Help FFXIII-2: Unlocking places

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RavensFTW8

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Hey guys,
I am having an issue with unlocking areas. I have all the wild artifacts (except the serendepity one) but i have so many places still yet to be unlocked. I will attach a photo of my Historia Crux. I know i got every artifact because i checked every place 3-4 times.
I have searched google, searched yotube, but i can't find any logical answers. My friend had the book the you could order with the game when it came out, i took a picture of the historia crux, but i took it to far away so the quality is really bad and i cant tell. Basically What Im asking is, does anyone have a picture of the crux?
Basically I need help in a few areas.
1. Can someone help me with unlocking those areas I don't have.
2. Where is the best place to make GIL (any cheats to making gil, i already beat the game so cheating isn't that bad)
3. Where is the best place for CP?
4. Is there another way to get more artifacts?

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RavensFTW8 said:
Hey guys,
I am having an issue with unlocking areas. I have all the wild artifacts (except the serendepity one) but i have so many places still yet to be unlocked. I will attach a photo of my Historia Crux. I know i got every artifact because i checked every place 3-4 times.
I have searched google, searched yotube, but i can't find any logical answers. My friend had the book the you could order with the game when it came out, i took a picture of the historia crux, but i took it to far away so the quality is really bad and i cant tell. Basically What Im asking is, does anyone have a picture of the crux?
Basically I need help in a few areas.
1. Can someone help me with unlocking those areas I don't have.
2. Where is the best place to make GIL (any cheats to making gil, i already beat the game so cheating isn't that bad)
3. Where is the best place for CP?
4. Is there another way to get more artifacts?

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1.) There are 10 wild artefacts for exactly 10 unlockable optional gates. I can see from your historia crux map that the only gate you haven't unlocked is sunleth waterscape 400 AF (4th blank node from the right). Buy the Serendipity wild artifact and go to yaschas massif 100AF and unlock the gate to this place.
The leftmost empty node is the Lightning story DLC, which is not available to us, not until May, where the DLC will be released.
The other empty nodes I haven't mentioned are paradox endings. They are not really areas, but cutscene clips where you view these 'what-if' scenarios. They do not require any artifacts.

Here are the methods to unlock each. First of all, turn ON the paradox scope fragment skill.
A. Close bresha ruins 005AF gate, defeat atlas WITHOUT disabling the device in the ruins.
B. Close Oerba 200AF gate, defeat Caius again
C. Close Sunleth 300AF, after fighting Royal Ripeness once, directly kill him again without going to archylte stepe
D. Close Augusta Tower 200 AF, defeat Proto Fal'cie Adam again.
E. Close Academia 4xx AF, go to Hope and Alyssa, talk to them. Eventually, Alyssa will give you the Vagabond Artefact. Choose to NOT receive it, in the live trigger.
F. Close Academia 4xx AF, go through the normal storyline by entering the gate, and then see the multiple Yeuls as per normal. Defeat Caius again.
G. TURN OFF the paradox scope. Repeat step F (above). Then enter Serah's dream in Void Beyond as per normal. When you talk to Lightning, choose to stay in the dream.
H. TURN OFF the paradox scope. Repeat step G (above), but choose to leave the dream. Continue the story as per normal. In Dying world, TURN ON paradox scope. With Noel, beat Caius again.

Yup that's all!


2.) Turn on Battlemania fragment skill if you have it. Go to Oerba 400AF, Go near the stairs leading to the beach area. Go around till you find rare monster Raspatil. Beat it. Repeat the process.

3.) Turn on the rolling in CP fragment skill if you have it. Go to Academia 400AF and farm CP from the easy monsters.

4.) No. There are just enough artifacts for 10 optional gates in total. Paradox endings do not require artifacts.
 
Thanks a lot man, that helps a lot. Now i wont get mad at this game because I can't finish it hehe.
Just two three questions
1. The monster Raspatil you listed, i researched a little about him, some people say you get 20k, some say u get 150k, some say you get 200k, and some say you can only kill him once. I just want want to be sure about this.
2. If you wear the add more monsters skill (don't remember the name) to spawn that monster?
3. Are the bosses harder the second time around(when crux is locked)? Only asking is that, right before u posted this i'm like oh cool you can lock a portal... I was going to look in oerba again for the wild artifact, to make sure i didn't miss it (again). When i came in, it showed the orange/yellow circle to do/finish a quest... i go and im like huh, then i remember its the story. When i started fighting caius again, he was strong it seems like. I thought i would demolish him since i am higher lvl now, but i couldn't even kill him this time around (my paradigms weren't set though to what they should have been). But basically, are they stronger second time around?

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1. I'm not too sure about the Gil, but I know he respawns more than once.
2. It does not really affect appearance of rare enemies, as far as I know. But the battlemania fragment skill does.
3. Yes. Once paradox scope is turned on, bosses related to paradox ending will become much stronger. This is especially true when you are fighting with Serah alone in void beyond.
Anyway, if you are struggling with Caius in Oerba, it seems that Raspatil may be too hard for you. Try farming Gil in Academia 400AF instead.

