Easy Ways To Encounter Deathgaze

[Evastio]

Anyone know of any easy ways to encounter Deathgaze? Bahamut's the only Esper I'm missing now. Except for Raiden since I decided to keep Odin since I can learn Quick from Gilgamesh.

Apparently I heard that his location is in a set spot on the world map. I literally went on every square of the world map and had no luck finding him. I'm also interested in knowing whether Deathgaze is moving or on a stationary point on the map.

[Roto13]

As far as I know, he spawns in one spot on the map and stays there until you find him or enter a town or something. Go to the corner of the map and then face a cardinal direction and turn just the tiniest bit. Like one degree. Fly in a straight line and you'll eventually get him. :P

[Evastio]

Does landing change the location he's at?

I landed before I scanned the rest of the map for him. Since I couldn't do that one degree angle trick I just took advantage of being able to fly straight immediately after boarding the airship and held the L and R buttons to change my position without changing the airship's direction.

[Roto13]

I don't know if landing changes his position. He's kind of a pain in the ass to find when you're looking for him. When I run into him, I just vanish/doom him so I don't have to look for him later.

Don't Vanish/X-Zone him, though, or you won't get the magicite. Though you're probably playing the GBA version, in which case that trick won't work at all....

[,,,]

There is a really easy way to find him. 1-- make sure you're not looking for him. 2-- Have a weak party with low HP, preferably with a member or two already dead. 3-- Make sure you haven't saved since three sidequests ago. Especially if one of those quests is the magic tower.

Otherwise, the best thing you can do is be moving as close to due North as possible without actually being right on due North, hold down the A button, and read a book. I recommend Anna Karenina or Atlas Shrugged.

[IPTC]

He spawns randomly.

[Flying Mullet]

Roto's suggestion is the best way to find Doomgaze. He spawns on a random location, on the world map each time it loads.

[The Ceej]

There is a really easy way to find him. 1-- make sure you're not looking for him. 2-- Have a weak party with low HP, preferably with a member or two already dead. 3-- Make sure you haven't saved since three sidequests ago. Especially if one of those quests is the magic tower.

Yep. Works every time.

[Evastio]

There is a really easy way to find him. 1-- make sure you're not looking for him. 2-- Have a weak party with low HP, preferably with a member or two already dead. 3-- Make sure you haven't saved since three sidequests ago. Especially if one of those quests is the magic tower.

Yep. Works every time.

It's kind of funny that you mentioned that since something similar happened. After exploring the Dragon's Den for the first time and finding it too hard I left the place and went back on the airship which results in having only Setzer on your team. I fly around and five to ten seconds later I encounter him, he casts Lv. 5 Doom, and kills Setzer.

Although I know for a fact that strategy works after unintentionally doing something similar to it, I doubt that'll help me defeat him and get my Bahamut Esper.

Roto's suggestion is the best way to find Doomgaze. He spawns on a random location, on the world map each time it loads.

I guess this means I'll have to scan the world map again, except this time in one run.

Thanks, both of you. Also I'm playing the GBA Version.

[Sergeant Hartman]

How much life does he actually have? He's kinda like Ultima Weapon from 7 isn't he?

[Flying Mullet]

He has over 50,000 hit points, but he's programmed to run away after receiving so much damage. Should you deal enough damage in a short enough time the first time you meet him, you can kill him in one battle, although it's rare.

[Evastio]

I've scanned the whole world map again without landing and I still can't find him.

[Flying Mullet]

Finding him is one of the biggest pain-in-the-asses of the game. As others have mentioned, you'll never find him if you're looking for him and if you're not wanting him to show up he will. My only suggestion is to land and lift off again, thus resetting his location, move your airship one pixel to the side, then hold down the A button (I believe) and hope to find him before you end back up where you started.

[Saber]

you can always have fun and travel around. When I was looking for him I just zig zag'ed all over the world. It did pretty good. Its good to get bahamut early cause he has the hp + 50%.

[blackmage_nuke]

Maybe the elevation matters or something?