FFRK - The Second Coming (FF7) Event & Strategies

[Uzor]

So glad it's bugged, I'd have no chance of completing it legitimately with a FFVII team. Even my A-team struggled with his damage output. I mastered it first try, but with 3 champions downed at the end. And that was with Protectga, Full Break, Power Breakdown, Trueblade of Legend and full Synergy gear.

[Alkar]

His Ultimate Flashing Blade is scripted btw, it happens three times during the whole fight. If you have a SB with AoE physical blink you can try to time it right and dodge one of the hits at least.

[Uzor]

That one wasn't the problem for me. My issue was that I read he rarely ever use Ultimate Meteor so I skipped magic mitigation. He used Ultimate Meteor > Fire Blossom (killing 3 my units, had them reraise at this point) -> flashing Blade (killed them again). After that he used Ultimate Meteor once more before he died. Luckily my two surviving units had Reraise up, and all that was needed was one last hit. His normal AoE attacks didn't do all that much with all of the mitigation, but his ultimate meteor fucking HURT. Did 4000 damage to all units even with Wall up.

[Kirbyprime]

Humm... I beat both, but don't feel good about it. Even with my A-team Tyro died near the end. The massive amount of AoE spam along with counters caused issues with healing.

[Moridam]

That one wasn't the problem for me. My issue was that I read he rarely ever use Ultimate Meteor so I skipped magic mitigation. He used Ultimate Meteor > Fire Blossom (killing 3 my units, had them reraise at this point) -> flashing Blade (killed them again). After that he used Ultimate Meteor once more before he died. Luckily my two surviving units had Reraise up, and all that was needed was one last hit. His normal AoE attacks didn't do all that much with all of the mitigation, but his ultimate meteor fucking HURT. Did 4000 damage to all units even with Wall up.

jeez, yeah tyro BSB was definitely the MVP in my run then, i only saw one ultimate meteor and completely blanked it. that would've wiped my team for sure, haha.

[Alkar]

Well Flashing Blade does like 2k damage in the front row with Wall+Protect+Power Breakdown+ Full Break. I was killing him so fast that this became an issue and cost me 2 deaths.

[Akiyama]

Yeah I can do damage to him but my lord, I think he did 4 AOEs to me in a row which is impossible for me to live through with mysetup lmao

[arus2001]

Yeah, fights like this make me wish we got a 4* AoE cure ability that's 3* potency, if not a bit less. I pushed him through pretty quickly between Shout RW and Lightning/Bartz/Agrias, but a pretty much perfectly timed Sync cure kept me afloat about 1/3 HP left. Best my synergy team managed before finding out about the bug was about 50%. The Ult > Fire Blossom combo was basically a guaranteed game over for them.

[kuronosan]

Honestly without aoe heals some of these fights seem practically impossible.

Almost 2.5k worth of damage in like the first two seconds of the fight, meaning you waste time healing instead of buffing.

[Akiyama]

Honestly without aoe heals some of these fights seem practically impossible.

Almost 2.5k worth of damage in like the first two seconds of the fight, meaning you waste time healing instead of buffing.

Practically is a good word. There's been some I've beaten that i shouldn't have (like Rufus for instance) early on when even my melds were mediocre, all because I got insanely lucky with him not spamming that opop move he had. Then I get unlucky on say..this fight and have Seph spam that one double hit AOE move of his three times in a row lol

[Ratatapa]

Not Mine btw

[Kirin]

I guess Shera finally made that tea...

Honestly though, very impressive from the usual Celes/Keeper solo's.

[Kirbyprime]

There's also a solo Tyro run on reddit. Used retaliate + leeching jump

[Akiyama]

Jeez. How people do these and I can't do it with a full team if he keeps spamming the AOEs.

I may try it again later and just see if I can get lucky with low haste procs + low AOE usage since I can do a good bit of damage.

[hyoton]

God bless you, drain strike. I burned him down way too early and got flashing bladed into the ground, but agrias had enough HP left from the strikes and threw hallowed bolts till he died.
Aside from flashing blade nothing really threatened me, but I went way too hard on damage. More healing and more controlled damage would have been better.

[-Zer0-]

Finally went in and decided to finish Sephiroth. Had to s/l a few times due to him one-shotting Aerith right off the bat, but as soon as I got my defenses down, he was easy peasy lemon squeezy. His aoe and multihits made it easy to keep SG up. Didn't bother with Dispelling his Haste.

Cloud 80 Full Charge/Tempo Flurry
Tifa 80 Chakra/Punishing Palm
Tyro 80 Protectga/Curaga
Red 80 Power Break/Full Break
Aerith 79 Shellga/Curaga
RW Shout

Synergy out the wazoo.

[Corwen]

Not that it really matters with bugged mission, but managed a u+ mastery with a legit cid mission team with 2 shared medicas as only native trinity:

Spoiler: show

SBs used:
Yuffie - Shared Shellga
Aeris - Shared Medica
Cait Sith - Shared Medica
Vincent - None
Red - Howling Moon

[Alkar]

For future reference don't bring Shout and Punishing Palm (or any +att skills) in the same battle as they cancel each other out. Only Dark Bargain is safe because it's a different buff.
And iirc Chakra has a lower +attack buff so it's not a good combo with Punishing Palm either. I know that's like half the Monk skillset lol.

[kuronosan]

R1 exploding fist is better than punishing palm.

[-Zer0-]

For future reference don't bring Shout and Punishing Palm (or any +att skills) in the same battle as they cancel each other out. Only Dark Bargain is safe because it's a different buff.
And iirc Chakra has a lower +attack buff so it's not a good combo with Punishing Palm either. I know that's like half the Monk skillset lol.

Good to know! I actually didn't bring Chakra for the buff so much as the heal to make it easier on the other healers. Also cause I was lazy to change it from fighting the Turks.