That would indeed be a huge time saver for me xD

Technically your weapons that u don't use still keep the materia unless u remove them u don't have to add them back when u switch weapons, its actually pretty convenient. But I definitely get what u mean. I really like that if u press R1 u can customize all of your party's equipped materia at the same time without having to do it individually on one screen

Yup especially playing Hell House in Hard Mode. Completely different load out required for that battle.

This was something they could have added when they released the Intergrade edition, but no. I swear, this had better be in Rebirth.

Gotta write them down like when we were kids

How

@@diamondgirls6541 I assume they also have Refocus on to have 3 ATB, so -2 from prayer and then 1 x 2 from boost.

@@diamondgirls6541 atb ward reduces price in half, so after first pray aerith has 1 atb left, then he uses the boost which doubles atb -> 2 atb for another pray

​@nicomuller3125 Does Arcane Ward make Prayer cast twice? Or does it not count as a Spell?

HAHAHAHA! This is wholesome.

thats one way to deal with that battle. another good way to deal with it is to save some MP and ATB on Aerith. as soon as Ifrit shows up, blast him with Blizzaga and obliterate him before he can move.

@Lee Griffiths thats how I did it too

That’s what I did too. It was pretty funny.

Lol why didn't I think of this

Blah blah blah

It's not the worse thing thats happened to her

I can't believe it... She's... on the thumbnail of a KZfaq video!

Tostigroover love the reference

Thank you, everyone seems to miss the part in the ability text that the followup spell costs minimum mp

Ah, always wondered why the second attack was always weaker. Should have paid more attention.

Alexander Dessens yeeeeeessssss!! 👍👍👍

It even says so in the game. Don't know how people got the notion that it was free

I’m glad you did I was about to type that same thing. This foo too doesn’t read his comments neither because his past videos he’s said the same shit. The second cast is NOT a free cast and it depends on the level of the cast like you said. I’m pretty sure it halves the second cast. People like you should be making these videos cuz then there’s these air heads who just wanna get fame off a huge game but don’t even understand the Mechanics. He’s gotta dot his I’s and cross his T’s before posting these malformed videos. I took my time to test out different gear to pass on reliable info he just puts on Materia and says a build is good while spewing out wrong information about that same Materia or ability. SMFH. He doesn’t deserve the pop he’s getting for these videos. Especially how wrong his info has been in a lot of them.

If I remember right you can't put mp absorb and deadly dodge together. Mp absorb can only be put on magic.

I think this game allows for quite a lot of versatility and experimenting. FF12 also with the gambits and range of stuff you could do. FF9 had it but on an insanely powerful level, where you could practically learn insane auto buffs that trivialized almost everything in the game.

Cylus O'Brady auto regen, cap your spirit, watch the green numbers fly. I love FF9

same: not a big fan of the original FF7 (kinda the opposite in a way) and tbh i don't like that, while this is it's own game, it's not a completely 'finished' one and we'll have to wait years to actually finish it again. but i sort of like the combat and the extra stuff you can do enough to play it - so i bought it.

@@leeman27534 I honestly don't mind it that they release it in chunks. It means a lot to people finally gets to play this game after so many years. Some have not made it to this year to experience this and I'm glad I was able to play it. Who knows how many more would have missed it if it was release much later on with the way this world is turning out.

@@maskyy5316 eh fair enough to each their own - but it is a turn off for me specifically as i said - i just want longer games that feel more 'done' when i've finished them rather than feeling like i've got to wait years to continue it and like you said - people are dying and there's no guarantee that you'll even be able to get to part two and the ff7 remake will go 'unfinished' for a lot of people

I've played for an hour and a half and I'm still in the middle of chapter 1.

Cause you’re shit, sell your system

Nycus Verneuil No I'm having fun exploring.

@@jerry1dc I absolutely loved taking my time and drinking in all the nods to the original just enjoy it!

AlexanderThePup my total playtime was 105 hours

Lol that's funny

Heh, he was like: "FEAR ME!" **stab** "I SAID, FEAR ME!!!!" **stab** "FEAR ME, DAMMIT!!!!" **stab** "WHY CAN"T I KILL YOU?! IS MY KNIFE BROKEN?! I WANT A REFUND!" **runs home crying** :P

i bougt delux physical copy...until now i cant get to dl it...only got cactuar and chocochick....huuuuu

Pay to win ... for the win

Lol carbuncle out there saving asses as usual

This is what I did...

