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Ruby Weapon (Boss)

Ruby Weapon (Boss)

FF7 Ruby Weapon Location (Gold Saucer Desert)

Ruby Weapon is an optional Boss that appears after a few conditions are met:

  1. The Weapons are released from the Planet (Northern Crater Event (Disc 2))
  2. Defeat Ultimate Weapon
  3. Fight 1 random battle

This Boss is located in the desert surrounding the Gold Saucer and can only be activated by running into it in the Highwind.


This Boss has a number of dirty tricks and is very tough.


There are a few things to prepare before facing this boss, below is a list of what I recommend.
Preparation:
  • Lucky 7's - See the Tips and Hints section for details. Start the battle with 7,677 HP otherwise it will be wasted.
  • Omnislash - Obtained from Gold Saucer Battle Square and is Cloud's final Limit Break
  • Dazers - An item that causes paralysis and is obtained by stealing them from certain enemies. The best for this are Battery Cap, found in the forest in the Nibel area as they come in groups and you can get lots in a single battle.
  • Knights of the Round Materia - Obtained after getting a Gold Chocobo, See the Materia Caves section for location.
  • Final Attack Materia - Beat the Battle Square's Special Battle, See Gold Saucer - Battle Square section for details.
  • Phoenix Materia - Obtained after winning the first battle at Fort Condor or at Bone Village if you lose the battle. OR
  • Revive Materia - Purchase from Junon or Costa del Sol
Materia Set-up:
  • Link Phoenix Materia or Revive with Final Attack so that if the character is KO'd (Provided enough MP is available to use)
  • Level up Knights of the Round to be able to use it multiple times and link it with MP Absorb to gain MP back from using it as it uses a lot to summon.
  • A useful set up is to have [Restore-All] + [Barrier-All] + [Time-All] spread between characters so you can use them all in one turn.
  • Other Materia that is useful: [Bahamut ZERO], [Neo Bahamut], [W-Summon], [W-Item] & [W-Magic]
  • Do Not Use: [Fire], [Ifrit], [Ice], [Shiva], [Lightning], [Ramuh], [Earth], [Titan], [Contain], [Typhoon], [Kjata], [Leviathan] & [Phoenix*]
* Phoenix should only be used for reviving allies.

Status Effect:
  • Have your party start with Fury status; this will increase the amount the LIMIT bar gains for attacks, allowing you to use your LIMIT Breaks more often.
Other preparations:
  •  Start battle with 2 KO'd party members - Ruby Weapon has an attack that removes party members from battle at random until 1 is left. Start the battle with 1 active party member to get around this.
  • Do not start with 7,777HP, start with 7,677HP as Ruby Weapon is invulnerable until it digs its fingers into the ground.
  • Omnislash ready to be used.

Boss is invincible until its Tentacles are deployed, but won't deploy tentacles until only 1 character remains active.


Boss has very high defence and magic defence, so attacks that ignore defence stats such as Bahamut, Neo Bahamut, Bahamut Zero, KoR, Pandora's Box, etc.


Boss is vulnerable to Slow and Paralyze; Dazers are a useful item to have.


Comet2 is a powerful attack that deals multiple hits. (Only when tentacles are retracted.)


Whirlsand ejects one party member from battle. (Only when tentacles are retracted.)

Boss Fight: Ruby Weapon (Level: 59)

Statistics
HP MP Attack Mag
Attack		 Def Mag
Def		 Dex
800,00 2560 100 200 480 500 253
Elemental Affinity
Fire Ice Lightning
-100% -100% -100%
Earth Poison Gravity
-100% 100% 0%
Water Wind Holy
0% 100% 100%
Rewards
Items Gil EXP AP
Desert Rose 30,000 45,000 50,000
Other Details
Morph Attacks Steal
None Normal: Big Claw, Big Swing, Comet2, Ruby Flame, Ruby Ray, Shadow Flare, Ultima & Whirlsand
Tentacles: Left Revenge, Left Thrust, Ruby Flame, Ruby Ray, Shadow Flare, Ultime & Whirlsand		 None

Ruby Flame is a powerful fire-elemental attack.


Ruby Ray is a powerful attack that inflicts confusion.


Ultima is a powerful magic that is often used as a counter to KoR.


Shadow Flare is a powerful magic that hits one party member and is an Enemy Skill that can be learned.


Right tentacle uses attacks that deal gravity based damage and can inflict frog and small.


Left tentacle reduces MP and can cause poison and slow-numb.

Strategy:


I used the following strategy to defeat Ruby Weapon:


The first thing that will happen (If only Cloud is alive) is Weapon will dig his fingers into the ground, use Omnislash on the fingers to have Weapon to draw them back.

Use W-Item to throw a Dazzers at Weapon and then use a Potion to bring your HP to 7,777HP and activate All Lucky 7's (Dealing 64x 7,777HP = 497,728HP).


Make sure to heal if needed and hit Weapon with W-Summon - Knights of the Round.


At this point, make sure to heal, keep MP up and hit with W-Summon-Knights of the Round.


Cloud was level 99 at the start of this battle at the time guide was made. Other party members were Tifa and Yuffie KO'd and did not need to be revived.

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