This is by far the best spot to farm AP. Pair that with 2 magic ups and magnify + fire, you can literally one shot everything and next thing you know all your materias are maxed out! Keep up the great content my dude! ;)
I have a video I'm working on for full team builds and I will be discussing in that how to use each character in particular situations together. The secret boss guide has examples on how to use tifa as the main while aerith and cloud are support. But I'll dive deeper into that for you in this video I'm working on!
Shinra simulator 2 people vs flying enemies is the best. Use cloud as main and simply hold attack at the start then use triple slash. Then quit the 2nd battle and restart from beginning. 48 AP every time, you can get 96 AP per minute.
That's my exact mindset when I was making this! I know there are subs to this channel who come here only and don't really check other places out so I wanna bring the best information I can for you all regardless of how popularized they've been on youtube!
Awesome to hear man! There are plenty of ways to go about this but for me I enjoyed and used this method very often. Provided me with a lot of footage for many of my videos as well haha
You are correct and I'm an idiot who had MP absorb on the mind instead of Magnify like my notes say. They're both blue so I guess I'm materia racist 🤷🏾♂️
@@BltzZ Lol It was an honest mistake. Your work is great nonetheless so don't sweat it. Besides, I feel pinning corrective comments is more than enough to make up for it.
Rewatching videos now, currently missing 2 trophies for my platinum and I need to max materia that is very time consuming, this here tactic is exactly what I needed to get it done before rebirth arrives
Perfect timing, I was looking for an easy way to earn AP for my materias. This is easier compared to rerunning through an entire chapter over and over again;
And if you want to go even faster, just equip Cloud with magnify--fire---mithrill sword and switch difficulty to easy ( no change in AP ratio). Those human enemies literally evaporate with fire magic
@@MrPeasant213i’m really late to replying to this lmao but yeah it does!! for me i loaded up chapter 17 because there’s a combat sim you can access there really quickly and grinded AP on the two person team vs high flyers battle and was getting around 400 AP per run, and if you have the right materia equipped you can easily complete a run in under a minute! it was super efficient for me
Another (lazy) way to farm is to run the battle coliseum with a full party in classic mode (I can't remember what it's called now). Start the match and with high enough stats (I did tried this before level 30 and it worked fine) they will win the battle all by themselves. You can put the controller down for a couple minutes and go do something else while the game levels up for you! There is 1 enemy that is immune to physical attacks but is weak to fire, so Fire + Elemental on 1 character's weapon and it will die pretty quick. Also, you can equip accessories to be immune to the poison in the last round for added safety.
I saw from another vid Another spot to farm AP is in chapter 14 Collapsed expressway 1st run u'll be fighting some trypopolis to free 1 of the 3 missing chocobos But, after dats done, the whole area is just filled with easy monsters u just need to focus on cloud equip him first strike, elemental + lightning, luck up, supernatural wristguard, triple slash short cut cloud will cut down everything with triple slash once or twice, but u cn switch quickly to barret for overcharge to top things off, and first strike + maximum fury if those smoggers are a lil stronger than usual, Or equip cloud with whistlewind scarf + first strike so he'll hv 2 atb bars and cn pull off triple slash twice quickly u cn repeat this section quickly by using chocobo fast travel The other materia slots can just be filled up with whatever materia u need leveling up, you don't have to think about it since its fairly low risk enemies Less than 3 minutes or so, u cn get up to 500+ AP ( AP materia + triple post game )
Hi Blitz, my method of AP farming was to do the Slum Outlaws challenge repeatedly in the Corneo Colloseum. You can only use 2 characters, but as all the enemies are weak to fire, you only need to equip fire+magnify (and maybe first strike). This means that you have all the other slots free to bung in the materia you want to level up. Granted the total AP per challenge is about half that of the Shinra garage, but the big saving here is time. My record is 10 seconds on the clock (though in reality it's more like 1min at maximum if you count the transition between each round + victory), but then just tap triangle to start it over again. I think this could be a more efficient way than repeating the start of chapter 16 over and over, so would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
It definitely is faster and has its perks for sure! Both ways are overall great I just like that the garage allows you to have 3 characters with a whole list of extra materia to be leveled on top of that too. Ultimately its whichever way you want to do it because all these methods you guys have been listing in the comments are amazing =]
Depends on how many materias you want to up AP at the same time. This one is better if you need to up many materias like me. Then when the number is reduced, I will use yours. Man, even with this trick, the grind is real.
The fastest is doing the shinra mission with 2 people where you fight a wave of buggaboo's kill them with a triple slash from Cloud, once next match starts, you can kill the 2 ez enemies, then quit and reload. costs 400 gil, and you'll get around 50 AP within 30s
3:07 this also gets you 10k plus in Gil (with the Gil Materia equipped) and can if you open crates get you an eather, Molotov cocktail and a mega potion, now while you can’t use items in battle in hard mode you will be chugging mp pots like no tomorrow out of combat (unless you want to do the brake box reload thing till you die of boredom) I timed this for another tip video and even if you get unlucky with mob spawns and they spread out it takes only 4 minutes from start to start (that’s with skipping Cut scenes plus load time on a PS4 pro) it’s 29 bad guys split into 3 encounters, each of the 3 is 2 packs that pull together (sorry for the terms I’m an MMO players so my mind thinks in them terms) this is all on easy mode as there is no reason to grind this on a harder mode sadly, it would be nice if normal or hard gave you an extra ap boost but it doesn’t so just run it on easy and get it done fast, so people say that the two man team vs shinra is better but I disagree as yes it’s faster but this opinion you have 10 extra Materia slots on your third person that can also be leveling up plus you earn money and items this way while the combat sim cost you money (money you will need on hard mode for your Eather potion habit) so I think this way is better but do whatever is most fun to you after all gaming is about having fun something a lot of people forget about.
Actually, you can't use items outside o combat either. Literally, the only uses for money in hard mode are purchasing extra materia, and the arenas. Plus, the 2 vs high flyers in the combat simulators actually nets you gil if you finish it. You either get a cash prize of 2000 gil, or an allotment of consumables that can be sold for well more than the 400 gil entrance fee. Plus, 0 cutscenes to skip, and only 2 minutes to complete an entire cycle of combats. And no running around. But as you said, do whatever you eel is most fun to you.
