Now left pride and joy trophy and hard mode. Will do p&j than speed run thru.

Not really trophy hunting this days. Just play games I like which will plat. Like recent nioh 2

steadfast block is good to charge ATB while blocking 

I beat before doing hard mode. So i can get the item and speed through hard mode. For P & J I prepared the following :

1. All characters lvl 50 (grind in colosseum, senang in classic auto mode)
2. HP UP, Magic UP, MP Up materias (around 3 -4 star range)
3. Cloud, Barret, Aerith team up with cloud having elemental fire protection (absorb).
4. Try to go into Bahamut fight with full MP ( ie minimize spell casts and use pray often), and reserve those MPs for healing and manawalls. His umbral aura is a killer.
5. P & J is easy slow and backstab all the way.

Took me 3-4 tries (all fail at bahamut fight) before nailing it as i fine tuned the materia. Earlier was using elemental ice protection, but i practice dodging Shiva's attacks (pretty simple in the end to avoid the blizza & whiteout spells).

I wonder how hard this game will be in hard mode. I'm on my first run on normal difficulty taking little to no damage from all boss fight so far after watching Youtube guides.

the most annoying manuscripts to get is from Chapter 9, you have to play 2 time for Madam M quest and Sam quest.. and have to fight Hell House twice 

Just reached Chapter 14 yesterday but struggling big time with that pull-ups mini-game on Pro difficulty.  Anyone mind helping me with Peeress of Pull-Ups trophy?