Hardest boss you've come across.

no, I'm pretty sure it was still in Nab-place... hmm... where's that strat I got when I ordered the game XD I'll ask it! :D

edit: ah yes, says Treasure in Nabudis (pending special conditions); treasure in the henne mines phase 2 dig (is that the entrance from the woods with cerberus I can't get past the stupid wrecked carts?).

but it doesn't exactly say chances are 0 for nabudis...cause there's a treasure list for the nabudis place in another part of the book (damn this thick book) showing that the drop is 50% for the spear from the one treasure chest.
 
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Elder Wyrm? How the hell are you guys having trouble with him. Give 2 chars ranged weapons and an esuna gambit. With ranged they'll stay out of spore aoe range and just esuna the tank when it happens.
 
xena said:
Elder Wyrm? How the hell are you guys having trouble with him. Give 2 chars ranged weapons and an esuna gambit. With ranged they'll stay out of spore aoe range and just esuna the tank when it happens.
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i left all my characters on melee, went in, went afk, he died somewhere between, now, vaan hits for 3k-ish a swing and i have pretty decent gambit combos... good gambits makes stuff run so well, you're just there to make minor adjustments ^^
 
I know its not a hard fight, but everyone seems to be struggling.
 
Elemmire said:
no, I'm pretty sure it was still in Nab-place... hmm... where's that strat I got when I ordered the game XD I'll ask it! :D

edit: ah yes, says Treasure in Nabudis (pending special conditions); treasure in the henne mines phase 2 dig (is that the entrance from the woods with cerberus I can't get past the stupid wrecked carts?).

but it doesn't exactly say chances are 0 for nabudis...cause there's a treasure list for the nabudis place in another part of the book (damn this thick book) showing that the drop is 50% for the spear from the one treasure chest.
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The chest for Zodiac Spear in the Necrol is 100%(and the book lists it as 100%, not 50%(only if you don't open those 4 chests though)) if you don't open any of the 4 chests linked to it throughout the game, but if you do it vanishes, and only way to get it is a 1/1000 chance from a chest in Hennes Mines.
 
mdkuser said:
someone tried Gilgamesh yet? I had a lot of trouble but stil won first try using a lot of potions and phoenix dawns.
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Holy Hell he got mean at 25%.
 
Hell Wyrm is INSANE!!! INSANELY INSANE!! Jesus.. level 52, go in, BAM freakin beat the hell outta my tank fast so I ran away. I'll play with him later :P
 
Ozmone Hare is the hardest thing i've fought so far....
 
Ozmone Hare? XD
 
Do you know how mean that bunny is!? He kills me everytime. I mean i just can't hurt the thing it's so DAMN CUTE. >.>
 
Finaly beat the elder wyrm thing in the woods. I was severly under in the augments secton HP wise, and i got a few more quickenings which was cool.

Now i'm stuck at the second esper, the ice one in the Shrine of Milgrim (sp?)

Any advice? I keep trying to get a chain of quickenings going, but i cant catch a break on mist charges coming up, not to mention her half dozen of minions.
 
I dunno.. I was level 45ish I think when I was at that temple place, so I just 1 hit the ice friends of hers and then took off about 1/7th of her life each hit (with my great sword dood :P). So I can't really be much help.. just go level and explore more and fun stuff like that :D

Edit: With Gilgamesh (first time) you see him pull out three swords it seems, 1st Cloud's BUster Sword, 2nd Squall's Gunblade, what's the last? XD to me it looks like the Soul Reaver from Legacy of Kain :P but that can't be it so what is it? it looks familiar but I can't think of the game.. hmm
 
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How did you have a great sword when fighting mateus?
 
Cua said:
Finaly beat the elder wyrm thing in the woods. I was severly under in the augments secton HP wise, and i got a few more quickenings which was cool.

Now i'm stuck at the second esper, the ice one in the Shrine of Milgrim (sp?)

Any advice? I keep trying to get a chain of quickenings going, but i cant catch a break on mist charges coming up, not to mention her half dozen of minions.
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(Strategy courtesy of Vilurum)

This is what worked for me:

Make sure everyone has at least one quickening, two would be preferable.

Before you enter the arena, make sure every one of your party members has full MP to do the quickenings. Now reform your party so it only has one person in it. (We'll call this one Vaan)

So you have Vaan alone, with Fran, Basch, Balthier, Ashe, and Penelo on standby.

#1 Run in with Vaan, alone, and start a quickening chain right away on Matteus. After Vaan finishes, immediately bring in a second member to the fight (let's say Fran) to begin their quickening chain. The neat thing about this is even though Vaan has no MP, there is a chance he'll get his shot or two in with the quickening chain.

#2 So now you have Vaan and Fran in the fight, with Basch, Balthier, Ashe, and Penelo on standby.

Immediately after they finish, bring in a third person (Let's call Basch) to do their quickening chain, and if you're lucky, Fran and Vaan will join in too.

#3 So now you have Vaan, Fran, and Basch in the fight, with Balthier, Ashe, and Penelo on standby.

Okay, now that you got the first three out of the way, only take out one person from your current party, and switch them with someone who has full MP. (Yay Balthier)

#4 So now you've Vaan, Fran, Balthier in the fight, and Ashe, Penelo, Basch on standby.

Just rinse and repeat like so:

#5 Fight: Vaan, Fran, Ashe ; Standby: Penelo, Basch, Balthier

#6 Fight: Vaan, Fran, Penelo ; Standby: Basch, Balthier, Ashe

At this point, everyone should be out of MP (or have very little due to MP augments), but all of Matteus' ice elementals should be dead, and Matteus himself should be dead, or very close to dieing.

Hope this helps

(Strategy also works on any other boss fight)
 
Tyrath said:
How did you have a great sword when fighting mateus?
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I had been screwing around A LOT before hand and when I was up in the Deadlands of Nabudis or whatever I found a rare game monster that dropped it :P some zombie-type monster right before the area with the billions of skeletons where that mark is and the medallion to get to chaos is. I now have 8 espers :D and it seems I'll be giving them all to panelo I think (if I can) to make her my "summoner" XD (stupid story forcing me to use my LP for giving an esper to someone :P)

btw, that monster drops Save The Queen (100 atk ftw!) Berserk + haste + bravery (or whatever) = pwnage on basch :D and after gilgamesh I have Belthiar using Masamune and he's pwnage too :P Great katanas pwn cause they combo SOOO Much more than other weapons.
 
You can only give 1 person 3 espers, and everyone else 2. And if your Penelo is anything like mine, shes an awful choice for a summoner because sometimes she will get gang raped by mobs causing the esper to go away
 
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