Hardest item to obtain is an elixer that you will actually be willing to use rather than have it collect dust being saved for when you "need" it.

Oh man the Trapezohedrons. The amount of adamantoise I've killed just to get everyone's Ultima Weapon. I had way too much time on my hands in middle school.

XIII was the game that helped me realize that I did not actually want to platinum every game I played. Thanks XIII.

What I’ve learned from 30 years of playing FF... elixirs, mega elixirs, tent, and etc don’t do anything except sit in the item box the entire game! I think FF15 and FF7R are the only games that made it okay to use items

One thing not mentioned about Final Fantasy IV, there's an item called the Siren that was dummied out of the international release of the original game, it was in the GBA and PSP remakes. You could have stolen it from the Searcher enemy in the tower of babil or the giant of babil. If you didn't then you can still find searchers in some rooms of the Lunar Ruins. the Siren forces an encounter, and if you use it in a specific room of the Subterrane, that encounter will always be flan princesses.

I remember getting Lulu's weapon with the lightning dodging it 250 times, I lost count and decided to go a but longer... The end count was over 525 jumps. I felt a strange sense of self hate and admiration for it.

1:34 Item 1 Trapezohedrons FF13 3:42 Item 2 Dark Matter FFX-2 5:31 Item 3 Baltoro Seed FF12 7:22 Item 4 Fishing...In General FF14 9:41 Item 5 Earth Mallet FF7 11:11 Item 6 Ribbon FF8 12:58 Item 7 Pink Tail FF4

I like that you've put Dali's Town theme form FF9 in the background

A year late, but I'd like to point out that for IV's Pink Tail, most newer versions of the game make it a lot easier to at least have a shot at the tail thanks to the glory that is the "Siren" item. Using this item calls the rarest encounter in the area's encounter table to face you immediately. In the original version of the game, I believe you could only get them from Siren enemies, but newer versions allow you to buy them later on (though, granted they are expensive). It definitely cuts down on a lot of the more obnoxious grind-work. At least you are always fighting the Flan Princesses.... then it is just a matter of time, and you are getting loaded up with EXP, Gil, Elixirs and Megalixirs while hunting the tails... so... worth.

I feel like I used a baltoro seed out of curiosity and was just all ‘huh.. neat?’ because ff12 doesn’t super clearly communicate when you have a ton of status effects active

I was farming for Platinum Ingots and Trapezohedrons earlier this year. Once you get a good rhythm going, it's almost a zen feeling. Very chill. I listened to podcasts while I did it for about 25 hours of gameplay.

I got this legendary king of the deep, The Ruby Dragon "Best I can do is 104 gil"

When in doubt, my go to is more levelling, higher stats, decent gear and strategy. Rare items (and some gear) are a PAIN to obtain, so I try the bullheaded approach most often lol. Great video

Hello good morning, Final Fantasy Union!! I can’t even express how much I love your videos. I could’ve ever imagined a KZfaq channel like this 10 years ago. But now that it exists, I binge watch all of your videos very regularly. Thank you so much for this awesome content!

Honorable mention to the character cards in FF8. Imagine trying to get them all without a walkthrough

I remember thinking I was going to try and complete my fishing log in XIV... Yeah, I just went for Triple Triad cards instead. That's so much easier, especially after the latest patch, because catching big fish is ridiculously stupid.

I have literally screamed from frustration over FF14 fishing, hahaha... and yet in some ways it's so satisfying when you DO finally land some ludicrously rare creature. Great video once again!

I've fished every fish in FFXIV, and Ruby Dragon alone took me more than 3 monthes, trying as many windows as possible to catch it. It was hell. I almost cried when i finally got it. But there are several fishes which are notorious for being hard to catch (looking at you Warden of the Seven Hues and Stethacanthus).

[cries in Feast of Famine] You don't know real struggle and reward until you capture the legendary fish around Eorzea.

Thanks for adding what songs are playing with the video. I can't tell you how many times I have gone crazy trying to think of a songs name.

I didn't knew about the FFXII Baltoro seed. You guys are amazing

Funny thing about the Pink Tail is that it owes part of its infamy to how awesome the reward is (Adamant Armor). Otherwise it's not actually the hardest item in the game to grind for. (I'd argue Protect Ring claims that title, followed by Glass Mask and Crystal Ring, then the Mind Flayer summon)

Pink was such a painful grind. In the end, you're already overpowered from the farming

As a FFXIV fisher: yes, it's as bad as it sounds lol

Sun Sigil #1, hands down

as someone who does big fish fishing in ff14: it is a special kind of hell

FFIV is one of my favorites in the series. I've spent countless hours through at least a dozen or so playthroughs since the SNES era... And today I learned about the pink tail. 😳

Speaking as a fisherman in XIV, you made the right call.

