Barret 0 mp healer build combo is nice. Found it on youtube, but i dont remember the channel so credits to the creator. Basicly you will rely on lifesafer skill on barret. Main materia: chakra, pray, 1st strike. Additional materia: magnify linked with barrier, time. The rest is up 2 u. Weapon: big bertha with desperate recovery skill. Acc: healing circanet (the one that boost healing). On the start of the battle cast lifesafer immidiately, combo it with steelskin and barrier/manawall on entire party and haste on barret if u could. Always ensure barret has 1 ATB on him for chakra. W8 for barret HP goes red because of the damage transfered to him during lifesafer then use chakra. Desperate recovery skill boosted with the accesory gonna heal barret almost full hp. Gonna save u a lot of MP during hard mode.
When you assess an enemy (or use the touch pad to look at their info again), hit R1. This tells you what kind of attacks they do - if they’re physical, magical, what kind of element they inflict, etc. I say this because blindly using Manawall just to take care of everything is going to use up all your MP and it’s slower to cast as well. Use that info to put the appropriate spell instead (like Fat Chocobo. He only does physical damage).
@@bloodmoontalon yeah I missed the 2 madam quests in ch9 and tifas pull-up challenge in ch14. 23/26. It was good enough to get the letter and the materia.
I was wondering how to get that 300% trophy.. now i know.. i thought I had it during the freeway chase because you get that thing up to 500% before its dead, but it doesn't count and before the end of the game you can't even raise stagger above 160% so I was super confused.
@@Paradigmfusion There's a pretty easy way to do it, use Tifa and have her True Strike ability. Make sure her Chi is max before the Stagger, and that the enemy has a long stagger. Use her Triangle attack 3 times > True Strike twice and then spam Triangle all the way. Should get it, don't even need Stop!
@Mark Morton - I also cast haste on Tifa (or use magnify to haste the party first) which give her broken charge. You pretty much always have an ability up if your speed is 60+ already
A tip I've not really seen mentioned anywhere: 2xLuck up materia is a HUGE melee dps boost also the only one available (especially with some weapons, Nail bat, wink wink).
For M.O.T.H Units during the vr fights, just slap on elemental linked with thunder materia and you're good to go (Make sure they are linked on your armor). Makes them easy mode at that point.
Use lighting with elemental on your armor for the MOTH unit. Every time he shoots you, you will absorb the lightning damage and turn it into health. It makes that fight a cake walk. I was having so much trouble with that fight and I was getting totally frustrated until I figured that one out. You’re welcome!
You can get a third Chakra Materia from Kotch just before going down the hole to follow Leslie, if you go back down into the Corneo storage room where Cloud/Aerith/Tifa are first Held before being brought before Corneo. Kotch is strapped down by the Shinra group that comes into to attack Corneo.
Shit I wondered what that was... I went down there before seeing Leslie and heard someone yelling help but couldn't figure out how to open the door at the time.
I’ve beaten the game in normal and hard modes and I have completed all secret quests & tasks and I NEVER thought of using Stop in staggered targets! That’s brilliant and now I’m annoyed that this seemingly obvious tactic never occurred to me and would have made many of my fights a lot easier. Great tip!
Here’s a cool materia combo with gotterdammerung : first equip gotterdammerung to your main Equip these materia also : ATB Assist + Skill master + refocus Now u can start the battle off with refocus and build three atb bars. When it’s full start using commands back to back and watch yourself and your allies build fast atb. Just make sure atb assist and skill master lvl are maxed out
You should probably clarify that the 2nd elemental materia is a reward for completing all sidequests and then repeating all sidequests in chapter 14 and THEN going to the wall to get a trophy a letter from the slum angel and the materia
@@MalikBarrow16 you cant. there are 2 sidequests that cancle each other out. so you have to re-run chapter 9 one more time which is why doing all chapter 14 sidequests in the first runthrough is really not a thing if you aim for 100%
@@MagnusStiyl Why is it recommended to do the sidequests in the second runthrough? I just beat it and finished all sidequests on the first playthrough...can you explain in more detail. I've also got 2 elemental materia.
@@omnimaster1 Because most people i came across had trouble with the Type-0 Behemoth on the first run through in chapter 14 so instead of clearing all c.14 quests on the first run you can simply go back to chapter 9 > do the 2 optional other side quets > go to chapter 14 > do all and collect the letter Thats why i suggest to do it that way
Parry on Tifa is clutch. It makes her super fast and able to get in and out for damage easily. ATB assist and skill master are also very good for sustaining your team ATB, especially on Tifa with her high ATB charge rate and quick animations. There are few fights where the enemies use stop, and using warding+time is an effective passive counter. It's also useful with subversive against Tonberries. Chakra kind of sucks. It's only about as effective as cura from a decent caster if you have 7000+ hp and are really low. MP is not much of an issue in hard mode with 1 or 2 MP up materia. In hard fights, you don't want to waste ATB gauge on less effective actions like prayer or chakra over cura/curaga/arise, especially combined with magnify.
Another tip stop affect everything even magic count downs. Ex cast bio then stop the bio will apply after the stop wears off. Also bio is great on all flesh type enemies.
