{"id":19,"date":"2010-02-13T14:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-02-13T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:48:21","slug":"ff13-adamantoise-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"FF13 adamantoise farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy 13 lately, and am trying to finish up the post-game content. The most efficient way to gain power towards the end of the game seems to be farming the adamantoise class monsters. These are the giant turtle-like monsters you see walking around on the surface near the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Their common loot drop is a platinum ingot (\u00e3\u0192\u2014\u00e3\u0192\u00a9\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u0192\u02c6) which sells for 150K. Their rare drop is a trapezohedron (\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u00a9\u00e3\u0192\u0161\u00e3\u201a\u00be\u00e3\u0192\u02dc\u00e3\u0192\u2030\u00e3\u0192\u00ad\u00e3\u0192\u00b3) which is the catalyst for upgrading each character&#8217;s weapons into their final form, which otherwise cost 2M. They also give 40K CP. (80K with a grow egg)<\/p>\n<p>They are easily the hardest of the normal non boss\/mission monsters to beat, at least without some technique\/preparation.<\/p>\n<h2>Prerequisites<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m using a party of Fang, Snow, and Lightning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beat the final boss for the 10th Crystarium level.<\/li>\n<li>Finish the default classes for each character. It helps to get the CP doubling \u00e3\u201a\u00b0\u00e3\u0192\u00ad\u00e3\u201a\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u00a8\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00b0 (grow egg) accessory from completing mission 55, which is feasible even before beating the game because the mission boss is vulnerable to Vanille&#8217;s death (\u00e3\u0192\u2021\u00e3\u201a\u00b9) spell.<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade Fang&#8217;s enhancer class until she gets \u00e3\u0192\u02dc\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u02c6 (haste). Fang also has shorter but more powerful \u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u2013\u00e3\u0192\u00ab versions of bravery\/faith\/protect\/shell.<\/li>\n<li>Equip both \u00e3\u201a\u00b0\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u0192\u2030\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a7\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 (good choice) and \u00e3\u0192\u2122\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a7\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 (best choice) accessories. The former increases loot drops in general, the latter increases rare drops. You can buy good choice or get it from mission 8; best choice is the upgrade of good choice.<\/li>\n<li>Get a \u00e6\u00ba\u0090\u00e6\u00b0\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e5\u00b0\u008f\u00e6\u2030\u2039 (Genji Glove) accessory from completing mission 51 and equip it on Fang to remove her 100K damage cap.<\/li>\n<li>Equip suitable second level weapons on your party. High attack power is crucial.<\/li>\n<li>Equip some upgraded \u00e3\u0192\u2018\u00e3\u0192\u00af\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00b0\u00e3\u0192\u00ad\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u2013 (power glove) accessories, which max out at +250 strength. They are upgrades to \u00e3\u201a\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u00a9\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u02c6 which you can buy from B&amp;W. You might even upgrade one to a \u00e3\u201a\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00b6\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u201a\u00af\u00e3\u0192\u00ab (kaiser knuckle) for +300, but that requires an expensive \u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00af\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u0192\u00bc (dark matter).<\/li>\n<li>Do <em>not<\/em> unlock the super adamantoises by completing missions 56-62 yet, they replace most of the normal adamantoises, or so I understand. (I&#8217;m not there yet.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Adamantoise Types<\/h2>\n<p>There are four types of adamantoises. The easiest are \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b1\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 which do not have tusks. They also have less than 1M HP and do relatively little damage, but have relatively weak loot drops: \u00e7\u00a0\u201a\u00e9\u2021\u2018 (gold dust) and \u00e3\u0192\u2019\u00e3\u0192\u2019\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u00ad\u00e3\u201a\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u008d (scarlet gold?). These do not have tusks. They wander the plains, and a number of them guard treasure spheres with \u00e9\u2021\u2018\u00e5\u00a1\u0160 (gold nuggets\/bars) which sell for 60K.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 are the weakest of the tusked adamantoises. There is one standing still in each of the two entrances to the area where you first encounter \u00e3\u201a\u00b5\u00e3\u0192\u0153\u00e3\u0192\u2020\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u00bc (the cactuar\/cactus monsters). One of the two encounters has three dogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u201a\u00a4 are (initially) the hardest of the adamantoises. You find them wandering the plains (Their breakpoints are double that of \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 (500% for the body, 300% for legs) and they have about 50% more HP.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;super adamantoises&#8221; (\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u00a3\u00e3\u201a\u00aa\u00e3\u0192\u00ad\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b0\u00e3\u201a\u00a4?) are stronger versions you see after completing missions 56-62; you get a trophy for beating them. They&#8217;re probably not suitable for farming.