Finally 5 starred the last of the Titan Missions, Attacus was the last, and was a hard one. Never did stagger him once in all my tries, but I finally found a way to maximize attack, and not have to worry about playing defense. Didn't use a paradigm with a medic one time.
Only have about 8 missions left to do, the ones that are in a ring together.
Taming Pole is Fang's best weapon by far, stagger lock isn't even a noticeable penalty. I went back to the Lionheart for lightning after it proc'd on Neochu lol.
Indeed, I have Fang's Kain Lance * from the Taming Pole, insane STR/MAG increase, Stagger Lock isn't too bothersome for COM, and even when she's on RAV I usually have others who can push it that .1%.
Anyways, just capped crystarium farming more adamantoise, I have enough traps to do an ultimate weapon for each character, but still farming plat ingots for money.
Plan on doing all 8 of each character's weapons to ultimate weapon level, so I only need 48 traps total, but that can wait.
I did Taming Pole for Fang, and Pleiades Hi-Powers for Sazh to final level (used him for adamantoise for a while so needed the STR).
Plan on doing Axis Blade or Lionheart for Lightning (haven't really decided yet), Belladonna Wand for Vanille, Paladin or Umbra for Snow (if I use him he's usually exclusively SEN anyways), and Vidofnir for Hope.
Haven't touched any missions since I started farming ingots, I still have roughly half to do.
Oh and Aaleel, after those Cie'th stones in a ring on the Steppe, you'll spawn Shaolong and Long Gui's that replace Adamanchelid/Adamantoise on the Steppe.
You'll get a trophy for killing a Long Gui as well, and they have a higher drop rate on traps than Adamantoise, same % on plat ingots though.
Shaolong Gui's drop gold nugget and dark matter.
However they range from 10-16 million HP, and are tougher than their Adaman cousins.
Hurray for Ultima.
