FFRK - The Malice Within (FFV) Events & Boss Strats

[Aerin]

Event ETA: 2/15
Bonus Battles ETA: 2/18
Event Ends: 2/25

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 ====

Clear Mind/Mirror of Equity (Not sure what the official translation will be)

• 4* Samurai Ability
• Single Target
• ATK + 30% for 20 seconds
• Causes Sap to user
• 2.2x Multiplier

Sword Flash/Flashing Blade (Not sure what the official translation will be)

• 5* Samurai Ability. Yup free 5* ability.
• All Enemies
• 2 attacks with a 1.33x multiplier each
• 100% hit chance

==== Characters Required ====

Exdeath - Required for ++ only.

Island Shrine ++: Exdeath



==== Bonus Battles ====

Library of the Ancients +

• Byblos (~123700 HP each) Target Score: No KO, Use Fire
  
  • Weak - Fire
  • Absorb - Everything besides Fire
  • Vulnerabilities: Poison / Paralyze / Slow / Blind / Berserk / Sap
• Ifrit. Again? Yes. Again. (~138200 HP) Target Score: No KO, Use Ice
  
  • Weak - Ice / Water
  • Absorb - Fire
  • NULL - Poison
  • Vulnerabilities: Poison / Silence / Paralyze / Confuse / Slow / Blind / Berserk / Sap
  
  
  Intimidate everything. Regret nothing.
  

Recommended abilities: Intimidate, Breakdowns/Full Break, Protectga, Shellga
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Lunatic High, Boon


Island Shrine ++

Boss: Wendigo (~50000 HP)

• Defeat Wendigo without being KO’d.
• Afflict Wendigo with Sleep
• Win without Exdeath being KO’d.
  
  
  

  
  

  • There will be 4 identical enemies on the screen with no HP bar visible.
  • Any damage done to a any of them will shift their positions.
  • Hitting the right one will only show the HP bar for a brief time. Put the cursor on him while the health bar is showing and use an attack ability. It should follow him to his next position.
  • The Sleep icon will not show if it lands.
  • The counter to AoE attacks is magic based, so have Shell & Wall (and RES+) up if you plan to try and power through it. Each of the fakes have a chance to counter (not sure if the real one counters too). Lowest counters I got was 1 but it was usually 2-3.

  
  

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  Basically keep your cursor on the one that appears and it will show where he moves when he moves.

Weak: None
Absorb: Water
Resist: None
NULL: Earth

Vulnerabilities: Sleep

Recommended abilities: Lullaby, Sleep, Shellga
Recommended RW: SG/SS2


Great Sea Trench +++

Boss: Triton(Red) & Nereid(Blue) & Phobos(Green)

• Triton (~73000 HP)
  
  • Weak - Ice
  • Absorb - Fire
  • Vulnerabilities: Poison / Blind / Sap
• Nereid (~111900 HP)
  
  • Weak - Fire
  • Absorb - Ice
  • Vulnerabilities: Poison / Blind / Sap
• Phobos (~111900 HP)
  
  • Weak - Earth
  • Absorb - Poison
  • Vulnerabilities: Poison / Blind / Sleep / Sap

• Exploit Triton’s weakness to ice attacks.
• Exploit Nereid’s weakness to fire attacks.
• Exploit Phobos’s weakness to earth attacks.
  
  They all need to die within 1 turn of each other or they'll be revived. When 1 dies you have 1 turn to kill the rest. If they revive they will do their Delta Attack which deals damage and Petrifies a member of your group. Primarily dealing with Magic damage here so focus on mitigating that first. Only 2 of them have the same HP, so watch for that if using AoE attacks.

Recommended abilities: AoE, Shellga, Magic Breakdown, Unfaith
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Boon


Necrophobia【Ultimate】

Boss: Necrophobe (~198700 HP)

• Weak - All except Dark
• Absorb - None
• Resist - None
• NULL - None
• Vulnerabilities: None

Adds: Barrierx4 (~44600 HP each)

• Weak - None
• Absorb - None
• Resist - None
• NULL - Earth
• Vulnerabilities: None

• Hit Necrophobe with fire attacks.
• Hit Necrophobe with ice attacks..
• Hit Necrophobe with lightning attacks.
  
