So I just finished the game yesterday. I thought I would be able to get into God of War III, but nope, not feeling it. Anyways, I booted up FF XIII again to beef up my characters. It's pretty hard without a Growth Egg. So I just finished that. But damn that Neochu Mark is fuckin hard. It took 20 battles just to get him to go away with Death. So now I have that Growth Egg and working on my characters. So what's is everyone else doing?

I'm on my last two stages of my last role for each character. Go check out my thread about where the best grinding spot is, I believe I found it. 30,000 CP ever 1:15 (Walking times included and yes that 1 min 15 seconds) 
 
But right now specifically I'm trying to get my damn Trapezohedron. I've been farming these for about 4 hours with not even one dropping.

" I'm on my last two stages of my last role for each character. Go check out my thread about where the best grinding spot is, I believe I found it. 30,000 CP ever 1:15 (Walking times included and yes that 1 min 15 seconds)  But right now specifically I'm trying to get my damn Trapezohedron. I've been farming these for about 4 hours with not even one dropping. "

Had alot more fun with the combat after the game ended, really got into it. Just 2 trophies left but both requires alot of time and money (5 star everything and collect everything).  Think it's a shame that 90% of reviewers consider the game done after the last boss, if they had done some of the side missions and endgame stuff they might of thought differently about the game.
 
And if Resonance of Fate wasn't being released tomorrow I probably would of gone for platinum, maybe i'll return to finish it off once I have some podcasts to grind to.

I just beat the game, and I'm not sure if I will or not. I guess I should, to get more time out of it for my money, but I had to push myself to finish the game. The battles leading up to the final boss were particularly rage-inducing.

"But damn that Neochu Mark is fuckin hard. It took 20 battles just to get him to go away with Death. So now I have that Growth Egg and working on my characters. So what's is everyone else doing? "

After I beat the game I created the new game+ onto a new save file.  Already made use of the the 10th stage crystaranium and will probably grind/do missions later.  
 
Right now there are other games to be played.

I have every intent to platinum the game before I move on to Resonance of Fate and God of War 3.  Unfortunately, I just moved to a new country and while I have my PS3...I have no TV. 
 
This is sad, as all my friends are passing me in the game now.

I'm just about to max out each character, though I think at least snow is already there. Yesterday I finally made the long gui's appear after getting tired of the normal adamantoises and I took one of them down. All I need to do now is the final mission (64), and then i'll go 5-star anything that's left. I'm also going to need a ton of money to get every item for that trophy, and I also need to do the last boss over again for a quicker time.

I've got every character maxed, just grinding lots and lots of gil to upgrade all my weapons for the treasure hunter achievement. The game is basically doubled in length if you go for all the achievements.

Can anyone tell me how I'll be able to kill the Adamantoise a lot easier? At this point I'm just summoning an eidolon then casting Death after the eidolon leaves. At this point since I have the Growth Egg I'm able to get 80,000 CP for each battle but most of the time it takes 5 minutes for it to fall.

" @ch13696: Do you have any Trapezohedrons yet, or did you upgrade any weapons? If you use Fang's ultimate weapon developed from the Dragoon Lance and then Dragonhorn, it will raise her STR to around 3000. If you can, put some Maxed out Power Gloves or higher on her to make that stat 3500.   I'm using this, and using her to summon at the start. I use the summon to get the Adamantoise to the ground then I slam it with ailments after I use Megaflare to get rid of Bahamut. Now set everyone to Tri-Disaster and the adamantoise will staggers quickly - a couple hits and then a Highwind will finish him off.  You can probably do this with another weapon but I have only tried it with the Kain's Lance. Give it a shot! I use Fang, Hope and Lightning. "

" @xyzygy said:

" @ch13696: Do you have any Trapezohedrons yet, or did you upgrade any weapons? If you use Fang's ultimate weapon developed from the Dragoon Lance and then Dragonhorn, it will raise her STR to around 3000. If you can, put some Maxed out Power Gloves or higher on her to make that stat 3500.   I'm using this, and using her to summon at the start. I use the summon to get the Adamantoise to the ground then I slam it with ailments after I use Megaflare to get rid of Bahamut. Now set everyone to Tri-Disaster and the adamantoise will staggers quickly - a couple hits and then a Highwind will finish him off.  You can probably do this with another weapon but I have only tried it with the Kain's Lance. Give it a shot! I use Fang, Hope and Lightning. "

I did get one. But I used it to upgrade Fang's Gae Bolg. That way after I max out the upgrade and get 3 more Trapezohedrons. But since you told me about her stats. That will be the next thing I upgrade. I think the max for strength on her Kain's Lance after Dragonhorn is 982. "

" @ch13696 said:

" @xyzygy said:

" @ch13696: Do you have any Trapezohedrons yet, or did you upgrade any weapons? If you use Fang's ultimate weapon developed from the Dragoon Lance and then Dragonhorn, it will raise her STR to around 3000. If you can, put some Maxed out Power Gloves or higher on her to make that stat 3500.   I'm using this, and using her to summon at the start. I use the summon to get the Adamantoise to the ground then I slam it with ailments after I use Megaflare to get rid of Bahamut. Now set everyone to Tri-Disaster and the adamantoise will staggers quickly - a couple hits and then a Highwind will finish him off.  You can probably do this with another weapon but I have only tried it with the Kain's Lance. Give it a shot! I use Fang, Hope and Lightning. "

I did get one. But I used it to upgrade Fang's Gae Bolg. That way after I max out the upgrade and get 3 more Trapezohedrons. But since you told me about her stats. That will be the next thing I upgrade. I think the max for strength on her Kain's Lance after Dragonhorn is 982. "

You were definitely thinking ahead of me. If I had done that, I could have 3 of each characters best weapons and I wouldn't even need to summon at the start of battles. -_- "

does anyone know of any useful equipment combinations?

" @ch13696: Sorry, this conversation's a little more advanced than I'm ready for - are you saying a star level gae bolg breaks down to a trapezohedron? "