official Final Fantasy XIII

[Slane]

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. >.>

It's a reward from Mission 54. Most people snag it post-game (due to how hard mission is), but you can get it right before you leave Chp. 11, using Vanille with Malboro Wand and the Death spell. I got it during my playthrough to earn extra CP.

Growth Egg = x2 CP.

[Pablo2008jedi]

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)?

You can't miss them, you need to pass them on your way to continue the story

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I'm feeling confident. I'm able to beat down Goblins, those Wolf things (And their larger cousins), the Flying buggers and the Flans without much issue.

I shall grind for a while and then move on! And yesss I know, I don't know any of their names. Hehe. :shiftyninja:

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

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 :)

My suggestion, SAVE your CP!! Do not upgrade any more classes just yet. Once your main 3 roles are maxed out, keep the remaining CP for later, once you unlock lv 9 and lv 10, and get your crystanium up to Role 5. You want a lot of CP to max those out asoon as possible :yes:

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.

Where is this guy?

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.

See this map:

It's a reward from Mission 54. Most people snag it post-game (due to how hard mission is), but you can get it right before you leave Chp. 11, using Vanille with Malboro Wand and the Death spell. I got it during my playthrough to earn extra CP.

Growth Egg = x2 CP.

It is SO worth it. Even if you spend an hour trying the death trick, the payoff is very well worth it!

Best method to use is Vanille (saboteur) Fang (sentinel) Hope (Medic). That way Fang will distract them all, hope will heal fang the entire match, and you spam "death" with vanille until you die, or the neochu dies. You will certainly die, multiple times, but just keep trying until you get it :yes:

[Slane]

Best method to use is Vanille (saboteur) Fang (sentinel) Hope (Medic). That way Fang will distract them all, hope will heal fang the entire match, and you spam "death" with vanille until you die, or the neochu dies. You will certainly die, multiple times, but just keep trying until you get it :yes:

I'd take Fang out and replace with Snow. Snow should have alot higher HP (he has the most), give him some damage resistants belts and one +HP (500 pref) and you'll be good to last 3-4 minutes with him.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

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.

Just noticed this.

It's incredibly short if you skip every cut scene. I was finished with Disc 1 in what was probably 2 hours. It wasn't that bad, plus I had a bit more freedom to be creative in boss battles since I knew how they played out. :laugh:

[PL_ Veteran]

Fighting the fal'Cie at the top of the tower. Honestly I'm starting to get bored of the gameplay, new enemies seem to be recolours of older enemies, getting close to the limit with most of my characters in the Crystarium (level 4 currently). The way everyone hyped up Pulse I expected something more...the badly-compressed intro video made it seem like this rich and beautiful landscape. I haven't met anyone else yet (which I think is what the characters are worried about) and I've only been able to count a couple of times where I've looked around and thought the place looked nice.

The field which you start off in is dull with enemies that you can only see when they're a few inches away from you, though the massive dinosaur things were impressive. Pulse just doesn't seem interesting to me. I heard when you get there the whole corridor thing stopped, but it seems like they replaced it with corridors that shoot off in a couple of different directions. Oh, and then they'll go to the other extreme and open this massive landscape for you, throwing in the odd pond every now and then. I'm still playing though because I've actually grown attached to the characters, even if they are a bit exaggerated. I can't remember what it was but one of the characters mentioned something that happened near the start, and it reminded me how long I've been playing for. I liked that. I just hope things get a bit more interesting soon.

By the way, if anyones got any tips for that fal'Cie (Dahaka), let me know :)

[Pablo2008jedi]

My suggestion, SAVE your CP!! Do not upgrade any more classes just yet. Once your main 3 roles are maxed out, keep the remaining CP for later, once you unlock lv 9 and lv 10, and get your crystanium up to Role 5. You want a lot of CP to max those out asoon as possible :yes:

Yip that's what I have been doing. Reading hear suggests to leave the other 3 non-main roles till after the storyline. So right now I got lots of CP banked ready for the upgrade to lvl4 and beyond :)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Fighting the fal'Cie at the top of the tower. Honestly I'm starting to get bored of the gameplay, new enemies seem to be recolours of older enemies, getting close to the limit with most of my characters in the Crystarium (level 4 currently). The way everyone hyped up Pulse I expected something more...the badly-compressed intro video made it seem like this rich and beautiful landscape. I haven't met anyone else yet (which I think is what the characters are worried about) and I've only been able to count a couple of times where I've looked around and thought the place looked nice.

