Source Farming in the Sunken Gelnika - FF7 Guide
In Final Fantasy 7 Sources are items which permanently increase a character's stat by 1 point each time they are used. You're probably already familiar with these items as you find lots of them throughout the game from chests and from completing quests, like the Turtle's Paradise Flyers Side Quest.
However once you reach the Sunken Gelnika dungeon on Disc 2 after you acquire your submarine you'll be able to farm an unlimited amount of sources at any time. All of the enemies in this dungeon can be Morphed into one of the different source items in the game.
In order to Morph an enemy you'll need to defeat them with the Morph Command, which is given to you by Morph Materia. For those of you out there who have used Morph before, you're probably familiar with how little damage it does.... Luckily there is a way around this!
Within the Sunken Gelnika you'll find Yuffie's Ultimate Weapon the Conformer. This weapon ignores the Morph damage limitations and hits for full damage even when using Morph. There's no other weapons like this in all of FF7 so if you want to Morph you'll have to have Yuffie in your party.
Sunken Gelnika: Research Room
Research Room Enemies:
Unknown: Power Source
Unknown 2: Guard Source
Sunken Gelnika: Cargo Hold
Cargo Hold Enemies:
Unknown: Power Source
Unknown 2: Guard Source
Unknown 3: Magic Source
Serpent: Mind Source
Sunken Gelnika: Hallway
Hallway Enemies:
Bad Rap: Luck Source
Poodler: Speed Source
If you'd like to see a video of me farming sources for 20minutes so you understand what you have to do check out my Sunken Gelnika Source Farming Video. For those of you who don't mind using a well known glitch in Final Fantasy 7 to save hours farming, I recommend you check out my How to get 99 Sources in Under 5 Minutes Video.
For those of you who've never used the W-Item Glitch before and can't figure it out from the how to get 99 sources in under 5 minutes video, check out my W-Item Glitch Explanation page. That page will go into more detail about what's happening during the video. Below these paragraphs you'll find pictures of all the enemies that you will encounter inside of the Sunken Gelnika and how much HP they have as well as the item they can be Morphed into.
Unknown
Morph: Power Source - HP: 11,000
Unknown 2
Morph: Guard Source - HP: 13,000
Unknown 3
Morph: Magic Source - HP: 15,000
Serpent
Morph: Mind Source - HP: 14,000
Bad Rap
Morph: Luck Source - HP: 9,000
Poodler
Morph: Speed Source - HP: 6,000