A couple of people contacted me asking to tell them how if I was ever able to defeat the earth eater. For the record-I want to make it known that you do NOT have to have "buff" characters who have gone 8 times around the sphere grid or whatever. The game would suck if strategy weren't a part of it.
The most essential thing to have is auto-phoenix. It is impossible do win without it. I customized eq to have auto-p to the person (in my case, Yuna) who knew the spell auto-p as well. My NUMBER ONE priority, from then on, was to make sure she had a pretty halo before anyone attacked.
Aeons were nice, but not overly helpful. Damage break weapons didn't matter much, since I rarely was able to do that much damage anyway. Protect and defend were pointless, as was offensive magic (though I didn't try ultima). I pretty much stuck to attack reels (12 attacks for the price of one!) and other such things. Overdrive modes were set to comrade as well, which got me overdrives all the time.
Yes, I know that many of you have done it differently, and may even say it was easy. But like this, it took me the better part of, if not more than, an hour. I used up almost every last one of my phoenix downs, but it was worth it.
Happy hunting!
