How to make Final Fantasy 12 Platinum a joke (Best weapon & Level 99 early)

[ObsiEez]

This little guide is for how to get the most OP weapon in the game within 1-2 hours of gameplay time, the Seitengrat, a bow with 224 attack power, 75 evade and can be equipped by anyone since it's not licence locked aswell as how to get level 99 (or atleast decently close depending on how long you want to grind for) so that later party members auto level to your level.

 

If you guys would like me to make a video of how to do all this aswell incase anyone needs a visual guide I'll probably make a video tutorial for it all soon however for now only text base will have to do

 

It goes without saying that this little guide will have early story spoilers as well as spoil the names of future party members so read at your own expense

 

 

So if you're like me, and not very interested in the story or characters of Final Fantasy 12 or just want an easy road to the platinum then below are a set of tips to easily get OP within the first few hours of gameplay. This does require making a new game or if you're already level 99 on all characters the you can skip to the first half of this to get the the most OP weapon in the game. However using this method

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Fran and Balthier

 won't be auto leveled to your level like the rest of your party so you'll have to grind them at a later date. I suggest waiting until you get atleast 2 embroidered tippets to make the grind less painful a second time if everyone else is already level 99

 

 

SET UP

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- Start with making a new game and playing through the tutorial until you get to the first save crystal and reload the area to make sure no one else is there then make a separate save state there, after that, finish the tutorial as normal and play through the story until you get to Giza Plains.

 

- After getting to Giza Plains make your way to the Dalmasca Westersand and go to this location on the map

One you're there on the exact circled spot there is a 25% chance for an urn to spawn with a Diamond Armlet inside, keep reloading the area until it spawns

 

- After getting the diamond armlet play until you escape from the Nalbina Dungeons and go back to Rabanastre to make sure everyone leaves your party. DO NOT keep playing the story from here or else Basch will go to your current level, which isn't what we want

 

 

GETTING THE SEITENGRAT

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- Make sure you have the Diamond Armlet equipped before doing anything of this or else you won't geth the Seitengrat and you'll get just gil and knot's of rust (learned the hard one)

- Go to the Areodome and in Rabanastre and fly to Nalbina and pick the leisure option so that you can roam on the airship. Go outside onto the platform to autosave the game and then close your application.

 

- Reopen the game and load up the tutorial save and spam cure on yourself until you see the numbers 97, 94, 95 come up in that order. It's not random what numbers you'll get, you'll always get a certain chain of numbers, it's just random where you'll be placed on the list of numbers, however I found closing the game before trying I always started very close to the chain. You'll know you're close when you see the chain 88, 94. 94 come up. This should only take 2-5 minutes to get the chain, if it takes longer than that, restart the game again and try again.

 

- After getting the 97, 94, 95 cure chain, it select and go back to the title screen and reload the auto save on the airship and run up to stairs to the left and make sure you're in the direct middle, there should be an invisible chest DO NOT OPEN IT. 

 

- Once you're lined up with the chest, look to your left and you'll see a kid. He will run to the right corner (if you're looking at him from the chest he will be going to the right) after that he will run to the man on the opposite side and then he will run back to his starting position. Once he stops immediately open the chest and you'll get the Seitengrat, at 224 attack power bow, the most OP weapon in the game. After getting it, go back into the airship and go back outside to make a new auto save with the bow and the close the application and repeat the process until you have 6 of them to give to your whole party since the weapon isn't license locked.

 

- After you have 6 Seitengrat's you can go down to the stewardess below deck and land the airship in Nalbina and there will be a Seeq that sells onion arrows, you'll only need to buy 5 since Fran already has one (assuming you still have it)

 

 

THE GRINDING

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- Now that you have a Seitengrat and an arrow, make your way back to Rabanastre and go into the Garamsythe Waterway. This is where you'll be grinding. You'll be grinding Malboro Overking's and Lizard's, both around level 40 and can do about 800 with beginner armor so the 75 evade really comes in handy, just make sure to stay as far away from the as possible when trying to kill them and try not to agro more than 1 at a time

