Tips and great places to level up for beginners thread!

[Ultima]

For any beginners new to the final fantasy 7 experience here are great tips and places to level your characters. Experienced gamers are also free to add their tips, hints, and more places to level up here! Here goes!


Disc 1 level up hot spots:

With cloud only at the Section 1 reactor battle the Soldiers partered with the Mono drives they offer 54exps perfect to level up a couple times.

Train graveyard also with Cloud battle 3 Mono drives to also get 54exps.

Winding tunnel of Section 5 Reactor, to level up Tifa, Cloud, and Barret faster go the end ofthe tunnel and battle the Shinra soldiers over and over again to get 84exps for each battle ( very helpful.)

Mythril Mine, get into a battle with the Ark dragon, paired with 4 snakes they offers over 300exps.

Junon Area Forest, battle the weeds, and blue birds to get 195 to 400exps.

Gongaga Area, battle 3 Stone dragons to get 600exps.

Wutai Area, battle the lizards, and thunder kiss birds to get great exps.

Before Ancient City outside of Sleeping Forest, you will see a clearing before the ancient city great monsters reside there battle them to get great points.

Disc 2 Level up hot spots

Mt. Glacier and inside Grea Caves, another perfect place to level if your characters don't freeze to death, also battle the iclcles and dragons inside the Grea Caves to get over 1200exps.

Junon Underwater Reactor, offers a variety of tough monsters and shinra soliders, battle them to get great exps.

Underwater Gelnika Ship, offers deadly sea monsters so watch your back! They offer over 2000exps.

Midgar Underneath Sector 8, offers more tough monsters, they offer over 800 to 1500exps.

Disc 3 Level up hot spots

Final Confrontation Northern Cave, the toughest monsters in the game reside here so be ready for them especially the tonberry! The Monsters here offer 6000 to 8000exps!


Note: Everyone can add more perfect hot spots that I did'nt mention to level up and tips and hints for beginners and even the experienced gamers might need help too, so add whatever you like here!

When you go to Junon in disk 1. The are where the man is drilling the soldiers. Its a tunnel looking area. That connects 2 parts of Junon, its where the elevator to go down to the deep sea area. There's a button on the wall if you push it an alarm goes off and the screen will flash with red as if a light is flashing somewhere, there you can encounter some tough enemies, but if your willing to fight them and save and heal a lot you can raise some crazy levels there. I've had most of the characters up to that point in the 50's and 60's by playing there for a while. It takes a long time but you can also master some materia there pretty well with the 2x AP weapons, but leveling always takes a while. Also since Im not playin now I cant remember exactly what they are but soon I'll notify you as to what the enemies names are and exp, etc info.

[hellbred]

The best spot I've seen is reached on Disc 2 I believe.

It's the the cave up north that connects to the City of the Ancients. You can land in the small connecting pathway with the airship, and head south into the cave.

I returned here many times with double materia, and leveled up rather quickly. The enemies are pretty easy, just boring to fight.

I believe you gain about 8-12,000 exp, a nice chunk of gold.. and equiped with double materia, your materia levels nicely.

[Plastik Assassin]

On disc 2 and disc 3...

The forest area around mideel. Works great for me. Excellent place to grow your materia. The baddies are simple, but carry a lot of exp. and whatnot...

Works best after the town is, well, you know.

[Shelus]

On either disc two or three... there are these lovely little creatures named Vlakorados. They aren't real great for the levels that you would be fighting them through, but... if you are ever feeling low on reflexive skills... that would be your best spot to get back into your habit.

As for the Magic Pots that everyone loves so much, or so I hope. You should know they give a default exp of about 8000 exp. and 1000 ap. With triple ap weapons equipped. Great AP gain. Make sure you have plenty of elixers or megaelixers if you want the AP that badly though. Also... they can be affected by some status ailmets incase you're low on level and you want to tip the battle in your favor. These ailments are as follow... Sleep, Return, Darkness, Transfer, Poison, Paralysis and even Death.

If you are ever low on Elixer however... always turn to stealing from the Tonberreys.

[Testbug]

I know how to get easily AP and EXP in third disk...

It is little bit cheating but it doesn't matter

If you know how to duplicate Elixirs, this is the best way: In north crater (when you go kill sephiroth) go fight in thereon left path and hope that you meet enemy named Magic Pot , throw it with Elixir and hit it. You will get huge amount of EXP and AP. And if you have Clouds Apocalypse it will triple your EXP and AP amount what you get from that enemy.

I mainly use the Gelnika and frequently explore the northern cave now.I don't knwo about many other good places to train, but I can tell you avoid the Midgar Zolom (the big snake). If you're a high level and want to feel good about yourself, it's fun to own him and look impressive, but you'll get little experience and little AP

I think its in the sunken Submarine... you get a summon in there cant remember which, but the Unknown numbers 1-3 give pretty good exp ap and gil.

[Shelus]

Originally Posted by testbug

I know how to get easily AP and EXP in third disk...

It is little bit cheating but it doesn't matter

If you know how to duplicate Elixirs, this is the best way: In north crater (when you go kill sephiroth) go fight in thereon left path and hope that you meet enemy named Magic Pot , throw it with Elixir and hit it. You will get huge amount of EXP and AP. And if you have Clouds Apocalypse it will triple your EXP and AP amount what you get from that enemy.

I just said that right beofre you. O_o And the Apocalypse only triples your AP gain... not your xp. You really need to read posts before hand on a topic such as this.

[Testbug]

Oh,sorry.
I didn't read your post so...

Originally Posted by Camas28

I think its in the sunken Submarine... you get a summon in there cant remember which, but the Unknown numbers 1-3 give pretty good exp ap and gil.

The sunken ship is the gelnika everyone keeps talking about for those who didin't know.

And the summon is Hades

when i got to the northen crater on disc 3 i was only level 38 ^^; but i still got down to sephiroth, never beat him though, but you would kinda guess that.

When you battle tonberrys i find Bio3 to be pretty effective against him

[Baneheart]

Alright, well as helpful as this is I think people should understand the basics of training in RPGs. Most of these certain area's depend on your items, save points, and strategy. The best places are usually close to certain health additions, like for example in FF6 when you first go into the gave there's a spring that replenishes HP/MP. You can level up decently if you have the patience. Patience is probably the biggest challenge for people, lol. Most training area's are near safe zones (towns, event area's with no monsters, etc etc), and help out a lot, as it has shown.

Or like in FFX you can find a save point and strong enemies in one area and can train without using any items. Save points in FFX heal everything, even aeons. It really takes experience to find these places though. You can either do that or check out gamefaqs.com, I'm sure some people have made guides for such things.

[Livana]

By the city of the ancients is where I trained most of the time to try and get my levels up cus I knew the should be bosses not to far away. And then I got all confused, its been so long since I've played ff7.