoplite Imperial Pilot Lv : 36-37 Lv : 36-37 Lv : 38 HP : 8285-8515 HP : 4308-4548 HP : 4367 Weak : Ice Weak : - Weak : - Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Sagittarius Gem - 88, 94, 98 gil - Hi-Potion - Silver Liquid - Hi-Potion - Phoenix Down - Storm Crystal - Phoenix Down - Unpurified Ether - Yellow Liquid Imperial Swordsman Judge Lab-Rat Lv : 37 Lv : 39 Lv : 36-37 HP : 3829 HP : 4846 HP : 3627-3647 Weak : - Weak : - Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 88, 94, 98 gil - 100 gil - Antidote - Hi-Potion - Hi-Potion - Fire Magicite - Phoenix Down - Phoenix Down - Rat Pelt - Rat Tail First, move to North through the left passage, there is an elevator, check on the panel and choose 67 floor. 67 floor, head to North-East to trigger a scene. After that, obtain the map and Lab Access Card. Before moving on, enter to room 04 to find Save Crystal, then enter to room 03 beside, check and change the Bulkhead controls. Inside room 11 at South-West can find some treasure, but you have to play with this blue/red Bulkhead controls puzzle to get to there. After all back to elevator, now go 68 floor. 68 floor, move to room 03 around East, change the Bulkhead controls to blue. Go to other side, enter to room 04 and change the Bulkhead controls to red. Now you can reach room 11 in South-West passage, go there and change Bulkhead controls to blue colour again, then move to the other elevator in central South passage, choose 70 floor to leave here. Enemies are unlimited spawning, just avoid to fight them if unnecessary, but if you can't handle them well, you do have to fight even more for leveling up before you head up for the boss battle, just save your game at 70F before back here to gain EXP. Just to notify before you go to explore the whole area, inside the room 11 at East hiding some Hecteyes enemies, they're stronge than other enemies and know to send some badly statuses to your characters. Room 14 at East is hiding some Lab-Rat, the quanlity of it was a problem. Room 13 at West is the Judge battle. Do prepare your team before entering these rooms. At 70F, enter the room 7002 at East for Hastega Mote or Pheasant Netsuke random treasure. Once you've done, cast the support spells like Regen and Haste on your team, save the game on the Save Crystal before run up stairs to face the boss fight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Dr. Cid | O=======================================O | Lv : 40 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 72989 - Hi-Potion | | Recommended: > 40 | | Weak : Holy - Knot of Rust | | Minimum Lv : > 38 | | ELE. : Dark - Potion | | Average Lv : > 26 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Rook x4 The Rooks can absorb your MP, so make a Mist Knack/Quickening before your MP gone, make sure it's the good combo. Set Gambit to heal ally with Hi-Potion, X-Potion is recommended if you have lot, if not, save it for later. Focus on destroying the Rooks before the boss, but becareful when the Rooks left two, they will shoot your team like crazy, so you better prepare your X-Potions. After all Rooks have been defeated, beware of the special move from the boss, sometimes he will just walking around without attacking, actually it was the sign to tell you the special move is coming, spend a turn to heal all your character if due. And do remember Dispel his supporting spells for the first. =============================================================================== -------------------------| The Port At Balfonheim |------------------------ ------------------------------ sep035 After some scenes, your party came to this place. Some better items were selling in the shops, have a look on the stuffs that're you looking for. Recommend buy some X-Potion for the next objective, buy also Curaja and learn it if possible. Eastern is the Airship Terminal/Aerodrome, and there's a Save Crystal inside. North-East section can find Gate Crystal, same place you can buy Telepo-Stone from the man who's on the chocobo. The moogle near the tree selling the map for this place and Cerobi Steppe. The path to North after the Gate Crystal leads to Cerobi Steppe, it's an optional area, but you can hve some fights there if you want. Now you have to go Feywood, just use the Gate Crystal to the nearest place, Golmore Jungle. From Golmore Jungle, move to South =============================================================================== -------------------------------| The Feywood |----------------------------- ------------------- sep036 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Basilisk Behemoth Cerberus Lv : 42-43 Lv : 42-45 Lv : 38-40 HP : 5429-5749 HP : 10026-11286 HP : 4419-5059 Weak : Thunder Weak : Ice Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Behemoth Steak - Fire Crystal - Chronos Tear - Gemini Gem - Francisca - Ice Crystal - Prime Tanned Hide - Hell-Gate's Flame - Prime Tanned Hide - Red Fang - Libra Gem - Serpent Eye - Storm Crystal - Prime Pelt - Aries Gem (S) - Giant's Helmet - Festering Flesh (S) Deadly Nightshade Giruveganus Golem Holy Elemental Lv : 39-41 Lv : 47 Lv : 42-43 Lv : 25 HP : 3167-3647 HP : 13686 HP : 11280-11550 HP : 14830 Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Weak : Dark Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Chronos Tear - Broken Greataxe - Aquarius Gem - Feystone - Fire Crystal - Dark Crystal - Earth Crystal - Holy Crystal - Pebble - Leo Gem - Mystletainn - Holy Magicite - Succulent Fruit - Prime Tanned Hide - Pebble - Holy Stone - Virgo Gem - X-Potion - Remedy - Screamroot (S) - Carabineer (S) - Quality Lumber Mirrorknight Mu Preying Mantis Tartarus Lv : 40-42 Lv : 40-41 Lv : 43-44 Lv : 38-40 HP : 5202-5842 HP : 3167-3487 HP : 7465-7705 HP : 3619-4259 Weak : Earth Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Aries Gem (S) - Aries Gem - Cancer Gem - Dark Crystal - Mirror Mail - Blood Wool - Dark Crystal - Libra Gem - Mirror Scale - Eye Drops - Insect Husk - Prime Pelt - Wind Crystal - Fire Crystal - Reflectga Mote - Pebble - Windslicer Pinion - Moondust - Sickle-Blade - X-Potion - X-Potion (S) - Pheasant Netsuke - Bowline Sash (S) - Power Vest (S) When you just step inside here, make sure you had cast Libra, reason is there was a trap which can send a large damage to all your characters at the entrance of Golmore Jungle. The map for this area is located at the Walk of Stolen Truth section. North-East route leads to Paramina Rift, West route is to the inner side of Henne Mines, you can't go further in the Henne Mines for now since the road was blocked, but you can have a try to fight with one of the strongest enemies of the game there, Abysteel. Make sure you've saved your game before go to this place. By the way, the only Sve Crystal here is at the South. Get close to the seal storm for a scene. After that, you're able to South. Before that, cast all Haste, Regen to everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Rafflesia | O=======================================O | Lv : 43 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 73393 - Putrid Liquid | | Recommended: > 40 | | Weak : Wind - Screamroot | | Minimum Lv : > 38 | | ELE. : Earth - X-Potion | | Average Lv : > 28 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Malboros It's a MP decrease handicap, means your MP will be decreasing overtime. Set Gambit to heal ally with items, and cast Dispel on the boss at the beginning of the battle. When you're able to use Mist Knack/Quickening, use them before your MP decreased lesser than a bar. Later, some Malboros will be spawned to help the boss, focus to kill them one by one. After the Malboro, the boss start sending some nasty statuses by the special move, prepare the items for the bad statuses especially Confuse. Another way is change your party to be one character to receive those bad statuses, then set out other characters to heal him/her immediately. Continue to South, next section can find the map for here, don't forgot to take it. Following section, you can see some Feywood Glyphes here, they're displayed like a star shape in the map, for now only one of the them is activated, go on to it and examine the Pattern on the only activating glyph. By doing so, you can see an illusion show on the side, turn your camera view to find it, then face to the illusion and forward to that direction, you will reach to the next Feywood Glyph with the pattern. Examine the pattern on this glyph for the next illusion, do the same thing to find the following Feywood Glyph. Keep on doing this until you get to the next section. Next section has some more Feywood Glyphes like previous area, just to the same thing like before. Eventually the last illusion will direct you to the gate at South-West corner, now summon out your Belias esper, then check on the door and choose second option to open it. Before to the next area, have a look on the area around, there's an random treasure with Ensanguined Shield would appear here. From the direction of the gate at South-West, go forward and you will see a trap is there, the Ensanguined Shield in on the trap if it does appear. Anyway, this shield has highest evasion point (90), but it has auto Slow, Sap and Poison statuses, seem to be a bad shield, but you can have a try on using it when your character stats get to higher level. And here is the location, again, it's random. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/en_shield.jpg =============================================================================== ---------------------| The Ancient City Of Giruvegan |--------------------- ------------------------------------- sep037 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Behemoth Gargoyle Baron Mythril Golem Lv : 45 Lv : 42-43 Lv : 43-44 HP : 12619 HP : 6071-6231 HP : 17733-17973 Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Behemoth Steak - Dark Crystal - Aquarius Gem - Gemini Gem - Demon Tail - Fire Crystal - Prime Tanned Hide - Doom Mace - Gaia Gear - Red Fang - Scorpio Gem - Iron Ore - Storm Crystal - X-Potion - Mythril - Giant's Helmet (S) Vivian Diakon Entite Lv : 42-44 Lv : 45 HP : 6526-7006 HP : 48042 Weak : Holy Weak : Dark Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dark Crystal - Diakon Halcyon - Malboro Flower - Electrum - Telepo-Stone - Feystone - Virgo Gem - Holy Crystal Just cross over the bridge, use the Gate Crystal in the first junction, or you may need to return Balfonheim to buy some item. Check the Way Stone in the end and use it to the West. Next area, before encountering any monster, a boss fight awaits. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Daedalus | O=======================================O | Lv : 42 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 65644 - Damascus Steel | | Recommended: > 42 | | Weak : Holy - Dark Crystal | | Minimum Lv : > 38 | | ELE. : Dark - Forbidden Flesh | | Average Lv : > 28 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Cast Haste, Regen and Protect on your party before attack, but it's better you done all these jobs before trigger out the fight. The boss will use some elemental attacks, change the suitable equipment to block against them, like while he readies Ice elemental spell, equip Ice Shield to reduce the damage. When he left around 1/5 life bar, his combo attack like crazy, try perform Mist Knack/Quickening to finish him off, otherwise you have to spend some Phoenix Downs. Another easy way is use the healing spell since it could be a damage on him, cast Curaga or Curaja may be even powerful than your normal attack. But it's better learn at least the level 2 Mist Knack/Quickening so that your do have more MP to cast healing spell as your attack move. Afterwards, use the Way Stone to leave here. Next section, go down and push the switch to unseal the road. Continue to down (South) for the next switch, beside this, Mythril Golem is guarding, push the switch then run if you don't want to fight them. Western most of the section would face two more Mythril Golem, the looks like the end, but if you face North and run out, a hidden bridge will appear, just cross it. Next section, push the switch at central of South passage, North-East corner and central South-West, is better don't fight the enemies in group, finish off them one by one could save lot of strength. After all, head to the end of the road, another hidden bridge appear when you run out to West. After the scene, open the Bulwark Hemera in front, the Save Crystal is here before the next Bulwark Hemera. Next section, the Gate if Fire, stay in central of the long road, face East and run outside, the hidden bridge appears, just follow it to the central for a boss battle, make sure Haste all your ally now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Tyrant | O=======================================O | Lv : 43 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 180200 * Technick/Skill | | Recommended: > 45 | | Weak : Ice is sealed. | | Minimum Lv : > 40 | | ELE. : Thunder | | Average Lv : > 28 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' You can't use any skills in the battle, even if you have lot of gils but no chance to use Gil Toss. At the beginning, Dispel his Protect and Shell before attack, keep you character more then 60% HP. If you have Flame Shield, equip it when the Firaga being used, do remember you can find out what is going on from the information message on the top left screen. Regen or Esuna to cover Sap status if you don't have much of Remedy. After defeating the boss, take the Way Stone here to the next area. ---------------------------------------- --------------------| The Great Crystal/Crystal Grande |------------------- ---------------------------------------- O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Mom Bomb Mythril Golem Necrophobe Lv : 45-46 Lv : 45-46 Lv : 46-47 HP : 6384-6544 HP : 17733-17973 HP : 8511-8691 Weak : Water Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bomb Shell - Aquarius Gem - Ambrosia - Diamond Armlet - Fire Crystal - Bacchus's Wine - Fire Crystal - Gaia Gear - Capricorn Gem - Pebble - Iron Ore - Dark Crystal - Scorpio Gem - Mythril - Sky Jewel - Red Fang (S) - Hermes Sandals (S) Ose Reaper Lv : 44-45 Lv : 46 HP : 6739-7059 HP : 10111 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Coeurl Whisker - Book of Orgain-Cent - Dark Crystal - Capricorn Gem - Libra Gem - Dark Crystal - Morning Star - Pebble - Prime Pelt - Vaccine - Chronos Tear - Caliper (S) Here you can see one way is going up and another one is to down, just follow the down way. Beware of the trap around the treasure in the following platform, this treasure, which is the first treasure before you reach the next Way Stone, you could get the Black Mask from it, but too bad it was random, so just have some tries on it. After that, take the Way Stone VII. Next, you will see VI, and from here can see three ways, one is where you came, another one is sealed, follow the remaining way to find the switch, push it to unseal other way, then cross over that way. Continue to down till the Way Stone V, use it warp to IV. From IV, go up to end and push the switch there, but before you can get there, you can see some Mom Bomb surrounding a treasure, and you do have a chance to get Holy Lance from this treasure, but it's random, since most of the later enemies are weak against Holy, so I recommend back here to have some tries if you didn't get the Holy Lance. After pusing the switch, back to IV and go down to other way, push the one in the middle, then continue to next way will see III. From here if you go up will get back to IV, but you don't need to go there. Now just take the Way Stone III to next area to trigger a scene. Now appear in II, go down and you will see Way Stone I and the Save Crystal, save your game here. Take the Way Stone I back to Ancient City, then open the Bulwark Hemera in front for the next boss battle, cast all support spells on your party before entering the battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Shemhazai | O=======================================O | Lv : 45 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 91136 - Hi-Ether | | Recommended: > 45 | | Weak : Random - High Arcana | | Minimum Lv : > 40 | | ELE. : Soul - Sagittarius Gem | | Average Lv : > 30 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Dispel her Haste for the first. The esper can absorb all elemental spells, but only when she changed, better pay attention on her elemental weakness change if you going to use magic. The esper will absorb your MP randomly, so set a Gambit to use X-Potion as your sub healing action in case of your MP has been absorbed. Although you would get Silence status, but sometime you can avoid from your MP being absorbed, from what I've noticed, this esper didn't absorb the MP from the character with Silence, so when the character has regained some MP, cure the Silence to heal other. Shock and Flare could are very dangerous moves, prepare your Phoenix Down or Raise magic on the character who's spotted as the target. By the way, you could steal the Sagittarius Gem from this esper, it's using to trade with the strongest bow, Sagittarius. Stealing one for now is better than you find this loot from other monsters, if you decided to own the strongest bow easier. After that, you gain Shemhazai Esper. Next, open the wall to South, check the Way Stone there and choose the first option, watch a scene. After getting Treaty-Blade, check the same Way Stone, now it should became Tellurian Way Stone, use it to return to the first area. Take the Gate Crystal to return Port At Balfonheim. ------------------------------ -------------------------| The Port At Balfonheim |------------------------ ------------------------------ Move to South-West, talk to the Manse Watch and choose to enter the Manse. Reddas join as guest character. After the scene with Rikken, Raz and Elza, head to the Airship Terminal/Aerodrome in the Eastern section, use the private airship to your next destination, The Ridorana Cataract, it's located at the South-West side on the world map, but don't forgot to restore your item stock and buy the suitable equipment before moving. You must purchase some Vaccine for the next esper fight, otherwise it would become the worst fight ever. Also buy the Arise white magic for now, it's just became available right after Giruvegan. Another thing is Rose Carsage accessory, it has immune to Silence ability, which is recommended for the next fight as well, go find two or three for your party. =============================================================================== -------------------------| The Ridorana Cataract |------------------------- ----------------------------- sep038 O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Cassie Deathclaw Lv : 46 Lv : 48 HP : 8840 HP : 13162 Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bacchus's Wine - Cancer Gem - Earth Crystal - Charger Barding - Ketu Board - Vaccine - Malboro Flower - Storm Crystal - Virgo Gem - X-Potion - Chaperon (S) - Zwill Crossblade (S) Althought you got some helps from Reddas, but the enemies still weren't that easy, also make a Libra on your own, reason is to avoid from the traps were set around. South-East is a round area, there are lot of traps in the middle, search the corner of North-West can find the map in the statue/urn. Move on to North-East, there is another Save Crystal, beside it got a row of traps, beware of them. Cast Haste, Protect, Regen on your party, then use the Save Crystal, go up the staircase to East after saving your game. =============================================================================== ------------------------| The Pharos At Ridorana |------------------------- ------------------------------ sep039 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Hydro | O=======================================O | Lv : 47 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 203800 - Corpse Fly | | Recommended: > 47 | | Weak : Holy - Maggoty Flesh | | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | ELE. : Dark - Wyrm Bone | | Average Lv : > 32 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' First of all, use Dispel to stop his Haste, and you can even Slow him down. Once he get slowed, he would be slow for the entire battle, so be sure you had successfully send him Slow status as early as possible. Hydro can send you Sap, Disease and more bad statuses, and his tail has Poison touch, so prepare the items or Esuna to cure these statuses. Use your Mist Knack/ Quickening before it has hit away your MP, just make sure you have enough of healing items after you spent your MP. Set one character stay behind for healing and support the spells when necessary. Hydro is like Daedalus, the boss that you fought in Giruvegan, you can use healing spell to deal damage on him, but only do this if you have enough of MP, otherwise you better save the healing spells for your own teeam. After defeating the boss, get close to the entrane to trigger a scene, then will enter the pharos automatically. -------------------- ------------------------------| First Ascent |----------------------------- -------------------- O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Aeronite Brainpan Chimera Brain Deidar Lv : 50 Lv : 46 Lv : 45-46 Lv : 46 HP : 18684 HP : 15358 HP : 9992-10112 HP : 15358 Weak : Thunder Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dragon Helm - Aquarius Gem - 60 gil - Antares - Ice Crystal - Chronos Tear - Chimera Head - Aquarius Gem - Leo Gem - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Wyvern Fang - Quality Stone - Hi-Potion - Orichalcum - Wyvern Wing - Smelling Salts - Taurus Gem - Quality Stone - Hi-Potion - X-Potion (S) - Windslicer Pinion - Celebrant's Miter Mimeo/Presenter Mistmare Undin Entite Lv : 47 Lv : 45-47 Lv : 45 HP : 46-48 HP : 12180-12500 HP : 48042 Weak : Holy Weak : Fire Weak : Fire Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 500 gil - Chronos Tear - Ether - Cancer Gem - Grimoire Aidhed - Feystone - Dark Crystal - Pebble - Water Crystal - Iron Ore - Reflectga Mote - Undin Halcyon - Pebble - Scorpio Gem - Zeus Mace - Water Crystal 01F, in front on a Way Stone, left hand side can find the Gate Crystal. Search the Southern corner for the statue/urn, hit it for the map. In this floor, you have to activate three Black Altars here before you can enter to the East room, each altar require one black orb/pearl for activation. To get the black pearls, go kill the enemies around, the orb/pearl appears as blue colour from certain enemies, check it to obtain. Of cause ou could get more than three black pearls for collection. Once you have done, examine all altars one by one and choose second option to activate them. All altars are around the circle area but in different part, so you must go through each section to find them. After all, enter to East room. In the room, your will appear in a desert, find the further rock here and close to it, it's a boss. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Pandaemonium | O=======================================O | Lv : 45 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 116678 - Ancient | | Recommended: > 47 | | Weak : Wind Turtle Shell | | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | ELE. : Earth - Aries Gem | | Average Lv : > 32 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Cast Dispel to stop its Protect and Shell at the start, then attack with your weapon. When the boss down to 50% life, it will build up the barrier, and now you can't hurt it, just wait awhile until the barrier gone. Cure your characters from negative status especially Blind, because your weapon should be the main attacker for this boss. When the boss readies for the Stone Gaze, move a character further from it, at least one of them is free from Petrifying status. If your magic power high enough, you can try the wind elemental spell. Anyway, this boss is easier than Hydro, I believe you will not have problem in this battle. After that, leave the room and head back to main hall, use the Way Stone near the entrance which is not avalable before. 10F, go up will see two Brainpan enemies, you must defeat them to form the bridge. Defeat more Brainpan to form up all blocks of the bridges for this section. Before up to the next section, you can see an empty space lead to a treasure in 26F, the treasure probably is a Holy Rod, but you could get there, just leave it for now, if you really want it, back here after solving the bridges for upper floors. 28F, same as below, defeat Brainpan and move on, if you can't get enough of it, just run around to find them, they will spawn in the same places. At 35F, you can see some empty space which leads to a treasure like 26F, but killing the Brainpan couldn't form the bridge to the treasure. Assuming you've found some enemies like Brainpan but in red, that's Deidar. To form the treasure bridge, you must defeat the Deidar, and you can search them here and the section above. Defeat all of them to build up the bridges in 35F treasure as well as the inner treasure there, you will get Duel Mask from the first treasure, and either Zeus Mace or Muramasa from the inner treasure. Other Deidar will probably spawn at 31F, 32F, 35F, 36F randomly. The last one with Aeronite should be Vishno, it's actually a rare monster (No.44). It has lot of HP and powerful magic, better take down the Aeronite before you trigger out its detection. And the rare drop of Vishno is Ribbon! NOTE : Killing the Deidar is unnecessary if you don't want the treasure. Continue to upper levels, open the door to next area, and here can find the Save Crystal. Go South-West, run up the stairs and open the door to 49F. In the next door, choose second option to get in, also cast all support spells on your party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Slyt | O=======================================O | Lv : 47 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 92661 - Pisces Gem | | Recommended: > 47 | | Weak : Fire - Yensa Fin | | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | ELE. : Water - Yensa Scale | | Average Lv : > 32 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' It has Regen support, don't bother to Dispel it since it would recast it in a second. Recommend two or three character with shield, and Gauntlets equipment for them. The speed of the boss attack is very fast, and the boss probably kill your ally instantly by the combo attacks, better prepare a Gambit to heal with X-Potion. Use Fire elemental spell if your magic power is good. After the battle, open the door in front and then use the Way Stone in the end to next section. --------------------- -----------------------------| Second Ascent |----------------------------- --------------------- O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Abaddon Bune Crusader Lv : 47-48 Lv : 48-49 Lv : 47-48 HP : 13239-13879 HP : 13239-13659 HP : 10592-10772 Weak : Holy Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Aries Gem - Damascus Steel - Blood-darkened Bone - Dark Crystal - Fire Crystal - Capricorn Gem - Solid Horn - Forbidden Flesh - Crown of Laurels - Telepo-Stone - Gemini Gem - Dark Crystal - Vaccine - Gungnir - X-Potion - Gold Needle (S) Dragon Lich Necrofiend Reaver Lv : 49-50 Lv : 48-49 Lv : 49-50 HP : 22241-22921 HP : 12709-12889 HP : 22771-23191 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Charger Barding - Capricorn Gem - Bacchus's Wine - Corpse Fly - Dark Crystal - Beastlord Hide - Dark Crystal - Lifewick - Golden Axe - Hastega Mote - Sky Jewel - Pebble - Hi-Potion - Vaccine - Wind Crystal 60F, you can see four doors around the circle area, each door seals an ability. The door to North-West seals magic, South-West seals normal attack, South-East seals mini map, North-East seals items. You're goinf to face some enemies and lately a boss, make your best choise for now, I recommend chose the mini map or item sealing is easier. After your decision, examine the altar in front the door to open it. Before that, you now can back to 26F for the Holy Rod if you want, but remember you have to back here through the way that you came. If you head back to bottom floor through the Way Stone, at 01F, use it again to reach 10F, then run back to 26F, now more Deidar should be spawned around there, kill all Deidar to form the bridge, some of the them would appears above than 26F. The Holy Rod isn't that powerful, but it has Holy strike which made it powerful against lot of monsters. Again, if you don't want to spend time on it, don't return to the bottom floor anymore. Back to where you were, 61F, just reach South-West corner to next floor. 62F, the stair to above in South-East corner. 63F, move to North-West, hit the wall there will see the passage to next floor. 64F, a Save Crystal here, the way to following level at South-West. 65F, go forward to the door, choose second option to enter. If you have got the Bio, Sleep spells and your characters had lot of MP (learn Mist Knack/Quickening Lv 2 or above), there's an easy way for the next boss, kill Reddas for now and don't revive him. Also make sure to cast all support spells on your team before entering the fight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Fenrir | O=======================================O | Lv : 49 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 189992 - Beastlord Hide | | Recommended: > 48 | | Weak : Earth - Beastlord Horn | | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | ELE. : Wind - Behemoth Steak | | Average Lv : > 32 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' First of all, cast Dispel again before attack. If you've done the tactic as mentioned in the paragraph above, cast Sleep to Fenrir as soon as the battle has began. Once he's fell to sleep, attack him with only Bio. That is why you must KO'd off Reddas so that he wouldn't attack the boss, which mean the boss will just lying in Sleep. Just attack as much Bio as you can, send him Sleep again when he has awaken. But without this tactic, he's still no a hard boss, just don't let your character KO. Recommend equip shield, normally you can block some attacks from the boss. If you've took the Holy Rod, now is the time to show it. The boss has great attack power, so put on a Protect on your party, of cause you do need a Haste for more advantages. When Fenrir readies to perform Ice Break, equip Ice Shield to reduce the damage, change back the equipments that were you using before. Now continue the passage to reach 66F. At 66F, examine the altar which you choose at 60F, the Dais of Ascendence comes up. Now remember the altar's colour that you have selected to unseal the Dais of Ascendence, it has some connections with the Way Stone in 86F. Just do remember the last altar colour that you select for unsealing the ascendence, if you don't want to know how's this be affected on the 86F, just read the next paragraph. Let say you choose the item seal in the 60F which is yellow, at 66F you unseal with the same altar which is also yellow, so yellow is the one would be affected at 88F. But after unsealing with yellow, you go and touch the other altar, let say the purple altar, so now the affected colour at 86F has became the purple. Take the Dais of Ascendence to the next floor. 67F, a Save Crystal is here. Check the Way Stone in the central to next section. Again, make sure you have some Vaccine and Arise white magic for the next esper fight, if you don't have them, warp back to Balfonheim and purchase them. -------------------- ------------------------------| Third Ascent |----------------------------- -------------------- O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Aeronite Cataract Aevis Dead Bones Lv : 50 Lv : 50 Lv : 49-50 HP : 18684 HP : 23241 HP : 11302-11482 Weak : Thunder Weak : Thunder Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dragon Helm - Caldera - Ancient Bone - Ice Crystal - Charger Barding - Blood-darkened Bone - Leo Gem - Holy Mote - Dark Crystal - Wyvern Fang - Ice Crystal - Eye Drops - Wyvern Wing - Pebble - Golden Skullcap Necrofiend Purobolos Zombie Warlock Lv : 48-49 Lv : 49-50 Lv : 48-50 HP : 12709-12889 HP : 9531-9691 HP : 7598-7958 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Capricorn Gem - Bomb Shell - Alarm Clock - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Capricorn Gem - Lifewick - Handkerchief - Dark Crystal - Sky Jewel - Mallet - Forbidden Flesh - Vaccine - Scorpio Gem - Pebble - Scathe Mote This section, you must choose the right medallion only were you able to reach the upper level, if you took the wrong one, either you will be warped back to the previous area or 79F. The monsters in 79F are very annoying, you might need alot of time and items for this fight, and you have to defeat certain amount of these monsters to unlock the ancient door. Just follow the steps below to safely reach your destination. 80F, take the Black medallion/sigil 81F, head to South-East, you're able to hit the wall (Fool's Facade), just hit it away run into the secret area, inside there was a Green medallion, use it to 83F. On the secret area way to Green medallion, a random treasure with Rubber Suit might appear, but beware of traps. 83F, evade some traps here. Go hit the wall to outside, take the Red medallion. 84F, make sure you take the treasure behind that two Aeronites, it's Circlet, which quite a good helm equipment for your current level. Remember the last colour that were you unsealed in the second ascent? Now you have to take the same colour with that altar, let say you had unseal it with the Purple altar, now you must take the Purple medallion, if you unsealed with Yellow, now you must take the Yellow medallion and so on. 86F, go North and hit the wall there, inside there can find a medallion, use it to upper level. 88F, get ready to the fight? If not, you can use the only medallion here to return 79F. If you had follow these steps above, you won't get trapped in the 79F, which means you won't get the map for this section. Now use the White medallion to 79F for the map, however, you don't need to face any enemies at 79F by doing so. After taking the map, use the White medallion at the back of 79F to return this level. Once you have done, go take the Dais of Ascendence to 90F. **NOTE: 1. Recommended level up to 50 for the next battles (4 bosses await!). 2. There's not save point in Third Ascent before the fight at 90F, if you're going to level up some more, get back to the Save Crystal in Second Ascent or First Ascent. Thanks to Tyler Cooper. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Hashmal | O=======================================O | Lv : 50 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 209060 - Hi-Ether | | Recommended: > 48 | | Weak : Wind - High Arcanal | | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | ELE. : Earth - Leo Gem | | Average Lv : > 32 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Make use you have set your Gambit to heal Disease with Vaccine. Dispel his Protect and Haste whenever he casts. You can try use Bio spell on him if you have it. Use Arise for the KO'd character, but if that character got Disease status, needless to say, just use Phoenix Down to revive him/her. The boss can also send you Slow effect from his Quakeja, equip Slow proof accessory for if you have it, or just use Haste to recover it. Better stop attack when the Quakeja it's ready, start recast Haste and Curaja, if you done it faster enough, your party would be recovered before Hashmal perform the next attack. Another way is use Float, I think it should be the easier way to face against Quakeja; with Float status supports your team, Hashmal will probably miss his Quakeja. When his HP down to 20%, he will build the full barrier which block all attack and magic, while waiting the barrier gone, heal and cure your characters, prepare to finish off him after his barrier gone. Esper Hashmalim added after this fight. Now you appear in 90F, run up to 92F to watch some events. After that, head up to 98F for Save Crystal, you're going for some tough fights, make sure cast all the support spells on your team and save your game here. Continue the way, use the Way Stone in the end to watch some scenes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Gabranth | O=======================================O | Lv : 47 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 64094 - Hi-Potion | | Recommended: > 48 | | Weak : - - Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | ELE. : - - X-Potion | | Average Lv : > 32 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' This is quite easy, cast Dispel at the beginning of the battle before anything. Just use the normal attacks to take him down. He has a move is quite powerful, but on one target only. You can use a Bucchus's Wine one a character to speed up the process. The next fight was the real! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=====================================O====================================O | Dr. Cid | Famfrit | O=====================================O====================================O | Lv : 50 Possible Steal: | Lv : 52 Possible Steal: | | HP : 92093 - Hi-Potion | HP : 149060 - Aquarius Gem | | Weak : Holy - Ketu Board | Weak : Fire - Elixir | | ELE. : Dark - Magepower Shishak | ELE. : Water - High Arcana | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. | Recommended: > 52 | | Minimum Lv : > 48 | | Average Lv : > 35 | '-----------------------' Equip all character with Rose Carsage for this battle, if you don't have three, make sure spend a Gambit slot to heal Silence. First of all, Dispel all support spells of Dr. Cid, recast Haste on your party when necessary. After taken down Dr. Cid's HP to half, he will summon an esper, Famfrit. Now you can't hurt him, but he still attacking you, you better focus on his esper first, take it down as soon as possible only will you able to fight Dr. Cid again. His esper is around 160,000 HP, not kidding, it was a long battle, make sure you heal your character all the time, watch out for the Wateraja which deals around 1,000 damage to all your characters, if you got any other equipments with good Magic Resist point, change it to block the Wateraja, another good example is Shell Shield. Also Dispel his esper when he casts any support spell to it. Fire elemental deals slightly more damege to the esper since it's belong to Water element. If you don't think you will use much on magic attack, just ignore if he's only cast Shell on the esper. Anyway, normal attack can be more useful than magic attack. Sometimes after Wateraja, you would get chained attack by Cid's stupid firearm move, and you party might ended by this combo, so you must keep your party over 50%/1500HP anytime before their combination moves. After finish off the esper, focus to your main target, becareful his special attack which can damage all your characters. One more Esper, Famfrit added on License board, after this battle, and the game allows you to save here. ------------------------------ -------------------------| The Port At Balfonheim |------------------------ ------------------------------ The last upgrade of the shop before you move for the final stage, of cause buy the better equipments and restore your recovery items as well. Buy the Flare (black magic) if you're not going for any other places for the side quest, and make sure you buy Arise white magic if you haven't got it yet. Teleport to Dalmasca Estersand and buy the Hastega. If you're interesting with more side quests for the game, you can actually start it from here. Once you enter the final stage, you're not able to return anymore. =============================================================================== --------------------------| Sky Fortress Bahamut |------------------------- ---------------------------- sep040 O --- Enemy --- O Helm-Rook Imperial Beastmaster Imperial Gunner Imperial Pilot Lv : 47 Lv : 49-50 Lv : 47-48 Lv : 48-49 HP : 12286 HP : 3458-3698 HP : 4219-4459 HP : 4219-4459 Weak : - Weak : - Weak : - Weak : - Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Knot of Rust - 137-144 gil - 80 gil - 90 gil - Hi- Potion - Hi-Potion - Hi-Potion - Phoenix Down - Phoenix Down - Reflectga Mote - X-Potion Imperial Swordsman Judge Sphere-Rook Spinner-Rook Lv : 48 Lv : 49-50 Lv : 47 Lv : 47 HP : 3669 HP : 4953-5193 HP : 10286 HP : 13286 Weak : - Weak : - Weak : - Weak : - Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 133-153 gil - Hi-Potion - Knot of Rust - Knot of Rust - Hi-Potion - Phoenix Down - Phoenix Down - Vaccine - X-Potion After some scenes, take either bulkhead to next area. Defeat some enemies in the passage, but they're unlimited, so just keep running when you have the chance of escape. Take the middle path from the junction to leave current area. Next section, run down the circle area and cross it as soon as possible, only kill the enemies who're really blocking your way. Reach to the elevator area, examine the panel for a scene. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Gabranth | O=======================================O | Lv : 49 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 70719 - Elixir | | Recommended: > 52 | | Weak : - - Hi-Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 48 | | ELE. : - - X-Potion | | Average Lv : > 35 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Cast Dispel to stop his Haste. Not too tough, just the physical attack battle. Cast Regen and Protect to your characters, use Bacchus's Wine of Barserk if you want, but don't use to all characters in once. When his HP is down to half, he will fully restore his HP and change a little fighting style, nothing much different actually, just leave an ally with a Gambit to heal when anyone down to 50% HP. You can send him Blind and Slow for easier the fight, but you should know this status effect will miss for sometimes. Also use the Expose/Armor Break skill if you have. Like some other bosses, when he's getting lesser HP, his chance of higher combo will be increased, you may need to prepare to revive your character. After that, prepare for another boss fight, cast all support spells on your party. Operate the panel when you have done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Vayne | O=======================================O | Lv : 47 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 64094 - Hi-Potion | | Recommended: > 52 | | Weak : - - Potion | | Minimum Lv : > 48 | | ELE. : - - X-Potion | | Average Lv : > 35 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Larse will help healing your character, so you can just focus on attacking, but make sure to revive your ally if anyone is KO'd. Dispel the boss when he has any support spells. Of cause recast the support spells like Regen, Haste on your party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | Vayne Novus | O=======================================O | Lv : 53 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 104210 - nothing | | Recommended: > 52 | | Weak : - | | Minimum Lv : > 48 | | ELE. : - | | Average Lv : > 35 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' **Sub Enemy: Sephira x5 Again, Dispel the boss at the beginning. You can see some flying weapons around, you actually can destroy all of them. Since the weapons are flying, you have to use range weapon or magic if you want to destroy them. Slow does work on the boss. Beware his special attack which can deal over 1,000 damage to the party, before he perform this move, you can see the flying weapons will surrounding him. One way to kill him faster is use Expose/Armor Break and normal attack, Berserk a character if you want, be sure you heal this character. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<< BOSS >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ O=======================================O | The Undying | O=======================================O | Lv : 55 Possible Steal: | .--- Lv to challenge ---. | HP : 228299 - nothing | | Recommended: > 52 | | Weak : - | | Minimum Lv : > 48 | | ELE. : - | | Average Lv : > 35 | ----------------------------------------- '-----------------------' Dispel his support spell first, also recast the support spells on your party characters, always build Haste on everyone. This is the final battle, no need to save your items anymore, use all the Elixir, Megalixir, X-potion to heal if necessory, use Gil Toss if your got gil remain, Gil Toss can send over 9,000 damage in each throw, 1 damage equal to 1 gil if you have lot of gils. Later, the boss will builds physical barrier or magic barrier randomly, pay attention on your attacks. Also use your Mist Knack/Quickening to chain a large damage, and make sure he's not in the physical barrier. Restore your MP with items or Charge and use the strongest spell when the physical attack barrier is builded. If the boss in magic and physical barrier in the same same time, the only thing you can do is wait, same time heal and cure you character as well. 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Side Area []_____________________________________________________/ '====================( / \_/~~' _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ =============================================================================== --------------------------| Dalmasca Westersand |-------------------------- --------------------------- sep041 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OO--------] | Gate Crystal - Yes | Save Crystal - No | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Rabanastre Westgate. | | - Story passed Bhujerba, you will reach here, | | but just only the Western area. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Thextera | | Reason to come here | - Ring Wyrm | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Kaiser Wolf (No.07) | | | - Lindbub Wolf (No.08) | | | - Dustia (No.61) | | | - Fideliant (No.67) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Optional Boss - Earth Tyrant/Earth Dragon | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Alraune Cactoid Cockatrice Dive Talon Lv : 10-11 Lv : 1-4 Lv : 3-8 Lv : 27-28 HP : 615-627 HP : 72-224 HP : 136-617 HP : 4022-4090 Weak : Wind Weak : Wind Weak : Water Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Alarm Clock - Broad Sword - Fire Stone - Burning Bow - Earth Stone - Earth Stone - Pebble - Giant Feather - Handkerchief - Potion - Phoenix Down - Handkerchief - Mace - Virgo Gem - Potion - Pebble - Succulent Fruit - Cactus Fruit - Small Feather - Wind Magicite - Bundle of Needles Gnome Entite Sleipnir Urstrix Wolf Lv : 45 Lv : 9-11 Lv : 10-11 Lv : 2-9 HP : 48042 HP : 724-764 HP : 614-661 HP : 94-155 Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Weak : Wind Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Earth Crystal - Broadsword - Earth Stone - Antidote - Electrum - Molting - Headguard - Pebble - Ether - Pebble - Large Feather - Potion - Feystone - Potion - Pebble - Wolf Pelt - Gnome Halcyon - Storm Stone - Potion - Wind Stone Note: Consider an optional area, if you're only to the storyline, you would come to this area, but only pass the Gate Crystal section at the West. Sometimes, you need the sandstorm to find the Gnome Entite and the Ring Wyrm Mob/Mark Hunt. In case of need the sandstorm, you can simply go to North-East area, which is the liar of Earth Tyrant optional boss, just enter and exit that area to trigger the sandstorm. But if you have defeated Earth Tyrant, the sandstorm is no longer there, so you can only leave for other places and return this place later for the random sandstorm situation. So you better clear the Ring Wyrm hunting before go for the Earth Tyrant. As for the Gnome Entite, you need to find it for the Gnome Halcyon, which is one of the loot for Ultima Blade trading. =============================================================================== ---------------------------| The Barheim Passage |------------------------- --------------------------- sep042 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOO------] | Gate Crystal - Yes | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Dalmasca Estersand, but you must get | | Barheim Key after the Barheim Passage event. | | Check "Back To Barheim Passage" side quest | | more details. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Bloodwing | | Reason to come here |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Minibug (No.54) | | | - Ithuno (No.55) | | | - Isteen (No.62) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Zalhera/Zalera | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Bubble Belt | | | - Strongest Shield/ | | | Zodiac Escutcheon | | | - Golden Skullcap (buy from shop) | | | - Glimmering Robes (buy from shop) | | | - Hermes Sandals (buy from shop) | | | - Ardor (buy from shop) | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Bomb Battery Mimic Flan Mimic Lv : 6-8 Lv : 7 Lv : 6-7 Lv : 7-8 HP : 317-347 HP : 520 HP : 280-294 HP : 334-340 Weak : Water Weak : Ice Weak : Fire Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bomb Ashes - Alarm Clock - Green Liquid - Earth Stone - Echo Herb - Eye Drops - Potion - Eye Drops - Fire Stone - Iron Scraps - Topkapi Hat - Iron Scraps - Gold Needle - Mage's Habit - Water Stone - Iron Sword - Leather Gorget - Caramel - Dark Mote - Water Mote - Pebble Seeker Steeling Suriander Tiny Mimic Lv : 6-7 Lv : 7 Lv : 9 Lv : 7-8 HP : 375-551 HP : 298 HP : 430 HP : 211-217 Weak : Earth Weak : Earth Weak : Water Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bat Fang - Antidote - Antidote - Earth Stone - Smelling Salts - Armguard - Horn - Eye Drops - Taurus Gem - Bat Fang - Horned Hat - Iron Scraps - Wind Stone - Eye Drops - Telepo-Stone - Leather Headgear - Crooked Fang - Wind Stone - Thunder Stone O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- Road to Zalera Esper --- O Adamantitan Bomb Dead Bones Lv : 41 Lv : 38-40 Lv : 38-39 HP : 15024 HP : 5090-5120 HP : 6786-6966 Weak : Wind Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Pebble - Bomb Fragment - Ancient Bone - Phoenix Down - Bomb Shell - Blood-dakened Bone - Turtle Shell - Fire Magicite - Capricorn Gem - Water Magicite - Fire Stone - Dark Crystal - Water Stone - Handkerchief - Eye Drops - Soldier's Cap (S) - Gigas Hat (S) Mimeo Spectar Suriander Lv : 39-40 Lv : 36-39 Lv : 38-39 HP : 6446-6686 HP : 6786-6804 HP : 7069-7089 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 500 gil - Alarm Clock - Indigo Pendent - Cancer Gem - Dark Magicite - Pebble - Dark Crystal - Dark Stone - Pointed Horn - Francisca - Pebble - Storm Magicite - Iron Ore - Sky Jewel - Telepo-Stone - Pebble - Glass Jewel Note: On the roads to find Zalera esper, you can probably found some treasure if you explore around, and some of them contain lot of gil (1000-3000 gil). In the East-West Bypass section, there's a dead end direct to the East, have a look on the last trap with some Mimeo monsters, a random treasure would appear on the last trap. Equip Diamond Armlet accessory, you could get the Bubble Belt in that treasure, make sure that was ON THE TRAP, don't be confused by the treasure NEAR the trap. As for the Zodiac Escutcheon (named Strongest Shield in the Japanese version, it's located at West Annex section, with Diamond Armlet equip, you could have a chance to obtain this shield in the treasure at this point: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/shield.jpg =============================================================================== ----------------------------| Zertinan Caverns |--------------------------- ------------------------ sep043 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOO-----] | Gate Crystal - No | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Enter from Ogir Yensa, Nam Yensa, | | Ozmone Plains or Dalmasca Westersand. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Marilith | | Reason to come here | - Belito (must pass this place) | | | - Catoblepas | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Molen (No.25) | | | - Imdugud (No.34) | | | - Alteci (No.79) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Adrammelech | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Archaeoaevis Bogey Buer Gorgimera Lv : 38-40 Lv : 38-39 Lv : 37-39 Lv : 36-37 HP : 11245-12605 HP : 6426-6606 HP : 5622-5942 HP : 5385-5505 Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Weak : Thunder Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Battlewyrm Carapace - Dark Crystal - Demon's Sigh - Bundle of - Cameo Belt - Death Powder - Demon Tail Feather - Emperor Scale - Iga Blade - Gaia Hat - Fire Magicite - Leo Gem - Sky Jewel - Ice Crystal - Hammerhead - Storm Crystal - Smelling Salts - Phoenix Down - Telepo-Stone - Telepo-Stone (S) - Gold Needle (S) - Ice Stone (S) Grenade Mallicant Shambling Corpse Silicon Tortoise Lv : 35-38 Lv : 37-38 Lv : 37-38 Lv : 37-38 HP : 4819-5299 HP : 6158-6318 HP : 2892-3072 HP : 13923-14243 Weak : Water Weak : Wind Weak : Holy Weak : Fire Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bomb Fragment - Earth Crystal - Blood-stained - 100 gil - Bomb Shell - Eye Drops Necklace - Aged Turtle - Chronos Tear - Gaia Hat - Dark Crystal Shell - Fire Crystal - Grimoire Aidhed - Foul Flesh - Officar's Hat - Opal Ring (S) - Magick Lamp - Platinum Dagger - Pebble - Scorpio Gem - Phoenix Down - White Fang - Telepo-Stone - Water Crystal Skulwyrm Slime Speartongue Scythe Mantis Lv : 38-40 Lv : 15-17 Lv : 16-17 Lv : 36-39 HP : 14895-16255 HP : 1629-2119 HP : 1792-1828 HP : 8835-9315 Weak : Holy Weak : Earth Weak : Fire Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Battlewyrm - Green Liquid - Aries Gem - Fire Magicite Carapace - Water Mote - Frog Oil - Insect Husk - Dark Crystal - Wind Stone - Horn - Iron Carapace - Hi-Potion - Winged Helm - Water Stone - Kiku-Ichimonji - Bastard Sword - Pebble - Telepo-Stone - Tattared Garment - Wyrm Bone - Sagittarius Gem - Potion - Cancer Gem (S) Note: This place has splited into few part, you can't explore the whole place before by just entering from one entrance. If you reach to certain places, you can see the boulder blocking your way which can be pushed from only one side, so if you're on the right side of the boulder, push it down to the whirlpool to form the new path. =============================================================================== --------------------------| Garamsythe Waterway |-------------------------- --------------------------- sep044 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOO----] | Gate Crystal - No | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Rabanastre Downtown/Lowtown. | | - Barheim Passage, after defeating Zalera esper. | | - Storyline, but never get to the middle sluices | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Wraith | | Reason to come here | - White Mousse | | | - Orthros | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Gavial (No.05) | | | - Razorfin (No.13) | | | - Drowned (No.71) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Chaos | | | - Queklain/Cuchulainn | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Dire Rat Ghost Ichthon Steeling Lv : 1-4 Lv : 38-40 Lv : 3-4 Lv : 2-3 HP : 62-112 HP : 6786-6798 HP : 130-141 HP : 94-110 Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Thunder Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Dark Magicite - Eye Drops - Antidote - Fire Stone - Dark Stone - Fish Scale - Bat Fang - Leather Shield - Echo Herbs - Potion - Phoenix Down - Libra Gem - Glass Jewel - Phoenix Down - Pebble - Rat Pelt - Sky Jewel - Pebble - Wind Stone - Rat Tail - Telepo-Stone - Water Stone Bartine Croc Garchimacera Gigantoad Gespenst Lv : 40 Lv : 38-40 Lv : 5-6 Lv : 41-42 HP : 10745 HP : 5953-5983 HP : 341-346 HP : 7917-8097 Weak : Earth Weak : Water Weak : Fire Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Broken Sword - 10 gil - 50 gil - Book of Orgain - Blood Wool - Demon Eyeball - Horn - Capricorn Gem - Wind Crystal - Demon Feather - Leather Helm - Dark Crystal - Wind Magicite - Fire Crystal - Potion - Ninja Gear - X-Potion - Fire Magicite - Water Stone - Telepo-Stone Lizard Malboro Overking Water Elemental Lv : 39-40 Lv : 38-39 Lv : 25 HP : 7069-7179 HP : 6503-6743 HP : 14830 Weak : Water Weak : Holy Weak : Fire Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Fire Crystal - Dark Crystal - Feystone - Fire Magicite - Malboro Fruit - Water Crystal - Pebble - Putrid Liquid - Water Magicite - Pointed Horn - Vanishga Mote - Water Stone - Virgo Gem Note: Chaos esper is actually not found at this place, however, you must go through this place for the process of finding Chaos esper. Better clear the White Mousse Mob/Mark hunting for the Sluice Gate Key so that you could take control of the water area. Also you need it to find a fragment for the process to Chaos esper and the Queklain/Cuchulainn esper fight. Ok, maybe you'll ask where is Ghost monster, it has a special route to find this monster. If you have got Sluice Gate Key, light on No. 4 and 11 panel for the first, then go No. 10 Channel through the East, South-East, South, South-West sections only will you find Ghost as well as Garchimecera. Check this path: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/find_ghost.jpg =============================================================================== -----------------------------| Cerobi Steppe |----------------------------- --------------------- sep045 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOO----] | Gate Crystal - No | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Balfonheim. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Vyraal | | Reason to come here |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Aspidochelon (No.01} | | | - Etherain (No.45) | | | - Bluesand (No.77) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Fomalhaut | | | - Dragon Whisker | | | - Venetian Shield | | | - Castellanos | | | - Grand Bolts | | | - Ribbon | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Adamantitan Bandercoeurl Bellwyvern Lv : 40-41 Lv : 39-40 Lv : 39-41 HP : 33188-34801 HP : 5300-5620 HP : 9484-10844 Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 200 gil - Libra Gem - Crooked Fang - Adamantite - Pebble - Fire Stone - Aged Turtle Shell - Quality Pelt - Hi-Potion - Ancient Turtle Shell - Storm Crystal - Linen Cuirass - Earth Crystal - Telepo-Stone - Pebble - Hi-Potion - Prime Pelt - Telepo-Stone - Aries Gem - Phoenix Down - 300 gil Charybterix Shield Wyrm Silver Lobo Lv : 39-40 Lv : 42-44 Lv : 38-39 HP : 21339-21459 HP : 59679-61039 HP : 4464-4574 Weak : Earth Weak : - Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Chronos Tear - Eye Drops - Split Armor - Earth Crystal - Libra Gem - Taurus Gem - Leo Gem - Quality Pelt - Wind Crystal - Ring Wyrm Liver - Sorcerer's Habit - Windslicer Pinion - Ring Wyrm Scale - Telepo-Stone - Chaos Mace (S) - Winged Boots - Wind Magicite Bangaa Thief Seeq Explorer Lv : 41-42 Lv : ? HP : 6377-6617 HP : ? Weak : Water Weak : - Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 130-140 gil - Smelling Salts - Eye Drops - Tumulus - Feystone - Water Crystal - Fire Crystal - Telepo-Stone Note: Lot of equipments, items can be found here, here I only listed the rare item. Have some exercises here and you might be suprised to get certain treasures. Fomalhaut and Ribbon can be found in the Crossfield section, which is North of Save Crystal, but only if you equip Diamond Armlet, and the treasure is random. Venetian Shield is located in Crossfield as well, the treasure is around North-West, near the windmill No.7. Equip Diamond Armlet. Castellanos can be found either Crossfield (North from Save Crystal) or The Terraced Bank (South from Save Crystal). Equip Diamond Armlet. Another Fomalhaut is located at North-East section, which is The Northsward, equip Diamond Armlet and find it around the middle West area of the section. Grand Bolts is located at the North-West section, known as Old Elanise Road. If you enter from Crossfield, find the second treasure in the middle. Equip Diamond Armlet. Dragon Whisker can be found in the second section from Balfonheim, you must equip Diamond Armlet as well, and the treasure is random too. Other than the equipment treasures, you can get lot of gil potions from the treasure chests around, actually they are the replacement of equipment treasures. =============================================================================== ---------------------------| Nabreus Deadlands |--------------------------- ------------------------- sep046 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOOO---] | Gate Crystal - Yes | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Salikawood, North-West path. | | - Go from Necrohol of Nabudis (side area), | | North-West area. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Roblon | | Reason to come here |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Arioch (No.66) | | | - Velelu (No.72) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Chaos | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Baknamy Banshee Crusader Dead Bones Lv : 43-44 Lv : 44-46 Lv : 44-45 Lv : 44-45 HP : 8965-9205 HP : 5047-7377 HP : 10592-10772 HP : 10592-10772 Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 247, 257 gil - Black Mask - Capricorn Gem - Ancient Bones - Hi-Potion - Dark Crystal - Crown of Laurels - Blood-darkened - Smelling Salts - Festering Flesh - Dark Crystal Bone - Storm Crystal - X-Potion - Pebble - Dark Crystal - Yakei - Zombie Powder - Sturdy Bone - Eye Drops - Reflectga Mote - Black Mask - X-Potion (S) - Golden Skullcap Emeralditan Focalor Foobar Leynir Lv : 44-47 Lv : 45-47 Lv : 43-45 Lv : 45-48 HP : 20270-20590 HP : 8576-8924 HP : 10525-10985 HP : 10135-11095 Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 800 gil - Dorsal Fin - Dark Crystal - Charger Barding - Aged Turtle Shell - Balance Mote - Echo Herbs - Defender - Aries Gem - Ichthon Scale - Minerva Bustier - Destrier Barding - Earth Crystal - Pisces Gem - Sagittarius Gem - Reflectga Mote - Scarletite - Power Rod - Silver Liquid - Storm Cyrstal - X-Potion - Storm Magicicte - Telepo-Stone - Wargod's Band - Turtleshell Choker (S) Leamonde Entite Shield Wyrm Lv : 45 Lv : 47 HP : 48042 HP : 35082 Weak : Holy Weak : - Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dark Crystal - Chronos Tear - Electrum - Earth Crystal - Feystone - Leo Gem - Leamonde Halcyon - Ring Wyrm Liver - Ring Wyrm Scale - Wyrm Carapace Note: Chaos esper is actually not found at this place, however, you must go through this place for the process of finding Chaos esper. Beware of some invisible Baknamy enemies, though they don't attack you, but they will steal the items dropped by the other enemies. By the way, if you want them to be visible, you can cast a Reflect on a character and bounce off any spell when you're close to the invisible Bakamy. Once he has got damage, he will be visible. =============================================================================== --------------------------| Necrohol Of Nabudis |--------------------------- -------------------------- sep047 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOOOO--] | Gate Crystal - No | Save Crystal - No | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Salikawood, West path. | | - Go from Nabreus Deadlands (side area), | | North-East area. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Goliaty/Goliath | | Reason to come here | - Deathscythe | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Helvinek (No.38) | | | - Vorres (No.63) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Chaos | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Optional Boss - Fury | | | - Humbaba Boss | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Zodiac Spear/Strongest Halberd | | | - Scathe (buy from shop) | | | - Telekinesis (buy from shop) | | | - Magepower Shishak (buy from shop)| | | - Maximilian (from shop or drops) | | | - Demon Shield (buy from shop) | | | - Ring of Renewal (buy from shop) | | | - Ether (buy from shop) | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Babil Baknamy Dark Elemental Elvoret Lv : 47-48 Lv : 46-47 Lv : 25 Lv : 46-48 HP : 24647-24887 HP : 11338-11578 HP : 14830 HP : 10351-10671 Weak : Dark Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Einherjaruim - 297, 307 gil - Dark Crystal - 500 gil - Holy Crystal - Hastega Mote - Dark Magicite - Demon Drink - Holy Mote - Knot of Rust - Dark Stone - Demon Eyeball - Quality Stone - Remedy - Feystone - Earth Crystal - Runeblade - Storm Crystal - Maximilian - X-Potion - Telepo-Stone - Vaccine - Holy Stone (S) - X-Potion - Reflectga Mote Oversoul Pandora Zombie Warlock Lv : 48 Lv : 49 Lv : 48 HP : 13802 HP : 9606 HP : 9055 Weak : Holy Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Cloud Staff - Aegis Shield - 200 gil - Dark Crystal - Hi-Potion - Alarm Clock - Grimoire Togail - Iron Ore - Capricorn Gem - Soul of Thamasa - Storm Crystal - Dark Crystal - Telepo-Stone - Storm Stone - Forbidden Flesh - Capricorn Gem - Wrath of the Gods - Pebble - Dark Stone (S) - Cancer Gem (S) Note: ==================================================================== | Secret Shop statistic | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Timing - Selling Items | |==================================================================| | Before Giruvegan - Ether ............... 222 gil | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | After Giruvegan - Magepower Shishak ... 15000 gil | | - Demon Shield ........ 17000 gil | | - Ring of Renewal ..... 18000 gil | | - Telekinesis ......... 7100 gil | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | After Pharos at Ridorana - Ether ............... 222 gil | | - Magepower Shishak ... 15000 gil | | - Demon Shield ........ 17000 gil | | - Ring of Renweal ..... 18000 gil | | - Telekinesis ......... 7100 gil | | - Scathe/Collapse ..... 18100 gil | -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lot of traps and each can probably bring a lot of pain, they're near the entrance from Salikawood. Recommend use Libra and Float spell on your party before exploring the area. A secret shop is selling some rare items, some are even not available in any other places. As for Zodiac Spear/Strongest Halberd, you can find it only if you didn't open some treasure chests in other area which are not suppose to be opened, - treasure in front of Old Dalan's place (Downtown/Lowtown). - treasure in Rabanastre Palace, right corner which is Elixir. - treasures in Nalbina Dungeon where you get back your equipments and map. - 16 treasure in Phon Coast. All this chests were mentioned in the Walkthrough, you will get this weapon here if you had follow the walkthrough useless you purposely open one of these treasure chest. Check this map for details. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_nabudis.png =============================================================================== -----------------------------| The Lhusu Mines |---------------------------- ---------------------- sep048 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOOOOO-] | Gate Crystal - Yes | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Bhujerba. | | - Storyline, but only a small part of the mines. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Nidhogg | | Reason to come here | - Rocktoise | | | - Antlion | | | - Diabolos | | | - Gilgamesh | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Gemhorn (No.31) | | | - Aerieel (No.41) | | | - Bombshell (No.49) | | | - Disma (No.73) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Fomalhaut | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Skeleton Skull Defender Slaven Steeling Lv : 8-9 Lv : 8-11 Lv : 10-11 Lv : 7-8 HP : 557-563 Lv : 476-708 HP : 780-802 HP : 446-462 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Weak Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bone Fragment - Antidote - Aevis Killer - Antidote - Bronze Chestplate - Bone Fragment - Earth Stone - Armguard - Dark Stone - Dark Stone - Eye Drops - Bat Fang - Echo Herb - Iron Helm - Pebble - Eye Drops - Iron Helm - Pebble - Tanned Hide - Pebble - Pebble - Wind Stone O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- After Site 3 gate --- O Bug Dullahan Headless Lv : 42 Lv : 39-41 Lv : 39-41 HP : 6979 HP : 9100-9940 HP : 8867-9707 Weak : Wind Weak : Water Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Earth Crystal - Fire Crystal - Earth Crystal - Earth Magicite - Fire Magicite - Festering Flesh - Iron Ore - Forbidden Flesh - Forbidden Flesh - Iron Scraps - Gemini Gem - Foul Flesh - Pebble - Pebble - Phoenix Down Killer Mantis Vampyr Gazer Lv : 43-44 Lv : 42-44 Lv : 44-45 HP : 11703-11943 HP : 5675-5915 HP : 9931-10111 Weak : Wind Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Cancer Gem - Antidote - Book of Orgain - Earth Crystal - Dark Crystal - Capricorn Gem - Echo Herbs - Pebble - Dark Crystal - Insect Husk - Spiral Incisor - Dark Magicite - Pebble - Zwill Crossblade - Vaccine - X-Potion - Taurus Gem - Book of Orgain-Mille - Gigas Hat (S) O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- After Site 11 gate --- O Abysteel Aeronite Dark Lord Lv : 57-59 Lv : 59-60 Lv : 58-59 HP : 13099-13339 HP : 27838-28518 HP : 16555-16375 Weak : Holy Weak : Thunder Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dark Crystal - Dragon Helm - Blood-darkened Bone - Red Fang - Ice Crystal - Dragon Mail (S) - Spiral Incisor - Leo Gem - Capricorn Gem - Telepo-Stone - Wyvern Fang - Dark Crystal - Vampyr Fang - Wyvern Wing - Hi-Potion - Demon Shield (S) - Telepo-Stone Malboro Pandora Lv : 37-38 Lv : 60-62 HP : 8157-8277 HP : 15557-16037 Weak : Wind Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Earth Crystal - Aegis Shield (S) - Malboro Fruit - Cancer Gem - Remedy - Hi-Potion - Smelling Salts - Iron Ore - Pebble - Storm Crystal - Vaccine (S) - Wrath of the Gods Note: To unlock the Site 3 Mines, you have to start the Antlion Mob/Mark mission, so that you would receive the Site 3 Key from the client of this hunt. To unlock the Site 11 Mines, clear the Antlion hunting, then go to Phon Coast Gate Crystal section where known as hunters' camp, the Site 11 Key is around the North-West area, near the two men. Really hard to find? Many people still asking me the location, here is the location, it's in the hunters' camp, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/site11key.jpg In the area where you found Antlion, there's a random treasure contain the Fomalhaut, leave and return this place after hunting down Antlion. If you explore the whole mines, you can find a lot of treasure with Knot of Rust, these treasures might give you other item when you return this place in the different timing, and you might get lot of gils from just a single treasure. The strongest monsters of the place start from the Lasche Span, they are much more stronger than the monsters before, so prepare your team well. The rare monster Bombshell will appear in the Lasche Span, and it could drop the best Ninja Sword, Yagyuu Darkblade, make sure you don't miss it. If you didn't find Bombshell, exit and re-enter the Lasche Span. =============================================================================== ---------------------------| The Great Crystal |--------------------------- ------------------------- sep049 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOOOOOO] | Gate Crystal - No | Save Crystal - Yes | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Go from Giruvegan. | | - Storyline, but only go through the lower layer.