@@boingbryan8123 only the digital deluxe edition gives you Carbuncle...they may release him as a separate DLC in the future though.

Lul. When I got ward, that's what I was looking at. The other Materia and the resistances they provide.

Probably cuz you didn't read anything

Hotep Anthony do you mean Steelskin?

@@imaweeb8417 yeah. My bad

Even before hard mode he was a godsend....definitely the most useful of the summons and all his individual techniques are useful. All the summons have some utility though, as they can at least distract a tough opponent and help pressure them.....I find leviathan to be the least useful really.

@@Ephideltrance I agree with what you're saying especially on leviathan I really hope this fix out some of its abilities as it could be very useful later on in the next parts of the remake.

Of course it’s the best summon, you literally paid for it lol

@@Anthroid9 actually many DLC items, etc aren't all that useful throughout a full playthrough. Carbuncle is the only exception here as cactaur and chocobo chick become useless fast. That is mainly because he is the only healing/support summon so far. Hopefully, next installment gives us Phoenix...an offensive carbuncle basically.

@Captain Caveman that's fair and true, then there's situations like the whole of chapter 9 without regaining much if any MP unless you use soul drain, making battling the he'll house a pain in the tucus.

Makes perfect sense if you ask me. Reducing incoming damage by whooping 50% is no joke.

try using it with enchanted ring equipped along with a weapon that extends buffs...lasts fairly longer that way.

Magnify shortens the duration of any buff or debuff materia attached to it. You need the accessory or the weapon upgrades that increase the duration of buffs cast by the character if you want to last longer

Darc Hart94 Some people just don’t pay attention to their weapon duff.

That's the combo I have running with Cloud since I got it. Sad that Self destruct sucks :(

I love Enemy Skill with HP Absorb. And just so you know, it actually CAN work with Self Destruct, but only when you have Subversion and warding equipped for the instant-death prevention. It'll just deal a lot of damage to you, instead of inflicting instant-death. I'd suggest also using a weapon with reprieve, just incase.

@@ultimate_pawnch WAIT HANG ON. Self Destruct can be SURVIVED?! this is stupid but i love it. i trolled a few enemies by running in with the auto-life accessory, First Strike materia, and just self destruct immediately. its funny, you just stand back up, but its not smart. warding+subversion lets me just... SURVIVE it? this changes everything!

@@ultimate_pawnch actually I've tired that, but seems to only work if the weapon equipped as the reprieve skill

coolerdude42 it is survivable regardless of the weapon but it isn’t 100% I think. There’s a per cent chance listed on the materia based on the level

Nevermind......after 100+ tries I FINALLY defeated em all. This happened last night. lol.

Put a magic up and the healing carcanet on the character and try Chakra and pray again

Pray and chakra are your go to heal on hard mode. Especially on long chapters since you have to conserve mp.

You misunderstood, Barret casts barrier/magnify first, so all team has barrier and then casts Lifesaver

Combined with his own damage reduction + most damage being redirected towards him would mean Barret would be the only one getting below half health after that move. Maybe you could use steel skin to stack with that as well. Hope I’m understanding that correctly

He only briefly mentions it but he also has steadfast block on Barret so he'll reduce even more damage by blocking.

Right right right, I'm on hard mode now and boy it took me a frustrating moment to adjust to it since I went straight to the extra simulation runs omfg hahaha, but yeah I got it, unfortunately even with the triple stack of lifesaver/steadfast/steel skin/BARRIER and just a regular r1 guard, which I don't thinkll happen cause of thee animation unless maybe you aren't controlling him since cpu is better at blocking than attacking lol My point was that lifesaver doesn't cover damage for both party members only for 1 ya know? SOMEONE'S GOTTA DIE TODAY..! LOLOLZ

Alsoooo any ideas if you have 3* heal linked to MagnifY, then @Autocure on same person will they auto cast cure and always be magnified too? Haven't tested this yet, waste of a slot but I believe itd let me go berserk on anyone really

Both are temporary buffs. Regen lasts a little longer, but I found the Barrier combo more effective in the Pride and Joy challenge, just gotta time it well. Best to use it just before Bahamut uses Megaflare as spamming it will quickly drain MP. Whoever's using it, I recommend equipping an Enchanted Ring to extend the duration of the buff as even a max level Magnify will cut the effect time by 25%.

