I grind sinscales for 5-6 hours getting all of Tidus's overdrives in one go then save at Kilika port. I then use that save each time I feel like playing the game from scratch.
1 tip that should always be included. Give khimari steal before the mt gagazet fight. He can steal a few lv 3 key spheres from the ronsos which is incredibly useful prior to 3rd seymour
Holy yes, I'm definitely keeping that in mind!! That Seymour fight was what I've been stuck on and so never got to Zanarkand!! (I have only started playing again after not having the PS2 for over 6 years)
@@anapeglar4602 If you're still stuck then before the fight make sure all the aeons have their overdrives. When you're fighting Seymour wait just before he uses the attack that screws the whole party and summon an aeon. They'll be killed, but you'll avoid the damage and be able to use their overdrive to yeet him. Or just get yojimbo if the fight starts irritating you. Pay him a ton of gil. I think its high millions. He uses an ability that will one shot anything.
My top tips for FF10 in general: 1. Make sure you steal items regularly in every battle. The Use command is pretty busted but you need the items first. 2. Send Kimahri to Rikkus grid as soon as possible to learn Steal and Use. You can do this as early as Mi’hen Highroad. Two thieves and item uses are much better than one. 3. Whenever fighting a boss look up what status effects they aren’t immune to. Most bosses have a status effect or 2 that you can inflict on them. 4. Pay attention to the effect each action you take in battle has on the turn order so you can learn how to stack turns in your favour.
FYI: If you're wondering... no, you're not alone. The audio _did_ cut out. The commentary stops at 6:56, leaving just the music playing for the rest of the Sinscale grind/boss fight. The music then fades out at 10:46 during the victory spoils screen, thus completely muting the audio and any commentary for the next tips. At 15:30 the commentary and music abruptly cut back in, so be ready for that accidental jumpscare.
Thanks for the sanity check, I thought my headphones died lmao. Thank goodness I investigated before the audio cut back in, I had turned my up as a test 😂
For the grinding, you can just switch in Yuna and Lulu for a turn, make them use a single move and switch them out. They will get the same amount of AP as Wakka, Tidus and Khimari even with that single turn. This also makes a fantastic spot for everyone but Tidus to get Slayer and Ally Overdrive modes.
you can combine that with loner. get Tidus into critical health, then kill Auron. Go through your returns until you get loaner, then revive Auron and get him in HP critical status. once Tidus has daredevil, kill his character and then keep passing turns until Auron gets both loner and daredevil. it shaves off a little bit of time when you combine them that way.
You should do a play through hitting every single missable item and every side quest possible while on the first run through the game. Would be nice to have on RUclips
i do have one, its just on the japanese version of the HD remaster. Although i am "slowly" doing a stream of the sin unleashed (much much harder) which is 100% aswell.
these are just some of more "beginner" friendly tips i made back for the HD Release although back when i made it i was surprised by the sheer amount of people who never knew some of these
@@Primalliquid92 thank for the tips I bought X remaster for the switch like a year or 2 ago never complete it messed up on the overdrive part tho but I am at the part this will be useful
Tip fir the SinSpawn on the ship. Make sure everyone in your party gets at lest one turn so they can get the massive Experience by the end of the fight.
I try to make sure everybody performs "one successful action" in every battle, no matter how small or ordinary, even versus mobs of three that are designed for specific characters to one-shot (e.g. Flyer [Wakka], Helm [Auron], and Flan [Lulu]). Pray, Cheer, Aim, etc. are great for scoring "successful actions" even when they don't materially contribute to the battle.
@@xheralt I see what you’re saying. But that’s honestly a wast of time. Blow through the game with three consistent party members. Then rotate the weaker ones in once you get to the Omega Ruins. The amount of exp you get in there will get your characters over powered in no time.
@@cmoore1369 pointless. Get your main three, power level them and them alone. Once you at the end game exp comes so easy all that switching in and out is really just a wast of time.
Whenever I re-play this game: 1. Get Loner on Tidus on the bridge. 2. Get 50 Potions on Al bhed ship, Kill Rikku, Set Tidus' Overdrive to Loner. 3. Grind Tidus' Overdrive till you get Blitz Ace. This will net you good amount of spheres that you don't have to worry about running out, make your Aeons significantly stronger, and will make Tidus a bit strong early game. I don't like the sin scale leveling on the boat, it's a waste of time. Later on in the game you can grind Attack Reels as soon as Luca events is over. 5x cheer + perfect 3's on Attack reels is enough to cheese most bosses, also keep 1 elemental types of weapons you pick or drop along the way for each melee or at least for Auron, Tidus and Wakka.
Cranston's right. The best OverDrive modes you get just from playing. I mean The one that you get OD bar from Damaging an enemy, killing an enemy and healing an Ally (for sweet lil' old Yuna.). The other ones are garbage with a few good only for exploitation of learning Tidus' Over Drive attacks. Which is more trouble than it's worth really. And I mean using the exploits. Overall these tricks aren't that great really. The killing Sin Spawn FOR the damage an enemy OverDrive is a good one. You should've made a Things to do / not forget on your playthrough. Example: Save different saves at areas throughout the game so you can reload them if you missed an Al Bhed Primer. Good places to train Kimahri skills worth learning Good places to train Aeon affection Best way to get the max affection possible between ALL allies
LoL 1 thing i didn't knew was that mobs at the beginning can't kill you,i always killed them fast because i thought i could die and never noticed they don't even hit if you are low
Expert sphere grid gets you easy access to mana and ability extractor skills early. Yuna and lulu spamming this 1 mp ability until they run of mp can net you a ton of spheres. Tidus gets a Speed Distiller weapon on drop in besaid as well. Sinscales drop Power spheres, so you can max out your stock of all 4 spheres ez
Anyway you could put in the fact that the best place to train in early-mid-game is the Highbridge? The bridge before you go into the Via Purifico? You get 5-10k from the battles.
@@leeman27534 That's early/mid game. You spend nearly the same amount of time if not more doing the mini-games, traveling on the airships, getting signature weapons and training.
