3/5 Trophy wise IMO. Not too hard, but some can be. and it is very time consuming.

Working on RoF atm, and I would give this one a 4/5.

Score update incoming (well sent toe data to boutros)

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So in my "replay" of the game I';ve decided to NEVER UPGRADE my crystarium!!!

Well until its absolutely necessary....this will add some challenge lol

If you're going for that approach farm as much Aerosols as you can on chapter 1/2. Trust me, it will make all the difference, especially the Aegisols and Deceptisols.

Getting 0/5 stars on any fight gives you an x8 boost to the % of getting any kind of Aerosols. 

Well that's stupid.

add these 2 Darth

chapter 11 : 10
chapter 12 : 9.7
chapter 13 : 9.4

I'm just doing it for fun, rather than having it as an aim to ge tthrough the game like that

I'm just curious to see how far I get in without dying, and if I do die is it because I'm underlevelled.

But at the same time I'm continuing missions post game, so I spent 2 hours on FFXIII today, 1 hour replaying, 1 hour doing missions

I couldn't find mission 30 but then I got into atomos & he took me to the broken bridge...lol

Anyway the fight was easy, got 5 stars but I really don't know why, mission 29 was easier and I finished it quicker, but I got 3 stars in that!

If you can't get 5/5 currently on missions you can always wait to after you defeat mission 64, since you gain the Golden Watch, which doubles the target time for any battle.

I maintain the idea that it's completely possible.

Save your two accessories (I think 2) for the Bangles (Silver, Gold, etc.) and damage reduction.

And farm every shroud to max and don't start using them until absolutely necessary.

Is the max 99?

If so, get that many for each one (Aegisol, Fortisol, Deceptisol, and Ethersol).

Yep, the maximum amount is 99, but I dread to think the amount of farming is needed to get 99 of them all. That's 396 sols, given that even doing 0/5 all battles and getting one sol per enemy, at a rate of 3 enemies per battle, that's 132 battles, which would have to be made at a target time no shorter than 90 seconds for 0/5. 

That's 3 and a half hours of farming, minimum for all the conditions I've enumerated XD Realistically it would be over 6 hours. 

Well, lestatdark, that's what he gets from wanting to do no crystarium!

Once you get to Chapter 11, the enemies drop some more shrouds I believe.

It might be too difficult to farm that many shrouds (I think they drop Aegisol). Have at least TWENTY-FIVE by the time you leave.

Also, max all of your accessories and weapons.

And utilize ATB-cancel (shifiting paradigms every other turn to get a full ATB bar).