Final Fantasy 12 PS2 Q&A

Q: I am at the part when you got to kill the spiders or the power will run out. how do I get out and go to the surface?

A1: Ah! your at the barheim passage quest! I'll tell you how! first kill the battery mimics then kill the other mimics, cast blizzard on them for a high damage and an easy win, then follow the path going for the No.4 whatever it is(forgot, sorry) and fight the mimic queen then after that your out! hope I helped!!!:-) -Answer by:finalfantasyman

A2: Ok. Go to the room in where there are those frogs hopping around that big lake. Turn so your back is to the water and look at the wall closely. There is a path you go up. After you go through the path you will reach the mimic queen so make sure you save the game and level up before you try escaping.

A3: If the charge comes lower than 30% then zombies and ghosts will appear. These may be too strong for your party, plus they can out-number you, so just make sure than the charge is high when your making your way through the passage. You have to find the gate switch, which opens the south gate. To do that, enter the area thats a little west of the gate, you may have to fight/flee from flans. Further on the passage you'll soon face a boss, it's recommended your party level's average is a little higher than 8. -Answer by:IHasAChocobo

A4: At the end you have to fight a big monster called a mmic queen. Guess what it looks like. Yes a mimic. To beat this thing beat the little spiders around it. Every so often it will revive itself and make another little spider. when it is beginning to do a special move flee as far away from it as you can. To get there beat each spider then run back to the save crystal. Never open a gate before you kill a spider because I did this and it went dark and I only just escaped from the powerful monsters. -Answer by:FFobssesive

A5: You must kill all the Batterie mimics in every area. If you see that the energy is going down then search quick where the mimic could be. The last mimic is in the area where you activate the switch to open the gates that will lead you to a gate stone. After that there will be a fight against the mimic queen. Beat her and you're free again. :)) -Answer by:Rain17

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Q: I was desperate to open some doors in the Necrohol of Nabudis. I started with the love door. I found the love medallion, tried to open the door, it didn't work. So I ended up giving the medallion to the white creature, who was it's rightful owner. So I basically just lost my medallion, said he was off to return it to the Frog King. Did I really need that medallion? Am I screwed? And where the hell is the Frog King?

A1: I think the Frog king is there leader, the one in the nabreus deadlands, the creature near the wrecked bridge, hehehe that's just a hintch. But I am sure it is him. because when you tried to talk to him in the first time, he will say that he is waiting for his desciples to give him a valuable item, only a leader or a king can say that you know. -Answer by:finalfantasyman

A2: If you did that crime and punishment hunt, you should have the blackened fragment. The blackened fragment and the love medallion PIECE are part of the 4 pieces of a whole medallion. Your supposed to give the pieces to another white creature at Dalan's house..I do not know where the other pieces are except those two....and yes you're screwed because the same thing happened to me.....I think the frog king is actually that golden frog statue at the Nabreus Deadlands. I touched the statue but it keeps saying that the door is held fast so I'm guessing you have to open that door with the love piece.....the golden frog statue can found somewhere in an area that is seperated from the Nabreus Deadlands so you'll have to find a secret path to get there...

A3: Go to old Dalans place the other disciple is there. Look around Rabanastre in the garamsythe waterway and bveat orthros this will get you the pieces for the other medallion. Go to the midget in thre Nabreus deadlands go to ovelooking eternity to get all the medallions -Answer by:FFobssesive

A4: Actually Skye winters tyhe moon silver medallion is the whole love medallio. Not just some of it. The pieces are part of the maedallion of bravery.

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Q: I can not beat those 3 dragon. What level are you when you finished stillshrine of miriam?

A1: I was level 35, surprisingly. It would be so much easier if your at a level 40 though. I fled through the 2nd and 3rd ascent. But I only surivived the bosses because my characters had strong weapons and some good white magicks. -Answer by:SkyeWinters

A2: Well one to defeat them you can just use a teleport stone on that gate stone and go back somewhere and lvl.up but if u dont you'll have to fite your way back.

A3: I was around level 21 on all characters, run through them to the exit, heal up and run around to get XP back, go out and hit them a few times, run back and heal, keep on with theis it doesn't take long... -Answer by:Noolsey

A4: I was almost lvl 60 at this point in the game, so ididnt have any trouble. If you have the bubble spell that is very helpful also, agreat way to beat allmost any boss is reverse+lure+bazerk on your biggest hitter for me its basch with excaliber. this is extemely devastating to almost any boss. Try and figguer out ways to stream line this strategy on your own. this is also a great strategy for hellwyrm, I just left the screen for a bout an hour. with your gambits set right this battle should be a breeze.

