Don Tonberry (Final Fantasy XIII-2)

The Don Tonberry is an enemy in Final Fantasy XIII-2. It is a rare enemy, so equipping the Battlemania Fragment Skill makes it show up more often. Don Tonberry is a difficult enemy to tame, but taming it earns the player the "Beast Tamer" achievement/trophy.

Strategy
Don Tonberry becomes a good enemy to farm once the player's Crystarium becomes fairly well levelled. For lower levels having at least 6000+HP for both Serah and Noel makes this fight still fairly easy (though Noel levels his health much more rapidly than Serah).

The recommended Paradigms are:


 * COM - COM - COM (Cerberus)
 * RAV - RAV - RAV (Tri-Disaster)
 * MED - MED - COM (Discretion)

Starting with Cerberus as the default Paradigm the party should stabilize Don Tonberry's stagger gauge by getting a few hits on him. After a few strikes the party should switch over to Tri-Disaster and focus on getting Don Tonberry staggered. The party should automatically have Haste from the pre-emptive strike so staggering him shouldn't take long combined with his low stagger point. Once Don Tonberry is staggered Serah should unleash Ultima Arrow to help bring his stagger level up to around 750% fairly quickly. With decent stats the player should be able to switch back to Cerberus and finish off Don Tonberry before his stagger wears off. Noel can unleash his Meteor Javelin just when Don Tonberry is about to recover from stagger for massive damage.

Item Drop Farming
After killing Don Tonberry the player can receive Scarletite as a common drop (which sells for 18,700 gil in shops with Haggler) or Hermes Sandals (which sell for 11,000 gil, again with Haggler). With a maxed character equipping a Collector Catalog, or preferably, a Durable Collector Catalog, the player will get a Scarletite essentially every time. This makes Don Tonberry a good monster to farm for money.