Final Fantasy XII Cheats & Tips

Tired of magic bouncing off enemies with reflect on them? Just equip the opal ring (purchase from stranded merchant in Old Archades or Balfonheim Port for 16000 gil) and the reflect will be the magic you cast will not be affected by the reflect. It also works on your allies too.

If you need Gil, fast, You need to have completed the Stillshrine Of Miriam and also already defeated the esper in there, Zeromus. Since you must have done this, then you are strong enough to get some gil now.
Basically, go back to where you fought Zeromus, inside there the dead skulls will attack. Each time you enter, there are about 40-50 that will pop up to attack you. Once you get through 40 or so, go hit the way stone, and use it twice to get back to the same place, where you fight the Zeromus and the skulls. Because you are only fighting the skulls and 40 appear each time you do this, it takes about three times and you will be at a chain of 99 by the time you get through three times,.. they drop lots of Blood soaked bones, which sell for 1400 or so a piece. u can get really quick 99 of them that you can sell for 142,000 or so gil. They also drop some dark stones, at 99 sell for around 14.000 and some teleport stones which you can use or sell.

Then just rinse and repeat. You can get all the gil you will ever need from this real fast.

Requirements
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-10+ espers
-embroided tippets (optional)
-Good armour
-descent mp
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Ok if you have all of this then go to a place in the henee mines on the way to zodiark called Pithead junction C

equip your gambits as this

1.ally any-> Arise/raise
2.ally <50% -> Curaja
3.Any other buffs you use other than beserk
4.Foe undead -> Sleepga
5.Foe status sleep -> curaja

now hit the switch so it turns red and abysteels will drop down. your people will put them to sleep and use curaja which hits all the abbysteels very high

this gets you a lot of xp , money and demon shields

to zone out simply have the switch red go through the east door then north and back again

ive gotten from lvl 86-97 in just a few trips!

*X<>+\-ENJOY-/+<>X*

Go to the Zertinan Cavern, which can be reached through Nam-Yensa Sandsea, Ogir-Yensa Sandsea, Ozmone Plains, or Dalmasca Westsand. Go to the center of it, it's an area called Asroza Sandflow, this area is best accessed through the Dalmasca Westersand because there is a save point in the way, there you will encounter Adrammelech as a boss. Defeat it to obtain him as a esper.

Missed the Zodiac Spear chest in Nabudis or you want another one? Another way is too go in the Henne Mines. But it's extremely hard. You can find it in the Phase 2 Dig. Equip the Diamond Armlet on one of your characters.

Go and find the chest. There is a 10% CHANCE you can get it though. The other 90% you can get an elixir or just 10,000 gil.

This will require patience. Good Luck getting it!

Just before he uses Darkja (noticeable on the battle log) have one charcter use quickenign as musch as possible. At the right timing, after Zodiark uses Darkja, it will be negated and your quickening would follow.

i train at the cerobi steppe with vaan equipping the diamond armlet and then whoever else im training with embroided tippets

when you have diamond armlet on almost every chest gives about 3000 gil , ammo or you may even be lucky enought o get a dragon whisker , ribbon or a fomalhaut

the enemies are also very easy after about level 50 and still give a lot of xp and lp

another good thing about cerobi steppe is that you cna get adamantite from adamantitans for ultima blade , do the fishing sidequest while training and start the hell wyrm sidequest

i also gain about 20000-80000gil per load

You will have to race against Rikken in the Baloney Port Race.

When:

After your first visit in Archadia

After defeating “the boss there that I wont name”

And you are at “Baloney Port. Saccid Lane”

The man named “Rikken” offers you to race him and the little guy

How:
You need to press “X” and “O” fast. But not at the same time

Prizes:

1. Potion
   
2. Phoenix Down
   
3. Phial of Eye Drops
   
4. Antidote
   
5. 10 gil and a Pinch of Echo Herbs
   
6. Gold Needle
   
7. Alarm Clock
   
8. Handkerchief
   
9. Amphora of Bacchus Wine
   
10. “impressive. There is more to you than I thougth”, 100 gil, 2 Balance Motes
    
11. Two Potions
    
12. 2 Tufts of Phoenix Downs
    
13. Two Phials of Eye Drops
    
14. Two Antidotes
    
15. 20 gil. Two Pinches of Echo Herbs
    
16. 2 Gold Needles
    
17. 2 Alarm Clocks
    
18. 2 Handkerchief
    
19. 2 Amphora of Bacchus Wine
    
20. “impressive. First place. You did better than I thougth. Still got a long way to go though” 300 gil. 2 Float Motes
    
21. 3 Potions

As you win more races the number of items increases. You also get special prizes.

After events in Barheim Passage, you can return to this from other entrance in
Dalmasca Eastersand. The reason to do this is to get an optional esper and some hunt marks.

1) Complete the hunt mark Cactuar flower and hunt mark Niddhog

2) After you get your reward from Dantro (the cactuar flower hunt mark petitioner) talk with him again

3) Go to the south of Nebra river and talk with Dantro’s wife

4) Leave the screen and re-enter, talk with the boy named Chiguri

5) He’ll take you to the north of the river, there some events will take place

6) Once you are back to the south side, talk with Dantro’s wife, then search behind her house for a red flower, examine it, now a catuar will follow you, take it to Chiguri

7) After some scenes, talk with Dantro’s wife again, she’ll ask some items, the first one is in the left side near the river (it’s a shining object), talk again with her, for the second item go back to Dantro’s campment talk with him and examine the boxes and some jars in the center of the screen. Now return to Dantro’s wife, it’s time to get the final item, you to Brokensands screen in esaternsands. The item is in the middle of the screen next to a withered rock.