You'll want to be grinding in the 2 circled areas as they're the easiest to go back from and they're both close to a save crystal incase you get low on health. You'll have to go to screens to make everything fully respawn in the rooms so just go back and forth between the 2 save crystals killing everything in the way. You'll get around 3k EXP for each kill and going from one crystal to the other you'll kill around 10 netting you around 30k from 1 crystal to the next. At the start you'll have to not speed up time that way you can tell what's going on but as you level up more you can just put it on 4x speed and have it set to auto attack and just run into them and they'll die pretty fast. One thing to watch out for is in the lower left area a water element will some times spawn and uses protect, reflect and a water attack that seems to hit every time, so wait until you're a bit of a higher level to kill it. Upon killing it you'll get around 5k exp.

 

- You can stop grinding whenever, if you want to go to level 99 you can go to level 99 or get level 60 as from there you'll blow through most everything until you get near end game content which by then you should have 3 embroidered tippets and access to higher EXP mobs to grind.

 

- Again, only downside to all this is that Fran and Balthier won't be auto leveled to your level liked Basch, Penelo and Ashe so you'll have to level them up manually using either the above method or waiting til later to level them up, I recommend waiting until you have atleast 2 embroidered tippets before leveling them up and just use Vaan, Basch, Penelo and Ashe as your main characters until then

 

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ObsiEez

[Guest]

Thank you. I love to be OP. Always nice to be swinging a big sword. Or bow...

[ObsiEez]

14 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said:

Thank you. I love to be OP. Always nice to be swinging a big sword. Or bow...

No problem, I didn't come up with all this, mostly just putting together a bunch of stuff I found online, and you won't be seeing much of the bow since it's an invisible weapon. I will say that it does make the game boring however since in my opinion the story and characters are bland so being able to speed through the gameplay aswell makes the game extremely boring in my opinion, but I love final fantasy and plan to get the plat for all of them so I'm still sticking through the boredom. Just a fair warning if you plan on doing it 

[AlchemistWer]

I knew when read about Seitengrat that you could destroy the early-game with that bow, but i didn't know you also can beat every boss and earn the platinum with that bow, and now that you figure out a method to level up until level 99 in early game too... well, I think the platinum is not a problem now. ? 

[ObsiEez]

1 minute ago, AlchemistWer said:

I knew when read about Seitengrat that you could destroy the early-game with that bow, but i didn't know you also can beat every boss and earn the platinum with that bow, and now that you figure out a method to level up until level 99 in early game too... well, I think the platinum is not a problem now.  

I can't take any credit for coming up with the methods, I found them the grinding stop and getting the bow and all that from reading a bunch of different posts and I just combined all the best info to have the easiest time. And the Seitengrat is the strongest weapon in the game with 224 attack power and a nice 75 evade aswell and I'm pretty sure the highest attack power weapon from the game is like 100ish (I could be wrong I never really checked) I got bored of grinding to level 99 myself so I stopped at 60 and going to top it all off later with embroidered tippets in a higher level area. Honestly so far my biggest hurdle getting the platinum is just how pain stakingly boring it is 

[PaulWeafer91]

I have never played ff12. I do have some experience with the series having played 7, 8, Most of 9 and 14. Realistically how much time and effort will I have to put in to get this platinum?

[Lightin_August]

5 minutes ago, ObsiEez said:

I can't take any credit for coming up with the methods, I found them the grinding stop and getting the bow and all that from reading a bunch of different posts and I just combined all the best info to have the easiest time. And the Seitengrat is the strongest weapon in the game with 224 attack power and a nice 75 evade aswell and I'm pretty sure the highest attack power weapon from the game is like 100ish (I could be wrong I never really checked)

 

Yeah Zodiac Spear has an attack power of around 141 (can also inflict disable), only trumped by Seitengrat (224) and Great Trango (153).

[ObsiEez]

Just now, paul-wii4 said:

I have never played ff12. I do have some experience with the series having played 7, 8, Most of 9 and 14. Realistically how much time and effort will I have to put in to get this platinum?

ff12 plays nothing like the older final fantasy and uses a system called a gambit system with is like real time and turn based at the same time kind of thing. With the method above it won't take to much effort and should take probably around 60-80 hours. The hardest part will be keeping yourself entertained since the story is bland and the characters are bland and using the bow and grinding early makes the story a cake walk

 

Just now, paranoia_agent85 said:

 

Yeah Zodiac Spear has an attack power of around 141 (can also inflict disable), only trumped by Seitengrat (224) and Great Trango (153).