  
  • Necrophobe uses only Flash (Blind all targets) while the Barriers are up.
  • Once Barriers are killed they won't come back. Use AoE to kill them all quick.
  • You can try using Carbuncle, but AoE attacks are also used throughout this fight. So you'll need full mitigation and some AoE heals wouldn't hurt either if you want to go that route.
  • After about 50% health Necrophobe can attack 2x each turn.
  • He has a counter to magic attacks that deals damage proportional to HP.
  • "Flare and Holy used by Necrophobe is a special attack and is immune to Reflect and also cannot be absorbed/nullified by Runic/Grand Cross"
  • Don't forget mitigation for physical attacks too.
  
  

Recommended abilities: Shellga, Full Break, AoE
Recommended RW: SG/SS2, Boon

[Ratatapa]

I have good V mage synergy so hoping Necro won't be too hard since he's weak to almost everything

Curaga + Diaga
Valefor + Carbuncle
Blizzja + Meteor
Firaja + Ruinga
and Breaker should do the work I hope

[Kaslo]

Hint for Wendigo, from my run.

Once you find him, if you have 3 mages and hastega your timing will be perfect such that when one mage casts on where he moved, your next will be ready to target it, and you repeat with each mage.

[Spira]

not looking forward to Necrophobe again

[Ratatapa]

Changed my strategy Idea

Will probably do something like

Healer Yuna Curaga + Cabuncle (no AOE heal)
Summoner Krile Blizzja R4 + Valefor R4
BLM 1 Rinoa Firaja R4 + Meteor R3
BLM 2 Terra Thundaja R4 + Ruinga R3
Breaker Tyro with Steal Power + Mental Break (SG) would use a Blind resist Accessory

Goal would be to put Carbuncle ASAP, and then use BOON RW Yuna and Tyro would then Auto Attack until adds are dead while Krile, Terra and Rinoa Nuke with AOE
Before Adds die I would put SG and be ready to Mitigate Necro ASAP

I hope that strat would be fine

[hyoton]

Yay meikyo shisui! Not looking forward to doing necrophobe with my terrible V synergy...

[Mertron]

edit: nvm

[Ratatapa]

Planned Setup

+

Spoiler: show

Boon RW

++

Spoiler: show

Boon RW

+++

Spoiler: show

Boon RW

Ultimate

Spoiler: show

Also Boon RW

I'm not super fan of my Ultimate setup, but if i wanna go Carbuncle Method, I need AOE heal or Necro will be too risky before Reflect Wears off, and since I do not have a haste + shell SB, I need boon which is why I have Selphie as healer, with lolthundaga for Medals

But I'm opened for opinions

[Mertron]

debating carbuncle strat or not

[Cream Soda]

whoops

[Resin]

Wrong event

[Ratatapa]

1/1 ultimate

[Melena]

Did you do the carbuncle route rata?

[Ratatapa]

Nope I did same setup but gave krile thundaja and selphie diaga

Round 1 did SG on tyro, boon on selphie and aoe with everyone else
Rest of rounds till barrier died I AA on selphie and tyro while AOE with the rest.
Just before barrier died I readied magic breakdown for necro then I rekt him with ja's and used trabia light once.

I over prepared it

[kuronosan]

JUNK drop. Oh and bonus battles are easy.

[hyoton]

OK, maybe I shouldn't have worried about the V synergy after all. The +++ was more annoying than the ultimate.

[Robertfb]

Only annoying one was ++ and only until I learned status effects wont show on real one 1/1 ultimate, lifesiphon and SBs made blind irrelevant for my melees (Seph ).

Setup and RW was Lenna's mini scream.

[Kirin]

+++ Drops Major Ice.

Not bad for the slight headache it was.

[Mertron]

wow I was worried about this one but 1/1 with no real close calls

Spoiler: show

couple of things i should have done differently but didn't matter

[kuronosan]

My setup:

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...02cc8e3786.jpg

Never came close to losing. Boon RW.