Tips for Earth Eater and others?

[Tavrobel]

Mostly in making this topic... which has been a while since bumped... I was wanting to learn why EE did not take 99k per hit from Blitz Ace even after trying to remove all defense from him.

Unless I obtain Wakka's Celestial, it isn't really possible to get much faster. Y would work a few times, but I have doubts about having enough money to use him 50+ times to get spheres for my main team.

Unlike other Overdrives involving Weapon attack and target Defense, Blitz Ace does not retain the Celestial Weapon ability to ignore target Defense. In fact, equipping a hand-crafted Excalibur will do roughtly the same damage as Caladbolg. The World Champion however, ignores Defense during Overdrives.

I hope this isn't considered very bad form to suggest but:

Seriously I would try using yojimbo. If you can build a good relationship with him (see the FAQs on this) then you can kill Eartheater in a short time with minimal effort.

You can afford to pay him a decent sum (say between 5-15,000 gil) because you can often loot earth eater for items worth 50k, sometimes even 150k gil (or just keep the triple overdrive/auto-potion 3 slots if you like).

The only downside is you will never get an overkill, therefore only I fortune sphere. But without a long and painful battle, and no need to have an elite party.

Obviously I would not generally recommend this approach because it makes the whole monster arena pointless. But to get the extremely rare and important fortune spheres surely it makes sense. Why knock yourself out?

Yes, it is considered VERY bad form to suggest Zanmato. Not because it is cheating. Not because it is prohibitively expensive in the NA/Jap versions. Not because it kills everything instantly and is therefore considered cheating.

But because it costs LESS in the PAL version. And Americans will not stand while Europe gets the better end of the deal. Curses, curses I reap upon you and your children, you ill-gotten cheap Zanmato-ers! You and your accursed Ribbon; I indeed I hope you choke on that brightly coloured cloth that happens to be attached to your Armor!

And also, because knocking yourself out is fun. Have you SEEN a party die by Poison/Confusion/Berserk? Elite parties show dedication. It takes extreme button pressing skills to do that kind of stuff. Man, you gotta sit in front of a TV for 16 years before you can even attempt to hit that button hard enough. If your thumb isn't chapped, bleeding, and about to be amputated because of gangrene, that's not dedication.

Wish I was seeing things wrong, or else I'd be just fine. But I'll take a screen shot of him Regening, and it says 276,000 hp, no extra zeros. I personally just think it's a glitch, but what a crappy place to glitch out on me.

Yuna's Doublecast does about 65,000 hp while Lulu's does around 45,000. Rikku's doublecast on Ultima also does close to 70,000 hp. So, if he Regen's normally like the other games I've played, I'd so be done.

And Miss Car, I have a feeling that you need to start doing more damage (try 99999). Whether or not you are misreading, or not actually doing enough damage, it irrelevant. Most anti-Arena stuff is based on the assumption that one can do 99999 (125+Celestial for normal attacks, 225+ Magic for Ultima/Flare).