| |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Evil Spirit (No.23) | | Reason to come here | - Larva Eater (No.65) | | | - Crystal Knight (No.68) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Ultima | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Optional Boss - Omega Mk.XII | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Excalibur | | | - Sage's Ring | | | - Brave Suit | | | - Strongest Shield/ | | | Zodiac Escutcheon | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- Lower Layer --- O Mom Bomb Mythril Golem Necrophobe Lv : 45-46 Lv : 45-46 Lv : 46-47 HP : 6384-6544 HP : 17733-17973 HP : 8511-8691 Weak : Water Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bomb Shell - Aquarius Gem - Ambrosia - Diamond Armlet - Fire Crystal - Bacchus's Wine - Fire Crystal - Gaia Gear - Capricorn Gem - Pebble - Iron Ore - Dark Crystal - Scorpio Gem - Mythril - Sky Jewel - Red Fang (S) - Hermes Sandals (S) Ose Reaper Lv : 44-45 Lv : 46 HP : 6739-7059 HP : 10111 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Coeurl Whisker - Book of Orgain-Cent - Dark Crystal - Capricorn Gem - Libra Gem - Dark Crystal - Morning Star - Pebble - Prime Pelt - Vaccine - Chronos Tear - Caliper (S) O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- Upper Layer, Road to Ultima Esper --- O Ash Wyrm Forbidden Giruveganus Mom Bomb Lv : 61 Lv : 58-59 Lv : 60 Lv : 59-62 HP : 88423 HP : 17684-17864 HP : 45194 HP : 17684-18164 Weak : Earth Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Water Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Koga Blade - Capricorn Gem - Broken Greataxe - Bomb Shell - Leo Gem - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Diamond Armlet - Moon Ring - Echo Herbs - Leo Gem - Fire Crystal - Ring Wyrm Scale - Forbidden Flesh - X-Potion - Pebble - Wind Crystal - Pebble - Prime Tanned Hide - Scorpio Gem - 800 gil - Kaiser Plate (S) - Carabinner - Red Fang (S) - Remedy (S) Mail (S) Necrophobe Reaper Shadanir Skulwyrm Lv : 58-60 Lv : 62-63 Lv : 59-60 Lv : 60 HP : 23579-23939 HP : 27509-27689 HP : 25544-25864 HP : 41264 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Ambrosia - Book of - Aries Gem - Battlewyrm - Bacchus's Wine Orgain-Cent - Charger Barding Carapace - Capricorn Gem - Capricorn Gem - Pebble - Charger Barding - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Storm Crystal - Dark Crystal - Sky Jewel - Pebble - Telepo-Stone - Hi-Potion - Hermes Sandals - Vaccine - Wyrm Bone Note: Known as Crystal Grande for Japanese version. Besides the monsters are tough, the map is even crazier than any other places. Since most of the monsters weak against Holy, I recommend find some Holy elemental weapon ahead than fighting the monsters here. One of the best weapon with Holy element, Excalibur is also located here, try to get it before exloring in deep of the area. Hopefully this map can helps. If the first link doesn't work, check the second link, but it's smaller. db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_crystal_grande_upper.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/crystal_map.jpg Excalibur and Sage's Ring - Map 2, second treasure from the right. - You can only get 1 Excalibur, however, Sage's Ring spawn more than once. Brave Suit and Zodiac Escutcheon - Map 3, first treasure from the right, behind the Taurus Gate 2nd/II you can only get one of these equipments there, and you must equip the Diamond Armlet accessory. **they're random =============================================================================== ----------------------| Pharos At Ridorana - Subterra |--------------------- ------------------------------------ sep050 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOOOOOO] | Gate Crystal - No | Save Crystal - No | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - After Pharos at Ridorana story events, | | back to 1F and use the Dais of Ascendance. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Mob/Mark Hunt - Ixion | | Reason to come here | - Shadowseer/Darkness God | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Luxollid (No.32) | | | - Vargrant Soul (No.33) | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Optional Boss - Phoenix | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Dragon Whisker | | | - Ultima Blade | | | - Venetian Shield | | | - Fomalhaut | | | - Lordly Robes | | | - Dueling Mask | | | - Circlet | | | - Ribbon | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O Abaddon Bull Abaddon Bune Dragon Lich Lv : 56 Lv : 58 Lv : 58-59 Lv : 60-64 HP : 16898 HP : 20534 HP : 16578-16998 HP : 28531-31251 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Water Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Aries Gem - Aries Gem - Damascus Steal - Charger Barding - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Fire Crystal - Corpse Fly - Solid Horn - Pebble - Forbidden Flesh - Dark Crystal - Telepo-Stone - Solid Horn - Gold Needle - Hastega Mote - Vaccine - Vaccine - Gungnir - Hi-Potion - Telepo-Stone - Telepo-Stone - Gemini Gem - X-Potion High Reaver Mistmare Necrofiend Reaver Lv : 64-66 Lv : 54-56 Lv : 54-56 Lv : 56-61 HP : 37156-37996 HP : 15251-15571 HP : 15914-16274 HP : 28513-30613 Weak : Earth Weak : Fire Weak : Holy Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Bacchus's Wine - Chronos Tear - Capricorn Gem - Bacchus's Wine - Beastlord Hide - Grimoire Aidhed - Dark Crystal - Beastlord Hide - Gemini Gem - Scorpio Gem - Lifewick - Gemini Gem - Vaccine - Water Crystal - Sky Jewel - Wind Crystal - Wind Crystal - Reflectga Mote - Vaccine - Golden Axe - Golden Axe - Hi-Potion - Vaccine Dead Bones Zombie Warlock Magic Pot Lv : 56 Lv : 59-60 Lv : ? HP : 13442 HP : 11935-12115 HP : ? Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Elixir Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Steal - Ancient Bone - Alarm Clock - Ether - Blood-darkened Bone - Capricorn Gem - Elixir - Dark Crystal - Dark Crystal - Megalixir - Glimmering Robes - Forbidden Flesh - Sturdy Bone - Pebble Note: The hard point of this place was the quantity of monsters, you will always the monsters/enemies in a group. And if you're inside the hall (inner area), it's pretty hard to escape once the enemies emerged. To get lower level, you need to put certain amount of Black Orb on all four altars in the different corner, and the Black Orb can be found from the monster who're not in the circle area. When the Black Orb appear, you must close to it and examine it like how you get a treasure. However, if you leave the Black Orb, it will fly to certain points and will become a Massvie Black Orb. The number of Black Orb from the Massive Black Orb is count as the total Black Orbs that you left x3. Example, you had left 3 Black Orbs to fly away, so the Massive Black Orb will become 6 Black Orbs. - Check this map for the details of Subterra. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_ridorana_subterra.png Here is the amount of Black Orb require on the altar (Pedestal of Night). B1F - South-West 6, South-East 3, North West 9, North-East 18 B2F - South-West 18, South-East 15, North West 9, North-East 15 B3F - South-West 12, South-East 27, North West 21, North-East 15 As for treasure, there're actually more than the stuff listed above, here I just only show the rare and better items: - Dragon Whisker at B1F, the West treasure in South-West section. - Ultima Blade at B2F, inner of North-East section. - Venetian Shield at B2F, North-East section, right from the door. - Fomalhaut at B2F, inner South-East section. - Lordly Robes at B3F, inner of North-East section. - Circlet at B3F, inner of South-West section. - Dueling Mask at B3F, South-East section, the East corner. - Ribbon at B3F, inner of North-West section. ** they're random Must prepare Esuna/Esunaga and Remedies to challenge B3F/Abyssal, the Zombie Warlocks team up with Necrofiends will be very tough, they could send a lot of nasty statuses to all your characters, and they're not easy to beat. Try to obtain Ribbon and Excalibur before entering this place. =============================================================================== -----------------------------| The Henne Mines |--------------------------- ----------------------- sep051 .==========================================================================. | Difficulty - [OOOOOOOOOO] | Gate Crystal - Yes | Save Crystal - No | |==========================================================================| | How to find this place - Storyline, but not able to visit secret area. | | - Go from Feywood, but only able to explore a | | small area. | | - To full unlock the secret area, clear | | Mind Flayer Mob/Mark and collect 10 espers. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | | Rare Monster - Glaring Eye (No.21) | | Reason to come here |--------------------------------------------------| | | Secret Esper - Zodiac/Zodiark | | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Special Stuff - Brave Suit | | | - Ensanguined Shield | | | - Fomalhaut | | | - Lordly Robes | | | - Renewing Marion | | | - Ribbon | | | - Sage's Ring | | | - Zodiac Spear/Strongest Halberd | | | - Dark Matter | | | - Elixir | | | - Hi-Ether | | | - Megalixir | '--------------------------------------------------------------------------' O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- Outer Area --- O Jelly Nightmare Redmaw Lv : 19-25 Lv : 24-25 Lv : 23-24 HP : 1813-2018 HP : 1630-1688 HP : 1134-1202 Weak : Fire Weak : Holy Weak : Earth Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 500 gil - Dark Magicite - 100 gil - Pebble - Hi-Potion - Crooked Fang - Telepo-Stone - Remedy - Ice Shield - Water Magicite - Smelling Salts - Pebble - Yellow Liquid - Grimoire Togail - Red Fang - Snowfly - Taurus Gem - Wind Magicite Seeker Thunderbug Tyranorox Lv : 22-23 Lv : 23-24 Lv : 26-27 HP : 1094-1110 HP : 2083-2193 HP : 4073-4413 Weak : Earth Weak : Ice Weak : Wind Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Antidote - Red Fang - Alarm Clock - Bat Wing - Remedy - Earth Magicite - Crooked Fang - Storm Magicite - Pebble - Smelling Salts - Iron Scraps - Tanned Hide - Wind Stone - Charged Gizzard - War Hammer - Bloodsword O --- Enemy/Monster --- O --- Secret Area --- O Abysteel Etem Gizamaluk Lv : 64-65 Lv : 64-65 Lv : 61-62 HP : 20524-20644 HP : 35916-36096 HP : 53874-54554 Weak : Holy Weak : Holy Weak : Ice Drop/Steal Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - Dark Crystal - Book of Orgain-Mille - Bucchus's Wine - Demon Shield - Capricorn Gem - Charger Barding - Red Fang - Dark Crystal - Gold Needle - Spiral Incisor - Ivory Pole - Leo Gem - Telepo-Stone - Soul Powder - Storm Crystal - Vampyr Fang - X-Potion - X-Potion Hecteyes Necrofiend Lv : 62-65 Lv : 63-65 HP : 34633-35323 HP : 30785-? Weak : Ice Weak : Holy Drop/Steal Drop/Steal - 200 gil - Capricorn Gem - Chronos Tear - Dark Crystal - Sagittarius Gem - Hi-Potion - Silver Liquid - Lifewick - Storm Crystal - Sky Jewel - Unpurified Ether - Vaccine - X-Potion - Yellow Liquid Note: From the Gate Crystal, go North and then East, there's a gate locked the depth area. To unlock it, you must have at least 1 0 espers and finish Mind Flayer Mob/Mark Hunt mission (rank B/IV), then talk to the geomancer in Jahara, Land of Garif, and the gate will be unlocked. As mentioned by the geomancer, within the depth of Henne Mines, a great power lies sleeping, and this power is greater than anything you can imagine. Yes, here is the strongest place of the game. Of cause, the strongest area hiding a lot of special treasure, check this map for the details. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_henne_secret.png The path from Feywood has been blocked, you can only unblock it by beating the secret Esper inside, Zodiac/Zodiark. Actually no save point in the secret areas, the only save point is the Gate Crystal at out there, which is also the only save point in the Henne Mines. ____ |__ | | | __ |_||__| ___________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ___ ____ ' __| __ | | __ __ _|_ <___ | | | |__| | | | | |__| |__ | ____> | |__| |__ |__\| |__| |__ __| |_ \ __ __ ___ | | | ' __ ' | | __ _ _ __ | | | | | | | --- | __ __| | | | |__| | | | | | | |___| |__| | | | |__ _____ \\ \____________________________________________ .=================================|__________________________________________/ =| 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game []________________________________________/ '=================================( / \_/~~' _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Feel the main playthrough has less challenge? Now come to do some side quests, you will encounter with some monsters even much more stronger than the final boss in the story. Myself, start exploring the side quests after Pharos At Ridorana. 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game 7a-1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-----------------O ---------------------------------------------------------- -O Clan Centurio O O-----------------O [s7a1] You can join as member anytimes before you move on to final stage in the game. The Clan Headquarter is at the Northern Street in Rabanastre City, before you can enter it, talk to the bangaa in front will be bought into Clan Headquarter. Inside there. Talk to the moogle at upstair who named Monblanc to join the clan. Reasons of joining the clan are: - Get rewards from Monblanc when your clan rank increase. - Get rewards from Monblanc after defeating certain bosses. - Clan shop in Rabanastre Muthru Bazaar section, which sells something that you couldn't found from other normal shops. Things that were selling in the clan shop will be updated when your clan rank or level was increased. - Get extra Mob Hunt/Mark Hunt missions from Monblanc. Anyway, it's related to many other quests, recommanded join the clan. You can join it anytime, as long as you don't enter to the final stage. You could still get the same rewards no matter when were you joined the clan. Here is the list of rewards of clan level and clan shop. For the details of Mob Hunt/Mark Hunt, check the "Mob Hunt" section below. *It's call Mark Hunt for the US version. --------------------- < Clan Rank Rewards > --------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Requirement | | | Lv |-----------------------| Rewards | | | Clan Point | Mob/Mark | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1 | 0 | - | Potion x3 | | 2 | 700 | 2 | Warp Mote x2, Teleport Stone x2 | | 3 | 8,000 | 4 | Remedy x3, Teleport Stone x2 | | 4 | 20,000 | 8 | Hi-Potion x3, Teleport Stone x2 | | 5 | 30,000 | 1 0 | Ether x2, Teleport Stone x2 | | 6 | 40,000 | 1 2 | X-Potion, Teleport Stone x2 | | 7 | 100,000 | 1 4 | Hi-Ether x2, Teleport Stone x3 | | 8 | 200,000 | 1 6 | Elixir x2, Teleport Stone x3 | | 9 | 250,000 | 2 4 | High Arcana x1, Teleport Stone x3 | | 10 | 300,000 | 2 8 | Empyreal Soul x1,Teleport Stone x3 | | 11 | 500,000 | 3 2 | Magelixir x2, Teleport Stone x3 | | 12 | * | * | Centurio Hero, Teleport Stone x3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Lv 12, complete everything under 'Clan Report/Clan Primer' including the monters list (Bestiary) and Sky Pirate's Den. --<< Clan Title >>-- ******************** - Clan Lv 1 = Moppit - Clan Lv 2 = Hedge Knight - Clan Lv 3 = Rear Guard - Clan Lv 4 = Vanguard - Clan Lv 5 = Headhunder - Clan Lv 6 = Ward of Justice - Clan Lv 7 = Brave Companion - Clan Lv 8 = Riskbreaker - Clan Lv 9 = Paragon of Justice - Clan Lv 10 = High Guardian - Clan Lv 11 = Knight of the Round - Clan Lv 12 = Ambrosia Pantheon / Order of Ambrosia ----------------- < Other Rewards > ----------------- Flans defeated - 150 gil Firemane defeated - 200 gil Mimic Queen defeated - 300 gil Demon Wall defeated - 1200 gil, Electrum x1 (2) Demon Wall defeated - 600 gil, Warp Mote x1 Elder Wyrm defeated - 800 gil Tiamat defeated - 900 gil Vinuskar defeated - 1100 gil Ahriman defeated - 1600 gil The Mandragoras defeated - 1600 gil Rafflesia defeated - 1800 gil Daedalus defeated - 1900 gil Tyrant defeated - 1900 gil Hydro defeated - 2000 gil << Optional Boss >> Earth Tyrant defeat - 1200 gil King Bomb defeated - 1300 gil, Mallet Humbaba Mistant defeated - 2100 gil Fury defeated - 2100 gil, Bucchas's Wine Hell Wyrm defeated - 50000 gil << Esper >> Command 1 Esper - Teleport Stone x2, Arcana x2 Command 4 Espers - Teleport Stone x2, High Arcana x1 Command 8 Espers - Teleport Stone x2, Gemsteel x2 Command 13 Espers - Teleport Stone x2, Serpentarius x1 ------------------- < Clan Shop Stuff > ------------------- ======================================================== | Clan Level | Selling Item - Cost | |======================================================| | 1. Moppit | Potion - 70 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 2. Hedge Knight | Hi-Potion - 210 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 3. Vanguard | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 4. Rear Guard | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 5. Headhunter | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 6. Ward of Justice | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 7. Brave Companion | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Faith - 5800 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 8. Riskbreaker | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Bubble Belt - 19800 | | | Bravery - 5800 | | | Faith - 5800 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 9. Paragon of Justice | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Warp Mote - 100 | | | Bravery - 5800 | | | Faith - 5800 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 10. High Guardian | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Bubble Belt - 19800 | | | Cat-ear Hood - 30000 | | | Warp Mote - 100 | | | Bravery - 5800 | | | Faith - 5800 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 11. Knight of the Round | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | | Bubble Belt - 19800 | | | Cat-ear Hood - 30000 | | | Knot of Rust - 6 | | | Warp Mote - 100 | | | Bravery - 5800 | | | Faith - 5800 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | |------------------------------------------------------| | 12. Ambrosia Pantheon/ | Nihopalaoa - 30000 | | Order of Ambrosia | Bubble Belt - 19800 | | | Cat-ear Hood - 30000 | | | Dark Matter - 2 | | | Knot of Rust - 6 | | | Warp Mote - 100 | | | Bravery - 5800 | | | Faith - 5800 | | | Bubble - 3300 | | | Reverse - 7600 | | | Teleport Stone - 200 | | | Gysahl Greens - 108 | -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ < Extra Mob/Mark > ------------------ =>> Rank - Hunt Tittle ..................... Target *************************************************************************** -> Rank E/I - Little Love on the Big Plains ... Cluckatrice/Niwatoris - The Cry of Its Power ............ Rocktoise -> Rank C/III - Paradise Risen .................. Gil Snapper/Gilgame -> Rank A/V - Crime and Punishment ............ Orthros - Paramina Run .................... Trickster - Antlion Infestation ............. Antlion - A Dark Rumor .................... Belito -> Rank S/VI - Fishy Dreams .................... Ixion - God or Devil? ................... The Seer/God -> Rank H/VII - Carrot Stalk .................... Carrot - Battle on the Big Bridge ........ Ancient Man of Mystery - Truth Shrouded in Mist .......... Behemoth King -> Rank X/VIII - Farewell to a Legend ............ Yiazmat/Yazmat *check 'Mob Hunt' section (below) for the details of all hunting mission. 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game 7a-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O--------------O ------------------------------------------------------------- -O Mob Hunt O O--------------O [s7a2] Named Mark Hunt for US version. To start the Mob Hunt missions, go check on the bulletin board in different towns, exsample like the inn in Rabanastre City, the inn of Bhujerba Skycity, the board at Phon Coast and so on. After that you have to speak with the client of that mission to start it, the location of client will display as exclamation mark in the map screen. If you forgot, just open up your "Mob List/Hunt" under "Clan Report/Clan Primer", select the mob which you want to start, then press "Square" button to check your client's location. Speak with your client after finishing the mission for reward. Certain missions below will only exist from Clan Headquarter in Rabanastre, you must join as Clan Centurio member first. From more detail, read the "Clan Centurio" section above. Going through the mob hunt, you will obtain many rare items and best equipment, also face the most difficult enemies in the game. You can find your mob list under "Clan Report/Clan Primer" in Party Menu. For Japanese version, the missions ranked as E, D, C, B, A..., as opposed to US version, which ranked as I, II, III, IV..... ------------- | Ranking | |-----------| | E = I | ** The strategies for each mob were found | D = II | useful by myself, doesn't mean they're | C = III | the best or perfect way to beat certain | B = IV | mobs especially those who're stronger. | A = V | Anyway, I'll explain in depth for the | S = VI | stronger mobs, and may you to discover | H = VII | better strategy by yourself if you don't | X = VIII | like my strategies. ------------- (start from E rank) 7a-2-1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- | Rank E / Rank I |---------------------------------------------------------E --------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Red & Rotten in the Desert |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== --<< Rogue Tomato >>-- ======================== Location : | Lv : 2 | Dalmasca Eastersand, | HP : 134 | the first hill from Rabanastre | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Fire Stone | Tomaj, Rabanastre, inside The Sandsea. | - Pebble | You will get this in the scene. | - Potion | |----------------------| Reward | LP gain : 3 | - 300 gil | Clan Point : 180 | - Potion x2 ------------------------ - Teleport Stone x1 What so hard with your first mission? Do not fight it with the wolves around there, it shouldn't be a problem. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Wolf in the Waste |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== ----<< Thextera >>---- ======================== Location : | Lv : 6 | Dalmasca Westersand, | HP : 380 | Galtea, find it at the South. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Potion | Gatsly, Rabanastre inside The Sandsea, | - Pebble | the man sitting on the floor. | - Wolf Pelt | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 2 | - 500 gil | Clan Point : 300 | - Headguard x1 ------------------------ - Teleport Stone x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 8 : : Minimum Lv : > 5 : : Average Lv : > 5 : '-----------------------' Recommend fight this when your party has more than only Vaan, so you can heal your ally easier with Potion or Cure is up to you. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Dalmasca's Desert Bloom |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ============================= --<< Flowering Cactoid >>-- ( Flower Saboten for JP version ) ============================= Location : | Lv : 4 | Dalmasca Eastersand, | HP : 755 | Yardang Labyrinth, around the central. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Cactus Fruit | Dantro, Dalmasca Estersand/ Estersand Outpost | - Earth Stone | the man sitting on the crate. | - Potion | |---------------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 2 | - 500 gil | Clan Point : 300 | - Potion x10 ----------------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 8 : : Minimum Lv : > 6 : : Average Lv : > 6 : '-----------------------' Make sure you have three character on your main team, one character works for healing and the other two in close combat. The problem is 1000 needles, which will be used when it gets close to death, and the chance of missing is low, so you better prepare some Phoenix Down for reviving your ally unless you have over 1000 HP. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Waterway Haunting |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== -----<< Wraith >>----- ======================== Location : | Lv : 9 | Garamsythe Waterway, | HP : 5146 | the first zone from Downtown/Lowtown. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Dark Magicite | Milha, Downtown/Lowtown in Rabanastre, | - Glass Jewel | the girl in front of the small gate. | - Hi-Potion | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 5 | - 500 gil | Clan Point : 750 | - Ether x1 ------------------------ - Gauntlets x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 12 : : Minimum Lv : > 9 : : Average Lv : > 9 : '-----------------------' Probably you need some Eye Drops for curing Blind status or prepare Blindna spell in your Gambit if you have learned this magic. Recommend fight this mob with three characters above level 10. Set a character with range weapon attack and move this character further from the team reason is to avoid from getting damage, so has a chance to cure and heal easier. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Marauder in the Mines |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================= -----<< Nidhogg >>----- ========================= Location : | Lv : 10 | Lhusu Mines, | HP : 6079 | Transitway 1 section. | Weak : Fire | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Antidote | Aekom, Bhujerba/ Lhusu Square, | - Aries Gem | the Seeq talking with a man. | - Tanned Hide | |-----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 5 | - 600 gil | Clan Point : 780 | - Rose Corsage x1 ------------------------- - Balaclava x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 15 : : Minimum Lv : > 10 : : Average Lv : > 10 : '-----------------------' Get some Antidotes and Slow magic, you can buy them from Rabanastre shop. Train up your characters over 400 HP and you should be fine. There're some other enemies around the Nidhogg, of cause fight them separately with Nidhogg for safety. Send Slow to Nidhogg for the first, then follow with Blind status, it easy once it has got these statuses. *You will obtain Great Serpentskin, which has a usage for Barheim Key quest, check "7a-3 Back To Barheim Passage" side quest for the details. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Little Love on the Big Plains |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =========================================== -<< Cluckatrice >>-|-<< Chickatrice >>- ( Niwatoris for JP version ) =========================================== Location : | Lv : 15 | Lv : 8 | Giza Plains (dry season) | HP : 7509 | HP : 3067 | Gizas North Bank. | Weak : Earth | Weak : Earth | | Possible Steal: | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Wind Stone | - Large Feather | Dania, Giza Plains/Nomad Village | - Small Feather | - Small Feather | women in the stable.(dry season) | - Taurus Gem | - Potion | |--------------------|--------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 6 | LP gain : 1 | - 1,000 gil | Clan Point : 830 | Clan Point : 500 | - Jackboots x1 ------------------------------------------- - Rainbow Egg x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 15 : : Minimum Lv : > 12 : : Average Lv : > 12 : '-----------------------' Prepare some Hi-Potions and Gold Needles, you will need these items for this fight. Kill everything in the North Bank (North-East section), exit and return to find them. Can say they're the toughest hunt of this rank, recommend your main team characters are over level 15. When you return to this section after clearing the monsters, you will probably see Chickatrice alone. If you have Disable spell (buy from Rabanastre), try send it at the beginning, if it's missed, exit and re-enter for another try. Needless to say, you should defeat them one by one, attack as much as possible before the Cluckatrice has detected your location. It's easier when Lamont/Larsa is in you team. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Cry of Its Power |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================= ----<< Rocktoise >>---- ========================= Location : | Lv : 16 | Lhusu Mines, Site 2 | HP : 17548 | North-East section. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Aged Turtle Shell | Pilika, Bhujerba SkyCity/ Khus Skygrounds, | - Turtle Shell | South-West corner, the moogle in blue. | - Potion | |-----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 8 | - 1,200 gil | Clan Point : 1530 | - Hi-potion x2 ------------------------- - Heavy Coat x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 15 : : Minimum Lv : > 10 : : Average Lv : > 10 : '-----------------------' All you need is send Blind to this mob. Once you've done this at the beginning, you should be fine for the entire battle. Recommend have a character with shield for close combat. 7a-2-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- | Rank D / Rank II |--------------------------------------------------------D ---------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| A Scream From the Sky |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =========================== ----<< Wyvern Lord >>---- =========================== Location : | Lv : 18 | Nam-Yensa Sandsea/ Simmon Bluff, | HP : 18669 | Northern most. | Weak : Weak | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Crooked Fang | Sherral, Rabanastre Weapon Shop, | - Wyvern Wing | one of the soldiers. | - Yensa Scale | |-------------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 8 | - 1,000 gil | Clan Point : 1440 | - Longbow x1 --------------------------- - Shell Shield x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 20 : : Minimum Lv : > 15 : : Average Lv : > 13 : '-----------------------' This is a flying target, so range weapon such as bow and gun type weapons are useful, if these are not your main weapon, go earn some LP and learn the range weapons before fighting. Find this mob after Tomb of Raithwall, so you should have Belias esper and Mist Knack/Quickening skills. Or if you like to use spell is fine, be sure don't use the Aero spell. Slow and Blind can be effective to this mob as well, try get it into all these negative statuses at the beginning. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Defense of Ozmone Plain |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Enkelados >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 22 | Ozmone Plains/ The Shred, | HP : 18709 | South-East section of the plains. | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Earth Magicite | Low-Chief Sugumu, | - Slaven Harness | Jahara, Land Of The Garif/ Elderknoll. | - Potion | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 9 | - 1,100 gil | Clan Point : 1210 | - Ether x1 ----------------------- - Golden Amulet x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 25 : : Minimum Lv : > 20 : : Average Lv : > 18 : '-----------------------' First you have to kill all monsters here, then leave and return to the same section only it will show up. If you have got Dispel, send it to him at the beginning. Later, send him Slow and Blind as well, or you can also try to Immobilize him and use range weapon to attack before he can move. Actually many tactics can be used for this mob since many bad statuses do work on him, just take some time to finish his long life bar. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| A Ring in the Rain |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== ---<< Croakadile >>--- ( Kerogeros for JP version ) ======================== Location : | Lv : 24 | Giza Plains (rain season), | HP : 19449 | central of the Starfall Field section. | Weak : Fire | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Aries Gem | Sadeen, Giza Plains/ Nomad Village (rain season), | - Horn | man in green shirt. | - Pointed Horn | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 10 | - 1,200 gil | Clan Point : 1440 | - Serpent Rod x1 ------------------------ - Teleport Stone x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 25 : : Minimum Lv : > 20 : : Average Lv : > 18 : '-----------------------' This mob will not appear until you near it. Just run to Starfall Field at South-West of Giza Plains, close to the bridge and it will jump up from the river. Since the first rain is your way to Jahara, and Flametongue sword is selling there, so if you want easy win, buy it from the Jahara and back here with this weapon. If you successfully sent Blind, Silence and Slow to this mob, you should have no problem to defeat it. Or you can summon Belias to fight since it's weak against fire. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Dead Ought Sleep Forever |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= -----<< Ixtab >>----- ======================= Location : | Lv : 24 | Henne Mines, Phase 1 Shaft, | HP : 22564 | search the South-East area. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Book of | High-Chief Zayalu, | Orgain-Mille | Jahara, Land Of The Garif/ Elderknoll, | - Dark Crystal | | - Flame Shield | Reward : |---------------------| - 1,300 gil | LP gain : 12 | - Ether x1 | Clan Point : 1760 | - Soul Powder x1 ----------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 25 : : Minimum Lv : > 20 : : Average Lv : > 18 : '-----------------------' Doom and Stop might be sent from this mob, prepare some Chronos Tear in case of need. As for Doom, you probably kill it before countdown reaches to 0. If you like to use Mist Knack/Quickening, be sure you use it earlier since this mob would hit your MP away. As for status, you can try Blind and Silence, it will use magic attack when it gets close to death. 7a-2-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- | Rank C / Rank III |-------------------------------------------------------C ----------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| For Whom the Wyrm Tolls |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Ring Wyrm >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 32 | Dalmasca Westersand, East area, | HP : 128648 | the first section from the Gate Crystal. | Weak : Fire | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Hi-Potion | Balzac, Rabanastre, West of Downtown/Lowtown, | - Phoenix Down | man sitting on the crate. | - Water Magicite | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 16 | - 200 | Clan Point : 6300 | - Moon Ring x1 ----------------------- - Icebrand x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 30 : : Minimum Lv : > 28 : : Average Lv : > 20 : '-----------------------' This mob only appear during the sand storm. Lot of HP but not that tough, the problem is Ring Wyrm can restore its HP, so even if it couldn't beat your team easily, but you still need to have enough power to kill it as well. Recommend fight this mob when your main team characters are above level 30. First of all, kill off the enemies around, just to avoid them from bothering this long battle. Since Ring Wyrm mostly use its normal attack, and seems to focus on one target normally, so other characters can support and heal, also means Blind works well for your advantage, cast Protect spell on your characters as well. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Befoulment of the Beast |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ============================= ---<< Feral Retriever >>--- ( Chopper for JP version ) ============================= Location : | Lv : 28 | Paramina Rift/ Spine of the Icewyrm, | HP : 22559 | found near the entrance from Save Crystal. | Weak : Earth | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Pebble | Hymms, near the Bur Omisace Gate Crystal, | - Prime Pelt | man in blue shirt beside chocobo. | - Quality Pelt | |---------------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 14 | - 1,500 gil | Clan Point : 1820 | - Recurve Crossbow x1 ----------------------------- - Teleport Stone x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 30 : : Minimum Lv : > 23 : : Average Lv : > 18 : '-----------------------' Must prepare Esuna white magic and Haste is recommended as well. Set Gambit for curing negative statuses with Esuna, also prepare Echo Herbs to cure the healer in case if he/she got Silence. There's a dangerous move from this mob when it's low HP, Balance. This spell deals damage according to the different of caster's max HP and remaining HP, let say if it cast Balance when it left 2559 HP, and its max HP is 22559, so the result would be 20000 damage! And the amount of damage send to all targets in the area. Either you have to use Mist Knack/Quickening to finish it off before it casts Balance, or sacrifice a character to close combat, and other two characters stay in a distance with range weapon attack, so the Balance would on damage on the close combat ally. Make sure to revive as soon as the Balance has been casted. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| A Chase Through the Woods |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== --<< Vorpal Bunny >>-- ======================== Location : | Lv : 31 | Golmore Jungle, The Rustling Chapel. | HP : 20010 | will pop out only when you close to it. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Blood Wool | Nare, Eruyt Village/ The Spiritwood | - Drab Wool | the only viera sitting on the enclosing wall. | - Hi-Potion | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 16 | - 2,000 gil | Clan Point : 1440 | - Lightning Arrows x1 ------------------------ - Gilly Boots x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 35 : : Minimum Lv : > 30 : : Average Lv : > 25 : '-----------------------' Recommended level is not actually for this mob, but the enemies around. As mentioned, only pop out when you get close to it, and it's hiding in the middle junction of the section, probably you're busy on fighting with other enemies when it shown. It will keep on running, if you missed tracking this mob or lost it, exit and re-enter this section and find it at the same point. It's better you clear the enemies around, so you can chase it easier. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Trouble in the Hills |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== -----<< Atomos >>----- ======================== Location : | Lv : 33 | Mosphoran Highwaste, Northern Skirts | HP : 40020 | North-West section, before the area to Salikawood. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Gemini Gem | Burrogh, Jajim Bazaar in Nalbina, | - Potion | the blue bangaa sitting on the floor. | - Tanned Giantskin | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 16 | - 1,800 gil | Clan Point : 2070 | - Gaia Rod ------------------------ - Diamond Shield .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 35 : : Minimum Lv : > 30 : : Average Lv : > 25 : '-----------------------' Many negative statuses work on this mob, recommend get a Nihoparaoa accessory and a Remedy with all 3 lores learned, you're able to take him down easily even you're at low level (below 30) is no problem as well. Make sure Dispel him before you use this trick. Dispel him again if later he recasts support spells. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Paradise Risen |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== --<< Gil Snapper >>-- ( Gilgame for JP version ) ====================== Location : | Lv : 37 | Giza Plains (rain season), | HP : 86956 | Tracks of the Beast at South-West. | Weak : Thunder | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - 1000 gil | Nanau, Giza plains/ Crystak Glade, | - 2000 gil | in front the Save Crystal. | - 4000 gil | |--------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 20 | - 3,000 gil | Clan Point : 3830 | - Phobos Glaze x1 ---------------------- *Cut the trees to build up a brigde to South-East section. They're located at: 1.South Save Crystal, behind your client. -( Crystal Glade ) 2.Central section of the map. -------------( Nomad Village ) 3.South-West section. --------------------( Starfall Field ) 4.North section. -------------------------( Throne Road ) 5.North-East section. ---------------------( Gizas North Bank ) 6.Middle area between two Save Crystal. ---( Toam Hills ) .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 38 : : Minimum Lv : > 35 : : Average Lv : > 28 : '-----------------------' After all, go to South-East most can see a new bridge formed by the trunks, cross there to find this mob. It will only appears in heavy rain, if there's not heavy rain, kill off the Silicon Tortoises, exit and re-enter this place until you get the heavy rain, Gil Snapper/Gilgame should be there. Dispel on the first, then follow with Blind, Silence and Slow to this mob, and you can beat it easier. Back to your client duing dry season, she's in the central camp section (Nomad Village) of Giza Plains. 7a-2-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- | Rank B / Rank IV |--------------------------------------------------------B ---------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Mine Flayer |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== --<< Mindflayer >>-- ( Mind Flare for JP version ) ====================== Location : | Lv : 35 | Henne Mines/ Phase 1 Dig, | HP : 31161 | South-West section. | Weak : - | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Float Mote | Warrior Guromu, Jahara, Land Of The Garif, | - Pebble | South from the shop, one of the garifs there. | - Vanishga Mote | |--------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 18 | - 2,200 gil | Clan Point : 3150 | - Carmagnole x1 ---------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 35 : : Minimum Lv : > 30 : : Average Lv : > 25 : '-----------------------' You must learn more support spells like Haste, Esuna, Curaja and more, of cause better you have all of them, the most important is Dispel white magic. Without Esuna, you have to get some Remedies to cure some negative statuses especially Stop (can be cured with Chronos Tear). Head to the Phase 1 Dig, you should spot it around the South of this part when your leader character is full MP, kill all monsters around before trigger out the fight with this mob. Dispel him when the support spells were build. Once Mindflayer has taken enough of damage, he will restore HP with lot of positive statuses, now Dispel him again before cnotinue the fight. Another way is send Berserk and Blind to this mob, so it will only keep on missing on its attack, and you can defeat it without worrying much. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Rodeo to the Death |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== -----<< Braegh >>----- ======================== Location : | Lv : 35 | Salikawood/ Corridor of Ages | HP : 43283 | West section, near the Necrohol Of Nabudis. | Weak : Ice | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Grimoire Aidhed | Va'Kansa, Mosphoran Highwaste Gate Crystal area, | - Storm Crystal | the green bangaa beside the shop. | - Storm Magicite | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 17 | - 1,700 gil | Clan Point : 2340 | - Obelisk x1 ------------------------ - Hi-Ether x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 35 : : Minimum Lv : > 30 : : Average Lv : > 25 : '-----------------------' To reach this place, you have to defeat King Bomb. After that, train until you're able to handle the monsters behind King Bomb, so you should have not problem with this mob. When you reached this section, nothing is here except Chocobos, just leave them since they wouldn't disturb your fight. Build the support statuses on you team. Before this mob spotted you, cast Dispel on it initially, then try Dusable it as well. Don't use the weapon with elemental strike except Icebrand sword. Keep attack with normal weapon, with Haste on supports, you will end this fight in a short while. Sometimes Braegh will send you Berserk status, I don't get what's the meaning, but it's better if Braegh really does it. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Shelled Obstruction |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Darksteel >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 38 | Sochen Cave Palace/ Temtation Eluded, | HP : 111331 | North section just after the boss arena. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Aged Turtle | Homesick Man, Archades weapon shop, | Shell | the man looking at the knight armor. | - Ancient Turtle | | Shell | Reward : | - Eye Drops | - 3,000 gil |---------------------| - Lead Bolts x1 | LP gain : 21 | - Adamantite x1 | Clan Point : 4080 | ----------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 40 : : Minimum Lv : > 35 : : Average Lv : > 28 : '-----------------------' No bad at both normal and magic/skill attacks, since it uses normal attack mostly of the time, and Silence doesn't seems to work, just send it a Blind after your Dispel at the beginning. Equip Holy Rod or Holy Lance to fight, they can be found in the treasure from Crystal Grande/The Great Crystal and Pharos at Ridorana (already mentioned in the Walkthrough). If you have got the Excalibur, this fight will be very short. 7a-2-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- | Rank A / Rank V |---------------------------------------------------------A --------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Lost in the Pudding |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== --<< White Mousse >>-- ======================== Location : | Lv : 15 | Garamsythe Waterway, | HP : 69469 | West Sluice Control section. | Weak : Fire | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Echo Herbs | Sorbet, Rabanastre/ Westgate, | - Hi-Potion | the moogle guarding on the teleport pole. | - Potion | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 24 | - 2,800 gil | Clan Point : 3420 | - Yoichi Bow ------------------------ .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 35 : : Minimum Lv : > 30 : : Average Lv : > 25 : '-----------------------' The waterway path will change from time to time, but you could get there no matter how it was. If you have no idea to cross through this little maze, back here later and hopefully it changes to be easier. Blind plus Berserk trick works on this mob as well, or you need to be ready for some stronge magics and bad statuses like Slow, Blind and Poison. Trust you have cleared Wyvern Lord (rank D/II) mission, and hope you didn't sell the Shell Shield, now is the good time to show it. If you really don't like the shield, just equip it when White Mousse readies to use magic, you will be only taken half of the magic damage. Always recast Haste when anyone ally got the Slow, otherwise you would lost alot of chances. And you may try Flametongue sword since it weaks on Fire. After all, back to your client for a useful key item, Sluice Gate Key. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| A Tingling Toast |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== ---<< Marilith >>--- ====================== Location : | Lv : 38 | Zertinan Cavern/ Invitation to Heresy | HP : 54921 | North-East section of the cavern. | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Fire Crystal | Tavermaster, Rabanastre inside The Sandsea | - Fire Stone | man behind the counter. | - Prime | | Tanned Hide | Reward : |--------------------| - 2,200 gil | LP gain : 22 | - Serpent Eye x1 | Clan Point : 3610 | - Teleport Stone x3 ---------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 40 : : Minimum Lv : > 35 : : Average Lv : > 30 : '-----------------------' Just enter from Dalmasca Westersand. First section, defeat all enemies and go South until the sunlight area (alot of light). If Marilith didn't show, wait there for awhile, then run around the area, make sure you don't leave the section while running around. Return to the sunlight area and get ready to fight, make sure you've killed all monsters. But I have a test for you before the fight, if you couldn't kill the Slime within 3 turns, forget about fighting with Marilith. Cast all useful support spells that you have before luring out Marilith. Send Blind and Slow to Marilith as soon as you spot it, you need a few try to reach your succession. If you have got Nihopalaoa accessory, just equip and throw a Remedy or Eye Drops to it, change back your accessory was using afterwards. Not too hard since Marilith seems to focus on one target, keep on healing the character who's spotted by Marilith, heal him/her when HP down to 60%, because Marilith will always hit in a combo even with Blind, and it's ignore evasion. Do remember using item is always faster then casting spells, so prepare some X-Potions instead of using Curaga. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Deserter's Revenge |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Bloodwing >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 37 | Barheim Passage/ West Annex, | HP : 41171 | East from Save Crystal, before Terminus No.7. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Bat Fang | No.381, Dalmasca Estersand/ South Bank Camp, | - Pebble | the blue bangaa around the beach. | - Spiral Insicor | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 24 | - 2,400 gil | Clan Point : 2990 | - Stun Bombs ----------------------- - Vampyr Fang .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 48 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 33 : '-----------------------' Require Barheim Key before to return. Read "Back to Barheim Passage" section for more details. Holy Lance and Holy Rod are recommended weapon, Excalibur is much better. Telekinesis skill/technick is recommended as well, since you can handle the monsters here, you should had enough strength to visit Nabudis. Buy Telekinesis from the Necrohol of Nabudis secret shop after the event in Giruvegan and Crystal Grande/The Great Crystal. Learn and set it to attack the flying foes, otherwise, you need to spend MP on the magic, which is the slower way to defeat this mob. Prepare Rubber Suit for the undead enemies there, if you got the Zodiac Escutcheon shield is much better since they immune to Thunder. Back to the West Annex section, take down the Dead Bones and Spectars whoever spawn. By using the Holy Lance, Holy Rod or Excalibur, and with Rubber Suit or Zodiac Escutcheon you should be fine. Recast Haste/Hastega, Bubble on the way, forward slowly until you get to Bloodwing. Attack it with Telekinesis or any stronger magic you have, equip range weapon for the character without Telekinesis of best magic, be sure you don't fight it with the Dead Bones and Spectars together. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Crime and Punishment |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ----<< Orthros >>---- ======================= Location : | Lv : 34 | Garamsythe Waterway, | HP : 87141 | Southern Sluiceway. | Weak : Fire | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Caramel | Contrite Thief, Downtown/Lowtown in Rabanastre, | - Phoenix Down | the injured seeq near the waterway entrance. | - Slime Oil | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 25 | - 3,800 gil, | Clan Point : 3600 | - Horakhty's Flame x1 ----------------------- - Unpurified Ether x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 38 : : Minimum Lv : > 35 : : Average Lv : > 28 : '-----------------------' Something like the powered version of White Mousse. Before searching for this mob, prepare Smelling Salts, Gold Needles and Eye Drops. Recommend Argyle Armlet or Goggle Mask for preventing Blind status on your close combat ally since this mob like to send you Blind. For additional stuff, buy the Ardor black magic from the Barheim Passage shop after Ridorana event. This mob likes to see a team with only female characters, so change your team to be Fran, Ashe and Penelo BEFORE enter to this section, it's next to the section where you fought White Mousse. If the female characters are not your strongest team, just change it back after spawing. Set Gambit to heal Confuse status and put it on the top slot. Dispel Orthros as soon as you've done, make sure you have removed its Bravery. Equip Shell Shield to reduce its magic damage, change back your best equipment afterwards. If you have learned Ardor, send it to this mob randomly for more damage. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Paramina Run |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Trickster >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 44 | Paramina Rift/ Frozen Brook | HP : 61321 | the East section from the Save Crystal. | Weak : Random | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Chocobo Feather | Gurdy, Bur Omisace chocobo stable, | - Gysahl Greens | the moogle guarding at the stable. | - Hastega Mote | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 25 | - 4,800 gil | Clan Point : 3240 | - Deimos Clay ----------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 48 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 30 : '-----------------------' Must have learned some non-elemental magic like Flare, Scourge... before finding this mob, or you will be disappointed during near end of the battle. Raise your main team HP up to 3000, that is mean you need to get some good equipments which is increase your Max HP or active more "Max HP+" slots on the Licenses Board. Equip Bubble Belt or use Bubble magic for more advantage. Cast Hastega repeatedly on your ally as well as the NPC who helps to support. Trickster will change its elemental weakness once you;ve hit it correctly, so don't bother to finding its weakness. Keep on your attack till Trickster's HP bar is down to around 15% HP, you can only damage it with non-elemental magic as mentioned above, (Flare, Scourge...). O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Antlion Infestation |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ----<< Antlion >>---- ======================= Location : | Lv : 37 | Lhusu Mines, Site 9, | HP : 106499 | the South-West section. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Cancer Gem | Niray, Bhujerba Staras Residence, | - Charger Barding | the only girl inside there. | - Potion | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 25 | - 4,300 gil | Clan Point : 3750 | - Bubble Belt ----------------------- - Sickle-Blade .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 48 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 30 : '-----------------------' You will get Site 3 Key for this mob, so now you can reach to South-West section of the mines. Suggest to have Death magic which is selling in the shop at Rabanastre after Bur Omisace events. If you had already get passed Ridorana, buy a Zwill Crossblade in Balhonheim for your attacker for more advantages since it has Wind strike. Antlion is in the end of Site 9, protecting by some Killer Mantises, don't fight them in once. Cast all support spells on your team and lure out the Killer Mantis to fight one after another, or use the Death magic to kill it instantly, but probably will miss some, have a few more try to get it down. Antlion has good attack power, be sure you have Protect status on the ally who was to close combat. Keep a character at the bak for casting Curaja and other support spells, Gambit set to Ally: HP < 70% = Curaja when Antlion is near death. Use a Bucchus's Wine for your attacker to finish it faster. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Get My Staff Back! |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== -----<< Vyraal >>----- ======================== Location : | Lv : 41 | Cerobi Steppe, The Northsward, | HP : 106616 | North-East section of the map. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Charging Barding | Viera Wayfarer, Port At Balfonheim/ The Whitecap, | - Leo Gem | the viera sitting on the window. | - Spiral Incisor | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 22 | - 3,500 gil | Clan Point : 5670 | - Halberd x1 ------------------------ - Crystal Shield x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 48 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 30 : '-----------------------' Find this mob after Pharos at Ridorana event for highering your team level. Cast all support spell before triggering Vyraal's detection. The NPC viera will support you during the fight, so just keep her alive for more benefits. Blind and Silence both work well. Once you've successfully sent them to this mob, you don't need to worry much, only thing is the special fireball attack which deals large fire damage on a target, however, you can reduce the fire damage by using Flame Shield. Since wind elemental deal higher damage to this mob, so Zwill Crossblade is recommended. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| A Dark Rumor |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Ba'Gamnon >>--- ( titled as "Belito" ) ======================= Location : | Lv : 49 | Nam-Yensa Sandsea/ Withering Shores, | HP : 115659 | South from the central section, at the round area. | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Dark Matter | Montblanc, Rabanastre Clan HQ. | - Elixir | the person who gives you mob hunt mission. |---------------------| | LP gain : 24 | Reward : | Clan Point : 3420 | - 5,100 gil ----------------------- - Megalixir x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 50 : : Minimum Lv : > 48 : : Average Lv : > 33 : '-----------------------' Recommend find this mob after Pharos at Ridorana, your level should be ok. Clear Antlion (rank A/V) mission if you don't have a Bubble Belt, get one from you client as reward. Better you have all other useful magics such as Bubble, Hastega, Bravery and more prepared. For the black magic, I suggest Scourage, which can be found in the Balfonheim shop after Pharos at Ridorana. Once you've done, find the Zertinan Caverns in Ogir-Yensa/ Central Junction, and you will get to Zertinan Caverns/ Canopy of Clay. Just go to the other exit of the section will reach to Nam-Yensa Sandsea, and there is the place to find this mob. You opponents are Ba'Gamnon, Bwagi, Gijuk and Rinok, who were found in the Lhusu Mines earlier of the game, and the Belito's stats shown above is actually the stats of Ba'Gamnon. Only two of them shown at the beginning, and the other two of them will join the battle after a short while. You can attack the visible enemies at the start, since Ba'Gamnon has the most HP here, just leave him for a moment, later cope all them in once with Dispelga when the other two has shown. Afterwards, cast a Blindga on the group with Ba'Gamnon, Bwagi and Rinok, probably Gijuk will stay at the side and keep on using magic to damage your team, so just send him a Silence. Later on, cast Scourage to damage all of them in once and Sap status will be sent to them who hit by Scourage. Focus to defeat one of them after sending the negative statuses, cast Curaja when due, recommend heal when ally's HP down to 60%. Sometimes you do have to cure Silenca since you might get it from their attack. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Black Sorcerer |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= --<< Piscodaemon >>-- ======================= Location : | Lv : 46 | Ancient City Of Giruvegan/ Gate of Fire | HP : 49660 | South-West area in the section after Save Crystal. | Weak : - | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Potion | Ivaness, Bur Omisace/ | - Reflectga Mote | Temple Grounds. | - White Robes | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 26 | - 3,800 gil | Clan Point : 4730 | - Dark Shots ----------------------- - Scathe Mote .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 45 : : Minimum Lv : > 40 : : Average Lv : > 28 : '-----------------------' You would face other monsters before you found this mob, needless to say, you should finish off the monsters around before going for your target. Bubble on your frontline ally, and don't bother on sending bad statuses to this mob since he immunes many of them, just Dispel Piscodaemon if he has any statuses supporting him, and make sure to cast Haste or Hastega to any ally Gambit set, you should recast this status for the entire battle. Later, Piscodaemon will restore his HP with lot of support statuses, now Dispel him again and continue your attacks. Do the same thing again to reduce his HP. If you have Bravery support or Brave Suit, you could kill this mob very fast, only make sure that you have a healer support. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Old Legends, Decaying Bonds |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== ----<< Lindwyrm >>---- ======================== Location : | Lv : 39 | Tchita Uplands (cloudy season), | HP : 228468 | Gardern of Life's Circle section. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Pebble | Fermon, Old Archades, West section street, | - Ring Wyrm Liver | the man sitting with a group in the corner. | - Ring Wyrm Scale | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 25 | - 4,200 gil | Clan Point : 9450 | - Barrel Coat x1 ------------------------ - Hi-Ether x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 45 : : Minimum Lv : > 42 : : Average Lv : > 28 : '-----------------------' Only appears in the cloudy season, if you have problem to find cloudy, I got a tactic for you. Teleport to Tchita Uplands, move all the way to East, the path to Cerobi Steppe should be open once you got to this place later, then return to Tchita Uplands from Cerobi Steppe, the weather will become cloudy. Try adjust your character's level not at even number (ex: 40, 42, 44..) Prepare Esuna or items for Petrify and Sleep, better you have Nihopalaoa accessory, equip it and use throw a Remedy to this mob to send all possible statuses in once. If not, just spend a few turns to send him Blind and Slow, of cause, Dispel him at the first before you send these statuses. Try on to close combat with this mob, reason is to avoid him from using Fireball, he'll miss alot since he has Blind status. Dispel him again when he has casted the Greater Barrier, which is to build Protect and Shell on his own. You need to spend most time on the late part, because of Lindwym will highly increase his defense power when he gets to death, but doesn't seems to increase his attack power, so just keep on going with you tactic till it goes down. 7a-2-6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- | Rank S / Rank VI |--------------------------------------------------------S ---------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Adding Insult to Injury |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== ----<< Roblon >>---- ====================== Location : | Lv : 43 | Nabreus Deadlands/ Overlooking Eternity, | HP : 177365 | the rotate shape area in North-West. | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Fire Crystal | Morgen, Nalbina/ West Ward, | - Fire Stone | the old man sitting there. | - Iron Ore | |--------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 26 | - 3,100 gil | Clan Point : 4410 | - Giant's Helmet x1 ---------------------- - Mythril x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 52 : : Minimum Lv : > 48 : : Average Lv : > 35 : '-----------------------' Go South from Gate Crystal to The Slumbermead, then go through the hidden path around North-West of the area. Have some training before going to this section. Roblon himself isn't that strong, the problem is Dead Bones enemies spawning around, train your characters till you're able to handle all this Dead Bones that're spawning around Roblon area. Use Holy Lance or Holy Rod weapon to kill them faster, have Excalibur is much more easier. Clear all Dead Bones that're spawned around before triggering the fight with Roblon. Roblon use magic attack more than normal attack, and Silence doesn't work on him, so you need to have the equipments to increase Magic Resist point, or keep on changing equipments against his different magic uses, like equip Flame Shield when Roblon readies Fira, equip Rubber Suit when Roblon readies Thundara and so on. Also try to send Slow status to Roblon at the beginning. Some more Dead Bones might spawn again during the fight, recommend kill off the Dead Bones before continue the fight. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Things We Do |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== ---<< Overlord >>--- ====================== Location : | Lv : 42 | Sochen Cave Palace/ Doubt Abandoned, | HP : 64325 | Southern section before you enter the place. | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Fire Crystal | Insecure Seeq, Archades technick shop, | - Forbidden | the seeq looking at bookcase. | Flesh | | - Gemini Gem | Reward : |--------------------| - 3,500 gil | LP gain : 24 | - Hi-Ether x2 | Clan Point : 3420 | - Teleport Stone x1 ---------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 45 : : Minimum Lv : > 40 : : Average Lv : > 28 : '-----------------------' This mob has good attack power, fortunately Blind status works. Send him Blind after Dispeling his support status, but you might probably get a few attack before you can successfully hit the Blind to him. Trust you've beaten Antlion mob (rank A/V), so equip the Bubble Belt for the character who use to be close combat with Overlord. Once he got Blind, send Silence to stop him from using magic later, and can take him down safely. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Creature Collector |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ----<< Goliath >>---- ======================= Location : | Lv : 47 | Necrohol Of Nabudis, | HP : 224294 | North section of the map. | Weak : Dark | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Holy Crystal | Barrong, Nalbina, Hall of Slumbering, | - Holy Magicite | the brown bangaa hiding beside the stair. | - Iron Ore | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 27 | - 3,600 gil | Clan Point : 4490 | - Save The Queen x1 ----------------------- - Einherjarium x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 50 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 33 : '-----------------------' I suggest get there from Nabreus Deadlands, so you don't need to face much tough monsters in Nabudis before you can spot this mob, however, you still need to face some monsters on the way from Nabreus Deadlands. Check this map, as displayed "Goliaty" is the location. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_nabudis.png Recommend train up your main team to level 50 or above, get some stronger equipments like Magepower Shishak, Circlet, Golden Skullcap or whatever better armors. As for weapon, you can try the Ninja Sword since it's weak on Dark. Don't bother with sending him the negative status, he immunes lot of them, or you can try Slow if you want. This mob will cast magic at the start, so you can do a Reflectga on your team before it detects you. Make sure to have Opal Ring on your healer, who works as Hastega, Curaja, Arise caster (Bravery and Faith is optional). For those without Opal Ring, cast Darkja on your own team before the Reflect status gone, so Goliath will be damaged by triple Darkja. Keep on going until it goes for normal attack, now you should have to cast Protectga on your team, of cause recast other support spells when anyone of them gone. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Dead City Watch |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= --<< Deathscythe >>-- ======================= Location : | Lv : 44 | Necrohol Of Nabudis/ | HP : 125601 | Cloister of the Highborn. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Book of | Popol, Nalbina/ Jajim Bazaar, | Orgain-Mille | the man sitting on the floor with carpet. | - Book of Orgain | | - Capricorn Gem | Reward : |---------------------| - 2,800 gil | LP gain : 27 | - Hi-Ether x2 | Clan Point : 4830 | - Soul of Thamasa x1 ----------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 50 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 33 : '-----------------------' Check this map too, this mob will only appear when two of your characters within lower HP/Critical status. http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_nabudis.png Weak against Holy, so prepare the weapons with Holy strike for this. Clear all enemies around this area before you take your allies down to Critical status, heal as soon as possible when Deathscythe appear. Another way is get you non-active characters (those are not your main team) to Critical status, switch back to your main team to fight when Deathscythe appear. Prepare some Chronos Tears or Remedies, Power Armlet since you might get Stop status randomly. Send Blind ahead and following Silence to this mob, then you can Decoy you character with more HP. If you have got Nihopalaoa, just equip it and use a Remedy to him instead of sending negative statuses one by one. Later on, he might reduce your character's MP to 0, immediately use Charge technick if you need to use MP, or spend the MP to summon Esper or perform Mist Knack/Quickening to finish him faster before you lost all your MP. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Paying for the Past |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== ---<< Catoblepas >>--- ======================== Location : | Lv : 46 | Zertinan Cavern/ Hourglass Basin | HP : 187991 | North-East section from the Save Crystal. | Weak : Dark | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Beastlord Hide | War-Chief Supinelu, Jahara, Land Of The Garif, | - Gemini Gem | South from the shop, the garif at the back. | - Hi-Potion | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 27 | - 3,200 gil | Clan Point : 6000 | - Volcano x1 ------------------------ - Antarctic Wind x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 48 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 32 : '-----------------------' Go through the hidden path from Save Crystal, the path won't display in the map, and the falling sands covering half of it. This is a creature like Behemoth, strong at attack and defence, with lot of HP like a bull, so basically you had to boost up your HP and defense point for close combat, and equip shield is recommended. Dispel him at the start, then give this mob a Blind status, you should be fine for the rest of the battle, be sure recast Blind to him when it's gone. Of cause, set Gambit to cast Hastega and Curaja to support your team anytime. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| A Wild Stench |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== --<< Wild Malboro >>-- ======================== Location : | Lv : 50 | Feywood/ Redolent Glade, | HP : 110842 | South of Save Crystal, where you fought the boss. | Weak : Wind | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Foul Liquid | Rena, Eruyt Village/ The Spiritwood, | - Malboro Flower | the viera in white. | - Virgo Gem | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 28 | - 4,600 gil | Clan Point : 4000 | - Euclid's Sextant ------------------------ .