[PS2] Final Fantasy XII

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I wanted to go explore it as soon as I opened it for the sidequest there but I was getting murdered by the wolves teaming up on me all over the place, and then the stinking Saurian tried to eat me, so I got the hell out of there and just continued the story to the Ozmone Plains instead.

Holy shit you should have seen me hightail it, having like 5 wolves and a dinosaur after me. Yeah I didn't want to put up a fight, considering this was the 2nd last step in one of the longer side quests.

I just need 1 more mark to get 8 marks in total, which is very little.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Um, the LE guide that I have isn't very well edited. I'm still LOLING at the "Please refer to the side quest on page ???" dealy.
Also, I'm not happy at freaking out since I thought one of the hunts didn't drop what I wanted , thanks to wolf for that.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by kharaalaik

just buy it dude,

We can buy Golden Amulets? Nice.

I got these things just not more than 5 minutes ago, fiinishing up the Slaven hunt in the Ozmone Plains or whatever, then I bought like 50 hi potions, I love those "emergency supplies" things.

Also,

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I'm doing the sidequest where you help Dantro's Wife cure the patient in her house. Apparently, you get a reward when the patient is cured that is based upon the number of supplies you give Dantro's Wife for the medicine. The supplies required are: the Cactus Hunt drop, the Semclam Shells (5), and the Phial of Nebralim (1) in the camp where Dantro is. I found all of these supplies, but I am still getting the useless Magick Gloves instead of the Golden Amulet (double LP gain). Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? My roommate, who has the guide, told me that the map on the guide shows 2 Phials of Nebralim, but I can only find one in the game. Anyone able to get the Golden Amulet?

Did you get the Snakeskin from the Maurader in the Mines hunt? That helps as well for the reward. Yes there are 2 phials, but they are on seperate crates. And I still got the stupid magic gloves. Oh well. Also, there are 3 herbs or some shit like that where you have to use the ferry and cross over to the north end - although the monsters are tough as hell there.

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I'm sure most people bought the LE guide solely for the better cover and most especially, the artbook. Am I right?

The artbook is okay, and I like going OOOOOOOOHHHH AHHHHHHH over all the pictures of the weapons. But the guidebook itself also has all the weapons listed, so meh.

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

Nalbina Fortress, the one that was attacked in the opening FMV. 3000 for Golden Amulets, that cheap? Better get myself some of these.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

Bah! The Elder Wyrm gives me the willies, and the area south (The Feywood) contains enemies that are too tough for me, so.....I hunted down some Marks and did a grand job of it. Killed the Cluckatrice and Rocktoise. Wanted to defeat the Wyrm Lord too, but it's too far away from a save point and I wanted to do other stuff, so I'll save it for tomorrow.

I grabbed two Swiftness licences for all save 1 person in the team, plus the hp +150. Whooo!

I need some money fast. What's the best place to do chainings right now? I suppose it's in the Sandsea?

The succulent fruit sells for more like 350, if I remember. The Wyvern Lord is pretty easy. Just take care of the birdmen first, then chase after him. I decided to hike all the way there, taking on the sandpeople again, just because I wanted the LP. If you want to get there sooner, just use a teleport stone to the opening stage of the Tomb of Raithwall. Wait, you're probably wanting to kill the Wyrm Lord, a different beast of nature.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

By the way, are you using the guide for this game. Lots of gil, like how much? You could easily get 14,000 if you go to Bhujerba and become a hard liquor seller.

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Do you have the guide book? It's a sidequest.

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I'm just up to the Eruyt Village. Vaan basically says the BEST LINE EVER.

Spoiler:

So....Fran...how old are you again?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

I don't actually the text in the guide while playing.

LOL I see a typo there too.

I'm about to get 3 quickenings for all my guys (18 in all) just after the events of Eruyt village. Would this be considered pretty quick or just about the right timing to unlock all 3?

My guys range from Level 20 (Vaan, I don't like using him in my party) to 27 (Balthier, Ashe, Basch) which top about 2000 HP.

I ventured down into the Zenthern caves or whatever you call it, and got my ass handed to me by the first dude, some monster that looks like a cross between a unicorn and a sleipnir.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Hey Spatula, the second time around I cleaned clocks around you-know-who.

Fight Start -> Vaan's Quickening twice, then Balthier, Fran, and Balthier again and then finally switch in Ashe for the killing blow with the Esper. I felt so much better when it was over.

