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This guide is to be a walkthrough only. I will include useful information about monsters or magic or something like that in the walkthrough itself when it becomes useful information. I will perhaps add a side quest section after the walkthrough is complete, but I am hoping to cover all the side quests in the walkthrough itself. So if you want just the walkthrough, none of the other info you probably won't use, this guide should be good for you. You can always just go look at another guide for a second if you actually do need some of the information I have left out. Hello all. This is my walkthrough for the game Final Fantasy IV. The game is very old, yet I felt it still lacked a certain type of walkthrough. I was unable to find a walkthrough to my liking in my search of the internet, so I decided i'd write my own. I have had some troubles while writing the guide, unforunately. I started writing it in mid-2006 (so long after the game was released) but lost my personal copy of the walkthrough which was further written that the guide on the net. I was stupid enough to not have backup saves so I had to start my whole game again, using my own guide to play though back to where the guide was written to. It has taken me until a few days before christmas, 2007, to get back to attempting to write this guide again. A note on the game I am playing. I am playing the PAL version of Final Fantasy Anthology (bought in Australia). FF Anthology contains both Final Fantasy IV and V, on seperate discs. So there may be some subtle differences between my version of the game and the one you, the reader, may have. These differences most likely will not effect anything, but if it does, do not hesitate to get in contact with me so I can make a note. =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= ------------------------------[III. - Walkthrough]----------------------------- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Introduction ------------ During the overall introduction I mentioned that I thought the internet lacked a certain type of walkthrough. Mainly, a walkthrough that would not describe the freaking scenes to you. "Cecil will follow Baigan, and then Baigan will tell Cecil to wait" blah blah. I would MUCH prefer it to simply acknowlege there is a scene there, then continue with the guide. "After the scene has finished." When I mention north,south,east,west,etc I am talking simpy about up, down, left, right, etc. Not actual compass directions. Okay, here's the layout I will use for the walkthrough. Layout ------ =============================================================================== Area title =============================================================================== Items ----- List of items that will be found. =============================================================================== My Levels --------- The levels of my characters at this point of the game. When a number is in brackets, that is the level that my characters were upon leaving the area. If a character name is in brackets, this means that the character either joined or left the party in the area - I will state whether they join or leave. =============================================================================== Boss ---- A list of the bosses you will face in this area. =============================================================================== Make sense? No? here is an example then =============================================================================== Kaipo =============================================================================== Items ----- Ether1 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 13, (Rydia - 1) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Soldier(3) - 30HP General - 240HP, ??? Gil, ??? Exp =============================================================================== This will then be followed with directions. If it is an area you have never been to, I will most likely give directions to the items you can get before giving directions to advance the storyline. Also, i like to put items in capital letters, as i find it to be convenient Anyway, that should make sense to you, so lets start the walkthrough! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* =============================================================================== Castle Baron =============================================================================== Items ----- 480 Gil Ether1 Tent =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 10 =============================================================================== During the first scene you are thrust into a battle, you don't have to do anything though, just watch. I count these 'forced' battles as part of the scene and will not mention them in the future, unless you actually have to control the battle. When the scene ends head down the stairs to your south. On 1F, head to the bottom right and check the button behind the man standing there to open a secret door. Claim the chests inside for 480 GIL, an ETHER1 and a TENT. Continue to the far left and up the stairs there. Go along this short path and down another set of stairs. Go south a little bit for a short scene. Continue south. Outside, go between the 2 buildings for another short scene. Head straight up into the tower and go up the stairs. Talk to the woman blocking your way and go up some more steps. Go all the way left and into your bed for a much longer scene. This scene contains the typical pre-playstation text explanation. After the scene you will be outside the castle, but before you go anywhere in the Overworld, head into the town (not the castle). =============================================================================== Baron Village =============================================================================== Items ----- Potion x3 EagleEye Tent x2 Eyedrops Ether1 MaidKiss HrGlass1 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 10, (Kain - 10[joins]) =============================================================================== Firstly, head all the way to the right in the Inn's alley and check the pot, it contains a POTION. Head into the Inn and check the bottom pot in the room on your left for another POTION. Head to the right and up to get to the back half of the Inn. Check the swords on the wall here to open the secret door. Claim the 3 chests inside, containing EAGLEEYE, a TENT and some EYEDROPS. Exit the Inn. there are 4 pots to the left of the house above the Inn, check the bottom of the 4 for a POTION. Enter the house and check the left half of the shelf for an ETHER1 and check the pot in the top left for a MAIDKISS. Exit the house and go to the top of the town where it is possible to enter the water. Do so and follow the stream to the outside of the wall. When you are blocked, tap X to find a TENT. There is also a HRGLASS1 near the bottom right of this pool. You will be blocked by it, so it isn't hard to find. This is also your first chance to rename your characters. If you enter the small house above the item store and go down the stairs there is an odd looking guy on the right. He is Namingway, and speaking to him will give you the chance to rename a character. Anyway, buy any items you want from the item store and exit the town to the Overworld. =============================================================================== Overworld =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 10(11), Kain - 10(11) =============================================================================== The enemies out here are absolutely pathetic and should be no problem at all. Simply holding down the X button will yield a win with no damage taken (unless you are extremely unlucky). I strongly reccomend that you do not run from ANY battles out here, as they are easy Exp and money. This is your first opportunity to save so do so. There should be a bridge in view near the top of the screen, cross it and head left to find another bridge, cross it also. Continue left, into the path created by mounatins. Follow this path to the end where there is an entranceto Mist Cave. I would suggest that you get to level 11 before entering the cave, as it will make proceedings easier, and it won't take very long at all. =============================================================================== Mist Cave =============================================================================== Items ----- Potion x2 Eyedrops Tent =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 11(13), Kain - 11(13) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Mist Dragon - 475 HP, 200 Gil, 700 Exp =============================================================================== This cave is exceedingly easy and shouldn't require much explanation to get through. The enemies in here can be slightly harder than outside, but holding the X button will again ensure a flawless victory. A quick note about SandMoth, let Kain attack these, as they are flying, and he will do a lot of extra damage. So in the SandMoth/Larva combo of enemies, let Cecil take the Larva, and Kain take the SandMoth. If you happen to run into 6 swordrats or whatever they are called, it might be a decent idea to use Cecil's dark attack once or twice to kill them all. Remember, using dark will lower Cecil's hp, but you're not going to be using many potions throughout the game, so do feel bad about using some to replenish his hp afterwards. Head to the right, up the stairs, and to the left. Go past the 2 sets of stairs, and up. When you go over the first set of stairs, you will get a mysterious message. ignore it and continue up the next set. Grab the chest for a POTION. Go back down 1 set of stairs, and right across the bridge. Head up the first set of stairs you get to and check the chest up there to get EYEDROPS. Head back down the steps. Continue south and down 2 more stairs, follow this path left a bit then up to some more steps. This chest contains a TENT. Head back to the previous double-set of stairs. Climb 1, and then head right. There is a chest in plain sight here, it contains a POTION. Go up and towards the exit now. Before you get there though, you will get some more of the mysterious voice. Ignore it yet again and continue on, select 'yes' when prompted to fight the first boss. _______________________________________________________________________________ Mist Dragon _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- HP: 475 Gil: 200 Exp: 700 (*Note: Exp is divided among characters, so you will only get 350 Exp for this battle, as it will say. that is 350 each, 700 all up.) _______________________________________________________________________________ This boss really isn't too hard. No first boss ever is. Anyway, for this battle, have Kain use his Jump ability, while Cecil uses his standard attack. Kain cannot be hit while he is in the air, so this may mean Cecil will get pounded with attacks. So have some potions handy just in case. After a few rounds, the dragon will lose shape and turn into mist. DO NOT ATTACK at this point, as it will result in no damage and it countering with a powerful attack, ColdMist, which damages both party members AND has an annoying message which explains why not to attack it. Use this as an opportunity to heal if you need to. All in all, an easy battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Head out of the cave to the Overworld. On the overworld head towards the village, before you actually enter the village unequip Kain. By the way, the enemies here are the strongest you've faced yet but shouldn't be a real problem. You shouldn't even face an enemy between the cave and the town. =============================================================================== Mist =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 13, (Kain - 13[leaves]) =============================================================================== There is absolutely nothing to do here, except for walk to the right a little to start a scene. After this scene you will be on the overworld, without Kain (that's why you unequipped him). You may want to be a little more careful here without the second party member, so just head up to the desert. In the middle of the desert is an oasis, and with the oasis comes a town, called Kaipo. =============================================================================== Kaipo =============================================================================== Items ----- Ether1 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 13(14), (Rydia - 1(7)[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- General + Soldier(3) - 240 HP(General) 30 HP(Soldier), 242 Gil, 869 Exp =============================================================================== Step forward a bit to start a scene. During this scene, you have to fight a boss. _______________________________________________________________________________ General + Soldier(3) _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- General - 240 HP, 242 Gil, 869 Exp Soldier - 30 HP (each), 162 Gil, 471 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ There are 2 ways to fight this battle. This being the more favourable, attack the General until he dies. When he is dead, the soldiers will just attack eachother until they die. Plus you will get the Exp from killing the General. If you don't want to do that, just kill each soldier, as the General will run after doing so. The specs listed after 'General' are what you will get when killing the General, whereas the specs listed after 'Soldier' is what you will get for defeating the soldiers. _______________________________________________________________________________ Following this battle Rydia will join your party. Exit the Inn and head over the bridge to your right. Check the top of the 2 pots here for an ETHER1. Head into the house in the top right of town. Head down the hallway for a scene. Talk to the man and woman in this house if you want to know what you'll be doing. Before you leave, buy some items, and some gear for Rydia if you want to. *Note on bows: You have the chance to buy a bow for Rydia here, if you do, do not just put the bow in her good hand. This is a mistake i made for a long time. Think about it, how do you use a bow? You use your good arm to pull back the arrow. So put the arrows in her good arm, the bow in her bad. Exit Kaipo and train for a while, Rydia is only level 1. You will want her to have some decent hp before going to the water cavern. A small tip, Rydia takes damage very easily, so you may want to put her in the back row. Once you've trained for a bit, head to the top right of the desert, you will find the entrance to the Water Cavern here. =============================================================================== Water Cavern =============================================================================== Items ----- Potion x3 MaidKiss Tent Bomb x2 IronRing Ether2 X-Potion Life Ether1 x2 IceRod 580 Gil Feather Notus HrGlass1 Dark (sword) Hades (Helm) Hades (Gloves) Hades (Armour) Hermes =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 14(16), Rydia - 7(12), (Tellah - 20[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Octomamm - 2400 HP, 500 Gil, 1200 Exp =============================================================================== Head up and across the bridge. Grab the 2 chests over here for a POTION and a MAIDKISS. Go back to the entrance, but go left this time. Cross a bridge, then get the chest on the bottom of the screen for a TENT. Head across the to the north and talk to the crazy old man blocking your way. This is the sage Tellah, and he will join your party after you speak to him. He is level 20, and a great attribute to your party. His 'recall' ability can be very useful, but don't rely on it. You may want to put him in the back row, as he is a spell caster. Go across the bridge to your right a little bit and get the chest here, it contains a BOMB. Continue right across another bridge and go down the steps into the water. Go up the series of small waterfalls just to your left and get the chest containing an IRONRING. I would advice you to put this on Tellah. Head back down the waterfalls and continue left. This may seem like a dead-end, but go into the middle of the waterfall to find a 'secret area'. the chests here contain an ETHER2, X-POTION and a LIFE. Pretty nifty, eh? Head out of the secret area and make your way to the top left of the area (yes, you have to go all the way around). Exit into the next area from here. Head straigh up and across the bridge, down the stairs, and into the water. Go to the left, and up some stairs to find a chest containing a POTION. Go back down to the water, but this time go to the bottom and up the stairs. Head to the left to get a chest containing an ETHER1. Go back to the right a bit, and across the bridge. Make your way to the left, then up and into a save room. Stepping forward will instigate a scene, after which you will be healed. Head straight up to the next room. Go across the bridge and get the chest at the top of the screen for an ICEROD. Equip this on whom you feel it should be and continue on down the 2 sets of stairs into the water. Head right a bit and back onto dry land. Head up through the door to get to B3F. Go across the bridge, and then when faced with 2 choices, take the right bridge. Get the 2 chests containing 580 GIL and a BOMB. Take the left bridge and go through the door when you get to it. In this room head straight to your left to find a secret path. Follow it to the end where you will find a chest with a POTION in it. And before you all email me about saying that was pointless, you are wrong. Go back into the path and head up this time, go to the end where you will find a FEATHER. This is