[PS2] Final Fantasy XII

Where do you get the Grand Helm and Armor? I read somewhere that "Tower" drops it, where do I find that?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Where is the Zodiac Escutcheon in Barheim, and at what point in the game can you get it from there?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

My three main characters are level 64 and I'm lookin for a good place to go grind for a little bit, any reccomendations?

How ya doing, buddy?

So what's the deal with the "Rangullet" in the Nabreus deadlands, any significance?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well after working, on Christmas fucking eve for 15 hours, I'm debating just playing through the night until morning. Almost have the Tournsol right now, one more scarletite and its mine!!!!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Is it possible to exceed 9,999 HP if you have the bubble belt or with bubble?

How ya doing, buddy?

Well I think I'm gonna go take a run at Hell Wyrm here and see how that one goes. Has anyone else found the Espers to be basically useless? The only thing they've really done in my mind is to open up the Henne mines section. But in battle I think I've used them a couple of times.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I think that was a big mistake to make them so useless for this game. I mean in FFX the Aeons were really cool and actually could aid you in a fight (not to mention that the base of the story revolved around them). Any luck with the fishing MS, I just got out of the upstream after two hours of straight fishing. I was about to shoot myself if I saw that freakin Nebra Kingfish one more time!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think i would rather sit through a long fight though then have to fish the whole damn time! With only a 10% chance of moving to the next location for every perfect trip, grrrrrrrr, enough to make you want to punt a kitten, believe me because I have.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yea I think I will have to postpone my efforts with the fishing for now, just to goddamn frustrating. So instead I went and fought King Behemoth. The fight took awhile because to make it fun I decided to turn off all my gambits aside from "foe nearest visable=attack". I must say that the 500,000 gil and the rod of faith extra reward definetley made it worth the while. But I am really getting pissed with the whole deathscytche hunt. Every time I have one character critical and the second almost there one of them dies, and when I res them there health is basically full and I have to start it all over. That too has made me want to go to my nearest animal shelter and punt kittens!!!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Do you only need one person to have critical health or is it two? fuck this is pissing me off. Maybe I was misreading this before but doesn't the Esunaguined shield put negative status effects on you? Or was it the other way around?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

When going back to the Pharos's for the Ixion and Seer hunts do you have to go all the way through the maps again or is the elevator now working?

I was speaking idiomatically.

In order for me to reach the Seer mark I have to activate the pedistals in the subterra? does that sound right or am I missing something here? I thought you had to fight the other mini-bosses?

Shit, are you kidding me, so you need 168 black orbs just to get to the fucker?????

On a brighter note though I finally got the cactoid compact! Only took me ohhhh about 5 hours!! Although it doesn't sound like it's all that worth it.....

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Do you still get the black orbs from the first ascent? I walked around there fighting for god knows how long and not a single black orb was dropped?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Spatula

Can someone tell me if the new section of Barheim Passage is difficult? I checked up and the new place has TONS of bombs (5000 hp) and Dark Skeletons (6000-7000 hp) and those look like seriously tough customers. Please do tell me there is a save point here. My guys are around level 46-49 now.

Well there is a save point but it's basically at the end of the passage (right before the Zalera or Zeromus esper, can't remember). But the good news is the bombs wont attack you, so it's basically just the skeletons. They are pretty easy, if you have fought the dead-bones and such in the deadlands then these should pose no threat to you. It is annoying though because right before the Bloodwing a whole shitload of ghosts and skeletons will spawn at you.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by bighunt

I'm lazy, but where are the dead bones??

If you go to the Northwest section of the Slumberhead in the Nabreus deadlands you'll find a foobar, after you kill it keep heading past it and it will lead you to a hidden path to a place called the fog mutters. Past that is overlooking eternity (The place where the Roblon hunt is). Tons of dead-bones spawn and you can keep zoning to get massive chains. MS told me about this one, and I had a chain of almost a thousand. With the Embroidered tippet on it makes leveling up extremly easy!!!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

The max chain amount in this game is 999, found that out while leveling B-Team from 77 to 99 way back. Bad news is that my PS2 croaked. It literally won't read anything. If anyone has any good resources that say how to fix this, I'd appreciate it.

