Quote Originally Posted by Big D View Post
Note to all:

ULTIMECIA'S LEVEL IS THE SAME AS YOUR PARTY'S LEVEL, just like (nearly) all FFVIII enemies.
So if you fight her with characters who're at a lower level, she'll be at a lower level too. With less HP, weaker magic, inferior strategies. The secret to an easy Ultimecia fight is to keep everyone at as low a level as possible, and use junctioning to make them stronger. It's easy to have a low-level party (less than level 20) who've got maximum HP, strength, magic, etc.

You know, I heard the same about Sephiroth, yet I beat him after I trained a while and advanced a few levels. He was, for me, far easier at level 75 than, say, level 60. I enjoyed that final battle far more for the most part anyway. It may have been around the same length, but it definitely didn't seem like it. The only hard part of the final boss was Safer Sephiroth (Jenova was simple with the Slash-All and so was Sephiroth's first form, for the same reason), unlike every form of Ultimecia keeping you completely on your toes all the time. The battle is so much up to chance as well, if you think about it: any random magic you have junctioned could be blown away at a single thought, among other things. FFVII was a far better game IMO. I was enjoying this one SO MUCH though up until this final boss battle. Right now I'm just like "screw it; I've already seen the ending video on YouTube, so what's the point of wasting my time?"


Anyway, now that the rant is over, I realized that I am fresh out of Phoenix Pinions. Where might one acquire some?