@@fakename503 eh, maybe later midgame. the only way it feels really midgame to me is if you're counting all the side/postgame content too. sure as fuck ain't early, without including the postgame content, and that's extra. that's beyond late game. hence why that sort of thing is generally referred to as 'postgame content'. kinda feels like claiming the final boss is 'midgame' in a star ocean title, just because there's like 20 hours of postgame after that. doesn't really make much sense to me, but you define the shit your way, i guess. makes sense for disgaea, i'll give you that. otherwise it's basically the two trials, calm lands, gagazet, zanarkand, sin - the point in the game where it's basically a zerg rush of 'fuck it, let's get to the end of this shit already!' to compare, the stuff before was zanarkand, baaj temple, besaid, cloister, trip to killia, killia, cloister, blitzball stuff, highroad, mushroom rock stuff, battlegrounds, post battlegrounds, cloister, before the river, river BS, guadosalam, farplane, thunderplains, crystal forest stuff, ice plains fight, cloister, enemies of yevon stuff, desert, home, and finally the wedding. and allll the story heavy stuff that comes with all that. not that underwater date isn't the longest fucking thing outside of a xenosaga game or that mt gagazet and zanarkand and sin bits don't have decent cutscene time too... putting it another way, you can have the 'aga' level spells and basically the second to last push of skills for the characters before they're basically done with their own spheregrids, without too much grinding, and that's not exactly 'early midgame'. additionally, you can just wait until a little bit later - calm lands and capture weapons present a perfect time to level grind some, especially if you want to get a head start on all that capturing, and mt gagazet's probably where you start to need it... or just, literally any point in the journey, given save points are plentiful and are full heals.
That is where I always grind every play through. The only thing I hate is not being able to have Kimahri since he isn’t with the party at the time. Still a very useful spot. Thank you for sharing
5:30 if you use 5 cheers as the battle starts you can wipe the sin scales out with wakka tidus and kimahri in shot and often with overkill. Over kill is more important then speed. If you can get an extra strength stat for wakka or tidus every overkill is double exp. Every now and then it will overkill any way with cheer standard stats. The best part of the sinscaling grinding is using slayer to use tidus over drive countless ties for blitz ace.
With the sinscale grind, just bring Yuna and Lulu in once to defend for a turn and then bring Wakka and Kimarhi back in, that way everyone gets exp and you can still one shot every enemy. Also, unlock the Slayer overdrive mode for Tidus before hand, that way you can easily unlock Slice and Dice if you haven’t already got it, or Blitz Ace if you have.
In the very beginning, after you autograph the Blitz Balls, if you talk to any of the 2-3 static npc’s at the right time (you can probably just wait) a girl in a pink shirt will run up and just stop momentarily. You can initiate a short interaction over her needing a ticket and she gives you x3 Potions in the end. It may seem obvious, but I’ve missed it and I comb every game thoroughly. I just found it an hour ago lol. 🤘🏻❤️
You don't need a turbo controller. I did this as a kid. Find a cave where you can kill every enemy without risk of being attacked. Wad up some tape and put it on the X button and tape it down firmly so it stays pressed. Then just flip the controller upside down so the joystick runs you into a wall. Do it over night while you sleep and get insane xp. Repeat in a better area when your stronger and you'll be maxed out in no time.
The only issue with the sinscale grind is that they dont drop alot of the other sphere besides power so you end up getting stuck on a node that need the other sphere after progressing your characters on the sphere grid.
Well, you can get ability sphere distillation from Wakka, and if you get a drop with speed distillation on a weapon you can get that too. I have 99 speed and ability right now. Though I'm further than that in the game. I'm at chapter 4.
The first area next to to the ship is also a decentish area to grind spheres early on since the enemies all drop basic spheres (you can tell which one they'll drop by the number of fish per enemy). I've gotten Tidus to the first locked sphere in about 2-3 hours of dicking around (maxed grenades and potions as well)
Such a great post! Used your idea to farm Ability spheres, grind Tidus's Overdrives and Overdrive modes. (Easy if anyone missed it on the first battle with Auron)
Another early ability set to get early on is firaga + thundaga + blizzaga + waterga. Using kimahri Ronso travel into Wakka's grid using a level 1 key and go to the right till you get to the level 2 lock point. Using the first level 2 key you can find enter into the right part of the grid. Then you will have access into the later game black magic abilitys. They might have changed it in later copies of the game but it's completely overpowered in the earlier copies and emulator copy's. Have fun with Kimahri ssj!
Man, I usually ignore minor support skills, but after playing and completing (Every Celestial Weapon except Waka and Kimahri) FFX several years ago I started appreciating them a lot. Now I know why I could never beat the final boss in FF 9. I didn’t know or appreciate support and resistance type spells and equipment. I thought I could power through…nope lol. Looking back I missed so much. I’m going to play it after I finish FFX again.
For the Gui Grinding part, I'll try to have Yuna/Lulu at the ra spells, Fira at least, and i'll just grind them for overkills until their both out of mp before continuing. Its good for 30ish sphere lvls without a lot of time investment in the fight.
@@benjamindrake2671 You can't normally, he joins your party for like 1 boss battle during operation mi'hen. You can use a gameshark on consoles or mods on pc to add him permanently.
Here's the best tip on PS4 ever! 😏 To soft reset the game hold L1 L2 R1 R2 and hold X, Pad, then hit the opinions button. This will save you a few menus instead of closing the game and reloading a save. 😃
@@jessewalters811 there are a few reasons for it, like if an enemy drops the wrong item, if you know you are going to die it can save time, catcher chocobo race, first time jecht shot, Luca Blitzball tournament or personally I find it useful on PC when I'm high graphical load testing retexture mods before releasing them.