I’m in chapter 9 lvling up in the arena and man… Aerith is op with the magnify materia, takes me around a min to clear through enemies with fire and ATB boost 🤭 Im lv 34 and 36 but man might stay on it till 50 or till I get my other materias up before progressing through the story 🤗
A key strategy in the original had ur most power support, cure, and damage spells try to be paired with all materia. Apperently after being only 23 game hrs in. I realized that same tactic still appies here and as a massive fan of the old one. This makes me happy
Magnify is by far my absolute favorite Materia! Just beat the game and can't wait to level them and unlock Bahamut in the VR missions~ Afterwards it's time to beat the game on hard mode ^^
Magnify if u remember the original game went by another name: All Materia. Which allowed u to use a linked slot paired along with almost any curative, damage, support spells to be used as a group effect
Deadly dodge is also really good. It covers a lot of distance booses cloud's operator mode damage and let's tifa skip directly to her auto combo finisher attacks.
Not the best but interesting combo is: HP absorb + Lightning MP absorb + Lightning Whenever you use lightning you get HP and MP back at the same time. I think I also tried magnify+lightning on top of the above two, but I forgot if it worked or not. Maybe someone can verify. Also it could be any attack spell, I only picked lightning because it’s a guaranteed hit once casted.
i've been using those 3 together to grind materias actually. iirc it works with magnify but the important thing is that the magic materia have to be the same level, that is for example that if you cast firaga but the fire materia annexed to HP and MP absorb is only level 1, then you won't gain HP and MP.
@xyz basic attacks and magic attacks are independent of one another - so, no. Adding the elemental materia plus hp/mp absorb to the same type of materia does NOT stack (unfortunately, I was hoping for this too the second I got hp absorb)
This game’s combat is so fun. Side note: Considering you’re from a country whose main language isn’t English, I must say that I respect the fact you speak it so well. There are so many people that have lived here in the USA for so many years that never cared to learn the language & it’s truly sad & pathetic. So kudos to you 👍👍
There was a reviewer complaining about the dog encounter in the shinra hq, when multiple dogs come out to attack you. They said it impossible to get by, so they dropped the difficulty to easy in order to pass it. I run into the room on hard mode and drop a couple of chi traps and the fight was over lol.
thatguy52 which is actually probably the most important combination in the game. Get that cure up to Curaga on a magnify and slap it on aerith with her high ass magical stats and you’re golden.
for anyone struggling with the rank 5 fight mentioned in the vid, the one with the insta murder blade bot. thunder-elemental on armour. rank 2 prefereably. considering almost every enemy in the rank 5 use lightning attacks (example the thundaga using prick with the super fast asshole at the start) and the insta murder move that almost kills you even when blocking is lightning based, lightning resist makes every match far easier. also lightning is most of the enemies weaknesses as well. so... thundara everything. they'll either get staggered or get fecked up and not attack properly as is the case for murderblade bot.
there is another chakra materia in Don basement when you return there in chapter 14 before the sewer part. And also you can get the chakra in the church in the same chapter just after you've seen the scene with the turk.
Regarding the steadfast block section: that final enemy becomes trivial if you equip Elemental and Lightning materia in your armor. At level 2 elemental nullifies damage from enemy electric attacks (which is reasonably the level you have around Hard unlock) It’s very useful!
Also.. What is the chance of success of casting on enemy. VS yourselves.? Answer that question and you have another good reason based on basic probability
Tifa: Feathered Gloves (highest speed); ATB Support; Unbridled Strength 2x for great Team ATB buildup and improved Triangle. Also 2x True Strike on staggered enemies. Improve stagger multiplier, boost team ATB, do more damage. Win-win-win.
MP is a very precious resource in hard mode, dont waste it casting manawalls on your team. you WILL regret it, instead use barret's STEELSKIN + LIFESAVER combo. save your Magnify materia for heals or haste. Also abusing elemental materia on your armor in hard mode will make your life much more easy. regardless all of these tips are going to bin during hell house's fight anyway, good luck.
Those solo challenges r a lot easier if u just equip elemental and lightning on ur armor. As long as its 2 star u will be immune to moth balls strongest attacks. Also the last 3 enemies r weak to lightning as well. Also i used 1st strike materia thats maxed to be able to cast thundaga to start the fight in round 5. Not sure but seems like it brings the blades down and starts more lightning based attacks
There are 3 Chakra. 1 with Tifa. 2 in Chapter 14, one at Don's Mansion where you held with Tifa and Aerith underground, has the don machine next to it. second at the stash sidequest.
Also it'd be nice if Prayer stacked (put both on 1 character). Maxed out with ~300 magic it only heals a little over 4k.. not worth 2 atb in my opinion.
First strike + ATB boost is ridiculous, allows you to immediately perform 2 actions minimum before most enemies can even move. Allows you to start with, say, haste on everyone and then barrier on a character (or any other combination of buffs. Also viable with offensive spells, obviously, like opening fire all on enemies weak to fire...Already pretty strong, now imagine doing it twice before your enemies can react)...Pretty good way to start a fight if you ask me. In fact, all materia focusing on gaining ATB are incredibly strong. ATB master and ATB assist also appeared to be great based on my testing. I also like Steadyfast block + Parry. Absorb most damage when you block, deal damage to the enemy and allow you to react instantly afterwards...Sure, I'm in.