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 45 : : Minimum Lv : > 40 : : Average Lv : > 30 : '-----------------------' Have a Zwill Crossblade will be easier. Thought this mob with some Malboros around are weak against Wind, but I noticed the Oil + Ardor trick is still better to be used. Ensure you have Ardor black magic with all character on your main team, then Reflectga and Oil, Nihopalaoa is better since you can send Oil instantly by using this accessory. Have a healer with range weapon just to prepare for curing bad statuses in case of need. As mentioned, this mob stay with some Malboros, needless to say, you should defeat the Malboros one by one. Wild Malboro know to cast Renew randomly, so it's pretty hard to kill it before taken down the other Malboros. Dispel if they had positive status, have a Zwill Crossblade with support spells like Bravery and Haste, you should be fine. Down to only Wild Malboro, you can reduce its HP some more since it doesn't have much dangerous moves at the beginning. When it's down to 80% HP, build the Reflection on your team and send Oil to Wild Malboro, using Remedy to Wild Malboro with Nihopalaoa equip is recommended. Once it has got the Oil, cast Ardor on your own team, with the Reflect status, the Ardor will be bounced off the Wild Malboro. On my fight, I did 9999 damage for each hit of Ardor, and each Ardor does triple damage caused of three Reflections, each turn with three characters to cast Ardor, so the total damage will become (9999 x3) x3 = 89991. Even if your magic power isn't that stronge, but with the Oil status on this mob, your Ardor can still be very powerful. Just in case if you need to cast Esuna or other support spell, be sure you equip Opal Ring to the caster. Actually you don't even need to heal much if you have Bubble Belt equiped. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Fishy Dreams |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= -----<< Ixion >>----- ======================= Location : | Lv : 58 | Pharos at Ridorana, Subterra. | HP : 306559/ | Randomly appear in any Interior. | 166559 | | Weak : Holy | Client : | Possible Steal: | Whitecap Wench, Port At Balfonheim/ The Whitecap, | - Grimoire Aidhed | the women in first counter. | - Magick Lamp | | - Storm Crystal | Reward : |---------------------| - 3,000 gil | LP gain : 32 | - Sapping Bolts x1 | Clan Point : 5000 | - Ragnarok x1 ----------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 55 : : Minimum Lv : > 50 : : Average Lv : > 38 : '-----------------------' If you found this mob at B1F Penumbra or B2F Umbra, it will show with 306559 HP. If you found it at B3F Abyssal, it has only 166559 HP, but it has triple defense point. Recommend not to fight it at B3F. Before finding this mob, make sure you can handle the enemies in Subterra, if you failed this test, forgot about fighting with this mob. Also explore some more in the Subterra for some better equipments and get higher level. Ixion is weak on Holy, absorb Dark, but still likely to use Thunder though it's not belonged to Thunder/Lightning element. To make this battle easy, go find the Rubber Suit light armor or Zodiac Escutcheon shield, is better you get both of them. For weapon, find Excalibur from The Great Crystal, it deals great damage on this mob, since you can only have one Excalibur, so better you have more other stronger weapons like Deathbringer sword, Golden Axe, Zodiac Spear, Ultima Blade, and other 'easy found' ultimate weapons. make sure some Echo Herbs and Alarm Clocks in your inventory. Have a Gambit slot for 'Ally: Any/status=Sleep -> Alarm Clock' set to everyone, so you don't need to worry of the Sleepga from Ixion which is very annoying. When the Interior area of any floor in Subterra has nothing (no enemies), that's mean Ixion is coming out, but sometimes it will take 1 minute or even more to appear, sometimes it just show a few second after running around the Interior area, it was random. Dispel it as soon as it's shown, equip Nihopalaoa and use Remedy to Ixion, the main statuses are actually Silence and Slow. Afterwards, make sure the Zodiac Esctcheon shield and the Rubber Suit are equiped to block take on its Thunder striking attack. Decoy the character with Zodiac Escutcheon of Rubber Suit, and Ixion will keep striking with no damage on this character. Recommend keep your healer away from the fight, reason is to use Esunaga to cure your allies from Curse. Another thing Ixion will hit your MP away later, either use Charge technick or Ether to restore some if necessary, trust you had already activated the MP gain by attack ability slot on the License Board you can just keep on attacking to get back some MP, meanwhile, use X-Potion to cure instead of white magics. Be sure you use the item and technique on the right timing, there's nothing hard to defeat this mob. Keep it Silence to avoid it from using Sleepga and Silencega. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| God or Devil? |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== --<< Shadowseer >>-- ( titled as "The Seer"; Darkness God for JP version ) ====================== | Lv : 67 | Location : | HP : 278078 | Pharos at Ridorana, | Weak : Holy | Bottom floor in Subterra known as 'Unknown'. | Possible Steal: | | - Forbidden | Client : | Flesh | Montblanc, Rabanastre Clan HQ. | - Foul Flesh | | - Maggoty Flesh | Reward : |--------------------| - 20,000 gil | LP gain : 6 | - Megalixir x2 | Clan Point : 6000 | ---------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 65 : : Minimum Lv : > 62 : : Average Lv : > 40 : '-----------------------' I wonder why this mob listed as rank S/VI, he's actually much stronger than many other ranked H/VII mobs. I recommend your main team characters are all over 65 level since I fought it at 64-65 level team is still tough. So leave this mob for a moment, go for other rank H/VII mobs before this. == Preparatories == Here are some recommended equipments: Excalibur, Masamune, Zodiac Spear, Whale Whisker, Golden Axe, Durandal, Fomalhaut, Perseus Bow/Artemis Bow, Valcano... Zodiac Esctcheon, Demon Shield, White Mask, Black Mask, Dueling Mask, Circlet, Golden Skullcap, Genji Helm, Brave Suit, Lordly Robes... Nihopalaoa, Sage's Ring, Bubble Belt, Ribbon, Genji Gloves... Well, almost all are the best equipments in the game, seriously you need most of them for this fight, but I'm not telling you to get all of them, just try to get as much as possible. However, most of them can be found in the Subterra, have some exercises in Subterra for these equipment, and you don't need to equip Diamond Armlet to obtain them. - Check this map for the details of Subterra: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_ridorana_subterra.png For Excalibur, you can find it in the Crystal Grande/The Great Crystal, read the "11. Weapons" section for details. For Masamune, you can either trade it or clear the Gilgamesh rank H/VII mob, and it will become the reward of this mission. Also make sure you steal all Genji equipment from Gilgamesh mob. As for magics and technick/skills, Curaja, Hastega, Esunaga, Arise, Bubble, Charge, Telekinesis are most important, make sure you have all them. Needless to say, you should learn all abilities slots on the top part of the Licenses Board to get your character to become stronger. == Unlocking Subterra === Return to Pharos at Ridorana, take the Dais of Ascendence at 1F to underground (B1F, Penumbra). Collect enough Black Orbs/Pearls by killing monsters and fill it to the Altars at four different corner to get to lower floors. Here is the require orbs of each floor. B1F - South-West 6, South-East 3, North West 9, North-East 18 B2F - South-West 18, South-East 15, North West 9, North-East 15 B3F - South-West 12, South-East 27, North West 21, North-East 15 B4F - Battle~! Before you can reach B4F/Unknown, you have to defeat Phoenix optional boss at North of B1F/Penumbra. You can check Phoenix under "9. Optional Bosses" section for some details. Anyway, Dispel Phoenix at the beginning of the battle, then equip Nihopalaoa and use a Remedy to Phoenix, that's all you need to do, after this you can defeat it easily. == The main target == If you look carefully on the bill, you can actually see there's more than Shadowseer on the portrait, and the other opponents are Pandaemonium, Slyt, Fenrir and Phoenix, which are also the elite enemies in the Pharos. During the battle, all these Pharos elites will be summoned out one after one, no other to skip the fights, you have to defeat all of them again before you can defeat Shadowseer. At the beginning, Dispel Shadowseer before attack. He will probably cast Shinning Ray or Darkness to attack, just equip White Mask or Sage's Ring to absorb Shinning Ray and Black Mask or Demon Shield to absorb Darkness. When Shadowseer down to 75% HP, he will be invincible and start summoning the bosses that you fought before. Start from know, Shadowseer will also use many many annoying moves to attack you team. Nothing you can do other than defeat all four bosses that were summoned by Shadowseer. My Gambit setup for this fight (only show the important Gambits): ---------------------------------------- | Character 1: Fran | As mentioned before, you have to face | 1. Ally: Any = Phoenix Down | four bosses beside Shadowseer, so the | 2. Ally: Any = Smelling Salts | Gambit setup here is still has some | 3. Self: MP < 10% = Charge | flaws, so some actions you actually | 4. Ally: HP < 50% = Curaja | have to use it manually since the | 5. Ally: Any = Bubble | different strategy needed to be used | 6. Foe : flying = Telekinesis | against different boss. | 7. Foe : lowest HP = Attack | | | Do remember to cast Dispel to each | Character 2: Ashe | of the bosses as soon as it has been | 1. Ally: Any = Arise | summoned, then following by Remedy | 2. Ally: Any = Smelling Salts | with Nihopalaoa accessory equip. | 3. Self: MP < 10% = Charge | | 4. Ally: HP < 50% = Curaja | Make sure your healer has equiped | 5. Ally: Any = Bubble | Ribbon when Shadowseer readies the | 6. Ally: Any = Hastega | Curse. You can actually cure your | 7. Ally: Any = Eye Drops | ally instantly right after they're | 8. Foe : flying = Telekinesis | cursed, just cast Esunaga to your | 9. Foe : lowest HP = Attack | ally when the Curse is almost sent, | | means you have to calculate the | Character 3: Penelo (healer) | timing. If you don't have Ribbon, | 1. Ally: Any = Arise | make sure you healer is not in the | 2. Ally: HP < 20% = X-Potion | range of Curse, or else you will | 3. Ally: Any = Esunaga | get many bad statuses as bad as | 4. Ally: Any = Remedy | getting hit by allies (Confuse). | 5. Self: MP < 10% = Charge | | 6. Ally: Any = Bubble | Fenrir is a bit tough, I recommend | 7. Ally: HP < 60% = Curaja | equip a shield. Since Sleep does | 8. Foe : flying = Telekinesis | work on Fenrir, try only use non- | 9. Foe : lowest HP = Attack | elemental magics to him after using ---------------------------------------- Remedy + Nihopalaoa trick. Another problem is Invert, which is to switch between you HP and MP from Shadowseer. He will probably use this after he has drained your MP, so once you get switched, your HP will be reduced to a few or even death. For safety a Gambit slot for X-Potion using is no a bad idea. Once you've successfully heal the switched character, he/she will be full of MP uses, cast Renew if you have it, probably your team has not much HP left when you get to this situation, Curaja instead if you don't have Renew. After defeating all bosses, Shadowseer seems has raised his stats, when he gets lesser HP, his defense power is even stronger, probably you can't deal over 1000 damage to him. Since now the Shadowseer is the only opponent left, plus Berserk and Bravery to your main attacker, and better you have Excalibur to end the battle faster, just make sure you always have a healer with range weapon to support. 7a-2-7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- | Rank H / Rank VII |-------------------------------------------------------H ----------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Carrot Stalk |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== ----<< Carrot >>---- ====================== Location : | Lv : 49 | Salikawood/ Sun-dappled Path, | HP : 110842 | South-West section of the map. | Weak : Holy | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Dark Crystal | Zammadria, Nalbina Aerodrome/Airship Terminal, | - Foul Liquid | the lady on the chair. | - Putrid Liquid | |--------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 28 | - 5,200 gil | Clan Point : 3960 | - Stink Bombs x1 ---------------------- - Putrid Liquid x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 45 : : Minimum Lv : > 42 : : Average Lv : > 30 : '-----------------------' If you got a Ribbon, this battle would become easy, so try get a Ribbon from the treasure in Cerobi Steppe/ Crossfield section with Diamond Armlet equip since there's the easier place. For more details of Ribbon, please read the "13. Accessories" section. Of cause you can still beat this mob without Ribbon, all you need is just a little battle tactic. Recommend your main team characters are level 45 or above, and learn all Lore of Remedy in the Licenses, also Esunaga is recommended too. Once you enter the Salikawood, don't attack anything before you see Carrot. A viera NPC will come for helps during the fight. Likewise, cast all support spells on you team before attacking Carrot. The only difficult period is during Carrot in Critical status, her Putrid Breath can say is 100% accurated hit on the nearer targets, unlikely she will always miss the Putrid Breath at the beginning of the battle. Do remember the Putrid Breath sends many nasty statuses until you can't even take control of your characters, you have to avoid this happen. What you can do is always keep a character away from Carrot especially when she's in the Critical status, leave other characters to close combat. Once you see Carrot is readies Putrid Breath, cast Esunaga for the close combat characters since the breath can only hit on the nearer targets, the bad statuses will be cured instantly if you did it with the good timing, use Remedy instead if you missed casting Esunaga. Keep on doing this until you taken down this mob. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Visitor on Deck |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Deathgaze >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 50 | Airship, on the deck. | HP : 184000 | | Weak : Earth | Client : | Possible Steal: | Traveler, any Aerodrome/Airship Terminal, | - Charger Barding | the boy with his family. | - Emperor Scale | | - Phoenix Down | Reward : |---------------------| - 3,400 gil | LP gain : 28 | - Elixir x2 | Clan Point : 7560 | ----------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 50 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 33 : '-----------------------' You have to find your client serveral times, talk to them everytime you found them in the different Aerodrome/Airship Terminal for more informations. Take the airship after each meeting with the client, when Deathgaze appears, you will get a different scene on the airship. Anyway, I found this mob at the flight from Archades to Rabanastre. Once it's shown, you must defeat it to leave the airship, so be prepared before taking the flight. Recommended level is 50-55, depends on your equipments. At the beginning, Deathgaze will put up the physical barrier, which means immune to normal attack, so you don't need to use Bravery, Berserk and such thing for a moment. The important statuses for the beginning are Haste, Faith, Regen and Protect, make sure you done these spells before triggering Deathgaze's detection. Dispel Deathgaze at the first turn, attack it with the strongest magic that you have, of cause heal your allies when necessary. Beware of its Crushing Fangs which might send Death on you character, Arise the KO character if this happened. For its Fireball, you can use Flame Shield to reduce the damage. Later Deathgaze will change its physical barrier to be magic barrier. Now start using Bravery instead of Faith status. Continue attack until Deathgaze down to Critical status, and it will heal itself, nevermind, just give it a chance, repeat the same things to reduce its HP until it puts Reverse on his own. After this stupid move, just send it Curaga or Curaja before its Reverse status gone. The Reverse will gone after a short while, be sure not to attack it during the Reverse status period. Deathgaze might rebuild the physical barrier instead of its magic barrier, so attack it with either normal attack of magic according to its status until it goes down. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| The Child Snatcher |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ====================== ---<< Diabolos >>--- ====================== Location : | Lv : 46 | Lhusu Mines, | HP : 93551 | the Western end in Site 11. | Weak : Water | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Demon's Sigh | Miclio, Bhujerba SkyCity/ Miners' End, | - Fire Crystal | the girl in blue, behind the gate. | - Scorpio Gem | |--------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 27 | - 2,600 gil | Clan Point : 3800 | - Demon Shield x1 ---------------------- - Zeus Mace x1 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 50 : : Minimum Lv : > 45 : : Average Lv : > 33 : '-----------------------' Must clear Antlion (rank A/V) mission. Back to Phon Coast Gate Crystal area, go North-West can see two men there, check beside the sitting man can find Site 11 Key. With the key only you're able to start this mission. -Here is the key location: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/site11key.jpg This mob isn't that durable target (look at his HP), the difficulty is on his strength, that's mean he has great power stats for both normal attack and magic power. Another thing is no Save Crystal around this place and the monsters are quite tough, you should be able to handle these monsters (Killer Mantis, Vampyr...) before going for this mob. Hopefully you have done activating all 'HP+', 'Swiftness' (action time shorthen) abilities slots on the License Board, also try to have two Bubble Belts and learn Bubble arcane magic and Bravery green magic. Of cause, other common spells like Hastega, Esuna, Curaja and more should be prepared as well. Needless to say, cast all support spells on your team before attacking. Always make sure your characters have Haste and Bubble status, have a Gambit to heal your ally at 50% HP, it's better heal at 60% HP if you have Sage's Ring to reduce MP cost or you have enough MP to be spent. Send a character to close combat, the rest for support and cure. At the beginning has not much problem, but when Diabolos down to around 35% HP, his stats seem to be raised, and during Critical status is even stronger. Start using Berserk on your attack when Diabolos down to 40% HP, be sure Bravery, Regen, Protect and Haste are on the attacker as well. Reason to do so is to take down this mob faster before he has more chances to send you some massive damage. If you're worrying Diabolos attack other then your attacker/berserker, just cast a Decoy on him/her so you could only focus on your healing action. With one or two characters to only attack in a distance, you should be able the heal some bad statuses well. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Who's the Strongest!? |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================= ---<< Pylraster >>--- ======================= Location : | Lv : 63 | Pharos at Ridorana, | HP : 493513 | in front of the entrance, where you fought Hydro. | Weak : Fire | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Hastega Mote | Rikken, Port At Balfonheim, | - Tyrant Bone | South-West most. Beat him on racing once. | - Tyrant Hide | |---------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 36 | - 8,000 gil | Clan Point : 12000 | - Grand Mace x1 ----------------------- - Scathe Mote x2 .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 58 : : Minimum Lv : > 50 : : Average Lv : > 40 : '-----------------------' Consider one of the top rank attacker if compare to other mobs, it deals tons of damage with its physical hit and special skills, also you might get Death attack from his special skill. Make sure you had good shield and armor to face this mob, as for the Death attack, nothing else other than base on your luck, also make sure you have Arise Gambit set or many Phoenix Down to revive your ally in case of need. Since you can stay a chance to block it, so find some shield with better evasion for close combat, learn all 'Shield Block' ability slots on the License Board. Recommended shields are Demon Shield, Zodiac Escutcheon and Ensanguined Shield. The easy way to get Demon Shield is the reward of Diabolos hunt, or you can buy it from Necrohol of Nabudis secret shop after Giruvegan. Get Zodiac Escutcheon in Barheim Passage treasure, get Ensanguined Shield in Feywood or Henne Mines secret area. Of cause there are few more way to obtain these shields, read "12. Shield & Armor" section for all details. If you have Ensanguined Shield, equip on the attacker and cast a Decoy on him/her. Since this shield has some bad statuses, so don't depend much on this character as you main attacker. Send another character with good shield to close combat too, support and heal by using your healer behind, and equip a good range weapon for your healer as well. Bubble all characters anytime, so even if Pylraster attack the character without Ensanguined Shield, he/she would able to survive after getting a hit. You can try cast Slow to this mob, but probably will miss a few turn, better have Nihoparaoa equip and throw a Remedy to Pylraster instantly inflict Slow to it, be sure Dispel initially when it has support status builded. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Battle on the Big Bridge |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( first fight ) =============================== -------<< Gilgamesh >>------- ( titled as "Ancient Man of Mystery" ) =============================== | Lv : 45 | Location : | HP : 123103 | Lhusu Mines, | Weak : - | - first fight: | Possible Steal: | West from the Gate Crystal. | 100~80% HP - random | - second fight: | 80~60% HP - Potion | South-West section known as Site 7. | 60~40% HP - X-Potion | | *40~20% HP - Genji Shield | Client : | *20~ 1% HP - Genji Gloves | Montblanc, Rabanastre Clan HQ. |-----------------------------| the person who gives you mob hunt mission. | LP gain : 55 | | Clan Point : 4000 | Reward : ------------------------------- - 10,000 gil (second fight) - Masamune!!! =============================== -------<< Gilgamesh >>------- =============================== *NOTE: | Lv : 70 | The Genji equipments can only be | HP : 473246 | obtained from this mob. If you had | Weak : - | missed them, you're not able to find | Possible Steal: | them anymore. So make sure you STEAL | 100~80% HP - random | all of them in the appointed period | 80~60% HP - Hi-Potion | before defeated Gilgamesh. | 60~40% HP - X-Potion | | *40~20% HP - Genji Helm | | *20~ 1% HP - Genji Armor | |-----------------------------| | LP gain : 120 | | Clan Point : 6700 | ------------------------------- (first fight) (second fight) .--- Lv to challenge ---. .---- Lv to challenge ----. : Recommended: > 48 : : Recommended: 61/65/67 | : Minimum Lv : > 40 : : Minumum Lv : 53/55/59 | : Average Lv : > 30 : : Average Lv : > 42 | '-----------------------' '-------------------------' Before you can get to Site 7, back to Phon Coast Gate Crystal section, take the Site 11 key that's near the two men around North-West. And you must clear Antlion Mob Hunt, probably you have done it. Here is the point: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/site11key.jpg First fight is easy, something like rank A/V mob level. Dispel your opponents at the beginning, and you can send Slow to Gilgamesh. Focus to defeat Enkidu for first, then Gilgamesh. Again, be sure you steal the Genji equipments. Second fight, Gilgamesh will use the level status skills, the bad statuses from these skills can only affect certain level. And the skills are: - Lv 4 Break, only affects to the multiple level of 4 - Lv 3 Disable, only affects to the multiple level of 3 - Lv 2 Sleepga, only affects to the multiple level of 2 So if your characters are at level 53, 55, 59, 61, 65... you don't need to worry about them. You can use the Firefly (Gain EXP 0) to maintance your characters' level. Set Gambit to heal allies at 50% HP, needless to say, Hastega, Bubble and other useful support spells should be done as well. Dispel him and Enkidu at the beginning, take down Enkidu before going for Gilgamesh. When Enkidu in Critical status, its evasion will be highly increased. Now I recommend use gun type weapon to finish it off faster since gun ignore evasion. If guns are not your best weapon, change it after defeating Enkidu. Have a Decoy on the character with highest HP while fight with Gilgamesh. Later when he shows the Sword of Legend, cast Dispel immediately before his Monarch Sword special move, otherwise you have to face him with many support statuese and Perfect Defense on his side for a period. When he performs the second Monarch Sword, prepare to continue your attacks. Gilgamesh will increase his combo rate automatically when Critical. If you're using Decoy tactic, cast Reverse on the Decoyed character, so Gilgamesh will heal your character with serveral attacks, otherwise you need to prepare Arise or Phoenix Down. Just to remind you, steal the Genji Helm and Genji Armor! After all, he left his Sword of Legend there, have a look if you like it, but you can't obtain it for now. Need to know more about his weapons? Check this guide: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_gilgamesh.txt O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Wyrm Wrath's Renewal |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================== -----<< Fafnir >>----- ======================== Location : | Lv : 68 | Paramina Rift, Silverflow's End, | HP : 1390378 | South section of the map, the smaller area. | Weak : Thunder | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Hi-Potion | Ieecha/Relj, Bur Omisace, Temple Approach, | - Pebble | the viera leaning on the crate. | - Ring Wyrm Scale | |----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 39 | - 7,000 gil | Clan Point : 20000 | - Assasin's Arrows ------------------------ - Teleport Stone .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 55 : : Minimum Lv : > 52 : : Average Lv : > 40 : '-----------------------' This mob will only show up during then snowstorm, actually there's a route to keep the snowstorm from Bur Omisace to Silverflow's End to find Fafnir. Teleport to Bur Omisace, then out to the Paramina Rift ... -> Freezing Gorge -> Head of the Silverflow -> Icebound Flow -> Karydine Glacier -> Silverflow's End There's an part of this area Fafnir is not able to reach, if you stay there and use range weapon, Telekinesis or magic, you're almost to own the whole battle, only thing to worry is the Shock from Fafnir which can be bounced back by Reflect status. If you go for the South-East part you can actually see some rocks are there, Fafnir couldn't get pass the area behind the rocks, so all you need to do is stay behind the rocks and attack it in a distance. Cast Reflectga on your team and equip Opal Ring for your healer, that's all for this tactic. By the time, cast the strongest spell like Scathe, Ardor on your team before the Reflect status gone, you will notice even if Fafnir is the only target, but you can deal three times damage by using this trick. - And the point that Fafnir not able to reach is here (pic): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/fafnir.jpg If you insist of fighting in the fair rules, you should prepare many things. Fafnir is much more stronger than many other mobs that you fought, you should gain higher strength and better equipments for this fight. Recommended level at 55 or above, learn all capacities on the upper part of Licenses Board if possible. Prepare Chronos Tear, Alarm Clock and Echo Herbs for curing some negative statuses which would be sent by Fafnir. For equipments, I suggest clear the Ancient Man of Mystery/Gilgamesh (above) for Masamune reward, and steal the Genji Gloves from Gilgamesh from the first fight, with these two equipments, you can hit more and gain MP faster during the fight of Fafnir. (Gilgamesh fight is easy when your characters at certain levels, read above) Besides, get all strongest weapons that're possible for you current status. Also find two Bubble Belt from the clan shop for the other characters, one Nihopalaoa for additional usage. For the magic, use Curaga (if you're going to follow this strategy, you don't need Curaja), Decoy and Reverse Arcane magic, which can be found from Eruyt Village and the clan shop. Needless to say, Hastega and Arise are the must, again, you can buy Arise in Balfonheim after Giruvegan event and Hastega from Dalmasca Estersand after Ridorana. Ok, this might be a complicated strategy, but I find it useful. If you had already know the Reverse + Decoy tactic, just skip this part, I'm going to explain it here. Use character 1 as main attack, the other two for support the main attack, set Gambit for Reverse and Decoy for your attacker, and make sure put it on the top slot. Use Gambit to heal themself with Curaga since Reversed character would gain damage on heal, be sure set the Gambit for curing the Stop, Sleep and Silence as well. Example, my Gambit is roughly like this: ------------( First Half )----------- Dispel Fafnir at the start, then equip | Character 1: Fran | Nihopalaoa and use a Remedy to Fafnir, | 1. Foe: lowest HP = Attack | Slow and Sap should be sent to Fafnir. | **the rest are less | Now use Character 1 as your attacker, | important for now | (the one with Genji Gloves and Masamune) | | keep on going Reverse and Decoy your | Character 2: Ashe | attacker as well as Bubble. For other | 1. Ally: Fran = Reverse | two characters, equip Bubble Belt so | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | you don't need to worry much on casting | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | Bubble. If Fafnir readies White Breath, | 4. Ally: Any = Echo Herbs | move your leader character to the back | 5. Self: HP <50% = Curaga | of it, reason is to avoid this move of | 6. Ally: Any = Hastega | cause, but actually by staying at the | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | side could evade the White Breath also, | | but sometimes your character will move | Character 3: Penelo | into the White Breath range, so it's | 1. Ally: Fran = Decoy | quite dangerous too, and White Breath | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | could send Stop status, but since you | 3. Ally: Any = Echo Herbs | have Gambit to cure Stop, it doesn't a | 4. Ally: Any = Alarm Clock | big matter at all. The trick of running | 5. Self: HP <50% = Curaga | to the back goes to Silencega and the | 6. Ally: Any = Bubble | Sleepga as well, just pay attention on | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | the information bar at top left. ------------------------------------- ----------( Second Half )------------ For later of the battle, Character 2 | Character 1: Fran | who is working to Reverse magic will | 1. Ally: Ashe = Reverse | run out of MP, and the attacker with | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | the Masamune should has lot or full | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | of MP. Now what you can do is switch | 4. Ally: Any = Echo Herbs | over all your Character 1 (attacker) | 5. Self: HP <50% = Curaga | and Character 2 (Reverse caster)'s | 6. Ally: Any = Hastega | Gambit system over to each other, | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | means now you have to change your | | attacker. | Character 2: Ashe | | 1. Foe: lowest HP = Attack | My Gambits for second part of the | **the rest are less | battle are roughly like this: | important for now | <~ second half. | | The problem is while chaging your | Character 3: Penelo | attacker, you might get to have two | 1. Ally: Ashe = Decoy | character with Decoy, if Fafnir choose | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | to attack your attacker is fine, but | 3. Ally: Any = Echo Herbs | if you notice Fafnir is still aiming | 4. Ally: Any = Alarm Clock | on your former attacker (Character 1), | 5. Self: HP <50% = Curaga | you better Dispel his/her Decoy before | 6. Ally: Any = Bubble | anything goes bad. Just keep on going | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | for the same strategy like first half ------------------------------------- battle to the end. O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ------------ O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Truth Shrouded in Mist |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================= --<< Behemoth King >>-- ========================= Location : | Lv : 70 | Feywood, The Edge of Reason | HP : 1668491 | the South-West section of the map. | Weak : - | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Behemoth Steak | Koqmihn, Rabanastre Downtown/Lowtown, | - Elixir | the man sitting inside Old Dalan's Place. | - Ring Wyrm Scale | |-----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 40 | - 250 gil | Clan Point : 20000 | - Bucchas's Wine x2 ------------------------- .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 58 : : Minimum Lv : > 55 : : Average Lv : > 42 : '-----------------------' Kill all enemies in these two section before Giruvegan gate where known as The Edge of Reason and Ice Field of Clearsight, when the tomato enemies show in the Ice Field of Clearsight, that's mean Behemoth King is already there. There're around 60 enemies in this two sections. Wondering this mob remind you the Fafnir? He is actually something like Fafnir, with stronger attack, defense, higher HP, know magic or physical attack immunation, and he's smarter than Fafnir. However, with everything recommended for Fafnir fight, this mob is NOT harder that Fafnir, all you need is just the time. You will know how useful of moving your character during the battle in this fight. Reverse + Decoy tactic doesn't work well for this fight since you need lot of MP and Behemoth King will put up the physical barrier many times before his death, but Decoy is still very useful. Make your healer as leader, then set Gambit to cast Decoy on this character. Dispel Behemoth King at the beginning. Get closer to Behemoth King to lure him use magic (not tight to him), once he has ready the magic, run further until out of his magic range, if you did it well, Behemoth King will freeze in the casting magic status until you back close to him, so now you just need to wait and let other characters to attack him. Behemoth King will stop doing this when your Decoy/Lure status gone, and now he will attack the targets near him. Now recast Decoy on your healer and move closer to Behemoth King again to lure him, stay in a distance to make him freeze again. Repeat this until your healer run out of MP, change your healer to do the same thing. Example, my Gambit is roughly like this: ------------< First Step >----------- Well, here is only my example, I just | Character 1: Fran (healer) | simply show the basic of this tactic, | 1. Ally: Fran = Decoy | of cause you can fill in the remaining | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | Gambit slots to make this better. | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | | 4. Ally: HP <60% = Curaja | You should always control the healer | 5. Ally: Any = Hastega | (set him/her as leader) who is always | 6. Ally: Any = Bubble | has the Lure status (Decoy). Make sure | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | to open the target line option under | | Config menu, so that you can clearly | Character 2: Ashe (attacker) | notice when Behemoth King targets on | 1. Ally: Fran = Decoy | you healer, probably he will use magic | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | attack if you are not closer enough. | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | Run away when your healer is targetted, | 4. Ally: HP <50% = Curaja | stay out of his magic ranage and wait | 5. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | until your healer's Lure status gone. | | If you did it well, Behemoth King will | Character 3: Penelo (attacker) | freezing there within the casting magic | 1. Ally: Any = Arise | status, now just wait your attackers to | 2. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | attack him as many as possible. | 3. Ally: Any = Bubble | | 4. Ally: HP <50% = Curaja | Once the Lure status gone from your | 5. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | healer, Behemoth King will start attack ------------------------------------- other characters. Now faster cast Decoy -----------< Second Step >----------- on your healer again and lure him to | Character 1: Fran (attacker) | use magic again. Repeat this until your | 1. Ally: Any = Arise | healer nearly out of MP (less then 80), | 2. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | change your team setup like listed at | 3. Ally: Any = Bubble | <- the side (Second Step). Continue the | 4. Ally: HP <50% = Curaja | same tactic until your second healer | 5. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | run low of MP, change your team setup | | like the Third Step. | Character 2: Ashe (healer) | | 1. Ally: Ashe = Decoy | With the gain MP while attack and get | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | hit abilities on the License Board, | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | you should re-gain enough of MP for | 4. Ally: HP <60% = Curaja | the first healer before your third | 5. Ally: Any = Hastega | healer out of MP. So just switch your | 6. Ally: Any = Bubble | Gambit setup like First Step to fight, | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | then repeat to Second Step, Third Step | | and so on until the battle end. | Character 3: Penelo (attacker) | | 1. Ally: Ashe = Decoy | Reason I recommend this strategy is | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | to avoid to fight Behemoth King against | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | his physical attack, which can deal lot | 4. Ally: HP <50% = Curaja | more damage than his magic, plus, you | 5. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | can block many magics with different ------------------------------------- equipments. Example, Zodiac Escutcheon ------------< Third Step >----------- and Rubber Suit can immune his Thundaga, | Character 1: Fran (attacker) | Demon Shield and Black Mask absorb his | 1. Ally: Penelo = Decoy | Darkja and more... And the main reason | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | is also because of magic attack is much | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | more slower than his normal hit. Look at | 4. Ally: HP <50% = Curaja | Holy, you may actually attack 3-5 hits | 5. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | before Behemoth King fully recover after | | casting a Holy spell. | Character 2: Ashe (attacker) | | 1. Ally: Any = Arise | Some more things to add, to re-change | 2. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | your character's MP by using attack, | 3. Ally: Any = Bubble | you can equip the weapons with higher | 4. Ally: HP <50% = Curaja | combo rate like Masamune, Ninja Sword | 5. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | type weapons, with Genji Gloves, you | | could gain many MP back for a few turn. | Character 3: Penelo (healer) | As for changing your healer, you should | 1. Ally: Penelo = Decoy | switch off the Decoy Gambit slot before | 2. Ally: Any = Arise | the Lure status gone from you current, | 3. Ally: Any = Chronos Tear | then set the Gambit to Decoy the next | 4. Ally: HP <60% = Curaja | character who willing to be the healer. | 5. Ally: Any = Hastega | Chronos Tear is to cure Stop status | 6. Ally: Any = Bubble | from the White Breath, just in case | 7. Foe :lowest HP = Attack | Behemoth King did it while recasting ------------------------------------- Decoy, you may cure this immediately. If you were to set Bravery or Berserk Gambit for the attacker, make sure you off this Gambit when Behemoth King is within physical attack immunation status or nearly to put the immunation barrier, needless to say, it would be wasting your MP. For the later on the fight when Behemoth King builds the Greater Barrier, he seems highly increase the magic speed, so running away might still get damaged by his magic. But you should keep on the same tactic, just had to use Curaja frequently, again, getting magic attack is much more better than physical attack from Behemoth King. 7a-2-8. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ | Rank X / Rank VIII |------------------------------------------------------X ------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| Farewell to a Legend |~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================= -----<< Yiazmat >>----- ========================= Location : | Lv : 73 | Ridorana Cataract/ Colosseum, | HP : 50112254 | the round section at South. | Weak : Dark | | Possible Steal: | Client : | - Holy Crystal | Montblanc, Rabanastre Clan HQ. | - Holy Magicite | the person who gives you mob hunt mission. | - Holy Stone | |-----------------------| Reward : | LP gain : 255 | - 30,000 gil | Clan Point : 20000 | - Godslayer's Badge ------------------------- *Defeat Hell Wyrm/Majinryuu optional boss and clear all other mob/mark hunting missions to unlock this. .--- Lv to challenge ---. : Recommended: > 80 : : Minimum Lv : > 75 : : Average Lv : > 55 : '-----------------------' Like Hell Wyrm optional boss, you can run from the fight anytime you like, as long as not leaving Yiazmat with Regen status, he won't restore his life. So, fight until you're tired, then leave and save your game at the nearest Save Crystal, return there later as your wish. Well, my recommended level is 80, or it can be even lower, but of cause if you have higher level characters. There's a little tricks to reduce his long HP bar much easier than fighting him at the stage. At around level 80 or lower, you have to do this trick, you cannot beat him by using normal battle style. Some important things you need are: - Darkga, this is your main attack. - Mirror Mail, at least 3 for supporting your main attack. - Phoenix Down, 99 if it. You must sacrifice an ally for some reasons. - Gold Needle & Chronos Tear at least 10 for each. I believe you have more. - Hermes Sandals, if you don't like to unequip Mirror Mail and cast Haste. - Lv 3 Mists, to max out your Max MP. I believe you have done this. - Windbreaker, just in case for Yiazmat's Cyclone. Optional: - Ashe and Penelo as main party, they have strongest magic power. - Bubble Belt, for safety before you can really trapped Yiazmat. - Opal Ring, in case of need. - Black Mask, in case of need. - Fomalhaut + Dark Shot, in case of need. - Sage's Ring to save your MP. NOTE: Before anything, I would like to let you know, this trick can only take down 95% Yiazmat's HP, you must fight the remaining 5% in the hard way! Althought this trick could not beat Yiazmat, but I think it would be helpful to get rid of 95% Yiazmat. #- Trapping Yiazmat Here comes the fight, I found a little trick to trap Yiazmat and attack him without worrying much, which means you don't actually need to fight him face to face. Switch off the Gambit, enter the Colosseum and manually cast Dispel on Yiazmat at first, let him target on your current leader. Circling Yiazmat at the side to lure him get close to the side, and now you will get one or two hits, but with Bubble Belt or Bubble status, you can survive it without problem. If you're unluckly get Stop or Petrify, or even stomp on the trap with other bad statuses, faster use item to cure it. Once Yiazmat has closed to the stairs (be sure it's very close to the stairs), change your second character as your leader, leave the former leader KO'd by Yiazmat, but now make sure you new leader run down the stairs and hide behind the wall. Use Phoenix Down or Arise to revive your former leader once yo reached behind the wall. Now Yiazmat will start casting Protect at the same place, and you can actually damage him behind the wall, by using Reflect + Darkga is the strongest attack. Equip all character with Mirror Mail and use the Darkga on your own. You might not understand what I mean, so check the link below, click "Next" at the bottom to see step by step of the trick. http:// s157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/sephirosuy/Yiazmat/?action=view¤t=s01.jpg Once you've done trapping Yiazmat, simply set the Gambit like this: --------------------------------------- | Character 1 | As mentioned before, equip all your | 1. Ally: Any => Phoenix Down | character with Mirror Mail, so you | 2. Ally: Any => Darkga | don't need to cast Reflectga on the | | team. Keep on using Darkga to bounce | Character 2 | off triple damage to Yiazmat. | 1. Ally: Any => Phoenix Down | | 2. Ally: Any => Darkga | Same time, Yiazmat will cast Protect, | | Shell, Regen, Haste, Bravery... spell | Character 3 | on his own, you should Dispel him | 1. Ally: Any => Phoenix Down | again at the suitable timing. | 2. Ally: Any => Darkga | I recommend begin your Dispel once --------------------------------------- Yiazmat has done his Haste. By doing so, you would trigger Yiazmat to use Deathstrike since Dispel cannot cast through the wall. Just send the character with weakest Magic to do this job. Revive him/her after the Deathstrike, the Dispel should be sent before Yiazmat did the Deathstrike. So, Yiazmat will recast the support spell accrodingly again, repeat and send him more Darkga until him cast Haste, Dispel as usual. Sometimes, Yiazmat will use Cyclone instead of Deathstrike, if this happen, try set your team to be only one existing character to take on the Cyclone, but probably you can't do this well since your Gambit is on. So equip all character with Windbreaker armor, also equip Shell Shield if you have it, just only to block the Cyclone. Change back the better equipments afterwards. Remeber Cyclone bring you Sap status, be sure you heal it. #- Additional notes: - Sometimes you can actually make Yiazmat cancels Cyclone, but I haven't discovered how exaclty was it. So far I've done few times, which is keep running further from Yiazmat (who was targetted by Yiazmat with Cyclone), and eventaully Yiazmat begins casting Protect again. - Equip Sage's Ring to regain some MP, because you can gain MP while using Darkga, and Sage's Ring reduce the MP cost. - If you need to cast support spell, equip Opal Ring, but remember to unequip it after you've done. - In case after Cyclone you need to heal badly, unequip the Mirror Mail on the character at low HP and equip Black Mask, means heal by using Darkga, meanwhile you can damage Yiazmat. - Equip Hermes Sandals to speed up your progress. - Prevent Reflectga from Yiazmat by equiping Mirror Mails. *** READ THIS *** Hopefully you haven't go and fight Yiazmat without reading this. Again, with the strategy above, you can only cut off 95% of his HP, what would happen after that? Like King Bomb restores its HP after getting certain amount of damage, but Yiazmat is like a auto-ability, he will restore his HP very faster, probably 2 seconds restore one life bar, you can't Dispel this, however, this auto-ability can only be activated when Yiazmat cannot detect any target in his range. So, show off yourself to stop Yiazmat from restoring HP. And I noticed this will happen when Yiazmat HP is down to 2 bar left, that's mean when 1 red dot left under his HP bar. For safety, GO AND SAVE YOUR GAME NOW~! Before return to the fight, remember Yiazmat will give you a Cyclone after he done his supporting setup. So, send a solo character to take against this Cyclone. It's better you have Reverse status in the right timing, so you don't need to worry for it. I recommend start casting Reverse when you pass the stairs. #- Final showdown 1. Lure Yiazmat to use Deathstrike With the over-wall attack trick above, Yiazmat can only use Deathstrike if you don't enter the stage. To not make Yiazmat stop attacking, use two characters to keep staying at the stairs, as Yiazmat can detect the targets, he will keep using Deathstrike, so his HP wouldn't restore as long as he sees your ally. Keep one ally using Darkga as usual, be sure you have Gambit set to use Phoenix Down against your ally to revive from Deathstrike. But this technique is slow, and Yiazmat might use Cyclone instead of Deathstrike, so you do have to prepare against Cyclone too. 2. Decoy + Reverse As you need to close combat with Yiazmat, he will cast Reflectga on your team, if you want to use Dispel on your team, you will lost all your current supporting statuses, and you need to recast them, which is wasting your time. To make the things easier, equip Mirror Mail to prevent the Reflectga from Yiazmat. Decoy a character and Reverse him/her. Already mentioned in Fafnir strategy under Rank H/VII section, check it out for the basic setup. By using this technique, you have to prepare Esuna or Chronos Tear and Gold Needle to cure the possible bad statuses from Stone and White Breath. Since Yiazmat only attack your Decoyed character, so equip Windbreaker to other characters for the oming soon Cyclone. 3. Reverse everyone You don't need to Decoy, only cast Reverse to all ally, but you need to spend lot of MP. This is also a close combat, so equip Mirror Mail to prevent Yiazmat's Reflectga. Now you should have Gambit setup for "Self => Reverse" or "Ally: Any => Reverse". Equip Sage's Ring to reduce MP cost of Bubble/Bubble Belt to double your HP for just in case get hit by Yiazmat before you put up the Reverse. So basically you don't need to worry about Cyclone, but you still need to prepare curing Petrify, Stop and Sap. The strongest boss in the game is going down, Good Luck~! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game 7a-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O---------------------------O ------------------------------------------------ -O Back to Barheim Passage O O---------------------------O [s7a3] After events in Barheim Passage, you can return to this from other entrance in Dalmasca Eastersand. Reasons of going back to Barheim Passage are side quests and esper/summon, as well as some great treasures. All you need is just the Barheim Key. To get Barheim Key follow the steps below... 7a-3-1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ < Starting > ------------ - Clear Flower Saboten and Nidhogg Mob Hunt missions (rank E/rank I), so you should have Great Serpentskin, if you keep this loot/treasure to clear this quest, you do have a chance to get extra reward. Without it, you still able to get Barheim Key, read below. - After got your reward of Flower Saboten mission from Dantro (your client), talk to him again in Dalmasca Estersand and he will request you to pass the flower to his wife. - Now go to South Bank Village where you can find the Dalmasca Estersand Gate Crystal. Talk to Dantro's wife to get Bundle of Needles (treasure). - Leave and return this area, talk to the people near the river and the boy named Tchigri, then choose first option to North Bank Village. - Talk to Tchigri for some events, then will back to South Bank Village. - Now speak with Dantro's wife again, then search behind her camp for the red flower, examine it, a flower saboten will follow you. - Speak with the boy, Tchigri to go North Bank Village again. - Get close to the giant flower saboten, watch a scene. The flower saboten left you 1000 gil and Wyrmfire Shot. 7a-3-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- < Choosing an Extra Reward > ---------------------------- Ok, let see the how are the possible rewards being affected before going for the loot that will Dantro's Wife request. First of all, the requested loot/treasure by Dantro's Wife for the Recovering Traveler can recover a little HP (not yours!), and the extra reward is based on the Recovering Traveler's HP when the quest is end. Below is the list of them Loots that will Amount of HP Dantro's Wife recovered by The Maximum and request for the this loot Minimum amount of Recovering Traveler | this loot you need \ | / | \ | / | --------------------------------------------- | Loot Needed | HP. | Max | Min | |-------------------------------------------| | Semclam Shell | + 1 | 5 | 1 | | Nebralim | + 1 | 2 | 1 | | Valeblossom Dew | + 1 | 3 | 1 | | Great Serpentskin | + 3 | 1 | 0 | --------------------------------------------- After all, the Recovery Traveler show out and give you the extra reward depending on the treasures/loots that you gave Dantro's Wife during the quest. And below is the list of the rewards accordingly. Extra reward that The total HP of The Recovering Traveler comes with the Recovering Traveler who show in the end. Barheim Key when the quest end / \ | / \ | / --------------------------------------------- | Rewards | Total HP | NPC | |-------------------------------------------| | Balance Mote | 3 ~ 7 | Bangaa | | Magick Gloves | 8 ~ 12 | Hume | | Golden Armlet | 13 (max) | Moogle | --------------------------------------------- 7a-3-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ < Collecting Loot for Extra Reward > ------------------------------------ Back to the quest: Semclam Shell (max = 5) - Talk to Dantro's Wife in South Bank Village, she will request the Semclam Shells. You can find 5 of it. - Search the shore and check the shinning thing for the Semclam Shells. - Some more are around the Banks of the Nebra section, near the shore as well. - Pass the Semclam Shells to Dantro's Wife once you got the amount you want. - Afterwards, she will request for the Nebralim. Nebralim (max = 2) - Return to the Outpost section and talk to Dantro. Same place, find the boxes in the central, check the jars there for Nebralim, another one is the jar behind the chocobo, pass them to Dantro's Wife also. - Now Dantro's Wife request the Valeblossom Dew, which can be found in the Broken Sands section. Valeblossom Dew (max = 3) - Talk to Tchigri and move to Northern most section of Dalmasca Estersand, find the flowers in the valley. One of them is in the middle of the section, beside the rock which you can push down, examine it to get Valeblossom Dew. You can find 3 Valeblossom Dews here. - Back to South of River and give the Valeblossom Dew to Dantro's Wife. Giving the Great Serpentskin - And now Dantro's Wife will ask for the Great Serpentskin, give her as you choice of the extra reward, of cause you can refuse to pass it over. Check the section above (7a-3-2). Barheim Key and Extra Reward - Leave here for awhile and return. Speak to the Recovering Traveler, she's behind the camp where Dantro's Wife is, and the Recovering Traveler will give you the Barheim Key with the extra reward depending on how many Semclam Shell, Valeblossom Dew, Nebralim or Great Serpentskin you gave Dantro's Wife. From the Dalmasca Eastersand Gate Crystal, go South, then turn to South-East, there is a small area, use your Barheim Key to unlock that door can back to Barheim Passage now. 7a-3-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________ / \ = Translation = \_____________/ NPC ----- - Tchigri = チグリ - Dantro = ダントロ - Dantro's Wife = ダントロの妻 - Recovering Traveler = 回復した-ｷ人 Loot/Treaure -------------- - Nebralim = ネブラリン - Great Serpentskin = 大蛇の拔け殻 - Semclam Shells = セム貝の貝殻 - Valeblossom Dew = 谷間の花のしずく 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game 7a-4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O---------------------O ------------------------------------------------------ -O Fishing Mini-Game O O---------------------O [s7a4] The main objective to play this Mini-Game is Lu Shang's Badge, which is named Taikou/Lu Shang's Badge on the Japanese version. It's one of the three treasures for Wyrmhero Blade (US)/Tolo Sword (JP) trading. Read the 'Special Trading' under "Secret Matters" section for the details. Of cause you could get some other treasures during the process. 7a-4-1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ < Starting > ------------ After you get the Barheim Key (side quest above), and the story reached to Port At Balfonheim, - Back to Dalmasca Estersand Gate Crystal section, talk to Ruksel who's looking at the river, knowing he wants to fishing. - Return to Port At Balfonheim, the South-East section which is the road to Airship Terminal/Aerodrome. - Find the fishing old man around the crates area and talk to him twice, then choose the first option. - Now go further from the old man, but don't leave this section. After awhile back to the same place, and the old man is gone, examine the fishing rod there to obtain Muramata. - Move back to Dalmasca Estersand and pass the Muramata to Ruksel to start this Mini-Game. 7a-4-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- < Advancing > ------------- If you've completed Mysterious Man/Gilgamesh rank H Mob Hunt mission, you will get Blue, Green, Red, Yellow and Black Bottle during the fishing one by one. With the hints from the Bottles, find five letters from the locations below: Blue Bottle - Nabreus Deadlands, section South section from the Gate Crsytal. Reference the picture below if you don't want to find yourself. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/bottle1.jpg Green Bottle - Salikawood, section before to Nabreus Deadlands. Find the shack by the middle trunk. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/bottle2.jpg Red Bottle - Mosphoran Highwaste, Gate Crystal section. Find the Wind Shrine at North-West area, check it to get the letter. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/bottle3.jpg Yellow Bottle - Cerobi Steppe, Go turn on the windmill No.1, 2, 5, 7, 9, turn off 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. If you do so, you will get the letter automatically, make sure double check to confirm all of them have been fixed right. Black Bottle - Garamsythe Waterway, central control section where the Save Crystal by. Go South-East abit, where you can see some mouses running round. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/bottle5.jpg After you got all five letters, move on to Barheim Passage to find Gilgamesh. Go to the longest railway in the middle known as Zeviah Span, you can see a small area at the South of this section, and you can only reach there from South. Enter that small area to watch a scene with Gilgamesh and Enkidou. Here is the location: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/gil.jpg After all, you will obtain Matamune demon rod. Now return and pass this rod to Ruksel in Dalmasca Estersand, continue fishing until you get Upstream. At the beginning, you can only fish in the Downstream, get 5 or more perfect fishing (no mistake) to unlock the Midstream. 5 more perfect fishing in the Midstream to unlock the Upstream. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Getting the Lu Shang's Badge - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Now with the Matamune, you can obtain Saboten Bond/Cactoid Compact in the Upstream. Continue fishing in the new fishing spot, Hidden Shoals. You will eventually get the Saboten Crest/Cactoid Commendation. Now fish in the last fishing spot, named Den of the River Lord (name Master Den for JP version). Try your best to get 9 successfully command input for the King Of Nebra, then lastly obtain the Lu Shang's Badge, which is the trading treasure for Wyrmhero Blade/Tolo Sword. Note/Tips: I've heard the Saboten Crest/Cactoid Commendation in Hidden Shoals is random, not too sure, but I got it at my fifth perfect fishing. For the last fishing spot, Den of the River Lord, you just need to get 9 sucessfully fishing to get the Lu Shang's Badge/Taikou Chest. And it's simple since you don't need to get perfect fishing exaclty, as long as you got 9 times, the loot is yours. Try to memorize the buttons like this: .-----------------------------. | R 1 L 2 ^ [ ] | | R 2 L 1 X -> | '-----------------------------' Nothing other than practice, keep your cool during the process. Relax and chew a chewing-gum seems work for me lol - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unlockable Fishing Spots - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The data of original Japanese version, which are translated by myself: ================================================================== | Fishing Spot | How to unlock | ================================================================== | Middle Reaches | Get 5 perfect fishing in the Lower Reaches | |------------------|---------------------------------------------| | Upper Reaches | Get 5 perfect fishing in the Middle Reaches | |------------------|---------------------------------------------| | Secret Reaches | Fish up Saboten Bond in the Upper Reaches | | | with Matamune | |------------------|---------------------------------------------| | Master Den | Fish up Saboten Crest in the Secret Reaches | |------------------|---------------------------------------------| | Taikou Chest | Get 9 perfect fishing in the Master Den | ------------------------------------------------------------------ *All these unlockable informations table above has already posted on Final Fantasy XII at www.gamefaqs.com under Cheat Codes & Secret page BEFORE the US version released. That was submitted by myself and based on the Japanese version, I need to clarify this although it has little mistake, because there's a stupid magazine publisher stole this info and publish under their contributor's credit. I have to tell the person copied this for US version without trying: Idiots, none of these fishing spots will appear in the US version. Ok, here comes the data of US/English version: ================================================================= | Fishing Spot | How to unlock | ================================================================= | Midstream | Get 5 perfect fishing in the Downstream | |--------------------|------------------------------------------| | Upstream | Get 5 perfect fishing in the Midstream | |--------------------|------------------------------------------| | Hidden Shoals | Fish up Cactoid Compact in the Upstream | | | with Matamune given by Gilgamesh | |--------------------|------------------------------------------| | Den of the | Fish up Cactoid Commendation in the | | River Lord | Hidden Shoals | |--------------------|------------------------------------------| | Lu Shang's Badge | Successfully input the right command x9 | | | in the Den of the River Lord | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 7a-4-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- < Command List > ---------------- During the game, you have to press all buttons that were appearing on the screen before they gone. Below is the list of all fishing spots. =============================================================================== | Fishing Spot | Possible button sets | =============================================================================== | Downstream | Down, X, Circle, Square. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Circle, X, Square, Up. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Circle, Right, X, Square. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | X, Circle, Up, Triangle. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Square, Triangle, X, Square. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, X, Square, Down. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, Circle, X, Square. - - | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Midstream | X, Circle, R2, Up. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, L1, Right, Square. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | L1, Down, Circle, Square. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | L2, Down, R1, Circle. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | R2, Square, X, L1. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | X, Triangle, Circle, Down, Square. | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, Circle, Down, Up, X. - | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Upstream | X, Circle, R2, Up. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | L1, Down, Circle, Square. - - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Up, R1, Triangle, Left, Circle. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Left, R1, Triangle, Circle, X. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Right, Left, X, Square, Down. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | X, Triangle, Circle, Down, Square. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, Down, Left, X, Circle. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, Circle, Down, Up, X. - | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Hidden Shoals | Up, R1, Triangle, Left, Circle. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Down, Up, Triangle, X, R2. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Left, R1, Triangle, X, Circle. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | R2, R1, Triangle, Left, Circle. - | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, Circle, Up, Square, R1, L1. | |=============================================================================| | Master Den (1) | R1, L2, Up, Square, R2, L1, X, Right. | |=============================================================================| | Master Den (2) | Up, R2, Right, L1, X, R1. | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | *named | Down, R1, Circle, L2, Right, X. | | "Den of the |----------------------------------------------------------| | River Lord" | X, R1, Down, L1, R2, Square. | | for US version |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, R2, Circle, L1, X, Square. | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | | Triangle, Circle, Up, Square, R1, L1. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7a-4-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- < Fishing Items > ----------------- Here is about the things that can be found during your fishing process. ======================================================================== | Fishing Spot | Possible Items | Perfect Reward | *SP. Item | ======================================================================== | Downstream | Common Fish | 100 gil | - | | | Empty Bottle | Hi-Potion | | | | | Water Stone | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Midstream | Common Fish | 100 gil | - | | | Delicious Fish | Fish Scale | | | | Empty Bottle | Water Magicite | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Upstream | Common Fish | Fish Scale | Cactoid | | | Delicious Fish | Rainbow Egg | Compact | | | Empty Bottle | Turtle Shell | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Hidden Shoals | Delicious Fish | Adamantite | Cactoid | | | Nebra Succulent | Hi-Potion | Commendation | | | Empty Bottle | | | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Master Den | Nebra Succulent | Adamantite | Lu Shang's | | | Empty Bottle | Scarletite | Badge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *SP Item: This item can only be fished once you got the Matamune rod, and the SP item can only found once. Already mentioned before, read 7a-4-2 for how to get Matamune. 7a-4-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- < Ada's Trading > ----------------- Talk to Ada looking at the river, and she will ask for the items that you fished in the mini-game, you can sell something to her with a little different price. ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Value | Fishing Spot: | | Item |---------------|-----------------------------| | | shops | Ada | D/S | M/S | U/S | H/S | M/D | -----------------------------------------------------------------| | Common Fish | 10 | 10 | O | O | O | - | - | | Delicious Fish | 25 | 100 | - | O | O | O | - | | Nebra Succelent | 100 | 200 | - | - | - | O | O | ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Empty Bottle ** Collect 99 Empty Bottles (can be fished from any fishing spot) and pass to Ada to exchange an Electrum (loot). 