Funny enough, I never seen this guide before and even I figure out the best place to farm ap on materia, it's even faster if you already have the accessory from the top secret challenge, which was a big help speeding through it.
I like going into chapter 17 battle simulator and doing the two man team vs high flyers challenge, but only do the first round and then quit and rechallenge it. You get 48 ap every time and you can do it about 5 times in two minutes if you use first strike material and triple strike. Takes way less loading time and no real risk of dying, you will bet about 240 ap every two minutes or so.
I know this is old but like in FF7. Try to duplicate type in sockets. So lets say you link Blue Link-Fire, THEN take another FIRE and link it to a diffrent blue say magnify and what will match will match up with the single cast. A blue highlight means it's working on link. I knew in the older version, we could link blue to yellow material (Command) I'm unsure if there is much interaction in this case.
tnx for your vids man,, u really helped me out, specially in the builds for characters. this game is really good balance for casual and hardcore gamers,, its not that grindy,, its really good,, tnx as always and be safe everyone
Corneo Coliseum in chapter 14 is my go to Materia level spot . Just pick the 3 on 3 challenge .then have cloud equip with Fire Materia bonded with Magnify Materia since most of the enemies are weak to fire , and then add ice Materia to both Tifa and Barret for the ones weak to ice . This can be done in 2 minutes the most
Another great spot is the Corneo Colisseum. Fight the 2-person fight with the thugs. With a basic materia (Elemental + Fire on weapons + First Strike) setup, you can do all 5 waves in about 30-45 seconds, and earn 130AP. Its tedious but you don't have to skip cut scenes and run around the first part of the stage, so the AP/Hour is a bit higher.
Haha yeah the grind is seperate from the difficulty which was surprising. Because you can do easy etc too. But I always just kept it normal to keep the enemies feeling stronger
Thanks Victor happy to hear that! Subscribe so you don't miss any of our other guides! After you level up your materias you need to checkout our Instant Limit break build and our Infinite health build!
I just went to chapter 1 and started a fresh run on hard. I didn't know people were leveling and maxing materia. Probably would've made it easier. Oh well thanks for the videos.
No problem! If you want, soon as you get to a chapter beginning save the game. Chapter select to 16 and level up whatever you need. You can always return back to that chapter and it won't hurt your progress
A project that would take some time, but would be well worth it. Save before taking anything from the Airbuster, there's not a video out there showing what taking the different stuff away from it does.
Fire and multiply makes it short work. Here's the main setup, first strike, fire + multiple, stagger, 2 MP, 2 magic up. If you have it, 2 luck up. This help me make short work of that chapter. Under 2 min.
I level up most of the materia but not all of them and I already started hardmode is it possible I can go back and level up some more materia and then come back to my save file on hard mode and have the Materia I just level up on there will it be carried over from there.
Yes and no. So you can switch to a chapter and keep your XP. But you have to restart the chapter and select the last one you left off on. If you reload from that save file you will reload with all of what you had when you saved. So play your chapter, save. Then reload to a new chapter and you'll keep your stuff. But you cannot reload the previous save. You have to chapter select back to that chapter..but you will have to start that entire chapter all over again.
I used the SBS match that make you use two party members with all those drone robots as the first match. Just moved faster for me. I did this one too but just when I had to run through the chapter again (I kept forgetting Tifas purple pain like a dummy)
Yup both methods are really good to use. I personally get bored when using the chapter 17 2 player vs high flyers mission haha so I usually end up running through the garage practicing combos
Blitz, best way for materia AP farming is thru Corneos Collesium (chapter 14) , just select 3 party at easy mode and you can get 165 AP every 16second playtime. faster too if you eqiup cloud with fire + magnify with first strike, 2 magic plus and atb stagger. Downside its very boring to do but it is the quickest way. Although i was able to grind while watching netflix because its just a repetitive process Check that out man
Better place for AP Two-person team vs. high fliers simulator battle, do the first 3 fights and then quit, rinse repeat. First 3 battles post game nets more than 100 AP every 15 seconds or so (battle time) Go in with cloud and Barrett, I give them both first strike, cloud with a triple slash kills the first wave (16 bugs), second wave cloud triple strike and Barrett overcharge, then maximum fury to finish off, third wave same as second wave
Thanks for the video. Let me know to not waste time and gil trying to max everything before beating the game. Looking forward to trying hardmode with everything maxed after.
Welcome to the channel dude happy to have you here! They definitely are moving towards a good direction and I'm excited for it! Be sure to checkout the instant limit break build video as well as the infinite health build to break this game!
Hey man quick question the material swap/ slot screen at 1:52 time stamp , how do you make it so that you can see/ switch/swap every single character at once in your party at once like that? I CANNOT figure it out. Thanks dude!
I level up materia in Corneo's Colosseum - Three-Person Team vs. Shinra Warriors. Costs 300gil a pop. I prefer this method 'cause its much faster for me (is it?) plus I hate walking down those pesky stairs in Chapter 16. Magnify > firaga will be your bread ang butter here, and you'll breeze your way through rounds 1-4. 5th and final round, you'll face a couple of Venomantis and a queen Grashtrike, Blizzaga them to death. I average 1minute more or less per run here @ 400-500ish AP per run. (with AP up 'quipped). Dont forget to equip the Gil materia to compensate for your "entrance fee".
Is it better to do this on hard mode or is it the same ap earned also are the characters not being controlled getting the same amount of ap as the controlled character or do u need to switch to them during battle
Slightly confused, or maybe i overlooked, but are you supposed to clear the level to gain and keep the AP, or do you get to a certain point during the level then quit and restart?
That one's great for bypassing wanting to walk the beginning of chapter 16 over and over again. But you miss the epic delivery of Barret screaming "I'm a ticking time bomb sooner or later imma have to blow up!" Lol
I timed it and I think the combat simulator is like 30%-40% more effective for farming AP (AP/MIN) even after you calculate the fact that the simulator can only level 20 materia at a time but the chapter 16 can level 29.