ATB Boost doesn't act the way you think it does. It's a good materia to use for long drawn out fights, at rank 5, as it allows you to fill your ATB bar to max (without Focus Limit) every 120 seconds, as long as you remember to perform the the action command L1+R1. It's not a passive that boost your ATB in-conjunction with First Strike.
@@goshtic9565 Eeeeeerrr.... Yes I know how it works mate, thank you very much. 1/Put First strike and ATB boost on the same character and set him/her as your leader (the latest is otpional but I just found it easier to sequence if you do). 2/You start the battle, First trike allows you to get a decent amount of ATB straight off the bat. 3/From that point, you use your first charge of ATB boost and go to full ATB and be able to to whatever you want.
@@GenLiu You have to wait 120secs before you can use your first ATB Boost. Very situational usage, as I usually finish up a fight in 3-10secs. If I'm fighting a boss that drags on, then I have it on my non-controlling character, since it's often them lacking ATB charges and not the character you're controlling. That's just my playstyle, I don't have problem with ATB on the character I control.
@@goshtic9565 I think you wanted to say you have to wait 12o seconds to use your second ATB boost but if that wasn't the case, you can actually use it immediately when the fight starts (the cooldown applies after you used it). I personally switch my characters a LOT, in fact, one of the downside of this game, imo, is the fact that, the AI of your allies is highly incompetent at avoiding...well, anything really, meaning I feel the need of babysitting them by taking control and moving them out of the way pretty much constantly. Having said that, another viable way of playing this game is by tanking the damage/status effects and heal/clean your characters accordignly so, I agree with you, it entierly depends on anyone's playstyle. Some combos that may be useful for some, won't be for others (that's one thing I love about this game, there's a lot of possible build and combos you can experiement with and each player will have a different opinion about them). About the combo being situational because it's only viable against bosses, that's one way of putting it but at the same time, bosses are the most difficult things you'll have to deal with in this game (at least on difficult mode).
have not played yet beat the original one I love how looks like they kept the old school material layout. That's what made VII so badass in my opinion. Does anyone know how much material you can get in remake vs old one?
MOTH fight was hard af til I put my elemental materia + lightning on armor- then it became ridiculously easy 'ope im 2000 HP maybe i should heal- nvm he used his ult, thx for the 6000 health bro'
If u use elemental and lighting in the armor slot, M.O.T.H.s ultrahigh voltage will do nothing to you. I ended up putting both lighting and elemental materias in armor and weapon to make the fight a lot easier.
Thank you, for this great content. I have a question and I hope, someone can fill me in the details. When you visit the church for the first time, after the battle with Reno, then there ist a Materia, that counts the steps of the party. 5000 if I remember correctly. Well I’m pretty sure, I reached the number. But the Materia disappeared. Can someone explain, why this ist and what this Materia is useful for? Sorry, I don’t remember the name of this thing an find it difficult to translate.
Algid aura + hp absorb. Arcane ward + magnify + level 3 elemental spell (I want to see if linking hp absorb and the same element in different slots works how I think it will with this combo)
Manawall + Magnify makes Hardmode to Easymode 2.0. Both first strike materias and prayer on each char is also pretty much meta for hardmode. So nothing special until here. The Element attack is not that strong in the end of the game and can fire back on some encounters like the house.
1. Manawall + Magnify spam = to expensive for Hardmode (better of just using the phys or the magic, not both, also rarely a need for magnify). 2. First strike not really that useful vs most story bosses (aka the only time builds really matter, great for everything else though). 3. Prayer only really useful with high magic stat characters (otherwise you're better off of with Chakra). 4. Element attack is VERY strong for stagger damage against anything with a weakness (just super annoying that you can't switch it in combat).
Elvis Nilsson Magnify reduces the cost overall for the Barrier spells. And if a encounter does magic and phys., manawall is your best option. Also if you are not sure what the enemy does, manawall might prevent a death. First strike helps a lot with quick combat setups at start and is incredible great for quick new encounters. Prayer might be better on high magic chars but it is still better than wasting MP with vita casts. And as said, later game enemies have rarely a element weakness. It is strong to enemies with a weakness tho. I just beat hardmode with this stuff and didn’t need a single Ress at all.
If you remember in ff7 original game there was a material called added effect which combined with life materia or revival materia would instantly revive you from death is there a way to Link materia to bring you back from instant death in final fantasy 7 remake?
Just a heads up, on Classic mode Auto-cure will be automatically cast by the player controlled character as well. I played on this mode at first just so I could focus on the story first time through.
I'm wondering if your items and levels will carry over to episode 2 when it releases or will we just start over at the beginning of each episode. Really hope it's the former.
There’s no way in hell they can optimized the game to fit for everyone’s play style as some people will only play the game once and some other will grind everything to max , so it’s probably gunna start off from level 1 again
@@Ldenlord No, it's going to be optional. In the original game, level cap is 99. The second part of the game, the level cap will be raised. They'll still have Classic, Easy, Normal, and Hard. They will probably need to break the 9999 barrier tho. Since we can reached 9999 in the current game.
