Dark Aeons?

[Evil Betty]

So Im right at the end of the game, and I'm going around trying to hit up the temples. However, I can't even get close to Besaid temple because there's some monk guy who keeps forcing me to fight Dark Valefor. Is there a way around this? I'm nowhere near strong enough yet to fight that.

[Moridin]

If you already have the item from the cloister of trials then you dont need to bother going in there. The story only requires you to see Bevelle's Fayth.

[Tinvai]

You will have to defeat Dark Valefor to enter the temple in Besaid again, there's no way around it.

[Evil Betty]

Originally posted by Tinvai:

You will have to defeat Dark Valefor to enter the temple in Besaid again, there's no way around it.

Dammit. I can't remember if I got that item or not. What a pain.

[Moridin]

There IS a method to one shot kill Dark Valefor. it needs a weapon with First Strike, Rikku's God hand celestial weapon comes with it. Or use of a Return Sphere to graft it onto a weapon. You also need Yojimbo from the cavern of the stolen faith between gagazet and the calm lands. Put the character with First Strike into your starting line up, then swap them for Yuna and summon Yojimbo. if you're lucky he will use Zanmato and kill Dark Valefor in one hit.

[Evil Betty]

Originally posted by Moridin:

There IS a method to one shot kill Dark Valefor. it needs a weapon with First Strike, Rikku's God hand celestial weapon comes with it. Or use of a Return Sphere to graft it onto a weapon. You also need Yojimbo from the cavern of the stolen faith between gagazet and the calm lands. Put the character with First Strike into your starting line up, then swap them for Yuna and summon Yojimbo. if you're lucky he will use Zanmato and kill Dark Valefor in one hit.

Oh I like that idea. Thanks for the tip.

[Moridin]

im not completly sure that the God Hand comes with first strike.

If you remember the weapon shop in Kikika, by now it sells gear with 3 open slots. using stamina tonics to put HP +30% and selling it is a good Gill producer, from what my mates found, using that trick and giving yojimbo about 380-400k gill will increase the odds of him using Zamato by a very significant margin.

You only need to have given him that much once, the change to his zamato chance is permanat for that run through.

[NINJA Y2K]

Originally posted by Evil Betty:

So Im right at the end of the game, and I'm going around trying to hit up the temples. However, I can't even get close to Besaid temple because there's some monk guy who keeps forcing me to fight Dark Valefor. Is there a way around this? I'm nowhere near strong enough yet to fight that.

Just use yojimbo and have him use zanmato. zanmato will take care of everything lol. It might take few reloads though.

[OnlyOffensive]

I've killed 3 or 4 dark aeons without any stat maxing or extra exp grind, all you need is to have celestial weapons at least on heavy hitters and couple auto-phoenix armors, use haste/auto-life and overdrives or you can simply pay for Zanmato aswell.

Auron weapon has first strike, use his overdrive that do full break, i think it called Banish? Valefor is super easy, just dont forget to summon aeon when his gauge is full to eat his energy ray.

[ShinkuTear]

If you aren't sure if you got the Besaid temple Destruction item, go to Baaj Temple and check. There are 6 statues, tying in to Besaid, Kilika, Djose, Macalania, Bevelle, and Zanarkand. I think the Besaid statue is the first on the left, Kilika first on the right, and so on.