The Official Final Fantasy XII Thread

[Substance D]

So I can just skip Judge A and B? Thanks. What level were your characters when you was at that point?

Don't skip them, that's *****

Maybe around 14-16. Not really sure, but around there. It's a good place to level up though. I had a 100+ chain killing guards.

 

[CrypticOne]

Don't skip them, that's *****

Maybe around 14-16. Not really sure, but around there. It's a good place to level up though. I had a 100+ chain killing guards.

Man, I should've stayed fighting somewhere. Cause my characters are at 9-11.

 

[MrHateYourself]

"Vann, you came into this room emptyhanded and shackled! How ever did that stone manage to find it's way out of your inventory (which oddly wasn't confiscated?) and into your hands!? How convienant!"

 

[Zenien]

I've just

Spoiler

begun to make my way out of the area after Bash has joined my party as a guest

I'm still on the fence about the battle system though, I'm struggling between wanting to control everything or leaving it up to the gambit... it's like I WANT to be the one hitting the function for every action taken, but at the same time I don't... hmmm that doesn't sound right. Oh well I'm still experimenting to figure out what combinations I like best and deciding on active or what, this battle system is really flexible so it's going to take my a while.

 

[MrHateYourself]

Don't skip them, that's *****

Maybe around 14-16. Not really sure, but around there. It's a good place to level up though. I had a 100+ chain killing guards.

Apparently you can't skip them, they drop a key to open the door. Found that out the hard way while the girl was playing this morning and having her ass handed to her-"Apparently you can just run past them. I'm pretty sure I got a key drop, but...." and lo, it cost her the characters' lives. Alas.

Screw chaining on the ship-chain in the mines, while you still have your guest 4th party member. The bridge area just before the cutscene, where only skeletons spawn, you can draw about 40ish of them before they stop appearing. About 100exp each (versus 30, 40odd for the guards). Walk off screen, come back, repeat. 5 levels per character in under an hour at that location.

 

[Substance D]

Apparently you can't skip them, they drop a key to open the door. Found that out the hard way while the girl was playing this morning and having her ass handed to her-"Apparently you can just run past them. I'm pretty sure I got a key drop, but...." and lo, it cost her the characters' lives. Alas.

Screw chaining on the ship-chain in the mines, while you still have your guest 4th party member. The bridge area just before the cutscene, where only skeletons spawn, you can draw about 40ish of them before they stop appearing. About 100exp each (versus 30, 40odd for the guards). Walk off screen, come back, repeat. 5 levels per character in under an hour at that location.

Oops, lol. I beat them the first try, but I thought I read somewhere you could just run past them.

I chained on both. The skeletons stopped spawning around 80-100. I was getting bored anyway. I'm currently level 30, just left Eruyt Village. I bought some Golden Armlets (?) which double LP, so I've just been sweeping through the Esterland.

 

[CrypticOne]

Thanks for the info guys. I just need to start the game over.

 

[War Party]

I haven't been able to play, because my PS2 keeps saying that it can't find the controller. So I don't know what's up with that. Haven't had time to solve the issue.

 

[MrHateYourself]

Oops, lol. I beat them the first try, but I thought I read somewhere you could just run past them.

I chained on both. The skeletons stopped spawning around 80-100. I was getting bored anyway. I'm currently level 30, just left Eruyt Village. I bought some Golden Armlets (?) which double LP, so I've just been sweeping through the Esterland.

I chained a whopping 123 skeletons.....after 123 100xp monsters, it's hard to keep up that kind of patience for enemies that only drop 1/3 of that.

Golden Armlets, you say? Interesting....

I'm trying to avoid strategy guides, but for anyone starting over I recommend picking one up if you want to get the ultimate weapon in the gamene of the important steps is to NOT open certain (unmarked!) treasure chests, several of them at the very beginning of the game. Lame.

 

[Substance D]

I chained a whopping 123 skeletons.....after 123 100xp monsters, it's hard to keep up that kind of patience for enemies that only drop 1/3 of that.

Golden Armlets, you say? Interesting....

I'm trying to avoid strategy guides, but for anyone starting over I recommend picking one up if you want to get the ultimate weapon in the gamene of the important steps is to NOT open certain (unmarked!) treasure chests, several of them at the very beginning of the game. Lame.

I usually do a story run, where I just use the guide when I get stuck. After that, I do a completion run where I follow the strat to a T.

Anyways, anyone else think Penelo's outfit looks like a body cast?

 

[Substance D]

Holy ****. The Elder Wyrm was a long, grueling fight.

 

[MrHateYourself]

Holy ****. The Elder Wyrm was a long, grueling fight.

The boss/elite fights in this game have a HUGE difficulty curve to them that I haven't seen in an FF game since....4 or 5?

