Great Crystal | Part III Final Fantasy XII Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Name	Level	HP	Weakness	Drops (price)	Steal (price)
Mom Bomb	45-46	5107-6544	Water	Bomb Shell (896g), Fire Crystal (160g)	Bomb Shell (896g), Scorpio Gem (150g)
Ose	44-45	6739-7059	Holy	Coeurl Whisker (2076g), Prime Pelt (1124g), Dark Crystal (160g), Morning Star*	Chronos Tear**, Libra gem (150g)
Mythril Golem	45-48	17735-18453	Water	Iron Ore (1043g), Aquarius gem (150g), Fire Crystal (160g), Gaia Gear*	Iron Ore (1043g), Fire Crystal (160g), Mythril (1531g)
Necrophobe	~46	~8511	Holy	Dark Crystal (160g), Bacchus's Wine**	Sky Jewel (980g)
Reaper	~45	~9931	Holy	Book of Orgain-Cent (924g), Dark Crystal (160g), Vaccine**	Book of Orgain-Cent (924g), Dark Crystal (160g)

*Rare; ** It's better not to sell this

Inside the crystal there's no such thing as map or directions. You'll have to know where you are just by the number of paths leading out of area. The color scheme on the map above isn't accidental. The roman numeral signify the Way Stones - notice that they are always a pair of Way Stones in the same color - it shows which Way Stone is connected to which. The colors of paths also aren't accidental. Red means that the path is going up and blue means that this one is going down. The colored lines that run crosswise through the paths show the location of barriers. Every barrier can be opened by using a device that is located somewhere on that floor - these devices are e.g. Scorpio, Aries, Cancer etc. Their font color match the color of the gate it opens. And the "Map 1", "Map 2" etc. marks shows in which order you gonna visit each floor.

On the empty platforms you can often find a valuable treasures so it's worth the trouble.

The Way Stone that appeared after the battle with Tyrant is connected to the Way Stone No. VIII. The Scorpio Gate Stone isn't working at this time so make your way to the Way Stone No. VII. You'll land on the platform with Way Stone No. VI. Here you have to disable the Cancer Gate Stone first and than go to the Portal No. V.

You land on map 3. Here you can open either Aries or Pisces or both - anyways you got to open the passage to Way Stone No. III. Run there and use it. You'll land on the lowest level of the Crystal. Run straight ahead. On the next platform you'll find a save crystal and Way Stone No. I which leads to Shemhazai.

Shemhazai

About 89 000 HP

Resistant to Libra, She's vulnerable to one element and absorbs others.

Syphon, Shift, Shock, Mana Spring, Flare, Enrage, Chain Magick, Silencega

Another Esper to your collection. She may not have especially high HP level but, as in Deadalus case, at the end of the battle her defense will rapidly raise.

Her ordinary attacks may cause Disease to one of your heroes and beside of that she doesn't use the rest of her attacks too often. It's no use attacking her with magick. She's vulnerable to one element and absorbs the others and when you discover at last to which one element is it she changes it using the Shift technique. The best choice is to is to stick to the brute force. Use berserk twice and let the mage handle the healing part (as always). If you can't handle the enemy with only one mage use berserk not on two heroes just on one.

After the battle make your way to the next hall. You'll find there an Empyrean Way Stone. Approach it and read instructions and then touch it. After the cut-scene you'll get the Treaty-blade and the Empyrean Way Stone changes to Tellurian Way Stone, which will teleport you to the area with Gate Crystal.

Acquiring the Treaty-blade also lets you use the Scorpio Gate Stone to get to the Upper Levels of the Great Crystal.

Now get back to Balfonheim and run straight to Reddas's mansion. When you leave the mansion a moogle will come to you to tell that the Strahl is repaired and that you can freely use him now. From now on a new counter appears at every Aerodrome which handle the private airships. Beside that on locations with open terrains a new anchor icon - there you can board the Strahl.

Run to Aerodrome, board your ship and fly to Ridorana Cataract.