Or you could, you know. Get a resist death ring.
If they even exist? I dunno.
I'm kind of frustrated with the game myself, right now. I'm in Taejin's Tower at the moment, and during the climb you have to do mandatory Hunts against monsters. Problem is, I'm stuck on Mushussu.
I can kill him just fine, killing him isn't a problem. But I want to get all the trophies in this game, and one of them is for getting, from what I understand, a five-star ranking on every hunt.
I looked around on the internet, and the description for the Achievement is to just get 5-stars on all Cie'th stone missions, not necessarily all hunts.
But I don't want to accept this 3-star ranking I get from Mushussu and then find out later I was lied to.