Farming spots

[Kyo]

Is there anywhere to farm perovskites post game?

The only stone you can farm is scarlitle from the ceith in eden, that Im aware of.

[Tyrath]

The only stone you can farm is scarlitle from the ceith in eden, that Im aware of.

That sucks. So many pervoskits needed for accessory upgrades x.x

[Kyo]

That sucks. So many pervoskits needed for accessory upgrades x.x

You need quite a few for weapons too, but yeah you need like 12-13 for accessories.

[Viq]

Maybe I'm getting my prices confused, but aren't Pervoskites only like 30k? Get three ingot drops, problem solved.

[Tyrath]

Maybe I'm getting my prices confused, but aren't Pervoskites only like 30k? Get three ingot drops, problem solved.

Eh yeah, but I already need to get so much money for other things. This just adds to it.

[Sign]

This is the strat I have been using for my Adamantoise farming. I finish fights in about 1:50-2:10. I have been fighting the -toise in Eden and then saving/reloading to respawn it (found saving/reloading is faster than running to stairs to spawn; PS3 version). This is going from memory, I am at work atm and I will update with any corrections when I get home.

The party I am using is Fang/Vanille/Snow (I started with Fang/Hope/Lightning)

Equipment:

Fang
Kain's Lance *
Genji Glove
Connoisseur Catalog
Gaian Ring * (40% Earth Resist)
Power Glove *

Vanille
Malboro Wand *
Growth Egg
Gaian Ring * (40% Earth Resist)
Adamant Bangle (800 HP)
Aurora Scarf

Snow
Save the Queen * (started with 2nd level Power Circle; name escapes me)
Collector's Catalog
Gaian Ring * (40% Earth Resist)
Aurora Scarf
Warrior Wrist (started with this, now he has a Genji Glove)

Paradigms (in order of Fang/Vanille/Snow)
Rapid Growth: Syn/Syn/Syn (Initial Paradigm)
Discretion: Com/Med/Med
Tri-Disaster: Rav/Rav/Rav
Cerberus: Com/Com/Com
Cerberus: Com/Com/Com
Infiltration: Sab/Sab/Sab

Battle Strategy

Open the fight and immediately get Haste and Protect(ra) on everyone. Usually take 1 stomp before buffs are up. Once buffs are up switch to Tri-Disaster and rush the left leg (default selection in enemy list). One the leg is staggered push the chain to 500-600% (about 1 extra attack round), then switch to Discretion. Snow/Vanille will throw out heals while Fang uses Highwind to kill the leg. Use one more attack round as Discretion for heals and to get the chain started on the right leg (I found this important because if you just switch back to Tri-disaster they will attack the Adaman instead of the leg). After one round flip to Tri-Disaster and stagger the right leg, again push to 500-600% and change to Discretion. Use Highwind to take the leg out while Snow/Vanille heal. As soon as Highwind lands change to Rapid Growth. Manually select Bravera in Fang's list and cast it on Fang/Snow. Sometimes the Adaman takes a while to fall and you can do this before hand, othertimes he falls quickly and you have to do it fast.

Once the adaman is falling/on the ground and you have haste and Bravera up switch to Infiltration. Stay on Infiltration until Deprotect/Deshell/Imperil are on. The rest of the debuffs are pointless but you need those 3. Once all 3 debuffs are up switch to Tri-Disaster. It should take about 3 rounds to stagger the adaman and push his chain gauge to almost 999%. Switch to Cerberus and go all out. As the last hit of the second round of attacks lands change to the second Cerberus paradigm to make use of the Full ATB tactic and hit him with one last round. This should finish it. If not, quickly use a Highwind on the adaman to finish him off as he stands up.

[Plow]

I'm a little weaker than that, so here's what I've been doing:

Working between the 2 save points at mid and turtle camp in Gran pulse. There's a tortoise by the north, toise by the middle.

I can do the tortoise with no summon. Fang/Van/Light

Start syn/med/com, get hastes/protectra/shellra up.

When they're up and everyone's full, tri-disaster to fill chain on leg, imediately go com/med/med and highwind, it kills it (~3500 str on fang).

Rinse and repeat on other leg.

When he drops, go sab/sab/rav, fully debuff, then go rav/rav/rav to fill gauge. Then com/com/rav at about 750, when gauge is almost empty highwind kills it.