The field which you start off in is dull with enemies that you can only see when they're a few inches away from you, though the massive dinosaur things were impressive. Pulse just doesn't seem interesting to me. I heard when you get there the whole corridor thing stopped, but it seems like they replaced it with corridors that shoot off in a couple of different directions. Oh, and then they'll go to the other extreme and open this massive landscape for you, throwing in the odd pond every now and then. I'm still playing though because I've actually grown attached to the characters, even if they are a bit exaggerated. I can't remember what it was but one of the characters mentioned something that happened near the start, and it reminded me how long I've been playing for. I liked that. I just hope things get a bit more interesting soon.

By the way, if anyones got any tips for that fal'Cie (Dahaka), let me know :)

This is what MassiveTerra and I have been saying. Building your hopes up it'll get better is only going to lead to more disappointment. This is what FFXIII is throughout.

[Massiveterra]

On hour 24 and finally got to Barthandelus last night. It was the first time in 5 or so hours that the combat didn't feel monotonous. Before that it was the same exact combat for 5 straight hours. Rav/Syn/Sab to Rav/Med/Com to Rav/Rav/Com. the same thing every battle for 5 straight hours. My thumb got numb from mashing the x button so much

Man, from the hopes I have built for myself from everyone saying the game gets amazing at the 25th hour, it better be worth my 24 hour investment

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Yip that's what I have been doing. Reading hear suggests to leave the other 3 non-main roles till after the storyline. So right now I got lots of CP banked ready for the upgrade to lvl4 and beyond :)

Good :) I heard that on a forum, and decided to follow suit, just to make sure I don't make any mistakes. Each item on the upper tier is worth 30k or 60k. The other roles start off with 12k and eventually go up as high as 120k.

[George P Global Moderator]

I dunno how much or if at all, I'll level up some of the other roles for characters. I seem to have found a good mix with just the original 3 roles each one has. Once you fall into a rythm of sorts, at least for me, I don't tend to make any big changes after that.

I'm right before the end of Chapter 10 btw. :p

[Tharp Daddy]

I'm stuck on the Aster Protoflorian, i started Com/Syn, got buffed, jumped to Com/Rav to fill the meter, took me about a minute and a half to break the gauge, then that stagger got him to 50%, and i summoned Odin to try to finish him off, that got him to around 25-30%, and all the sudden the boss is going nuts and hitting for 90% of my health before i can even switch to com/med to fix myself up.

[DPyro]

What level are peoples weapons at in Chapter 11? I just upgraded Lightnings to Helter Skelter but all the others haven't really been touched. I found a guide as to what to use to level them up.

Buy:

36 coloured jelly (3x EXP) OR 36 sturdy bones (3x EXP) OR 40 chipped fangs (3x EXP)

1 ultra-compact fusion reactor

[KoL Veteran]

What level are peoples weapons at in Chapter 11? I just upgraded Lightnings to Helter Skelter but all the others haven't really been touched. I found a guide as to what to use to level them up.

Buy:

36 coloured jelly (3x EXP) OR 36 sturdy bones (3x EXP) OR 40 chipped fangs (3x EXP)

1 ultra-compact fusion reactor

I didn't bother upgrading the weapons until I finished the game. I upgraded a few levels only once I got the weapons I wanted. What I did was get good accessories like Warrior's Wristband and Sorcerer's Mark. Those give you +100 Strength and Magic. I think it is better than upgrading weapons at that point.

