I want to hear all the cool materia combos YOU have figured out because I want to definitely try out your suggestions as well. Let me know! *Boomstick Gaming is a safe haven for gamers who value game mechanics and systems, because that’s what makes anything from 8-bit to 8k, equally enjoyable.*
For the staggered quest, I did it on Airbuster normal. Kept 2 ranks of unbridled strength on Tifa, and when he got staggered, I just unloaded all of her triangle moves into him. That will get you 200% easy. Also works on anything with high health (mini-bosses, etc.).
Love your videos Super protip I figured out early on. You can link duplicates of the same materia with different links to do multiple effects. For example Fire + Magnify and Fire + Absorb HP and Fire + Absorb MP and Fire + Synergy and you will end up with all your Fire casts gaining all the effects in addition to it triggering off Synergy. Have not seen this in many places yet. You can do some crazy stuff.
some tips for the settings 1- set the combo settings to free: Changing it to "free" allows you to change targets during the combo using the left stick. This allows you to more easily attack a group of enemies. 2- set battle camera distance to 3: this solves most problems with the camera allowing you to see the attack text from the enemies and boss before the attack animations Begin. 3- change target Lock change to directional buttons: it's allows to rotate the camera when Lock on ,without Changing the target
When Barret does his basic attack combo, you can press triangle during his reload animation to ALSO reload Firestrike. This gives him easily the fastes ATB generation of all characters.
You can use Self Destruct without fear by combining Enemy Skill + Hp absorb and Subversion + Warding on Armor. SD does damage to you but that isn't what kills you, the Death status effect does. Subversion+ Warding Immunes Death and the Hp absorb allows you to heal almost all your health back especially in multi target scenarios.
I desperately need that. I dread having to take off all the leveled up materia off the characters and knowing I'll have to equip everything back to them. The materia carrying over when you switch weapons is appreciated but that's not enough.
@@Madchimpz yeah. What I also need: after each battle the infos about what I gained in items, exp, ap and sp run through so quickly. Wouldn't mind it, if the menues would instantly show me, where I got something new. But it only does so in the many sub menues, not at the very top. This is something cod warzone does great for example. It's no biggie, but would make everything a bit more convenient.
I hope you people may still find some use for this; I also started to feel wanting for a way to save your equipped materia after reaching chapter 6-ish. Being troubled by this lack of a feature, I looked at the problem from another angle: What CAN I save? After the realization that you can swap weapon without switching materia, which leaves the old materia in the old weapon, I started to use some weapons as "stored" loadouts, because I literally never saw any use for them past certain point (Nail Bat, Leather Gloves, Gatling Gun, Silver Staff to point out 1 for every member) One weapon with nothing slotted as a "reset" weapon and another or two or even three (One physical, One magical and One Hybrid materia setup) as a ready sets of 4/5/6 materia (depending on how far we progressed in the story). This of course meant that I had to grab duplicates of few materias (elements/healing/revival/Hp+Mp up) for every partymember, but exclusive ones or limited ones (limited until the endgame) are the kind of thing you remember so you can manually swap them in the ARMOR slot (except Offensive elemental) because Armor never saves. TL;DR: You can "Save" materia loadouts in WEAPONS that you don't see yourself using. Ex. Place your physical damage set on Buster Sword. Switch to weapon you want to use it with (Hardedge). Press YES to reslot materia. Now anytime you want to LOAD the same set into any other weapon, switch back to Buster sword and choose NO to reslot and then YES when you switch to another weapon FROM the buster sword. ARMORS save nothing, so slot Materia you are going to always keep on in them (Like Healing/Revival/Hp Up*2 for Hard mode (at least 7* VR match. Second Hp Up is overkill in storymode))
@@climhazzard115 however in punisher stance if your enemy moves away just push square, Clouds first attack he will leap about 10 meters towards the enemy (assuming you're locked on)
@@Kurt634 magnify + time or barrier is useally more benifical than cure. Especially on hard mode you cant really effort the MP for cure so prayer and (highlv) chakra is the way to go ,while barrier helps you mediat (a lot ) of damage, while haste and stop helps you dish out (a lot more) damage/skills
@@hetaro well that is until you put prayer on one of the characthers making cure useless, really, on hard mode cure is best received for bosses ^^ if needed at all Prayer got me through the game
My 2 favorite combos: Tifa: Light attacks + Uppercut + Downkick. If you open the command menu and use downkick while she's in the air from uppercut, she'll use it immediately as she goes back to the ground. Cloud: First Strike + Triple Slash. This will carry you through every non-boss fight in hard mode unless it's airborne or a sort of mini-boss (Sweeper, Cutter, etc). If you start a fight with a couple light attacks, you can use Triple Slash twice in a row and end all those fights before they even start, saving a ton of HP and MP.
Hey, I just subbed to your channel based off this one video! I like clear, concise & straight to the point content. No fluff, just good tips! Keep em coming 💪🏾
@@jiyotorres1815 They may very well go higher in the remake. I mean we still have a couple sequels. Are we really going to stay capped at Firaga, for instance?
To get 200% stagger make sure Tifa has full stack of unbridled strength. Then when stagger unleash her fury move -> omnistrike -> uppercut. SHould put them over 200%. Having true strike from purple rain helps as well.
If you link the same magic materia with two different support materia (for example, Fire+Magnify and Fire+HP Absorption), casting the one spell (Fire) will activate both supports (hit everybody, heal yourself a lot)
GREAT CONTENT! I thought i had a pretty decent idea of how the combat in this game is supposed to work but man, i cant wait to try out some of this stuff! Instant new subscriber! Please keep it up!!
I subscribed after watching Cloud self-destruct also: Tifa learns a move called True Strike, which increases the stagger by 20%, so doing it twice will get you to 200% for the parry materia mission.
Good video, I wasn't aware of the punisher counter when switching. Small, fairly obvious tip, when I find new weapons I go out of my way to make use of the weapon's ability to gain the proficiency asap. Pretty nice skills to have on hand and save a little MP early on.
Parry is actually super useful on Cloud for 2 reasons. First, it allows him to dodge and move around in punisher mode without switching back, making up for its lack of mobility. Second, attacking after the parry skips to the last couple hits of your basic attack combo (aka the strong ones). On top of it being useful for the block during a dodge, I would say it's worth it on Tifa and Cloud. Tifa's parry animation is a slide attack that blocks damage, deals damage, and it's faster than dodging or running. You can zip around the battlefield with parry and take reduced damage while you're at it. Also to add some tips: Barret has a much quicker reload animation if you press triangle directly after ANY of his abilities or his final basic attack combo hit. You should be pressing triangle after every ability or full square combo every time it's on cooldown. Overcharge will be up much more frequently that way and it will lead to more ATB charge and pressure potential. Tifa benefits greatly from the ATB Assist materia, as well as the ATB Stagger materia. Her entire design revolves around using her abilities back to back and increasing stagger damage bonus. These materia fit perfectly since you'll want to have ATB when you stagger an enemy for True Strikes, and using unbridled strength twice in a row or starshower + an ability will happen multiple times a fight. I like to have First Strike as well on Tifa and open with double unbridled strength to boost my allies ATB right off the bat.