8) Give Dantro’s wife the final item and the Python's Scaled Skin that you got from Niddhog, leave and re-enter the screen, talk with Dantro’s wife and then go to the back of her house and talk with the traveller to receive the Barheim key!

Ok..
for this i used the three tanks: Vaan, Basch and Balthier

vaan: Excalibur(since he was my strongest)
Basche: Ultima Blade
Balthier: Ultima Blade

Gambit setup:

Vaan:
ally:any- Arise
Ally:Hp<50%- Curaga
Ally:any- Esuna
Ally:status=stop- chronos tear
Ally:Vaan- Haste
Foe:nearest- Attack

Balthier:
Ally:any- arise
Ally: Hp<60%- Curaga
Ally: status=stop- Chronos tear
Ally:any- protectga
Ally: Balthier- Haste
Ally: Balther- Bravery
Ally: Mp<10%- Hi-ether
Foe: nearest- attack

Basch:
Ally:and- arise
Ally: Hp<60%- curaga
Ally:status=stop- chronos tear
ally:any- esuna
Ally: basch- haste
Ally: basch- brabery
Foe:nearest- attack

I beat the guy in less than 15 min
for this u cant jus leave gambits to do all the work. since i don't know how to setup the gambits for a Renew, once in a while wen he used his strongest attack which does alot of damage and causes stop, i had to manually choose the commands according to the situation. so if all the characters had low Hp: i used renew first then chronos tear. equip bubble belt, an aromor with strong defence, and a headgear with strong magic defence. u can swithch between element absorbing headgear if u want. My leader was Vaan and i always kept him moving around.

its annoying when a boss stops you using libra isn't it?
Well here is how you can figure out roughly what level the boss you are about to fight is:
Use libra on the enimies near by the boss fight (if any) the boss is usually for 2 levels above that level

p.s: it doesn't work for bosses with no enimies nearby the battle location

Brave Suit is the best light armor you can get in the game plus the perma-Bravery.

You can get this armor from:

1. Getting it from a chest on the northwestern area of the third upper layer of the Great Crystal. If you already have a Zodiac Escutcheon, it will not show up.

2. Getting it from a chest in the Phase 2 Dig of the Henne Mines while using a Diamond Armlet.

3. Getting it from a chest in the Special Charter Shaft of the Henne Mines.

Just like with characters, you can use support magic on espers, doing this will make them more useful during battles, because it will help them to do more damage to enemies (bravery and faith magic) resist more hits (protect and shell) or attack faster (haste). Unfortunately summoning an esper already takes quite some MP, so it's a good idea to summon your esper and buff it near a saving crystal, so that you touch it after casting all the spell you wanted to and regain your whole MP.

This trick can get u a chain for Helvineks for Grand Armor(other wise impossible) and other teleporting monsters.

When you kill a teleporting monster their dying animation takes longer than a regular one. Before they actually die and EXP and LP numbers show, you can respawn them again if u leave the zone ur in before the dying animation is over. You will get yet another spawn in the original zone if u do it correctly.

It is a little hard to grab their loot and leave the zone in about 1 or 2 seconds. Their falling body can block your access to the loot. Approach them from their side and grab the loot. You should be able to take the loot and leave before the animation is over.

This trick works for only teleporting monsters that shows colorful illusions before materializing.

this will help you to not loose your enemies chain.

1- dont enter to any city/town/village.
2- do not touch any save crystal.
3- dont kill any other kind of enemies.
4- turn your atack gambits off.

I first must warn you that getting this esper is quite a long and a little hard side-quest.

Before being able to fight Chaos you’ll have to get 4 fragments:

Clear the following mob hunt marks: Wraith ,White Moose and Orthros, by clearing the last one you’ll get your first fragment.

Go back to Garamsythe Waterway there you’ll have to activate the following swithches, first turn all of them off, now activate the 11th and 4th , now deactivate the 11th and activate the 3rd, finally deactivate the 4th, go south of the same screen you are and you’ll find a shining object, the second fragment

For the last fragment go to Nabreus deadlands, there talk with Ma’kleou, he’ll tell you he’s waiting for his two disciples, now it’s time to find those 2 guys. Go to Rabanastre lowtown, to Dalan’s house there talk with the disciple he’ll explain you the situation, no go to the vacant house and read the letter (NOTE: You’ve already done what this letter tells you to do, but you still need to read it). The following step is to talk with Filo in the South Sprawl of Lowtown, after doing so go to the streets of Rabanastre. Talk with a woman that standing watching the fountain, next talk with a merchant in the bazaar you will tell you that he sold the necklace to an Imperial, this imperial is in the magic shop, choose the option 1 option twice. Back to lowtown speak with Filo again, now go and talk with the imperial again, you’ll receive the third fragment.
Go to the disciple in Dalan’s house and give him the 3 fragments you’ve got, he’ll dissppear.

Teleport to Archades, into the magic shop there talk with the other Ma’kleou’s disciple, now go to Old Archades west section and talk with Otto. Return with the medallion to the disciple.

Go to Nabreus deadlands. Talk with Ma’kleou, now go to the screen called the Slumbermead, there go to the north west part of the screen where you’ll find a hidden path, follow it. When you reach a shrine a cut-scene will play after that you’ll receive all the 3 medallions.