Just as a little addition to the Sinscale grinding on the ship to Kilika, get Yuna to do Extract Ability a lot so you have loads of ability spheres at the end of the fight
eh, kinda feel like it's better to just have the melee people out cheer'd 5x to one shot them for days - if you get into that rythm of your allies getting three turns, killing the last one standing, three are summoned, killing two, then the last one charges - it's a beautiful thing. you can always dick around with extract ability while tooling around kilika.
oh lol, yea thats why i added it into the description same with the disgaea videos. and since im currently working on a big project for you guys these older videos atleast let me put something out while im working on it (Plus sooner or later i do wanna get my entire archive uploaded to this channel aswell the only downside is its nearly 5k videos D:)
5:00 if you that part early wakka doesnt get experience before the ship battle. It doesnt help rikku either. Steal a few grenades and scam some potions then move on to training with wakka to get slayer in the under water section then further trainings for haste before the ship. If you got the slayer already for tidus with this fellows awesome tips you now have tidus and wakka with str and can use cheer 5x for over kills and haste is just cream on the cake.
There are a few chests you can miss. Like in the area beneath the Shiva temple. You have to get those immediately. There are also a few things that you can get at anytime, but with more difficulty. Like if you miss the treasure in a cloister. To re enter you'd have to fight a dark aeon. Which can be difficult.
About getting valefors second overdrive early....do it. I returned really late in the game and couldnt get in because its too hard right now and ill leave it at that.
Don't forget that Valefor's second Overdrive is much more powerful than her original Overdrive as well as more beautiful to behold too. Depending on how you build up your Aeons and Yuna Valefor can actually become much more OP than Bahamut as well.
>grinds for hours >doesn't do the trivially easy step of letting everyone guard >half team is OP, half left at Taco Bell with no ride home >tfw you're a phys attack focused guardian who is phys weaker than summoner you're protecting
Hey if ya didnt talk to the dog you come back qnd up by the temple theres an npc on the left before temple. Talk to her and she gives you what the dog was supposed too. Hope that helps. 😎👍🍻
3:56... I'm just worried that the love is gone you know? Woof! You're right, I shouldn't give up like this! I am going to march back there and give her a huge hug! Woof. Truly... words to live by.
"playing it as intended" its intended to be played the way that gives people the most fun, nobody is ever gonna do any of this shit on there 1st or 2nd playthrough
You don't need a turbo controller for level up trick. I used to take a toothpick and wedge it in the side of the button to lock it down then went to bed. Lol
Free items that you can get 99 of for 10k gil? Omg! Id spend an hour grinding out 99 potions at the beginning of the game when I can get that in one item drop in gil and then some by spherimorph! Totally worth sinking that hour and a hlf into at the beginning for items Ill literally never use!
@@pianoman7753 least it would still serve more purpose than getting 99 vagyrisk claws without w-item. Why did ff7 have to be the programming equivalent of a train wreck?
Hats off to anyone who Grinds the entire master sphere grid fully from beginning oh downside no gate key spheres and a few characters wouldn't be treated to the max huh I totally forgot about that bit 🥴
Boat fight: OR, you could have Yuna & Lulu do one action each, swap to the boys, and AP farm for the WHOLE GROUP... Why didn't you mention that?? Why only build up 3 characters?
i deff subbed..i dont even know what other content you have yet but im very happy i found this gem, unfortunately im on the high roads now, after the first blitz tourney, i feel im so underleveled and late to using the phere grid that all i been doing the past few days is just regular grinding...very tedious to say the least. but thank you
@@TheGeekyChef1190 I'm now heading towards the fight on the Airship. I know it's difficult from when I played the original but I can't remember how I did it last time so any tips would be appreciated
Bummer alert: I just got the first 2 over drives than died instantly in the 3 in front 2 in back enemy encounter.... I thought I would be ok because "you dont actually get attacked" but you do, just one time. Lol
Overdrive modes can be earned at any point in the game, but each mode has a different prerequisite that varies for each character. Loner wants you to spend turns with only one character in battle, and Slayer wants you to have a character kill a certain amount of enemies. Look up the specifics if there's a character you want to give a certain mode
For the most part overdrives work like enemy skills did in prior Final Fantasies, have the characters witness the condition for the modes enough and they'll get it, besides Comrade is amazing for late to post game shenanigans
I was seriously wondering if manually farming over drives on sinscales with tidus was worth cause it seems like it is. Energy rain guarantees over kills which gives you the AP bonus and while using slayer it immediately builds the over drive gauge back up.
Bad timing for me. I just started playing FFX remastered (PC) last week and I’m already at Bevelle. Lol smh....but at least I managed to level up quickly since I know better than what I used to play it on PS2.
the only thing here that's tedious really would be getting haste for the sinscale grinding the rest are quick and easy and no gain? valefors 2nd overdrive has a damage multipler that makes it as strong has bahamuts (it just cant break damage limit until you get the correct celestial weapon), the overdrive modes make getting blitz ace before kilika stupidly easy and fast. only one with no real gain would be getting reflect so early but eh.
@@Primalliquid92 Primalliquid I see where you're coming from. Putting in the work early on is probably the closest anyone can get to a new game+ feel. Just not for me. It's kind of like before you part ways with Rikku, you can grind out a few lvls, max on grenades and potions. But why? Outside of the dark aeons and penance this game is dumb easy anyway.
the game is easy even counting the dark aeons and penance, although i have no lifed the game to the point i could 100% it in my sleep so i guess its not very fair for me to comment like that haha although when it comes to RPGs one of the most fun things to me is breaking them as much as possible as early as possible. Im the sort of guy who gets all limit breaks in midgar in ff7, endgame junctions on ff8 before ifrit, robe of lords and 99 frogs on ff9 disc 1 (Im also the idiot who on the 13-2 demo grinded the characters upto level 99 and the postgame boss in the demo)
You can get all Level 1-3 Limit breaks for Cloud,Aries,Barret,Tifa and Red XIII in Midgar. quite clearly i was only talking about them and not on about yuffie, vincent, cid and cat sith
@@Primalliquid92 I never played a 13-2 demo, but I did level 99 all the characters in the Episode Duscae demo for Final Fantasy XV. I probably played the demo for like over 100 hours or something ludicrous like that back when it first came out. (I also paid $79.99 CAD for Type-O JUST to get the demo. I barely ever bothered to actually play Type-O afterwards. Though I probably will eventually.) I also max leveled all of the characters in 13. I spent nearly 300 hours in FFXIII on Steam years ago by the end of my playthrough. The longest I've ever played on an RPG before, probably. I haven't done those other things. Though at this point the only FF games I've beaten so far are 8, 13, and 15. I'm working on my first playthrough of FFX on PS4 right now. I will probably eventually beat FF7 on PC with mods at some point. But I've got a lot of new games I bought this month I'd like to play first.
