When in chapter 5, go to bevelle and into a cave called Via Infinito, which you can get into by a portal in a room in the temple. On floor 40 after the bossbattle, you get an accessory called Cat Nip, which have an effect that when HP is yellow, all hits and all healings do 9999! If you combine this with the gunner jobs trigger happy, you can kill almost every boss in a few rounds!

If you rest in the cabin at least once in every chapter you you are rewarded with a special cutscene with Buddy in the negine room where he explains how he and Brother came across the celcius. This will also boos your completed score.

Here are some item combinations:
Petrify grenade + dark grenade = blaster mine
Bomb fragment + bome core = firestorm
Silence grenade + sleep grenade = blaster mine
Fire gem + ice gem = cluster bomb
Arctic wind + ice gem = winter storm
Lighting marble + lighting gem = llighting bolt
Shadow gem + electro marble = nega burst
Elictro marble + lighting marble = roling thunder
Fire gem + antarctic wind = cluster bomb
Petrify grenade + bomb fragment = brimstone
Bomb core + fire gem = burning soul
Ant arctic wind + arctic wind = ice fall
Ice gem + +electro marble = winter storm
Fish scale + dragon scale = flash flood
Water gem + shadow gem = tidal wave
Shining gem + sleep gem = cluster bomb
Silver hourglass + gold hourglass = hazardous shell
Candle of life + farplane shadow = blaster mine

I will post more as I learn them.
Hop this helps.

First you must get the sphere from the cave (which wakka ran to). You can only do this if you have all the ciphers (i think it's 1839 or sumthing) once you have entered them into the key pad you go in and talk to wakka. He'll say some mumbojumbo and then you go further into the cave.the fiends are easy.once you find your way through the mass of tunnels you will find a sphere .a scene will then strat and there is a big monster beat him (about 5000hp) and another scene will start you will be talking to wakka while watchin the sphere you will see the chest and sphere. Now you have completed the chapter. So as sonn as you can go to besaid and go to the waterfalls at the firts bridge you should see a gap between the bridge and the cliff run down there and you will beattack by a moster which is realy big and has loads of eyes hes not that hard. Now you can grab the chest and the sphere. But when you go back up you will have to fight him again.

Hope I have helped

Very good hint would be to have some on on...
Have one person strength one person health and the other either defence or magic for healing I hope I helped.

I have found that the best strategy is to equip yuna with the alchemist dress sphere (as soon as you get it, and I mean that), once you get the dark knight dress sphere do not equip it to anyone, only when paine has learnt all the warrior abilities and you have the pride of the sword garment grid do you actually equip it to someone.

Once this is done equip one of the slots of the pride of the sword garment grid with the dark knight dress sphere and equip it to paine, doing so will allow you to do major damage to creatures weak against holy and any other elemental weaknesses but at the same time being able to take out multiple enemies with darkness, and leave rikku as a theif until she has learnt 100% of her abilities and then make her a berserker wiht treasure hunt garment grid equiped.

In summary:

1) equip yuna with alchemist dress sphere
2) complete paines warrior abilities
3) gain pride of the sword garment grid and dark knight dress sphere
4) equip paine with the garment grid with one of the slots being dark knight
5) keep rikku as a theif until shes learnt 100%
6) equip rikku with treasure hunt garment grid with berserker in one of the slots
7) make rikku a berserker.

Believe me I should know because I have nearly completed the game 100% and for all of the bosses or any enemy for that matter I have not once and I mean once used their special dress spheres and I am only on level Yuna 31, Rikku 33, Paine 33, and I am up to chapter 5.

Know for the bosses make your alchemist cast wall, and then continuously cast mega-potion, have your dark knight either attack with a swordplay ability or darkness, and have your theif steal/mug and if you have one as a berserker just keep on attacking.

I hopes this helps and if it doesn't write us a message.

