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I think they're locked behind quickenings so you may be out of luck if you already have all three.
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Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age |OT| You Had One Job!
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Bush/Knight also gets the Exclaibur with White Robes/Genji Gloves. Just destroys late enemies in Henne Mines, Great Crystal, Pharos Subterra, Lushu Mines end game areas while also destroying Zodiark and Hell Wyrm. Not so useful against Yiazmat and Omega Mark but man the damage against everything else.
Its behind a quickening in the top left of the board, if you unlocked the koga blade instead just stick with that
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Anyone eyeballing the plat should try to knock out some of the rare game while hunting marks or going through the story. It's not a terrible grind but some of the monsters have specific timings to spawn. Tightest timing I've seen so far is a 10 min range from game timer xx:10 to xx:20 so if you miss it you must progress another hour of game time for it to respawn.
If trophies are all your interested in you should go trial mode first, it counts towards the bestiary and you can save yourself having to spawn the enemies. You face a lot of the rare game there, and I'd only hunt down the ones missing from trial mode if I was only interested in the trophy.
I love the summon improvements to Zodiac Age. Not only does your summon last long, but they appear stronger and you can now do their final attacks whenever you feel like it. I'm summoning all the time in this version of the game. The Ultima summon is extremely good, does great damage and now I don't need to go through the bullshit of setting up for her final attack, just do it whenever I want. They can clear entire areas now cause they are strong and last for roughly 5 minutes rather than 90seconds and if you want their final attack with the exception of Zodiark you need to spend most of that time setting up for their final attack fulfilling stupid conditions for them to do it so their entire summon time wasted and not enough damage to justify the bullshit. But they are awesome now, all of them have uses now, not just Zodiark Final Eclipse spam lol.
I hate Disma. He's by far the hardest of the rare game, imo. His magic attacks do insane amounts of damage
When the Diamond Armlet become available to the vendor in Dalmasca estersand?
I need to fight the boss in Mount Bur, but I want to get that special bow so I don't need to think about getting better weapons for my party for the rest of the game.
Anyway 4x speed is a God's bless in this game, Im literally breezing through the game with it, if you set your gambits right and you are a bit overleveled, you won't even need to push a single button during regular fights. I never saw a game-over for now, this is maybe the easier FF concering the main plot only.
I remember on PS2 I beat the game around level 42, now I'm level 40 already and bosses go down in less than a minute.
I need to fight the boss in Mount Bur, but I want to get that special bow so I don't need to think about getting better weapons for my party for the rest of the game.
Anyway 4x speed is a God's bless in this game, Im literally breezing through the game with it, if you set your gambits right and you are a bit overleveled, you won't even need to push a single button during regular fights. I never saw a game-over for now, this is maybe the easier FF concering the main plot only.
I remember on PS2 I beat the game around level 42, now I'm level 40 already and bosses go down in less than a minute.
Just play the trial mode to get the armlet, it's in a chest on the first stage.
Yeah Disma was a pain. U randomly came across him in the way to Gilgamesh. Fieget the magicw, once I got him to low health, he just kept one shoting my characters with physical attacks.
Niw I'm unsure where to go next. Great Crystal for Hastega, Shellga and Excalibur, Henne Mines for Addle and a bunch if stuff, or Pharos for Wither and others as well. Hmmm
The Last One
Member
I finished the game without knowing this lol
LordOfLore
Banned
Got my first seitengrat~
Edit: 6 of 6 now! What other invisible chests are there and what do they have?
Edit: 6 of 6 now! What other invisible chests are there and what do they have?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Some more screenshots. Getting all the optional espers I can as the game goes on. Just finished the Zelara fight, fucker almost wiped me out with the insta-KO attack. God bless Basch's survivability.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
So if I have Basch as a Bushi/Knight, would it make sense to keep him in Mystic Armor or give him heavy?
I have my bushi/knight in heavy body and mystic hat because I switch between katana and sword and can't be bothered to keep switching armor as well
I would imagine mystic if he's using Katana due to his low magical power. I made Penelo a Bushi and I regret it, she seems very weak since her strength is trash and can't wear Heavy Armor. Basch would've been more suited for it. I guess I can make her second job a Knight though.
semiconscious
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i got all 6 from the same chest. just leave the airship deck, return (& create new autosave), close application, & redo the whole process
...didn't know - thanks!
...Offshore Breeze
Member
I forgot how good the soundtrack for this game is, Absolutely incredible.
Finally got to sit down and play for a bit again. Headed out into the Sandsea and ended up finishing the Tomb of Raithwall. Good news is I steamrolled right through and
was laughably easy at level 20. I haven't even stopped to grind levels yet either. The bad news is only my 3 main characetsr are lv.20. The other three are lv.11, lol. So, probably going to spend some time trying to catch those guys up.
Haven't unlocked any quickenings yet, still trying to figure out the whole license board thing so being pretty stingy with my points. As of right now, my team is :
Vaan: Knight
Ashe: White Mage
Basche: Bushi
Balthier: Machinist
Fran: Archer
Penelo: Black Mage
Am I doing this right? In all honestly most of the job selection stuff in this thread has gone right over my head, so just trying to roll with what I vaguely remember my characters doing way back on vanilla PS2 version.
