official Final Fantasy XIII

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Took me about 40 attempts, about an hour and a half. Don't make the mistake of forgetting you need decent paradigms set up to kill the little ****es after as well!

I can beat him without spamming death now :p

haha, 40! I'm just going to try and kill him the old fashion way. It will be a very tough battle, but better than spending an hour spamming death!

[slyph]

use someone that can cast enfire on your weapons, it helps a lot with a COM. kill the little dudes first, he will summon them/heal them again but its best to get rid of them for a bit atleast to do some damage to him.

btw you fight one again in missions during the trials :) with less adds though.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I finally beat that Neochou with the death trick.. :D Took me about 4-5 rounds to finally get it to work.

After that, I thought I would have some more fun, and try it on those huge monsters. second try and it killed the thing (using the summon for vanille to knock it down, than the death trick)

After that, I beat Mission 63, which is that big monster again. This time it took me about 6 trys to get the thing. 80,000 CP is SWEET!

[Hardcore Til I Die]

use someone that can cast enfire on your weapons, it helps a lot with a COM. kill the little dudes first, he will summon them/heal them again but its best to get rid of them for a bit atleast to do some damage to him.

btw you fight one again in missions during the trials :) with less adds though.

I don't bother killing the little dudes anymore.

Just use these paradigms with Lightning, Fang and Hope:

Fang/Lightning/Hope

Syn/Sen/Med (start as this)

Sen/Sen/Sen

Sen/Sen/Med

Sen/Med/Med

Sen/Com/Med

Sen/Com/Com

Equip accessories that protect against physical and earth attacks to reduce damage dealt.

Start the battle with a synergist to buff the party, a sentinel to draw attacks and a medic to heal the sentinel when they take initial damage from Neochu.

Fang is one of the best synergists to use because she gets Protectra, which protects a great amount against physical attacks.

Use your Synergist to cast protectra, haste and enfire on your commando. Once you're healed up, switch to Sen/Com/Com and begin whacking away at Neochu. When your health drops a bit, switch to Sen/Com/Med.

When Neochu does a little roar, this is a sign that he's going to screech soon. If your health isn't too bad, switch to Sen/Sen/Sen. This will greatly reduce the damage taken. If your health isn't that great, then switch to Sen/Sen/Med. This will start healing up your party and still use two sentinels to take a lot of the damage off. After you've been screeched, switch to Sen/Med/Med until your health is looking good again. At this point, if your effects are starting to wear off you might want to switch back to the starting paradigm until you're protected and hasted again.

When Neochu pollens you, switch to Sen/Med/Med until you're healed up, then switch to Syn/Sen/Med to get your buffs back.

As a last resort, you can always summon to get your party back to full health and then still have 2TP left to use renew.

If you use Fang as your party leader you'll get to use Bahamut, who is one of if not the best Eidolons in the game.

This method takes a LONG time (took me about ~28 minutes), but I don't think there's a quick way to beat Neochu.

By the time I got the growth egg there was nothing exciting left in the crystarium anyway, was a bit of a pain. Still worth 200 odd k when you sell it though :D

I finally beat that Neochou with the death trick.. :D Took me about 4-5 rounds to finally get it to work.

After that, I thought I would have some more fun, and try it on those huge monsters. second try and it killed the thing (using the summon for vanille to knock it down, than the death trick)

After that, I beat Mission 63, which is that big monster again. This time it took me about 6 trys to get the thing. 80,000 CP is SWEET!

Yeah it's good at first, not so much when it costs 120,000CP to move one place :p

[slyph]

Yeah the 10th level and all the 3 secondary roles for each character are a bitch to level. soooo much points for so little gain haha. +3 magic, + 3 strenght, +15 HP WOOT! SCORE! >_<

even the final nodes that are like +100 are worth like 120,000 cp lol oh well, just 1/2 of one role left for all my chars and I'm done with the crystarium

[DPyro]

Yeah it's good at first, not so much when it costs 120,000CP to move one place :p

Knowing this when I'm at Chp. 11 makes me a sad panda :cry:

[KoL Veteran]

Damn I didn't know there were some that cost 120,000 CP. I thought all were 30,000 CP and 60,000 CP. :wacko:

[KoL Veteran]

Only 4 missions left. The big cactuar (54), 62, 63 and 64. I tried 54 and 62 and they are hard. I need a stronger team. :/

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Only 4 missions left. The big cactuar (54), 62, 63 and 64. I tried 54 and 62 and they are hard. I need a stronger team. :/

I was going to go do #54 soon.. but since you said he is too strong, i'll back off for now. You should look into weapons upgrade and magic/strength/HP upgrades too.

