ENRAGING battle against Royal Ripeness!

[Tame]

What in the hell am I supposed to do?! I've fought it for two hours straight and only moved it's hp bar down to 75%! It's mandatory to fight it, I can't back out of the fight, and there's no cinematic action that ever pops up. I've unlocked as much of the crystarium as I can and I have a good paradigm and monster set up. I slaughtered end-game stuff on FF13, but this early game fight is making me want to uninstall the game.

Like, I'm so mad at this I feel my blood pressure shooting through the roof. I've tried every possible combo I can imagine to get this thing down far enough.

I'm in Sunleth Waterscape 300 AF and just met a certain character for the first time and had to go help him. I'm only about 4 hours into the game and I just can't take any more. PLEASE help me. Everything I google just says to stagger it and fight it, but it does NO GOOD!

[LuvlyMor]

You can't beat it without completing Archylte Steppe main story, if it shows a mark where Royal Ripeness stands after the first battle, do not approach it before completing Archylte Steppe main story.

[SenMithrarin85]

To be clear, are you referring to the first fight with it (where you play as Noel on his own when you first enter Sunleth), or the second fight that you're warned away from?

It is beatable (the first time around at least) if you bring a maxed pulse knight with you from the bresha ruins for fringeward, but will take longer if you went to Sunleth straight from Bresha.

Stay in Delta attack for fringeward from your Pulse Knight and then switch to mystic tower to stagger it. For healing, you'll be forced to use potions as you'll need the paradigm monster slot for your sentinel at all times. You may want to develop Noel's Synergist until he gets Protect if you're really struggling.

[Tame]

I went straight from Bresha-05 AF to Sunleth-300 AF. I used the first gate I saw. Can I go back? I don't have a maxed pulse knight, either. Otherwise, I feel like I'm truly doomed. When I tried to use the gate before, it just said "Help the guy" (avoiding spoilers, so...)

[tm0Lif3]

hahaha.. me too. it wasn't that bad for me but i spent like half an hour only to realize there's no way in killing it.

[Killance]

You have to stop the dragon in the hunting area. Do side quests there until you get control of the weather system.

[SenMithrarin85]

引用自 Killance：

You have to stop the dragon in the hunting area. Do side quests there until you get control of the weather system.

Its not really necessary to wait that long to fight it. I always go there straight from Bresha 05af. Getting Moogle throw that early makes future locations more convenient. Just go in with a maxed pulse knight and you'll be able to beat it without too much trouble.

[bta35]

引用自 SenMithrarin85：

引用自 Killance：

You have to stop the dragon in the hunting area. Do side quests there until you get control of the weather system.

Its not really necessary to wait that long to fight it. I always go there straight from Bresha 05af. Getting Moogle throw that early makes future locations more convenient. Just go in with a maxed pulse knight and you'll be able to beat it without too much trouble.

He's talking about the Faeryl in Archylte Steepe and not the Yaschas Massif.

[SenMithrarin85]

引用自 bta35：

引用自 SenMithrarin85：

Its not really necessary to wait that long to fight it. I always go there straight from Bresha 05af. Getting Moogle throw that early makes future locations more convenient. Just go in with a maxed pulse knight and you'll be able to beat it without too much trouble.

He's talking about the Faeryl in Archylte Steepe and not the Yaschas Massif.

I know. There are two battles with the Ripeness and the first is perfectly do-able straight from Bresha. The second requires weakening to continue the story.

[Letsfail]

Or it's for end-game stuff with the paradox endings (one of my favorite endings) if you manage to defeat him without defeating the faeryl as mentionned.