i recently go it on ps network and i played it as a kid years ago, now i wannt take it serious this time around so anyy tips help! i feel like ive been searching google all the time to figure out how to not sruggle so far its mostly grinding killing feinds on the high road , im not tryna struggle this time around to kill sinspawn
I just bought a turbo cable controller to let my party fight sinscales overnight. I rather do that and be 99. That way I can focus on the game story and OP everything in my path. 😏
It’s all about the end game. The monster creation and arena. I don’t know much, but I tried a few of the first monsters he made, and got fucking wrecked by the 2nd one ☝️ 😂
@@sparkmandrill_x9198 Oh yes I'm a grammar nazi for sure, tho not the Schutzstaffle type because everyone will inevitably have a typo here and there. Nevertheless, being completely indifferent about one's own writing skills is to indulge in mediocrity, so if that shoe fits then be my guest. Just don't complain when serious employers turn down your applications.
Top 1 youtube intro tips: get into the action immediately. I don't want to watch a full minute loading screen while you introduce the topic that was better said in the title.
I noticed that the audio cut out before 16:00 i believe it started with the sinscale farm I dont know how to tag the video uploader here I'm not sure if it's been brought up or not but wish to inform him kindly
Could I also get Slayer for Yuna with her aeons? Goes yuna's aeons count as kill? And how many does she require to get slayer? Lulu? Since I'll be grinding for hours I want them all to have that overdrive.
Super old video but I have a question. Would you ever consider doing a video on the Expert Sphere grid? I'm not finding anything for videos about benefits to using it or path cross overs or anything and it fascinates me.
I grind sinscales for 5-6 hours getting all of Tidus's overdrives in one go then save at Kilika port. I then use that save each time I feel like playing the game from scratch.
Gigabrain
1 billion iq bruh
wow what a life saver
Thanks man.
You welcome.
1 tip that should always be included. Give khimari steal before the mt gagazet fight. He can steal a few lv 3 key spheres from the ronsos which is incredibly useful prior to 3rd seymour
Nice
I'd say that is actually an essential part of a full playthrough....
Holy yes, I'm definitely keeping that in mind!! That Seymour fight was what I've been stuck on and so never got to Zanarkand!! (I have only started playing again after not having the PS2 for over 6 years)
@@anapeglar4602 which Seymour fight lol
@@anapeglar4602 If you're still stuck then before the fight make sure all the aeons have their overdrives. When you're fighting Seymour wait just before he uses the attack that screws the whole party and summon an aeon. They'll be killed, but you'll avoid the damage and be able to use their overdrive to yeet him. Or just get yojimbo if the fight starts irritating you. Pay him a ton of gil. I think its high millions. He uses an ability that will one shot anything.
My top tips for FF10 in general:
1. Make sure you steal items regularly in every battle. The Use command is pretty busted but you need the items first.
2. Send Kimahri to Rikkus grid as soon as possible to learn Steal and Use. You can do this as early as Mi’hen Highroad. Two thieves and item uses are much better than one.
3. Whenever fighting a boss look up what status effects they aren’t immune to. Most bosses have a status effect or 2 that you can inflict on them.
4. Pay attention to the effect each action you take in battle has on the turn order so you can learn how to stack turns in your favour.
My top tip is just get hastega as soon as possible lol
FYI: If you're wondering... no, you're not alone. The audio _did_ cut out. The commentary stops at 6:56, leaving just the music playing for the rest of the Sinscale grind/boss fight. The music then fades out at 10:46 during the victory spoils screen, thus completely muting the audio and any commentary for the next tips. At 15:30 the commentary and music abruptly cut back in, so be ready for that accidental jumpscare.
I think it was cut by youtube due to some "licensed" music
Thanks for the sanity check, I thought my headphones died lmao. Thank goodness I investigated before the audio cut back in, I had turned my up as a test 😂
hey what if you fixed it? can you go back and edit it?
I was thinking he was just showcasing the entire battle with the music. Was helping me fall asleep
For the grinding, you can just switch in Yuna and Lulu for a turn, make them use a single move and switch them out. They will get the same amount of AP as Wakka, Tidus and Khimari even with that single turn. This also makes a fantastic spot for everyone but Tidus to get Slayer and Ally Overdrive modes.
i didnt bother switching them in because i wasnt going to use that save for anything other than recording that clip, but yes your right.
After letting every characters fight I just use Valefor set on Turbo controller.
You can also just hit triangle and guard and that counts as a turn. They take less damage if hit.
Note: It takes 170 turns for Tidus to get Daredevil and 260 for Auron. At least more than 10+ min
you can combine that with loner. get Tidus into critical health, then kill Auron. Go through your returns until you get loaner, then revive Auron and get him in HP critical status. once Tidus has daredevil, kill his character and then keep passing turns until Auron gets both loner and daredevil. it shaves off a little bit of time when you combine them that way.
How long does this take in general? To get both of them these 4 overdrives?
You should do a play through hitting every single missable item and every side quest possible while on the first run through the game. Would be nice to have on RUclips
i do have one, its just on the japanese version of the HD remaster. Although i am "slowly" doing a stream of the sin unleashed (much much harder) which is 100% aswell.
if you're still interested and primal hasn't finished his(I've not checked out his stream fully), check out HCBailly, he did a 100% HD run.
Also see Dangs08 i believe is his name
@primalliquid Anyone else lose audio commentary from about 7:00 to 15:30 minutes???
Yeah audio just fades out after getting the xp
Yikes
I've been playing ffx for years and haven't thought to do any of these tricks for years lol good vid
these are just some of more "beginner" friendly tips i made back for the HD Release although back when i made it i was surprised by the sheer amount of people who never knew some of these
@@Primalliquid92 thank for the tips I bought X remaster for the switch like a year or 2 ago never complete it messed up on the overdrive part tho but I am at the part this will be useful
Tip fir the SinSpawn on the ship. Make sure everyone in your party gets at lest one turn so they can get the massive Experience by the end of the fight.
