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Lucky that if there were any more of these bosses, the poll choices limit would have been screwed. Which of these bosses were the hardest you've gone through in the N-Zone/Cleft of Dimension?

The three hard ones I've beaten goes from hardest to easiest of the three: Necrophobe/Necrophobia, Catastrophy, and Azulmagia/Apocalypse.

Apanda was easy because of Ifrit,Halycanos was pretty easy to recover from toad, but was a beach for the high-damn attack power, Mellusion was easy for the weakness, Nergade Phobos and Triton were sorta hard to have them all dead at the same time, Stoker gave me some trouble but wasnt too strong, Woodsprite irritated me but because of my uber BraveBld she went down, and Twin Tania was pretty hard, but not as hard as my three picks.

Necrophobe gave me alot of trouble because without the Wall Rings or the Flame or Coral Rings, I'd been ripped apart by the barriers. And he was kinda strong by himself. Catastrophy was a beach because he was smart enough to know I had Float on, and used 100 Gravity to bring me down so he could use Earth Shaker. Damn. And Azulmagia took me a while due to the powerful Big Guard spell he cast on himself.

Somehow, I only remember having significant trouble with Stalker.

I had trouble with that element-changing bird whose name I can't remember, but it's not listed here. Oh, and Atomos as well.

And of course NeoEx-Death Neo-Exdeath, but he's it's not really an "Exdeath minion".

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 28th September 2006 01:22

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Necrophobe is always annoying to me. But the rest weren't too much trouble (except, well, Mellusion without any proper elemental attacks...).

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 27th September 2006 21:21)

Somehow, I only remember having significant trouble with Stalker.

I had trouble with that element-changing bird whose name I can't remember, but it's not listed here. Oh, and Atomos as well.

And of course NeoEx-Death Neo-Exdeath, but he's it's not really an "Exdeath minion".

I believe that bird is ArcheoAvis. He was annoying...

I like to base my answers to polls such as these off of my experiences in the SCCs that I did and what I found difficult in each. Phobos and cohorts were tough for the Berserkers, but not for any other group, and likewise with Stoker/Stalker. Catastroph never gave me trouble, since I either killed him before EarthShaker killed me, or I had enough HP to outlast him. TwinTania was dwarfed by Coral rings and high attack power, and none of the minor bosses (Halycanos, Azulmagia, Apprehender, Mellusion, etc.) gave me any trouble. However, Necrophobe was always tough for me because of those blasted barrier things. They hit HARD so you have to dispatch them quickly, which is tough to do with magi (they have wall...which means the attacks are unfocused), berserked characters (unfocused attacks), or those who need a turn to power up (mystic knight). The only time it was easy was with Dragoons, because I could hit hard and evade the holy/flare attacks at the same time. He takes the cake, by far, in my books, especially if you mean to steal the last genji piece.

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The Prince/King guy, forget his name but man he was tough. I think he would cast death, I forget it's been awile.

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Quote (Dragon King @ 28th September 2006 15:05)

The Prince/King guy, forget his name but man he was tough.

It was Halycanos

It's been so long since my first playthrough

I remeber haviong trouble with one of them then, I think it was Halycanos for me as well, but since i can't remember I just null voted.

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I like to base my answers to polls such as these off of my experiences in the SCCs that I did and what I found difficult in each. Phobos and cohorts were tough for the Berserkers, but not for any other group, and likewise with Stoker/Stalker. Catastroph never gave me trouble, since I either killed him before EarthShaker killed me, or I had enough HP to outlast him. TwinTania was dwarfed by Coral rings and high attack power, and none of the minor bosses (Halycanos, Azulmagia, Apprehender, Mellusion, etc.) gave me any trouble. However, Necrophobe was always tough for me because of those blasted barrier things. They hit HARD so you have to dispatch them quickly, which is tough to do with magi (they have wall...which means the attacks are unfocused), berserked characters (unfocused attacks), or those who need a turn to power up (mystic knight). The only time it was easy was with Dragoons, because I could hit hard and evade the holy/flare attacks at the same time. He takes the cake, by far, in my books, especially if you mean to steal the last genji piece.

SSCC-wise in hunter and ninja, none of them possessed any threat, however I am sure that in dragoon, some of them will be, since dragon grass is kicking my tail.

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Stoker was extremely hard. I got killed by him so many times that I lost count! I haven't gone through the entire game yet, though.

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Necrophobe, if only because you have to walk through the entire final area again (and possibly battle Gilgamesh) if you lose.

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I found Nergade, Phobos, & Triton the most annoying only becaue everytime i killed one it would come back to life.

Actually considering b4 when i posted i hadnt faced all of the minions but now i would have to say necrophobe because of those barriers.

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I beat all the ex-death minions but i never train my guys so i am stuck on neo ex death. My guys are still level 37-38. What is a good level to beat neo ex-death?

Level doesn't really matter much. Your choices are most important.

I voted TwinTania, the big thing who blast you with GigaFlare if you can't kill it within a time limit.

