Honestly, I just gave up on Lulu... With Yuna's 1 MP cost, Flare (and now Ultima) and Doublecast, I stopped using Lulu altogether... as well as Khimari.
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Honestly, I just gave up on Lulu... With Yuna's 1 MP cost, Flare (and now Ultima) and Doublecast, I stopped using Lulu altogether... as well as Khimari.
I got no encounter before the via purifico if I remember correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by m4tt
I've finished the game today, nearly cried :(
I got to 188 thunderbolts and messed up,and without non encounter armour which meant an encounter every 6 or 7 thunderbolts. But now I dodge 20 or 30 and when I go tothe agency there is no chest, ????
Auron is the easiest one to get really you just find the rusty sword and the crest and then for the sigil you just haunt for a while fiends that get overkilled if you so much as blow at them.
Venus Sigil? It's 200 times harder for me to get that sigil, now I cannot get Venus Sigil anymore because that is super duper hyper mega hard! :( :cry:
I cant even do more than 5
IF YOU SAVE,GET HIT,LEAVE IT WILL RESTART
you mean you didn't know
I see people achieving this...Then I want to cry.
Who wants to come to Toronto and do this for me?
I cant get passed 9
Not me
THERE IS A CHEAT TO GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i tried it however and it didnt work!!!! anyone else had any luck with trying the easy option to get the damn Sigil, i always got struck at jump 199 or something!!!!
Please if there is one tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :0
Final Fantasy does not have cheat codes so i'm not sure what your on about.:)
Go to the three bolt area (just north of Rin's) at nightime in dim light... it makes it easy to see everything and just try... its really not that hard... make sure you focus and take breaks and drink and put visine in your eyes every 50 bolts or so... it only took me about 30 minutes.
Wow you did it in 30 mins you are a pro gamer but I just can't be stuffed to try it at the moment cause I'm just awful at dodging lightning.:)
no, not a cheat code, a system of entering the thunder plains from rins agency and doging a few before going back, its a way to cheat the system.................apparently!!!! but had no luck trying it!!! :(
Oh I see:)
er... I did it... yes I'm sick lolololololol u take over 20 min... its quite hard but its possible ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by heh
how can anyone think it hard to get the saturn thing? i didnt even know i had it until tonight! (dunno if it was crest or sigil) point is: its damn easy!
Youre talking about the crest Blackraven19
ok sorry and i realized that in german everything is different (such as the people need different planet crests and sigils)
Okay:confused:
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Originally Posted by Dee
Haha what an anti-climax! I would've been throwing the controller at the screen. "ETHER!?!?! I'LL SHOW YOU ETHER!"
I've got all but two sigils, Kimahri's and Wakkas. Working on wakkas as we speak.. Anyway. Some helpful hints for getting the thunder plains sigil..
Don't move. If your moving, you could throw off your timing. If you start to feel nervous. Pause the game, spend some time doing something until you feel better, then go back. Do the same if your eyes or hands get irritated. I lost my record three times by forgetting to pause while scratching my hand. Also, try to do it during a time when your most alert. Weither that be right when you get up, or at midnight. Also, try to get a no encounters armour. 30 purifying salts allow you to customize it into an armour, or i believe a certain monster in the desert drops them. (Don't quote me on that, i'm not 100% sure.) If worse comes to worse, get a friend with good reflexes to help you out.
This may be a stupid question, but could you save, and reload in the Thunder Plains and keep your score? Or would it reset how many you've dodged consecutively? :cat: :confused:
Errr no you can't that has already been writen the opening page of the thread and constantly throughout this thread
Hello.. I am a newbie here....
I just beat that challenge this evening. And it's sure an easy challenge, compared when I tried to do it yesterday.. [I don't know what happened to me today.. =p]
I did it on the screen after Rin's Travel Agency, it's the field after the path from TA. And it's EXTREMELY easy to dodge lightning strikes there... Those are some advices from me....
