Final boss help!

[Scream1008]

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?

Wow, way to fail.

Ultimecia is not hard, you simply SUCK. k? Improve your junctions and she will be nothing. I went out of my way last time to give you a list of the best magic to junction to what stats and the easiest way to obtain it. If you would've listened to me in the Adel topic you made and got the magic I suggested you get, you would not be having trouble with this fight. I would be helpful and find it for you again, but I'm through with helping you.

I've never had a problem with my magic being blown away. It was always something that wasn't important. The only stats that are important at this point in the game are your HP, Str, Vit, Mag, and Spr. There's a small chance that one of those 5 spells will be blown away.

You're ranting about how Sephiroth was so easy compared to Ultimecia, and that FF7 is better because Ultimecia kicks your ass? Not cool. You're making it seem like you prefer an easy fight to a challenging one. Sephiroth is boring because he is so easy, Ultimecia is at least a bit more challenging and takes more than 1 turn to kill.

Why are you still trying to beat Ultimecia? There isn't any point in trying to beat her if you've already spoiled the ending by watching it on YouTube.

Well, I did appreciate all the help. I mean, I did beat Adel the second time around and I in no way think that it was all my doing. Yes, I somewhat suck at videogames, but I do enjoy them. It's just that I want to finish this game before summer is over, and that's why I'm asking for all this help. In IB, I'm not gonna have much time for videogames at all. Well, I will have some chances, but they will be few and far between. I did appreciate all your help, and everyone's help, and I'm sorry if I didn't make that sincere.

[Big D]

The first time I played through FFVIII, I found Ultimecia incredibly hard. I wasn't great at effective junctioning, or exploiting weaknesses like Meltdown + Triple + Aura. There are a whole lot of quirks and secrets like that, which take time and experimentation to discover.
My point is that there's nothing at all wrong with finding Ultimecia a difficult challenge. Geeks on the internet might mock you for it, but then again they've been playing the game for about 8 years and might have long since forgotten what it was like the first time they played it.

[Scream1008]

The first time I played through FFVIII, I found Ultimecia incredibly hard. I wasn't great at effective junctioning, or exploiting weaknesses like Meltdown + Triple + Aura. There are a whole lot of quirks and secrets like that, which take time and experimentation to discover.
My point is that there's nothing at all wrong with finding Ultimecia a difficult challenge. Geeks on the internet might mock you for it, but then again they've been playing the game for about 8 years and might have long since forgotten what it was like the first time they played it.

Well, I mean, I know how to do that Meltdown Triple Aura thing. Apocalypse is killing me though. I do fine up until that point. Junctioning is easy once you get the hang of it, it's just hard for me to obtain some magic (such as Ultima). I think what I'm gonna do is fight through Deep Sea Research Center to get some Ultima stones, some Meteor magic, more Meltdowns, etc. before I fight Ultimecia.

[Jessweeee♪]

The first time I played through FFVIII, I found Ultimecia incredibly hard. I wasn't great at effective junctioning, or exploiting weaknesses like Meltdown + Triple + Aura. There are a whole lot of quirks and secrets like that, which take time and experimentation to discover.
My point is that there's nothing at all wrong with finding Ultimecia a difficult challenge. Geeks on the internet might mock you for it, but then again they've been playing the game for about 8 years and might have long since forgotten what it was like the first time they played it.

Well, I mean, I know how to do that Meltdown Triple Aura thing. Apocalypse is killing me though. I do fine up until that point. Junctioning is easy once you get the hang of it, it's just hard for me to obtain some magic (such as Ultima). I think what I'm gonna do is fight through Deep Sea Research Center to get some Ultima stones, some Meteor magic, more Meltdowns, etc. before I fight Ultimecia.

That's a good idea n.n

You get Bahamut there, and his card will refine into 100 Mega-elixers. I found them to be really usefull when she uses Hell's Judgement O_O4

[Big D]

Yep, if everyone's got 100 Ultima, Meteor, Holy, Quake, and Triple spells, you can boost most of the key stats close to their limit. I think it's the GF Eden that has the Forbid-Mag-Rf ability, enabling you to refine 'forbidden' magic (like Meteor).

[Xurts]

Well, I did appreciate all the help. I mean, I did beat Adel the second time around and I in no way think that it was all my doing. Yes, I somewhat suck at videogames, but I do enjoy them. It's just that I want to finish this game before summer is over, and that's why I'm asking for all this help. In IB, I'm not gonna have much time for videogames at all. Well, I will have some chances, but they will be few and far between. I did appreciate all your help, and everyone's help, and I'm sorry if I didn't make that sincere.

eh, sorry. I kinda snapped there. =/ Truth be told, when I first played FF8 I got raped because I had no clue how anything worked. It wasn't until my later playthroughs that I learned how to exploit junctions and magic.

