FF7 AP Farming Guide: What Is It, Why You Want It & The Best Places To Get It 

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You know what would be funny If Ziedrich had quadruple growth but still had no slots. Just to piss everyone off.

21 years later and I'm still learning new things about final fantasy 7 thank you for this video

I did not even know you could press the alarm button in Junon. I played so many hours of this game but still learn new things.

I downloaded ff7 classic. The same one I cried to when I was 13 to 14. It's amazing how much joy you can get from playing an old game again.

I've rarely came across a series that is complex yet exciting at the same time. The mechanics in this game is ahead of its time, absolutely a lost art these days. Just started playing this for the first time in awhile, thanks for the information. 👍

You can farm Headhunters before getting the Highwind. There's an island you can get to with the Tiny Bronco that still counts as being in the Mideel area. I remember them being pretty common, but there may be other enemies in that area. Still, you can use them to farm AP on Disc 1.

I never knew anything about the Weapons/Armor Normal, Double & triple growth. Thanks!

Spent a lot of hours in 1999 farming near Mideel. Glad you included it, makes me feel like I wasn't a complete idiot at the time for farming there. Thanks for making this video, I'll have to keep some of these spots in mind in my next playthrough.

Super useful!! It's really nice to see these tutorials and see how much you can learn even after such a long time playing this game!

Back when I played in 1997, I remember discovering the "3 bouncy orange balls" gave a ridiculous amount of AP. Stayed there and farmed for weeks to level all my materia. Good times.

I love that little corridor in Junon, always spend hours levelling up my characters there :D

Yeah definitely THAT room for AP. Many years ago I pretty much lived there for almost a month trying to get 4 of each Master Materia utilizing triple/double growth weapons & armor. Seeing those enemies in this video after so long brought back memories.

Nice video :) I had calculated the average AP per battle by location according to the quantity and the encounter rate of enemies. *Junon* , 1st corridor: 138 AP => new best spot once you get the buggy *Mideel Area, beach* : 200 AP => new best spot once you get the Tiny Bronco Mideel Area, grass: 180 AP => useless unless if you kill them way faster than the Sea Worm from the beach *Mideel Area, jungle* : 266 AP => new best spot once you get the Highwind Mideel Area, dirt: 161 AP => useless, except you might want Sources from Spiral Gelnika, northern room: 206 AP => **not** the best spot but more interesting stuff & challenge, once you get a submarine Gelnika, western corridor: 204 AP => easier than the northern room and paradoxically almost twice as much EXP Gelnika, flooded cargo bay: 172 AP => useless, except you might want stuff from Serpent *Northern Crater, ponds* : 922 AP (963 AP if your 3rd character has a mastered Pre-emptive) => The two screens with a pond have the same enemies with the same encounter rate, but the *screen on the left* has a higher battle frequency. It's the best spot. Northern Crater, Graveyard: 254 AP => not that bad compared to Mideel, interesting enemies Northern Crater, all other screens: 193 to 213 AP => useless *Scimitar vs Javelin* Yeah, Scimitar is advantageous to improve some specific Materias fast. On the other hand, Javelin is the equipment that gives the most AP in total, useful when you want to master all the Materias. To be precise: Scimitar => 2 slots × triple growth = you get 6 times the AP gain. Javelin => 5 slots × double growth = you get 10 times the AP gain. In other words, you get +66% AP replacing Scimitar by Javelin. Since I noticed that, I equip KotR on Apocalypse. xD In the same way, and in the long run, Wizard Bracelets are as efficient as Rune Armlets (8 × 1 vs 4 × 2).

I always master materia in the sunken galnika, I know there are more efficient areas, but on the galnika you can morph to farm sources, so I source farm and master materia at the same time

The music was a nice touch!

I'm playing this game for the first time now and it's crazy how much is going on in it. The more nuance I find the more I like it. The mechanics are so good I can't believe they scrapped them completely in the next Final Fantasy. Thanks for the video!

You can get to the Mideel Grass area before having the highwind. Just need the Tiny Bronco. Theres a peninsula with grass. Not as good as the jungle but better than the sea worms and junon!

