Let's have an understanding........... I will work on speaking more clearly from now own and I may have to get a new Mic. I know that it's hard to understand me sometimes, but the only times people post comments about the way I talk are in my POPULAR videos. You can hate on the video and dislike it all you want, I don't give a fuck. However,I will not tolerate people insulting me on my talking. I don't mind advice or a little contructive critizism, but posting insulting comments is something I'm not going to put up with. And I DEFINITY will not tolerate racial comments. Yes, I'm black...and if you have a problem with my skin color, you need to unsubscribe to me right now. Saying things like " Black people can't talk" only proves your stupidity and ignorance.
I agree with you! also, darkkefka, i've been watching you for a long time now, only i subscribed recently, and really, once u get used to the way you talk, understanding you isn't hard at all! also, i admire the fact that you almost always respond to comments even with as many subscribers u have! :D good luck on future videos! ^^
Darkkefka Sweet! :D good luck with whatever, i support ur vids :) also, nice to see someone else who gives the modern games just as big of a chance as the older ones :3
Personally ive never had any trouble understanding you at all my friend :-) Been watching you for a while and really enjoy your videos man! Dont let some fucking little keyboard warriors get to you bud.... Keep up the good work Darkkefka!
“Here’s the top 2 items...to get these you will have to have no life outside of video games” Me - Watches video during COVID quarantine...”sounds right up my alley”
Tao To me, it’s like Sonic Riders. There are some dumb things in the system, and it takes a long time to get used to it. But once you get used to it, it’s overall pretty much fun. If people don’t like these games, I don’t blame theme.
Excalibur 2 is even harder to get in international versions because the frames run at 50hz instead of 60, but the timer still runs the same. Basically the game runs about 15% slower, so you need to get to the end of the game in 10 hours instead of 12.
+TyTimeIsAwesome Blitzball in FFX was probably my favorite minigame ever in the FF franchise. I honestly think I spent more time playing Blitzball than the story. FFX-2 watered it down so much though. FFX2 Blitzball was boring and monotonous.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Paladin Shield from FFVI. In order to acquire this item you have to: - Recruit Locke by completing the Phoenix Cave in the WoR. This is one of the most difficult and time-consuming dungeons in the entire game. - Use Locke to find the Cursed Shield in Narshe. - The Cursed Shield gives stat penalties; -7 to Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Magic and no boosts to Defense, Evasion, Magic Defense, and Magic Evasion. It inflicts Doom, Silence, Berserk, Confusion, and Sap on the wearer. It also makes the user weak to Fire, Ice, Lightning, Poison, Earth, and Water. Only after winning 256 battles with this item can you get the Paladin Shield. There are ways you can make it easier but it is still extremely time consuming to win those battles. Let's not forget that even if you equip a Ribbon on the wearer, they STILL have doom at the start of the fight, for 256 battles. Have fun with that.
***** I skipped hours of sleep (I went from 8 PM to 4 AM) trying to get that piece of shit...and the moment I got it I just said, "not going to even try Lulu's". Nirvana and Caladbolg were all I needed to beat Jecht. >_>
These people that have said that they got the *Pink Tail* after a few tries... Guys, the drop rate is in percentage. It means that if you got it after a few fight with the Flan Princess, you're lucky, and that's it. I'm assuming you also got the patience to have 99+ Siren (and I'm talking about stealing 1 item from 1 enemy). If you didn't get the *Pink Tail* and used all of your Siren, then you have to go back to Lunar Dungeon and get another 99 Siren. Unless you've done it before, you don't know how tedious it is (you can buy them in the DS version, making it somewhat easier, and not to mention that Treasure Hunter doubles the chance of item drop). Please don't make it as if the *Pink Tail* is easy to get, because it is not, and I have a legit proof.
I agree 110 percent. Been playing this off and on since this came out on SNES and I've never got one.. Got so tedious and bad, me and my buddy thought we were getting trolled by the old timey hotline number you had to call back then to get support lol
As someone who played FF4 not long ago, I 100% concur that it's completely luck-based. If you got it after a few tries, you have A+ tier luck, no questions asked.
Triple Triad in FF8 is very important if you want to absolutely max out your stats quickly. You can exchange your gilgamesh card for 10 hero's (I think that's what it is). and if you do the one side quest before disc 4 you can have your cards regenerate on the Ragnorok. You sell your hero's for a ton of gil and you buy things like permanent status upgrades which are expensive... but through the card game you can max very quickly. Once you play it enough you kinda like it :P
Finally! Someone who appreciates FF12 as much as I do...and as much as it SHOULD be appreciated! I loved that game. Yes, I didn't care for Vaan, but it wasn't all about him!
After multiple playthroughs i have trouble just getting to 50 strikes in a row i don't even wanna think about doing 200. The way to get the Venus Sigil has to be one of the most stupid things they have ever done in any Final Fantasy game, seriously EVER, whoever came up with this idea should be fired. Tournesol and Knights of the Round for example might take you forever but at least one mistake won't undo all the work you have done to get it.
Shadowpatrick_1007 Dude, listen to me. There is a spot on the map, where you can PROC the lightning strike simply by stepping on a single spot. It's INCREDIBLY easy, takes only about 15 minutes, and you might have sore fingers after. But what I'm trying to tell you is, if you try to tackle this challenge simply by running around and waiting for lightning to strike at random: then YES. I agree with you. That would be retarded, and literally, physically, almost impossible. But if you look up the video that shows you how to do it the RIGHT way, it's not even hard. Basically, there's a pillar next to a crater. You simply have to run back and fourth from the pillar to the crater. The moment you touch the crater, you will see the flash and lightning will strike. Doing it this way means you will know the EXACT moment lightning will strike, and you can do it in a way that makes it so that the lightning strikes like every 3 seconds. At that point, it just comes down to focus & mental timing, and it's really not as hard as you're making it out to be. You can even pause when you get to 100 strikes, give your fingers a rest, and then continue. I agree that it's a menial task & annoying, but not impossible or that difficult by any means.
RyannBaws I know i'v heard about that but only years later when i started to watch Darkkefkas Top 10s. What i was doing in the past was standing in once place waiting for the next strike, which yeah that didn't work out very well. Even still this "Minigame" or whatever you wanna call it is still really stupid. Oh well i don't use Lulu much anyways late game so it's not that big of a deal if i don't get it.
Islander Nimrook, Jumal and Durren (missable) are all great goalies. Wedge is damn good early on and Ropp is the ultamite defender. Brother is super fast, is very easy to get TONS of exp points and Tidus has the Jecht Shot. Early BlitzBall game… You can get good and you can do this.
Doing that chocobo minigame for the Sun Sigil is probably the closest thing to impossible in the Final Fantasy series. I beat it in a relatively short amount of time, but it's completely dumb luck. You could spend days trying to do it without ever getting close. I hated blitzball too but when I started playing to get Wakka's stuff, I found out how incredibly easy it is. Just recruit the right players and you'll barely be playing. I would score goals in the first few seconds with Jecht Shot or anything else, and just do that trick where you hide behind the goalie and wait it out. Playing 30 games of blitzball is incredibly tedious, but that's all it is. It's just boring, and incredibly easy.
Wolftöne Studios That's the thing. It's absolute luck. You may think you're better than everyone right now, but it could have easily taken you 21 hours. A huge number of people try for days and just give up, and some do it on their third try
And I also just have to say, Blitz Ball is the best minigame/side quest EVER made, not just in Final Fantasy but RPGs in general.. Blitzball always deserved its on spin off game, it would of been perfect for the PSP back in the day!
I do believe on my first playthrough, I played Blitzball more than the actual game.....I don't know anyone who hated it just because of a first impression. I have no idea why the 'Master' materia from FFVII wasn't on this list. All materia mastered and taken to the huge materia which must have been saved (you actually need to save a certain one to get a certain materia also) did I mention a lot are actually completely missable also? Seriously, try it.
Huhbuhduh It's funny how I've thought of a useful function for said items. The Master Materias are incredible against Emerald Weapon, instead of being wiped out in one hit by Aire Tam Storm, you can survive it with more spells than you would have.
It's fun, but when u have to play it repeatedly over a hundred times without any competition, it gets really boring and mind numbing. I only managed to get the sun sigil cause i was grinding blitzball on my flight.
final fantasy X lightning bolt trick: dodge 1 bolt then go save, then dodge another and save. if u get hit simply restart. the save game saves the number of bolts u dodged
theres one problem with this, if you were to open the menu at any time it resets, so you would have to make sure to never open the menu while doing it i am unaware if the save thing is true or not but ill use it in my next playthrough
I have only one comment to make on this subject ANY MMORPG I never played them for one simple fact, they wanted you to pay a monthly bill to play them. I say FUCK THAT YOU GREEDY FUCKS, first of all just to be able to play you have to pay a monthly bill to start with, your internet provider, and its not cheap, then they want you to pay MORE $ to get FFIX, then they want you to pay EVEN MORE $ PER MONTH!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK! I said FUCK OFF and never bothered with all MMORPG's
The excal 2 should be higher. There were so many strats back in the day that involved like popping open the ps1 to skip cutscenes to save time for it. I used to play this game a bunch but never once managed to snag this fucking sword. as for FF12... the rare monster and item system was supposed to simulate a offline MMO feel, bad drop rates and all.
+Dresdenstl It's annoying, but it was easy for me...put on my head phones, listened to some calm music, and before I knew it I had dodged 200 some bolts.
Dresdenstl The place I choose was on the north part of the map right after you leave the resting area. Turn right where there is a split going south. After you dodge the first bolt, the second one delays...then after that its quick. then delays..then quick, and repeats so on. Once you get the pattern down its quite easy.
I personally think Excalibur 2 from FF IX is probably the hardest, I mean, you have to get to the final dungeon in 12 hours (Especially when you consider that the average playthrough, even ignoring the side-quests, is about 60+ hours)... That's ridiculously fucking hard. And you may say "It's not useful!" but I counter by saying "It's the weapon with the highest base attack in Final Fantasy as a series." Seriously, It's one of the only weapons that exceeds the base attack of 100
At the cost of gimping the rest of your party due to having to skip everything else :s Despite it having the highest attack you can pretty much cap out steiner's damage with spamming shock anyway.