Finally got to sit down and play for a bit again. Headed out into the Sandsea and ended up finishing the Tomb of Raithwall. Good news is I steamrolled right through and
Belias
Haven't unlocked any quickenings yet, still trying to figure out the whole license board thing so being pretty stingy with my points. As of right now, my team is :
Vaan: Knight
Ashe: White Mage
Basche: Bushi
Balthier: Machinist
Fran: Archer
Penelo: Black Mage
Am I doing this right? In all honestly most of the job selection stuff in this thread has gone right over my head, so just trying to roll with what I vaguely remember my characters doing way back on vanilla PS2 version.
If you switch between the new ones and the originals you can hear the majority of them are actually hugely improved
Tchita Uplands actually has new music as well instead of just repeating Giza Plains
Vincent Alexander
Member
I'm gonna say it...
...I don't like the new license boards. I miss the original, having my options more open for everyone. I also really wish this game would at least offer you a way to reset your license board one time per character or something.
...I don't like the new license boards. I miss the original, having my options more open for everyone. I also really wish this game would at least offer you a way to reset your license board one time per character or something.
Spiritwalker
Member
There's a number of areas with new music, but I have't heard them all yet. Nam-Yensa is my favourite so far though. Very Star Wars-y.
Well the big problem with the sewer one is he does sap and poison. And then he does disable so you cant even heal yourself. I don't want to have to do the grind for ribbons.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Just got to Old Arcades. Any guess about how far into the game I am?
Nachtfalke
Member
Yeah, and that's the reason I wouldn't recommend the old soundtrack anymore. You wouldn't hear the new tracks, which are fantastic too!
I think they did a stellar job with the new reorchestred tracks. Overall it's a huge improvement.
I only disliked a small variation around the 1 minute mark at the esper battle theme.
MrCookiepants
Member
I'm mad that some people have such an easy time getting that bow, or even multiple of them.
I tried for over an hour and nothing.
Like 70%?
I tried for over an hour and nothing.
Like 70%?
The only one I haven't been overly keen on is Salikawood, the melody of it in the new version is far too quiet, you can only really hear it if you stand still. The DLC ost actually has the best version of that one
Really? I followed the video posted a few pages back and got 3 on my first 3 attempts. The video is presented in a seemingly foolproof way to get one (or 6).
Just sticking to story, there's another 6 areas to go through, one of them being the longest in the game. There's a lot of optional stuff still to do though
LordOfLore
Banned
Where do you get the arrows?
Lumpy Onion
Member
I seem to recall hearing there was a Level 1 challenge mode of some sort that opened upon beating the game in the import IZJS. Is that also in this version?
I'm finding the game to be pretty easy and just finished Raithwall. Far easier than I remember vanilla ever being. I'm not even trying half the time and am pulling through just fine. Hardly overlevelled too. Hunts have been alright though challenge-wise. I guess I could start duoing to limit myself a bit.
I'm finding the game to be pretty easy and just finished Raithwall. Far easier than I remember vanilla ever being. I'm not even trying half the time and am pulling through just fine. Hardly overlevelled too. Hunts have been alright though challenge-wise. I guess I could start duoing to limit myself a bit.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Which method did you use? That looks like pretty consistent results
Just grab 3 for everyone. Quickenings can be very useful, although much less so now that you are so far to the game.
You're not going to be challenged much by the main story, especially since the job system kind of forces a more optimized party than the original game.
Keep up with the hunts and when they're available, optional espers. They're a lot of fun if you don't overpower them with equipment.
LordOfLore
Banned
The Reks Cure/man going up the stars 4 times one.
BlazingDarkness
Member
I'm familiar with the Reks cure bit, what is the man going up the stairs?
I know, but which 3 would be the best for each?
I'm thinking about the things they unlock on the board.
YankeeDonB
Member
Mist attacks are disappointing visually too, I think. Some cool effects, but because they didn't know which character would be using which weapon, they don't incorporate the weapons, and this robs them of a lot of impact and relevance to character build. Stuff like Basch's R-L-R karate punch of doom are pretty comical. Also, mist attacks are never even addressed in-game, are they? Why do the characters have these abilities? What are these weird non-canon attacks? Why doesn't everyone else in the world use these super-powered attacks?
Really wish this game had a meaningful attack ability system tied to weapons.
LordOfLore
Banned
The last part of the method is timing it so you press X the moment a man on the stairs turns around on his 4th time up the stairs.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Damn! I have unlocked the Koga blade though so that's good. Where do I get one?
Auto_aim1
MeisaMcCaffrey
I stole from trial mode. Dunno which one was it, I think 71?
Lawd this game has aged like fine wine. The 2x speed helps too. Funny how when I first played it in 2006, the story felt so sparse in the second half, but now that everything is a little faster the pacing actually feels just right. I think I was just accustomed to jrpgs back then dropping huge story beats on you every hour, where now in 2017 that has changed a bit with all the open world games.
And the speed really helps with hunts. I found them to be a huge slog back then, but now that I can zip through the map to get marks, it's one of my favorite things to do.
Also Ashe is probably one of my favorite FF protagonists ever. Still love how the opening hours you think it's going to be about Vaan, but then nope, it's about a vengeful princess' quest for WMD's.
As if 2017 wasn't delivering already on epic games, blown away by how good this remaster is.
And the speed really helps with hunts. I found them to be a huge slog back then, but now that I can zip through the map to get marks, it's one of my favorite things to do.
Also Ashe is probably one of my favorite FF protagonists ever. Still love how the opening hours you think it's going to be about Vaan, but then nope, it's about a vengeful princess' quest for WMD's.
As if 2017 wasn't delivering already on epic games, blown away by how good this remaster is.