How do u use sleep. U can't use it with barrier ? I thought u said u can use sleep with barrier please explaine magnify n barrier what materia puts them to sleep
Yeah I was thinking this. Also fighting the Midgar zolom. Like that’s meant to be intimidating? You’ve just fought fate and a version of Sephiroth 😂 how’s the rest of the game going to be hard
People do it mostly for the fun of the challenge and platinum , and of course the reward for finishing the hardest fighting simulator Spoilers: Starting any battle with a full limit break
Is it possible to master the material in this game? I ask because I used to do a lot of mastering of the low-level Elemental Materia and just sell the master Materia while keeping the new material that was generated by splitting once it hits master. Also they change the names of some of the material and they gave people back with skills that they didn't used to have in the original game I think I'm going to like this game once I get it
If I use magnify with elemental then the same elemental with MP absorb, do I get the full effect of MP absorb with it hitting all enemies? That's kind of how materia chaining worked in the original.
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Barret 0 mp healer build combo is nice. Found it on youtube, but i dont remember the channel so credits to the creator. Basicly you will rely on lifesafer skill on barret. Main materia: chakra, pray, 1st strike. Additional materia: magnify linked with barrier, time. The rest is up 2 u. Weapon: big bertha with desperate recovery skill. Acc: healing circanet (the one that boost healing). On the start of the battle cast lifesafer immidiately, combo it with steelskin and barrier/manawall on entire party and haste on barret if u could. Always ensure barret has 1 ATB on him for chakra. W8 for barret HP goes red because of the damage transfered to him during lifesafer then use chakra. Desperate recovery skill boosted with the accesory gonna heal barret almost full hp. Gonna save u a lot of MP during hard mode.
When you assess an enemy (or use the touch pad to look at their info again), hit R1. This tells you what kind of attacks they do - if they’re physical, magical, what kind of element they inflict, etc. I say this because blindly using Manawall just to take care of everything is going to use up all your MP and it’s slower to cast as well. Use that info to put the appropriate spell instead (like Fat Chocobo. He only does physical damage).
Barrett is a better candidate for prayer because he generates atb like a beast
Overpower ftw
I have pray on both Barret and aerith. They are my healers and supports
@@SynergyxVeNN Same, Prayer on Berret is fantastic!
Refocus too... Enough said!
SuperMeCrazy1 Gaming really? I’ve used a couple of times why do you think it’s good?
Note: The CH 14 Elemental Materia requires that you do all the Angel of the Slums side missions.
Even the one in Chapter 9 where you can easily miss it because the bullshit picking M or Sam to determine which 2 side quests you get?
no only the one from ch14
Confirming only chapter 14. I had 2 elementals after my first playthrough and hadn't done the chapter 9 madam quests.
@@callmeshaggy5166 oh thank god, every site says u have to do ALL the side quests, if its only ch14 side quests its much better
@@bloodmoontalon yeah I missed the 2 madam quests in ch9 and tifas pull-up challenge in ch14. 23/26.
It was good enough to get the letter and the materia.
HP Absorption + Deadly Dodge (Tifa or Cloud), you heal while making damage
I had no clue to consider Stop having an effect on the stagger bar as well. This should make the 300% trophy that much more obtainable.
Fat chocobo is the way to go. His stagger lasts a very long time. I used aerith ATb ability to help tifa.
fat chocobo + tifa
I literally just tested this before watching video on those damn Tonberry. Lol
That stagger and stop strat is something I never seen before. I need to try that out 😵
If stop works on Fat Chocobo, that 300% trophy is cake.
I was wondering how to get that 300% trophy.. now i know.. i thought I had it during the freeway chase because you get that thing up to 500% before its dead, but it doesn't count and before the end of the game you can't even raise stagger above 160% so I was super confused.
@@Paradigmfusion There's a pretty easy way to do it, use Tifa and have her True Strike ability. Make sure her Chi is max before the Stagger, and that the enemy has a long stagger. Use her Triangle attack 3 times > True Strike twice and then spam Triangle all the way. Should get it, don't even need Stop!
@@markmorton7680 the only one I can think of that has a stagger that lasts long enough to maybe get to 300 is fat chocobo..
@Mark Morton - I also cast haste on Tifa (or use magnify to haste the party first) which give her broken charge. You pretty much always have an ability up if your speed is 60+ already
A tip I've not really seen mentioned anywhere:
2xLuck up materia is a HUGE melee dps boost also the only one available (especially with some weapons, Nail bat, wink wink).
Ooh. I like that tip. I tried 2xLuck on Tifa for a bit, but on a Crit. weapon it sounds even better.
James tifa has a crit weapon
You can get another luck up from wedge getting first place in the darts
Nail bat is a horrible weapon tho... Now maybe with Barret's EKG Cannon cus it doesn't completely suck? Or Tifa's Purple Pain?
Yes... Hence bow he said 2x luck up...
Awesome tip using Steadfast and Chakra to boost the limit in the VR missions 👍
Yes it works really well!
For M.O.T.H Units during the vr fights, just slap on elemental linked with thunder materia and you're good to go (Make sure they are linked on your armor). Makes them easy mode at that point.
Wow, 66h played, didn't know about the stop spell on stagger stuff. Very nice trick. +1
Use lighting with elemental on your armor for the MOTH unit. Every time he shoots you, you will absorb the lightning damage and turn it into health. It makes that fight a cake walk. I was having so much trouble with that fight and I was getting totally frustrated until I figured that one out. You’re welcome!
