By far the best method I have seen/used (now) for taking out these things. I was using the summon method up until I saw this (with maxed out characters), but that wasn't even as effective as this. Thank you for making my life easier!
Wowowow, thank you. This strat is op as ever. Turned my 2 week eden grind in to a 10hr pulse run. Thanks, was able to get treasure hunter with this strat!
@Cycolon Might be a liitle late but if you still do not know.... collectors catalog aims for items drop rate but the upgraded conn catalog aim for RARE item drop rate. Which means collector aims for platinum ingot and conn aims for Trapezohedron. However,only 1 of Each will Suffice as they DO NOT STACK. Collect and conn will stack but collect , collect and conn , conn does not stack and does NOT doubles your opportunity to get items.
Props on a well put together, well explained video. Its nice when people dont just throw the video up and expect people to catch all the little details that they do to make a fight go more smoothly. I have just been finishing up the last of my missions, and am going to be doing some CP farming, going to try this out just for the fun of it with my, considerably lower level group :)
@finalfantasyfan64 Ive used the Death method, but I want to do this instead because 1.) The Death method doesn't always work and 2.) I don't want to have to fight random enemies to refill my TP after every battle.
Anyone visiting this now, the least tedious way of getting a bunch of these guys together is using the Save Point next to the Eastern Tors (that canyon with two Adamantortoises blocking the two entrances off), not only are there two Adamantortoises, but a whole bunch of Adamanchelids that you can kill for Gold Dust and Scarlatite that you can cash in along with any Platinum Ingots you get from the big guys. I'm pretty sure there are a few Adamantoises hanging around the outside if you want to go kill them too, then just hit up the save point, quit, and repeat.
great method; i know anoda way! 1st, ur vanille. use Premeditation paradigm, Saboteur/ Sentinel/Synergist for Vanille, Snow and Hope. at d start of d battle Summon her eidolon 2 disable the 'toise's legs. once youve done that send the eidolon away; u only need it to send the toise tumbling down. now Hope wil cast haste and oda buffs, while you repeatedly cast Death on the toise till it well, dies, lol. thing is u can use this even if ur not maxed out in all d crystals. hope this helps someone!
Apearantly Adamantortoises are different than Adamantoises. On your first visit on Gran Pulse, they appear first than the adamantoises. In Eden you encounter an Adamantoise (will get instantly killed by opening a treasure sphere). But will get replaced by Shaolong Gui if missions 56-62 are cleared, they appear with Long Gui.
Just a tip in case you don't know, you can get the mission for gigantuar (Mission 54, Gigantuar is on the hills in the mountain where all the turtles are), and then kill the 2 adamantortoises there, then go for gigantuar, but retry instead of killing. both the adamantortoises will be back up. Not only do you not need to ride around looking for the other two, but its also a lot faster and don't need to save/load.
For people starting, I've found the Adaman just north of the save point (standing by itself in between two rock faces and doesnt move) is probably the easier one for you to learn on. Reason is I've noticed that the first one in the video (out in the field) has a different stagger point then the others, his legs break quite easily and pop right up to 400%, BUT on the other hand when you knock him down, his head only staggers at 600%! the others head staggers at about 400% = more double dmg time.
@Cycolon thats because when you 5 star a Long Gui (or whatever it is) rare drops (being the Trap) will increase by 5 ... in other words .. .getting a Trap w/o 5 starring a Long Gui is a 5% chance ... w 5 stars ... 25% yet negates getting a Ingot.
Good times. I remember it took some time to platinum the game farming these guys. One of the few platinums I have are FF13, FF13-2, and Lightning Returns. Good games.
Hey, just an FYI I figured out faster way to make them reset besides a save and reload....accept mission 54 (giant Cactuar), near the north teleport. then, climb the hill behind the chelid, it forms steps, then fight. When you win (or retry, either or) it will respawn them.
just a suggestion..maybe you should manually choose thunder when playing fang as blaster coz running to its legs will increase the chance of being stepped and the speed is low..so I would select 6 thunders, breaking it and highwind it.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've now been downing ada's in about 3 mins as some of my equipment is not fully there yet but it wasn;t possible at all without this vid for guidance.