I try to make sure everybody performs "one successful action" in every battle, no matter how small or ordinary, even versus mobs of three that are designed for specific characters to one-shot (e.g. Flyer [Wakka], Helm [Auron], and Flan [Lulu]). Pray, Cheer, Aim, etc. are great for scoring "successful actions" even when they don't materially contribute to the battle.
@@xheralt I see what you’re saying. But that’s honestly a wast of time. Blow through the game with three consistent party members. Then rotate the weaker ones in once you get to the Omega Ruins. The amount of exp you get in there will get your characters over powered in no time.
Every fight, no matter how much a pain it is, I switch everyone in for a reward.
@@xheralt Exactly. It’s time consuming, but very rewarding and relaxing for us grinders. 🤘🏻❤️
@@cmoore1369 pointless. Get your main three, power level them and them alone. Once you at the end game exp comes so easy all that switching in and out is really just a wast of time.
Whenever I re-play this game:
1. Get Loner on Tidus on the bridge.
2. Get 50 Potions on Al bhed ship, Kill Rikku, Set Tidus' Overdrive to Loner.
3. Grind Tidus' Overdrive till you get Blitz Ace.
This will net you good amount of spheres that you don't have to worry about running out, make your Aeons significantly stronger, and will make Tidus a bit strong early game. I don't like the sin scale leveling on the boat, it's a waste of time.
Later on in the game you can grind Attack Reels as soon as Luca events is over. 5x cheer + perfect 3's on Attack reels is enough to cheese most bosses, also keep 1 elemental types of weapons you pick or drop along the way for each melee or at least for Auron, Tidus and Wakka.
I never thought to grind overdriven modes that early! A little tedious but would definitely make the early game a different experience.
Sin boat grind is great
Cranston's right. The best OverDrive modes you get just from playing. I mean The one that you get OD bar from Damaging an enemy, killing an enemy and healing an Ally (for sweet lil' old Yuna.). The other ones are garbage with a few good only for exploitation of learning Tidus' Over Drive attacks. Which is more trouble than it's worth really. And I mean using the exploits.
Overall these tricks aren't that great really. The killing Sin Spawn FOR the damage an enemy OverDrive is a good one.
You should've made a Things to do / not forget on your playthrough.
Example: Save different saves at areas throughout the game so you can reload them if you missed an Al Bhed Primer.
Good places to train
Kimahri skills worth learning
Good places to train Aeon affection
Best way to get the max affection possible between ALL allies
As if the game isn't easy enough
There was no audio after it cut out during the experience gain after the farming on the boat until the reflect part
Same issue here
I'm not the only one then
LoL 1 thing i didn't knew was that mobs at the beginning can't kill you,i always killed them fast because i thought i could die and never noticed they don't even hit if you are low
Expert sphere grid gets you easy access to mana and ability extractor skills early. Yuna and lulu spamming this 1 mp ability until they run of mp can net you a ton of spheres. Tidus gets a Speed Distiller weapon on drop in besaid as well. Sinscales drop Power spheres, so you can max out your stock of all 4 spheres ez
I just max those with the pirhanas when you first meet rikku. They drop all 4
Anyway you could put in the fact that the best place to train in early-mid-game is the Highbridge? The bridge before you go into the Via Purifico?
You get 5-10k from the battles.
not really early/mid game if it's at that point...
@@leeman27534 That's early/mid game. You spend nearly the same amount of time if not more doing the mini-games, traveling on the airships, getting signature weapons and training.
@@fakename503 eh, maybe later midgame. the only way it feels really midgame to me is if you're counting all the side/postgame content too. sure as fuck ain't early, without including the postgame content, and that's extra. that's beyond late game. hence why that sort of thing is generally referred to as 'postgame content'.
kinda feels like claiming the final boss is 'midgame' in a star ocean title, just because there's like 20 hours of postgame after that. doesn't really make much sense to me, but you define the shit your way, i guess. makes sense for disgaea, i'll give you that.
otherwise it's basically the two trials, calm lands, gagazet, zanarkand, sin - the point in the game where it's basically a zerg rush of 'fuck it, let's get to the end of this shit already!'
to compare, the stuff before was zanarkand, baaj temple, besaid, cloister, trip to killia, killia, cloister, blitzball stuff, highroad, mushroom rock stuff, battlegrounds, post battlegrounds, cloister, before the river, river BS, guadosalam, farplane, thunderplains, crystal forest stuff, ice plains fight, cloister, enemies of yevon stuff, desert, home, and finally the wedding.
and allll the story heavy stuff that comes with all that. not that underwater date isn't the longest fucking thing outside of a xenosaga game or that mt gagazet and zanarkand and sin bits don't have decent cutscene time too...
putting it another way, you can have the 'aga' level spells and basically the second to last push of skills for the characters before they're basically done with their own spheregrids, without too much grinding, and that's not exactly 'early midgame'.
additionally, you can just wait until a little bit later - calm lands and capture weapons present a perfect time to level grind some, especially if you want to get a head start on all that capturing, and mt gagazet's probably where you start to need it... or just, literally any point in the journey, given save points are plentiful and are full heals.
That is where I always grind every play through. The only thing I hate is not being able to have Kimahri since he isn’t with the party at the time. Still a very useful spot. Thank you for sharing
5:30 if you use 5 cheers as the battle starts you can wipe the sin scales out with wakka tidus and kimahri in shot and often with overkill. Over kill is more important then speed. If you can get an extra strength stat for wakka or tidus every overkill is double exp. Every now and then it will overkill any way with cheer standard stats.
The best part of the sinscaling grinding is using slayer to use tidus over drive countless ties for blitz ace.
With the sinscale grind, just bring Yuna and Lulu in once to defend for a turn and then bring Wakka and Kimarhi back in, that way everyone gets exp and you can still one shot every enemy. Also, unlock the Slayer overdrive mode for Tidus before hand, that way you can easily unlock Slice and Dice if you haven’t already got it, or Blitz Ace if you have.
