Farming spots

[Akiyama]

I'm like 0/8 on Turtles for traps so far. Shitsux

[Elcura]

Same here, I might just invest in Ethersols because getting TP back sucks ass.

[Julian]

I got like 4 traps today <_< it's really not that bad.

Ingots drop too slow though :/ I can't even get one ultimate weapon to * ~_~

[Julian]

Aside from the luck factor (Roar), Long Guis are actually pretty fun once you know how to take them down.

Meh.

I got hit with that retarded roar so many times I just gave up, because shit like ultima would randomly kill me too <_<

I'm just doing regular turtles until I get more money. The only thing I'm worried about is that if I cap out on the Crystallium, farming upgraded turtles wont be as fun since I'm not getting any CP out of it :/

[Appie]

I'm like 0/8 on Turtles for traps so far. Shitsux

1/50 for first trapezo, then about 1/10 for second. Got like 20 ingots on those 60, so that's not too bad. Second Trapezo still rotting in inventory since I don't care enough yet about the weapons of the other 3 after using the trick with my first trapezo.

Wondering if I should sell my growth egg for the 250k. I'm close to 999k on the crystarium and all 6 capped. What does growth egg dismantle into? XD The only thing keeping me from selling it is SE going: Hiya here is lv11 crysta in this DLC! Go take on Titan!

[Elcura]

What route are people using to take on turtles? I'm trying to find a good route that allows me to kill turtles while farming easier mobs for TP. So far, I can only think of going in circles around that area with all the Adamantoise (near the place you get the Cactuar cutscene), but is there another worthwhile area?

[Nightraid]

What shops sells Ethersols?
Im sure none of them sell it :/ Im not on right now so cant look

[Gokulo]

Yup, you can't buy them.

[Elcura]

Oh... I thought Eden Pharmaceuticals sold them. But I guess not, lol.

[Atreides]

I can't even figure out which enemies drop them, since the guide doesn't list which Shrouds drop from which enemies (unless it's just random).

The "easiest" way to get them is to buy a speed sash (5k) and upgrade it to an energy sash (mnar stone), then upgrade and dismantle that. This will run you over 65k though, so eh

[Atreides]

What route are people using to take on turtles? I'm trying to find a good route that allows me to kill turtles while farming easier mobs for TP. So far, I can only think of going in circles around that area with all the Adamantoise (near the place you get the Cactuar cutscene), but is there another worthwhile area?

do you mean the easy admanchelids, or Adamantortoise?

For adamanchelids, you can run back and forth between the Turtle in the little alcove in the northwest (just to the west of the foggy area with the behemoths, it guard a treasure sphere) and the turtle just to the east of the same behemoth area that stands on a ledge. There are 2 cactuars there, one behind the east Adamanchelid, and one equidistant between the two turtles.

For admantortoise I've just been using the save point in the valley leading to that north area with turtles, killing the big turtle, then killing the 3 little ones for TP, then saving/resetting (which doesn't really bother me since I just reset if I dont get a plat/trap anyway).

As for the TP thing mentioned earlier btw, with certain weapons (listed below) you can equip 3 accessories and get "Gestalt/TP Boost" which makes the TP Gauge rise faster. Since 2 of these accessories are Energy Sash and Champion's badge (both of which restore TP after killing/victory), adding one more (Survivalist Catalog, Hunter's Friend, or Speed Sash) will give you a 3rd TP boosting ability on that character.

works with

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Hauteclaire/Durandal
Lionheart/Ultima Weapon
Rigels/Polaris Specials
Procyons/Betelgeuse Customs
Unsetting Sun/Midnight Sun
Alicanto/Caladrius
Heavenly Axis/Abraxas
Taming Pole/Venus Gospel

[Elcura]

Mostly for Adaman(tor)toise, I like to find a route that I don't have to reset on, because I want to farm CP as well.

[Kaslo]

Finally upgraded all the weapons for Treasure Hunter. Now I just need to do accessories. These adamantoise need to drop more ingots. ; ;

I am actually feeling like I get better money on Perfumes/Scarletites in Eden >.>

[Akiyama]

1/50 for first trapezo, then about 1/10 for second. Got like 20 ingots on those 60, so that's not too bad. Second Trapezo still rotting in inventory since I don't care enough yet about the weapons of the other 3 after using the trick with my first trapezo.

Wondering if I should sell my growth egg for the 250k. I'm close to 999k on the crystarium and all 6 capped. What does growth egg dismantle into? XD The only thing keeping me from selling it is SE going: Hiya here is lv11 crysta in this DLC! Go take on Titan!

Haha. Nice. What'd you do? Take that trapa, level up a weapon to the cap and dismantle it for three?

[Julian]

Uh, I kill the 2 big ones in that north valley area, where there's 3 small ones, save, then reset to respawn them.

But I don't use TP, if you do, you can kill the 3 tortoises and the cactuar for some TP I guess. You should try killing them without TP sometime, I remember that, at least how I progressed, I spent very little time in the "use TP to kill" phase, before becoming powerful enough to kill them without it.

I think I might try Perfumes sometimes, but this spot isn't really that bad for me. I get 1/2 ingots about 60% of the time, 0 20%ish, and 2/2 20%ish? Either way I'm accumulating a decent chunk of change, while farming traps at the same time. Kills take at most 3 minutes, with a little bit of walking time, I can probably kill two and reset in 8minutes tops, so I kill around 15~20 an hour, er, I think it's a little bit closer to 20, but yeah.

[Elcura]

I think I can kill them without TP, but I haven't got a good strat down for that yet. Hell, I'm barely comfortable with my TP kill. I can survive about 3-4 stomps on Fang and Lightning, but Hope can only survive 2 before he's critical, and usually that's when I summon (after buffing up).

[Akiyama]

Just got my first trap. Like 1/10.. not too bad at all for the first one.

Anyway, I kill without TP on the middle teir.

Setup:

Fang with Venus Gospel Maxed, Genji Glove, Power Glove Maxed, and two maxed out Black Belts.
Hope with a growth egg (still need exp), a maxed out black belt, and whatever the maxed out next up version is for damage reduction, and a genji glove (since he hits 99999 more than my Lightning sometimes)
Lightning with the rare item/normal item drop rate items, and two defense ups. She's only got around 1854 STR compared to Hope's 2100+ magic, so she doesn't use the genji glove at the moment. She's only gone through two of her trees too, the Medic is level 4, and the rest are level 0 D: I don't level much.

Anyway.. now that I have a trap, I wonder if I should go the 'max out one weapon, convert it to get more than one trap' thing.

[Atreides]

speaking of growth egg, is it a lot harder to win the Neochu fight with Death than it is to beat Adamantoise using Death? I assume the little dudes wailing on you is a pain but I was able to kill an Ochu during Crystarium Stage 8, it just took a while, so should I be able to do it?

[Kyo]

That treasure trophy seems kind of ridiculous, more than likely will be what keeps me from a platinum. Alot of stuff early in the game I sold off and didnt bother upgrading because it seemed useless. I normally dont try to platinum games, but really wanted to try to get one on XIII since I have enjoyed the game so much. Would be super useful if there was a checklist online or something.

[Tyrath]

That treasure trophy seems kind of ridiculous, more than likely will be what keeps me from a platinum. Alot of stuff early in the game I sold off and didnt bother upgrading because it seemed useless. I normally dont try to platinum games, but really wanted to try to get one on XIII since I have enjoyed the game so much. Would be super useful if there was a checklist online or something.

From what i understand you can still buy most of the stuff that appears in the game and upgrade them to their fullest at the end to get trophy.