No lie, i've probably spent about 10-12 hours farming Adamantoise/tortoise, and i only got 7 traps so far. on the bright side, i got so many platinum ingots from them that it helped me buy everything i needed to get all my tier 2 weapons. thats actually how i got my first dark matter.
what really helped me get all those items was the fact that i gave all the members of my active party a maxed connoisseur catalog , except for fang, i gave her four.
it helps raise the drop rate of the traps to about 3~5%, which is still terrible but its better than 1%.
aside from buying dark matters, the only other way to get them is by fighting the Shaolong Gui (the small one), but be warned, he is immune to death and has 10 million health, so good luck with the little guy.
Traps you can only get from the adult Oretoises. the Long Gui has a higher drop rate than the rest for traps and ingots, but i only ever fought him once. 16 million health, 700 stagger point with 100 chain resistance, and immune to death, never again
. took too much of my damn time to beat him.
and yes, I am a death spammer. even though i maxed everyone out, this is still the quickest way for me to beat them. i usually have them down within the first 5 minutes this way, with my fastest time being 6 seconds. i rarely summon anymore against them. as long as you have a medic doing their job, vanille can just keep casting away, provided that you have the sprint shoes on her so she can cast faster and the belladonna wand to improve her debuffing skills(maxing it out to the nirvana is ideal). when you do use a summon though, both of their feet are instantly staggered, and they fall to the ground, all you need to do then is go into geshtalt mode and send your summon away. after that i recommend switching to SAB/SAB/SYN so you can buff your characters and debuff/spam him. this has always worked for me. ive also beaten them without death, but it takes too long for my liking.
if you find yourself low on TP, just go kill random enemies and build it up.
I recommend having everyones health over 15k if you want to take on the regular oretoises without too much trouble. you also HAVE to have the Growth Egg if you want to make the Oretoise farming worth it CP wise. you got to be maxed out if you want to survive against the long gui though.
and finally, thank you.
