Okay something to try for awhile, how about a daily update on what you did in the game today? There seems to be a lot of people around so it might be fun to see what everyone is enjoying working on.

Today me and a playing buddy got together to work on getting the Grand Helm from Tower. My bud is a completionist with the equipment, but has no patience for the picky stuff. I'm not a completionist but have lots of patience.

This means I play and he watches, lol. Actually I'm a doofus with minimaps and get all turned around. He actually got me thru the Pharos without hardly encountering any enemies! (I actually used to run all the way up that place, each level, lol).

We chained the Highwaste golem thingees beforehand to get a head start with Tower. I tried someone's new trick of going back to 79 floor and then walked thru the doors up to 80 and waited 2 minutes. Didn't seem to work to spawn Tower, so I did the zoning with the sigils.

We played about 3.25 hours, no Grand Helm, but got a couple of drops of 2 Solid Stones and a High Arcana. We were playing on a PS 3 and my buddy wondered if my PS 2 yields quicker results cuz I got him 3 ribbons from the Cerobi chest the other day. Can't really know for sure because if I get any item on my PS2 it could just be luck also, there is no way to really prove one system is better than the other, and it could be the percentages on the disk.

soo...that's what I did today. Tomorrow I will try for the Grand Helm now that I'm into it and have some idea of how to get up there in the Pharos without running up almost every floor. I don't need the helm but am feeling stubborn after playing so long and not getting it.

Hmmm... I'm on the fence about this topic I'm afriad, to me it seems this would be better suited for the Ontopic GD thread... I'll allow it to go for a bit and make my mind up based on the replies.

Okay, I'm fine with that. I don't know what the Ontopic GD is though...

I think it's a nice thread. Something more than just the same boring threads about how to level up and all the same questions. If this thread gets closed this forum will be all about Q&A and GrandMaster's vids...
Maybe somebody could post videos in this thread too.

KruEdit: Noted... you do have a good point there... enjoy it guys, just not any spam please

This message was edited by Krunal(moderator) on May 30 2008.

Well i just finished the pharos...again. Actualy i only had the 3rd chapter left so the main battles where against Hashmal and Famfrit. So i guess now i start to complete some of those hunts next, ive bin a litle lasy on them for a while now.

This game realy gets easy after you played it a couple of times, i realy have to start one of those challenges.

I have been visting the Aerodomes trying to get both Anne's letter sidequest finished and Deathgaze to show up.

Still no luck with either of them yet, Deathgze just won't appear for me and I still need to find one more sister to complete the letter sidequest.

Deathgaze has a better chance of being there if after every flight you speak to the traveller kid. If you do this it doubles each time. It starts at 4% and goes up to 64% before stopping. I haven't played on it yet today but i am going to level up my weak team (levels 14,14 and 28) using the negalmuur tactic. Does esuna work against doom?

Only way to cure doom is remedy with remedy lore3, i think thats correct by me. But i dont worry much if doom is cast on me, arise works fine to after doom reaches 0 hehe.

Not if it's on party leader. Oh!!!! I could just use a ribbon couldn't I?

Sure that works to.

Wicked! Now i can just leave it for ages and hope the PS2 doesn't burn the disc.

Today I got 17 Mardu Halcyons. Just 82 to go and then the other 7 Entites.

You still have another eight and a ahlf hours.
Good luck with it though. I have Vaan upstairs doing the negalmuur thing on his own. He's gone up six levels in the past 15 minutes.


Edit: In one and a half hours Vaan has gone up 18 levels and has a 850 chain.

This message was edited by Zodiac Killer 99 on May 30 2008.

Since my PS2 is busted, I'll tell you what i did when i had it.

I started a new game, tryed to chain Dustia and kill Werewolves cause most of you are on lvl 50 by Tomb Of Raithwall.

I've had a night mare trying to get what I wanted from the Lhusu mines. Here are the worst of my problems:

I did the formahault run over 40 times trying to get just ONE. The chest appeared a grand total of THREE times (it's suposed to be a 60%er) in all those runs with the first two giving me knotts of rust. So that was annoying. After pummeling Gilgamesh (and snagging his gear) I went after bombshell for my dark blade. More fun there as I had to chain him to 45 to get my first one, Ggrrrrrrrrrr.

On the up side I did run into Disma on my way out, man he is tough, I mean he's tougher than Gilgamesh. I think he is the toughest rare game (unless the biding mantis really chows down on some nearby critters). The chest were also good to me since I got a Maximillion and a bug dropped a Perseus bow (I did not know they did that).

The weapons and armor were nice since I'm playing the game with the limitation of not buying anything form a weapons or armor shop. Mostly I'm just glad to be done with the Lhusu mines, I'm not going back into that hole any time soon as I'm sooooo tried of it.

That's what I did on FFXII today (well today and yesterday)