Visions, Espers & Combat

Nine trophies built around the battle system: collecting all 26 Visions and all 9 Espers, mastering and awakening Visions, and the two long counters, 1,000 staggers and 400 Resonances.

All 26 Visions

Sanctum Visions: walk in, touch the crystal and answer three questions about that Vision's game. The answers don't matter. Will Crystallized needs all 26; none are missable.

How to beat Sephiroth

Getting there: make a manual save, fly the airship to Grandshelt and land on the whirlpool beside the big bridge, north-west of the Royal Capital. Touch the crystal and accept the challenge. He's level 45 with 250,000 HP and acts twice a turn; level 50 is comfortable. Status ailments don't work on him.

Phase 1 (100–75%): his stance parries and counters physical attacks, so use magic while it's up and switch back to physical when it drops. Lid's Mechamog Scan gives him a random weakness; hitting it makes him 'pressured', which means more damage taken but much easier to stagger. Heal and buff before you push him under 75%.

Phase 2 (below 75%): he turns immune for a turn and casts One-Winged Angel (heal, buff and charge Limit Bursts). Then he cycles elemental infusions, each with a weakness and a finisher: Fire (weak to Water), Ice (weak to Fire), Lightning (weak to Earth), Wind (weak to Ice). Light is always neutral and non-elemental attacks get countered. Between infusions Heartless Angel drops everyone to 1 HP: heal the whole party on your very next action.

Phase 3: another immune turn and Heartless Angel, then a short window before his final attack: heal first, then unload every Limit Burst and Resonance. Use Light if you lose track of his element.

Reward: the Sephiroth Vision (a physical attacker; Resonance True Octaslash, eight hits on all enemies; MR 5 makes Limit Bursts and Resonances always crit), 14,500 EXP and 12,000 gil.

All 9 Espers

Fina and Archwitch Fina summon Espers. All except Carbuncle have to be beaten first. The Sovereigns of the Planet needs all nine.

Staggers and Resonances

The yellow bar under an enemy's HP is its stagger gauge. Stagger every enemy in one turn for a Sweeping Stagger: after the bonus turn, a character with a Vision performs a Resonance. For the last part of Resonance Rapid Fire, equip Leah or Ayaka (healing Resonances), leave one weak enemy alive, stagger it, heal it so it survives, and Defend through the turns in between.

The trophies

The First Step Towards Mastery

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Reach max Mastery Rank for a vision for the first time.

TypeBronze

MissableNo

How to earn it

Raise any Vision to the maximum Mastery Rank (MR 9) on one character. MR rises with MRP, earned from battles, and each rank gives stat boosts and abilities. It's slow at first and much faster later on.

Tip

MR is tracked per character: Cloud at MR 9 on Rain starts again at MR 0 if you move him to Lasswell. Plan who keeps which Vision.

Awakened Light

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Awaken a vision to its limit for the first time.

TypeBronze

MissableNo

How to earn it

Awaken one Vision to 3 stars. Visit a Moogle of Light (almost every town, and on the airship) and upgrade in order: 1 star costs a Magicite Shard, 2 stars a Magicite, 3 stars a Magicite Cryst. Crysts first appear in Chapter 5.

Tip

Magicite comes from chests, Cave Masters, sub quests and some Colosseum fights, and the Colosseum sells every type late in the game. There's enough to awaken every Vision, so spend it as you get it.

Visions Assemble

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Obtain 10 visions.

TypeSilver

MissableNo

How to earn it

Own 10 Visions. You'll have this by around Chapter 3: two come with the story in Chapter 1 and the rest are shrine Visions you collect along the way.

Tip

Every shrine works the same way: go into the Sanctum, touch the crystal and answer three questions about that Vision's game. Wrong answers don't matter.

Will Crystallized

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Obtain all visions.

TypeGold

MissableNo

How to earn it

Collect all 26 Visions: 16 Sanctums, Leah and Tronn from the story, Sephiroth from a fight in Whirlpool Hollow (level 45, 250,000 HP), and 7 from sub quests. None are missable, and every one is listed with its location on our Visions page.

Tip

The sub quest Visions (Camille, Wilhelm, Aileen, Victoria, Amelia, Charlotte, Ayaka) are the ones people miss: check every town's quest givers from Chapter 5 on.

Vision Connoisseur

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Reach max MR with 8 visions.

TypeSilver

MissableNo

How to earn it

Get 8 different Visions to MR 9. It comes naturally during the story if you rotate: whenever a Vision reaches MR 9, swap it for one you haven't mastered yet.

Tip

Awakening stars are shared across the party, MR isn't. A Vision mastered on one character counts once.

Esper's Covenant

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Gain help from 3 espers.

TypeBronze

MissableNo

How to earn it

Have 3 Espers join. Siren comes with the story in Chapter 1, Ramuh is on Mt. Thunderclap in Chapter 2, and Carbuncle's riddle in Ruby Cave opens in Chapter 3.

Tip

Carbuncle is the only Esper without a fight: just collect the three Ruby Fragments in order.

The Sovereigns of the Planet

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Gain help from all espers.

TypeSilver

MissableNo

How to earn it

Get all 9 Espers: Siren, Ramuh, Carbuncle, Titan, Ifrit, Shiva, Leviathan, Odin and Bahamut. Fina (and Archwitch Fina) summon them. Every step is on our Espers list; Bahamut needs the other eight first and is challenged from the airship in Chapter 7.

Tip

Grab them as you go: Espers are a big help in the mid-game and matter less in the endgame.

Keep Them on Their Toes

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Stagger enemies 1000 times.

TypeSilver

MissableNo

How to earn it

Stagger enemies 1,000 times. The yellow bar under an enemy's HP is its stagger gauge: hit weaknesses or use stagger-focused skills (the ones with a bullet mark) to empty it. It pops on its own, usually around Chapter 4.

Tip

Players report the counter can break if you continue from a demo save, so if it's suspiciously late, start fresh.

Resonance Rapid Fire

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Use Resonances 400 times.

TypeGold

MissableNo

How to earn it

Use 400 Resonances. Stagger every enemy in the same turn for a Sweeping Stagger; at the end of the bonus turn a character with a Vision performs a Resonance (an attack, heal or buff). The story gives most of these, the rest is a short grind.

Tip

Fast farm: equip a Vision with a healing Resonance (Leah or Ayaka), leave one easy-to-stagger enemy alive, stagger it, heal it with the Resonance so it doesn't die, Defend through the other turns, repeat.