This is brilliant, nice tip

Thats a great tip.

Outstanding tip btw!

Genius

You can make cushions and use them at chocobo stops for full HP & MP so it's not really needed in most areas. Definitely good tip for dungeons.

Right I was about to say the same

That’s interesting to know as it’s not written in the game. I’ve been using it defensively as seems like it can’t backfire on you and fire seems reasonably common

Could you use two elemental materia on the same weapon with the other linked with Lightning and Wind?

@@SamoIsKing no iirc the game takes whatever is linked to the leftmost elemental materia. So if you have both and fire/ice are on the left they will be what your weapon uses

holy shit, that's a game changer, thank you!

and their only 250 gil a pop xD and easy to make in the item thingy too!

hero!!

NO WAY Thanks A LOT

Update: still works after a few game patches, feeling like it might be intentional or hard coded to be tough to remove the MP healing.

Are you using one sole element in this build (or maybe the two for one magic materias?)

​@elisehermann6094 GA?

@@ElPsyKongroo I don’t know what GA means

@@elisehermann6094They mean any of the spells with the GA suffix such as firaga thundaga or aeroaga. Basically the strongest form of the elemental spells.

Pair it with genji gloves and aeriths ga spells do like 20k dmg while giving u back mp

As someone who hasn't beaten rhe game yet can someone confirm this for me Ps. I'm on chapter 13

@@fouracegaming4724 this is very much true.

Even in hard mode?

During most hard mode fights that are tough and require lots of MP, you're usually in a dungeon or story area where fast travel is locked and standard benches with no cushion options are provided. The cushion method helps with overworld enemies like Midgardsormr or random battles but it won't help in the multi hour dungeons like the Temple of the ancients

Honestly that kind of... ruins it. We aren't supposed to be able to use items, so I am unsure why they allowed us to use cushions. Maybe it's a bug or an oversight?

Do u put this materia in ur armour or defence, does it matter which way they are linked together?

@@piphead Doesn't matter which slot it's on. It'll heal for like 80-100 per enemy in melee.

Cloud. Disorder, a single hit of Attack, Swap to Operator mode. Repeat infinitely.

If you’re running Yuffie with HP Absorb + Enemy Skill, you can absolutely wreck mobs of enemies with the following build. Give her a mastered First Strike and then either the Chocoking’s Cape (so she starts every fight with two ATB) or the Speed Demon Keychain (so she builds ATB faster during the fight). At the start of the fight, have someone cast Haste on her and then have Yuffie use her clone ability and set up Plasma Discharge. Then you just throw her weapon and mash square, and make sure to spend her ATB as it fills up. The AOE damage from Plasma Discharge will be triggered twice every time she fills a bar, and you’ll absorb HP from both of them. For enemies with higher health you can use United Refocus and watch the frame rate drop as the whole screen fills up with lightning.

yep and ive got lightning+wind on another character :D

Do a video pls! Or write down your setup.

Sounds fun but how do you resolve mana issues for Barrett if he’s always pre buffing team? Or do you just use cushions at choco-stops?

@@Modioman69 I don’t pre buff every fight, just the combat simulator which has mp refresh every fight and for certain bosses

@@Axlradleigh Gotcha thanks!

Same. Pray and chakra is imba with Barett. Even in Remake, it’s a nice tactic. He just sucks at the MP department.

Same. And the enhanced items are clutch

definitely keeping this mind!@@jintazticful

Did you do the boss intel for each location to get the manuscripts that way?

@@joncrum3748 i did, you can even reset the chapter if you are low on MP

Same, except for the last one, the party animal quest. I also got genji stuff, and am now on chapt 9 hard mode, and last will be chadlads hard trials. I do feel that 3rd magnify would be useful, but those trials seem like they're gonna be the hardest content in game. Only other thing left is maxing out all charecters bond, which im trying to do during my hard mode play through anyways.

I don't think he really understands Yuffie and some of her plasma discharge builds that can literally carry fights.

@@Mitsunari4GunzI gave her the enemy skill materia but I’ve just been using her to cast the healing spell

red with barret would be a stronk party.

have yuffie and aerith and use arcane ward, and yuffie uses doppleganger. 4x!

