FFIV Help Thread

[SleepingLionHeart]

Im stuck in the Giant of Babil. I cant beat the boss and I cant get out.

I forgot to go get Bahamut first because I didnt know going back to the earth would trigger a cutscene.

So, I need help on the boss.
I usually die when I get to the third (i forgot what her name was) or Rubicante.

Im wondering if you guys could give me some advise or something.

Ill post my party's status in just a bit.

Thanks!!

My party's status:

Cecil:

Level - 76
HP - 4794
MP - 350
EXP - 3760739
Strength - 99
Defense - 45
Magic Defense - 15
Accuracy - 99

Weapons:

Right - Excalibur
Left - Diamond Shield
Head - Genji Helm
Body - Genji Armor
Arms - Giant's Gloves

Rosa:

Level - 73
HP - 3219
MP - 451
EXP - 3205549
Strength - 51
Defense - 25
Magic Defense - 27
Accuracy - 100

Weapons:

Right - Yoichi Bow
Left - Yoichi Arrows
Head - Gold Hairpin
Body - Luminous Robe
Arms - Diamond Armlet

Rydia:

Level - 73
HP - 3093
MP - 527
EXP - 3212720
Strength - 39
Defense - 25
Magic Defense - 27
Accuracy - 85

Weapons:

Right - Blitz Whip
Left - Empty
Head - Gold Hairpin
Body - Luminous Robe
Arms - Diamond Armlet

Rydia's Summons:

Leviathan
Dragon
Ramuh
Ifrit
Shiva
Titan
Sylph
Asura
Chocobo
Odin
Whyt

[Cain Highwind]

Yeah this boss battle is pretty hard. Would you believe the one after is even HARDER?!? I just beat it last night.

My characters are in their Fifties (Cecil pushing past 60). I didn't have Bahamut. I had some good equipment on Cecil, Rydia, and Rosa, but Edge only had a BB Uniform, so he had pretty poor Magic Defense.

Yeah the last two are a REAL pain. You really have to rely on Rydia and her Leviathan Summon for Barbaccia. Try to have Haste cast on her and Summon like crazy. Have Rosa do NOTHING but either Curaja or Arise (simply skip her if you don't need her, but get ready to skip TO her when you do)

For Rubicante, Cecil is more useful here. I replaced Cecil's Cover with the Draw Attacks augment and had him set with Counter as Rubicante will actually do Physical Attacks. It's a good idea to just have him defend to do Counter Attacks. But do the same as I suggested for Barbaccia except make sure you cast Leviathan when he is NOT hiding behind his cloak or else it'll heal him. He'll also counter by doing Blizzara on himself doing more damage (if he's hiding behind his cloak, he'll merely heal himself)

As for the battle right after that. Ignore Fusoya, he's a liar. DO NOT go after the Defense Node, go after the Attack Node instead. Dish out Rydia's Ramuh Summon over and over. Yeah it'll heal the Defense Node, but it'll hurt the other two. When the Attack Node is gone, do NOT go after the Defense Node just focus on the CPU, Rydia's Ramuh does far more damage than node can keep up with by healing. Then merely attack the Defense Node.

Oh and we have a help thread, so I'm going to merge that there okay?

[SleepingLionHeart]

Thanks for the advise.
I just finished the boss the other day.
And I figured out how to beat the CPU easier!!

There are three balls, right?
Well the one on the left is the attacking ball, the one on the right is the healing ball, (that heals the big ball.) and the big ball just sits there until you kill both the small balls.
Then it goes after you with big attacks.

I tried a couple times and then died BUT if you KILL the ball on the left as soon as possible, then only the small healing ball and the big one are there.

The balls wont do anything but heal the big one so cast haste (or Hastmarch the Bardsong, if you got the augument) on everyone and just keep hacking away at the big ball.

The small ball will heal the big one slowly but if you keep attacking the big one you'll soon beat it and then all you have to do is the small one. SO, no big attack to kill you and you get a lot of exp!! =P

[Cain Highwind]

Originally Posted by SleepingLionHeart

Thanks for the advise.
I just finished the boss the other day.
And I figured out how to beat the CPU easier!!

How is that different than what I said?

[SleepingLionHeart]

btw... What is the item "Ninja Sutra" for? (still DS)

[Cain Highwind]

I got it too, I'm pretty sure it lets a character learn Edge's Ninjutsu techniques.

[SleepingLionHeart]

Have you ever tried using it?
It just starts playing music and some text pops up saying "Whew..." and then its gone.
I reloaded my file cause once you do that its gone.

[Sasquatch]

Is it something similar to "Smut" in older versions?

You know, like "Kama Sutra", but "Ninja Sutra"?

[SleepingLionHeart]

Im almost halfway through my 3rd play though the game!! YAY!
Thanks everyone who helped!!

[Firaga15]

How in the world do I beat Zeromus (DS)? I got far, but he killed me off with Meteor before I could KO him!

[lottiepop]

Ok I never though I'd admit this but I need some help, you see whenever I try to kill lugaborg he always gets me with his damn reversal gas and then I can't heal, can anyone help?

[Secret Weapon]

A: This is what my strategy is when I battle him. Use an Elixer on him when he uses that move because it affects him too, then start hitting with everything you got and that should be the end of him. That what I always do.

Q: How do you get into the Lunar Passage??? I know it has to do with an item you have to give that rock head but I don't know what it is.

Can someone enlighten me???

[Meigumi]

Spoiler: Oh, please help, anyone? Golbez - sama keeps beating me up with Bio and Drain, kupo....The part with the creepy dolls...

[H.U.N.K]

Ok here is a problem.

I am inside the giant at the previously mentioned Orb fight. I am trying to use the blast him with ramuh strategy but I cast it once and then it just uses Laser barrage and kills my entire team except for cecil who survives with like 1000 hp.

My team is just around the 50's in lvl and I am wondering if I may need more training?

[Sasquatch]

Wow, way too many questions without answers here. What's the point of a help thread if nobody helps?

I would imagine that the previous questions have either been answered by outside sources or gotten past anyway, so I'll just address H.U.N.K's question.

Do you kill both of the smaller orbs? There's an Attacker and a Defender -- you have to leave one of them alive, otherwise the CPU will revive both of them anyway, hurting you very badly in the process. I leave the Attacker alive -- but if its regular attacks are causing too much damage for your characters, try leaving the Defender alive instead. (It'll heal the CPU, but as long as you do more damage than it heals, you'll be fine.)

Of course, you COULD leave both of them alive, but that'd be pretty silly.
Anyway, case Haste on Cecil and Edge, and just hammer on that sumbitch. You can't cast spells on the CPU because it will have Wall up, so beware -- you might be tempted to use wide-area summons (like, say, Ramuh), but this will damage the smaller orb too, and you don't want to kill that thing. If anything else, have Rydia keep Summoning something like Chocobo -- something that will hit ONLY the CPU.

Another good idea might be, since the CPU is obviously mechanical, to equip Edge with Yang's old Thunder Claw. This goes for the entire Giant of Babil, since most of the enemies in it are mechanical, too.

If you haven't gotten past it yet, hope this helps.