I only found Regen useful for removing poison! It will not mitigate hardmode damage, you will die before you recover any health.

I only use regen when my full hp characters look like theyre about to get hammered. Or if my healer looks like theyre going down, and my tank or dps might not be low on hp but ill top them off with a dying healwrs last guage and safely arise the dead healer

Magnify+Barrier is better, the real trick is putting it on a character that will benefit your party the most depending on which battle/challenges you're doing

I would think barrier would be more beneficial since it will negate more damage than Regen keeps up with. Something else to consider is magnify+time.

my first run through the game, Cloud had Assess for the entire thing. i scanned every enemy i saw! Rufus was easily the most challenging fight. hes just absurd! i just beat him on Hard mode an hour ago, hes not too bad when you have gotterdammerung.

@@steveh1474 I have maxed out every materia, weapon, & got 100% on the trophies; just need that Barret resolution 😅

@@israelchavez6975 cool. I'm missing aerith resolution

@@steveh1474 Even without Götterdämmerung Rufus isn't that hard (even on hard). The only thing you need in P1 are, circle/ Punisher mode with R1 and Counterstance. When the dog is down add triple slash to it to reduce the distance. Take Transference Module for this fight to get your limit earlier and finished. I had more problems with Jenova than with Rufus...

Use first strike with assess And u will no longer have the problem of forget to scan etc

I beated reno on hard mode in the church using lightning + elemental (maxed out) in armor cus reno shoots out electric orbs when his health is halfway just let the orbs explode instant heal

Thunder, Heal, elemental, barrier, haste is all you really need

I wondered the same thing. It would be difficult to pull off though and would make barrett op

Agreed. Let's say if it were done, not 7777 attack but unlimited ATB charges for a few seconds? Idk. Been trying it on Barret 3-C Soldier SCS but to no avail. I mean I can't get 7777HP 😅

@@valkennethmandac9072 I tried a few times yea. Was impossible. Got to 777 hp at one point then instantly took burn dmg.

You can use the auto life accessory and cure + magnify after the mega flare. Make sure to have atb when he counts one. Some weapons have reprieve abilitie (auto life once per battle).

Filipe N is there only one magnify material? Would magnify using manawall (or whatever it’s called) keep me from dying in the final count down blast?

@@elisehermann6094 there is only one magnify and you need to use it with cure. Manawall will cut damage to half. Top your hp when he count one. Use lots of hp plus. You won't die with 9999 hp. You can farm ap on the garage at chapter 16 using magnify and firaga. (hard mode make it faster). Equip 2 hp plus on everyone. You can stop him from counting if you damage him a lot. Save your limit breaks to when he count any number.

Filipe N super helpful! Thanks. Working on my HP ups leveling - I have 6 total so two per member. You thinking barret, cloud and tifa and put the healing and magnify on barret ?

@@elisehermann6094 i normally use it on tifa cause she has better magic. But you could use barret. He'll probably die less since he's a range.

or just kill bahamut before he can summon

@@oyakatasamaa Dont think you can, what I've seen its HP triggered

You definitely can, and even if he does summon ifrit just ignore him and focus down bahamut

@@oyakatasamaa Ok, my bad then

@@oyakatasamaa Bahamut is not in monsters of legend lolx, its top secret

Care to tell us where you found your third elemetal materia?

Euler007 they mean element like fire wind or ics, not the elemental materia

@@anwarbaroudi1498 In that case he's using six materia slots for that magnified spell that refunds some mp and heals the caster. That's a big slot commitment when the most you can have is 10 slots. I'd rather have enemy skill + hp absorb and free up four slots.

Cloud, Barret and Aerith imo. Aerith solely for her healing.

RichaDee Aerith is a no brainer, I think Tifa or Barrett is preference

What RichaDee said. Yes, Tifa is better than Barret for Shiva and Fat Chocobo, but for Leviathan, Bahamut and Pride & Joy, Barret is far better. Leviathan spends half of the match just flying around, Barret has a better chance at surviving Bahamut's Megaflare due to higher HP, and Pride & Joy heats up the ground around him which makes engaging him in close combat frustrating.

I went with Cloud, Aerith and Barret. Aerith was main spell damage and healing, Barret tank support and cloud main melee dps and counter against Bahamut’s melees.

