hintsandtips

Before you get out of Fossile Roo, there is a little room where a man excavating and a moogle named 'Kuppo' is found. Talk to the guy, he will let you excavate if you give him a potion. Dig upstairs, near the bridge. You may have to dig up to 10 times, but you will eventually get Madain Ring, which you can sell for some extra gils, or use to learn some new abilities. Once you found a Madain Ring, talk to the man to quit. You should get out of the room first, so you can see the man excavating at the same spot again. Then talk to the guy and dig the spot to find another one. Keep repeating until you have...who knows how many Madain Rings you want and what kind of patience you got.

When at ispens castle, you defeat the monster and then go back into the castle to look for aramant, zidane will be alone. there is a monster in there that is a magician with a book and a gargoyle he brings to life. the trick is to have auto-regen and high tide and preferably level up on, begin a battle with this monster and just get hit till trance comes. when he reaches his trance use the best one, and it should hit 9999 on both the guys killing them. exp. for doing this is 29,000 with level up on it is 45,000 !!

Also, ensure your characters are near trance. Particularly Eiko and Zidane. You don't need the fairy blessing. The attacks you'll be using will not be physical. Equip Auto-Regen on all of your characters. Do not equip 'auto-potion' as it wastes time and gives Ozma extra oppurtunities to attack.

Zidane: First round, steal. Hope for the 'Dark Matter'. If not, have Zidane toss the Dark Matter you have. After that, use Zidane to help Eiko keep Freya and Steiner alive and well. If Zindane trances, you might want to use him to attack. Solution 9 works wonderfully.

Eiko: Hold Eiko's action until Ozma acts. When Ozma attacks, heal, life, or Esuna the person required. When Eiko trances, you'll be able to heal / esuna / life faster. If more than one person dies, you might want to use 2 'full life' spells... alternately, you can use Phoenix to bring them back. Eiko is there to heal you and keep Freya and Steiner attacking. If no one needs healing and you're confident that Ozma's not about to do something painfully deadly, have Eiko Haste either Steiner or Freya. This should be done only when she's Tranced though, just in case you need to heal quickly.

We had Quinna use Magic Hammer every single time. It takes off a huge chunk of MP to start with, then gets less as Ozma's magic gets less. We had Zidane almost at trance so he trances after the first hit off Ozma, and perform his Grand Dyne Lethal, which takes off 9999, Steiner doing Shock which takes off 9999, and Dagger summoning Bahamut, in between healing.

If Ozma's attacks Flare Star and Metoer seem to be the worst, and Doomsday hardly did anything at that level. After a few rounds with Magic Hammer, Ozma starts performing Osmose to steal MP, which he then uses to cure himself. Keep hitting and healing after that using Quinna's Frog drop which at level 80 and 130 frogs equals 9999 damage, and Ozma is virtually paralized for the rest of the fight apart from healing himself. Then watch him fry! It took about 5 minutes but was well worth it. Also after stealing most of Ozma's magic and if Zidane and Steiner have used up most of their MP on Shock and Grand Lethal Dyne, and Dagger summoning Bahamut, there's not much he can steal from you, so he's pretty much had it!

If you beat him, you get the pumice which you can later get from Hades to enable Dagger to summon tha ark. After beating Ozma, and finding Hades he is then shocked you have defeated Ozma and fights you anyway, but he doesn't perform anything for the first few rounds, and then starts to count down to charging up his sword. In this time you could can get a round in of each person before the next number down (from 3-1). If you use Zidane's theivery (takes off about 6000), Steiners Shock (9999), Dagger's Ark (9000), and Quinna's Frog Drop (9999), you can kill Hades before he gets chance to use his sword on you. Easy!

None of this would have been as easy if the chocobo hot and cold, stellazio, and freindly ghosts side quests hadn't been completed. They don't take long, and you can have fun, knowing you've not just played the main game, but all the mini games too.

When Vivi has doomsday and nobody in the party can prevent or absorb it have Steiner cast doomsday sword and it will only hit(attack) the enemy. Also if the enemy casts reflect on itself have steiner cast a magic sword and it will go through the reflect. and Steiner must have auto-regen on and when he uses darkside he will take about 500 or so damage from him but since he has auto- regen he will get that amout of health back.