I didn't even know you could hit the alarm in junon holy moly

Double growth on 3 slots is the same as single on 6. It does however let you focus on a certain materia more efficiently

Now this explains why I am seeing FF7 gameplays having Cloud equipped with Apocalypse

getting to hear someone say poodler just tickles me. what a wonderful name.

The W-Item glitch is super helpful for the Northern crater section as you can replenish your elixirs when running low so you'll never run out and grind to your heart's content. Also mastered All materia sells for 1.2 million gil each and are easy to master.

A good place I found for Disc 1 is the forest right outside the Temple of the Ancients. The bee swarm enemies there give around 80 - 100 AP depending on how many are in the battle. The battles themselves may take awhile, but they don't do much damage and the battles are basically automated because they inflict you with berserk, but if you're quick you may be able to cast a spell to wipe out everything before they can act.

To anyone wanting another good spot in disk 1: cosmo canyon area has a good AP per effort ratio, netting around 70 AP per battle.

Another awesome video from you..

Awesome video!

Thanks. Very helpful.

The Corral Valley screen after the sleeping forest is actually better than the mideel area, it gives you 232 AP every fight. Its the best place on disc 1.

Man I love your videos

thanks for the video

The area where you land on wutai with the tiny bronco on the green spots is where I farm. You get quite a bit per fight and it's a good chance to level your limit breaks

By the Mt Nibel mako reactor (same screen as the pipes you can take down and a save point) was the best place I could find to grind my group to 99, with tons of AP to the point I can't go through all the materia. Now to finish the game with true style.

The movers in that same zone with the pots give you 2400 and tie that with apocalypse triple growth you’re looking at 7200 per encounter given they are rare.

Nice video!

Those pots or the three orange bouncing balls are indeed the trick to max out a lot of AP, there are some red dragons on an island which got huge amount of HP, but you can morph them into an elixir so you can do the elixir trick infinitly

Those pots are good... I remember farming in that room for a long time.

If you're looking for huge AP, it's right here 3:15

Trying to remember when I played FF7... I can remember I had to boost up my toons by farming before i tried certain bosses. Arm grabber near sub, wall boss around temple of ancients, cosmo canyon cave area & dragon @ top of the cliff... Demanding pots for elixirs give huge ap which is boosted by double or triple ap - can remember getting all materia maxed out apart from KOTR but then putting it in Cids wep Javellin with MP Turbo max, with KOTR needing 150k ap. Emerald wep time for 50k ap x 3 for insta KOTR born. Oh - while ur doing those pots, occasionally orange bouncing balls things spawn instead. Morph them into protect rings - 1 each for insta manawall V Emerald. Usually I'd W-SUM KOTR+ MP turbo, then mime repeatedly til Emerald dies... For Ruby, kill off 2 toons apart from Cloud. KOTR 1star-MP Turbo, Master Summon 1-HP absorb & Master Summon 2-MP absorb & mime repeatedly till Ruby dies..have ribbon & elemental (absorbs)-fire for ruby flame. U will insta heal every time u KOTR after Ruby Ultimas...occasionally u will die if ultima & ruby ray combos but then have final attack-revive to bring u back...

i would love a comphrensive series of explaining the best exploits such as yuffie warping witem guides to beat the weapons etc or best morph/steal enemies/locations/ when to steal when to morph when to let enemy drop

Thank you

The Movers were my ‘go to’ for AP

Ty it worked

thx mate!

Early game those worms on the beach were my go to. I found they went down easy if you had Vincent with his weapon you get in Calm. It has two slot that are linked so you can do Elemental Ice, which they worms are weak to, and Deathblow. The weapon has a 255% hit rate so even with the Deathblow accuracy drop you still hit the majority, if not all, of the time and it does massive damage. I set it up a rapid fire controller and had it run along the beach after first getting the little bronco and I was able to have it running while I slept and I didn't get a TPK.

I remember figuring all this out as a kid with no internet or guide. Not so dumb am I Mrs Henderson!!

Well best weapons is either Cid's javelin with 5 double slots or clouds apocalypse with 3 triple slots. So you get more AP (total of times 10) from cids compared to clouds ( total of times 9)but over 5 materia. Vicente's buntline and yuffie's rising sun both have 2 joined double slots.