@@Khrazegaming ok thanx fam, good looking out

I agree. These videos would be great if there were more fights. I got the platinum and can't see why I would come back with these strats.

Do a frog run. It adds a new way to look at the game.

Ajescent whats that?

Got the Plat as well. Trying to figure out challenge runs until I buy Persona5R

@@Jefstito you put the ring on that casts toad on you before the fight.. so you go through the whole game as a frog

yeah it feels like it's just sort of an odd uninformed take when 'linking materia together' is an 'underused strategy' like did you even play the first one or hear ANYTHING about it?

ATB stagger isn't worthless. It instantly generates ATB charges when you stagger an enemy. Meaning you don't need to save up your ATB for after a stagger, you can use it to cause the stagger and immediately follow up with more spells and abilities. For enemies with short stagger durations, it makes it easy to pull off Infinity's End, Ray of Judgement, Maximum Fury, etc. Auto Cure, yes, that's about worthless.

ATB stagger useless? :o I always have a maxed one equipped on Tifa. I use it to increase the damage multiplier so quickly. It's very useful to deal max damage when an enemy is staggered.

yeah - abilities that let him take hits for the party, block damage, and healing that's relative to damage taken that doesn't use mp = pretty good 'blocker' ish ally

@@leeman27534 Ranged tank. I normally think of tanks as close quarters.

@@The482075 sure and i get why - tanks are basically absorbing damage so typically have to be y'know, TAKING the hits themselves however barret's abilities let him absorb some of the damage taken by any ally - regardless if he was hit or not - which is where this sort of idea shines since he's got damage intercept ish abilities, and is able to have personal buffs to reduce damage, he can be in a 'tank' ish role from wherever on the battlefield - no need to be up close and personal or drawing aggro or anything like that combine with 'wall' effects to reduce damage entirely and 'magnify' to be able to share that wall spell with everyone, and a 0 mp way of healing damage, and he's able to absorb a lot of punishment wherever he's at as for 'healing' the entire party, kinda eh on that specifically i think - he's good for mitigating damage to everyone and redirecting it to himself (which is again mitigated somewhat) then healing that damage for no mp - but 'healing everyone' is basically the same as others, iirc - cure + magnify OR pray - he doesn't get a skill that heals all allies hp but these methods still work fine but yeah - his 'increased hp' bonuses and 'healing is doubled on yourself if below 50% hp' bonuses on the 'big bertha' weapon make him a total badass in the healing department - as well as being able to fill the AP gauge really fast at range the only issue is the mp cost of spells - and with using chakra to heal yourself if really low, or pray to heal everyone some, there's no mp cost for healinng - plus i think both of these aren't based on magic stat which is nice (iirc prayer is based on max health or so, and chakra heals a % of missing hp which is doubled if below 50% hp with that barret weapon passive) aerith would be better off with cure + magnify (as it scales off of magic and could heal shit tons of hp or regen everyone easier) but barret can have an almost mp less healer + tank setup (using the barrier skills still costs mp)

One I believe is a reward from Chomley for doing the battle intel where you Master 12 types of materia.

@Simon Ellis, Thanks I found it and got it.

Crackhead

Is the best!!

It is definitely possible to survive megaflare...not sure about 2 though. I killed him right before he was about to launch his 2nd one. Thing is I only staggered him once....after that I just kept up my normal attacks till he died. In that fight only Tifa could absorb fire....so used her to distract Ifrit for free heals but I had to kill him as he was knocking out my other 2 team members. The fight with Pride and Joy though was refreshingly the easiest of all 5 fights...he is slow and damage output is not that fearsome for some super ultimate weapon.

