I started maxing out the sphere grid, but I still have alot of other things to do (Like killing the dark aeons, monster arena, ultimate weapons, overdrives ect.) so that will keep me occupied. (I'm not sure if I have the patients though...)

I have the NA version and the best way to max all stats that I did was this :

Get the triple AP weapons with 3 slots from One-eye in the monster arena. Fill the other two slots with triple overdrive and Overdrive>AP.

Set the person with the weapon equipped with overdrive mode comrade and the other two on Stoic. Have Auto-pheonix equipped on one armor.

Then fight don tonberry....he should do 99,999 damage to your main stoic killer. Keep hitting him and having him kill you. (Not your comrade overdrive chara tho)

After about 5 hits on don tonberry you will have 99 sphere grid lvls!


To get alot of regular spheres just use any distiller on kottos and overkill him for 40 of the sphere you want.

Doing this method takes at max 4 hours to max 3 chara's grids.

Now collect 63 of agility, strength, luck, magic, Magic defence and defence spheres! You will also need 300ish HP spheres and only 25 mana spheres. No evasion or accuracy needed!

Strength, defense, magic defence, magic are the easiest so get those first.

To get luck spheres the best method is to use attack reels for 1.2mil damage and blitz ace for 400k damage on greater sphere and 2 hit him. Use this combo of overdrives for HP spheres too.

Now have about 8mil gil, just have rikkus gillionaire equipped and kill mimics in omega for 100k a kill if you need cash. Buy clear spheres! 780ish to be exact, and clear EVERY node on the board and use your strength luck magic ect....to activate.


At the end of it all you will have 99,999 HP 999 MP 255 of every stat except accuracy and evasion wich you do not need because 255 luck = 255 of both those stats!

The whole process only takes like 3 days if you have you celestial weapons already. Once you get 1 chara TRUELY maxed....do the don tonberry method and the rest will only take a few hours to max remaining 6 charas.

Also, theres alot of debate as to having 99,999 is worth getting. I think it is just because of aurons celestial weapon. If you have aurons armor with auto haste auto protect auto regen and break HP limit, then his weapon will always do 99,999 damage when idling in yellow above the normal 9,999. If you have the Dark Aeons version YOU HAVE TO HAVE 99,999 HP and all TRUE MAX stats or you wont beat penance. In NA version its optional tho. It doesnt take a long time if you know exactly what your doing.