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holly-fixation · 2 months

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Ever Crisis Tips!

For anyone who started this game or wants to know what the best way to use your time/resources is, here are my tips to get stronger faster:

1: They recently added a 9x stamina option. This means 9 times the rewards with 9 times the stamina, but you save so much actual TIME. This makes grinding for everything a lot easier.

2: Give yourself a specific goal for anything that uses stamina. These will keep you from going insane. "I'm going to max out Aerith's exp." "I'm going to get all the highest weapon materials." "I'll get all the ice materia materials I could ever want!" "I'm going to max out Zack's Ifrit rarity!"

3: Use auto battle. Specifically, if you don't want to be in the top 1,000 of the dungeon rankings (that takes so much time and I am also convinced it costs money), only play levels you do not need to pay attention to. This still applies for stamina cost battles only. Your life will be so much easier if you passively get stronger through a bunch of auto battles than forcing yourself to pay attention.

4: Check on the Cetra Tower every once in a while. You will probably forget about it. If you give it a couple of tries and realize you aren't getting any closer to winning, LEAVE. It's not worth the heartache.

5: When gaining weapon materials, all the metal cubes can be broken down to the smaller ingots and such in the Exchange menu. NEVER waste your time playing early weapon material quests when you have access/can reliably complete the difficult quests. - Even for later materials, you will always run out of the rarest first. The genome pods and such cannot be broken down, but you will not want to either.

6: Weapon enhancement (grindstones) same deal: always play the highest level for the best rewards.

7: I suggest having an A team for difficult battles, a B team for when the A team maxes out, and a C "this team is my lowest level" for daily missions. You might not like everyone, but it feels like you're still making progress even if your A team is maxed out.

8: If there is a free draw, try to remember it with everything you have. Free draws are rare and incredibly useful.

9: Personally I always keep 36,000 crystals on the back burner in case a specific costume I really want appears in the next banner. It is incredibly difficult to maintain crystals if you want something from every banner. The real money option is incredibly expensive. Be careful.

10: Try not to forget about the dungeons, especially early game. But also don't hurt yourself on the crisis dungeons. If you feel like you're hitting your head against a wall, it's not worth the medals yet.

11: You will reach a point where the only thing stopping your characters from growing stronger is the weapon rarity. This will suck. The best you can do is gain materials for other uses.

12: Materia in the microwave: try not to forget but not the end of the world either. I suggest cooking up 3* of every single materia type you have access too. Don't worry about the 4* and 5* materia until everything at least has 3*.

13: Speaking of materia: focus on Ruin when you're bored. They cook fast and since almost every boss requires them, it's better to do more damage in those required levels with higher stars *.

14: Summons: Very hard 1 is the only very hard you should ever do outside of coop. Only complete this to unlock the summon stream/stronger attack. Since Auto battle can't complete them, don't repeat these levels.

15: Double speed is great, but if you lose a level, try turning off double speed. The game won't register certain attacks that should go through on double speed. Normal speed can actually be your key to victory, since all attacks that can go through will.

16: Coop sucks. We all know it, but the rewards are incredibly useful. Usually just doing the event coop will cover the weekly requirement, but check the items available anyway. Item drops increase for coop levels.

17: Save 40 stamina potions before an event begins so if you have time or really want the rewards, you can blow through it. Any more than 40 will become 99 WAY faster than you think it will, so try to use stamina when YOU have time.

18: Yes the phone version drains battery life, but it's also easier for multitasking. I play while folding my laundry or watching youtube. If this is impossible, there is also a steam version. And you can link your account so you won't lose any progress!

Good luck! Hope this helps!

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saanphoenix · 4 years

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There's two scenes that I remember from Last Order nearly a decade after seeing it.

One I bring up a lot is Cloud's eyes glowing after being stabbed by Sephiroth and becoming Extremely Pissed about it. Even Sephiroth's like, "What in the fuck?" And ever since then I wish they'd touch on that. The closest I got to them doing that was Cloud going berserk and taking out AVALANCHE members in Before Crisis. With a sword he picked up off the ground. Like, were you trained for that or did you just go ham to the point ya didn't need to be trained? Even CLOUD doesn't know what just happened.

The second part is when Zack and Cloud are set upon by Security Officers.

I love Crisis Core, but its level of anime is too anime. The anime is less anime than Crisis Core. Crisis Core makes Zack fight an entire army that's armed with machine guns and cannon rounds and just a whole buncha nonsense while Zack has at his disposal a bunch of Mastered materia and summons that are more random than FFXV's. Oh, and he just randomly gets possessed by friendship power and attacks people that way.

Not impressive.

But in Last Order, Zack doesn't have any of that shit. And if a bullet hits you it fuckin' hits you. There's an actual threat from the dudes Zack's facing that he can't magic away. He actually has to avoid this shit. This is a good set up.

And then the anime makes Zack actually use his goddamn superhuman skills. Fuck your materia, fuck your sword, he's got arms and legs and he knows how to use them. And, boy, does he use them. The Officers are shooting each other trying to shoot him, he is that fast and they are that dumb. Eventually, one of them's like, "Stop! We're killing ourselves!" but what you gonna do? He's gonna beat your ass regardless. Bad day to get guard duty.

I had waited for a demonstration like that. Oh, how I had waited. Everyone in the game's always like, "SOLDIERs are hardcore. They're to be feared. And Sephiroth's the bestest of the best," and I was like, "But we only ever meet Sephiroth. And he has a fuckton of Mastered materia, a stupid metal toothpick the size of Texas, and gear that makes him fireproof. I could literally give Tifa the same shit and she would also become God. HOW are they different to regular people? SHOW ME how they're different," and the anime went, "Here ya go." That's the power of SOLDIER.

The minute the Remake trailer went, "Here's a SOLDIER," my excitement went through the roof. Hit me, Roche. Fucking end me. Give weight to the line Cloud says in the original that, if someone from SOLDIER had encountered them during the Bombing Mission, they would all be dead. Because the anime showed that you can make eye contact with them one second and then your neck's broken from a well-aimed kick the next. Giiiive meeee thaaaat!!

#ffvii #ffvii remake #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #last order

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