There is another easy way to get exp. on disc 3 while in Oeilvert when you fight the mirror creatures(the ones that send out copies of your characters), well if you kill the mirrored image, it will send out another and another and still one more, when the creature itself is attacked or stolen from(hint steal from it does less damage). keep killing these images. for each image that you kill you can get roughly 1500-1700 exp. the most i got was 9800 or so. just want to make sure that you have some SOFTS.

First off, you need the characters Zidane, Garnet, Eiko, and Steiner. You will also need the AT LEAST, 5 ethers and/or elixers and 1 Dark Matter from the Treno Auction House. You need to get all of these people up to level 65-80, and you need to have the secong highest weapon for Steiner, Ragnarok, which can be gotten only by using Chocobo. I recommend you use the Quina Lv 5 Death method OR just fight the enemies in Memoria for leveling up.

When you go to fight Tranced Kuja, use the 1 Dark Matter with Zidane and use the move "Shock" (A Swd Attack move Steiner recieves after equipting Ragnarok) untill he dies. Use Eiko and Garnet to heal both Zidane and Steiner. You could even assign each girl to 1 character. After Kuja is defeated in a matter of seconds, or minutes, and blows up the platform, you go to fight Necron. Pick the same characters you used for Tranced Kuja, and go into battle.

This is where the ether/elixers come in handy. Use them on Steiner so he can continue to use "Shock." Now, the name of the game here, is "Keep Steiner Alive as Long as You Can!!" Make sure you have the Magic Stones equipted on as many of the Abilities such as "Antibody", "Clearheaded", "Bright Eyes", etc., etc. as you can. Necron uses a move called Holy Cross, and not only does it hammer you down on the HP side, but it puts just about every bad Status effect on you as well. You definatly wanna have "Clearheaded" equipted though, so you can at least make commands after the attack.

Use Eiko to get rid of the status effects with "Esuna" and "Panacea", and use Garnet to heal the party with "Curaga". Make sure that when you use "Esuna" with Eiko, use it on Steiner first, so he can continue with his "Shock" move. Keep this stratagy up, keeping particularly Steiner alive and you should be able to beat Necron within 5-10 minutes (depending on how many times you face him and at what level you characters are at.)

Make sure you have the Mace of Zues equipt to Vivi so you can do the spell Doomsday, it doesnt matter who else is in your party just make sure Vivi is. Then go outside the entrence of Daguerreo, equipt two people with a pumice peice, wich you should have when your on the 4th CD, then equipt the other two character's with the Ninja Gear or Black Robe. This will make it so when you use the Doomsday spell you while the Grand Dragons outside of the entrance for 7,000-9,999 points of damage depending on your leveland will always heal the character's with the Pumice Piece and Ninja Gear on and will heal the character with the Black Robe on most of the time, making it so if the Grand Dragon ever get's a chance to attack you with his Thundaga spell you can just cast Doomsday right after it cureing your party to there max amount of HP, making it so you can get into 100 fights with a Grand DRagon and not once have to use Hi-Potions, Tents, Elixers, or Cure spells, the one stipulation to all this is that you'll need to ne packin alot of Ether's to keep Vivi's MP up.

Buy as many "Wrist" as possible at the village of Dali, and buy "Steepled Hat" in Mog Shop at Burmecia.Go to synthesis shop and make "Cotton robe." If you sell cotton robes at the weapon shop, you can make 610 gil a cotton robe. Wrist (130 gil) + Steepled Hat (260 gil) + mixing fee (1000 gil) -- you can get a Cotton robe. You can sell a Cotton robe by 2000 gil, so you can make money 610 gil by making one cotton robe.If you make up 99 Cotton robes, you can make money 60390 gil! In this way,you can get 180.000 gil in just 30 minutes !!!

Once you get the lever working again for yhe weapon smith walk around abit on that floor you will see a scholar in a room walk him to were the books are then go back to the room he was in. Walk around in that room you will see a ! over zidane

In the Battle of Alexandria, Dagger has to give orders to the Knights of Pluto. If done right you can get Angel Earings. Here's how: Gather info Blutzen & Kohel, Protect Town Haagen & Weimar, Contact Lindblum for reinforcement Laudo & Breireicht, Begin prep to fire the cannons Dojebon & Mullenkedheim.