a feather cap, and i would suggest you equip it on someone now. Go back around and exit up the stairs. Go up a bit, and down the stairs to your left. grab the 2 chests here for an ETHER1 and NOTUS. Cross the bridge to your right and head down the stairs to get chests containing an HRGLASS1 and DARK. Getting DARK is very important. As it is actually a weapon for Cecil, and will take his attack up by 10. Go back up the stairs and exit to the overworld. The overworld! It's been a while, hasn't it? you may like to rest out here. Why? Because it's not over yet, you still have more Water Cavern to go through. Yes, annoying isn't it? but it's got plenty of items to keep you motivated! Go up into the next section. Before you do anything make sure you have got everything you want from Kaipo, as you will not be able to go back for a while after this. Putting that aside, walk straight into the waterfall. You are now stuck here :). Go up the steps and follow the path to the bottom where you can go down some stairs and get 2 chests containing HADES and HADES. These are gear for Cecil, one is a helm, while the other is just some gloves. equip them both. Go back up the stairs and continue across the bridge into a door. On the other side, go to the right and cross a bridge. get the 2 chests here for HADES and HERMES. Go up across the bridge, then down the stairs. Go up a little and you will be able to see 2 flailing tenticles. That is our boss. Be sure you have all three hades items equipped on Cecil. Examine the tenticles. _______________________________________________________________________________ Octomamm _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 2300 HP, 500 Gil, 1200 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Don't be intimidated by the amount of HP, he really isn't that hard. You have TWO spell casters now, make sure they're both in the back row. Cecil should have pretty good defense and HP, so he'll be able to handle being in the front row. Get Tellah to use Recall a lot if you feel up to it. Getting a spell like bio is awesome, mass damage. Rydia should summon Chocobo a lot, or use bolt1. If you don't feel up to taking the risk of recall, just use bolt1 with Tellah. Cecil should just use his normal attack, it should deal a nice amount of damage. The amount of attacks he uses in the beginning is a little scary, but as you deal damage, he will lose tenticles, and his amount of attacks will drop dramatically. So as long as you can get in a few Bolt1's and attacks before you die (which is very easy) you will have no problem. _______________________________________________________________________________ Step forward twice and you will be in the overworld again! Save you game because you're finally finished with that place. Head around towards the desert, before you get to the desert there will be a short scene. Before you enter the castle, unequip Tellah. Enter it now. =============================================================================== Damcyan Castle =============================================================================== Items ----- Tent Crossbow Feather RubyRing Holy x2 Brass Potion Antidote Eyedrops Soft Life Ether1 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 16(17), Rydia - 12(14), (Tellah - 20[leaves]), (Edward - 5(11)[joins]) =============================================================================== Head into the castle. Just keep going until you find a room full of opened chests, there is one here that isn't opened, get it for a TENT. Continue up the steps and walk forward a bit for a scene. After the scene you will be in a hovercraft outside the castle. Get out of it and enter the castle again. You need to walk away from the castle, not enough to exit, but enough so you can walk around the side. Walk around the right side of the castle and into the side door. Examine the man here, and he will disappear, leaving you free to press the switch he was guarding. The switch opens a secret door into an empty cell. One of the walls between this cell and the one with the 2 chests isn't real, find it and cross through it. Open the chests for a CROSSBOW and a FEATHER. Cross over into the next cell for a RUBYRING. Head out and down the stairs. Check the bottom left pot for a HOLY and the bottom right for another HOLY and the top right for BRASS. The 'Brass' and 'Holy' are arrows, if you didn't know. Check the chests for a POTION, ANTIDOTE, EYEDROPS, SOFT, LIFE and an ETHER1. Now, if you need to be healed, enter the main of the castle and go to the room the large scene took place in before. Head to the right and check the pot to restore MP and then go to the left and check the pot to restore HP and get rid of any status problems you have. You can now exit the castle. The first thing i done here was train, taking full advantage of the free healing. I got Edward to level 11, because him at level 5 is extremely pathetic. After training, get in your hovercraft and go north of the castle. See the little rock looking things in the water? these are 'shallows'. you can fly your hovercraft over them. Make your way to the island right next to the one you are on now. Head down to a little patch of desert. The entrance to the Antlion cave is here. Save and go in. =============================================================================== Antlion Den =============================================================================== Items ----- Silk Web x2 Potion x3 Soft Tent x2 Notus Lamia Ether1 Exit HrGlass1 SandRuby =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 17, Rydia - 14(15), Edward - 11(13) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Antlion - 1000 HP, 800 Gil, 1500 Exp =============================================================================== Head over the bridge straight to your left and get the chest containing a SILK WEB. Go down the stairs and under the bridge you just crossed to get a chest containing a POTION. Head down the stairs below you and then go right until you see a bridge you can go under. Go under it and get the chest for a POTION. Head back down and go up the stairs on your right. Go as far up as you can here to find a chest containing a SOFT. Go back down the stairs and head to the left until you can go down. Follow this path to find 2 chests which hold a TENT and a POTION. Go back out of this path, all the way to the right, and down to the next area. Keep going down until you find a chest, open it for NOTUS. Go into the door just left of here. Inside there is a chest containing LAMIA. This is a harp for Edward, so equip it on him straight away as it will take his attack power up by 10. The Lamia confuses opponent it is used on, unlike the dreamer which puts them to sleep. Exit the room and head around to your left. Go up some stairs and go in the door. Follow this path until you find another door and go in that one. In here is a save point, and 3 chests containing a LIFE, ETHER1 and an EXIT. If you need to be healed, then use a tent in the square thingo. Head out and back to B2F. See the chest just at the top of the screen, go around and get it for an HRGLASS1. Head back down the stairs and to your left, across a bridge to get another SILK WEB from a chest. Go back across the bridge and down 3 sets of stairs to your south. Continue south into the Antlion Nest. Prepare yourself because you are about to face a boss. If you need to heal, go back and use a tent. Head down all the steps to start a scene, resulting in fighting the Antlion. _______________________________________________________________________________ Antlion _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 1000 HP, 800 Gil, 1500 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ This Antlion looks pussy compared to the one from FF9, but ya get that. Anyway, he IS a complete pussy. The only thing you need to watch out for is his counterattack. Rydia should use spells or summons, as he will not counter magic attacks. Cecil can just attack, but keep in mind that who the couter hits is completely random. You just just hope it hits Cecil the most, as he can take the damage easily. Edward can sit around and heal if you need him to. But if you've leveled him up as much as I have he should be able to deal 20-40 damage a round, so that's alright and you can just attack. Overall, this is a very, very easy battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ The battle is followed by a short scene in which you will get the SANDRUBY. Now you have what you need to help Rosa, so lets get back to her. You can use the 'Exit' item you got before if you are lazy, or Rydia's 'Warp' spell (this will probably take a lot of time and MP though), but I prefer to walk. Head straight up and out of this room. Instead of going all the way around though, head to your left. Don't go up the stairs just go past them into the little block of land. Go down from here. This secret path goes down, right, up. And eliminates having to go all the way around. You should be able to get out on your own from here. =============================================================================== Kaipo =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 17(18), Rydia - 15(16), Edward - 13(15), (Rosa - 10(12)[joins]) =============================================================================== Hop back in your hovercraft and head back over to Damcyan castle. Heal up in here, then leave the castle and save your game. Now then, we have to get back to Kaipo, but we can't go back through the Water Cavern (thank god) as that path is being blocked. So get in your hovercraft and head left of Damcyan castle. Follow the desert until it splits and then follow it left. Ride of the shallows here to get back to the desert at Kaipo. Find Kaipo and go in. And something cool here, you can fly over the oasis ;). Go into the house Rosa is at (The top right one) and you will be prompted to select the SandRuby from your inventory. Do so and a scene will start, during which Rosa will join the party. During the scene you will also be thrust into a battle, but with Edward only. Just keep attacking and you will win no problem, especially if you are keeping up with my levels. You will get a nice 800 Exp for Edward after this battle ;). After the scene you will have Rosa. You will want Edward, Rosa and Rydia in the back row, so in the main menu, select 'Row' to give 3 slots in the back row and 2 in the front. Rearrange your guys as you want. Buy anything you need from the weapon/armour/item stores and then leave Kaipo. You will probably want to train Rosa a bit. So we will yet again take advantage of the free healing at Damcyan. Get back in your hovercraft and go back to Damcyan. You can just train around the castle if you like, but I would suggest going back to the Antlion Den. Or even better, go to Mt. Hobs and train there. If you are simply training, don't go very far into Mt. Hobs. For those of you who don't know, that is where we are going next. So do not advance the story anymore than you have to until you want to continue. Mt. Hobs is on the same section of land as the Antlion Den, but it is much further to the right. =============================================================================== Mt. Hobs =============================================================================== Items ----- Tent Potion Soft 960 Gil Holy =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 18(19), Rydia - 16, Edward -- 15(16), Rosa - 12(14), (Yang - 10(11)[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Mom Bomb - 3200 Hp, 543 Gil, 2415 Exp =============================================================================== Head forward a few steps to trigger a scene. Rydia will learn Fire1 during this scene. If you are only here to train, do not go any further than here. You can find enemies here, so just wander around here training, and go back to Damcyan when you need to heal. The enemies here are really quite weak but offer quite decent Exp. Cocatris are capable of casting break, which petrifies a character. Using Edward to attack these and confuse them is useful, as quite often they will cast break on one of your enemies and kill them instantly. Watch out for back attacks though, as this will leave your 3 weak members in the front row and open to attack. Expecially watch out for back attacks with Gargoyle's, as they are capable of dealing up to 100 damage to one of these members, yet the same attack would only do 1 damage to Cecil. Gargoyle's can also cast 'Wind' which will lower your HP to 5. Meaning, it instantly took my Cecil from about 340 hp to 5. So watch out for these buggers. Enough about training, onto the actual mountain. Go up the lot of stairs, and head into the first door you see. Follow this path and you will find a save point, and some chests containing a TENT, POTION, SOFT and 960 GIL. Save if you want then head back to the door. Continue right, and into another door. Open the chest for HOLY (10 holy arrows). Go up one of three sets of stairs and make sure you are healed. When you get to the bottom of the second set, a scene is triggered. You will be thrust into a boss battle here. _______________________________________________________________________________ Mom Bomb _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 3200 Hp, 543 Gil, 2415 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ This will be by far your hardest battle yet. Fortunately you will have Yang in your party for this battle. Have Rydia use her Chocobo summon, Cecil use his normal attack, Yang use his normal attack, Edward use his normal attack unless you want to use him to heal, and Rosa use aim. Have Rosa keep all your hp high, because the Mom Bomb will explode eventually, and cause heavy damage to all your characters, making the rest of the battle a lot harder. So make sure you keep all your hp topped up. You may also want Rosa to cast 'Armour' on your weaker characters to give them some protection. At a point during the battle the Mom Bomb will get pissed and turn into a huge fire cloud thingo. You will get a warning saying that it is going to explode soon after it does this. Continue your attacking until it does explode. You will probably want Rydia and Rosa to cast Cure1 on all, and maybe even have Edward use Heal after it explodes. Because you are now facing 3 bombs and 3 GrayBomb's. They can deal plenty of damage. Top up your hp, then continue fighting until all 6 die. Be warned though, as these bombs can blow up also, and deal up to 120 damage to a character, so keep hp topped up at all times! If you have kept levels with me it shouldn't be too hard. But it can cause a lot of trouble. The key is to keep your hp high. _______________________________________________________________________________ After the battle Yang will officially join your party. He is only level 10, yet is exceptionally powerful. You will not need to spend time leveling him up just yet. You are not out of danger just yet, so heal up and continue through the door to your north. Go across the bridge to your east and follow the path to the end of the mountain. Overworld --------- Now that you are out on the Overworld you have to find Fabul Castle. Go the only direction you can, and when you get to a forest, follow it. When the forest ends, head to your east. You will soon see a bridge, and on the other side of the bridge is an island which Fabul Castle is on. =============================================================================== Fabul =============================================================================== Items ----- ThorRage Potion Notus Bomb Bacchus Tent Hermes Silk Web Demon (shield) Ether1 Death (Sword) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 19, (Rydia - 16[leaves]), (Edward - 16[leaves]), (Rosa - 14[leaves]), (Yang - 11(13)[leaves]) =============================================================================== Go straight up and inside. Once you are inside, head into the door on the right, it is the Weapon/Armour store. Buy all the 'Demon' gear for Cecil if you can afford it. And buy the claw of your choice for Yang. Yang already has a Fireclaw, so you should probably get the other 2, for when you need to change the element you want to use. If you havn't yet, sell all your old armour and weapons for some extra space in your inventory. Now head over to the door on the left side. This is the Inn/Item store. Rest up, and continue further into the castle. In the next room, head to the bottom and out that door. Go into the left tower. Check the left pot on the top for THORRAGE. Open the chests for a POTION, NOTUS and BOMB. Go up the stairs to find Namingway in a bed. Talk to him if you wish to change the name of any of your characters. On the next floor up you can find Yang's wife. Exit this tower and enter the right tower. On the second floor check the bottom pot for BACCHUS. On the next floor you can find a chest containing a TENT. You can go out and train for a little if you feel a little unsure of how strong you are. When you're finished, heal, unequip Rosa, and continue up to the throne room for a scene. Select 'yes' when prompted. You will be forced into a battle with a Captain and 2 Fighters. Some may class this as a Boss Battle, but I do not just kill them, they're rather easy, even with only Edward, Yang and Cecil. After that battle, there will be another, against a Weeper, Imp Cap. and Water Hag. After that, there is ANOTHER battle, it is a Captain with 2 Fighters again. And another battle, just one gargoyle this time though.After that battle, there will be another, against a Weeper, Imp Cap. and Water Hag. Yet again, another battle. Two Fighters and a Captain...again. After that, you must battle Kain. You are absolutely no match for him. Just keep attacking until you die. you're meant to lose, so don't worry. After