<\/p>\n<h2>Techniques<\/h2>\n<p>The stronger adamantoises have three targetable parts: two legs and a head. As long as they still have legs they do powerful stomp attacks (thousands of damage each). Once you knock out their legs they fall for a while, at which point they stop damage and are a lot weaker.<\/p>\n<h3>Bahamut (Technique 1)<\/h3>\n<p>This is the easiest way to take one down, but requires 3TP. The key here is to use Fang&#8217;s \u00e3\u0192\u0090\u00e3\u0192\u008f\u00e3\u0192\u00a0\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u02c6 (Bahamut) summon to take out both legs at once, then break the head and ATK\/ATK\/ATK it to death. My technique is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start with ENH\/ENH\/ENH. Cast \u00e3\u0192\u02dc\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u02c6 and \u00e3\u0192\u2013\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u20ac on Fang.<\/li>\n<li>Switch to JAM\/whatever\/whatever. Summon Bahamut.<\/li>\n<li>Throw a bunch of debuffs. \u00e3\u0192\u2021\u00e3\u0192\u2014\u00e3\u0192\u00ad\u00e3\u0192\u2020 is important. Continue until it&#8217;s heavily debuffed and almost broken, at which point you&#8217;ll still have 10-20K SP.<\/li>\n<li>Switch to ATK\/whatever\/whatever. Attack until SP runs out, switch to drive.<\/li>\n<li>Use bahamut abilities. (Does this time count against the time it&#8217;s down? If so you might be better off finishing early).<\/li>\n<li>Once you&#8217;re done with Bahamut, switch to ENH\/ENH\/ENH. Cast \u00e3\u0192\u02dc\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u02c6 and \u00e3\u0192\u2013\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u20ac on Fang and Snow, maybe Lightning too.<\/li>\n<li>JAM\/BLA\/BLA until it&#8217;s around 800%.<\/li>\n<li>ATK\/ATK\/ATK until it&#8217;s dead. Hopefully this will be before it stands up. It might help to use \u00e3\u0192\u008f\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u2030 (Highwind) if it&#8217;s close to dead and the break gauge is almost out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This approach will fail if you can&#8217;t kill the adamantoise within a single break. I found the \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u201a\u00a4 actually a little easier this way because they do not break as early, so you spend more time with a very high break gauge doing 90K+ damage per attack.<\/p>\n<p>Time saving tip: you can press select to skip summon animations.<\/p>\n<h3>No summon (technique 2)<\/h3>\n<p>The idea is to break the legs and take them out with Highwind (\u00e3\u0192\u008f\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u2030). Highwind is Fang&#8217;s special attack, intended as a finishing blow: it uses all her ATB and does a lot of damage, but returns the break gauge to 100%. Note that Highwind <em>requires<\/em> a Genji glove to be effective, otherwise it will just do 99999 damage &#8212; not enough to break a leg which has 246600. (356200 for the -\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u201a\u00a4)<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the Bahamut approach is that it uses 3 TP, so you need to do several combats to recover TP in between each fight. Ideally you want to beat one without using TP. I didn&#8217;t succeed until I upgraded Fang&#8217;s weapon; the sixth ATB helps a lot especially with Highwind damage. Note that Highwind *requires* a Genji glove to be effective; it will otherwise just do 99999 damage and unbreak the target.<\/p>\n<p>This approach works better against the weaker \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00b9, since their legs are easier to break. It still can fail if you get unlucky, either due to unlucky distribution of damage or a bad Highwind.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Throw power\/barrier smokes, start in ATK\/BLA\/BLA<\/li>\n<li>Do a round of attacks on the right leg, then get ready to Highwind once your allies break the leg<\/li>\n<li>Highwind the leg, hopefully taking it out. (If not, restart)<\/li>\n<li>Repeat on the left leg.<\/li>\n<li>Hope the fall doesn&#8217;t kill anyone.<\/li>\n<li>(If applicable) Kill off the dogs.<\/li>\n<li>Switch to JAM\/BLA\/BLA. Continue until it reaches ~800%. Switch to ATK\/ATK\/ATK and DPS it to death.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note that it is okay to use power\/barrier smokes because they can be bought for 12K each. Ether smokes (fill up TP) can not be bought, or else we could ust use the Bahamut strategy repeatedly.<\/p>\n<h3>Vanille summon\/death (technique cheap)<\/h3>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried this myself, but I saw a youtube video &#8212; you can use Vanille&#8217;s summon and then \u00e3\u0192\u2021\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 all the parts. This isn&#8217;t going to be reliable but may be feasible even before the ending.<\/p>\n<h2>Farming<\/h2>\n<p>My current technique:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kill the two \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00b9, using two smokes each. This puts me over 3TP.<\/li>\n<li>Kill an \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u201a\u00a4 using a summon and no smokes.<\/li>\n<li>Assign my 240K CP.<\/li>\n<li>Save at the save point near the \u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u20ac\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00b9 without wolves.<\/li>\n<li>Return to title, reload, repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of Final Fantasy 13 lately, and am trying to finish up the post-game content. The most efficient way to gain power towards the end of the game seems to be farming the adamantoise class monsters. These are the giant turtle-like monsters you see walking around on the surface near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ff13","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strcpy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}