Before proceeding save your game.Next,make sure you have 99 potions and Hi-potions.Have all 3 characters up to level 80 at least.Equip one person as a Alchemist,another as a Berserker, and another as a Dark Knight.It dosen't matter which garment grid you use as long as it boosts speed.For accesories,have Yuna,Rikku,or Paine with ribbons and accesories that raise HP.When you go to battle it,have the Alchemist mix a star,light or lunar curtain to make a "wall" or
"mighty guard".For the rest of the battle have the Alchemist mix a potion and Hi-potion to get a mega-potion to use every time.Tha Dark Knight should always use "Darkness" every time.And for the Berserker, attack Angry Mainyu every time.Don't worry about the fiends one the side,the dark knight takes care of them.

-You do know by skipping those extra scenes you cannot get 100% completion......or so I have heard.

In Chapter 3, the bosses have gotten alot harder, and so have the fiends, so the best thing to do, is before taking on any main missions that progress the story, Go over to Mt Gagazet, Garick, the youth of the Ronso, is taking revenge on the Guado so you will be given a new Mission to go seek him out and talk him out of it, Don't do this mission as of yet, what you need to do here is climb the peak of the Mountain and fight the fiends, the best thing about this, is with every battle won, the expierience points given out are anywhere from 200-400EXP, so if your needing to level up at all, now is a good time to do it...

Pat of o'kas debt and he will give you a major discount so buy 99 of something then sell it to barkeep for more and repeat it over and over again intil you have a load of cash, simple

Everyone keeps asking the same thing over and over about Paine's special dressphere so here it is. In chapters one or two you will have to go to Malcalania woods. Follow the tree path or the shimmering path until you reach a four way split in the road. Take the top road to the right and find a man named Tromell. Speak to him four times and he will give you the Full Throttle Dressphere.

In order to get 100% you must play the game at least twice making sure that the second time round you change your choice of who you give the Awsomme sphere to. So if you gave it to New Yevon make sure you give it to the Youth League and vise versa

When playing this you must make the target nuber with a/some gold coins in the middle and a/some blue coins at the top it will tell you the target number.

You know, if you have those element eater garmet grids likeThunder spawn or Menace of the beast and you go to fight the aeons it will give you health instaed of damage.

Ok. Have you ever got mad because you have did everything but still have 98%? Well I know why. At the Start of the Game, when you are Rikku catching up to Paine and chasing down Leblanc, you know the turns in the path that are filled with crates? They are not for decoration. In one of the paths full of crates, you will find a moogle mascot (really Yuna!) hiding for cover. Go up to "Yuna" and you will recover any lost HP and MP that you lost, plus it will increase your percent in the storyline percent complete, and you will find a twist to the mission when you are Yuna and you get to hand out the ballons in Chapter 1.

Yuna-moggle,paine-dark knight,rikku-gunner.

You need to reach cloister 40 in via infinito which is in bevelle. Once you reach this you will fight an elemental monster which has around 10 thousand hp (its very easy). Once you kill it you will receive an item called 'cat nip' which doesnt sound very good BUT BELIEVE ME if you use it correctly you will beat any boss in the game no problem. With the cat nip equipped, all of your attacks will inflict 9999 damage BUT it will only do this if your hp is below two thirds (hp turns yellow). I had my gunner on trigger happy level 3 so I was inflicting around 13 x 9999 in one round! For the best results I would equip accessories that boost your hp so that you still have around 2000 hp when it turns yellow just incase your fighting a big boss. I killed that creature in bikanel desert with this method and the creature had over 300 ' 000 hp

Make sure rikku or someone else has pilfer gil and master theif or sticky fingers. When you go to a dig on the first place I think there is a super hard monster .the way to tell if he is coming is the guy says unidentifyed object approching.he will be displayed as a red arrow.when you get in a battle with him use pilfer gil and sticky fingers/master thief.u will get at least 1000 gil and a megalixer I think every time.


Hope I helped.