@@Ephideltrance ah the five battle simulator yeah that i lose to behemoth and carbuncle is pain to survive 2 i'll need to choose the right materias for those battles i currently have twin stinger metal Knuckles and aerith's super staff

@@lascaossos I'd ditch the twin stinger. It's just way too weak. Use Hardedge for physical or Mythril Saber for magical (Hardedge is probably more useful here since your Cloud will likely be attacking in the front line). Reprieve is overall not a great skill, but it's useful against Bahamut...but I'd just use manawall instead. If you use manawall on everyone after he hits 2 (or 1) for his countdown, everyone will survive anyway (just remember to heal before it goes off). Also, with the much much higher damage output of something like Hardedge (almost 2x) you probably won't have to sit through a second mega flare since you'll either stagger him before the second one or just outright kill him. Also, save your ATBs for Infinity's End and time the attacks right. It does stupid damage with Hardedge and helps immensely. Only use an ATB outside that for emergency healing/revive or for a focused thrust if he's pressured. Outside of that, Metal Knuckles is good for Tifa...but you might want to consider Feathered Gloves. They're not quite as strong (120 vs 164), but they have much higher speed which means she gets ATB gauges much more frequently and stagger siphon is much more useful in these boss fights than bloodsucker. They're also more balanced for magic use like healing. For Aerith, I found the Silver Staff to be her most useful weapon. Gives her HP and MP, high respectable magic (120 vs 164 of Mythril Rod), and most importantly it gives MP reductions for attack and healing magic, reprieve, AND MP regen rate +50%. Obviously, you can beat everything in this game with any set up, but I found these worked really well. For materia I'd put healing on everyone (magnify for Aerith), revive on everyone, 2HP ups on everyone, and 1MP up on everyone. Steadfast block on Cloud definitely, parry on Tifa, barrier on 2 members, haste on 1 member (just cast it on who you're planning to use for the fight), and an elemental fire in Cloud's armor. Elemental fire allows him to be healed by Ifrit and ignore a lot of the BS of Pride and Joy. You could do the same for Tifa, but I chose Elemental ice in her armor so I could cruise through the first fight against Shiva playing as her. You could also consider having Aerith get a magic up materia and maybe lightning so you can deal with Leviathan when he flies up high. Also, don't neglect Aerith's Arcane Ward ability. Double casting (well more like 1.5 casting) can be immensely powerful and can really help with Stagger. Her ATB Ward is good too, but considering how often characters like Tifa (who benefit most from it) are having to move around the stage because of the bosses, it isn't as useful here.

@@KingShadowOmega Good advice and your setup was similar to mine although reprieve was helpful for me, and I had the fire absorb on Tifa and the ice absorb on Cloud...honestly, Shiva and Bahumut were the hardest for me. Fat Chocobo is annoying as hell when he summons tornberries....and they can sneak up on you when you pounding him away if one isn't careful. Beyond that Leviathan and Pride and Joy were the easier fights.

@@Ephideltrance Fat Chocobo was really easy for me since I had memorized all his attack patterns already from when I had refought him trying to get 300% stagger. Just some focused thrusts when he's pressured do tons of stagger damage. Triple slash (much easier with Hardedge) makes quick of his allies as it autotargets and hits multiple enemies. They only take a few hits to drop since they're not the full enemies after all. I agree that Pride and Joy was one of the easiest (ironically), but Leviathan was really annoying for me to fight because of that flight portion. On my first attempt, which I didn't have lightning on, the only way I could get him down was by summoning Bahamut lol.

Who cares? He's a Master.

Not until next year at least, when the exclusivity deal expires on the PS4

@@TheNightOwl11683 Thanks the Scoop is I have a PS3 boxed up somewhere but Sony Pissed me off about 6 years ago. lol

@@justlooken6460 Why did Sony piss you off? (just asking out of curiosity)

@@NoctLightCloud I've been highly unimpressed with Sony as of late. A lot of people have been. It started for me about 2 years ago when they started enforcing stupid censorship rules on Japanese companies. Now with the whole TLOU 2 debacle, not that I cared about the game to begin with, I can see where they're going and can safely say I want nothing to do with them. I upgraded my PC at the end of last year to make it good enough for new games and streaming and will not be buying a PS5 unless they change their attitude. This happens every time Sony seems to be ahead in the market. They get arrogant and think they can do whatever till they need to be brought down a peg. The only reason they were ahead this generation is because Microsoft screwed up big time with the Xbox One when it released. Sony capitalized and here we are. Now Sony is right back where they were before, trying to enact stupid rules and ideologies on people. So until they realize that's not what people want. I'm not going to support them anymore. Sucks because I do enjoy some of their first party titles, but not enough to make me want their console if they're going to enforce stupid stuff I don't agree with.

@@NoctLightCloud Sony Online Entertainment sold off by Sony, renamed Daybreak Game Company DC Universe Servers go Vacant afterwards. Show me the Money.