Personally I don't think any of them are very difficult, but out of the choices i'd say Twin Tania, because if you aren't prepared for him (Coral Ring sup) he can decimate you with a rapid fire cast of Tidal Wave.

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Um, isn't that Shinryu?

Shinryu opens the fight up with that attack, yeah. But Twin tania uses that attack over and over sometimes. One time I wasn't paying attention, didn't change my equipment, you know, no coral rings, or holy weapons or anything. So he starts the fight off with the fire attack, hits me with Ice Storm, I heal and lay into him with !Sshot/!Rapid Fire. He then commences to use Tidal Wave three times in a row.

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Twintania. While I don't have that much actual trouble with him, beating him in a way that makes him drop the Tinkerbell took ages on PS and GBA -.-

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None of the bosses really troubled me to the point i'm at now, from the sounds of necrophobe, I may not have gotten to him yet. I marked Twin-Tania just because it took me more than one strategy to beat him.

Up to that point, I mugged and stole twin lances off of the statues by Odin, and by using rangers with rapid fire and ninjas with dual twin lances (even at their weaker attack power), I pretty much owned face for awhile. But after mastering red magic and equipping Mime + Double spell + time + summon, using bahamut 5 times in one turn changed that battle pretty dang quick.

The shameful part is I like to drag battles out, and those bastard King Behemoths and their meteor tear me a new one every time i encounter them (and my strongest weapon is my brave blade... so running is right out)!

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Funny on my first try with Twintania I won with no coral rings, and had to retry because I found Shinryu by accident, then the 2nd try I got slaughtered, I pretty much got slaughtered until I got lucky (Finisher Critical hitting 3 times in a row whilst duel weilding excalibur and holy lance)

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This post has been edited by leilong on 10th December 2006 02:39

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Quote (leilong @ 5th December 2006 23:58)

I had just wasted Shinryu, and had only used a couple of ethers to keep my mages from being entirely helpless. I was in no shape to fight, but i dispatched him so easily, I had to laugh out loud to think that somebody thought that joke was hard.

Well, if you had no trouble with Shinryu, then Necrophobe shouldn't be hard at all. The moral of the story is that there aren't any hard bosses in FF V because powerleveling and equipsets solve all of your problems. As an aside, quit acting like an ass.

With that said, if I don't feel like wasting my life leveling up characters the hardest boss for me is usually Omega. I always had problems with him. I haven't reached that far in my Advance playthrough, though. Reached world 3 only recently in fact.

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I agree with lasz. Tone it down, leilong. Most us agree that this game isn't the hardest if you allow yourself access to all the jobs and equipment. However, when you restrict yourself to only one class, say the Berserker, or only the initial equipment, then bosses that weren't typically hard, such as Sol Cannon and Necrophobe, become extremely difficult. Plus, didn't you say earlier that you got wrecked by King Behemoths every time you fought them? You'd think that if you were able to destroy Shinryuu and Necrophobe like you said that you would recognize that they counterattack your attacks and that simply mashing the "confirm" button won't win the battle.

Lasz also covered the moral of this story, but I'll reference it in my post in case anybody forgot:

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I voted for Necrophobe, then realized that he was actually very easy. I remember having to fight Gilgamesh over and over again but I couldn't think of what killed me all those times. Then it hit me; Shinryuu.

So, I don't really remember which one gave me the most trouble. There was one, I'll just have to do it again to jog my memory.

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I had the most trouble with Twin Tania my first playthrough. One of these days I'm going to learn to buy the strategy guide and the game together. I had figured out that he was weak when he was about to use Giga Flare, but I never would have guessed that using

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was the way to finish him.

I spent days trapped just outside the final area rearranging my jobs, but I finally turned everyone into a Freelancer with !Sshot and Two Swords and laid waste.

I'm sure that Omega and Shinryu WOULD be hard without Spellblade/!Sshot for one and Jump for the other, but I have a "if it works, do it" approach to RPGs. I'm really not fazed by those who call such things "cheating". Play the game the way its intended to be played and quit whining that you're not being challenged enough.

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None of them were really "hard" to me, but...

Twin Tania. Not because he's difficult, but because getting both the axe AND the tinkerbell from him is a freaking pain in the butt. Stupid 1/16 chance on the bell :(

Well, everyone has a trick to kill fast, but I would vote for Halycarnas for turning your crew to frogs if you're now well prepared...

Twin Tania
He's the only one who killed me.

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Well even though hes not on there, neo Shinryu. I still havent beat him, he had 3000 health and then he wasted me. Everytime I had him cornered i started doing no damage. An he started attacking so i was in the corner. The rest were easy cause i was 60 when i fought em and maxed out my jobs before fighting necrophobe.

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All of them were really hard for me (I was level 30 >_>) except for the one in the forest (Calofisteri? She ran out of MP draining and reflecting so it was fairly easy at that point). Halycanos was fairly easy, as well as the one in the book.
The hardest for me were the 3 pigs. It took me four tries before I realized when they resurrected, they didn't have max health. LOSE FOR ME.