04E: Fugitive in Futility

04E: Fugitive in Futility

Pulse Armament Boss Fight

Ahead of you is an easy fight and a treasure sphere with a Librascope in it.  Another easy fight and a sphere with an Ember Ring - which is one of hte rare accessories you want to make sure you get and do not sell - and onward we go!   There is a save point ahead that you should use before continuing on.

After the save point we get a CS in which a very large mob is introduced to us - a Pulse Armament - which should present a challenging fight for you!  Once you do a certain amount of damage the fight shifts to a brief CS and the thing fires a shot at the deck destroying it and causing you to fall down into a lower level underground!

This was a tough fight but if you experiment a little you can see that your mix of decks can work really well against it.  The payoff for killing this boss mob is a very spiffy 360CP and spoils that include Lenora's Garage Shop and an Omni-Kit!

In addition to the above we also get our Crystarium expanded again, and Lightning picks up the Medic Job, while Sahz learns the Commando job!  Excellent!

The post-fight CS gives us some information about the party's take on the situation - Lightning is a pragmatist and Hope is still something of a pessimist - go figure.

Now that we have an Omni-Kit we can finally start upgrading our weapons and accessories - Woo Hoo!  We do that at Save Stations (save points) which is cool - but bear in mind that you need to be really cautious about how you upgrade your kit, right?  There are plenty of upgrading guides available on the web - and I seriously suggest that you avail yourself of one or more of them so that you do not make mistakes that you will regret.

I will be including the upgrade decisions that I make here - you can follow them if you like - but I  want to stress that upgrading your kit is not just a good idea, it can make all the difference in battles!  You can also scrap unwanted gear and recover components from it - which is fine if you have duplicates of items and you do not want to sell them, but care should be taken in deciding what to scrap and what to sell. 

Now is a good time to spend some of the CP we have been banking and upgrade our jobs - with what you have banked you should be able to upgrade Sazh's Ravager job to nearly the full 3rd Stage of Level 1 and I recommend that you do that now - yes he has other jobs but Ravager is what we use him for most, and we will be doing some grinding in a minute anyway for the other jobs so having that one capped makes sense.  He is only a few upgrade crystals from Level 2 for this job, but making it as strong as you can now will help in the grinding we are about to do...

For Lightning Commando is obviously the priority, and you will actually upgrade it to Level 2 if you completely upgrade its Stage 3 path!  Once you do that you can apply whatever is left over to one of her other jobs if you like - we will be back to this in a bit.

For Van just use the points as you like, and for Hope you should have enough to take Ravager to full Level 2 and have a little left over to apply to one of his other jobs.

Now that we have that done head along the path through the long sloping tunnel and hit the save point!  Remember, save FIRST before you try upgrading your weapons so that if you make a mistake you can reload and not really have lost anything.  If you find an upgrade you like, save that before you continue so you do not end up forgetting what you chose :)