Kitty Catering - Galdin Quay

When you start this chapter you will arrive back at a completely dark Galdin Quay. From here you'll want to run north as far as possible until a scene begins where you'll be driven the rest of the way to your quest marker. You'll also be filled in on everything that has happened.... These last 10 years.

Back in Hammerhead you'll be warned that this is your last opportunity to stock up on curative items before the final battle (which is true if you're playing the game with no DLC). I highly recommend taking that advice and buying as many Elixirs and Hi-Elixirs as you think you'll need as well as anything else. You should have plenty of treasures to sell from the last dungeon.

There are a few treasures for you to find in Hammerhead before departing too. Each location of a treasure is marked on my compass location above, as well as talked about below.

Old Book: Outside Cid's garage on the table next to the truck.

Shattered Timepiece: Behind Takka's Diner in some rubble.

Rusted Bit: Next to the shop in the center of town.

Red Choker: Inside the Diner on a stool.

Depending on the version of Final Fantasy 15 you're playing determines how much there is to do in Insomnia. If you own the Royal Pack DLC then there will be a hub in Insomnia where the Kingsglaives are with Cor and other survivors. You'll actually be able to complete some side quests here and it'll add more to the end game content for FF15. Those of you without this DLC will have a linear trip to Ardyn and the other final bosses.

The rest of this walkthrough will assume that you have the Royal Pack DLC installed, if you do not have this DLC then skip ahead to the parts of this guide that are relevant to you. <Add More>>

 

Crown City Without A King, Relics of the Empire and A Glaive Out of Time

 

Following the main story line quest marker the first boss that you will encounter is Cerberus; whom is part of the Royal Pack DLC. The fight with Cerberus is pretty intense as he jumps around a lot and climbs the nearby buildings and does quite a bit of AoE fire damage.

Don't defeat Cerberus with a Summon or the Ring of Lucii or it may bug out and force you to fight him again. This same logic applies to many of the other bosses added in the Royal Pack DLC, I learned this the hard way after defeating Cerberus twice and having him literally respawn on me.

Once you're inside of the citadel you'll have a fight against Ifrit - he is not part of the DLC and you may remember some of the scenes you see before the battle from way early in the game.

The first part of the Ifrit fight is a piece of cake since he has very little HP and never stands up from his throne. After you deal enough damage to him there will be a cutscene followed by the actual battle with him in the streets. Ifrit has a few attacks, the majority of them will one shot you so avoid them at all costs otherwise you'll have to spam restoratives.

Attack Ifrit when he is not surrounded by fire to deal the most damage to him. Whenever he has his friend shield up he'll take very very little damage from your attacks. Once you get him low enough in HP to use the Summon command - do so to end the battle. You actually can't defeat Ifrit without using a Summon.

Tip: If you need help avoiding damage use Prompt's Piercer Tech Ability. I've repeated it time and time again throughout my entire guide but that proves how useful it is. The attack animation on this ability will make you invulnerable to whatever is going on.

Inside the citadel your first boss fight will be against The Fierce, he's part of the Royal Pack DLC and you'll skip right to Ardyn otherwise. This boss has a few really annoying gravity attacks which Prompto's Piercer ability work fantastically for. Use that when he pulls everyone in and starts beating your face in with his mace. Alternatively, Warp out of the melee range to one of the balconys when he does this to avoid it too.

Towards the end of the fight The Fierce will conjure up a shield and go invulernable to your attacks and you'll switch from controlling Noctis to Gladiolus who is capable of breaking through the shield. At this point, for the rest of the fight you'll be using Gladiolus. There will be some story elements when The Fierce gets low on HP for you to fulfill.

Don't forget to search the lobby of the citadel for treasures after beating The Fierce and before proceeding up the elevator. There's a few goodies for you to find!

Our next boss as part of the Royal Pack DLC is The Rogue. She is signicifantly easier of a fight than The Fierce, although quite annoying in her own right. If you're capable of Blindsiding her you'll do mega damage - in some cases even 9999. This is her primary weakness and the strategy to defeat her.

The challenge of the fight is, she likes to stay outside of your reach and throw her shouriken at you from a distance - occasionally hoping into the arena with you for a few seconds here and there. You're going to have to spend this entire fight running circles around the ring dodging the throwing star and waiting for her to jump out at you so you can whack her a few times before she disappears again.

Much like with the previous boss battle, when The Rogue gets low on health you're going to gain control of Prompto and you'll have to fulfill some story elements before you defeat the boss.

As you may have already guessed, this is Iggy's boss and he is about as easy as The Rogue, if not easier. The majority of The Mystic's attacks are very hard hitting melee attacks which you can (for the most part) avoid by constantly moving around. Additionally, if you use Iggy's Fire Daggers for the entire battle (while controlling him) you'll destroy this boss in under a minute.

When you reduce his HP to 0 there will be a story scene with Ignis, much like there were for the previous two bosses. Except this time the fight continues, The Mystic will fully heal and the arena you're fighting him in will change, this is the start of Phase 2. Not much changes for Phase 2 except now the boss occasionally likes to fly around in the air and attack from above.

Once you've defeated this boss all that's now left is Ardyn, proceed forward and into the Throne Room once you're ready to fight the final boss of Final Fantasy 15.

Despite being the final boss of the game, the fight with Ardyn is extremely easy - it's mostly just a story driven fight. For the first half of the fight you'll be fighting Ardyn on the streets and this (as far as I could tell) is the only part of the fight where you can actually die or lose.

Once Noctis activates the Ring of Lucii you'll be fighting Ardyn up in the sky; much like you did with Leviathan earlier in the game. During this time you can take damage but I don't think Ardyn can known your down or out. All you have to do is keep blowing away at Ardyn with your regular attacks until he is defeated then you'll trigger a scene, much like with the previous bosses, where you have to time button presses correctly to take Ardyn down for good.

 

 

 

 

What picture did you pick? Comment below! I chose the first picture of the entire game with the boys at Hammerhead Station standing around the Regalia.