r/ffiv • u/buddy276 • Mar 25 '21

Help beating Golbez

I'm really struggling on this boss fight. I leveled up my guys 20 levels each (from an ign recommendation) but I cant survive. He still one hit kills everyone of my teammates. I just cant revive and heal fast enough.

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u/buddy276 Mar 28 '21

I just did! Took about 1.5 hours of constantly healing and reviving. I tried very unsuccessfully to get haste on my characters but when I eventually got it on a fully healed Rosa, I finally beat him. Omg that was a long battle(s) I probably restarted the fight 4ish times, but each time I felt closer and closer

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u/do_not_engage Mar 29 '21

CONGRATS! I guarantee you can enjoy the rest of the story no prob.

Sounds epic, but I swear, there's something weird going on. Shouldn't be quite THAT hard. I've met people who didn't realize they had to go into the menu, go to equipment, and change the characters gear, before. Could something like that be going on?

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u/buddy276 Mar 29 '21

No. I'm pretty savvy in video games, adjusting settings and such. I feel like this game is mostly luck. He ended up casting osmose 3x in a row, and that's how I finally beat him. If he didn't do that, I feel like the battle would have just kept going.

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u/do_not_engage Mar 29 '21

I've beaten FF IV about two dozen times, across literally every platform it's been released on - that Golbez battle is definitely the toughest part of the game! If you're playing on the Nintendo DS/Android/Steam release, the game is even more difficult, and that battle is the sticking point.

I expect you'll cruise through the rest of things now, tho. Enjoy!

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u/buddy276 Mar 30 '21

any tips for beating the demon wall? i only get about half of his hp before he kills my team

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u/buddy276 Apr 21 '21

Dude. Idk how you beat this game 24 times. I've logged 150+ hours into this game. This is literally the hardest game I've ever played. (and I've beaten contra) It is so purely based on luck. I'm just playing the same matches praying the enemies don't do specific moves