@gamegoddess123 I guess I should elaborate on it's meaning... Farming refers to spending a lot of time in one area, reaping whatever the area has to offer for money, like how farmers reap the land for crops to sell for cash... at least, that's what I think that came from
@MeisterNorek good luck! also, regarding the missions. that one circle in the central expanse with like 6 cieth stones in a circle; don't finish all of them or else the adamantoise/tortoises will turn into Long Gui (or variants) which are blue-tinted and way harder to take out, even with max CP
@solidpat221 You just have to unlock the person 3rd tier weapon. I.E. Omega weapon for Lightning or Save the queen for Snow. The weapon gives the extra slot
you most likely already did the c'ieth missions that form a circle on Gran Pulse (forgot what #s they were). The only Adamantoise left are the one in Eden (backtrack, it's right next to a save point) and possibly one roaming on Gran Pulse.
@NoelGallagherIsGod yeah, most of my Adamantoise were replaced by Long Guis and Shaolong Guis (this happens when you finish those cieth stones placed in a circle on Gran Pulse for everyone else). There's still always an Adamantoise in the Eden area before the portal room with a save point right next to it, and I believe a single one roaming Gran Pulse.
Just thought I'd mention that the fifth step says to switch to Commando Ravager Ravager. I"m assuming you mean to switch to either Commando Medic Medic or Commando Commando Ravager because your process would have 7 paradigms which is not possible. Anyway, this method is great. Thanks for the upload.
The Ogochu from the area only accessible with a Chocobo. Make sure you do the mission to kill the Neochu to get the growth egg first (spam death on it). I would post a video for it, but I think my guys are so overpowered for that area now that it wouldn't really help you
Hi mate! That was really cool! but can I ask you something? I know thats the final weapon of fang you using. but which one is it? I want the same as yours :)
@ohgreknight I forgot to mention,i figured out an easy way awhile back but i didnt mention it (yes, i beat the second orhpan with the same amount of leveled people mentioned earlier) except i didnt use fang, i used vanille,using a sentinel was a waste of time, just have vanille cast poison, then the other three status inflictions she can caste, power up with hope, and just keep staggering
@vaztard1 6 I believe, one for each character. As all weapons of each character upgrade to the same name (They have different stats however) so you only need 6 traps to transform any of each characters weapons to their Tier 3 form.
Without a buttload of HP don't bother with these guys right? I am still in the main game at the end of chap 11 and at best have 6k because i have yet to even fill the first three trees much less the otehr three new ones. I also tried to get the growth egg and whacked the guy 5 times with Death but the little bastards took out the team so i can't get the egg, yet I'm just wanting to do things before my chars are ready, right ?
@haerilee They have about 360k HP, so with break + Brevera on Fang + about 260 or 280% dmg (which is about what hes at when you break them) you gota hit for 360k+ ;)
Hey, thanks for sharing this thing, you're technique has been most useful to me. I'm using it on Eden Hall and I believe I can save just a couple of minutes, but it is basically just what you are doing. I'll attach my video as a response once I manage to get it uploaded. By the way, fantastic quality on the video, I wish I had a HDMI capture to get a great quality on the video I'm posting later.
Question, When are you able to get the 6th ATB bar? Because I don't see any way of getting another one and I already have all the roles unlocked, (not maxed out, just unlocked) Do you get it when you max everything out? or by getting the 3rd lvl weapons for your characters???
@TheJaredThingy oh I know that pal, I meant with synthesize ability, there are some weapons that when combined with some accessory can have an Synthesize ability like "Random:Instant Chain". example my Lightning has a Lionheart * it has passive ability to instant stager an enemy when they are close to stager. if you you combine it with an Energy Sach or Speed Sach it creates a Instant Chain ability which occasionally it can stagger an enemy in 1 shot. you should try that. found out it works!
Which is the best place to farm? People say its Eden since there is one next to the save point and all you gotta do is go back and forth through the door and have it respawn...but in Gran Pulse there's like 4 of those turtles and if you go the Springs and accept that mission with another Adaman, there would be 5 of them....
@quito2lava i actually have a recording of killing long guis, but it takes about 6:30 to 7 minutes. I'm in the process of uploading it, but I want to find a faster way to farm those without shrouds and summons.
whoa, i can't believe the admantoise can fall down like that. Is the admantoise in pulse as powerful as the one that invaded Cocoon (that one was pretty easy to beat.)?