A5: Instead of fighting them you could flee right past them into the next area and return later in the game to beat them.

A6: I was very low I did most of the game at a low level only by using quickenings

A7: Just run through the room. Don't bother trying to beat them. If you can't beat them don't bother trying they aren't bosses or anything -Answer by:FFobssesive

A8: I was with 68 with Vaan(bronze armor and death bringer)

A9: I was lv 30 but I still couldnt beat them so I fled to the next area. also try using quickenings

A10: I havent finished it yet but im level 47 im also stuck on trying to get past the guys big sword with the statues

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Q: Wher is the other entrance to the waterway???

A1: There is only one way to Garmsythe passageway. That is through Rabanastre. If you mean the barheim passageway you need to have done the flowering cactoid hunt and the hunt for the nidhogg. Talk to dantro he will tell you to bring the cactus flower to his wife she will then send you off on a short side quest to get things for her patient. ( you should have beaten the Earth tyrant as well.) Get the stuff when her patient is better leave and enter the village and her patient wiil be round the back. The patient will give you the barheim key. The entrance should be in the area between where you left the barheim paageway and the village. It is in the corner of the map nearest to the original exit. Oh yeah by the way if you go through the west annex and terminus 7 (where there is an esper) you can go through here to get into the garamsythe waterway. In the area where the save crystal is in the bottom left corner

A2: You Mean the Barheim Passage you have to kill the Boss there first which is an Esper the Death Seraph Zalera. -Final Fantasy Girl

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Q: Where can I find this "Omega" monster?

A1: In the back area of great crystal

A2: Past the Taurus gate in the great crystal

A3: Great Crystal II

A4: Search in the omega ruins he is at the end

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Q: How do I get to the secret part of the henne mines.?

A1: You have to have control of 10 espers and talk to geomancer yugelo or whatever his name is because the strongest one zodiark is there.

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Q: How do I get past the gate of fire in giruvegan?

A1: Summon The Gigas(BELIAS)

A2: Go on each of those weird looking shrine thing for the lost and turn your camera around and go straight thru the 1 the goes green do the same thing til you get to the gate then sumon your belias esper and open the gate....:) hope this helps

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Q: I always get knot of trust out of the treasures, is that normal? How can I get the rare items, does every character need to have the diamond armlet on?

A1: It is normal to get knot of rust. and only one character needs diamond armlet

A2: Yup! its normal alright, because even if you equip the diamond armlet, it is still in random form there is a 60% chance in knot of rust and a 40% chance in rare items, and nope you just equip it to your party leader, nothing more nothing less. HOPE I HELPED!:-) -Answer by:finalfantasyman

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Q: OKAY, what with the water way thing, how do i solve this puzzle? i got that old dusty letter, but i dont get the waterway. what am i soposed to do??? oh and is there any other little side quest, besides hunts, that i can do for people in rabanastre? like finding those google things to walk in the sandstorm and fight that realy huge dainasour, which by the way i havnt beaten yet. is it worth it?

A1: You need the Sluice Gate key, and in order to do that you have to accept the Flan Mob Hunt in the tavern Hunt Board. The Petitioner is Sorbet, the Teleport Moogle in front of the Rabanastre Aerodome in the West Gate. Defeat the Flan and acquire the key. Sidequests are aplenty in the game. The best way is just to constantly re-visit settlements after every major event and talk with everyone twice; sometimes their second reaction is different from the first. Many of the sidequests available are integrated with the actual plot, though, so you won't have too much trouble finding any.

A2: The dinosaur in Dalmasca Westersand is like another boss. Talk to Monlblanc at the clan for a reward. Yeah it's worth it .... because it's easy ... just follow the instructions they give you. .... The Garamsythe Waterway thing however ... refers to a piece of a medallion. I never found an item ... but I did find an ESPER! Again just follow the directions, (check your map and make sure you account for the sluice gates) and you should find two more switches deep in the waterway. Open the east and southeast sluices first, and I believe it's the fourth zone down. Again, just follow the directions.

A3: I beat the dinosaur and no its not worth it in my opinion. he ws incredibly easy and you get nothing from him or the side quest, just the little part of the desert that once had a sandstorm is gone and now eastersand and westersand is connected... whoo hoo...