By the way, why did I get Mars Sigil?? It appeared to be Venus Sigil, correct??
Sorry for my bad grammars.. I just learned English, though....
Never thought I found someone same as me...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanith
Right now, I'm doing dodging lightning for Lulu's sigil and somehow, on tournament to get Auroch Reels.
i gave up. i heard you can save and it should keepyour score but i'm not so sure.
I've got Celestial Weapon fully powered up and it's worth the effort, I beat Sin in two hit and all my character really become strong.
If you all don't want to do this stuff, you'll be missing something for your cute Shiva!
Night_Blade, your score will reset if you save the game in the process.
kaoru_kaidoh102, International change Sigil and Crest:
Tidus: Sun
Yuna: Moon
Auron: Saturn
Wakka: Mercury
Rikku: Venus
Lulu: Mars
Kimahri: Jupiter
it's ONION KNIGHT...hahaha...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee
Onion Knight is from FFIII, it was called Onion Kid.
lmao yall are hilarious, i personally havent tried it yet with the lightning.... in fact i havent tried ANYTHING BECAUSE MY DAMN BROTHER SOLD MY PS2 TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO SO I HAVE TO BUY THE NEW ONE COMIN OUT IN NOVEMBER!!!! *sigh* well *cheesy smile* arent we all jus one big happy family? lol jp ANYways i remember way back wheni was in the thunder plains, i was really bad at dodging lightning bolts ugh... and OMG the butterfly thing with kimahri and all that.... i wont even go there its so frickin impossible.
I agree the butterfly thing was hard, but i reckon lightning is harder
I think Butterfly Catching is harder because it take me two weeks.
I get Venus Sigil in two days.
Nah, All of them are frickingly hard!
Not the moon sigil.
This is perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Kupo Man
Even if u did get the venus sigil does any of u people think that lulu is that powerful???
i mean the overdrive of lulu "FURY" is not so powerful? anyway no offense but thats my opinion
from easiest to hardest:
1. yuna's moon sigil - very easy, like random battles
2. rikku's mecury sigil - again easy, just a lot of walking around
3. auron's mars sigil - i just did his while completing other side quests. but im sure alone it would get old.
4. lulu's venus sigil - surprisingly i only messed up once at 50 so i wasnt working on it for very long. after i doged 25 bolts i would pause for a minute before continuing.
5. wakka's jupiter sigil - its not that winning blitzball games is hard, but after i hit 30 games i was pretty much finished with it.
6. tidus's sun sigil - 2 hours. i could have ripped out my hair! i guess i am just bad at this one. if i ever started a new game i would never try for it again. it just stressed me out way too much.
(i havent tried for kimahris saturn sigil yet. but i memorize things pretty easily so i dont think i will have too much trouble getting it)
its not that obtaning these weapons are extremely difficult, but it was just very time consuming (for me at least) although im still glad i put forth the effort to upgrade their legendary weapons becuase i think it is worth it in the end.
Here's mine:
From easiest to hardest:
1. Yuna: Moon Sigil: Easy if your Yuna's stat is good. Requires Anima and Magus Sisters, PAL player becareful! Strategy is needed if you're too weak.
2. Auron: Mars Sigil: Totally easy when you're doing Monster Arena sidequest. But some are frustrating.
3. Rikku: Mercury Sigil: Three things needed: 1. Patience to walk again and again. 2. FAQ to make things easier. 3. No Encounter to support your life from boringness.
4. Wakka: Jupiter Sigil: Definitely hard if you think Blitzball sucks and totally hard if you're never get too good in it. I never have problem in this except the BORINGNESS of playing all of this for like 4 hours!
5. Lulu: Venus Sigil: Reflexes are important in this part. IF your reflexes is good, try three-bolts area, IF your reflexes is bad, try one-bolt area. Once again, patience!
6. Tidus: Sun Sigil: Depends on luck. IF you can grab all of the balloon in the first course of the race, that's fine but the second and the third part are nasty, birds attack! And balance is important!