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game 7a-5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O--------------------O ------------------------------------------------------- -O 80 Rare Monsters O O--------------------O [s7a5] -------------------- < Starting & Basic > -------------------- When tory reached to Port At Balfonheim before anything starts. Go back to The Phon Coast. same section with the Gate Crystal, talk to the Bangaa captain known as huntmaster in front of the cabin that's near the shore. Now the quest is began, go to the South-East most and head up to the hill, wait until the first rare monster appears at the bottom, then go down to defeat it. It's quite outstanding and big, very easy to be noticed. You will get an Engage item (name Trophy for US version) from this first ever rare monster, take it back to the Gate Crystal section and talk to the Bangaa captain again. Now you can begin to find more other rare monsters with the Engage/Trophy item in the whole Ivalice. After collecting enough of Engage/Trophy items, pass them to the Bangaa NPCs in front of the Bangaa captain/Huntmaster, and the 'Hunt Shop' near the Bangaa NPCs will start selling the items. The stocks in the Hunt Shop will be affected base on the amount of Engage items that you pass to the Bangaa NPCs. - Bangaas http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/bangaa.jpg - Hunt Shop http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/hunt_shop.jpg ------------- < Hunt Shop > ------------- Below is the list of relation between the Bangaa and the stocks from Hunt Shop: ------------------------------------------------------- | Red Bangaa - Blok | ------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================= | Total | Stock | Cost in | Actual | | Engage | Available | Hunt Shop | Cost | ======================================================= | 1 | Demon Mail | 4410 | 4900 | | 5 | Diamond Armor | 6300 | 7000 | | 1 0 | Mirror Mail | 7290 | 8100 | | 1 5 | Gaia Gear | 8370 | 9300 | | 2 0 | Dragon Mail | 11250 | 12500 | | 2 5 | Magepower Shishak | 13500 | 15000 | | 3 0 | Maximilian | 25500 | 17000 | ------------------------------------------------------- *All are the Heavy Armors. -------------------------------------------------------- | Green Bangaa - Atak | -------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================== | Total | Stock | Cost in | Actual | | Engage | Available | Hunt Shop | Cost | ======================================================== | 1 | Kogarasumaru (Ka)| 5040 | 5600 | | 5 | Obelisk (Sp)| 6750 | 7500 | | 1 0 | Murasame (Ka)| 7650 | 8500 | | 1 5 | Diamond Sword (Sw)| 11250 | 12500 | | 2 0 | Deathbringer (Sw)| 14400 | 16000 | | 2 5 | Gastrophetes (Bg)| 18900 | N/A | | 3 0 | Gungnir (Sp)| 25500 | 17000 | -------------------------------------------------------- *Bg = Bowgun/Crossbow Ka = Katana Sp = Spear Sw = Sword ------------------------------------------------------------ | Brown Bangaa - Stok | ------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================ | Total | Stock | Cost in | Actual | | Engage | Available | Hunt Shop | Cost | ============================================================ | 1 | Thief's Cuffs (Ac)| 2700 | 3000 | | 5 | Steel Poleyns (Ac)| 900 | 1000 | | 1 0 | Winged Boots (Ac)| 450 | 500 | | 1 5 | Indigo Pendent (Ac)| 4500 | 5000 | | 2 0 | Diamond Armlet (Ac)| 18000 | 20000 | | 2 5 | Reflectga Mote (It)| 270 | N/A | | 3 0 | Holy Mote (It)| 150 | N/A | ------------------------------------------------------------ *Ac = Accessory It = Item -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mixing | -------------------------------------------------------------------- ==================================================================== | Engage/Trophy | | Hunt | Actual | |--------------------| Stock Available | Shop | Shop | | Blok | Atak | Stok | | Cost | Cost | ==================================================================== | 5 | 10 | 0 | Runeblade (Gs)| 13050 | 14500 | | 5 | 15 | 5 | 8-fluted Pole (Po)| 35100 | N/A | | 5 | 5 | 15 | Hermes Sandals (Ac)| 30000 | 20000 | | 5 | 5 | 15 | Elixir (It)| 1080 | N/A | | 10 | 5 | 5 | Rubber Suit (La)| 13050 | 14500 | | 10 | 10 | 10 | Cloud Staff (St)| 41100 | 8000 | | 10 | 10 | 10 | Minerva Bustier (La)| 41100 | 12400 | | 15 | 5 | 5 | Venetian Shield (Sh)| 20700 | N/A | | 25 | 1 | 1 | Renewing Marion (La)| 24000 | 16000 | | 1 | 25 | 1 | Muramasa (Ka)| 30000 | N/A | | 1 | 1 | 25 | Sage's Ring (Ac)| 33000 | 22000 | -------------------------------------------------------------------- *Ac = Accessory Gs = Greatsword It = Item Ka = Katana La = Light Armor Po = Pole Sh = Shield St = Staff ----------------- < Extra Rewards > ----------------- After collecting all 30 Engage/Trophy Items, talk to the Captain/Huntmaster, and the reward(s) is based on the amount of Engage/Trophy Items that were given to the Bangaa brother (Blok, Atak, Stok). ========================================================== | Engage/Trophy Statistic | ========================================================== | Blok | Atak | Stok | Reward(s) | |========================================================| | 1 0 | 1 0 | 1 0 | Agate Ring (Ac) | | | | | Caldera (Hb) | | | | | Chaperon (La) | |--------------------------------------------------------| | 1 5 | 0 | 1 5 | Agate Ring (Ac) | | | | | Chaperon (La) | |--------------------------------------------------------| | 1 5 | 1 5 | 0 | Caldera (Hb) | | | | | Chaperon (La) | |--------------------------------------------------------| | 0 | 1 5 | 1 5 | Agate Ring (Ac) | | | | | Caldera (Hb) | |--------------------------------------------------------| | 3 0 | 0 | 0 | Ring of Renewal (Ac) | |--------------------------------------------------------| | 0 | 3 0 | 0 | Greataxe (Br) | |--------------------------------------------------------| | 0 | 0 | 3 0 | Sage's Ring (Ac) | ---------------------------------------------------------- *Ac = Accessory Br = Breaker (Axe) Hb = Handy B. La = Light Armor ----------------------- < Treasures Of Zodiac > ----------------------- With enough of Engage items, go to the Imperial City of Archades, and obtain all 28 White Leafs in the four sections at East for the Black Feather before you can find the NPC who gives you the treasure of Horoscopes. Same as how you get 9 White Leafs for the taxi guard to travel. Run around speak with any one of the 28 appointed NPCs for the information, then inform to the other one of the pair to complete it. Is better you run this with the 7a-6. Cockatrice Find quest together (below), since that quest in this place needed all 28 White Leafs as well. Anyway, of cause you could done this seperately if you don't want to be confused. When you back here during the Cockatrice Find quest, you don't need to find all these White Leafs anymore. In the section beside Airship Terminal, you can speak with the girl who's runing around, and she will tell you the remaining White Leaf for each section. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/leaf.jpg After getting all 28 White Leafs, go find the Guild Counter in any shops here, trade all White Leafs for the Black Feather. With the Black Feather, you're allowed to enter the Terrace of Central Section, where the Northern area from Gate Crystal. Inside here, head to right corner and run up to the corner. You can see four NPCs are discussing there, talk to the old man for your reward. Check these picture if you want to see their location: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/area.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/horo_reward.jpg =============================================== | Total Engage | Treasure/Loot | =============================================== | 5 | Aries Gem, Libra Gem | |---------------------------------------------| | 1 0 | Taurus Gem, Scorpio Gem | |---------------------------------------------| | 1 5 | Gemini Gem, Sagittarius Gem | |---------------------------------------------| | 2 0 | Cancer Gem, Capricorn Gem | |---------------------------------------------| | 2 5 | Leo Gem, Aquarius Gem | |---------------------------------------------| | 3 0 | Virgo Gem, Pisces Gem | ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's already an existing guide about the 80 rare monsters, read this guide for more details of the rare monsters. - 80 Rare Monsters http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_80_rare.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7a. Side Quest / Mini-Game 7a-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------------O -------------------------------------------------------- -O Cockatrice Find O O-------------------O [s7a6] Before anything about this quest, you must get: - Story reaches to Imperial City of Archades. - Completely clear Cluckatrice/Niwatoris rank E Mob/Mark Hunt. - Clear Gil Snapper/Gilgame rank C Mob/Mark Hunt mission. - Find the Feather Of The Flock in the South-East section where you fought Gil Snapper/Gilgame mob, you can only reach there during rainy season. If you've done everything above, the go to Giza Plains camp section during DRY SEASON. Talk to Tira by the stable knowing the Cockatrices were gone, know start to find them in the locations below: ----------------------------- - Jahara, Land of the Garif - ----------------------------- Head to middle section meet with Cockatrice. Talk to the Cockatrice and the cattle breeder beside, tell him you came from Giza Plains. Then move to the inner section and talk to the eldest Garif will obtain Eldest Garif's Present, just give it to Cockatrice. Before leaving, talk to the breeder again for Platinum Dagger. ----------------------- - Dalmasca Eastersand - ----------------------- For certain reason, you must finish the 'Back to Barheim Passage' quest and get Sluice Gate Key for first. Return to Dalmasca Eastersand Gate Crystal section, talk to the boy by the river shore and send Nasir (wolf), Aril (kid) and Sasana (Cockatrice) to Northern shore one by one. After that, talk to Sasana again for Koga Blade (Ninja Sword). ----------------- - Eruyt Village - ----------------- Go to the Northern area, find Mjrn and Cockatrice in the right end. After speaking with them, pick up the Dewdrops Pebble left from Mjrn, give it to her. Now search the entire village for other 8 more stones. Dewdrop Pebble locations: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_dewdrop.png In the Northern section, - you can find one in front of the trunk door along with a viera. - opposite side from above location. From the Northern section down to the lower section, - on the stairs, one is on the outer trunk beside. - the three ways junction with a suspension bridge, find it beside one of the tied block. - West area, go right hand side, examine the weapon shelf for another one. - in the round garden, you can see a shinning thing in the middle, talk to the nearest viera to obtain it. - on the middle of the stairs to bottom, find it on the outer side. - East area, there is a bridge faces to South, but it has been blocked, the end of that bridge contain another stone. After collecting all 8 of them, back to Northern section and pass all of them to Mjrn. Talk to Cockatrice again, the last pebble will appear beside the Cockatrice, pass it the Myulin also. Reward of this part is Yoichi Bow. ----------------------------- - Imperial City of Archades - ----------------------------- You need to obtain all 28 White Leafs/Pinewood Chops in the four sections at East. It's actually mentioned in the main walkthrough at Archades part, if you had follow the walkthrough, definitely the Sandalwood Chop is already inside your inventory. (I've mentioned this in the 7a-5. 80 Rare Monsters quest, if you had already done this, just head to highland Terrace to find the Cockatrice, it's at the North of the Gate Crystal.) Same like how you get 9 White Leafs for the taxi guard to travel. Just run around speak with any one of the 28 appointed NPCs for the information, then inform to the other one of the pair to complete it. In the section beside Airship Terminal/Aerodrome, you can speak with the girl who's runing around, and she will tell you the remaining White Leaf for each section. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/leaf.jpg After all, go to a shop and find the Guild Counter/Chop Master inside that shop, trade all 28 White Leafs for the Black Feather/Sandalwood Chop. Now head to West section where the Gate Crystal by, go to North. With the Black Feather/ Sandalwood Chop, you now can enter the highland Terrace. Inside there, just get close to the giant Cockatrice and talk to it, then choose the first option to obtain Tumulus hand bomb weapon. ---------------------------- - Royal City of Rabanastre - ---------------------------- Completed all four events above, back to Rabanastre and find the Cockatrice at the Northern point. Once you check on the Cockatrice, it will run away, now you need to chase it. When closing to the Cockatrice, you do have to walk, otherwise it will run into a distance, and you're not able to chase it by running. The two corridors at both sides corner are the key points to catch up with it, if you lost to get it, just drive it until the next corridor. Near the side corner, the Cockatrice will just keep going on the street, so you just need to walk into the corridor for short cut, as long as you don't show in front of it, you should catch up with it after the corridor. Talk to it and choose the first option, it will stay at the Northern area. Talk to it again and choose second option for Diamond Sword, and it will gone for Giza Plains. ---------------------- - Port At Balfonheim - ---------------------- Same section with Gate Crystal, talk to the moogle opposite of the map seller, who's walking around the chocobo stable. Then talk to the girl looking at the chocobo stable and show her the Feather Of The Flock, the moogle just now will come around. Now talk to the Chocobo Stable Guardian to watch some scenes. You will get Defender (Greatsword) for this part. After all, back to Giza Plains camp section during DRY SEASON. Talk to Tira for ending the quest. Obtain Hi-Ether x2. 7a-7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------------O -------------------------------------------------------- -O Balfonheim Race O O-------------------O [s7a7] --------- < About > --------- It's a Mini-game as well. During the race, keep pressing 'Circle' and 'X' buttons to run. 'Circle' works to turn your character to right and 'X' works to turn your character to left while running. You must reach to the end point of the race by using the combination of 'Circle' and 'X' buttons. Also you must get the first place for the rewards and level up. ------------ < Starting > ------------ You can start this mini game after Pharos at Ridorana event. Talk to Rikken for the infomation of the final stage, talk to him again to start this mini game. Later when you want to challenge the racing again, just talk to Rikken at the same place to start it. Each win of the racing would bring you to the next level. Read below for the rewards of each level. ----------- < Rewards > ----------- Lv 1 - Potion x1 Lv 2 - Phoenix Down x1 Lv 3 - Eye Drops x1 Lv 4 - Antidote x1 Lv 5 - 10 gil, Echo Herbs x1 Lv 6 - Gold Needle x1 Lv 7 - Alarm Clock x1 Lv 8 - Handkerchief x1 Lv 9 - Bucchas's Wine x1 Lv 10 - 100 gil, Balance Mote x2 Lv 11 - Potion x2 Lv 12 - Phoenix Down x2 Lv 13 - Eye Drops x2 Lv 14 - Antidote x2 Lv 15 - 20 gil, Echo Herbs x2 Lv 16 - Gold Needle x2 Lv 17 - Alarm Clock x2 Lv 18 - Handkerchief x2 Lv 19 - Bucchas's Wine x2 Lv 20 - 300 gil, Float Mote x2 Lv 21 - Potion x3 Lv 22 - Phoenix Down x3 Lv 23 - Eye Drops x3 Lv 24 - Antidote x3 Lv 25 - 30 gil, Echo Herbs x3 Lv 26 - Gold Needle x3 Lv 27 - Alarm Clock x3 Lv 28 - Handkerchief x3 Lv 29 - Bucchas's Wine x3 Lv 30 - 800 gil, Telepo-Stone x3 Lv 31 - Potion x4 Lv 32 - Phoenix Down x4 Lv 33 - Eye Drops x4 Lv 34 - Antidote x4 Lv 35 - 40 gil, Echo Herbs x4 Lv 36 - Gold Needle x4 Lv 37 - Alarm Clock x4 Lv 38 - Handkerchief x4 Lv 39 - Bucchas's Wine x4 Lv 40 - 1,500 gil, Vanishga Mote x2 Lv 41 - Potion x5 Lv 42 - Phoenix Down x5 Lv 43 - Eye Drops x5 Lv 44 - Antidote x5 Lv 45 - 50 gil, Echo Herbs x5 Lv 46 - Gold Needle x5 Lv 47 - Alarm Clock x5 Lv 48 - Handkerchief x5 Lv 49 - Bucchas's Wine x5 Lv 50 - 2,500 gil, Reflectga Mote x2 Lv 51 - Potion x6 Lv 52 - Phoenix Down x6 Lv 53 - Eye Drops x6 Lv 54 - Antidote x6 Lv 55 - 60 gil, Echo Herbs x6 Lv 56 - Gold Needle x6 Lv 57 - Alarm Clock x6 Lv 58 - Handkerchief x6 Lv 59 - Bucchas's Wine x6 Lv 60 - 3,500 gil, Hi-Ether x2 Lv 61 - Potion x7 Lv 62 - Phoenix Down x7 Lv 63 - Eye Drops x7 Lv 64 - Antidote x7 Lv 65 - 70 gil, Echo Herbs x7 Lv 66 - Gold Needle x7 Lv 67 - Alarm Clock x7 Lv 68 - Handkerchief x7 Lv 69 - Bucchas's Wine x7 Lv 70 - 4,500 gil, Holy Mote x2 Lv 71 - Potion x8 Lv 72 - Phoenix Down x8 Lv 73 - Eye Drops x8 Lv 74 - Antidote x8 Lv 75 - 80 gil, Echo Herbs x8 Lv 76 - Gold Needle x8 Lv 77 - Alarm Clock x8 Lv 78 - Handkerchief x8 Lv 79 - Bucchas's Wine x8 Lv 80 - 6,000 gil, Hastega Mote x2, Caramel x1 Lv 81 - Potion x9 Lv 82 - Phoenix Down x9 Lv 83 - Eye Drops x9 Lv 84 - Antidote x9 Lv 85 - 90 gil, Echo Herbs x9 Lv 86 - Gold Needle x9 Lv 87 - Alarm Clock x9 Lv 88 - Handkerchief x9 Lv 89 - Bucchas's Wine x9 Lv 90 - 8,000 gil, Scathe Mote x2, Slime Oil x1 Lv 91 - Potion x10 Lv 92 - Phoenix Down x10 Lv 93 - Eye Drops x10 Lv 94 - Antidote x10 Lv 95 - 100 gil, Echo Herbs x10 Lv 96 - Gold Needle x10 Lv 97 - Alarm Clock x10 Lv 98 - Handkerchief x10 Lv 99 - Bucchas's Wine x10 Lv100 - 10,000 gil, Elixir x2, Unpurified Ether x1 _______________________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ___ ____ |__ | _ _ __ __ _|_ <___ | | | | --- |--- \ / |__| | | | ____> |__| |__| |___ V |__ | | |_ _____ \\ \________________________________________________________ .====================|_______________________________________________________/ =| 7b. Sub-Event []_____________________________________________________/ '====================( / \_/~~' _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ 7b. Sub-Event 7b-1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------O -------------------------------------------------------------- -O 7 Sisters O O-------------O [s7b1] This quest start from the Airship, the Cabin Chief in the the Lounge. When you're able to travel with Airship, you could have a chance to meet with a man in the Airship Lounge, he's talking with the Cabin Chief in the counter. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/7sis.jpg Check on them to listen what are they talking about. The man is come from high society (who also has 7 brothers in his family), he's offering the marriage to the girl, but with certain reasons, the girl refuse him. Now he turns to you and ask you to travel for another 6 routes of flight, find 6 other sisters and tell them about this theme, then the man (whom you see at the counter) will give up this marriage.So now what you need to do is keeping travelling to defferent trips by normal flight to find the remaining 6 sisters. You would get the key item, Ann's Letter from when you start quest. When you found the different sister by the Cabin Chief counter, you could also see a man in front of the counter. Talk to the Cabin Chief and show her the Ann's Letter that you got from the first sister. Repeat this to the remaining sister. Once you've done, you will get Ring of Renewal (accessory). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Tips & Hint | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Start this with Death Gaze rank H/VII Mob Hunt. Since you have to travel | | some other places to get more informations of this mob, so while you | | travelling to different trips, just have a look on the Cabin Chief in | | Lounge see whather encounter the other sisters or not. Save some times | | by doing so. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You should take the different flights to encounte other sisters. Below are the possible flights to encounter the sisters, take them repeatedly if you didn't found the sisters. Rabanastre <-> Bhujerba Rabanastre <-> Nalbina Rabanastre <-> Archades Bhujerba <-> Balfonheim Balfonheim <-> Archades Archades <-> Nalbina According to the advises from 6th sister, take 'Nalbina -> Balfonheim' to search the last sister. ** thanks to Thaisak inform various flights to find the sisters. 7b. Sub-Event 7b-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------------O -------------------------------------------------------- -O Bhujerban Madhu O O-------------------O [s7b2] They are the wine bottles in different locations of Bhujerba, obtain and sell them to the appointed NPCs, each Bhujerban Madhu can be sold for 1000 gil. All together are 14 Madhus, that's mean you could have 14000 gil here. You can start to collecting them after Tomb Of Raithwall event. Here are the Bhujerba Madhus location, you could get them randomly, 1. Inside Airship Terminal, from the entrance head to right area. It's on the traveller's bag. 2. Inside Armor Shop, in the third left carbinet. 3. Inside Weapon Shop, turn right from the first stairs. It's in the corner. 4. Inside Magic Shop, turn left from the first stairs, It's on the carbinet. 5. Outside Magic Shop, go South from there. It's behind the man with a boy. 6. Inside Skill Shop, just beside the second stairs. 7. Inside Gambit Shop, in the bookcase at left side. 8. Outside Gambit Shop, it's on the crate at right side. 9. West Item Shop, find the left side of it. It's on the crate along with a moogle. 10. Middle section inside the resident's house, it's in the right corner. 11. Middle section, the right end crates outside the resident's house, it's on the crate. 12. Inside the Inn, on the middle table. 13. In front of Lhusu Mines, find it at bottom of the water engine pool. 14. South-East section, behind the blue seeq. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Of cause, you do have to find the buyers to buy them. Here are the buyers location, yoou can sell more than one to each of the buyers, just exit and re-enter the area after selling it. 1. Inside Airship Terminal, from the entrance head to right area. The man with blue hat. 2. Inside Armor Shop. The old lady in front of the counter. 3. Inside Weapon Shop. Female resident in green. 4. Inside Magic Shop. The Informer at the left corner. 5. Outside Magic Shop. The man opposite of the shop. 6. Inside Skill Shop. The moogle in the middle. 7. Inside Gambit Shop. The seeq staff by the left front corner. 8. Outside Gambit Shop, head to South. The gray bangaa on the slope. 9. West section. Female resident at Western most. 10. Middle section inside the resident's house. Female inside, who's also the client of Antlion Mob Hunt (rank A). 11. Inside the Inn. The seeq near the window. 12. Outside the Inn. The man in front of the Inn. 13. In front of Lhusu Mines section. The Miners beside Item Shop. 14. South-East section, go down to left area. Female resident looking to ouside. 7b. Sub-Event 7b-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O------------------------O --------------------------------------------------- -O July, The Female Spy O O------------------------O [s7b3] This event can only happen after Tomb of Raithwall event and before story reaches to Mosphoran Highwaste. - First, head to Nalbina and find two guards who block the way to Mosphoran. Talk to July sitting away in front of them knowing she is undertaking a job, and she wants to end it and back to Archades. - Close to the guards and listen to their discussion. The Senior Guard told The Junior Guard not to leave his post not ever what happen. But the Junior Guard said he can稚 bear the smell of chocobo. - Hire a chocobo and drive this guard, he will scream and run away. Junior Guard's family is Chocobo Gardener, and always get the smell, he work hard and save the money to buy a perfume from Viera to cover this disfavored and married his wife. This is the secret he keeps all the time. That's why Julie was hired to search for. - After that, July turns to you and thank. She pursues you to come Archades for the reward. When you reach to Imperial City of Archades, find her in the magic shop and get your reward, which is Salamand Halcyon. It's a treasure to trade for Arcturus (Atk +44) gun type weapon. ** thanks to Thaisak again, this Sub-Event was actually done by him, NOT ME. 7b. Sub-Event 7b-4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O---------------O ------------------------------------------------------------ -O Viera Lover O O---------------O [s7b4] This event can be triggered after Bur Omisace. In central section of Rabanastre, there's a man who's fall in love with the Viera warrior. Talk to this man by the fountain, knowing that Viera is around. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/viera0.jpg Now go to South Entrance, talk to the Viera there. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/viera1.jpg Move to Northern street, enter the Gambit Shop and talk to the Viera inside the shop. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/viera2.jpg Go to The Sandsea now, head up to the stage and talk to the Viera there. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/viera3.jpg After that, back to central section and talk to the man by the fountain again. Then return to The Sandsea and talk to the Viera, and she will leave. Lastly, head to central section, you will see both of them are chating near the fountain, speak with them for your rewards, they are Rocsley Bow and Hi-Potion x2. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/viera_e.jpg 7b. Sub-Event 7b-5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O------------------O --------------------------------------------------------- -O Pilika's Diary O O------------------O [s7b5] Must clear the Rocktoise Mob/Mark Hunt mission which given by Pilika in Bhujerba SkyCity. After taking your reward from Pilika, speak to her again and she will tell you there was another matter. Agree to help her would be given a Merchant's Armband, now she wants you to find her diary inside the Clio's Technicks. Now head to the technick/skill shop, the moogles no longer blocking the stairs to the left. Get close to the bookcase at left corner and take the Pilika's Diary, you're able to choose either Read It or Abstain, but it doesn't matter for now, however, if you choose Read It, you can spot a mini serpent on top of the other bookcase looking at you (Easter Egg?). When you return the diary to Pilika, she will ask whether you had read the diary, now your answer affects the reward. It's either level 2 or level 3 Mystic Armor. Lv2 - Kilimweave Shirt, awarded if you say you read it. Lv3 - Shepherd's Balero, awarded if you say "I've done nothing" 7b. Sub-Event 7b-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O----------------------O ----------------------------------------------------- -O New Recruit - Jovy O O----------------------O [s7b6] At the beginning, you can see Jovy is in the West Ward of Nalbina, lying on the ground and says his hero has gone ... Now clear all Mob/Mark Hunt mission that were given by the clients/petitioners in Nalbina, which are: - Atomos ----- by Burrogh ( rank C/III ) - Roblon ----- by Morgen ( rank S/VI ) - Goliath ---- by Barrong ( rank S/VI ) - Deathscythe - by Popol ( rank S/VI ) - Carrot ----- by Zammadria ( rank H/VII ) Once you've done, back to Nalbina and speak to your clients/petitioners for the rewards (you don't need to clear them in once), and Jovy will show up for a scene with each of them, then leaves you a "snort". After all, find Jovy in the West Ward area which is outside the Aerodrome/ Airship Terminal, he's running across the middle, talk to him for a scene, and you will get Elixir and Knot of Rust from Jovy, as well as became his new hero. 7b. Sub-Event 7b-7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O-------------------O -------------------------------------------------------- -O Ktjn's Decision O O-------------------O [s7b7] *Ktjn named Catherine in Japanese version. This event might be available only after Tomb of Raithwall. Find Ktjn in Rabanastre, Muthru Bazaar area, she is sitting at the middle of the stairs. When you speak with her, she will ask you a question, and your answer affects her decision and the reward. But you can't just talk until she ask all four questions in once, you have go through the story before she ask the next question. If you have passed Pharos at Ridorana, you need to wait 15 minutes for her next question. After all four questions, wait for another 15 minutes, then talk to her again, she will head off. Find her in the other place for your reward. Your answer for each question would be gained +1 or -1 point, of cause, the total points affect your rewards. Here is the possible results that you got after all four questions. ========================================================================= | Q1 : | Q2 : | Q3 : | Q4 : | |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | 1st answer + 1 | 1st answer + 1 | 1st answer - 1 | 1st answer + 1 | | 2nd answer - 1 | 2nd answer - 1 | 2nd answer 0 | 2nd answer - 1 | | | | 3rd answer + 1 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ | Total Pt. | Reward | Location | ============================================================ | + 4 | Platinum Sword | Clan HQ Hall | | + 3 | Paramina Crossbow | Outside Clan HQ | | - 3 | Firefly | Outside Item Shop | | - 4 | Fuzzy Miter | Item Shop | | *other | Ether x1, Hi-Potion x3 | **Wandering | ------------------------------------------------------------ * other: -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. ** Wandering: (thanks to Ashille) - North End, in front of Gambit Shop. - East End, near the entrance of Muthru Bazaar. - Airship Terminal/Aerodrome, the inner area. - Muthru Bazaar, with a child. *************************** Follow these steps to obtain the reward that you wish if you don't like to calculate yourself. It's quite confusing during the process, I'm still not 100% sure all this are correct, please send me an e-mail if you got something wrong here. ------------------------------------- | Reward: Platinum Sword (weapon) | ----------------------------------------------------------- | Q1 - 1st answer : "Yes, you should be ashamed." | | Q2 - 1st answer : "You should've thought it through." | | Q3 - 3rd answer : "It'll never happen." | | Q4 - 1st answer : "I think it's a good idea." | | | | Find Ktjn inside the Clan HQ hall. | ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- | Reward: Paramina Crossbow (weapon) | ----------------------------------------------------------- | Q1 - 1st answer : "Yes, you should be ashamed." | | Q2 - 1st answer : "You should've thought it through." | | Q3 - 2nd answer : "I don't know your sister." | | Q4 - 1st answer : "I think it's a good idea." | | | | Find Ktjn in front of the Clan HQ. | ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- | Reward: Firefly (accessory) | ----------------------------------------------------------- | Q1 - 2nd answer : "No, don't be silly." | | Q2 - 2nd answer : "Things will get better." | | Q3 - 2nd answer : "I don't know your sister." | | Q4 - 2nd answer : "I'm not so sure." | | | | Find Ktjn in front of Item Shop. | ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- | Reward: Fuzzy Miter (accessory) | ----------------------------------------------------------- | Q1 - 2nd answer : "No, don't be silly." | | Q2 - 2nd answer : "Things will get better." | | Q3 - 1st answer : "Sure, if you put your mind to it." | | Q4 - 2nd answer : "I'm not so sure." | | | | Find Ktjn inside the Item Shop. | ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ | Reward: Ether x1, Hi-Potion x3 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | Answer the questions without following any step above. | | | | Find Ktjn in one of the following places: | | - North End, in front of Gambit Shop. | | - East End, West area near Muthru Bazaar. | | - Airship Terminal/Aerodrome, inner area. | | - Muthru Bazaar, with a child. | ----------------------------------------------------------- Here is the transcriptions of the event (thanks to Ashille). ~~~~ Q1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello, I am called Ktjn. I left my home and came to Rabanastre only quite recently. I have yet to learn my way around. I had been hoping to find someone I might speack with. Should you like to talk again, it would please me Greatly. Is the city not wondderful? I still lose my way on occasion, but I have come to know some of her walks and alleyways. <> But the Land, i cannot heart it...Should this not Trouble me as a vieara? 1 --> "Yes, you should be ashamed." - (I see, then perhaps it was a mistake to leave the wood...) - (Pay no mind to my mutterings. Pray, speak with me again soon.) 2 --> "No, don't be silly." - I am Glad you think so. I somtimes worry that a true Viera would not have such difficulty finding her way. - I wonder if my sister had such doubts when first she left the wood...ah, pay no mind mutterings. Pray speak with me again soon. ~~~~~ Q2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is good to see you again. I have had so little opportunity to Speak with Humes. My people keep to themselves. The number of visitors to our village could be counted out on a single hand. So did I long to come to a hreat city such as Rabanastre. That wish is now come true, but this is not how i had hoped it would be. <> I knew my choice would bring hardship, yet... 1 --> "You should've thought it through."" - Perhaps i should have.Strength of will alone could not make up for my ignorance of the wider world. - I do not wish to admit it, but i know it now to be true... - Feel not sorrowful, it is not easy thing to speak unwelcome truths to another. Yet these are the most valuable truths to hear. 2 --> "Things will get better." - I suppose few things go as we originally plan them. That is why we must each struggle through life. - I too will struggle toward my goal. ~~~~ Q3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello, have you come for another visit? Little has changed for me. I have seen much of the city, thought I still have made few friends, and am no closer to realizing my goal. I have not spoken of this to you before, but I came to Rabanastre to become...more like my sister. She had Grown tired of our life of isolation... Long ago she left, only later did i hear rumors she had come here. All this time my sister has been making her way through the world, while I lived in the sheltered peace of the wood. <> I would be as she is. Do you think it possible? 1 --> "Sure, if you put your mind to it." - You are right! Time spent lingering in doubt is time wasted. If I am to be like my sister, i must work hard at this... - But she and i possess very different talents. What if i have made the wrong choice? 2 --> "I don't know your sister." - True, you do not. i will tell you of her, when the time is right. - I do not mean to keep secrets, but i am not ready to be measured against her. Not yet. 3 --> "It'll never happen." - ...I see. So you think me too naive to follow in my sister's footsteps. - Though you may speak the truth, I am not yet beaten. ~~~~ Q4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am happy to see you visit again. Talking with you somehow makes my burdens feel lighter I have left my home, and I can never return. I had no doubts when set out, but now wonder whether I will fail where my sister did not. It would not be right to turn to my sister for help, she is now an accomplished warrior, but for me no allure does the call of battle hold. Others have said I possess a warmth of care my sister lacks. Still, not on kindness alone can one make her way in the world. Perhaps it would be best if I too became a warrior like my sister. <> What do you think? 1 --> "I think it's a good idea." - I thought am much. I will join a Clan, and learn to fight as my sister. - But i have ne skill in battle. Even should i join a Clan, I may be more burden than aid. - Ah forgive me. I always seem to look at what is not, instead of what is. - Pray speak with me again soon 2 --> "I'm not so sure." - Hmmm...so, strength in battle does not necessarily mean strength of character. I had not thought of it in this way. - I believe i may have taken one step stoward choosing the path I should follow. I look forward to our next meeting. 7b. Sub-Event 7b-8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- O--------------------O ------------------------------------------------------- -O Other Sub-Events O O--------------------O [s7b8] Here is a overview of all other sub-events which have not been listed above. However, some of them are already mentioned in the Walkthrough. Anyway, here is to cover all remaining sub-events in the game. If you found somethine that're not here, just go through the "8. Esper / Summon" "9. Optional Bosses" the answer should be there. ------------------ < Help the Yensa > ------------------ Timing : After SkyCity of Bhujerba Location : Ogir-Yensa and Nam-Yensa Sandsea Rewards : Eksir Berries How to start: - Enter Nam-Yensa from North-West of Ogir-Yensa. - Talk to the moogle, then follow the Urutan Yensa. - Defeat Urutan Eater in Nam-Yensa Sandsea. - Back to the moogle for a scene. - Return Ogir-Yensa from where you came. - Go up the tower and you can see the Urutan Yensa is going back to Nam-Yensa, go after the Urutan Yensa for another scene. - Afterwards, check the flower on the ground that's near the moogle, that is Eksir Berries. --------------------- < Sunstone Creating > --------------------- Timing : After Dreadnought Leviathan Location : Giza Plains (dry reason) Rewards : 1. 200 gil, Holy Stone x1, Potion x2 2. 150 gil, Holy Stone x1 3. 100 gil 4. 