@motherofgod4 Max your Crystarium and your Hp will go up. at the end you have 4 slots. to get Growth Egg you need to beat Neochu in a Mission and then you´ll get it as a reward there. Hes completed the game which unlocks Lvl 10 for the Crystarium.
Ya'll rite dude. Wondering if u can answer a question (if you know). I got the collectors catalogue n (maybe stupidly) upgraded it to the connoisseur catalogue. Im trying to farm platinum ingots NOT the trapezohedron. So would it be better to equip it or not? Or go buy another collectors catalogue? Must have killed 30+ of these things without it n only ever got one of each drop =(
I was farming Perfumes and Scarletites for money before I finished the game. It was about 4-5 hours per the 2 million Gil needed for one Trap. You would obviously get more than one Trap farming Adamantortoises in the same amount of time, right? I went and finished the game, and the spot I was using to respawn the Sacrifices went away. So I'm hoping so.
@Cycolon i recommend going to eden,leviathan plaza to farm,there is one adamantoise guarding the big space and can be respawned by walking to the big door to eden eden grand foyer . Now im farming at eden plaza for ingots and got 25 plati and 7 trapz in 2 days. The trick i did is to kill the toise 5 times and see if he drop anything. if he does then i continue if he doesn't than i reload the save and do again. Sometime i get platinum ingot streak... LOL I think Max is five.
wait how did u get the 6th ATP bar? I thought u needed an ulti wep for that(prob a bad source tellin me that). What do u think is better, Light Fang and Sazh or Fang Light n Hope? Or does it not really matter?
Seems it is possible to use Hope intead of Vanille but he's a terrible sab. Maybe I'll try making him a rav to see if that works out. Thanks for the guidance though! It really helped me take these things down.
how did he get the turtle to glitch in the first fight? it took the turtle like 10 seconds to fall after his legs got destroyed. that's some bs. My turtles take 1 second to fall.
@Basilikus1990 I came at Vanille's Eiodolon fight with everything I had. I just couldn't balance it. I just couldn't do enough to build up the guage before the time ran out. I eventually just gave up. Someday I might play it again from the beginning. Maybe.
@Millatime638 otherwise, you shouldn't have any problem killing them with max crystarium. You don't even need the lucky break for Lightning (I just use it because I'm too lazy to level up some more warrior wristbands). How long is it taking you to kill them, or which part seems to be taking the longest?
@motherofgod4 Once your Crystarium is maxed out, Fang should have 24000 HP even. I'm maxed, and that's her HP as of right now. With different equipment, it should go up, but all I have on her right now is for strength.
Just encountered these guys for the first time and got SLAIN, wanted to see how its done once your chars are pro. Where does that highwind skill come from? Thats some crazy sick damage.
@Manciuin86 Maxing out CP turns out to not be all the hard really, but farming enough gil to get ultimate weapons and/or all-item tophy/achievement takes longer--i.e., why you farm this things even with max CP.
I'm pissed I can't do this anymore. All my Adamantoise and Adamantortoise are now Long Gui and Shaolong Gui... and I ain't strong enough to kill them yet.
does nobody use death?? yeah the mechanic for loot drops is screwed too,i've killed 20-22 adamantoises and only had 4 ingots even though they have (apparently)a 25% drop rate.
hey man ,whats the difference about adamantoise and adamantortoise ? the second one is more easy to kill or something..? because i try to kill 1 but he kick my ass very nice ;D
You need to do some weapon reforming until you reach the 2nd *. - method 1: Complete Mark #7. This'll open up R&D Depot. It sells the most expensive transformable material crystals needed for upping your weapons to the 2nd *. - method 2: hunting monsters (making them respawn several times).
@SoulfulBrutha5805 Have you tried backtracking and just spending time levelling up your characters? I'm sure you know this but there are specific methods to beating the Eiodolons so if you haven't perhaps you could look up the tactic for the ones you get stuck on, that's what I did.
