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Out of curiosity, what's your timeframe for "ridiculously long"? 1 minute per fight? 2 minutes? 5?

Early in the game, you don't have room for grinding because fighting each enemy on path maxes the Crystarium before the next expansion. That starts to change in chapters 6 and 7, and becomes a major factor in chapter 11. A player who grinds to max primary roles in chapter 11 will have...

Rating the baseline difficulty of battles in any FF game is rather difficult, as all kinds of variables come into play: how developed "should" your characters be for X enemy or Y boss? and, what equipment should we assume you are using? and, how do we compare resource management issues in FFI...

(This is mostly a cross-post from the other forum where you asked this question.) It might be useful for me to talk a little theory here. In most games with Job systems, you make a choice about which Job each character should have before you initiate battle (or in some cases, when you start...

I finally got back to my challenge last night. Bituitus was indeed a bit challenging, although not as hard for me as it sounds like it was for General Beatrix. It was my first reliance on secondaries to get all of the abilities I wanted. I wound up using Sazh/Hope/Fang, taking advantage of...

I love that cutscene! If you're talking about the forced Adamanchelid fight right after Proudclad, try taking control of Fang and doing nothing with her except spamming Daze while the rest of your party keeps you healed, sets up buffs and debuffs, staggers, and kills. If you're talking about...

If Bart 2 gives you trouble, try Sazh, Vanille, and Hope. Teach Ruin to Hope (it only costs 6000 CP), get full buffs at the start of the fight, and don't bother with much beyond Haste and Veil once Apoptosis starts clearing them (if you're good at manual entry, Bravery-Haste Sazh and...

You're moving along nicely it seems! Brynhildr is a beast, even in normal play, but Kalavinka Striker is usually a chump with Curse shutting him down. It's amazing how some enemies become so much more dangerous when you're missing certain abilities (and HP). Good luck with Barthandelus once...

Speaking narratively, Chapter 10 is the start of the second act (the Barthandelus reveal is the climax of the first act), with the overall climax occurring in chapter 13 (as you would expect). Now that is quibbling with phrasing. You fight 15 bosses in chapters 1 through 9. You fight 15...

I'll see what I can do with this when I have a chance to play. Winning will be trivial; getting 5 stars will be more difficult. Your deduction is not accurate because it is founded upon an incorrect premise: your strategy is not the only way to get 5 stars in battles. However, I understand...

Ugallu is the big ass wolf, yes. No progress for me; I haven't been able to play for the past few days. Have you made it to the farming spot in chapter 7? I definitely agree that it's a good idea to try some sort of challenge. If you're interested in challenge play but aren't sure you want...

If you thought that 90% of enemies were best killed in the exact same way, then you were failing to find the actual best way to kill at least 85% of the enemies. The game gives you the Retry option in large part to facilitate experimentation with different things both during and before battles...

That's a cool strategy for Enki & Enlil. Glad you finally got past Bulby! I zipped through the chapter 10 bosses and Alexander without much problem. I was only a little under level for them. I did some farming on the Behemoth King/Megistotherian fight to get CP for secondary roles, and now...

Elements of strategy in this game include, but are not limited to: team composition, leader selection, paradigm selection, weapon and accessory selection, target ordering, single-target vs. multi-target approach, damage amplification methods, and damage mitigation methods. Somehow, I quite a...

Nice! I played my game NCU up to Dreadnought, and wound up spending CP there because Wrecking Ball kept killing me. Those Bombs are vicious when you're under strength. I went through the early chapters pretty quickly (aside from no upgrades, it's been a normal playthrough). I just reached...

5 stars gets you better rare drop rates. 0 stars gets you the best shroud drop rates. Works like this: Stars Rare Chance Shroud Chance 0 nil x8 1 nil x4 2 nil x2 3 x1 x1 4 x3 x1 5 x5 x1 Base shroud drop rate goes down by chapter. In chapter 2 it was 12%, so getting 0 stars...

Any progress? I decided to bite the bullet on a different challenge that I've been considering for a while (primaries capped at stage 6, secondaries unlimited, no equipment upgrades) and I've just started on my shroud farming.

You claim that FFXIII lacks optimization, but in fact the game allows strategic optimization, tactical optimization, crystarium path optimization, item upgrade/resource expenditure optimization, time optimization, and optimization along other avenues. FFXIII does prevent you from leveling up...

I apologize for inadvertently insulting you. That wasn't my intent (I actually edited my first reaction before posting because I thought it sounded insulting when I read the post preview, but I clearly didn't edit it enough), and I may well have interpreted your comment differently from what...

Say what? Check again: Ruby and Emerald are buff; aside from them, I don't remember any FFVII bosses being all that difficult. By and large, I do not find this to be true. I find that most fights in most FF games are efficiently dealt with by very straight-forward strategies, whereas winning...