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The big stack of MHOs from Wiegraf put me most of the way to R2 Saint Cross. Gonna be silly if I end up with that honed before my ****ing Full Break.
Then I noticed what the prize was for Belias.
So... now I need an MHO.
Luckily, I have so many story maps. I'm sure there are a couple somewhere.
On Belias, he actually turned Rinoa to stone. But I was prepared and had Esuna on Agrias just because. So I cured that right up.
I took a couple more turns to kill the adds than many of you, but it still wasn't bad. I used Banishing Strike as my source of Holy damage, because I needed the 6 MEO's from Belias to hone up Saint Cross. So I didn't have R2 Saint Cross until after the battle. But I just single-target killed the 3 adds.
And of course Shout + Valiant Strike remains the most silly and OP thing ever.
Also, when is the double hit summon buff happening? When did Japan get it?
So do:
Ifrit
Shiva
Ramuh
Velfor
Bahamut?
I think I'm missing one or two more? Fat Chocobo is clearly king since he already has double-hit.
Maduin is a great 4* summon to hone up. Doesn't conflict with anything really and will get the 2-hit buff whenever it hits. No idea when.
I made 2 copies of it and honed them both up to rank 5; none of the other 4* summons (besides Carbuncle) are all that great for the orbs spent, and the 5* summons are basically unobtainable at any usable rank.
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Near the end, though. Got Shout and Hallowed Bolt out in quick succession. A very sexy 35K or so damage
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Now need to go track down two MHOs somewhere.
Agrias: Life Siphon, Banishing Strike, Knight's Charge, SSB
Vanille: Diaga, Renewing Cure, Medica, Summoner's Prayer RM
Y'shtola: Shellga, Curaga, Stoneskin 2, Dr. Mog
Ramza: Full Break, Magic Breakdown, Shout, Mako Might
Beatrix: Protectga, Saint Cross, Rose of May, Ace Striker
RW: Valiant Strike with 450ATK from synergy.
That felt good.
Honed Fat Chocobo once because it can break damage cap which is useful at times, i'ts been super useful for some bonus battles and it is a fat chocobo.
And I have like an R4 Shiva. I'd like to make more of the 4 star summons but they're not a huge priority.
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XIII - Fifth Ark, Part 2
FFV - Castle Exdeath, Part 2
FFV - Death Valley
FFX - Dome Part 1
That whole fight is a test of luck, to see how many times he'll choose to counterattack your every action.
My favorite two instances were when my first action resulted in a counter on my white Mage, killing her in one shot, and the time he Stopped Agrias when she was in the middle of casting Slowga. I wouldn't have minded so much, except that when the Stop wore off and she finished her cast, she missed! And then Wiegraf countered the failed Slowga!
I wish I could agree for every time he FUCKING COUNTERED MY THINGS
It would be a lot
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Used Draw-taliate. Slowing makes them die slower
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At the end of the fight, the first counterattack from a 4x hit depleted his life bar, and then the next three counters missed him, which seemed kinda weird. Probably related to the fact that he has a line to give when defeated.
Mastered the Belias fight after only a few S/L due to getting someone focused down immediately as the fight started a few times.
Shellga +Magic Breakdown+Shout on turn one, Agrias used Saint's Cross for the objective. Then Cloud unleashed with Blade beam.
Second turn was Meteor and Hallowed Bolt (7.5k a hit for about 30k ) which cleaned up any remaining adds (Meteor did the trick, but Hallowed Bolt was there just in case). Ramza used Full break and Cloud followed up with Fenrir Overdrive (hit for about 5k a pop for about 40k damage). Lenna at this point was on full heal duty. Belias used Titan which hit for 500-700 on the party.
Third turn was life siphons and Meteor, Ramza used Magic Breakdown and Lenna healed. Belias used Titan.
Turn four was more life siphons and meteor, Ramza used Full break and lenna healed. Belias used Titan.
Turn five, more life siphons+meteor, Ramza used Magic Breakdown, lenna uses Princess' Favor. Belias used Titan.
Turn six. Agrais used Hallowed Bolt, Cloud used Fenrir Overdrive, Ramza uses Hail of rocks, and Terra uses Magitek Missiles. He died partway through Fenrir Overdrive.
