FFXII Help Thread: CAUTION - spoilers abound

[HUNK]

Well hey if you know that then can you tell me how to find Zodiark?

I have tried to find him but if that is the esper that has to do with the geomancer then He only tells me im not strong enough and i was lvl 60 when i asked him.

[Meier Link]

you have to have almost all of the other summons (with out ultima) before talking to him. you will want to be around lvl 60 before hitting the secret area of the mines

[HUNK]

Thanks for the help but how many espers are there?([SPOIL]i have zermoros,zalera,bealis,matues,famfrit,exodos,adram lech,shemihazi,[SPOIL] i think thats all.

[Meier Link]

SPOILER!!:

All of XII's espers
- Belias
- Mateus
- Shemhazai
- Hashmal
- Famfrit
- Adrammelech
- Cúchulainn
- Zalera
- Chaos
- Zeromus
- Exodus
- Ultima
- Zodiark

looks like your missing a few as stated above there are 13 total

[Meier Link]

if i remember correctly it should be right there in the middle of the 1st big room that you come into from entereing the sewers via the lower levels of the town.

the cluckatrice is a hunt later in the game

[BabyCosgrove]

if i remember correctly it should be right there in the middle of the 1st big room that you come into from entereing the sewers via the lower levels of the town.

****You mean, after I go into the 1st big room and I kill Mimic Battery Eater A&B, the lever is in that room? Is it on the left or right? I already pushed the original lever once to OPEN the gate to GET into the sewers.

Do I have to go back to re-push it or?

[Meier Link]

which part of the game are you at, before you get to the palace or after? because i might not be thinking of exactly the spot you are. the only spot i remember having battery mimics is in the Barheim Passage not the Garamsythe
Waterway

[BabyCosgrove]

which part of the game are you at, before you get to the palace or after? because i might not be thinking of exactly the spot you are. the only spot i remember having battery mimics is in the Barheim Passage not the Garamsythe
Waterway

That's EXACTLY where I am. The Barheim Passage. I even made sure that Fran, Balthier, Vaan, and Basche were all MP'd and LP'd up and we all just kinda stood there at the Gate going: "Well, NOW what?"

It says there should be a switch or lever somewhere to operate the gate because it is too heavy to just "lift". I beat all the Mimics, all the Tiny Mimics, all the zombies and flying bats (or whatever they are) and learned to NOT go back in the room with the Fire Bombs balls and the FLAN A & B. But that lever STILL is nowhere to be found. It's driving me bonkers because that's the last thing I need before I level up

[Meier Link]

there is a gate switch in the op sector 37. you need atleast 30 % power to open the gate. there is a path to the west side of special op sector 3 that leads you to 37 but its in there.
sector 3 should be the 5th area open and 37 should be the 6th area you go to

sorry about the confusion when you said sewer i thought you where talking about the Garamsythe Waterway

[BabyCosgrove]

there is a gate switch in the op sector 37. you need atleast 30 % power to open the gate. there is a path to the west side of special op sector 3 that leads you to 37 but its in there.
sector 3 should be the 5th area open and 37 should be the 6th area you go to

sorry about the confusion when you said sewer i thought you where talking about the Garamsythe Waterway

Sweet! I'm gonna try it again later today (Wednesday) on my day off from work. THAT was my problem. I FINALLY stayed at around 90% Power and when I got to that gate, I was like: "CRAP! I FINALLY kept the ghosts from coming out and made it "all the way" and now this"

EDITED AT 12:46PM EASTERN TIME MAY 21ST 2008:

The lever isn't there. I'm thinking I have to actually defeat the FLAN A & FLAN B (The Green Blob Things) and then get into their little square room to find the lever. Otherwise, the lever is just NOWHERE on that level.

I wish someone had a screen shot so they could show me exactly where it is LOL. How do you defeat the flan's easily without them electrocuting you to death??

