Final Fantasy VI/Doom Gaze and the Eight Dragons: Difference between revisions

==Death Gaze==

The trick to being able to fight Death Gaze is to realize that it isn't a random battle in the usual sense of the word. Every time you take off in the airship Death Gaze has a fixed location on the world map he is hiding in. To get into a fight with Death Gaze all you need to do is find that location and get close enough to it to trigger a battle. Hence, if you're ready to fight, flying around in circles is pointless and wandering around aimlessly may not work too well either. From when you take off, tilt your ship to the right at a very slight angle, then hold L+R to go full steam ahead. You'll move across the map at a slight angle and cover every location until you run into Death Gaze.

However, there is one time you ''can'' count on fighting Death Gaze: the first time you leave Kefka's Tower, you ''will'' fight him, so make sure you leave the Tower at least once.

For actually fighting Death Gaze, he absorbs most elemental spells, so I would recommend using your strongest physical attacks like Chainsaw or non-elemental attacks like Bum Rush . He's weak against Fire and Pearl however, so you can try your strongest fire spell or Pearl if you have it. And unblockable magic spells like Ultima are always a plus of course. Death Gaze has 55555 HP total and although he usually escapes before a battle is finished he's unable to regenerate his HP. Meaning, that all you have to do to wear him down is keep fighting him over and over and do some damage each time. And since you know how to find Death Gaze with the above method, this should be a cinch.

Death Gaze is vulnerable to the Vanish-Doom/X-Zone combo, but if you use Vanish then X-Zone, you will not receive the Bahamut esper. There is also a chance you won't receive it when using Vanish then Doom. Save your game if you want to be on the safe side.