Final Fantasy 8

Great Salt Lake - The Gateway to the Legendary Esthar City

Items:
10x Flare Stone

Magic:
Tornado - near the mountain before Great Salt Lake.
Meteor - draw point before the skeleton-made bridge
Thundaga - draw point before the cliff jump.

Save Pts:
The right screen before meeting up the Boss.

GFs:
n/a

West Coast
Mesmerize - Cure*, Esuna, Life, {Dispel}
Caterchipillar - Thunder*, Cure*, [Slow], {Stop} (near mountains)
Bite Bug - Fire*, Scan

Great Salt Lake
Lefty - Bio, Demi, Quake, Regen
Righty - Shell, Protect
Vysage - Esuna, Haste, Bio
Abadon - Curaga, Esuna, Dispel, Flare

At the Great Salt Lake, Selphie will go and check out the things first… Next you will be asked to set a new party with Edea [again she is not a compulsory character.] Next head up through that snowy path, with Squall carrying Rinoa. (this beats me... wonder do Squall get tired?] Now you should be at the screen with a huge skeleton of a dinosaur... Instead of walking forward, climb up the skeleton on the right. Just simply walk up, as there is no need to press X. Next you will be at the screen with the dinosaur's bone forming as a bridge. Examine the south area for hidden Draw Point. [Meteor] Next cross up that "bridge". Next you will be at the edge of the cliff and there is another Draw Point. [Thundaga]. Next go to the edge and press X to jump down. Now the rest of your members will follow the suit, head up to the next area. You will be on the edge of a wide cliff. Make a right turn. There is a Save Point in the area. Head left twice and you will see a gigantic monster jumping from below, it's another Boss fight.

Boss 22 - Abadon
Level:34
HP: 17,010
Description: A monster born of ancient bones deep in Great Salt Lake. It is assumed that it come to life after the Great Salt Lake dried up.
Attacks: (Claw grab), (Claw swipe), Confuse, Blind, (Stand Up), (Lip whip), Silence, Dispel
Facts: Very Weak against Holy/ Weak against Fire
Draw: Curaga, Esuna, Dispel, Flare
AP gained: 40
Win: 10x Flare Stone
Mug: 1x Power Wrist
Squall's Level: 60.
Abadon's Data Information

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Strategy
This Boss looks very scary and it has very powerful attacks, which does roughly about 800+ damage, bringing characters with low HP to instant death. Draw Curaga and use it on the Boss and it will be dead meat! Your attacks are puny useless and are pretty weak. Use this method if you have not acquired Leviathan's Recover. The Boss will turn into stone before it's death.

If you have acquired Leviathan's Recover command, you can defeat the Boss with just two hits as one will do 9999 HP damage to the Boss. It will be dead meat in no time. If you want to seize the opportunity to stock up spells, cast Regen on the Boss and it will remove HP, just like Poison for the Boss. Do not use the 100x Drain to ST-Atk-J combo, it will do harm than helping you. The claw swipe occasionally causes Curse (prevent your characters from using Limit Breaks.] BTW, as the Boss stands up, it start to use Status magic such as Blind, Dispel and Confuse. As for those who want to try to seize a Hyper Wrist and stock up Flare, I would recommend that you have all characters guarded against Confuse. As for ST-Atk-J, junction 100x Blind to it, so that the attack does not do harm.

After the Boss fight, head right and you will hear something sound associated with electricity. [there will be a hidden Save Point if you use Siren's Move-Find ability] Now face north and examine it. Then it will release a electric force field. Then it will release a hidden ladder, next press X and Up and you will be in a new area.

Now head north-east, don't worry there is no random battles here. Next examine the panel on the left and you have the following options:

Try to operate it <--
There is no time for this

And you will have the following prompt.

Display Test
Color Check
Camouflage
Random <-- don't miss this one!
Exit Test

This actually concerns the gate that you have just gone through… wow! The Esthar indeed have some great technology... Have some fun with it.

Take the path and you will end up at a door. Enter the door. Next you will enter the elevator [PS: it has no walls!]. Talk to your members. Then head up and the elevator will shake. Now Squall will put down Rinoa on the ground and there is a short conversation with your party. Next a hexagon-shaped door will be revealed in the north direction. Enter it and you will have an CGI... the legendary Esthar City is revealed!

Then you will see Squall and his party start to collapse [not again!] and you will be shown the screen to see whom is replacing whom in Laguna's 5th Dream Sequence.

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