[DPyro]

Only reason I ask this is because this guy beat Dahaka in 1:36 whereas it took me over 7:00 with shrouds and Helter Skelter

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

What level are peoples weapons at in Chapter 11? I just upgraded Lightnings to Helter Skelter but all the others haven't really been touched. I found a guide as to what to use to level them up.

Buy:

36 coloured jelly (3x EXP) OR 36 sturdy bones (3x EXP) OR 40 chipped fangs (3x EXP)

1 ultra-compact fusion reactor

All of mine are maxed at tier 2 :( I can't get any more materials to transform them into tier 3. So i'm saving up $2mil to buy one.. As beating those big monsters isn't working.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I'm currently going the Missions before I do anything else yet. I have Chocobo access! But for some odd reason I'm finding B Missions easier to do than C Missions.

Straange.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I'm currently going the Missions before I do anything else yet. I have Chocobo access! But for some odd reason I'm finding B Missions easier to do than C Missions.

Straange.

Heh.. I beat some level A and B missions before finishing C and D. It's weird how they are ranked. Some are ranked B, which are unbelievably hard to kill.

[Tharp Daddy]

Ah, i like where i'm at in the game.

just beat the robot boss after he knocked out Snow; Fang and Light came to the rescue - the gameplay was boring me for the past few hours with only 2 people (hope and snow together can't do ANYTHING) but back to the complex 3 people battle was fun. Lightning hugging Hope and Hope seeing his dad was nice.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Ah, i like where i'm at in the game.

just beat the robot boss after he knocked out Snow; Fang and Light came to the rescue - the gameplay was boring me for the past few hours with only 2 people (hope and snow together can't do ANYTHING) but back to the complex 3 people battle was fun. Lightning hugging Hope and Hope seeing his dad was nice.

hahahah! When I hit that part of the game, I was thinking to myself "They couldn't have given me the worst possible characters of the game" That part did suck.

I do however really hate

Sazh, Snow and Vanille

, the others are awesome. The worst dual in the game by far was

Sazh and vanille

. I noticed how much easier enemies were, in terms of how much they attack. Such a horrible duo.

[Pablo2008jedi]

What level are peoples weapons at in Chapter 11? I just upgraded Lightnings to Helter Skelter but all the others haven't really been touched. I found a guide as to what to use to level them up.

Buy:

36 coloured jelly (3x EXP) OR 36 sturdy bones (3x EXP) OR 40 chipped fangs (3x EXP)

1 ultra-compact fusion reactor

I upgraded Lightnings first sword to * (star) then when on improving fangs std weapon to * (star) and hopes weapon, that has stagger lock, which is around lvl20ish at the mo. I did find battles easier once I started to upgrade weapons, haven't figured out how to advance the * weapons further yet :blush:

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I upgraded Lightnings first sword to * (star) then when on improving fangs std weapon to * (star) and hopes weapon, that has stagger lock, which is around lvl20ish at the mo. I did find battles easier once I started to upgrade weapons, haven't figured out how to advance the * weapons further yet :blush:

You know there is 3 tiers right? You are only at the first tier. You can max a weapon out to *, then you need to use a material, unlock it into second Tier (it will be the only glowing item in the list) then you can max it out to * again. You need Tropz to unlock the third Tier, which is their final phase.

[Pablo2008jedi]

Yeah I know there are other teirs, just don't know how to advance them, nothing in the upgrade list is available to use on them. But I'm just going to wait till the end of the story and go back to grand pulse and do all the missions and upgrades etc.. :unsure:

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I only use Hope when I'm faced with a difficult battle.

My team is usually Fang/Light/Vanille (Com/Rav/Rav), (Sab/Com/Sab), (Sen/Med/Med) etc etc. But if I find myself getting killed, I'll swap Fang with Hope. And then have Rav/Com/Rav, Rav/Rav/Rav, Syn/Com/Sab, Med/Med/Med. :p

... *yawns* I sound like a complete and utter nerd. But it seems to work.

Pain/Curse/Daze are the funniest abilities ever. I usually spam those on an enemy so I can just go gung-ho. :p