FFRK - A Summoner Reborn (FFIX) Event & Boss Strats

[Aerin]

Event ETA: 3/12
Bonus Battles ETA: 3/15
Event Ends: 3/22

Event Info

Basic information below is copy/pasted from above link. Any extra information gathered once the event goes live will be posted here in the OP in the form of quotes.

==== Notable Rewards ====

Leeching Leap

• 4* Dragoon Ability
• Single Target
• Jump attack, 2.2 seconds
• 2.3x Multiplier, heal for 40% of damage dealt, ranged

Sky Grinder

• 5* Dragoon Ability
• All Enemies
• 50% chance to critical each hit
• 2 ranged attacks at 1.15x multiplier each

==== Characters Required ====

No character requirements.



==== Bonus Battles ====

Confronting Nature +

• Plant Brain (~107000 HP) Target Score: No KO, Use Fire
  
  • Weak: Fire
  • Absorb/Resist/Null: None
  • Vulnerabilities: Silence / Slow / Blind / Sleep / Berserk
• Soul Cage (~130000 HP) Target Score: No KO, Use Holy
  
  • Weak - Fire/Holy
  • Resist - Dark
  • Absorb/Null - None
  • Vulnerabilities: Blind
  
  
  Plant Brain begins the fight with blinding the entire party, be prepared with some form of Esuna or just use a mage party. Soulcage is Soulcage, if you use Fire be prepared for massive AoE fire damage.
  

Recommended abilities: Protectga, Blindga, defensive Breakdowns, Esuna/Blindna
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Lunatic High


The Castle Guardian ++

Boss: Odin (~176000 HP)

• Defeat Dahaka without being KO’d.
• Exploit Dahaka’s weakness to wind attacks.
• Exploit Dahaka’s weakness to fire attacks.
  
  Nothing special. He'll curl up sometimes and increase his defense, nothing you can do about it.
  

Weak: Fire/Wind
Absorb: None
Resist: Ice
Null: Earth

Vulnerabilities: Poison / Silence / Slow / Sleep

Recommended abilities: Defensive Breakdowns, Full Break
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Lunatic High, Boon, Mighty Guard


Terra's Battleship +++

Boss: Ark (~214800 HP)

• Defeat the Ark without being KO’d.
• Exploit the Ark’s weakness to wind attacks.
• Afflict the Ark with Slow.
  
  Ark uses a lot of physical attacks so Blind is useful. He's able to use an ability that confuses everyone so watch out for that.
  

Weak: Wind
Absorb/Resist: None
Null: Earth

Vulnerabilities: Silence / Slow / Blind / Sleep


Recommended abilities: Protectga, Tempo Flurry/Slowga, Power Breakdown, Blind
Recommended RW: SG/SS2


Terra's Dragon【Ultimate】

Boss: Silver Dragon(~258400 HP)

• Weak: Wind/Ice
• Absorb/Resist: None
• Null - Earth (when airborne)
• Vulnerabilities: None

• Defeat Silver Dragon without being KO’d.
• Exploit Silver Dragon’s weakness to ice attacks.
• Exploit Silver Dragon’s weakness to wind attacks.
  
  
  • Silver Dragon will occasionally become airborne. Melee attacks won't reach and it's RES goes up.
  • You need to use a Jump type ability to bring it back down
  • Most attacks are physical, with the exception of Twister which is magic and only cast while airborne
  • All its attacks are ranged
  • Breath Wing is a counter which does heavy proportional damage to all targets
  
  

Recommended abilities: Protectga, Power Breakdown, Steal Power, Jumps.
Recommended RW: Mighty Guard, SG/SS2, Hastega RWs

[kuronosan]

Looks like my Ultimate party might be easy to pick out. Cid, Quisty, Yshtola, Kim (maybe), Rinoa, and Irvine. If not Kim, Greg or Squall. Probably Squall.

[Ratatapa]

Once again planned setups

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Ultimate

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Notes : Guard means Mighty GuarD (FFVIII)
I was thinking of maybe giving Terra Mental Breakdown instead of a Blizzaga
Wind Jump will be honed to R5

Opinions?

[kuronosan]

I would do that, put Tyro in the back and give him a spell.

[Ratatapa]

I'm gonna change stuff because I just saw that 90% of his magic attacks are while he's in the air. and we don't want that for long

So magic mitigation isisn't worth it much

[Ratatapa]

I would do that, put Tyro in the back and give him a spell.

You mean give Tyro like Power Breakdown + a Spell?

[kuronosan]

Yea.

[Ratatapa]

Yea.

Was thinking of doing



While Keeping Mighty Guard RW for the Regen

[Ratatapa]

Ultimate was pretty easy, hard part was to time buffs and jump at start since he starts airborne

[Melena]

Only done the first two of the challenge battles but yet to lose a medal. Will finish those up when I get home.

[Alkar]

Ark is so fucking annoying, spamming Confuse on me...

[Kirin]

Ark is so fucking annoying, spamming Confuse on me...

Blind and Slow like the other Ark fights. Enjoy the cake.

[Skai]

Ultimate is not bad. Tricky part is timing jumps so you don't whiff on the physicals.

Copied Rata's setup, hue.

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[Ratatapa]

Ultimate is not bad. Tricky part is timing jumps so you don't whiff on the physicals.

Copied Rata's setup, hue.

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Send me my money by PayPal later

[Alkar]

Blind and Slow like the other Ark fights. Enjoy the cake.

Blind doesn't stop his confuse and Slow wasn't proccing. Got it now but he was being an ass on my first couple tries.

[Skai]

Send me my money by PayPal later

I'll send you good guy 5* vibe so you can get some better equipment.

[Kirin]

Blind doesn't stop his confuse and Slow wasn't proccing. Got it now but he was being an ass on my first couple tries.

Oh, after blinding him I think I got maybe 2 people hit by whirlwind. Made confuse beyond manageable by having Yshtola kind of wait since I wasn't taking damage.

Does the Ultimate Dragon take flight at specific HP intervals, or just randomly every few turns?

[Rooney]

Ark is so fucking annoying, spamming Confuse on me...

For me Ark literally did 1 boomerang, and the rest regular attacks... of which 3 missed. Easy mode go!

Edit: @kirin ultimate seemed random, but he only took flight twice for me (after start).

[Kirin]

Rata's setup works pretty well.

If I can get through without being countered by every hit this is done tonight.

[Robertfb]

1/1 ultimate, only hard part was when he countered 4x in a row leaving everyone near dead, Cid was every bit MVP as I thought he would be.

Setup

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