In Ipsen Castle, after doing a screwy little puzzle by a big glowing sword, I picked up an item that had the ability, "Zantetsu Damage." It said that if I had Odin and this skill, Zantetsuken would deal damage in addition to casting death. Has anyone tried this? How much damage does he deal?

It's been a while since i finished ff9 but that bit of news is interestin, cud u tell me a bit more in detail

wow. you foun ancient aroma! iv been looking for that for ages. would you be able to tell me how to find it in detail?

iv read about it. how it works is that when you soummon odin onto a monster that is death proof then insteed of failing it willl do damage. how much damage is a mystery to me but it takes a lot of ability crystals to equip it so its recomended that you only equip it if your going to use odin alot.

i really don't remember either but zantetsuken damage was not bad. if you don't have bahamut and ark yet then odin is probably the strongest at that point. all i remember is that odin did more than 6k to necron at final battle.

I played ff9 ages ago, but im sure i had that item, i didnt have a clue how to use it, sorry.
Look it up somewhere, must be useful for something

it's an ability. it's like boost ability for garnet but it allows odin to do damage if zantetsuken misses the target (for instant death) or when its boss fight.

i haven't heard much of that until now so youll have to tell me about it some time.

I too have not head of such an item. But I don't really use Odin so there's no point in me getting it.

Sorry, I haven't checked this forum for a while so I haven't been able to reply to your questions.

Anyhow, first of all you need Odin, which garnet can learn from the item "Dark Matter." You can get that from the auction house in Treno. Then, go to Ipsen Castle, in the north of the forgotten continent. Now my memory is a bit shady on this, but I think that if you take one of the pathways in the first room you enter you come to an open space with four pathways, which are converging in an "X" to a pillar in the middle, which is an elevator. (If you can't find the room, keep looking, because I am positive it is in Ipsen Castle.) Take the elevator down and you will come to a room with a giant, glowing sword, which is crackling with energy. You will have to do a simple puzzle by moving a pot or something around, I can't remember how it worked, but it was really easy so I won't bother explaining it. Anyhow, when you do that, you get the item "Ancient Aroma" (or something like that), and it gives garnet the ability "Zantetsu Damage." Since I wrote that post I've trained the ability and cleared the game, so I'll answer my own question. Yes, Odin does damage when summoned, and though it's not particularly high (I think Bahamut and Ark deal a tad more) it is worth getting, because the MP cost of summoning Odin is much cheaper than Bahamut or Ark, and because it doesn't take much effort to get.

Remember, you have to have Garnet learn that support ability and equip it before Odin can do damage. Basically, you know when you summon Odin and he does hsi instant death attack, it sometimes misses enemies? Well now if the death misses, then he does damage to it instead.

I think his attack is wind-elemental, but I may be wrong. And I think you can increase his attack power by getting more Lapis Luzilz (sp?) into your inventory, but I may be wrong about that too. It's been awhile since I remembered info. on Odin.

The best thing you can do with Garnet is to summon Ark when she has transformed into something flashing.
In the last battle, my Garnet did it and constantly Ark appeared eveytime 5 or 6 turns passed.
That helped me a lot.