Final Fantasy XIII CP Farming Guide, 1 Mil CP per hour.... No Turtles!

Cactuar Prime - 30'000 CP per kill, with grow egg. Only has 1 attack, the legendary 1000 needles, here I will tell you how to beat it.

****Sorry about the quality, youtube frenched it up, it was really good before I uploaded it, grrrr!****

Cactuar Primes are the best CP givers in the whole game in my opinion, 30k per kill (with grow egg), much more CP than the famous Behemoth King/ Megametawhatever fight and much more reliable than any of those big ass and annoying turtles.I have been farming these cactuars for a while now, long before I got the grow egg, they are not that hard to beat, they only have 1 attack, so if you learn how to deal with this, you can fell this enemy with ease. You don't have to be a high level to beat him, by using this technique you can get 30'000 CP every 1.30 mins, at a half decent level, which is over a million CP per hour. Here's a run down on what to do, I know there is alot of info here but it is very in depth and i tried fitting this into the vid itself but it was over 10 minutes then =( so here it what you need to know, thanks for watching:

Right, first thing is first, this can be done from chapter 11 and 13, you don't need to have completed any of the C'eith Stone mission or anything like that, all that you need to have done is unlocked the Cactuars to fight, this is unlocked after a certain cut scene involving Sazh, this cut scene is activated by strolling into a certain point in the map on the gran pulse plains.

A Cactuar has 3 different forms (from weakest to strongest), Cactuar .....Giant Cactuar...... Cactuar Prime, giving 5K, 10K, and 15K respectively per kill, so with the grow egg (doubles CP) this gives a very nice 30K CP for 1 fight..

Anyways once you get into a fight with a cactuar, it will immediately start a 'cactus dance' and transform into a giant cactuar, after which it will continue to dance, this is called 'encore dance' after this it will transform into the one we want, the cactuar prime. DO NOT ATTACK THE CACTUAR UNTIL IT MATURES INTO CACTUAR PRIME! This will cancel his dance leaving him in his weaker form.
Instead of attacking have your party buff up with SYN/SYN/SYN, don't bother with any saboteurs, since they cause magic damage and will cancel cactuars dance. It will takes about 30 seconds to mature into a cactuar prime.
After it has matured, use COM/COM/COM or COM/COM/MED if you are at a lower level. The reason for this is that cacuar prime can cause fog (no magic) and pain (no physical) to your party with his infamous 1000 needles attack, but commandos have can deal both physical and magic (ruin) damage just incase one has been disabled, I also recommend using accessories to counter these effects.

*************Important Cactuar Prime Notes**************
-Only has 1 attack - the famous 1000 needles attack, deals 1000 damage regardless of protect/protecta etc.
-Attacks very quickly and attacks cannot be interupted
-Never attacks the same character twice in a row
-1000 needles is quite a viscious attack, dealing 1000 damage, can dispel up to 3 of your buffs at once (more likely 1 or 2 though) also has a high probability of casting pain (no physical attack) and/or fog (no magic attack).
- Vunerable to fire damage, has 777777 HP (i think this is a reoccuring FF thing) and is susceptible to haze which stops him in his track however it is not worth it, since it never lasts more than about 5 seconds with cactuar prime.
-Common drop is a 'Chocobo Plume', component, pretty useless though, and rare drop is a 'Cactuar Doll', which sells for 15k. Very rare drop though even with connoisseur catalog.

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[boom911boom]

Nice video, how do i let it grow or whatever?

[Acetactular]

@boom911boom just dont attack it, buff up using syn/syn/syn instead

[ZGirlGamer]

I freakin' hate grinding, but this method makes it a much less painful thing to do lol. Thanks a ton for the spot.

[Acetactular]

@ZGirlGamer my pleasure, im happy it helped, now pwn those Cactuars!!haha

[bones911001]

Two questions I can't read well is it saying 30000 CP and How well do you have to be trained to kill one of these?

[Acetactular]

@bones911001 yes 30,000cp per kill with the grow egg (15,000 without), i recommend about 8000 HP to tackle the primes, but if u cant beat them u can battle the weaker forms, they still give alot of CP for a quick kill. Hope this helps =]

[soulhter123]

Thank 4 the advice just beat him now and it took 1.53 sec 4 15000 cp but I can kill the king and his fighting buddy in 11 sec 4 6600 so the king is still better 4 now untill able to kill him in seconds

[MrGamervortex]

Thanks for this video

[MartinChaos89]

@Modmealife Where the 2 Adamatoise's and 3 Adamachields are. If you go into the area where the 3 Adamachields is, there should be a hill thing you can jump up on to, jump up onto the top of it and its some where around there.

[legionniall]

That song is that song at the beggining

[Modmealife]

wheres tho spot where i get the cut scene with sahaze

[mrcharizard10]

where is the spot at where you unlock the cactus thing? i cant find it i swear.

[imakeeverything]

my strategy for a low level party(aka mine) is to start on protection light medic, fang sentinel and sazh synergest until you get the 4 most basic things. switch to delta attack to raise chain gauge and when you have to heal evened odds light medic fang sab and sazh a ravager. The gran pulse enemies are hard to kill but this helps alot. i hope this helps other low levels.

[imakeeverything]

ruin is probably the most effective commando attack ever. you stay away from your target, it boosts the chain gauge and isn't an element attack. It is probably the best move to use against barthandelus(in my opinion).

[codegeass420]

bull-shit cactuars are so easy to ceatch

[chropose]

@Acetactular how do you change the display aspect ratio to 4:3? mine have black bars filling the top and bottom of the screen.

thanks.