7. Kimahri: Saturn Sigil: Even if you know the track, you still need speed, Tidus's running is crapper than Yuna in X-2. And mistakes aren't avoidable....sometimes.
Did you find wakka's sigil hard:eek:
well i dont think its actually difficult winning the matches but it does suck having to play 40+ games. the hard part was getting myself to play
Wakka's sigil isn't really hard but the BORINGNESS! That's a true violence.....
And there are people who can't be bothered to lose in order to win. And there are people who don't want to replay just because of Jecht Shot.
I deeply apologize for saying this: the Three-Strike Area, where is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Britt
I'm apologizing because I read the 1st page containing a couple maps for the answer I request but it was not available to my computer. I also did not want to read the next 8 pages because that'd take a long time. I want to apologize again since I posted a few moments ago saying that people should read before they post. I did not *shamed* I'm sorry.
But for those forgiving people: May you please send [or post] a map to where these Three Strike Areas are in the Thunder Plains?
From Easiest to Hardest:
Moon sigil - Yuna
Mars sigil - Auron
Mercury sigil - Rikku
Jupiter sigil - Wakka
Saturn sigil - Kimahri
Sun sigil - Tidus (Damn is took me about 30+ tries in my first game with this!!!!)
Venus sigil - Lulu (Where is that damned three strike area!!!)
you tell me.
yeh , for example if you go to the inn after like 132 to see how many you have done then it resets...omg i cant believe that you only got 8..lol
I found dodging the lightning bolts very easy, for one reason, in the first lightning zone, there should be a huge body of water, much like a lake. I found this suspicious looking crater so I walked over to it, and BAAAAAAM!!! a bolt of lightning shot down that i dodged, I walked over to it again, and BAAAAAAAM!!! dodged another, as soon as Tidus jumped back from the second, immediately I was hit with another, about a half second after, then again, and again, and again. I got the venus sigil without much skill, I thanked god for my discovery and continued hunting Sigils... :)
P.S. I have a funny story about those Sigils. Okay, it's a warm summer day, and my friend Zack call me over, and when I get to his house, he said "Hey Marc (that's me), how do you get the Sun Sigil"?. So I explained all about the chocobo race challenge, so he took me to his room to do it, as I walked in his room, I saw a tall man sitting on his bed, This guy turned out to be my friends cousain, who got kicked out of the army for his anger issues (this should give you a hint as to whats aout to happed). His cousain began the challenge, and was quickly overtaken by all the birds, and balloons, on his 3rd try, he did awesome he dodged all the birds, and got ALL of the balloons, then as he turned the corner, to the final stretch, he got nailed by 5 birds IN A ROW, giving him no chance to get out of the way. his cousain stood up and said "DAMN YOU CHOCOBOS!!! I WILL SET THE CALM LANDS A FLAME!!!) HE THEN TOOK THE CONTROLLER AND TWISTED THE POOR THING IN HALF, BOLTS WERE FLYING EVERYWHERE, AND SPARKS WERE SHOOTING OUT OF THE PS2 DISC DRIVE, THE SCREEN FROZE, AND THE FURIOUS ARMY KID STOMPED OUT OF THE ROOM, AFTER ABOUT A MINUTE OF SILENCE, MY FRIEND STARTED CRYING
haha that's hilarious
OMGGAKHFLKAJE i just finished dodging 200 bolts in like 20 minutes =]
this guides from gamefaq helped me and if you guys are wondering where the 3 strike bolt look at the bottom of this =]
i hope this helps you guys too im super happy!