To make things worse, when I did it as a kid I was running the PAL version of the game. Due to the frame rate you lose about 2 hours while trying to get the Excalibur II. It took me hours a day, for almost my entire Christmas holidays to actually hit my time benchmarks so I could get to Hades in time because using PAL you almost need perfect encounter luck. In the end I threw Excalibur II at Necron out of spite. It is possible, on the NTSC version to actually get 100% of items in FFIX though, I'm going to be working on routing for a 100% speedrun and doing exactly that soon ^_^
actually average play through (not counting first time play throughs) is gonna be anywhere from 16-24 hours, and that's if you're ignoring sidequests. you don't need to level so much in FF9 so there's no point in wasting time on grinding. but a lot of time is spent finding missables and gearing up. so the excalibur 2 can be a bit hard for those who like to gear up their squad,
I actually got the Tournesol when I first played this game when I was 15 lol. I spent insane amount of time reading guides on forums. I loved those days when I had all the time in the world to spend on video game. Nowadays I can barely finish games nevermind completing them.
Agree with the FF12, out of all the games, that one took the most dedication and I am still missing a Pirate Den statue. The general game play of that game is great. There is just so much to do. The fact I was determined to get the Tournesol as early in the game as possible, Feywood [snake eyes] , was a great alternative to grinding. It was a mission to me, so less pointless.
How many other "bosses" in final fantasy history though can you just "walk away" go eat some dinner, take a shower, come back and his health is not full...Just making a point he is a hard son of a bitch, and takes like 9-10 hours but it just makes it a little easier that you can walk away, go save, come back and his health is still not full.
Yiazmat WILL start recovering his health if you stay away long enough. I've left him with 13m hp left and went to run a few other side quests out of sheer monotony--by that point it was lather-rinse-repeat in the fight--and when I came back after a couple of hours, he was back up to 37m hp. =P
LampaLTDstudios Omega Mk XII, from FF12, is harder than Penance. At least Penance's normal, everyday physical attack doesn't have a 50% instant-KO. =P And Omega Mk XII can't be Blinded either.
The most frustrating item to get in my opinion (though I'll settle for a tie with #1) is the Onion Knight Equipment in the NES version of Final Fantasy III. With a 4/256 (1/64) chance to just ENCOUNTER one of the color dragons (Green, Red, Yellow) on specific floors in the Crystal/Sylx Tower (dungeon before the last) and is said/rumored that they drop one of the pieces if killed in a special way (good luck determining what that is) and even then, there it is an extremely rare chance. Considering that you need 4 pieces of Onion Equipment to make it useful on one of your four characters... I tried for hours and only got 1 Onion Helmet before I gave up. Darkkefka
No mentions of Final Fantasy XI and it's impossible drops? Like the Blue Mage Testimonial, which is only 2% off of only two mobs in two different areas?
Hey DK, not sure if you know this but to get Excalibur 2 you don't need to get to Memoria in less than 12 hours, it just needs to show less than 12 hours on the in game clock. When you hit 99:59:59 the clock will reset to 00:00:00 and Excalibur 2 should be on the platform for another 12 hours. I have never tried this but if you or anyone else does please let me know if it works. Love your vids DK.
+Kryptic Badger This is true. You can wait until the clock ticks over back to 00:00:00. Unfortunately, the first time it ticks over, the clock changes colour. The second time it ticks over, the clock changes colour again, and so on... IIRC, it would take approximately two years for the clock to actually tick back over to the first 00:00:00, and then you can pick up the sword.
Dude, your videos are interesting but you spend WAAAAY to much time in them saying absolutely NOTHING.... And a lot of the time you never even explain what it is you are suppose to be talking about, like a swear for the Crisis Core item you never even said what it was, what it did, or anything about anything. Im pretty sure all I seen was just Zack and heard some random word then it was on to the next thing! You know you should at least say the name of the item, say what the item is and what it does and then explain how to obtain the item! I was lost for almost the entire video ( at least the half of it that I did watch, I had to stop at about 14.20 because you take waaay to long with your pauses. Like you will just completely quit talking and it makes this video feel like it drags on, 24 minutes for a top 10 video that doesn't even present you with that much knowledge about the items that are included is entirely to long bro) But hey your videos are interesting, and you are going in the right direction of where they need to go, just try to stay on topic a little better and if you are going to keep pausing and not saying anything then cut it from the video so it doesn't last 24 minutes!
***** It won't work, the timer will change color and it won't work (I've tried). Although I heard a rumor that if you wait for 99:99:59 200 times (not sure about the number) it will work.
Sadly, it's impossible to do the Catnip & Gunner spam in the International/HD version of X-2. That's because SE nerfed Catnip so that it also puts your character in Berserk and Slow status, effectively destroying the combo. So if you're playing those particular versions, you're basically screwed cuz no more Catnip combo.
my main profile on FFX before my PS2 was stolen and memory card lost had over 4,800 hours on ONE save, dedicated to Blitzball. nearly ever player in Blitzball (only a couple didn't get to it) was lvl 99 on that save and had learned every move they could. Blitzball is love, Blitzball is life.
Just stopped the video, like an angry nerd to point this out, I fucking love Blitzball! For me the "hardest" is the Mars sigil (I think is the mars) having to dodge 200 thunderbolts is tedious and you can fuck up things rally easily.
I always played Blitzball with the original Besaid Aurochs team. Yes, it's tough to get started, but when you get to hire Wakka again, and win his Aurochs Spirit Shot, the team's shooting scores are added to his, making his shot pretty much unblockable from catching the ball after the Blitz-off....
"Ozma is the hardest of the FF bosses" LOL No, he isn't. Oh, and pro-tip: You don't have to chase the Queen of Cards to get them. Just wait until disc 4, go to where the Pod crashed in Esthar and play with her. She'll automatically have all the cards you've missed. PRESTO!
I beat Ozma on the first try. It was a surprise battle that I didn't see coming.. I struggled for 30 minutes but I got him :P I also found the card queen at the crash pod too...
but, there is a problem, when you get to disc 4, you're unable to come back to the any of the villages of the game because they said to be "absorbed by the time" and the only way to get cards, was playing duels with the students that are hosted in the ragnarok
RosieSquall Although that is true, you can also get every single card by playing the left Diamond twin, who is for all intents and purposes a far easier opponent -- if only because she doesn't blatantly cheat in terms of what rules she uses.
I LOVED Triple Triad!!! I spent countless hours playing that on every playthrough of the game I did just because of the insanely good Magic you could get super early on to make you OP as all Hell. Plus helping Quistis learn some Blue Magic skills as well. Anyway, I NEVER did the QoC Sidequest...I just wanted until Disc 4 & played her when she was by that crashed ship near Esthar on the World Map. It's not visible, so you just have to wander around to find it, but it's easy enough to look up a guide or video to find her. She has all the Cards from that quest with her, but she also uses like every rule in the game too. So you just need to sell off every Card you can below like Level 8 to make sure you'll always at least stand a chance, then just keep trying. Save outside of her location, then reset if you lose or she doesn't use 1 of the Cards you're missing from her. Super simple.
I find even the Ruby and Emerald weapons from FFVII harder than Ozma ._. which I always beat somewhat easily even when I was twelve. There's FFT storyline fights harder than that thing.
I didn't mind blitzball, it played the hell out of it my first few play throughs. I grabbed Biggs and Wedge in Lucca, and one of the goalies from Guadosalam and it was dominating from there. Triple Triad wasn't that hard either, but maybe because I loved to play it soooo much.
I won on auto... Tidus using Jecht Shot, game ends in over time. Wakka's Venom Shot hit the goalkeeper and poisons him, I use it again and... he doesn't move? Yay for a free goal XD
I finally managed to make two Tournesols early in the Game ( Pre- Nidorana Lighthouse)...it took me ages to say the least but Thank goodness there is a bug that allows you to create new rare items just by using 1 unity instead of the standard number. Can't say If it works in Zodiac Age too tho!
Ash Metcalf Well, it doesn’t really count because you can get the same flute later in the game and it’s way easier. Getting it early is hard af, but getting it period isn’t hard at all.
I love Triple Triad. And honestly as long as you have the "Open" rule (which you can manipulate to get Queen has the rule), the game become very manageable. I'd say the hardest card game for me was against Ellone for Laguna's card. That was one hell of a game as I wasn't prepared that Lunar uses it a mix of all regions rules. Other than that, the V2 suit from Max Angelus 0 from XV also has an insane drop rate, especially him being a super boss, you actually have to make effort (wait for his arm to open to vulnerability etc) to kill him, which is annoying as hell. As a matter of fact, I've never got the goddamn suit after 30 kills.
I enjoy blitzball.. and the first game i tend to always win against the luca goers.. I just got the HD remaster and its pretty awesome :).. Just sucks the trophies you need the venus sigil and i hate that shit The triple triad you can manipulate the rules easily, but rather frustrating The pink tail i tried to get for 5 hours and said fuck that shit lmao
Daniel Spivey the odds are stacked againest you statistically there just a better team. and you cant set jecht shot in the first half. ...and you only have 3 mins in the second half before hes replaced by wakka.
I don't need to, I've been there in my first FF8 playthrough LMAO Silly me doing the Queen of Hearts sidequest on my first time... Oh well. It gets far easier on emulator with save/load states.
i hear ya buddy.. and i made the mistake of finishing the cieth stone missions so all the adamantortoise and half the adamantoise were replaced by long gui and shoulong gui got in the way of killig some remaining adamantoise. i cant kill long gui so i was fucked for ages
that is true. but a point to be made is a good source of income is platinum ingots which were a.. 5% drop on adamantoise i believe. and other than that i'm not sure of an effective money grovel in XIII. cept maybe incentive chips... i liked that part. good exp. and great money for only half way through the plot
I tend to always get The End Garment Grid. It's actually quite worth building up the Oversouls for the Via Infinito bosses because they're actually easier to defeat Oversouled anyways. Well, maybe not the first guy, but he's also the easiest of the Via Infinito bosses anyways. The Black Elemental only ever uses spells. However, as fast as he is, enemies always enter Oversoul status before delivering their attacks. So just spam Darkness on him, and he'll die. Concherer will pretty much die to Cat-Nipped Gunner even while Oversouled, while its attacks are far less lethal. And Chac? Shockingly enough, gets debuffed pretty badly while Oversouled. Other than her broken AF Stony Glare attack, she will never use her strongest area-based attack and will instead use Break Remedy, which does far less damage by comparison. The only tough exception might be Paragon oversouled, and even then, one or two rounds of Cat-Nipped Gunner, and perhaps a little bit of luck, and you are done. In fact, a lot of boss monsters are surprisingly easier Oversouled. Jumbo Cactuar will literally case Hastega and then do nothing the rest of the battle.
fanatykgier Yeah, its her overdrives that really make her worth using. Even before grinding, she's a must-have for boss fights if you haven't grinded enough for them.
