Final Fantasy 13 Question?
Question by Gigan: Final Fantasy 13 Question?
Quick question about FF13 – I seem to be getting weaker as it goes on, fights getting harder and me not keeping up. (I’m at chapter 11, been farming but still stuck at the mobs even – for instance I cannot kill any rangas without getting a preemptive strike, and THEN summoning and going right to gestalt mode)
What is the problem?
-That im still using +13 starting weapons? If so, i don’t know which to conentrate on upgrading.
-That my crystariums are weak? I have the crystariums for the respective roles my characters play virtually maxed. Does, for instance, hp I upgrade for sentinel come into effect in other roles as well?
-My team? Hope/Lightning/Snow, with 1370/1776/2400 hp respectively. I have gotten to mission 12 (the optional ones), and cannot advance in that, or even do some of the older missions without summons/fortisol. Help?
(I am trying to farm mission 7 for those speedy shoes, but I cannot kill it since i used my last fortisol…and I got hermes sandals last time 
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Best answer:
Answer by Jordan Swift
Chapter 11 does make things harder pretty quickly. Look for other areas to train, there are weaker enemies around.
Your weapons do sound underpowered. Look in the shops for ones with high starting stats and good special abilities. You should have picked some up during the course of the game.
The missions get harder even more quickly. You don’t have to do them in order though. Each one has a * rating for the difficulty. Look for the lower ones.
Keep going with the Crystarium. The stat boosts count for all roles, like a +50 hp will be on your character permanently,.
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After the first few missions the mission difficulty jumps WAY up. Most of the missions past a certain point are really meant to be done post-game.
You should start upgrading your weapons though, I think I had all of mine at LEAST to the second tier at that point, and several at the third. (Ultimate weapons aren’t likely until post-game.) I boosted Lighting’s speed sword, Hope’s MP Attack Boomerang, and I ended up boosting Fang’s counter spear. With Snow instead you should probably boost the weapon that does the most for the pargradims he usually uses.
Your crystarium is fine, those late missions sort of assume you have the stats from two or more additional levels. Don’t go into the characters’ “non-main” branches, the cost is simply too high for too little benefit during the main game.
Your team is fine. I used Fang instead of Snow because it gave me every crystarium while duplicating Medic/Commando/Ravenger, the three most used ones.