FF XII Quickening help...??

[oO EZ Oo]

I just recently unlocked red sprial for vaan but am having trouble figuiring how it work. Does anyone know what to do when you activate? I saw the triangle button mashed it a few times and the sequence started over but other than that i have no clue.

[Icemage]

Re: FF XII Quickening help...??

I just recently unlocked red sprial for vaan but am having trouble figuiring how it work. Does anyone know what to do when you activate? I saw the triangle button mashed it a few times and the sequence started over but other than that i have no clue.

It took me a while to figure out how it works too.

Quickening is activated for any character who has max MP and has one or more licenses for a Quickening technique.

Once you have more than one character with Quickening, the status bars on the right will show a random selection of up to 3 Quickening abilities from other characters. If one of those bars is lit, that means the displayed character can activate a Quickening to chain into your current one.

Different combinations of Quickenings will produce different effects. I don't know how this is accomplished, though; maybe someone else knows.


Icemage

[oO EZ Oo]

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Yeah i have been sitting there trying it over and over just sit by a zone with a crystal. Just go out try it, go back in zone touch crystal... rinse .. repeate. I see a L2 shuffle button but not sure what it does..

I hit the triangle a few times it started over, and didnt see any other button to push after that. When i did that i hit for about 2000+ dmg. Any other time with out the chain i do 1000+ dmg .... So i was thinking the more times you get it to loop the more dmg. << just an assumption though.

[Gobo]

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Concurrences (the special effects after Quickenings) occur when certain combinations of Quickings are performed, like 3 lvl 1 Quickenings creates Inferno. It doesnt matter who uses the Quickening, as long as the correct combination is used. If more than one Concurrence condition is satisfied (say you do 7 lvl 1 Quickenings, 5 lvl 2 and 2 lvl 3, which equates to about 4 different combinations), the game will pick the most powerful Concurrence to damage the foe(s) with. Also, Concurrences are counted as Physical Damage, even though the effects look like they are elemental. Keep this in mind when using them on bosses who can put up a physical damage barrier.

[oO EZ Oo]

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ok so you are referring to 3 different character performing 3 different quickenings....got it. I understand that.

oh boy, that would be nuts to watch .. the only thing i am referring to at the moment is one quickening (vaan's red spiral) Is there a way to continouesly (sp) loop it??

[KoukiRyu]

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Yes, at least in those 4 seconds you can repeat it for as many times as you can get it off, my record is currently 7(One-shotted the Wraith with it, with Vaan solo :D).

The way it works, is when the animation starts, you press L2 to shuffle, and you want to get "Mist Charge" with Vaan, which fully heals his MP, therefore his mist gauges, then press triangle to do so. Then, you want the shuffle to end up back on Red Spiral, and you press triangle to do it again. The timer then stops until the animation is complete, and then once the next animation starts, you do the same thing, hopefully ending it within a few hundreths of a second if you're lucky.

What I did was just spam L2 and Triangle, and ended up getting 7 shots off...although with this method I also ended up getting one, I guess to bad luck. But pretty much, yes you can loop it non-stop, you just need "Mist Charge" to show up, and then keep shuffling till you get your mist attack again. This also becomes much much easier when you have 3 characters, with multiple Quickenings.

[oO EZ Oo]

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ok that for the most part answers my question. Wasn't sure if there were other buttons that needed to be pushed after the first triangle sequence. Cool when i get off work and back on it will have to try that.

Congrats on the 1 shot, 7 hit sequence i will try to beat it

[samarium]

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Granted I'm a little further along, so far my record is 21 hits for something like 39000 damage. This was with all 3 party members having two Quickenings each.

You do need a bit of luck to do well, you can have a bad run and expend all your mp in 3 hits and then get nothing else.

As one character initiates a Quickening, all three characters are displayed at the bottom near the timer with a random option next to them - it can be one of their available quickenings or Mist Charge. Always go for mist charge if it's up, and keep jamming on that same button to toss in another move - since you just filled up their MP no matter what comes up next you'll be able to do it.

Don't worry about concurrences - just hit any button that's not grayed out, Mist charge first, and the concurrence will take care of itself.

If all three names are grayed out, that's when you hit L2 (R2?), it re-shuffles the move names and gives you a random chance to tack on another move or Charge.

-sam

[KoukiRyu]

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>:3 Thanks, I think I could've done more, but I got unlucky at the end 1.8~ seconds and got no more charges. I really like this new type of limit break-esque attack, it makes it a lot of fun in boss fights, and also quite dangerous, as it takes all your precious mp if you're not careful. @_@ And good luck trying to beat my record.

[Gobo]

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It should be noted that strongest Concurrance, Black Hole (made with 4 lvl 1, 4 lvl 2, and 4 lvl 3) can do 60k+ damage. However, some of the optional bosses have a ton of HP (the final Hunt has 50+ MILLION HP).

[Jugil]

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The mist abilities (summons and quickenings) rock in this game:

Might be spoilers

First, I only have Belias so far, but he can easily take out a couple of mobs that are 10 levels higher than you.

Secondly, I took Tiamat down to 50% or so with straight melee, then used Belias to drop another 10%, and chained 9 quickenings to drop him to crit HP, popped an ether and finished him with a 5-hit chain.