Here’s the thing about stagger: Tifa IS the champ of stagger damage, but you need to be using unbridled strength. Most of Tifa’s weapons have an upgrade called “Concentration bonus X%”. This concentration bonus is a set chance that Tifa will enter battle with a level of unbridled strength already active. It enhances damage from a variety of sources she has, but it also opens up a new move on her Triangle. There are actually two levels of unbridled strength. One grants Omnistrike and another grants rise and fall. If you want a high stagger value, you need to make sure that when you start the stagger, she is already in tier two of unbridled strength. Spam triangle and she will land rise and fall into Omnistrike into Whirlwind fist. Each hit from these moves increases the stagger bonus by 5%. So, with careful execution, all but the shortest stagger bars can be filled and abused with Tifa’s stagger bonuses. Getting to 300% stagger is easy once you master this move.
I fell in love with the Pray materia and I bet it's super valuable in hard mode, since it allows you to heal your whole party without using any mana. What I kept doing is farm ATB with Tifa between casts with other players so I could save mana for offensive spells. So I would basically cast spells with Aerith, deal as much damage as possible with Cloud, and between all the animations I'd switch to Tifa to autoattack and get the 2 ATB bars required for Pray (I did this with Tifa cause I feel like she's the easiest to quickly get ATB with). Another good tip I would give is, give Aerith Refocus and equip her with the necklace that fills her ATB gauge upon triggering it. That gives her 3 filled up ATB bars instantly. Use the first one for the Ward, then the other 2 for your most powerful spell. She will cast 4 times at the cost of 2.
Yup Pray is the go-to for hard modes, MPs for hard mode only use it for Raise (for me). Maybe you could try the increase ATB during block materia (forgotten what it is called). i noticed Barret is good to fill up ATB for pray too due to his range :) will try the aerith refocus but maybe not in hard mode
I'm feeling like Barett is the one that can get his atb up very fucking quickly. Though I may be biased because I use Tifa as a mixed attacker. Her skills also allow for great damage I feel like. Even though Barett's skills are also nothing to scoff at.
Nice idea for the Aerith/Ward combo. The first thing I thought of with refocus is to use it on Barrett as he has a few skills that do more damage when you use more ATBs.
I heard that doing all side quests gets you a 2nd elemental materia. Im on chapter 16. The only 2 i didnt get us the stupid pull up game and beating tonberry. I skipped them.
@Captain Caveman There's also an equippable item that increases the potency of healing magic and items used by that character. Don't remember what it was called, but it was absolutely amazing
Or just use true strike which builds stagger bonus by a lot Thing is that ability is gained later Fat chocobo is easier since he has a long stagger, managed to get 300% stagger on him Best of luck
Nice, here's one that I haven't seen anywhere: pressing circle right when your character falls and touches the ground (after an enemy attack) will allow your character to get up quickly. Works best with Tifa and worst with Barret.
Scott McMichael unfortunately no you can’t buy that one. The ones you can buy I didn’t even bother I haven’t beat the game but every materia I’ve wanted to buy I ended up finding
I believe the only way to get a second Magnify materia is to play through the game again on hard, but I'm not up to that part yet so can't confirm (although that's the case with other materia).
Good stuff, I didn’t try any of these lol my party’s fighting style was physical offense heavy and I had stacked a lot of HP Up materia. Finished the game on normal without any difficulty.
@@Ask4This I knew about it, I just thought it only applied to Fire/Blizzard/Thunder/Aero. Sucks, because I only learned about it after finishing the game. It's still a great tip if I decide to play Hard Mode, though.
This is very much needed! The combat in this game makes me feel like a huge noob! I keep dying! Most of the combat is tedious to me because all I’m doing is using 40 plus potions per boss, and dying!
garyman garrett it’s going to take a while for me to get it right because I kill the bosses and I’m left not feeling satisfied with the fight! I’m getting through the game but the combat is a little to complex for me! My fear with the game is the fact that I’ll finish the game and not feeling satisfied with any of the battles because of how annoying they all are!
You can easily build up stagger to 300% for the trophies by fighting Fat Chocobo in the simulator, and wailing on it with abilities like focused shot that raise stagger.
I like pairing parry with hp absorb on tifa. Her parry animation is insanely fast and you can chip heal rather effectively if your healer or your own at gauge is on cd
Hot tip: The Parry Materia allows you to juke unblockables that track/home-in. The stuff you couldn’t block or mode-swap out of as cloud is what the real Parry can handle_
And refocus in the limit slot isnt as much of a loss in damage as,one would think initially. In fact it makes it possible to do much more damage in 3 actions of full atb than one level 2 limit
In regards to the 200% stagger the best method I found was getting Tifas last weapon in the game “Purple Rain” go fight Fat Chocobo in the VR missions with Chadley take control over Tifa use her weapon ability True strike over and over as soon as he is staggered I got it in a matter of minutes with this method and even got my 300% trophy this way too!
I watched alot of gameplay videos and only a handful abuse the Regen + Magnify combo. It is saves a lot of mana in the long run and prevents you from spamming Cura or Curaga. Manawall + Magnify is also nice vs hard hitting boss or mobs. It saves the purpose of your ATB. Less time for healing and buffing, more offense. I do wish they have 2 magnify materias in-game.
On the stagger damage to 200% Tifa’s Omnistrike raises the stager 20-30% so it’s a little faster than the uppercut. If the enemy has enough health and long enough stagger. Helped me finish that intel quest pretty quick
For the Parry-Materia requirements, he's right in that need to use Tifa for his, but his demonstration of spamming triangle (in the vid anyway) more often than not will not reach 200% ( I think I barely got 195% once with it). To do it correctly, find a semi-bulky enemy that won't die immediately from your team's attacks, and one that you can easily stagger utilizing elemental materia with Tifa's amazing combos. Next, make sure you have already powered her up via using Unbridled Strength twice (equip gear/materia that will increase your ATB count at the start). Combo the enemy till you stagger them, and then immediately spam triangle. This will easily go over the 200% mark, and if you are quick to power her up and do it again, you can even get the 300% requirement needed for the PS Trophy. There may be other ideas too, so and this is just one that I figured out.
First off, thanks for using that awesome Wall Market battle theme. I love it so much. Unless HP gets crazy high it future installments I see no need for Quadra magic materia. Thanks for spreading the word on Magnify materia. I'm ashamed to have thought it useless. My original thinking was "why not just have another way to cast multi-spells that didn't require materia. Alright, I just finished the vid. I wanna see you play. Plenty of people are good, I haven't seen a lot of people do what you suggest. I get that this is geared toward people who just got the game just saying that your tips would make for one hell of a show.
The power of editing. I am not consistent. The game could use an additional set of 4 shortcut buttons TBH because I don't like pausing every second to spend ATB effectively.
@@BoomstickGaming I agree. That can easily be implemented by double tapping triangle, square etc. I hope Square Enix sees this. I've heard they watch for big content creators.
You missed something. Summon's all have different sizes that determine where they can be summoned. The Deluxe Edition summons are all small sized and have no limitations, Ifrit, Shiva, and Choco/Mog are all medium sized and require at least decent sized arenas to be summoned in, and the last three are all large sized and can only be summoned in large arena's. Summons also have two different methods that trigger them, the first and one you'll see the most early on is staggering the enemy but the second summon trigger is having a character get into the red on health. Its actually not a terrible idea to have one of each sized summon equipped just to take advantage of the different arena's. Baby Chocobo is actually a good all-rounder since he can hit the three big elemental weaknesses but Carbuncle is fantastic at keeping you alive. Edit: Not just red mode, apparently. It might just be less than half hitpoints is the trigger. Hm, time to test some more.