Martin Tsai Why should he be just like all the others? If you don't find other UA-camrs that swearing this much, that's great for you? Just go on and watch at other UA-camrs. We humans are not all the same, and that is great.
Martin Tsai I don't get why you are complaining about his swearing. Go watch PewDiePie, and see how much he swears. After watching one of his videoes, you will be apologizing to Darkkefka in no time, because you can't even compare Darkkefka to PewDiePie, because PewDiePie swears way more. Besides, we all swear sometimes.
Hey man great videos, and I had no problem understanding you haha. Don't let these clowns get to you. One tip though, in future list videos could you include the name of which game the items/skills etc are in?
Cool video, I just want to point out though with Ozma, if you use Quina and Magical Mallet all his MP out, it cuts out any luck and you win 100% for sure. I'd say Zodiark is harder, since there's no way that I know of to cut out the instant death luck.
I liked your video. Audio is a bit raw and could be edited better (silences were kind of out of nowhere sometimes) but I thought you did a good job and I love how dedicated you are to the FF series! Subscribed!
hey man just subbed love your ff top 10's keep up the great work man and I started watching your videos yesterday and I understand you perfectly so ignore the haters and keep doing great vids
Mate, Iove your commentaries. Your comments say it like it is and you can be quite hilarious. Your random encounters video is brilliant - "There's an item that prevents death but that shit costs fifty thousand gil". Subscribed.
I feel that the items in FFXII are so hard to get is in the fact that it really tries to emulate the feel of a single player MMO. some of my friends hate that but i personally love it. You get the story of a single-player experience, the ability to go on sidequests, elite monster hunts, craft gear, amazing character customization, and many of the FUN elements of an MMO without the need for internet lag, party grouping and communication, complex macro'ing, etc. I love the game, like seriously. Unfortunately I never finished, but I still have it and EAGERLY look forward to replaying it one day. Maybe even streaming it. Good content man.
+Miu Bunny Gotta agree with completing the espers being so f-ing hard, especially since it's not so easy to kill Zodiark w/o guides. Obtaining the Yagyu Darkblade + Masamune + Genji Equipment + Zodiac Spear/Tournesol anti-Yiazmat wombo-combo is still a lot more painful, though. Oh, and after 5 years of play I still haven't reached Order of Ambrosia.
I used to hate the Card Queen's exclusives too: you had to either do the annoying sidequest or try to get them from her in Disc 4, which is damn near impossible with the rules she imposes. Then I found out about Left Diamond: you can find her in the Ragnarok in Disc 4 if you completed the CC Group sidequest in the previous discs, and she will have whatever rare cards you don't have - including the Card Queen's exclusive cards and cards you've used up. She uses Trabia's rules, which include Random and Plus, but you can manipulate the RNG to abolish those rules as early as Disc 1, leaving Trabia with only the Open rule, which allows you to win easily. You can use her to obtain infinite copies of all your cards (except PuPu; this is the only card she won't have). Thank you, Left Diamond; you're my favorite Final Fantasy VIII girl now.
FYI, you can estimate the time until you win an item with the negative binomial distribution. 1) estimate the time for a battle/event 2) use the negative binomial distribution to calculate the percentiles for the completion time. monte carlo simulations in excel can be used to do a better job since 1 can vary.
Hope this helps whoever attempts 100% acquisition runs on Final Fantasy 2 (snes). I completed a legit playthrough on my SNES where I got minimally 1 of every single rare (1/64) drop, including the pink tail from the pink puffs. Below I detail both the strategy to get the pink tail relatively painlessly, as well as the general strategy to obtain every single 1/64 drop to have a complete inventory. Note that the strategy applies only for Super Nintendo FF2, NOT any of the remakes --- the actual true original cart with the red label). Before attempting, to speed things up, bring about 300 ether1s. (It's expensive, but you make your money back fighting the puffs anyway.) The minimum you need to do things right is 99, but for each 99 you bring, you save yourself a trip out of the dungeon and off the moon to go buy more.) For pink puffs, there's no need to kill your party members first. In fact, because the puffs hit hard and many times they berserk you before Rydia can cast toad on the group, having just Rydia and Rosa (especially at lower levels) can be dangerous (as they have the lowest HP). Instead, be SURE to equip Cecil with his CRYSTAL body armor. For some reason it makes him immune to berserk. (Ribbon helmets do NOT protect you from being berserked, so forget about them.) Have Cecil and Rydia alive and normal, whereas simply cast piggy on all other party members before your puff battle from the menu screen. Piggy status makes you immune to berserk, so by piggying Edge, Rosa, and Kain, you have tanks that can take damage from puffs while you set up the toad strategy. The idea is then obviously encounter enemies and run from all those that aren't pink puff until you finally get pink puffs (you do NOT need to be on a certain tile in the room, that's a false BS rumor. Run around anywhere in the room, it's just luck finding a pink puff group. I found 2 in a row once!). Now, once in a fight - as fast as you can, cast toad on all of them with Rydia. If it works, you're set (skip to next paragraph). However, if they do their dance and berserk Rydia, then you need to kill Rydia by attacking her with the rest of your party. Once she dies, revive her (and heal her quick!) and have her cast toad, since after being killed and revived berserk will be gone. (You cannot remove berserk with Heal or anything.) --- Ok --- so now you have a bunch of stupid toads to look at. What do you do? Attack and kill 2 of them, leaving 3 left. Heal Rosa to get rid of her Piggy status. She should not be berserked (though if for some reason she is, just kill her with attacks and then revive her). Then, depending on your level, you just need to see how many attacks it takes to kill a puff. For me, at level 99, it took only 1 attack from Cecil (doing anywhere from 8,000 to 9,999), and then one attack from Rydia. Regardless, the idea is to lower a Puff's health until you can kill it in one more attack. You want to select attack to kill it, such that the next character whose turn it is is Rosa. As your killing attack takes place, QUICKLY select white magic with Rosa, select Life2, and cast it on the dying puff as the puff is in the disappearing animation of dying. Then you wait, life2 is cast, and the puff is revived at full health and still is a toad, allowing you to just keep repeating. The reason for keeping 3 puffs alive is that if you screw up and accidentally kill a puff and Rosa doesn't get her turn quickly enough for Life2, you still have 2 puffs left to keeping trying. Keep killing and reviving a puff (as in the video above) for about 45-minutes. I wouldn't suggest any longer, because if you get more than 8 drops, they overwrite each other and then you're just wasting time (i.e., you might've gotten a pink tail, and then lose it because you keep killing and get an elixir that takes the pink tail's spot!). To give a reference, 45 minutes is the time it takes to go through 99 ethers on Rosa. Since life2 costs 52MP, you have to stop the kill-revive grind every so often to just use ethers from every party member to get Rosa back to full MP before you start again. Anyway, use 99 ethers, which assuming normal luck should get you about 8 items to drop. Kill the puffs completely once you're ready and then keep your fingers crossed for a pink tail! On my third 45-minute grind with puffs, I got 2 pink tails to drop (!!!!). (If you ever get lucky enough to get more than one pink tail, do NOT sort your inventory. If you sort it and they combine into a single slot (like Pink Tail: 2), you will only get 1 armor for the group of them. Instead, leave your inventory alone and quickly go to the adamant armor merchant and select each tail separately to get 1 armor for each tail.) The Life-2 trick I believe is only Super Nintendo FF2 only, so that's REALLY nice. (Alternatively, for people with FF4 for Playstation or GBA or whatever, I guess there's an item called 'alarm' that automatically spawns pink puffs for you.... but since you can't Life2 them, you just kill 5, see what item drops, and repeat. I almost feel like that takes LONGER, because while pink puffs don't naturally spawn often, once they do, you can almost guarantee 8 drops using the Life-2 trick over 45 minutes. I much prefer at least getting 8 drops of something to usually just not getting any single drop at all.) As for all other rare (1/64) drops in the game that can ONLY be gotten via drops (here's the list --- Imp, Bomb, Mage [these are calls for Rydia], Glass Helmet, Artemis Bow, Dragoon Lance, Dragon Whip, Silence Staff, Cursed Ring, Crystal Ring, Lilith Rod, Rune Axe, Medusa Sword, then also at a thankfully easier-to-get 5/16 rate: zeus gloves, artemis arrows), you obviously have to just grind and grind.... but it helps to use an FAQ online to see what rooms in the game spawn the enemy you're looking for with the highest frequency. (As for ribbon helmet --- this is a rare 1/64 drop as well, but the game gives you 2 in a chest.... Same applies for the Power Robe, the Heroine Robe, the Avenger Sword... so I'm not counting them because trying to get 5 of every rare item for the 'ultimate party' is insanity. It's just pointless, since many of these you only can even start to grind for right before the final boss of the game, so why spend 50 hours getting 5 pink tails that you can literally use in 1 fight before you get the "THE END" screen. Getting 1 is enough to prove you did the grind. (Also remember that any weapon you can just duplicate 99 of in the SNES cart using the duplication trick, so getting 5 of an item for your whole party only even applies to robes, rings, body armors, gloves, and helmets. Anyway - You can check it all using these 2 FAQs: Complete item list (to see what enemies drop what items with what frequency): www.gamefaqs.com/snes/522596-final-fantasy-ii/faqs/11842 Spawn locations and rates for all enemies (find the one you want on the FAQ above, then use this one to search for where it is --- for each room, the spawn rates are HIGHEST for the battle at the top, and are very rare as you go down (that's why for example pink puff is the 8th in it's room, meaning the lowest spawn rate): www.gamefaqs.com/snes/522596-final-fantasy-ii/faqs/53579 As for final tips, here's some things to note: The following items can be gotten most quickly with the Life2 trick (at the end of the game, so not missable): Mage, Bomb, Medusa Sword, Artemis Arrows, Artemis Bow, Zeus Gloves, Silence Staff, Cursed Ring [Ghost in Slyph cave], Pink Tail [duh], Lilith Rod, Ribbon Helmet. The following items can be gotten most quickly by exploiting the 'call' function of certain enemies. Each time they are attacked, they call the enemy that drops the item into battle. You can keep killing said enemy, attacking the caller once, and spawning a new one to fight infinitely, speeding up the drop process a ton. Just be sure to cast cure on the caller every so often so that you don't accidentally kill him off! Rune Axe (fight the searcher enemy that appears alone in the Giant of Babil sequence. This is MISSABLE because you only come here one time! If you miss it, you need to use Life2 on the RedGiant enemy on the moon, which is much slower of a process.) Imp (fight the conjurer enemy in the Land of Summoned Monsters. Not missable like the RuneAxe caller.) Lastly, the following items are the most pain in the a** items to get, because the enemies that spawn them either appear alone, so you can't use the Life2 trick on them (because once they die, the fight ends --- you obviously need 2 or more enemies on the screen to kill one off and then use Life2 on it), or they are undead enemies and thus Life2 fails on them: Crystal Ring, Glass Helmet, Dragoon Spear, Dragon Whip, Protect Ring. That is, for this list of 5 items above, there's no way around it. Just gotta grind and hope to get lucky! Everything drops eventually!