Finally the last part of this side-quest: Now move to Necrohol Of Nabudis there you’ll have to open 3 doors and fight 3 bosses, first go to the screen called Hall of the Ivory Convenant and open the Loathing door using the Love medallion, inside this room you’ll have to fight Fury. The next door is in the screen called Cloister of the Distant Song open the door of horrors with the Medallion of bravery, inside you’ll fight with Humbaba Mistant. Now your medallion of might will be usable, go to the screen called Clositer of the Highborn, open the door of the despair with the medallion of might and finally fight the Chaos as a boss fight. In this battle the command “Attack” will be sealed. So be sure of having your MP at max, because magic and mist is all you’ll be able to use to kill this guy. Be sure of using non-elemental magic to damage him, if you don't do this you'll just heal him.
After you defeat him, you’ll receive the Chaos esper.

if you are confused on how much marks do you need to hunt and how many points you need to gain a new rank..the only thing you need to do its to talk with the elder next to the viera inside the clan centurios house,..he will tell you how many maks and points you need to lvl up one rank.

Rank /Marks Completed / Clan Points Earned
Moppet: 0 - 0
Hedge Knight: 2 - 700
Rear Guard: 4 - 8,000
Vanguard: 8 - 20,000
Headhunter: 10 - 30,000
Ward of Justice: 12 - 40,000
Brave Companion:14 - 100,000
Riskbreaker: 16 - 200,000
Paragon of Justice: 24 - 250,000
High Guardian: 28 - 300,000
Knight of the Round: 32 - 500,000
Order of Ambrosia: 44 - 1,000,000

First you must have completed the mob hunt marks Wraith and White Moosse.
With the waterway key in your hands go back to Garamsythe Waterway. In the control area with the save crystal activate the switch on 3rd and 10th Area Panel. Now go to the screen called Cloaca Nº3, there activate a 1st switch of the area panel. Then, go back to the control area, there deactivate the 3rd and 10th switch and activate the 4th and 11th. What you need to do now is to go to the screen called Cloaca Nº4 where you'll find another 1st switch, activate and go back to the central control area, deactivate the 11th switch and active the 3rd switch, now save and proceed south to face this esper.
The battle can be quite hard, because he'll summon a field that makes your characters HP to reduce quickly until it depletes completely, not only that but some flans will join to battle.
I recommend you to heal constantly and make long quickenings combos.
After defeating it, you'll receive the Cúchulainn esper.

Shemhazai's Devour Soul adds to Dark Matter just like Knots of rust do and vice versa. Every time you use Soul Purge it resets both Soul Purge and Dark Matter to zero. Same with Dark Matter....use it and you reset both Dark Matter and Soul Purge.

If you want to charge Dark Matter but are short of knots of rust then just use Shemhazai and Devour Soul and dismiss it before it uses Soul Purge.

Here's how to get Deathgaze to appear:

It originally appears on the airship with a 4% chance. After getting off an airship, talk to the Traveller and the chances will double to 8%. Do it again, and it will become 16%. Keep repeating this method for 2 more times and it will stop at 64%. That way, the chances of Deathgaze appearing will become higher.

There is a small chance, however, that you may encounter Deathgaze on your first try. That's because you were lucky that you hit a 4% chance.

Gambits Arrangements
Ally: HP <60%/ Curaja
Ally: Any/ Pheonix Down
Foe: Any/ 1,000 Needles
Foe: HP Critical/ Steal

Before you get to the final boss on Bahamut, have your party over lv. 55 or 65. Have 99 Hi-and-X-potions and have Balthier's weapon Fomalhunt, Vaan on save the queen or excalibur and have all your magicks and technicks.

You`ll have to fight 3 boss battles before this tough boss, Gabranth, Vayne, and Vayne Novus. Here's there Hp.
Gabranth: Hp: 70,700
Vayne: Hp: 76,750
Vayne Novus: Hp: 104,200
The Undying: Hp: 228,300

The Undying is more powerful than Zodiark and Ultima. All of his attacks deal over 3000 hp, skills 40,000 hp and Special Quicknings, 2900 hp, Unless you have protect, shell, bravery, bubble(have bubble belt, worth 18,000 gil in Clan provisioner once your knight of the round), faith, and regen. He starts the battle with Divine Sword, or, Piercing, Firaga, Blizzaga, Thnuderga. Cannot avoid them. Once his Hp reaches, 70,000, he casts faith, dispel as soon he casts, before he readies Magick Barrier. He'll do Ascesion, the cast Piercing Attacks including Holy and Dispelga. It'll fall eventually, then he cast Bravery and summon a Force Barrier. Dispel as soon he cast's Bravery. He'll do Gigaflare sword as the beginning and Ascession at the end. It'll fall, his defence will increase, he'll do Giga Flare sword again 2 times. He'll cast Perfect Defence, you can't hit him with magick or attack him. Hold off, and cast Curaja when Critical. He'll do Teraflare and after that his defence will fall, when he is almost dead, he blick red, perform a quickning, have a chain of 15 or 16 or over and CONGRATULATIONS, you've beaten FINAL FANTASY XII.

This "tip" is great to Lvl up real fast at the beginning of the game, works a lot if you doing NLB "No license board" challenge, it's faster than the Werewolfs method.

What you have to do is first get some phoenix down "you'll have to steal or kill some monsters first to get Gils for the phoenix downs" so be patient.

You can buy Phoenix downs in Rabanstre after Penelo leaves, but if you want to do it earlier "before Dalans" you can buy some from the "Unlucky Mechant" in the South bank "Estersands" or from the merchant in "Westersands, before reaching Orin-Yensa"
After that go to Dalmasca's Westesands and head to the North-east area of the map named "Corridor of sand", before entering make sure that your HP is Critical "10% of your max HP" why? because you can find an undead rare game called "Dustia" that way, go to configuration screen an set the battle to wait mode-lowest speed and cursor to "last-selection" that way you don't get tired of selecting item-phoenix down, why lowest speed battle? because Dustia don't have time to charge dark if you set the speed the lowest possible.