[KoL Veteran]

I was going to go do #54 soon.. but since you said he is too strong, i'll back off for now. You should look into weapons upgrade and magic/strength/HP upgrades too.

Yeah I need the traps to upgrade Hope/Light/Fang to tier 3. I guess is time to start fighting those turtles.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Yeah I need the traps to upgrade Hope/Light/Fang to tier 3. I guess is time to start fighting those turtles.

I'm doing that next. I accidentally sold my collectors catalog, (mission 8), so i'm going back for that quickly, than spamming death on those big monsters

[slyph]

wait till you try #64 haha :) it is a wake up call. and it has unique starting dialogue, if you have fang in the party she says "oh finally looks like a challenge" or something like that.

[Pablo2008jedi]

Well I've managed to do missions 1-8, I missed 7 and had to run all the way back, finished that and teleported to the first unlock c'eit tele stone and ran to do 8. Once I did 8 I relaised I could have used that c'eith stone to tele nearer to 7 :-/ Oh well I loved the CP :)

Don't know how many more I'll do, I still think my party needs to be buffed not near the max for the 3 main roles yet.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

Knowing this when I'm at Chp. 11 makes me a sad panda :cry:

Don't worry too much about it, it's only the role levels and abilities that cost 120k CP, the attributes only cost 60k :D

[George P Global Moderator]

Man, guess I'm pretty far behind, I'm somewhere in the middle of chapter 9 still. :p

[Hardcore Til I Die]

Man, guess I'm pretty far behind, I'm somewhere in the middle of chapter 9 still. :p

I can't even remember that far back :laugh:

[KoL Veteran]

Ok I tried the turtle thing on Eden and I cant kill it yet. :/

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I finally beat the gigantular! (#54) That mission has annoyed me for so long. I decided i'll just enable it, go try it and see what happens. Well he kicked my ass the first round, but I got him half way down. I figured there must be something I can do to kill him.

Did the same tactic, got him to about half way, and as far as I could with 2 healers and 1 attacker. I summon Odin, and kicked his ass for a little while, (this restores everyones HP btw), and once everyone came back, I went to dual-attackers (RAV/COM/MED - Lightning/Fang/Hope) and continued to work him down again. It got to the point where Hope couldn't keep up on the healing, so I switched to MED/COM/MED, and finished the fight that way :D

Zero stars, but I beat it and unlocked the achievement!

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Whoa, it really pays to do a second play if you're not happy with your progress!

Some people may remember an earlier post of mine. I was getting really irritated by Cid Raines. I eventually beat him by slowly hacking away at him and eventually had the battle done in about 15 mins. Which is a long time. Anyway, I felt like something wasn't quite right later in the game as I got to Gran Pulse as I was getting beaten by pretty much everything. It wasn't my tactics, so it must've been the whole set-up. :p

Anyway, I started a new game, and went about levelling and upgrading in a more balanced fashion.

.. Just beat Cid again now, first time, and 5-starred it! Well happy. Woop.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

I finally beat the gigantular! (#54) That mission has annoyed me for so long. I decided i'll just enable it, go try it and see what happens. Well he kicked my ass the first round, but I got him half way down. I figured there must be something I can do to kill him.

Did the same tactic, got him to about half way, and as far as I could with 2 healers and 1 attacker. I summon Odin, and kicked his ass for a little while, (this restores everyones HP btw), and once everyone came back, I went to dual-attackers (RAV/COM/MED - Lightning/Fang/Hope) and continued to work him down again. It got to the point where Hope couldn't keep up on the healing, so I switched to MED/COM/MED, and finished the fight that way :D

Zero stars, but I beat it and unlocked the achievement!

For that one I just used Snow for the first time since I've been able to choose my party, as he's good at taking the Gigantuar's beatings.

Then just switch between Sen/Com/Com and Sen/Med/Med until he's dead.

Whoa, it really pays to do a second play if you're not happy with your progress!

Some people may remember an earlier post of mine. I was getting really irritated by Cid Raines. I eventually beat him by slowly hacking away at him and eventually had the battle done in about 15 mins. Which is a long time. Anyway, I felt like something wasn't quite right later in the game as I got to Gran Pulse as I was getting beaten by pretty much everything. It wasn't my tactics, so it must've been the whole set-up. :p

Anyway, I started a new game, and went about levelling and upgrading in a more balanced fashion.