Wait - how did you like insta-chain those when they hit the floor? I'm fighting Adamantortoise and the stagger bar resets to 0 and by the time i can get it back up to 500 it stands up
Tried so many methods on killing these things, tried to do my own n it was just not effective, took several times downing them to kill em. Tried this one once n killed it instantly with no issues. This is the best strategy on you tube imo.
whats weird is when i death spam i usually get like 2 platinum ignots out of 4 or 5 fights but when i beat it fairly with collectors catalog i get nothing
death spam is weird, I once tried death spam, it stuck on hit 2, first oretoise i tried it on and I got a trap, I've been killing them legit on my latest game and I've killed at least 40 and barely got any ingot and no traps death spam seems to give much better items, its just really unrealiable
ok so i have the rav rav med paradigm to break the leg but my problem is that when the chain bar hits the stagger point it doesnt go into stagger it just stays at 300% but right when i switch to tri disaster it goes into stagger but than i dont have a healer? btw my 2 ravagers were fang and light... please help!
i tried killing it with maxed crystarium, tier 2 vanille and light weapons, and tier 3 fang weapons. It took a looooong time. the other times i died. on top of that, how do you get the stagger bar up so fast? Takes me forever. I have lightnings lionheart ultima version equipped too. I'm doing everything exactly the same as you. On top of that, sometimes my highwind doesn't take out the legs, and i have genji on light and fang
Where do you fight these guys after you unlocked Long Gui?...I'm trying to grind for Platinum Ingot's/ Trapozehedrons and all I'm finding are Long Guis...please help.
@AdamC316 Dude,I can kill Adamantoise/Tortoise in 2.10 mins.Use Sazh as leader(summon) method.You know why Sazh,his Blitz is second to none when it comes to whacking big and crowded monsters. It's kinda late to farm TP back,but this come to handy.Save before fight.Kill the thing,and reset if it don't drop anything.And repeat until it drop the things you want.
@Millatime638 For the highwind issue, once you break the legs, I'd wail on it for about another 100% if it isn't taking out the leg in one shot For getting the stagger bar up, I don't think I'm doing anything special, just not letting the chain gauge reset. In this video, I think I procced some lucky breaks with Lightning (if you check my equipment at 9:14, you'll see Random: Instant Chain, which I get from 2xSpeed sash - that allows you to randomly break them sometimes)
is it just me or does that thing seem nerfed? ive seen japanese version vids and it seemed to do that 1-hit ko attack at the start. it seemed tougher too.
you should also include which version you're playing this game on. i know there isn't much different...but the only different is that x360 has been hacked and i know for sure there are mods/hack for games...look at MW2 on x360 version
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I remember the first time i ever saw those things, i snuck behind it and i was like "Preemtive Strike Bitch!" and then.. X_X
im lmfao so hard to this comment lol
Same bro 😂😂
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Uhhhh...you alright there Fang?
By far the best method I have seen/used (now) for taking out these things. I was using the summon method up until I saw this (with maxed out characters), but that wasn't even as effective as this. Thank you for making my life easier!
Wowowow, thank you. This strat is op as ever. Turned my 2 week eden grind in to a 10hr pulse run. Thanks, was able to get treasure hunter with this strat!
@Cycolon Might be a liitle late but if you still do not know.... collectors catalog aims for items drop rate but the upgraded conn catalog aim for RARE item drop rate. Which means collector aims for platinum ingot and conn aims for Trapezohedron. However,only 1 of Each will Suffice as they DO NOT STACK. Collect and conn will stack but collect , collect and conn , conn does not stack and does NOT doubles your opportunity to get items.
Props on a well put together, well explained video. Its nice when people dont just throw the video up and expect people to catch all the little details that they do to make a fight go more smoothly. I have just been finishing up the last of my missions, and am going to be doing some CP farming, going to try this out just for the fun of it with my, considerably lower level group :)
@finalfantasyfan64 Ive used the Death method, but I want to do this instead because 1.) The Death method doesn't always work and 2.) I don't want to have to fight random enemies to refill my TP after every battle.
Anyone visiting this now, the least tedious way of getting a bunch of these guys together is using the Save Point next to the Eastern Tors (that canyon with two Adamantortoises blocking the two entrances off), not only are there two Adamantortoises, but a whole bunch of Adamanchelids that you can kill for Gold Dust and Scarlatite that you can cash in along with any Platinum Ingots you get from the big guys. I'm pretty sure there are a few Adamantoises hanging around the outside if you want to go kill them too, then just hit up the save point, quit, and repeat.
@cancersback4ever she has highwind. Highwind is needed for one of the most consistent methods of killing an adamantoise/adamantortoise.
great method; i know anoda way!
