Sphere Grid perfection

[Aerith's Knight]

Have you, for any of your characters, ever have a perfect grid? Meaning no spheres left to unlock.

I'm not sure whether it's even possible, but if anyone achieved this, I'm sure that person is crawling around here somewhere. :)

[Omni-Odin]

I've done it with one character, but I haven't used lthe empty spheres yet for extra stat boosts. It's a pain in the ass, and I still can't beat every monster creation.

[Tavrobel]

Yes. If you mean activating every stat increase on the grid that the board starts with.

I've also created a grid that had maximum stats for Strength, Defense, Magic, Magic Defense, Agility, and Luck (Evasion and Accuracy at base), 999 MP and as much HP as possible. This task itself requires that you clear all of the +1s, +2s, and +3s, and replace them all with +4s. It definitely requires time.

[Aerith's Knight]

Wow.. respect.

[Rantz]

I think I did it for all my characters. Not including empty spheres.

[Nebulance]

Yes. If you mean activating every stat increase on the grid that the board starts with.

I've also created a grid that had maximum stats for Strength, Defense, Magic, Magic Defense, Agility, and Luck (Evasion and Accuracy at base), 999 MP and as much HP as possible. This task itself requires that you clear all of the +1s, +2s, and +3s, and replace them all with +4s. It definitely requires time.

You can remove items on the grid?? I did not know this... how do you do it?

I'm currently in the process of leveling up everyone as far as possible. I've got Tidus in Auron's grid, Rikku in Lulu's, Lulu is all over the place (I'm picking up Ultima) and Yuna is picking up Auto-Life, among other things. My characters are still quite young, strength/magic topping out at ~70 or so. I've got a ways to go, but it's always a fun trip!

[Tavrobel]

Clear Spheres, which are purchasable from the guy who runs the Arena.

[Mirage]

No FFX stat maxing is complete without deletion of sub-optimal nodes :p.

[P4ine]

Clear Spheres, which are purchasable from the guy who runs the Arena.
Let's mention this as well: He only sell's them once you've caught EVERY monster in Spira TEN times.

To topic, completing the grid itself isn't that hard, but leveling every stat up to 255 can be a pain in the ass.

[Karifean]

Clear Spheres, which are purchasable from the guy who runs the Arena.
Let's mention this as well: He only sell's them once you've caught EVERY monster in Spira TEN times.

To topic, completing the grid itself isn't that hard, but leveling every stat up to 255 can be a pain in the ass.

Correction: Catch every monster five times. You simply need to unlock Ultima Buster. And by the way they're 10000 gil apiece.

I dunno... it was quite quick to level almost every stat to 255, only luck is :mad2::mad2::mad2:. But I'm not going for high HP (9999 are enough), that way I don't need any clear spheres ;).

[qwertysaur]

Remember that when you use a clear sphere the bonuses from that space are lost, so you can't just keep clearing the same node over and over to make it go by faster. Just use King Cactuar to get lot's of AP every once in a while :p

[Nebulance]

Remember that when you use a clear sphere the bonuses from that space are lost, so you can't just keep clearing the same node over and over to make it go by faster.

does this mean that if I ever delete say, Strength +1, I lose a point on which ever characters accessed this sphere??

[*Laurelindo*]

Remember that when you use a clear sphere the bonuses from that space are lost, so you can't just keep clearing the same node over and over to make it go by faster.

does this mean that if I ever delete say, Strength +1, I lose a point on which ever characters accessed this sphere??Yes.
Think of the spheres as "equipment"; if you remove them, you remove their effects as well.

[Sephiroth]

I have. But with my own built sphere grid with only ??? + 4s. Not to mention luck is a powerful stat in Final Fantasy X. The most difficult stat to maximize but the best stat. It replaces other stats and increases your chances for too many things as well.

[Tavrobel]

It replaces other stats and increases your chances for too many things as well.

If your definition of "too many" is three. Critical hit factor, accuracy, and evasion.

[No.78]

Well I beat Penance before I got to the stage where I was using Clear Spheres to erase and recreate, so no... But there's no need for a 'perfect grid'.

Before I realized I didn't need it, I was killing the Spherimorph thing and the Anything Eater for Luck/Fortune spheres and it took AAAAAGES. Thank god I didn't actually have to do that.

As far as just unlocking the spheres as they are, then yeah I've done that for everybody.

[Karifean]

Yeah, getting 255 Luck makes Evasion and Accuracy pretty obsolete. Accuracy can be abandoned and Evasion doesn't need to exceed 30. And there's no point in getting more than 170 Agility if you have a weapon with Pre-emptive Strike (and if needed switch weapons in the very first turn)

I've never bothered to build a perfect sphere grid. In fact, all I did till now was bringing all stats to 255 (except for Luck, it's somewhere in the 100's, I got bored farming the spheres) but keeping the +1/+2/+3 nodes and being happy with 9999 HP. Seriously, I don't think I'll ever need more than 9999 HP. Not maxing HP will save a hell lot of time as well.

[Simen]

Hey, I've completed the sphere grid for all characters.
I finished it with no empty nodes left, but now I have
started to clear every sphere that isn't +4 of attributes
(I'll also upgrade all the HP's to +300 if necessary later...),
this way I max out all the stats of everyone to 255,
but how much luck do I need to beat Penance?
(I have around 150 now I think...) :)

Oh yeah, I'm working on the ultimate sphere grid perfection now! I've cleared all nodes
that isn't +4 and filled these with +4 attributes - now I have 255 on every stat (luck too!).
HP is at 72-73000 on everyone, and I'm gonna keep on filling in the rest with HP +300 spheres. ;)

Merged. ~Shiny