Run to middle, save, summon kill toise. If no drop, reset from save and summon kill again, just cuz it's safer and easier. Then back to the tortoise, rinse and repeat.

I'm basically not worried about the CP at all so it's no concern to me to reset on the one where I do have TP, and then I just farm the ones where I don't need TP to rebuild.

[Celeras]

Drop rate on Dark Matter? Went like 7/9 before realizing I didn't even need that many.. far cry from my trap drop rate. Just wondering.

[Tyrath]

Drop rate on Dark Matter? Went like 7/9 before realizing I didn't even need that many.. far cry from my trap drop rate. Just wondering.

I was 9/40 on traps and 1/8 on dark matter so far. So I'm just gonna guess they're similar and people just get varying degrees of luck.

[Celeras]

If true thats fucking insane, I went like 2/50+ on traps and finally just decided to do the DE trick twice and be done with it. I literally thought all the Shao Guis dropped dark matter until i finally got a gold nugget.

[Raen Ryong]

Dark Matter is 5% (rare) drop according to the Piggyback strategy guide.

[Tyrath]

If true thats fucking insane, I went like 2/50+ on traps and finally just decided to do the DE trick twice and be done with it. I literally thought all the Shao Guis dropped dark matter until i finally got a gold nugget.

Yeah tell me about it. The fuckers kept dropping for me even after I'd already gotten 6 and had taken the rare catalog off. I had some crazy luck with them. Wish the same would happen for the 3 more dark matter that I need.

[Trocian]

Drop rate on Dark Matter? Went like 7/9 before realizing I didn't even need that many.. far cry from my trap drop rate. Just wondering.

I had way better droprate on Dark Matter than on Traps, 8-9 kills and I had what I needed.

[Sumiko]

eh...

I kinna got bored farming turtles. ... and seeing like a 0/10 drop rate sometimes even with catalogs equipped.

For smaller accessories, I think spending gil on some of the items is totally worthless. Rather save up the gil to get the 50,000gil XP item and use them on ultimates...

So I thought about farming Bomb Cores. They come in abundances...

1) Going through Titan's Trials. I actually think this takes a bit too long though, even though I have a lot of Ultimate weapons...

2) Farming Mission 7 : Maybe like 3 minutes per fight.. or longer. Way too many loading times in between... Get 5x Cores per fight and there's a chance to get a Tiara or Crown you can dismante into stuff, but if you already have those haste items, they sell for a good sum of gil anyway. (though sadly, i'm 0/20 ANY of those -_-) Probably the best... But gets really really annoying skipping cutscenes every 5 seconds.

3) Mah'habara - Maw of the Abyss - Just going through the usual XP route between the entrance and Juggernaut... The robots drop an item that gives small XP too.

Is there any other good places to farm smaller XP items?

[Trocian]

If you just want XP items, I'd say the Tetrahedrons in Mahabara is the way to go. They come in rather large groups, drop both Bomb Cores/Shells, and are easy to respawn.

[Plow]

Opportunity cost man.

Don't go farm stuff because it "seems like a waste to spend gil on" when you could make 5x that much just farming gil.

[Goldberg]

Finally!!! 3/84 on Trap's and all 3 dropped within last 5 Squirtles in Eden .. fucking stupid game.. was mainly using death trick now i need to go do Long gui -.-'

[Katlan]

Just got my first Trap last night, and took Fang's weapon (origin form - Taming Pole) to lv87 immediately lol. She is a beast now

[xxWiCKeDxx]

Im bout to kill Barthandelus at the end of Chapter 11. When I get to Eden and come across the Adaman's/turtles/dino's w/e you wanna call them in this game lol Are you able to kill them at this point in the game? Or is it better to wait and come back later? The reason I ask is in all the FF's before this one you got all your ultimate weapons/attacks/summons and what have you before you went to fight the last boss so you could just unleash hell on him. If I beat the game and stuff then I kinda doubt I see myself upgrading all this stuff when the game is over. I know missions and stuff open up after you beat the game but they have nothing to do with the story. I have to many other games to play after this one lol.

[Plow]

You can theoretically do all the side missions and shit before the end, it'll be freaking hard, though.

You should be able to death trick the adamantoises as soon as you get it pretty much tho, if that's all you're asking.