1st, ur vanille. use Premeditation paradigm, Saboteur/ Sentinel/Synergist for Vanille, Snow and Hope. at d start of d battle Summon her eidolon 2 disable the 'toise's legs. once youve done that send the eidolon away; u only need it to send the toise tumbling down. now Hope wil cast haste and oda buffs, while you repeatedly cast Death on the toise till it well, dies, lol.
thing is u can use this even if ur not maxed out in all d crystals.
hope this helps someone!
Apearantly Adamantortoises are different than Adamantoises. On your first visit on Gran Pulse, they appear first than the adamantoises. In Eden you encounter an Adamantoise (will get instantly killed by opening a treasure sphere). But will get replaced by Shaolong Gui if missions 56-62 are cleared, they appear with Long Gui.
Just a tip in case you don't know, you can get the mission for gigantuar (Mission 54, Gigantuar is on the hills in the mountain where all the turtles are), and then kill the 2 adamantortoises there, then go for gigantuar, but retry instead of killing. both the adamantortoises will be back up.
Not only do you not need to ride around looking for the other two, but its also a lot faster and don't need to save/load.
For people starting, I've found the Adaman just north of the save point (standing by itself in between two rock faces and doesnt move) is probably the easier one for you to learn on. Reason is I've noticed that the first one in the video (out in the field) has a different stagger point then the others, his legs break quite easily and pop right up to 400%, BUT on the other hand when you knock him down, his head only staggers at 600%! the others head staggers at about 400% = more double dmg time.
@SlyCooper92 its passive...its an accessory called the Genji Glove and it just removes the 999,999 dmg cap
@Cycolon
thats because when you 5 star a Long Gui (or whatever it is) rare drops (being the Trap) will increase by 5 ... in other words .. .getting a Trap w/o 5 starring a Long Gui is a 5% chance ... w 5 stars ... 25% yet negates getting a Ingot.
Good times. I remember it took some time to platinum the game farming these guys. One of the few platinums I have are FF13, FF13-2, and Lightning Returns. Good games.
Hey, just an FYI I figured out faster way to make them reset besides a save and reload....accept mission 54 (giant Cactuar), near the north teleport. then, climb the hill behind the chelid, it forms steps, then fight. When you win (or retry, either or) it will respawn them.
just a suggestion..maybe you should manually choose thunder when playing fang as blaster coz running to its legs will increase the chance of being stepped and the speed is low..so I would select 6 thunders, breaking it and highwind it.
wow, i just got 1,500,000 and 3 traps in a matter of 2 hours. Thank you so much! Once i figured out what i was doing wrong, i started destroying
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've now been downing ada's in about 3 mins as some of my equipment is not fully there yet but it wasn;t possible at all without this vid for guidance.
@gamegoddess123
I guess I should elaborate on it's meaning...
Farming refers to spending a lot of time in one area, reaping whatever the area has to offer for money, like how farmers reap the land for crops to sell for cash...
at least, that's what I think that came from
@AdamC316 yea the connoisseur catalog helps the rate of the rare drop (so the traps here). you should go buy a collectors catalog for the ingots
@MeisterNorek good luck! also, regarding the missions. that one circle in the central expanse with like 6 cieth stones in a circle; don't finish all of them or else the adamantoise/tortoises will turn into Long Gui (or variants) which are blue-tinted and way harder to take out, even with max CP
@solidpat221 You just have to unlock the person 3rd tier weapon. I.E. Omega weapon for Lightning or Save the queen for Snow. The weapon gives the extra slot
you most likely already did the c'ieth missions that form a circle on Gran Pulse (forgot what #s they were). The only Adamantoise left are the one in Eden (backtrack, it's right next to a save point) and possibly one roaming on Gran Pulse.
@NoelGallagherIsGod yeah, most of my Adamantoise were replaced by Long Guis and Shaolong Guis (this happens when you finish those cieth stones placed in a circle on Gran Pulse for everyone else). There's still always an Adamantoise in the Eden area before the portal room with a save point right next to it, and I believe a single one roaming Gran Pulse.
Just thought I'd mention that the fifth step says to switch to Commando Ravager Ravager. I"m assuming you mean to switch to either Commando Medic Medic or Commando Commando Ravager because your process would have 7 paradigms which is not possible.
Anyway, this method is great. Thanks for the upload.
@drkcrstl Yes, you should attack the target with a Commando first. It only needs to be attacked once and then the chain will go down slower.
