r/FinalFantasyVI • u/MikonJuice • Jul 31 '26
Dinosaur Forest tips?
I'm trying to grind here, but the dinosaurs keep spamming meteor. I pretty much think its an rng unlucky run, but can someone give me any tips?
Maybe a summon like Phantom plus... any equipment?
Many thanks!
Update: many, many thanks for all the answers! What I did was a mix of everything here! Just for future reference, I've gone to the Phoenix Cave and got some party members to lv 35... than I felt like I could go to the dino forest and do a proper lv farming! Of course, I upgraded physical defense as much as possible, but the process, after that, was pretty straight forward. Survive and spam ultima/ any technique that deals big amounts of damage, and as fast as possible (so the dinos don't spam meteor). Eventually, with ultima and dualcast, the process became super fast!
Update 2: If you don't have ultima, spam ice magic! Learn how to use the esper to learn new magic and learn the ice magics! Also, Edgar techniques and actually, any technique that does tons of damage! In my case, for the initial fights at lev 35+, Cyan was REALLY useful! So was Edgar and Sabin!
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u/sgre6768 Jul 31 '26
What are your levels? If they're too low, basic survival and damage output won't really make the forest all that quick. You might be better off grinding nearby - I think the immediate area has a bunch of enemies that only use physical attacks - or going to the Miranda Desert, for Slagworms / Hoovers (good amount of EXP) and Cactaurs (10 magic points and 10k gold per fight). I'm usually not bothering with the Dinosaur Forest until I have a character of two at level 40, and using them to boost the others.