If you love rare steals from bosses so much, did you get the fairy flute for Eiko from Hilgigars in FF9? I seriously spent hours doing just that fight once, constantly healing and casting float while stealing every turn.
at the start of the ozma fight, you mentioned there were 2 bosses that break the general rule where even with the strongest eq's and at the highest level, you still might not win
Chac from FFX-2 I believe he said. Even with catnip + trigger happy, she's unbelievably cheap, she's even harder in the HD version now because they nerfed catnip -_-
SilentRain988 ohhh i see... well it's been around 4 years or so since i've played X-2, but as far as i know, i grinded quite a bit and managed to beat the whole game, including side bosses without catnip
As a FFIV obsessive completionist for both GBA AND DS, I can really say that YES, Adamant Armour is bloody insane to try to obtain - especially when you need 4-5 pink tails. However while it may be RNG against me, it was in fact the fairy bow (possibly light bow? Been so many years) that took me longest to get. I seem to remember pink tails being 30-40 minutes of grinding (in that room where there's only 5 but it's always them who fight), whilst it took over 20 hours of straight farming to get one of those bows. I remember thus very strongly as it was the last item I needed and I was essentially brain dead farming the mobs (some sort of female mob) days on end. That feel of obtaining full sets of 'optimum' equipment for your whole team though...incredible.
Hey DK! Always a fan of your top 10s and was wondering if you ever considering doing this top 10 exclusively for final fantasy 12 as in the vid you said there are so many to choose from??
Hey DK! Love your videos and your passion for all things FF. Can I request something? I love your top ten videos, but this one in particular highlighted something which could be good for us not in the know; can you please talk about the items on the list, in terms of what they're used for? i've heard of the Onion Sword and Wyrmhilt Blade before, but no idea why they're desirable. Thanks, dude.
Never really concentrated on the girls in Blitzball. Roop is a OP defender and Wedge can shoot between drops of water in the arena to score. And yes, I'm one of those whom have not gotten a pink tail since starting in '93 lol
You talk very fast, it makes it harder to understood you, slow down a bit. First of all, thanks for including Crisis Core, it's easily the most beautiful PSP game I've ever seen. Secondly, I'm not sure I understand what makes the item you mentioned from it hard to get? You have to use a specific move on a specific monster, right? And of course, you have to rely on luck to get that move, right? Doesn't seem nearly as difficult as some low drop rate items I've chased in the past, whether in FF games or any others. Thirdly, I think you contradicted yourself a bit. You mentioned that the Onion Sword was harder to get than the Adamant Armor, then you put an item necessary to get the Adamant Armor as number one. It would seem to mean that the Adamant Armor is therefore the hardest item to get.
Linna Shaami and Miyu were all I needed for Blitzball. I had Tidus learn Jecht Shot and while yes it is time consuming the best way to use it is when there’s 30 seconds left and you need one goal to win. It takes enough time off the clock to where your opponent has only 5 seconds to equalize before the game is over.
I just got the remake of ff10 on steam, and after three hours of painful chocobo temple running I finally got all five chests... then decided "fuck it, it's 3 am i might as well go for sun sigil" first time in 20+ playthroughs I one shot the race with a perfect 0.0 . All i could do was laugh in disbelief. Also great videos
I suppose I'm extremely, extremely lucky. I've recently replayed FF4 on the PSP and decided to go for the Pink tail for the first time in my life. It took me three battles...
Thanks for another great video and lol, you are one funny dude! I agree with the list, I would just make one comment. I know you said all secret items in FFXII are #2 and that's accurate, but I would have made a special mention of the Danjuro dagger. Holy crap, that was a hard item to get. For me, that was probably the hardest item in any game, period. It took me about 18 hours of chaining the same darn monster (you know which one I speak of) to get it to finally drop the darn thing. Even Zodiac Spear (which I got 2 of) was easier, once you learn the PS2 RNG manipulation trick, that is.
For the Queen of Cards quest just reset if she goes anywhere but Balamb or Dollet. Also you can pretty much abolish all the rules of a region by resetting.
I'll never forget when I went to that one floor in the Lunar Ruins in the GBA version of FF4 and the first encounter I got in the room was the 9 Flan Princesses, and they dropped the pink tail. Should have bought a lottery ticket that day.
My father and I love blitzball soon much that we could just sit in front of the television and play it for days on end. People need to keep trying this because it's awesome!
Let's have an understanding...........
I will work on speaking more clearly from now own and I may have to get a new Mic.
I know that it's hard to understand me sometimes, but the only times people post comments about the way I talk are in my POPULAR videos. You can hate on the video and dislike it all you want, I don't give a fuck. However,I will not tolerate people insulting me on my talking. I don't mind advice or a little contructive critizism, but posting insulting comments is something I'm not going to put up with.
And I DEFINITY will not tolerate racial comments. Yes, I'm black...and if you have a problem with my skin color, you need to unsubscribe to me right now. Saying things like " Black people can't talk" only proves your stupidity and ignorance.
I agree with you! also, darkkefka, i've been watching you for a long time now, only i subscribed recently, and really, once u get used to the way you talk, understanding you isn't hard at all! also, i admire the fact that you almost always respond to comments even with as many subscribers u have! :D good luck on future videos! ^^
Da Snyggin yeah, I'm working on interacting with all of my subs. but I have a lot of catching up to do.
Darkkefka Sweet! :D good luck with whatever, i support ur vids :) also, nice to see someone else who gives the modern games just as big of a chance as the older ones :3
They can understand you; they just being R-word
Personally ive never had any trouble understanding you at all my friend :-)
Been watching you for a while and really enjoy your videos man! Dont let some fucking little keyboard warriors get to you bud....
Keep up the good work Darkkefka!
“Here’s the top 2 items...to get these you will have to have no life outside of video games”
Me - Watches video during COVID quarantine...”sounds right up my alley”
ikr
Whoa whoa whoa!
Nobody likes Blitzball? I spent stupid amounts of time playing it!
Right! Wakka's was the first weapon I got for FFX.
cause that is what you need to follow to say it no sphere grid anyone can pump aeons to max an say no sphere grid but have max aeon stats
I never knew If i had to restart the points to get a good chance at the Jupiter sigil. I wish I was told before my team rank was 19
Bltzball was my favorite part of FF10. I built up some bad ass teams in my many playthroughs. Wedge was always a ringer.
Tao
To me, it’s like Sonic Riders.
There are some dumb things in the system, and it takes a long time to get used to it.
But once you get used to it, it’s overall pretty much fun.
If people don’t like these games, I don’t blame theme.
Excalibur 2 is even harder to get in international versions because the frames run at 50hz instead of 60, but the timer still runs the same. Basically the game runs about 15% slower, so you need to get to the end of the game in 10 hours instead of 12.
As someone who got everyone's ultimate weapons and sigils in FFX I can honestly say fuck the Chocobo mini-game!
I've never had a hard time understanding you.
newposter30 same here. Love DK!
I know this comments 8 years old lmao, but we know exactly what kinda people have a "hard time" understanding DK
Blitz Ball is the best mini game ever. I'm not even sure why fans hate it or think it's difficult.
+TyTimeIsAwesome Blitzball in FFX was probably my favorite minigame ever in the FF franchise. I honestly think I spent more time playing Blitzball than the story. FFX-2 watered it down so much though. FFX2 Blitzball was boring and monotonous.
+TyTimeIsAwesome I hate it its super boring its easy but it takes way to long -.-
+TyTimeIsAwesome Same, my brother nolifed it more than he actually played other games, lol
Take a shot every time Darkkefka says "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING..."
Funeral in seconds
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Paladin Shield from FFVI. In order to acquire this item you have to:
- Recruit Locke by completing the Phoenix Cave in the WoR. This is one of the most difficult and time-consuming dungeons in the entire game.
- Use Locke to find the Cursed Shield in Narshe.
- The Cursed Shield gives stat penalties; -7 to Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Magic and no boosts to Defense, Evasion, Magic Defense, and Magic Evasion. It inflicts Doom, Silence, Berserk, Confusion, and Sap on the wearer. It also makes the user weak to Fire, Ice, Lightning, Poison, Earth, and Water.
Only after winning 256 battles with this item can you get the Paladin Shield. There are ways you can make it easier but it is still extremely time consuming to win those battles. Let's not forget that even if you equip a Ribbon on the wearer, they STILL have doom at the start of the fight, for 256 battles. Have fun with that.
Tidus's Chocobo racing, anyone? For his ultimate?
***** I skipped hours of sleep (I went from 8 PM to 4 AM) trying to get that piece of shit...and the moment I got it I just said, "not going to even try Lulu's". Nirvana and Caladbolg were all I needed to beat Jecht. >_>
*****
Godhand is unless you know how to get it. It's one of those secret password things in the Airship.
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Oh yeah...
*mind is blank*
I did beat it. It was just so fricken annoying lol.
I tries ir Sotheby's one try and gotten the Sun crest and calbaglod
These people that have said that they got the *Pink Tail* after a few tries...
Guys, the drop rate is in percentage. It means that if you got it after a few fight with the Flan Princess, you're lucky, and that's it. I'm assuming you also got the patience to have 99+ Siren (and I'm talking about stealing 1 item from 1 enemy). If you didn't get the *Pink Tail* and used all of your Siren, then you have to go back to Lunar Dungeon and get another 99 Siren. Unless you've done it before, you don't know how tedious it is (you can buy them in the DS version, making it somewhat easier, and not to mention that Treasure Hunter doubles the chance of item drop).
