I know, what what the hell is that. Maybe if you could talk to one of the NPCs around Lowtown in a scripted scene, where he says "Oh I hear there's a way to get this awesome weapon, but you must not be so greedy with your treasure chests", would probably not help me that much, but gives me a *something* to work off of (lol never opening any chests). Or perhaps some mini puzzle you must read various scripts that are scattered, and then reveal the location of the chests. Whatever.

Which are the treasure chest which aren't suppose to be opened? Its bull that you have to basicly "know" not to open them.

Archadia had a mini game which I think was more enjoyable than the rest

Just to clarify, are you saying that people should already know which to not open, or that it's basically next to impossible to know not to open up such treasures? Just checking. :kitsune:

hey guys, i forgot who said it, but whoever went through the feywood to get to mt B.O., what level were you? I'm level 30, 30, and 31, and i got pwnt hardcore lol:doh:

+150 attack and that's all it does.

+150 is quite a bit, I'm guessing it can dish out like 5000+ dmg plus per hit on regular enemies?

That was me. >.> I was around 25, but when I realized that everything was owning me, I decided to do the one on-screen character trick, and just get my ass out of there as fast as I could. XD

And yeah, I'm using the Zodiac Spear with Ashe, and she does 3000-4000 damage on most enemies at my level. Pretty good, I guess. :D

I'm 31 hours and just saved at the first crystal before the Tomb of Raithwall.

I have an item, actually... And I don't remember exactly where I found it.

Yes, you get that item from the following event.

31 hours at the Tomb of Raithwall? Yeesh... I think I was around 12 hours at that point.

I'm going at a slow pace too. I'm guessing he was busy with leveling and the hunts. I'm actually taking a short intermission from going any further in archadia since I wanna finish off some hunts in the board. So far I have around 50 hours and 300,000 steps

About 30 hours and 180,000 steps here and I just arrived at Phon Coast, I guess the time's pretty bad but, well, the counter didn't stop while I was away going to the store and stuff like that, so it's okay, I guess.

I am still a bit worried that three out of my six characters are heavily underleveled, my three main characters are all level 35 or 36, and they are level 14, 15. Oh well, I hope I will find some time to level them up as well.

I'm clocking in at 25 hours in the Hennes Mines. I did spend some time levelling and chaining earlier so my time is inflated.

My team are all in the 23/22 range right now. My balancing act is paying off.

This is the first time I've seen an FF that looked more dinosaur than dragon.

Why are all the guest characters so bloody strong and damn useful? Ashe revives anyone who dies, Vossler's just very strong and Larsa's got hi-potions up the wazoo. Doesn't it make these parts of the game kinda easier? I say 'easier' because there are parts that still give me trouble even with guests in the party.

If you've always only needed 3 characters then thats cool. My characters are just about even but i always need all three when facing a boss cause I need backup especially when i fought the third esper, which I happened to find by chance.

this next spoiler doesn't really spoil the story just the order of some areas. Its just a tip if you plan on leveling ur characters.

Is it the one you can find if you proceed through the secret passage near
?

I got killed within 10 seconds =/

No the one I found was during a hunt


I;ll see if I go looking for that one though ^^

Another easy levelling/LP spot is in teh beginning of the forest. (dunno how to do the spoiler tag so i wont name anything in detail)

this spot is better than the rest because of the amount of gil u can get and the exp/LP you get

Begin by entering the forest from the plains, and right when u enter u get 3/4 panthers. then on the beginning of the left and right paths u get 2-3 each time. In total you have a minimum of 7 each time. Have one of your characters have a gambit set for steal, and the other characters attack like mad and heal. Make sure you stay in the beginning of the two bends. The right and left ones just before u can make out another path, further down are other monsters and youll break your chain. Make sure ur a pretty high level too, otherwise you get PWNT (at least 25/27) and your attacks are hitting 500/600.

Each panther gives you ~200 exp, and one LP, and you fight about 7-9 each time. Plus about 2 Coehlr(sp?) pelts each so you can rack in the money. They sell about 430 each.

To get all of them back, exit the forest to the plain. Go one screen down from the save point. Turn around and go back in, and there they are waiting for you. Keep doing this until you have 99 pelts.

p.s. after you get past 60/70 you start getting some quality pelts, not alot, but maybe one for every 5 or so you kill. Those sell for 700 each.

p.p.s I made over 53 thousand just farming the panthers. (~45000 from pelts, another ~ 8 from storm magicites they drop also


WHOO, long post but its worth it:biggrin:

Farming is alright early in the game, but I found it more effective progressing through the story to get better armor even though one can be short on cash. The story bosses are pathetic compared to the Summons have had to fight. Anyway that whole not opening certain treasure chests thing is pretty stupid for the Zodiac spear. I didn't get any warning or nothing, oh well I doubt I will need it. I"v looked through some of the faqs at gamefaqs and yet I can't find anything about all the "uber" weapons.

Again I'm taking this VERY slowly, and not bothe rushing, so yes, I did quite a bit of levelling up and stuff, running back and forth.

I'm at about 30 hours now and I'm just heading to the Ozmone Plains for the first time. I've spent several hours leveling up (lots of battle chaining going on), doing available sidequests (hunts mainly), and just exploring/completing maps and killing monsters for sage knowledge. Character levels range from 22-24 right now. I went to the Highwaste land in the Estersands...killed some of those wolfy things and then got chased by a Saurian and ambushed by 3 more wolfies. Near murder. So I ran off with my tail between my legs. Went back to Garamsythe for a hunt...ambushed by Malboro Kings, party was wiped out. Yeah, I think I'll just get on with the story instead of this for now >.<

Ha, i just loaded my save and im EXACTLY at 12:00 at the save point in Ogir-Yensa.

I finished the game with all of my characters at lvl 50, I'm doing the sideqests (hunts, espers, etc.), I guess this will take some more time since I feel there's still a lot to do. Gametime clocking at 79 hrs. now.

Oh, I played the leaked version.

SPOILERS. Am at Golmore Jungle or whatever the hell it's called.