I decided to try and get a few marks but the first one requires me to find this girl who is normally in the nomad villiage in the Giza Plains, but since its rainy season now, I have no clue as to where she is. Oh her name is Dania btw.

If I can't find her soon I guess I'll look for other marks or just continue with the story.

I think you might find the petitioner in the Giza plains in the most southern save point, all by itself. Good to hear you got past that,

For the golden amulets, you can get them at the moogle shop in Eruyt village after taking care of the following boss listed in the spoiler.

I just took care of the boss after meeting up with one of Fran's relatives.

LOL BOSS FIGHT:

Tiamat was pretty easy. He only pissed me off right in the beginning where he casted disable, and it made Basch useless for about 1 minute. I wanted to go in there and rip him up with a chain of level 3 quickenings, but that got stalled somewhat. After a while, Basch came back and ripped up with his level 3 quick. I got a chain of about 9, followed by Arc Raid or something as the concurrence. Tiamat down to like 1% health. WIN

Basically everyone but Vaan has level 3 quicks at this moment, he has only level 2 but getting close to 3. I got the level 2 element spells (fira, thundara, blizzarda), and I have the haste spell, but don't have the license for it yet =/

For quite some time already, I have had my three active members always have the gambit for Esuna, Cure, Haste, Protect, and Regen all at the same time. Sure it drains a lot of MP, but as long as you’re continually fighting and have the 4 important MP augmentations, then running out of MP really isn’t a problem. Haste, Protect, and Regen are the only constant ones that need recharging after time. So basically I’m happy my party can take care of themselves.

Simo, sorry about your sitiuation, hope you the best in those difficult times.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

She's in the Nomad Village during the Dry weather. It took me a bit before I realized it myself.

I went ahead and hunted down 1 rank 1 mark and 2 rank II marks, the Wyrm Lord, the Croakodile (I love this pun!) and the giant Slaven at the Shred that I will never be able to spell without looking at a guide.

I dunno, but all those marks were damn easy. Are they just naturally easy or am I just overlevelled? Everyone's at level 24 now, except for Penelo of course. Magick works wonders against the marks (aero for that Slaven, fire for the Croakodile and Blizzard for the Wyrm Lord).

I did a 113 chain on my way to the Wyrm Lord, (and uncovered 100% of that Nam-Sandsea while I was at it) and got so much crap that I sold all my hard earned money on awesome weapons at Jahara. I was broke before so I never bought anything then

Vaan got his third quickening too, and everyone now as more Swiftness and HP+. Whooo!! I even saw a HP 500+ that I need to save up LP for, and I got the Golden Armlet just now. Yay!

P.S. Tiamat is a she.

Yeah those marks you mentioned are pretty okay, once you just start hammering over them. It's the espers I'm afraid to touch, as well as the really high end (even level 4 and up marks) that I'm probably going to piss my pants or something.

LOL Tiamat. That bitch got pwned.

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My entire team is doing over 3000 damage now with their new gear. Cool beans, wot!

What do you mean? Each of your characters is going 1000 per hit or what? What gear do you have? I'm doing about 400-700 hit for the enemies in the Ozmone/Henna Mines area.

How ya doing, buddy?

300 damage on what type of enemies though. That's what counts. I can pull off about 500 to 700 on those T Rexes in the Henne mines. Pretty easy guys to take down.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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kool just figured out a hard puzzle bet u guys will be whining for help on it i was even confused for 20 minutes till i figured it out

Um, well I do hope this hard earned money I spent on the LE guide should prove useful when I encounter this puzzle.

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"i like my hentai uncensored too"

Thanks for sharhing

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Haven't went into the Mines yet to further test my new found power.

Man I thought you were farther in the game, maybe I'm thinking of the wrong person LOL.

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What is the serpent skin for?

The Serpent Skin was one of the items you could give to Danto's wife in the side quest "Patient in the Desert", as the more items you collected, the better reward you could receive. Don't despair if you didn't get the top gift, which was a

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golden amulet

since you can basically just buy those later on in the game, once you find the relative of Fran in the Henne Mines and return to Eruyt village.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by kharaalaik

and im pretty sure all the walkthroughs on gamefaqs could help us out also =)

True, it's scary, that I had a peak at the last page of the walkthrough section.

length of the game:

I'm currently at page 144. The walkthrough starts at page 62 and ends at 226. In total, there are about 164 pages of walkthrough material. If I'm at page 144 minus 62 pages = 82 pages of the walkthrough complete. Which mean's I'm exactly 50% at the main game. HOLY FUCKING SHIT SO SOON?!!?!?!? ZOMG ;__; I've played for 43 hours so far. So assuming that I'm continuing at the same rate, I'll be done the main game in about 90 hours or so, since the final dungeons will be giving me trouble.