 

[War Party]

I'm getting pissed. The contoller that came with my refurb PS2 broke. The L2 button stopped working. So I go to Gamestop to exchange for a new one and when I turn on my PS2, it says I need to connect a Dual Shock 2 controller into port one. But the controller worked fine on the other games. So I go back again to exchange again and they said it could be my FF XII that's screwed up, which I didn't think was the case. So I exchange it again and the same problem. But now the controller they gave me doesn't work with any of the games. I'm going one more time to exchange it and if it doesn't work, I'm just buying a new controller rather than exchanging it for another used one. The whole point of this is that I want to play Final Fantasy XII, damn it!!!

 

[Hyper Venom]

Got myself a question, folks. When you bring up the party menu, there is a number at the bottom of the screen in the middle, to the right of the amount of gil you have and to the left of the game clock. Anybody know what that number represents?

 

[Substance D]

Got myself a question, folks. When you bring up the party menu, there is a number at the bottom of the screen in the middle, to the right of the amount of gil you have and to the left of the game clock. Anybody know what that number represents?

Number of steps taken, I think.

 

[War Party]

All is well. I just borrowed a controller from my cousin and it's all good now. ****ing Gamestop was giving me faulty controllers. *******s.

 

[GyLocke]

Can someone tell me how can I massively level up in a short period of time? I'm at the Tomb of Wraithwall. Till now, I was able to beat everything with one or two mist Infernos, but my lack of experience in rpgs are becoming obvious, Vaan isn't even level 9 yet, and I have the feeling by this point, I'm supposed to be more badass.

The demon wall took a dive pretty easily, but I can barely touch that big ass fire elemental thingy at the end of the level. he just looks at me and my characters go horizontal faster than Starfire.

 

[War Party]

Can someone tell me how can I massively level up in a short period of time? I'm at the Tomb of Wraithwall. Till now, I was able to beat everything with one or two mist Infernos, but my lack of experience in rpgs are becoming obvious, Vaan isn't even level 9 yet, and I have the feeling by this point, I'm supposed to be more badass.

The demon wall took a dive pretty easily, but I can barely touch that big ass fire elemental thingy at the end of the level. he just looks at me and my characters go horizontal faster than Starfire.

The temple is a good place to level up. Just keep killing enemies in the temple over and over before you fight the esper, and you should be good to go.

 

[Mr. Credible]

i have a weird problem... i just fought Judge Ghis, and now Vaan is stuck with silence. 'Vox' doesn't word, it misses every time, as do my echo needles (or whatever they are)

i just tried killing vaan and bringing him back, but that didn't work either. is my game just goofed up, or what?

 

[Substance D]

i have a weird problem... i just fought Judge Ghis, and now Vaan is stuck with silence. 'Vox' doesn't word, it misses every time, as do my echo needles (or whatever they are)

i just tried killing vaan and bringing him back, but that didn't work either. is my game just goofed up, or what?

Check if it's a side effect of something he has equipped.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Check if it's a side effect of something he has equipped.

i love you.



i had some stupid accessory equipped. i thought it meant that all my attacks will cause silence.

and here i was about to go back and fight Ghis again (which would have been a pain in the ass, because he's pretty difficult)

 

[War Party]

i love you.



i had some stupid accessory equipped. i thought it meant that all my attacks will cause silence.

and here i was about to go back and fight Ghis again (which would have been a pain in the ass, because he's pretty difficult)

You probably had the nececite(sp?) equipped, right? I thought Ghis was easy. I just used one of my quickenings and it pretty much took all his HP.

 

[Mr. Credible]

You probably had the nececite(sp?) equipped, right? I thought Ghis was easy. I just used one of my quickenings and it pretty much took all his HP.

yeah, that was it... the necessite (sp?)

and i used my (vaan's) quickening on Ghis, too; but it didn't give me the option to do a combo, just the one, so...

argh. and i just spent 2 hours in the refinery area, leveling up, and some big sun looking thing came along and killed my party in one fail swoop (he hit us all for about 4000 hp's each) and now i'm pissed. i'm going to bed.

 

[Substance D]

yeah, that was it... the necessite (sp?)

and i used my (vaan's) quickening on Ghis, too; but it didn't give me the option to do a combo, just the one, so...

argh. and i just spent 2 hours in the refinery area, leveling up, and some big sun looking thing came along and killed my party in one fail swoop (he hit us all for about 4000 hp's each) and now i'm pissed. i'm going to bed.

Yeah, Quickenings take a while to get used to. It's good to get them as soon as possible, since it will triple your MP. Also, it makes it easier to combo since options will appear more often. I combo'd 6 while fighting Judge Burghen and wiped him out.

LOL, yeah elements suck. You gotta keep an eye out for them. I spent about an hour running around leveling, when all of a sudden one wiped out my party. That's when I realized you can just switch to your reserve members, which was like a godsend. When I'm a high enough level, I'm going to seek out each element and reap sweet revenge.

 

[Mr. Credible]

what's with the elements? is there anything i ought to know?

i switched to my reserve party, too, but it was all my weaker guys, and they died half way through fleeing.