disc 4 grinding spots?

[Nishan]

The vile island lambs are inconsistent for me because of them putting viruses on me preventing certain characters from leveling up.

Are there any other good spots to prepare for ozma and the disc 4 bosses?

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Grand Dragons spawn across the world. I forgot the exact locations but I think outside Daguerreo, the island where Chocobo's Lagoon is, and the field outside the vine in Gizamaluke's Grotto are some of them. They wield 8800 exp per character, and have roughly 13k HP.

[Scarlet Crusade]

Originally posted by Eri:

Grand Dragons spawn across the world. I forgot the exact locations but I think outside Daguerreo, the island where Chocobo's Lagoon is, and the field outside the vine in Gizamaluke's Grotto are some of them. They wield 8800 exp per character, and have roughly 13k HP.

Expanding on this, Quina's Level 5 Death will instantly slay a Grand Dragon, and if you have Auto-Regen, Auto-Reflect, and Antibody on everyone, you're basically invincible.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Rydia:

This the best alternative (what I used to do then back then)
In the Memoria- Time Warp
You'll encounter the Behemoth and Slivia, these enemies give you more than a Grand Dragon, and if you'd like, you can have one character defeat them: a total of about 53000 exp for the Behemoth or about 42000 for the Silivia.
all four members:
About 11000 for Behemoth
and about 9300 for Silvia.

Exp per battle wise, yes, Behemots will give you around 13k exp per kill, per character. Time wise, not sure. Grand Dragons die quick and are relatively harmless. Lv5 Death works on them also, and on disc 4 Dracozombies and Whale Zombies are everywhere so Quina can easily get it. Behemots have almost twice as much HP, hit harder, and have Meteor Counter, so the fights might drag on for a while.

[Ichisuke]

Mmm I just kill the Yans on Vile Island continuosly casting Quina's Night spell and Zidane doom effect with the Masamune using Soul Blade so they won't wake up. You just have to enable everyone to be protected against sleep with Imsoniac ability, from back attacks with Alert and preemptive strike with Initiative. They won't go to sleep at every attack but this is the easiest way to kill them. You can cast Odin or other death magic spells. Also if you are playing with time battle set to wait you can stay in a character menu every time you use doom or some magic/summons to avoid letting the Yans wake up.

[Nadsergio]

If you are absolutely sure you don't want to level up with the yans I would go for the grand dragons as well, but seriously yans are the best alternative, just plan your battles to get everyone a vaccine every time you need it before dealing the final blow. As above said, I would use Zidane's Soul Blade with Doom at least to kill all the Yans minus 1, get cured of the virus, and then attacking as well, note that all the exp the guy with virus don't get is received by the others.

Another advise is to level all your characters at the same time, that will make the virus a little less annoying

[Nishan]

im around level 80 now and it still feels a bit slow leveling. I can only imagine how it must be for the PS1 users with no speed up option...

[<color=#CD3210>Lunatic]

i have a unique question for vile island farmers : How do you go about farming ther Friendly Yan? This guy has 255 of all stats and 65k health, my zidanes physical attacks that hit kuja for 9999 only do 150-200 on this guy, apparently people can farm him for his 50 (100 ability up) ap and rosetta rings, but he always counter's with BAAH a super hard hitting physical aoe, so everyone has to have protect and be in the back row to survive, but what actual attacks hurt him, i figured out zidanes thievery can deal 9999, any other attacks?

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Dr. Algernop Krieger:

i have a unique question for vile island farmers : How do you go about farming ther Friendly Yan? This guy has 255 of all stats and 65k health, my zidanes physical attacks that hit kuja for 9999 only do 150-200 on this guy, apparently people can farm him for his 50 (100 ability up) ap and rosetta rings, but he always counter's with BAAH a super hard hitting physical aoe, so everyone has to have protect and be in the back row to survive, but what actual attacks hurt him, i figured out zidanes thievery can deal 9999, any other attacks?

Zidane's Thievery, Freya's Dragon's Crest, Quina's Frog Drop, and Amarant's Spare Change all have the potential to deal a 9999 hit against anything. Garnet's Atomos summon can also deal 9999 damage against the Friendly Yan. "BAAAHHH!!!" is literally harmless if your party has Auto-Regen and a high Spirit stat, to make the regen tick faster, assuming you are max level. Just equip Loudmouth on Garnet and Quina if you want to use them, since "BAAAHHH!!!" can silence your party. It's really not a hard enemy.

[GDK]

Originally posted by Nishan92:

im around level 80 now and it still feels a bit slow leveling. I can only imagine how it must be for the PS1 users with no speed up option...

Level 80 is largely enough to wreck any boss in the game. If you want the lvl 99 achievement just use the booster.
I defeated ozma at roughly level 60 on PS1 (well got lucky and had to try several times but I did it).

[Dafx]

Hello,

For me the best spot is also Vile Island. In my method I am leveling per one character by using virus status wisely. Here is the strategy (it is not mine - found it somewhere and derived a little bit)

1. to get virus status to 3 characters, that won't get experience I am using chimera method:
fight chimera in memoria 1st room, attack with desired character you want to get infected by virus , equip antidote, body temp and wait for chimera's 3rd attack to inflict virus (first two are safe with above mentioned immunities), repeat for two other characters, thus only one you want to levelup is left without virus.
2 fight yans on Vile Island, but attack with levelling one only in 2nd round of 9999 DMG to prevent unwanted virus infection. Others should attack freely in first round (YOU SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT VIRUS COUNTER) with Quina's night (priority), then, Zidane's masamune's soul blade, thievery (9999), Freya's Dragon Crest (9999), Quina's Frog Drop (9999), Dagger's Atomos (99 gems=9999).
Other attacks guarantee 9999 DMG only in higher levels: Steiner's shock, Amarant's No Mercy, Vivi's Flare, Eiko's Holy or Summons, or it can be used Amarant's and quina's Doom, Vivi's Death, Steiner's Iai attack too but with no 100% guaranteed hit.

PROS:
- By levelling per one character you get levels quite fast (at lvl.60 one character should get 3-4 levels per one 3 yans fight) as experience is accumulated only by this particular character.
- You should not worry about viruses, and KO of other characters.
- Easier equipment management for stat maxing of Spirit and STR -fighters/MAG -mage,summoners. You will take care for stat maxing equipment for only 1 character, other should be equipped with best possible armor, helmet etc.
- Last but not least, only one characted will use precious magic stones for Level Up passive ability, other should utilize the best abilities they offer and suits you (high tide, hp +10,20%, Concentrate,etc. to maximize theirs survival chance.

I have not exactly measured this, but by using this method you should max from about 60 to 99 lvl. all characters in 10 - 15 hours, depending a little by luck, but in my opinion it is a lot easier, as there is alot better control of virus, and KO distribution in fighting party.


SIDE NOTE:
I am also using chimera virus method also for learning all abilities for all characters BEFORE FIGHTING YANS by fighting Grand Dragons for those reasons:
- Equipment needed to learn new ability is almost always not optimal for stat maxing. Thus I should not care for unwanted level ups without optimal stat maxing equipment. (Lose Spirit str/mag points). You will get only ability points (12 pts per fight with ability up equipped), but will not gain exp with virus status.
- The Yan EXP Grind is so fast, that I Really don't care for Grand Dragon EXP, only for ability points, and slayed dragons count for Freya's Dragon Crest.

I will greatly appreciate comments on this method :-)

[Ritterkreuz]

Grand dragons on mountains above burmecia.