Battle Arena Rant

[Corvellia]

The Boat with a skeleton in the Battle Arena in the Golden Saucer....holy hell that guy is so cheap. I get to him and he is sometimes the last enemy to fight, but he can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hit you right off the screen and end the fight in one move. That is SO cheap...

[Zork Nemesis]

Originally posted by Corvellia:

The Boat with a skeleton in the Battle Arena in the Golden Saucer....holy hell that guy is so cheap. I get to him and he is sometimes the last enemy to fight, but he can ♥♥♥♥ing hit you right off the screen and end the fight in one move. That is SO cheap...

Yeah, I never did like that, luckily he's something like a one-in-five chance so you'll probably get the other cheap monsters instead. I'm not a fan of getting constantly slept/stopped by that giant plant thing. Your best hope is that you'll have a speed advantage so you can open with something guarenteed to one-shot it, I had Comet 2-Quadra Magic ready to go for those last enemies.

You know what isn't fun though? Getting to the last fight in the special battle (against Prod Clod) and having all materia broken. The only reason I won that fight beyond Omnislash was because I was desperate to win and was willing to burn my Megalixers when I ran out of X-potions and Elixirs.

[Corvellia]

Yeah, I don't have all of the uber powerful materia's yet I'm grinding for omni slash. I have gotten him 3 times in a row so I've taken a bit of a break lol. Keeping the game minimized while I do something else. I wish they had a save point/shop in the battle arena considering if you leave you lose all of your points.

[Govalon]

I use ribbon and I choose all the bad statuses from the reel. Thats like a free reel without any handicap. I also use quadramagic ultima and just mime all the way to last boss. I break all my materia on last reel because that gives HUGE amount of points. Then I kill the last enemy with omnlislash

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

Ah, good strategy, the one with the ribbon :)

[Corvellia]

So your handicaps determine your Battle Point output?

[Restless]

If you're grinding for Omnislash on Disc 1 or 2, then you should be using Enemy Skill Materia, as well as Right Arms to complete the Battle Arena. On Disc 1 you won't have a Ribbon yet, but you can use Smoke Bombs to escape and keep your battle points if things get rough. Make sure you have your Limit Break available to finish off the last fight, as you don't want to get ejected by the Ghost Ship. Thats what Meteorrain is for. The first 7 rounds can usually be won easily with a single Right Arm, Aqualung or Beta cast. If you are on Disc 2 or 3 then your options really open up, and you should no longer have trouble with the Battle Arena. Its really only difficult and mildly tedious while on Disc 1.

[MoonUnit]

Originally posted by Corvellia:

Yeah, I don't have all of the uber powerful materia's yet I'm grinding for omni slash. I have gotten him 3 times in a row so I've taken a bit of a break lol. Keeping the game minimized while I do something else. I wish they had a save point/shop in the battle arena considering if you leave you lose all of your points.

I did those in disc 2 without KotR. If you want to be cheap, get your level 3 limit break + mime and hope you don't run into all materia broken or command materia broken handicap.

I dreaded the boat, but once Cloud gained more levels, I was able to kill it before he kicked me out of the battle.

[BlackSilver]

I wish Battle Arena was harder though, or atleast the special battles. I am thinking we could fight "mini" versions of Ruby, Emerald, Diamond, Ultima, and even Sapphire Weapon. Sort of like Replica Ruby Weapon, smaller than the real thing, but still large and packs quite a tentacle slap. Also we could fight fake versions of the characters such as Sefirot or Claud Strip or Vince Halloween.

[Restless]

I believe you can also X-Potion/Life the Ghost Ship, but I am not 100% certain anymore on whether or not it is considered Undead.

@cardGamer Yeah, the "special battle" is very underwhelming when compared to some of the optional "arenas" implemented into the later Final Fantasy titles. That is why many players ultimately developed their own "challenge run" rules.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Well, atleast you cant say the game doesnt have any difficulty.

[Govalon]

Originally posted by Corvellia:

So your handicaps determine your Battle Point output?

Yes, but mainly the last one. If you break your materia too early, you won't get much points. Maybe 6k or something at the end. If you break your magic materia or all your materia in the last reel, you will always get atleast 10k points.

[bongerman85]

ive taken to using war gongs on him to put him into berserk, granted his hits do more damage. but he cant eject you from the arena though.

also use war gongs on the ghost ship. this will cause him to go into berserk status, this makes it so he is unable to attack with anything other than a physical ore swipe.

[bongerman85]

Originally posted by xxx_Booty_Bandit69:

Yeah, I don't have all of the uber powerful materia's yet I'm grinding for omni slash. I have gotten him 3 times in a row so I've taken a bit of a break lol. Keeping the game minimized while I do something else. I wish they had a save point/shop in the battle arena considering if you leave you lose all of your points.

a trainer will allow you to do this. i use mr antifun ff7 trainer for the save anywhere option. i saved my game exited and reloaded in the battle lobby, and still had my points on reload.