"If you phoenix down an undead enemy they will die in one hit"
"To trow an items to the enemy R1 or L1 when you see the opponent HP bar"

Each kill give you 1100 Exp, plus 3 LP's, make sure to re-zone before the EXP-LP show up that way you can chain Duria "that method works with all the teleporting monsters" this help to get a great percentage of loots to sell, so you will not be worry about Gils anymore to get new phoenix downs.

Loots:

"Orgain Book" sells for: 500-600 Gils
Rare drop: "Flame Staff" sells for: 1000-1500 Gils

Happy gaming and enjoy.

To do you mist be on level 35 or higher.After tomb of Raithwall. go to the entrance of Mosphoran Highwaste.Borrow a chocobo go to the gaurds they will run away and you can to Mosphoran Highwaste

I found this out entirely by accident but it helps to know it. After you get Basch, you should have to fight off what are called "Battery Mimics". Don't use thunder on them, it heals them, instead I found that a single blizzard takes out about a a fourth or a half of their health, if you have the spell blizzard, buy black magic 1 for Fran, Balthier, and Vaan, you won't be able to do so for Basch since he's a guest.

why have three mages? this will royally own the boss, I used two people at the first time and got the queen to 1 hit left before being wiped out.

If you scoured every chest, you should have about 2 ethers (I did) and a horde of pheonix down and potions. after meeting the queen, let Basch slice away at her but have everyone in the party mass blizzard her, a single use of three blizzards takes out a pretty hefty portion of her life, I beat her in about 3-7 minutes with this stratagy. I of course had to use both my precious ether to replenish two of my character's magic and had to use the last wizard to use potions cause at the point of using the ether, the queen will start using spells that use cinematic which damage the entire party.

When you go into the Ozmone Plain after going to Raithwall's tomb, head east a little to a place claled the Field of Light Winds.

Here, you'll have 3 werewolves, and 3 black chocobos which will give you about 2200 exp per run and 9 LP. Now the fun part is go even more east. You'll get to a place with a save point and a random kid who's tending to an injured hunter. Go even more east till you eat the Golmore Jungle, you're not supposed to go there yet but do it anyway. Enemies here all give 300-400 exp. There are a lot of enemies in the entrance. Just stay near the entrance area, and make your rounds killing all the enemies. You should easily rack up 8000-10000 exp from doing this. Then go back to the save point and go into the field of light winds again, and just go back and forth. There's a save point too so you'll never be short for life. Equip the golden amulet and double your LP!!

I got from l23 to l30 in 40 minutes!

Whenever you get to the part of the story where yuo have to go to the Tomb of King Raithwall, before you can go into tghe tomb, you have to battle the Garuda. Earlier in the Urutan-Yensa sandsea save area there is a moogle talking to a Urutan. walk up and talk to the moogle. he says that the Uratan was asking for help, that there is a giant beast killing the Urutan. go off in the direction of the Urutan for about 2 areas, and you'll see them fighting a giant turtle. help kill the turtle and then go back and tlak to the moogle. he said that the Urutan that asked for help went into the other sandsea (the one you originally started in). go back into the sandsea for a little ways and you'll see a short scene, go back to the moogle to see the Urutan that asked for help be completely disintegrated by the Urutan queen. where his body was is a peck of flowers, these flowers have berries growing from them. pick those berries and continue to the Tomb. at the tomb when the fight witht the Garuda initiates use the berries on the Garuda. this will take about 20% of his life. then use the biggest quickening chain you can. after that constantly use water spells on the Garuda. he should be dead in a very short round of turns.

- Go to Lhusu Mines in the Site 5. Kill those Dark Lords in there and they will drop Blood Darkened Bone. Chain them to get more than one Blood Darkened Bone. You can sell 1400 gil for each.

- Go to Tchita Uplands. Defeat all Bandecoeurl and they will drop Quality Pelt and Coeurl Pelt. You can get a lot in there. U can sell 400 gil for each.

- Play Fishing Game in 1 hour. You can got maybe 80 - 90 Delicious Fish and a lot of Nebra Sullucent. You can sell them, and get a lot of gil and you can get that back easily.

- Defeat Yiazmat

-First you need every party member to equip golden amulets
-go to Dalmascan Estersand. Kill all monsters, especially in the northermost areas of the desert. You'll get massive lp, and it will be doubled because of the golden amulet. You'll probably kill all monsters in one hit.

Go to the Lhusu Mines in Bhujerba.Once you enter the mines proceed through the first and second (maybe even the third) areas killing only Skeletons and Skull Defenders.At the next areas you will only find the mentioned monsters so you can do a 100-chain quite easily (for your convinience,go there some time AFTER the storyline scenario).The best is yet to come, once you have made a reasonably big chain you will start getting 3 Bone Fragments per kill(not to mention stealing them).If you follow the aforementioned strategy you can get 99 Bone Fragments in less than 10 minutes.Each one sells for 193 gil at any shop. You can do this at any place that has undead enemies (like the King-Dynast's tomb etc...) but I recommend the mines(since there are the weakest undead enemies so it would take less time(99 Bone Fragments sell for 19107 gil).This is a very useful strategy earlier in the game because you get a lot of lp (license points) and gil(money in FF) to back them up.

You know those little bunnies, with the feathers on their heads? Such as the Ozmone Hare? If you go and stand by such (like Ozmone Plains) they'll eventually use a potion on you!