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/f...der_plains.txt
Darkkefka, a member of Youtube.com, totally got this before you did. There's even a video on it, and this is the "cheat" that I used.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aurongel
i decided i noticed something about Lulu's weapon since ppl are talking about them is that her Onion Knight is modeled after the Onion Kid in FF3j and even has a picture of the NES Sprite on its shield lol now weither this has been pointed out be4 or not i dont kno i read up to the second page haha
All right, the only damn Sigil I'm lacking is the Wakka's one. My team is lvl 10, I already won 73 games and this h*ll Sigil don't appear as prize in a League or Tournament. How I get that?? ¬¬
Lulu's Sigil wasn't hard to me, I dodged 25 bolts, took some minutes of break, then came and dodged 25 more... that did it. A NO ENCOUNTERS weapon/armor is a MUST to do this.
Tidus' Sigil was easy. I did it in my 2nd try. Don't know if it was luck of mine or if I'm good to dodge birds.
Kimahri's Sigil is definetly the most h*ll harder, I took some 30 tries just to know I was in the wrong screen (the one you get the Teleport Sphere) and then took me another 30 tries (about) to finally get it.
Ive only ever managed to get 45 XD. But your supposed to stay in one area, avoid towers, and if you go back to the inn everything restarts... so your screwed.
I never bothered to go back and get it. It was just waaaayyy to hard.
got mine on my second go with the no encounter ability. so easy with it :) :) :)
I haven't read through the whole thread
so I don't know if this has been said,
but here's two tips that might help:
* Use "No Encounter" (on armour)
* Count the lightning strikes
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
Why is this thread pinned?
Moreover, why has it been pinned for five years?
because otherwise, the topic would be continusly asked by all the newbes out there, and the forum would be cluttered with the different threads, all giving the same advice.
I dunno, I stand in a "3 strike" area, I have no encounters on, I pause regularly. I am still nowhere near dodging 200 strikes. I have given up for now because it winds me up so much.
Actually I'm not convinced about putting on no encounters. Fighting fiends helps to break up the monotony and relax you. But not enough to help me. Guess my timing or concentration isnt good enough.
Cant believe the length of this thread!
:choc:
no encounters does help because then, it stops you getting into a battle just as a strike is about to hit, pushing the x button at the wrong time, and after the battle making you get hit by that bolt.
The best way to do it is to do 25 bolts, take a 15 minute break, 25 bolts etc, etc.
Ah, I see.
Anyway, this is easy. It's just monotonous and painful.
you don't need to break for 15 minutes, five minutes does just as good. It's not so much a time as a feeling. Conversing with someone helps, so don't do it at night when no one is awake.
i admit, that was a bit long, but the point is, you need to take a break once in a while.
What's the record for dodging lighting bolts? I did a quick search but couldn't find anything.
I'm wondering where my measly 641 continous dodges ranks. I probably could have done more if I only took a break somewhere when I was in the 500's.
Well I had another go, still without no encounters, but with the philosophy that every bolt I dodged over 30 was a bonus. With this in mind I avoided becoming tense (the battles also helped) and got to where I reckoned I had dodged over 100.
Unfortunately by that point I was not only suffering battle fatigue, but I was freaked out by the thought of how massive the tension would be as I approached 200 bolts. Instead of taking a rest, I just gave up and went back to the Travel Agency!
Somehow I don't think I will ever do it, but I am quite pleased with my total (of 120 bolts) which is an early game save so the 3 str and hp spheres actually made a difference.
:choc::choc::choc:
smurfING smurfED UP AT smurfING 186 LIGHTNING BOLTS smurf smurf I smurfING HATE THUNDER PLAINS FOR smurfING smurf'S smurfING SAKE smurf
Ok, I've followed all of those tips except for turning the sound off. I'll do that. I'm pretty bad at this. It's probably my TV. It's an Insignia, and I've noticed on SNES things register like a fraction of a second slower maybe, so maybe that's the problem. Anybody know about hertz on TVs? Would an Insignia TV be why I'm bad at this? My record is 50, and I've only done that 2ce. I get hit alot even though I think I'm hitting x when it's flashing. It's very frustrating. I'm gonna use a different tv and see if that works.
