Here are a few more tips to help you make Hard Mode just a tad bit easier. Read to How to AP Farm to Level Up Materia for more details on how to quickly and efficiently AP Farm to level up your Materia. Fortunately, now that you have chapter select, you have some pretty easy ways to. Now, chances are these materia will need some leveling up. Of course you’ll also want to make sure you have a healthy supply of HP and MP UPs, because you’re likely already at the max character level of 50, which means without these materia, your stats will have plateaued. Read How to Get Elemental Materia for more details. You get one in Chapter 6, and another by doing all side-quests. Since she’s going to be your main magic dealer anyway, this is an extremely useful skill to have on hard mode, and should probably be something on her shortcut menu.īecause Elemental Materia is so important, it pays to have two in hard-mode. This takes… an annoyingly long time, so I’d recommend only doing it if you’re truly in need.Īlso note that Aerith has a skill called Soul Drain, which absorbs MP from enemies, and more MP from staggered enemies. Once you do, the boxes will be back, and you’ll have the same MP from when you saved. If you don’t get a Mako Shard, or if you’re just in desperate need of more MP regeneration, one thing you can do is save after breaking a bunch of boxes and reload the save. The best way to do so is via the Shinra Boxes, which have a chance to contain MP restoring Mako Shards.

Use Aerith's Soul Drain skill to absorb MP from enemies (and even more MP from staggered enemies).Īs much as you’re able to reduce your MP usage, you’ll still need to use it, and as such, you need ways to restore it.

Do a side quest that restores your HP and MP.

(Save and reload so the Shinra boxes respawn).

Break Shinra Boxes to find MP Restoring Mako Shards.

Really, there are only a few ways to recover MP in FF7 Remake hard mode. If you just carelessly use spells, especially when it comes to healing and using the most powerful “ga” spells, you’re going to find yourself MP starved and in a very tough spot. This is where the real challenge of Hard Mode comes in, because now you need to approach combat a little differently. A big one is that you cannot use items, but the compounding issue is that healing spells take a lot of MP, and in addition to no longer being able to use Ethers, you also no longer restore MP at benches.

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