the scene, leave the crystal room. Check the pot in the throne room for HERMES. Go to the opposite side of the room and stand on the switch to open a secret door. Follow the hidden path to a room with 3 chests. Get these chests for a SILK WEB, DEMON (shield) and an ETHER1. Equip Demon on Cecil straight away. Leave the throne room and go and rest in the Inn. Upon entering the Inn, there will be a Scene. During the scene you will get DEATH (sword) for Cecil. Equip it on him as it is extremely powerful, taking his attack power up a lot, and even taking his defense up. Unequip everyone else. Exit the castle. You will see the boat to the right of your screen. Go and board it. There will be a large scene here. When you have control again, Cecil will be on his own, on a strange island. Head to your right and enter the town. =============================================================================== Mysidia =============================================================================== Items ----- Gysahl =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 19, (Palom - 10(12)[joins]), (Porom - 10(12)[joins]) =============================================================================== Uh-oh... Not the best place to end up. They kinda hate you around here coz you stole their crystal. Cool music though. Ignore everyone and head straight for the building at the top of town. Talk to the elder (the guy between the black and white mages). During this scene, Palom and Porom will join your party. Palom is a Black Mage, while Porom is a White Mage. They are a lot more useful than you would think =). Go to the weapon store, which is on the left of town. Buy a flame rod for Palom, and the cure staff for Porom. Take note of Palom being left handed, and Porom right. What hand they weild their weapon in effects their damage. Also make sure the 2 of them are in the back row. Enter the armour store now. Buy each twin a Magus hat, Gaia Gear and and the Silver ring thingo. Equip them with their new gear. Now buy all the Paladin gear. If you have to train for some extra gil for these, do so. A few tips on Palom and Porom. They have rather low HP at this point so training them a little bit isn't a bad idea. Their 'Twin' command will let them use an exceedingly powerful spell. This might sound really good, but there are a few down sides with it. It takes like many rounds to charge up and neither of them can do anything during this time. Because of their low HP it is easy for one of them to die, and this ruins the whole spell. So don't use it in a situation where it is likely that one of them will die. Also, it is not important to get levels for Cecil anymore, you will see why soon. Namingway is in the Inn if you wish to rename Palom and Porom. When you have bought all the Paladin gear, leave Mysidia. Overworld --------- On the overworld, head to your right, and keep following the path. When you get to a mountain surrounded by forest, look around the south side of the forest for a little circle gap in the forst. Go to the center of it. This is Chocobo Forest. The white Chocobo will restore your MP, so use Poroms white magic to heal you, then examine the white Chocobo to get back your MP. There is a GYSAHL hidden somewhere in the grass, if you can find it, go to the top of the screen where it says 'I smell chocobo in the air." and use it. Fat Chocobo will show up. select 'Feed' to feed him items. and 'Barf' to barf them up. He is just an item bank. He is my best buddy. When you're done here, catch a yellow chocobo. Go up a little bit on the Overworld and you will see a path into the mountain. Go to it and get off of your chocobo. Enter Mt. Ordeals. =============================================================================== Mt. Ordeals =============================================================================== Items ----- Potion x2 Ether1 x2 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 19(20), Palom - 12(18), Porom - 12(18), (Tellah - 22(23)[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Milon - 3500 HP, 2000 Gil, 3200 Exp Milon Zombie - 3523 HP, 2500 Gil, 3600 Exp Dark Knight - 100,000 HP, 0 Gil, 0 Exp =============================================================================== Follow the path for a scene. Continue along the path ignoring the stairs to find a chest containing a POTION. Go up the stairs and claim the second chest for another POTION. Continue up the steps and into a door. Go along the path and you will have a scene, after which Tellah will be back in your party. Make sure Tellah is in the back row, and continue through the door. Head to your left and up some stairs to get an ETHER1. Go up the ramp between the stairs and the door. Then up some stairs, across a bridge, down a ramp and open the chest for another ETHER1. Go back up and through the door. At the summit, make sure you cross the bridge on the right before going up the stairs. Over the bridge is a save point. Heal and save. Head up the stairs and get ready for a boss fight _______________________________________________________________________________ Milon + Ghast (4) _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Milon - 3500 HP, 2000 Gil, 3200 Exp Ghast - 200 HP (each), 100 Gil, 50 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ This battle can be difficult. You will want to kill off the 4 Ghasts first. So focus all your fire power on them. Except for Cecil. Have Cecil attack Milon straight away, as his blade will do extremely little to the Ghasts. Use Fire1 (or 2 if you have it) on the Ghasts, while Porom heals. When all 4 ghasts are dead, you may want to heal up. Make sure all of your characters are on high HP when Milon actually dies. _______________________________________________________________________________ After that battle, go back to the save point. Use a tent and save before continuing along the bridge, and to another boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Milon Zombie _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 3523 HP, 2500 Gil, 3600 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ This is a back attack, so the very first thing you should do is have a character use the 'row' ability (press left in the command menu). When your characters are back to their rightful place you can start attacking. Have Tellah and Palom cast fire magic, while Porom heals and Cecil just uses normal attacks. Milon Z. hits heavy, so you may need to use Tellah to heal sometimes. If Palom has Fire2, this is EXTREMELY powerful. Dealing up to 1200 damage. So use it as often as possible. Milon can poison via his attacks. So have Tellah cast Esuna on a poisoned Character. This really isn't such a hard battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Walk into the middle of the thingos for a scene. _______________________________________________________________________________ Dark Knight _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 100,000 HP, 0 Gil, 0 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Not really a boss battle, but I will count it as one. It is nearly impossible to lose, although the first time I played through the game i lost it many times. All you have to do is Parry. Parry until the battle ends. _______________________________________________________________________________ After this battle Cecil becomes a Paladin, Tellah remembers all his spells and he also learns Meteo. The problem here is that Cecil reverts all the way back to level 1. Although this isn't really a problem, as he will gain levels extremely quickly. Equip the paladin gear on Cecil before moving. I reccomend training him up to around level 20 before going back to Mysidia. Just heal mp in the chocobo forest then use white magic to heal your mp. Cecil can now use basic white magic spells, too. Tellah's spells are strong, but he has very little mp so they're almost useless. You can kill your party members except
Cecil when he's strong enough if you want him to get all of the exp. When going back to Mysidia, get on a yellow chocobo to avoid battles. =============================================================================== Mysidia =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 20, Palom - 18, Porom - 18, Tellah - 23 =============================================================================== Rest up at the Inn if you need to. You can also take note of how the whole town is in awe of you ;). Go talk to the Elder for a scene. You must now travel the Devils Road, which is in the building above the Inn. Go into building and step onto the white dot. =============================================================================== Baron Village =============================================================================== Items ----- BaronKey 2000 Gil ThorRage =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 20, Palom - 18, Porom - 18, Tellah - 23, (Yang - 22[joins]) =============================================================================== Exit the building and head straight to the Inn. Go into the top half and speak with Yang. You will be forced into a fight with 2 Guards. Easy. After that you will have to fight a Monk (Yang). Just beat him up, he really isn't hard. Heal after he kicks if you need to. After the battle Yang will join the party. During the scene you will get BARONKEY. When you have control again, head over to the weapon and armour joint. Unlock it with your new key and go in. Buy some new gear for Yang. While in here, go to the bottom right of the store and go down and right. This path takes you around the back of the counter. Open the chests for 2000 GIL and THORRAGE. Exit the store and go all the way to the left of town. Open the door to the Waterway. Go through the door and down the stairs. =============================================================================== Waterway =============================================================================== Items ----- HiPotion Ether1 ThorRage HrGlass1 Silk Web Hermes Ether1 Ancient (sword) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 20(21), Palom - 18(20), Porom - 18(20), Tellah - 23, Yang - 22 =============================================================================== Some people think it's really hard down here. Here is my advise. P + B = Everything dies When P is Palom/Tellah, and B is Bolt2 on all. The exception to this rule is the Elecfish, it in fact gets health back. Just kill these any way you please. Nothing down here is exceptionally hard. Make sense? Just use Bolt2 a lot and everything dies =p. Cecil's white magic is very powerful, so use him as a healer outside of battle if you need to. Because you want him to attack IN battle. Equipping Yang with a bolt claw or two might be a good idea, just don't attack the elecfish with him. Anway, just follow the path down until it splits. Take the path going down to find 3 chests. Open them for a HIPOTION, ETHER1 and THORRAGE. Go back around and go up this time. Follow the path to the next room. This room is full of hidden paths. Go into the water and follow it down. Follow it into the section below where you entered and open the chest for a HRGLASS1. Go down again, and get the SILK WEB here. Go back up to the top and go right through 2 sections. Climb the stairs in this section onto the little island to get HERMES. Go to the top right of this area. See the rock formation that implies there is a fake wall there? Go through that section of wall. Then go up and into the next area. Just follow the path here. But when you get to the top of the stairs go left and through the secret path to get the ETHER1. Exit the area into B1F after this. Enter the door on the left. This is a save room, but before you save... See the 4 rocks at the right of the room? Well, see the gap above them? Hidden pathway. Go through it to get ANCIENT (sword). It is a sword for Cecil...But it seems to be weaker than Legend, i don't know what the point of it is. Anyway, save your game and continue out of the room. Go to your right and up the steps, exit out the door. =============================================================================== Castle Baron =============================================================================== Items ----- Ether1 x4 Unihorn x2 Life x2 Hermes x2 Bacchus x2 Elixir HiPotion x2 Tent x2 Elixir =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 21, (Palom - 20[leaves]), (Porom - 20[leaves]), Tellah - 23, Yang - 22 (Cid - 20[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Baigan - 4444 HP, 3000 Gil, 4000 Exp Cagnazzo - 5312 HP, 4000 Gil, 5500 Exp =============================================================================== Go around to the left and into the courtyard on the west side of the castle. Enter the tower, and go to the top. Rest in your bed. Leave the tower and Head into the bulk of the castle. Here you will have a scene. This will result in a boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Baigan Left Arm Right Arm _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Baigan - 4444 HP, 3000 Gil, 4000 Exp Left/Right arms - 444 HP, 0 Gil, 10 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Your focus here is the body. It may be tempting to attack the arms, but there isn't much point, as they just regenerate. You may want to use the twins to use their cool power thing to take care of them for a while. If you wish to deal some heavy damage to the body before it is to late, use Tellah instead of the twins to hit him with Bio or a level 3 spell or something. The body will cast wall on itself after being hit with a spell, so you only get one choice. Cecil and Yang should attack normally. It's wall spell will wear off eventually, but until then, use Tellah to cast wall on someone and then use a spell on that character. The spell will bounce of them and hit your enemy, completely ignorning his wall. Use Porom/Tellah to heal and the battle should be over soon enough. After the body dies, try to kill the arms as quickly as possible, or they will detonate and cause some heavy damage to a random character. _______________________________________________________________________________ Go back to your bed and heal up. Go to the bottom right of the room and up the stairs here. Go along the walkway and down some stairs. Hit the switch in this room that was being guarded previous to you leaving. Follow the secret path to a room with 6 chests. Open them for 2 ETHER1's, 2 UNIHORN's and 2 LIFE's. Continue out into the courtyard and into the tower. Open the 4 chests here for 2 HERMES and 2 BACCHUS. Go down the steps and check the second pot for an ELIXIR. Go back up the stairs, and up the next set. Open the 2 chests for 2 HIPOTION's. Go up the next set of stairs and open the chests for 2 TENTs and an ETHER1. Check the pot just under the stairs for another ETHER1. Now head to the Throne room. Make sure you are ready for a boss battle before you go in though. When inside, make sure Yang has a bolt claw equipped and then talk to the king. _______________________________________________________________________________ Cagnazzo _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 5312 HP, 4000 Gil, 5500 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Okay, he's the 'devil of water' right? so use bolt magic! simple. He isn't very hard. I've said that about every boss so far, havn't I? Oh well. Cecil should just normal attack, and heal maybe. Porom should heal, Tellah and Palom should use Bolt2/3 and Yang should use power. Simple. He has a big powerful attack though. "Wave" can deal up to 170-ish to every character. So watch out for that one. When he retreats into his shell, you can use it as a chance to heal. But if you want, just keep attacking him until he dies, like I did. _______________________________________________________________________________ After this rather long scene, you will no longer have Palom or Porom. It is a very great loss, they are like my favourite characters =(. But you get Cid (...joy). At least you have your own airship now!!!. First off, land the ship and enter Castle Baron again. Unlock the doors and go into the castle. Go up the stairs on the right and make your way to the northeast tower. Go down the stairs into the basemen tand check the pots for an ELIXIR. Go down the next lot of stairs. Go along this bit here for a Scene. After that, make your way out of the castle and head into Baron Village and buy some armour for Cid. Resting at the Inn might be a good idea too. Head out of the village and get into your airship. Now that we have an airship, we should go do some stuff before we advance the storyline. Head to the village of Mist. =============================================================================== Mist =============================================================================== Items ----- Bomb x3 Tiara Clothes RubyRing Change (rod) =============================================================================== Walk to the bottom right of town. Go through the hidden path right of the well. Check the grass for 2 BOMB's. Then head to the top right of town and check the grass here for another BOMB. Head into the top left house and go through the fireplace to get to a secret room with 3 chests chich contain a TIARA, CLOTHES anda RUBYRING. There is another secret room if you continue right through this secret room. The second secret room contains a CHANGE (rod) There is nothing of any worth in the weapon/armour stores. But Namingway is in the Inn if you want to rename Cid. That's it for now, leave town. If you go straight south from Baron, you will find Agart, enter the town. =============================================================================== Agart =============================================================================== Items ----- Boreas =============================================================================== There isn't much to do in this village. Go around to the left until you find some long grass. at the bottom right of this grass is BOREAS. In the bottom left houses top floor you can look through a telescope if you want. Leave the village, time to go to Mythril Village. Head left from Baron until you see some islands. Mythril Village is on one of these islands just to your north a bit. =============================================================================== Mythril Village =============================================================================== Items ----- Mythril (staff) Mythril (dagger) 5000 Gil =============================================================================== Yeah...heaps of midgets and frogs and pigs and stuff. Great. Head up and right a bit into the grass, grab the MYTHRIL (staff) from here. Go around and up past the weapon shop. Then to the right patch of grass. grab the MYTHRIL (dagger) from here. Go to the grass directly behind the weapon shop now, and grab the 5000 GIL from here. Go into the weapon store and buy the Mythril hammer for Cid, and the Mythril sword for Cecil. Go to the armour store and buy the Mythril helm, armour and gauntlets for Cecil and Cid. And the Mythril shield also for Cecil. I expect you to be broke after this, and probably can't even afford the second Mytrhil Armour. Train around until you have all this gear. If you're going to train I would suggest putting Cid in the front row. Now it's time to go to Troia Village. Head west from Kaipo to find a whole heap of forest. In the northern part of this forest you will find a castle and a town. Land the airship in the one little square provided and enter the town. =============================================================================== Troia Village =============================================================================== Items ----- 1000 Gil Illusion Ether1 Ether2 =============================================================================== Get in the water and follow it around to the back of the town. get out and go left through the trees and into a grassy area. In this area you can find 1000 GIL, ILLUSION, ETHER1, ETHER2. That's all for now, unless you want to go to the pub. in the pub, you can buy a 'pass' and use it to go to a show thingo. This pub is just one big brothel. Time to go to Troia Castle. =============================================================================== Troia Castle =============================================================================== Items ----- TwinHarp Bacchus Tent x2 HiPotion x2 Ether1 x2 RubyRing x2 Gysahl =============================================================================== Enter the castle. Go to the left side and exit. Follow this path into the next building. Edward is in here, talk to him to get the TWINHARP. Exit this room, and go back into the castle. Enter the door opposite and then go into the next building. Go down the centre stairs and get BACCHUS from the top right pot. Go down the right stairs and stand on the switch. This opens the far left door. Go in to open the next one. Before going to the next one open both the chests here for 2 TENT's. When you exit the third door will open. Go into the second door to open the fourth. Open these 2 chests for 2 HIPOTION's. Go to the next chests for 2 ETHER1's. And the next 2 for 2 RUBYRING's. You are done here, exit the castle. Now would be a good time to do some training. So train up for a while. Train until Cid is at least level 24, he should have over 1000 HP then. So all your characters, except Tellah, should have over 1000 HP. I bet you feel tough. By the way, the levels I suggest or whatever in here aren't minimum levels or anything. If anything they are total overkill. You don't need to keep up with my levels if you don't want to. From Troia, go north a while until you find a Chocobo forest. This is actually the Chocobo Village. It has black, flying Chocobo's as well. Go to the bottom right, just above the area you can't get to you should be able to find a hidden path goin right, then down. Search the grass for a GYSAHL. once you are healed, catch one of these Black Chocobo's. If you fly straight to the right you will see where we need to go, but the mountains are blocking us right now, so go around them. You've got to land the chocobo in the forest, so do that, and then save. Inside this cave, you can't have anything metal equipped. So either go back to Troia and buy non-metal weapons, or just do the stupid thing (and what i done) and take off all your weapons and armour and just run from every battle you get in to. =============================================================================== Magnetic Cavern =============================================================================== Items ----- HiPotion x2 Unihorn Ether1 x2 2000 Gil Silk Web HrGlass1 Fairy (claw) Exit Earth (crystal) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 26, Tellah - 26, Yang - 26, Cid - 24 =============================================================================== Boss ---- Dark Elf - 23890 HP, 4000 Gil, 1000 Exp Dark Dragon - 3927 HP, 5000 Gil, 6000 Exp =============================================================================== Go right, all the way across the bridge and get the chest for a HIPOTION. Go back halfway along the bridge and go down. Follow this path to the last block and get the UNIHORN from the chest, then go down the stairs. On B2F go up, then left and open a chest for an ETHER1. Go back to the right and cross the bridge. Go in the door on your right and open the chests for an ETHER1 and 2000 GIL. Exit the room and head all the way to your left and down the stairs. Now on B3F go left and into the door. Save your game in here and then exit. Go down across the bridge and into the room on the block. Open the 3 chests for a HIPOTION, SILK WEB and HRGLASS1. Exit the room and go left and across the bridge. Go up between the rock thingos and into the door. Open the chest in here for FAIRY (claw) for Yang. Go down the stairs on the bottom left. Now we're on B4F, it isn't all that bad having no weapons, is it? Head across the bridge on your left. Then go across the bridge on your right and go in the room. Save in here, then leave. Go back across the 2 little bridges and then go up. Go around the door thingo and get the chest for an EXIT. Go back around and into the door. In the crystal room, go forward and talk to the Dark Elf to start a fight. In this fight, just don't do anything. Don't waste any MP or anything, you are meant to lose. After the scene, you can equip your swords again (yay!) so do so. Get ready for a boss fight and talk to the Dark Elf again. _______________________________________________________________________________ Dark Elf _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 23890 HP, 4000 Gil, 1000 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Yes, he has a lot of HP. But remember how he is weak to metal? Well, just thrash him. He's simple. His attacks are really weak now that you have armour. Just try not to waste a heap of MP, especially from Tellah. If you need to heal, use Cecil. His 'Wind' Attack is still a problem though, as it will just take your HP down to under 10 in most cases. He can also use an attack that will turn you into a pig. Use Esuna or DietFood to cure this. When you've dealt enough damage, he will turn into Dark Dragon. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Dark Dragon _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 3927 HP, 5000 Gil, 6000 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Keep your HP high. Have Tellah use level 3 Cure whenever it uses it's breath attack. If Tellah isn't strong enough (like mine wasn't) the Dragon can kill him in one attack. You will have to use a Life to get him back, as he is the only character here than can revive. I had a lot of trouble here because the Dragons first attack killed Tellah, then as soon as i revived him, it used it's breath and killed him again. This also left Cecil dangerously low on HP. I revived him again, and the Dragon Used it's breath again, leaving Tellah and Cecil dead. Then it attacked Yang, and then he was dead. It was all up to Cid... I loaded my save again. This is the first boss where i won't say that is he easy. He's a pain in the ass. I probably should have trained more but...i didn't. hehe. Just keep trying until he dies. The second time around i was more careful about my HP, and i found him terribly easy =p. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |I got an email about this fight, showing me an easier way to defeat Dark D.| |Dark D. is able to be "stop"ed. Have Tellah cast stop on him whenever he | |is not stopped anymore, and this battle will be a breeze. Using this | |method, that difficulty of this battle would be about 1/10. | | | |Thanks to 'Tanner' (Blackmaila23@excite.com) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________________ Examine the crystal to recieve EARTH (crystal). Exit the Crystal room and have Tellah use his 'exit' spell a heap to get out. Get back on your chocobo and it will fly to Chocobo Village. heal up using the white chocobo and then catch another black chocobo and fly back to Troia Castle. =============================================================================== Troia Castle =============================================================================== Items ----- HiPotion x2 Remedy x2 Ether1 x2 Ether2 x2 Elixir Echonote x2 GreatBow Fire (arrows) x2 Bolt (arrows) Ice (arrows) x2 Ag Apple =============================================================================== Go straight up all the way to the clerics room and there will be a scene. Exit the room to the south and exit via the east door. Go into the next door then down the left set of stairs. Talk to the guard here. Go through the secret passage and down the stairs to find a whopping 18 chests!!! Open them for; HIPOTION, REMEDY, ETHER1, ETHER2, ELIXIR, ECHONOTE, GREATBOW, FIRE(arrow), more FIRE (arrows), BOLT (arrows), ICE (arrows), more ICE (arrows), ECHONOTE, AG APPLE, ETHER2, ETHER1, REMEDY and finally, another HIPOTION. Whew. That was fun. Go to Edward to view a scene. Note on Ag Apple: It will take the max HP of a character up by 100. But do not use it on anyone but Cecil at this point in the game! As none of the other characters will be your final characters. You can wait til later to use it. Go and climb into your airship to get another scene. After the scene you will be in the Tower of Zot. That name so reflects what time the game was made in... =============================================================================== Tower of Zot =============================================================================== Items ----- Flame (armour) Flame (sword) Flame (shield) HellClaw Gaia (hammer) Wizard (robe) Magma =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 26(30), (Tellah - 26[leaves]), Yang - 26(29), Cid - 24(28) (Kain - 32[joins]), (Rosa - 30(31)[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Magus Sisters - Sandy - 2591 HP, 3000 Gil, 2500 Exp Cindy - 4599 HP, 3000 Gil, 2500 Exp Mindy - 2590 HP, 3000 Gil, 2500 Exp Valvalis - 8636 HP, 5500 Gil, 9000 Exp =============================================================================== First, go to the top left corner to get FLAME (armour) for Cecil. Equip it straight away. Marion enemies on this floor can drop a 'Silence' staff. Equip this in Tellah as soon as you get it, as it will take his attack to near 60. Try to get 2 of these as they are the most powerful staff in the whole game. Head to the top right to find the door to the next floor. Just a quick note here - This is a good place to train, the enemies give you a lot of exp and gil, and you can just go to the bottom left and return to Troia to heal. Go down and make the first left, then the first down, then right, then the first down then head left and make the first up. Keep going up to find a chest containg...Monsters! The monster is a FlameDog, and he is really quite tough. I didn't bother healing while fighting him and Cecil and Tellah were dead when i won. But it was worth it. Behold, FLAME (sword). Equip this on Cecil. Head to the next floor. You can see the door to it from where you get the Flame sword. Just follow the path through this section, anyway you go will get you to the next floor. Follow the path and make the first up you can. Go through the left door to find a chest containg HELLCLAW. I would suggest equipping this on Yang. Follow this path to the left and down to find FLAME (shield). Equip this on Cecil. Return through the door. This was about the time i went "Oh shit, I'm running out of MP". So just be careful. We'll get to a save point soon. Go into the door on your right and grab GAIA (hammer) for Cid. Exit and go into the NEXT door. Open the chest here for WIZARD (robe). Head to the bottom and follow the path right, to the door to the next floor. Head down a bit, and into the door. A save point! Use a tent and save. Exit the save room and head left toward the next door. Get ready for a boss fight. _______________________________________________________________________________ Magus Sisters _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Sandy - 2591 HP, 3000 Gil, 2500 Exp Cindy - 4599 HP, 3000 Gil, 2500 Exp Mindy - 2590 HP, 3000 Gil, 2500 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Just use physical attacks in this battle, it's easy. Take out the middle one first so it doesn't heal anymore. Take out he front one next. Then the back one. Battle over. Probably THE easiest boss battle you've had yet. _______________________________________________________________________________ Go back and save and heal at the save point. Remove all the items from Tellah. Now go through the door the Magus Sisters were guarding. Go up over the bridge and watch the scene. No more Tellah. Speak to Kain to continue the scene. Rosa and Kain will join your party. Kain has good gear, but Rosa has crappy gear. Equip her with whatever Tellah had on. But put on the Tiara we found a long time ago. I put Yang in the back row here, just because he doesn't have great defense. Prepare for a boss battle, and try to exit the room. _______________________________________________________________________________ Valvalis _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 8636 HP, 5500 Gil, 9000 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Valvalis has the power to turn herself into a tornado sort of thing. Your attacks are weaked while she is in this state, and she will continually cast wind (takes your characters to critical hp) and Glare (gradual petrify). So in order to make her revert to her normal self, have Kain jump at her. She is much less annoying in her normal form, but she will turn into the tornado a LOT. Have Rosa cast cure3 (she has lots of mp, woot!) to heal wind, and have either her or Cecil cast esuna to cure the gradual petrify. Cid and Cecil should attack normaly, Yang use power and Kain jump. Rosa, of course, should be the healer, and she is the best damn white mage i've seen from any FF game. I love Rosa :). With her incredible healing prowess, this battle shouldn't be too difficult. _______________________________________________________________________________ During the next scene you will recieve MAGMA. Leave Baron and head south in your airship to Agart. Agart ----- Enter Agart and go straight to the building section in the middle of town. Examine the well and drop the Magma down it. Exit Agart, get into your airship and press X while over the big black crater. Watch the following Scene. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-* UnderWorld *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-* Congrats, you've made it to the underworld. It really isn't that big a deal, but i feel like making a fuss over it =D. Anyway, just save your game, then go into the castle right next to you. =============================================================================== Dwarven Castle =============================================================================== Items ----- Smut 5000 Gil Bacchus x2 HiPotion BlkBelt Ether1 x2 Elixir x2 Dwarf (axe) Power (ring) HrGlass2 Gysahl x3 Cabin x3 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Cecil - 30(38), Kain - 32(36), (Cid - 28[leaves]), Rosa - 31(35), Yang - 29(34) (Rydia - 30(34)[joins]) =============================================================================== Boss ---- Calbrina - 5315 HP, 5000 Gil, 12000 Exp Golbez/Shadow - ???? HP, 11000 Gil, 15000 Exp =============================================================================== Unequpping Cid might be a decent idea, then go to the throne toom. Cid will leave the party. You will have to fight 3 Cal's and 3 Brina's here. The Brina's (front) are much weaker than the Cal's so take them out. Then take out 2 Cal's, and have Rosa heal everyone before killing the last one. If you're too slow they will unite to form one big doll. "Calbrina". _______________________________________________________________________________ Calbrina _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- 5315 HP, 5000 Gil(extra for each little doll killed), 12000 Exp(ditto) _______________________________________________________________________________ I am so sick of all these boss battles. Anyway...Calbrina is a pussy, fight like any normal battle, and heal when you need to. _______________________________________________________________________________ Watch the scene for a bit...ANOTHER boss fight. COME ON!