The Ogochu from the area only accessible with a Chocobo. Make sure you do the mission to kill the Neochu to get the growth egg first (spam death on it). I would post a video for it, but I think my guys are so overpowered for that area now that it wouldn't really help you
@ScienceXReason Fang's Dragoon Lance (T2: Dragon Horn), Lightning's Lionheart (T2: Ultima Weapon), Vanille's Belladonna Wand (T2: Malboro Wand)
Hi mate! That was really cool! but can I ask you something? I know thats the final weapon of fang you using. but which one is it? I want the same as yours :)
@ohgreknight I forgot to mention,i figured out an easy way awhile back but i didnt mention it (yes, i beat the second orhpan with the same amount of leveled people mentioned earlier) except i didnt use fang, i used vanille,using a sentinel was a waste of time, just have vanille cast poison, then the other three status inflictions she can caste, power up with hope, and just keep staggering
@vaztard1 6 I believe, one for each character. As all weapons of each character upgrade to the same name (They have different stats however) so you only need 6 traps to transform any of each characters weapons to their Tier 3 form.
@L50cguss in this video, i think i had the power gloves and 2 speed sashes (for lucky break). i'm currently using 3x kaiser gloves now, though
Without a buttload of HP don't bother with these guys right?
I am still in the main game at the end of chap 11 and at best have 6k because i have yet to even fill the first three trees much less the otehr three new ones.
I also tried to get the growth egg and whacked the guy 5 times with Death but the little bastards took out the team so i can't get the egg, yet
I'm just wanting to do things before my chars are ready, right ?
@haerilee
They have about 360k HP, so with break + Brevera on Fang + about 260 or 280% dmg (which is about what hes at when you break them) you gota hit for 360k+ ;)
@gellycrock After you beat the game you unlock the Level 10 Crystarium which has very high HP upgrades like +500 HP upgrades for Fang.
Hey, thanks for sharing this thing, you're technique has been most useful to me.
I'm using it on Eden Hall and I believe I can save just a couple of minutes, but it is basically just what you are doing. I'll attach my video as a response once I manage to get it uploaded.
By the way, fantastic quality on the video, I wish I had a HDMI capture to get a great quality on the video I'm posting later.
@Cetrus there are three genji gloves in this game
Question, When are you able to get the 6th ATB bar?
Because I don't see any way of getting another one and I already have all the roles unlocked, (not maxed out, just unlocked)
Do you get it when you max everything out? or by getting the 3rd lvl weapons for your characters???
@TheJaredThingy oh I know that pal, I meant with synthesize ability, there are some weapons that when combined with some accessory can have an Synthesize ability like "Random:Instant Chain". example my Lightning has a Lionheart * it has passive ability to instant stager an enemy when they are close to stager. if you you combine it with an Energy Sach or Speed Sach it creates a Instant Chain ability which occasionally it can stagger an enemy in 1 shot. you should try that. found out it works!
Which is the best place to farm? People say its Eden since there is one next to the save point and all you gotta do is go back and forth through the door and have it respawn...but in Gran Pulse there's like 4 of those turtles and if you go the Springs and accept that mission with another Adaman, there would be 5 of them....
@quito2lava i actually have a recording of killing long guis, but it takes about 6:30 to 7 minutes. I'm in the process of uploading it, but I want to find a faster way to farm those without shrouds and summons.
Great vid, I started doing this with Fang at 14k HP, Light and Vanille at 12k. With some physical damage reduction items this strat worked well.
This is pure awesomeness. Great vid! Now I can gil-farm with ease. You've saved me hours of Death-spamming. :)
whoa, i can't believe the admantoise can fall down like that.
Is the admantoise in pulse as powerful as the one that invaded Cocoon (that one was pretty easy to beat.)?
oh and also... sorry about the double post but once its legs were out how did you get it into instant stagger?
omg i need to start doing some missiosn to get the egg and glove XD but how do u get the second genji glove for light?
@motherofgod4
Max your Crystarium and your Hp will go up. at the end you have 4 slots. to get Growth Egg you need to beat Neochu in a Mission and then you´ll get it as a reward there. Hes completed the game which unlocks Lvl 10 for the Crystarium.