Carbuncle is basically the Phoenix of this game....that healing plus resurrection overdrive is priceless...he may end up being the best summon in hard mode. I wish there was an item that triggered summons more easily though. I know there is one to strengthen them in Aerith's room. I actually really like cactaur, one of my favs. I wish the smaller summons naturally was easier to summon considering they are on the weaker side.
HOLD up. The deluxe edition has extra summons? Fuck me. I'm guessing they're acquired through a code of some sort, essentially unavailable unless you get the deluxe edition.
@@palladiamorsdeus Doesn't work with Cure tho. Edit: Apparently it does... I think I confused it with Synergy which is just offensive spells. This is gonna make healing easier lol
Some great tips but you seem to have missed that you can up Tifas Chi Level two times with unbridled Strength to increase her speed and more importantly her triangle attack. If you hit a staggered enemy with a level 2 triangle attack the stagger meter increses way more, just spam triangle and you will be at around 205% bonus damage in a matter of a second. That expends her chi level though, so you have to use unbridled strength again two times or only get a 5% increases like in your video.
@@anttheknee1372 He calls the Battle Intel tricky although reaching 200% with Tifa is extremly easy if you use her triangle attack when powered up 2 times and recommends a boss that is staggered for a long a time. Those two tips doesnt make any sense if he knew about the mechanic and would be very bad tips if he knew, because saying "use a two times powered up triangle attack with Tifa on any staggered foe" would be a much better advice.
This is probably only useful for second playthroughs (eg: hard mode trophy) but in chapter 16 you can get a pair of gloves for Tifa called Purple Pain. They are relatively good in their own right due to increased stagger/ATB gauge/unbridled strength dmg but the highlight is the learnable ability; True Strike. This ability hugely increases stagger bonus for 1 ATB gauge. There's a trophy for reaching 300% and I achieved this by building 2x unbridled strength, refilling ATB gauge on both tifa and aerith, using cloud to stagger and then casting Ray of Judgement on Aerith whilst using all Tifas triangle commands (Rise and Fall/Omnistrike) in combination with 2x True Strike. This had me at 300% stagger bonus in a matter of seconds
The easiest way I found to do the stagger 200% is to use tifa's ability "True Strike" from the weapon Purple Pain. I think you only have to hit it twice. Also true strike, refocus, ATB boost and ATB Stagger would be a very easy way to get the 300% trophy.
There's an easier way to get the parry materia. As tifa, when an enemy with a long stagger is staggered, use Unbriddled Strength twice then hit them with 3 of your attack that replaces uppercut.
The 200% stagger damage (and subsequent 300% challenge) is a lot easier with Tifa if you use unbridled strength ability to maximise her chi level beforehand. Don't waste your time with uppercut. Once staggered you can then unload the full combo, which will get 205% then repeat to get 310%
Now there's the kind of info I was looking for! Insightful, smart and detailed, just how I like it! Thanks for the vid man, would love to see you make more on this game about some of the more advanced tactics in this game, once you become more familiar with it that is.
This combat system is like, 90% of the reason I bought this bitch. I still hate this episodic idea but I can't ignore how god damned good this shit looks. I get my copy in a few days, so thanks for the tips.
One very useful purpose for the parry materia i found is to use it to cancel cloud's punisher mode attacks. When you're in a combo, it locks you into an animation which prevents you from dodging, which parry materia cancels for you. You can use this to dodge powerful attacks that you see coming but cant dodge out because youre in your combo
This is probably the single most important thing to learn about Remake's combat system. Playing as Aerith for any length of time forces you to learn about aggro or be forever broken-hearted at interrupted spells and health bars in the red. Build up Aerith's ATB, then switch to another character for a couple seconds to take the aggro before casting her spell.
Did not know about clouds counter, stagger would be easier with tifas omnistrike adds 20% once you unlock rise and fall it does 30% so you can use rise then Omni stagger goes up to 210
The easiest way to unlock Parry doesn't even require something with a huge stagger window, just not an instant recovery from stagger. Before you finish the Stagger swap to Tifa (she is mandatory) and use Unbridled Strength twice. Stagger the enemy a proceed to mash Triangle. Easy over 200% Stagger. Getting the 300% for the achievement (which doesn't include a certain late game fight) is MUCH harder and takes a lot of coordination. Similar to doing the 200 you want Tifa at max chi but with at least another ATB or two ready so she can also throw in two True Strikes. As soon as the stagger is about to happen have Aerith start firing off Ray of Judgement (it has a short charge sequence) and begin pounding the target with Tifa's onslaught.
i finished the game and found cloud being supported with manawall and haste beats alomst everything. Some bossfights needs you to block a little but haste on cloud beats almost everything on normal difficulty. Will try changing barret to only support for hard. TIP: for late game, have double of all the materia you use the most and can get two of, for switching materia between characters in the later chapters are a hassle. Spoiler: thin it is chapter 17 or 18 where it becomes relevant.
This game’s combat is a mix of Kingdom Hearts,FF12,FF15,every Hack n slash game,Lightning Returns & Crisis Core Cause you can guard against the enemy’s attacks like in LR & CC You will always have to hammer the attack like in KH,every hack n slash game,LR,FF12,FF15 & CC
Well if you want to fight the final bosses you have to complete all your battle reports, and I don't think it's doable without New Game +, so you have a bit to do I think
I know everyone plays different but why would you make Barrett your support? Dude does good damage with his gun alone. Not to mention his defense is like a brick house. I use Aerith for my support. I've always used all of final fantasy mage like characters for support.
You can cancel the endlag of a lot of things into either an ability, a character's unique skill, a spell or a dodge roll. Only thing is you can't cancel the same thing into itself. For example you can cancel the endlag of Cloud's Braver into any of his other abilities/spells/stance switch/dodge roll but if you try to do another Braver you have to wait out the whole animation. Also to note, you can only cancel Tifa's Whirling Uppercut into either her Divekick or Focused Strike (There might be something else I haven't found yet). Another thing about Tifa's Whirling Uppercut is you can do it even when you have enhanced Chi levels by holding down the Square button. The benefit to doing this rather than using the stronger Omnistrike/Rise and Fall is that it doesn't use your Chi level to do so. Also certain abilities seem to refund a bunch of ATB if the attack connects, the two I have noticed this with are Cloud's Disorder and Tifa's Focused Strike. It isn't a whole bar so these abilities aren't free but it is significant. Edit: Aerith actually gets a full bar back after using her ATB Ward ability (which costs two bars). Weirdly enough you only get the bar back if you were controlling Aerith when you tell her to use it. The ATB Assist and Skill Master Materia are both great but are little confusingly worded. The wording on the ATB Assist Materia seems to imply you need to use the same ability twice in a row to activate it. This isn't the case, it activates using any two abilities/spells in quick succession. They don't have to be the same ability which makes this Materia way more useful. Skill Master triggers whenever you use three different abilities/spells. Different levels of spells are considered different abilities (ex. Fire and Fira are considered two different abilities). You don't have to use theses abilities in any particular time frame nor do you have to do them one after the other. You can do Braver, Fire, Braver then Fira and Skill Master will trigger when you cast Fira as that is the third unique ability/spell you used. Whenever it triggers it then resets its count back to zero. So then if you do Braver, Triple Slash then Disorder it will trigger on Disorder. You get the idea. If you combine ATB Assist and Aerith's ATB Ward things can get a little crazy. ATB Ward means so whenever you use ATB charges with a character other than Aerith while standing in the ward, that characters absorbs some of Aerith's ATB gauge to replenish what they used. ATB Assist gives characters other than the one who has it equipped a boost to ATB whenever it triggers. This creates a loop where the ward fuels the character with the ATB assist Materia and the Materia fuels the ward. Throw in a Transference Module and the Skill Master Materia for good measure and hoo boy. Edit: I've been trying to test this and it seems to work, kinda. The ward doesn't transfer a full bar per ability so you need to supplement your ATB with Skill Master and stuff like Disorder that refunds a bit when it hits. Hard to keep it up while staying in the ward but in concept it works. Maybe with Stop to keep them in place you could pull it off.