In the very beginning, after you autograph the Blitz Balls, if you talk to any of the 2-3 static npc’s at the right time (you can probably just wait) a girl in a pink shirt will run up and just stop momentarily. You can initiate a short interaction over her needing a ticket and she gives you x3 Potions in the end. It may seem obvious, but I’ve missed it and I comb every game thoroughly. I just found it an hour ago lol. 🤘🏻❤️
I never knew this. This is game changing. I must restart my 100% complete PS2 file immediately.
MP Stroll + HP Stroll + No Encounter on weapon or armor makes adventuring around easy.
... yes, not having to fight is the easiest way to get through areas with enemy encounters...
What’s the safest way to go skiing?
-Don’t ski.
You don't need a turbo controller. I did this as a kid. Find a cave where you can kill every enemy without risk of being attacked. Wad up some tape and put it on the X button and tape it down firmly so it stays pressed. Then just flip the controller upside down so the joystick runs you into a wall. Do it over night while you sleep and get insane xp. Repeat in a better area when your stronger and you'll be maxed out in no time.
But that would be one long press no? Holding it down doesn't work
The only issue with the sinscale grind is that they dont drop alot of the other sphere besides power so you end up getting stuck on a node that need the other sphere after progressing your characters on the sphere grid.
Well, you can get ability sphere distillation from Wakka, and if you get a drop with speed distillation on a weapon you can get that too. I have 99 speed and ability right now. Though I'm further than that in the game. I'm at chapter 4.
The first area next to to the ship is also a decentish area to grind spheres early on since the enemies all drop basic spheres (you can tell which one they'll drop by the number of fish per enemy). I've gotten Tidus to the first locked sphere in about 2-3 hours of dicking around (maxed grenades and potions as well)
Such a great post! Used your idea to farm Ability spheres, grind Tidus's Overdrives and Overdrive modes. (Easy if anyone missed it on the first battle with Auron)
Another early ability set to get early on is firaga + thundaga + blizzaga + waterga. Using kimahri Ronso travel into Wakka's grid using a level 1 key and go to the right till you get to the level 2 lock point. Using the first level 2 key you can find enter into the right part of the grid. Then you will have access into the later game black magic abilitys. They might have changed it in later copies of the game but it's completely overpowered in the earlier copies and emulator copy's. Have fun with Kimahri ssj!
Is that expert or regular sphere grid?
There seems to be a problem with the audio between 10:48 and 15:30
That’s crazy I didn’t know skills like cheer can stack I don’t use it enough lol
Man, I usually ignore minor support skills, but after playing and completing (Every Celestial Weapon except Waka and Kimahri) FFX several years ago I started appreciating them a lot. Now I know why I could never beat the final boss in FF 9. I didn’t know or appreciate support and resistance type spells and equipment. I thought I could power through…nope lol. Looking back I missed so much. I’m going to play it after I finish FFX again.
Primalliquid, I can't get enough of your content, so I subscribed!
For the Gui Grinding part, I'll try to have Yuna/Lulu at the ra spells, Fira at least, and i'll just grind them for overkills until their both out of mp before continuing. Its good for 30ish sphere lvls without a lot of time investment in the fight.
you could also just use seymour
@@Primalliquid92 does the exp from the seymour section spread to the whole party or just to yuna & auron?
How do you get Seymour in your party? I had to restart my play through because I missed a good amount of things..
@@benjamindrake2671 You can't normally, he joins your party for like 1 boss battle during operation mi'hen. You can use a gameshark on consoles or mods on pc to add him permanently.
Here's the best tip on PS4 ever! 😏 To soft reset the game hold L1 L2 R1 R2 and hold X, Pad, then hit the opinions button. This will save you a few menus instead of closing the game and reloading a save. 😃
I found that out the hard way lol
Why soft reset? Just got the game
@@jessewalters811 there are a few reasons for it, like if an enemy drops the wrong item, if you know you are going to die it can save time, catcher chocobo race, first time jecht shot, Luca Blitzball tournament or personally I find it useful on PC when I'm high graphical load testing retexture mods before releasing them.
Just as a little addition to the Sinscale grinding on the ship to Kilika, get Yuna to do Extract Ability a lot so you have loads of ability spheres at the end of the fight
eh, kinda feel like it's better to just have the melee people out cheer'd 5x to one shot them for days - if you get into that rythm of your allies getting three turns, killing the last one standing, three are summoned, killing two, then the last one charges - it's a beautiful thing.
you can always dick around with extract ability while tooling around kilika.
For others who watch this. The decription is helpful as this is a reupload
I feel like im missing something here
Primalliquid Your description says it's a re-upload people might be confused as to why your saying the game is just about to come out
oh lol, yea thats why i added it into the description same with the disgaea videos. and since im currently working on a big project for you guys these older videos atleast let me put something out while im working on it (Plus sooner or later i do wanna get my entire archive uploaded to this channel aswell the only downside is its nearly 5k videos D:)
I'm using a rubber band and a green crayon on my CROSSFIRE PS2 (autofire) controller. Works great! Now time to farm some exp!
You can actually grind with wakka in the water after the cliff... Granted you will need potions... No save sphere once you leave
Only timer save I can think of is avoiding early slayer mode on Tidus and just get it during the boat sinfin battle
5:00 if you that part early wakka doesnt get experience before the ship battle. It doesnt help rikku either. Steal a few grenades and scam some potions then move on to training with wakka to get slayer in the under water section then further trainings for haste before the ship. If you got the slayer already for tidus with this fellows awesome tips you now have tidus and wakka with str and can use cheer 5x for over kills and haste is just cream on the cake.
Also kill some of those under water sin scales as they give mana spheres you will need them for levelling
you actually can get 5 overdrive modes at the start, they get warrior, too!!
Already missed the first two in my remaster playthrough smfh I hope the rest of the game isn’t like X-2 where you lose out on a lot of rewards easily
There are a few chests you can miss. Like in the area beneath the Shiva temple. You have to get those immediately. There are also a few things that you can get at anytime, but with more difficulty. Like if you miss the treasure in a cloister. To re enter you'd have to fight a dark aeon. Which can be difficult.