Ya'll rite dude. Wondering if u can answer a question (if you know). I got the collectors catalogue n (maybe stupidly) upgraded it to the connoisseur catalogue. Im trying to farm platinum ingots NOT the trapezohedron. So would it be better to equip it or not? Or go buy another collectors catalogue? Must have killed 30+ of these things without it n only ever got one of each drop =(
@tanpham1
You need to beat the game once to unlock the last tier of stats/abilities.
I was farming Perfumes and Scarletites for money before I finished the game. It was about 4-5 hours per the 2 million Gil needed for one Trap. You would obviously get more than one Trap farming Adamantortoises in the same amount of time, right? I went and finished the game, and the spot I was using to respawn the Sacrifices went away. So I'm hoping so.
@Cycolon i recommend going to eden,leviathan plaza to farm,there is one adamantoise guarding the big space and can be respawned by walking to the big door to eden eden grand foyer . Now im farming at eden plaza for ingots and got 25 plati and 7 trapz in 2 days. The trick i did is to kill the toise 5 times and see if he drop anything. if he does then i continue if he doesn't than i reload the save and do again. Sometime i get platinum ingot streak... LOL I think Max is five.
wait how did u get the 6th ATP bar? I thought u needed an ulti wep for that(prob a bad source tellin me that). What do u think is better, Light Fang and Sazh or Fang Light n Hope? Or does it not really matter?
Seems it is possible to use Hope intead of Vanille but he's a terrible sab. Maybe I'll try making him a rav to see if that works out. Thanks for the guidance though! It really helped me take these things down.
how did he get the turtle to glitch in the first fight? it took the turtle like 10 seconds to fall after his legs got destroyed. that's some bs. My turtles take 1 second to fall.
@Basilikus1990 I came at Vanille's Eiodolon fight with everything I had. I just couldn't balance it. I just couldn't do enough to build up the guage before the time ran out. I eventually just gave up. Someday I might play it again from the beginning. Maybe.
@Millatime638 otherwise, you shouldn't have any problem killing them with max crystarium. You don't even need the lucky break for Lightning (I just use it because I'm too lazy to level up some more warrior wristbands). How long is it taking you to kill them, or which part seems to be taking the longest?
@denis1855 i think it's in the video, but i use tier 3 (fully upgraded) dragoon lance for fang, and lionheart for lightning
@motherofgod4 Once your Crystarium is maxed out, Fang should have 24000 HP even. I'm maxed, and that's her HP as of right now. With different equipment, it should go up, but all I have on her right now is for strength.
Just encountered these guys for the first time and got SLAIN, wanted to see how its done once your chars are pro. Where does that highwind skill come from? Thats some crazy sick damage.
@Manciuin86 Maxing out CP turns out to not be all the hard really, but farming enough gil to get ultimate weapons and/or all-item tophy/achievement takes longer--i.e., why you farm this things even with max CP.
Can you equip both the collector's catalogue and connoisseur catalogue to increase the chances of getting ingots and trapzehedrons?
I'm pissed I can't do this anymore. All my Adamantoise and Adamantortoise are now Long Gui and Shaolong Gui... and I ain't strong enough to kill them yet.
does nobody use death?? yeah the mechanic for loot drops is screwed too,i've killed 20-22 adamantoises and only had 4 ingots even though they have (apparently)a 25% drop rate.
How did you get the 6th atb slot? I'm working on my fifth role for everyone and I haven't seen it in the crystarium, is there an item for it?
hey man ,whats the difference about adamantoise and adamantortoise ? the second one is more easy to kill or something..? because i try to kill 1 but he kick my ass very nice ;D
You need to do some weapon reforming until you reach the 2nd *.
- method 1: Complete Mark #7. This'll open up R&D Depot. It sells the most expensive transformable material crystals needed for upping your weapons to the 2nd *.
- method 2: hunting monsters (making them respawn several times).
you're gooodd!! very good method, it's perfect!! the best method to beat this big guy I've ever seen.. 5 thumbs up!!
@oreocookies32 Not really. Death is like Russion Roulette, the chances of getting it are harder than before
what do kaiser gloves do..? and how do you get them..? i finished hunts 1-60
and does the genji gloves improve in anyway if you max the levels?
@suchadouche0 there's 3 missions that reward you with a genji glove: 51, 62, 63
@SoulfulBrutha5805 Have you tried backtracking and just spending time levelling up your characters? I'm sure you know this but there are specific methods to beating the Eiodolons so if you haven't perhaps you could look up the tactic for the ones you get stuck on, that's what I did.
