emerald is much easier than ruby

you don't necessarily need final attack, there are a ton of strategies just search on google

Lmao no.

this, Emerald is really easy if you have a decent strategy and the right materia

That and beating ruby just to beat emerald seems a bit ass backwards to me. I hate breeding the birds so I put that off till last.

the reason you get one hit by emerald is because of his aire tam storm.

it does up to 9999 damage.


the secret to this is that it does 1111 per materia equipped to that character. (so if you have 9 materia equipped you will get 1-timed.) (a trick is to have your chars at 9999 as often as you can, and only have 2 materia equipped, so it does 2222, leaving you at 7777 triggering lucky 7s)

simple solution = 1 healer to heal every round no matter what. (this only requires you to have life2 and mastered cure, (since emerald attacks extremely often and he also tends to take his turn when you dont expect it)
and the other 2 chars to have somthing simple like quadra magic + demi 3 (easy and fast 40k damage)
and the other with knights of the round and quad cut.

obviously depending how much time is put in the game, it really helps if those are mastered. (extremely easy to do with magic pots in northern cave, make sure to have apocalypse sword)

final attack+phoenix always helps. (mastered final attack+phoenix = never die)

This post was edited by nate321 on May 30 2011 11:21pm

i'm gonna be working on mastering final attack. will hopefully have it like this

all/cure all/time
knights of the round/mime
mime final attack/mime

that'll make max hit 7777 but i think it will be workable....having haste makes regen just that much better so yea

also a trick you helping you in the battle arena. when the slot machines are going, press and hold square (the slots will dissapear). but remember the last thing you saw, and the thing coming next. if you release and select fast enough it will instantly choose the one above it, this method makes it easy to get the least annoying handicaps.




with apocalypse and other double ap gear it takes about 4-5 hours to master every materia in the game once with magic pots and those little orange balls....








and remember when you go to fight ruby to not use final attack + phoenix, but final attack + life 2.

since you need to fight ruby with only 1 char you wont have phoenix reviving your whole crew. (he knocks your other characters away, so start the battle with the 1 char yu want)



honestly, first time i beat ruby n emerald i never used mime, you dont really need it.

but it is fun to mess around with, example : counter+mime, 6x quadcut+mime. and then luck+ and hp+ if you are low level, or another mime/quad cut combo or finalattack+life. use quadcut once, get countered by ruby. retaliate with 24 attacks =D


OH! and if you take the time to master all your materia, dont forget to go to bugenhagen and get a set of master materia (master magic, summon, command). if you happen to do this before yu fight emerald it will make it easier (and then yu get a second set keke)

all extremely unnecessary but all part of the fun.


and to help make chocobos to get kotr, (for the purpose of racing your chocobos to class A and S). duplicate your greens with w-item trick, rather than spending millions of gil (i spent millions of gil doin this on a few files, and never thought of duping them ~_~)









ill stop posting stuff now... just trying to help ofc. =)

This post was edited by nate321 on May 30 2011 11:42pm

nice info thanks =)...i probably won't master all my materia..just the stuff that weill help =p

will probably do most of this aside from duping =) already got kotr but i don't like glitches

o. well hopefully yu saved all of your elixers for magic pots then =D

and i screwed up writing out that combo, its not counter+mime and quadcut+mime, its quadcut by itself, and then mass counter+mime.

i reread that n realized it made no sense. (thinking too fast ~_~)

This post was edited by nate321 on May 31 2011 12:00pm

Even having knights of the round makes relying on luck 7777 pointless.