Please don't make it as if the *Pink Tail* is easy to get, because it is not, and I have a legit proof.
I agree 110 percent. Been playing this off and on since this came out on SNES and I've never got one.. Got so tedious and bad, me and my buddy thought we were getting trolled by the old timey hotline number you had to call back then to get support lol
No argument there, I love FF4 but goddamn that drop and steal ratio!
its very hard, I got all the rare summons, but I didnt get the pink tail yet
i agree the pink tail is hard as hell to get but i got stupidly good luck in my ff4 run on the ds and four in a row but then my luck went to shit
As someone who played FF4 not long ago, I 100% concur that it's completely luck-based. If you got it after a few tries, you have A+ tier luck, no questions asked.
Triple Triad in FF8 is very important if you want to absolutely max out your stats quickly. You can exchange your gilgamesh card for 10 hero's (I think that's what it is). and if you do the one side quest before disc 4 you can have your cards regenerate on the Ragnorok. You sell your hero's for a ton of gil and you buy things like permanent status upgrades which are expensive... but through the card game you can max very quickly.
Once you play it enough you kinda like it :P
Finally! Someone who appreciates FF12 as much as I do...and as much as it SHOULD be appreciated! I loved that game. Yes, I didn't care for Vaan, but it wasn't all about him!
As soon as I can, Vaan is out of my party!
Lorree same!!!
Second favorite one behind Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced!
Vaan, Ashe, Fran ;-; that was my team B)
I consider you an authority on this game series. I understand you just fine and actually relate to how you feel on MOST of the games.
The clip from FF IV somehow amused me, how the hell do the characters manage to get caught by surprise when they are the ones calling the enemy?
Thumbs up this comment if you dodged over 180 lightning strikes, only to get struck because you fucked up slightly.
After multiple playthroughs i have trouble just getting to 50 strikes in a row i don't even wanna think about doing 200.
The way to get the Venus Sigil has to be one of the most stupid things they have ever done in any Final Fantasy game, seriously EVER, whoever came up with this idea should be fired.
Tournesol and Knights of the Round for example might take you forever but at least one mistake won't undo all the work you have done to get it.
Shadowpatrick_1007 Dude, listen to me. There is a spot on the map, where you can PROC the lightning strike simply by stepping on a single spot. It's INCREDIBLY easy, takes only about 15 minutes, and you might have sore fingers after.
But what I'm trying to tell you is, if you try to tackle this challenge simply by running around and waiting for lightning to strike at random: then YES. I agree with you. That would be retarded, and literally, physically, almost impossible. But if you look up the video that shows you how to do it the RIGHT way, it's not even hard.
Basically, there's a pillar next to a crater. You simply have to run back and fourth from the pillar to the crater. The moment you touch the crater, you will see the flash and lightning will strike. Doing it this way means you will know the EXACT moment lightning will strike, and you can do it in a way that makes it so that the lightning strikes like every 3 seconds.
At that point, it just comes down to focus & mental timing, and it's really not as hard as you're making it out to be. You can even pause when you get to 100 strikes, give your fingers a rest, and then continue. I agree that it's a menial task & annoying, but not impossible or that difficult by any means.
RyannBaws
I know i'v heard about that but only years later when i started to watch Darkkefkas Top 10s.
What i was doing in the past was standing in once place waiting for the next strike, which yeah that didn't work out very well.
Even still this "Minigame" or whatever you wanna call it is still really stupid.
Oh well i don't use Lulu much anyways late game so it's not that big of a deal if i don't get it.
I have gotten all 200 once but i remember getting to 199 and I cant remember what happened but I looked away for about 1 second and got hit.
+Ross Ladlee I would kill my self at that point. How do you have the courage to live on, I must know!
Brother is the fastest blitzball player... you can win easily with him in the team
Islander
Nimrook, Jumal and Durren (missable) are all great goalies.
Wedge is damn good early on and Ropp is the ultamite defender.
Brother is super fast, is very easy to get TONS of exp points and Tidus has the Jecht Shot.
Early BlitzBall game…
You can get good and you can do this.
You can win easily with the vanilla Aurochs too. Tidus, Wakka and Datto are always the lead goal scorers in all my playthroughs!
@@TheShytallica also Keppa Has 99 shoot when he levels up to level 99
Doing that chocobo minigame for the Sun Sigil is probably the closest thing to impossible in the Final Fantasy series. I beat it in a relatively short amount of time, but it's completely dumb luck. You could spend days trying to do it without ever getting close.
I hated blitzball too but when I started playing to get Wakka's stuff, I found out how incredibly easy it is. Just recruit the right players and you'll barely be playing. I would score goals in the first few seconds with Jecht Shot or anything else, and just do that trick where you hide behind the goalie and wait it out. Playing 30 games of blitzball is incredibly tedious, but that's all it is. It's just boring, and incredibly easy.
cJinL i just recruited wakka and it was already easy
+cJinL, the Sun Sigil was hard for you?
Wolftöne Studios i did quit 2 times because i tried for literally an hour but i finnaly did it
+Mono Cheto1, a whole hour? It took me seven minutes.
Wolftöne Studios That's the thing. It's absolute luck. You may think you're better than everyone right now, but it could have easily taken you 21 hours. A huge number of people try for days and just give up, and some do it on their third try
I feel blitz ball was only hard until you went into manual play
And I also just have to say, Blitz Ball is the best minigame/side quest EVER made, not just in Final Fantasy but RPGs in general.. Blitzball always deserved its on spin off game, it would of been perfect for the PSP back in the day!
My little brother grinded for 3 hours for the pink tail and I got two in 10 minutes. He was furious. I never understood why until now.
I do believe on my first playthrough, I played Blitzball more than the actual game.....I don't know anyone who hated it just because of a first impression. I have no idea why the 'Master' materia from FFVII wasn't on this list. All materia mastered and taken to the huge materia which must have been saved (you actually need to save a certain one to get a certain materia also) did I mention a lot are actually completely missable also? Seriously, try it.
It's not really useful though since I can set up all the Materia combinations I care about without it
Huhbuhduh
That's not the point.
TheDanzomanzo He stated in the video that he was going to include the useful items...
Huhbuhduh
It's funny how I've thought of a useful function for said items. The Master Materias are incredible against Emerald Weapon, instead of being wiped out in one hit by Aire Tam Storm, you can survive it with more spells than you would have.
It's fun, but when u have to play it repeatedly over a hundred times without any competition, it gets really boring and mind numbing. I only managed to get the sun sigil cause i was grinding blitzball on my flight.
The Queen of Cards cards weren't that bad.
Later in the game, she's permanently at the rocket landing site.
final fantasy X lightning bolt trick: dodge 1 bolt then go save, then dodge another and save. if u get hit simply restart. the save game saves the number of bolts u dodged
no problem
ARE YOU SHITTING ME? YOU CAN SAVE YOUR LIGHTNING BOLTS?! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE, MATE?
if i knew this Dx luckily i have it but still UGH
theres one problem with this, if you were to open the menu at any time it resets, so you would have to make sure to never open the menu while doing it
i am unaware if the save thing is true or not but ill use it in my next playthrough
WTF!!!!!! I never knew that!!!!!! GEEZUS SLICED! Imma go try that!
I'm just happy that FFIX is starting to get its recognition as a great FF game. And IMO, the best one at that
uhhhh no
I have only one comment to make on this subject ANY MMORPG I never played them for one simple fact, they wanted you to pay a monthly bill to play them. I say FUCK THAT YOU GREEDY FUCKS, first of all just to be able to play you have to pay a monthly bill to start with, your internet provider, and its not cheap, then they want you to pay MORE $ to get FFIX, then they want you to pay EVEN MORE $ PER MONTH!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK! I said FUCK OFF and never bothered with all MMORPG's
Sakaguchi and Uematsu both consider FF9 to be their best work. I respect both of them highly, and I agree, 9 is amazing.
The excal 2 should be higher. There were so many strats back in the day that involved like popping open the ps1 to skip cutscenes to save time for it. I used to play this game a bunch but never once managed to snag this fucking sword.
as for FF12... the rare monster and item system was supposed to simulate a offline MMO feel, bad drop rates and all.
Fuck that lightning dodge minigame in FFX.
+Dresdenstl It's annoying, but it was easy for me...put on my head phones, listened to some calm music, and before I knew it I had dodged 200 some bolts.
I guess I'll have to try that if FFX HD comes to Steam (I don't have a PS3).
Dresdenstl
The place I choose was on the north part of the map right after you leave the resting area. Turn right where there is a split going south. After you dodge the first bolt, the second one delays...then after that its quick. then delays..then quick, and repeats so on. Once you get the pattern down its quite easy.
+Dresdenstl Its ennoying but i can do it i did the dodging lightning thing 200 times like 4 times i could do it 4 you xD
+Dresdenstl In all seriousness, Tidus and the chocobo lady was 100x more annoying than the lightning dodge, man.
I personally think Excalibur 2 from FF IX is probably the hardest, I mean, you have to get to the final dungeon in 12 hours (Especially when you consider that the average playthrough, even ignoring the side-quests, is about 60+ hours)... That's ridiculously fucking hard. And you may say "It's not useful!" but I counter by saying "It's the weapon with the highest base attack in Final Fantasy as a series." Seriously, It's one of the only weapons that exceeds the base attack of 100
I think he was making a point of listing useful items :s
Again, I go with "Highest base attack in the entire of Final Fantasy as a franchise." making it useful.
At the cost of gimping the rest of your party due to having to skip everything else :s
Despite it having the highest attack you can pretty much cap out steiner's damage with spamming shock anyway.
To make things worse, when I did it as a kid I was running the PAL version of the game. Due to the frame rate you lose about 2 hours while trying to get the Excalibur II. It took me hours a day, for almost my entire Christmas holidays to actually hit my time benchmarks so I could get to Hades in time because using PAL you almost need perfect encounter luck. In the end I threw Excalibur II at Necron out of spite.
It is possible, on the NTSC version to actually get 100% of items in FFIX though, I'm going to be working on routing for a 100% speedrun and doing exactly that soon ^_^
actually average play through (not counting first time play throughs) is gonna be anywhere from 16-24 hours, and that's if you're ignoring sidequests. you don't need to level so much in FF9 so there's no point in wasting time on grinding. but a lot of time is spent finding missables and gearing up. so the excalibur 2 can be a bit hard for those who like to gear up their squad,
I actually got the Tournesol when I first played this game when I was 15 lol. I spent insane amount of time reading guides on forums. I loved those days when I had all the time in the world to spend on video game. Nowadays I can barely finish games nevermind completing them.