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ Golbez/Shadow _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- ???? HP, 11000 Gil, 15000 Exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Golbez will cast Hold Gas on your entire party, making you immobile. Then to piss you off even more, he will summon Shadow, who will then crush your entire party, except for Cecil. Just before Cecil dies, Rydia shows up and saves him. Yay. Now the real battle starts. First of all, bring Rosa to life and get her HP up. From there, have her revive characters, and heal them. Rydia can no longer do white magic, but she rocks anyway. Have her summon Titan while Rosa heals, Cecil attacks, Kain jumps and Yang attacks. Rydia's Titan absolutely crushes Golbez, so this battle isn't all that hard. Just get your guys alive again and it's easy. The hardest part is getting your party alive in time for them all to get Exp. I couldn't do it. Kain and Yang were still dead when he died for me. _______________________________________________________________________________ Rydia officially joins the party after the battle. Exit the throne room and head to your right, and up the stairs. Buy everything you want from the weapon/armour stores, and sell what you don't want. I would reccomend the FireSpear for Kain from the weapon store. And from the armour store i would reccomend the Flame armour and shield for Kain. Wizard hat for Rosa (Put the Tiara on Rydia) and get Wizard armour for Rydia. Also get Rune Gauntlets for both of them. Go between the 2 stores to get to the pub. On the bottom right there is a secret path to the Developer's room. You can get into a battle with Takahasi in here. You can only do 1 damage to him, and his normal attack will do 9999 damage to you. But he RARELY attacks and just says "You wanna die?" a lot. If you want to have any chance at killing him you will have to poison him, as this will do like 8000 damage for every 'poison damage'. He has like 65000 HP and you only get 5 Exp for killing him. There are heaps of useless enemies down here. If you go down the steps and check the left side of the bookcase, you can get SMUT. Exit to the Weapon store and go back down the bottom left stairs. Go up the stairs on the left this time. You should now be at the Inn. Check the pot left of the counter for 5000 GIL. Take the stairs on the left hand side. Go up the stairs in this room. There is a BACCHUS in one of the pots at the bottom. Go up the next set of stairs. Go to your right and open the chest. The chests in this room are connected by hidden paths, and the paths aren't hard to find. The chests contain a HIPOTION, BLKBELT, ETHER1 and an ELIXIR. Go down 2 sets of stairs and exit through the door to the south. Go to the right and enter the next tower. In this room, go to the top and open the chest for DWARF (axe). go up the stairs and go through the secret passage at the bottom and check the pots for a BACCHUS. Go up the stairs and open the chests for POWER (ring), HRGLASS2, ELIXIR and ETHER1. Head down 3 sets of stairs to be back at the weapon/armour stores. Head down the stairs in the top left and check the pots above you for 3 GYSAHLS. You can summon Fat Chocobo on the carpet to your left. Talk to the far left guard and he will open a door for you. Go through the door. Follow the path and take the first down you can. Then take the first right. Open the chests here for 3 CABINS. Now head to the bottom left and up the stairs. In the Dwarven base there is a Pot on the far left side on it's own. Check this pot to restore HP/MP. The exit to the south leads outside. So it's a perfect place to train. Train a lot here, healing when you need to. Overworld --------- Go in a northwest direction and you should eventually find some desert like places. Go straight north from here and when you see some tanks, go right and around the mountain. Enter the big towers. =============================================================================== Tower Of Babil =============================================================================== Items ----- Ether1 Ice (arrows) x2 Bandanna IceSpear IceBrand CatClaw Life Archer (bow) Notus HiPotion x2 IceArmor IceShld Boreas Ether2 TowerKey =============================================================================== My Levels --------- (Yang - 34(35)[leaves]), Rydia - 34(35), Cecil - 38(39), Rosa - 35(36), Kain - 36(37) =============================================================================== Boss ---- =============================================================================== You can find the Marion enemy in this tower, so it might be worth it trying to get a Silence staff or two if you don't have them yet. You can also kill the puppets it has and let it summon more. Just kill each summoned puppet over and over, you get gil and exp for each one you kill. Run up the stairs and then head to the right. Open the chest for an ETHER1. Head over to the left side of the room and open the chest for ICE (arrows). Go down and open another chest for more ICE (arrows). Go up into the door in the top of the room to get to 2F. Open the chest on your left for a BANDANNA. Equip this on Yang if you've nothing better. Head down and go into the room at the bottom. Open the chest to fight an Alert. For this fight you will recieve an ICESPEAR. This spear is much stronger than his current FireSpr, so equip it immediately. It will also help out a lot against the flamedog enemy. But it makes an annoying noise when you attack. Exit the room and enter the room to the northeast of you. Open the chest to fight another Alert. You will recieve an ICEBRAND for this. Equp this on Cecil immediately for the same reasons you equipped the IceSpear on Kain. Exit the room and enter the door a little to your northwest to get to 3F. Open the chest to your left for a CATCLAW for Yang. Head right and then down and open the chest for a LIFE. Enter the door just above you and open the chest on your left for ARCHER. I equipped this on Rosa, giving her 48 attack. Go to the right and open the chest for a NOTUS. Head back through the door. See the chest on the right? Go up and around and open it for a HIPOTION. Go up and follow the path to the end. Go through the door to 4F Enter the door on your left and save your game, use a tent if you need to. Exit the room and go up the path to your right. When you're across the bridge go into the door and open the chest to fight another Alert. You will recieve ICEARMOR for this. Equip it on Cecil or Kain. Exit the room and head south from here and enter the door on the left. Open the chest to fight yet anoteher Alert. You will recieve an ICESHLD. Equip this if you want to. Exit the room. The door on your right contains northing so go back north and over the northern bridge. Enter the door to get to 5F. Head down and around to reach the chest on your right, it contains a BOREAS. Return back to the bottom and head all the way east. Head up and around to get to the chest containing a HIPOTION. Head to the north and through the door to get to 6F. Go west and in the door to get to 7F. Go to the east and into the door to find a save point. Save and heal up if necessary. Exit the room and head back west, then south. Grab the chest on your left for an ETHER2. Head right and enter the door up to 8F. Follow the path, but be ready for a boss battle before you cross the bridge. Cross the bridge and watch the scene. _______________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Lugae Balnab Balnab-Z _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Dr. Lugae - ??? Balnab - ??? Balnab-Z - ??? _______________________________________________________________________________ Not hard at all really. Balnab is exceedinly weak. Simpy have Kain jump, Cecil attack, Yang attack or power, Rydia do whatever, and Rosa do whatever, healing when you need her to (IF you need her to). Once Balnab is dead, you will be in battle with Dr. Lugae for a little. Just pick away at him for a bit and he will turn into Balnab-Z. Balnab-Z can hit hard, but will probably only attack one before he uses the detonate move. this will certainly kill one of your characters (dealing in excess of 3000 to my Cecil). _______________________________________________________________________________ Tiny scene. _______________________________________________________________________________ Lugaborg _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Lugaborg - ??? _______________________________________________________________________________ This is the "real" boss of here. Once you are fighting Lugaborg, he will probably start the fight with "Poison" which sucks. It will poison all of your characters. If you wait long enough Lugaborg will heal you of it. Lugaborg has an attack called "Beam" which seems to hit rather randomly. Dealing 200 to Yang, and then 1700 to Kain. Lugaborg's hp isn't very impressive thankfully, as he can hit fairly hard. I had Cecil healing, Rosa healing/reviving, Rydia summoning Titan, Kain jumping and Yang using power. Cecil was dead at the end of the fight dude to a very strong beam from Lugaborg. _______________________________________________________________________________ For winning this battle you will recieve the TOWERKEY. Head all the way down to 5F. Go to the bottom of the room, then up through the middle section. Use the TowerKey on the door and then remove all of Yang's equipment. Enter the door and fight a VERY easy battle. After a scene, Yang is no longer in your party. Make your way all the way down to 1F. There will be a scene when you start heading down the stairs. =============================================================================== Baron Castle =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Rydia - 35, Cecil - 39, Rosa - 36, Kain - 37 =============================================================================== Fly north and enter Baron Castle. Go up into the building, then head east and up the stairs. Follow the path until you see 2 guys dressed in blue, talk to them. After talking to them your airship will now be able to pick up the hovercraft that you used much earlier in the game. Fly north-ish to Damcyan and then east to Mt Hobs, where you left the hovercraft. When the ships circle shadow is over the hovercraft, press X to pick it up. Fly back to Baron, but don't enter it. From Baron head southwesterly and you will find an island that the Tower of Babil is sticking out of. On the south of this island is a castle. Land next to it and enter. =============================================================================== Eblan Castle =============================================================================== Items ----- HiPotion Unihorn Alarm Soft MaidKiss Cabin x2 Sleep (sword) Bacchus x2 10,000 Gil Mute (arrows) Kamikaze Coffin Hermes Exit Ether1 x3 BloodSpr HrGlass2 Ag Apple =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Rydia - 35, Cecil - 39, Rosa - 36, Kain - 37 =============================================================================== Go straight north into the main castle. Go north to just below the start of the stairs and go straight right through the wall. Open the chest for a HIPOTION. Go north twice into the Throne Room. Go west through a secret passage in the northwest corner. Open the two chests for a UNIHORN and an ALARM. Now go back to the throne room and do the same except in the northeast corner to get a SOFT, MAIDKISS and a CABIN. Go back to the throne room and leave south 3 times to get back to the castle courtyard. Take the west path and enter the West Tower. When you enter, go south exactly two steps and then press right to get to a chest containing monsters. For defeating the monsters you will get SLEEP (sword). Go up the stairs to 2F and check the bottom pot in the upper left to get a BACCHUS. Go down through the gap in the pots at the bottom and go right. Check the pot you can only get access to from the back to get another BACCHUS. Continue on to the two chests and open them for 10,000 GIL and MUTE arrows. Go to the very west of this room and then go down to find the steps to another chest. Open it for a KAMIKAZE. Exit the West Tower and enter the East Tower. Go above the northwestern pillar and head west to find a secret passage. Open the chest for a COFFIN. Head up the stairs to 2F. Hit the switch on the right side of the stairs, and then go through the new door (go around the stairs). Check the pot on the right for a HERMES and open the two chests on the left for an EXIT and an ETHER1. Open the chest on the right below the hole for a CABIN. Head right from the pots to find a secret passage in the northwest corner. Open the chest to find some monsters. You will recieve a BLOODSPR for defeating them. Equip it on Kain immediately. Go ahead and drop down the hole, which I know you've been dying to do, and open the chest to find an HRGLASS2. Go south from here to end up in the Basement. Follow the path and open the two chests on the left for two ETHER1's. Open the chest on the right to fight some monsters. You will recieve an AG APPLE for winning. Follow the path to the end to exit the castle. Overworld --------- If you need to, get in your airship and head to a town to rest at their inn. If not, hop into the hovercraft and cross the shallows to get to a cave that was inaccessable without the hovercraft. =============================================================================== Cave Eblan =============================================================================== Items ----- Shuriken x2 Remedy Vampire Potion x2 Ether1 Tent HiPotion x3 Kamikaze Cabin Elixir x2 Silk Web HrGlass2 Life x2 Soft BloodSwd Ether2 =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Rydia - 35(37), Cecil - 39(41), Rosa - 36(39), Kain - 37(40), (Edge - 25(30)[joins]) =============================================================================== Whatever you do, do NOT attack any skeleton-monsters with Kain if he is using the BloodSpr. It will heal them and damage him a LOT. Go through the wall to the east and open the chest for a SHURIKEN. Head east through another wall and open the chest for a REMEDY. Go down the steps into the water and follow it until there are some steps on the right side. Go up the steps and open the chest for a VAMPIRE. Go across the two bridges to your right and then go all the way west and then south down the stairs to get to B2F. This is pretty much a town, so no monsters here. Open the first door to find an inn and item shop. Enter the second door for Weapons and Armor. Buy 'Black' armour for Rydia and IceArmor/IceShld for Kain/Cecil if either of them doesn't have it (My Kain didn't). From the weapon store, buy poison arrows for each of your archers (Rydia and Rosa in my case) and the 'Archer' bow for whichever one doesn't have it. Exit the store and enter the door in the southwest. Check the pots here to find two POTION's. Exit the room and go up the stairs in the northwest to get to the Pass to Babil. Open the chest for an ETHER1 and continue along the path to find another chest containing a TENT. Head south through the obvious secret passage and open the chest for a HIPOTION. Go back through the passage and exit through the stairs to the north. Follow the path and when it splits, go northeast and up the steps to find a chest containing a KAMIKAZE. Go back down the steps and go right just below the semi-circle of land next to you to find a secret passage. Open the chest for a SHURIKEN. Go back through the wall and then south and down the stairs to the next area. Open the three chests for a HIPOTION, CABIN and another HIPOTION. Go right through the wall just above the two chests to get to two more chests containing two ELIXIR's. Go back through the wall and continue south, right and the left to get a SILK WEB. Go right and open three chests containing an HRGLASS2, and two LIFE's. Go north to the next room. Go west to find a chest containing a SOFT. Head back east and go into the door to find a saving place, so save and use a tent/cabin if you need to. Still in the save room, go right through the wall above the rocks to find a chest containing monsters. When they are defeated you will recieve a BLOODSWD. Exit the room and then head north for a scene. After the scene Edge will join the party. He kind of reminds me of Setzer from Final Fantasy 6. Head left through the wall and open the chest to get an ETHER2. Now, run around the cave training edge for a while. Edge pwns. End of story. When you're ready, proceed north from where you got Edge to enter the Tower of Babil again. =============================================================================== Tower of Babil =============================================================================== Items ----- Unihorn HrGlass2 Ogre (axe) Succubus 82,000 Gil HiPotion x2 ---------------------------Dwarven Castle Necklace =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Edge - 30, Rydia - 37, Cecil - 41, Rosa - 39, Kain - 40 =============================================================================== Run straight up and you will be sent through the wall. You can return back to the cave by walking up to the area where you landed. Open the chest to your left for a UNIHORN. Follow the path all the way around, ignoring the door to find a chest containg an HRGLASS2. Go through the ignored door. Head east and up the path. Follow it to the middle of the top and then go down the bridge. Open the chest to fight some monsters. You will recieve an OGRE (axe) for defeating them. I equipped this on Kain. Go back across the bridge and continue alone west. Enter the door at the end. Head east past the door to find a chest containg a SUCCUBUS, then go through the passed door. Head east and follow the path until you find a chest. Open it for an ASHURA. This is a sword for Edge, make sure you equip it immediately. Continue along the path and through the door. Head east past the bridge and into the first door. Save your game and rest if need here. Exit this room and enter the next door on your right. Enter the door on your left. Take the left path and follow it. Go past the bridge leading up and you will find a chest containg 82,000 GIL. Go back to the bridge you went past and cross it. You will be thrust into a battle during the scene. Deal with it however you feel like. After the battle and the scene afterwards, Edge learns Blitz and Flood. Return to the save point and save your game. avoid using a tent or anything. Talk to Rubicant when you're ready to have him heal your HP/MP and then initiate a boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Rubicant _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ------ Rubicant - ?? HP, 7000 Gil, 18000 exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Rubicant is weak to ice, but be warned. When he covers himself in his cloak (his leg isn't showing) he will absorb ice. Cecil will do a lot of damage with his attack when he isn't covered. It's not a hard fight as long as you keep you hp high, and don't do ice attacks on him when he's covered. Remember, 'Shiva' is Rydia's ice summon. Use it for >4000 damage. Sometimes Rubicant will even cast Ice2 on himself when he isn't covered for >1000 damage. He's silly, isn't he? :) _______________________________________________________________________________ After the scene, walk forward through the door. Go forward a little to fall down a whole heap of floors. Open the chest to your north for a HIPOTION.
