LONG GUI 4-min Farming (No summon/death/shroud) 1080p

[Kebess]

I figured I'd post this for those wanting to farm this boss ;)

No Death spell, Summon, Shroud, or Technique, so it allows to farm for Gils and Trapezohedrons, without cheats.

Kill time: 4:11 (target time 19:03)
(will be shorter if you don't mess up some Paradigm shifting in phase 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw2LfV2q27c


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Here's a less tight kill in 6:42 to allow a wider margin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzcDMiY2kUQ

[tiornys]

Death spell used for damage (as it is against Long Gui) is not a cheat. Vanille's easily the best leader for farming Long Gui, but if you want to avoid Death, I urge you to work on killing Long Gui in a single fall (with 2 staggers during the fall, one full length, and one quick one for Highwind). Fang's the 2nd or 3rd best leader for this (and easily the 2nd best--maybe even best--at taking out the legs), although there's a good chance you need a different setup to make it happen.

[GravityLoL]

I did him with all girls team (Lightning RAV, Fang SYN, Vanille SAB, when all stats boosted quick change to RAV, COM, RAV, if i'm under attack SEN, SEN, MED when staggered then RAV, COM, RAV again or COM, COM, RAV).
but my time sucked : / 15min : /

[Kebess]

Originally posted by tiornys:

Death spell used for damage (as it is against Long Gui) is not a cheat. Vanille's easily the best leader for farming Long Gui, but if you want to avoid Death, I urge you to work on killing Long Gui in a single fall (with 2 staggers during the fall, one full length, and one quick one for Highwind). Fang's the 2nd or 3rd best leader for this (and easily the 2nd best--maybe even best--at taking out the legs), although there's a good chance you need a different setup to make it happen.

That sound tight. I tried in one fall, but I was always missing a couple seconds. I'll practice on it later. Have you been doing this, or you were just suggesting?
Also, I really don't like Vanille, that's mainly why I'm not using Death. Plus the fact that the spell is just too OP for my taste. But agreed, that is a more effective farming method. It's not any different than turning the game to easy mode though...

I did him with all girls team (Lightning RAV, Fang SYN, Vanille SAB, when all stats boosted quick change to RAV, COM, RAV, if i'm under attack SEN, SEN, MED when staggered then RAV, COM, RAV again or COM, COM, RAV).
but my time sucked : / 15min : /

Yeah, I did something like that too on my very first kill, but that's too tedious, and not necessary. Try going more aggressive on it, you'll see, way more fun!

[GravityLoL]

Originally posted by Kebess:

Yeah, I did something like that too on my very first kill, but that's too tedious, and not necessary. Try going more aggressive on it, you'll see, way more fun!

gonna try it later ;p btw, how does my save works? is it good enough?

[tiornys]

Originally posted by Kebess:

That sound tight. I tried in one fall, but I was always missing a couple seconds. I'll practice on it later. Have you been doing this, or you were just suggesting?

I haven't done it myself, but I can point you to multiple example vids on YouTube if you want. It does look like the timing is very tight, but it's definitely doable.

Also, I really don't like Vanille, that's mainly why I'm not using Death. Plus the fact that the spell is just too OP for my taste. But agreed, that is a more effective farming method. It's not any different than turning the game to easy mode though...

I don't think using Death for damage in this fight is really comparable to Easy mode. To make it effective, you have to do a lot of paradigm shifting with reasonably precise timing. I get what you're saying about not wanting to use it though.

[Kebess]

Originally posted by GravityLoL:

Originally posted by Kebess:

Yeah, I did something like that too on my very first kill, but that's too tedious, and not necessary. Try going more aggressive on it, you'll see, way more fun!

gonna try it later ;p btw, how does my save works? is it good enough?

Great. I ended up finding an older save file myself, with all 64 missions, on my backup hard drive, so I used that one :p

[GravityLoL]

Originally posted by Kebess:

Originally posted by GravityLoL:

gonna try it later ;p btw, how does my save works? is it good enough?