Agree with the FF12, out of all the games, that one took the most dedication and I am still missing a Pirate Den statue. The general game play of that game is great. There is just so much to do. The fact I was determined to get the Tournesol as early in the game as possible, Feywood [snake eyes] , was a great alternative to grinding. It was a mission to me, so less pointless.
I'm sorry, but still think the hardest boss in FF history was Yaizmat. The sheer amount of time and effort needed to kill that thing is crazy.
jeff philly You can't actually do that all the time. If i'm not mistaken, that's a glitch. If you leave, it's health will recover.
***** that's if you leave the battle while Yiazmat has regen on
How many other "bosses" in final fantasy history though can you just "walk away" go eat some dinner, take a shower, come back and his health is not full...Just making a point he is a hard son of a bitch, and takes like 9-10 hours but it just makes it a little easier that you can walk away, go save, come back and his health is still not full.
Yiazmat WILL start recovering his health if you stay away long enough. I've left him with 13m hp left and went to run a few other side quests out of sheer monotony--by that point it was lather-rinse-repeat in the fight--and when I came back after a couple of hours, he was back up to 37m hp. =P
LampaLTDstudios Omega Mk XII, from FF12, is harder than Penance. At least Penance's normal, everyday physical attack doesn't have a 50% instant-KO. =P And Omega Mk XII can't be Blinded either.
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The most frustrating item to get in my opinion (though I'll settle for a tie with #1) is the Onion Knight Equipment in the NES version of Final Fantasy III. With a 4/256 (1/64) chance to just ENCOUNTER one of the color dragons (Green, Red, Yellow) on specific floors in the Crystal/Sylx Tower (dungeon before the last) and is said/rumored that they drop one of the pieces if killed in a special way (good luck determining what that is) and even then, there it is an extremely rare chance. Considering that you need 4 pieces of Onion Equipment to make it useful on one of your four characters... I tried for hours and only got 1 Onion Helmet before I gave up.
Darkkefka
agree....
I know right, sometimes NES games are just ridiculous.
No mentions of Final Fantasy XI and it's impossible drops?
Like the Blue Mage Testimonial, which is only 2% off of only two mobs in two different areas?
Coramelimane I made it very clear that I never played XI.
Coramelimane FF11 would have it's own catagory since pretty much every rare item in that game beats out most ff's time wise to get.
Charles Maxwell Even common drops are rare drops in 11. Ha ha.
Coramelimane Honestly, FFXI shouldn't really be considered a part of the main series. It's not even the same genre.
How so? It's still a roleplaying game.
Hey DK, not sure if you know this but to get Excalibur 2 you don't need to get to Memoria in less than 12 hours, it just needs to show less than 12 hours on the in game clock. When you hit 99:59:59 the clock will reset to 00:00:00 and Excalibur 2 should be on the platform for another 12 hours. I have never tried this but if you or anyone else does please let me know if it works. Love your vids DK.
+Kryptic Badger This is true. You can wait until the clock ticks over back to 00:00:00. Unfortunately, the first time it ticks over, the clock changes colour. The second time it ticks over, the clock changes colour again, and so on... IIRC, it would take approximately two years for the clock to actually tick back over to the first 00:00:00, and then you can pick up the sword.
Dude, your videos are interesting but you spend WAAAAY to much time in them saying absolutely NOTHING.... And a lot of the time you never even explain what it is you are suppose to be talking about, like a swear for the Crisis Core item you never even said what it was, what it did, or anything about anything. Im pretty sure all I seen was just Zack and heard some random word then it was on to the next thing! You know you should at least say the name of the item, say what the item is and what it does and then explain how to obtain the item! I was lost for almost the entire video ( at least the half of it that I did watch, I had to stop at about 14.20 because you take waaay to long with your pauses. Like you will just completely quit talking and it makes this video feel like it drags on, 24 minutes for a top 10 video that doesn't even present you with that much knowledge about the items that are included is entirely to long bro) But hey your videos are interesting, and you are going in the right direction of where they need to go, just try to stay on topic a little better and if you are going to keep pausing and not saying anything then cut it from the video so it doesn't last 24 minutes!
yeah, this was my second top 10, they got better after this one.
I subscribed to you because I do like the subjects you are bringing up!
***** lol xx haah nice
***** It won't work, the timer will change color and it won't work (I've tried). Although I heard a rumor that if you wait for 99:99:59 200 times (not sure about the number) it will work.
Sadly, it's impossible to do the Catnip & Gunner spam in the International/HD version of X-2. That's because SE nerfed Catnip so that it also puts your character in Berserk and Slow status, effectively destroying the combo. So if you're playing those particular versions, you're basically screwed cuz no more Catnip combo.
I was so disappointed when I found that out
I love these videos... it's the moments when he freaks out that make them hilarious. I've watched like 6 in a row now. Keep 'em coming bro.
blitzball is love, blitzball is life~
my main profile on FFX before my PS2 was stolen and memory card lost had over 4,800 hours on ONE save, dedicated to Blitzball. nearly ever player in Blitzball (only a couple didn't get to it) was lvl 99 on that save and had learned every move they could. Blitzball is love, Blitzball is life.
+Jarrod Gualdi HAHAHAHAHA, and now I can't even play the remake. Oh well, I guess later in life, maybe.
Just stopped the video, like an angry nerd to point this out, I fucking love Blitzball!
For me the "hardest" is the Mars sigil (I think is the mars) having to dodge 200 thunderbolts is tedious and you can fuck up things rally easily.
Ikr Blitzball and Triple Triad are AWESOME. They are one of the most popular mini games ever. That guy must be the only one to not like them.
I found blitz ball pretty fun actually
oh hell yeah son
Blitz was fun, but it was very easy... You only need one player, just get Brother when you first meet him and you are set:
I hate blitzball, it's so DAMN hard lol
Wait, you found it fun!? IMPOSSIBRU!
(Sorry, I just had to. :P)
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeh
I always played Blitzball with the original Besaid Aurochs team. Yes, it's tough to get started, but when you get to hire Wakka again, and win his Aurochs Spirit Shot, the team's shooting scores are added to his, making his shot pretty much unblockable from catching the ball after the Blitz-off....
DK, have u tried playing The Last Remnant? I think it's awesome, and I am a final fantasy fan
+bennyjacob999 i played it,i was good but a grindfest.
"Ozma is the hardest of the FF bosses" LOL No, he isn't.
Oh, and pro-tip: You don't have to chase the Queen of Cards to get them. Just wait until disc 4, go to where the Pod crashed in Esthar and play with her. She'll automatically have all the cards you've missed. PRESTO!
I beat Ozma on the first try. It was a surprise battle that I didn't see coming.. I struggled for 30 minutes but I got him :P
I also found the card queen at the crash pod too...
but, there is a problem, when you get to disc 4, you're unable to come back to the any of the villages of the game because they said to be "absorbed by the time" and the only way to get cards, was playing duels with the students that are hosted in the ragnarok
sd You can get EVERY card in the game if you play with the Queen. Google her exact location and give it a try.
RosieSquall
Although that is true, you can also get every single card by playing the left Diamond twin, who is for all intents and purposes a far easier opponent -- if only because she doesn't blatantly cheat in terms of what rules she uses.
neobullseye1 Even the character and GF cards?
I LOVED Triple Triad!!! I spent countless hours playing that on every playthrough of the game I did just because of the insanely good Magic you could get super early on to make you OP as all Hell. Plus helping Quistis learn some Blue Magic skills as well. Anyway, I NEVER did the QoC Sidequest...I just wanted until Disc 4 & played her when she was by that crashed ship near Esthar on the World Map. It's not visible, so you just have to wander around to find it, but it's easy enough to look up a guide or video to find her. She has all the Cards from that quest with her, but she also uses like every rule in the game too. So you just need to sell off every Card you can below like Level 8 to make sure you'll always at least stand a chance, then just keep trying. Save outside of her location, then reset if you lose or she doesn't use 1 of the Cards you're missing from her. Super simple.
I LOVE BLITZBALL! Why you think everyone hates it is beyond me.
Because your game was somehow friendly OURS killed us every game almost impossible!!! I played 30 times and never came close to winning!
I find even the Ruby and Emerald weapons from FFVII harder than Ozma ._. which I always beat somewhat easily even when I was twelve. There's FFT storyline fights harder than that thing.
we dont talk about velius
15 years later and i still have nightmares
I didn't mind blitzball, it played the hell out of it my first few play throughs. I grabbed Biggs and Wedge in Lucca, and one of the goalies from Guadosalam and it was dominating from there. Triple Triad wasn't that hard either, but maybe because I loved to play it soooo much.
I LOVE blitz ball! i had the ultimate team... i wish i still had my save file ._.
u can win the very first blitzball match by taking it off auto and moving the guys yourself it takes a lil doing but it is possible
if i can do it anyone can
I won on auto... Tidus using Jecht Shot, game ends in over time. Wakka's Venom Shot hit the goalkeeper and poisons him, I use it again and... he doesn't move? Yay for a free goal XD
I finally managed to make two Tournesols early in the Game ( Pre- Nidorana Lighthouse)...it took me ages to say the least but Thank goodness there is a bug that allows you to create new rare items just by using 1 unity instead of the standard number. Can't say If it works in Zodiac Age too tho!
stealing the flute from hilgigars in ff9
Ash Metcalf Well, it doesn’t really count because you can get the same flute later in the game and it’s way easier.
Getting it early is hard af, but getting it period isn’t hard at all.
I loved blitzball :(
I love Triple Triad. And honestly as long as you have the "Open" rule (which you can manipulate to get Queen has the rule), the game become very manageable.
I'd say the hardest card game for me was against Ellone for Laguna's card. That was one hell of a game as I wasn't prepared that Lunar uses it a mix of all regions rules.
Other than that, the V2 suit from Max Angelus 0 from XV also has an insane drop rate, especially him being a super boss, you actually have to make effort (wait for his arm to open to vulnerability etc) to kill him, which is annoying as hell. As a matter of fact, I've never got the goddamn suit after 30 kills.
I enjoy blitzball.. and the first game i tend to always win against the luca goers.. I just got the HD remaster and its pretty awesome :).. Just sucks the trophies you need the venus sigil and i hate that shit
The triple triad you can manipulate the rules easily, but rather frustrating
The pink tail i tried to get for 5 hours and said fuck that shit lmao
Yea I don't get that comment about the first game against the Goers being unfair either. I lost, yea, but that game is very winnable.
