Final Fantasy XIII-2 FAQ Serendipity and Academia 400 AF
Serendipity (???)
This place is unlocked now. Take the treasure ball nearby which contain casino tickets. Talk to the girl who stands on the gate, she’ll give you Map of Serendipity. Go to the next area. Check treasure ball right of the gate to obtain Lightning mask. There are are 2 buildings that you can enter this moment:
Southwest building: Fragment skills room, you’ll get a new menu on your menu (fragment skills). You can turn the ability on or off by using this option. You can obtain more ability by gathering more fragments.
Northeast building: To enter chocobo race, you must own chocobo to enter the race. You can find yellow and red chocobo on the Archylte Steppe (Red chocho bo can be found easily when it’s raining).
Get out once you’re done here, to
Academia 400 AF
Academia Map 400 AF
Bestiary
| Name | Pic | Tips | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelapsi |  |
employs wind based attack (aero) | Tear of Remorse; Tear of Woe |
| Fencer |  |
wound attack | Potent Engine; Analog Circuit |
| Koboldroid Yin |  |
- | Potent Chip; Iron Shell |
| Taxim |  |
ice based attack; weak against all elements | Tear of Remorse; Begrimed claw |
PS: I don’t know if it’s just me or for everyone who play this game. This place is crowded with a lot of enemies and it seems that you can’t run away from them ( I enter the battle every 6- 7 seconds). It’s a great place to level up but become really annoying when you want to speed things up
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Watch the scene, the town remind me about final fantasy versus XIII trailer (SE please release it quickly … instead of FF XIII-3). Check the panel at point (1) to change the elevator’s direction.
PS: You don’t need to change the direction when you want use elevator. You can force your way by jumping
Advance to point (2) and check the defense panel system to obtain Map of Academia. There is Chocolina nearby so go there to buy a new weapon from her. You must get out from this area by fighting monsters that guard the hologram barrier. Continue to point (3) to meet with Caius. From now on you just need go west to point (5).
WARNING: There is a strong enemy called Geiseric on point (4), I think you can’t defeat him at your current condition so just leave him for now
You’ll fight an improved version of Nelapsi (Cocytus) over there (Cocytus) but it’s still weak as Nelapsi. Continue north and
BOSS: Zenobia
Recommended paradigm: Bully (Synergist, Sentinel, Commando), Relentless assault (Commando, ravager x2), Diversity (commando, ravager, medic).
At the beginning of the battle, he ‘ll use “defensive stances”. This skill will make him invulnerable and spawn 3 Vaballathus. Buff your party with Vigil to prevent interruption from their attacks. You must kill all vaballathus first before you can do any damage to Zenobia.
Switch to ‘Bully’ once you can do damage to Zenobia. Zenobia can be inflicted with a lot of debuff (deprotect, deshell, etc), once you have inflicted it with a lot of debuff switch into relentless assault to build your stagger point and kill him.
There will be cinematic action that will grant you with Crystal Petal if you done it perfectly.
You’ll obtain ‘Tower’ Artefact which can be used on the ‘Tower’ Gate that located nearby from your current location.
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I didn’t get the Crystal Petal, is this item important for some kind of quest?
do you know if i can do academia 400 again but with a time reversal. i finished the game but it wont let me i did a retrial at the sunscape but it wont let me can you help.
it means you haven’t obtained the correct seal for academia 400 AF. I will create a guide for a gate seal later, just check it later
The first time I was in Academia 400AF, I just basically ran through it without searching too much and now I notice, I have a lot that I didn’t do in there, including one gate, but I can’t get back. When I go to this location from the Historia crux, it puts me to the place where the monster killed Yeul and I can’t get out of there, because all the ‘elevators’ go upwards, so I can’t get down. Any idea what to do?
I have already written the tips about that on this guide. Check the PS section. Thanks for using my guide
All you have the do is constantly jump up or down the elevator. You can go against the direction of the elevators.
ok how do i get to this map? I am not sure but think i might have gone out a sequence in the game. Is that possible?
you need to solve previous episode first before you can access this map. Snow’s scenario and Hope’s scenario.
I didn’t talk to the Girl at the gate (once she moved) and now I can’t get the map-fragment!!! She is located in the Slot-room, but she won’t give me the damn map!!!
GLITCH?
hmmm, don’t know what have caused your problem, just explore the area anyway, it’s jsut a small area and you can get 100 % easily. Thanks for using my guide