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Yuffie Steal Power/Tempo Flurry (Clear Tranquil) - Never actually did anything with her damage output was so low
Ramza Magic Breakdown/Full Break
Garnet Curaja/Shellga (Divine Guardian)
Lightning Lifesiphon/Drain Strike (Crushing Blow)
Agrias Lifesiphon/Banishing Strike (Cleansing Strike)
RW: wall
Took a couple S/Ls to not die to the adds early, but once I decided to just Divine Guardian first instead of casting shellga like a stupid, I won. Charged up a Crushing Blow, killed adds, boss hit for about 80 a hit for the rest of the fight. Lost a medal for damage taken. Happy to finally get a +30 atk accessory, even if it does have bad synergy.
Fantastic. I did the no-Wall run partially from the past convo's about what to hone and knowing you had Agrias Relics as well, but no Wall.
Cleansing Strike is civilization.
Agrias - Life Siphon/Saint Cross
Aerith - Curaga/Alexander
Ramza - Life Siphon/Full Break
Quistis - Magic Breakdown/Armor Breakdown
Tyro - Tempo Flurry/Poison Shell
RW: Shout
Quistis and Tyro with Mog's/Mako, popped their MG8/Wall at the start, Ramza RWed himself. Ramza and Agrias were both doing in the 8000+ range on every attack even without Quistis applying Armor Breakdown until relatively late in the fight thanks to their SSB weapons. Even Tyro was hitting in the 7000+ range once he stopped harassing Quistis, although he didn't manage to apply any statuses either. Other than that and healing up the damage from the start before all the mitigation was up, smooth sailing.
It's pretty good, mitigation cap is significant. Also Kaiser Shield makes Crushing Blow a real SSB instead of suffering the AoE penalty. Probably my best overall relic so far, just wish I stopped pulling on Tactics when I got it on my first draw
Haste + 50% Magic Resiststance is huge, since I feel for the most part physical damage is easy to mitigate.
Agrias is the Queen. Good luck on the next Ultimate.
That dude was fucking asshole with his RNG until the battle where I finally killed hiim
Party:
RW in the actual kill was Mighty Guard (VIII), No Wall
A few S/Ls due to bad ATB starts and one attempt where I forgot to refresh Magic Breakdown and got wrecked for that.
Opening was Magic Breakdown, RW from Agrias, Meteor, Alexander and Crushing Blow
Second round was Alexander and Meteor to make sure everything was dead.
Lightning uses Drain Strike as necessary, Lifesiphon otherwise to build up her SB again.
Ramza did Breakdown -> Siphon x2 -> Breakdown -> Tailwind -> Siphon -> Breakdown -> Tailwind -> Siphon -> Breakdown
Agrias burnt off Banishing Strikes first, then got to work with Saint's Cross to dish out damage. Refreshed the RW at around 50% for insurance.
Terra fired off her remaining Meteors, then just used all her Firajas before finishing with Magitek Missile. Had a second one prepped to finish
Yuna had her two Alexanders in the opening part to kill off the adds before patching up with Curajas then Trigger Happy and started shooting
A month ago, I would not have been able to do this.
Attack: ~320 for Agrias/Ramza, 340 for Lightning
Mag: 370 for Terra, 327 for Yuna
Res: All above 200. Terra has highest with 270
Beat Belias Ultimate, but it looks like Mastery isn't happening. Just too much damage coming out too fast, and there aren't enough special objectives for a safety-net of extra medals. He doesn't even have the standard "don't get KO'd" objective.
I really wanted those Major Earth Orbs, too.
At least I got some use out of it, hadn't done the ultimate yet.
Firion hit a sweet 40k+ Lord of Arms with it, after which I found out apparently Belias can be blinded.
Belias mostly does magic damage, but that was a nice bonus.
I have managed 3 so far on single pulls this banner. First I got the Chameleon Robe, then the Spellbinder Dagger, and finally the Nu Khai Armlet. At least the last one was good.
It's literally the best shared SB for healing once Cid's Missions come out (in 3 months or so) if you don't have a native medica for that realm, since you need to clear the hardest level of content with only characters from that realm
mid regen adds up to a lot of healing over time which really takes the stress off your poor healer
Well damn, never would have found out about that. I thought the sb seemed especially bad since there's wms that can aoe regen as a default sb.
Thanks for the heads up
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