Ahh ok, I didn't do to much research into other weapons after I found out about the Seitengrat and spent my time instead figuring out how to maximize everything early to make everything else a breeze

 

[AlchemistWer]

15 minutes ago, ObsiEez said:

I can't take any credit for coming up with the methods, I found them the grinding stop and getting the bow and all that from reading a bunch of different posts and I just combined all the best info to have the easiest time. And the Seitengrat is the strongest weapon in the game with 224 attack power and a nice 75 evade aswell and I'm pretty sure the highest attack power weapon from the game is like 100ish (I could be wrong I never really checked) I got bored of grinding to level 99 myself so I stopped at 60 and going to top it all off later with embroidered tippets in a higher level area. Honestly so far my biggest hurdle getting the platinum is just how pain stakingly boring it is 

So, FF XII doesn't have a inmune physical dmg mandatory enemy or something that could change the bow in an useless weapon? I know you need to do a kind of tower with a lot of enemies and bosses in order to get the platinum and of course a lot of boss-trophy related.

[Lightin_August]

Just now, AlchemistWer said:

So, FF XII doesn't have a inmune physical dmg mandatory enemy or something that could change the bow in an useless weapon? I know you need to do a kind of tower with a lot of enemies and bosses in order to get the platinum and of course a lot of boss-trophy related.

 

Zodiark and some of the other later espers can render your physical atk, magic and other skills useless during those battles.

[ObsiEez]

1 minute ago, AlchemistWer said:

So, FF XII doesn't have a inmune physical dmg mandatory enemy or something that could change the bow in an useless weapon? I know you need to do a kind of tower with a lot of enemies and bosses in order to get the platinum and of course a lot of boss-trophy related.

 

Just now, paranoia_agent85 said:

 

Zodiark and some of the other later espers can render your physical atk, magic and other skills useless during those battles.

Yes that is true, however there are counters you can use in those cases, but the Seitengrat will carry you through most of the game just on it's power alone. During the later fights more effort will have to be put it but not nearly as much

[mecharobot]

Just now, AlchemistWer said:

So, FF XII doesn't have a inmune physical dmg mandatory enemy or something that could change the bow in an useless weapon? I know you need to do a kind of tower with a lot of enemies and bosses in order to get the platinum and of course a lot of boss-trophy related.

It does actually, you have to kill one esper with magic only and some get temporary immunities. The bow is also trash against superbosses, since they ignore evade and also the bow does not combo and it's slow. Very useful for killing early game trash though, but I wouldn't really waste time early game getting more than one. Plenty of easy spots to get high levels end game in a couple hours. What takes time in the game is doing hunts and traveling the maps and the speed-up option negates most of that.

[AlchemistWer]

1 minute ago, mecharobot said:

It does actually, you have to kill one esper with magic only and some get temporary immunities. The bow is also trash against superbosses, since they ignore evade and also the bow does not combo and it's slow. Very useful for killing early game trash though, but I wouldn't really waste time early game getting more than one. Plenty of easy spots to get high levels end game in a couple hours. What takes time in the game is doing hunts and traveling the maps and the speed-up option negates most of that.

Now it makes more sense, for that reason I thought the bow can be a very good weapon in early game, but no the ticket to beat all you can find in your way and get the platinum at the same time, you need strategy and another weapons when fight with superbosses like you said.

[BoozyFrog]

good guide. yet to start this game and being OP will make it a bit less of a grind. a video could be useful as well just for visual reference 

[Lady_Galleth2]

Your setup part for the save crystal what do you mean nobody there. The enemies or your team. They seem to be always around am i doing something wrong?

[Dantes_994]

I won't be doing this on my 1st playthrough but going for the plat in this game became an option thanks to you

[Guest]

So I just got the SEITENGRAT, but I cant equip it? what is keeping me from equiping it?  Also I used # 88 97 90 and the kid by the stairs instead. The fourth time his foot touch the deck i click and got it.

