Zodiac Spear X2?

[Nominus Experse]

This game has quite few things that are really no more than "collectibles".

[Shiva_]

So the Zodiac spear sucks then?

It's a great weapon for earlier in the game.

The earliest you can get it is right after you finish Tomb of Raithwall and receive the Dawn Shard. Getting it at this time will help you breeze through the game, and you will be hitting for 1500-2000 HP of damage at around level 20, which is impressive at that point in the game (before heading to Jahara). However, trying to get it at this time is a bit of a challenge. On my 1st playthrough, I got mine after finishing the Stilshrine, and I was level 25.

There was a detailed guide in getting the Zodiac Spear early in the game posted by someone on another forum one time, but I decided to condense the process down just to give a big picture and idea on it.

Here it goes:

After receiving the Dawn Shard, just teleport to Nalbina Town, talk to the girl (named July) standing on the wall, then hop on the chocobo. Ride over to the guards. The guards will then let you by. You will then ride into the Mosphoran Highwaste. Ride through there into the camp, and save. Then put 1 person in your party at a time, and head north. Hold R2 the whole way to flee. Keep going north until you head to Salikawood. Go through the Salikawood until you reach the teleport crystal. Once again, hold R2. Save there. [Consult a map of area for help in directions to get there].
If anyone gets KO'ed, switch out, go to safe spot, and full heal. There's no use in pickin' fights in any of these areas as the enemies are too much for you at this point, and they will kill you in 1-2 hits.

Here comes the hardest part of this process. You have to fight the Bomb King. For prep, make sure you have enough Ethers, Hi-Potions, Elixers, and all 3 mist gauges for the battle. After saving at that crystal, enter the area to fight the Bomb King. Once you enter the room, leave right back out (the BK lunges right toward you as you enter). Buff up your character who has Belias & equip him/her w/ manufacted nethicite. Then go back in. Get out of BK's target range and summon Belias. Belias absorbs fire damage because he's fire elemental, so he will be getting healed by pretty much all of BK's attacks. Anyway, stay away from BK and let Belias deal with him. When Belias is about to go, and it shows that he is preparing for Hellfire, dismiss him (Hellfire will heal BK). Then resummon him staying out of BK's range. Keep repeating the process healing yourself as needed, walking around to help keep mana up, and staying buffed up. BK will full-heal couple times with Renew which is annoying, so be patient.

Once you defeated the BK (thank goodness!!!), then you get access to the NW part of Salikawood which leads to Necrohol of Nabudis and Nabreus Deadleads. Go to the southern edge of that NW Salikawood section and flee (R2) thru there. That leads to Necrohol of Nabudis which is where the spear is.

This place is very difficult as the enemies hit hard and will OHKO you at this point. Definitely no use in pickin' fights here either. Unequip everybody and have only 1 person active at a time (like you did in the other places). You need to do this to save time by not having your guys sheath or draw out weapons/shields, as you will be fleeing the whole time (every little bit of time counts). Anytime one ally dies, switch in another one. [To find where you need to go to get the spear, consult a map of Necrohol of Nabudis].
The first section of this place is the hardest to get through mainly because the goblins come tackling after you as you come through, and they keep chasing you, but there's a hallway (w/ deadend) that you can turn into, and they will turn around and leave you alone. That's a good time to full heal everybody. Right after you enter another section is any good time to full heal everyone. Once you approach the room to get the spear be careful with the gargoyles as they lurk around there. The spear should be in the 2nd chest from the left right in front of the entrance. After you get it, flee back out of the place, full-healing each time you enter another section, and in that deadend hallway, right before exiting.

It took me two tries to get the spear on my run through there. I died the first time because I had trouble finding which chest the spear was in, and the gargoyles had pwned me by the time I was able to get it.

[Northcrest]

Whoa good topic Shiva_ but is there anyone who has ever gotten the Zodiac Spear from the Hennes Mines yet?

[Gabranth]

no, when i got the masamune and the genji gloves the zodiac spear seemed inferior to me.

[Renmiri]

From another forum (ffx2.com): You can get TWO Zodiac spears at Henne mines but every time you get one your chances decrease. First time is 1/100, second time is 1/1000, third is 1/10,000...

[Shiva_]

From another forum (ffx2.com): You can get TWO Zodiac spears at Henne mines but every time you get one your chances decrease. First time is 1/100, second time is 1/1000, third is 1/10,000...

I think that was my mistake up there. I believe that if you go to that area for the first time, I presume that there's a 100% chance that the chest will be there (if you had never opened it before). If you open the chest, and you don't get the spear, then you can restart and reload the game, and go for it again. The chest should still have a 100% spawn rate when you go back. This would make the chances of getting the spear 1/100.

However, if you had picked up the chest & didn't get the spear, and then you saved again later, then the chest will only have a 10% chance of spawning. This will then reduce your chances of getting it to 1/1000.

The above is what I had read on another forum.

I'm not sure whether or not, that for each spear you get, the spawn rate of the chest reduces.

[Northcrest]

Whoa well at least there is a chance of me getting the Zodiac Spear. :grin:

[ZodiarkTheTadpole]

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthrea...iarkthetadpole

Or you can always hack to get as many spears as you want.