For reals, havent even got past the second one 😂🤣 jesus christ

To be fair, it hasn't even been a month since the game came out, and some people have yet to finish it, I've actually been taking a week-long break after I beat it so more people could beat it, and work out good Hard Mode/post game builds.

​@@AzureKyle yea but these days so many big youtubers and journalists receive these games a week in advance or w/e and already have relatively detailed guides, I mean there's an interactive map on day one lol xD

Tifa, Cait, and Yuffe are some of my favs just for their high luck. Very easy to get each over 50% crit chance.

I just put a steadfast and precision block materia on him with either silver collar or brisingamen. If you put a draconic ring on him he basically becomes unkillable while churning out prayers since you can limit break so often.

ya i'll try that out@@mimcduffee86

you dont need prayer on red or yuffie they have inbuilt abilites that do that.@@mimcduffee86

I'm partial to Barret/Yuffie but i'm thinking barret/red XIII for a hard playthrough cus red is prty damn tank and shit too

I never thought about pausing, good shout!

This is why I have a ribbon, thank god for the pause buffering strategy because Sephiroth is a nightmare in real time.

Pausing saved me too! And I wrote down his combos so I could follow them without pure memorization.

The fast combos are ALWAYS the same. Just learn them and you can easily beat him without getting hit at all.

Man, that would be so awesome if the quest to unlock that wasn't currently unbeatable due to a bug and if Square Enix had actually bothered fixing it within the last few weeks

Im also looking for an answer to this

Me too

Oh no, good luck. As someone towards the end of it, it's absolutely horrible.

yea! ^_^ I use Comet tho LOL and theres only 1 xD

Box crusher amulet and Clouds final weapon have the ability to heal HO and MP every time you stagger an enemy. It is super easy to just keep your MP at max with these.

I thought everyone knew this from playing remake but apparently not.

@@Ask4This It's not that I didn't know, I just forgot 😅

Holy shit I had no idea you could stop a stagger bar lol - i literally have never used the spell in either game xD - might have to try it.

​@@DekkarJr you tripping bro

All the chocobo stops in Hard mode (which require cushions) restore MP. Inns don't, and benches in areas without fast travel don't. You also get a free MP restore in between chapters.

what about resting at inns?

@@DekkarJr pretty sure that’s just HP. The benches bypass the lock because they use an item without going into your menu.

cool @@TMD316

I'm pretty sure the Twin-Element Materia work that way though, since it seems to when slotted in weapons. Or is it different?

@@jhustmyles275 It does work. You can elemental materia > fire/ice or lightning/wind and it protects against both.

@@NokoFace No, I meant the purple one, not the green one.

you have fire and ice and also wind and lightning which are twin magic Materia so having two elemental Materia works

@LukePower-il2fg You don't understand what I'm saying. Yes you have those twin elemental materia's. But you can't combine both of them with two elemental materia's to protect yourself from all 4 elements. Only ONE twin element materia works.

wat do you mean farm?

@@DekkarJr exactly as I said, you can get multiple copies of the armlet from that chest by replaying the chapter over and over again through chapter selection. Unlike the ultimate armors and the weapons, this chest always gives you the Hades Armlet everytime you open it.

@@Frisa92how much time does it take to get to that point from starting the chapter opening the chest and restarting again?

@@MK-fm3ln I will be honest, I haven't timed it at all... But I guess that in less than 15-20 minutes you should be able to do it the first time and in the following runs you can try to improve it (Easy Mode, quick command on Triple Slash or any AoE command to annihilate the enemies, avoiding the enemy encounters where possible and improving the box-throwing skills with the Moogle). As I've mentioned, it is not mandatory to do it, I was just crazy enough to commit because I wanted the extra material slot for those who couldn't have the ultimate armors.

@@Frisa92 thank you, that’s not too much time but I would probably just get a couple

this is what i did for like all the fights lmao, pro tip

He's terrible for mispronouncing things in games... God knows why. I mean he pronounced Burmecia with a K and butchers pronunciations all the time. He was ripped to shreds for it. You'd think he'd learn after that combine with the Cetra is obviously a soft C... You just have to suspend your desire to punch him through the screen and go with it. He's not the best really for gameplay, he's more of a grinder. So, FF8 and Remake and Rebirth he doesn't have much to offer. Christ that sounds mean. I like him, he's a really nice guy, but I think the Birmingham accent just inspires hate.