One more tip is that you can use multiple materia to get multiple effects from blue materia. I'll use the easiest example, magnify and HP absorb. Take a Lightning Materia and Link it with a Magnify, then take ANOTHER Lightning Materia and link it in another two slots with MP absorb. Now you can attack all enemies AND absorb MP from every target hit. With a bunch of enemies and a max level MP absorb and Magnify this lets you chain together high level attack spells at little to no cost. That being said, it only works when your materia is at the highest level on each, so if you have a level 1 Lightning and a Level 3 Lightning, casting Thundara or Thundaga won't absorb MP if the MP absorb is equipped to the Level 1 Lightning.
Does this work with say Fire + Elemental for Attacks and then Fire + HP Absorption Materia. Would I be able to heal myself as i'm attacking folks? I'm not able to get to my PS4 right now or i would try
@@JDEdwards2331 I don't think it does. I tried the exact thing with Tifa and she wasn't gaining HP from basic attacks (still inflicted elemental fire damage though) but would gain HP from casting Fire magic.
Hp absorb + Enemy skill on your primary attacker. Let Spirt Siphon and Agua Algred fly. Works as a regen & stagger boast with out using any MP. It's a game changer Edit: doesn't increase stagger %, just increases the speed in which the stagger bar fills
Damn it I’m already way too late on chapter 17... part of me want to start new game , another part of me wants to just continue onto ng+ but I doubt I’ll make it with my current shit build on hard difficulty
@@dgdgughsd yeah you could probably go straight to hard mode if you're good though, I'm doing another playthrough anyway to get Bahumut and stuff first anyway
LOL, I havent used magnify-materia even once, because I thought that the ”range” meant that how long of a distance the spell can fly 😂🙈 Think Im gonna immediately put few of them in use... Thanks a bunch! 😁
Counter stance allows for a stronger parry. Use this and the parry technique in this video to easily beat Roche in Hard mode. There is a class item that improves the healing the character receives when they are low. My Tifa has 160 ATK and 0 DEF. I pop that class item on her cause she is always low in HP. I think a mechanic that you missed out on is ATB gains from First Strike. When you max First Strike, you instantly gain 1 ATB at the start of combat. This is super effective with Tifa and Aerith 's arcane ward. There is also a scarf you can obtain that gives you slight bump to ATB at the start of combat. Pairs these together and you instantly can have 2 ATBs!! Another combo is Refocus with the ATB generation. Once you activate Refocus, you are able to spam abilities left and right. Be sure to add the class item that FILLS your ATB gauge once you proc Refocus.
I want to hear all the cool materia combos YOU have figured out because I want to definitely try out your suggestions as well. Let me know!
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One quick tip that's not resorted to materia. Lock on with cloud on an enemy and in punisher hit attack and you will do a really good lunge.
For the staggered quest, I did it on Airbuster normal. Kept 2 ranks of unbridled strength on Tifa, and when he got staggered, I just unloaded all of her triangle moves into him. That will get you 200% easy. Also works on anything with high health (mini-bosses, etc.).
Ehh you're kinda monotone but subscribed anyway lol. Good vid
Love your videos
Super protip I figured out early on. You can link duplicates of the same materia with different links to do multiple effects. For example Fire + Magnify and Fire + Absorb HP and Fire + Absorb MP and Fire + Synergy and you will end up with all your Fire casts gaining all the effects in addition to it triggering off Synergy.
Have not seen this in many places yet. You can do some crazy stuff.
@@Lightmgl that's awesome must try
some tips for the settings
1- set the combo settings to free: Changing it to "free" allows you to change targets during the combo using the left stick. This allows you to more easily attack a group of enemies.
2- set battle camera distance to 3: this solves most problems with the camera allowing you to see the attack text from the enemies and boss before the attack animations Begin.
3- change target Lock change to directional buttons: it's allows to rotate the camera when Lock on ,without Changing the target
That lock on one is clutch!
OMG thank you 🙏🏻!!! This is amazing, Jonathan!!
You posted this on another channel yesterday lol!
@@ZX6R_Lone_Wanderer yep , i post in every video that doesn't metion the settings, Just to help people enjoy the game more
Johnathan Jhonson 👍🏻
When Barret does his basic attack combo, you can press triangle during his reload animation to ALSO reload Firestrike. This gives him easily the fastes ATB generation of all characters.
When is his reload animation?
@@bryanjames5470 at the end of barrets basic attack loop, he reloads his gun. This is when you press triangle.
@@JacenLP that is pretty good and pretty fast
JacenAT cool stuff bro!
Just learned this today, it's so good
The Self-Destruction + Revive Earing was epic!
Great tips dude.
Thanks!
You can use Self Destruct without fear by combining Enemy Skill + Hp absorb and Subversion + Warding on Armor. SD does damage to you but that isn't what kills you, the Death status effect does. Subversion+ Warding Immunes Death and the Hp absorb allows you to heal almost all your health back especially in multi target scenarios.
Fuckin genius
This really makes me wish that the game had an option to save materia and equipment loadouts.
I desperately need that. I dread having to take off all the leveled up materia off the characters and knowing I'll have to equip everything back to them. The materia carrying over when you switch weapons is appreciated but that's not enough.
@@Madchimpz yeah. What I also need: after each battle the infos about what I gained in items, exp, ap and sp run through so quickly. Wouldn't mind it, if the menues would instantly show me, where I got something new. But it only does so in the many sub menues, not at the very top. This is something cod warzone does great for example. It's no biggie, but would make everything a bit more convenient.
@@EldenRinging They had this in FF13 as well; after the battles, you'd see exactly your score, your drops, etc.
acicon I swear FF7 had a better equipment HUD.
I hope you people may still find some use for this;
I also started to feel wanting for a way to save your equipped materia after reaching chapter 6-ish. Being troubled by this lack of a feature, I looked at the problem from another angle: What CAN I save? After the realization that you can swap weapon without switching materia, which leaves the old materia in the old weapon, I started to use some weapons as "stored" loadouts, because I literally never saw any use for them past certain point (Nail Bat, Leather Gloves, Gatling Gun, Silver Staff to point out 1 for every member)
One weapon with nothing slotted as a "reset" weapon and another or two or even three (One physical, One magical and One Hybrid materia setup) as a ready sets of 4/5/6 materia (depending on how far we progressed in the story).
This of course meant that I had to grab duplicates of few materias (elements/healing/revival/Hp+Mp up) for every partymember, but exclusive ones or limited ones (limited until the endgame) are the kind of thing you remember so you can manually swap them in the ARMOR slot (except Offensive elemental) because Armor never saves.
TL;DR:
You can "Save" materia loadouts in WEAPONS that you don't see yourself using.
Ex. Place your physical damage set on Buster Sword. Switch to weapon you want to use it with (Hardedge). Press YES to reslot materia. Now anytime you want to LOAD the same set into any other weapon, switch back to Buster sword and choose NO to reslot and then YES when you switch to another weapon FROM the buster sword.