Oh, Kimahri wasn't that bad. Tidus was really frustrating. After like 50 tries I finally was able to collect enough balloons while following the sidequests faq on gamefaqs and praying that the birds will have mercy on me. As for Kimahri, it's just memory of where to go and having the sound on doesn't hurt since it's relaxing music. But yeah there's some dim butterflies it's easy to mess up on and it took me a bunch of tries on both of them, but you can do it eventually. It's not just the dim butterflies, but it might take some tries to figure out where to go when you get the side-on view stupid camera angle, and also pray that you don't have to doubleback for a blue butterfly and also pray that the game does not register that you hit a red butterfly a couple steps away. But what makes Kimahri's sigil easier than Lulu's is that it's not like you have to dodge 200 red butterflies than start over if you don't make it.
As for Rikku, you don't need to catch all of the cactaurs, but I wanted to anyway for the friend sphere. I was afraid I'd have a hard time with them b/c of my TV but I was able to do it somehow with not too many re-do's.
I don't know what's wrong with my lightning dodging. Usually when I press X when there's a flash, it lets me dodge it, but I dunno, maybe the flashes are randomly faster than they're supposed to be, or sometimes I think it's because I have the analog stick foward. I'd be pretty angry at the game if it thought I was pressing X too much when the last time I pressed X was a couple seconds ago at the last bolt.
EDIT: I hooked up my PS2 to the other TV. Up to 50 no mistakes so far. Taking a break for a few minutes. I feel like I'm gonna make it this time! If I go any farther it'll be a personal record and I should make it.
EDIT: 138! NOOOOOO!!!!
EDIT: 231! Oh yeaaaah!!! Maybe it was the TV making it harder. Now, I just need to whine about Wakka.
my experience with this is dreadful
1st high score 123 missed
2nd high score 156 missed
3rd high score 196 missed
by the way pausing and having a break is better for calming down rather than fighting monsters i have been so dishearted by 196 missed then getting hit so i gave up alltogether good luck
This is a copy/paste from another forum.
I found an 'EASY' way to dodge lightning!
In the second main area, (after the travel agency) right when you start out - walk northwest until you come to the lake in this area. Where I stood was the corner of the lake (where you could either walk up-left diagonally on the d-pad to go towards the west side of the plains, or right/up-right on the d-pad to go towards the east and north ends of the plain respectively.) Lightning here dodges as follows: first bolt in about 8-10 seconds, followed by a 2-3 second interval 2nd bolt. It may sound a little odd at first, but once you get the timing down it is SO easy! I dodged, waited a few seconds and dodged again; ran back to the edge of the lake again and waited a few more seconds and repeated. Doing this, I was able to dodge 230 bolts in a little over 45 minutes (I think, I didn't time myself - but will next time) all this while STILL FIGHTING! I was able to capture all the fiends in the calm lands AND get the sigil very easily.
Secondly - I wanted to note this because in addition to the sigil, you also get a) 2x MP sphere for dodging 20, b) 3x Str. sphere for 50, c) 3x Hp sphere for dodging 100, and d) 4x Megalixer for 150. I'm currently working on a Tidus-only challenge, and those Str. spheres and Hp spheres will come in handy - especially early on in the game! Best of luck (you won't need it!)
~ I hope this helps someone while they're trying to dodge lightning - I heard that there is also an area by one of the cactaur stones that is ideal and you can use this same strategy. I've also tested this on both the PAL and US versions of the game and it works the same way. Happy dodging! ^,^ ~
Edit: Honestly, I don't know what the big deal is on this - I understand that dodging 200+ isn't necessarily fun...but it's simple (if you follow this advice anyway - at least the frequency of the strikes will be always nearly identical.) It's certainly not as difficult to do as the calibrating mini-game in X-2. @_@
Yeah, but with the callibrating mini-game you don't need to callibrate all the towers to get the best prize (The Samurai Garment Grid). All you need is to get about half of them (I think) and merely attempt the other ones. Then Al Bhed guy will give u the GG. And anyway the GG is no big deal.