Yea I was getting close to 1,000 but then I had to leave for work and didn't feel like trying to break it, nice to know you can't though rather then finding out the hard way. The same shit happened to my old PS2 too. I tried to get it fixed and spent like 80 bucks on part and shit for it to find out it broke again two days later. Sorry man, but I would say rather then paying to have it fixed and then having it break again, you'd be better off with getting a new one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well shit I haven't played for a few days now, as to how that happened is beyond me. I have some serious cathing up to do here. Really don't want to finish the Seer hunt right now, getting the black orbs is really pissing me off since it's pitch black basically and i haven't any to spare for light!! grrrrr. Well I guess it's time to do some grinding and loot hunting!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Gathering orbs? Run around on whatever floor you're on, killing monsters in each room. Don't pick up their orbs, just go from from corner, wiping them out. Then go find the massive black orb. It will have absorbed all the orbs you didn't pick up. This way you can get all the orbs you need, just make sure you know the amount each altar needs.

For example, goofing off, I was trolling down in the Subterra B3F (Abyssal) and killed so many monsters that the massive black orb is... *ahem* about the size of Penelo's upper body with an ungodly amount of swirling trails inside.

Well I have been running around on the Subterra and its just going a little slow. Where is the altar that your talking about, right now I only have access to one floor on the subterra, the one where all the bull abadons and misthares or whatever the hell those horses are come out. It's also the place where Phoneix is, as to how i managed to find him im not sure. Do I need to do something to be able to go to lower levels on the elevator or something?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Well, think of it as easy leveling. It's supposed to be slow, given how sparsely populated the rooms on are on first and second basement levels (Penumbra and Umbra). Did you kill the Phoenix? You should if you haven't.

I'm amazed you're asking about the altars but know about the black orbs. There's an altar in every corner "room" that you can see when you throw up the map. Each of them holds a specific number of orbs. There's guides that tell you how much each individual altar on each floor takes, and if you didn't know, you'd have to put them in one-by-one. Otherwise, you waste orbs and lose them if you go over.

Wow I'm a complete moron, well yea I realized that this does make for easy leveling. I think what happened was I saw how many orbs I needed and just thought it would take forever. Maybe next time I should actually go through it first before drawing such conclusions. As is turns out this little quest for orbs is pretty simple. I knew about the altars just not about the massive black orbs. But I have also found those too (I killed the Phoenix awhile ago, and yes I found a couple pretty large ones too but none as big as, well Penelo's "upper body" haha). I almost tried to fight the magick pot but decided against it, HA. All in all I was just being lazy before but I'm almost to the third level now and glad I figured it before just asking and asking away. I fell a little more motivation now so I won't bother you with any more nonsensical bullshit like this haha.


Son of a bitch!!! I just went through all that shit and my guys attacked a magick pot who killed every single person in like one hit and now i have to go back through all of this shit again!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I was speaking idiomatically.

hmmm I need to use a 1H sword since all of my characters have Great swords (2 Ultima blades, Excalibur), but i dont know where to find emperor sclaes.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Hachifusa

Would you consider a 2H sword better than a 1H sword?

In terms of actual power yes most 2H swords will be better, but the benefit of having a 1H sword is the fact that you can equip a shield and therefore will obviously have a higher evasion and such.

FELIPE NO

Ok so I think I need something that is confuse proof while wondering down in the Abyssal part of the subterra. Those damn necrofiends love to use Phatmazal glaze or whatever it is. I would normally hand them there asses but my guys just kept killing each other before I even had the chance to give them some smelling salts. So I'll take care of that I think and pick up a Durandal or two while im at it.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Yea I just finished the Seer hunt, it was one of the most fun fights I've had due to all the pallings and stuff, it made it interesting. But I made it out of the subterra with a ribbon, venetian shield, another ultima blade, and a niapholoa. The lifewicks do get dropped pretty often, I had something like 20 when I left, that should be more then enough for some Durandal's!!

Now with all those hunts down I just have Yizzy, Omega, and Hellwyrm (I don't think he is a mark but still). I think I'll try to get to level 99 though first either at the deadlands or down in the Henne mines (Haven't been there yet even though I unlocked enough espers). Maybe pick up a couple rare weaons too while I'm at it. Is there any armor better then the maxmillian and megashiak or am I just wishing here?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well I spent some time in the Zertinan caverns again today trying to get some emperor scales and before I knew it I had like 9. So now I have enough loot to make 3 Durandal's although i doubt I will have all of my characters using one!!

I also up until this point had not seen a magick lamp, and after going through and chaining the mallicant's a bit for fun I got a whole ton of those, although i have been too lazy too look and see what they are used for. My guess is nothing all too special though, but I could be wrong....again.

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