ARMORS save nothing, so slot Materia you are going to always keep on in them (Like Healing/Revival/Hp Up*2 for Hard mode (at least 7* VR match. Second Hp Up is overkill in storymode))
Cloud triangle parry window info is priceless, thank you
Yes I've done this a few times by accident, wasn't really sure what was going on, will use on purpose now.
@@AdanRayner same! Glad this video put it in perspective
I agree, I had no idea about this. It's very useful considering how slow he moves in punisher stance.
@@climhazzard115 however in punisher stance if your enemy moves away just push square, Clouds first attack he will leap about 10 meters towards the enemy (assuming you're locked on)
I knew about this but I didn't know you don't have to hold defend while you switch to punisher to do the counter.
Magnify + Time is my favourite for Haste All and slow/stop all
You can only get magnify once right? I've been torn between using it for haste and cure
@@Kurt634 Yeah unfortunately you can only get it once, but it's an OP materia tbh. I use it on Time and use a maxed out Pray if I need a 'heal all'
@@Kurt634 magnify + time or barrier is useally more benifical than cure. Especially on hard mode you cant really effort the MP for cure so prayer and (highlv) chakra is the way to go ,while barrier helps you mediat (a lot ) of damage, while haste and stop helps you dish out (a lot more) damage/skills
@@hetaro well that is until you put prayer on one of the characthers making cure useless, really, on hard mode cure is best received for bosses ^^ if needed at all
Prayer got me through the game
Kurt634 I usually just use pray to heal - does the same thing as a curaga with magnify anyway and only takes one slot.
My 2 favorite combos:
Tifa: Light attacks + Uppercut + Downkick. If you open the command menu and use downkick while she's in the air from uppercut, she'll use it immediately as she goes back to the ground.
Cloud: First Strike + Triple Slash. This will carry you through every non-boss fight in hard mode unless it's airborne or a sort of mini-boss (Sweeper, Cutter, etc). If you start a fight with a couple light attacks, you can use Triple Slash twice in a row and end all those fights before they even start, saving a ton of HP and MP.
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Thundaga + Magnify + Arcane Ward = Thunderstorm.
Vexcarius i didn’t even think about using magnify w arcane I just always used arcane by itself
*Thunderja
Bando FL thundaja* and also ff7 only goes up to thundaga
@@jiyotorres1815 They may very well go higher in the remake. I mean we still have a couple sequels. Are we really going to stay capped at Firaga, for instance?
Eujiyo was just a joke loser
Thank you for giving a lot of information without spoiling anything. Very unique job
To get 200% stagger make sure Tifa has full stack of unbridled strength. Then when stagger unleash her fury move -> omnistrike -> uppercut. SHould put them over 200%. Having true strike from purple rain helps as well.
Came here to say this haha. Once I learned this the game became so much easier.
between her chi trap and true strike i could stagger and destroy just about anything i could get her close to
If you link the same magic materia with two different support materia (for example, Fire+Magnify and Fire+HP Absorption), casting the one spell (Fire) will activate both supports (hit everybody, heal yourself a lot)
GREAT CONTENT!
I thought i had a pretty decent idea of how the combat in this game is supposed to work but man, i cant wait to try out some of this stuff! Instant new subscriber! Please keep it up!!
I subscribed after watching Cloud self-destruct also:
Tifa learns a move called True Strike, which increases the stagger by 20%, so doing it twice will get you to 200% for the parry materia mission.
Good video, I wasn't aware of the punisher counter when switching. Small, fairly obvious tip, when I find new weapons I go out of my way to make use of the weapon's ability to gain the proficiency asap. Pretty nice skills to have on hand and save a little MP early on.
Parry is actually super useful on Cloud for 2 reasons. First, it allows him to dodge and move around in punisher mode without switching back, making up for its lack of mobility. Second, attacking after the parry skips to the last couple hits of your basic attack combo (aka the strong ones). On top of it being useful for the block during a dodge, I would say it's worth it on Tifa and Cloud. Tifa's parry animation is a slide attack that blocks damage, deals damage, and it's faster than dodging or running. You can zip around the battlefield with parry and take reduced damage while you're at it.
Also to add some tips:
Barret has a much quicker reload animation if you press triangle directly after ANY of his abilities or his final basic attack combo hit. You should be pressing triangle after every ability or full square combo every time it's on cooldown. Overcharge will be up much more frequently that way and it will lead to more ATB charge and pressure potential.
Tifa benefits greatly from the ATB Assist materia, as well as the ATB Stagger materia. Her entire design revolves around using her abilities back to back and increasing stagger damage bonus. These materia fit perfectly since you'll want to have ATB when you stagger an enemy for True Strikes, and using unbridled strength twice in a row or starshower + an ability will happen multiple times a fight. I like to have First Strike as well on Tifa and open with double unbridled strength to boost my allies ATB right off the bat.
I still haven't seen anyone mention, that her ability isn't just limited to her, any party member standing in it will benefit from the duel cast
Here’s the thing about stagger: Tifa IS the champ of stagger damage, but you need to be using unbridled strength. Most of Tifa’s weapons have an upgrade called “Concentration bonus X%”. This concentration bonus is a set chance that Tifa will enter battle with a level of unbridled strength already active. It enhances damage from a variety of sources she has, but it also opens up a new move on her Triangle. There are actually two levels of unbridled strength. One grants Omnistrike and another grants rise and fall. If you want a high stagger value, you need to make sure that when you start the stagger, she is already in tier two of unbridled strength. Spam triangle and she will land rise and fall into Omnistrike into Whirlwind fist. Each hit from these moves increases the stagger bonus by 5%. So, with careful execution, all but the shortest stagger bars can be filled and abused with Tifa’s stagger bonuses. Getting to 300% stagger is easy once you master this move.
Late comment but her ability true strike immensely increases stagger dmg, combo it her two triangles and you'll hit 300% easily.
I fell in love with the Pray materia and I bet it's super valuable in hard mode, since it allows you to heal your whole party without using any mana. What I kept doing is farm ATB with Tifa between casts with other players so I could save mana for offensive spells. So I would basically cast spells with Aerith, deal as much damage as possible with Cloud, and between all the animations I'd switch to Tifa to autoattack and get the 2 ATB bars required for Pray (I did this with Tifa cause I feel like she's the easiest to quickly get ATB with).
Another good tip I would give is, give Aerith Refocus and equip her with the necklace that fills her ATB gauge upon triggering it. That gives her 3 filled up ATB bars instantly. Use the first one for the Ward, then the other 2 for your most powerful spell. She will cast 4 times at the cost of 2.
Will Vila same I was trying to figure out how to save mp and was like yo the pray materia, super clutch
Yup Pray is the go-to for hard modes, MPs for hard mode only use it for Raise (for me). Maybe you could try the increase ATB during block materia (forgotten what it is called). i noticed Barret is good to fill up ATB for pray too due to his range :)
will try the aerith refocus but maybe not in hard mode
I'm feeling like Barett is the one that can get his atb up very fucking quickly. Though I may be biased because I use Tifa as a mixed attacker. Her skills also allow for great damage I feel like. Even though Barett's skills are also nothing to scoff at.
Nice idea for the Aerith/Ward combo.
The first thing I thought of with refocus is to use it on Barrett as he has a few skills that do more damage when you use more ATBs.