@@BltzZ that's great to know. Just finished the main story yesterday, currently grinding AP before starting Hard Mode. Thank you very much, you're a great help
Do I have to finish the chapter to keep the maxxed materias? Do I save over the save file you get when you finish chapter 18? Idk how to keep the newly maxxed materias for when I do hard mode
Sorry for the dumb question: But you can just go back to Chapters and play them with your current set of characters? And then keep the exp and use it in your live current chapter? This is news to me!
It's actually a good question! But You are limited to the characters that are only playable for that chapter. The levels will stay as long as you save right before chapter swapping
Maybe you can do one on how to use warding and materia and how to make it most effective against pain in the ass spell affects that gets thrown at you. Lol. Do you have to link warding with like time or bind? I'm trying to figure that out but its kinda difficult sometimes.
I have a stagger abuse build with time. Check out the stagger pressure video I have. And THE BEST use for warding is in my instant limit break build video :D check that one out as it will blow your mind
@@BltzZ although. I am curious and would like to figure out how warding works with linking it to other materia like binding or time, when I do try it I always seem to still get a negative effect on me. If your able maybe you can give some helpful advice or suggestion. Keep up the good work with them vids. Thanks 🙏
Hey BltzZ, how's it hanging brudda? This is such an informative video especially for guys/players who'd want to start Hard mode. I am just happy with you uploading videos every other day. Just keep up the great work!! Also, what I did was max out all HP Up and MP Up Materias here. What you can do is switch out all materias that have 0 or some AP, equip the AP materia and link it with the one you want to level up. Rinse and repeat this till you maximize all your materias esp the important ones. Your thoughts? Cheers!!!
It's going great friend! Hope all is well with you. It's been raining like crazy in florida due to the passing tropical storm haha so we've been super cooped up in the house. Yup thats exactly the gameplan when it comes to maxing out these blue yellow and purple materias!
@@BltzZ Well!! I am glad you asked. I was ideally supposed to be in Dallas this week but had to reschedule coz of the whole Covid-19 bs. Also, EVO online??? You must be hyped for sure. I was really looking forward to EVO this year. Take care. Cheers!!
@@tajikaragaming9613 haha yeah I really was planning to go to Evo this year and try my hand in dbfz just for fun..I'm pretty good at it but looks like it's going to be a wild year of canceled and laggy things haha. Sorry to hear man
No I don't unfortunately but the easiest way is to do chapter 3 all side missions. Select tifas dress you want and you must COMPLETE the entire chapter. Then when chapter 4 starts, use chapter select to chapter 8. Now for aeriths best dress you need to do 6 or more quests. Aeriths 2nd dress you need to do 3 quests. Aeriths worst dress you have to do less than 3 dresses. Complete the chapter. Then chapter 9 for cloud you get the worst cloud dress by doing no or a small amount of quests. To get blue dress(my favorite) you need to do chocobo sam's sidequest. If you want the princess dress you need to do the madam M quests. Night have to Google how to trigger their quests specifically though
Hey man. I have been really enjoying your videos. I’m on my second play through and trying to finish the game on hard mode. Just a question though, do you know where can I get extra ATB assist and stagger materia?
ATB assist to my knowledge there is one 1. ATB stagger you should buy from chadleys store. Happy to hear that bro I'm excited to keep bringing you guys videos!
Wow, this is the video I never knew I needed. Thanks, Blitz. Hopefully, this will make leveling up Chakra a lot shorter. Btw, how long did it take you to max out the material you normally use with this method?
Not long! Depends on the materia of course. Blue materia was a bit longer due to the higher AP Gap. But yellow and green are usually quicker. Purple from HP Ups and magic ups take a bit of time rightfully so. Just focus on having as many as you need leveled up in your slots and go to town with Barret tifa and cloud
What's up dude longtime no talk! The two person vs high flyers is fast as well in ch 17. But ultimately it's only 2 people gaining AP. So you are missing out on a 3rd character to level up 9-10 materias as well. This method can be super fast and done in 3 minutes with melee build Barret just mowing everyone down
You need to fully max level everyone then collect all the manuscripts from chapter 17 VR for individual characters. And chapter 9 and chapter 14 colliseum. Also hard mode completion of each chapter rewards you with manuscripts
Tbh it's mainly refocus materia! But you can have even more cool effects as well when you have unbridled strength to level 3 and use focused strike and cancel it with deadly dodge into a full attack! Tifa is just so awesome!
Yes! The only thing that is now different is I've added refocus and Gotterdammerung to Tifa! I am working on the full team build currently. Which will focus on the best possible materia setups and equipment on those characters to use as a group and how they work together in hard mode.
So after you finish lvling up what materia as well quantities do you recommend maxing before attempting any chapter on hard mode. Especially since you have more manuscripts to unlock.
Revivalx3 Chakrax3 Prayerx2 Healingx3 Steadfast Blockx2 Parryx3 Magnifyx1 Elementalx2 HPAbsorbX2 these are just the many few that come to mind that really will help out a ton on hard mode. Go for Those and tackle the top secrets hard mode boss in VR chapter 17 so you can unlock the best accessory in the game Gotterrdammerrung
After I beat the game I did not get double XP or triple ap. Am I doing something wrong? I unlocked chapter select but that's about it. Do I need to do Yuffie's story too?
Nah when you beat the game and afyer credits it tells u to make a save. Before u did you should of gotten a message about double xp and another about yuffie story
That's in-game 1 minute but actually takes about 3 minutes or slightly more to Complete between transitions and round ends. This method brings on about 280 AP every 3-5 mins but you have to walk to the destination each time you chapter select. Either way Is viable but slightly more AP this way
Be sure to check out my ff7 tips you need to know video as it explains this and a bunch of other things you may not know of that will help you with quality of life
I disagree that the Shinra Simulator 2 people vs. Flying enemies is the fastest way because you're only using two people. IMO the best way is Three-Person Team vs. Mayor is Best because you get more slots to level up and even though you only get 30 AP per run it only takes around 8-12 seconds on average to clear it. Not to mention you can restart immediately, no waiting for give up option. And the best part is its free, some people dont have enough gil to keep restarting. Here's what I run on it: Cloud: lightning&Magnify, Magic up, Magic up, First Strike. Aerith: lightning&Elemental, First Strike. Berret: lightning&Elemental. As soon as it starts I quick spell thundaga with Cloud on left enemy then I use thundaga on right enemy with Aerith. I switch to Berret and if that doesn't finish them off I use his overcharge to finish them.
