official Final Fantasy XIII

[MrArifPatel]

Yeah I got done in about 38hours I love ff but I don't think I am gonna replay it

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I started 10 last night also. My peeps are powerful enough to get through 10 with no grinding. So I'll go through that and get my growth egg (x2 cp) in Chp. 11 and then do some grinding then.

Already got Vanille's Malboro weapon up to Tier 2 lvl 17 so I got Improved Debuffing 2 with her. Time to start working on getting that death spell. :)

Haha! Good luck with the growth egg. I have my characters with 1 or 2 roles at lv 5, and the rest being worked on, I'm about 60 hours in the game now, already beat it, trying hard to get the growth egg, but keep getting dominated.

The "death" trick just does not work

for me :(

[Slane]

Haha! Good luck with the growth egg. I have my characters with 1 or 2 roles at lv 5, and the rest being worked on, I'm about 60 hours in the game now, already beat it, trying hard to get the growth egg, but keep getting dominated.

The "death" trick just does not work

for me :(

Ya I'm thinking I'll be extremely lucky to pull it off, but it would be nice to have it to do chapters 12/13 with.

Just did the first mission (5 star'd it) wondering what I should do next. Don't think I'm quite powerfully enough to CP grind any of the behemoth's. Anyone got any good ideas? I'm not weak, but trying to fight one early (got preemptive strike on him) and still needed to put out about 75k damage to kill him in one stagger. So I just need a good area for gil/CP.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Look back in this thread (sorry on my iPhone) but I posted a map of gran pulse, where you can get 6600 cp per battle, should only take you 60 seconds per battle at your level. I can beat them in 14 secs :) lol

[PL_ Veteran]

Is there any benefit to teaching my characters roles they didn't start with, other than more interesting Paradigms? Any achievements etc? I tried it on Hope and it sucked up a HUGE amount of CP :(

On Chapter 10 now, the bit with the birds. I've found Lightning/Vanille/Snow best so far, it's how I beat Barthandelus.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I'm at Cid, looks like I'll need more farming.

Same. He just seems to one-shot me when he does his special in his second form.

I found Bartandalus a walk in the park though. He never brought me less than 50% hp. I bet my tactics are just wrong....

God dammit. :]

[Lingwo]

Just beat the last boss in chapter 11 i think.

Barthandelus. If i wasn't so overpowered i would have been destroyed because my tactics once again were a mess and i refused to use Fang again (why has it taken me so long to realise she is awesome). He just kept hitting me with those stupid laser things. I'm guessing i go back to cocoon now. So at the moment i have gone back to do some missions before i head off as my crystalium won't level up again till i complete the game. Quite funny because when it went to level 4, the amount of CP, i could max out all my chars three primary roles. So for fun i might do there three secondary roles.

Cid Raines was a bit of a pain. I would suggest making sure your party leader has some kind of deprotect resistance accessory because he'll use that in his second form and he'll do a move that would probably kill them. Have Fang to slow him down as well. Even have her in a sentinel and attract attention away for the other two to pummel him. You shouldn't need to grind. So long as you go in with the right tactics you should beat him.

[Slane]

Ya I know about that spot Andrew but I don't have quite enough STR to knock the black dog over during that first stagger. Was hoping somewhere a bit easier to begin with. Made up my on circuit last night, that was netting me about 7240 CP ever 4 minutes. It wasn't really efficient but I was able to kill everything in under 30 seconds.

PL, there is an achievement (all roles for each character level 5) and the other benefit is you can have more diverse paradigms.

And for those having trouble with Cid, this is what I did.

Lighting - Fang - Vanille

1. Com/Sen/Sab

2. Com/Sen/Med

3. Med/Sab/Sab

4. Com/Sen/Rav

I'd use 1 to original attack him. When I got low on health switched to 2 to heal up. Then I would normally go to 4 or 1 depending on whether or not he was debuffed. When he goes into guard mode, switched to 3 so they both can spam dispel on him and remove all his enchantments while I heal. The key for me was to always keep Fang as a Sen (with some +HP accessories she was fine) and just slowly take him down while keeping buffs on him. I think I also had a 5th paradigm with Vanille as Syn just to get haste/Vig, but I only did that once.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Is there any benefit to teaching my characters roles they didn't start with, other than more interesting Paradigms? Any achievements etc? I tried it on Hope and it sucked up a HUGE amount of CP :(

On Chapter 10 now, the bit with the birds. I've found Lightning/Vanille/Snow best so far, it's how I beat Barthandelus.

