Final Fantasy Resonance Trophy Guide & Roadmap

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Party Members & Substories Guide

For more information, see  Memento.

For Tablet Shard locations:

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Tablet Shard Locations

If for some reason you have finished everything and still don’t have this trophy, you can farm King Gil Snapper enemies (see  Struck Gold), equip the Vaan Vision and level him up to Level 9 (Max) for his Double Gil ability which nets you 2x gil after every battle, or manually save your game and sell all your weapons, armor and items.

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Cave Master Locations

It is Level 49, weak to Ice and absorbs all other elements and has extremely high physical defence. Therefore, bring your magic users who can use Ice attacks, or equip Visions which use Ice attacks.

For more information on how to find it, see  Priceless Experience.

Once completed, she will be on the deck of your airship. To craft a weapon, each one requires one piece of Adamantite.

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Adamantite Locations

Note that these weapons are some of the best in the game, in most cases actually better than the Legendary Arms, so it is well worth crafting them as soon as possible.

To obtain a Legendary Arm, you first need to collect an ‘Ancient’ version of it. Some of these won’t be available until later in the game. For more information on how to do that, see the guide below:

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Legendary Arms Locations

Once you have an Ancient item, approach its respective pedestal and agree to undergo a trial. This will pit you against a Level 50 enemy that has two stages. Beat it and you’ll obtain the Legendary Arm with a new name. Do this for all 12 and you’ll unlock the trophy.

Note that once you obtain all 12, you can undergo another trial for each Arm (against the same enemy, but Level 75) that will give you an upgraded ‘+’ version of it. This isn’t needed for any trophies.

Once you work your way through the entire dungeon, you’ll emerge on a tiny forested island.

Run around here for a random encounter and you’ll fight one of three different enemies:

1. Metal Gigantuar – Rewards huge amount of EXP for killing it, and this trophy.
2. King Gil Snapper – Rewards a huge amount of gil for killing it, and required for  Struck Gold
3. Gigantuar – Rewards a huge amount of MRP for killing it.

The Metal Gigantuar looks like this:

It only has 8HP but extremely high evasion, and eventually it will run away. At high level you will hit it more often than not, but to be sure to get as many turns as possible, use Dualcast and high level magic such as Ultima.

Visions have to be levelled step-by-step; firstly to one star with a Magicite Shard, then to two stars with Magicite, and finally to three stars with a Magicite Cryst. Therefore, you will need at least one of each type to unlock this trophy. As you progress through the game, the various levels of Magicite will become available to you, found in treasure chests, from enemies (all Cave Masters in particular drop various types of Magicite based on their level, as do certain Colosseum battles), from Sub Quests and more. Magicite Crysts can first be found in Chapter 5.

Both the passive abilities and battle abilities of Visions are important to growing stronger and progressing through the game. There is enough of each Magicite to level every single Vision to three stars (in fact, you can buy the different types of Magicite in the Colosseum in the later chapters of the game albeit for a high price) so it’s recommended to upgrade them as soon as you can.

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Vision Locations

Note that MR is different from a Vision’s awakening (star) level. Those are permanent increases which remain across all party members, whereas MR is unique to each member. For example, if you obtain Cloud, equip him to Rain and level Cloud up to MR9, he will always have that mastery rank with Rain. However, if you then equip Cloud to Laswell he will be back to MR0 and you’ll have to level him up again.

As said above, this seems like a grindy task, but in reality you should have this trophy easily during the main story if you are regularly rotating your Visions as soon as you hit max MR with a character.

» Final Fantasy Resonance – All Esper Locations

You will stagger enemies way more than 1000 times during the game (this trophy unlocked during Chapter 4 for this guide) so you don’t need to worry about grinding out this one.

Depending on how much you level grind during the story or activate Resonances, you may need to grind out some Resonances post-game. The quickest way to do this is to equip a Vision whose Resonance heals you (such as Leah or Ayaka) and find a group of enemies (or single enemy) that you can physically attack to stagger quickly. Leave one enemy left, then keep staggering it so you can use your Resonance. Then heal the enemy so it doesn’t die and keep staggering it and using the healing Resonance (use Defend to quickly pass any turns between the staggering and using the Resonance). This saves time having to run around the map activating random battles.

To finish that, obtain two Dynamo Stones by killing Ipooh (large bears) enemies outside of the Dwarven Forge on the World Map.

After this, Mechabo will be repaired, and to upgrade him further you can undertake a long Sub Quest named Mechabo Evolved for Verun, obtaining materials to improve Mechabo’s abilities.

Mechabo Evolved:

1. Defeat three Dhorme Chimerae northeast of Grandport.
2. Defeat three Medusae southwest of the Dwarven Forge.
3. Defeat three Destroyers in the west of the Olderion Federation.
4. Defeat three sandworms in the south of Zoldaad.