But then all the side quests would probably add a good 40 hours. Shit, all those hunts, all those side quests, damn son! Well, then in total 130 hours invested in FFXII. And I'm at 43 hours. I guess I still have a ways to go. Thank God!

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

Yeah, I didn't factor in actual level grinding time, since that was what took me so long to get to the present location (just past Henne Mines) at a time of 43 hours. So I'll probably alot a period of another 5 hours, at least for pure level grinding. Still, in a way I'm surprised I'm done that much of the main story.

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for the length of game area you never know you might have to stop and power level for a bit or wanna spend some time getting secret weps and summons and have some fun with a couple mini games something i havent seen yet mind u but am expecting because ecery ff has had 1 from at least ff

mmmkay. What sort of minigames? I don't think I've really done any of them yet, honestly. I do know of a fishing game.

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Well, actually I think the augmentations on the board in the game themselves speak for what they do quite well already. I'm already aiming to get all of the augmentations at any rate.

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do you think you will be playing this again and again, even though (from what I can tell) the game is huuuge?

All I can say is, once the ending credits starting rolling up, it will be YEARS before I return to this series. Not that it's terrible or anything (or else I wouldn't be playing it), but I don't see myself replaying this again and again, unfortunately. Perhaps this is why I'm getting anal over getting every absol-fucking-ly everything to 100% sooner or later. That means all sidequests, hunts, sky pirate awards, every fucking single thing I can do in that game.

I just defeated the Elder Wyrm on my first try.

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I knew he was going to pull some crazy status ailment shit, so I packed up like 90 Hi-potions, 20 hankerchiefs, 30 echoscreens, 30 scented herbs or something (to cure confusion), and just took care of the two underlings first thing.

I highly recommend DO NOT USE QUICKENINGS first thing when you see him. You will NEED your MP to cast Esuna, assuming you aren't silenced. This was my first mistake, and I did a crappy job, which only took off like 10,000 HP out of a total of like 75,000, so that was a waste.

You can use Quickenings maybe when he's down close to the count, but no where near the opening of the battle. Use hankerchiefs to wipe off the oil, and get some anti confuse bracelets or the like, since that's the very first thing you should take care off after he does the Spore attack.

Here's the order I cured my guys:

1. Deal with confuse, this will let you use items. Use whatever members that aren't confused to use the cure, obviously. The others will just have to wait it out.
2. Deal with silence, this will let you use magic again, also use LOTS of Hi potions if necessary. I had a high HP level (2200 or so) so the poison wasn’t a huge concern, but it should be dealt with quickly.
3. Deal with all the other stuff using Esuna. (Have this as a gambit for at least 2, if not 3 of your active members).
4 Deal with the oil --> Hankerchief
5. Deal with the 2 underlings
6. By this time, the Wyrm may either use Fireball or do the Spore. The spore is the worse of the two, meaning you have to do steps 1 to 4 again. With fireball, you just have to cure or use Hi potions.
7. Kill the 2 underlings and then finally the Wyrm itself.
8. CONGRADUATIONS

I like how the guide book tells you to USE QUICKENINGS FIRST THING, fuck that, how am I supposed to use my Esuna then HUH!

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Try a no gambit game, where you're constantly micomanaging everything. I'd never do that, cause I'm slow. Hell, I even put my ATB to wait instead of active, so I can get a pause and think of what the hell I want to do.

FELIPE NO

Okay friends, let keep this a bit civil here.

At any rate, I think I've come across two dungeons so far that I don't think I can muster any courage to venture any further. Those would be the Feywood and the Zel-something caves, which you can access in the Westersand, as well as the Nam-something sandsea (check out my skills at remembering location names!)

I think the most toughest regular enemies I've encountered so far, excluding those two areas, are the Hellhounds in the Golonda (which I probably misspelt as well) jungle. Taking on one of them is alright, but each of their attacks does about 400 damage to my party, so if they do swarm me, I'm screwed.

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

Heh Simo, that's almost the same configuration I have. Ashe, Basch, and Baltheir are around level 32, and they have max quickenings, but aren't dealing as much damage. Does Larsa leave your party when you get past the snowy area? I hope not, because it's nice to have a 4th hand while you're just going around level grinding in that area, and maybe head into Feywood again.