Daniel Spivey the odds are stacked againest you statistically there just a better team. and you cant set jecht shot in the first half. ...and you only have 3 mins in the second half before hes replaced by wakka.
I love DK. He gets so mad and so frustrated. You guys need to watch him playing triple triad - its fucking hilarious
I don't need to, I've been there in my first FF8 playthrough LMAO
Silly me doing the Queen of Hearts sidequest on my first time...
Oh well. It gets far easier on emulator with save/load states.
What about the FUCKING Trapezoedron???
i hear ya buddy.. and i made the mistake of finishing the cieth stone missions so all the adamantortoise and half the adamantoise were replaced by long gui and shoulong gui got in the way of killig some remaining adamantoise.
i cant kill long gui so i was fucked for ages
you can buy one if you have the money..
that is true. but a point to be made is a good source of income is platinum ingots which were a.. 5% drop on adamantoise i believe. and other than that i'm not sure of an effective money grovel in XIII. cept maybe incentive chips... i liked that part. good exp. and great money for only half way through the plot
I tend to always get The End Garment Grid. It's actually quite worth building up the Oversouls for the Via Infinito bosses because they're actually easier to defeat Oversouled anyways. Well, maybe not the first guy, but he's also the easiest of the Via Infinito bosses anyways.
The Black Elemental only ever uses spells. However, as fast as he is, enemies always enter Oversoul status before delivering their attacks. So just spam Darkness on him, and he'll die. Concherer will pretty much die to Cat-Nipped Gunner even while Oversouled, while its attacks are far less lethal. And Chac? Shockingly enough, gets debuffed pretty badly while Oversouled. Other than her broken AF Stony Glare attack, she will never use her strongest area-based attack and will instead use Break Remedy, which does far less damage by comparison.
The only tough exception might be Paragon oversouled, and even then, one or two rounds of Cat-Nipped Gunner, and perhaps a little bit of luck, and you are done.
In fact, a lot of boss monsters are surprisingly easier Oversouled. Jumbo Cactuar will literally case Hastega and then do nothing the rest of the battle.
Sun fucking Sigil anyone?
Never have I wanted to cook a chocobo before until I tried for the Sun Sigil.
*****
Tidus, Wakka and Rikku were the only real useful ones post-game, with Yuna maybe being useful if you needed to summon an Aeon.
Stannis TheMannis My team for capturing is Auron, Wakka and Tidus. Rikku is really good, but she's too weak for me before I grind.
fanatykgier
Yeah, its her overdrives that really make her worth using. Even before grinding, she's a must-have for boss fights if you haven't grinded enough for them.
I'm with you, sun sigil takes it for me
You need to swear less dude...couldn't finish the video because it was kind of annoying listening to you.
Martin Tsai if you're bother by swearing, then maybe you shouldn't watch any videos...
tell me one popular youtuber or streamer who swears as much as you do. if you cant find any then take it as an advice.
Martin Tsai Why should he be just like all the others? If you don't find other UA-camrs that swearing this much, that's great for you? Just go on and watch at other UA-camrs. We humans are not all the same, and that is great.
Martin Tsai I don't get why you are complaining about his swearing. Go watch PewDiePie, and see how much he swears. After watching one of his videoes, you will be apologizing to Darkkefka in no time, because you can't even compare Darkkefka to PewDiePie, because PewDiePie swears way more. Besides, we all swear sometimes.
Martin Tsai You need to quit being a bitch.
Hey man great videos, and I had no problem understanding you haha. Don't let these clowns get to you. One tip though, in future list videos could you include the name of which game the items/skills etc are in?
Blitzball, hard? haha dont make me laugh :D
It is pretty tedious for a lot of people.
Cool video, I just want to point out though with Ozma, if you use Quina and Magical Mallet all his MP out, it cuts out any luck and you win 100% for sure. I'd say Zodiark is harder, since there's no way that I know of to cut out the instant death luck.
I thought Shell reduces the chance of death from Darkja?
I liked your video. Audio is a bit raw and could be edited better (silences were kind of out of nowhere sometimes) but I thought you did a good job and I love how dedicated you are to the FF series! Subscribed!
love the videos!
Also, I can understand you very clearly. Thanks for adding another great video.
hey man just subbed love your ff top 10's keep up the great work man and I started watching your videos yesterday and I understand you perfectly so ignore the haters and keep doing great vids
Mate, Iove your commentaries. Your comments say it like it is and you can be quite hilarious. Your random encounters video is brilliant - "There's an item that prevents death but that shit costs fifty thousand gil". Subscribed.
I feel that the items in FFXII are so hard to get is in the fact that it really tries to emulate the feel of a single player MMO. some of my friends hate that but i personally love it. You get the story of a single-player experience, the ability to go on sidequests, elite monster hunts, craft gear, amazing character customization, and many of the FUN elements of an MMO without the need for internet lag, party grouping and communication, complex macro'ing, etc. I love the game, like seriously. Unfortunately I never finished, but I still have it and EAGERLY look forward to replaying it one day. Maybe even streaming it. Good content man.
+sparxtheknight Plus...dat Ashe tho
+sparxtheknight same feels here.. FFXII was so challenging.. that i fell inlove with it.. dont get me started with completing the damn espers...!
+Miu Bunny Gotta agree with completing the espers being so f-ing hard, especially since it's not so easy to kill Zodiark w/o guides. Obtaining the Yagyu Darkblade + Masamune + Genji Equipment + Zodiac Spear/Tournesol anti-Yiazmat wombo-combo is still a lot more painful, though.
Oh, and after 5 years of play I still haven't reached Order of Ambrosia.
I used to hate the Card Queen's exclusives too: you had to either do the annoying sidequest or try to get them from her in Disc 4, which is damn near impossible with the rules she imposes.
Then I found out about Left Diamond: you can find her in the Ragnarok in Disc 4 if you completed the CC Group sidequest in the previous discs, and she will have whatever rare cards you don't have - including the Card Queen's exclusive cards and cards you've used up. She uses Trabia's rules, which include Random and Plus, but you can manipulate the RNG to abolish those rules as early as Disc 1, leaving Trabia with only the Open rule, which allows you to win easily. You can use her to obtain infinite copies of all your cards (except PuPu; this is the only card she won't have).
Thank you, Left Diamond; you're my favorite Final Fantasy VIII girl now.
FYI, you can estimate the time until you win an item with the negative binomial distribution.
1) estimate the time for a battle/event
2) use the negative binomial distribution to calculate the percentiles for the completion time.
monte carlo simulations in excel can be used to do a better job since 1 can vary.
May I ask why ribbon wasn't on this list???
I know, this is a question almost a year late, but I wanted to ask about it.
song @ 6:20 plzzzz
PS.: +Darkkefka Did you ever make a top 10 FF songs list?
@darkefka what is the sweet music at 4:20- 4;30 ?
What's that song that starts at 1:26? Would love to know!
Forgive my ignorance, but who's the character at 1:10? I feel like I should know, unless she's from FFXII, in which case I have no clue
Shes from FFXIII
Hope this helps whoever attempts 100% acquisition runs on Final Fantasy 2
(snes). I completed a legit playthrough on my SNES where I got
minimally 1 of every single rare (1/64) drop, including the pink tail
from the pink puffs. Below I detail both the strategy to get the pink tail
relatively painlessly, as well as the general strategy to obtain every
single 1/64 drop to have a complete inventory. Note that the strategy
applies only for Super Nintendo FF2, NOT any of the remakes --- the
actual true original cart with the red label).
Before attempting, to speed things up, bring about 300 ether1s. (It's
expensive, but you make your money back fighting the puffs anyway.) The
minimum you need to do things right is 99, but for each 99 you bring,
you save yourself a trip out of the dungeon and off the moon to go buy
more.)
For pink puffs, there's no need to kill your party members first. In
fact, because the puffs hit hard and many times they berserk you before
Rydia can cast toad on the group, having just Rydia and Rosa (especially
at lower levels) can be dangerous (as they have the lowest HP).
Instead, be SURE to equip Cecil with his CRYSTAL body armor. For some
reason it makes him immune to berserk. (Ribbon helmets do NOT protect
you from being berserked, so forget about them.) Have Cecil and Rydia
alive and normal, whereas simply cast piggy on all other party members
before your puff battle from the menu screen. Piggy status makes you
immune to berserk, so by piggying Edge, Rosa, and Kain, you have tanks
that can take damage from puffs while you set up the toad strategy.
The idea is then obviously encounter enemies and run from all those that
aren't pink puff until you finally get pink puffs (you do NOT need to
be on a certain tile in the room, that's a false BS rumor. Run around
anywhere in the room, it's just luck finding a pink puff group. I found 2
in a row once!).
Now, once in a fight - as fast as you can, cast toad on all of them with
Rydia. If it works, you're set (skip to next paragraph). However, if
they do their dance and berserk Rydia, then you need to kill Rydia by
attacking her with the rest of your party. Once she dies, revive her
(and heal her quick!) and have her cast toad, since after being killed
and revived berserk will be gone. (You cannot remove berserk with Heal
or anything.)
--- Ok --- so now you have a bunch of stupid toads to look at. What
do you do? Attack and kill 2 of them, leaving 3 left. Heal Rosa to get
rid of her Piggy status. She should not be berserked (though if for some
reason she is, just kill her with attacks and then revive her). Then,
depending on your level, you just need to see how many attacks it takes
to kill a puff. For me, at level 99, it took only 1 attack from Cecil
(doing anywhere from 8,000 to 9,999), and then one attack from Rydia.
Regardless, the idea is to lower a Puff's health until you can kill it
in one more attack. You want to select attack to kill it, such that the
next character whose turn it is is Rosa. As your killing attack takes
place, QUICKLY select white magic with Rosa, select Life2, and cast it
on the dying puff as the puff is in the disappearing animation of dying.
