Farming spots

[Kaslo]

Anyone knows if drop+ accessories stack?

Anyone know how to read the thread?

[Celeras]

Drop rate on Traps? 0/22 with the rare catalog and its pissing me the fuck off, raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage. 7 ingots though ;/

[Akiyama]

Seems quite random, bro. I went 2/6 at one point, then about 0/20ish, then got another one after another. Hell, I went through and got more traps than ingots, but be blad you're getting those ingots. I need em like woah. I have 4 ultimate weapons, but not enough cash to upgrade em all. Just finished maxing out Fang's earlier. Gonna work on platinum this weekend. Have about 75ish hours or so in the game right now.

[Null]

Drop rate on Traps? 0/22 with the rare catalog and its pissing me the fuck off, raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage. 7 ingots though ;/

I've seen one in well over 100 kills. Thank god I'm not worried about other traps to much at the moment because I made three out of it. Just know I will need more in the future and it worries me.

[Tyrath]

Drop rate on Traps? 0/22 with the rare catalog and its pissing me the fuck off, raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage. 7 ingots though ;/

I was 6/28 with rare catalog. Now 1/4 common catalog <_<

[AoE]

First off i'm assuming you're post game, and have already (or are close to) maxing all character's primary 3 roles, and are at least decently equipped. There's a few very nice grind spots, but to date at this stage I haven't found a more efficient spot than Mission 24.

THE LOCATION:
Mission 24 is located in Taejin's tower fifth tier. To get here take the main elevator from the ground floor to the fourth tier, then a quick jog past the save point and take the second elevator to the fifth. The mission is right beside you, and the mark is 3-4 second's walk away.

The battle should take 10-30 seconds (depending on actual level) and yeild 12000cp (with growth egg) and a reward that sells for 6000 gil every time.

GEAR AND PARTY:
I go with Light/Snow/Fang. Paradigms set to Com/Com/Com

Perfect situation you want each character equiped with the following:

Aurora Scarf *
Sprint Shoes *
Morale Talisman *
And any other accessories of your choice (growth egg is a must on at least 1 character) for the other two i'd suggest "Power Glove *" or something similar for a nice +250 to strength.

So why those items? Well This will give each character...

First Strike (fully charged ATB guage at start)
Auto-Haste (Faster faster rolex!)
Auto-Bravery (An extra 25% damage, in turn 25% shorter battles)
ATB Rate +10% (Can't go wrong with this)

THE STRATEGY:
Since this is all about efficient killing as fast as possible you'll want your settings to be on Abilities as opposed to Auto-battle. The reason for this is you want to select blitz twice, and target the last Yakshini on the list for maximum area damage. (the other two party members will already be attacking before you can even confirm your attack menu's)

Within seconds both Yakshini will be dead, as soon as they are just tag Auto-battle on Mushussu as soon as you can, it'll be dead within seconds also.

SO...
That's my mini guide, it has a crazy return in CP and gil with the right setup, and when your close to maxing all characters the CP per hour is trully amazing.

And did i mention, about 25% of the time you get a preemptive and the battle lasts all of 2 seconds? =p

I haven't tried the other methods because I'm lazy. This method allows me to surf the web and watch shit without being too involved in the game because grinding is boring. The Adamantoise method is probably better but this method is more consistent than trying to use the Death method that's popular.

When I first started, my xp/hr was about 500k. After leveling a bunch, now it's about 800k/hr. This method is really for peepz who's characters aren't really strong enough to deal with the Brontosaurs reliably or who wanna turn their brain off to multi-task.

Edit - Also I haven't read the thread at all so if it's been posted already, my apologies.

[Militant]

I got 9 traps out of about 50-60 kills, and about 18ish platnium.

[Kyo]

I beat the game just so I could get my Lightning theme for ps3 :D

You get the lighting Theme for 5 staring the final boss, not beating the game, but it is an oh so glorious theme.

[Tyrath]

You get the lighting Theme for 5 staring the final boss, not beating the game, but it is an oh so glorious theme.

Well yes. I meant I rushed into finishing the game so I could get that trophy for the theme.

[Celeras]

I WANT TO BELIEVEEEEEEEEEE that titan quest spamming yields more upgrade pieces than Ingot farming to buy some. You get maybe 20ish Bomb Shells/Cores or whatever it is, and if you end with E-5 you get Particle Accelerator x7.

May end up being better than ingots for getting all the weapons to rank 2, especially with Ingot droughts that I always seem to get. What you think?

P.S. 5/6 all characters now, finally got my first trap -.-

[Hoss]

I WANT TO BELIEVEEEEEEEEEE that titan quest spamming yields more upgrade pieces than Ingot farming to buy some. You get maybe 20ish Bomb Shells/Cores or whatever it is, and if you end with E-5 you get Particle Accelerator x7.

May end up being better than ingots for getting all the weapons to rank 2, especially with Ingot droughts that I always seem to get. What you think?

P.S. 5/6 all characters now, finally got my first trap -.-

i didnt think it was better. takes too long to do all those missions. yes, they are nice to get while you do missions you need to do anyway, but if you are going for treasure hunter trophy you need a crapton of gil. with ultimate weapons and maxed crystarium, you can kill adamantoise in eden in 2 mins easy. 1:30 if you have tp for smn.

