For anyone saying that the Catalogs such as Connoisseur and Collector's Catalog DO NOT stack.....here is why you're wrong. 2 x Connoisseur Catalog: No Stack. 1 Connoisseur Catalog + Collector's Catalog: Stacks.
It's all about the Platinum Incas and the Strapzohedrons,too bad they didn't have any Gold Mayans or Silver Aztecs. haha No,all joking aside,great guide. This is a fantastic,efficient and quick way to farm Platinum ingots. Thanks for the guide!
if you want to save gil then don't bother useing the shroudes, use the death technique. to increase the chances of death hitting make sure vanille has the upgraded mallabro wand or whatever its called, fang, and a syn who knows villagince. call in the summon and instantly use the y/triangle and have fang pump all her status effects on it while you spam death. it hits before the thing stands up 80% of the time for me. if it does stand up just retry.
@jinjishu i found a way to get lots of trapezohedrons! you just need a fully upgraded kain's lance or nirvana then dismantle it and then you get 3 trapezohedrons each plus some blossom seeds which pay for the amount you spent for upgrading.
I'll definitely be using this guide once I've started to play this game again for my American profile... Btw... when you say Lv. 9 Crystarium, do you mean you've mastered that much or that's just the level that is accessible?
certain forms of Kain's Lance (e.g. one such is that made from Gae Bolg) will dismantle into 3 Traps as well as a good amount of moonblossom seeds (high gil value), granted you need to acquire a single trapezohedron to initial create Kain's Lance. Still, this could allow you to create 3 more lances each producing 3 traps. At an exponential rate of growth such as this, you'll end up with more Traps than you'll ever need haha
yes, if you go back to where the game loads you after beating it, you should be able to warp back to orphans cradle. then go to the edan hall or w/e they call it i forget, but from there you can work your way back. hope this helps. im pretty sure this is correct path. i know you can get back because im there right now after beating the game.
His strategy works. Just letting you guys know. If you don't want to waste gil buying more shrouds. Just go for the Rapid Growth quickly and then summon while switching to infiltration.
@qwertyuioplll Well platinum ingots are classed as normal drop so the only way to boost it is equipping the collector's catalog. Having more than one won't stack the effect and I believe having the connoisseur equipped it will hurt its chances because it will increase the chance of the rare drop which is a trapezohedron. Also know that when I was farming I would farm for at least 2 or 3 hour sessions, usually while a movie is on. So it's not fast. It is all about how lucky you are with drops..
Thanks a bunch man it helped. Also I was wondering do you have a walkthrough if the Missions, I was hoping complete them all but was having a hard time finding them, since they don't show you where the next one is like they did with the first two.
There is a cheap way, well same method like this one. Its just change the paradigms to SYN/SAB/SAB.. after you done summoning, get haste bravery to sazh (sinces hes the DD) your teamates will focus on debuffing when your buffing your self, when that thing got full debuff.. change to tri disaster, well its not help alot but it still help you saving your money from buying fortisol ;]
Adamantoise and Adamantortoise have a 5%for Platinum Ingot and 1% for Trapezohedron with Connisours Catalogue 1 for each member raises you chances to 4%for Traps this is a patient style of farming, i know because i have the book. equipping more than one of each catalogue wont work, they don't stack.
@galti111 It does not in the sense that your hypothetical chance of 10% goes up to 75%. The drop rate is still the same no matter how fast you kill it. It does increase it in the sense of the amount you can kill in a certain time frame. So my chances are greater if I killed 20 in 5 minutes as opposed to 5 in 5 minutes.
Yeah and the damage cap in that game was 9999 and you could only attack once per atb charge. I think it's supposed to take a total of 5 hours to complete and you can save in between. Truly an epic fight.
@CyberThechSlifer Well that depends on what chapter you are on. if you made it to what I think is chapter 10, you can farm the beast waiting just outside of the mines. You can always surprise attack them. Honestly though, I wouldn't worry about CP farming, cause you'll get all that you need framing for traps. Tell me what chapter you are on, and I will see what I can do. Keep in mind it has been awhile since I last played this game.
What did he do with Sazh’s Eidolon at the star of the video? I haven’t used him as a leader, so I don’t know his Eidolon does, but it seems it casts Curse to take down the huge turtle?
I got rich by killing the adamanchelids that are guarding treasure, I always got gold dust and gold nugget 75,000 each. Plus, I would get gold dust on normal ones and that added up to 200,000 gil in less than half an hour. I also got 4500 cp every 1 and a half to 2 minutes. I'm trying to farm and level up to fight barthelandus for the third time because I only have 5k hp on a few characters and I know it's not enough for orphan.