[BabyCosgrove]

So I'm in the The Barheim Passage and nobody seems to be able to do ANYTHING except for Fran. Vaan's Magicke's are turned off so I can't use my Cure, Fire, Thunder, etc. His MP is constantly at zero (wtf? How did that happen??)

Did I push a button accidentally somewhere that makes Vaan's MP stay constantly at zero? And why, when I click on "Magicke's" for Baltier does it show everything blacked out even though his list shows he has Green Magic, White Magic, Black Magic, etc???

What did I do?

[Polk]

So I'm in the The Barheim Passage and nobody seems to be able to do ANYTHING except for Fran. Vaan's Magicke's are turned off so I can't use my Cure, Fire, Thunder, etc. His MP is constantly at zero (wtf? How did that happen??)

Did I push a button accidentally somewhere that makes Vaan's MP stay constantly at zero? And why, when I click on "Magicke's" for Baltier does it show everything blacked out even though his list shows he has Green Magic, White Magic, Black Magic, etc???

What did I do?

Vaan- Check to make sure you don't have the Goddess's Magicite equipped as his accessory. That reduces your MP to zero.

Balthier- Make sure Balthier has the license for whatever magick you want to cast. If he hasn't activated the license, he can't cast.

[BabyCosgrove]

Vaan- Check to make sure you don't have the Goddess's Magicite equipped as his accessory. That reduces your MP to zero.

***I saw someone mention the "Goddess's Magicite" a while back. Why does Goddess Magicite make your MP do that? I haven't got that far in the game yet so, I dont know what the GM is all about.

Balthier- Make sure Balthier has the license for whatever magick you want to cast. If he hasn't activated the license, he can't cast.

***Ohhh, that's what I need. I usually make him equipped with weapons; Vaan with Magicke's and Fran with everything in between. Let me try equipping Balthier with some licenses and see what happens.

[Shadow Of Darkness]

maybe you ****ed up your gambit somehow.
pay attention to that !

[BabyCosgrove]

maybe you ****ed up your gambit somehow.
pay attention to that !

And you know what? You are exactly right!!. My gambits were ALL screwed up. Now that I figured out how to arrange them correctly, my characters don't die and I can go from level to level a LOT easier. LOL.

So thanx for your post. You guys are really helping me out. I'm a serious NOOB!

[Dimi]

Originally posted by BabyCosgrove
***I saw someone mention the "Goddess's Magicite" a while back. Why does Goddess Magicite make your MP do that? I haven't got that far in the game yet so, I dont know what the GM is all about.

I hate that accesory as well. I recall it being helpful to getting you to progress further in one part of the game along with it raising your magick defense. Other then that, the Goddess Magicite isn't much of use.

[Confession]

the Goddess Magicite isn't much of use.

Just like every other thing you obtain in the game as part of the story line haha. Both the blades are bad, considering they both have alot of power supporting them, you'd think they would be better ey?

[excalibur2]

ok i dont know anything about this game i do know a little bit about it from the story line but for the items and stuff i have no clue how and where do you get
turnsol, excalibur, and ribbon?

[Confession]

ok i dont know anything about this game i do know a little bit about it from the story line but for the items and stuff i have no clue how and where do you get
turnsol, excalibur, and ribbon?

Umm well first of all, maybe you should actually complete the game first? Because you're saying you barley know the story line, and those three things you want to know about, are very late game items.

But I'll give you a quick rundown.

Ribbon- Random Chest in Creobri Steppe (with Diamond armlet equipped)
Tournesol - Sell 3 gemsteel 3 serpentarius (sorry about spelling) and 3 emerpyrs soul (again sorry about spelling, I dont have my game on atm)
And Excalibur - Rare treasure in the Great Crystal.

[excalibur2]

i was too vague ive beat the game three times soo but like i said i dont know where half the items/weapons are

[BabyCosgrove]

LifeCrystal, you know, the one that turns out to be a Crystal BUG, and you have to defeat it before it will turn into a blue "Save" Crystal? It's in the tomb where Ashe is trying to find the Sword Of Kings.