You can also block MOTH unit's special. It takes 3k of your HP if you successfully block. Once MOTH unit uses its special, it becomes vulnerable.
You can get a third Chakra Materia from Kotch just before going down the hole to follow Leslie, if you go back down into the Corneo storage room where Cloud/Aerith/Tifa are first Held before being brought before Corneo. Kotch is strapped down by the Shinra group that comes into to attack Corneo.
Shit I wondered what that was... I went down there before seeing Leslie and heard someone yelling help but couldn't figure out how to open the door at the time.
I’ve beaten the game in normal and hard modes and I have completed all secret quests & tasks and I NEVER thought of using Stop in staggered targets! That’s brilliant and now I’m annoyed that this seemingly obvious tactic never occurred to me and would have made many of my fights a lot easier. Great tip!
Took me 3 rewinds to figure out what "bursig" was.
@Jesse Gardea Berserk, took me a while to figure it out too
Here’s a cool materia combo with gotterdammerung :
first equip gotterdammerung to your main
Equip these materia also : ATB Assist + Skill master + refocus
Now u can start the battle off with refocus and build three atb bars. When it’s full start using commands back to back and watch yourself and your allies build fast atb. Just make sure atb assist and skill master lvl are maxed out
This channel is like a Help manual but its funny and better
(That was a compliment)
that magnify + barrier combo makes it worth equipping now
You should probably clarify that the 2nd elemental materia is a reward for completing all sidequests and then repeating all sidequests in chapter 14 and THEN going to the wall to get a trophy a letter from the slum angel and the materia
Ah good point
It's only the angel of the slums sidequests, you can get them all in one playthrough so long as you get the Madame M quests in ch 9.
@@MalikBarrow16 you cant. there are 2 sidequests that cancle each other out. so you have to re-run chapter 9 one more time which is why doing all chapter 14 sidequests in the first runthrough is really not a thing if you aim for 100%
@@MagnusStiyl Why is it recommended to do the sidequests in the second runthrough? I just beat it and finished all sidequests on the first playthrough...can you explain in more detail. I've also got 2 elemental materia.
@@omnimaster1 Because most people i came across had trouble with the Type-0 Behemoth on the first run through in chapter 14 so instead of clearing all c.14 quests on the first run you can simply go back to chapter 9 > do the 2 optional other side quets > go to chapter 14 > do all and collect the letter
Thats why i suggest to do it that way
Parry on Tifa is clutch. It makes her super fast and able to get in and out for damage easily.
ATB assist and skill master are also very good for sustaining your team ATB, especially on Tifa with her high ATB charge rate and quick animations.
There are few fights where the enemies use stop, and using warding+time is an effective passive counter. It's also useful with subversive against Tonberries.
Chakra kind of sucks. It's only about as effective as cura from a decent caster if you have 7000+ hp and are really low.
MP is not much of an issue in hard mode with 1 or 2 MP up materia. In hard fights, you don't want to waste ATB gauge on less effective actions like prayer or chakra over cura/curaga/arise, especially combined with magnify.
Chakra is actually really good. I use it with barret who's almost always on low health and he usually heals to 6000 health
Thank you!
ATB assist better on Tifa IMO
I am just glad I never overlooked steal on this game.
Another tip stop affect everything even magic count downs. Ex cast bio then stop the bio will apply after the stop wears off. Also bio is great on all flesh type enemies.
I’m in chapter 9 lvling up in the arena and man… Aerith is op with the magnify materia, takes me around a min to clear through enemies with fire and ATB boost 🤭 Im lv 34 and 36 but man might stay on it till 50 or till I get my other materias up before progressing through the story 🤗
HP absorb and deadly dodge works well linked also. Then if you have an elemental bonus against enemy than more damage equals more health
A key strategy in the original had ur most power support, cure, and damage spells try to be paired with all materia. Apperently after being only 23 game hrs in. I realized that same tactic still appies here and as a massive fan of the old one. This makes me happy
Magnify is by far my absolute favorite Materia!
Just beat the game and can't wait to level them and unlock Bahamut in the VR missions~
Afterwards it's time to beat the game on hard mode ^^
It is the old "All" materia after all. It was massively helpful in the OG game too ( and a mastered one was worth a shitton of money ).
Wait bahamut is out? How?
@@ShinryuZensen Yup I heard of that and I can definitely see why!
@@MrDjx01 In the VR missions that Chadley gives you, you can beat him and get his summon materia afterwards.
i am glad you made this video cus many who do never talk about the cool and good mix with the materia and which items and weapons they use.
Magnify if u remember the original game went by another name: All Materia. Which allowed u to use a linked slot paired along with almost any curative, damage, support spells to be used as a group effect
ApeXx War should have just called it all.
He mentioned this in the video.
Deadly dodge is also really good. It covers a lot of distance booses cloud's operator mode damage and let's tifa skip directly to her auto combo finisher attacks.
Not the best but interesting combo is:
HP absorb + Lightning
MP absorb + Lightning
Whenever you use lightning you get HP and MP back at the same time.
I think I also tried magnify+lightning on top of the above two, but I forgot if it worked or not.
Maybe someone can verify.
