Aeronite: 1st playthrough

[JAD]

Is it worth ALL the farming one has to endure to fight this ONE enemy? I mean, I have beaten all of the last ones before day 10 and this is the only important thing left to do for me before day 12.

Not only that, but the fighting style that one needs to use against this enemy is not my thing. You have to rely too much on magic attacks because if you get too close, you get hurt all the time. You need to constantly debuff the guy to decrease his damage output, and fighting against him means for me completely change my schemata or really become way stronger.

So again, is it worth to fight him in the 1st game? I think I'm too old for this kind of things :P Back in the day I would beat Omega and Artema Weapons in FFX-VIII etc like a pro, but now... I find all the grind too boring and time consuming...

[Serafie1999AD]

Aeronite doesn't really require much grinding on Easy or Normal. Yesterday, I defeated him on Normal on Day 7, and this is pretty much what you need:

- Quiet Guardian garb (can be bought from Yusnaan for 1,250 gil)
- Miqo'te garb (speak to all Chocobo girls in Yusnaan) or Soldier of Peace (complete the Hunter's Challenge quest in Wildlands)
- Chaos's Revenge (beat Caius)
- Wyvern Lance (buy from Ruffian for 4,000 gil)
- Preta Hood (beat the main quest of Dead Dunes)
- Witch's Rosary (found in southern Wildlands)
- Runic Ring (found in Luxerion's Old Town)
- (optional) White Strap (found in the Temple Ruins in Dead Dunes)
- (optional) Pain Dampener (found in Dead Dunes, Dry Floodlands' Shrine)
- Deprotect
- Imperil
- Defaith (found in Dead Dunes, in Giant's Sandbox)
- three -ra spells, preferably Thundara, but Aerora can also do
- a potion to give you an En- spell (Enaero, Enthunder etc)
- a potion or two to give you Bravery

You'll find practically all of these by simply exploring everywhere, no need for farming. Here's the setup you'll need:

- Miqo'te or SoP: your strongest weapon, and preferably a helmet that increases strength
- Quiet Guardian: Wyvern Lance, Preta Hood, Runic Ring and maybe a shield that increases your magic defence
- 3rd garb: Chaos's Revenge, Witch's Rosary

Every schemata should have a -ra spell. Keep attacking with -ra spells constantly. Use the 3rd garb whenever you can, since it will restore ATB on the other two garbs, and it will cause the Aeronite to get staggered when the stagger wave becomes red. Whenever Aeronite attacks, switch to Quiet Guardian just before the attack hits you, and then keep casting -ra spells. When Aeronite moves his head, switch to Quiet Guardian immediately, since he will use Magnet to draw you close, followed by Roar. Quiet Guardian will block the Magnet, and Roar won't hit you if you keep your distance. When Aeronite has been staggered twice, cast Defaith on him (you need to cast it twice), and be prepared to switch to Quiet Guardian and guard against Hellflare. When he's been staggered four times, use the En- potion on yourself to give yourself an elemental attack. Cast Deprotect and Imperil on him, and keep recasting them. Use a potion to give yourself Bravery, and then use Miqo'te's Magic Slash or Soldier of Peace's Artemis Arrows to attack Aeronite. Switch to Quiet Guardian to defend whenever Aeronite casts a spell, and then keep on attacking. If your fighting garb runs out of ATB, use Overclock. Keep using physical attacks until he goes down.

The battle is much more about learning his patterns than grinding.

[JAD]

Originally posted by Serafie1999AD:

The battle is much more about learning his patterns than grinding.

The battle is about relearning your buttons since you changed the entire schemata to fight him XD

This is the thing I don't like about this boss. Every strategy out there recommends very simillar approachs. Back when I defeated Caius I had troubles but I didn´t need to change my play style, nor any other Last One boss, nor other character like Noel or Snow.

This boss forces you to play like this or you don't win, period. Doesn't matter the level you are on. You need those items, those abilities, those accesories, change your schematas completely just for him and so on. That is what I hate about it.

You don't get to beat him with your playstyle, you just need to mimic what the official guide says or else you don't win, and I hate when a game does that.

For example, back when FFVIII or X, you could beat the most powerful enemies using your favorite characters, your favorite GF or Aeons and so on. Sure, some were really helpful etc, some abilities were a must. But you weren't limited to A, B, and C to fight X boss, you used to have margin to choose your playstyle.

My play style for example consists on having a guard schemata, a physical attack one and a magical attack one. This boss makes one of them completely useless, limits the other one to just guard and leaves only the magic attacks one to deal the stagger alone. You can't win like that against him, period. Doesn't matter how good you are or how fast you stagger almost every other enemy in the game. Not even equipping the accesories you mentioned is enough, I do need to change my playstyle and the entire schemata to beat one single boss.

[Unseen]

I just beat aeronite on hard and he ate all my healing items, elixirs, turbo eithers, all gone, I coulda just refought him a little better but eh that's what they are for right.
Really all you need to do is stock up on the proper items, use overclock, stagger him 3 or 4 times till he collapses, and hit him with Miqu'tos schemeta move magic slash. Its not as easy as that but that's the simple concept, you'll of course need to guard periodically but that's about it.


I found Ereshkigal harder due to its high damage output and devastating moves, it has lower HP but imo was a harder fight in a lot of ways. Why I'm a bit worried about Ereshkigal on hard, and Bhun plus, since I don't have any healing items left (good ones I mean and not vendor stock) probably have to hit the roads for a while and hope I can get some turbo eithers from baird.

Sorry if you find the game boring, I love it, very intense one of my fav action rpgs now I'd like to see FF go back to turn based/ATB please.

[JAD]

Originally posted by AngryGamer:

I just beat aeronite on hard and he ate all my healing items, elixirs, turbo eithers, all gone, I coulda just refought him a little better but eh that's what they are for right.
Really all you need to do is stock up on the proper items, use overclock, stagger him 3 or 4 times till he collapses, and hit him with Miqu'tos schemeta move magic slash. Its not as easy as that but that's the simple concept, you'll of course need to guard periodically but that's about it.


I found Ereshkigal harder due to its high damage output and devastating moves, it has lower HP but imo was a harder fight in a lot of ways. Why I'm a bit worried about Ereshkigal on hard, and Bhun plus, since I don't have any healing items left (good ones I mean and not vendor stock) probably have to hit the roads for a while and hope I can get some turbo eithers from baird.

Sorry if you find the game boring, I love it, very intense one of my fav action rpgs now I'd like to see FF go back to turn based/ATB please.

On the contrary, I found LR to be really fun to play. Unlike the previous XIII entries, you have total control over the battle.

I just found the Aeronite boss fight really uninteresting. In any case, it's done and I'm on my marry way to day 13th and ultimate dungeon :D

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1494801815

Now is time to reequip my old schemata :P

[KarmaTheAlligator]

You know you can change the buttons the abilities are set to, right? No need to relearn anything, just arrange them to what you're used to.

[JAD]

Originally posted by KarmaTheAlligator:

You know you can change the buttons the abilities are set to, right? No need to relearn anything, just arrange them to what you're used to.

Of course, I do that all the time. That doesn't change the fact.

For you to understand. I've beaten the ultimate lair boss yesterday and I was able to still use my play style. I wasn't able to do that with Aeronite.