Tips on beating the Whisper Trio in Chapter 18 Hard difficulty?

[Frank Castle]

Help plis

[Xelane]

It's difficult to offer any meaningful advice because if you're on this fight on hard mode, you've basically beaten the game almost twice.

You have max levels on everyone, right? If not, go back and grind until you are. Do the same for the materia you're using and try to max it out. Learn all of the weapon skills and get all the accessories you may want, etc.

I would definitely use HP Up on everyone. I found that I simply did not have enough HP without it.

Beyond that it's just a matter of how you've built your team and how well you are able to utilize the character's strengths. Make sure you understand the abilities of each character (like Cloud's punisher stance, self-buff, built in counter, etc) and make sure you're building them in a way that allows them to excel. There are lots of ways to do this, so it's hard to give a definitive suggestion.

I've seen some builds for a Spellsword Cloud that uses Magnify Firaga with the Mithril Saber that acted as a nuker. I use an ATB-focused build for Cloud and that seems to work well. You just have to figure out how you want to build everyone and make sure it makes sense. You may want to look up what builds people like to use on each character and see how it compares to yours.

At a minimum, I would recommend making sure at least two characters have revive, and that all of them have a form of healing (whether it's chakra or cure). It would be beneficial to have cure linked to magnify so that person can heal the entire team, rather than having to heal each person individually (just my suggestion).

[Frank Castle]

Thanks, just beat the game on Hard