Also it could be any attack spell, I only picked lightning because it’s a guaranteed hit once casted.
i've been using those 3 together to grind materias actually. iirc it works with magnify but the important thing is that the magic materia have to be the same level, that is for example that if you cast firaga but the fire materia annexed to HP and MP absorb is only level 1, then you won't gain HP and MP.
If, with your tactic, you use
Elemental materia + Lighting
In your Weapon...Is still valid?
@xyz basic attacks and magic attacks are independent of one another - so, no. Adding the elemental materia plus hp/mp absorb to the same type of materia does NOT stack (unfortunately, I was hoping for this too the second I got hp absorb)
Used to watch your Horizon Zero Dawn content! Glad your covering this game too!
Deadly Dodge can pair up with HP absorb :)
What? No way!
Love Deadly Dodge on Tifa and Barret and Tifa with pary!
Works with parry too
Edit: and enemy skill
WOW
Thank you!
This game’s combat is so fun. Side note: Considering you’re from a country whose main language isn’t English, I must say that I respect the fact you speak it so well. There are so many people that have lived here in the USA for so many years that never cared to learn the language & it’s truly sad & pathetic. So kudos to you 👍👍
*Hope they will continue the FINAL FANTASY 7 remake*
*Too many questions that needs to be answered!* 😊
There was a reviewer complaining about the dog encounter in the shinra hq, when multiple dogs come out to attack you. They said it impossible to get by, so they dropped the difficulty to easy in order to pass it. I run into the room on hard mode and drop a couple of chi traps and the fight was over lol.
JNoir J Good idea, I used barrier+magnify+first strike materia for that part. Will keep your suggested method in mind for hard mode.
man all good setups. my simple mind could only think of magnify+cure.
thatguy52 which is actually probably the most important combination in the game. Get that cure up to Curaga on a magnify and slap it on aerith with her high ass magical stats and you’re golden.
for anyone struggling with the rank 5 fight mentioned in the vid, the one with the insta murder blade bot. thunder-elemental on armour. rank 2 prefereably. considering almost every enemy in the rank 5 use lightning attacks (example the thundaga using prick with the super fast asshole at the start) and the insta murder move that almost kills you even when blocking is lightning based, lightning resist makes every match far easier. also lightning is most of the enemies weaknesses as well. so... thundara everything. they'll either get staggered or get fecked up and not attack properly as is the case for murderblade bot.
there is another chakra materia in Don basement when you return there in chapter 14 before the sewer part. And also you can get the chakra in the church in the same chapter just after you've seen the scene with the turk.
brag1337 where is the chakra at the church?
Regarding the steadfast block section: that final enemy becomes trivial if you equip Elemental and Lightning materia in your armor. At level 2 elemental nullifies damage from enemy electric attacks (which is reasonably the level you have around Hard unlock) It’s very useful!
HP absorb w/ deadly dodge is a solid way to recoup a little health
Didn't know about the staggerstop trick. Cool!
I love FF7R videos it's been a big help for me. 🙌
Thanks!
These are legit, good tips. I like your argument for using Magnify for support over offensive.
Also.. What is the chance of success of casting on enemy. VS yourselves.?
Answer that question and you have another good reason based on basic probability
Tifa: Feathered Gloves (highest speed); ATB Support; Unbridled Strength 2x for great Team ATB buildup and improved Triangle. Also 2x True Strike on staggered enemies. Improve stagger multiplier, boost team ATB, do more damage. Win-win-win.
Thats great. I couldnt find any usefull combination for the ATB assist materia. Thanks !
Also should mention Magnify+Time materia. I use it as a buff normally but you can also use it as a debuff if you fight larger groups of monsters.
Raise works to 1hko ghost. Not the ghoul boss, use cures instead on it's magic vulnerable phase.
MP is a very precious resource in hard mode, dont waste it casting manawalls on your team. you WILL regret it, instead use barret's STEELSKIN + LIFESAVER combo. save your Magnify materia for heals or haste.
Also abusing elemental materia on your armor in hard mode will make your life much more easy. regardless all of these tips are going to bin during hell house's fight anyway, good luck.
Wow! I didnt know “stop” also stop stagger mode❤ thanks!
barret with auto cure + provoke saved me a lot of times
Couldn't you just use his Lifesaver ability?
You can get 3 Prayer Materia if you open Don Corneo stash in normal and Hard as well as the one you got with Arieth.
Good stuff, gonna use these tips when I do hard mode.
Those solo challenges r a lot easier if u just equip elemental and lightning on ur armor. As long as its 2 star u will be immune to moth balls strongest attacks. Also the last 3 enemies r weak to lightning as well. Also i used 1st strike materia thats maxed to be able to cast thundaga to start the fight in round 5. Not sure but seems like it brings the blades down and starts more lightning based attacks
Great video!
Another great video 👏
Please make sure that you mention that magnify decreses the duration of all these spells
Dmg for sure
Thanks for this, definately gonna try out this on hard mode
There are 3 Chakra. 1 with Tifa. 2 in Chapter 14, one at Don's Mansion where you held with Tifa and Aerith underground, has the don machine next to it. second at the stash sidequest.
Equip materia on weapons you are not using to gain ap on that materia... always got stuff leveling up even if u don’t use it!!!
