Slaying enemies - fastest way?

[Peter_20]

Disc. 1

Right now I´m trying to build my characters´ Limit Break levels.
I´ve just finished the Rocket Town event and I´m right now slaying tons of enemies in order to build those Limits.
I know you are able to fight formations of six Battery Caps in the forest near Rocket Town, and yeah, that may seem great for this kind of training.
However, those battles are SLOW, and my relatively weak characters get beaten up a lot, so it takes lots of time and I fall asleep, *yawn*.

So...

Do you know where you can fight the highest amounts of enemies _in shortest time_?
Not just places with the highest formations, but places where you can actually defeat 60 enemies somewhat fast.

[Hikaro Takayama]

Use either the enemy skill Beta, Trine, or Aqualung (all those use realatively little MP and hit all enemies with max whatever element they are damage). Alternatively, you can Equip charachters with a high hit rate weapon (like Vincent's Sniper CR which has a 100% chance to hit) and the Deathblow materia (With a 100% chance to hit weapon, you'll now have a 50% chance of hitting for double damage). Also, any offensive magic materia + all materia works pretty good, especially if you've leveled the materia up.

As for high monster areas (with easy to defeat monsters) hitch a ride on the cargo ship back to Junon and wander around the forest and beach outside of Junon, where a ton of Capparwires appear in random battles, and they only have about 300 hp each. The Mt. Corel Reactor is also a good place to go for lots of encounters.

[Cruise Control]

Odin for large packs of annoying bitches

[OneWing]

You can change the battle speed and any fight will go a lot faster.. To get higher limit breaks, set the limit break meter so that it fills when you attack... If you do that, you will use more Limit breaks, therefore making it level up faster.. (I can't remember if you can do this in FF7)

[Cruise Control]

No, its permanantly set to stoic

[Madame Adequate]

Also, buy a ton of Hypers and keep your characters in Fury all the time. This will help you train the /2 limits once you unlock the X/ ones. I trained all the characters I had to 3/2 once I reached the forest you get Yuffie in, fighting Capparwires (So cute! :fpenerg:). I also had over 50000 gil when I went to Junon and everyone was level 30+, which is another benefit of doing the training all at once. Monies and levels early on. (Not to mention AP.)

But yes, Capparwires are my enemy of choice until quite a bit later on in the game.

[boys from the dwarf]

in gongaga or the forest out side of it you can fight 6 frogs at a time which is easy.

[Peter_20]

Thanks, everyone, great tips.

You could also equip a mastered "Sneak Attack" Materia and link it with Ultima or something.
That way you´ll constantly start the battles by killing everyone, HA! :D
However, it´s usable much later, and therefore pretty useless when it comes to mastering Limit Breaks, which at least I accomplish pretty early in the game.

[nik0tine]

Copperwires for me plz.

[Crop]

Well what level are you, what limits do you have ect?

[Peter_20]

Well what level are you, what limits do you have ect?

Cloud and some others are at LV30, and the Limits are like this:

CLOUD: 2/2
BARRET: 2/1
TIFA: 1/2
AERIS: 1/1
RED XIII: 1/2
YUFFIE: 1/2
CAIT SITH: 1
VINCENT: 1
CID: 1/1

In other words, nothing special.
I would rank my team to like 7/10 when it comes to overall strength.
However, my Restore, Fire, Ice and Lightning Materias have advanced to LV2, meaning Cure2, Fire2, Ice2 and Bolt2. :)

I´ve also got those wonderful Enemy Skills "White Wind" and "Big Guard". :cool:

[Cruise Control]

Stop an take a few hours to pick up every enemy skill you can currently learn, they really help.

[Peter_20]

Stop an take a few hours to pick up every enemy skill you can currently learn, they really help.

Well yeah, I was actually saved in Cave of the Gi by the "Frog Song", it was really funny to transform the annoying spiders into small frogs, haha! :p

Anyway, I guess I´ll try your tip.

[Crop]

Ok, i would work on your 3 main characters and go with them for most if not all of the game thats what i did and im now on level 99 with all 3 of my main characters and have defeted all the weapons.
Who are your 3 main characters that you use?

[ff-fanatix]

wowoooowoooooo.....

good ol baz here now has planet protector lvl 32 yay me :D

yes capparwires are the best solution to this.....just walk in and use trine or beta.....or even choco/mog if u can......

i got all the mp in the world cos i stole lots of ethers in train grave yard.....and sold them...then got more......so moneys and ethers.... :D :D....

but anyway go for capparwires....as said....use ur 3 main characters first..then work on the rest.....

btw Planet Protector sucks....invincibiltiy for one turn....big deal... lol

[Peter_20]

Ok, i would work on your 3 main characters and go with them for most if not all of the game thats what i did and im now on level 99 with all 3 of my main characters and have defeted all the weapons.
Who are your 3 main characters that you use?

Haha, usually I automatically get stuck with Cloud, Barret and Tifa
in the beginning and then suddenly change Tifa with Cid.
I´ve also started to develop a passion for Yuffie, she´s very cute in that spunky way I love. :)

[Cruise Control]

And fairly quick, I reccomend buying armor that has the growth status double, and putting all your yellow and purples there, since they dont link and they take longer anyway, and link green and blue in a regular weapon. I have mastered 15 materia and I'm climbing Gaia cliff at the beggining of disc 2

[Hikaro Takayama]

Stop an take a few hours to pick up every enemy skill you can currently learn, they really help.

Well yeah, I was actually saved in Cave of the Gi by the "Frog Song", it was really funny to transform the annoying spiders into small frogs, haha! :p

Anyway, I guess I´ll try your tip.

I just cast Beta on those spiders and problem solved. I also found that the two cheapest ways to kill the Gi Nattak boss is either (a) use a phoenix down (only has about 25% chance of working, though), (b) use an X-potion, (c) cast white wind on him a couple of times (in addition to knocking off about 3000 hp per cast, it also inflicts every possible status ailment that it's vulnerable to), or (d) Jus cast Cure 2 on him a couple of times. Yeah, good 'ol enemy skill was my favorite materia, mainly due to the fact that most of the Blue magic in FF VII cost less MP than a comparative normal spell and usually hit all enemies at once. Goblin Punch, which costs 0MP and does physical damage is a great way of saving Limit Breaks until you actually need them without having to use MP casting spells.

[KoShiatar]

You could also use Manipulate materia and force enemies to attack the character you want to be hit. I did just that and it works.

[Rengori]

When you get to disc two, Mideel is a great place to train. I mastered most of my materia there and got a few limit breaks up too.

[-N-]

The forests after the Mythril Mines and before Junon yield the highest enemy counts per battle. Matra Magic is usually enough to do them in.