For your information, even if you close a gate, the wild artifact is considered to be obtained already. Thus there can only be 10 wild artifacts obtainable, no matter what.
 
Thanks again!
Looks like i have a question everytime you reply hehe.
For the battlemania fragment skill, I found out that you need to have 100% map of Academia. EDIT--Figured out 100% Map thing.
Also, If i accidentally released/infused a chochobo (red one from Steppe) with someone else, I can still get one back right? I accidentally infused it with Lightning.
I can still spawn that monster without battle mania right?
EDIT-- I spent 15min and i couldn't spawn him so i figure u need battle mania

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RavensFTW8 said:
Thanks again!
Looks like i have a question everytime you reply hehe.
For the battlemania fragment skill, I found out that you need to have 100% map of Academia. EDIT--Figured out 100% Map thing.
Also, If i accidentally released/infused a chochobo (red one from Steppe) with someone else, I can still get one back right? I accidentally infused it with Lightning.
I can still spawn that monster without battle mania right?
EDIT-- I spent 15min and i couldn't spawn him so i figure u need battle mania

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Yes, it will eventually appear. Red chocobo is not a one-time monster. However, monsters found in treasure chests or by throwing Mog is one-time only. Think twice before infusing them into other monsters.
 
yea u were right he was pretty tough, the battle took long and then i lost at the very end. Guess I need to lvl up more... you think academia 400 AF is fastest place to earn CP? I have everything maxed out to 99 except 1 for noel and 1 for serah. Im trying to get my monsters to 99.. but need more gil to buy more of the monster materials.
Also, I don't have the game in right now, but i noticed there were some weapons in the downloadbale content, do you think its worth it downloading any of them? I will post them tomorrow (all their names) I just wish you would be able to see their stats
 
I don't think those DLC weapons are worth the money.Have you given Hope the chaos crystal? The reward is a great weapon.
 
Nope, how do you do that? Well actually I don't know lol, I could have. Whats the name of the weapon
 
Go to Serendipity and buy the Chaos Crystal from the vendor. It's quite expensive though. Then give it to Hope in Academia 4xx AF. Go to the person at the reception table in the previous room and get the weapon. It's a choice between Serah's and Noel's weapons. It doesn't matter which you get, because you will be able to buy the one you didn't choose from Serendipity.

The names are Odinbolt and Odinbow, or something like that.

Take note that they become stronger as you collect more fragments. If you have 100+ fragments, they should be sufficiently strong. If not, there may be other stronger weapons if I recall correctly.
 
Oh cool, I have 146/160 fragments right now if thats what you mean. I'm trying to finish off all the normal islands before i close all the others to redo the story. I still have to do 2 more fragments for academia 400XXX AF (Monster guy, I have no idea how to do his quest) and something else that i am trying to figure out what. Then I have that one pain in the ass boss on Steppe (One where you have to jump over the hill to get to him, i beat the turtlesour though). Oh and yea 3 more fragments for serpendity but my silver chocobo isn't strong enough yet to beat every event.
 
Okay well now i have a pretty serious problem. Is there a way to go back to a previous save? I was trying to do the fragment for academia 4xx af (Hopes)... and apparently i did it wrong where i am doing the story over... I headed to the other gate, opened it and it gave me 3 options (They are all grey options, where you have to choose 1). 1. Serendipity (I went there but i couldn't do anything in it). 2. The void Beyond (this is where you speak to all the yules and then you fight cauis with just serah...he demolishes me, I have no chance). and 3. Colliseum (There is no one in it). I cant get out of this screen, and it seems the only way is to fight cauis and I am too weak to fight him.
I hope this isnt the end for me, I don't want to restart the game just to beat the fragments.
 
No you are not in trouble. Don't worry. Simply turn off paradox scope fragment skill if you really can't beat him. Turning off paradox scope will turn Caius back to his normal strength, allowing you to easily escape the place and probably retry later when you are stronger.

For Caius vs Serah. Put a Sentinel in every single paradigm except one. Try to debuff him using saboteur too. You hopefully have a good sentinel with you, such as Bunkerbeast or silver chocobo.


Academia 4xx AF fragment: You have to kill at least one of every single possible enemy in the game. This is very tough if you don't have a walkthrough. The other fragment may be when you answer 'no' to Alyssa if you turn on paradox scope. If you have done this already, that means the remaining fragment is from one of those quiz minigames.

For Yomi (the hill cie'th), have a SEN SEN SEN paradigm as soon as he initiate his ultimate attack.

What are the three remaining fragments for Serendipity? Have you gotten the lucky coin fragment? There are no direct fragments from chocobo racing, unless you use the coins gained from it to buy the fragments from the vendor.
To get the lucky coin fragment, you need to gain 7,777 coins from winning in the casino. Doesn't matter how much you lose. The game only counts the gains.
A way to get this is, buy at least 10000 coins from the vendor. Talk to the woman in front of the slot machine. If she doesn't say "it's like a hot summer's day", return to historia crux and reenter the place, talk to her again. If she doesn't say it, return to historia crux and reenter, repeat the process until she says it. Then play the slots. Use a rubber band and tape down the L1 button so that the game auto-plays. Leave the game alone for a few hours, and you should hopefully gain the fragment.