Oh wow that works? Didn't think of that. Always focused on stuff that was equipped
Lighting plus elemental on clouds armor when fighting moth.....and your welcome....
Finn Balor i was thinking the same thing lol. I can’t believe he didn’t know! Also, fire + elemental on the armor for the pride and joy/Bahamut fight.
I was just about to ask this. Thanks 👍
Also it'd be nice if Prayer stacked (put both on 1 character). Maxed out with ~300 magic it only heals a little over 4k.. not worth 2 atb in my opinion.
Use healing carcanet and weapon skills to get full heal from prayer.
Man here I was hoping to learn combinations I don't already know...
I use barrier+magnify on barret with chakra and pray and his other abilities to be a healing support tank who can do long dist attacks
You can get a 3rd Prayer materia aswell, I got another from behind a Corneo gate in hard mode.
First strike + ATB boost is ridiculous, allows you to immediately perform 2 actions minimum before most enemies can even move. Allows you to start with, say, haste on everyone and then barrier on a character (or any other combination of buffs. Also viable with offensive spells, obviously, like opening fire all on enemies weak to fire...Already pretty strong, now imagine doing it twice before your enemies can react)...Pretty good way to start a fight if you ask me.
In fact, all materia focusing on gaining ATB are incredibly strong. ATB master and ATB assist also appeared to be great based on my testing.
I also like Steadyfast block + Parry. Absorb most damage when you block, deal damage to the enemy and allow you to react instantly afterwards...Sure, I'm in.
ATB Boost doesn't act the way you think it does. It's a good materia to use for long drawn out fights, at rank 5, as it allows you to fill your ATB bar to max (without Focus Limit) every 120 seconds, as long as you remember to perform the the action command L1+R1. It's not a passive that boost your ATB in-conjunction with First Strike.
@@goshtic9565 Eeeeeerrr....
Yes I know how it works mate, thank you very much.
1/Put First strike and ATB boost on the same character and set him/her as your leader (the latest is otpional but I just found it easier to sequence if you do).
2/You start the battle, First trike allows you to get a decent amount of ATB straight off the bat.
3/From that point, you use your first charge of ATB boost and go to full ATB and be able to to whatever you want.
@@GenLiu You have to wait 120secs before you can use your first ATB Boost. Very situational usage, as I usually finish up a fight in 3-10secs. If I'm fighting a boss that drags on, then I have it on my non-controlling character, since it's often them lacking ATB charges and not the character you're controlling. That's just my playstyle, I don't have problem with ATB on the character I control.
@@goshtic9565 I think you wanted to say you have to wait 12o seconds to use your second ATB boost but if that wasn't the case, you can actually use it immediately when the fight starts (the cooldown applies after you used it).
I personally switch my characters a LOT, in fact, one of the downside of this game, imo, is the fact that, the AI of your allies is highly incompetent at avoiding...well, anything really, meaning I feel the need of babysitting them by taking control and moving them out of the way pretty much constantly. Having said that, another viable way of playing this game is by tanking the damage/status effects and heal/clean your characters accordignly so, I agree with you, it entierly depends on anyone's playstyle. Some combos that may be useful for some, won't be for others (that's one thing I love about this game, there's a lot of possible build and combos you can experiement with and each player will have a different opinion about them).
About the combo being situational because it's only viable against bosses, that's one way of putting it but at the same time, bosses are the most difficult things you'll have to deal with in this game (at least on difficult mode).
For magician,I use magnify-spell and Hp absorb-spell(same spell that pair a magnify materia) for absorb multiple times.But not work with mp absorb.
Wow, extremely helpful video 👍
have not played yet beat the original one I love how looks like they kept the old school material layout.
That's what made VII so badass in my opinion.
Does anyone know how much material you can get in remake vs old one?
I just absorb the damage from the thunder strike with the materia on armor and elemental
Best materia guide so far. Wonder why you didn't add Warding materia?
Hey @JorRaptor just a friendly heads up Berserk is pronounced more like ::::::::::::::: {Burr • Zerk}
Brilliant mate 🥳🥳🥳
U can equip Max elemental plus lighting in ur armor then MOTH heals u instead ez fight in hard mode
Can you have more than 1 magnify Materia ?
Sadly, no.
Totally missed the elemental materia in chapter 14 by the wall - wtf self!
I thought a lot of late game materia was strange or garbage, but now I realize it was meant for Hard-mode.
MOTH fight was hard af til I put my elemental materia + lightning on armor- then it became ridiculously easy
'ope im 2000 HP maybe i should heal- nvm he used his ult, thx for the 6000 health bro'
Yeah I think they fked up the balance of lvlimg. For elemental armour
MOTH is easy with steadfast block and any healing materia.
Hard to miss magnify material. I was walking like crazy there and didn't find it lol.
If u use elemental and lighting in the armor slot, M.O.T.H.s ultrahigh voltage will do nothing to you. I ended up putting both lighting and elemental materias in armor and weapon to make the fight a lot easier.
Thank you, for this great content.
I have a question and I hope, someone can fill me in the details.
When you visit the church for the first time, after the battle with Reno, then there ist a Materia, that counts the steps of the party.
5000 if I remember correctly.
Well I’m pretty sure, I reached the number. But the Materia disappeared.