You're wasting CP right now.. that comes much, MUCH later. Always save your CP, even if you "max out their role", cause it goes up to Level 5, where each gem thing cost 60,000 CP. You might have just screwed yourself :p

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Cid Raines was a bit of a pain. I would suggest making sure your party leader has some kind of deprotect resistance accessory because he'll use that in his second form and he'll do a move that would probably kill them. Have Fang to slow him down as well. Even have her in a sentinel and attract attention away for the other two to pummel him. You shouldn't need to grind. So long as you go in with the right tactics you should beat him.

I just can't seem to defeat Cid Raines. Ive tried every kind of setup but his constant barrage of attacks utterly destroy me.

Everything seems to be okay until he Metamorphasises. He will use his Seismic Wave attack (or whatever it's called), and then usually he will just use some ridiculous combo attack on one of my characters (usually the party leader..) which is an instant Game Over.

Last time I tried it he used Stop on my party, and it halted both my medics. I could not do a thing about it. I just sat and watched as he reduced everyone to death. :crazy:

I'm getting really, really annoyed at it. It's supposed to be quite an easy battle according to what people are saying but I'm finding it impossible.

I've tried going gung-ho, i've tried being uber defensive by debuffing him and buffing my party, still no dice.

[MrArifPatel]

Look back in this thread (sorry on my iPhone) but I posted a map of gran pulse, where you can get 6600 cp per battle, should only take you 60 seconds per battle at your level. I can beat them in 14 secs :) lol

Haha that's great, I went to grind there just before chapter 12, I thought killing them in 30-40 secs was impressive.

I just can't seem to defeat Cid Raines. Ive tried every kind of setup but his constant barrage of attacks utterly destroy me.

Everything seems to be okay until he Metamorphasises. He will use his Seismic Wave attack (or whatever it's called), and then usually he will just use some ridiculous combo attack on one of my characters (usually the party leader..) which is an instant Game Over.

Last time I tried it he used Stop on my party, and it halted both my medics. I could not do a thing about it. I just sat and watched as he reduced everyone to death. :crazy:

I'm getting really, really annoyed at it. It's supposed to be quite an easy battle according to what people are saying but I'm finding it impossible.

I've tried going gung-ho, i've tried being uber defensive by debuffing him and buffing my party, still no dice.

Hmm what classes are you using? If your having serious problems make sure you have a medic medic sentinel class, and as soon as he starts to power up for the attack that normally kills you, switch to combat clinic, when he stops go commando ravager ravager get him onto stagger and use commando commando ravager and if he starts getting you low again, switch back to combat clinic.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I'm using cmd / sab / med, or rav / syn / med

I don't have a sentinel in my current party. Perhaps that's where I'm going wrong. :3

[PL_ Veteran]

Two MEDs help a lot. By the way I just got to Cid and beat him on my first go :p

I'm actually sick of this Pulse training ground now - I've just got to the three birds while you're in the lift and I can't wait to get out of here or whatever :/

[MrArifPatel]

Pure, that was the worst part IMO

@james I had no problem with him at all when I used light, hope and fang. Just make sure u got a combat clinic class, MED, MED, SEN. A diversity class. COM, RAV, MED and when he's staggered a COM, COM, RAV, if you're ever low on hp make sure you switch to combat clinic immediately, you should be fine with that, using a SAB class would also be good, but some people don't like it too much since it takes quiet a bit of time to slow, deprotect, shell etc...

[PL_ Veteran]

Pure, that was the worst part IMO

Am I near the end?

[MrArifPatel]

Am I near the end?