On your way to burmecia through Gizamalukes Groto you can go climb the vine to enter the area where the grand dragons are. To beat them, have quina in your party and have her at 1hp, you can do this by killing her than using a phoenix down and it may give you 1hp or more, its random so keep trying. so what you do is get into a fight with a grand dragon and immediatly use Limit Glove which does 9999. after that do blizzara with vivi and the dragon should be gone, after every fight, save your game, and if quina dies, reset and try again, you can get to level 60 easily within a days worth of playing, (and youre on disc 1!!) and if youre too weak to start fighting the grand dragons, go in the forest and fight the birds until youre strong enough to fight the dragons, same process with the birds, save every time, it gets tedious, but its worth it.

If you press square to call the moogle and then cancel on him a lot of times (let say...about 25 times), he says various quotes like: ''You're starting to tick me off, Kupo'', ''I'm sharpening my knife, Kupo'' and STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT, KU-PHEU!!!

In disc 4, Memoria hosts some decent things to fight, make sure you have Vaccines. Have body temp, antibody and level/ability up if ya want. Once you get in Memeria, run around the enterance by the save/tent ball. Fight Chimera, you can use Soul Blade with the Masamune and cast Death Sentence or if you are lucky use Steiner's Lai Strike and just kill him! While his lif is whitiling away steal to get items such as tents and garnets.

It works like19\20 times and this is the thing if you dont want any more random battles just walk a lil then press Triangle then Circle then walk a lil more and do the same thing it carries you quite a distance without and random battles.

1. Take Quina and have him/her learn Lv. 5 Death. The fastest way to do this is to go to the upper area of the Forgotten Continent, where it sticks out. It looks like a little arm pointing towards Vile Island, where the Yans are. You should encounter a Dracozombie, whom you can eat to learn the ability from.

2. Fight another Dracozombie, but before you kill it, K/O everyone in your party *except* for Quina and whomever you want to build levels with. Now let the Dracozombie cast Zombify (or whatever it's called) on Quina.

3. Now you should have the character you want to build levels with, and Quina, zombified. Kill the Dracozombie and goto the menu. DE-EQUIP auto-regen from Quina, as *any* form of health will hurt her. Equip both characters with Auto-Haste, Auto-Reflect, and Antibody. Equip the person you want to level up with Level Up, Add Status, and Ability Up.

4. Go to I believe they are called Popo's Islands. They are in the very center of Mist Continent, right by Gizamaluke's Grotto. Land on the edge of the mountain right in between 2 forests. It's a ledge with a small forest, grass, and another bigger forest, and that's it.

5. Run around in the grassy area until you encounter a Grand Dragon. As long as you are in the grassy area you will encounter them 100% of the time. If you aren't fighting them, you're in the wrong area, or in the forest next to the grass.

6. Now if you followed all the rules, simply wait for Quina's turn to come up, and cast Lv. 5 Death. Instant kill and you will then gain 35,280 EXP for the person you wanted to gain levels, since Quina cannot get EXP in Zombie state.

On top of that, the Level Up gives you half that of 35,280, for a total of 52,920 for your character. The Grand Dragon only has time for one turn before you can cast Lv. 5 Death. He'll either do Thundaga, which will be reflected off of you and hit him, Poison Strike, which will only do about 1,400, or he'll do the spell that attempts to give you poison, Venom Strike. When Quina is low on life, use a tent on the world map or in battle to heal it. Tat's the noly way to give it HP while it's a zombie. You can level up pretty quickly like this. Save a lot, because OCCASIONALLY the Grand Dragon will get a Critical Hit which does about 3,240 & can kill you if you are on a low level. It can be a pain to re-zombify Quina. Also be sure to give who's gaining levels Auto-Regen.

To access the mini-game, get to the post credits The End screen at the end of the game and enter R2, L1, R2, R2, Up, Right, Circle, Down, Triangle, L2, R1, R2, L1, Square, Square and Start.(note that it will not work if you try the short-cut-to-The-End method) After entering the button sequence, the Black Jack game should begin.

Just equip all the equipments that lets you learn the same ability to your character,and you'll receive more AP than before.Also,don't forget to equip "Ability UP" ability to that characther. In this way,you will gain AP very fast and you will learn the ability to that character in just a few battles.

