ozma

[Karl]

hey i was never that good with names of enemies but i recently found ozma in the air garden, i found plenty of strategies online about how to beat him but even with all the best gear and absorbing shadow damage i cant seem to survive, is there anything i can do other than magioc hammer with quina to stop his attacks or make him stop healing? i mean i would do fine, but even with auto haste and initiative he gets 3 turns b4 i get 1 and then all but 1 person is dead....

uhh hope u can help? if not thx anyway

[SoftReset]

Nope. He is able to act as soon as any member of your party gets a full ATB, and on top of that he can counter everything your party does.

Your best bet is to equip Shadow-absorbing/guarding equipment on everyone, and input their commands during Doomsday's animation, that way he can't attack everytime you have a character's ATB fill.

[Karl]

so he gets a turn as soon as the bar fills or as soon as i input a command? ima guess u meant input command, thx man

[SoftReset]

IIRC he gets a turn the second any one of your characters is able to input a command, when their ATB is filled.

[Craig]

Attack with your most powerful skills, and hope for the best.

Ozma is based on luck.

[ScottNUMBERS]

Auto-life on all characters is VERY helpfull. Especially against meteor (9999 damage to all) Try equiping it. ;)

[SoftReset]

Meteor is anywhere from 110 to 9999 damage to all, at random.

[yuffielover]

I got extremely to beat him with the most difficult party of them all: Zidane, Vivi, Garnet and Eiko. All with shadow absorption, best armor, weapons, and all abilities. They were all at level 99 as well.

[SoftReset]

Four Lv.99 characters + Flare Star = 4950 damage to all party members, and it ignores defense.

[XxSephirothxX]

I beat him at level 70, with Zidane, Dagger, Freya, and Quina. Magic Hammer is helpful, definitely, and having Dragon Crest do 9999 per attack is a must. I had shadow absorbing equipment on two characters, and the other two had equipment that only cut it in half. I'm pretty sure I got lucky.

[Karl]

y did shock with steiner do only 500 when it usually does max damage? and no i didnt misread it it did 500 3 times in a row :confused:

[boys from the dwarf]

the thing with all of the FF9 later on bosses is they only have a little bit of hp so if you can be doing 8000+ damage a turn to ozma(this is how i beat hades.killed him before he charged his sword.)so if you survive long enough doing loads of damage any boss is i is a pile of steaming fuck.to help you survive you should get shadow absorbing equipment.

[SoftReset]

y did shock with steiner do only 500 when it usually does max damage? and no i didnt misread it it did 500 3 times in a row

You know, if you hadn't said you saw it do 500 three times in a row I would have said you misread it :/

Shock's attack power is Steiner's equipped sword's attack power muliplied by three, from which the target's physical defense is subtracted. After that it's multiplied by a number determined by Steiner's level and Strength.

Equipping Steiner with a weak weapon can reduce Shock's damage to triple-digits, and if Steiner gets Mini'd the damage done by Shock will simply be his sword's attack power minus the target's defense, which in most cases would be triple-digit damage.

Was Steiner in Mini status? Did you have any support abilities like Bird Killer or MP Attack equipped?

[Karl]

yea i noticed while fighting him again that steiner was mini and by the way i FINALLY beat ozma

100 AP HOLY CRAP

everyone on aim told me i got prumice PEICE so i used my 2 peices to make a whole one now i cant learn boost cuz i used my hammer on tin armor T.T

i screwed up on my first play thru a looong time ago

[Wizdom]

complete friandly-monsters quest....thatll help a lot.equip auto-life.Be sure to have Quina in your party.Then when Ozme kills Quina, she will resurrect.Then immediatly cast LIMIT GLOVE.Freya's Dragon Crest is also effective.U can use DARK MATTER in Ozma.that'l deal 9999 damage to her

[Crossblades]

Use these party members

Zidane
Steiner
Freya
Amarant

And use these abilities

Thievery(make sure it does at least 6000 points of damage)
Shock
Dragon's Crest
Throw(with Power Throw support ability equipped)

These abilities are very effective. Plus, make sure you're characters are at lvl. 60 or higher and have shadow absorbing equipment

[Karl]

everyone is sayin the "obvious" stuff, i had zidane which i used for potions ethers and phoenix downs, eiko for holy and rebirth flame, freya for dragons crest, and steiner for shock.

no 1 had shadow equips and steiner and freya survived meteor, they each took about 5k damage and by ozma's next attack with auto life on eiko and zidane everyone was at full health from auto regen

i never had to heal once and zidane just kinda did nothing

[tranvanhieu]

Yum yum
There is two way to make Ozma killself
*Give all friendly mosters gems they want and Ozma'LV wil drop to 66(if I remember)and he can't absord Shadow element now.
*Use Amarant's "Curse" until Ozma is "weak against Shadow element"
Now his Doomday will doom him with 9999 HP each times. ^__^

[ScottNUMBERS]

Meteor is anywhere from 110 to 9999 damage to all, at random.

Thats when vivi uses it, i've never seen ozmas meteor do less than 9999 to all my characters. But it may just be that i'm unlucky. :mad:

[Dreddz]

Ozma was certainly one of teh hardest Super bosses there was
Equip Shawdow absorbing gear and act carefully due to him taking turns quick
Dont get too peeved off, I only beat him once and after I train and cant beat him so its luck that will get you past it

[Itsunari 2000]

Ozma made Hades look like a total pushover.

[SoftReset]

Thats when vivi uses it, i've never seen ozmas meteor do less than 9999 to all my characters. But it may just be that i'm unlucky.

Vivi's Meteor is anywhere from 88 multiplied by one up to 88 multiplied by Vivi's magic stat plus his level, minus one, so it would be possible for Vivi to do 9999 damage at higher levels with a decent magic stat. Even so, at Lv.99 with his max magic it can still do as little as 88 damage.

...and I have seen Ozma do 110 damage to a party member.


*Give all friendly mosters gems they want and Ozma'LV wil drop to 66(if I remember)and he can't absord Shadow element now.

Enemy levels are fixed, nothing you do will ever change an enemy's level.

You're right about shadow though. Not only will he not absorb it, he'll be weak to it.

[Wizdom]

ozma can be beaten by lvl 1 party!

[SoftReset]

I know, I've done it.

[Wizdom]

yeah! me too!
Quina rulez!

[Crossblades]

Once I buy that game back again, I'm gonna try it