Follow the very linear path through a few floors until the path splits left and right. Head right to find another HIPOTION, then head left. Go through the door for a scene. Underworld ---------- Awlright! Airship in the underworld :). Unfortunately your airship sucks. It cannot fly over the lava. Only place for you to go is to the Dwarven castle, so head there. You'll hafta stick to land, by the way. Dwarven Castle -------------- Head up to the throne room for a scene, during which you will recieve the NECKLACE. Exit the throne room and head west, up the stairs. Go straight north and down the stairs. Enter the first room you see and go and talk to Cid in one of the beds for a scene. Yay, your airship can fly over the lava now. This opens up quite a few things for us to do before we continue with the story! So anyway, sell all your useless items and such, and then go and board your airship. Underworld ---------- Once in your airship, head west and you'll spot a small island with a cave. This is the Cave of Summons, head southeast from here and you'll find a town. This is Tomra. Enter it. =============================================================================== Tomra =============================================================================== Items ----- 2000 Gil Ether2 ThorRage Bomb Notus Beastiary =============================================================================== Start by heading to the weapon store. I would suggest buying another Ashura for Edge, Chain whip for Rydia and lots of Mute arrows for Rosa. Head east through the wall to get into the armour shop. Here I would suggest buying Diamond gear for Cecil and Kain, Tiara for Rydia/Rosa (whoever doesn't have one), and GoldRings for Rydia, Rosa and Edge. Enter the house in the top left and open the chests for 2000 GIL, ETHER2, THORRAGE and a BOMB. Examine the pots for a NOTUS and BESTIARY. Exit the town. Underworld ---------- Board your airship. We're off to the Land of Summons. Make sure Rosa is level 35 before going. You need the float spell. Head northwest to a little island with a cave on it. Land and enter the cave. =============================================================================== Cave of Summons =============================================================================== Items ----- Life x2 Ether1 HiPotion x3 Cabin Bestiary VenomAxe Kikuichi Defense (sword) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Edge - 30(31), Rydia - 38, Cecil - 41, Rosa - 39, Kain - 40 =============================================================================== First, have Rosa cast float on the entire party. Some of the floor will deal you damage when you walk on it, but floating avoids this. Head east and then north. Open the chest for a LIFE. Head straight left from the chest, through a secret passage and open the chest for an ETHER1. Go back east through the passage and then head south to find a chest containing a HIPOTION. Head west from here and follow the path to find the exit to B2F. When you enter a new room, you will not be floating anymore, so have Rosa cast it again. Head to the east, ignoring going north, to find a chest with another HIPOTION in it. Go up the ignored nortern path. Head west at the split for a CABIN, then head east from the split. Go to B3F. Cast float again. Follow the path until you find a chest containing a LIFE. Head east all the way to find a chest containing a BESTIARY. From here, go east into the secret passage, following it down and you will eventually get to a room with 3 chests containing a HIPOTION, a VENOMAXE and a KIKUICHI. Kikuichi is a weapon for Edge, equip it on him to turn Edge into *ahem* 'TeH T0t@l Pwnz0rz' (Makes him awesome). Enter the secret passage again and head back to the south. Don't exit the path where you entered, go further north. Go north to find a chest containing monsters. You have to fight 5 warriors, and they can deal a lot of damage out quickly. For this battle I had Edge use Blitz once, Rydia use Ifrit once and Rosa healed. Everyone just attacked, even Edge and Rydia after they'd used their attacks. For winning you will get the DEFENSE (sword). Equip this on Cecil immediately. It will boost his attack _and_ defense considerably. Head back to where the secret path is, but head left from it instead of entering it to go through the wall. Make sure Rosa knows wall, then step on the thing to enter the Land of Summons. =============================================================================== Land of Summons =============================================================================== Items ----- Ether1 Bestiary x2 Rat Tail 11000 Gil Yoichi (arrows) Elixir Ether2 Yoichu (bow) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Edge - 31(32), Rydia - 38, Cecil - 41(42), Rosa - 39, Kain - 40(41) =============================================================================== Bosses ------ =============================================================================== Head west and open the chest for an ETHER1. Just north from here is a chest containing a BESTIARY. Head east a little and step on the teleporter tile thing, then step on it again, so you have access to the south side of it. Go south and open the chest for a RAT TAIL. Go back to the north side of the teleporter. Continue heading east and open the chest for 5000 GIL. Head south and open the next chest for 6000 GIL. Go one tile east of this chest, and then all north, onto the tile that is outlined in shadows. This is a secret room with 4 chests. Open them for YOICHI (arrows), an ELIXIR, an ETHER2 and more YOICHI (bow). Equip the bow on Rosa, but avoid using the arrows, as you only have 10. Great arrows though. Exit the secret room, then use the teleporter at the north. Head south and go into the armour shop. Buy an Aegis shield for Cecil and Kain, and Sorcerer armour for Rydia and Rosa. Exit the store and head west to the weapon shop. Buy a Blitz whip for Rydia, Angel arrows for Rosa and a Kotetsu for Edge (replacing the Ashura. Edge should have a Kotetsu and a Kikuichi). Head to the northeast and enter the item shop. This is actually the inn too, so buy some items if you feel like it, and then rest up. Exit the inn and enter the building to your left. Open the two chests for a BESTIARY and a LIFE. The star thing at the top of this room is a save point, so save your game. Exit this room and enter the building directly at the bottom. This is the library. Head to the bottom via some stairs then a teleporter. Talk to the queen and say yes to initiate a boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Asura _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Asura - 31005 hp, 20000 exp _______________________________________________________________________________ Straight off have Rosa cast wall on Asura, as she will cast restoring spells on herself quite often. They will now be reflected at you. Avoid using spells on her now. She will counter attack your attacks for some fairly huge damage sometimes (Killed my Edge in one hit :(...twice) Once you have her walled, she becomes a lot easier, and the battle can only get annoying. If you need to heal you can just stop attacking her. Rydia was summoning titan, Rosa healing, Kain jumping, Edge and Cecil attacking with Cecil healing occasionally. _______________________________________________________________________________ After this battle, Rydia will learn the Asura summon. You're probably very low on mp, so I suggest going back to rest at the inn. When you are ready, go to the king and talk to him. Select yes to initiate the next boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Leviatan _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- Leviatan - 50001 hp, 28000 exp _______________________________________________________________________________ While I personally think this battle is easier than the battle against Asura, Leviatan can make quick work of you if you let your hp drop. This battle is all about keeping your hp high. When Leviatans head is sticking out he will use the 'big wave' attack. This will usually deal 300-400 to your party, but can deal more (nearly 600 to my Cecil once). Leviatan managed to KO Rydia for me, and I had to use an item to revive her, as Rosa wasn't getting enough rounds between his big waves. I had Edge use Blitz until he had no mp, then he attacked. Rydia summoned Titan, Rosa healed every round (mainly cure3, cure4 occasionally), Kain jumped, and Cecil mainly attacked (cure2 occasionally). _______________________________________________________________________________ After the battle, Rydia will learn the Leviatan summon! yay! Exit all the way back to the Cave of Summons and have Rosa use Exit to exit the cave. Underworld ---------- First things first, save your game. Then head to a town to rest at an inn if you need to. There is still some more to do before we get on with the storyline. Namely, Sylvan cave. Head to the northwest corner and land near the cave. Enter it. =============================================================================== Sylvan Cave =============================================================================== Items ----- Bestiary x2 Angel (arrows) ElvenBow Cabin 6000 Gil HiPotion x2 Ether1 x2 Bolt (arrows) Ice (arrows) Fire (arrows) MageMash (dagger) Elixir CatClaw HellClaw MaidKiss x3 FairyRod Remedy Kamikaze Exit =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Edge - 32(33), Rydia - 38(39), Cecil - 42, Rosa - 39(40), Kain - 41 =============================================================================== Just like the Cave of Summons, cast float on your party here. Head east and open the two chests for a BESTIARY and ANGEL (arrows). Head south from the entrance to the next room. Cast float. Head south and enter the next room. Cast float. There is a save point to the right. Rest/save at it if you want to. Head north then right into a hidden path. Open the chest at the end of it for an ELVENBOW. The Yoichi bow is better, so leave that equipped. Head west from the save point, past two exits to find two chests containing a CABIN and 1000 GIL. Go through the exit just south of these chests. Cast float. Follow the path and head east when possible. Go into the first door you see. Cast float. Head north to find 5 chests containing a HIPOTION, ETHER1 and BOLT, ICE and FIRE (arrows). Exit the room. Cast float. Continue to follow the path to the north. Before going into the exit, go right and into a secret path. Follow it around and then open the chest to find some monsters. There are 6 TinyToads and ToadLady. I _hate_ TinToads. They just sit there casting Toad or Frog or whatever it is on your people. I chose to make quick work of them with a Blitz from Edge. For winning you will recieve the MAGEMASH dagger. Return through the secret passage and exit to the south. Cast float. Take two steps down, then west twice. Open the chest for an ELIXIR. Continue south and around the path to a building. Enter the building. Talk to the Sylphs to learn some about Yang, then open the chests for a CATCLAW and HELLCLAW. Go upstairs and walk directly north. This will teleport you from the cave, so reenter. Cast float. Just go south to the next room. Cast float. Go around to the left and go in the exit you come to. Cast float. As soon as you enter this room, hit left to go through the wall. Head north and open the chests for a HIPOTION and a MAIDKISS. Go right from below the MaidKiss to get access to the third chest. Open it for a FAIRYROD. Return to the start of this room, But instead of going west through a secret passage, go east into one. Follow it to the end, then go south one, and east. Go up the stairs to the next room. Cast float. Head east then south and open the chests you see to get a REMEDY, KAMIKAZE, 3000 GIL and 2000 GIL. Continue south to find 5 more chests. Open them for a BESTIARY, EXIT, MAIDKISS, MAIDKISS and an ETHER1. Drop down through the hole. Cast float. Go north all the way, then west through a secret passage. Step on the teleporter tile to find a 'treasure room' of sorts. Cast float. There are 6 chests here. All containing monsters. For defeating all of the monsters you will get INFERNO, FULLMOON (boomerang, equip it on Edge if you want. Replace the Kotetsu if you do this. It won't change his attack, but you might want to do it for 'shits and giggles'), BLIZZARD, AVENGER (two handed sword. equip it if you want, your physical defense will go above what the Aegis shield gives, but makes you attack on your own like beserk), LITSTORM and MEDUSA (arrows). A bit of help here, you will have to fight four (yes, FOUR) Malboro's. They start off their battles with breath, breath renders a character pretty much useless in all aspects. I find the best course of action against ANY Malboro is to use a summon. I used Leviathan, it can do >4000 damage to all, killing all the malboros in one (I was unlucky and it only killed 2 for me :P). Go and step on the teleporter to your right to be teleported out of the cave. Underworld ---------- Okay, NOW it's time to advance the storyline and head to the sealed cave. First you will want to go to a town and rest and sell all your old crappy gear. To find the Sealed Cave, go northwest a tiny bit from Tomra. There is a little crater like place with a cave in it. Enter there. =============================================================================== Sealed Cave =============================================================================== Items ----- Kotetsu Ether1 x2 Bestiary HiPotion x2 Ether1 StarVeil x2 Life x2 Fuma Elixir Ninja (helm) Kotetsu MuteBell Ether2 X-Potion Dark (crystal) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Edge - 33(37), Rydia - 39(41), Cecil - 42(45),Rosa - 40(42), (Kain - 41(44)[leaves]) =============================================================================== Walk up to the door and use the Necklace to open it. When you're inside, go south and climb down the wire. Examine the door just below you for it to turn into a monster. Trapdoors are annoying. They'll use a move that instantly kills one of your party members, and if they get low on hp (try to use high damage moves) they will turn into another monster. Once it is dead enter the room. Open the two chests in here for a KOTETSU and an ETHER1. Exit the room. Open the chest to your southwest for a BESTIARY. Head north then west and up another wire. Kill the trapdoor and go inside. Open the chests for a HIPOTION and an ETHER1. You can then kill the two trapdoors at the top for experience if you want. Afterwards, exit south on the east side. Go down the wire and then go east to get a STARVEIL. Go back up the wire and then head to the east. Open the chest for a LIFE. Go north from here. There are 6 TrapDoors to fight. I suggest fighting all of them. If not, the second room contains a chest containing LIGHT (sword) for Cecil. The third contains a FUMA, ELIXIR and a STARVEIL. The fifth contains a save point, and the sixth contains NINJA (helm, equip on Edge) and a KOTETSU. When you've killed all 6 doors (if you wanted to) go and save/rest at the save point. When you're ready, exit and continue west. Follow the path to yet another trapdoor. After you've gone through the door, go up and open the chest for an ETHER1. Follow the path around to the left and down the stairs. Open the two chests for a LIFE and a HIPOTION. Kill the trapdoor for it's exp. Exit the room to the south to get to B3F. Cross the bridge and go east. Kill the trapdoor then get the chest just above it for a MUTEBELL. Go west a bit and slide all the way down the wire. Go east and defeat the Trapdoor. Enter the door and open the two chests for an ETHER2 and an X-POTION. Exit the room and head west this time. Go down the stairs. Save your game and rest if need be, then exit to the south. In here, go all the way around the outside and then north to the middle and down some stairs to B5F. Go north and across the bridge to fight the last trapdoor. Save again if you want, a boss battle is coming up. Enter the last trapdoor door. Walk forward and take DARK (crystal). Exit the crystal room and try to cross the bridge for a scene that initiates a boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ EvilWall _______________________________________________________________________________ Specs ----- EvilWall - 28000 hp, ??? Gil (I missed it >_<), 23000 exp _______________________________________________________________________________ The EvilWall will continually move forward while hitting you with weak attacks constantly. It is VERY VERY fast, so the weak attacks can add up. Kain should attack, Cecil should Attack, Edge can throw things if you have them but I just attacked. Rydia should cast Ice3 or Leviathan, and Rosa MUST cast slow on it first chance possible. Then I had her Beserk the attacking characters. If the EvilWall gets close enough it will simply begin killing random characters. I had no problem defeating it before this happened though. _______________________________________________________________________________ Unequip Kain and make your way out. Warp or Exit won't work here unfortunately. When you get back to the entrance, there will be a scene. Kain will leave the party. Exit to the Underworld Underworld ---------- Simply enter your airship and fly to the dwarven castle. Enter the castle. Dwarven Castle -------------- Go straight to the throne room. There will be a scene. Cid will have modified your airship again. Your next destination is Mysidia, so heal up and then climb into your airship. Underworld ---------- Go to the northeast and you'll see a crater in the ground. Try to land here and you will dig up to the overworld. Overworld --------- Mysidia is a short trip east. So get to it! Mysidia ------- Start walking into town for a scene. =============================================================================== Extras (Some side quests and junk) =============================================================================== Items ----- ------------------------Adamant Grotto Adamant ------------------------Kokkol's Smithy Remedy HiPotion SomaDrop Excalibur ------------------------Fabul Pan Knife ------------------------Lunar Path Au Apple StarDust MoonVeil =============================================================================== The Lunar Whale! You now control the Lunar Whale. Inside, there is a crystal that when used will take you to and from the moon. There are also seats that when you sit in them will let you rest, just like an inn. And it even seems that this is where the fat chocobo lives when you havn't summoned him elsewhere! You can also examine the panel north of the crystal to use it like a normal airship. Dream come true, eh? Get in your new Lunar Whale and start flying it like a normal airship. Before we head to the moon, there's some more things to do. Fly west to the continent where the Tower of Babil is and land next to the Enterprise. Switch over to the Enterprise and grab the hovercraft. Fly east to Mt. Ordeals then north to Mithril Village. Drop the hovercraft off next to Mithril Village and then get in it. Head to the island with the cave on it just southeast of you. Go up and talk to the tiny man. He'll ask for a tail. Give him the Rat Tail you should have picked up in the Land of Summons and he will give you ADAMANT. Leave the grotto and head all the way back to the underworld. You will need the airship that Cid fixed the drill too. It's the one that can handle the lava. Underworld ---------- Head straight south and you should find a little house. Enter it. Kokkol's Smithy --------------- Check the pots on the first floor to find a REMEDY and a HIPOTION. Head upstairs and check out the left side of the shelf for a SOMADROP. Talk to the guy in the bed and give give him the Adamant ore and he will take Legend (the sword Cecil got when he became a paladin). Head downstairs and talk to the old guy again. He will give you the EXCALIBUR sword. I'm sure you know what to do! Yay for good weapons. ---I'm just going to title the main area you will be in from here on, as it gets annoying ti type "underworld" for just once sentence. I imagine it would get annoying to read too. Anyway, head back to the overworld and go to Fabul. Go north from Mt. Ordeals to get there. Fabul ----- Enter Fabul and head to where Yang's wife is. The west tower. She will give you a PAN when you talk to her. Now you have to go to Yang. He's in the sylvan cave. View above for a guide to that area. Remember to cast Float! Examin Yang and select to use the pan. Rydia will learn the sylph summon. Now head back to Fabul and speak with Yang's wife. Give her back the pan and she will give you a KNIFE. The knife is the ultimate throwing weapon. NOW we get to go to the moon. Go and board your Lunar Whale, and while inside, examine the crystal. Moon ---- Fly kind of south-eastish and you will see the Crystal Palace. Land on the grey plateau just above it. Rest up before you leave the Lunar Whale. Go down the little path from the plateau and enter the cave on your left. Lunar Path ---------- Head east at the split and open the chest to fight some monsters. For defeating them you will get an AU APPLE. Head west and follow the path to the end to find 2 chests containing STARDUST and a MOONVEIL. Head west to the previous 'room' like thing. The strange looking tile in the north wall is the exit. Back outside, go east and then south to find the next cave and entrance to the next Lunar path. Linear. Follow it to the end. Head west and then north into the cave entrance at the foot of the Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace -------------- If you head to the left and right there will be tiles that will restore your hp and mp. When you're ready, head up through the middle for a scene. FuSoYa will join the party. To explain FuSoYa... Tellah on steroids. He can even use meteo. Head all the way back to the Lunar Whale. It is now time to get another summon. Start flying the Lunar Whale (using control panel, not the crystal) and head west a tiny bit. There should be a big circle with a cave in the middle. Land on the outer plateau and make your way down into the cave. =============================================================================== Cave Bahamut =============================================================================== Items ----- Genji (shield) Genji (gloves) Genji (armour) Genji (helmet) =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Rydia - 42(44), Edge - 38(40), FuSoYa - 50(51), Cecil - 45(47), Rosa - 43(45) =============================================================================== Head south and then east at the first split. Go to the top and then east to find a secret passge through the block. Open the chest for GENJI (shield). Equip it on Cecil if you want to. Go back through the passage and take the south route this time. Open the chest to get GENJI (gloves). Follow the east path to the end and through a door. Follow the path and you will spot a chest that contains GENJI (armour). Head all the way to the east to find a chest containing GENJI (helmt). I would suggest equipping all the Genji gear on Cecil. Head back west a bit and then go north across the bridgey-section. You will enter what seems to be a normal battle against a Behemoth. This is vaguely a boss battle, as it is unavoidable and has boss music. It's up to you how to do this. You may want to go back to your Lunar Whale to heal after this battle. There are still more Behemoths to kill, too. When you manage to defeat the Behemoth, head north and through the door. On the next floor, head south along the narrow path. You will fight 2 more Behemoth's on this path, so watch out for those. Go up the stairs and talk to Bahamut. If you have Leviathan, he will fight you. _______________________________________________________________________________ Bahamut _______________________________________________________________________________ This is almost a ridiculously easy battle if you know what you're doing. Bahamut's only attack is MegaFlare, which will count down from 5, and then happen. It's just a spell of sorts though, so simply wall all your characters (Might wanna use star veils and moon veils for Edge, Cecil and Rydia, as they can't cast wall on themselves, and the countdown is rather quick). Megaflare will be reflected back at him for 9999 damage. Just beat him down in between MegaFlares, trying to keep all characters walled. _______________________________________________________________________________ After defeating Bahamut, Rydia will learn to summon him. Bahamut is the god of summons, and is exceedingly powerful. Let your enemies cower before your might. Exit Cave Bahamut (using exit magic if you want). Moon ---- Board the Lunar Whale and rest in a thingo. Save your game outside, and then head back to the overworld by examining the crystal. There will be a scene once you reach the overworld. =============================================================================== Giant of Babil =============================================================================== Items ----- Shuriken HiPotion Ether1 Yoichi Alert Ag Apple SomaDrop Elixir =============================================================================== My Levels --------- Rydia - 44, Edge - 40, FuSoYa - 51, Cecil - 47, Rosa - 45 =============================================================================== Once you are inside the Giant of Babil, head north and step on the grey, teleporting tile. This will bring you into the Giant's neck. Step on the next teleporter tile. Run down and left and open the chest for a SHURIKEN. Continue along the linear path and you will find another chest containing a HIPOTION. Continue along a little futher to find a chest with an ETHER1. Go northeast when the path splits and open the chest for YOICHI (arrows). Go west at the path split to find another chest that contains an ALERT. Go northwest from the split and step on a grey tile to get to the Stomach. Go north to find a chest containing an AG APPLE. Go east from the grey teleporter tile. When the path splits, take the right side to get a SOMADROP. Take the left side and follow it to a teleporter. Follow the linear path and you will find a chest that contains monster. For defeating the Last Arm you will recieve an ELIXIR. Continue along the linear path and head west when the path splits to find a save point. Save and rest if you need to, then head north. Step on the teleporter to get to the stairwell. Head north for a scene. You will have to fight the 4 elements again. My advice would be to go all out offensive on them, with Rosa healing every turn. Try to conserve mp with FuSoYa by use #2 spells, instead of #3. Go back to the save point and save/rest. Continue north from where the elements were to get to the core. Cross the bridge for a scene. _______________________________________________________________________________ CPU, Attacker, Defender _______________________________________________________________________________ This is a very very easy battle. Start out with Rydia summoning Bahamut. In fact, have her summon Bahamut over and over and you will win. Bahamut will kill the attacker and defender easily on one hit, and the CPU in about 3. You can use a meteo or something from FuSoYa if you want. Otherwise, keep your party alive. the CPU can do 9999 damage to any one party member. _______________________________________________________________________________ There will quite a long scene where FuSoYa will leave the party and Kain will rejoin. Kain will have all sweet Genji gear, too. After the scene, you will be on the moon. Go back to the overworld so we can get the Odin summon. Overworld --------- Simply head towards Baron. Castle Baron ------------ Remember how the kings ghost said to go back to him after you've been to the Land of Summons? Head into the bulk of the castle and then make your way to the east tower. Head to the bottom of the tower. You will have to fight Odin. Odin is very easy. Just go all out offensive with everyone except Rosa. Or you could even use Aim with Rosa, as there is little chance Odin will deal enough damage to even kill one character. After defeating Odin, Rydia will be able to summon him in battle. Now, head to the moon for the final dungeon of the game! When you're on the moon, rest up. Make your way to the Crystal Palace (where FuSoYa was found). Save your game before entering. Crystal Palace -------------- Head to the left and right at the start to restore your hp and mp. When you are ready, head up, past where you met FuSoYa and into a crystal room. You can examine the crystals, and they will 'say' some things to you. Some of it might be interesting. When you're ready stand on the centre tile. =============================================================================== Lunar Subterrane =============================================================================== Items ----- Sage (staff) Murasame (ninja blade) Ninja (armour) FireLash (whip) Dragon (shield) Dragon (helm) Dragon (armour) Dragon (gauntlets) Artemis (arrows) Elixir x2 Blizzard X-Potion Stardust (rod) Crystal (shield) Protect (ring) x2 Crystal (armour) Crystal (gauntlets) White (robe) Crystal (helm) Inferno Fuma x4 Artemis (arrows) Cabin Minerva (robe) Au Apple Ragnarok (sword) HolyLnce (spear) Ribbon (head armour) x2 Masamune (ninja blade) Whistle =============================================================================== My Levels --------- I trained a whole heap around here. I'll give you my levels before actually going to fight the final boss when it gets to that point. =============================================================================== With the healing tiles back in the Crystal Palace, and this being the final dungeon and all, you may want to run around and do some healing. Just a hint, you have to go through the flashy green colours and annoying sounds EVERY time you enter the Lunar Subterrane. If you have any sort of troubles, you may want to go through the Lunar Subterrane a bit to acquire some more powerful weapons. I'm going to do that before I start training at least. Now, see the little break in the walk directly west of you? Go through that. Go south and stand on the teleporter. Go north through the door and open the chest on the following room to fight some monsters. For defeating them you will recieve the SAGE (staff). Go southwest and onto the next teleporter. Follow the linear path into the next room. Cast float on your party. Go around towards the two pillars. What's that floating between them? It looks mighty like a... Ninja sword?! My god it is! Examine it to fight a White D. (Dragon). _______________________________________________________________________________ White Dragon _______________________________________________________________________________ Not too hard. As long as you cast float before the battle. He has a nasty GaiaRage attack, but it will miss if you are floating. Kain jump, Cecil attack, Rydia summon bahamut, Edge throw things or attack, Rosa cure4. Pretty much it. _______________________________________________________________________________ After the battle you will recieve the MURASAME sword. Equip this on Edge and rejoice. He should now have Kikuichi and Murasame. I am a happy man. Backtrack all the way to first room of the Lunar Subterrane. Take this opportunity to return to the Crystal Palace to heal. Head through the east wall in the first room this time, instead of the west. Follow this linear path to a chest that contains monsters. For defeating them you will get the NINJA armour for Edge. Woot! more Edge gear! Equip this immediately and head back to the Crystal Palace to heal if you need. Back in the Lunar Subterrane, head south from the start this time. Not through any secret passages. Go through the door to B2. Follow the linear path to the end and then go into the secret passage. Follow it towards the chest in the middle of the black and open the chest for the FIRELASH whip for Rydia. Equip this immediately. Instead of turning left off of the secret path to get to the FireLash whip, head striaght north and then west. Head through two more blocks of passage and then open the chest for the DRAGON shield for Kain or Cecil. Your choice. Go through the door just to your east. Head all the way to the south and then to the east into a secret passage. Follow the passage and open the chest for the DRAGON helm. Equip it on Cecil or Kain. Yet again, your choice. I like Cecil more than Kain, so I put it on him personally. Head southeast out of this room through another secret passage to get to a room with 2 chests containing the DRAGON armour and DRAGON gauntlets. Either spread the Dragon gear between them or put it all on one. I like putting it on one, it looks cool when you check their equipment :). Go back through the secret passages and into the door just to your north. Head all the way to the east and open the chest to get some ARTEMIS arrows. Go down the steps just to your west and then into the room on your west. Open the chest for an ELIXIR. Head all the way to the east and down some more stairs. Go into the door. Follow the linear path and go northeast when it splits. Open the chest for a BLIZZARD. Head all the way to the west now to get an X-POTION. Head out the door just to your east. Open the chest in view to fight a Behemoth. You will get the STARDUST rod for winning. Head down the steps just to the east. Go down the steps and head west, past the door and open the chest to fight a Blue Dragon and a Red Dragon. They can be kind of tough, but for winning you will get the CRYSTAL shield. Again, equip this on who you want. It is better than the Dragon gear, so I put it on Cecil and gave the Dragon shield to Kain. Head into the room just to your southeast. Head up and east through the wall. Open the chest to score a PROTECT ring. Equip this on someone immediately, it is very very good. I personally put it on Edge, because I like Edge, and his armour isn't that great for being in the front row. Rydia is _probably_ a better choice though, due to her very low hp. Go east through the next wall and exit this room to the south. Open the chest to fight a Behemoth. For