If you don`t want to fight an Antlion again (At the four sinkholes) while searching for Kuja`s palace, look closely at the four sinkholes. There`s one sinkhole where no 'sandclouds' come from, that`s the sinkhole to Kuja`s palace.

Quina's Frog Drop Blue magic can becomes more powerful as Quina catches lots of frogs in the Qu's Marsh,or when Quina's level increases. Frog Drop has a 100% success rate (It's a Non Elemental Damage !) and the formula to calculate the damage caused is:

You need Zidane and Freya in your team, Zidane needs to have learned auto-life and sacrifice already, and Freya needs to know white draw. Now, just have your other team fight and cast their most powerful spells. Then when you need a recharge, Zidane can just slap on Sacrifice and everyone else is good to go, immediately after Zidane does his Sac, Freya should cast white-draw so that Z boy is ready to go again if you need a quick health boost right away. Heal Zidane and get ready to rinse. Obviously after the first time he comes back to life you'll need to waste a spell or item to bring him back-- just cast Phoenix

Having a hard time with Ozma's Doomsday attack ? Just simply equip Demon's Vest or Ninja's Gear (sold at Daguerreo weapon shop) to the entire party,and you'll not receive any damage from it ! You can even absorb it if you equip "Pumice Piece" to one of your characters.

Once you have completed the Chocobo side quest and found all of the treasures, go to Daguerreo. Talk to the four-armed man. He should say something about an "S-Rank" and run off. Follow him and talk to him again. He should give you the S-Rank Medal, and reveal his true self (Gilgamesh).

When you get a reflect ring, have the four characters you regularly have in your party with learn "Auto Reflect". When they all have it turned on, cast a reflective party spell, such as Bio or any of the elements, at yourself, This will effectively quadruple the power of the spell on a single target. However, this is only helpful for lower levels and is virtually useless if you have great spells.

When you reach Alexandrian territory as Steiner, he will be carrying a bag of rotten stuff. That is actually Dagger. When he goes to the corner of the alley, she will think of changing into her costume while he is looking forward. You will get an option for about five seconds to either keep looking or go to the other side. Within those five seconds, if you have good reflexes, you can also choose to look the other way.

If you want Zidane to win the Festival of the Hunt, make sure to equip him with The Ogre. One hit death(except to Zaghnol). First, go to the end of the Theater District, wait in front of the barrels for a sec, then kill the Fang that appears. Next, go to the Business District and go north. Kill the Fang on the left side of the screen, then head down the right-hand path. You should see the Zaghnol. If not, exit and re-enter until it appears. When you go to kill it, Freya should appear to help you. Use her jump skill & have Zidane attack. If Zidane kills the Zaghnol, he will be in the lead. After winning, you'll get 5000 Gil.

If you want Vivi to win, follow these instructions exactly. As soon as you step off the tram, immediately get back on and head to the Business District. Head north, fighting as few monsters as possible, and take the left path into the church area. Kill the Fang that is there, then head back out. Vivi should run by, chased by a Fang. Kill the Fang that is chasing Vivi, then head to the right-hand path, where the Zaghnol is located. When you fight the Zaghnol, just have Zidane kill Freya & keep him alive until time runs out. Vivi should win the Festival and get a Theater Ship card.

You can get the Alexandria card after Alexandria is destroyed at the start of Disc 3. Go to the center of the town and talk to the girl who is chasing the boy. She will say that she does not need it and give it to you.

After the destruction in Alexandria by Kuja's "counterpart" in disc three, return to Quan's Dwelling with Quina and Vivi in your party. Quina starts to dream about food and a conversation soon takes place on the patio. I won't reveal anything about this conversation but you will meet a very important person here and learn some profound things. After the conversation, search the stopped clock on the patio to find a Running Shoes.

Head to the entrance of Daguerreo and then examine the mosaic, which deplicts the Water Dragon God. Zidane suggests placing Ore into the fountain. For every five Ores that Zidane put inside, you will receive an Add-on gem, Aquamarine. Aquamarine lets Dagger learn the powerful summon, Leviathan. Take note that this is cumulative. If you put four Ores in and come back later to put one Ore in, you will receive an Aquamarine also. So, it doesn't mean that if you put only one Ore in and not five Ores at the same time, you lose that one Ore that you put in for nothing. This is also a great chance to build up the number of Aquamarine in your inventory and increase the strength of the Leviathan summon.