03E: The Only Way is Up

03E: The Only Way is Up

Boss fight with a Garuda Interceptor

Now continue along the path up the stairs to the next save point and use it, and then grab the Phoenix Down from the nearby sphere, and the pair of Librascopes from the sphere on the other side of the stairs.  Now just go up a few of the stairs to trigger the next CS in which you walk through the plaza while Val appears to be having an orgasmic good time!  Sadly this does not last, as you are attacked by a boss mob called a Garuda Interceptor.  You did save a minute ago, right?

I would start this fight by using Libra on it to ID it, and then begin attacking.  Once you do enough damage the Garuda will fly away to charge up its energy - this is good and bad.  Good since you did some damage, but bad because it will drop a glowing black ball of energy on you once it has charged up.  You do not want your health bar in the yellow when that happens, so be sure you are healed up.  The ball will do a fair bit of damage, so be prepared to heal after the attack as well.

Keep pressing the attack - you want to force it to continuously fight you to prevent it from recharging.  You should be able to kill it without having to face another attack from its special weapon.  Once you have succeeded in killing it part of your reward is the expansion of the Crystarium!  That's right, you can now develop your Level 2 skills in each job that you have!  Not only that, but Sazh gets Synergist added to his jobs list, and Van gets Saboteur added to hers.

Of the two, Van's new job is probably the more important - chances are pretty good that you will want to keep Sazh employed as a Raveger...

You get a CS in which Val dances about, happy to have found an airship!  Sazh puts on his pessimist cap and Lightning stays silent (for once), and then you are prompted to save the game - do that.  Chances are you have burned through a fair number of your potions, and you have picked up more kit in spoils, so now would be a good time to review all of that to see what needs tending.