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THE EMERALD WEAPON
So you have the submarine and that big green thing under the water is kicking your butt. That's the super nasty Emerald WEAPON. You'll notice as you fight him, a timer reading 20 minutes will appear. First off get rid of this. To do that, head to the underwater reactor tunnel in Junon and fight until you come upon a crreature called Ghost Ship. Morphing this gives up the guide book. Take that to the man in the top floor of the rightmost building in Kalm Town. In exchange for it he'll give up the Underwater materia. Equiping this removes the timer.
Okay, you've got the materia. Now you need the right equipment. Having everyone's ultimate weapon and at least Cloud's Lvl 4 limit break is a must. You'll also need the following materia's:
- Knights of the Round (mastered or on 4th level.)
- Mime x3
- Full Cure x3
- W-summon
- W-item(optional but helpful)
- Final attack (Mastered)
- Phoenix (mastered)
- Several HP Plus'
- 2x-Cut (4x-cut is better)
- Slash-all (Flash doesn't work)
- D.Blow
- Mastered Restore x3
That may seem like quite a list, but believe me it's necessary.
First equip everyone with a Mime, a Restore (paired w/All helps) and a Full Cure. (Use the item doubling trick on the tips page to have 99 X-Potions, Turbo Ethers and Elixers.) Next Use the Hp Plus's to make sure every charachter has 9999 HP. Try to get thier Mp in the 900's as well. Equip a non-Cloud charachter with KOTR and W-Summon combo. Have Cloud outfitted with the Final attack-Phoenix Combination and distribute the others as you will. Note that having materia like Barrier wll help, but it hinders more than it helps, Shield is useless, and don't bother with Poison, Mystify, or Destruct because it doesn't use barriers and it's immune to negative status.
Now you're ready to fight the beast. It always starts the battle with a weapon called Emerald Shot. It basically does around 7000 points of damage to a single charachter. You can heal that charachter, but not if you can W-Summon Knights of the Round first. This is the best attack against WEAPON. Mime it as much as possible. While you're doing that, WEAPON will occasionally hit you with another Emerald Shot or Revenge Stamp which deals around 2000-4000 damage to each charachter. Remember, if a charachter dies, don't heal them, keep mimeing. If Cloud dies you'll probably need to recast KOTR. Eventually smaller lasers on it's arms will open and it'll hit you with a 4000-6000 damage attack called Emerald Beam. It can then cast 4 to 8 attacks half of which drain 500 or so MP and half 3000 Hp or so. Also at this point it can cast Aire Tam Storm. Not only does this attack heal the WEAPON by 6000 Hp, it deals 9999 damage to each charachter. Once you've used up all summon power with KOTR and are unable to mime it anymore it's time to use all that other stuff. Cast D.Blow and 4xCut as much as possible. Use limit breaks wisely and use Elixers, X-Potions, and TurboEthers. It may take a while, but eventually the stupid thing will die.
Note that while fighting it it will occasionally emit a loud groan. This signifies that it's about 1/3 dead. Probably the best thing to keep in mind, however, is that this thing has Hp of around 1,000,000 and is a heck of a lot stronger than you so BE CAREFULL! It may take a few tries but you should be able to kill it. For defeating the Emerald WEAPON you'll recieve Earth Harp which you can trade to that Kalm guy for the three master materias.
THE RUBY WEAPON
The Ruby WEAPON appears after defeating the Ultimate weapon and obtaining the Ultima Sword. It's head is lurking in the sand around the Gold Saucer.
My first piece of advice is beat the Emerald WEAPON first. Keep the same materia placement except give Cloud all 3 master materias, replace Phoenix with a mastered Revive and add W-Summon to his list. Everyone else should have an Escape handy. Cloud's accessory should be ribbon and his armor should be resistant to fire.
First you should know that Ruby is a fire based creature. Not only that but any physical attack and most magic attack's damage is severely reduced against WEAPON.
The first attack you'll have to deal with is a 6000 pt downward thrust followed almost immediately with Big swing which means 4000-5000 damage to each. If Cloud is damaged but doesn't die, heal him. Don't worry about anyone else. The WEAPON will also use an attack called Whirlsand which can completely remove a charachter from the game. If this happens to Cloud, escape and try again otherwise you should be fine. Don't bother attacking it just yet because it's invulnerable till it's claws are in the sand and sticking up behind you. Once this happens, thier attacks are similar to the Emerald's lasers. After this happens, have Cloud W-summon KOTR. After each attack Weapon will retaliate with Ultima but if your Cloud has high dexterity, it usually misses. Also if you can use the Hades Mteria on it, and if you're lucky, it might silence him. Normal Silence attacks won't work. After each attack with KOTR use an Elixir to fully heal Cloud's Hp and Mp and do it again. If you're able to hit it two or three times without having to use Final attack you'll be fine.
Two more things. If you want to avoid a definite Ultima blast you can use Bahamut ZERO, which though is effective could make the fight go much longer and it doesn't guaruntee he won't Ultima, Comet2 or Shadow Flare you. Also, if you want you can attack and eventually destroy the tentacles when they're behind you, but this will also make the fight way longer than it has to be.
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