Final Fantasy X Walkthrough for PlayStation 2 Game Name: Final Fantasy X Format: PlayStation 2 Submitted By: ½pint (-----This is my levelling up guide for Final Fantasy 10-----) This is an advanced levelling up guide - for it you will need the following things: [Airship] You must be past Zanarkand and be able to control where the airship goes [Weapons with free slots] These can be found/bought almost anywhere [Door To Tomorrow] You will need 10 of these items for EACH character. You can get them by stealing from Ultima Weapon and are dropped by Bomb Kings in the Monster Arena. You will be given 99 of these items if you manage to capture all of the monsters from 6 areas (ie. Besaid Island, Mt. Gagazet etc.). Once you've captured all these monsters, the man at the Monster Arena will give you 99. They will allow your characters to customise their weapons with the ability 'Overdrive -> AP'. This ability earns you AP instead of increasing your Overdrive gauge. [Overdrive modes] Your characters should have the following modes by now, if they don't you should do some more normal battles to gain them - Comrade and Stoic. [Gil] You will need 8,000 gil per battle. It might sound a lot, but you can get upwards of 20 Sphere levels per battle. To get a lot of money, fight and defeat the enemies 'mimic' in the Omega Ruins. After battle you will get 50,000 gil normally, or 100,000 gil with the Gillionaire ability. *****OPTIONAL***** [Megalixer] You can get these from various chests throughout Spira, but you can also get 30 of them from the Arena owner by capturing two Splashers, Achelouses and Maelspikes from the underground passages in the Mt. Gagazet cavern. You can customise a weapon with the 'Double AP' ability by using 20 of these. [Wings to Discovery] You can get 30 of these by winning the Chocobo race beneath the Remiem Temple and after battling Shinryu at the monster arena. 50 of these items can let you customise a weapon with the 'Triple AP' ability which will earn that character three times the amount of AP after battle. [Underdog's Secret] If you collect all 26 Al Bhed Primers, on the Airship Rin will give you 99 of these items. Alternatively, after battling the 'th'uban' at the Monster Arena you will get 1 of them. You can use thirty of these items to customise a weapon with the 'Double Overdrive' ability, which will charge your overdrive gauge at twice the speed. [Winning Formula] If you capture one of every monster in Spira, the Arena owner will give you 99 of these items. Alternatively, you can bribe a Sand Worm in the Bikanel area with more than 225,000 gil to gain 15 of the items. You can customise a weapon with the 'Triple Overdrive' ability with 30 of these items. *****Levelling-Up Method***** This can work with any enemy, but in particular you should fight Don Tonberry at the Monster Arena. To be able to fight Don Tonberry, you need to catch all of the fiends in the Sunken Cave area - the place where you get the Yojimba Aeon. Have one of your fighters set their Overdrive mode to 'Stoic' and the other two characters to 'Comrade'. Make sure you equip the weapons with 'Overdrive -> AP' abilities for each character, and any additional abilities if you want to multiply the amount of AP earned (see above). Talk to the man at the monster arena and enter a battle with Don Tonberry. This will cost you 8,000 gil, but its a small price to pay considering what you can get for it. When in the battle, get the character whose overdrive mode is 'stoic' to attack Don Tonberry. Don Tonberry will then counter-attack with the ferocious 'Karma' attack. This will take off anywhere between 10,000 and 80,000 HP, killing your character. Get the other two characters to revive the person who just got killed, and keep repeating the process of attacking/dying/reviving. After the battle - either if you kill Don Tonberry or just Flee - you'll receive AP equivalent to the damage taken by your Stoic character - a lot. However, Don Tonberry moves forward on his turn. After four turns, he'll be right up close to your characters. At this point, he will stop counter-attacking when you attack him, and on his turn instead of moving he'll just automatically kill one of your characters. At this point I'd suggest you flee because Don Tonberry attacks randomly and consequently it can become hectic. This strategy works against every enemy, however most enemies don't counter-attack and the trick will only work if your Stoic character gets damaged. *****Alternative Method***** You can just enter a battle with a pathetic monster from, say, Besaid island. Use the formula before, except instead of attacking the enemy, attack yourself. This way, everybody will still get AP and the battle is infinite until you decide to end it. Also, you don't need to pay 8,000 gil per turn. Magic also works well for this. At least then you needn't worry about being KO'd by Don Tonberry when you aren't expecting it.