Can someone explain, why this ist and what this Materia is useful for?
Sorry, I don’t remember the name of this thing an find it difficult to translate.
it transformed into a AP up material for me iirc.
It's called "pedometer".
Thank you 😊
Wait, I thought for the second element materia, you need to complete corneo vault and give the stuff to Marle first
Algid aura + hp absorb.
Arcane ward + magnify + level 3 elemental spell (I want to see if linking hp absorb and the same element in different slots works how I think it will with this combo)
In the original it would've worked that way
Ye but arcane ward allows double cast on aerith, that plus magnify and any -aga spell is ridiculous
Too bad there's only 1 magnifying materia
laharl sama nope
Would be too easy if you had Magnify + Curaga and Magnify + Manawall at the same time
@laharl sama Imagine Mag + Stop, Mag + Bioga at the same time lol
Malik Barrow thats pretty much why i wanted a second mag 😂😂 it would just make hard mode EZZZ asf
@@user-qn4ym5ht8b If you want it easy just get Gottemarung or however you spell it, instant limit break for everything lmao
Favorite materia so far is the deadly dodge materia
I just finished it in hard, damn it was crazy especially the end, so much pressure 😂
mana wall + magnify will only result into 50% dmg decrease x 75% effectiveness
Bro just pick mana ward or barrier. Your enemy will be doing one of the two and its half the mp
Manawall + Magnify makes Hardmode to Easymode 2.0. Both first strike materias and prayer on each char is also pretty much meta for hardmode. So nothing special until here. The Element attack is not that strong in the end of the game and can fire back on some encounters like the house.
1. Manawall + Magnify spam = to expensive for Hardmode (better of just using the phys or the magic, not both, also rarely a need for magnify).
2. First strike not really that useful vs most story bosses (aka the only time builds really matter, great for everything else though).
3. Prayer only really useful with high magic stat characters (otherwise you're better off of with Chakra).
4. Element attack is VERY strong for stagger damage against anything with a weakness (just super annoying that you can't switch it in combat).
Elvis Nilsson Magnify reduces the cost overall for the Barrier spells. And if a encounter does magic and phys., manawall is your best option. Also if you are not sure what the enemy does, manawall might prevent a death. First strike helps a lot with quick combat setups at start and is incredible great for quick new encounters. Prayer might be better on high magic chars but it is still better than wasting MP with vita casts. And as said, later game enemies have rarely a element weakness. It is strong to enemies with a weakness tho. I just beat hardmode with this stuff and didn’t need a single Ress at all.
If you remember in ff7 original game there was a material called added effect which combined with life materia or revival materia would instantly revive you from death is there a way to Link materia to bring you back from instant death in final fantasy 7 remake?
In hard mode does your whole game reset or do you keep your materia?
Just a heads up, on Classic mode Auto-cure will be automatically cast by the player controlled character as well. I played on this mode at first just so I could focus on the story first time through.
Game is easy on normal mode already.
Sigh... Seriously taking away game experience
Bond people can enjoy things the way they want.
Magnify Materia + Revival Materia = Multiple Phoenix Downs
I'm wondering if your items and levels will carry over to episode 2 when it releases or will we just start over at the beginning of each episode. Really hope it's the former.
There’s no way in hell they can optimized the game to fit for everyone’s play style as some people will only play the game once and some other will grind everything to max , so it’s probably gunna start off from level 1 again
@@Ldenlord No, it's going to be optional. In the original game, level cap is 99. The second part of the game, the level cap will be raised. They'll still have Classic, Easy, Normal, and Hard. They will probably need to break the 9999 barrier tho. Since we can reached 9999 in the current game.
How do u use sleep. U can't use it with barrier ? I thought u said u can use sleep with barrier please explaine magnify n barrier what materia puts them to sleep
PPL Alrdy HAVE 9999 HP I wonder if we have fresh start when part 2 out lol
Maybe it will go to 99999 like ffX
Yeah I was thinking this. Also fighting the Midgar zolom. Like that’s meant to be intimidating? You’ve just fought fate and a version of Sephiroth 😂 how’s the rest of the game going to be hard
Elzmack91 plz don’t tell me it growing more n more like dark souls XD
Do you get any rewards for completing hard mode? Or is it just for a more challenging play through?
People do it mostly for the fun of the challenge and platinum , and of course the reward for finishing the hardest fighting simulator
Spoilers:
Starting any battle with a full limit break
One combo I enjoy is magnify + haste, just my personal taste
I'm going to try that over Barrier
Apparently there's no Materia that can clear sleep, though?
Or stun
Yes, I believe it’s the cleanse materia
Esuna
Esuna clears any aliment
Also you can get headbands (and manaward + one of the status materia) that give immunity to sleep.
Is it possible to master the material in this game? I ask because I used to do a lot of mastering of the low-level Elemental Materia and just sell the master Materia while keeping the new material that was generated by splitting once it hits master. Also they change the names of some of the material and they gave people back with skills that they didn't used to have in the original game I think I'm going to like this game once I get it
You can master them, but they do not generate a new one of the same time. Materiagenesis is off, alas.
If I use magnify with elemental then the same elemental with MP absorb, do I get the full effect of MP absorb with it hitting all enemies? That's kind of how materia chaining worked in the original.