What I Took Away From Stage 10 Akhenaten and Damocles

This is all just my opinion on what I learned and took away from fighting there two bosses, I'm hoping that this can help people who may not fully understand how they work and if there are points that I messed up on and may not have stated correctly or clearly enough feel free to inform me in the comments so I can fix it to not only help me, but others as well.

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###My Thoughts

Having Wei Wei will make all runs go a lot smoother due to her Skill 2 giving a massive defensive buff, may not be required BUT highly recommended. I ran my Stage 10 Akhenaten and Damocles with the Defense Formation to apply the defense buff to my squishier characters and an attack buff to my DPS characters.

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###Akhenaten

Phase 1 is simple, deal enough damage while managing the damage taken to fill up the two jars.

Going further into Akhenaten for his Phase 2 you will HAVE to crit to be able to build up his Anubis's Jar (right jar) otherwise any non-crit attack will cause him to counter with a soul damage attack that also heals him for the damage done increasing his Ra's Jar (left jar). If your non-crit characters have skills that does not attack Akhenaten, prioritize using those when possible.

His Phase 3 is a big DPS check and will be the same as Phase 2 where you HAVE to crit him to do damage to him otherwise he counters like in Phase 2, he alternates between a Single Target Attack to a Multi-Hit Attack, and each of HIS turn he will continue to get stronger and heal partially.

Two DPS units I recommend are:

• Chloe: Gains a 5% Crit Rate buff up to 50% each attack
• Sedna: Skill 2 applies a Crit Rate buff

What I ran was Defense Formation:

Front:

• Gaonsari or Owen
• Fabian
• Wei Wei

Back:

• Sedna
• Chloe

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###Damocles

Clarifying more from what I learned on Damocles is to keep a Holy Torch buff on your healer at all times to keep the healer from getting frozen and to have a Holy Torch buff on your DPS to counter his Cursed Frost Shield, if no one has the Holy Torch buff after he uses his Cursed Frost Shield if you have a Swap Turn available you attack the Enemy Torch to obtain the buff and then swap back to the character who has the buff to attack.

During his Phase 2, it is crucial to make sure your healer has a Holy Torch buff (I prioritize the Enemy Torch to give my healer the buff so I have the Ally Torch as a failsafe) on them to make sure they do not get frozen by Ice Fall, (IMPORTANT: DO NOT UNFREEZE ANY UNITS YET), after casting Ice Fall I believe he then goes into the ability Powerful Wingbeat which is an AOE that increases the freeze debuff duration by 2 turns. After that he will use Glacial Beam on a target that is still frozen after casting the skill, that skill will deal soul damage to whoever is being targeted if frozen; this is the reason you did not unfreeze after Ice Fall, whoever Damocles is targeting with Glacial Beam is the person your healer needs to heal to unfreeze them to survive.

Before hitting 20% to enter Phase 3 if possible, apply the Holy Torch buff on your DPS and Healer to make sure they are unfrozen at the start of Phase 3. This phase is mostly a DPS check and survivability check: Get frozen, he crits target and unfreezes them, attack Damocles, repeat.

A healer I recommend is:

• Fabian: Even while frozen, his passive will still go through applying an AOE heal.

What I ran was Defense Formation:

Front:

• Fabian
• Owen
• Wei Wei

Back:

• Chloe
• Freya

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The first 4 bosses are susceptible to stun by Chloe so there's not too much needed to be said about it.

Although something that works with Imae, you are able to attack the Imae that reflects the damage type with that damage type IF you have Freya's immunity buff on that unit.

Example: Chloe Vahn hits for 80k M. DMG on M. DMG Reflect Imae while having immunity, the immunity will take the reflect damage instead of Chloe Vahn allowing Chloe Vahn to survive an attack that would have killed her.

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###Notes

I'm going to look into Damocles more.