BTW Difficulty does not matter, set to easy to melt enemies quicker! Also I said MP absorb by accident I meant magnify!
This is by far the best spot to farm AP. Pair that with 2 magic ups and magnify + fire, you can literally one shot everything and next thing you know all your materias are maxed out! Keep up the great content my dude! ;)
Much appreciated dude I have more videos in the works coming to you guys very soon:)
I have a video I'm working on for full team builds and I will be discussing in that how to use each character in particular situations together. The secret boss guide has examples on how to use tifa as the main while aerith and cloud are support. But I'll dive deeper into that for you in this video I'm working on!
Difficulty does matter. Classic gives the best until you can farm hard mode. Crunch ya numbers....
My hardedge has 4 slots not 6 how did you get 6?
Shinra simulator 2 people vs flying enemies is the best. Use cloud as main and simply hold attack at the start then use triple slash. Then quit the 2nd battle and restart from beginning. 48 AP every time, you can get 96 AP per minute.
Yeah this method is godlike!
Chapter 17 - Hojos Lab - 3 Person Team vs. Team Ragbag - 144ap per minute
Depending on RNG you can get this done in less than 2 minutes.
I run the whole sim and it takes a little under 2 minutes for 188 AP on hard mode, not counting the AP Up bonus.
And if you have on first strike you can just go straight to triple slash right off the bat!
Your comment help me more them the vídeo. Thank u
This method is absolutely ridiculous on hard mode. I expected hours but instead went from level 36 to 50 in about 35 minutes. Good stuff.
I don't have time to look through all the many channels, this is much appreciated sir
That's my exact mindset when I was making this! I know there are subs to this channel who come here only and don't really check other places out so I wanna bring the best information I can for you all regardless of how popularized they've been on youtube!
Fire + Magnify makes short work of the enemies in this area.
Burn baby burrrrn. That's the easy nukes build
Classic mode makes this run much faster.
@@bohguardth13 how
Mastered all of my materia using this exact method. Video is 100% spot on.
Awesome to hear man! There are plenty of ways to go about this but for me I enjoyed and used this method very often. Provided me with a lot of footage for many of my videos as well haha
Blitz always coming out with content I need at the moment
I may be behind but I'll never forget you guys! Happy to always bring stuff out for you all!
Lol the Algorithm is strong with this one. And BltzZ is psychic 😂
Hahaha you all want a full team hard mode build and house boss hard mode guide I see!! Hmmmm. Lol I'm just working on those right now hahab
Correction: MP Absorb initially comes maxed out. There's no need to max it out.
Keep up the good work, Blitz.
You are correct and I'm an idiot who had MP absorb on the mind instead of Magnify like my notes say. They're both blue so I guess I'm materia racist 🤷🏾♂️
@@BltzZ Lol It was an honest mistake. Your work is great nonetheless so don't sweat it. Besides, I feel pinning corrective comments is more than enough to make up for it.
Rewatching videos now, currently missing 2 trophies for my platinum and I need to max materia that is very time consuming, this here tactic is exactly what I needed to get it done before rebirth arrives
check the recent stream. The best method now is the training against high flyers
Perfect timing, I was looking for an easy way to earn AP for my materias. This is easier compared to rerunning through an entire chapter over and over again;
Glad I was able to hook you up bro!
And if you want to go even faster, just equip Cloud with magnify--fire---mithrill sword and switch difficulty to easy ( no change in AP ratio). Those human enemies literally evaporate with fire magic
Burn them all(Mad king voice)
On top of that - add First Strike materia and equip Whistle Scarf accessory. Hotkey Firaga and/or Triple slash.
@@BltzZ1st play through here, does difficulty matter on ap and exp gain on shinra simulator grinding ?
@@MrPeasant213i’m really late to replying to this lmao but yeah it does!! for me i loaded up chapter 17 because there’s a combat sim you can access there really quickly and grinded AP on the two person team vs high flyers battle and was getting around 400 AP per run, and if you have the right materia equipped you can easily complete a run in under a minute! it was super efficient for me
Another (lazy) way to farm is to run the battle coliseum with a full party in classic mode (I can't remember what it's called now). Start the match and with high enough stats (I did tried this before level 30 and it worked fine) they will win the battle all by themselves. You can put the controller down for a couple minutes and go do something else while the game levels up for you! There is 1 enemy that is immune to physical attacks but is weak to fire, so Fire + Elemental on 1 character's weapon and it will die pretty quick. Also, you can equip accessories to be immune to the poison in the last round for added safety.
since the game is free this month and i already beat it i really needed this. really needed this for the last chadly quest i need to do
I saw from another vid
Another spot to farm AP is in chapter 14
Collapsed expressway
1st run u'll be fighting some trypopolis to free 1 of the 3 missing chocobos
But, after dats done, the whole area is just filled with easy monsters
u just need to focus on cloud
equip him first strike, elemental + lightning, luck up, supernatural wristguard, triple slash short cut
cloud will cut down everything with triple slash once or twice, but u cn switch quickly to barret for overcharge to top things off, and first strike + maximum fury if those smoggers are a lil stronger than usual,
Or equip cloud with whistlewind scarf + first strike so he'll hv 2 atb bars and cn pull off triple slash twice quickly
u cn repeat this section quickly by using chocobo fast travel
The other materia slots can just be filled up with whatever materia u need leveling up, you don't have to think about it since its fairly low risk enemies
Less than 3 minutes or so, u cn get up to 500+ AP ( AP materia + triple post game )
Need 2 trophies left for the platinum - been watching your vids on FF7 Remake nonstop and they're great - mad respect, man!