How ya doing, buddy?

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Spatty (see how I vary your name everytime I talk to you?), after reading your post on how you whooped the Elder Wyrm's ass on your first try, I went ahead and tried to tackle the stupid dragon again. I also stocked up on items before the battle, but didn't go crazy like you did. I had around 20 of each item, and I...whooped his ass on the first try. Thanks for your post, eh? I'm happy now.

Good to see my method works. He's not that bad to figure out. Just take your time and prioritize healing over assault. He's got a lot of health, and you don't have much of, so focus on working on your guys first, then once you're prepared, launch your attack. However, there was one time where just as all my guys were cleared of their status ailments, he does the sponge thing again, ah fuck!

The only real item you should have lots of is Hi Potions, I had 90, but maybe used about 20 for the battle. I like Hi Potions since they come in pretty handy and I find it easier to use than having to wait for a charge of say, Curaga, which I want to save for using my other magicks.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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well so far the game is good i hate the fact that ensuna doesnt heal all bad stats like stop and disease- disease sucks it makes max health = to curent health till u can only have 1 health it so annoying i had to use remedys to cure myself of it

Um, Esuna is basically one of the best spells available at where I am now. In a way it almost rivals the usefulness of cura. Of course I'm not surprised it's not the miracle cure all. If that were the case, would you know how much it'd cost to cast that spell everytime? Even curing the more "rare" cases such as doom, oil, petrify, sap and the like. Rare meaning I don't encounter those as much as say poison or blind. Yes, as you have mentioned, which is why Remedies (especially once remedy lore 3 is unlocked) can it help clean up the rest of the maladies. Having Esuna being the cure all for every single maladie would make most boss fights (namely the Elder Wyrm coming to mind) ridiciously easy, which in they rely on status ailments against the human player.

As of now, I haven't even bothered getting to my destination, Mt. Bur Orimise, or whatever the heck it's called. I took courage and ventured in just slightly to the Feywood, which it looks like you can get in through the snowy area, or just keep heading south in the jungle area. Now I understand why people fear those small tomatos in the form of something called "Nightshade" or Night something, dishing out anywhere from 500-800 damage to my party. No wonder Feywood was not as advised in my walkthrough, saying that we'd be dead meat. The hellhounds are nothing compared to those guys.

Since I've taken down quite a few dinosaurs, I honestly think I can squash that friendly dino that lurks in the Estersand. That thing should be a piece of cake.

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One particularly useful Gambit I have is that when nothing else is going on, (I have this setup on two-three of my people): One of my characters cast Protect on all allies, and then if the MP is low enough (I have the conditional set to less than 10%), cast Charge to gain some MP back.

I had the same set up for the longest time. I put auto protect (a fancy way of saying Ally: any --> Protect) for all my characters, so they share the burden of MP usage eqaully. When you get to where I am, just after beating one of the bosses I mentioned earlier today (namely one of the Wyrms that people have mentioned), I start to get some pretty handy spells

My "general-dungeon crawling" line up is something like this:

Ally: any --> pheonix down (this goes as number 1. It's amazing how fast your guys can pop back up if you use this)
Ally: any --> esuna
Foe: any --> attack party leader's target
Foe: any --> attack any target
Ally: any --> HP < 70% Cure/ or Hi Potion
Ally: any --> protect
Ally: any --> regen
Ally: any --> haste

As you can see, this set up does look like it will drain my MP supply, however, I spread this out for every single member that's active in the group, so not all of them will be double casting protect, for example. I let the computer decide which ally to cast protect, regen etc. Plus since I have all three quickenings, my max MP is somewhere around 300, so it's not too bad. If they do start draining the MP needlessly, then I just turn off gambits, or hold down R2.

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

That's right Jazz. I just keep a gambit on for esuna (put it as a pretty high priority) then it will automatically cast to dispell the status effects.

And the ally --> haste is great to immediately cure slowness, since the computer will detect that the conditions that all allies are not met with haste, therefore they will cast it once, and it will turn from slow to haste.

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The Grimore forgotten notes are made of AWESOME DROPS and WIN. Trust me and get it. There's a 25K I'm saving for, which should enhance my loot, and or speed up the 3 stages from regular crap to awesome stuff.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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With your stats at where you are, you should be okay for a while. Use your LP with all the Augmentation points first, since they automatically kick into effect, rather than have to buy the skill with money later, like Magick for example.

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