Sphere Grid completed for all characters - Page 4

June 24, 2008, 12:12 AM

Yeah I attempted to do this but after hours and hours in the Omega Ruins I decided to give it up. Frankly if you fill up the entire sphere grid with even one character my hat's off to you.

June 28, 2008, 2:03 PM

yeah no one with atleast half a life should be able to do that....its just not suppose to be...

June 29, 2008, 8:29 AM

I completed the SG with Tidus, Wakka, Yuna, Rikku and Auron. Didn't see a point in the use of Kimahri/Lulu for the more difficult battles.
With the 3x OD, 3x AP and OD-AP weapons it would be easy to do it for all, That's how i did it for 5.

July 14, 2008, 9:03 AM

As soon as I find the bloody game I'm going to attempt it, I didn't get very far last time, but it is very possible to complete the whole grid, it just takes hours upon hours of leveling up, training and fighting fiends.
I hope I can complete it 100% when I can finally find it. T_T I miss the game too much!

July 14, 2008, 10:08 AM

I've never been able to do it or come close, I get far too bored. The most I've gotten is getting a few characters to complete two maybe three routes. However one day I want to go back and open a can of whoop-arse on the Dark Aeons, as the only one I've defeated has been Dark Valefor and even then that was by using Yojimbo, so I guess I'll get around to maxing it out eventually.

July 16, 2008, 11:14 AM

It's not really hard, it just takes a bit of time and know-how.

I'm half way through going round it a second time with 5 characters. If you use the Don Tonberry trick you can pull around 50 sphere levels per fight no sweat: to be honest I don't think anyone has tried to completely beat the game by training in Omega Ruins for 300 hours. So far I've taken 90 hours, including a lot of time wasted (I'm hopeless at the Chocobo race at Remiem) but with a bit of luck (I got the Sun Sigil first go after beating Yunalesca :S).

Don't call the DT method cheating, it's just being smart

July 20, 2008, 8:01 PM

Agreed, it really doesn't take that long, especially if you're in the practice of quickly swapping all your characters in and out of every battle from the start. If you do that while on the quest for Auron's Masamune, you can easily get around the whole grid with everyone by the time you've got his weapon powered up.

Getting them maxed out, on the other hand, is slow-ish. I blame my mother's 3-hour phonecalls for this:

The 99s on the first screen are because you can't have more than 99 sphere levels in reserve.

The end of the game is indeed hopelessly easy when you've done that -- Lulu can kill the final boss by flicking her Moogle at it -- but if you've played the whole game until you know it really well, it can be fun to go poke at bosses in the Monster Arena. The last few are a challenge even when people are doing 99,999 points of damage per hit!

As you can tell from that screencap, I find the chocobo race and butterfly hunt MUCH more difficult and time-consuming, since I have arthritic fingers! I finally got Kimahri's, but that really was a waste of time (not something one can do while stuck on the phone, for one thing).

July 21, 2008, 2:56 AM

Personally I find going through and completely the sphere grid entirely pointless. I think FFX is one of the easier FF's, you can basically rush through the game and still beat it pretty easily, the only hard "boss" fights I found even a little bit hard was the first battle against Seymour at the temple, the fight against the two Ronso's - and thats simply because Kihmari was never in my main party, and I barely used him ever. And the battle against Seymour later on at Mt. Gagazet. It's perfectly possible to do it - as been explained already in this thread, don't know why I'm repeating it .. it's just pointless.

July 21, 2008, 8:41 AM

It's pointless if your goal is to get through the game and beat it as quickly as possible.

There is some point to it if your goal is to enjoy the game as long as possible, including finishing all the sidequests, and/or you just like playing FFX.

July 22, 2008, 4:00 PM

Exactly^
The main storyline is rather easy, but when it comes down to the Dark Aeons, and Penance, its almost necessary to maximize your stats. Of course, its possible to defeat them without even touching the sphere grid...but why bother, unless you're doing a challenge.