After this is completed, you need to progress to Chapter 5 and then return to Dwarven Forge and speak to Verun to start the Mechabo Unleashed Sub Quest, which again involves you defeating enemies for materials.

Mechabo Unleashed:

1. Defeat three Mahadevas on the western island of Mysidia.
2. Defeat three Malbodooms in western Gronoa (Chapter 6 onwards)

After these items are returned and you speak to Verun on the airship, the quest will complete and the trophy will unlock.

It is Level 70 and although it has a lot of health (3.9 million HP!) and thus takes a lot of time to beat, with the right strategy it is quite easy and certainly not as hard as the Sephiroth Vision fight. It can be beaten at Level 60 as build and strategy is far more important than small stat increments, but obviously the higher your level, the easier it will be.

The following is the party and setup used to defeat him, assuming all Visions are fully maxed on each character:

Rain 

• Vision: Sephiroth
• Weapon: Ragnarok
• Armor: Tatenashi Armor
• Accessory 1: Genji Gloves
• Accessory 2: Calm Armlet

Abilities:

• Improvement
• Restore MP when Taking Damage
• LB Double Charge
• Riposte
• Grit
• Double Action
• Critical Counter
• Break the Limit

Fina 

• Vision: Ayaka
• Weapon: Artemis Bow
• Armor: Lorica Sancta
• Accessory 1: Ribbon
• Accessory 2: Power Stone

Abilities:

• Half MP Cost
• Dualcast
• Magic Attack +10%
• Break the Limit
• LB Triple Charge
• Mana Overload
• Pharmacology
• Speed +5%

Archwitch Fina

• Vision: Shantotto
• Weapon: Fire Birch
• Armor: Lordly Robes
• Accessory 1: Super Ribbon
• Accessory 2: Moonlight Ring

Abilities:

• Half MP Cost
• Vigorous Attacks
• Restore MP when Taking Damage
• Stagger Power +20%
• Mana Overload
• Break the Limit
• Tenebrous Rites
• Magic Attack +10%

Sakura

• Vision: Terra
• Weapon: Roselia
• Armor: Behemoth Suit
• Accessory 1: Mage’s Stone
• Accessory 2: Gold Hairpin

Abilities:

• Area Effect Adept
• Dualcast
• Magic Attack +10%
• Half MP Cost
• Dark Rite

As you can see, this is very much a magic-based setup. The crux of the strategy is to hit Ultima Weapon hard with Dualcasted Ultima from Sakura and Archwitch Fina, whilst Rain chips away with his powerful physical attacks (in particular, Double Action > Soul of Valiance x2 works well, and then his Crimson Onslaught Limit Break when it builds up). He can also cast Protectga on the party when needed and be an emergency healer with items.

The most vital part in this strategy is Fina, who is used almost exclusively to heal or buff the party. For her first two turns, use Dualcast and Reraise on all four characters as a failsafe to revive everyone in the party if they die. Then on subsequent turns alternate between curing allies, casting Shellga on the party or Dispel on Ultima Weapon if it uses Bravery on itself. If she does get a spare turn, she can summon Bahamut who can chip away at Ultima and may even draw some of its attacks.

However, where she truly shines is that with the setup above, every time Fina heals the party she will gain a huge chunk of Limit Break. When she has at least one bar full, use Entrust to transfer this to Sakura. This is because Sakura has the Eternal Veil Limit Break which nullifies all damage done to the party, which is incredibly useful. Not only that, it only costs one Limit Break bar, so if her meter is full she can use it twice. Every time Ultima Weapon is going to use its most powerful attack Ultima Beam (denoted by an exclamation mark on the turn bar and red flames above its health bar), use this with Sakura beforehand and all damage will be nullified.

Using this method, you should be in little danger from Ultima. Its weaker attacks won’t kill you, and in fact work to your benefit because being damaged allows you to be healed by Fina, which gives her a huge chunk of Limit Break to give to Sakura to protect from major attacks. Ultima Weapon also likes to inflict you with multiple status ailments, but Fina and Archwitch Fina are fully protected by Ribbon accessories, Sakura is protected by Terra’s innate Ribbon ability, and Rain is at least protected from Confuse which can cause havoc if left untreated. If he is blinded or poisoned, Fina can always use Esuna or he can use a Remedy on himself.

If something does go wrong and you lose control of the battle a little, Reraise is there to back you up, and just reapply it if any character gets KO’d. Your MP should last a long time as the setup is designed to restore some every turn and halve the cost of the expensive magic, but don’t be afraid to use Mist X-Ethers or even Megaelixirs if you feel the need. After all, what else are you saving them for?

The battle is a bit of a war of attrition, but eventually it should go down, rewarding you with an Ultima Reactor (a great accessory) and this trophy.