You see, since they're so cute, they aren't meant to be killed. They /do/ help you, so give it a try! n.n

To get this holy elemental Two Handed Sword you must first have finished the events at The Great Crystal completely. After doing so go back inside this dungeon until you reach The Great Crystal – A Prama Vikaari again (the first screen). You are currently in platform VIII from there they are 3 routes one is up, one is down and another is sealed by Gate Scorpio. Go up, press the switch and return to platform VIII. There follow the just unsealed path up. You’ll reach platform IX, use the way stone to reach platform X. From platform X follow the only path until you get to XX platform. XX platform has two sealed Gate Sagittarius, one way down, two ways up, another way is where you come from. Go in the opposite direction of where you came from (which leads you down) continue a couple of screens and you’ll find a switch, press it and return to XX before the time runs out. In XX unseal Gate Sagittarius 2, not 1. Follow the new path and you’ll find yourself in platform XII, use the way stone to get to XIV platform, there go the way that goes up, press the switch in the next screen and return to platform XIV before the time runs out. There go the way down, keep going the only path through some platforms until third platform where they are two paths take the one that goes down.
If you have done the steps above correctly you'll find yourself in a screen with one horse type enemy and a chest, as soon as you go to the center of the platform two more horse type enemies will appear. Get rid of them and cast float because there is a trap just below of the chest, be sure to equip the Diamond armlet, because it really helps. Now open the chest you can get gil, a sage ring or gil+Excalibur, how is that possible? When you first examine it the message will tell you you got gil, but the chest won't disappear, check it again and the Excalibur is all yours.
If you couldn't get it in your first try, don't worry, just go back 3 screens and the chest will re-spawn.
NOTE: You CANNOT get more than 1 Excalibur.

You can get this esper as soon as you enter for the first time the hunter's camp in Phon coast, but you may not be powerful enough at that moment so be careful. First go to Mosphoran Highwaste, in the screen where the teleport crystal is activate the south shrine, then check your map you'll see an exclamation mark, go there with chocobo, cross the chocobo path that it is that way and continue until you get to the west part of the screen with the teleport crystal, there activate the west shrine and touch the withered rock so that a way is open, now activate the Northwest Shrine. Finally save and go to the two new exclamation marks that are in the map. You'll find Exodus there, be careful because will make your party unable to use items, he'll to use reflect quite often and summon a special shield that'll make him immune to physical attacks when he has low HP.
After defeating him, you'll obtain him as a esper.

Fafnir will only appear during a blizzard so talk to Ralj the Petitioner for the Hunt.
In the Temple Approach in Mt. Bur-Omisace to start the blizzard, Take the route to Freezing Gorge, Head of the Silverflow, Icebound Flow, Karydine Glacier, Silverflow's End. (You got fallow this intructions, that way the blizzard will not end.)

When you're able to see it, There should be a crevace to run into where Fafnir won't be able to attack you physically, Cast reflect on all your party and use the fallowing Gambits:

- Ally: Any - Thundaga

Targetting an ally instead of Fafnir will cast Thundaga 3 times, instead of just once because it's an "area" magick atack.
So in one round you're hitting him with Thundaga 9 times instead of just 3, and you'll be able to kill it without too much problems.

If you want to mess around with some enemies or kill them faster, buy a Nihopalaoa and buy some Phoenix downs or Remedies.

Nihopalaoa accessory:

Status: Reverses the effects of the restorative items.

Phoenix Down - Istant kill "Death"

Remedy - Bad breath
Inflicts (Slow, Disease, Blind, Confuse, Sap, Oil, Immobilize, Poison)

Or you can use Remedies instead, that way you will inflict almost all the bad status changes to the enemies, good for hard Bosses.

what you need to do is.. go to giza plains where werewolfs are (theres always two of them)use quickenings on them u will get 600 exp with each character.

for doing this you will need to have at least 3 quickenings learned ..this mean that u need to gain some LPs before doing this trick.

another good thing its that you have a save crystal just near there ..that way u can recharge all ur waste MP and save too.

sometime in rabanstre you will see a bangaa and a seeq who talks about how much of tiles on the walls and houses and other things.
and once the seeq will come with a ffiv reference
tellah the sage calls edward a "spoony bard" at their encounter in ffiv,


quote from ffxii
"my friend here says that o'er 430 revelers came through the southern plaza during the big fete"
"but even IF you count the bards...
'Course he couldn't be countin' the SPOONY bards, too. That would be another matter altogether."

The Pylraster can be a bit hard find as you are not told where it is, you can find it at The Pharos At Ridorana at the entrance where you fought Hydro.

This is how to complete the fishing minigame bottles. Blue Bottle Clue: Truth lies just beyondfalsehood,CDZCKZMCRANZS this means that the next letter in the alphabet is what you put in. Next letter after C = D, next letter of D = E, next letter of Z = A and so on until you get Deadlands Boat. Go the Echos of the Past and look at the south-east corner where you will find a message in the boat. Green Bottle Clue: Skip on stones to far banks shore, by skipping stones return once more. SSADLNIAKLADHAUETDNREA this means start at S and skip between letters like S then A then L and will inventually spell Salika Hut Near Deadlands.Go to the centre of Piebald Path and in one hut.Red Bottle Clue: Foothills rise in mountains’ shadow. NhIiQsTUrEe this on ehas the capitals scrambled in to a word and the lowercase scrambled into a word. It makes QUIET shrine. Go the the north-west part of the babbling vale to find the message. Yellow Bottle Clue: Dragons stir among the eaters of the wind. 1 2 - - 5 - 7 - 9 - means in the windmills in Cerobi Steppe. The windmills have numbers on them reffering to the message. Go turn on numbers 12579
and turn off the other numbers as well as the blanks. Black Bottle Clue: Easy as a, b, c, so count yourself lucky.
19-12-21-9-3-5-7-1-20-5-18-1-20-19 this means write down the letters of the alphabet and reffer them to the numbers. They spell SULICE GATE RATS. Look for the rats scurring around the south of the room and follow them to a shiny object which is the last message. River...unde...o
Forest...rgro...w Fire...undb...h
Ash...ridg...e Darkness...eton..e The first five words can be used to determine order, since they’re complete, and ultimately unrelated to the location clue. Now a River flows through the Forest, which catches Fire, leaving behind only Ash and DarknessNow then, arranging the messages in that order to connect the middle, then end portions of the clues leaves you with the following:unde/rgro/undb/ridg/eton followed by o/w/h/e/e. This last part is missing a letter, which makes it a little cryptic, but if you put it all together, you should end up with the clue underground bridge to no where. Now
where have you seen a bridge underground the doesn’t really go anywhere? But of course, Barheim Passage. Head into Barheim, following the same path you did to reach Zalera. When you reach the end of the Zeviah Span, go ahead into West Annex, then stop immediately. If you look on your map there is a little section of Zeviah Span that can only be reached by going into West Annex. So hang a U-turn, but make sure you’re going into the area slightly to your left, back on the main part of the bridge and not the part you just left. Now simply approach the rubble at the far end and watch the magic happen. Now you know why you had to beat Gilgamesh first.With the Matamune safely in hand, head back to the Estersand and Ruksel. Select the Upstream area and start fishing up a storm. After what sometimes seemed like an eternity and innumerable perfects, you are finally rewarded with the Cactoid Compact. This item allows you to access the Hidden Shoals
area, and you’re now only one step from the big one. Hidden Shoals
The commands here aren’t all that different from those of upstream (in fact, some are the same). What makes it more difficult in my opinion is
the appearance of an additional cactoid each time you input a command correctly. These things will always be in the corner of your vision, and will
distract and annoy the crap out of you. Once you learn to ignore them though, the area is pretty easy, and you simply have to keep getting perfects until you receive the Cactoid Commendation. This bad boy opens up the Den of the River Lord.
Den of the River Lord This is it. The fish depicted in every drunken fishing story since the beginning of time. The King of Nebra has an eight-button long command that is difficult to complete when it appears side to side, and nearly impossible from the top or bottom. In addition to this, you have to catch him nine times before you can land him and reap your well-earned reward. However, the upswing of this is that you don’t have to catch him in one trip, or even get all nine in a row. Also, in my game his command has always been the only one to appear until I get him for the ninth time, so at least I know what’s coming. I’ll go ahead and post his command, since it’s better to just memorize and practice putting it in quickly. When you finally do land him, you get the Lu Shang’s Badge, the ultimate reward for this lengthy side quest.
King of Nebra:
R1, L2, Up, Square, R2, L1, X, Right

Monographs can be very useful in increasing the rarity of the drops. Here is a list of all the monographs that you can get along with what you need to do to unlock them. When you unlock them they will appear as Forgotten Grimoire until you buy it.

Dragoon Monograph (Increase drop rate of Dragons & Plants) - Read Mob hunt bulletin board 40 times (22000 gil)
Hunter's Monograph (Increase drop rate of Monsters & Birds) - Clear Thextera Mob Hunt and talk to the client at the Muthru Bazaar (18000 gil)
Knight Monograph (Increase drop rate of Giants & Insects) - Talk to any weapon shop owner 30 times (19000 gil)
Mage Monograph (Increase drop rate of Magical Enemies) - Talk to any magic shop owner 25 times (25000 gil)
Pot Monograph (Increase drop rate of Arcana Enemies) - Sell of certain Loots to unlock (250000 gil)
Sage Monograph (Increase drop rate of Spirit Enemies) - Talk to any shop owner 100 times (25000 gil)
Scholar Monograph (Increase drop rate of Specialist Enemies) - Talk to any armour shop owner15 times (22000 gil)
Warmage's Monograph (Increase drop rate of Undead Enemies) - Read Mob hunt bulletin board 20 times (20000 gil)

First you must complete the Antilion Mob Hunt Mark V.
The Formalhaut is the best gun in the game, to get it go back to Lhusu mines, to the screen called "Site 9" where Antilion Mob Hunt Mark V was, in his place you'll find a chest, open it and you'll receive this weapon, it has 50 points of attack power and like the rest fo the guns it ignores the defense power of enemies and can't miss.

If you wish to have gambits set up to heal status aliments or to ressurect fallen characters you don't need the specific "if status aliment" or "if koed" gambit. All you need to do is set up an "any ally" gambit with the item/spell you wish to use, for example "any ally pheonix down" and your characters will only use the item/spell when it is needed.

Cast Reflect on all your characters. Have them all cast dark. Within Seconds, Garuda should be dead.

As far as I know the only way to get genji is this and I have tested it and got the shield and gloves.
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REQUIREMENTS
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1) Killed Antlion Mob Hunt
2) Have Thief Cuffs
3) Good Armour And Lvl To Survive
4) MUST NOT HAVE ALREADY DEFEATED GILGAMESH!
5) Consistancy And Endurance

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The way you get this great armour is when your fighting gilgamesh. When you enter the first fight steal from him and you may recieve genji gloves or shield. If you didn't get them don't worry.After each cutscene you are allowed to steal once more. You may also want to steal from enkidu for beastlord horns to make a sagitarius bow.In the first gilgamesh fight on the bridge you can obtain genji shield and gloves from him.

For those of you who do not know how to get into the deeper parts of the lhusu mines where you fight gilgamesh the secret is when you beat the antlion the girl says the key they lost will wash up on a shore so go to the phon coast hunters lodge and go to the north west area where a man is lying down next to his friend. next to him will be a glint of light (the key to go deeper into the mines)

When fighting him the second time make sure you are ready for a long fight if you are low level.He uses a lot of status effects so make sure someone is set to esuna or something. Do the same as you did last time and now you should recieve genji armour and helm.

