Popular Post Oddish88 Posted March 31 Popular Post Share Posted March 31 (edited) So, you finished the game and want to go for full completion/platinum? Postgame can be a bit daunting task and some people have no idea where to start. I'm writing this guide to give people some direction and tips on how to get started and what I think is the optimal way to progress. Let's get started. STEP 1 - PREPARATION You probably finished the game at around level 50. In postgame xp and ap are multiplied by alot so let's use this chance to finish off any loose ends and gain some xp/ap while doing it. Load up chapter 12 on EASY and then do the following: BTW I won't go into details here as most of this stuff should be a breeze on easy mode. - Gather all world intel, including protorelic quests - Collect all pirate jetsam with tiny bronco - Gather all weapons and learn every weapon skill - Craft everything except genji stuff - Complete all minigames - Complete musclehead coliseum, shinra manor combat simulator, beast battleground and chadley's VR fights (minus Brutal/Legendary fights) - Optionally complete all sidequests if you haven't yet (This guide will repeat them on hard for manuscripts) While you do this stuff, have the chocobo armband on someone and put AP up on it and pair it with one of these: swiftcast/magic focus/elemental/hp absorb/mp absorb Also put the other AP up materias to use on other slots and fill it with those materias. (There's a total of 5 ap ups in the game) Try to keep all of your unmastered materias equipped to level them up passively. After doing all of this check your levels and materia situation. What I suggest having at this point: - Level 70 - All green/yellow materias mastered - Blue materia: swiftcast, magnify, elemental, hp absorb, mp absorb, magic focus (magic efficiency and warding are a plus) - Purple materias: all ATB related materias mastered, 3 pairs of steadfast block and precision defense mastered, 7 hp up/3 mp up/1 strength up/1 magic up decently leveled if not mastered You can also skip the grinding if you want, but the next sections will be harder. On the plus side you'll passively level up while progressing towards the platinum. You can use this to grind if needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmZ6x840jnQ STEP 2 - REGION BOSSES AND GENJI GEAR In this next step we will defeat all of the region bosses for two reasons. You get a manuscript for defeating each one, and the craftable genji gear requires materials from them on hard mode. Load up chapter 12 on hard mode and reset your quest progress so we can get manuscripts from them in step 3. Set your party to cloud/aerith/barret. - Defeat Great Malboro and Quetzalcoatl first then craft Genji Gloves from their drops - Defeat Mindflayer, Tonberry King, Jabberwock and King Zu Here's my video guide on how to efficiently handle all these fights with the aforementioned party and minimal build swapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj_N4BeTyS8 STEP 3 - SIDEQUESTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS Doing sidequests on hard mode gives a lot of manuscripts and it really doesn't take a long time to do these. I really suggest doing these as the extra SP and weapon levels will be very useful later on. Remember that you can refresh your mp at chocobo stops. You have 2 options here: a) only do the quests that give manuscripts b) do all sidequests to unlock the final sidequest for 1 extra manuscript, personally I did this option Aerith really shines here. If you pair elemental spell with magnify, swiftcast, hp absorb, mb absorb and magic focus, she will finish most quest fights in a spell or two. Add in a first strike, and atb boost to get started fast. You can also make your remaining party members buff her with faith and haste (i used cloud and barret as usual). I'll try to list all weaknesses so you can swap your spells as you go. Grasslands Region - 6 Quests 1. Flowers from the hill - manuscript for aerith, fire weakness 2. A rare card lost 3. Lifeline in peril - manuscript for barret, fire weakness 4. Livestock's bane - manuscript for red xiii, no weakness but aerith's magic will pressure it fast 5. Where the wind blows 6. Hustle and grind - manuscript for cloud, fire and lightning weakness Junon Region - 7 Quests 1. Stuck in a rut 2. When words wont do - manuscript for barret, wind weakness 3. Calling all frogs - manuscript for tifa 4. The hardest sell - manuscript for red, magic weakness 5. Dreaming of blue skies - manuscript for tifa, wind weakness 6. Tides of war and worry 7. Beneath still waters - manuscript for aerith, ice and wind weakness, use breach on the final hellrider to get rid of reflect Corel Region - 9 Quests 1. The saga of the seaside inn 2. Rendezvous in Costa del Sol - manuscript for cloud, no weakness, fire recommended 3. Bodybuilders in a bind - manuscript for tifa, ice weakness 4. Of robed men and ransoms - manuscript for red xiii, no weakness 5. Missing mr. birdie - manuscript for barret, ice weakness 6. Trouble in Paradise - manuscript for yuffie, ice weakness 7. Gold cup or bust 8. Sand and circuses - manuscript for tifa, yuffie battle ice weakness, aerith ice recommended, barret ice weakness, tifa lightning weakness, cloud wind weakness 9. Cant stop wont stop - manuscript for cait sith, only available after completing all sidequests in the game Gongaga Region - 6 Quests 1. The pursuit of perfection - manuscript for barret, wind weakness 2. Teach me, great warrior - manuscript for yuffie, in these fights dont go all out since you need to meet the objectives, first fight pressure with cold front, 2nd fight pressure frogs with cold front and use focused thrust on gagighandi when it uses ambush, 3rd fight triple slash to pressure chimera mimics, last fight fire weakness 3. O chicken where art thou - manuscript for red xiii, ice weakness 4. The spice of life - manuscript for aerith , multiple weaknesses, use silence on gorgon manes to make em easier 5. Escape from endless writers block 6. Woodland vigil - manuscript for aerith, ice weakness Cosmo Canyon Region - 5 Quests 1. Bonds of trust 2. Absence of a sign - manuscript for aerith, ice weakness 3. From whence life flows - manuscript for red xiii, ice weakness 4. Promises to keep - manuscript for red xiii, lightning weakness 5. Victim of circumstance - manuscript for yuffie, ice weakness Nibel Region - 3 Quests 1. Esoteric secrets of the elders 2. My white haired angel - manuscript for tifa, fire weakness 3. Lament of the damned - manuscript for barret, ice weakness Now with all quests done (except the last one) use chapter select to go to chapter 13 and retain your current quest data. Fast travel to Gold Saucer to complete the last sidequest. Keep in mind that you only have to do the battle square part for the manuscript. Here's my guide for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-FkzIrGs4 STEP 4 - HARD MODE PLAYTHROUGH With most of the side content completed it's time finally do the hard mode playthrough, the reason you should do this before VR is the extra manuscripts. Story on hard mode isn't that bad apart from a few fights and the reward manuscripts will help in VR later. General strategy for almost all bosses: - Cloud/Yuffie/Whoever is available has -Aga spells combined with swiftcast, hp and mb absorb and magic focus, first strike, atb boost, atb stagger, magic up, genji gloves. Switch the -aga spell depending on boss weakness, then just spam spells till boss dies - Aerith/2nd character uses arcane ward, haste and faith on first character (Magnify - time, empowerment, atb boost, first strike, chocoking's cape) - Barret/3rd character uses deshell on boss (Magic focus - enervation, enhanced malboro orb for duration) - Can add healing/revive or whatever is needed, theres plenty of materia slots left (elemental or warding combos on armor for example) Chapter 1 - Materia Guardian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ara2_u2W7SM Chapter 2 - Midgardsormr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2KeYp2T_k Chapter 3 - Rude & Elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufauu-_E1-o Chapter 3 - Mythril Golem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C8KQi0YxSA Chapter 4 - Terror of The Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_7gL2xhF2I Chapter 4 - Roche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXIqwk_hI_4 Chapter 5 - Jenova Emergent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80thaV9ahbk Chapter 6 - Grasptropod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2haGvGIvbhY Chapter 7 - Custom Valkyrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gWDfwbDrc Chapter 7 - Gigatrice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvgBk4buG4o Chapter 8 - Dyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2_kxqSul_g Chapter 8: Anuran Suppressor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_aq7GP_XoU Chapter 9: Specimen H1024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDn9QTW-gSs Chapter 9: Crimson Mare Mk. II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNe71BJkuts Chapter 10: Gi Nattak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5rTKs6Flp8 Chapter 11: Diabolic Variant, Abjudicator, Yin & Yang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOlEfjzSTU Chapter 11: Forgotten Specimen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzQbmRZWqfk Chapter 11: Galian Beast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STdrgPYUtv0 Chapter 11: Roche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5v02wk5vMo Chapter 12: Abzu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajbp8BhlIkA Chapter 12: Rufus, Rude & Elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6l4N-vr8Fk&t Chapter 13: Red Dragon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dvwpjv-uE&t Chapter 13: Rude & Reno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzfO2I4FUo&t Chapter 13: Tseng & Elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or0Zy5hR1dI Chapter 13: Demon Gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKts-Ktxsnk&t Chapter 14: Final Boss Gauntlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznm6q5dI-U STEP 5 - BRUTAL AND LEGENDARY BATTLES These should be the absolute last things you do in the game as they are the hardest as well. Some people want the gotterdammerdung earlier but in my opinion it is very overrated. I currently have videos for 4 legendary matches, I will be releasing more in the coming days. Barret vs The Colossi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QJ9iPakQjo&t Aerith vs The Magi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB3DL2kCEiE&t Cloud vs The Warriors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4hJgG6Ktw&t Bonds of Friendship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWoqiIQq-nw&t I know this is very barebones right now but I promise I will add more video content soon. Hopefully this will help people work towards the platinum! Edited April 13 by Oddish88 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oddish88 Posted April 2 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 2 Just finished the sidequests section, I decided not to make videos from them because lets face it most of them are prob easier on hard mode than they were on normal mode with first playthrough I did make a guide for "cant stop wont stop" however since the battle square section can be hard. Just took me a while because I had to redo all quests just to unlock it haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-FkzIrGs4 Editing guides for hard mode chapters 1, 2 and 3 now. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oddish88 Posted April 5 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 5 (edited) I've updated hard mode section from ch1 up to ch8 dyne fight General strategy for almost all bosses: - Cloud/Yuffie/Whoever is available has -Aga spells combined with swiftcast, hp and mb absorb and magic focus, first strike, atb boost, atb stagger, magic up, genji gloves. Switch the -aga spell depending on boss weakness, then just spam spells till boss dies - Aerith/2nd character uses arcane ward, haste and faith on first character (Magnify - time, empowerment, atb boost, first strike, chocoking's cape) - Barret/3rd character uses deshell on boss (Magic focus - enervation, enhanced malboro orb for duration) - Can add healing/revive or whatever is needed, theres plenty of materia slots left (elemental or warding combos on armor for example) Chapter 1 - Materia Guardian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ara2_u2W7SM Chapter 2 - Midgardsormr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2KeYp2T_k