If you have already started your journey in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and you want to feel very powerful from the start, so powerful that even the dreaded Midgarsol can’t scratch you, then you’ve come to the right place.
In this guide, we’ve put together a range of tips, tricks and extra activities you can do will make combat in the world of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth much easier. If the game becomes too easy later on, don’t blame us! You have been warned.
Before you start, and if you haven’t seen it yet, we recommend you also take a look at our article “13 things I wish I knew before I started playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth”, where you can find very useful tips for first timers hours of play.
How to become extremely strong in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth from the start
1. Get an outstanding sword for Cloud
The first thing you need to do is get a new weapon for Cloud: an outstanding sword. And the truth is that it has no complications and is almost impossible to miss. After escaping Kalmo, if you follow the main story, it won’t take you long to reach the Swamp Fort, a sort of wooden hut that sits on the edge of the swamp, right after you exit the forest.
As soon as you arrive, you’ll see a purple chest, with a famous sword waiting for you inside. What is special about it? Well, it allows Cloud to use an ability lightning slash. Despite being one of the first This is one of the best skills in the gameas he lifts Cloud into the air, performing a kick charged with the elements of fire and electricity.
That is, if you are facing an enemy that is weak to any of these elements, with this attack you can tire them out and deal a lot of damage, all without consuming MP, since this is a skill. This is the only ability in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth that combines the two elementsso you can get an idea of its importance.
Make sure you meet the requirements to permanently learn Flash Slash (attacking an enemy’s weak spot with a skill) and be able to use it with any weapon from now on.
2. Get an ancient staff
Continuing to get weapons, next is to get new personnel for Aeris: ancient reed. Again, it’s easy and you’ll practically stumble upon it as part of the story. When you arrive at Bill’s Ranch and are tasked with going after Pico’s chocobo, be sure to open the purple chest in the stables to get it.
The Millennium Staff allows you to use Aeris punishment with timea skill that causes an area that prevents enemies from attacking within it and dealing damage to them.
This is especially important with Aerys, as her reduced mobility makes her vulnerable to enemy strikes.
Thanks to the time penalty, you’ll be able to focus on spells without worrying (too much) about enemy attacks.
3. Get a fire-retardant substance
As you progress through the story, you’ll soon meet up with Chadli again, who will also unlock all the extra content in this first area of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Completing activities will earn you intelligence dataa sort of currency that you can exchange for special materials in Chadli’s shop.
The first of these special items you should unlock is without a doubt this fire retardant substancewhich requires 10 grassland survey data.
This material is unique because it allows you to use two different elemental spells: Pyro and Ice, and higher versions of them as you level up.
It takes a lot more AP to level up than other materials, but having two spells in one slot means you have more room to use other spells and abilities. Our recommendation is to give it to Aerisas he is the character with the highest magic attack in the group and can get the most out of it.
4. Get a large-caliber gun
For the next part, you need to catch the chocobo Piko and complete Billy’s tutorial. Once this is done, you can summon the bird at any time and move around the world at high speed. Go back to the swamp stand (we visited it in point 1) and you can now enter the swamp on the back of your trusty chocobo.
Move forward a few meters and a short video sequence will play. Head to the location shown in the scene and you’ll come across a purple chest containing large caliber cannon, a new weapon for Barrett.
This powerful weapon allows you to use the m abilityexplosive unionwhich boosts basic attacks and burst (Barrett’s unique ability) and makes them fill more of the vulnerability bar. This is a MUST skill for Barrett; Whenever a fight starts, you must first use explosive ammo to make all of Barrett’s attacks more powerful.
Just in case, once you get this weapon, deploy and head back to land, because if you continue advancing, the next story events will be activated.
5. Get the Titan challenge
After your first encounter with Chadli, you’ll also unlock a combat simulator, which will allow you to take part in a series of combat trials. And more importantly, you may face a Titan challenge. If you manage to defeat him, the challenge becomes yours and you can ask for his help in battle.
Now, the Titan is extremely powerful and will most likely finish you off in less time than it takes to say “here I come”… But there is a little trick to weakening it. Do you remember unlocking extra actions before? There are among them call reportsrepresented by the door icon on the world map.
When you reach the area where they are you will see crystals that when hit will emit a light that will guide you to where the summoning crystal is hidden. As you approach and interact with the artifact, a mini-game will be activated that consists of memorizing and pressing the indicated buttons in the correct order.
If you do it well, you can go back to the battle simulator and face the Titan with a reduced force. There are a total of three challenge crystals in the meadows, so if you find them all and complete the mini-game, you’ll be able to fight the Titan at -3 power.
In addition to weakening the Titan to get him, completing the summon reports will level him up and give him new abilities that you can use in battle if you’ve asked him for help. At level 4, the highest possible, learn the powerful skill Stone Thrower.which deals a gigantic amount of damage.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can be challenged in any battle (and not just during boss encounters like in FFVII Remake). The only requirements that must be met are that the summon bar shown on the right side of the screen is completely filled and that you have the ATB meter required to complete the summon.
Needless to say, summons are very useful as they roughly involve adding a fourth member of a large force to the group for a limited time. If you want to kill any enemy in this first area of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth without breaking a sweat, feel free to summon a Titan.
And ready, having at his disposal all these weapons, materials and appeals, You will be very strong in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth from the start. Can you defeat Sephiroth?
