It doesn't just sound ridiculously overpowered, it is!Once you get to Energy Nede, there's lots of new things you can find around, either in shops or as items relinquished by defeated enemies; regarding the former, you can buy new musical instruments, while regarding the latter, you can get Mythril ore. When you combine these items with some musical talent, dexterity and originality, and add up one sharp edge, what is it that you obtain? That's right, the Ethernal Sphere!
Let's delve into the details of the procedure for a bit, shall we? First of all, you must know that getting all the necessary items for this can be accomplished on Expel as well, but you need to test your luck a lot (and possibly waste a lot of time); in particular, the musical stuff is not necessary at all, but it really helps. The main ingredient you're after is two chunks of Mythril and the Sharp Edge: do you remember the fine sword grandpa Gamjee gave Claude after the Tournament of Arms in Lacour? Well, I hope you followed my suggestion from before and didn't get rid of it. The rest is simply a matter of talent and skill.
You may already know there's a specialty called 'Customize', which allows a character to modify one of their weapons using some material; other than investing enough Skill Points into it for Claude, you should make sure he also has the 'Originality' (and I think the 'Dexterity') talent(s). Also, if you've bought enough musical instruments (buy more in North City) and composed enough songs, learn the Super Specialty 'Orchestra', which improves the chances of success of any Specialty while you're playing music. Warning: the lack of any of the non-mandatory parts will cause additional reloads.
By successfully using Customize on the Sharp Edge with Mythril, you'll obtain the 'Minus Sword', which seems like a cursed weapon and isn't very powerful. If you know better (and who knows how in the world people managed to find it out), you'll use Customize again on this sword, again with Mythril, and upon success you shall obtain one of the best weapons Claude can use. Why is it so good? It's not because of its attack power, which is great but not exceptional; it's partly because of its magic powers, which raise Claude's attributes and some magic resistances; but mainly it's because each time you hit an enemy with this sword, it will shoot forward several blue sparkles, each doing some damage, with a high chance of stunning your opponent for long enough to quickly land another hit. An additional merit is its availability, at the very beginning of the second game disc (if not earlier); the only other item which has a similar effect is the Angel Armband (another really cheap item), but you can only get it in the extra 'dungeon'.
In short, get the Eternal Sphere and most of the game will be a breeze: you won't need Claude to use his Killer Moves ever again.
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