I have tried everything from attacking, Magicke, etc, etc, and nothing takes this bug down. Does anyone know what works in defeating him? Even with the Bangle equipped, I can't see how many HP it has

Edited June 15th 2008 @ 10:19 pm EST:

I finally figured out a way to defeat the Life Crystal....*Spoilers Below*

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I used Vaan, Basch, and Balthier. You don't need to use any Magicks at all. Just manually have Vaan and Basch "Attack" it to death and Balthier restore the hit points with Curaga. I didn't even have Balthier attack the Crystal or use any Magicks on the Crystal. All he did was "Curaga". I wiped out that Crystal with in 60 seconds.

Damn, I'm a happy camper right now LOL!!!

[Firaga15]

Could somebody help me? I need help beating Yiazmat!

[Confession]

Look Firaga this is a question for the HELP THREAD! You can't just go around posting that you need help eveywhere, it has a section already, and you take other posts onto the next page, which can get missed.

BUT my advice to beat Yiazmat. Be at least lv 70 ( I was 73) Have your gambits set up so 2 people have Healing before attacking and have your stongest usually Basch, as your main attacker with gambits to raise before attacking. Keep bubble belts on everyone, making sure haste is always in effect is also a must. What I did was had Basch with a tournesol (40% combo chance) As my main attacker, and while my other 2 characters were in good condition I kept Basch besereked. this allowed major damage and good combo rates, the other to attacked and healed as normal, their weapons were with the Orochi or Fomulhalts equpied with dark shot.

It took me about 4 hours to beat him, there is many cheap ways of killing him, but I wanted to do it the proper way.

[Linkinpark4399]

umm i have a Queston about the Pharos ho do you do it

[Meier Link]

Please elaborate. Can you define what exactly you are looking for, most of us here are not wanting to write a stratagy guide haha. Is there a certain part you are needing help with?

[BabyCosgrove]

*sigh* So I'm looking through my Gaming Guide, trying to figure out how to get to GiruVegan the right way and I read where I have to fight "Rufflesia (sp?)"?

Anyway, the Guide says I need Dispel & Vaccine. I thought I HAD everything in my "Items" or "White Magic" arsenal. Well, no, apparently not LOL

My question is: What city has the Vaccine and Dispel so I can have it for my fight against Rufflesia? I might actually find it on my own by the time I come back here tomorrow LOL. But just in case I don't, does anyone remember what city has these?

[Djinn]

My question is: What city has the Vaccine and Dispel so I can have it for my fight against Rufflesia? I might actually find it on my own by the time I come back here tomorrow LOL. But just in case I don't, does anyone remember what city has these?

You can buy vaccine from Balfonheim and you can get Dispel from most of the magick shops after beating Judge Master B. I can't remember which judge that is, but my friend and I both have the spell (along with the -ga version) and neither of us has set foot in Giruvegan yet. Personally, i got the spell from Rabanastre.

[HUNK]

How can i reach the baknamy merchant? I

Spoiler: cant get enough pieces of the medalion. I think thats my problem.

[Confession]

Nope! You don't need the pieces... Okay I will try to explain this as best I can.

When you go in VIA Salikawood and you are in that first area, on the way to the next exit (there is only one in the area) There will be a long corridor along the way around the middle. You will know it is the one 'cos there will be all those floating monsters (sorry I can't remember their names) When you go down there there will be a room, when you go in to the room face east, there will be another room with a pandora. To the west closest corner of that pandora will be a ???? and a press X symbol... Press X, congrats you found him.

[Wolf]

It's been awhile since I've played but I think I remember.

@ BabyCosgrove

During the rainy season on Giza plains there are a few special tree logs that you might find around the different areas of the plains. When you find these logs a press X icon will appear and the game will ask you if you want to break the log. I think you need to break every single log in the plains in order to open the path to the Gil Snapper. I'm not sure how many logs there are though since its literaly been years since I've done that hunt. But all the logs should float down a river or something and make a bridge to Gilly's lair.