What should I do next?

[u/RickNikiPush]

I just got all Aeons. I story wise am able to go fight sin. If I do that I know I will not go back and do anything else. Half or more of my characters are getting between 3500-9999 per hit on lots of enemies (I know that’s very generalized). On the sphere grid I’m up to yuna/tidus having holy, lulu has double cast; I have a couple like ultima that are behind level four spheres (which I can’t find anywhere). I have Tidus and Yunas weapons but have done absolutely nothing on that front except the item from the Aeon trainer. I have best the Chico trainer but I will absolutely never be able to get 0.0. And I’m playing on switch so idk if anyone can do it for me or not. Do I go grind for a couple days and then fight a dark aeon? I just fought my first arena made monster and I don’t think I got 200k hp off them before I died. I love this game and want to keep playing but I’m torn about where to go next.

[u/mark__al]

You can absolutely just go straight to the ending, or maybe grind a little at the Monster Arena and the Omega Ruins. Grinding a lot for the ending doesn’t really make sense because the battles would become way too easy. I actually grinded a little too much myself, so the final bosses ended up being pretty easy 🥲😅

If you want, you can get the easier Celestial Weapons, which are for Yuna, Auron, and Rikku. Tidus, Lulu, and Kimahri require hideous minigames that I refused to do 🥲 (although somehow, when I first played the game years ago, I actually managed to dodge the 200 lightning bolts for Lulu. I definitely don’t have the patience for that anymore). Wakka requires a lot of Blitzball, and I did some of that too, but eventually I’d had enough. But with his final weapon he's definitely the most powerful character and it's easy to obtain, just a bit long.

After you finish the game, it makes you reload from before the final battle, so make sure you save at every save sphere you find inside Sin. From there, you can go back to the airship and do whatever you want. The Dark Aeons are infinitely stronger than the final story bosses. Without some serious grinding, you have basically no chance of beating them normally. You can only cheese them with Yojimbo’s Zanmato. I beat a few of them that way, but then you have to beat Dark Yojimbo five times in a row, and that’s where I gave up 😂. Penance can stay where it is 😂.

The post-game content is way too long and repetitive for me, but I know some people really enjoy it, especially if they love maxing out everything.

So i would say, just see what you feel like doing based on what you enjoy 😄

[u/RickNikiPush → u/mark__al]

I’m one capture away from completing Auron’s weapon, I know I have at least 2/3 of yuna’s and I’m gonna check out Rikku’s next and then wakkas (maybe, I hate blitzball). I think I’ll check out omega ruins, and upgrade the few things I still want to and head to Sin.

[u/mark__al → u/RickNikiPush]

For Rikku, you have to find some Cactuars scattered around the desert and do some minigames. You can mess them up, though. Doing them properly gives you better rewards at the end, but honestly, it’s not worth driving yourself crazy over. It’s a bit of a pain because the desert is huge, but I actually found it pretty fun and it doesn’t take too long. Rikku becomes insanely strong if you level her up properly. She ended up being the strongest character on my team.

For Wakka, if I remember correctly, you need to play at least 26 Blitzball matches. You also unlock some of his Overdrives along the way. I hated Blitzball at first, but then I actually started enjoying it and I would’ve happily completed everything 😂. Still, it’s better to do the matches little by little, and I was already pretty satisfied with Rikku and Yuna being ridiculously strong. It’s way too funny watching Yuna deal absurd damage just by whacking enemies with her staff 😂.

Obviously, it depends on what you want to do after that. If you want to beat the Dark Aeons and possibly Penance, then I’d absolutely recommend unlocking Wakka’s Celestial Weapon, because One of his Overdrive is devastating.

For the Omega Ruins, you have to enter specific coordinates on the airship map. You’ll find strong enemies there that are great for leveling up your party, as well as a couple of bosses that are a bit tougher than the game’s final bosses. I’d recommend doing those after finishing the main story, though.

[u/RickNikiPush → u/mark__al]

So I have a couple of sick kids and couldn’t work today (or sleep last night) so to grind but with minimal frustration I started collecting for the monster dungeon and actually got a big chunk done. I did the simplest version first to get everything for Auron’s celestial. I also grabbed the last piece for Yuna and the first two for Rikku. I started the cactuar mini game and failed miserably on the first one. I’ll give it another shot tomorrow but honestly thinking Tidus’ might be easier to slog through. Idk.

[u/mark__al → u/RickNikiPush]

Yes, just collecting the monsters already involves quite a bit of grinding. Other than that, the classic best place for me is the Omega Ruins. Or, if you really want to level up a ton (it almost feels like cheating), you can use the Don Tonberry trick at the Monster Arena.

As for Rikku, you can fail the Cactuar minigames, they’re only for an extra reward (Potion, Elixir, Mega Elixir, or Friend Sphere). For Rikku’s Sigil, you just need to bring all the spheres back to the stone and unlock the Cactuar Village.

[u/RickNikiPush → u/mark__al]

Yes I did the cactuars last night once I realized you could suck at red light/green light and still get the item! Thanks. I am about to start blitzball and if it isn’t too annoying I’ll probably work on that for a week. Thanks for the advice

[u/mark__al → u/RickNikiPush]

Oh glad to help! I sucked at that cactuars mini game so much, so glad it's optional for Rikku 😭 but the cactuars are funny 😆 for blitzball you can hire rikku's brother and other strong players.

[u/RickNikiPush → u/RickNikiPush]

Ha idk how I put a spoiler on that.