Good info, thanks, but why the long footage after the respawning Sinscale tip? Got very bored.
the original video was made about 5-6 years ago and was also the first top 5 i ever did.
Just started playing again will save this to watch again later
I'm going to test getting the overdrive at the start of the game now on the ps4. Just wish there was a way to skip each cut scene.
About getting valefors second overdrive early....do it. I returned really late in the game and couldnt get in because its too hard right now and ill leave it at that.
Don't forget that Valefor's second Overdrive is much more powerful than her original Overdrive as well as more beautiful to behold too. Depending on how you build up your Aeons and Yuna Valefor can actually become much more OP than Bahamut as well.
Isn't that where toy walk I to the village and get called a traitor and then boom dark aeon fight.
I know exactly what you mean…I was humbled immediately.
Anyone playing in 2020?
of course we are :)
I just replaying it tonight. 😊
Just finished it on The Switch. It looks great in portable mode!
Checking in from 2024...on a nostalgic trip through Spira!
Thanks. I have been looking for the last tip on youtube for ever, and I finally found your vid! Thanks again!
I prefer to use that LV2 key s. to get Kimahri Holy.
>grinds for hours
>doesn't do the trivially easy step of letting everyone guard
>half team is OP, half left at Taco Bell with no ride home
>tfw you're a phys attack focused guardian who is phys weaker than summoner you're protecting
so the audio is gone for a third of the video?
Hey if ya didnt talk to the dog you come back qnd up by the temple theres an npc on the left before temple. Talk to her and she gives you what the dog was supposed too. Hope that helps. 😎👍🍻
3:56... I'm just worried that the love is gone you know?
Woof!
You're right, I shouldn't give up like this! I am going to march back there and give her a huge hug!
Woof.
Truly... words to live by.
During sinscale grind have other charecters appear than defend they only need it once to get ap
and then there is me, playing it as intended. losing out on easily gained spoils.
"playing it as intended" its intended to be played the way that gives people the most fun, nobody is ever gonna do any of this shit on there 1st or 2nd playthrough
@@Primalliquid92 I don't think i intended to have a "Im better" attitude, apologies man.
@@EthyEth I didn’t take it that way.
You don't need a turbo controller for level up trick. I used to take a toothpick and wedge it in the side of the button to lock it down then went to bed. Lol
i think the audio for gui farming and on got messed up
Am I the only one that lost complete audio for like 8 minutes in the middle of the video?
audio is still there for me throughout
@@Primalliquid92 sry but its out for all of us..
Free potion's what primal? FREE POTION'S WHAT?!
Free items that you can get 99 of for 10k gil? Omg! Id spend an hour grinding out 99 potions at the beginning of the game when I can get that in one item drop in gil and then some by spherimorph!
Totally worth sinking that hour and a hlf into at the beginning for items Ill literally never use!
@@pianoman7753 least it would still serve more purpose than getting 99 vagyrisk claws without w-item. Why did ff7 have to be the programming equivalent of a train wreck?
All that work to setup and grind sin and you couldn't be bothered to bring lulu or wakka in to defend for 1 turn to get exp LOL
Nice video man! Shouts from the S-O-T!
:O a fellow stokey how rare.
@@Primalliquid92 a wild stoke appeared, primalliquid used oatcakes, it's super effective
Hats off to anyone who Grinds the entire master sphere grid fully from beginning oh downside no gate key spheres and a few characters wouldn't be treated to the max huh I totally forgot about that bit 🥴
Boat fight: OR, you could have Yuna & Lulu do one action each, swap to the boys, and AP farm for the WHOLE GROUP... Why didn't you mention that?? Why only build up 3 characters?
i deff subbed..i dont even know what other content you have yet but im very happy i found this gem, unfortunately im on the high roads now, after the first blitz tourney, i feel im so underleveled and late to using the phere grid that all i been doing the past few days is just regular grinding...very tedious to say the least. but thank you
Damn I always thought you had to wait till latter to get the second overdrive for valefor
Anyone know how many sin spawn I have to kill to get the overdrive mode "slayer" I'm grinding it now and I swear I've killed 100 of them
Legends say that he is still killing sinspawn to this day
@@TheGeekyChef1190 it did literally feel like forever but I ever really got it
@@adellethompson9615 lol
@@TheGeekyChef1190 I'm now heading towards the fight on the Airship. I know it's difficult from when I played the original but I can't remember how I did it last time so any tips would be appreciated
Bummer alert: I just got the first 2 over drives than died instantly in the 3 in front 2 in back enemy encounter.... I thought I would be ok because "you dont actually get attacked" but you do, just one time. Lol
So grinding the game using cheer every turn also helps? I wanna be sure it's right before I start fresh over
cheer caps at 5 uses but yea it gives more defence and attack so for the infinite respawn fights helps alot
Thanks ya, that's what I'm doing now!
The first part with overdrive, is there any other way? I just finished the al bed vs sin part
Overdrive modes can be earned at any point in the game, but each mode has a different prerequisite that varies for each character. Loner wants you to spend turns with only one character in battle, and Slayer wants you to have a character kill a certain amount of enemies. Look up the specifics if there's a character you want to give a certain mode
For the most part overdrives work like enemy skills did in prior Final Fantasies, have the characters witness the condition for the modes enough and they'll get it, besides Comrade is amazing for late to post game shenanigans
ill restart my game to get this tricks... lucky i being playing for about 6 hours... lol
That’s exactly what I’m doing. Too bad I found this video after about 6 hours of gameplay
6 hours is a lot like for just restarting it dude!
Normal or expert grid ?
@@peterrielly9499 normal, I can not understand the expert grid
Wow !! Good tips ! I return for my ffx today just to finish the platinum. This help me alot ! Thx
I was seriously wondering if manually farming over drives on sinscales with tidus was worth cause it seems like it is. Energy rain guarantees over kills which gives you the AP bonus and while using slayer it immediately builds the over drive gauge back up.
