Farming spots

[Kyo]

stagger lock means that you can get up to 99.9% of the chain gauge, but you can't push it over into staggered yourself. Generally Stagger Lock weapons have higher stats to make up for this drawback

Oh ok, well the game doesnt exactly explain it that well, from the decription one could draw the assumption I drew from it, thanks for the clarification.

Coupled with lionheart wouldnt matter anyway.

[Tyrath]

Yep, I've decided to go with Lionheart and Taming pole for ultimates. Really dont know what I'll be doing with others but I just started Ch13 and have no more traps so I have some time to figure it out I guess.

[Ronfar]

You're talking about (with 3 kaiser knuckles) the difference between 3826 total STR with Taming Pole and 3867 total STR with Dragoon Lance; it really doesn't matter lol

The difference between the Power glove and Kaiser Knuckle is 50 STR and they make a huge difference in Fangs attacks as a Com. So the 40 between the 2 is a big deal to me lol.

The Dragoons Lance is my prerogative. My Fang rapes faces hardcore, any mob around 700%+ stagger she's hitting for 200k-400k a swing

[Atreides]

yea I never say you made a bad choice, just that between those 2 it doesn't really matter what you choose

[Ronfar]

Nah its cool, didn't take it the wrong way.

[Sarial]

Starred an Enkindler. Light seems to be way weaker than Fang--making me think about doing Lionheart for Ultimate instead. Input? I've seen people argue back and forth but I haven't seen a definite answer, and I don't really want to spend the time to experiement, lol.

Edit: Also, Perfumes for gil. Edenhall Cie'th?

[Dezso]

l.

Edit: Also, Perfumes for gil. Edenhall Cie'th?

Yep, and also the soldiers as well for chips.

[Atreides]

I normally don't like killing the soldiers because then you have to run back twice as far to zone into Edenhall to respawn them (or restart at the save point) or kill the juggernaut and zone south which takes forever, so I usually just end up killing the Sacrifices and skipping the soldiers, although either way I tend to think it's worse money than platinum but that just might be my luck. I guess it's a lot more mindless since you never have to change paradigms and can just spam x really, but eh.

[Sarial]

Plats right now are pretty ineffective since I have to death-trick them.

[Atreides]

btw, does anyone know how far you can get in Orphan's Cradle once you beat the game? I kinda want to get back to the Tesseracts so I can farm those fast soldier templar dudes with the spears, since I need like 9 perovskites to finish my upgrades and I really don't want to pay close to 500k gil for them

[Eggroll]

Don't think you can redo anything in the last dungeon after you've cleared it once. It basically just 7 sacrifice mobs + the portals.

[Atreides]

ah lame, I guess I'm just farming gil then

[Atreides]

Just a quick tip, for those farming Shao Long Guis for dark matter:

Save your game at the save point in the north-center of the map (the part that normally has 2 adamantortoises blocking the paths north), then sneak around the east side of the Long Gui (the big one). There are 3 Shao Long Guis in the field here.

When you're done, sneak back around the Long Gui and hug the right wall past the save point, you're heading to the cliff just above and to the west of the save point where an Adamanchelid used to guard a treasure sphere, now there's 1 Shao Long Gui here.

Then you can repeat the process without zoning/reloading and the 3 Shao Long Guis in the northern part of the map should have respawned, and then the 1 back west of the save point, etc. Saves a lot of time reloading. The Long Gui will never move so you don't have to worry about it aggroing.



I've killed 53 Shao Long Guis so far, gotten 14 Gold Nuggets and 11 Dark Matter. Enough to upgrade all the items I need for Treasure Hunter, 4 Kaiser Knuckles, 3 Magistral Crests, and 3 Imperial Armlets. I'm contemplating farming another 3 so I can have another 3 Imperial Armlets but meh, we'll see how it goes.

[jimbo]

i got the 5 dark matter and 6 traps i needed to get every item..and then i lost all motivation to farm the 1.5-2mil left that i would need to upgrade everything D:

[Atreides]

phew, after 76 shao long guis I finally am capped on dark matter (17, got 2 extra on my last 2 kills) and netted 16 gold nuggets.

Now I only need 5 adamantites, 19 perovskites, 10 uraninites, and a few million gil to finish everything off! -.-

[Drunkenmonk]

are turtles worth farming after you cap out on traps?

[Atreides]

if you're lucky with Platinum Ingots yeah, I guess you can sell extra Traps for 10k as well. Personally I feel like it's better money than perfumes but you actually have to pay attention with turtles so you can't do other stuff while you spam X lol

[Viq]

i got the 5 dark matter and 6 traps i needed to get every item..and then i lost all motivation to farm the 1.5-2mil left that i would need to upgrade everything D:

I'm sort of in the same boat. I finished dark matter farming last night, but still need 3 traps (1 if I decide to dump money and dismantle). I've still got 8 missions left to 5-star, but after those are done, I'm really not feeling farming a couple mil to upgrade random accessories that I never use. At least all the other trophy stuff is out of the way aside from those these last two.

[Kayos]

I guess I am the exception, but I had 6+ traps WAY before I had the gil to actually upgrade them. Currently every member has final stage weapons, with 4/6 being maxed. Yet I only have 1 dark matter because I can't seem to get that to drop...Thinking about just farming and buying them, if only I didn't need so many.

[Atreides]

Also since you have to zone anyway to respawn the Adamantortoise in Archlyte Steppe, it takes exactly 5 minutes to run to the teleport stone in the northwest, teleport to Sulya Springs, activate mission 63, and run back.

So basically my farming run was:
1. Teleport to Sullya Springs, avoid aggro and run a short ways to the Mission 63 cieth stone, activate it and teleport back to northern Archlyte Steppe.

2. Kill the cactuar for a chance at a doll (COM/RAV/SYN), then hop on a choco and dig on the way to the save point by the adamantoise area. (you can pause/select to skip the mount/dismount/dig animations lol)

3. Kill the Adamantortoise guarding the path (the one that's normally there).

4. Kill the Adamantortoise for the mission, for a guaranteed gold nugget on top of normal drops. Unfortunately the mission being active despawns the Adamanchelids, unless you save/restart.

5. Run back towards the Teleport stone, killing the 1 cactuar south of the behemoth area for a doll, and the adamanchelid west of that for gold dust, and the cactuar by the northwest save point.

Repeat.

It's not faster than respawning/killing the turtle in Eden, even if you use the summon or summon/death trick, but it's a bit less boring than saving/quitting in archlyte over and over.

I'm also trying to think about a way to farm in The Faultwarrens either off of Mission 41 (3 chances at Tonberry Figure drop and 1 guaranteed from repeating the mission, ~30k each) or the Flowering Cactuars in the serpentine path area (they drop ribbons which don't sell for much but you only get 1 iirc).

I was thinking Mission 35 -> Mission 36 -> Mission 38 -> Mission 42 and then killing the Cactuars/Borgbears would be good for CP and ribbons. 35->36->38->41 and warping back *might* be good for gil if you could get a preemptive strike on the tonberries without deceptisol.