Battle Intel.
you don't know how your timing is perfect in my case. thanks
Happy to hear! I know a lot of you guys are nearing the end and this would come in handy! Enjoy it to the max
Hi Blitz, my method of AP farming was to do the Slum Outlaws challenge repeatedly in the Corneo Colloseum. You can only use 2 characters, but as all the enemies are weak to fire, you only need to equip fire+magnify (and maybe first strike). This means that you have all the other slots free to bung in the materia you want to level up. Granted the total AP per challenge is about half that of the Shinra garage, but the big saving here is time. My record is 10 seconds on the clock (though in reality it's more like 1min at maximum if you count the transition between each round + victory), but then just tap triangle to start it over again.
I think this could be a more efficient way than repeating the start of chapter 16 over and over, so would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
It definitely is faster and has its perks for sure! Both ways are overall great I just like that the garage allows you to have 3 characters with a whole list of extra materia to be leveled on top of that too. Ultimately its whichever way you want to do it because all these methods you guys have been listing in the comments are amazing =]
Depends on how many materias you want to up AP at the same time. This one is better if you need to up many materias like me. Then when the number is reduced, I will use yours. Man, even with this trick, the grind is real.
Ooo can’t wait to try this. Only need hardmode cleared and top secrets for that platinum.
That's awesome man you got this! Let me know how it all works out :)
I definitely needed this. Thanks dude!
Am trying to max out my materia for the Top Secrets battles!
You got this dude! Smash that fight with those OP max level materias
Collapsed expressway in Chapter 14 was my location. Enemies respawn everytime. Chocobo ride to go back to entrance.
That's an interest method. That music in that section is amazing but holy hell I hate that pathways level design lll
Already got most stuff maxed and knew this method, but I figured I’d stop by and support! Great video.
Ayyye much appreciated bro! Working on the hard mode house video as well as the full team hard mode build for today!
BltzZ can’t forget the poison spell ;)
Yup I heard it's amazing against the house :)
The fastest is doing the shinra mission with 2 people where you fight a wave of buggaboo's
kill them with a triple slash from Cloud, once next match starts, you can kill the 2 ez enemies, then quit and reload. costs 400 gil, and you'll get around 50 AP within 30s
I do both but I get bored with that method often haha
@@BltzZ Well, ngl dude. Farming isn't really supposed to be fun lmao
@@FabzP96 There are fun farming methods and there are boring ones. But this varies for people differently.
I m a simple man , i see Tifa on the thumbnail i clicked. 😌
I am the same way! She's been the day 1 bae since 1998 for me
3:07 this also gets you 10k plus in Gil (with the Gil Materia equipped) and can if you open crates get you an eather, Molotov cocktail and a mega potion, now while you can’t use items in battle in hard mode you will be chugging mp pots like no tomorrow out of combat (unless you want to do the brake box reload thing till you die of boredom)
I timed this for another tip video and even if you get unlucky with mob spawns and they spread out it takes only 4 minutes from start to start (that’s with skipping Cut scenes plus load time on a PS4 pro) it’s 29 bad guys split into 3 encounters, each of the 3 is 2 packs that pull together (sorry for the terms I’m an MMO players so my mind thinks in them terms) this is all on easy mode as there is no reason to grind this on a harder mode sadly, it would be nice if normal or hard gave you an extra ap boost but it doesn’t so just run it on easy and get it done fast, so people say that the two man team vs shinra is better but I disagree as yes it’s faster but this opinion you have 10 extra Materia slots on your third person that can also be leveling up plus you earn money and items this way while the combat sim cost you money (money you will need on hard mode for your Eather potion habit) so I think this way is better but do whatever is most fun to you after all gaming is about having fun something a lot of people forget about.
you can’t use items at all in hard. In or out of battle.
Actually, you can't use items outside o combat either. Literally, the only uses for money in hard mode are purchasing extra materia, and the arenas. Plus, the 2 vs high flyers in the combat simulators actually nets you gil if you finish it. You either get a cash prize of 2000 gil, or an allotment of consumables that can be sold for well more than the 400 gil entrance fee. Plus, 0 cutscenes to skip, and only 2 minutes to complete an entire cycle of combats. And no running around. But as you said, do whatever you eel is most fun to you.
Funny enough, I never seen this guide before and even I figure out the best place to farm ap on materia, it's even faster if you already have the accessory from the top secret challenge, which was a big help speeding through it.
Happy you directed me to this vid, thanks man you save me A LOT of time.
I've already spent well enough, 103hours of gameplay I have
No problem dude enjoy powering up!
I like going into chapter 17 battle simulator and doing the two man team vs high flyers challenge, but only do the first round and then quit and rechallenge it. You get 48 ap every time and you can do it about 5 times in two minutes if you use first strike material and triple strike. Takes way less loading time and no real risk of dying, you will bet about 240 ap every two minutes or so.
yep this is the fastest method
Thank you so much!!!!!! After lvling up materia I will finish pride and joy
You got this dude!
Thanks bro!!!!!!
I FINALLY DEFEATED JOY AND PRIDE thanks for your guide really help a lot!!!!
Congrats dude that's amazing to hear! Thanks for letting me know of your accomplishment woooot!
I know this is old but like in FF7. Try to duplicate type in sockets.
So lets say you link Blue Link-Fire, THEN take another FIRE and link it to a diffrent blue say magnify and what will match will match up with the single cast.
A blue highlight means it's working on link.
I knew in the older version, we could link blue to yellow material (Command) I'm unsure if there is much interaction in this case.
tnx for your vids man,, u really helped me out, specially in the builds for characters. this game is really good balance for casual and hardcore gamers,, its not that grindy,, its really good,, tnx as always and be safe everyone
Of course man! Don't worry the full character builds for hard mode will be coming soon!
Corneo Coliseum in chapter 14 is my go to Materia level spot . Just pick the 3 on 3 challenge .then have cloud equip with Fire Materia bonded with Magnify Materia since most of the enemies are weak to fire , and then add ice Materia to both Tifa and Barret for the ones weak to ice . This can be done in 2 minutes the most
Nice method!
@@BltzZ yea man . No load times on that note either
Another great spot is the Corneo Colisseum. Fight the 2-person fight with the thugs. With a basic materia (Elemental + Fire on weapons + First Strike) setup, you can do all 5 waves in about 30-45 seconds, and earn 130AP. Its tedious but you don't have to skip cut scenes and run around the first part of the stage, so the AP/Hour is a bit higher.
Yup the two person fights are definitely good too but I like the 3 person options for more materia being level at once
Love the throwback boss theme.
Gets the blood pumping!
Chapter 16 is the best option, i did most of my materia leveling up there :)
It's just the most consistent for sure!
@@BltzZ and i am glad we don't have to play on hard to get higher XP or anything ;)
Haha yeah the grind is seperate from the difficulty which was surprising. Because you can do easy etc too. But I always just kept it normal to keep the enemies feeling stronger
@@BltzZ You are a player dude, can't wait if you will make a video on how to easily defeat hell house on hard :)
Just finished remake. Woop. Now for rebirth
Wow I dint know about AP up 😩😩😩 but thank you stilled helped me 👍🏼
Happy to help always! :) Stay tuned for more videos coming soon!
BltzZ will do great vids I’ll sub also bro keep it up
Most definitely! I won't let you down :)
Best ap farm video i see on the youtube
Thanks Victor happy to hear that! Subscribe so you don't miss any of our other guides! After you level up your materias you need to checkout our Instant Limit break build and our Infinite health build!
Why use normal difficulty if exp is also increased in easy mode?
Awesome, the one I've been doing was the best then :) I still find the HP and MP to be an absolute grind to max
They definitely are haha they don't make it easy for sure
I just went to chapter 1 and started a fresh run on hard. I didn't know people were leveling and maxing materia. Probably would've made it easier. Oh well thanks for the videos.
No problem! If you want, soon as you get to a chapter beginning save the game. Chapter select to 16 and level up whatever you need. You can always return back to that chapter and it won't hurt your progress
Your run through videos are the best man, good shit 👏 👌
Thanks my dude I appreciate that
A project that would take some time, but would be well worth it. Save before taking anything from the Airbuster, there's not a video out there showing what taking the different stuff away from it does.
Fire and multiply makes it short work. Here's the main setup, first strike, fire + multiple, stagger, 2 MP, 2 magic up. If you have it, 2 luck up. This help me make short work of that chapter. Under 2 min.
I level up most of the materia but not all of them and I already started hardmode is it possible I can go back and level up some more materia and then come back to my save file on hard mode and have the Materia I just level up on there will it be carried over from there.
Yes and no. So you can switch to a chapter and keep your XP. But you have to restart the chapter and select the last one you left off on. If you reload from that save file you will reload with all of what you had when you saved. So play your chapter, save. Then reload to a new chapter and you'll keep your stuff. But you cannot reload the previous save. You have to chapter select back to that chapter..but you will have to start that entire chapter all over again.
@@BltzZ oh ok thx
2 years later, but i have this question
Does there exist more Elemental Materia’s?
Nope just one
There's 2. You get the second from completing all side quests in Ch.14 from the Angel of the Slums I believe.
Thank you for the vid BltzZ!
You're welcome!
0:59 that’s how you say it😂
Me watchinc this after grinding in chapter 9
I used the SBS match that make you use two party members with all those drone robots as the first match. Just moved faster for me. I did this one too but just when I had to run through the chapter again (I kept forgetting Tifas purple pain like a dummy)
Yup both methods are really good to use. I personally get bored when using the chapter 17 2 player vs high flyers mission haha so I usually end up running through the garage practicing combos
Blitz, best way for materia AP farming is thru Corneos Collesium (chapter 14) , just select 3 party at easy mode and you can get 165 AP every 16second playtime. faster too if you eqiup cloud with fire + magnify with first strike, 2 magic plus and atb stagger. Downside its very boring to do but it is the quickest way. Although i was able to grind while watching netflix because its just a repetitive process
Check that out man
If you add AP up, thats 330 AP every 16 seconds of battle
Great tip thank you!
Better place for AP
Two-person team vs. high fliers simulator battle, do the first 3 fights and then quit, rinse repeat.
First 3 battles post game nets more than 100 AP every 15 seconds or so (battle time)
Go in with cloud and Barrett, I give them both first strike, cloud with a triple slash kills the first wave (16 bugs), second wave cloud triple strike and Barrett overcharge, then maximum fury to finish off, third wave same as second wave
First wave 48, second wave 36, third wave 54, total of 138 in about 10 seconds (lowest I've gotten is 8 seconds, 12 on the high end)
I needed this thank your blitzZ, am struggling with the blue materia
No problem! I'm happy to hear you crushed it and got through it. Those blue materias are a pain but they're oh so good lol
On chapter select should i choose normal or normal (classic)?
That move that tifa does in the cutscene what move is that?
can we get a video on which materias we should use on hard mode to beat the game :)
Never thought using Revival Materia would take some long to level up
Even with the super fast gain revival is a tough one to level!
Thanks for the video. Let me know to not waste time and gil trying to max everything before beating the game. Looking forward to trying hardmode with everything maxed after.
Very useful video! Thanks bro, you are genius!
You're welcome! Stay tuned for a crazy MP and HO absorb build I have releasing in a few minutes
@@BltzZ Okay :D
Thanks for the guide. It really helped.
You're absolutely welcome!
Thanks for the video i subbed to ya. I love this game on the original version and hope they do it justice on the remake.
Welcome to the channel dude happy to have you here! They definitely are moving towards a good direction and I'm excited for it! Be sure to checkout the instant limit break build video as well as the infinite health build to break this game!
Can't wait to play the hell out of this game. (Still saving money for PS4, maybe prices will drop once the 5th one is fully out.)
Hopefully you are able to get it and enjoy it a lot!
NOW ITS ON PS4 FOR FREE AND I GOT IT MOOOWHOOOAAHAHHAHAH O.O *snatches off your socks and exposes your barefeets to the world!*
@@zeokenx2 thats awesome. I'm happy you get to play it
Not ma feet's! Anything but that!
Hey man quick question the material swap/ slot screen at 1:52 time stamp , how do you make it so that you can see/ switch/swap every single character at once in your party at once like that? I CANNOT figure it out. Thanks dude!
Press R1 on the character menu screen
@@BltzZ thanks a lot my guy! Been trying to figure that out forever lol
Thank you! I needed this
Happy to help always!
I level up materia in Corneo's Colosseum - Three-Person Team vs. Shinra Warriors.
Costs 300gil a pop. I prefer this method 'cause its much faster for me (is it?) plus I hate walking down those pesky stairs in Chapter 16.
Magnify > firaga will be your bread ang butter here, and you'll breeze your way through rounds 1-4. 5th and final round, you'll face a couple of Venomantis and a queen Grashtrike, Blizzaga them to death. I average 1minute more or less per run here @ 400-500ish AP per run. (with AP up 'quipped).
Dont forget to equip the Gil materia to compensate for your "entrance fee".
Nice strategy!
Is it better to do this on hard mode or is it the same ap earned also are the characters not being controlled getting the same amount of ap as the controlled character or do u need to switch to them during battle
Slightly confused, or maybe i overlooked, but are you supposed to clear the level to gain and keep the AP, or do you get to a certain point during the level then quit and restart?
Alternative method, which i also did is chapter 17 shinra combat similator;
Select flying trype mission
Repeat it over and over
That one's great for bypassing wanting to walk the beginning of chapter 16 over and over again. But you miss the epic delivery of Barret screaming "I'm a ticking time bomb sooner or later imma have to blow up!" Lol
@@BltzZ hahahah, yeah
I timed it and I think the combat simulator is like 30%-40% more effective for farming AP (AP/MIN) even after you calculate the fact that the simulator can only level 20 materia at a time but the chapter 16 can level 29.
Whoa, way better than the way I did it! ;D
How have you been liking the game so far? I'm done but I still can't stop playing haha it's got me hooked
@@BltzZ Ah, it's got such depth and nuance! I beat it and now I am actually doing a fresh new game on normal before doing hard mode. ;D
Hard mode guide for bahamut would be awesome as it is the only summon I lack but I'm curious if your secret weapons guide would be ample
I will be making more guides soon I'm sorry! Checkout the top secrets guide and see if you can replicate that segment where we fight bahamut for this
@@BltzZ thats actually what I was thinking myself, I might sub out blizzard for another MP up.
Yeah go for it cuz stagger bahamut isn't worth it. It only lasts about 3 seconds. Pressured bahamut stays grounded for about 10 or 15 seconds
@@BltzZ I also need to say I appreciate how comprehensive your guides are. Any others I've found felt lackluster. Yours are a godsend
Thanks dude that means a lot to me I can wait to get back to making more!
@BlirZ how in the world do you have so many material slots for hardedge? Mine has 4 slots not 6...how!?
Question: does the AP UP need to equip the character that you control/leader?
No it does not it can be on any character
@@BltzZ that's great to know. Just finished the main story yesterday, currently grinding AP before starting Hard Mode. Thank you very much, you're a great help
Wish it was longer, happy holidays to u too beautiful, I love you 🥲
Do I have to finish the chapter to keep the maxxed materias? Do I save over the save file you get when you finish chapter 18? Idk how to keep the newly maxxed materias for when I do hard mode
Plz answer
Once you max a materia, it'll stay maxed. Even when you change chapters.
Wait do I need to finish the game first before accessing this?
Sorry for the dumb question: But you can just go back to Chapters and play them with your current set of characters? And then keep the exp and use it in your live current chapter? This is news to me!
It's actually a good question! But You are limited to the characters that are only playable for that chapter. The levels will stay as long as you save right before chapter swapping
@@BltzZ That's pretty cool and good to know! Thanks!
Maxed my 2nd magic up materia from new on this spot within 2 hours with AP up. This spot is OP 😂
It's the true promised land. Shrina were too silly to realize they had it under their noses smh
LMAO 🤣 How can they not realize AP is more important than Mako
@@KenshiiGaming lol
How to farm up Aerith?
the vr room in shinra building is like 2-3x the ap/hr you get from this spot. Even the colosseum is more ap/hr then this.
Maybe you can do one on how to use warding and materia and how to make it most effective against pain in the ass spell affects that gets thrown at you. Lol. Do you have to link warding with like time or bind? I'm trying to figure that out but its kinda difficult sometimes.
I have a stagger abuse build with time. Check out the stagger pressure video I have. And THE BEST use for warding is in my instant limit break build video :D check that one out as it will blow your mind
@@BltzZ sweet. I will do that and most definitely will try n use it as well.
@@BltzZ although. I am curious and would like to figure out how warding works with linking it to other materia like binding or time, when I do try it I always seem to still get a negative effect on me. If your able maybe you can give some helpful advice or suggestion. Keep up the good work with them vids. Thanks 🙏
Hey BltzZ, how's it hanging brudda? This is such an informative video especially for guys/players who'd want to start Hard mode. I am just happy with you uploading videos every other day. Just keep up the great work!! Also, what I did was max out all HP Up and MP Up Materias here. What you can do is switch out all materias that have 0 or some AP, equip the AP materia and link it with the one you want to level up. Rinse and repeat this till you maximize all your materias esp the important ones. Your thoughts? Cheers!!!
It's going great friend! Hope all is well with you. It's been raining like crazy in florida due to the passing tropical storm haha so we've been super cooped up in the house. Yup thats exactly the gameplan when it comes to maxing out these blue yellow and purple materias!
@@BltzZ Well!! I am glad you asked. I was ideally supposed to be in Dallas this week but had to reschedule coz of the whole Covid-19 bs. Also, EVO online??? You must be hyped for sure. I was really looking forward to EVO this year. Take care. Cheers!!
@@tajikaragaming9613 haha yeah I really was planning to go to Evo this year and try my hand in dbfz just for fun..I'm pretty good at it but looks like it's going to be a wild year of canceled and laggy things haha. Sorry to hear man
Dang, i just discovered this channel.. do you got a guide for the 9 dresses/outfits available?
No I don't unfortunately but the easiest way is to do chapter 3 all side missions. Select tifas dress you want and you must COMPLETE the entire chapter. Then when chapter 4 starts, use chapter select to chapter 8. Now for aeriths best dress you need to do 6 or more quests. Aeriths 2nd dress you need to do 3 quests. Aeriths worst dress you have to do less than 3 dresses. Complete the chapter. Then chapter 9 for cloud you get the worst cloud dress by doing no or a small amount of quests. To get blue dress(my favorite) you need to do chocobo sam's sidequest. If you want the princess dress you need to do the madam M quests. Night have to Google how to trigger their quests specifically though
@@BltzZ thank you man! (New subscriber here!)
Hey man. I have been really enjoying your videos. I’m on my second play through and trying to finish the game on hard mode. Just a question though, do you know where can I get extra ATB assist and stagger materia?
ATB assist to my knowledge there is one 1. ATB stagger you should buy from chadleys store. Happy to hear that bro I'm excited to keep bringing you guys videos!
BltzZ it seems Chadley is the guy to go to for the ATB related materia... thank god there no gils issue on hard mode.
No problem! Hit up the vending machines to buy 4 of each materia possible so you can have a build for everyone and not have to switch constantly
Wow, this is the video I never knew I needed. Thanks, Blitz. Hopefully, this will make leveling up Chakra a lot shorter. Btw, how long did it take you to max out the material you normally use with this method?
Not long! Depends on the materia of course. Blue materia was a bit longer due to the higher AP Gap. But yellow and green are usually quicker. Purple from HP Ups and magic ups take a bit of time rightfully so. Just focus on having as many as you need leveled up in your slots and go to town with Barret tifa and cloud
Hey BlitzZ. Is this better than going to ch17 simulator?
What's up dude longtime no talk! The two person vs high flyers is fast as well in ch 17. But ultimately it's only 2 people gaining AP. So you are missing out on a 3rd character to level up 9-10 materias as well. This method can be super fast and done in 3 minutes with melee build Barret just mowing everyone down
Your right. This would be faster.
Hope your doing well over there, man.
What difficulty U playing on is it on hard normal or easy?
How to increase sp.. For every individual?
You need to fully max level everyone then collect all the manuscripts from chapter 17 VR for individual characters. And chapter 9 and chapter 14 colliseum. Also hard mode completion of each chapter rewards you with manuscripts
Gotta know, what Materia do you have Tifa slotted with that give all those tracer effects on her movements!
Tbh it's mainly refocus materia! But you can have even more cool effects as well when you have unbridled strength to level 3 and use focused strike and cancel it with deadly dodge into a full attack! Tifa is just so awesome!
So sick!
Is her build out( minus the Materia you’re leveling) the same as your advanced guide?
Yes! The only thing that is now different is I've added refocus and Gotterdammerung to Tifa! I am working on the full team build currently. Which will focus on the best possible materia setups and equipment on those characters to use as a group and how they work together in hard mode.
So after you finish lvling up what materia as well quantities do you recommend maxing before attempting any chapter on hard mode. Especially since you have more manuscripts to unlock.
Revivalx3 Chakrax3 Prayerx2 Healingx3 Steadfast Blockx2 Parryx3 Magnifyx1 Elementalx2 HPAbsorbX2 these are just the many few that come to mind that really will help out a ton on hard mode. Go for Those and tackle the top secrets hard mode boss in VR chapter 17 so you can unlock the best accessory in the game Gotterrdammerrung
@@BltzZ ok great I'm about half way there with what you suggested. Those damn blue materia take awhile though lol.
Yup they know they're the best ones that why they make them so hard to level up! Lmao
How do u get 3 chakra materia? I only have 2.
Revival materia torture.
After I beat the game I did not get double XP or triple ap. Am I doing something wrong? I unlocked chapter select but that's about it. Do I need to do Yuffie's story too?
Nah when you beat the game and afyer credits it tells u to make a save. Before u did you should of gotten a message about double xp and another about yuffie story
do I have to complete the whole chapter 16 first before I can go back to chapter select to do the chapter over????
You can go back to chapter select to do the chapter over..no need to finish it entirely just save and reselect
How is this compared to Chapter 14, 3 vs Shinra? It's like 144 AP per 1 or min I think.
That's in-game 1 minute but actually takes about 3 minutes or slightly more to Complete between transitions and round ends. This method brings on about 280 AP every 3-5 mins but you have to walk to the destination each time you chapter select. Either way Is viable but slightly more AP this way
Hang on how did you get an overview of everyone's materia like that? I have to do it one by one
In the Materia and Equipment page press R1
Be sure to check out my ff7 tips you need to know video as it explains this and a bunch of other things you may not know of that will help you with quality of life
Just spent a few hours here and the spot works great. Feels good to have all my Materia at max!
Yup! I had to come back to make sure I have 3 total revives maxed as well as the other HP absorb for tifas deadly dodge :)
ugh I am not looking forward to grinding out the revival’s.
How do u get 6 materia slots
You need to get more than 250SP on each character. That is done by playing hard mode on certain chapters.
I disagree that the Shinra Simulator 2 people vs. Flying enemies is the fastest way because you're only using two people. IMO the best way is Three-Person Team vs. Mayor is Best because you get more slots to level up and even though you only get 30 AP per run it only takes around 8-12 seconds on average to clear it. Not to mention you can restart immediately, no waiting for give up option. And the best part is its free, some people dont have enough gil to keep restarting. Here's what I run on it:
Cloud: lightning&Magnify, Magic up, Magic up, First Strike.
Aerith: lightning&Elemental, First Strike.
Berret: lightning&Elemental.
As soon as it starts I quick spell thundaga with Cloud on left enemy then I use thundaga on right enemy with Aerith. I switch to Berret and if that doesn't finish them off I use his overcharge to finish them.
2:00 for the part you clicked on this youtube video for.
Whats the best spot to level aerith?
This method levels aerith up too. All characters receive XP weirdly enough with this method. Her materia won't level up tho
@@BltzZ ok
Is this better than high flyers 1st round method
high flyers first round is much faster. Just make sure to pause and restart before cloud kills all the flyers