Red is the best at trash mob killing not aerith. Aerith has too much magic nuke potential to be used to kill trash mobs only with how insanely strong and high her magic stats are and related abilities are.

@@dave9515 I’m not sure I understand this. She has TOO much magic power? I end nearly every trash fight with one spell cast. Perhaps you are suggesting Red can do the same but also has the constitution to take any hits that come his way during casting? For now I’ll stick with trivializing every trash fight lol.

@@dave9515 perhaps you think that she will run out of MP and needs to be saved for the boss? I explained that with the MP Absorb materia. She can get back MORE MP than she spends.

This is great 👍🏻 will def try it out good stuff !!!

no matter which way i say it somebody says im wrong, normally i say it like "set-ran"

Yes that stuck out. It begins with a C not a K lol

@@Primalliquid92 They say how to pronounce it in the games. There’s no excuse for anyone who doesn’t think it’s pronounced Set-ran.

brutal rank combat simulator

been wondering that myself, maybe they replayed that chapter like 5 times??? hopefully someone answers this soon cuz i wanna know too.

​​​@@ravencrow3244Apparently restarting chapters restores chests, if that's the case though I don't know why you wouldn't just redo the temple again for the Cetran gear, unless those are specifically made to not respawn, the Hades gear would be another good one to get multiple of, less stats but more slots.

There are 2 in the game. Both above the door in the Cosmo Canyon section with Barret and Red XIII. Actually, I've only gone through it twice so they might be unlimited.

If I have fire and ice equip the game seems to auto pick the correct weakness.

What he said was wrong. It only ever uses one element if you have a dual materia linked, and it always prioritizes the one that would be most effective.

You can hop around all you want, once you beat a chaprer in hars, it is marked as beaten, so you can even go in reverse order if you were so inclined.

So if you have MP Absorb linked with one Ice, and Magnify linked with another Ice, you can cast a Magnified Ice with MP Absorb?

@@lens_hunter it does! I use magnify + green materia and swiftcast + same green materia it is super sweet!!

@@olcar7799 Dope, thanks for that.

@@lens_hunter Yes! Works for me, I have 4 Ice Materia linked to Magnify, MP Absorb, HP Absorb and Magic Focus, she always deal 9999 for Marlboro hard mode, deals 12k for Blizzara with Genji Glove for Gongaga mobs.

Its solid for early game or with aoe. but it doesn't heal enough when hits are doing 2-3k each.

really? i've not tried the 3 links of it yet but that is rediculess that it doesnt work since you can still do multiple copies of damage spells paired with things.

there are technically 4 (1 is in the flashback though) the one your missing is likely from the brutal simulations/coliseum

Lol, don't you mean the magnify materia? The one I mentioned is the Elemental materia.

Sorry, my bad. Just found out that you can get both a magnify as well as that elemental materia in those challenges. Sorry, my bad

soon! that will be over on the vods channel though!

@@Primalliquid92 oh OK didn't know you had another channel thanks for getting back with me

13 and 14 even would b worse on hard mode.

same question

Chapter select apparently just repeat

You don’t have to use him after the first playthrough. Guessing he likes Cloud’s kit (which IS quite good for pressuring and burst damage on a staggered target).

Same chest again in Hard Mode.

Literally the questions I came here to ask lmao

This is wrong. Enhanced karmic kowl actually adds petrify resistance as well.

@@christophervukich9775 appreciate the correction!

If you're having a hard time perfect blocking attacks and are dying often equip him with raise, equip someone else with reraise and give it to him at start of battle. This plus the og steelskin + lifesaver + manawall bro is the ultimate tank lmao, especially with his folio skill to increase beneficial status effect time

Last thing weapon can be relevant as I know a couple of clouds weapons give access to reprieve (survive lethal hit) and same for another character or two I forget which

I chose Reset but they are still sold out

ive done 8 out of 14 chapters on hard mode currently