Then you wait, life2 is cast, and the puff is revived at full health
and still is a toad, allowing you to just keep repeating. The reason for
keeping 3 puffs alive is that if you screw up and accidentally kill a
puff and Rosa doesn't get her turn quickly enough for Life2, you still
have 2 puffs left to keeping trying. Keep killing and reviving a puff
(as in the video above) for about 45-minutes. I wouldn't suggest any
longer, because if you get more than 8 drops, they overwrite each other
and then you're just wasting time (i.e., you might've gotten a pink
tail, and then lose it because you keep killing and get an elixir that
takes the pink tail's spot!). To give a reference, 45 minutes is the
time it takes to go through 99 ethers on Rosa. Since life2 costs 52MP,
you have to stop the kill-revive grind every so often to just use ethers
from every party member to get Rosa back to full MP before you start
again. Anyway, use 99 ethers, which assuming normal luck should get you
about 8 items to drop. Kill the puffs completely once you're ready and
then keep your fingers crossed for a pink tail!
On my third 45-minute grind with puffs, I got 2 pink tails to drop
(!!!!). (If you ever get lucky enough to get more than one pink tail,
do NOT sort your inventory. If you sort it and they combine into a
single slot (like Pink Tail: 2), you will only get 1 armor for the
group of them. Instead, leave your inventory alone and quickly go to the
adamant armor merchant and select each tail separately to get 1 armor
for each tail.)
The Life-2 trick I believe is only Super Nintendo FF2 only, so that's
REALLY nice. (Alternatively, for people with FF4 for Playstation or GBA
or whatever, I guess there's an item called 'alarm' that automatically
spawns pink puffs for you.... but since you can't Life2 them, you just
kill 5, see what item drops, and repeat. I almost feel like that takes
LONGER, because while pink puffs don't naturally spawn often, once they
do, you can almost guarantee 8 drops using the Life-2 trick over 45
minutes. I much prefer at least getting 8 drops of something to usually
just not getting any single drop at all.)
As for all other rare (1/64) drops in the game that can ONLY be gotten
via drops (here's the list --- Imp, Bomb, Mage [these are calls for
Rydia], Glass Helmet, Artemis Bow, Dragoon Lance, Dragon Whip, Silence
Staff, Cursed Ring, Crystal Ring, Lilith Rod, Rune Axe, Medusa Sword,
then also at a thankfully easier-to-get 5/16 rate: zeus gloves,
artemis arrows), you obviously have to just grind and grind.... but
it helps to use an FAQ online to see what rooms in the game spawn the
enemy you're looking for with the highest frequency. (As for ribbon
helmet --- this is a rare 1/64 drop as well, but the game gives you 2 in
a chest.... Same applies for the Power Robe, the Heroine Robe, the
Avenger Sword... so I'm not counting them because trying to get 5 of
every rare item for the 'ultimate party' is insanity. It's just
pointless, since many of these you only can even start to grind for
right before the final boss of the game, so why spend 50 hours getting 5
pink tails that you can literally use in 1 fight before you get the
"THE END" screen. Getting 1 is enough to prove you did the grind. (Also
remember that any weapon you can just duplicate 99 of in the SNES cart
using the duplication trick, so getting 5 of an item for your whole
party only even applies to robes, rings, body armors, gloves, and
helmets. Anyway - You can check it all using these 2 FAQs:
Complete item list (to see what enemies drop what items with what
frequency): www.gamefaqs.com/snes/522596-final-fantasy-ii/faqs/11842
Spawn locations and rates for all enemies (find the one you want on the
FAQ above, then use this one to search for where it is --- for each
room, the spawn rates are HIGHEST for the battle at the top, and are
very rare as you go down (that's why for example pink puff is the 8th in
it's room, meaning the lowest spawn rate): www.gamefaqs.com/snes/522596-final-fantasy-ii/faqs/53579
As for final tips, here's some things to note:
The following items can be gotten most quickly with the Life2 trick (at
the end of the game, so not missable):
Mage, Bomb, Medusa Sword, Artemis Arrows, Artemis Bow, Zeus Gloves,
Silence Staff, Cursed Ring [Ghost in Slyph cave], Pink Tail [duh],
Lilith Rod, Ribbon Helmet.
The following items can be gotten most quickly by exploiting the 'call'
function of certain enemies. Each time they are attacked, they call the
enemy that drops the item into battle. You can keep killing said enemy,
attacking the caller once, and spawning a new one to fight infinitely,
speeding up the drop process a ton. Just be sure to cast cure on the
caller every so often so that you don't accidentally kill him off!
Rune Axe (fight the searcher enemy that appears alone in the Giant of
Babil sequence. This is MISSABLE because you only come here one time! If
you miss it, you need to use Life2 on the RedGiant enemy on the moon,
which is much slower of a process.)
Imp (fight the conjurer enemy in the Land of Summoned Monsters. Not
missable like the RuneAxe caller.)
Lastly, the following items are the most pain in the a** items to get,
because the enemies that spawn them either appear alone, so you can't
use the Life2 trick on them (because once they die, the fight ends ---
you obviously need 2 or more enemies on the screen to kill one off and
then use Life2 on it), or they are undead enemies and thus Life2 fails
on them:
Crystal Ring, Glass Helmet, Dragoon Spear, Dragon Whip, Protect Ring.
That is, for this list of 5 items above, there's no way around it. Just gotta grind and hope to get lucky! Everything drops eventually!
Real talk - you put in a lot of time, and it's clear you love what you talk about. Keep it up :D
If you love rare steals from bosses so much, did you get the fairy flute for Eiko from Hilgigars in FF9? I seriously spent hours doing just that fight once, constantly healing and casting float while stealing every turn.
sorry, who was the boss that you said broke the general rule along with ozma? i couldn't quite catch what you said
oleholeholeh when did I say that?
at the start of the ozma fight, you mentioned there were 2 bosses that break the general rule where even with the strongest eq's and at the highest level, you still might not win
Chac from FFX-2 I believe he said. Even with catnip + trigger happy, she's unbelievably cheap, she's even harder in the HD version now because they nerfed catnip -_-
SilentRain988 ohhh i see... well it's been around 4 years or so since i've played X-2, but as far as i know, i grinded quite a bit and managed to beat the whole game, including side bosses without catnip
when are you coming back with your final fantasy vids😕?????
As a FFIV obsessive completionist for both GBA AND DS, I can really say that YES, Adamant Armour is bloody insane to try to obtain - especially when you need 4-5 pink tails.
However while it may be RNG against me, it was in fact the fairy bow (possibly light bow? Been so many years) that took me longest to get. I seem to remember pink tails being 30-40 minutes of grinding (in that room where there's only 5 but it's always them who fight), whilst it took over 20 hours of straight farming to get one of those bows. I remember thus very strongly as it was the last item I needed and I was essentially brain dead farming the mobs (some sort of female mob) days on end.
That feel of obtaining full sets of 'optimum' equipment for your whole team though...incredible.
Hey DK! Always a fan of your top 10s and was wondering if you ever considering doing this top 10 exclusively for final fantasy 12 as in the vid you said there are so many to choose from??
I followed your LP for the Tournesol Blade and all the FFXII content, what a ride. How the hell did they expect anybody to know how to get that!
Dude fuck the haters, you're voice makes the videos man! keep up the good work. Just subscribed bro
Hey DK! Love your videos and your passion for all things FF. Can I request something? I love your top ten videos, but this one in particular highlighted something which could be good for us not in the know; can you please talk about the items on the list, in terms of what they're used for? i've heard of the Onion Sword and Wyrmhilt Blade before, but no idea why they're desirable. Thanks, dude.
Never really concentrated on the girls in Blitzball. Roop is a OP defender and Wedge can shoot between drops of water in the arena to score.
And yes, I'm one of those whom have not gotten a pink tail since starting in '93 lol
You talk very fast, it makes it harder to understood you, slow down a bit. First of all, thanks for including Crisis Core, it's easily the most beautiful PSP game I've ever seen. Secondly, I'm not sure I understand what makes the item you mentioned from it hard to get? You have to use a specific move on a specific monster, right? And of course, you have to rely on luck to get that move, right? Doesn't seem nearly as difficult as some low drop rate items I've chased in the past, whether in FF games or any others. Thirdly, I think you contradicted yourself a bit. You mentioned that the Onion Sword was harder to get than the Adamant Armor, then you put an item necessary to get the Adamant Armor as number one. It would seem to mean that the Adamant Armor is therefore the hardest item to get.
Linna Shaami and Miyu were all I needed for Blitzball. I had Tidus learn Jecht Shot and while yes it is time consuming the best way to use it is when there’s 30 seconds left and you need one goal to win. It takes enough time off the clock to where your opponent has only 5 seconds to equalize before the game is over.
so far, im enjoying all of your top 10s. ignore the haters, keep it up!
What music did you use for the venus sigil footage? I recognize it but can't remember and it's really bugging me!
Lulu's theme..?
kite136 Awesome, thanks. :)
I just got the remake of ff10 on steam, and after three hours of painful chocobo temple running I finally got all five chests... then decided "fuck it, it's 3 am i might as well go for sun sigil" first time in 20+ playthroughs I one shot the race with a perfect 0.0 . All i could do was laugh in disbelief. Also great videos
I suppose I'm extremely, extremely lucky. I've recently replayed FF4 on the PSP and decided to go for the Pink tail for the first time in my life. It took me three battles...
Nice video, Any chance you could create subtitles for it? I find it hard to understand quite a bit of what you are saying.
Thanks for another great video and lol, you are one funny dude! I agree with the list, I would just make one comment. I know you said all secret items in FFXII are #2 and that's accurate, but I would have made a special mention of the Danjuro dagger. Holy crap, that was a hard item to get. For me, that was probably the hardest item in any game, period. It took me about 18 hours of chaining the same darn monster (you know which one I speak of) to get it to finally drop the darn thing. Even Zodiac Spear (which I got 2 of) was easier, once you learn the PS2 RNG manipulation trick, that is.
blitz ball was probably the funnest mini game and it was fun to hunt down your perfect team.
For the Queen of Cards quest just reset if she goes anywhere but Balamb or Dollet.
Also you can pretty much abolish all the rules of a region by resetting.
I.. fuck you.. I was not aware of that trick to reset the rules.... :(
I'll never forget when I went to that one floor in the Lunar Ruins in the GBA version of FF4 and the first encounter I got in the room was the 9 Flan Princesses, and they dropped the pink tail. Should have bought a lottery ticket that day.
Will you be doing a second top 10 hardest to obtain items?
My father and I love blitzball soon much that we could just sit in front of the television and play it for days on end. People need to keep trying this because it's awesome!
Blitzball is amazing!
Also you forgot that chocobo balloon race thing in FFX, it is far more annoying than lulu's weapon cause you can control that.
Hey DK if you ever get a new PSP would you ever think about doing a LP of FF7 Crisis Core?