A4: I need to know how to do this also. how do you solve this puzzle, its driving me crazy Xo

A5: You must be level 25+ to easilly beat the dinasour. It will give you 1000+ exp

A6: Yes, sidequests are worth it. They reward you with extra EXP/LP/Gil/inventories, such as rare equipments and loot. The latter are valuable for making high-grade equipments at the Bazaar. You may still find these rare loot from enemies, but it'll take more time.

A7: The Earth Tyrant.... Is so easy. The Dinosaur in the Westersand is an optional boss named Earth Tyrant, and he is worth the fight. He won't drop anything but you can steal from him, you get the Tyrant Hide and the Tyrant Bone. Plus your reward from Montblanc in the Clan Hall, which is 1200 gil, not much I know but gil is gil. And since the Tyrant Bone sells for 1233 gil, and the Tyrant Hide for 549 gil you can make a good bit of money off this optional boss..... Oh! And also, after you beat the Earth Tyrant, go to the Phon Coast to find that Archadian Bangaa, Monid I believe was his name, and see just how greedy bangaa are....

A8: I beat the earth tyrant when I am level 65 with my tournesol and exculibur in .......... 30 counts

A9: He madellion side guest you have to get the key after killing the white Flan then go back to the moogle and she'll ask you 2 wait while she gets her brother to fix it. she'll give you the key then you go back into the waterway. shut off the the thats open from the beginnign. then you close gate 11 and 4. then you open gate 11 and close gate 3, then you open gate 4 and on the out ring you should c something shinny on the ground

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Q: Hi! Im A very Big Fan of your game(final fantasy 12)... im in the part where I will get a sword in the STILSHRINE OF MIRIAM... I was wondering... how can I get pass the shrine if there are two locked doors and one teleportation that doesnt work?

A1: You have to equip your leader with the Dawn Shard

A2: The one teleport gate/stone near the front of the shrine, where when you step on it, zombies come out of the ground is the solution to your problem. You must equip the dawnshard on your party leader, and THEN step onto the platform to open the way to the rest of the Stilshrine. Best of luck.

A3: Equip the dawn shard to ashe then choose her as leader. now go to the dawn pedestal,(in front of the statue of head,) and activate. note:bring hi potions and a good level.

A4: Put Ashe in your party and equip her with the Dawn Shard. Then try the device on the platform in the area in front of the large statue in the Ward of Measure section of the building. Ashe has to be equiped with the Dawn Shard to access the Way Stone as well.

A5: Put ashe in leader equip her with the dawn shard go to the pedestal (the one that makes zombies pop up out of nowhere)and touch it choose sentence 2 and then go through the whole dungeon thing.WARNING!There is noway too turn back(unless u die)and the enemies are like lvl.30-45 probably so bring high lvl.characters,strong wepons and alot of phoenix downs and hi-potoins

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Q: What's with the big machine at the end of great crystal??? How can I interact with it???

A1: This is the Omega mark. It is dormant until you defeat both Yizimat and Hell Wyrm.

A2: That's the Omega Mark XII. It is a big scary monster with ten million hp and it will kick your butt.

A3: It's Omega, he's not that hard just annoying. You have to defeat Hell Wyrm and then accept the Yazmat contract for him to become activated. If you read the logs in your beastry, it will tell you in one of them that omega was built by a scientist in the yensa sandsea to defeat yazmat which is why you have to accept the contract for it to awake.

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Q: Where can I find ixion, the seer, yazmat and the doom dragon????

A1: Ixion is in penumbra. after defeating the pharos use the elevator to go to penumbra. If there are no monsters Ixion is there. If there are monsters leave and come back. The seer is in abyssal. You must beat penumbra and umbra to get to abyssal at the bottom of the pharos. use the elevator to get there after completing both penumbra and umbra. Yiazmat is in ridorana cataract colosseum. Good luck, he's tough.