In the DS version of Final Fantasy IV, if you use the siren item, the encounter for flan princess is guaranteed. The easiest way to get the siren is to buy them from the hummingway merchant on the moon, and the easiest way to get the gil for it is to steal Gaia hammers from the steel golems you can encounter in Eblan cave.

Seeing Sazh in the thumbnail I thought immediately of the Trapezohedron. Btw it's a shame we don't have any option for playing FFXIII on the ps4...

I remember the Goblin spell and no one believed it was a spell and called me a liar when I came to school and talked about it.

You know I recently had to restart FF9 about 300 times to get a mythril sword steal on Beatrix, because it's only a 10 round fight and you only actually get 2 chances to steal it, and the odds are insanely high. Maybe it would be fun to do a hardest to steal items, all FF games video!

Gotta correct you on some stuff about the Trapezohedron. Long Gui is a 5% drop rate, not 1% so it's much more likely to give one after being killed. Also, you can dismantle Genji Gloves for one, but that's at the cost of one active character being unable to break the 99,999 damage limit since only 3 Genji Gloves can ever be obtained.

You pick some of the best arrangements for the music in your videos. I don’t know the name of Cids theme but the version you used is amazing.

Final Fantasy is such an amazing universe. I would love for them to make some type of tv series in their name. It would break records.

I don't know how that fish one wasn't number one. That sounds insane

1:15 Super Mario RPG on SNES have this same minigame in the monster village, if you jump 30 and 60 times u got the best hammer and armor for Mario (he takes 1 damage)

These videos introduced me to TPR's music and now I listen to all their albums on Spotify. So thanks for their inclusion here!

Sun Sigil in FFX has always held my ire. It’s a stupid mini game with stupid controls

FF VIII Ribbons gets more anoying when you realize its malboro is one of the nastiest incarnations of the creature

I have to be honest I've played FF12 numerous times and done a lot of the side content and hunts because it's one of my top 3 FFs with 9 and 6(and tactics but thats not a mainline), and I never even knew this baltoro seed existed, I have never gotten one. and I even got a zodiac spear in the mines randomly.

I would like to point out getting a pink tail took me significantly less time than getting the lightning dodge sigil in ffx...

Wow, some of those I never even heard of. The gigas from FFVII never appeared for me.

the fishing in FF14 is the real pain from this video i hope he does an episode on FF14 items/weapons

I spent countless hours trying to get the pink tail to drop on the PS1 version of FFIV and never managed to get it. Then many years later I was taking a transatlantic flight as I was replaying the game on the PSP, and decided I’d spend the entire flight fighting these damn flans until I got the item to drop. And I got it after about 15 minutes, I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know if it’s dumb luck or if they changed the drop rate, but I was glad to have closure on it.

Big Shoes!

This is an excellent listee!!! An item I'd add to this list is the Tinker Bell from FFV. It is a rare drop 1/16th chance. That is bad enough but it is a missable item that can only be gotten from one boss. You also have to beat the boss in a certain form for it to drop. The boss that carries it is the Twin Tania in the N Zone Library. You have to defeat it when it is charging its wave breath attack as fast as possible. if you do all that right you have a 1.16 chance for it to drop.. how fun lol. When I was doing a perfect file on FFV this item was the bane of my life.. that plus the Dragons Beard whips dropped from the RARE Stingray monster in the combined world of FFV.

I knew Pink Tail was gonna be on here... it's the one item that gave me the most pain. It really is an unpaid seasonal job.

DODGE. 200. FREAKIN'. THUNDERBOLTS.

Flan Princess can be force-battled by using the Whistle, a one-time use item that forces a battle, provided it's the right room where they show up.

Dark Matter has its most important appearance in FFVII: The Black Materia. Meteo and Holy were the super spells there.

In my "perfect" PSP file of FFIV I spent days to get every drop summon for Rydia twice, once for learning it, and the other to have it in the inventory, but the thing that still haunts me was farming enough pink tails to get an Adamant armor for each character that could use it PLUS one to keep in the inventory, it was soul sucking, and I don't think I'll ever play FFIV again...

I got every trophy in FFXIII, grinding the heck out of the Gui to get those items. I was such a big FF fan that I felt obligated to do everything in that game to prove the level of my fandom. Fastforward years later and I haven't even bothered to play the DLC in FFXV...like any of it. When I reflect on that, I realize how my fandom is fading. I hope FFXVI reignites my passion for the series.