Just a note, in the historia crux, you can press square (X in the xbox), to manually create a new save file. You can do this once in a while, so that you can load a different save file if you mess up.
 
Thx alot, I will have to try that tomorrow. Got Kinda mad when caius was demolishing me lol. You would think with 8k Life and every thing maxed out other than one thing( which is rank 40) would be strong enough to fight caius but guess not lol. But yea for seredepity I think the only things i need to do is just buy the things from the shop.
Im missing 2 frags from academia (the monster one which is going to be a b..., and the one where you have to close the gate, I never got the option to say no to alyssa), it could be because i kept skipping the scenes when doing it, next time i will try without skipping the scenes.
I'm trying to complete every fragment i can, and the ones im too weak to complete the others, I guess its time to go to academia 400 af to get as many CP to rank up as much as i can so that I can earn gold from that monster in oerba and then use that gold to rank up my monsters and later hunt the other chocobos.
Sigh this game has a lot to do lol, just wish i had more time to play i really like this game, although im not a fan of the battle system, and althogh its cool we can use monsters, I'm still a fan of the old system where you would have like 6 characters and can pick which one to use, and actually use that character.
Hopefully a new RPG comes out for xbox similar to the old final fantasies.
I played Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon (Lost odyssey is by far my favorite game for xbox) I just wish there were other games than just those 2 that were similar to the old final fantasies, then again those 2 games were created by the same person who made final fantasy.
 
I think you should be strong enough. As I said, go and find a good sentinel monster ally like bunkerbeast.

I'm currently playing Lost Odyssey. And yeah LO is really awesome. I really wish the new FF games are more like this.
 
For the Monster thing, do you know any websites for locations? I found this one http://www.ign.com/wikis/final-fantasy-xiii-2/Monster_list_by_location
Its pretty helpful, but then again some monsters spawn in different places.
Also, just making sure how it works, I need to have a check mark by every monster right? Like right now im doing. Terraquatic.. and the List is Bloodfang Bass, Breshan Bass, Hedge Frog, Ceratosaur, Spiceacillian, Tobasco Toad, Pitterapatter, Chunerpeton. I am missing check marks on Breshan Bass, Tobasco Toad, and Chunerpeton
For some reason it says though that I have tamed the Bass and Chunerpeton, but there are no check marks near their name.
Is that also the full list?
Because I went to this website:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/619315-final-fantasy-xiii-2/faqs/63733
for terraquatic it has more monsters than i listed, like: Mud Frog and Ceratoraptor

If so i'm gonna have to start over from beast lol, because my beat one has every one checked, but i could be missing some.
Also is there any websites for the pictures of monsters, I know you can click on the monster and it will tell you its look, but for the ones I don't have its confusing.

This is going to be one pain in the butt

Or am i doing this completely wrong that if they are already on my list in the beastiary that means I have encountered them and I have to find the monsters that I haven't encountered that are on this website and not on my beastiary?
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/619315-f...i-2/faqs/63733
 
RavensFTW8 said:
For the Monster thing, do you know any websites for locations? I found this one http://www.ign.com/wikis/final-fantasy-xiii-2/Monster_list_by_location
Its pretty helpful, but then again some monsters spawn in different places.
Also, just making sure how it works, I need to have a check mark by every monster right? Like right now im doing. Terraquatic.. and the List is Bloodfang Bass, Breshan Bass, Hedge Frog, Ceratosaur, Spiceacillian, Tobasco Toad, Pitterapatter, Chunerpeton. I am missing check marks on Breshan Bass, Tobasco Toad, and Chunerpeton
For some reason it says though that I have tamed the Bass and Chunerpeton, but there are no check marks near their name.
Is that also the full list?
Because I went to this website:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/619315-final-fantasy-xiii-2/faqs/63733
for terraquatic it has more monsters than i listed, like: Mud Frog and Ceratoraptor

If so i'm gonna have to start over from beast lol, because my beat one has every one checked, but i could be missing some.
Also is there any websites for the pictures of monsters, I know you can click on the monster and it will tell you its look, but for the ones I don't have its confusing.

This is going to be one pain in the butt

Or am i doing this completely wrong that if they are already on my list in the beastiary that means I have encountered them and I have to find the monsters that I haven't encountered that are on this website and not on my beastiary?
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/619315-f...i-2/faqs/63733
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You only need to kill the monster. There's no need to capture it. The gamefaqs list should be quite reliable. Monster that you have beaten are shown in your in-game bestiary. So if it's in the gamefaqs list but not on yours, you need to kill it.
 
Ah okay gotcha, just wondering though, so whats the point of the check mark? But thats nice, atleast beating it counts, because capturing or getting that check mark would be a bigger pain
 
I'm not sure about the checkmarks. Probably it means that you have obtained the libra information about the monster. This is not required for the quest. Killing it is sufficient, as I said.
 
many of your missing gates are from paradox endings. once you beat the game, you get the paradox scope fragment skill that will allow you to do things that you could not before, like refuse to take the artefact alyssa gives you.

for money i kill the first bosses in academia 500 af, they drop stuff that sells for like 18k gil
 
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