Ruby Weapon hints and tips for Final Fantasy VII

Ruby Weapon

There are three ways of doing it; The right way, the wrong way and the way I did it.

The way I did It:

Initial preparation; I was level 99 with all my characters, and I used Cloud (obviously), Tifa and Cid. I had 9999 health and 999 mp. I had final attack and phoenix linked on everybody (ensure you take this off before attempting step number two) and 3 master materia's of every type on every character. (I levelled up magic for 2, and defeated Emerald weapon for the third set). I also had W-Summon with every character, and mime. (I had Cloud with his Ultima weapon, Cid with his Venus Gospel and Tifa with her God hand (because I think it is better than her Premium heart). Everybody had a mystile and a ribbon equipped as well. (you get ribbons by morphing master Tonberries in the North Cave, and the Mystile's from various boxes in the North cave, and one before you go to fight Hojo, just before the mahousive staircase after you've fought the proud Clod)

Start off with two characters already dead (reasoning already been explained)

When Ruby plunges his hands into the ground, select w-summon, and cast Hades, then phoenix. HADES WILL PUT RUBY WEAPON IN STOP and phoenix will restore the life of both your other characters, (phoenix will also heal him by a couple of hundred hp or so, but that's not important, it doesn't need to be used from here onwards)

Attack his body, ignoring his arms, with w-summon, Knights of Round, and mime it, the only time you do not use this attack is if you either get a limit break, which you use instead, or if he comes out of "stop", in which case you cast Hades upon him again, then simple maul him with Knights of Round again, and again.

This is it. Not the most entertaining method, but definitely the most efficient.

Additional; The materia is only referred to as "knights of THE round" once, which is when you acquire it from the cave. At every other point in the game it is seen as "Knights of round" no "the" is present. Arguably, the name "Knights of The Round" could be the name of the materia, whilst "Knights of round" could be the name of the summon, however, every other summon materia is named after the summon, and it is exactly the same. Therefore, it is simply "Knights of Round", not "knights of the round". Just wanted to get that off my chest.

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