[Katlan]

It's pretty bad that I have just gotten to the final fight and have saved up 1m CP and have 5/6 roles fully capped. Getting Growth Egg in ch11 is hax lol.
Btw - do the final boss fights give CP, so I don't waste any for the last unlock?

[Tyrath]

It's pretty bad that I have just gotten to the final fight and have saved up 1m CP and have 5/6 roles fully capped. Getting Growth Egg in ch11 is hax lol.
Btw - do the final boss fights give CP, so I don't waste any for the last unlock?

They do not. And trust me, even getting it early it still saves you a lot of grinding later. Though I only did 3/6 max before the final boss.

[Kyo]

It's pretty bad that I have just gotten to the final fight and have saved up 1m CP and have 5/6 roles fully capped. Getting Growth Egg in ch11 is hax lol.
Btw - do the final boss fights give CP, so I don't waste any for the last unlock?

No they dont give CP, the last boss to give CP is the flying machine fight, very similar to the one rausch flew.

Edit: Sort of beaten.

[Katlan]

Ahh thanks! Didn't want to have max CP going into the last fight if i was just going to waste 100-200k CP.

[xxWiCKeDxx]

I just got to Chapter 11 beat Alexander and got to the save point and saw the Behemoth Kings around. I saved the game before taking a shot at the single one to the right of the save. I got a pre-emptive strike but couldnt even come close to killing it. Hurl and Sunder ripped me a new one lol. So at the point of the game Im at now where is the best place to grind some CP and get to the point where I can take Behemoth Kings etc?

[Tyrath]

I'm about to do mission 62 soon. Anyone have a good strategy for Long Guis and Shaolong guis? I have 5/6 roles maxed on everybody.

[Atreides]

for shaolong guis:

fang/light: 2 imperial/royal, str glove, genji gloves
hope: 2-3 imperial/royal, catalog, growth egg or whatever

1) SEN/SEN/SEN to absorb quake. As soon as you see the damage tick switch to

2) SAB/SAB/SYN. Manually spam Slow (since it's the 4th thing lightning casts) as Lightning starts Depro/Deshell on the mob.

Once the two of you have Deprotect, Deshell, Slow, and Imperial on the mob, start manually casting Daze. IMPORTANT: As soon as you see the Daze icon, press select/B to cancel the rest of teh attack queue so you don't break it. Daze lasts a while on its own, so you'll have plenty of time to buff/heal without interruption.

By this time Hope should have Haste on everyone. Switch to:

3) SYN/SYN/SYN: Manually put Bravera (not bravery) on Fang and Lightning. You can put protectra or shellra on them if you're feeling daring. As soon as both of them have Bravera switch to:

4) MED/MED/MED and heal to full. It should only take about 2 seconds. Mob should still be dazed. Switch to:

5) SAB/RAV/RAV and continue spamming Daze as your RAVs stagger it. Hopefully you get a few procs to keep the mob from doing much attacking during the staggering phase. You can try to land Curse for the next part but eh. As soon as it staggers (or a half turn or so into the stagger, since the next paradigm only has 1 RAV) switch to:

6) COM/COM/RAV and go to town. Fang and Light should be airborne for most of this so quake shouldnt worry you too much.

All you really have to do is Auto-attack and watch for the red text from the mob. No matter what it is immediately and quickly switch to SEN/SEN/SEN-- you'll have very little time if it's Bay, and if you're too slow on this it'll Quake right after and might kill off some people. If it's Ultima, note that you take damage from this twice-- a little at first and a lot a second or two later, so don't switch paradigms too early. Switch to MED/MED/MED if necessary and then continue killing. Generally you can ignore healing after 1 ultima/quake provided you were on SEN when it went off but they can be cheap and spammy so be prepared to have to stagger it again.

All of this should only take 2 mins btw, a good fight for me is like 1:50 or so.

sorry if that was overly complex

For Long Guis you can just use the method you'd use to kill Adamantoises/Adamantortoises without summoning and just repeat every time it stands up. Just note that one leg has over 999,999 HP so you might not be able to 1-shot it with highwind if you haven't done enough damage from staggering it. Alternately, you can burn through your elixirs (you can get more by fully upgrading and dismantling doctor's codes, which you get like 3 of) and just summon every time it stands up, since you only have to kill 1 for the achievement.

[Tyrath]

Thanks man. You're really helpful with these strats!

[Akiyama]

I'm about to do mission 62 soon. Anyone have a good strategy for Long Guis and Shaolong guis? I have 5/6 roles maxed on everybody.

I take it you mean 62 is the last one you had to do before getting the Guis to pop out and what not? My last one to do is 60, Haha. I had issues with the single Rakajwhatever Multi-Caster, but thank god I was a little higher leveled when I did Mission 62. Those bastards were annoying. Only 4 star'd the first time, so I was going through to 5 star it and raped them the second time, getting it done in like 2:20, rofl.

I'm 5 stars on all missions except 60 (haven't done it), and 63/64 obviously. I want to at least max Lightning or Hope's Omega (Fang's is maxed already) and finish up some more heavy money-cost things before I unlock those bastards.