Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

[Kiarax]

Aqua's best shotlock has analogue stick spin, lol. Have fun grindan that Mirage Arena for it though.

[Charismatic]

"best" is really situation specific and most of the time thunderstorm is best because when shotlocks matter you want one with very few locks like that.

[Kiarax]

Okay yeah, using shotlock specifically for dodging makes Thunderstorm the best. For damage purposes Shiny Bloom (or whatever the hell they localized it to) tops it. Shame there's no other cooler shotlocks with 5 charges. Bio Barrage is 8 but is basically the same shit with green orbs instead of lightning. I want one of the awesome ones that make you dash all over the place, those are rad as fuck.

[Charismatic]

Lightning Ray is an easy one to get and does that, or at least it was easy to get with Terra... dunno about with the other folks 'cause I didn't really care much for shotlocks since I really never use em.

EDIT: Easy in the sense that I wasn't even trying to get it and yet I have it.

[Sey]

Aqua has Absolute Zero that does that.
I think the chest that gives it is in the first world or something.

And for anyone that may care, Exp Walker is ~180xp/minute (found out by using two rubber bands and making aqua run in circle).
It also stacks with Exp Chance, bringing it to about ~330xp.

Anyone know a decent leveling spot for Aqua? Tried in deep space in the area where there are about 4 waves of mob + a blob, but eh, even with mega flare x2 and pose x2 / exp chance it was 8k at best per run.
Thinking of trying never land and mickey d-link but haven't tried yet.

[Tobi]

Neverland is best spot for exp, at least from what I've heard. Either that or the Tornados in Keyblade Graveyard, but pretty sure Neverland is better.


And fuck, Aqua is a damn Powerhouse... Her Magic spells are owning shit, and her Melee is decent, too. I had no clue how awesome the Mine spells are, I fucking love these, lol. Also, anyone know the wait time for Megaflare with all Magic Haste abilities equipped? I don't have the spell yet, but seems the timer is pretty damn long without Magic Haste, and even with it, you still have to wait a bit, which is understandable since it's best spell in the game afterall.

[Insanecyclone]

The amount of damage you can do with a high leveled Terra is absurd. Damage isn't as much on bosses but grunt unversed just die so damn fast with just a couple of hits.

[Hyan]

Wtf is this shit. Unavoidable attacks that kill you if you're lower than 90% hp? Cool.

[Gokulo]

Hehe, go grind up a bit First time I got there it would kill me with 100% hp so ;x

[Hyan]

Well, as soon as I came here to rant I won. Nice.

Easier than I thought, just had to use the Cinderella D-link for some magic mending action!

Really liking the difficulty on Proud mode. Much better than KH2.

[Tobi]

Damn... Aqua's Ghost Drive Command Style is pretty awesome too, but I'm still leaning towards Ven's Wingblade Command Style as best Command Style. I wonder if there's more or not, or is this the last one you get.

Got a lot of nice endgame spells and physical commands for Aqua. So far I'm liking Seeker Mine, Transcendence, Time Splicer, and Firaga Burst, all of them are so powerful and broken. I have Ice Barrage but haven't tried it out yet. Lvling up Crawling Fire now for Megaflare! Also, anyone know how Dark spells fare up against the Triple spells? I'm too lazy to make Dark Firaga to see, moreso I have no Munny to buy the spells I need to meld it.

Another thing, is there any point to Break Time command? Or is it just for fun?

[Kiarax]

Damn... Aqua's Ghost Drive Command Style is pretty awesome too, but I'm still leaning towards Ven's Wingblade Command Style as best Command Style. I wonder if there's more or not, or is this the last one you get.

She gets one from Mirage Arena too, it's kind of neat but not as good as Ghost Drive or Blade Charge.

Another thing, is there any point to Break Time command? Or is it just for fun?

Heals you (maybe gives focus too? Not certain). Pretty much useless on Terra and Aqua though. Ven can meld it in to Holy iirc, so it has some use for him.

[Sey]

Well...while looking up info on some decent exp spots I stumbled upon this japanese site:

kouryakutsushin.com/khbbs/

Under their "money/exp grinding" section there are quite a few decent spots, one of which I found to be the best as well as pretty much the easiest.

You'll need at least two mega flare, and possibly two victory pose (they are like 100 medals each at the moogle in mirage arena, they boost the exp/add some after you succesfuly kill something).
Next just go to the launch desk in deep space from the machinery bay access area, jump off and aggro the two mobs in middle of the room then jump on the nearest block and just spam mega flare/pose from there.

Most of the time you'll kill the monsters before they can touch you, but it may happens that one or two of the flying little robots won't die and try to kill you, just guard/retaliate accordingly~

With exp chance a "perfect" run gives ~7.8k, and it won't take more than 1 minute to clear the whole area.
Of course 3 mega flare do speed up the process a bit.

I'm 100% sure this works for Aqua and Ven.
It more than likely won't work with Terra tho, since he gets a different mob setup in that area.

[Gokulo]

Fuuuu, raging so bad at the last Arena fight :< My PM lv45 Terra gets his butt kicked so much... Any protips for that fight? >.<

[Charismatic]

Nope. I haven't touched the arena much... beat the game, beat the secret bosses (which were much easier than they appear to be) and now I'm done.
Maybe if I can get some people to play with I'll do more arena stuff but til then, nah.

[Tobi]

Fucking hate VLS, even though I was trying for fun. I need to figure out best way to damage him without having to worry about getting raped. I might have to use Ven for him and grind out some abilities and commands for him. I already figured out how to handle Mysterious Figure from watching his movesets the first time. I'm pretty sure VLS isn't exactly hard, I'm just going about it the wrong way.

[Charismatic]

After he fires that X shit off he's very open, also you can get behind him when he shot locks you and do some damage then, those are the main times I attacked.
The whole fight is basically hit and run though, guess that's why they gave him such a small amount of health.

[Kiarax]

He only seems to cure if you cure yourself too so... try and stick to using healing items, otherwise he'll just keep healing up that damage you do to him.

[Tobi]

Fuck yes! Damn that shit was crazy, holy fuck. Was like 25min fight, lol. Had to use Seeker Mines the whole time and lure him into them. I almost died at 3% since I Cartwheeled into a boulder, lol.

[Kiarax]

Lol, I just recorded a fight with him to show you how I did it. I guess I'll upload it and post it in a bit anyway. Pretty confident I could no-hit him but he got me a few times, didn't feel like rerecording it to try and get a perfect run. Would also be much faster if I wasn't too lazy to get more commands. I'm sure you could drop a fucking ton of his health whenever he tries to shotlock you if you were carrying multiple mines.