Also after this long fight you recieve masamune which is a 93 attack katana.It will also allow you to finish the fishing minigame. The genji glove's special for anyone who is wondering is that you deal combos much more often. I gave my genji gloves to vaan who weilds my zodiac spear =P
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/`'~!!ENJOY THE GENJI AND MASAMUNE!!~'`\
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When you are at Balfonheim Port, go to the area of the Gate Crystal. You should see two moogles there, one of them is from the Cartographers Guild and the other one is wanting to travel.

If you talk to the right one he should say something along the lines of "I want to get a Chocobo, but Gurdy's prices are to expensive" or something like that. After he's done talking, go to the Chocobo Wrangler that sits inside the pen and she should say something about a strange chocobo getting into the flock (its one of those cluckatrice things). The moogle you just talked with should walk over and ask Gurdy how much that chocobo is, now he should say "If it werent for you, I would of never got this chocobo" or something like that and should hand over a Defender.

The Defender is a greatsword (2h) with +91 strength.

Note: You need to have completed the gil snapper (paradise risen) bounty hunt , then return to where you fought the gil snapper and find an urn then go get the defender

Credit to munti for the above paragraph

To get LP fast, go to lvl 16 or more and go to DALMASCA EASTERSAND and kill the monsters all the way, then go back and kill more monsters , you can kill that monsters with one or two hits, so doing this for a long time can result in 1000-2000 LP, but all depends of the time that you want to expend in this.

In order to do this you must defeat both the demon walls in Raithwalls Tomb. After doing so check the place where the First demon wall stood, and you'll find a jewel there, touch it and then 2 stairs will appear, both take you to the same place so it doesn't matter which one you choose, follow the only path (there will be some bats and fire flans in the way) until you find a chest, since it is random you don't have a 100% of getting the demonsbane but with some resetting you'll get it!
Having a sword with 59 of power attack at this part of the game is quite useful, so I recommend you getting it.

The Third Accent can be kinda of tricky.
You need to touch the way stones.

Warp to the third accent, go to the Way Stone-Black Sigil.
You will be warped to a new level. Now go to the Way Stone-Green Sigil.
Once Again You Will Be Warped, Now Go and Touch the Way Stone-Red Sigil.
You will be warped again. Now Go Touch A Yellow Sigil, and you will be warped to the last level. Search for a wall called Fools Fascade. Inside you will find a Way Stone, that will lead you to the elevator. Go Up The Elevator, and You will Fight Hashmal. He's moderately strong, and with his hits, he can sometimes inflict disease, and he will cast Quakeja, which can Slow all your characters sometimes.
After Defeating Him, You'll Obtain Him As A Esper.
You will be warped to The Empyran Ravel, go up all the stairs to the way stone, and you'll find the sun-cryst. There You'll fight 3 Boss Battles, Judge Gabranth, Dr. Cid and The Esper Famfrit. Good Luck.

P.S-Failure To Touch The Way Stones In That Order, will cause you to be warped to Flr. 79, where you will fight a bunch a powerful zombies.

During the fight with Gilgamesh (the rank VII mark given to you by Montblanc named "Ancient Mystery Man"), he will pull out various swords that are from previous Final Fantasy games. Since Gilgamesh has eight arms, he holds them all at once. The most famous swords include Cloud's Buster Sword, Squall's Gunblade, Tidus' Brotherhood, and Sephiroth's Masamune. For some reason, all of these swords have some alterations to their previous forms. For example, Cloud's Buster Sword has a huge Japanese symbol on it. Tidus' Brotherhood has a hook at the end of the blade on both sides instead of just the bladed part. It is possible the swords are alterations because after Gilgamesh is defeated, in the Bestiary it states that it is not proven that all of the swords Gilgamesh owns are authentic.

After doing the antilion hunt you may be as lucky to find the gun "fomalhaut" in the chest at antilions location.

If you where as lucky as obtaining the "wyrmfire shot" ammo which is attack power+3 and element fire then you can deal some heavy damage.

I did around 3-4K worth of damage with a normal attack. Then if you set your gunners gambit to (you may want to set healing attacks before these in case you use your gunner as healer to)

"1. Foe: Status - Oil -> Fire"
then
"2. Foe: Any -> Oil"

As long as the enemy does not absorb fire (like the bombs do), you can deal something of 9K worth of damage.

(You may also want to get fire arrows. or a fire sword with the element of fire)

A way to have fast attacks is cast berserk on your tank of the team then cast haste or hastage both work as well

then if you really want help cast lure on him that way his attact speed will be so fast that you might not even be able to draw your weapon they will attact so fast.

you can give the gambit ally-self-berserk then for the leader give the gamibit ally-berserk-haste i think the gambit is called that.if you give them that you won't have to keep casting it

The way to get a fair bit of money and xp is in the ogir yensa sand sea

i advise to go when you have vossler as a helping hand

stay within the centre of the map and attack nothing but urutan yensa's this way you can get super high chain (i got to 250) which will get you about 5k per laod which is a lot at that point in the game and it will also train your people up quite fast

When you reach the Feywood make sure you are lvl 45-50 so you can dispatch Tartaus' and Ceberus' in mere seconds. Keep transferring between two zones...I forgot the name.If you are lucky you will encounter between 1 and 5 Cerberus and/or Tartarus. Use physical attacks and once your battle chain gets 50 plus...Ceberus will start dropping Francisca. Pick up the Prime Pelts each one drops which sell for 1k+. I stayed there for half an hour and finished with a Battle Chain of 279, 99 Prime Pelts and 44 Francisca's. You transfer between the Zone to the right of the Walk of Dancing Shadows and the one to the north exit of the Walk of Dancing Shadows. There is 5 safe Tartarus in the north exit. If you go too deep in then Deadly Nightshades will come...breaking your chain. Then go back to Walk of Dancing Shadows and transfer to the right/east exit where you should encounter 6-8 Tartarus and about 2-4 Cerberus. If you continue this for an hour and then go and sell your loot...You will be suprised how much you have made. 500k gil+ if you did it correctly.Hehe....

