Between Memento, Cure and Stoneskin my yshotla was too busy to ever do anything else. I didn't really miss her damage.
I had opportunity for Diaga maybe 2-3 times but meh.
My white mages were also too busy to contribute to damage. I'd stick Dismiss on Thancred or make Tyro your ninja, and bring a second white mage for AoE heal with an LH RM, stick Memento on Selphie and Cure on the other mage (make it Vanille or another RDM or someone who has dual purpose so they have something to do).
Steiner can dispel with Banishing Strike.
went with a normal setup a couple times, could get close but would always have a second person dead towards the end
exited, re-entered with a full retaliate strat, easy mastery, NO RAGRETS
First time used healing grimoire yesterday, got expert, this time went with Emerald Light, only had to SL once, got mastery.
Zell has burning rave, which is why I brought him (fuck yeah +30% att), used lifesiphon to build SBs, then had steiner emerald light and garnet curaja and tyro use SG right after first Climhazzard, then used burning rave and dismissal spammed on zell while tyro kept up debuffs and seph spammed black materia.
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JFC shock always coming at the wrong times kept fucking me over, but finally mastered.
Might have to change RW for Emerald Light since when she does he 2nd climazzard I don't have Trabia Light ready lol
You know your IX synergy is crap? When you can't even master even with retaliate cheese. >________> The S/L is starting to be annoying.
the RNGness of Beatrix is annoying the absolute hell out of me..
gonna try this full reta thing
was able to finally master it
Here is my setup and a small guide of how I did it (for those with cheap equipment synergy like me) sorry for no picture
Setup
Zidane lv 65 Steal Power R3, Dissmissal R4 and Soldier's Strike RM
Steiner lv 68 Armor Strike + Banish Blade R4 Pride of the Red wings RM
Tyro lv 80 Full Break R2 + Shadowstrike (the sap) R4 + Mako's Might
Selphie lv 65 abilities CuragaR5 + Protectga R1 Dr. Mog's Teaching
Rinoa lv 80 Abilities Blizzaja R4 + Memento (AOE regen) R3 Devotion.
RW BOON
Strategy was pretty simple
Round 1 Zidane Steal Power, Steiner Banish Blade, Tyro RW, Selphie Protectga, Rinoa Memento
Round 2 till First Clim Zidane Dissmissal, Steiner Armor Strike Tyro Sap then if it lands, Full break, Selphie AA and Rinoa Blizzaja
When she got close to clim I started casting Trabia Light + SG, and pushed her with DPS (tried to Stun her with dissmissal)
After Clim it was important to keep Full break + Steal Power up, and Rinoa stood on available until Beatrix moved, for either Blizzaja or Memento.
My issues weren't RNG but mostly me beeing shitty at when SG fell off, and people dying of Stock Break DMG
Finally mastered, never doing that again! Had to beat it 3 times. First 2 I just raged after double Stock or something and finished with expert.
I forgot to post my Beatrix setup
Spoiler: show
RW was Hymn.
Damn your Save the Queen.
Pic shows fine for me.
Of course he fixed it
I was trying the BG bucket clickable thumbnail but it wouldn't work so meh.
Reflect isn't an issue.