.. Just beat Cid again now, first time, and 5-starred it! Well happy. Woop.

I actually don't know how you could bare to play it through again. As much as I love this game, it really only gets good once you get to Pulse.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Whoa, it really pays to do a second play if you're not happy with your progress!

Some people may remember an earlier post of mine. I was getting really irritated by Cid Raines. I eventually beat him by slowly hacking away at him and eventually had the battle done in about 15 mins. Which is a long time. Anyway, I felt like something wasn't quite right later in the game as I got to Gran Pulse as I was getting beaten by pretty much everything. It wasn't my tactics, so it must've been the whole set-up. :p

Anyway, I started a new game, and went about levelling and upgrading in a more balanced fashion.

.. Just beat Cid again now, first time, and 5-starred it! Well happy. Woop.

ohh dude, WHY? You can easily pick on low level monsters and build yourself up. There is also an awesome place to go level up with 2 monsters, you always get the pre-emptive strike and the battle lasts maybe 1 min. You get 6600cp each battle. At my level, I can beat those monsters in 13 seconds, and get 13200cp each round (thank god for the Growth Egg!)

[Pablo2008jedi]

There is also an awesome place to go level up with 2 monsters, you always get the pre-emptive strike and the battle lasts maybe 1 min.

Yip found these guys on Friday and just finished leveling up all chars on their 3 main lvls to lvl4 now on with the rest of the story :)

[Hardcore Til I Die]

ohh dude, WHY? You can easily pick on low level monsters and build yourself up. There is also an awesome place to go level up with 2 monsters, you always get the pre-emptive strike and the battle lasts maybe 1 min. You get 6600cp each battle. At my level, I can beat those monsters in 13 seconds, and get 13200cp each round (thank god for the Growth Egg!)

Yeah, that's the second fastest way to gain experience in the game. The fastest is to farm Adamantoises, you need to really develop your characters to do that though. I can kill a Shaolong GUI in about 3 minutes and that's worth 120,000 CP (regular adamantortoise/adamantoise are worth 80,000 CP) with the growth egg :D When you include running up and down the hill to make the behemoth/dog thing refresh, it's a bit quicker to fight and kill a 'toise.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

ohh dude, WHY? You can easily pick on low level monsters and build yourself up. There is also an awesome place to go level up with 2 monsters, you always get the pre-emptive strike and the battle lasts maybe 1 min. You get 6600cp each battle. At my level, I can beat those monsters in 13 seconds, and get 13200cp each round (thank god for the Growth Egg!)

Let's just say I got stuck in a spot deep in the windy paths in Pulse, and I got so sick of trying to find a way back to the central plains I just decided to start a brand new game. It only took me 20 hours of playtime to get to where I am now, and I grinded a <lot>.

I grinded a lot in Nautilus and on the Airship. One for CP and one for Gil. :p So I'm pretty well-stocked. Got about 30+ shrouds and an Starred Axis Blade (Which I sold on my first playthrough.. D'oh!). Suffice it to say my character are much more efficient.

I mean I even got beaten by Flans last time. BASIC flans. Not even the larger, Merged ones. Something went really wrong.

This time round I'm doing pretty well in Pulse. I've had a few 0-Star battles but in general I'm 4-Starring battles at the moment.

Oh, and what's a growth egg? Sounds interesting. if it's Post Game then I don't wanna know. I'll find out for myself. >.>

[George P Global Moderator]

ohh dude, WHY? You can easily pick on low level monsters and build yourself up. There is also an awesome place to go level up with 2 monsters, you always get the pre-emptive strike and the battle lasts maybe 1 min. You get 6600cp each battle. At my level, I can beat those monsters in 13 seconds, and get 13200cp each round (thank god for the Growth Egg!)

I know I'm not that far yet, but I'll ask it now, where is this spot you speak of (for future reference for me)?

I don't have time to play it alot, 2-3hr's at night at best, so I'm going slow, BUT, I level up each character's role at the same time, so right now all of my characters are at the same lvl for each of their roles in the crysanthium etc. That and I just upgrade the weapons I like as much as I can. I don't really upgrade accessories alot yet, a few are around lvl3 iirc, but yeah, I'm not even done with chapter 9 yet. :p I wish I had the time to sit down and play for 8 or so hours one day and get to chapter 11 and start doing these missions everyones talking about.