When you are versing the Vegnagun with three nodes in the battle make sure you have a person with a long range job (Gunner is the best one) and take out all of the nodes.

Once you have done so defeat Vegnagun and at the end of the battle you will receive three Hero Drinks these will make one character immune to HP and MP damage, all status effects and basically everything else in the game!.

You also get another one of of Shuyin I think you have to steal it off of him so make sure someone in your party has learned Sticky Fingers or Master Thief, Sticky Fingers always steals one item and Master Thief always steals one rare item.

There will be a time when you go to the youth league HQ on mushroom rock road wherein some youth league will say that 'pls follow us and we'll clear out the fiends' (or something like that) there will be a big fiend that looks like a big rose bud with 'tentacles' (sorry, I forgot its name) the youth league will say be careful and walk slowly. but you still go forward and Yuna's running.

Now here's the hint:
if you want to fight that fiend and level up, then fight it. if you don't want to fight it and you want to go to the hq, press and hold the L3 button and GENTLY rotate it the desired direction. and that's it! you'll see Yuna walking.

Hope this helps...!

To fight angry Mayinu you must first go to Bikenal desert and follow Rikku until you pass out then talk to Nhadala and then after you leave and come back go dig in the western exspance aqnd wait until an unidentified object approches when you get close enough it will be angry Mayinu.

In Chapters 4 and 5 when you are looking for the ten gatekeepers (the little green cactuses), each time you find one you will have to play a shooting game with him. It's a timing game....you have to shoot at exactly the right second to hit him and cost him hp. If you miss, don't worry, you'll get items for hitting the two decoys. (I managed to get an X-potion and a few other helpful items).

Keep in mind that you get a special prize if you win every mini-game with the cactuses, so don't waste too much ammo on the items. If you do waste all your ammo...don't worry, the cactus will still come with you whether you win or lose, and its an easy way to get great items.

Make Paine learn al Beserker abilities, and all Dark Knight abilities, and all warrior abilities.

Then equip her with crystal bangle, and Nactures Lore, which lets you use instinct abilities learned as a beserker.

Also equip her with Pride of the Sword Garment Grid, now she can use Beserker abilities and Warrior abilities.

Finally make her a Dark Knight.

I am sure you all have hit the problem that you can't seem to get enough AP to learn all the techineques in a dress sphere quickly so this what you do in chapter 5 go and get the item that doubles everything.

( found in Tobli's home in Guadosalam )

Then go to Luca and play Blitzball. You will notice an item that can be won in a tournament called the AP egg.

Get the egg equip it and the doubler ting to a charachter and watch the AP go ( use the lady luck dress spheres for even more AP.

If you were like me in FFX, towards the end of the game you ended up with insanley powerful characters (They each have about 50,000 hp all stats 255 and that sort of thing).

You can do this again but leveling up takes alot longer. There are lso several items you will need to aqquire.

Since you are all so good at this game, I'll tel you how to get a few of them

Enterprise: Break Hp limit, not telling this one

Invincible: Break Damage limit, few the youth league base in kilika through the camera in Ch 1, 3, 5

Iron Duke: Not break anything but doubles Hp and Mp and adds 100 to all stats except luck, which it adds 50. not this one either

Key to success: doubles Hp and Mp +100 luck. Double all (Ap, Exp, gil, items earned, general effectivness of items)
This one you have to complete all the moonflow missions but not defeating Garik on Mt. Gagazet during ch 3, which means no ep complete. It's in Tobli's house in Guadosalam, (the item in the chest changes depending on your moonflow completion and that gagazet mission)

Ragnarok: Not actually break mp limit, but it reduces mp costs to zero which I think is better. During the Mi hen mission where you help Rin discover the culprit for the hover crash, get Rikku as the one who did it.

If you want to know how to do this I'm putting how to get all 5 suspects in another hint.

Adamanite: Doubles hp, defense/magic +120, agility -30, Auot-wall. Why would you want this one when you can get the Tron Duke (with a bit of luck)

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