Final Fantasy - What Went RIGHT?!! (A thread to UNITE all FF Fans)!

[lestatdark]

thelifatree said:

lestatdark said:

thelifatree said:

lestatdark said:

dtewi said:

thelifatree said:
@Dtewi I'm on aweful gamer (atleast I think, I beat demon souls though, but took me forever) I didn't find it that hard either, yes it was hard. But why don't you go farm experience, rather than just dieing and dieing?

YOU SERIOUSLY THINK I'VE NOT DONE ANYTHING AND JUST GONE DOWN AND DIED 10 TIMES?

I think you're just having bad luck dtewi

How much harder is the long guis than the adamantoises (i dunno how to spell it)? in FFXIII obviously. I play games much slower than this forum apparently.

The difficulty jump is higher than any difficulty jump in the game. It's a night vs day difference. 

They cause twice as much physical damage (20K; 40K if you get double stomped), have Ultima which can hit a non-Tortoise Paradigm party for 60K , have Bey which can cause up to 20K damage and Daze your entire party and have twice as much speed as Adamantoises.

Plus, they have 16M HP, each of the legs has 1M HP and they have permanent Magic and Physical resistance (My Fang, with 3.3K Strength can only cause 150K at 999% Stagger). 

Oh, and I forgot, the Death Trick doesn't work in them  

I don't use the death trick anyways because well I dunno it's too random and unfulfilling for me anyways :P. and because I don't like controlling vanille (although she's in my party :P)

wait... so did you beat it yet?

my fang has 2.8k, so i'm getting close! but I can't beat the damn thing that RAWR's you to death either that you get the growth egg from. So I'm probably playing at the slowest possible pace.

I use lightning, cause I like to see her flip around, haha although I might change that if I can't beat things D:.

Yep, I beat the Long Gui after some careful preparation. I never used the Death trick, not even when fighting Neochu's (the ones who give you the Growth Egg). I tend to have bad luck when using random spells, so I gave up after a while using Death.

My Leader has always been Fang, since chapter 11 started and I never went back

The problem is not how high is your Strength/Magic, is how you set up your Paradigms and how you use them. You'll pretty much have to know by memory every paradigm location, every spell location on each respective job, how much ATB slots they occupy and how much time buffs/debuffs last. All this, while trying to keep up with the insane pace of the battle.

Since Long Gui's have 16M HP, you'll have to take out both their legs twice/thrice per battle and any time they recover from being knocked down, they go berserk and cast a series of Ultima, Bey and Quake (forgot to mention this one as well), which can tear through even your Tortoise paradigm party.

My recommendation is to use a lot of Champion Belt / General Belt or Imperial Armlet, to get at least 25% physical and magical reduction. Forget about Strength/Magic enhancers, Item Drop Boosters and HP enhancer accessories. Focus exclusively on Damage Reduction and Genji Gloves for Damage Cap Break.