FFXIII-2: Post Release Discussion

[niwaar]

Can't find it either. And going by people on other forums, neither can they.
Apparently the EU store is always this slow?

You don't have to actually look in the store though. XIII-2 is awesome that way, just hit the DLC menu button inside the game and you can purchase and install from there.

[Appie]

Tried that this afternoon, wasn't working.

[Ratatapa]

mmm thats how i did myself iwent into xiii-2 did DLC purcharsed lightning there and loaded my game, it auto unliocked the colosseum

[Blackice]

So humor the guy stuck at work; what all does the Lightning DLC include?

[Burningthought]

So humor the guy stuck at work; what all does the Lightning DLC include?

Amodar and Lightning crystals, and I found a treasure chest filled with monster upgrades.

[Maguspk]

Amodar can apparently drop a cool bangle according to one user who posted here earlier. Forgot what it does/is named though.

I'm also interested if anyone has information on exactly what can drop and what's there.

[Manf]

Amodar drops Sergeant's Badge (rarely) if Lightning is killed first. The badge is 66% strength, but halves your hp and gives you a continuous poison effect. Lightning drops Lightning Cross (rarely) if Amodar is killed first, and is 66% magic, half hp, and continuous poison; both are 100 equip capacity. They're not all that great unless you're farming fodder or something.

Edit: Forgot to mention that if you're somewhat buffed up the fight should only take around 2 minutes. That makes this fight a pretty decent spot to farm mana crystals (2 drop every fight I think, or I got extremely lucky). You might end up with a ton of them regardless if you're unlucky like me; took me almost 2 hours to catch Lightning. I was raginnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

[Jaxzer]

Still 0/15+ on lightning with no fragment skill. I went to the casino and scored a lucky coin instead, figures.

[Appie]

Think I am underleveled for the fight. I got about 230 levels spread across 6 jobs. Is this too low or am I doing something wrong? I can beat their cure spam, but just barely. I'd bother to win if the crystals for pet usage were 100%, but not like this. Looking at a 30min fight atm. All paradigms involved a SEN pet fulltime, because fuck tanking those two on a melee job.

[Gokulo]

Yeah, 230 sound rather weak. I think something @350+ would be nice.

[Appie]

Ah ok, thanks. Needed the grind anyway, since I got to chapter 6 again.

[Melena]

How did you come up with Phoenix Arrow :D

Bleh whatever Serah's ultimate is called. I'm at work, can't look it up lol

[Alkar]

ftfy

This is what was considered their "main" role in XIII iirc. Sazh gets Haste the earliest. Snow is a powerhouse for a SEN and Hope not only fits the role of background healer well in stats and abilities but also how he acts ingame =)

@MoogleAura

Spoiler: show

Yeah, 30-40mins is pretty standard for not being overleveled.

edit: lol had to manual search the DLC (I tried that this afternoon too) to get it to show up. Why is the EU store so shit (or at least the UK one?) On the US store I can just go to the option "Search all by title", select a letter and done, yet there is nothing like that on the EU store, if I want a trailer, a theme or whatever I need to browse seperate menu's. Am I missing something or is this just stupid?

Their special attacks say otherwise.
Also Snow is a Commando in Sunleth Waterscape 300 AF.
Anyway I had to manually search for the DLC as well. It was up on the Store and the game couldn't find it.

[miokomioko]

Snow is only a Commando in Sunleth because he's invincible. He's not going to be provoking everything and taking hits for you as an extra character. His XIII incarnation was best at Sentinel, and given that was the version of Lightning they chose, that's probably going to be the case if they decide to put in more familiar character battles.

[Ratatapa]

Any way to make specific mobs pops more often?

I got the skill that makes mobs pops more often but in Bhodum 700AF trying to pop the silver cactuar a 2nd time, but after 30min of running around still no silver cactuar

[miokomioko]

Similarly, I have only seen a Flowering Cactuar once in Archelyte Steppe ???, near the Chichu flowers and I can't seem to find it ever since...

[Lonely]

Similarly, I have only seen a Flowering Cactuar once in Archelyte Steppe ???, near the Chichu flowers and I can't seem to find it ever since...

Flowering cactuar can be found near the gate you enter the arch the first time. It has to be sunny. I found them all the time with encounter + and the skill that makes stronger monsters appear more.

I think the best roles for the other character would be.
Snow - SEN
Hope - SYN
Sazh - COM
Vanille - MED
Fang - SAB
It make sense since everyone was proficient at these role and it spreads them nicely, there ATB move doesn't have to be tied to there role. I see nothing wrong with a medic casting death as a feral move. You could argue Fang should be the COM but Sazh blitz is unique enough to warrant him as a COM while Fang and Vanille were the only sabs, but vanille is a much more defined medic than sab.

[Spira]

How did you come up with Phoenix Arrow :D

Serah does kinda resemble Athena.. i suppose


..Oerba, don't fret over it, it'll be accessible in 400AF (somewhere around that age).

final boss took me well over 1hr my first time and i couldn't kill it. my set up was too weak.
i'd say 30-40min is the average time, but if you're well leveled then you can take him to 0 pretty fast i think. i know at 50% or less he will always use Dying Sun at least once i think.. I think if you're totally maxed out killing him before he can respawn the other 2 is definitely possible, but if you're just a little overpowered, u're looking at killing the babies twice.

[Kamil]

Fast way to get CP or levels?

[Tyrath]

Still really early in the game. Just got Svarog. Noticed it had a move shooting off in its Crystarium (Quick Stagger). How do I get it? D: