Slight correction from the video as pointed out by @Crazy-Jukebox. You can't double stack Magic Focus Materia. Apologies for the misinformation there. But that does free up another slot so go ham with a different pairing :)
Hahahahaha Is not our fault The materia system is great, but complex. I'm honestly more focus on having different spells on different casts members for whatever elemental weaknesses on enemies we find along the way, but, as you can see, there's some big massive ways on using the blue materias and sticking to one spell
How does dynamic work cause one one moment I'm absolutely destroying things the next I'm absolutely getting. My shit wrecked and these fuckers are hitting me for 9999 damage like what the hell is going on 🤣🤣🤣
Oh gosh, this video is insane. I love how the FFVII community has growth cause only has been 6 weeks and there are already videos like this. Thanks a ton man
Optinoob's channel got me through all the brutal and legendary challenges as well as the regular bosses on hard mode. His character builds and strategies are phenomenal.
For real! I should post my original kills of those bosses just for a laugh. Someone pointed me to his channel so gave them a blast. The difference was night and day 😅
This is a great video When doing the Gongaga loop, you can quip elemental fire on Cloud and Barret's weapons and then map Cloud's Triple Slash and Barret's Maximum Fury to a shortcut. Give them both First Strike and give Barret the chocoking cape. You'll clear each group of enemies before Barret's and Cloud's attack animations end as long as the difficulty level is on easy. 450 AP with the choco armband and AP up, 150 AP with AP up only. This loop takes a minute and 20 seconds. This includes file saving and loading. To make it go even faster, move the camera to the next enemy group's direction before the attack animations end.
I love how the Gongaga loop has gotten so so much more efficient over the weeks since it was discovered. I'm gonna give this a shot and see how it compares. Thanks for the info!
For even better method you don’t have to save&load every time.. Simply pause and retry battle on fighting last pack of monsters and you can “refresh” all monsters. Saving you from SaveLoad :)
I put fire and ice on swiftcast, then ice and fire each on magnify and magic focus on aerith with hp-mp swap, and either first strike or chocoking cape. Cast level 2 magic and the enemy group dies
One extra tip regarding Genji Gloves; Some of the Jetsam can only be acquired in Chapter 13 once you're on your way to Northwood. Don't be like me and spend hours scouring the accessible area looking for the last two only to find them when you give up and head to the temple to get the Cetra Bracelet you missed 😂
That's a solid tip right there. I think I got all mine after the first run through so I didn't even connect the dots that they weren't all available at the same time.
If you keep transcendence Aerith's magic attack will be boosted. Not sure of the numbers but it's stated in the skill's effects. As of now the Hades' armlet respawns inside the chest where you get it so all of your party can have a minimum of 7 armor slots
@@TheGameFatherUK I believe this was intentional or they're not gonna bother patching it. Farming is already very easy with 7 characters via chapter select. Also, the only other benefits you could gain by having multiple is for a 6-person bout (which can be played on easy and have no rewards on hard mode) and maybe the final boss sequence; any other place in the game only requires 3 teammates and the Cetran Braver and Cetran Armlet are both better versions of it.
I tried getting a second cetran armlet for 8 slots, but it wasn’t there. But in the video it looks like he has 2x 8 slots on cloud and aerith. Can anyone confirm you can’t refarm that cetran armlet. I’ll go get the hades one in the meantime
Amazing tips. "Sadly" I already knew all of them, but those are THE best tips to get for the game. I still learned something new via the comments so thats also a W.
90 hours in the game at the beginning of chapter 12, and the first tip of this vide let me know that i have beend doing crap damage the whole game so far and havenr evem scratched the surface in terms of materia combos. This was a excellent video and i have saved it for my upcoming hard run.
Only 1:40 in & this video is already a huge help. I never used Synergy because I thought it was draining my MP. It was my poor MP management the whole time 😭
Thank you very much for the soothing breeze tip really saved my hard mode replay a lot when i needed to refill hp to my team after a battle without needing to use mp 🙏
Great video GameFather! best one on hard mode tips that I have seen. Great shoutout for Optinoob also, his brumal form video was epic. Going to attempt all brutal missions over the weekend
Did you manage to do them? I tried them again after watching Optinoobs guides and man... I really wish I had watched them the first time round 😂 Could have saved myself hours and hours!
The way u can restore hp and Mp from linking with enemy skill is just genius I thought it only work with spells, the synergy trick with no cost was also neat and petrify with magnify thanks I learned new tricks and some I already know and Optinoob helped me a lot Al in Al thanks a lot
Starting off great here for me, since I’ve nearly platinumed the game (have some brutal left) but I had no idea how synergy worked. SUPER happy to see radiant ward on here, that move is BROKEN and under talked about. You can stagger anything with it.
Thank you for this! I was struggling in Hard mode for Mythril golem and this helps me to relook at all my materia set up. This game as been a blast to play indeed!
I'm in chapter 5 hard mode and that's what I'm realizing all the bosses are. If you aren't getting anywhere. You just need to switch up materia and do a different strategy. Mythryl golem was trashing me and then I switched to lightning materia and beat him on 3rd try. I still got the rest of the game to do but I'm hopeful to one day have the platinum
For free heals on hard mode equip the hp/mp conversion materia on a non-active party member and they will have over 6K mp so you can use that character to heal everyone after each fight.
Great tips in this! Soothing Breeze is under used in most guides I see, thanks for mentioning it. Really saw its benefits when playing hard mode. Used Optis builds as well and finished all brutal sims, still need one more legendary. But finished hard mode, might go back for the side quests at some point when I get the plat.
Opti's builds are really solid, better than anything I had come up with at that point 😅 And yeah, Soothing Breeze is next level for a group heal in-between fights. How far off the Plat are you now? Must be close if you're that far in the combat sim!
so that's why there is that many materia with the same element? I alway's ask myself why the F they put like 9 ice/fire etc materia, i didn't know you could put like 3 ice with 3 blue connected!! I think you just changed my whole life thank you !
I've just started my hard mode run in FF7 Rebirth, and after my first boss fight with the giant Swamp Snake, I've realized that hard mode transforms the game entirely. It's essential to utilize the correct builds, setups, and materia for specific encounters. Additionally, the magic abilities in the skill tree that don't consume MP have proven to be incredibly useful. I didn't rely on them during my regular playthrough, but they are now a critical part of my strategy.
Yeah, I really enjoyed my hard mode run through, especially because I'd done all the frustrating mini games on normal so could just play hard mode through without any of that. The changes really add a nice dimension to the game for some replayability.
It's completely the opposite for me ahah, when I saw that every character could learn magic elemental dmg for no mp, I rushed them in the skill tree and almost never use mp. Unless game force me to... yeah, I hate those gongaga ennemy that dodge everything but spell
This guide is AMAZING 👏 🙌🏾 . I didn't know you can equip a magnify on your quick keys. That helps loads! Also that brutal form ATB farm is also great. I'm doing Brutal Challenges and I keep dying off of something small. Looking forward to a Legendary guide if you make one!😅
Hah, well I really don't think I could make any improvements to what Optinoob has already put out on his boss guides :) I was running around for ages using the single target shortcut wondering why it wasn't doing much 😂 Still, glad it was helpful!
DUDE, okay all the tips are fine, but putting on multiples of the same materia to attach multiple blue effects is genius, opened my eyes to so many new builds
Geez thanks for these tips! I already got the platinum and 100% Play Log, but apparently I just hit my head against the brick wall until it fell, because I didn’t use half of these strats. I’m on Ch. 12 of a new save file and I’m suddenly looking forward to hard mode now.
Honestly, if you're like me and have gotten to the point where you are just a few trophies away from Platinum, this guide is pretty much all you need to follow. I've maxed out everything else except Hard Mode Chapter Select and the Brutal/Legendary challenges. Using your strats for HM Chapters will be my go to and I'll check out OptiNoob's content as well. Honestly, just getting to this point has been a fucking MISSION - with some of the mini-games and post game challenges making me rage quit and coming back later... looking at you Sephiroth 3D and the Cactuar HM challenges. I'm currently at 340 hours and counting lol... but only a few more to go now!
Great video and I did not know the magic focus materia could actually double up. Almost went about hard mode the wrong way by resetting all the sidequests and doing them over in a hard mode playthrough from ch. 1 I like to use the hp-mp converter materia on a back line character paired with a healing materia. So that character has almost 6k mp to spam heals for free after battle is done.
@@TheGameFatherUK oh no, that setup is for the non active party member. So they use their mp after battle to cast cure via the commands menu. Although there are videos of people using the hp-mp swap as a means to gain massive amounts of limit gauge. Each perfect parry gives a huge chunk so they use it for i-frames and damage.
@@suitonsuiryudan Ah sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by backline :) That does indeed make a lot more sense 😅Good shout though, I didn't think of that one! Come to think of it, I don't think I used any of the conversion materia. Did you find a use for any of the others?
Those are some really good tips that i might have to incorporate. Thanks. Anyway, I always hear people say Gongaga is the best place to farm AP, but for me, it's the desert Corel Region. The little cactuar there gives you 12 AP each. I found a couple of areas where you can encounter 3 of them or 2 of them with a different enemy. Only small issue is its a annoyance to try and hit those little buggers..
Funny you should say that, I've just finished comparing all the best materia/ap farming spots in the game. The best one, by an absolute mile, is the bees in Nibel. They are absolutely crazy for AP (and EXP) farming.
@TheGameFatherUK I saw that one and it's pretty insane but I'm lazy. I don't want to constantly reload the game just to redo the side quest whenever the queen bee gets killed. (Even on hard) lol.
also note, you can stack up different blue materia with same green, but you cannot stack 2x Magic Focus. check the dmg with 1 pair and a 2nd one, dmg stays the same. wasted 2 slots.
@@TheGameFatherUK i had the same idea and tested it, but it didnt work. later i saw your video and was wondering if i made a mistake testing. i tried to put the combination in armor, in weapon (coz why not testing) but always came to same result that only 1 pair is working.
@@TheGameFatherUK another note about the grinding, forget Gongaga, try the 1st Brutal in Chadley Sim (Army of the Damned) with following setup: Cloud or Aerith as Caster: Petrify Magnify, Petrify Swiftcast, 1st Strike + ATB Stagger and Chokobo King for 2 ATBs. quick bind Quaga. Even if it says "Brutal" its easy AF and all 10 battles are 1-shot even if you go in naked. basically 10 fights under 40sec and hit re-challenge at the end.
@@Crazy-Jukebox I've stuck a pinned comment at the top about the double Magic Focus. I'll have a bash with your suggestion for the brutal. My only hesitation for that is if you have a lot of materia to level then you won't get the benefit of all characters receiving the AP. For targeted levelling on priority materia like swiftcast though, it could be golden!
Had figured out about half the stuff but learned some good setup stuff too. 👍 Idk why I didn’t think about some of the duplicate materia builds seeing as I used some simple ones early in the game but then just forgot all about it lol. Thanks for the tips though, they’re sure to help with the couple of brutal and more than a couple of legendary simulations I haven’t beaten yet
@@TheGameFatherUK Yeah, I ended up using Optinoob’s guides for some of the legendaries and the last 2 (Zack & Sephiroth ones) still gave me fits. I believe the last Brutal fight was kinda tough for me, whichever it was with “Virtual Sephiroth” at the end; but still nowhere near as bad as those 2 legendaries…f’in Odin! 🤬
It's pretty rare to pump 130hrs into a single playthrough of a game, reach the end credits, and think "lets start again" Rebirth is just such an amazing game that hits a special place in my soul
Nearly 200 hours in (almost getting the plat for it) and I'm still learning some new things. This game has a crazy amount of interactions between abilities, items and whatnot.
It's definitely a game with a huge amount of choice on how to play it. Hope you get the Plat, it's definitely one of the more challenging ones I've done!
Im here to give you a comment and a like but i am not going back through this game a second time. Maybe I'll rerun through the arena or replay some of my favorite moments, but rerunning the entire game on hard? I actually value my sanity
This gives BG3 vibes. I had a familiar buffing me before leaving the camp :). Great stuff, man. Some of materias are a mystery for me in the sense why I should use them. I only used it for AP farming but your comment opened my eyes somehow :)
@@TheGameFatherUK I actually equipped HP - MP Materia on Cloud, because it gives him so little health that blocking any attack gives him a third of the limit gauge. Combined with reraise, all of the block materia, and the enhanced expeditionary medal, and he will spam limit breaks. Additionally, when performing a limit break, if you get hit it counts as a perfect block, so you can actvate limit when an enemy is about to hit you and (assuming they hit you 3 times) get your limit back.
Cloud's last weapon has HP/MP recovery on stagger (a few other weapons too, but I find Cloud is the easiest to stagger enemies with the Thrust ATB move), it recovers 10% MP every time he made the stagger hit. I use that and Aerith's Soul Drain to keep my MP up for all times except for the Boss battles throughout hard mode
Thanks! For MP management you just need to make sure that Aerith has an MP-Absorb materia connected to whatever your offensive spell of choice is. So for example, if you're using Ice; you'd want an Ice materia paired with MP Absorb, another Ice paired with Swiftcast, another Ice paired with Magic Focus and another paired with Magnify if you're doing AOE damage (it will reduce the damage though for a single target, so only use if you're definitely doing AOE).
That's right, it returns MP based on the damage dealt via that particular spell. So when you have all your materia linked (and a purple Magic Up for extra damage) you should be dealing significant damage with that spell which should refund you more than you spent :)
Wow I never knew about double pairing a new materia of the same kind for additional effects. This is a game changer. Was this in Remake or even the OG?
Auto pickup should be enabled on all games. I don't know why for games with infinite inventory space people have to press a button to pick something up. No one ever said "Hmmm I already have 5000 of this item, im not gonna pick it up this time."
you know I clicked on this being all smug like yeah tell me some obvious shit but hell, I learned some valuable stuff here. This absolutely improved my approach to some of the hard mode stuff I have yet to do.
I really hope that the final game in the trilogy allows the classic “Mastered materia gives birth to new materia” I kinda get why they blocked it for these first two games, but that was such a clutch feature in the original
Yeah I'm not sure really. I suppose they didn't really need to worry about that in Remake since it was so linear. It's only beneficial in the open world because once you're deep into the story you can't fast travel to a chocbo stop. Chapters 13 and 14 are especially true of that with the chain of boss fights.
the mp benches only work for side content, so it's def deliberate imo; also only the first and last quests are actually hard, the rest were a cakewalk compared to them
@13:05 I can't even begin to explain how much stronger I felt after finishing all the manuscripts. Weapons levels scale amazing after level 8 it seems.
I was going to make a series but honestly, you can't get much better than Optinoob's guides. They are really really good, you should check them out if you haven't already.
I found an easy way to get the 300% stagger trophy. At the end game, I faced titan at full strength with aerith, tifa, and cait sith since they all have abilities that boost stagger damage. Everyone was level 70 and I managed to get everyone set up for the stagger to use moogle knuckle with cait and ray of judgement with aerith as soon as it started, and then spammed unbridled strength and omnistrike with tifa. I ended up killing titan in that one stagger but still got up to almost 400% stagger damage before he died
I beat remake and rebirth and never knew how synergy worked. It seemed good from the description, so I experimented with it, but I couldn't get it to work.
It was invaluable for me from the moment I got it, especially with Quake. You just need to have it paired on a party member you don't often control. Then, whenever you spend atb on an offensive ability on a controlled character, it will cast quake :)
@@TheGameFatherUK Completely filling the limit guage at the start of battle is a game changer compared to just having the boost. So like I said, once you have that accessory you can basically do any battle easily.
Since I made this video I did a bunch of comparisons on the most popular AP farming locations. Gongaga is still good, but the Bees in Nibel are much much better: th-cam.com/video/6Z3nZu7iUWQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=T0-83-VaowTsTqwH As for your question about MP. You need to make sure you have the same spell materia paired in multiple slots on the same character. For example; say you're using Cloud and want to cast free Fire spells. You'd need to equip him with Fire+MP absorb as well as Fire+Magic Focus and Magnify+Fire. Make sure he has Magic Plus materia equipped & his Rune Blade for maximum magic power. The MP absorb materia will refund a percentage of the fire damage back as MP. Game difficulty does also matter. If you're doing the Gongaga loop on easy, the mobs have little HP so you might not be able to hit them for much damage which means less MP returned.
I've crafted every single item (even some twice) and I'm still at level 15. I am one slice away from level 16 but can't reach it and I can see the options for the genji gloves. What am I missing???
I don’t seem completely immune to hits with Yuffie’s brumal form on atb ward when there’s more than 1 enemy at once near her. I’m using the shortcut window too, hm…
Ngl, the Hellhouse Hard mode fight in Remake traumatized the hell out of me, so much so that I didnt finish hard mode and I actually spaced out with that thousand yard stare for a sec when playing Rebirth and realising what hard mode would entail for such a massive game. Great tips, but I'll probably stay away from Hard mode forever
To be honest, I found Hard Mode quite nice, especially the pacing since I had completed everything on my first run through. And yeah... I remember the hell house very well 😆
Hoping someone can help, I’ve searched but cannot find an answer. Magic attack. I’ve seen vids where Cloud n Aerith have magic attach close to 500! I’m struggling to get to 400 and I’m level 70, completed the game and all side quests…..appreciate help
@@TheGameFatherUK definitely enjoying! I’m 60 hours in and just started chapter 9, I’m completing this to the end! Thanks to you, feel like I’ll be able to tackle hard mode afterwards! 😁
hold up...are you telling me that I can put quick cast and comet on yuffie, summon her doppelganger, then stand in an arcane ward and 4 comet spells will be casted at once? what if I use comet? Will the screen be showered in 4x comet rain? what about ice/synergy/magnify? would that 4x cast ice on all of yuffie was standing in the ward and I used an ability on a other character?
Magnify doesn't work with synergy unfortunately but comet paired with synergy on Yuffie with Doppelgänger active and standing in an arcane ward will indeed rain many many comets down on your enemies. Just remember that the Doppelgänger cast will be less powerful. The most difficult bit is getting her to stay in the arcane ward, although that is somewhat helped by the fact that it's a slow spell to cast. From my testing, Synergy seemed to be most effective with Petrify :)
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Slight correction from the video as pointed out by @Crazy-Jukebox. You can't double stack Magic Focus Materia. Apologies for the misinformation there. But that does free up another slot so go ham with a different pairing :)
Que me recomiendas para acabar los 3 últimos capítulos? Soy español y miro bastante tus vídeos y explicaciones
@@manuinfantesureda7100 y si él no es español, por qué le contestas en español? Si ves sus vídeos es porque entiendes inglés (o deberías).
Do you know if there's only one synergy materia in the game that you get from Chadlly? Thanks
@@TommyMartinezpt Yes, just the 1 I'm afraid, I would have loved a second one 😁
@@TheGameFatherUKwhy did you lie about it?
What I've learned from this video is I have no idea how to play this game even though I just finished it 😂
Hahahahaha
Is not our fault
The materia system is great, but complex. I'm honestly more focus on having different spells on different casts members for whatever elemental weaknesses on enemies we find along the way, but, as you can see, there's some big massive ways on using the blue materias and sticking to one spell
Same 😂
Normal is actually kind of like easy mode. Hard mode is where you actually have to use your skills properly.
I just play for the story 🤣
How does dynamic work cause one one moment I'm absolutely destroying things the next I'm absolutely getting. My shit wrecked and these fuckers are hitting me for 9999 damage like what the hell is going on 🤣🤣🤣
Oh gosh, this video is insane. I love how the FFVII community has growth cause only has been 6 weeks and there are already videos like this. Thanks a ton man
So glad you thought it was useful, and yeah, it has such a solid community behind it 🙂
Just got my platinum but I'm still floating around watching videos like this. I'm not ready for it to be over :(
No kidding, I don't wanna be in this limbo another 4 years 😭 I just wanna buy the collector's bundle for part 3 already
Start over from the beginning and love it again
You're an absolute legend. I can't wait to get my team set up
Optinoob's channel got me through all the brutal and legendary challenges as well as the regular bosses on hard mode. His character builds and strategies are phenomenal.
For real! I should post my original kills of those bosses just for a laugh. Someone pointed me to his channel so gave them a blast. The difference was night and day 😅
Indeed i am using his tactics and they work amazing
Yeah he helped me out a LOT. This guy 👏🏾 👏🏾
he helped me to 100% in remake and also brutal and legendary challenges. best battle guide ever
This is a great video
When doing the Gongaga loop, you can quip elemental fire on Cloud and Barret's weapons and then map Cloud's Triple Slash and Barret's Maximum Fury to a shortcut. Give them both First Strike and give Barret the chocoking cape. You'll clear each group of enemies before Barret's and Cloud's attack animations end as long as the difficulty level is on easy.
450 AP with the choco armband and AP up, 150 AP with AP up only. This loop takes a minute and 20 seconds. This includes file saving and loading.
To make it go even faster, move the camera to the next enemy group's direction before the attack animations end.
I love how the Gongaga loop has gotten so so much more efficient over the weeks since it was discovered. I'm gonna give this a shot and see how it compares. Thanks for the info!
@@TheGameFatherUK Awesome, you're welcome. Thanks for all of the tips
dude, i completely overlooked the effect on this armor 😅
For even better method you don’t have to save&load every time..
Simply pause and retry battle on fighting last pack of monsters and you can “refresh” all monsters. Saving you from SaveLoad :)
I put fire and ice on swiftcast, then ice and fire each on magnify and magic focus on aerith with hp-mp swap, and either first strike or chocoking cape. Cast level 2 magic and the enemy group dies
Had no idea these were even functions in the game. Can't wait to go for 3rd playthru
I never realized you could stack magics like that. Thanks for the tips!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful!
Already having Platin but especially the first tips I wasn't aware. Hope in part 3 all you tips are still valid. Great video
Thanks! Congrats on the Plat, it's one of the more difficult ones for sure!
Holy crap the Brumal Form strategy is genius and is just what I was looking for to fully exploit Aerith's potential!
One extra tip regarding Genji Gloves;
Some of the Jetsam can only be acquired in Chapter 13 once you're on your way to Northwood. Don't be like me and spend hours scouring the accessible area looking for the last two only to find them when you give up and head to the temple to get the Cetra Bracelet you missed 😂
That's a solid tip right there. I think I got all mine after the first run through so I didn't even connect the dots that they weren't all available at the same time.
this by far was the most helpful end game guide to rebirth for me! thank you so much!
You are most welcome! So glad it was helpful!
If you keep transcendence Aerith's magic attack will be boosted. Not sure of the numbers but it's stated in the skill's effects. As of now the Hades' armlet respawns inside the chest where you get it so all of your party can have a minimum of 7 armor slots
They just did an update so wonder if this has passed. I meant to farm this
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Just did a quick run on easy, it's still there 👍 (Gonna do this again until I have 5 of them)
Thanks for the added tip! I really thought they were gonna patch the Hades armour respawn in todays patch. Glad they sorted the chapter 12 bug though.
@@TheGameFatherUK I believe this was intentional or they're not gonna bother patching it. Farming is already very easy with 7 characters via chapter select. Also, the only other benefits you could gain by having multiple is for a 6-person bout (which can be played on easy and have no rewards on hard mode) and maybe the final boss sequence; any other place in the game only requires 3 teammates and the Cetran Braver and Cetran Armlet are both better versions of it.
I tried getting a second cetran armlet for 8 slots, but it wasn’t there. But in the video it looks like he has 2x 8 slots on cloud and aerith. Can anyone confirm you can’t refarm that cetran armlet. I’ll go get the hades one in the meantime
Amazing tips. "Sadly" I already knew all of them, but those are THE best tips to get for the game. I still learned something new via the comments so thats also a W.
Cheers!
I wonder. How people discover all this? I mean, I didn't know shit.
90 hours in the game at the beginning of chapter 12, and the first tip of this vide let me know that i have beend doing crap damage the whole game so far and havenr evem scratched the surface in terms of materia combos.
This was a excellent video and i have saved it for my upcoming hard run.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy hard mode as much as I did, I wish I could play the whole game over again for the first time. Good luck!
Only 1:40 in & this video is already a huge help. I never used Synergy because I thought it was draining my MP. It was my poor MP management the whole time 😭
Thank you very much for the soothing breeze tip really saved my hard mode replay a lot when i needed to refill hp to my team after a battle without needing to use mp 🙏
Glad it helped!
Great video GameFather! best one on hard mode tips that I have seen. Great shoutout for Optinoob also, his brumal form video was epic. Going to attempt all brutal missions over the weekend
Did you manage to do them? I tried them again after watching Optinoobs guides and man... I really wish I had watched them the first time round 😂 Could have saved myself hours and hours!
The way u can restore hp and
Mp from linking with enemy skill is just genius I thought it only work with spells, the synergy trick with no cost was also neat and petrify with magnify thanks I learned new tricks and some I already know and Optinoob helped me a lot Al in Al thanks a lot
Starting off great here for me, since I’ve nearly platinumed the game (have some brutal left) but I had no idea how synergy worked.
SUPER happy to see radiant ward on here, that move is BROKEN and under talked about. You can stagger anything with it.
Yeah I am a BIG fan of Radiant ward, it's absolutely OP! Hope you manage to get those last few brutals down!
Thanks for the video man. I'm working on overworld progress before Hard Mode so this guide helps out a ton
You're welcome! That's what I did and I think that's pretty much what most people do too. Are you going for the Platinum trophy?
Thank you for this! I was struggling in Hard mode for Mythril golem and this helps me to relook at all my materia set up. This game as been a blast to play indeed!
Glad it was helpful, Mythril Golem is no joke on hard mode :)
Mythril Golem is no joke slightly Op took me six tries and that was maxed level with lots of strategy 😂
Mythril golem was cake. So where all the vr.
The minigames were the challenge.
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@@mel-el5862 Hah, well I can't disagree about the mini games!
I'm in chapter 5 hard mode and that's what I'm realizing all the bosses are. If you aren't getting anywhere. You just need to switch up materia and do a different strategy. Mythryl golem was trashing me and then I switched to lightning materia and beat him on 3rd try. I still got the rest of the game to do but I'm hopeful to one day have the platinum
For free heals on hard mode equip the hp/mp conversion materia on a non-active party member and they will have over 6K mp so you can use that character to heal everyone after each fight.
Yep, this is a beast, definitely should have included it 🤦♂️
Pronunciation was on point! Thank you for this, honestly so much good info in here!
Excellent! Honestly, I am the absolute worst when it comes to pronouncing things usually 😅 Glad the video was useful though!
Great tips in this! Soothing Breeze is under used in most guides I see, thanks for mentioning it. Really saw its benefits when playing hard mode. Used Optis builds as well and finished all brutal sims, still need one more legendary. But finished hard mode, might go back for the side quests at some point when I get the plat.
Opti's builds are really solid, better than anything I had come up with at that point 😅 And yeah, Soothing Breeze is next level for a group heal in-between fights. How far off the Plat are you now? Must be close if you're that far in the combat sim!
@@TheGameFatherUK Close, but still have some mini games to clean up for Johnny which will be annoying.
@@SuperTrailerz They are the true hard mode of this game 😅
so that's why there is that many materia with the same element? I alway's ask myself why the F they put like 9 ice/fire etc materia, i didn't know you could put like 3 ice with 3 blue connected!! I think you just changed my whole life thank you !
I've just started my hard mode run in FF7 Rebirth, and after my first boss fight with the giant Swamp Snake, I've realized that hard mode transforms the game entirely. It's essential to utilize the correct builds, setups, and materia for specific encounters. Additionally, the magic abilities in the skill tree that don't consume MP have proven to be incredibly useful. I didn't rely on them during my regular playthrough, but they are now a critical part of my strategy.
Yeah, I really enjoyed my hard mode run through, especially because I'd done all the frustrating mini games on normal so could just play hard mode through without any of that. The changes really add a nice dimension to the game for some replayability.
It's completely the opposite for me ahah, when I saw that every character could learn magic elemental dmg for no mp, I rushed them in the skill tree and almost never use mp. Unless game force me to... yeah, I hate those gongaga ennemy that dodge everything but spell
Awesome guide, looking forward to platinuming this very soon
Hope you manage to get it, it's a tough plat!
@@TheGameFatherUK Excluding minigames, it's easy. Honestly, I have all FF games platimided but I'm not sure about this one :)
This guide is AMAZING 👏 🙌🏾 . I didn't know you can equip a magnify on your quick keys. That helps loads! Also that brutal form ATB farm is also great. I'm doing Brutal Challenges and I keep dying off of something small.
Looking forward to a Legendary guide if you make one!😅
Hah, well I really don't think I could make any improvements to what Optinoob has already put out on his boss guides :) I was running around for ages using the single target shortcut wondering why it wasn't doing much 😂 Still, glad it was helpful!
Equip magnify on Shortcuts what do u mean ?
This is very helpful.. Got ways to go in Normal mode myself. I will be prepared for the Brutal challenges to get gotterdamerung for Hard mode
Saving this for my hard run, doing some clean up on easy/normal then gonna attempt hard
Hard mode is mega fast if you 100% your first play through :)
DUDE, okay all the tips are fine, but putting on multiples of the same materia to attach multiple blue effects is genius, opened my eyes to so many new builds
Geez thanks for these tips!
I already got the platinum and 100% Play Log, but apparently I just hit my head against the brick wall until it fell, because I didn’t use half of these strats. I’m on Ch. 12 of a new save file and I’m suddenly looking forward to hard mode now.
Synergy materia omg, never knew it was that good and useful
Honestly, if you're like me and have gotten to the point where you are just a few trophies away from Platinum, this guide is pretty much all you need to follow. I've maxed out everything else except Hard Mode Chapter Select and the Brutal/Legendary challenges.
Using your strats for HM Chapters will be my go to and I'll check out OptiNoob's content as well. Honestly, just getting to this point has been a fucking MISSION - with some of the mini-games and post game challenges making me rage quit and coming back later... looking at you Sephiroth 3D and the Cactuar HM challenges.
I'm currently at 340 hours and counting lol... but only a few more to go now!
340 hours is up there with the best I reckon! I wish I could replay it for the first time again!
Great video and I did not know the magic focus materia could actually double up. Almost went about hard mode the wrong way by resetting all the sidequests and doing them over in a hard mode playthrough from ch. 1
I like to use the hp-mp converter materia on a back line character paired with a healing materia. So that character has almost 6k mp to spam heals for free after battle is done.
Cheers! How do you find the survivability of the character with HP>MP? Or do you swap to that in between fights?
@@TheGameFatherUK oh no, that setup is for the non active party member. So they use their mp after battle to cast cure via the commands menu.
Although there are videos of people using the hp-mp swap as a means to gain massive amounts of limit gauge. Each perfect parry gives a huge chunk so they use it for i-frames and damage.
@@suitonsuiryudan Ah sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by backline :) That does indeed make a lot more sense 😅Good shout though, I didn't think of that one! Come to think of it, I don't think I used any of the conversion materia. Did you find a use for any of the others?
@@TheGameFatherUK Not really, haha
Those are some really good tips that i might have to incorporate. Thanks.
Anyway, I always hear people say Gongaga is the best place to farm AP, but for me, it's the desert Corel Region. The little cactuar there gives you 12 AP each. I found a couple of areas where you can encounter 3 of them or 2 of them with a different enemy. Only small issue is its a annoyance to try and hit those little buggers..
id think giving barret first strike and chocoking cape and shortcut maximum fury should work. they cant dodge every bullet, i think!
Funny you should say that, I've just finished comparing all the best materia/ap farming spots in the game. The best one, by an absolute mile, is the bees in Nibel. They are absolutely crazy for AP (and EXP) farming.
@TheGameFatherUK I saw that one and it's pretty insane but I'm lazy. I don't want to constantly reload the game just to redo the side quest whenever the queen bee gets killed. (Even on hard) lol.
this video was very insightful and nicely done, a couple of these I still didn't know about
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
also note, you can stack up different blue materia with same green, but you cannot stack 2x Magic Focus.
check the dmg with 1 pair and a 2nd one, dmg stays the same. wasted 2 slots.
You're right. I could have sworn I tested this with different results but just re-tested it and confirmed.
@@TheGameFatherUK i had the same idea and tested it, but it didnt work. later i saw your video and was wondering if i made a mistake testing. i tried to put the combination in armor, in weapon (coz why not testing) but always came to same result that only 1 pair is working.
@@TheGameFatherUK another note about the grinding, forget Gongaga, try the 1st Brutal in Chadley Sim (Army of the Damned) with following setup: Cloud or Aerith as Caster: Petrify Magnify, Petrify Swiftcast, 1st Strike + ATB Stagger and Chokobo King for 2 ATBs. quick bind Quaga.
Even if it says "Brutal" its easy AF and all 10 battles are 1-shot even if you go in naked. basically 10 fights under 40sec and hit re-challenge at the end.
@@Crazy-Jukebox I've stuck a pinned comment at the top about the double Magic Focus. I'll have a bash with your suggestion for the brutal. My only hesitation for that is if you have a lot of materia to level then you won't get the benefit of all characters receiving the AP. For targeted levelling on priority materia like swiftcast though, it could be golden!
@@TheGameFatherUK Tru. I grinded in the open world until i had less than 3 characters-worth of materia, then power-leveled in the combat sim
Had figured out about half the stuff but learned some good setup stuff too. 👍
Idk why I didn’t think about some of the duplicate materia builds seeing as I used some simple ones early in the game but then just forgot all about it lol.
Thanks for the tips though, they’re sure to help with the couple of brutal and more than a couple of legendary simulations I haven’t beaten yet
Thanks! Have you managed to beat those brutal and legendary fights yet?
@@TheGameFatherUK Yeah, I ended up using Optinoob’s guides for some of the legendaries and the last 2 (Zack & Sephiroth ones) still gave me fits.
I believe the last Brutal fight was kinda tough for me, whichever it was with “Virtual Sephiroth” at the end; but still nowhere near as bad as those 2 legendaries…f’in Odin! 🤬
Thanks for shouting out other creators!
Can you make video with your charaters with their current builds?
It's pretty rare to pump 130hrs into a single playthrough of a game, reach the end credits, and think "lets start again"
Rebirth is just such an amazing game that hits a special place in my soul
insanely good pronunciation of Quezacotl btw - been struggling with that for 20 yrs since ff8
Haha, thanks 😁 It's a brutal challenge all of its own!
In og ff 7 I hardly got any use out of the earth materia it's nice to see that get a buff in rebirth.
Nearly 200 hours in (almost getting the plat for it) and I'm still learning some new things. This game has a crazy amount of interactions between abilities, items and whatnot.
It's definitely a game with a huge amount of choice on how to play it. Hope you get the Plat, it's definitely one of the more challenging ones I've done!
Unlimited mp in hard mode is so amazing
Im here to give you a comment and a like but i am not going back through this game a second time. Maybe I'll rerun through the arena or replay some of my favorite moments, but rerunning the entire game on hard? I actually value my sanity
Nice ! Im gonna have to channel dive this guy. Beat it no vids once now im going for a full run and your vids seem to be the go to .
Appreciate that! If you're about to start a replay I have a mega comparison of the best AP farming spots coming up in the next few days!
Don't forget you can also put HP - MP materia on a character you don't use, for a dedicated heal bot 😂
I definitely should have included that one, totally slipped me by 🤦♂️
This gives BG3 vibes. I had a familiar buffing me before leaving the camp :). Great stuff, man. Some of materias are a mystery for me in the sense why I should use them. I only used it for AP farming but your comment opened my eyes somehow :)
@@TheGameFatherUK I actually equipped HP - MP Materia on Cloud, because it gives him so little health that blocking any attack gives him a third of the limit gauge. Combined with reraise, all of the block materia, and the enhanced expeditionary medal, and he will spam limit breaks. Additionally, when performing a limit break, if you get hit it counts as a perfect block, so you can actvate limit when an enemy is about to hit you and (assuming they hit you 3 times) get your limit back.
I'll need that Yuffie-Strat definitely for Platinum! :D
Wow. That soothing breeze healing is actually crazy. Thanks for the tip. Definitely gonna use that
It's a literal lifesaver on some chapters :D
Jesus I never realized how powerful Quaga + Magnify was. I relied on Firaga + Magnify as a holdover from Remake.
Yeah it's absolutely beastly, I was running around using Blizzard for the longest time but Quake stole the show in the end!
Literally had no idea Aerith can be so OP.
This was a great video, can’t wait to try out some of these builds 💀
Cloud's last weapon has HP/MP recovery on stagger (a few other weapons too, but I find Cloud is the easiest to stagger enemies with the Thrust ATB move), it recovers 10% MP every time he made the stagger hit. I use that and Aerith's Soul Drain to keep my MP up for all times except for the Boss battles throughout hard mode
Holy smokes I forgot how those materia combinations work. Nasty!
When the stars align and the wards are down, it can be brutal 😎
Fantastic video, but can I ask how to avoid spending Aerith's MP with the brumal form build? Am I missing something super obvious?😅
Thanks! For MP management you just need to make sure that Aerith has an MP-Absorb materia connected to whatever your offensive spell of choice is. So for example, if you're using Ice; you'd want an Ice materia paired with MP Absorb, another Ice paired with Swiftcast, another Ice paired with Magic Focus and another paired with Magnify if you're doing AOE damage (it will reduce the damage though for a single target, so only use if you're definitely doing AOE).
@@TheGameFatherUK Thanks for that! So a mastered MP Absorb with Genji Gloves will result in no MP spent because of damage dealt?
That's right, it returns MP based on the damage dealt via that particular spell. So when you have all your materia linked (and a purple Magic Up for extra damage) you should be dealing significant damage with that spell which should refund you more than you spent :)
@@TheGameFatherUK Thanks so much for the reply. Your video really was excellent. Clear and beautifully narrated.
Ah thanks, that's great to hear, appreciate it very much :)
Wow I never knew about double pairing a new materia of the same kind for additional effects. This is a game changer. Was this in Remake or even the OG?
The first tip and I’m already overwhelmed with stuff I had no clue about
Auto pickup should be enabled on all games. I don't know why for games with infinite inventory space people have to press a button to pick something up. No one ever said "Hmmm I already have 5000 of this item, im not gonna pick it up this time."
So true 😀
Man. One of the best tips (if not the best) I've seen around. Thank you!
You can actually keep arcane, radiant and ATB wards all stacked together and it works
One ifthe greatest games of ALL TIME
you know I clicked on this being all smug like yeah tell me some obvious shit but hell, I learned some valuable stuff here. This absolutely improved my approach to some of the hard mode stuff I have yet to do.
Heh, love that! Glad it was useful!
For the gongaga loop I found I only needed 1 ATB as quakera + yuffie with synergy linked to fire would kill every group.
I like how once you complete the game you need to forget everything you've done for the last 150 hours and rebuild your skill base from scratch.
My mind was blown with the first tip, I've been playing this all wrong
You can get a second chakra heal off with full atb. It will give you the 40% heal at low health before the first one actually heals you
Good tip! Thanks!
Holy hell, Fury Brand is in the game? Nice
I really hope that the final game in the trilogy allows the classic “Mastered materia gives birth to new materia”
I kinda get why they blocked it for these first two games, but that was such a clutch feature in the original
Yeah it was a great thing in the OG, I really hope that comes back too!
I plan to make Tifa do her Stagger Queen DPS stuff while either Cloud or Aerith or Yuffie nuke stuff. It is how bosses melt lol
They should also do a mode where you only have cloud in your team during battle, And call it Soldier mode.
Might prefer that over hard mode.
That would be really cool!
The game gives you two frog rings so you can do solo runs like this.
I wonder if they're gonna patch the cushion trick, seems like an oversight if inns don't restore MP but fast travelling to a stop does
Yeah I'm not sure really. I suppose they didn't really need to worry about that in Remake since it was so linear. It's only beneficial in the open world because once you're deep into the story you can't fast travel to a chocbo stop. Chapters 13 and 14 are especially true of that with the chain of boss fights.
the mp benches only work for side content, so it's def deliberate imo; also only the first and last quests are actually hard, the rest were a cakewalk compared to them
@13:05 I can't even begin to explain how much stronger I felt after finishing all the manuscripts. Weapons levels scale amazing after level 8 it seems.
Yeah they do make a significant difference when they are all up to full power :)
I knew I loved this game and now I love it more
Suffering post-plat depression, wish I could play it over for the first time again!
Hi! do you have a video guide step by step on "bond of brothers" and "to be a hero" challenges?
I was going to make a series but honestly, you can't get much better than Optinoob's guides. They are really really good, you should check them out if you haven't already.
@@TheGameFatherUK o Just got the platinum thanks to him hahahah
@@jordanferreira5294 Congrats on getting it! It's certainly no easy feat!
This video is phenomenal! thank you!!!!
I found an easy way to get the 300% stagger trophy. At the end game, I faced titan at full strength with aerith, tifa, and cait sith since they all have abilities that boost stagger damage. Everyone was level 70 and I managed to get everyone set up for the stagger to use moogle knuckle with cait and ray of judgement with aerith as soon as it started, and then spammed unbridled strength and omnistrike with tifa. I ended up killing titan in that one stagger but still got up to almost 400% stagger damage before he died
I beat remake and rebirth and never knew how synergy worked. It seemed good from the description, so I experimented with it, but I couldn't get it to work.
It was invaluable for me from the moment I got it, especially with Quake. You just need to have it paired on a party member you don't often control. Then, whenever you spend atb on an offensive ability on a controlled character, it will cast quake :)
This is BEYOND interesting!! I just need cheats for Queen's Blood at Gold Saucer and the piano and I'll be set
Piano cheat is having a second person do the other analog stick for you 😂
The Gotterdamerung is one of the hardest items to get in the game. If you have that you dont need any tips on how to play the game.
That's why I mentioned that the same limit siphon technique was just as possible with the limit boost accessory, it just takes longer to get going :)
@@TheGameFatherUK Completely filling the limit guage at the start of battle is a game changer compared to just having the boost. So like I said, once you have that accessory you can basically do any battle easily.
I remember using Synergy with Cure early on, but Aerith/Red kept losing their MP. I could swear Synergy was consuming their MP.
Interesting. The tooltip does say that it only works with offensive materia. I wonder if it does actually still work with others but uses mp?
Do you happen too have these builds written somewhere on your social media platforms?
Thanks for the tricks and tips!
Rubs hands. Oh, I'm gonna use all this!!!
I love this game so much but man i feel like we could really use a loadout system
This, 100%!
How do I reset the monsters in the gongaga loop? And why don't I get any mana back when I cast spell? How do I get mana back faster?
Since I made this video I did a bunch of comparisons on the most popular AP farming locations. Gongaga is still good, but the Bees in Nibel are much much better: th-cam.com/video/6Z3nZu7iUWQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=T0-83-VaowTsTqwH
As for your question about MP. You need to make sure you have the same spell materia paired in multiple slots on the same character. For example; say you're using Cloud and want to cast free Fire spells. You'd need to equip him with Fire+MP absorb as well as Fire+Magic Focus and Magnify+Fire. Make sure he has Magic Plus materia equipped & his Rune Blade for maximum magic power. The MP absorb materia will refund a percentage of the fire damage back as MP.
Game difficulty does also matter. If you're doing the Gongaga loop on easy, the mobs have little HP so you might not be able to hit them for much damage which means less MP returned.
@@TheGameFatherUK thanks!
This is a nice video; I like the tips
Glad you thought it was helpful! :)
I've crafted every single item (even some twice) and I'm still at level 15. I am one slice away from level 16 but can't reach it and I can see the options for the genji gloves. What am I missing???
Have you completed the six-person bouts: harmony and discord in the musclehead colosseum? There is an upgrade item locked behind that.
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I took it and it was awesome! Thanks!
I don’t seem completely immune to hits with Yuffie’s brumal form on atb ward when there’s more than 1 enemy at once near her. I’m using the shortcut window too, hm…
Great video. Thanks for the tips.
Does anyone know how to pressure the electric wolves? I’m having a bit of an issue with that.
Ngl, the Hellhouse Hard mode fight in Remake traumatized the hell out of me, so much so that I didnt finish hard mode and I actually spaced out with that thousand yard stare for a sec when playing Rebirth and realising what hard mode would entail for such a massive game.
Great tips, but I'll probably stay away from Hard mode forever
To be honest, I found Hard Mode quite nice, especially the pacing since I had completed everything on my first run through. And yeah... I remember the hell house very well 😆
Hoping someone can help, I’ve searched but cannot find an answer. Magic attack. I’ve seen vids where Cloud n Aerith have magic attach close to 500! I’m struggling to get to 400 and I’m level 70, completed the game and all side quests…..appreciate help
Using yuffies brumal form build, how does that make aerith cast spells without mp cost?
Very informative, and helpful as well, thanks for this one. It’s going to help me out a lot that’s for sure!! 😁
Glad to help! Hope you're enjoying the game!
@@TheGameFatherUK definitely enjoying! I’m 60 hours in and just started chapter 9, I’m completing this to the end! Thanks to you, feel like I’ll be able to tackle hard mode afterwards! 😁
I got the genji materials but crafted a Cogwheel. Do i have to fight gilgamesh again to get the materials again?
hold up...are you telling me that I can put quick cast and comet on yuffie, summon her doppelganger, then stand in an arcane ward and 4 comet spells will be casted at once? what if I use comet? Will the screen be showered in 4x comet rain? what about ice/synergy/magnify? would that 4x cast ice on all of yuffie was standing in the ward and I used an ability on a other character?
Magnify doesn't work with synergy unfortunately but comet paired with synergy on Yuffie with Doppelgänger active and standing in an arcane ward will indeed rain many many comets down on your enemies. Just remember that the Doppelgänger cast will be less powerful. The most difficult bit is getting her to stay in the arcane ward, although that is somewhat helped by the fact that it's a slow spell to cast.
From my testing, Synergy seemed to be most effective with Petrify :)
@@TheGameFatherUK couldn't you pull yuffie in with aerith's bodyguard skill?
@@ShadowveilFox Yeah for sure, and she will cast inside the ward but for long battles it does become a bit more difficult to manage.
amazing video