defeating it you will get the CRYSTAL armour. Equip it immediately. Go back into the previous room and exit north this time. Open the chest to your east to fight two Red Dragons (oh noes!). For killing them you will recieve the CRYSTAL gauntlets, which should be equipped immediately. Head to the west and into that door. Open the chest on your left to get the WHITE robe. Equip this on Rosa immediately. Exit to the north. Head to the west and open the chest to fight a Warlock and a Dragon Fossil. You will recieve the CRYSTAL helm for defeating them. Equip this on Cecil immediately. Cecil and Kain should now have a full Dragon and full Crystal set between them. Enter the room to the east of the one you came out of and open the chest to get an INFERNO. In this room there is a 1/64 chance of an enemy called PinkPuff appearing. And then a 1/64 chance of it dropping an item called PinkTail. The reason why the PinkTail item is so good, is that once you get it, you can take it to the guy in Adamant Grotto (the cave just southest from Mihtril Village) and he will trade you the Adamant armour for it. Adamant armour is the best armour in the game and can be equipped by everyone! A little note on finding PinkPuffs - If you have any alert items, use them in the room and you will, always, encounter 5 PinkPuffs. Leave the room and go down the stairs to B6. Open the two chests here for a FUMA and some ARTEMIS arrows. Head down the bridge on the left and open the chest for a CABIN. Head around to the right and enter the door. Open the chest to fight some monsters. For winning you will recieve the MINERVA robe. Equip this on Rydia or Rosa. Exit the room. Just above the chest where the cabin was there is a thin bit of land stretching out to the west. Run across here, there is an invisible bridge. Head to the northwest part of this block and then east into a hidden path. Go east and then south down some stairs. Open the chest for an AU APPLE. Go all the way to the east and step on the teleporter tile. Head north to the next teleporter. Head north and open the chest to fight a Behemoth. For defeating it you will recieve another PROTECT ring. yaaaaaay! Be sure to equip this immediately. Continue north to the next teleporter. There is a save point here, so save and use a cabin/tent. Exit to the south. Oooh, more pillars, another sword. Who do you think that could be for? Cecil! Go and examine the sword to initiate a boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Wyvern _______________________________________________________________________________ In my opinion, this is one of, if not THE hardest battle in the game. Wyvern will start the battle with a MegaFire, which deals huge damage. I in fact had to go and spend a few hours training after I died to him like 10 times in a row. Anyway, I can't give much advice for this battle. Your main goal should be to get everyone alive as soon as possible. Rosa should _definately_ heal _every_ turn, maybe even casting haste on her. A lot of people seem to think that you should wall your party (good idea if you have a lot of moonveils or that other veil that makes a wall) and then summon Bahamut. If you summon anything at Wyvern, he will counter with a MegaFire. MegaFire can be reflected back at him for huge damage though. I never have the items for this and I refuse to waste turns casting wall. For this battle I had Edge throw powerful items (this is where most of my damage came from), Kain jump, Cecil attack/heal, and Rydia just attack (I casted wall on her at one point and had her reflect spells off of herself onto Wyvern, but the wall only lasted one round. _______________________________________________________________________________ After the battle you will recieve the RAGNAROK sword. Equip this on Cecil immediately. Oh yeah. This sword is a freaking breast. Go back to the save point and save your game. Backtrack to where you got the Minerva robe. Go through the door to the north. Follow the linear path and enter the first door you come to. Save your game and rest if needed. Exit the room and get into a random battle. Kill one of your members, except for Rosa, as you will want her alive to revive. I killed Rydia personally. You'll see why we done this in a second. With one character dead, enter the first door to the left of the save room Awlright! More pillars and another sweet as weapon! It's long... It's pointy. It must be a spear! Examine the spear for a boss battle to start. _______________________________________________________________________________ Plague _______________________________________________________________________________ This is an easy battle, or a very hard battle. Depending on how much you know about him. Plague will cast a mass-doom on your party, giving you a timer until you die. Seems impossible, eh? There are two ways to do this battle. The first, and stupid way is to run around leveling until you are an incredibly high level and then just smash him away before the 10 timer runs out. Or you can do it the start way, and enter battle with one character dead. When the timer start's getting a little lower, revive the character and Plague will cast the spell again, resetting the timer for everyone. Repeat as necessary. _______________________________________________________________________________ After the battle you will recieve the HOLYLNCE. Equip this on Kain immediately. Sweet. Kains best weapon :). Go back to the save room and save your game again. Rest if needed. Enter the door two doors east of the save room. Looky! pillars again! This time there are two chests rather then a weapon though. Approach the chests to enter another boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Lunasaur x2 _______________________________________________________________________________ Cecil is your key to victory. The Lunasaurs are mainly just overpowered random battle enemies, but they are dangerous. Cecil should deal 9999 damage with his normal attack though, which is very helpful. They will cast recover on themselves for 2300 hp recovery if you summon anything against them. They don't have a lot of hp, especially with the 9999 damage Cecil can deal, and the 8700-ish Edge can deal by throwing Excaliburs (There is a glitch that lets you get a near unlimited amount of any weapon that can be wielded by Cecil, check the Hints & Tips section). Kain should be able to do 3000-4000 damage with his jump, which is always welcome. Rosa should continue to heal every round, but if she is killed, it's not that big of a bother, I never even bothered to revive her when that happened to me. I won the battle with Cecil, Kain and Edge (barely, he had 5hp :P) alive. _______________________________________________________________________________ After the battle, open the chests for a RIBBON and a RIBBON. Ribbons are head armour, so equip them on Rydia and Rosa. Go back to the save point and save/rest. Exit the save room and continue following the path to your east. Head down the stairs and into the door on your left. You're almost at the end of the game now! Hurrah! Be very careful. This area contains the strongest enemies in the game. They are all boss-worthy in my opinion. It's a great place to train if you can survive here, as they give pretty damn awesome exp. Going back to try and get adamant armour might be a decent idea. But just so you know, only devout players ever really end up getting that armour. I've never actually go it :P. Head to the east and down some stairs. Head to the west, and continue past the stairs a tiny bit and open the chest to get a FUMA. Head down the stairs you just went past and follow the path until it splits east and south. ooh, pillars! Another ninja sword! oh I must be dreaming. Oh no i'm not! Run over and examine the sword to initiate a boss battle. _______________________________________________________________________________ Ogopogo _______________________________________________________________________________ Okay. Second last boss of the entire game. Woo. He's a bit difficult. He uses Big Wave, twice. In one attack, and it will deal around 1500-2000 damage. Big ouch. Aside from that he uses a few physical attacks and an attack called 'weak' that will take a character down to single digit hp. Anyways, Rosa. Wonderful Rosa. Have her cast cure4, EVERY turn. Without fail. Rydia summon bahamut or asura, depending on circumstance. Have Edge throw Fuma's or Excaliburs, or just attack. Cecil attack, and Kain jump or attack. Edge is my big damage dealer, dealing his 8500+ every round with his Excaliburs. I won this battle on low hp with Cecil and Kain dead. _______________________________________________________________________________ When you win, you will recieve the MASAMUNE sword for Edge! Woot! Equip it on him, leaving him with the Masamune and the Murasame. Head back to the save point and save/heal. You're heading towards the final boss now. Go back to where you fought Ogopogo, except instead of going down to where he was, go right and around down the stairs. Head down the stairs just on your right and then head around and check the chest for an ELIXIR. Go down the next set of stairs and follow the path til you find a chest containing a WHISTLE. Continue east from here and step on the teleporter to get to the next part. Simpy follow the path and you will find two chests containing a FUMA and another FUMA. Follow the path to the bottom right and stand on the telepoter. Simply follow the linear path to the next teleporter. You should now be in a room with a pedestal at your back. Make sure you're equipped and healed. May as well use those Artemis arrows now, eh! Walk to the top of the stairs for a scene. _______________________________________________________________________________ Zeromus _______________________________________________________________________________ The final battle, phew. First things first, have everyone parry except for Edge. Have him steal over and over until you get DkMatter. This is important. It can take 10+ attempts. I got it on the 6th. Next, kill of Rydia and Kain. This might sound silly, but they cannot do much for this battle, and With them dead, Rosa will get to her round quicker and she will heal for more. Once you have killed off Rydia and Rosa, parry until you get to Cecils round and have him use the Crystal. Once you use the Crystal, the real fight begins. Have Rosa heal every round, or maybe cast haste occassionally. Anyway, Zeromus uses an attack called Big Bang which can spell death for an unprepared party. Having the DkMatter in your inventory will lessen the damage that Big Bang does. That's why we stole it earlier. Now, have Edge throw Excaliburs, or that knife you got from Yangs wife, and Cecil should just attack. When he starts casting Meteo, rejoice. This is his sign that he is getting low on hp. And Meteo only hits one character for under 1000 damage, so... Awesome. _______________________________________________________________________________ Well. Congratulations. You've finished Final Fantasy IV. Enjoy watching the ending scene. Ahah, love the quote "All this formality crap is makin' my neck stiff". I really think the game needs a few more scenes like the final one, as some of the characters are 'shallow' through the game. The final scene really gives you more insight into their personalities. Oh, and you can't help but giggle at the FMV at the end :P. The animation is kind of corny. They shoulda made it like Final Fantasy VIII level. I was very impressed with the FMV animation in that game. Woot, we get to sit through the credits! =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= -------------------------[IV. - General Gameplay Tips]------------------------- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= =============================================================================== |I can't hope to offer you too much here, I don't consider myself a great | |technical player of this game, like I am with other Final Fantasy's. | =============================================================================== First tip. This should be rather obvious as you progress through the game, but the enemies you defeat have a set amount of exp that must be distributed. exp cannot be gained by dead allies. So if an enemy has a set exp amount of 2, if you finish the battle with two allies alive, they will get 1 exp each, as 1+1=2. But if one of those allies is dead, the 2 must still be dispersed among the living characters. 2+0=2. So that one character will gain all the exp. This can be very useful for training new characters, or just training in general. It is especially useful at the end of the game, when if you finish a battle with only one character alive, that character might get a whopping 100,000+ exp (You CAN get 900,000+ exp in one battle apparently). --------------- Second tip. This is a game that makes you rely on white magic a LOT. So do not be afraid at all to use a lot of white magic. I find that during the second half of the game, I run from almost all enemies I encounter and just set aside time to train my party. I'm not a big user of tents or cabins though. --------------- Now, this is kind of cheating. More taking advantage of a glitch. First, make sure you have the 'Avenger' sword. This sword is found in the Sylvan cave. You will also need a bow and arrows. And preferably the Excalibur sword. Mainly because Excalibur is the best weapon to duplicate, and that's what we're going to do. 1.) Equip Cecil with the bow in his left hand, and the arrows in his right. 2.) Get into battle with an enemy (preferably weak, find some imps around the town of Baron or something). 3.) Don't do anything but parry until you get to Cecil's turn. 4.) When it is Cecil's turn, go into items, and scroll down to an empty slot. 5.) Select the empty slot then scroll to the top of the list, and press up once again to access the weapons. 6.) Select either the bow or arrow. This will send it to the empty slot you
selected earlier. 7.) Repeat for the other wielded thing. 8.) Select Cecil's left hand and equip the Avenger sword. 9.) Exit to the battle menu and simply wait. The Avenger sword makes your character attack on his own. Don't attack with anyone. Let Cecil finish off the enemies. 10.) Open the menu and select equip. There should be a strange symbol next to Cecils right hand. Select the Avenger (should be in left hand) and then select an empty slot to de-equip it. 11.) Select the weapon you want to multiply (preferably Excalibur) and equip it to Cecils right hand. Unequip it and exit the 'equip' menu. 12.) Check items. The Excalibur sword should have a strange symbol next to it This will represent roughly 255 I believe. So now go ahead and start throwing Excaliburs at anything that moves. This is what makes Edge my absolute hero. Go Edge. Note: I have successfully done this on the PAL version of Final Fantasy IV, that I bought as part of "Final Fantasy Anthology" in Australia. The game is for PSX (Playstation 1). To avoid confusion i'd like to clear this up now. Final Fantasy Anthology, when bought in NTSC regions is Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI. When bought in PAL regions it is Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy V. Final Fantasy VI is sold as a seperate game in PAL regions. Final Fantasy IV can be bought for PSX in NTSC in a package called Final Fantasy Chronicles. This contains Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger (Chrono Trigger is an absolutely INCREDIBLE game. It is a MUST play for any rpg fan, no matter what). =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= ------------------------------[V. - Special Thanks]---------------------------- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= In this section I will give a mention to the people who send in some info that I use in my guide. Know something I don't? Send me an email and if it is useful information, i'll add it into the guide and put your name here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* *"Tanner" (Blackmaila23@excite.com) * *Special thanks for: Providing an excellent way to defeat Dark D.(Dragon). * ******************************************************************************* =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= ------------------------------[VI. - Legal Stuff]------------------------------ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole and in part in any form. Playstation and Playstation logos are registered trademarks of Sony, Inc. Final Fantasy IV is a registered trademark of Squaresoft. The author of this document is in no way affiliated with Sony Entertainment and/or Squaresoft. You may not place this document on your website or reproduce it in any way without the author's consent. This guide may only be used for private and personal use only. You may not permit anyone under any patents to reproduce it, in part or in whole, or use it for profitable purposes. All content within this file is owned and created by Joel Smith (Seltox). Should you neglect any of the above said, I will track you down, and probably have my way with you. but seriously, don't do it, or you will be branded a complete moron and no one will like you anymore. =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= ------------------------------[VII. - Contact Me]------------------------------ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= If you wish to get in contact with me for any purpose my email is The.Seltox@gmail.com. And if you wish to add me on a form of instant messenger just know that I only use MSN Messenger, and that I really can't be bothered putting up with arrogant people. So if you add me, and are nice, i will talk to you. If you're arrogant or ignorant or annoy me, i will simply block you and you will have to email me.