A2: Ixion can b found on the 3 lowest lvls of the Pharos The Seer is a hard one to reach as u have to do certain things but he's in an uknown area. on the first floor theres an elevator take it down to Suberra (i guess) defeat phoenix and light all 4 alters of night, then go back to lvl to heal ur characters now use the elevator again gives u a second floor to go to - once again light all alters up to their max, third floor is same as second floor then go back to lvl 1 save game and Unknown appears on the elevators list thats were the seer is.. he summons 4 monsters in the battle and u got to focus on them b4 the seer is touchable. Yazmat is in the Colosuem in Pharos and im still looking for doom dragon myself

A3: In the Pharos is where Ixion and the Seer are, Ixion's on the circular part of Umbra or Penumbra, try to get it on Penumbra by going up and down the elevator until there's no monsters, then wait 30 seconds and Ixion will appear, The Seer is on the bottom of the Subterra in an "Unknown" floor, you need to light up all the orb pedistals to get it though on every floor until they're full

A4: Ixion: In Pharos at Ridorana in the Penumbra (you NEED to finish the story past Pharos in order to gain access to Penumbra) When you teleport to Pharos, you will want to go to the elevator and then take it down. You will also want to use float since there are "swarm" traps which, when triggered, cause a HUGE swarm of monsters to attack at once. (all high level monsters) Seer: Pharos at Ridorana, Penumbra in a location called "Unknown". Please note that Shadowseer has the ability to summon the bosses you've previously defeated. He attacks you while the boss attacks too. Make sure you're a high level for this. Yiazmat: has about 50 MILLION HP (completely serious) so make sure that you are a really high level (I recommend 90+) and this battle takes a long long long time (the shortest time that I've seen is 2 hours) He is found also at Ridorana Cataract inside the collliseum. The hunt will only appear once you have defeated all (or all but one) of the previous marks, AND you've defeated Hell Wyrm. Doom Dragon, I'm assuming is the same as Hell Wyrm? If it is, then you can find Hell Wyrm after defeating Vyrral. Vyrral drops a dragon scale, which the Viera guest gives to you. Once you have this, you can go to the NorthEastern most portion of Cerrobi Steppe and find Windmill #10. You will get a short scene with the Wyrm Philosopher, who has been hindering the poor moogle's progress with windmill repairs, who gives you the Ageworn Key in exchange for giving him the dragon scale you hold. Turns out that he was doing research on the wyrm but fell asleep - and while he was asleep, you slayed the wyrm! Once you have the key, you can access the Hall of the Wroth God. In order to gain access though, you will need to enter through the Ascetic Door. If you haven't already done this part, you will want to go to "Destiny's March" and run a full circle from SE, SW, NW, NE, you should see a message that you hear a door opening. If you go towards the west, you'll find a secret area that you haven't explored yet. Follow the path around (watch out for the traps - there are a lot) and you'll see a door at the end. Use the Ageworn Key to access the area and be prepared for a LONG fight (not as long as Yiazmat though XD) Boss has about 8,500,000HP. But you CAN take a breather from this fight and when you choose to come back to this boss, you will find that he has NOT regained HP. You pick up where you left off :)

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Q: When is the clan shop open?????

A1: All the time. As soon as you get a rank. Its just not at the clans hide out. Its in the mini map just below it. He's the only guy selling goods in the area. -Answer by:Riot11

A2: ... the clan shop is open after you join clan centurio. if you didn't go back to tomaj after beating the first mark you do then you havn't joined clan centurio. just talk to tomaj and he tells you to show the clan primer to a bangaa in the north side. do this and your in the clan centurio clan hall. talk to montblanc, then talk to him again then your officially in the clan, the clan shop is in the muthru bazaar

A3: AnIt's in Muthru Bazaar after you join the clan, it's always open, and the stuff you get becomes much better as you gain levels.

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Q: Anyone know the easiest way to kill Exodus in the Mosphoran Highwaste? The basturd kills me too much with that Scathe spell and I can't get any good hits on him when he's almost dead.

A1: Get your party to lv 40-45.Note: I barely beat him. After Exodus attacks he pauses for a moment. At this time run far from him and use haste so that you can cura and raise faster. Make sure you have someone with range waepons so that one of your Characters survive his special attack. When he puts up the barrier where he cant take damage just wait it out and survive until the barrier is gone the continue the attack. You can also power up your party with haste protect etc... before you enter and fight him Note make sure you set your gambits so the you may have an advantage.

A2: Get to the 40-45lv.Or if u havent so high lv, try to use quickening.U need 3 combos with 10 or more hits.U can put in party 3 ch.then use a quick. then change one of the 3 ch., put another ch with full magic,use a quick....