 

edit: NVM figured it out, I needed arrows. LOL 

Gonna try again to see how consistent it is.

Edited September 24, 2018 by ERGOPROXY-DECAY

[ObsiEez]

Update: I've gotten every esper (minus my last 2 story related ones I need) and only need to fight Yizamet (Fighting him in trial mode because fuck doing a 2 hour fight) and the Seitengrat has carried me through the game, every boss has been a joke, including the post game super bosses. Hell Wyrm was a breeze, Zodiark was a joke, the only one that gave me a little trouble was the Chaos, Walker of the Wheel due to not being able to attack but you can just cast reglectga on yourself and then cast scathe on your party and do a bunch of damage and just repeat until he's dead. All you need is a good gambit set up, some good armor and accessories and the bow will just do the rest of the work. So yes,  the Seitengrat is the ticket to an easy, breezy beautiful platinum  

[MrAnubie]

This may be a stupid question, but if you've already passed this point in the game, can you still use the method described above to obtain the bow?

[ObsiEez]

On 11/1/2018 at 3:53 PM, MrAnubie said:

This may be a stupid question, but if you've already passed this point in the game, can you still use the method described above to obtain the bow?

 Yes, you can obtain the bow at any point, doing it at that point in the game is just to make it easier to get everyone level 99 early, just make sure you have the diamond armlet equipped and do the sequence in the tutorial which should only take a few minutes

 

[scemopagliaccioh]

I suppose the bow  can  help you out easily, but if you find the process annoying or you just don't like using cut stuff from the game you can still pick the Black mage job,  believe me, you'll one shot basically everything,  helping levelling up you and your party, also specific staves will make your magick more powerful and cost less mps (combine that with some licenses  and you won't even lose mps), as soon as you reach the Garifs you can get tier 2 spells and the staves, you can also combine that with the Shikari job to get high hps + dark katanas combined with the black robe  in order to make stuff like Yiazmat a joke endgame, truly, this is game wise the strongest magic has ever been in Final Fantasy.

 

@ plat difficulty and time:

Killing enemies won't be  your major concern, expect a boring grind for the Bestiary and all abilities, a luck based trophy in Mystwalker and maybe the pirates/judges in trial mode giving you trouble, since there are many of them and love status.

Edited November 11, 2018 by scemopagliaccioh

[nyonmyan]

The bow isn't a game changer when it comes to high level bosses, not to mention that the hardest trophy is the limit break one.

[ObsiEez]

On 11/11/2018 at 0:39 AM, nyonmyan said:

The bow isn't a game changer when it comes to high level bosses, not to mention that the hardest trophy is the limit break one.

It can be a complete game changer in my opinion, for everything story related (which is extremely easy) I didn't even have to touch the controller. For the super bosses they were a cake walk with the bow and the right gambit set ups and. Only one I have left to do is Yizamet which can be done in the trails for a way faster fight. Zodiark was a breeze with the bow, all you gotta do is get him down to his health right before he goes immune then use quickenings, he should be dead or nearly dead by the end of it and you should be able to get the last few hits in to kill him before he goes immune (that's how I did it easily). The Hell Wyrm was mostly just an endurance battle. As long as you have the bow, all you need to focus on is gambits and armor

And I agree that the fucking Mist Walker trophy is a pain in the ass. I got on the luckier side of things and it only took me about an hour of trying to straight where I heard it takes some people fucking days to do it

 

[RJP_X]

On 11/10/2018 at 11:39 PM, nyonmyan said:

The bow isn't a game changer when it comes to high level bosses, not to mention that the hardest trophy is the limit break one.

 

agreed, if only they had armor that was anywhere near as good defensively as the bow is offensively. even with the bows on everyone, the trials weren't no cakewalk, even with best armor equips you can take some heavy damage when entering a number of fights if you cant buff in time. you can spend a lot of battle time reviving, curing, and trying to get all the buffs set up. never used gambits in the game outside of attacking what leader attacks, and curing, as i wasn't really sure how to properly use gambits. i basically took control of every party member at once at all times lol.