What are scarletites used for?

Yeah, Gilgamesh starts out with six guns (one of which, at least, is a bazooka, which reminds me of why I HATED the PSICom soldiers in FFXIII), and only 999,999 HP. After soundly beating his face in, he throws the guns to the floor in disgust, and summons his swords, and gains an additional NINE MILLION HP. Which, still makes me go: "Wait, what?!".

I'm not surprised that people skip that first portion of the battle, since even lower leveled players could beat him without trouble... only to learn the horror of "multi-form battles".

And given that FFTester started the battle with Goblin Chieftain out in his Paradigm Deck, auto-abilities would have been a good choice... but, here again, I ask: "Why did he do that?!" in regards to a completely unmodified monster.

I actually find myself annoyed that he's that good, that he doesn't even NEED to boost up his monsters. It's like it's taunting me a bit.

That... would explain it then. This guy is obviously an alien, who decided not to destroy the Earth, and instead fell in love with Lightning, and then Serrah, and devoted his time and energy into playing FFXIII and FFXIII-2 as tribute to his beloved women, to one day free them from their digital cage, and make them his wifu. It's the most obvious answer.

...but seriously, mad props to the guy, for his amazing ability to whoop major digital ass. I can't really complain, since his videos have aided me on some of my own Time Attacking endeavours. It just makes me think: "Wow, as great as I am, this guy makes me look stupid. D'oh!" sometimes. That's not to say I'm unimpressed, because I'm trying to replicate his results, and maybe "improve" on them. So there is respect, even if I kid a bit about him having a binary vascular system, a TARDIS, and that he cheats, by using his Sonic Screwdriver on the Xbox 360 to underclock the CPU to improve his battle time.

...wait... no... that's The Doctor. This is all manner of "wibbly wobbly", and a touch "timey wimey". Time for bed.

I never saw that one... so... maybe? I'm not well versed in the videos uploaded by the champions of Final Fantasy.

Wait... what? I'm not awake enough to actually understand what I'm being asked here. Is BMSirius asking just for the "Passive Abilities naturally earned" through leveling up Amodar and Lightning? If so, that will be a little hard for me to share on Lightning, since mine is fully infused, and without releasing her and recapturing and releveling her, I can't honestly think of a way to figure that information out off the top of my head.

...and I've already fully leveled Amodar... so I don't quite know what level each Passive he has unlocked at... maybe the Crystarium can tell me? I don't know if it will still show me at what level I unlocked an ability.

I've bookmarked the page, for later, when I'm awake and my brain works.

Yeah, I noticed that as soon as I ate breakfast, and returned to the thread, someone else had already posted it up... which I guess sucks, since I'd have tried at least to help. The only thing I could contribute was a simple two line correction to the list of Ranked Passives. Ah well.

Regarding Purple Chocobo... I never thought about using the "Auto-Buffs" to circumvent him casting buffs that you'd rather have Noel casting... but this is an brilliant solution, using Auto-Tetradefense instead. I dig that.

Resilience +40% may, or may not have a place on your monsters... it seems a pointless waste of a Passive slot most of the time, outside of DLC battles. I can't really say I'd use it on any Role outside of a Synergist or a Sentinel.

Resist Fog/Pain... I don't know why you'd need it. How often do you see that stuff hit you? The only battle I ever thought of using Resist Pain on, was Gilgamesh, and after seeing FFTester's methodology, I realized it would have been a waste of a Passive, and worse, would have taken away my Pack Mentality for nothing.

Speaking of Pack Mentality, I don't know that we'll see a monster getting it, that can actually transfer it. PuPu is a tease, because he comes with it... but it's Red Locked... completely ticked me off. But, if you've no choice but to lose it, to fix your Chichu, you've got no choice. We still have at least two DLC monsters coming out... maybe Snow will have it, but not Red Lock it like a jerk.

I have to ask... why are you hunting down Tezcat? Is it due to his ability to hook you up with Auto-Tetradefense, Resist Magic and Resist Physical +36%? I suppose that's a good choice... but as you're seeing, it's a pain in the neck trying to get his Crystal.

Grand Behemoth also has Auto-Tetradefense, at Lv. 59... but you'll have to kick off Resist Dispel +66%, which shouldn't be a problem at all (being a Rank 6). Plus you might be able to use his Magic and Strength boosters, to Yellow Lock them on your main build... assuming you want to keep them... that likely depends on the build.

Also, that video is crazy. FFTester is truly crazy good at this game. What's next? "A sub-ten minute NCU" Gilgamesh battle?

Oh, crap... I didn't even see that stupid little "[L]" next to it... that just absolutely sucks.

As for Pain... that's true... Goblin Chieftain getting hit with Pain by Gilgamesh would be an absolute disaster... but he doesn't seem to use Eerie Soundwave on you, until you've Staggered him. At least, I've never seen it hit before that point. And you'd never be using Goblin Chieftain after the Stagger point... making it "useless", more or less. Still, a good thought.

And... yeah, I can't think of anything for Blue Chocobo, that I didn't already do to Lightning.

Yikes... so at least three days of farming? You got really unlucky with your farming man. But at least you caught him, finally.

Yeah, I know how that goes... I was about to say: "It took you THREE DAYS to capture him?! This game HATES you!".

I should start building up monsters, too... but I'm taking a break from XIII-2. I've spent way too much time on it, and I've got other games I'd like to play, before the final DLC comes out.