Random Question Thread

[Raen Ryong]

Tell me about it nearly over now. Will have to farm one more Dark Matter because I missed the fact Procyons needs them to upgrade but other than that, home free.

Though my luck with Dark Matter ain't great either and Shaolongs are annoying as hell (BAY BAY BAY)...

[Tobi]

Haven't played in awhile so I forgot, but how does MAG helps with landing Death again? I remember reading each debuff increases it by 1%, but don't remember seeing anything about Magic helping.

[Raen Ryong]

As far as I know, it does not.

[Tyrath]

I was told it the higher your magic the better your chances of landing it is. I did have a much easier time with it at 2600 vs 2000, but I didn't do any big testing.

[Tobi]

Hmmm. Guess I'll play around with it whenever I can get my Vanille's Magic super high, 'cause right now, it's pretty low since I haven't been using Vanille much, but I'll have to soon.

[Abraxas]

when I first started killing turtles, with just the death spell, i found it landed more easily with Faithra on Vanille. also, putting Curse on the turtles helps it land

[Chrius]

Is there a fancy list benchmarking what you should have available STR/MAG/equip wise before even thinking about taking on the various tiers of turtles without the Death trick?

[Raen Ryong]

I take it you mean to down in one Stagger?

If you're gonna use the Sazh Blitz technique I think you need 850~ STR or so for anything below Long Gui.

Fang... Adamantoise probably looking at STR around the 2300-2500 mark. This is all assuming you're very efficient at applying the relevant buffs/debuffs quickly (and Fang must have Bravera and Faithra to a lesser degree)!

Bear in mind these are just guesses.

[Tobi]

Sazh Blitz Technique? I stopped using Sazh ages ago, so I have no clue First time I've heard of it, lol.

[Raen Ryong]

There are some videos around if you Youtube them. Basically, Sazh's Blitz unleashes loads of little shots which normally hit one target each and the rest miss. However, since turtles are so goddamn huge, all of them connect making his Blitz incredibly strong.

[Tobi]

Lol... wow, that shit looks pretty damn broken. If I wasn't so close to getting Treasure Hunter I'd filly upgrade Snow/Sazh Weapon, but I can already kill Long Guis in one knockdown with Fang/Light/Vanille if debuffs don't take forever to apply.

[Plow]

I take it you mean to down in one Stagger?

If you're gonna use the Sazh Blitz technique I think you need 850~ STR or so for anything below Long Gui.

Fang... Adamantoise probably looking at STR around the 2300-2500 mark. This is all assuming you're very efficient at applying the relevant buffs/debuffs quickly (and Fang must have Bravera and Faithra to a lesser degree)!

Bear in mind these are just guesses.

You could easily do adamantoise with Fang at like 1200 str. 23-2500 is what I had starting on long gui.

[Raen Ryong]

Ah, fair enough. It has been a verrrrry long time since I started grinding those stupid things.

[Knightfell]

Just picked this up the other day, anything I should be aware of?

Like Don't open X chest or you won't get a super weapon later!

Or

Wait till the last 30 seconds before fleeing the floating Island so you can save Shadow!

Thanks in advance

[Yuri-G]

the only thing in the entire game that's missable is the upgrades of the elemental rings. so never sell the elemental rings until you've fully upgraded at least one of each.

[Tobi]

If you need some gil and the component says "Can be sold for a Premnium" it's ok to sell it if you're in need of some gil. Stuff like Credit Chips, Inncentive Chips will probably be first components you'll come across that's sellable.

I'm pretty sure you already know this, but make sure to open every chest while you can, it shouldn't be that hard to miss some, but I've seen a few people who has missed out on a few chests during chapters.

[Plow]

If you need some gil and the component says "Can be sold for a Premnium" it's ok to sell it if you're in need of some gil.

Not even just "ok" btw. It's what you do with anything that says "can be sold for a premium." Anything that says that is basically worthless for anything but selling.

[Dylon]

so i just started farming traps a few days ago and so far im 5/9 on ingots and 1/9 on traps with only collectors catalog on. with the other catalog i noticed alot of people had horrible drop rates on both so is there something im missing from how the catalogs work?

[Scythiroth]

so i just started farming traps a few days ago and so far im 5/9 on ingots and 1/9 on traps with only collectors catalog on. with the other catalog i noticed alot of people had horrible drop rates on both so is there something im missing from how the catalogs work?

I only ever used the one for just increased normal drops (well, when I was farming at the end of the game). Got a bunch of Trapezohedrons in the process, but you need soooooooooooooo many more Platinum Ingots than Traps anyways. Once you have one Trap, you're pretty much done since you can just make it into 3 from upgrading certain weapons all the way and dismantling them.

I'm pretty sure having both on will increase both drop rates, but having more than one of a certain catalog won't stack. I'm not really willing to test it, but both show up as buffs if you equip the catalogs on the same person, and that seems to be enough proof for me. Drop rate of Traps is just so low that you can either be really lucky with them or really unlucky with them.

[Dylon]

ok, without the rare catalog i am 10/18 on ingots and 3/18 on traps lol... so i guess if your farming them at all dont use the rare catalog? seems to make ingots not exist with it equipped