GREAT VIDEO
THANKS
First playthrough was ~12 hrs. Downloaded original and played it instead. Gonna try remake again, and I'm sure some of these tips will help. Thanks
Use the punisher counter and counter ability to block a succession of attacks.
Magnify is the remakes “all”?
Yep.
@food wich ughh
@food wich But if you MAX it, it "births" a new one like the old game right?
I heard that doing all side quests gets you a 2nd elemental materia. Im on chapter 16. The only 2 i didnt get us the stupid pull up game and beating tonberry. I skipped them.
@Captain Caveman There's also an equippable item that increases the potency of healing magic and items used by that character. Don't remember what it was called, but it was absolutely amazing
Best video on the topic. Good work!
Thanks for the magnify explanation! Can’t wait to try it👍🏽
I knew punisher countered, but I didn't notice that wind around cloud to initiate it. I'll be using that trick thanks.
Thank you so much for this video!
The best thing about the parry materia is using it doesn't take you out of punisher mode. Kinda counters the slow movement
Thanks alot for this, I'm so far in the game now, and didn't even know half of these tips. Welp hard mode will make every thing more useful now
Or, hear me out,
Use Tifa's unique ability to level up her triangle twice so you can just can 200+% stagger with 2 attacks.
DmitriSolomon i was just about to type this.
Or just use true strike which builds stagger bonus by a lot
Thing is that ability is gained later
Fat chocobo is easier since he has a long stagger, managed to get 300% stagger on him
Best of luck
Kyle Kliamovich same.
I was gonna point this out.
Was looking to see if someone said this
Deadly dodge with the hp steal combo is good
Nice, here's one that I haven't seen anywhere: pressing circle right when your character falls and touches the ground (after an enemy attack) will allow your character to get up quickly. Works best with Tifa and worst with Barret.
It’s a shame that when you master a materia a new one isn’t born like the original I would have loved more all materia
cant you buy it?
Scott McMichael can’t buy certain material
Scott McMichael unfortunately no you can’t buy that one. The ones you can buy I didn’t even bother I haven’t beat the game but every materia I’ve wanted to buy I ended up finding
I believe the only way to get a second Magnify materia is to play through the game again on hard, but I'm not up to that part yet so can't confirm (although that's the case with other materia).
@@DeathandecayX nope you can't get it again, ever
I have played chapter 9 over 7 times for completion on hard and can't get it so rip xD
A tip for Barret, he can 'quick reload' his Overload if you press Triangle at the end of his basic attack animation, or after his Focused Shot
That was very helpful Kupo!
Good stuff, I didn’t try any of these lol my party’s fighting style was physical offense heavy and I had stacked a lot of HP Up materia. Finished the game on normal without any difficulty.
To get the 200% stagger damage bonus, use unbridled strength twice to be able to use the rise and fall command. It raises the bonus quite fast.
wow NEVER knew magnify was this good. you're seriously telling me im almost at the end game and now just finding out about this lmao
do you just not read what the materia do? knew that shit was OP the second I got it.
@@Ask4This I knew about it, I just thought it only applied to Fire/Blizzard/Thunder/Aero. Sucks, because I only learned about it after finishing the game. It's still a great tip if I decide to play Hard Mode, though.
Yeah, it's like the best Materia in the game :P
Great tips man, I love the fight stance temp invincibility!
Synergy with wind on Aerith then start Overpower combos with Tifa. Stagger fills fast
I'm just about to play this , thanks for this
This is very much needed! The combat in this game makes me feel like a huge noob! I keep dying! Most of the combat is tedious to me because all I’m doing is using 40 plus potions per boss, and dying!
Sounds like you're playing the game completely wrong.
garyman garrett it’s going to take a while for me to get it right because I kill the bosses and I’m left not feeling satisfied with the fight! I’m getting through the game but the combat is a little to complex for me! My fear with the game is the fact that I’ll finish the game and not feeling satisfied with any of the battles because of how annoying they all are!
You can easily build up stagger to 300% for the trophies by fighting Fat Chocobo in the simulator, and wailing on it with abilities like focused shot that raise stagger.
This !
I like pairing parry with hp absorb on tifa. Her parry animation is insanely fast and you can chip heal rather effectively if your healer or your own at gauge is on cd
Hot tip: The Parry Materia allows you to juke unblockables that track/home-in. The stuff you couldn’t block or mode-swap out of as cloud is what the real Parry can handle_
And refocus in the limit slot isnt as much of a loss in damage as,one would think initially. In fact it makes it possible to do much more damage in 3 actions of full atb than one level 2 limit
Very helpful tips, thanks bro
This is very helpful, thank youu
In regards to the 200% stagger the best method I found was getting Tifas last weapon in the game “Purple Rain” go fight Fat Chocobo in the VR missions with Chadley take control over Tifa use her weapon ability True strike over and over as soon as he is staggered I got it in a matter of minutes with this method and even got my 300% trophy this way too!
I watched alot of gameplay videos and only a handful abuse the Regen + Magnify combo.
It is saves a lot of mana in the long run and prevents you from spamming Cura or Curaga. Manawall + Magnify is also nice vs hard hitting boss or mobs. It saves the purpose of your ATB. Less time for healing and buffing, more offense.
I do wish they have 2 magnify materias in-game.
Didn't really use the other materias that much. Passed it on normal pretty easily
On the stagger damage to 200% Tifa’s Omnistrike raises the stager 20-30% so it’s a little faster than the uppercut. If the enemy has enough health and long enough stagger. Helped me finish that intel quest pretty quick
For the Parry-Materia requirements, he's right in that need to use Tifa for his, but his demonstration of spamming triangle (in the vid anyway) more often than not will not reach 200% ( I think I barely got 195% once with it). To do it correctly, find a semi-bulky enemy that won't die immediately from your team's attacks, and one that you can easily stagger utilizing elemental materia with Tifa's amazing combos. Next, make sure you have already powered her up via using Unbridled Strength twice (equip gear/materia that will increase your ATB count at the start). Combo the enemy till you stagger them, and then immediately spam triangle. This will easily go over the 200% mark, and if you are quick to power her up and do it again, you can even get the 300% requirement needed for the PS Trophy.
There may be other ideas too, so and this is just one that I figured out.
Some helpful stuff I didnt think of. Thanks
Thanks a lot for the video
Thanks for the tips. I'm still pretty early in the game at chapter 5 i think.
Welcome. Have fun!
First off, thanks for using that awesome Wall Market battle theme. I love it so much.
Unless HP gets crazy high it future installments I see no need for Quadra magic materia. Thanks for spreading the word on Magnify materia. I'm ashamed to have thought it useless. My original thinking was "why not just have another way to cast multi-spells that didn't require materia.
Alright, I just finished the vid. I wanna see you play. Plenty of people are good, I haven't seen a lot of people do what you suggest. I get that this is geared toward people who just got the game just saying that your tips would make for one hell of a show.
The power of editing. I am not consistent. The game could use an additional set of 4 shortcut buttons TBH because I don't like pausing every second to spend ATB effectively.
@@BoomstickGaming I agree. That can easily be implemented by double tapping triangle, square etc. I hope Square Enix sees this. I've heard they watch for big content creators.
HP on enemies is almost certain to be really high in the future installments
The description on the magnify materia is terrible
@@arianadonis4099 I hope so (WEAPONS aside).
