Farming spots

[Arnwulf]

The CP from the turtles is nice at this point as well as the Traps and Plats I get from them. But I think I'll move on to the Sacs soon, I have 3 Traps but not enough money to upgrade the weapons lol.

[Trocian]

I don't see why you guys are wasting time with turtles anymore, I really dont. I assume you want platinum as its the only reason to be trap farming... but once you get 1 you're golden.

Get 1, and blow a few million on getting 5 more, or keep farming the turtles for both money and more Traps?

When I got my 6th, I was ~500k from the Platinum Trophy. Worked out great.

[Celeras]

Get 1, and blow a few million on getting 5 more, or keep farming the turtles for both money and more Traps?

When I got my 6th, I was ~500k from the Platinum Trophy. Worked out great.

Technically, you blow nothing monetary. You get 500k back in items from the desynth, and once you're near the wall you should be saving-> selling everything you have(upgrades, which the weapons from the 3 traps are about another 500k) to get the last chunk of gil. When I finished my plat, I did all the adamantite+perovskite+3 ultimate upgrades by selling all the other weapons/accessories I already upgraded. Instant 2+mil, and I only needed maybe 1.5.

Obviously don't have to do it this way, but it saves a ton of time and is way easier.

[Katlan]

So it's better to farm perfumes over turtles, is the general consensus?

[Yuri-G]

it depends on what point you're at in the game. if you can take down turtles in the minimum time-frame they should be better than almost anything else. however, it takes a very long time before you can kill turtles that fast. if you're still using the Death trick, perfumes are definitely better. then again, turtles drop traps, which are effectively worth 2 million gil unless you have six of them. that's a pretty nice advantage.

perfumes are great gil/hr, but once you have a maxed-out weapon or two (esp. Kain's Lance via Taming Pole), turtles will eventually overtake them.

[Katlan]

Yeah I can rape turtles in about 2 minutes. Gets annoying having to run back and fourth in Eden though, since there is no way in hell Im farming Long Gui's for traps. And I have a good ratio of traps dropping w/ both Catalog's eqp'd (still need traps)

[Yuri-G]

if you can do them in two minutes you should definitely be making more gil with turtles than anything else. 37.5% drop rate for ingots, let's say one battle every 2.5 minutes including running to the stairs or reloading, that's 24 battles per hour * .375 * 150k = 1.350 mil

yeah, nothing else can touch that. not perfumes, not mission farming. the only thing that comes close (and could possibly beat it) is farming the packs of 3 and 4 Sacrifice Ci'eth in Edenhall, but the side paths that respawn them disappear when you beat the game, meaning it takes a lot longer to farm them, which drops their gil/hr rate way down.

[Plow]

*Not* farming turtles is crazy.

I have all 6 ultimates *'d + 4 more traps + 1 of everything that takes dark matter + 5x kaiser* + 1 maxed hp + 1 maxed magic one + a couple other high rank weapons I'm goofing off with, + ~ 3 mil gil atm.

I'm showing ~20-25 hours more than when I finished the game with no ultimates, no dark matter, no traps and ~500k.

[Yuri-G]

I need to make me some Kaisers. what's the stone you need to evolve them from Power Gloves? I'm sitting on two maxed Power Gloves and a third I just need to level up.

if you say Dark Matter or Adamantite I'm gonna kick you in the nuts btw.

[Plow]

shadowy material?

[Tyrath]

I'm at the point where all I need is money. I tried farming the perfume, but that seems slower than turtles to me just because I can kill Adamantoises in 2~ mins and seems better for overall gil/hr ratio.

[Yuri-G]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDmRe9uIur4

Follow this method for killing turtles at low specs. I used Death for a few kills and that shit was too random. Used the video as a guide and I can kill them pretty easily now. You will get one-shotted if you don't kill it before stagger wears out, but its doable without unlocking the last crystarium level.

I've been farming the one if Lewiathan Plaza (its the area with the big glass floor with two white behemoth mobs around it. Kill turtle > kill the soldiers (ignore behemoths) go through door > and go back out. You'll regain your TP and respawn the turtle again.

how the fuck. I'm at like, twice that much strength and I can't pull that off.

I watched the video but I still don't understand how he was doing that much damage. I must be doing something wrong. I'll have to take another look when I get home and can really follow his strategy.

[Xanthe]

I need to make me some Kaisers. what's the stone you need to evolve them from Power Gloves? I'm sitting on two maxed Power Gloves and a third I just need to level up.

if you say Dark Matter or Adamantite I'm gonna kick you in the nuts btw.

Black Materia.

[Yuri-G]

so Dark Matter. great. come here so I can fulfill my promise.

ugh, guess I'll just use maxed-out Power Gloves for now. I can already summon-kill turtles in under two minutes with Fang as leader anyway. and thank god for that, I was so sick and tired of Death not landing.

[Trocian]

so Dark Matter. great. come here so I can fulfill my promise.

Dark Matter is pretty easy to farm, actually. The guis go down very fast, and there's 3 of them right next to a savepoint.

[Tyrath]

Dark Matter is pretty easy to farm, actually. The guis go down very fast, and there's 3 of them right next to a savepoint.

Yeah and they're not a very bad drop rate either. My first one took a few kills, but yesterday I got 3 in 5.

[Yuri-G]

not sure if I can beat them yet, but I'll give it a try once I unlock them. otherwise I'll just upgrade when I can.

[Gokulo]

There's even no need to fight the ones near the savepoint - that is if you need to restart for them to respawn, because I don't know if they respawn naturally when you run away - close to that savepoint is a Gui that stands on a kill, a cactuar behind him, when you fight him and face other way you see one standing, you can run between them killing endlessly because they respawn when you run to the other one.

[xxWiCKeDxx]

Yesterday I got to Chapter 12 and beat The Proudclad and just saved the game at the Siren Park save point. Ive killed 3 Turtles between the start of Chapter 12 and this save point. Im still on my first play through have not beat the game yet. My question is this....Do the 2 Turtles on the expressway/highway that you can respawn by running back and forth through the door zone drop Plat Ingots/Traps? So far all one has dropped is a Gold Dust. So do they drop Plats/Traps at this point of the game on first play through or do you have to come back to this spot after beating the game to get them to drop them or something else?

[Trocian]

Gold Dust is dropped by the Adamanchelids(sp?), they're smaller and not very dangerous. Adamantoises and Adamantortoises are bigger/harder and drop Platinum/Traps. And yes, they can always drop them.