@JohnMurrill Shrouds: Fortisol and Aegisol, but you only need Fortisol. Sazh Has: Hyades Magnums (From Pleiades Hi-Powers) Energy Sash and Power Glovex2 Lightning Has: Ultima Weapon ( From Lionheart) Aurora Scarf, Collector's Catalog and Energy Sash Fang Has: Venus Gospel (From Taming Pole) Energy Sashx2 and Champion's Badge I hope this help, but I feel like you should be able to kill him without shrouds and summon.
Unfortunately, no. There's no reason to have more than one catalog of each type (survivalist, collector, connoisseur) equipped; they don't stack. You might as well sell the extras and use the slots for more useful stuff.
Okay thank you. Lol, I'm having really bad luck with getting these Traps. All I've gotten was maybe a few Ingots...then now nothing seem to drop no matter how many times I reset. :(
why is that everytime i try to farm for the trap that i always get a big wad of nothing but EXP... ive passed the game already and yet i still haven't found a single trapezohedron
ok so i've been doin this.. and i'm at stage 10 crystarium.. and max t2 weps.. both fang and sazh have 20k hp light is at 18k.. and i cant do it... he comes up before the 3rd set of blitz....
I mean, Vanille isn't bad, but she's not as good at magic as Hope. Which is why I use Hope, and not Vanille. Just look up their compared stats when Hope has the Hawkeye fully upgraded to Nue.
getting trapezohedrons are so troublesome! I already upgraded my collectors catalog to connoisseur's catalog and still i only get platinum ingots!!! i need lots!
I hate sazh so much, I refuse to use him I use Vanille/Hope/Fang to get ingots and Traps... But normally I use Light/Hope/Fang but I can't overpower the dame over grown turtle so I have to keep casting death on them... That's how I do it and I also don't bother with the edilons/aeons/summons x
Elijah Bartolome Thanks for the response, but WOW is this an old comment! ^_^; I've actually long since figured out what tier 3 everyone should have... And Lightning has, like... two or three.
is there a way to get back there once you have already passed that section of the game. i really want to know because i have beaten the game but want to go back to certain places to farm so i can get everything and beat the game easier. Please if you know can you tell me.
can you help me i have Lighting,Fang,and Hope in my party all their weapons are on level 61 and i need find 3 trapezohedron quick cause im on chapter 13 and i don't want to battle or save my money cause that would take so long and im probley goin to die on my first try, trying to battle adamantoise can someone plzz help me cause im at the start of chapter 13 and im really want to finsh chapter 13 cause its been giving on my nerves like really!
I have got equioped what this guy has and first time i went up against this in eden i did 99,999 damage on a adamantoise in pulse i only did 74,000 odd attack why is this i want to be inflictinf at a 999.9 stagger 99,999 damage any help anybody?
For anyone saying that the Catalogs such as Connoisseur and Collector's Catalog DO NOT stack.....here is why you're wrong.
2 x Connoisseur Catalog: No Stack.
1 Connoisseur Catalog + Collector's Catalog: Stacks.
It's all about the Platinum Incas and the Strapzohedrons,too bad they didn't have any Gold Mayans or Silver Aztecs. haha
No,all joking aside,great guide. This is a fantastic,efficient and quick way to farm Platinum ingots. Thanks for the guide!
if you want to save gil then don't bother useing the shroudes, use the death technique. to increase the chances of death hitting make sure vanille has the upgraded mallabro wand or whatever its called, fang, and a syn who knows villagince. call in the summon and instantly use the y/triangle and have fang pump all her status effects on it while you spam death. it hits before the thing stands up 80% of the time for me. if it does stand up just retry.
@jinjishu i found a way to get lots of trapezohedrons!
you just need a fully upgraded kain's lance or nirvana then dismantle it and then you get 3 trapezohedrons each plus some blossom seeds which pay for the amount you spent for upgrading.
Thanks to this, I got fang's ultimate weapon before I finished the game
I'll definitely be using this guide once I've started to play this game again for my American profile... Btw... when you say Lv. 9 Crystarium, do you mean you've mastered that much or that's just the level that is accessible?
certain forms of Kain's Lance (e.g. one such is that made from Gae Bolg) will dismantle into 3 Traps as well as a good amount of moonblossom seeds (high gil value), granted you need to acquire a single trapezohedron to initial create Kain's Lance. Still, this could allow you to create 3 more lances each producing 3 traps. At an exponential rate of growth such as this, you'll end up with more Traps than you'll ever need haha
yes, if you go back to where the game loads you after beating it, you should be able to warp back to orphans cradle. then go to the edan hall or w/e they call it i forget, but from there you can work your way back. hope this helps. im pretty sure this is correct path. i know you can get back because im there right now after beating the game.