Hmm, 11 was by far the longest chapter you're probably 3/4 through it, 12 is not too long and 13 is super fast, so i'd say u got a couple of hours, oh and btw after chapter 11 you can't go back to pulse to train so you might wanna go back if you wanna grind a bit

[PL_ Veteran]

Hmm, 11 was by far the longest chapter you're probably 3/4 through it, 12 is not too long and 13 is super fast, so i'd say u got a couple of hours, oh and btw after chapter 11 you can't go back to pulse to train so you might wanna go back if you wanna grind a bit

Ok I think we misunderstood each other :p I'm on chapter 10, in the Ark thingy.

[Slane]

Am I near the end?

Yes.

Can't be exactly positive but you are getting close to the next Eidolon battle and end of chapter.

[Massiveterra]

It ****es me off when they pronounce Eidolon "EYE-Doe-lin" :laugh:

Pretentious twits (JK)

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

This game has a lot of Japanese quirks that irritate me slightly :laugh: . Like the constant 'noises' being made by the characters, and the exaggerated motions like nodding with your whole damn neck, or making a fist when they wanna make a stand. ... and oother stuff :shiftyninja:

I got through Cid by throwing in a Sentinel. Battle took forever but I just wanted it to be done easily.

The many cut scenes that followed with Vanille narrating irritated me very very greatly. Expletives were thrown towards my tv and the skip button was hammered. :rofl: Got on Pulse in the end though. I'm enjoying it's vastness!

[Slane]

So ran and did the first 5 missions to do some objective killing and score some decent CP. Enough to allow me to run Lighting/Fang/Snow in a Tri-Disaster(Rav/Rav/Rav) paradigm to get the behemoth near the front of Chp. 11 to stagger then go into Cerebus (Com/Com/Com) and destroy him in 30 or less seconds. Finally some good CP that I can start to rake in. Though, I do need to find a Gil spot to help upgrade some weapons/accessories.

Moved on to Andrew's spot. It's about 10-20 seconds faster for me so yielding roughly the same CP. Doing this way getting 6600 CP every 50 seconds. The single behemoth, was netting me 8000 CP every 1 minute and 10-20 seconds (having to wait for him to turn).

Dunno how anyone else did it, but I'm simply getting all the 4000 CP nodes for my 3 major roles, then moving on to all the 6000 CP ones then once I get to the 8000 ones I'll focus on one role at a time.

[Cha0sDragon14]

This game has a lot of Japanese quirks that irritate me slightly :laugh: . Like the constant 'noises' being made by the characters, and the exaggerated motions like nodding with your whole damn neck, or making a fist when they wanna make a stand. ... and oother stuff :shiftyninja:

I got through Cid by throwing in a Sentinel. Battle took forever but I just wanted it to be done easily.

The many cut scenes that followed with Vanille narrating irritated me very very greatly. Expletives were thrown towards my tv and the skip button was hammered. :rofl: Got on Pulse in the end though. I'm enjoying it's vastness!

I did the Sentinel thing with him too, although yeah it did take forever. :laugh:

The steppe is the prettiest area in the game though, the scale of everything is just amazing. Reminded me of the Calm Lands from FFX for some reason.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Well I'm just 2 hours in and am completely lost. Have never played a FF before so this is all new to me. Rented for the week as I want to try since I don't plan to buy any new games until I decide for sure what console I'm getting for college. I thought I would hate this whole turn based thing but I am actually enjoying it. The 360 version looks nice but my friend said it looks even better on the PS3.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

It's hardly better on the PS3, IMO.

You can go watch all the comparison videos you want, but it's only noticable if you actually look at stills...

Anyways, how are you lost? Make sure you read the tutorials and watch all the videos, or else you will be lost.

[PL_ Veteran]

Just arrived on Pulse. My Xbox froze on the loading screen just before the save point after the Eidolon! Had to do it all again :/

It's hardly better on the PS3, IMO.

You can go watch all the comparison videos you want, but it's only noticable if you actually look at stills...

In-game I would agree with you, but I can't be the only one that thinks the videos look like ass. Similar colours blur together, there's this haze to everything...it was worst on the Gran Pulse intro where she's showing you all the "beautiful" wildlife and it just looked bad. In-game is fantastic, though. I'm playing at 720p over Component if that changes anything.