JP - Trial 12: Elaficellas
##Boss: エラフィケラス
- Clear Reward: アスファレス [Small Shield] -> DEF/SPR+45, Water/Wind/Earth Resistances+30%, HP+10%
Missions
- Clear Quest: 100 Lapis
- No Items: 10% Trust Moogle
- Finish w/ LB: 軽盾の秘儀 [Ability] -> DEF/SPR+30% with Light Shield equipped
- Finish in 7 or fewer turns: ホーンクレイドル (Horn Cradle) [Ability]: AoE DEF/SPR+100% + 10% damage reduction shield, 3 turns.
##Clear Videos
##Fight Overview
Very simple fight. You either kill the boss by turn 8 or you lose. Now, you can technically continue the fight past turn 8 with a Rikku that can use her LB every turn, but from turn 9 on the boss will kill your party and heal to full every single turn. At the start, you basically get two turns to set up, you initial turn, and one more as the boss will spend one turn buffing your party with a massive MP regeneration buff. From then on, it will use heavy hitting AoE physical and magical attacks. After turn 8, it will start using an AoE Death attack and heal it self to full every turn.
##Observations and Strategy
Observations
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The boss is vulnerable to both Stone Killer and Beast Killer.
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The boss has 300% resistance to earth but -50% resistance to wind; everything else is normal.
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The boss is 50% vulnerable to Disease, and immune to all other status effects.
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The boss is vulnerable to ATK and MAG breaks; immune to DEF and SPR.
Strategy
Warrior of Light, Tim, and 9S all shine on this fight, and depending on who you have access to, your defensive strategy will alter slightly.
Examples:
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If you have a Warrior of Light and 210's TM, you can forgo a healer all together, assuming that you WoL can survive the damage of course, but that isn't too difficult. Your other 4 party members would all be damage dealers + Ramza/Roy. If you don't have Ramza or Roy, use a friend's. Warrior of Light will rotate between Arms Eraser and The Light with Us.
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If you choose to go with Tim/9S then you don't need a tank. This is a good route to take if your Warrior of Light can't survive the damage. Tim/9S will focus on keeping the boss debuffed (ideally with their LB at max level). Again, if you don't have Ramza or Roy, use a friend's. I do recommend 9S though, as he has a 50% chance to apply Virus on the boss which will lower it's stats by 10% making it easier to not only survive, but more importantly, kill it in time. Another good option for applying Virus is the trial materia from Ultros.
With your ability to survive covered, now we can move onto damage. The boss has 80 million HP and has high defenses, and you need to be able to kill it in 8 turns (7 for the mission reward). The easiest way to do this is via chaining. If you are not able to chain well, I suggest you spend some time on the training dummy because this boss is basically impossible if you can't chain well; if you can, it's a push-over.
Now, as far as dealing damage goes, you have two real options: (1) focus on the bosses innate weakness of wind, or (2) choose one of the other elements other than earth and focus on that. Ideally, if you choose not to use wind you will want to be able to debuff the element you choose, though it isn't necessary; the important thing here is to choose whatever element you can most easily do, and capitalize on, a elemental chain with.
Other than that, there is no real strategy. You just try and win before time is up.
##Bonus Section
While dealing high damage is the main focus of this fight, that doesn't necessarily mean that you need all the best 5★ base units; in fact, so long as you have a Warrior of Light that can survive each turn and a friend's Ramza or Roy, you can very easily do this fight with your attack units being 5★ max. I will include a video link above to this being done, but for reference, here is the party that was able to do this:
- Warrior of Light, Shantotto x2, Hope x2, Ramza (friend)
Now, one caveat is a number of TMs are needed, but between the damage dealers only 4 TMs were used; the Warrior of Light was decked out though. This is a trial, so it should be expected that TMs will be necessary; however, 5★ base top-tier attack units are not.
Posted Apr 29, 2017, 11:30 AM UTC · edited
u/Rozaliin Ultros trial materia will give you "almost" 100% chance to apply Virus.
Team used: http://imgur.com/a/Xn8tG
Made mention of it.
Why did you put DW on FireIce Laswell? He has innate DW, doesn't he?
It's DW for Katana and Greatswords only.
Needed DW because of the Sonic Knuckle.
(Which was my only equippable Wind weapon)
Realized later that there's a purchasable Wind Katana in stores...
Point still stands. ;o
Oh, I thought his DW was like Lightning's or Nyx's passive. My bad then :x