It's been awhile since I last posted, so I'll give you guys a small walk through of what has happened so far:
I took a few days to level up some hard materia like KOTR, Hades, Alexander, Ultima etc in the Cave where the Movers enemies are, those things give huge amount of AP and though they're a bit hard to come by, I exploited them while using the Scimitiar and Apocalypse to get those top materia upgraded asap! ;D Since I used the save point on that room, I went to fight Omega when I decided I have enough materia and enough experience to move forward. I took on Omega like 5 times and I was shamed in all of those skirmishes. I'm not 100% sure how close I was to defeat him but I believe I got to his final form and lasted a bit. Saw that I was gonna have trouble with him at the moment I went after Emerald and Ruby before I came back to him.
Emerald was up first, I fought him a couple of times but I was defeated in them all, even with the Final Attack + Revive combo it proved to be merciless bastard. Barret with his Missing Scored filled with Mastered KOTR, Hades, Alexander, Contain, Ultima and a few others helped me hit him with 30K every time I used his 4x Cut attack, having him equipped with a couple of Counter Attack materias proved to be a major damage strategy since every hit did max damage. KOTR proved to be worthless in this fight because the main reason for using it was to destroy the adds on his shoulders that took HP and MP. When I did use it the adds took 0 damage and I couldn't get it to hit over 6K so it was out of the window. What did helped me with the adds was equipping Cid with Magic Counter + Ultima! Since they were on him most of the time, I got to take them out faster than I thought. Used a couple of Hero Drinks on Barret, him using his 4x Cut attack and countering, kept Cloud healing and Cid using Ultima I was able to take him down today! ;D What a hard battle, but it feels so satisfying
went to get me the Master stuff and I got Banish, Flash and Coin......LOL! To be honest I've never used Coin, maybe it will help me with the next ones hopefully
Ruby has always been a pain and when I fought him I forgot that I had to enter the battle with 2 dead, so he beat me and I tried again with 2 guys dead and he clawed his hands like he does. His fingers don't hit for a lot of HP and MP, but give you status like Death Sentence so I was safe because I had Cloud bringing his Enemy Skills so I could protect him with Death Force. His major attacks were the Flame one and Ruby Ray which hits for over 10K but I stuck with the same strategy I used for Emerald with Cid using Ultima every time Ruby fingered him(LOL) and this time using KOTR was useful because physical attacks weren't doing much. Barret with his heavy metal Missing Score after a couple of Hero Drinks couldn't hit him for over 3K and that discouraged me a little bit cause I knew it was gonna take a while ufff! Then something happened, this orange bastard used Quicksand and took out my 2 main attackers even though I've never seen him do that while his hands were on the sand
man was I screwed.
He left Cloud, who had no summons, no magic and his 4x Cut did 100 HP of damage, he had no counters and didn't even had the Ultima Weapon on him, stuck him in with Ragnarok instead. Then I hit him with Omnislash which did over 23K each blow! :evil: I knew what I had to now, just keep him alive and hit him with it every chance I get. Also I decided to try Shadow Flare on him and it hit him for over 10K! I kept Cloud healing himself with the Double Item materia using X-Potions and Turbo Ethers and hitting with SF every time I could and eventually I won!
It's been a long hard road, but now what I have left is Omega and Sephiroth, I don't know how hard those battles are going to be, but I'll give it my all cause this is a challenge I won't leave alone till I clear it, 64 hours at the moment