You missed something. Summon's all have different sizes that determine where they can be summoned. The Deluxe Edition summons are all small sized and have no limitations, Ifrit, Shiva, and Choco/Mog are all medium sized and require at least decent sized arenas to be summoned in, and the last three are all large sized and can only be summoned in large arena's. Summons also have two different methods that trigger them, the first and one you'll see the most early on is staggering the enemy but the second summon trigger is having a character get into the red on health. Its actually not a terrible idea to have one of each sized summon equipped just to take advantage of the different arena's. Baby Chocobo is actually a good all-rounder since he can hit the three big elemental weaknesses but Carbuncle is fantastic at keeping you alive.
Edit: Not just red mode, apparently. It might just be less than half hitpoints is the trigger. Hm, time to test some more.
Carbuncle has been my secret 4th party member. Huge help that little guy.
Carbuncle is basically the Phoenix of this game....that healing plus resurrection overdrive is priceless...he may end up being the best summon in hard mode. I wish there was an item that triggered summons more easily though. I know there is one to strengthen them in Aerith's room. I actually really like cactaur, one of my favs. I wish the smaller summons naturally was easier to summon considering they are on the weaker side.
HOLD up. The deluxe edition has extra summons?
Fuck me. I'm guessing they're acquired through a code of some sort, essentially unavailable unless you get the deluxe edition.
@@westy1637 That's correct. Pretty shitty of Square to not have them anywhere else in the game.
@@Smaug1441 Should have just given them some good materia off the bat or something, like xp or ap up
The first tip I didn't know.... now gonna play it again
Another thing tifas skill Chi trap is super clutch for filling the stagger bar
So magnify is basically a reworked all materia?
Yep
Yea, it can wind up a wee bit better in the long run. Shame you only get one.
@@palladiamorsdeus Doesn't work with Cure tho.
Edit: Apparently it does... I think I confused it with Synergy which is just offensive spells. This is gonna make healing easier lol
It is actually better as the rebounded spell, if you stack the enemies up, hit also other targets.
@@RanEncounter You rarely need to hit multiple enemies in boss fights so that's when you want to have magnify on heal
The parry materia is great on Tifa, she turns into a machine with it. You can't stop her!
I subbed to your channel on the name of it alone!!! LONG LIVE ASH!!!!!
Some great tips but you seem to have missed that you can up Tifas Chi Level two times with unbridled Strength to increase her speed and more importantly her triangle attack. If you hit a staggered enemy with a level 2 triangle attack the stagger meter increses way more, just spam triangle and you will be at around 205% bonus damage in a matter of a second. That expends her chi level though, so you have to use unbridled strength again two times or only get a 5% increases like in your video.
Draygir they literally give a tutorial screen for that when you unlock her for your party lol.
@@DogOffTheLeash And yet... this video missed it so OP's comment still stands.
Gray Farron not really, why would the video cover something you learn from a TUTORIAL. Everyone should know this if you just read
@@anttheknee1372 He calls the Battle Intel tricky although reaching 200% with Tifa is extremly easy if you use her triangle attack when powered up 2 times and recommends a boss that is staggered for a long a time. Those two tips doesnt make any sense if he knew about the mechanic and would be very bad tips if he knew, because saying "use a two times powered up triangle attack with Tifa on any staggered foe" would be a much better advice.
This is probably only useful for second playthroughs (eg: hard mode trophy) but in chapter 16 you can get a pair of gloves for Tifa called Purple Pain. They are relatively good in their own right due to increased stagger/ATB gauge/unbridled strength dmg but the highlight is the learnable ability; True Strike. This ability hugely increases stagger bonus for 1 ATB gauge. There's a trophy for reaching 300% and I achieved this by building 2x unbridled strength, refilling ATB gauge on both tifa and aerith, using cloud to stagger and then casting Ray of Judgement on Aerith whilst using all Tifas triangle commands (Rise and Fall/Omnistrike) in combination with 2x True Strike. This had me at 300% stagger bonus in a matter of seconds
The easiest way I found to do the stagger 200% is to use tifa's ability "True Strike" from the weapon Purple Pain. I think you only have to hit it twice. Also true strike, refocus, ATB boost and ATB Stagger would be a very easy way to get the 300% trophy.
There's an easier way to get the parry materia. As tifa, when an enemy with a long stagger is staggered, use Unbriddled Strength twice then hit them with 3 of your attack that replaces uppercut.
Also true strike will raise a crap load when combo'd with those.
The 200% stagger damage (and subsequent 300% challenge) is a lot easier with Tifa if you use unbridled strength ability to maximise her chi level beforehand. Don't waste your time with uppercut.
Once staggered you can then unload the full combo, which will get 205% then repeat to get 310%
Get tifa to the third unbridled strength charge and chain the three power attacks on something staggered and it gets to 210% by the end.
Now there's the kind of info I was looking for! Insightful, smart and detailed, just how I like it! Thanks for the vid man, would love to see you make more on this game about some of the more advanced tactics in this game, once you become more familiar with it that is.
This combat system is like, 90% of the reason I bought this bitch. I still hate this episodic idea but I can't ignore how god damned good this shit looks. I get my copy in a few days, so thanks for the tips.
It'll be well worth the wait, this game is fantastic!
One very useful purpose for the parry materia i found is to use it to cancel cloud's punisher mode attacks. When you're in a combo, it locks you into an animation which prevents you from dodging, which parry materia cancels for you. You can use this to dodge powerful attacks that you see coming but cant dodge out because youre in your combo
i like to cast then immediately switch to another char so it doesn't interrupt as much cause u pull more aggro on the char you play with i think
This is probably the single most important thing to learn about Remake's combat system. Playing as Aerith for any length of time forces you to learn about aggro or be forever broken-hearted at interrupted spells and health bars in the red. Build up Aerith's ATB, then switch to another character for a couple seconds to take the aggro before casting her spell.
Lennis01 I think provoke materia on someone not Aerith makes it easier to build her ATB
Yeah I agree, looking at the Parry materia it is quite underwhelming which is a shame.
Did not know about clouds counter, stagger would be easier with tifas omnistrike adds 20% once you unlock rise and fall it does 30% so you can use rise then Omni stagger goes up to 210
Cloud: Mithirl sword any elemental magic+magnify, same elemental magic+absorb HP, same elemental materia+absorb MP
The easiest way to unlock Parry doesn't even require something with a huge stagger window, just not an instant recovery from stagger. Before you finish the Stagger swap to Tifa (she is mandatory) and use Unbridled Strength twice. Stagger the enemy a proceed to mash Triangle. Easy over 200% Stagger. Getting the 300% for the achievement (which doesn't include a certain late game fight) is MUCH harder and takes a lot of coordination. Similar to doing the 200 you want Tifa at max chi but with at least another ATB or two ready so she can also throw in two True Strikes. As soon as the stagger is about to happen have Aerith start firing off Ray of Judgement (it has a short charge sequence) and begin pounding the target with Tifa's onslaught.
Great video
Thank you I finally Understood that magnify material is really ( all material)..and how to use Elemental....👍❤️😊
This game has an excellent ARPG battle system. Super fun.
i finished the game and found cloud being supported with manawall and haste beats alomst everything. Some bossfights needs you to block a little but haste on cloud beats almost everything on normal difficulty. Will try changing barret to only support for hard. TIP: for late game, have double of all the materia you use the most and can get two of, for switching materia between characters in the later chapters are a hassle. Spoiler: thin it is chapter 17 or 18 where it becomes relevant.
