A whole load of stuff hints and tips for Final Fantasy IX

a whole load of stuff

Alrighty, I was reading along, couldn't find what I was looking for, but what the hey. I'm gonna do what I can to help you, the viewer

-----------------------Ultima WEAPON----

The ULTIMA WEAPON thing IS true! I didnt believe it myself, but I loaded up my disc 4 saved game.

After you go through the shimmering islands to terra, and terra goes POOF.

The shimmering islands are gone. but the icon is still on the big map (hit select until the big brown map comes up and look under the top left continent)

Here's the tricky part...put your chocobo DIRECTLY over the shimmering islands, not to the left, not to the right, smack dab on there!

Go to the big map every now and then when you think you got it. if your on top, use a dead pepper (you can find these by playing chocobo hot&cold).

If you were in the right place, you'll get it, if not, try again, you'll receive..: 10 aquamarines (or maybbe it was ore, either way, they suck)

ULTIMA WEAPON, maximillian armor (which I haven't checked out yet, cause I don't use steiner as a major party member, and apparently only he can use it, cause freya can't) and the INVINCIBLE card.

Which, if youve played alot of card games like me, you should already have.

---------------WHERE THE OCEAN CHOCOGRAPH IS

Ya know Daguarro right? the place on a mountain that you need an airship or a gold chocobo to reach? the one with the waterfall? well, its near chocobo's lagoon, which is on the southwest part of the map.

Head northeast from there, and follow the islands until you reach an island that has one beach on the right side, a brief cliff, then a beach on both sides that go all the way to the northern tip of the island.

Head east off of there until youve gone about 3 seconds into the deep water (ON THE CHOCOBO, FOOL!) Choco should start saying "kewh!?" if not, search around that area, its around there somewhere...you get:

A Whale Whisker (a rod that allows curaga and life spells to be learned) which is useful if, unlike me, you found it as soon as you get the ocean chocobo.

------------TRANCE KUJA-----------

After defeating deathguise (which has been awhile for me so i dont remember anything about him) you have the option to go back out and beef yourself up some more, or go on and challenge kuja, if your workin on side quests, save your game, then teleport out, or just leave the place altogether.

Kuja will go into a Trance, and that'll be some bad news...

-----------------SELECT YOUR PARTY------

Reccommended Party: Armarant, Freya, Dagger, and Zidane.

as long as you have a healthy supply of hp/mp (mp only really necessary for Zidane for trance and MP attack if you wanna try that.

Dagger's probly gonna heal most of the time, Armarant is just muscle (high mp isnt exactly required for him) and Freya may need mp for her Reis' Wind dragon skill.

----------------------ABILITIES---------

Reccommended abilities: i reccomened these abilities get learned AS SOON AS YOU CAN, cause they can help you a great deal in both boss fights and normal fights.

everyone: Auto Regen, Auto Haste (this will take care of any speed problems and also when your in trouble, summon something, or use a lengthy attack (such as theivery, or detect could even work.

While the attack or skill is being used, your characters will frequently replinish their own hp, that can be very valuable in certain fights where a boss uses an attack that brings your chars to 1 HP and then finishes them off with a weak attack.

Trance Kuja Fight Abilities.

Freya: No one really cares..just do MP attack and hp/mp +'s until the next fight.

Zidane: ^ DITTO, unles you wanna steal, then do bandit and master theif

Dagger: Concentrate, half mp, boost.

Armarant: MP attack, power up/power throw. (anythin else)

------------------------ TRANCE KUJA BATTLE PLAN

Basically here, all you wana do is use freya's reis' wind if not everyone has auto-regen, if they do, then just jump, attack, or use cherry blossom or dragon breath

Zidane is just an attacker....just keep hitting him with normal attacks or steal from him, im not sure what items he has though.

Armarant is also an attacker, but if your concerned for garnet (your healer's) safety, cast aura on her, then resort to throwing out your supply of wing edges, rising suns, or pinwheels, cause you wont have much need for them, and usually they're stronger than your normal attacks.

Dagger: mainly, she'll be using cure(a)(aga) and life. should you get a chance, nail Kuja with ARK or BAHAUMAT.

Keep your hp up, and keep your attacks flowing, and Kuja will knock the crap outta you (not really, but he does use Ultima just before he dies, and kills all your characters, but it's not game over, so dont throw your controller at the tv!!)

turns out your party members are alive, but EVERY character (Even those not in the fight) have ONE hp)

-------------------SELECT YOUR PARTY----

Like always, I suggest armarant, freya, zidane, and dagger.

for the same reasons as earlier

--------------------ABILITIES-----------

You may wanna reset your abilities for this fight...keep auto-haste and auto-regen, or take off auto-haste if necessary..

EVERYONE should have Auto-Haste, Auto-Regen, antibody, body temp, locomotion, insomniac, loudmouth.

(if you dont have enough, take off auto-haste, if you still dont have enough, ooh...use your best judgement.

if you have extra ability points (i doubt it...but if you do), put it into beefing up your attacking things.

-------------------------NECRON BATTLE PLAN

Necron tends to favor causing status effects...which is why you want to reset your abilities...if you have extra dark matter, hurl that son of a gun at him, take a nice dent of his hp.

Necron has an attack, I think its called blue shockwave or something, but it lowers a character's hp to 1, which is why you need auto-regen.

this battle is pretty obvious: FIGHT! leave Dagger free until necron's next attack, whoever it hits, heal that person, or try to remove the negative status effect.

--------------------------THE END-------

just to give you an idea of how easy necron really is.

picture this.

Armarant, zidane, dagger, and freya, all berserk, and soon all dead, except armarant.

Armarant (with autoregen and the anti-status abilities) berserk, exchanging blows with necron for nearly 10 minutes, i said "shoot armarant, your on your own" and i changed channels, and watched tv, i switch back to the game, and armarant dealt the final blow.

so if one berserk individual can take out necron on his own, surely everyone, equipped with the same abilities.

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