A3: I suggest you augument your characters before your fight with Exodus, and I recommend you be at least level 40 - 45. Cast Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste, Bubble, Bravery and Faith. Faith, Regen and Shell wouldn't be really necessary, but Protect, Haste, Bubble and Bravery will come in handy since the scenario would be more melee rather than magic. And Haste would be useful since the time lags during the fight and Protect and Bubble would save your life from that Flare attack he has. I also suggest you have at least one member who is equipped with a weapon that's strong enough and can strike more than once. And a bubble belt will do. Now, right when you fight, send your most powerful characters in while you cast Dispel to get rid of his Reflect status. Since you'd be augumented with Protect and Bubble, each time a character gets hit by a Flare, cast Curaga / Curaja. When Exodus is about to die, he would be immune to physical and magick attacks. Try to stay alive and keep your second team ready. If you've managed to stick around long enough, and his barrier goes down, attack him with all you got. A mist combo would do if you have enough mp. But if your first time goes down, then just bring in your second and unleash full force. I also recommend you use these Gambits: Ally: any - Raise / Arise. Ally 50% HP - Cura / Curaga / Curaja. Foe: status Reflect - Dispel. Items can't be used so don't bother putting Phoenix Down in the Gambit selection.

A4: Get to level 50 at least for an easier fight. The worst thing about this fight is that Item use is prohibited, so Haste + a powerful spellcaster + powerful healing magic (Curaga/Curaja) is a must. I had to use two teams fighting him; one main attack team and the other to cure/raise the dead members of the main attack team. Since Exodus's Scathe could only be targetted at one party member, you can just replace the fallen attacker with someone of the second party, then have him/her use Rise/Arise on that one dead ally. After your dead ally has risen back from the dead, put him/her back in the attack party and replace his/her curer. Rinse and repeat for the other fallen party members. Quickly use quickenings on him once his HP is low -- you wouldn't want him to activate a paling and become immune to physical attacks.

A5: Go in with haste, shell, protect, and bubble on every character. hopefully you are a higher level (40+) so scathe won't kill you in one shot.

A6: The best thing to do when any esper is immune to something, is to attack with something it isn't immune to or to just sit back and heal. You could also alternate between massive healing and attacking with something that works. For example, when the Zalera Esper is being a little sissy and shields itself from attacks, you can still use guns to hit it while your other characters can heal and cast support magicks.

A7: To be honest, keep attacking till his health is low. To deal with Scathe, all you have to do is have everyone run away, or just at least one person so you don't lose the whole party. Keep attacking him, sooner or later the Paling will come up. Kill him with magick (dispel the reflect before you start casting your magick), or you can wait till the Paling is down. I really say when he is about to pull off Flare or Scathe, have a Raise ready on the target, and by the end, you'll be safe. :D Good luck with the fight!

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Q: Were is the lever or the switch on the second gate?

A1: Second gate of what area exactly? Be spesific so people can help you.

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Q: I know this might sound silly but I can open the door in the west room of the sochen palace, but I don't know how to open the pilgrim's door, It's trifling, but it's driving me crazy! please be specific.?

A1: It's very tricky to explain in words and is best done with pictures. you have to make the waterfalls in the area change paths. start in the falls of time area at the far east entrance go south and enter the mirror of the soul area. Here, run all the way west to the first entrance and go back into the falls of time area and go north through the first entrance and then east to the fourth exit and use it to re-enter the area you just exited and go south and exit through the next to last entrance to the east. You'll be all the way back into the area you started from, go west past the door in the center and take the next entrance north, then take the second entrance from the left, follow the u-turn and go south through the next exit and that will open the pilgrims door. (Check your maps to see which exit is which) told you it was hard to explain in words. You can find maps of what I just explained. Hope this helps somewhat! Good Luck

A2: You think it sounds silly? that totally p?ed me off, I spent hours trying to figure a way to open them.

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Q: How to beat the third temple of fayth?

A1: What fantasy game is it if u are talking about final fantasy X then when u get in to the second part take a djoes sphere and take the power from the stand in the roof then put it in the holder right to the locked door then take the other to sphere's and put them in the stand in the middle of the room anddrop them in to the middle of the lightning and then get the sphere from the holder light all the eye and get the distruction sphere take it up to the next room then light all the switches and put the distruction sphere in the first look -Answer by:finalfantasykid

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Q: How do you join the hunt club?

A1: By talking to the bangaas in phon coast after beating doc cid at da lab.