Lulu's Sigil isn't essential, but without it she will become a lame duck at a certain point in the game, particularly if you are beating the Arena/Dark Aeons. So it is a bit annoying that its so hard. Its just the sheer number of bolts rather than the difficulty of dodging.
Still I finally triumphed in the Chocobo Race, so maybe I will crack this too eventually. The Choc Race was more like fun though!
:choc::choc::choc:
i swear to god I counted 199 and failed....... I SWEAR TO GOOOOOD!!!!!:mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad: :mad2:
Just do it again, but if you're too frustrated right now, wait until tomorrow and try it again when you'll be less frustrated.
I did it two weeks ago and I dont want to do it again:mad2:
I've heard that there is a glitch with this nightmare of a sidequest. I'm not sure of the exact details but I think its something to do with getting hit 5 times on the north side then getting hit once on the south side then something in between before opening the chest. Anyone know about this?:mog:
Edit - I've Google this and come up with the following. I'm playing VIII again at the moment but if anyone tries this can they let me know what happens.
To dodge 200 lightning bolts easily, use the airship to get to the Thunder Plains, and go to the northern part. Dodge enough lightning bolts consecutively to make the chest appear but do not open it yet. The amount of times needed to dodge for the chest to appear will be different for almost everyone attempting this trick. Stay close to the exit so that you can leave quickly before lightning strikes again. After dodging, go back past the treasure chest and enter the southern part, then immediately leave and go back up past the chest to the northern part and get hit twice by lightning. Go back to the chest and open it. It should say that you dodged 200 consecutive lightning bolts or more. Make sure to stay close to the exit when dodging or getting hit by lightning so that you can leave immediately before lightning strikes again.
I've pretty much given up on this now. After many tries, I just can't do it. >_> It's just too harsh to get to 189 hits and then get hit once and lose.
I guess it's luck.
Doesn't work. At least, not on the US version.Quote:
Originally Posted by sillybuttons™
I did this on my second try. I waited till I had the No Encounters ability, and I chose to do this in the land around the first lightning tower in the North part of the Thunder Plains (one of the better places to do this). What I did was I dodged around 20 in a row, paused the game, then continued until I dodged more than 200 (I overshot it just to be safe).
^You know, you did exactly what I did. :eek: I dodged it until I got tired, then I paused. I did it on my first go. :D It was easy compared to the skipping rope challenge in FFIX.
Ok you cant go into the rest stop while dodging the lightning...it has to be 200 consecutive without a break...I suggest putting on a sword or shield with no encounters to make it faster and a trick on dodging the lightning is to press X once the white flash comes up. I find it quite simple to do.
sorry to revive this old thread, but I read the first page and it seems like if you get a random encounter the counter starts all over again, is that true? if so how are you supposed to do it???
I did it by equipping a weapon or armor with the no encounter ability on it. I don't know this firsthand, but according to other members a random battle doesn't reset the counter.
Yeah, the counter isn't reset by random encounters. It just takes a lot more time if you're running around while doing it.
Britt - You are right. Lulu is a blackmage beasttt.! i made a HUGE boo-boo.... i didnt pay attention to the screen one night when i was moving her on the sphere grid, and i used a FRIEND sphere by accident! & moved her ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE GRID! :( she doesnt even have FLARE. i was on the EXACT grid circle that flare is on, but thats when i messed up:( so im just waitinnn... waitinn... waiting to get a return sphere :(
Random encounters don't reset the counter, but they can force you to get hit. Sometimes a random encounter and a lightning flash will occur at the same time. At that point, it is (as far as I can tell) impossible to avoid the lightning hit after the encounter, and you get to do it all over again. Save yourself from this frustration, equip a No Encounter weapon.
And, Tidusshuyincloud, use a Return Sphere. Should be able to take her back.
I dodged 181 bolts.
181! and then got hit!!!!!! I nearly cried :(