I would only recommend Cid's Triple growth if you want to very quickly level up a select few materia. If you want to level up a bunch of materia, any Double growth with 4 slots is better. This is because Cid's weapon rewards 2 slots at 3x growth, so 1 AP does the work of 6. For a 4 slot weapon at 2x growth, 1 AP does the work of 8, just spread out between more individual materia. Even an 8 slot Normal growth is better than Scimitar, so long as you want to level 7 or 8 materia on a single weapon. Cloud's Apocalypse is still recommended because for 3 slots at 3x growth, 1 AP does the work of 9. TL;DR Level a lot of materia: Use Apocalypse and either [two 4 slot Doubles], [one 8 slot Normal and a 4 slot Double], or [two 8 slot Normals]. Level a few materia: Use Apocalypse, Scimitar, and whatever else fits your needs.

Regarding the Scimitar, if your goal is to quickly level 1 or 2 specific materia, then yeah, use it. But if you're doing long grinding on many materia, his 4-slot 2x growth weapon is better. 3x for 2 materia is x6 overall AP. But 2x for 4 materia is x8 overall AP.

I used to farm in the sunken submarine. Could be tricky business but, well the effort. Or go hunt Cactuars.

Also consider how many materia you want to level up. You might prefer equipping characters with normal growth weapons and armor with 8 slots which amount to an overall 8x growth. The only weapon that beats this is clouds apocalypse at 9x total growth.

weapons or armor with double growth and 4 or less slots, Do Not give more AP than equipment with all 8 slots. Its amazing how many people are wrong about this

well to start off with i like ap and source farming. so i equip yuffie with the conformer and my other 2 characters with double or triple ap equipment and go to the sunken ship. or go to the caves.

You can farm Headhunters in the grass area near the worm with the Tiny Bronco

I always just sell an all materia whenever I get some leveled up and can spare one or 2. They are useful, but in most cases I never utilize them. Get 1.4 million gil for a mastered one.

It's probably worth mentioning a warning with regards to the Magic Pots in case people didn't realise (especially newer players) but you should never attack the pots prior to giving them an elixir because, aside from doing no damage to them, it causes them to steal from you (I can't remember if this happens anyway if you hang around too long without doing anything). The worst thing about it is that there is a chance that they will steal especially valuable pieces of equipment such as someone's unequipped Ultimate Weapon, which can be taken right back if you're fast enough to kill it but if it gets away it will leave you in an unfortunate position of having to reload the game since it will be gone for good otherwise.

Kind of surprised you didn’t teach the W-Item trick to help those hunting Magic Pots.

Came for the content, stayed for the music, revisited for both 🗡️ 🎶

This may have been said already but morph a master tonberry for the ribbon accessory is a must because you only get 2 of them through normal progression of the game. At least having 3 ribbons will make the ruby fight much easier. My take on a pro tip for OG FF7 fans.

Sheesh I remember years ago spending hours upon hours, days and days just hanging out I. The northern cave farming those red balls and magic pot things to master every single materia and get as many master Magic’s/summons, etc as I could

Beat the 3 dragon balls for 7200ap with triple growth Apocalypse sword near the end in the crater. It's the area where you have to go underwater for a few seconds after the party splits up. That room and the one right after that where you can run around in a full circle. Something I've remembered all these years for a while. I know there not dragon balls but always thought they looked a lot like them. When you attack them too it seems the camera gets all weird too. Your character moves to weird areas of the screen too. Almost like the monsters are bugged a bit. There of course a rare spawn and happen around 1/10 battles or so in those areas.

You can get to Mideel with the tiny bronco, you can't get into the town though. You can fight Headhunters and Spirals.