His strategy works. Just letting you guys know. If you don't want to waste gil buying more shrouds. Just go for the Rapid Growth quickly and then summon while switching to infiltration.
When I start playing this game again, this guide will really help... The whole Vanille thing is lame...
@qwertyuioplll Well platinum ingots are classed as normal drop so the only way to boost it is equipping the collector's catalog. Having more than one won't stack the effect and I believe having the connoisseur equipped it will hurt its chances because it will increase the chance of the rare drop which is a trapezohedron.
Also know that when I was farming I would farm for at least 2 or 3 hour sessions, usually while a movie is on. So it's not fast. It is all about how lucky you are with drops..
Thanks a bunch man it helped. Also I was wondering do you have a walkthrough if the Missions, I was hoping complete them all but was having a hard time finding them, since they don't show you where the next one is like they did with the first two.
There is a cheap way, well same method like this one. Its just change the paradigms to SYN/SAB/SAB.. after you done summoning, get haste bravery to sazh (sinces hes the DD) your teamates will focus on debuffing when your buffing your self, when that thing got full debuff.. change to tri disaster, well its not help alot but it still help you saving your money from buying fortisol ;]
Adamantoise and Adamantortoise have a 5%for Platinum Ingot and 1% for Trapezohedron with Connisours Catalogue 1 for each member raises you chances to 4%for Traps this is a patient style of farming, i know because i have the book. equipping more than one of each catalogue wont work, they don't stack.
@galti111 It does not in the sense that your hypothetical chance of 10% goes up to 75%. The drop rate is still the same no matter how fast you kill it. It does increase it in the sense of the amount you can kill in a certain time frame. So my chances are greater if I killed 20 in 5 minutes as opposed to 5 in 5 minutes.
@CyberThechSlifer farm mission 24 in the tower u get 6k cp or 12k with egg. plus u get a 6k sell item every run takes maybe 30 secs.
Yeah and the damage cap in that game was 9999 and you could only attack once per atb charge. I think it's supposed to take a total of 5 hours to complete and you can save in between. Truly an epic fight.
i like to use Vanille as leader, too. She's not that bad, but to each their own strategy huh xD
@SuperKingNova I hadn't put the game in for a long while, but I believe it's towards the end of the chapter. You may have made it to there already.
much more convenient than death spam, THNX
@iamowe1992 yeah, YOU DO get traps this way. However, it's a rare drop at 1%. The purpose of this vid was to learn how to kill the turtle.
Yes this area is before the end of the game.
@CyberThechSlifer Well that depends on what chapter you are on. if you made it to what I think is chapter 10, you can farm the beast waiting just outside of the mines. You can always surprise attack them. Honestly though, I wouldn't worry about CP farming, cause you'll get all that you need framing for traps. Tell me what chapter you are on, and I will see what I can do. Keep in mind it has been awhile since I last played this game.
Because of cold blood and he has the highest dps, as was demonstrated in this video.
@jinjishu i just passed this point before seeing your vid.... i'm in the room before you fight proudclad
Saved me a lot of time bro.
@jinjishu The weapon ability that lowers your max HP by 40%.
sab+syn+sab summon vanilles eidolon then gestalt then debuff, switch to tri disaster for quick stagger using shrouds is a good way to whomp em
Great Tutorial man :D
What did he do with Sazh’s Eidolon at the star of the video? I haven’t used him as a leader, so I don’t know his Eidolon does, but it seems it casts Curse to take down the huge turtle?
I got rich by killing the adamanchelids that are guarding treasure, I always got gold dust and gold nugget 75,000 each. Plus, I would get gold dust on normal ones and that added up to 200,000 gil in less than half an hour. I also got 4500 cp every 1 and a half to 2 minutes. I'm trying to farm and level up to fight barthelandus for the third time because I only have 5k hp on a few characters and I know it's not enough for orphan.
@JohnMurrill
Shrouds: Fortisol and Aegisol, but you only need Fortisol.
Sazh Has: Hyades Magnums (From Pleiades Hi-Powers)
Energy Sash and Power Glovex2
Lightning Has: Ultima Weapon ( From Lionheart)
Aurora Scarf, Collector's Catalog and Energy Sash
Fang Has: Venus Gospel (From Taming Pole)
Energy Sashx2 and Champion's Badge
I hope this help, but I feel like you should be able to kill him without shrouds and summon.
