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Gaming journal: Final Fantasy XIII ~Rich in CP~

Written by Random J •
Gaming journal: Final Fantasy XIII ~C Pizzle~
Once you hit that 9th level of the Crystarium, crystogensis gets real expensive. But that's okay. Because...POW!

999999 CP! [photo taken by J ;P]Snow and Fang have been on the back seat for a while. Lighting, Hope and Fang were my wonder squad. But then I switched in that ho Vanille to make use of her Saboteur skills (Deprotect an enemy and watch how quick their HP drops once your Commando goes for them). I'm not sure why I didn't bother leveling the Sentinels up. Because even though Sazh has been dead weight in my party since hitting Gran Pulse, I still worked out his Crystarium.

I'm a creature of habit, so I like keeping the same squad. I don't think I've switched out Lightning or Hope once. I didn't even switch in Snow or Fang for Sentinel duties, because I made Lightning one a good while back; and a mighty fine Sentinel she is too! Her Elude ability is a God send. I could not have done C'ieth stone mission 46 without it. She's pretty much untouchable. Kinda like my party right now! Well...until I run into an Adamantoise. But I even managed to take one of those down last night.
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  1. Junlee5 April 2010 at 20:52

    *cues Smokey and Craig*

    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!

    I haven't thought much about putting in Vanille. I've pretty much stayed with Lightning, Fang, Hope or Lightning, Fang, Sazh.

    I got Light as a Sentinel right now, but she's not very far at all. I've mainly been upgrading stuff my peeps are already good at, while getting them to the bare minimum of other roles. But after reading this, I think I'll pimp out Light's Sentinel role.

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  2. lilithdarkstorm5 April 2010 at 22:05

    Nice! I finished the story mode last night and just now I finished my 30th (ish) mark, but I think I won't bother doing much more, as I feel I've done enough. It's a shame though that there's not much to do after the game apart from marks and chocobo treasure hunting.

    I used Lighning, Fang and Vanille through most of the time I could chose my party, and I had little trouble for most of the game, but I switched Vanille with Hope for part 2 of the final boss as I needed his stats boost (Haste saved me!) I wanted to make use of Sazh but he just didn't seemed to perform well for me, but personaility wise he's still my favourite character.

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