I came back to this game on PS4 just recently and couldn’t remember why I always used Cloud, Yuffie, and Cid in my party near the end. Mystery solved

I ll NEVER skip a ffvii video

U can get Heathunters allready spawning when you first have the tiny Tiny Bronco. Swim to one of the nearby islands of Mideel and walk on the grass there (its one of the tiny Islands near Mideel) and you should encounter Heathunters there. The downside is that there also spawns an really annoying Bird that confuses one of your chars and if it took enough damage its flies up and you cant hit it with meelee weapons. This is ususally my 2nd place to farm AP my first is Junon too and then later in the game i go to Mideel island diractly to eleminate the anyoning Bird spawn.

You can use sleep on the unknowns in the sunken ship

I always just left my game to autogrind the sea worms. If your strong enough to kill them in one row of attacks they have a extreme low chance of damaging you. That's how I got my characters to level 99 and have a near mastered kotr without using double growth.

nice

I actually found an earlier place to fight head hunters on disk 1 you just need the tiny bronko or bronco whichever is the correct spelling for it

5:38 Right the Northern cave is the best place to farm. It has no savingpoint there thats the downfall. BUT, somewhere at the start of the game you'll recieve a savepoint that you can put anywhere you like. Save it for the northern cavern. Only catch, there are but a few places down there where you can put it. Be carefull and pick wise.

Best Party to Farm APs are: 🗡️ Cloud + Apocalypse ( 3 Slots + Triple = 9 Slots ) 🗡️ 🥊 Tifa + Motor Drive ( 6 Slots + Double = 12 Slots ) 🥊 ⛩️ Yuffie + Rising Sun ( 6 Slots + Double = 12 Slots ) ⛩️ Armors: Rune Armlet ( 4 Slots + Double = 8 Slots ) and Wizard Bracelets ( 8 Slots ) are basically the Same. Rune Armlet is better only if you have -4 Materias to Upgrade. If you have +5 Materias it makes no difference which one you choose 🤠

I'm still playing this game, I had it on PC first so I had cheat engines.. which was fun and all but I didn't even involve myself in most of the game... then I played on the Playstation.. Until I broke my game disc when it got caught in the system itself.. the center got stuck on the spinner.. Then I have it on Steam, I lost it after getting to the end.. so I had to restart... this time I rushed past most of the side quests such as the parade stuff and others.. but I've been farming sources ever since.. I beat the game, got Emerald beat then beat Ruby... I never knew the real secret to beating Ruby.. Paralyze him.. then spam Knights of the Round a few times and keep paralyzing him and luckily I learned to kill off 2 party members before the fight so he didn't eject them from the battle.. it was pretty much the only way I could get a Gold Chocobo.. I tried multiple times and just kept getting a green chocobo.. I'm trying for maxing all stats for everyone as well as mastering all materia.. just need Sneak Attack and the other you win from the Chocobo Races.. and I think I'll have them all and get the final achievement of Materia Overlord.. also thanks to all of these videos, I'm trying out so many things... Trying to get Vincent maxed out, he has nothing but counter attack materia... then I'll master tons of Knights of the Round and give them to Barrett and face Sephiroth several times with a different party each time..

Loving the music.Where can I find it?

It's fun to farm Movers. Same for Final Fantasy V. 😋

I would use Tifa instead of yuffie Tifa power soul weapon has double growth weapon if u cast the death sentence or equip the curse ring you can deal major damage Also cid has the javalin which is a double growth weapon with 5 materia slots Could you make a video of learning enemy skills from the moment you gain the enemy material until end if game

The Heavy tanks in Gongalga aren't a super terrible option to farm if you're also doing some early source farming. 45AP, 1300 gil, 340exp, and power sources if morphed. They only have 1600hp, so they die pretty quickly once you get your power high enough. Only real downside is that it's really only ever a half decent option and even then, only after the Temple of the ancients. If you max strength out for every character by the point in time that you can start farming it, you are looking at about 200 battles per character (approximately 1600 battles or 72,000ap).

