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

[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 smurf.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