Trial 11 - Glacial Observation
##Boss: Glacial
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Rewards: [Hat] +500 HP +16 DEF +50 SPR +30% Ice Resists
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NO LB used: 10% Trust Moogle
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Less than 5 units: [Materia] 帽子の秘義 +30% MAG/SPR w/ Hat
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Summon Ifrit: [Materia] Frozen Hurricane -フローズンハリケーン AoE 12 Hits Magic 200% +25% Ignore SPR & 50% Chance to STOP for 3 turns [60MP]
##First Impressions
- Glacial gets preemptive strike, massive Ice Elemental AoE, can inflict Paralyze and Virus
- Glacial summons 2 more small birds, and add Ice element to your weapon every turn
- Small birds does a lot of dmg with a laser attack
- Both can be ATK breaked, only small bird can be MAG breaked
##Popular Clear Methods
- Literally reset until the turn 1 AoE doesn't kill the DPSes and OTK the bird
- Get Esper orbs from the mini birds, summon Ifrit, uninstall.
- This is stupid.
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I was going to make a video guide (and I still might, but right now it's hard to find friends with units set up for the trial due to the FF9 event) but instead will post a written one here for now.
##Overall Strategy
After surviving the bosses preemptive attack, you have two options:
Kill the adds each turn while whittling away at the boss a little at a time; or,
Kill the boss itself on the first turn, then the adds on subsequent turns.
For strategy (1) it is imperative that you kill the adds each turnーthey are higher priority than the bossーbecause the boss will summon two per turn, and they will very quickly kill you through chain damage. In my testing, 3 of the adds can kill an enhanced Liquid Metal Slime with ease. This strategy also requires you to put a higher emphasis on keeping up ice resistance as the boss will continually use White Out throughout the fight (this is the AoE that it hits you with as a preemptive strike). That being said, in the middle of the fight this is much easier to deal with because you can put up ice resistance buffs that you can't do on turn one.
For strategy (2) you need a little bit of luck. Basically, you need your damage dealing units to survive the first turn. Assuming they do, you then kill the boss on the first turn and provoke with a tank. Raise anyone else who may have died and heal up. On the second turn, your tank that you provoked with will almost certainly have died so revive them and target one of the adds and kill it, leaving you with only one add. Let this add live and use your non-damage units attack it to build up the Esper gaugeーor bring Garnetーin order to complete all missions.
I recommend splitting up the 5-man party mission and summon Ifrit mission into two different kills. I also recommend strategy 2. While it requires some luck, the overall fight is much easier to manage.
##Overall Preparation
Regardless of which strategy you chose to go with you are going to need to make preparations before you go into the fight due to the bosses preemptive attack.
Raise the ice resistance of as many of the units you bring to the fight as you can. I recommend a minimum of 130 but 150+ is much safer; keep in mind that the lower your ice resistance the more SPR your characters will need in order to survive.
Make sure your entire party is immune to paralyze.
Make sure you can deal 45 million (44,444,444) damage in one turn if you are using strategy (2); the requirement is lowered to 4.5 million (4,444,444) damage to two different targets per turn for strategy (1).
For strategy (2), equip weapons that deal fire damage or bring units capable of using fire damage.
For strategy (1), don't equip fire weapons on your damage dealers. Hitting the boss with fire damage will trigger Frozen Tornado a few turns later that will almost certainly wipe your party out.
Raise your HP and SPR of your units as high as you can.
##Strategy
I will mainly be focusing on strategy 2 as I feel it is much easier to manage. If you really want to tackle that method, feel free to ask questions about specifics to it and I will do my best to answer.
5-Unit Mission
While I recommended in the above section that you try to raise your party's ice resistance as much as possible, for this strategy, focus on raising it for 3 units. The other two units, who will be your damage dealers, will forgo ice resistance and will instead focus on Camouflage or similar effects. This will not help with White Out, which randomly hits 3 party members and ignores camouflage, taunt, and provoke effects, but will make sure that the subsequent physical hits after White Out don't hit your damage dealers. This camouflage target can easily be hit by equipping one unit with 大鴉のマント and the other with Camouflage + Tetra Slypheed as the Esper (you will want to do this anyways as Tetra Slypheed provides Bird Killer and the boss happens to be a Bird and Spirit). As for your other 3 units, get their HP, SPR, and ice resistance as high as possible.
As stated in the overall strategy above, from here you roll the dice. Basically, you keep trying the fight until both your damage units survive the preemptive strike (do note that even if they survive, if the rest of your party doesn't you'll still probably fail. If you can't get all three of the other party members to a survivable point then focus on twoーpreferably a tank and healerーand go with that). Once they do live, kill the boss, heal up, and whatnot. From here on you've basically won. If your party is in good shape you can also aim for summoning Ifrit but if you ended up with only 1 or 2 of your non-damage units alive then just finish the fight as quickly as possible.
Summon Ifrit Mission
The overall strategy is the same except now you have one more possible unit for White Out to hit. This can really be anyone. The major change for this mission is that once you've killed the boss you kill off one of the adds on the following turn and leave the second add alive until you've built up your Esper gauge. If you don't bring Garnet or Eiko, just attack with your free tanks and healers to build it up.
Recommended Units
Mistair: Most of the damage is magic damage so Mistair shines at surviving it. She will also sometimes guard another party member as well; hell, if you can, bring two of her.
Garnet: With Garnet's 6★ awakening she has become a respectable healer; more importantly though, she greatly hastens how quickly you can activate Ifrit.
Eiko: An upgrade to Garnet for healing, but a downgrade if you are bringing her solely for the purpose of hastening how quickly the Esper gauge increases.
Onion Knight: Onion Knight is fantastic as a damage option. Two Onion Knights can easily chain the boss down with 火の輝き or Onion Cutter while using a fire weapon. If you are doing strategy (1) ぜんそくぜんぎり is great for taking out the adds each turn while also applying damage on the boss.
Tidus: Tidus is great for strategy (2) with a fire weapon equipped. With enhancements his Quick Trick hits like a truck and he naturally has Bird Killer which works on the boss (not on the adds, they are vulnerable to Spirit Killer only).
##Ice Resistance
Seeing as ice resistance without in factoring buffs is so important, here is a quick list of some of the best sources of it:
I am leaving out TMs on purpose. I am also not including sources under 10%. Lastly, I have left the reward for this trial off the list on purpose as well, as you wouldn't have it for your first kill unless you bring a friend using it.
Shiva (+50%)
Fenrir (+50%)
Ice Shield [Heavy Shield] (+50%)
Ice Armor [Heavy Armor] (+50%)
Dragon Shield [Light Shield] (+30%)
Dragon Helm [Helm] (+20%)
Dragon Mail [Heavy Armor] (+30%)
Hero's Shield [Heavy Shield] (+20%)
Cat Ear Hood [Hat] (+30%)
Ice God's Ring [Accessory] (+15%)
Ice Resistance [Materia] (+15%)
Force Shield [Heavy Shield] (+10%)
Force Armor [Heavy Armor] (+10%)
竜靭の重鎧 [Heavy Armor] (+10%)
Ulrick's Daggers [Dagger] (+10%)