So, please help me here. I remember playing through FFVII as a kid, and I found a beach location fighting sea worms, but the SPECIAL thing about this area was that if you had a dualshock controller (or more importantly, a madcatz controller with a turbo button.) you could wrap a rubber band around the left stick to hold "down", and set turbo on the "O" button, and cloud would just run back and forth, back and forth on a beach. What this means is you could leave your PS1 running overnight and still be farming. But the IMPORTANT thing was that you needed to use some elemental materia to absorb the elemental attacks from the sea worm in order to heal yourself. So basically... you couldn't die. BUT, I can't find the exact place now. I don't remember getting 100% sea worm encounter rate (but it was very high), but I DO remember it was on a beach. Any help? I remember being able to do it relatively early in the game, either with the buggy or the bronco.I still have my old save... with at least 2 of every type of material maxed out, 99:59:59 save time, etc. But I've since moved on from that spot and I can't find it anymore. I also remember having to drive past the giant snake thing (not through the swamp, near it) to get to the place. (EDIT: Maybe I could have also equipped my characters with tetra elementals... I SEEM to remember doing that.)

Wow, if this much Internet would’ve been around back in 1998 when I was playing this game, I would’ve had this game mastered. As it stands, I was able to beat the game, but they were so much unfinished business. I never did beat emerald or ruby weapon nor did I ever do. Anything like max out everybody’s levels as well as their stats.

this is how I was able to get the all 99999999 gil trophie on FFVII PS5, I have found that the All materia yealds the highest gil amount when you sell them mastered

Mideel area. Equip all the double arm.

4:39 I think I can healthily disagree, there is a tiny part of the island either on or near Mideel, that you can reach in disc one using the Tiny Bronco, that has green grass on what looks like a peninsula. Headhunters can spawn there in groups of FIVE giving 250 AP per successful fight (50 each). They're usually pretty easy to deal with too, if you have the mp for a summon or decently damaging L2 elemental All cast. The only downside is the other opponents that you may encounter that can be absolute bastards to deal with. I'm sure one of them can cast L2 Confu which, if unprepared for, is a bit nightmarish.

Magic pot are pain in NA version, in JP they are free to kill without any catch (elixir)

Watching the Video on 0.5x speed makes it sound like you're some drunk guy trying to explain grinding in FFVII

its actually better to use cids 5 slot double growth then his two slot triple growth if you wanna farm more and faster imho

There’s some great break downs that explain why Mideel is the single best place to farm AP, despite the common belief that the north cave room with Magic Pots, Movers and Tonberry is better. With the right setup, one can average like 5-10 seconds per Mideel battle, and every encounter in the area is going to produce a good amount of AP. So even though the amount of AP earned per battle may be higher in the North Cave, the varied number of encounters, along with the more time spent in battle with these encounters, you can actually farm more AP faster in Mideel thanks to the far greater rate of encounters

Defeat movers with apocalypse.....the most fastest idea to improve materia

make a video about best grind points

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When the game came out on PC for Steam, I went after all the achievements. I spent HOURS in the swamp room in North Crater. Every time I mastered all of one color class, I ran back up and got a master set from the huge materia. I thought the game kept track of what you'd mastered, but no. I had to have a mastered copy of everything in my inventory. So after I'd created two sets of everything, I had to make a third set just to get them all in my inventory. I was so sick of the game by that point.

you can do the junon thing allready first time u get there if i recall right

i prefer grinding with vincent instead of yuffie.. with equipped slash all materia, you're farming kills and ap at the same time ;)

Once inside the Northern Cave is it possible to exit? I don't think I need mastered materia fot the final boss, I need them against the superbosses.

I havnt got yuffie yet so my guess is that im still pretty early on to start Farming

Any plans on future videos? Like another game completionist walkthrough?

Dude, you can fight the headhunters in the mideel area when you get the tiny bronco. Head down from the beach until you see a small point of grass sticking out to the left. You'll get a mixture of 3-4 headhunters, those spinny things and one of those giant bird things. That's where I do my farming / levelling up to out me in good stead for the next few parts of the game :)

The headhunter you can actually find them in this one in the green side of that island trust me ap for four of them 320

I'm wondering, you said on the video around 3:28 that you can go to junon with buggy. My question is what route? I've been going through everywhere I can't find a way to reach junon with buggy.

I like your delivery better than 4-8 productions, I only wish you posted more. I get why you don't though

I like your face Lane.

Not only can one Morph Master Tonberry enemies into Ribbons but one can also steal Elixirs from them which are needed for the Magic Pots.