Popular Post BlackTorito Posted April 14 Popular Post Share Posted April 14 (edited) Hi everyone, coming here with yet another guide for Hard mode and the brutal and legendary challenges. I'm going to write this up as a sort of summary of what I did after completing the game, and also, I'll post videos and full commented guides for most of the challenges that I'll be uploading to the channel. I've been on vacation so I'm late to the party, but doesn't matter, the more options the better I guess! For starters, make sure you complete the main quest and try to complete everything along the way before reading this guide! Here's a quick summary: Complete the game along with 100% of the side content and mini-games (to acquire rare materias, level up decently, etc.) After beating the game, you need to reach level 70 quickly, you can do this by going to Hard mode (I did 2 chapters, but you can go to clean up the sidequests on Hard directly if you want). Complete all the side quests again (resetting progress) in Hard mode and also the World Bosses, this is to improve your materia and gain folios and weapon levels (useful for the challenges). Level up to the max of your Transmute Rank, get all the Pirate Jetsam in the Meridian Ocean (you need to be on Chapter 13 for the last area), use the tracker from the Pirate quest and clean all the fog for that. And build all 3 Genji items. Use the "My White Haired Angel" side quest in Chapter 13 to power level all your materias for a bit. You want elemental and magnify to the max, then level up a bit of Swiftcast, Magic Focus and MP Absorption, with this method, and you'll level the rest along the way. Remember to use AP Up and Chocoband! Go to the Brutal Challenges and clean from 1 to 4 to gain the additional Magnify and Elemental materias. Then go back to point 5 and level them up, along with maxing Swiftcast, Magic Focus and MP Absorption and the rest! Finish Brutal Challenges 5 and 6! Complete the rest of the chapters in Hard Mode, up to chapter 13 or 14, this way you'll get Weapon Level 9 in most characters except Cloud if you complete the Legendary Bouts, then you can finish off Chapter 13/14 with an edge. Finish all the Legendary Bouts (Optionally do all except the last 2, to get weapon level 9 for Chapter 13 and 14 in Hard Mode and give you an edge, then finish the rest afterwards). Talk to Johnny and enjoy the Platinum! --------------------------------------------------------- THE ROAD MAP 1. COMPLETE THE MAIN GAME (100%) Nothing hard here, just follow a guide if you want, you can check my side channel to see my journey through: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackToritoTV 2. FIRST 2 HARD CHAPTERS After beating the game and completing everything, I got to level up for a bit before going through the side quests, but you can go there directly, you should be around level 60. Here are the videos for the first 2 chapters. 3. HARD SIDE QUESTS & WORLD BOSSES (MANUSCRIPTS) Now is time to complete most of the side quests again and the world bosses (for materials and manuscripts), a good Hard mode build should be enough to beat them all easily. You can follow my journey if you want through this series of videos if you get stuck! Also, I have a bonus video for the "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" colosseum battle, with a very easy method that works and you can use that same build mostly for Brutal Challenges. A. Grasslands & Junon Region B. Corel Region C. Gongaga Region D. Cosmo Canyon & Nibelheim Regions E. Sand and Circuses / Can't Stop, Won't Stop 4. TRANSMUTE RANK & GENJI ACCESSORIES You should do this step through the side quests because you'll pick a lot of materials along the way, you'll have all the materials for the Genji by killing all World Bosses on Hard. And you need to craft every single item in order to access the last rank. You also need to collect all the Pirate Jetsam in the Ocean, I recommend slowly unfogging the map with the detector because if not it's going to be really hard. 5. POWER LEVELING MATERIAS (FOR A BIT) You should use the "My White Haired Angel" side quest in Nibelheim for this, is the best method hands down, reset quests in Chapter 13 on Easy and just go for it, control Tifa to just kill the Guard Bees in the Queen battle, and leave her alive as much as possible. Use AP UP and Chocoband! Here's a video for reference of what I say (not mine): 6. BRUTAL CHALLENGES (1-4) Now we are getting into the game, first check out this build video in order to understand the gist of it with a better explanation focused (you'll use it for Brutal Challenge 1 to 5), and then check each challenge individually. The combo is pretty simple and you'll rush trough the challenges like nothing. 6.5. POWER LEVELING MATERIAS (AGAIN!) You should use the "My White Haired Angel" side quest in Nibelheim for this again. Make sure to level up the new materias you got in challenges 1-4 and also max level Swiftcast, MP Absorption and Magic Focus! 7. BRUTAL CHALLENGE 5 & 6 For challenge 5, you can use the same build with the change of using the new Magnify in "Lightning and Wind" and I also used the Genji's this time, you can check the Build in the video for the changes I made. For challenge 6 we are using a different build this time! 8. HARD MODE (REST OF CHAPTERS) I'll be posting the rest of my Hard journey here individually, the builds are probably going to change but I'll try to edit the videos and add time-stamps, the builds are going to be mostly at the beginning of the chapter and/or before each boss You can find individual chapters with timestamps at the end of this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3xY4gP4W0uIVq1zxSG5Y8O6RwncakJ9L&si=Z0Z4bN9TfxsbTx40 Alternatively, here’s full video with only the chapters marked: 8. LEGENDARY BOUTS - VR CHALLENGES Edited April 25 by BlackTorito Update 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackTorito Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 Updated up to Chapter 8! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackTorito Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 Updated up to Chapter 13, and Legendary Bouts, now I'm working on the rest of bouts to have Weapon Level 9 for Chapter 14! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackTorito Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 Alright guys! The guide is finished now! Everything completed and all guides uploaded, got the plat, good luck with everything 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric5036 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 This is fantastic, thanks so much! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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