Love the music background! One of my favourite tracks from XV

Tidus sigil better be here because that chocobo race is cursed

Oh man, that Dali theme really sooth my soul.

Final Fantasy X Tidus Chocobo Run. Truly a twisted thing the game designers made.

In FF4, I believe all the color tails and the summons have the rarest drop rate with Pink Tail haven't the second rarest.

FFXIIs bazaar system is life changing for me. One of the first rpgs I played, FFXII's battle systems, hunts and rare games and most importantly, the bazaar made me do my homework for the game. Going on gameguides, forums and other walkthrough sites to even get the slightest hint of getting any on the good bazaar items made me realize "This is want I want to do. This [gaming] will and still is my lifelong hobby.

I'll just add all the dragon tails from FF4 DS. These could be traded for the pieces of the Onion armor set, which is comparable to the Adamantite armor. Like the Pink Tail, they're all rare drops, but unlike the Pink Tail, they can only be obtained from one enemy each and each encounter could have up to two of the monsters at once, if you're lucky. The Pink Tail could be dropped by any of the Flans, even those near the beginning of the game, it just has a higher drop chance the later in the game the monster is. Also, for each tail, you have to trade them one at a time. Even if you have multiples of them, you'll trade them all for a single piece of their associated equipment, which is an issue when two of your characters can wear it. You also need a Pink Tail to complete Namingway's sidequest in the DS version.

Getting "of dragon's deep", a fishing title when you turn in specific fish, took me about two month to get. I still think I was lucky to get it that quickly.

I've played through FF13 many times. I think only one of those times did I bother getting multiple characters their ultimate weapons(If I get anyone their weapon other than lightning, it's probably Fang or Vanille). While the 6th ATB bar is nice, it's unwholly unneeded in terms of being able to tackle the most challenging bosses/missions in the game. I usually always get Lightning her final tier weapon of my preferred weapon on each playthrough, but the other characters I typically leave at their tier 2 weapons and it's more than adequate. The amount of grind required to get the trapzohedrons required for multiple ultimate weapons is immense and as much as I enjoy the game(one of my favorites in the franchise), I can't be assed to deal with it. I typically upgrade the Axis Blade to Omega Weapon because it's my most preferred weapon for the ATB rate boost, and if I upgrade anything else it's usually Lionheart but I keep it at tier 2 so it can still synthesize abilities such as it's Random: Instant Chain effect, which can be useful with lightning as a ravager. And there-in lies one of the downsides to the ultimate weapons, they can't synthesize abilities anymore which is kinda a bummer, plus they make getting 5 star ratings on certain fights more annoying since it's lowering the battle time requirement in order to obtain that rating, by having an ultimate weapon equipped. They definitely have their place and are powerful, but thankfully you don't need them and you only need to craft one of them in order to get the achievement as far as I know. If you had to get every character an ultimate weapon, that'd be a LOT of grinding.

Love to watch these videos whilst I eat... Any one else? No? Just me... Okay the..

platinum ingots were harder to get for me the Trapezohedrons Had loads of them at the end.

10:21 Caleb probably started convulsing when he got to this part of the video

Hey FFUnion, just discorvered your channel. The FF phase I went through during my teens is coming back strong (thanks to FF7R and 14) and I'm so happy to find an FF/jRPG channel.

FFIV: The After Years "Purple Tail" is the hardest item in the entire franchise to obtain for me. 0.4% for a Behemoth, a rare encounter, to drop it. It took me ages to get it. Worth it? No. Satisfying? Yes. AF.

As for the Pink Tail, in the same room, if you collect a lot of siren item, you can ONLY call Flan Princesses.

Pink tail was the most frustrating for me. Mostly because I wanted two of them.

Your videos are so good, you don't need to sign off apologetically like you do each time with 'but yeah' - sends me back to primary school for a moment in your otherwise awesome content. Keep confident and power through to the end! :)

Glad the Baltoro Seed made the list. I managed to only get one of those damn things.

Fishing in XIV. I lol’d when I saw this come up. It is soooo true, the randomness is awful.

as for the original snes release of FF4 i'd have gone with the Artemis Bow, myself.... surprisingly that and goblin summon were the only two super rare drops I got upon first playthrough when it was first snes released....

RPG design is pretty interesting to me, so I’d be curious to hear what any of you think about ridiculously low drop but high powered items in general. Personally I’m a fan of the heroic grind they can inspire and especially the near-impossibly rare chance that an unsuspecting player stumbles upon something so special.