To do this you will need one thing:

Phoenix downs - 50
Cost - 140.000 Gils

Head to the Glamore's Jungle and look for a place called "Rustleing Chaple", there you can find some
Courels and Hellhounds enemies, kill all of them that way you will spawn some stronger skeletons enemies that you can kill with One Hit useing Phoenix Down "L1 to target the enemie",

After killing all the Skeletons in there a Rare game will show up and you can kill it too with the Phoenix downs.

From this Skeletons you get:

Exp - 2.900
Lp - 1

Rare Game Eskeleton:

Exp - 5.000 exp
Lp - 14

Go back to Eruyt Village and sell all the collected Loots, and buy Phoenix Downs if you need it too.
You can repeat this process all the time you want!

To have guest's as powerful as you, you have to have your charaters over a current level. Like for my charaters, when I have Lamont(Larsa) in Bhujerba, I was on level 16, he had over 350 Hp(Warning, sometimes guest's Hp and Mp change.)and on the Dreadnount Leviathan Vossler had over 900 hp and 82 mp because I was on level 19 and on the sandsea he had over 1000!!!! hp and over 110 mp. I suggest you try this cheat!

If you don't mind axes then you can get any amount of handaxes you want on the leviathon. Cos they have an attack power of 47 and are 1 handed they are probably the best weapon you can have at this time without the fuss o going to bazaar. The second easy to obtain one is javelin which is 2 handed with an attak power of 30. The handaxe is in a chest on the leviathon to the right of where you come in at the beginning. If you go you will see an area where there are two paths next to each other. One is straight and short cos there's a dead end and the other is curved and slightly longer. I believe there is a square shaped area near it and it is south of the first area you are in. From my experience the chest always contains a handaxe and you can go 3 zones away and come back to get another. If this is too much for you to do you can easily get two without diverting your course too much. Simply get one before setting out to get ashe and then get the other before you fight judge ghis.
Hope this helps if you are stuck there. However, it is easier to kill him if your characters have quickenings. I believe a three chain of level one quickenings resulting in the concurrence inferno will kill him straight away. I got an eight chain with level ones. If your characters have one quickening they are more likely to get the option mist charge than if they have two or three so it is quite easy to create a quite long chain early in the game.

Ways to make money and power leveling there is. Feel free to equip the Embroidered Tippet or Golden Amulets. Go to the 2nd spot where the jellies spawn. Use your best area spell, or just cast Oil+Fira if you're a low lvl.You should save to be safe. Just kill them all, zone twice(west is the fastest)Rinse and repeat. Then i personally leave when I have 99 phials which is a quick 20 to 30k. Including the side loot is teleport stones and water motes. Is up to you to sell or keep.
Happy Hunting

If your characters exceed the limit of Hp and you're curious on how much Hp He/She got right now, you got to equip or cast Libra first then hit the D-pad (up or down) when playing, if you take a look at the right corner of the screen you'll be able to see the max Hp your characters have now.

Ive tried this on all he bosses in the pharos of ridorana and i've killed them in 1 minute each and I don't even have to press anything.

When you know a boss is comming up wait at the door before them and use Hastega and Beserk on everyone (you may also want to add Shellga or Protectga)Then swap all of your beserked and hasted people which should be your best then have your weakest person only!

Run into the boss with the weak person until it kills you so that you can swap all of your good people back in and they will go insane and smash the boss to the ground in no time!

At begening of the battle stay at the gate the more farway possible from the boss and cast blizzard

These are the most powerful 2 handed weapons in the game.

Tournesoul has 140 attack power and 25 evade, while wyrnmhero blade has 130 attack power 50 evade and holy elemental attack.

To obtain tournesoul sell the following items to the bazaar.

Gemsteel x3, Empyreal Soul x3, Serpentarius x3 to Bazaar

To obtain wyrnmhero blade sell the following to the Bazaar

Omega Badge x1, Godslayer's Badge x1, Lu Shang's Badge x1 to Bazaar

side-quest you can miss during the game

July, The Female Spy the side-quest
This event can only happen after Tomb of Raithwall event and before story
reaches to Mosphoran Highwaste.

- First, head to Nalbina and find two guards who block the way to Mosphoran.
Talk to July sitting away in front of them knowing she is undertaking a job,
and she wants to end it and back to Archades.


- Close to the guards and listen to their discussion.
The Senior Guard told The Junior Guard
The Senior Guard told The Junior Guard not to leave his post not ever what
happen. But the Junior Guard said he can’t bear the smell of chocobo.


- Hire a chocobo and drive this guard, he will scream and run away.
Junior Guard's family is Chocobo Gardener, and always get the smell, he work
hard and save the money to buy a perfume from Viera to cover this disfavored
and married his wife. This is t
he secret he keeps all the time. That's why
Julie was hired to search for.


- After that, July turns to you and thank.
She pursues you to come Archades for the reward. When you reach to Imperial
City of Archades, find her in the magic shop and get your reward, which is
Salamand Halcyon. It's a treasure to trade for Arcturus (Atk +44) gun type weapon.


That sidequest can be missed if you finish the story events at Mosphoran Highwaste.

it most be done before reaching that place