Wait - how did you like insta-chain those when they hit the floor? I'm fighting Adamantortoise and the stagger bar resets to 0 and by the time i can get it back up to 500 it stands up
i have a question !!
my chain goes down like crazy fast !
do i have to be a comando so that i can use 'powerchain' first, THEN i rav/rav/rav it ?
@ZegetaX1 Equip a Genji Glove. It gets rid of the 99,999 damage cap.
@guillermo316 There are only certain abilities that can break 1M damage. Kinda like Eden in FF8.
sry to ask, can i know how many adamantortoise at Archylte Steppe? i found total 4 only (2 at east 2 at central). any more?
im stuck in the part when you gotta fight nixon and the other one with snow....
Tried so many methods on killing these things, tried to do my own n it was just not effective, took several times downing them to kill em. Tried this one once n killed it instantly with no issues. This is the best strategy on you tube imo.
@kedy1315 @kedy1315 Instant stagger.
Use these: Lionheart+speed sash+energy sash+champion's badge. (on lightning of course)
info says 7 paradigms.... you can only have 6 different paradigms
whats weird is when i death spam i usually get like 2 platinum ignots out of 4 or 5 fights but when i beat it fairly with collectors catalog i get nothing
death spam is weird, I once tried death spam, it stuck on hit 2, first oretoise i tried it on and I got a trap, I've been killing them legit on my latest game and I've killed at least 40 and barely got any ingot and no traps death spam seems to give much better items, its just really unrealiable
ok so i have the rav rav med paradigm to break the leg but my problem is that when the chain bar hits the stagger point it doesnt go into stagger it just stays at 300% but right when i switch to tri disaster it goes into stagger but than i dont have a healer? btw my 2 ravagers were fang and light...
please help!
Once you get the hang of the battle system, it all becomes a piece of cake.
i tried killing it with maxed crystarium, tier 2 vanille and light weapons, and tier 3 fang weapons. It took a looooong time. the other times i died. on top of that, how do you get the stagger bar up so fast? Takes me forever. I have lightnings lionheart ultima version equipped too. I'm doing everything exactly the same as you. On top of that, sometimes my highwind doesn't take out the legs, and i have genji on light and fang
Where do you fight these guys after you unlocked Long Gui?...I'm trying to grind for Platinum Ingot's/ Trapozehedrons and all I'm finding are Long Guis...please help.
@AdamC316
Dude,I can kill Adamantoise/Tortoise in 2.10 mins.Use Sazh as leader(summon) method.You know why Sazh,his Blitz is second to none when it comes to whacking big and crowded monsters.
It's kinda late to farm TP back,but this come to handy.Save before fight.Kill the thing,and reset if it don't drop anything.And repeat until it drop the things you want.
Stagger leg, highwind, stagger other leg, highwind, and the thing just keels over?
@Millatime638 For the highwind issue, once you break the legs, I'd wail on it for about another 100% if it isn't taking out the leg in one shot
For getting the stagger bar up, I don't think I'm doing anything special, just not letting the chain gauge reset. In this video, I think I procced some lucky breaks with Lightning (if you check my equipment at 9:14, you'll see Random: Instant Chain, which I get from 2xSpeed sash - that allows you to randomly break them sometimes)
is it just me or does that thing seem nerfed? ive seen japanese version vids and it seemed to do that 1-hit ko attack at the start. it seemed tougher too.
it just allows for early stagger, which can sometimes be helpful
ok so ive been trying to farm the adamantoise in leviathan hall and i have the collectors..out of 25kills ive gotten one ignot. any idea why?
@livir001 when you have ability hovered, press right on your joystick/d-pad
you should also include which version you're playing this game on. i know there isn't much different...but the only different is that x360 has been hacked and i know for sure there are mods/hack for games...look at MW2 on x360 version
Is it easyier to do the death trick if it is staggered?
What chapter were you on in this video? I've beat the game but all I get are Long Gui and Shaolong Gui. I just want the trapazehedron
Hey, should I have stuck with Lightning's original blade or used Gladius?
@TesfayeTheKILLER Well i know that you are well past the second disk now but these are optional
Where did you get your second genji glove? I have just find one on my playtrough :)