The first 16 seconds I thought he was speaking some other language... xD
What is your equipment?
We see nothing in spite of the high quality we put
Unfortunately, no. There's no reason to have more than one catalog of each type (survivalist, collector, connoisseur) equipped; they don't stack. You might as well sell the extras and use the slots for more useful stuff.
If only this video wasn't recorded on a potato.
This is for BEGINNER'S ONLY! I don't bother using summons anymore.
@jinjishu No, it's impossible to die out of battle.
Who puts Vanille as the leader? >_>
Fang / Lightning / Hope. Bahamut, Balance, and God of Magic.
Okay thank you. Lol, I'm having really bad luck with getting these Traps. All I've gotten was maybe a few Ingots...then now nothing seem to drop no matter how many times I reset. :(
why is that everytime i try to farm for the trap that i always get a big wad of nothing but EXP... ive passed the game already and yet i still haven't found a single trapezohedron
Would Highwind make this process faster?
@CyberThechSlifer you don't die.
ok so i've been doin this.. and i'm at stage 10 crystarium.. and max t2 weps.. both fang and sazh have 20k hp light is at 18k.. and i cant do it... he comes up before the 3rd set of blitz....
Where are your c'eith stone missions?
do chances of getting an ingot increase for each collector catalog equipped? cuz ive equipped all of my characters 4 accessory slots with catalogs
I mean, Vanille isn't bad, but she's not as good at magic as Hope. Which is why I use Hope, and not Vanille. Just look up their compared stats when Hope has the Hawkeye fully upgraded to Nue.
That's incorrect. Vanille has Adrenaline and a faster casting speed. She deals more damage and faster.
getting trapezohedrons are so troublesome!
I already upgraded my collectors catalog to connoisseur's catalog and still i only get platinum ingots!!! i need lots!
I hate sazh so much, I refuse to use him I use Vanille/Hope/Fang to get ingots and Traps... But normally I use Light/Hope/Fang but I can't overpower the dame over grown turtle so I have to keep casting death on them... That's how I do it and I also don't bother with the edilons/aeons/summons x
how r u gettin platim ingot all the time i rarely get them when im fighting the admotoise
What do you have equipped
DAMN IT I NEED THOSE!!! But I didn't even beat the game yet, and I've been wanting to actually get Traps way before I beat the game. Is that possible?
ummm be maxed crystarium 16,000,000 isnt much if youre beefy
Question.
Is there any point at all to having tier 3 weapons? I hear that it shortens target times considerably.
Depending on your Tier 1 weapon, they can have any passive ability, and it can give you another ATB gauge.
Elijah Bartolome Thanks for the response, but WOW is this an old comment! ^_^; I've actually long since figured out what tier 3 everyone should have... And Lightning has, like... two or three.
@AmishChief Thanks, I have two more that I have to refine. They involve no shrouds and no summon. It may be restricted to post game only though.
@jinjishu hey wtf is a "connoisseur"? an how do i get it? i never get those trapezohedron shit i need answers an i need em now lol
@xDAZZE Sorry I hadn't played this game in awhile, could you tell me what the significance of that is?
is there a way to get back there once you have already passed that section of the game. i really want to know because i have beaten the game but want to go back to certain places to farm so i can get everything and beat the game easier. Please if you know can you tell me.
Wow you use a Silk Tiger weapon
can you help me i have Lighting,Fang,and Hope in my party all their weapons are on level 61 and i need find 3 trapezohedron quick cause im on chapter 13 and i don't want to battle or save my money cause that would take so long and im probley goin to die on my first try, trying to battle adamantoise can someone plzz help me cause im at the start of chapter 13 and im really want to finsh chapter 13 cause its been giving on my nerves like really!
I brought one, and It took me forever just to get another Trapezohedron from the beast...
How does he have curse on sazh?
you need elixer and summon a secod time
I have got equioped what this guy has and first time i went up against this in eden i did 99,999 damage on a adamantoise in pulse i only did 74,000 odd attack why is this i want to be inflictinf at a 999.9 stagger 99,999 damage any help anybody?
@CyberThechSlifer Really?! Getting stepped on outside of battle kills? I've been lucky enough to not have that happen to me I guess.
i got the fat cat blues
@ToastyTarget00 me too!!!
@jinjishu
Oh cool :)
not really i have all the time in the world Xd
Who puts Sazh as the leader >.> he sucks. imo. Vanille / Fang / Lightning .
Lol you're the only one.
cowboy bebop song :D
Shrouds? Dislike.
In 12 there is a monster with 50 million