OK time to start the game over 🤣
Bad timing for me. I just started playing FFX remastered (PC) last week and I’m already at Bevelle. Lol smh....but at least I managed to level up quickly since I know better than what I used to play it on PS2.
Thanks, but your audio cut out round the end of the sin scale farming…
so grind the first level for 120 hours and i'll just be OP asf
Grind sin scale for at least 6 hours.
Only one I knew was valefores 2nd overdrive
Extremely tedious for really no gain. Let's play ffx, but not really🙄
the only thing here that's tedious really would be getting haste for the sinscale grinding the rest are quick and easy and no gain? valefors 2nd overdrive has a damage multipler that makes it as strong has bahamuts (it just cant break damage limit until you get the correct celestial weapon), the overdrive modes make getting blitz ace before kilika stupidly easy and fast. only one with no real gain would be getting reflect so early but eh.
@@Primalliquid92
Primalliquid
I see where you're coming from. Putting in the work early on is probably the closest anyone can get to a new game+ feel. Just not for me. It's kind of like before you part ways with Rikku, you can grind out a few lvls, max on grenades and potions. But why? Outside of the dark aeons and penance this game is dumb easy anyway.
the game is easy even counting the dark aeons and penance, although i have no lifed the game to the point i could 100% it in my sleep so i guess its not very fair for me to comment like that haha although when it comes to RPGs one of the most fun things to me is breaking them as much as possible as early as possible. Im the sort of guy who gets all limit breaks in midgar in ff7, endgame junctions on ff8 before ifrit, robe of lords and 99 frogs on ff9 disc 1 (Im also the idiot who on the 13-2 demo grinded the characters upto level 99 and the postgame boss in the demo)
You can get all Level 1-3 Limit breaks for Cloud,Aries,Barret,Tifa and Red XIII in Midgar. quite clearly i was only talking about them and not on about yuffie, vincent, cid and cat sith
@@Primalliquid92 I never played a 13-2 demo, but I did level 99 all the characters in the Episode Duscae demo for Final Fantasy XV. I probably played the demo for like over 100 hours or something ludicrous like that back when it first came out. (I also paid $79.99 CAD for Type-O JUST to get the demo. I barely ever bothered to actually play Type-O afterwards. Though I probably will eventually.) I also max leveled all of the characters in 13.
I spent nearly 300 hours in FFXIII on Steam years ago by the end of my playthrough. The longest I've ever played on an RPG before, probably. I haven't done those other things. Though at this point the only FF games I've beaten so far are 8, 13, and 15. I'm working on my first playthrough of FFX on PS4 right now. I will probably eventually beat FF7 on PC with mods at some point. But I've got a lot of new games I bought this month I'd like to play first.
No audio from 10:47 to 15:30
Did the audio just stop in this about 3/4 the way through or is that just me?
Nope it also startled me when it came back on
i recently go it on ps network and i played it as a kid years ago, now i wannt take it serious this time around so anyy tips help! i feel like ive been searching google all the time to figure out how to not sruggle so far its mostly grinding killing feinds on the high road , im not tryna struggle this time around to kill sinspawn
Hey! Did things go well?? I also have the same story as you ^.^ and I always got stuck when I was a kid. I'm looking for tips before I start.
I just bought a turbo cable controller to let my party fight sinscales overnight. I rather do that and be 99.
That way I can focus on the game story and OP everything in my path. 😏
I notice the gui grinding part the audio is cut off
Look at that go the levels 😆 nice work
Is there any particular reason I should bother farming the Gui? Is this just for exp?
Rikku might be different on expert sphere grid, as you were using basic grid
I love the game but cannot figure how to properly make my characters powerful
It’s all about the end game. The monster creation and arena. I don’t know much, but I tried a few of the first monsters he made, and got fucking wrecked by the 2nd one ☝️ 😂
I came here to complain about the thumbnail title. Did people suddenly forget how to use contractions?
nah i am just sure there are many people who couldn't care less... grammar nazi 🙄
@@sparkmandrill_x9198 Oh yes I'm a grammar nazi for sure, tho not the Schutzstaffle type because everyone will inevitably have a typo here and there. Nevertheless, being completely indifferent about one's own writing skills is to indulge in mediocrity, so if that shoe fits then be my guest. Just don't complain when serious employers turn down your applications.
@@DeMoraJS if only everyone could be as educated as you pretend to be 👏 nah then again i doubt the world needs anymore condescending assholes so
oh fuck off karen
Man all those lvls for Seymour... to bad you won’t ever use him
Top 1 youtube intro tips: get into the action immediately. I don't want to watch a full minute loading screen while you introduce the topic that was better said in the title.
Ehhh what happens to the audio in this video?
Was the sad music because wakka and lulu wasted 8 hours farming to receive literally nothing?
All of these tricks seem like they are way more trouble then they're worth...well except for Velfor's 2nd overdrive.
I noticed that the audio cut out before 16:00 i believe it started with the sinscale farm I dont know how to tag the video uploader here I'm not sure if it's been brought up or not but wish to inform him kindly
It may be a bug I don't know exactly
Does anyone know how much AP you get from each of Gui's arm or kill?
Could I also get Slayer for Yuna with her aeons? Goes yuna's aeons count as kill? And how many does she require to get slayer? Lulu? Since I'll be grinding for hours I want them all to have that overdrive.
aeons do not count no
11:18 that's amazing 🥰
Is this video broken the audio goes away after the unnecessary long sin scale segment
Happen to have a link to one of these “turbo” controllers? I want one but dont wanna buy the wrong one haha
@primalliquid is there a turbo controller for xbox series s or playstation 4 if there is can let me know were I can get one at
how can u go afk tho when u need to re-cast haste and cheer 5 times,unless doing those once last the whole time ?
Can you say what turbo controller u have?
Matthias delight in the Law of the Word
oh no! I am now at kilika port and fought the chocogourmet, but can I go back and get the second overdrive for the summon?
Playing this game for 23 years
11:21 RIP Wakka
Super old video but I have a question. Would you ever consider doing a video on the Expert Sphere grid? I'm not finding anything for videos about benefits to using it or path cross overs or anything and it fascinates me.