Great. I ended up finding an older save file myself, with all 64 missions, on my backup hard drive, so I used that one :p

damn, luckyXD i true to search old save too but i need to redo all missions by myself what sucks! XD but it's good, i like XIII so i'm. Okay with it.

[Kebess]

Originally posted by GravityLoL:

Originally posted by Kebess:

Great. I ended up finding an older save file myself, with all 64 missions, on my backup hard drive, so I used that one :p

damn, luckyXD i true to search old save too but i need to redo all missions by myself what sucks! XD but it's good, i like XIII so i'm. Okay with it.

I can send you mine if you want. Just ask.

[GravityLoL]

Originally posted by Kebess:

Originally posted by GravityLoL:

damn, luckyXD i true to search old save too but i need to redo all missions by myself what sucks! XD but it's good, i like XIII so i'm. Okay with it.

I can send you mine if you want. Just ask.

nah, i preffer to max it out by myself ;) but thanks for proposition

[Kebess]

Originally posted by tiornys:

Originally posted by Kebess:

That sound tight. I tried in one fall, but I was always missing a couple seconds. I'll practice on it later. Have you been doing this, or you were just suggesting?

I haven't done it myself, but I can point you to multiple example vids on YouTube if you want. It does look like the timing is very tight, but it's definitely doable.

Also, I really don't like Vanille, that's mainly why I'm not using Death. Plus the fact that the spell is just too OP for my taste. But agreed, that is a more effective farming method. It's not any different than turning the game to easy mode though...

I don't think using Death for damage in this fight is really comparable to Easy mode. To make it effective, you have to do a lot of paradigm shifting with reasonably precise timing. I get what you're saying about not wanting to use it though.

OK sounds exciting, I'll do it in one fall and update the video later ;)
I could save some time with the initial debuffing right after the fall, that should do it.

We'll be talking about a less than 3-min fight, if all goes well. Exciting indeed.

[Kebess]

Okay, kill updated with a 1 fall fight.

The Paradigm Deck is particularly important here, as you need 2 Cerberus paradigms to allow the optimized damage dealing shifting. And so, had to get rid of the Salvation paradigm (3xMed replaced by Syn-Syn-Med), which made things a bit trickier in phase-1.

Also, Fang's Bravera/Faithra weren't lasting until the end of the fall phase, so had to readjust and refresh them at the very last second before the fall, just before the 2nd leg goes down. All in all, a pretty effective and legit way to farm this Boss.

[GravityLoL]

Originally posted by Kebess:

Okay, kill updated with a 1 fall fight.

The Paradigm Deck is particularly important here, as you need 2 Cerberus paradigms to allow the optimized damage dealing shifting. And so, had to get rid of the Salvation paradigm (3xMed replaced by Syn-Syn-Med), which made things a bit trickier in phase-1.

Also, Fang's Bravera/Faithra weren't lasting until the end of the fall phase, so had to readjust and refresh them at the very last second before the fall, just before the 2nd leg goes down. All in all, a pretty effective and legit way to farm this Boss.

wow. I see you mixed some elements of my strategy. Glad i helped you :3

[Kebess]

Originally posted by GravityLoL:

Originally posted by Kebess:

Okay, kill updated with a 1 fall fight.

The Paradigm Deck is particularly important here, as you need 2 Cerberus paradigms to allow the optimized damage dealing shifting. And so, had to get rid of the Salvation paradigm (3xMed replaced by Syn-Syn-Med), which made things a bit trickier in phase-1.

Also, Fang's Bravera/Faithra weren't lasting until the end of the fall phase, so had to readjust and refresh them at the very last second before the fall, just before the 2nd leg goes down. All in all, a pretty effective and legit way to farm this Boss.

wow. I see you mixed some elements of my strategy. Glad i helped you :3

Hehe yeah, had to get original. It's pretty close to pull 16.2 mil in one fall phase. Though, the last Highwind could have been used 1 turn earlier. I took some unnecessary risk, I guess :)

[tiornys]

Awesome!