Ozma's that hard?

[Sefie1999AD]

Ozma, Quale and the Friendly Yan have 65,535 HP, the highest in the game. This is very low compared to the HP of bosses in other second-gen FF games (e.g. Emerald WEAPON, 1,000,000, FFVII and Penance, 12,000,000, FFX).

They have even less HP, the guides I have say 55,535 HP. And this is what I like about FFIX: It can make challenging bosses without artificial things to make them harder, such as the bosses having millions of HP. Just like in other old-school FFs (WarMech didn't have millions of HP, neither did Shinryuu and Omega, and still they were hard, especially the latter two).

[Xurts]

Thievery for 9,999 damage?

Yeah, there are some people who can't be bothered to steal like me.

And me.

It's too bad that FF9 can't be more like Chrono Trigger for the fact that you can take the main character out of your party. Unless you spend the entire game stealing over and over again, Zidane is worthless unless he is Tranced.

[Goldenboko]

What level where you facing Ozma for him to be supposedly easy? Well I guess it would be easier at a high level... but I went for a challenge and beat him at an average level of about 55 curse usually killed all of my party members (Auto-Life made Quina my most useful character) same with meteor. My party was so bad I basically beat him off pure skill cause Steiner was the only one that could do 9,999 unless Zidane went into Trance.
One more thing that makes Ozma annoying at all levels his/her speed isn't high... it's just that every time you do something (attack, heal, whatever) his ATB bar fills up and he gets to go before you! That's just unfair!

[Xurts]

What level where you facing Ozma for him to be supposedly easy? Well I guess it would be easier at a high level... but I went for a challenge and beat him at an average level of about 55 curse usually killed all of my party members (Auto-Life made Quina my most useful character) same with meteor. My party was so bad I basically beat him off pure skill cause Steiner was the only one that could do 9,999 unless Zidane went into Trance.
One more thing that makes Ozma annoying at all levels his/her speed isn't high... it's just that every time you do something (attack, heal, whatever) his ATB bar fills up and he gets to go before you! That's just unfair!

My party's Levels when I beat him where in the low 90s, except for Zidane, who was 99. It's easier the higher your level because you have more Magic Stones then.

[Zeromus_X]

He has the maximum the hex could hold on the 16-bit games. (65,353, apparently) Possibly for nostalgia.

And just because a boss doesn't have 10 billion hit points doesn't make it 'easy'. Don't know why people would think that. He has alot of HP for the game he's in, whilst bombarding you with powerful attacks.

[Goldenboko]

My party's Levels when I beat him where in the low 90s, except for Zidane, who was 99. It's easier the higher your level because you have more Magic Stones then.

Well then I saved before beating him perhaps I'll level up face him/her again and see what the difficulty is.

[H-Kazami]

I can't really say Ozma is challenging...This isn't really a hard battle comparing to other FF series like Endless Twilight said; however, some luck WILL be needed...who knows...he attacks fast sometimes...grrrrr

My party was Zidane/Garnet/Freya/Amarant
and only Zidane and Garnet surpassed 70s, while the other is around 50-60s. I didn't really bother with Auto-Life or Auto-Potion, instead, I had Auto-Regen with shadow absorbing armors or 100% against shadow attacks. My Amarant and Garnet were the support characters in the battle, I leave most damage to Freya and Zidane(after Zidean stole everything of course), my Thievery was around 9000+ damage. I use Amarant to give Auto-Life, and his Curse is useful. You can use Curse on Ozma until he is afraid of shadow attack, and I even equip Amarant with Return Magic; therefore, whenever Ozma used Doomsday, I can absorb shadow attack, while he hits himself with shadow attack, which can do around 9999.

[TheSpoonyBard]

They have even less HP, the guides I have say 55,535 HP

Ah, my apologies. I was looking at the EXP values. Nevertheless, Quale and the Friendly Yan have 65,535 HP. Ozma, along with Hades, Deathguise and Trance Kuja have 55,535 HP.

[Quindiana Jones]

I've heard a strategy of making Amarant cast Curse. Can't remember how it helps. Also wear shadow absorbing (absorbing is best, but if you can't absorb it, just null or dullify the damage) gear.

[TheSpoonyBard]

Curse makes the target weak to an element. Ozma is already weak to Wind, Holy and Shadow (if you complete the Friendly Monsters sidequest), two of which are the strongest elemental spells.

[Quindiana Jones]

Ah right. My thing woulda been better if I could remember the whole thing. It was a real good strategy, but I can't remember it. Woops.

[Dell]

Too bad, Vivi can't learn Aero.:(

Anyway, my Vivi's Doomsday and Return Magic is a real life-saver. Is it me or is anyone think Ozma cannot absorb Shadow? In my save files, Ozma always get hit by Doomsday.

[TheSpoonyBard]

Ozma absorbs Shadow damage if you do not complete the Friendly Monsters sidequest prior to battling him.

[kain_ex]

Ozma absorbs Shadow damage if you do not complete the Friendly Monsters sidequest prior to battling him.

ops, I haven't did that but I still could defeat him (after 64782089 tries)

Freya, Steiner, Garnet and Zidane. Zidane lvl 77, Garnet 46 (lol O.o), Steiner 67, Freya 72.

Incredible, Ozma didn't casted Meteor nor Curse in this battle, just Flare, Holy lvl 4, Death and Doomsday. The battle took forever bcuz of his/her Doomsday, I hadn't did that monsters quest... so it sucked and took me about 1 day of trying but I could do it

[Lynx]

my suggestion use armarant and by zidanes strongest weapon you can buy. buy 10 or so and throw them at ozma for an easy 9999 every time he's only got baout 56000HP so it shouldnt take too long ahve eveyrone else focused on keeping your guys alive. and by the way my armarant was only on lv 38 when i beat ozma so dont worry much about leveling him up.

oh and i dindt find all the friendly monsters its not needed.