The first time I played through FFVIII, I found Ultimecia incredibly hard. I wasn't great at effective junctioning, or exploiting weaknesses like Meltdown + Triple + Aura. There are a whole lot of quirks and secrets like that, which take time and experimentation to discover.
My point is that there's nothing at all wrong with finding Ultimecia a difficult challenge. Geeks on the internet might mock you for it, but then again they've been playing the game for about 8 years and might have long since forgotten what it was like the first time they played it.

Well, I mean, I know how to do that Meltdown Triple Aura thing. Apocalypse is killing me though. I do fine up until that point. Junctioning is easy once you get the hang of it, it's just hard for me to obtain some magic (such as Ultima). I think what I'm gonna do is fight through Deep Sea Research Center to get some Ultima stones, some Meteor magic, more Meltdowns, etc. before I fight Ultimecia.

Then you need higher Spirit. The best for that is Reflect which can be drawn from Death Claws (Centra) and Adamantoises (beach by Dollet).

Ultima takes awhile to get. The best way is to fight the Tri-Face fixed encounters in the Deep Sea Research Center. They should drop a bunch of Curse Spikes. Once you get 100 use Siren's (she MUST be lvl. 100) Tool-RF to refine those into 1 Dark Matter, then refine that into 100 Ultimas with Bahamut's Forbid-Mag-RF. Do that 3 times for 300 Ultimas, it doesn't take as long as you would think. Tri-Faces should drop around 6-8 Curse Spikes each I think.

Draw Meteor from Ruby Dragons. KO 1 character in your party and it won't hurt you, it'll mostly use crappy attacks like Fira.

Meltdown is easy to get, just draw that from Gaylas (Trabia region).

[Scream1008]

Well, I did appreciate all the help. I mean, I did beat Adel the second time around and I in no way think that it was all my doing. Yes, I somewhat suck at videogames, but I do enjoy them. It's just that I want to finish this game before summer is over, and that's why I'm asking for all this help. In IB, I'm not gonna have much time for videogames at all. Well, I will have some chances, but they will be few and far between. I did appreciate all your help, and everyone's help, and I'm sorry if I didn't make that sincere.

eh, sorry. I kinda snapped there. =/ Truth be told, when I first played FF8 I got raped because I had no clue how anything worked. It wasn't until my later playthroughs that I learned how to exploit junctions and magic.

The first time I played through FFVIII, I found Ultimecia incredibly hard. I wasn't great at effective junctioning, or exploiting weaknesses like Meltdown + Triple + Aura. There are a whole lot of quirks and secrets like that, which take time and experimentation to discover.
My point is that there's nothing at all wrong with finding Ultimecia a difficult challenge. Geeks on the internet might mock you for it, but then again they've been playing the game for about 8 years and might have long since forgotten what it was like the first time they played it.

Well, I mean, I know how to do that Meltdown Triple Aura thing. Apocalypse is killing me though. I do fine up until that point. Junctioning is easy once you get the hang of it, it's just hard for me to obtain some magic (such as Ultima). I think what I'm gonna do is fight through Deep Sea Research Center to get some Ultima stones, some Meteor magic, more Meltdowns, etc. before I fight Ultimecia.

Then you need higher Spirit. The best for that is Reflect which can be drawn from Death Claws (Centra) and Adamantoises (beach by Dollet).

Ultima takes awhile to get. The best way is to fight the Tri-Face fixed encounters in the Deep Sea Research Center. They should drop a bunch of Curse Spikes. Once you get 100 use Siren's (she MUST be lvl. 100) Tool-RF to refine those into 1 Dark Matter, then refine that into 100 Ultimas with Bahamut's Forbid-Mag-RF. Do that 3 times for 300 Ultimas, it doesn't take as long as you would think. Tri-Faces should drop around 6-8 Curse Spikes each I think.

Draw Meteor from Ruby Dragons. KO 1 character in your party and it won't hurt you, it'll mostly use crappy attacks like Fira.

Meltdown is easy to get, just draw that from Gaylas (Trabia region).

Wow, thanks! It is really helpful telling me where I can find these enemies to draw from and stuff. That is sometimes the hardest thing. And sorry about bringing FFVII into comparison, I guess I should have forseen that it's a touchy issue comparing the two.

[Monsey]

Man you just need to get the best weapons and lots of aura magic or stones and go full pelt!