50 gil How to start: - Talk to Masyua in the Nomad Camp. - Find the Black Crystal marked as ! in the map to raise the energy to 100%, - Return Sunstone to Masyua for rewards. ------------------ < The Jaya Stick > ------------------ Timing : Jahara, Land of Garif Location : Jahara, Land of Garif Rewards : Crossbow, Onion Bolts How to start: - Talk to High-Chief Zayalu (opposite of the shop) to receive the Jaya Stick. - Speak with the War-Chief Supinelu at North-West, give him the Jaya Stick. - When leaving Jahara, you will be awarded. -------------------- < Injured Achadian > -------------------- Timing : While going to Henne Mines Location : Ozmone Plains Rewards : Alarm Clock x2 How to start: - When you return to Ozmone Plains from Eruyt Village, you will find the Imperial soldier with his injured friend at the side, near the Save Crystal. - Talk to the the soldier and give him a Potion to heal his injured friend. - Back to this place later, check the shiny object (letter) on the ground. - Obtain Alarm Clock x2 after reading the letter. -------------------- < Tales exchanging > -------------------- Timing : Story reaches to Imperial City of Archades, when need to take cab. Location : Imperial City of Archades Rewards : Sandalwood Chop What you need to do is speak with the NPC who gives the tale, then find the appointed NPC and send the tale to him/her, and you will be awarded with a Pinewood Chop. Collect all 28 Pinewood Chop here and trade them to the chop master in any shop for the Sandalwood Chop. With the Sandalwood Chop only can you enter the High Terrace. Below is the list of them. FORMAT: The person give the tale --> Person receive the tale ... << Tale title >> Section: Nilbasse Total Pinewood Chop = 6 Determined Researcher --> Ex-Researcher ... << Time to Leave >> Gentleman Onlooker --> Eager Crier ........ << Working up a Sweat >> Senior Researcher --> Failed Researcher ... << Words of Encouragement >> Aspiring Starlet --> Eaded Star ........... << Path to Stardom >> Worried Husband --> Materialistic Women ... << Wages Halved >> Athletic Women --> Avid Reader ............ << A Grand Line of Gamesmen >> Section: Molberry Total Pinewood Chop = 9 Reminiscing Lady --> Family-minded Girl ... << The Mummer >> Daughter-in-Law --> Man from Giza ......... << A Trinket from Giza >> Would be Judge --> Judge's Wife ........... << To be a Judge >> Talented Woman --> Akademician ............ << A Knack for Magick >> Avid Traveler --> Traveling Gentleman ..... << The Traveler >> Ardent Women --> Ardent Man ............... << Eight-& Twenty >> Poor Husband --> Poor Wife ................ << The Anniversary >> Proud Mother --> Tutor .................... << The Tutor >> Look-alike --> Look-alike ................. << The Master of Disguises >> Section: Rienna Total Pinewood Chop = 7 Philosopher of Cuisine -> Dangerous Chef .. << A Revolutimary Dish >> Lazy Profiteer --> Researcher's Wife ...... << A Gambit for the Market >> Good Brother --> Waiting Women ............ << What she Wants >> Green Seller --> Vegetable Seller ......... << Out of Ears >> Tarot Reader --> Happy Nolist ............. << Read My Misfortune >> Tour Leader --> Bhujerba Lady ............. << The Aerial Gardens >> Lucky Man --> Romantic Lady ............... << An Epistle to Love >> Section: Trant Total Pinewood Chop = 6 Music Appreciator --> Lutenist ............ << The Lutenist >> Smitten Man --> Smitten Women ............. << The Client is Daughter >> Farce-Goer --> Girl on an Errand .......... << A Ticket to the Farce >> Boutiquere --> Moneyed Gentleman .......... << The Boutique >> Historian --> Perceptive Man .............. << A History of Empire >> Builder --> Artisan Architect ............. << The Artisan Architect >> -------------------- < The Legend's end > -------------------- Timing : After defeating Behemoth King (rank H/VII mob) Location : Bur Omisace Rewards : 500,000 gil, Rod of Faith How to start: - Clear Behemoth King ranked H/VII mob hunt mission. (check "7a-2. Mob Hunt" for details) - Back to your client in Dalan's Place (Downtown/Lowtown). He leaves you a message: " And when the watcher of the deepwood should fall, ts slayer shall look to the stone-hewn wyrm and know joy. Though cold stone shall never stir again, a blow struck true by slayer's hand shall find warmth in the wyrm's elation " - Once you've got it, go Mt Bur Omisace/ Temple Approach. - Unequip Vaan's weapon and examine the Wyrm Snout on the left, plunder it. - Check the shiny object on the ground, they're 500,000 gil and Rod of Faith. ---------------------------------- < Discarded Paper in Henne Mines > ---------------------------------- Timing : After Pharos at Ridorana Location : Henne Mines Rewards : Megalixir x2 How to start: - Clear Mindflayer (rank B/IV) mob hunt mission. - Collect 10 Espers. - Talk to the geomancer in Jahara to unlock the Henne Mines secret area. Ok, a picture worth than 1000 Words, check Henne Mines secret areas map: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_henne_secret.png - Go to the point display as "Hint" to find the discarded paper. - Go to the point display as "Spawn after getting hint" to get Megalixir x2. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| ___ | _ | | _ | __ |___||__| ____________________________________________________________________ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ___ | __ __ __ __ / ____ _ _ _ _ __ __ |--- |__ | | |__| |/ / <___ | | | | | | | | | | | | |___ __| |__| |__ | / ____> |__| | | | | | | |__| | | | _____ \\ \____________________________________________________ .========================|___________________________________________________/ =| 8. Esper / Summon []_________________________________________________/ '========================( / \_/~~' [s080] _____________________________________________________________________________ /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ The summons of the game are known as 'Esper', when it appears will aid you in battle. The esper/summon will follow you and fight until its HP down to 0 orreaches the time limit. Esper's level and stats are depend on the summoner, means leveling up your summoner will increase the stats of the Esper. To get any of the Espers, you must find it and beat it, some of them even stronger than final boss. Below are the details and strategies to find all Espers in the game. NOTE: No Exp gain by defeating the Esper! (sort by name) 8-1. =============================================================================== o------------------------------o | 1. Adrammelech - the Wroth | o------------------------------o Mist Lv : 1 LP Cost : 25 Zodiac : Capricorn Element : Thunder Location : The Zertinan Cavern #Limit Break - Judgement Bolt .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 39 Atk: 63 | Recommended: > 40 | | HP: 39630 Def: 29 | Minimum Lv : > 35 | | LP: 42 Mag Res: 25 | Average Lv : > 25 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' Can reach this cavern through Nam-Yensa Sandsea, Ozmone Plains or Dalmasca Westersand. Find the inner area where couldn't display proper in the mini map, around there will encounter this esper. If you can kill the monsters in the cavern easily, defeating the esper won't be a problem. Flying target, plan to use magic, skill and weapons for flying target, since the esper immune to some ammunitions, so recommend learn Telekinesis before the fight. Some Shambling Corpses join the battle too. First you can flee from the battle, then re-enter this section to kill off the corpses before the esper found you. Equip the armor or shield that're immune to lightning if you have any, eg: Rubber Suit which can be found in Pharos at Ridorana, or the strongest shield Zodiac Escutcheon if you have got it. -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Immune | Water = Immune | | Thunder = Absorb | Ice = Weak | | Wind = Immune | Earth = Immune | | Holy = Immune | Dark = Immune | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 1110 ~ 1268 | 23 ~ 70 | 48~53 | 46~51 | 32~34 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 1246 ~ 1556 | 51 ~ 140 | 53~59 | 51~57 | 34~36 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 1491 ~ 1928 | 91 ~ 212 | 59~65 | 57~63 | 36~39 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 1806 ~ 2280 | 132 ~ 302 | 65~71 | 63~69 | 39~41 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 2104 ~ 2845 | 182 ~ 378 | 71~77 | 69~75 | 41~43 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 2580 ~ 3343 | 225 ~ 448 | 77~83 | 75~81 | 43~46 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 3000 ~ 3623 | 265 ~ 498 | 83~89 | 81~87 | 46~48 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 3238 ~ 3947 | 295 ~ 548 | 89~94 | 87~92 | 48~50 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 3513 ~ 4391 | 325 ~ 578 | 94~99 | 92~98 | 50~53 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 3889 ~ 4839 | 345 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 98~99 | 53~55 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-2. =============================================================================== o-------------------------o | 2. Belias - the Gigas | o-------------------------o Mist Lv : 1 LP Cost : 10 Zodiac : Aries Element : Fire Location : The Tomb Of Raithwall #Limit Break - Hellfire .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 20 Atk: 61 | Recommended: > 15 | | HP: 15943 Def: 20 | Minimum Lv : > 12 | | LP: 15 Mag Res: 15 | Average Lv : > 12 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' * gain during playthrough -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Absorb | Water = Weak | | Thunder = Half | Ice = Half | | Wind = Half | Earth = Half | | Holy = Half | Dark = Half | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 890 ~ 1036 | 23 ~ 75 | 45~50 | 46~51 | 26~28 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 1026 ~ 1336 | 51 ~ 140 | 50~56 | 51~57 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 1271 ~ 1708 | 91 ~ 212 | 56~62 | 57~63 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 1586 ~ 2060 | 132 ~ 302 | 62~68 | 63~69 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 1884 ~ 2625 | 182 ~ 378 | 68~74 | 69~75 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 2360 ~ 3123 | 225 ~ 448 | 74~80 | 75~81 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 2780 ~ 3403 | 265 ~ 498 | 80~86 | 81~87 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 3018 ~ 3727 | 295 ~ 548 | 86~91 | 87~92 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 3293 ~ 4171 | 325 ~ 578 | 91~97 | 92~98 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 3668 ~ 4673 | 345 ~ 587 | 97~99 | 98~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-3. =============================================================================== o----------------------------------o | 3. Chaos - Walker of the Wheel | o----------------------------------o Mist Lv : 3 LP Cost : 90 Zodiac : Taurus Element : Multi Location : Necrohol Of Nabudis #Limit Break - Hurricane .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 57 Atk: 155 | Recommended: > 55 | | HP: 208966 Def: 56 | Minimum Lv : > 50 | | LP: 60 Mag Res: 37 | Average Lv : > 35 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' Before you can fight Chaos, you have to go through some little quests and get the apppointed keys. First of all, go Nabreus Deadlands to trigger the scene with Ma'Kleou. Afterwards, you need to obtain three fragments, below is the way for them: - Clear Wraith (rank E), White Mousse and Orthros (rank A) Mob Hunt missions. - Return to your client for rewards with the first fragment from Orthros mission, Blackened Fragment. With Sluice Gate Key which get from the reward of White Mousse hunting mission, back to Garamsythe Waterway, so that you can control the panel. In the central control section, you can see some spheres there which are the panel of 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th area waterway. To not be confused, light off all panels for first, then follow the steps below: - On No.11 Area Panel. (thats mean light up the panel) - On No.4 Area Panel. - Off No.11 Area Panel. - On No.3 Area Panel. - Off No.4 Area Panel. - Now go around South in the same area and find the shiny object on the ground which is another fragment that you need, Dull Fragment. NOT in the South section, it's still the semi-circle! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/Guide/fragment_gw.jpg If it's any wrong step you did, just light off all panel and start again. - In Rabanastre Downtown/Lowtown, head to Old Dalan's Place at South, talk to Roh'Kenmou near Dalan. - Still in Downtown/Lowtown, around South-East area, talk to Filo. - Go Rabanastre central section where known as Southern Plaza, talk to the Curious Women who's looking at the fountain. - Now go Bazaar section and speak with all merchants there and ask about the Necklace things until you get the answer. - Head to Magic shop and talk to the Sotted Imperial, the only soldier sitting in the left corner, choose first option twice. - Back down to Downtown/Lowtown and talk to Filo, choose lets go with Filo to return to Magic Shop for some events, you will get one more fragment after the scene, Grimmy Fragment. Before leaving for the next quest, back to Old Dalan's Palce in Downtown/Lowtown, pass all three fragments that you get to Roh'Kenmou, and he would disappear. - Since you had already met with Ma'Kleou, now go to The Imperial City Of Archades. - Within the Magic Shop, talk to Roh'Kenmu. - Move on to Old Archades West section, talk to Otto at the corner for the Moonsilver Medallion. - Return to Imperial City Of Archades, pass the Moonsilver Medallion to Roh'Kenmu in Magic Shop. After the quests above, you're getting closer to the esper. Now, - Go to Nabreus Deadlands and talk to Ma'Kleou. - Head to North-West section. Like you hunt Roblon (rank S), you have to go through the hidden path. Just go South from the Gate Crystal, following section search the North-West area for the path. - Go until you see something like monument to get Medallion Of Bravery, Love and lately obtain the Lusterless Medallion. Now move to Necrohol Of Nabudis, central West area, use Medallion Of Bravery to open the Door Of Horrors, defeat Humbaba Boss/Mistant optional boss. Head to North-East area, use the Medallion Of Love to open the Door Of Loathing and defeat Fury optional boss. Now the Lusterless Medallion become Mighty. Go to the central section, use the Medallion Of Might to open the Door of Despair and battle with this esper. *about Humbaba Boss/Mistant and Fury, you can look for them under "Optional Bosses" section. Check this map to find out the details of Nabudis: http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_nabudis.png Use Fury and Humbaba Boss/Mistant as your tests before the fight, if you couldn't handle these battles well, go train some more before fighting Chaos. Attack command was sealed, the worst thing. Prepare your Gambit system focus onto magic and skill uses, Telekinesis (Distance Attack for JP version) skill/ technick is recommended to replace your normal attack, you can buy it from the secret shop there (Nabudis) after Giruvegan event. As for magic, of cause the stronger is better, strongest Black Magic is Scathe (Collapse for JP version) which sell in the secret shop as well, buy it after Pharos at Ridorana if you need it. Cast support spell on your party, and recast them for the entire battle when they're gone, do remember Faith is to raise up the magic power. And needless to say, Dispel Chaos whenever he has support spells. Take down the 4 elemental Chaosjets before focus on Chaos. Chaos attacks are pretty stronge, recommend equip shield for this battle since you don't use any weapon attacks, unless you're using Telekinesis, so you need stronger weapons to boost up the damage to Chaos, if you're not using the Telekinesis technick style, just use the shields. Chaos can you Silence, and magics are the main attack for now, you must prepare Gambit to cure Silence all the time. Because of Chaos can absorb the elemental spells, remember just use the non-element spells to damage him. If you have lot of gil, use Gil Toss isn't a bad idea. Beside, you can also send him Slow and Sap. -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Immune | Water = Immune | | Thunder = Immune | Ice = Immune | | Wind = Absorb | Earth = Weak | | Holy = Immune | Dark = Immune | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 4315 ~ 4293 | 23 ~ 70 | 54~59 | 53~58 | 26~28 | 26~26 | | 11~20 | 4271 ~ 4581 | 51 ~ 140 | 59~65 | 58~64 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 4516 ~ 4953 | 91 ~ 212 | 65~71 | 64~70 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 4831 ~ 5305 | 132 ~ 302 | 71~77 | 70~76 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 5129 ~ 5870 | 182 ~ 378 | 77~83 | 76~82 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 5605 ~ 6368 | 225 ~ 448 | 83~89 | 82~88 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 6025 ~ 6648 | 265 ~ 498 | 89~95 | 88~94 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 6263 ~ 6972 | 295 ~ 548 | 95~99 | 94~99 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 6538 ~ 7416 | 325 ~ 578 | 99~99 | 99~99 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 6913 ~ 7981 | 345 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 99~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-4. =============================================================================== o--------------------------------------o | 4. Exodus/Ex-Death - the Judge-Sal | o--------------------------------------o Mist Lv : 2 LP Cost : 50 Zodiac : Libra Element : none Location : The Mosphoran Highwaste #Limit Break - Meteor .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 46 Atk: 97 | Recommended: > 45 | | HP: 199060 Def: 53 | Minimum Lv : > 40 | | LP: 52 Mag Res: 35 | Average Lv : > 28 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' After story reaching to Phon Coast, camp section, back to Mosphoran Highwaste only you can find this esper. From the Gate Crystal section: - Prepare some Gysahl Green. - Activate the South-South Wind Shrine, it's South from the shop. - Now you can see an exclamation mark in the map screen. Go North-East from the Gate Crystal section. - Give a Gysahl Green to the chocobo so you can ride it. - Cross over the exclamation mark to West by using that chocobo. - In West area, activate the West-West Wind Shrine there, then push down the rock beside can back to Gate Crystal section. - Activate North-West Wind Shrine which is around the shop. - Now you can see two more exclamation marks in the map screen, they're around West area, cross over them will reach to the arena. Can't use item for this battle. He has around 100,000 Hp, always like to cast Reflect. One way to delay him is let one of your character always Dispel his Reflect, so he will keep recasting it back, then use other characters to hit him. Just beware of Collapse/Scathe spell which can damage all your characters, he know to cast Flare and has absorb HP attack as well. Sometimes, he will build a magic barrier when he was Critical HP. Since he loves to play with Reflection, if you got some stronge magic like Scourage, Collapse/Scathe, why not you play Reflect with him. Cast Reflect on your party, cast Collapse/Scathe on your party. So now you can see even you're facing an only target, but your spell can strike more then once time on the opponent, depends on how many active characters you have, each of characters reflect one strike of the spell. And do remember not cast Curaja and other support spells on your team, otherwise they will be sent to your opponent, however, equip Opal Ring for the character who's going to cast these spells can still works as normal. This trick works with other spell which can damage all enemies, and of cause it works on many other enemies, bosses fights which I didn't mention. -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Half | Water = Half | | Thunder = Half | Ice = Half | | Wind = Half | Earth = Half | | Holy = Half | Dark = Half | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 2820 ~ 2978 | 23 ~ 70 | 53~58 | 46~51 | 26~28 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 2956 ~ 3266 | 51 ~ 140 | 58~64 | 51~57 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 3201 ~ 3638 | 91 ~ 212 | 64~70 | 57~63 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 3516 ~ 3990 | 132 ~ 302 | 70~76 | 63~69 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 3813 ~ 4555 | 182 ~ 378 | 76~82 | 69~75 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 4290 ~ 5053 | 225 ~ 448 | 82~88 | 75~81 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 4710 ~ 5333 | 265 ~ 498 | 88~94 | 81~87 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 4948 ~ 5657 | 295 ~ 548 | 94~99 | 87~92 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 5223 ~ 6101 | 325 ~ 578 | 99~99 | 92~98 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 5598 ~ 6603 | 345 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 98~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-5. =============================================================================== o--------------------------------o | 5. Famfrit - Darkening Cloud | o--------------------------------o Mist Lv : 3 LP Cost : 90 Zodiac : Aquarius Element : Water Location : Pharos At Ridorana #Limit Break - Tsunami .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 52 Atk: 145 | Recommended: > 52 | | HP: 149060 Def: 56 | Minimum Lv : > 48 | | LP: 52 Mag Res: 37 | Average Lv : > 35 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' * gain during playthrough (you have to fight this and Dr. Cid together) -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Fire | Water = Absorb | | Thunder = Immune | Ice = Immune | | Wind = Immune | Earth = Immune | | Holy = Immune | Dark = Immune | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 3860 ~ 4018 | 23 ~ 70 | 54~59 | 53~58 | 26~28 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 3996 ~ 4306 | 51 ~ 140 | 59~65 | 58~64 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 4241 ~ 4678 | 91 ~ 212 | 65~71 | 64~70 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 4556 ~ 5030 | 132 ~ 302 | 71~77 | 70~76 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 4836 ~ 5595 | 182 ~ 378 | 77~83 | 76~82 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 5330 ~ 6039 | 225 ~ 448 | 83~89 | 82~88 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 5750 ~ 6373 | 265 ~ 498 | 89~95 | 88~94 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 5988 ~ 6697 | 295 ~ 548 | 95~99 | 94~99 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 6263 ~ 7141 | 325 ~ 578 | 99~99 | 99~99 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 6638 ~ 7643 | 345 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 99~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-6. =============================================================================== o---------------------------------o | 6. Hashmal - Bringer of Order | o---------------------------------o Mist Lv : 2 LP Cost : 50 Zodiac : Leo Element : Earth Location : Pharos At Ridorana #Limit Break - Gaia's Wrath .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 50 Atk: 80 | Recommended: > 48 | | HP: 209060 Def: 50 | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | LP: 52 Mag Res: 33 | Average Lv : > 32 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' * gain during playthrough -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Immune | Water = Immune | | Thunder = Immune | Ice = Immune | | Wind = Weak | Earth = Absorb | | Holy = Immune | Dark = Immune | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 2360 ~ 2518 | 23 ~ 70 | 52~57 | 48~53 | 26~28 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 2496 ~ 2806 | 51 ~ 140 | 57~63 | 53~59 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 2741 ~ 3178 | 91 ~ 212 | 63~69 | 59~65 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 3056 ~ 3530 | 132 ~ 302 | 69~75 | 65~71 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 3354 ~ 4095 | 182 ~ 378 | 75~81 | 71~77 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 3830 ~ 4593 | 225 ~ 448 | 81~87 | 77~83 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 4250 ~ 4873 | 265 ~ 498 | 87~93 | 83~89 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 4488 ~ 5197 | 295 ~ 548 | 93~98 | 89~94 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 4763 ~ 5641 | 325 ~ 578 | 98~99 | 94~99 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 5138 ~ 6143 | 344 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 99~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-7. =============================================================================== o---------------------------o | 7. Mateus - the Corrupt | o---------------------------o Mist Lv : 1 LP Cost : 25 Zodiac : Pisces Element : Ice Location : The Stillshrine Of Miriam #Limit Break - Frostwave .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 30 Atk: 65 | Recommended: > 28 | | HP: 34259 Def: 39 | Minimum Lv : > 25 | | LP: 27 Mag Res: 25 | Average Lv : > 20 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' * gain during playthrough -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Half | Water = Half | | Thunder = Weak | Ice = Absorb | | Wind = Half | Earth = Half | | Holy = Half | Dark = Half | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 1000 ~ 1158 | 23 ~ 70 | 50~55 | 46~51 | 34~36 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 1136 ~ 1446 | 51 ~ 140 | 55~61 | 51~57 | 36~38 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 1381 ~ 1818 | 91 ~ 212 | 61~67 | 57~63 | 38~41 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 1696 ~ 2170 | 132 ~ 302 | 67~73 | 63~69 | 41~43 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 1994 ~ 2735 | 182 ~ 378 | 73~79 | 69~75 | 43~45 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 2470 ~ 3223 | 225 ~ 448 | 79~85 | 75~81 | 45~48 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 2890 ~ 3513 | 265 ~ 498 | 85~91 | 81~92 | 48~51 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 3128 ~ 3837 | 295 ~ 548 | 91~96 | 92~97 | 51~52 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 3403 ~ 4281 | 325 ~ 578 | 96~99 | 97~98 | 52~55 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 3778 ~ 4783 | 345 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 98~99 | 55~57 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-8. =============================================================================== o---------------------------------------o | 8. Queklain/Cuchulainn - the Impure | o---------------------------------------o Mist Lv : 2 LP Cost : 50 Zodiac : Scorpio Element : Poison Location : Garamsythe Waterway #Limit Break - Blight .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 45 Atk: 83 | Recommended: > 48 | | HP: 126165 Def: 47 | Minimum Lv : > 45 | | LP: 50 Mag Res: 31 | Average Lv : > 30 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' Require finish Wraith (rank E) and White Mousse (rank A) Mob Hunt missions first, obtain Sluice Gate Key and back here. From the first central area with the Save Crystal, you should see some spheres here, they're the panels of 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th area, - First, switch on No. 3 and 10 Area Panel. (thats mean light up the panel) - From here to South-West and switch on the No. 1 Area Panel there. - Back to central, off No. 3 and 10 Area Panel, on No. 4 and 11 Area Panel. - From here to South-East and switch on another No. 1 Area Panel. - Back to central, off No. 11 Area Panel, on No. 3 Area Panel. Which means No. 3 and 4 Area Panel is on. - Save your game before the battle, it wasn't an easy fight. - From here, directly to South, down to the square area to face this esper. You will get HP decrease in the entire battle, other than Curaja spells, also prepare some X-potion to heal in case of no MP. Always cure the negative status such as Immobilize, Disable, Sap and more, and these statuses would be send to the entire party, means you should have Esunaga spell for this fight. Sometimes he will Slow all your characters too, just recast Hastega to cover it. But the main problem is Disable, you should prepare the Black Belt accessory for this, the nearest shop can buy it is the item & accessory shop in Downtown/Lowtown, buy one or two from there if you haven't got it. Some Foobar enemies will also join the battle, should finish off them first. Remember Mist Knack/Quickening can damage all enemies, make sure be the best combo. Use some Ether to restore your MP after Mist Knack/Quickening, do it again when you have enough MP. By the way, you could steal a Scorpio Gem from this esper. -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Half | Water = Half | | Thunder = Half | Ice = Half | | Wind = Half | Earth = Half | | Holy = Half | Dark = Half | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 2320 ~ 2478 | 23 ~ 70 | 51~56 | 46~51 | 26~28 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 2455 ~ 2766 | 51 ~ 140 | 56~62 | 51~57 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 2701 ~ 3138 | 91 ~ 212 | 62~68 | 57~63 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 3016 ~ 3490 | 132 ~ 302 | 68~74 | 63~69 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 3314 ~ 4055 | 182 ~ 378 | 74~80 | 69~75 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 3789 ~ 4553 | 225 ~ 448 | 80~86 | 75~81 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 4210 ~ 4833 | 265 ~ 498 | 86~92 | 81~87 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 4448 ~ 5157 | 295 ~ 548 | 92~97 | 87~92 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 4723 ~ 5601 | 325 ~ 578 | 97~99 | 92~98 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 5098 ~ 6103 | 345 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 98~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-9. =============================================================================== o--------------------------------o | 9. Shemhazai - the Whisperer | o--------------------------------o Mist Lv : 2 LP Cost : 50 Zodiac : Sagittarius Element : Soul Location : Ancient City Of Giruvegan #Limit Break - Soul Purge .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 45 Atk: 73 | Recommended: > 45 | | HP: 91136 Def: 47 | Minimum Lv : > 40 | | LP: 47 Mag Res: 31 | Average Lv : > 30 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' * gain during playthrough -------------------------------------------- | Elemental Effects | |------------------------------------------| | Fire = Weak | Water = Normal | | Thunder = Normal | Ice = Normal | | Wind = Normal | Earth = Normal | | Holy = Normal | Dark = Normal | -------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== | Leveling up statistic | ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Level | HP Variation | MP Variation | Str. | Mag. | Vit. | Spd. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1~10 | 2430 ~ 2588 | 23 ~ 70 | 51~56 | 46~51 | 26~28 | 26~28 | | 11~20 | 2565 ~ 2876 | 51 ~ 140 | 56~62 | 51~57 | 28~30 | 28~30 | | 21-30 | 2811 ~ 3248 | 91 ~ 212 | 62~68 | 57~63 | 30~33 | 30~33 | | 31~40 | 3126 ~ 3600 | 132 ~ 302 | 68~74 | 63~69 | 33~35 | 33~35 | | 41~50 | 3424 ~ 4165 | 182 ~ 379 | 74~80 | 69~75 | 35~37 | 35~37 | | 51~60 | 3900 ~ 4663 | 225 ~ 448 | 80~86 | 75~81 | 37~40 | 37~40 | | 61~70 | 4320 ~ 4943 | 265 ~ 498 | 86~92 | 81~89 | 40~42 | 40~42 | | 71~80 | 4558 ~ 5267 | 295 ~ 548 | 92~97 | 89~92 | 42~44 | 42~44 | | 81~90 | 4833 ~ 5711 | 325 ~ 578 | 97~99 | 92~98 | 44~47 | 44~47 | | 91~99 | 5208 ~ 6213 | 344 ~ 587 | 99~99 | 98~99 | 47~49 | 47~49 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8-10. =============================================================================== o--------------------------------o | 10. Ultima - the High Seraph | o--------------------------------o Mist Lv : 3 LP Cost : 90 Zodiac : Virgo Element : Holy Location : Crystal Grande/The Great Crystal #Limit Break - Perfect Ultima/Eschaton .--------- Esper Stats ---------.--- Lv to challenge ---. | Lv: 63 Atk: 147 | Recommended: > 60 | | HP: 258001 Def: 61 | Minimum Lv : > 56 | | LP: 65 Mag Res: 40 | Average Lv : > 35 | '-------------------------------'-----------------------' I strongely recommend to have Sage's Ring and White Mask for this Esper, aside from them, you need Ring of Renewal, Bubble Belt and Opal Ring for more advantages. After Ancient City Of Giruvegan event, back to the Crystal Grande part where only display a giant crystal in your map. When you just reach Crystal Grande, you were at teleport VIII, they are several ways to find this esper, I just list down one of them below, or reference this map for some helps: (check the second link if the first link doesn't work) db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_xii_crystal_grande_upper.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/sephiroth_y/crystal_map.jpg - From VIII you can see three ways here, one is up, one is down and another one was sealing by Gate Scorpio. Head to the up way and push the switch for Gate Scorpio. Now will start encounter some tough enemies on the way to the Ultima battle. - Back to VIII and unseal the Gate Scorpio, then cross over it. - Reach to IX, use it to X. - From X, following the only way here will reach XX. - XX platform has two sealing Gate Sagittarius, one way down, two ways up, another way is where you come from. - From where you come to XX, go to the opposite way which is leads you down, continue until the end and push the switch for Gate Sagittarius, then back to XX within time limit. - Unseal the Gate Sagittarius 2nd in XX platform, then cross over it. - Reach to XII, just use it will come to XIV. - In XIV platform, follow the leading to up way. Next platform push the switch for Gate Leo, then back to XIV. (time counting) - From XIV, take the way to down. - Until third platform the way branch to two, one leads to Gate Leo 2nd, another one is to Excalibur treasure (now you couldn't get it, return here later). Just follow the up way to unseal Gate Leo 2nd. - Here can see two more ways and a Gate Gemini, take anyone of the ways here will reach XV, take it to XVI. - In XVI platform, follow the middle way will see the switch for Gate Libra. (take note on your own for here, you will back here later) Push the switch and back to XVI. - From where you back to XVI, take the right way, it should leads you up. - Next platform, unseal the Gate Libra 1st and cross that way. - Now reach to a platform with three ways. From where you come, go to leftern way which also leads up. - Push the switch for Gate Capricorn, return to XVI. (time counting) - In XVI, take the only going down way will see Gate Capricorn 1st, pass it come to switch for Gate Virgo, here is also a sealing Gate Aquarius. - Push the switch for Gate Virgo (time counting) then return to XVI. - In XVI, head to the middle way which leads to Libra switch. - From Libra switch, follow the down way will see two sealing gate in next platform. Just unseal the Gate Virgo 2nd. - Next section, from where you come, go to the right way which leads to up. - Use XVII will reach XVIII. - In XVIII platform, follow the only way here will see a Save Crystal in next section. - Save Crystal section, here got three more ways. From where you come, left way goes to the switch for Gate Aquarius, right way leads to teleport XIX which warp back to XX, follow to the middle will battle against Ultima. Phew, finally... The esper has a bit more than 250,000 HP, defeat this esper will gain 65 LP. She will cast Holyja after 12 attacks, the 12 attacks including normal attack and Destrustion (named Redemption for US version). Like other Espers, her most powerful elemental move, Holyja could heavily damage all characters by using Holy elemental. Equip White Mask or Sage's Ring to absorb the Holyja, needless to s