Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Ultimate Hard Mode Build Guide Characters Gear And Materia

The ultimate guide to clearing hard mode in Final fantasy vii rebirth detailing what materia, gear and characters to use for the easiest time.

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[armysoldier]

Also if you are managing fights but spending too much MP in main areas, have one of your non active 3 members have a healing materia and the HP>MP swap materia and put on weapon with most health bonus’. It will all convert to MP, so the character will have like 60 HP but 6000+ MP to heal your party between fights 😏 Their health won’t matter if they aren’t being used, so if you have to use them or just want to swap your party, then when you swap the materia back only their HP will be low which can either be healed or rest stop anywhere and back to normal. Just go to chocobo bench to fill the MP to max after slotting the HP>MP and enjoy saving all of your main party’s MP for fights only. Will also allow you to use more spells etc without as much MP regeneration needed.

[Game]

Elemental + Fire and Ice is perfectly fine to use, it only applies the one that is weak, if an enemy is strong to fire it switches to dealing exclusively ice damage.

[hardcoor]

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[Qirei]

ATB stagger doesn’t work like you said it does. It only works for the person that staggers the enemy. So for example if cloud and tifa both have atb stagger materia equipped and tifa staggers the enemy she is the only one that gets a atb increase and not cloud even tho they both have atb stagger materia equipped.

[CBarzilla]

I would make a small argument that MP Up isn't entirely necessary since Chocobo Benches do, in fact, restore MP. Just use a cushion. I stocked 100 Cushions when I started my Hard Mode playthrough. Never ran out of MP once on a single character. Go through a hard fight > Teleport to Chocobo Bench > Rest with Cushion > Profit.

[nadilenebudski]

Fun fact, if you use a cushion to rest at a chocobo stop, it heals both HP and MP on hard mode.

[acespider]

I noticed that if you give a character you do not use at all, give them hp mp swap matiria that way you can have pretty much infinite mp to heal the group with that character outside of battle.

[fredericmertz]

I cleared hard mod glass canon style with magic+swift cast+mp absorb+hp absorb+magnify. Yes it use 8 slots, but with 2 atb at combat start, it's just Ga spell spam. You get more Mp than you use and for bosses just swap the magic materia involved. (all of this on yuffie or cloud, and aerith with 1st strike=> ward help with additional free GA cast )

[Cossieuk]

HP absorb paired with Enemy Skills materia, the use plasma discharge. Every time you fill an ATB bar you will do some AOE damage and get healed. On Yuffie this is a good source of healing as she can get ATB really quickly

[Amocoru]

You're really underutilizing Yuffie here. She is a magical attack monster. All of that magic gear should be on her for magical attacks and healing. She crushes.

[dankazama]

Fire and Ice material with elemental damage, if your enemy is weak with fire it automaticaly adjust to ice.

[Axlradleigh]

I’ve been using a Turtle Death from Above build. Barret, Aerith, Tifa/Yuffie (doesn’t matter which). Barrett starts by buffing up the team (manaward, haste, whatever else you want), lifesaver, and steel skinned, then swapping over to Tifa/Yuffie to bash on enemies while Aerith sits on the side with comet+synergy. Just rains destruction constantly while everyone is essentially invincible. Just have Barret use chakra every once in a while when his HP starts getting low.

This got me through all Brutal challenges before I even went through hard mode proper and hit lvl 70.

[marcuscallahan]

I did all of the hard mode side quests in chapter 12 first to get the manuscripts before starting the story mode

[DekkarJr]

My most important materia combos have been using the blue auto-cast spell materia with the Revive materia. I put it on Barret cus he's super tanky and least likely to die suddenly so he can immediately auto res a member that dies but you can put it on anyone of course. Comet + Synergy is really good too.
Time materia with Magnify to haste the entire party immediately, same with another defensive spell, I find just having regen on the entire party to be very useful if you can spare the mp in hard mode. and Also: HP absorb Materia + Enemy Skill and use Plasma Discharge and you gain about 100 hp when it goes off. And don't be afraid to bust out Soothing Breeze for some quick HP (also a part of Enemy Skill materia )

[farret]

I have found that red works really well as a supp tank. put provoke on him leave him be and play as the other characters. By the time you need to use his abilities he will have half to full vengeance which might as well be considered as a health pool to give to allies.

[MrNinosan]

If you use Elemental + Fire/Ice or Lightning/Wind, the game actually chose the element that the enemy is weak against, so those double materias are great.

Been using my whole way to my Platinum.
One on Cloud, one on Yuffie.

[pensword]

Keep synergy plus comet on aerith at all times this way comet continuously rains while the other party members use ATB commands and as a bonus it still double casts when she is on arcane ward…really the best combo in the game

[Aamonn]

You can get an easy Ribbon by defeating Sephiroth in the 3D Brawler mini game in the golden saucer. You can pause the game to give your self time to judge the attacks. You can do all this before going to hard mode.

[pumpkinpie]

Im a bit old to this video but a great place to farm xp is the muscle head colosseum combat challange devil may care desperados . If you use cloud and tifa you should be able to beat it in less the 15 seconds and you should get around plus 50 AP each time you do it and you just repeat it also equip the chocabo armaband with a lv up meteria so you can get 6 times the boost you get the armband after the race with the chocabo sage obviously you still gotta grind but this makes it a lot quicker hope this helps anyone.

[Cryosxify]

gonna need the brutal challenges guide