Chapter 3 - Rude & Elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufauu-_E1-o Chapter 3 - Mythril Golem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C8KQi0YxSA Chapter 4 - Terror of The Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_7gL2xhF2I Chapter 4 - Roche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXIqwk_hI_4 Chapter 5 - Jenova Emergent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80thaV9ahbk Chapter 6 - Grasptropod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2haGvGIvbhY Chapter 7 - Custom Valkyrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gWDfwbDrc Chapter 7 - Gigatrice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvgBk4buG4o Chapter 8 - Dyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2_kxqSul_g Edited April 5 by Oddish88 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neme-ita Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Thx mate very usefull 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony_256 Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 On 3/31/2024 at 7:24 PM, Oddish88 said: You can use this to grind if needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmZ6x840jnQ You can get to lvl 70 in 5 minutes with this bug: I would expect this to be patched soon though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damcrac5 Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 7 hours ago, Antony_256 said: You can get to lvl 70 in 5 minutes with this bug: I would expect this to be patched soon though. Is the thought that this would be the quickest way to level materia as well? Seems to be 5 or 10 SP per kill. Wouldn't need to travel or save reload either. Physical versions can revert to v1.0 if they do patch it at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddish88 Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 On 4/7/2024 at 10:08 AM, Antony_256 said: You can get to lvl 70 in 5 minutes with this bug: I would expect this to be patched soon though. Thanks ill add this as well. I'm really not sure whats the fastest AP grinding method (assumed it was gongaga followed by coliseum for last few materias) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakXedge Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 11 minutes ago, Oddish88 said: Thanks ill add this as well. I'm really not sure whats the fastest AP grinding method (assumed it was gongaga followed by coliseum for last few materias) Assumed right! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oddish88 Posted April 8 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 8 Here is the next batch for hard mode playthru, I will try to wrap this up in a couple of days! Chapter 8: Anuran Suppressor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_aq7GP_XoU Chapter 9: Specimen H1024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDn9QTW-gSs Chapter 9: Crimson Mare Mk. II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNe71BJkuts Chapter 10: Gi Nattak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5rTKs6Flp8 Chapter 11: Diabolic Variant, Abjudicator, Yin & Yang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOlEfjzSTU 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oddish88 Posted April 9 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 9 Alright heres the chapter 11 & 12 boss fights, last 2 chapters to go! Chapter 11: Forgotten Specimen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzQbmRZWqfk Chapter 11: Galian Beast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STdrgPYUtv0 Chapter 11: Roche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5v02wk5vMo Chapter 12: Abzu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajbp8BhlIkA Chapter 12: Rufus, Rude & Elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6l4N-vr8Fk 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVERJUICECRUMBS Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I’m gonna bump this because there’s a lot of good info here for anyone looking for late game/hard mode help. Thanks for the videos/writeups. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddish88 Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 thanks for the bump! just updated the hard mode playthru with all of the remaining boss fights Chapter 13: Red Dragon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dvwpjv-uE&t Chapter 13: Rude & Reno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzfO2I4FUo&t Chapter 13: Tseng & Elena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or0Zy5hR1dI Chapter 13: Demon Gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKts-Ktxsnk&t Chapter 14: Final Boss Gauntlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznm6q5dI-U 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neme-ita Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 I use your video and are AWESOME thx again mate great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddish88 Posted April 14 Author Share Posted April 14 Alright here's the hardest brutal fight in the game with semifast completion time too 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neme-ita Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Finish hard mode, thx again for all of this videos and work awesome job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVERJUICECRUMBS Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 (edited) Yeah I second this, I’m right at the end the videos were pretty much flawless in getting through each chapter. The Worst hard mode fight (for me) was Chapter 13, Rufus. Swapped out Genji Gloves for The Götterdämmerung, and got real aggressive. We shall see how chapter 14 goes…lol Edit: Chapter 14 Not that bad, but your setups need to be right I’d follow the video in this post for chapter 14 for optimal loadouts. The very last battle took a few tries though. Edited April 28 by EVERJUICECRUMBS Added chapter 14 remarks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVERJUICECRUMBS Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Thanks @Oddish88 For The Guides,and Roadmaps very helpful. I think Elemental Lightning on Armor for Bonds of Friendship worked really well. I got the platinum thanks to much of your help much thanks! 🫡 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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