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Originally Posted by Typhoid
I'm stuck in Chapter 11, and it's really pissing me off because it seems completely impossible for me to win.
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Hmm? Stuck on what exactly? A boss?
There are two places I can think you might be having trouble! SPOILERZ ABOUT BOSSES!:
The first place I can think of is in the mine with the juggernaut that is guarding a Treasure orb. Basically the damn thing takes a beatdown and even with tier 8 maxed out it took 3 staggers to kill. The main thing is to have hope in your party and have him cast protect, barfire and shell. This will eliminate a lot of the damage the thing can do with its big fire swing. After that switch to RAV/RAV/RAV and let spells fly to stagger it quickly, then shift to COM/COM/RAV or COM/RAV/RAV to do a lot of damage in the stagger.
The next place I can think you're stuck would be the last boss of the chapter, which is Barthandalus's second fight. Basically he spends the entire round being a huge douche, but the shining light is that he's really easy to stagger. So start the round with a synergist casting buffs (Preferably Hope since he has the good defense buffs), and then switch to rav/rav/rav again to rack up the chain. When bart is stunned I switched to Com/Com/Medic to recover and pound on the damage as much as possible, however Com/Com/RAV was used if I was in good health to continue to crank the chain to do more damage. If it ever looks like you're getting into a really hairy spot (AKA everyone under 700 HP and you aren't in a paradigm with medic), please summon your eidolon because it will heal you and the team, rack up some decent damage, and if you happen to die while you and the eidolon are killing shit together, then the Eidolon will revive you. Also this was the fight I was talking about where I bought Antidotes and used them to get rid of poison because the AI would never cast ESUNA even though my hp was almost full. SHITTY AI!!!
If you're stuck on something else let me know, also there is a lame sidequest at the end of Ch. 11 that I highly suggest you take the time to complete as it nets you about 600k gil. I got stuck on a part of this quest for about 20 minutes.
To be honest chapter 11 is all about farming up the 8th tier of the Crystarium, here is why:
There are 3 really good places to do so on the Archlyte Steppe.
When you first get there, there's a behemoth that drops about 4k CP a fight, it's one of the lesser behemoth's and pretty easy to tackle.
After that there's a place in the Western edge of the map where there are two battles with chicken mages (Rangas and something else) but they're all chicken mages. The first battle is where the chicken mage is standing on a rock and 3 other chicken mages are running around in a circle around this chicken mage. That battle is worth 2700 cp, and the next is on a cliff with 5 rangas. The trick to doing these fights really fast is to get fang, lightning, and snow out and make sure all 3 are commandos and know blitz. A couple of rounds of blitz and the chickens are roasted. In the second fight with the 5 rangas, hold your blitz off until you see them start to cast Aeroga which hurts really badly. Eventually you'll move up on the Crystarium so far this wont be an issue and chickens will die in 10-15 seconds. That battle nets you 3500 cp. You can quickly run back and forth between these two fights and gain about 12400 cp a minute. In an hour and a half I had maxed tier 8.
The last battle is right before the cave. The giant wolf and the king behemoth who are fighting each other. They never notice you and you always preemptive strike the fight. COM/RAV/RAV as you enter the fight and target the behemoth first so he doesn't stand up. Hopefully your COM has launch. Anyway he's at half life, so doesn't take long to kill him. Then just keep on the wolf who is also at half life. this battle nets you 6400 cp and takes about 35 seconds to win. You can reset the battle by running back to the save point and almost to the other behemoth, then turning around and running back to the battle. I racked up a good 600k CP here before progressing the game, and was able to max all 3 innate classes when I opened up tier 9 on the Crystarium.