I love when Barret does the victory music chant. rofl
This game’s combat is a mix of Kingdom Hearts,FF12,FF15,every Hack n slash game,Lightning Returns & Crisis Core
Cause you can guard against the enemy’s attacks like in LR & CC
You will always have to hammer the attack like in KH,every hack n slash game,LR,FF12,FF15 & CC
I'm not gonna lie I didn't think the Magnify materia stacked with barrier and time good to know
So sad i am about to finish ch. 14 and didn't know most of this :P
Same here :(
Just take your time to play it ,
that's what I'm just doing…
Well if you want to fight the final bosses you have to complete all your battle reports, and I don't think it's doable without New Game +, so you have a bit to do I think
then play it again with the knowledge xD
Don't worry, you got hard mode to do ;)
I know everyone plays different but why would you make Barrett your support? Dude does good damage with his gun alone. Not to mention his defense is like a brick house. I use Aerith for my support. I've always used all of final fantasy mage like characters for support.
Barret is easily the best DPS if you know how to use him in my opinion/experience
Barret ended this video... Perfectly !!!
You can cancel the endlag of a lot of things into either an ability, a character's unique skill, a spell or a dodge roll. Only thing is you can't cancel the same thing into itself. For example you can cancel the endlag of Cloud's Braver into any of his other abilities/spells/stance switch/dodge roll but if you try to do another Braver you have to wait out the whole animation. Also to note, you can only cancel Tifa's Whirling Uppercut into either her Divekick or Focused Strike (There might be something else I haven't found yet). Another thing about Tifa's Whirling Uppercut is you can do it even when you have enhanced Chi levels by holding down the Square button. The benefit to doing this rather than using the stronger Omnistrike/Rise and Fall is that it doesn't use your Chi level to do so.
Also certain abilities seem to refund a bunch of ATB if the attack connects, the two I have noticed this with are Cloud's Disorder and Tifa's Focused Strike. It isn't a whole bar so these abilities aren't free but it is significant. Edit: Aerith actually gets a full bar back after using her ATB Ward ability (which costs two bars). Weirdly enough you only get the bar back if you were controlling Aerith when you tell her to use it.
The ATB Assist and Skill Master Materia are both great but are little confusingly worded. The wording on the ATB Assist Materia seems to imply you need to use the same ability twice in a row to activate it. This isn't the case, it activates using any two abilities/spells in quick succession. They don't have to be the same ability which makes this Materia way more useful. Skill Master triggers whenever you use three different abilities/spells. Different levels of spells are considered different abilities (ex. Fire and Fira are considered two different abilities). You don't have to use theses abilities in any particular time frame nor do you have to do them one after the other. You can do Braver, Fire, Braver then Fira and Skill Master will trigger when you cast Fira as that is the third unique ability/spell you used. Whenever it triggers it then resets its count back to zero. So then if you do Braver, Triple Slash then Disorder it will trigger on Disorder. You get the idea.
If you combine ATB Assist and Aerith's ATB Ward things can get a little crazy. ATB Ward means so whenever you use ATB charges with a character other than Aerith while standing in the ward, that characters absorbs some of Aerith's ATB gauge to replenish what they used. ATB Assist gives characters other than the one who has it equipped a boost to ATB whenever it triggers. This creates a loop where the ward fuels the character with the ATB assist Materia and the Materia fuels the ward. Throw in a Transference Module and the Skill Master Materia for good measure and hoo boy.
Edit: I've been trying to test this and it seems to work, kinda. The ward doesn't transfer a full bar per ability so you need to supplement your ATB with Skill Master and stuff like Disorder that refunds a bit when it hits. Hard to keep it up while staying in the ward but in concept it works. Maybe with Stop to keep them in place you could pull it off.
One more tip is that you can use multiple materia to get multiple effects from blue materia. I'll use the easiest example, magnify and HP absorb. Take a Lightning Materia and Link it with a Magnify, then take ANOTHER Lightning Materia and link it in another two slots with MP absorb. Now you can attack all enemies AND absorb MP from every target hit. With a bunch of enemies and a max level MP absorb and Magnify this lets you chain together high level attack spells at little to no cost. That being said, it only works when your materia is at the highest level on each, so if you have a level 1 Lightning and a Level 3 Lightning, casting Thundara or Thundaga won't absorb MP if the MP absorb is equipped to the Level 1 Lightning.
Does this work with say Fire + Elemental for Attacks and then Fire + HP Absorption Materia. Would I be able to heal myself as i'm attacking folks? I'm not able to get to my PS4 right now or i would try
@@JDEdwards2331 That'd be bonkers but I'd assume not. My guess it won't work, as adding an element to the attack is not the same as casing the spell
@@JDEdwards2331 I don't think it does. I tried the exact thing with Tifa and she wasn't gaining HP from basic attacks (still inflicted elemental fire damage though) but would gain HP from casting Fire magic.
Adding elements+ duplicates of an element stack buffs , (fire+elemental)+(fire+(whatever else) ) =craziness
Hp absorb + Enemy skill on your primary attacker. Let Spirt Siphon and Agua Algred fly. Works as a regen & stagger boast with out using any MP. It's a game changer
Edit: doesn't increase stagger %, just increases the speed in which the stagger bar fills
Damn it I’m already way too late on chapter 17... part of me want to start new game , another part of me wants to just continue onto ng+ but I doubt I’ll make it with my current shit build on hard difficulty
I couldn't beat the first boss on hard on ng+, going to try again after my guys are max level.
Once you finish you can redo past chapters on any difficulty so no need to start new game as you can farm/lvl before going to hard
@@dgdgughsd yeah you could probably go straight to hard mode if you're good though, I'm doing another playthrough anyway to get Bahumut and stuff first anyway
@Captain Caveman it's going to take at least 3 playthroughs to get the platinum anyway so might as well save it for 3rd playthrough?
@Captain Caveman out of curiosity why are you disgusted with it? And if so why did you bother doing it on hard and beating the hardest enemy?
LOL, I havent used magnify-materia even once, because I thought that the ”range” meant that how long of a distance the spell can fly 😂🙈 Think Im gonna immediately put few of them in use... Thanks a bunch! 😁
Hopefully you found out we can only have one :(
Jonttu .K Don’t feel bad. I thought the same thing 😅
Dude me too!!!
This is the All materia, pretty much. I ignored it too at first 😂 now I'm save locked right before Abzu and I'm still too sucky to kill it 😭😭
3:30 tifa has other attacks to raise the stagger meter (which can be learned from other gloves) :D
TRUE STRIKE!
@@Ask4This Purple gloves OP
Counter stance allows for a stronger parry. Use this and the parry technique in this video to easily beat Roche in Hard mode. There is a class item that improves the healing the character receives when they are low. My Tifa has 160 ATK and 0 DEF. I pop that class item on her cause she is always low in HP. I think a mechanic that you missed out on is ATB gains from First Strike. When you max First Strike, you instantly gain 1 ATB at the start of combat. This is super effective with Tifa and Aerith 's arcane ward. There is also a scarf you can obtain that gives you slight bump to ATB at the start of combat. Pairs these together and you instantly can have 2 ATBs!! Another combo is Refocus with the ATB generation. Once you activate Refocus, you are able to spam abilities left and right. Be sure to add the class item that FILLS your ATB gauge once you proc Refocus.
Brilliant mate ty, although i am chapter 13 i did learn something
Great
Glad I’m not the only one using Barret as a support pack mule
Sup 🤖,
Keep processing those 1s and 0s, yo.