[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I'm 15 hours in...and I officially LOVE this game

I'm past the 30 hour mark now, It's a great game.

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Apparently I'm going very fast though the game I'm on the 17th hour now and have just begun chapter 9

So, now I will do every battle in the game to make it go slow xD

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Apparently I'm going very fast though the game I'm on the 17th hour now and have just begun chapter 9

So, now I will do every battle in the game to make it go slow xD

It's about the normal pace I think, I got to Chapter 11 around 20-21 hours so you're doing well I think. All I'll say is be ready for a spike in the difficulty .

Where abouts on Chapter 9 are you? Best answer that in spoiler tags if it's spoil-y.

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Chapter 9 spoiler

Spoiler:

I just got the whole team together

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Flanitor - Best ever name for a Flan

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Chapter 9 spoiler

Spoiler:

I just got the whole team together

Spoiler:

Ah who are you using?

and I agree the Flanitor is a mighty name.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Spoiler:

Ah who are you using?

and I agree the Flanitor is a mighty name.

Spoiler:

Light, Snow and Vanille

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Spoiler:

Light, Snow and Vanille

Interesting combination, I'm still at it with my Light/Hope/Fang team though.

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I think I'm going to have to level up before this certain boss that I am facing

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I think I'm going to have to level up before this certain boss that I am facing

He's hellish, I only beat him by the skin of my teeth. My advice is to use Sentinel when he goes to use Destrudo until the attack's completely done since he tends to cast Doom as soon as it ends. For the first bit when he still has his armour keep Vanille on healing duty while Light and Snow take out the pieces as a Ravager and Commando. It's a tough boss but he's not completely difficult with the right strategy....apart from his Doom Spell.

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He has doom? ****

I got his armor down last night using Vanille as the Medic and Snow and Light as Commando's then did a considerable amount in his none armor battle...till he used that destructo thing, thinking back, I should have made sure everyone was on full health instead of attacking

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

He has doom? ****

I got his armor down last night using Vanille as the Medic and Snow and Light as Commando's then did a considerable amount in his none armor battle...till he used that destructo thing, thinking back, I should have made sure everyone was on full health instead of attacking

In the Armour stage have Lightning or Snow be a Ravager so you can focus on taking them down one by one quickly. You'll fly through them then as the parts are easy to stagger.

With Destrudo switch to a paradigm with a Commando/Sentinel/Medic that way you can keep his stagger bar up while healing and defending. Destrudo takes ages to charge so if you switch Paradigms as soon as you see him charging you'll be fine. Keep Sentinel on until you've healed up though as he'll sometimes cast Doom. If you're gonna use a summon I'd save it until you've been hit with Doom and are down to the last 200 hundred or so.

For Parardigms I'd reccomend:

Medic/Ravager/Commando - For general fighting.
Ravager/Commando/Commando - For when he's been staggered.
Medic/Commando/Sentinel - For Destrudo
Medic/Medic/Sentinel - For when you're getting a serious lamping.

It might be a good idea to switch Vanille out for Sazh/Hope as Synergist is quite useful and Status effects aren't effective.

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thing about Hope is his hp is waaay too low for the battle :P

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

thing about Hope is his hp is waaay too low for the battle :P

Silver/Gold equipment my dear Chewy. Plus he has the protect and shell spells as a Syn to keep up his defense. Sazh's haste is also quite good and he can boost attack, I'd say go with Hope as he's a beastly ravager and Healer but it's upto you. Also if you use Sentinel you don't need to worry about Hope as he'll survive Destrudo.

Do what suits you best but if you're having trouble switch around your team, some strange team choices that i never would use have lead me to victory in this game.

The team I used personally for this fight was Snow/Light/Hope.

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I'll try it with Hope, god this battle is waaaaaaaaaaay to hard

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I'll try it with Hope, god this battle is waaaaaaaaaaay to hard

Have you got any Fortisols or Aegisols? They'll save you some time and allow you to do the first part quickly, Sentinel is your best friend in the second part of the battle. Have you looked at any guides or videos? They might have some tricks if you have any more trouble.

He's a tricky bastard though, easily the most difficult boss I've encountered.

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I think I have one of them xD

I looked on FFXIII.net (which is ran by one of my other forum friends :3) and it seems you are right Synergists help a lot especially when they use Haste, so I will use Hope (because I cant be arsed using Light to heal xD)

[Tom4784]

You'll want Light to be focused on attacking anyway. Is the chrystarium leveled up as far as you can? The stat boosts might help.

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lol I'm doing them all up :P

[Ross]

Oh this is cute. I wish I was a gamer nerd too.

No, seriously. Final Fantasy looks good but I'm so confused by it all.

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Originally Posted by Ross

Oh this is cute. I wish I was a gamer nerd too.

No, seriously. Final Fantasy looks good but I'm so confused by it all.

lol its not confusing

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Ross

Oh this is cute. I wish I was a gamer nerd too.

No, seriously. Final Fantasy looks good but I'm so confused by it all.

Ah it's not a tough game to get to grips with really, it pretty much tells you how to do everything throughout the game.

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Argh! Even with all the boosts Destructo beat me

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Argh! Even with all the boosts Destructo beat me

I'm not sure what's going wrong then With all the boosts even Hope should be able to survive it, especially if you're using Sentinel as I THINK by then Fang and Snow learn an ability which cuts attacks aimed at the whole group by half. When he is charging try a paradigm consisting of Rav/Com/Sen and then the second the attack hits switch to Com/Sen/Med in order to keep the stagger gauge up and heal. If you do enough damage to him while he's charging Destructo should only do half the damage it normally would.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I'm not sure what's going wrong then With all the boosts even Hope should be able to survive it, especially if you're using Sentinel as I THINK by then Fang and Snow learn an ability which cuts attacks aimed at the whole group by half. When he is charging try a paradigm consisting of Rav/Com/Sen and then the second the attack hits switch to Com/Sen/Med in order to keep the stagger gauge up and heal. If you do enough damage to him while he's charging Destructo should only do half the damage it normally would.

I see...I'll try that, I was doing pretty well until he attacked, I might buy Light a titanium accesory thing too