For Trapezohedron, you can get that pretty easily by dismantling genji gloves. As this game had no superbosses, I farmed just two from the adamantoises and then just dismantled al genji gloves and vanille and fangs final weapon to make the other 4 to get the platinum trophy in 76 hours instead of 100+. There’s literally no point in having the ultimate weapons in this game like FFX where they are actually important

You guys always do the most comprehensive looks it’s amazing like a graduate level research project on final fantasy lol

I can't wait to start FFXIV this summer!

Gigas=BIG SHOES!!

Death method is still the best imo for trap farming, Vanille with Marlboro Wand (upgraded Belladonna), and mostly using asassination and ruthless. By the time you're strong enough to kill them you won't appreciate the weapons very much. I dismantle Fang's Gae Bolg every time. You get the spear very early and can progress it more naturally and the break it down later. Pushing toward Neochu is very possible with correct accessories, party setup, and of course haste and death.

14 seems to like it’s specific location, time, and weather. There’s an npc that you can see in the 3 major cities that require 2am eorzia time and it to be raining. It also requires a specific quest chain to of been completed and the dungeon tied to it. It’s a 1% chance to happen and it’s only for a couple seconds from what I’ve seen, but a nice little extra they threw in back in arr.

Village Of Dali music always relaxes me, great video.

Love these type of videos, great work again guys! The animation and sound for the menu at the end is a nice little touch, always improving :)

Fishing in ff14... During 2.0 the Beast of Brewers Beacon quest was a pain... Double Mooch and weather and time requirements for the titanic sawfish. Now in 6.x and in 5.x you can use GP for mooch and increase hq chances to make it easier, but that fish was a pain in the day..

I haven't got any of these Items, played only FF7 but in FF14 these fish look like inspired by real extinct fish species, Helicoprion, the big filterfeeding Dunkleosteus etc.

FFX should definitely be included in this list. The amount of insanely difficult celestial weapon challenges alone makes it a good addition. The HP break items are pretty hard to farm as well.

not even going to lie as a FF14 player as soon as I seen it on the list I was like....it's fishing hands down it's fishing and it's either that ruby dragon or the rainbow fish. -_-.... *still working*

Getting 5 Pink Tails was a nightmare.

I tried to farm the pink tail for sooo dang long as a kid. Maxed out the game clock, the gil counter (3-4 times, I think?), and bought 99 of everything I could find; including exlixers. Never did get the dang drop. >_

You can steal Ghost Hands from the Ghosts in the 3rd round of the Battle Square at the Gold Saucer before getting the Tiny Bronco, if you missed it in Midgar.

100% items FF9. This is ridiculously tough. Just getting the Excalibur II requires practically beating the game in 10 hours getting all the rest of the items is also ridiculous.

Not an item, per-say, but the sightseeing log for A Real Reborn is absolute madness. They're not only invisible (whereas every expac sightseeing location is marked with a glowing white dot), they're time _and_ weather sensitive. Several require platforming to reach and anyone who's tried Kugane tower can attest that FF14 is not built for platforming.

Fun fact about chests in world map in ff xii is that it is based on rng, you can find a table of it in internet. So just enter a map, find the rng and look the table. Reenter the map if the rng is not good..

Final Fantasy 14's Fishing is HELL, i am trying to get my log filled and oh boy am i regretting it.

This is why I'm using emulators for roms on both pc and android with built-in cheats that can save me countless hours to days of grinding Rare items on any console games

I needed like 6 months to get my tizona on FXI. And i mean 6 months working only on that particular thing. But damn, did it boost my blu 😂

If you had the PC version of the FFVIII (from 2000) you could install the chocobo game. I never played it longer than seeing the chocobo and hearing its call so i had no idea items could come from it.

I'm just vibing to the ffxv music in the back.

I'd say the Zodiac Spear from the original version of FFXII definitely deserves to be on this list. It only spawned if you avoided picking up 4 specific treasure chests throughout the game that you were given absolutely no clues that they had anything to do with it. They were just 4 regular treasure chests.

Hey, Final Fantasy Union… Search for an item in Final Fantasy XI named REGAIN FEATHER. It’s an item that restores your HP and MP to 100% and gives you instant 3000% TP. It was SO difficult to get that, for a long time, some speculated that SQEX did put it there just to find out who was using 3rd party programs, because it was virtually impossible to get it by normal means, even if you had maxed out movement speed. It was a bait to get people who were cheating.

Definitely oughta include a track list at the end of the video/in the comment section!