Final Fantasy Record Keeper - Magicite Dungeons - Summon Crusader! Annihilated

[synistar]

I'm assuming Ice Chain 2.0 + Elarra Awakening?

I was able to 3x DPS + 2 healer Syldra for consistent clears. Sora USB+Awakening, Celes Chain + USB2, Laguna USB, and Elarra+Aerith. And Sora's en-ice dropped off at 15 seconds. Bartz will have a slightly harder time breaking. I know Sora had a difficult time at low chain. May consider +Spellblade or +30% weakness RM. Artifact may also help for marginal gains. Time chain refresh early to get a higher chain going into phase 3. The fight should end by 30 seconds.

And I guess OK is redundant if you have Laguna chain. OK was in my first set of clears only because I ran Snow chain at the time.

[Kanriel]

You should get Evrae in there. Surging power is another 10ish% damage. And like guy above said, his USB2. I'd SSS until he's got 3~ bars, then USB2, and AASB once he can. He should be able to kill it during that frame.

[Moridam]

i gave laguna ace striker so he could squeeze in a couple imperil SSBs, keeping nulfrost off and sora's awakening damage up was much more valuable than getting some extra damage off laguna's abilities.

[Kanriel]

I assume the RM on Laguna is wcast machinist, which with 6* ability will likely imperil as much or better than the effect of ace striker and another SB or so.

[Aerin]

Yeah, have Laguna’s chain 2.0, Elarra only has USB and BSB. I’ll try doing Bartz’s USB2 then Awakening and swapping Evrae back in. That’s true OK is a bit redundant with pUSB, I just liked the crit increase.

[Aerin]

Oh come on! Just needed one more dual cast proc...

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Edit: Got it! Had to get Laguna’s imperal material from the exchange and his ssb. So much rng... But had a really good run this time. Thanks guys!

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[Kellen]

I. HATE. MATEUS.
Somehow I've managed to beat him 4 times already, but after finishing up Syldra, I need more Mateus to get ready for Typhon. I have a decent selection of Fire based SBs but his damn gimmick is dead-walling me around the 22s mark. Even with Armor Break, I just can't break his savage mode.

So here's my question: What's better, for this fight, Imperil+pUSB or Imperil+CSB?
I have Greg and Vincent CSB, and Vincent and Balthier for Imperil

Any help would be appreciated, thanks~

[hyoton]

imperil plus chain. Vincent is infinitely more useful than gilgamesh even on physical. You can do balt+gilgamesh successfully though.

[Kirin]

Slot Mug Defense on Balthier. It really helps a ton.

Greg chain would net you both the Atk Boost and the CSB, as well as a good damage dealer.
Vincent wouldn't give you the Atk boost and both him and Balthier cover the same imperil role. Balthier probably a better fit overall due to Mug Defense and Machinist Imperil.

Vincent > Balthier
Greg Chain and Balthier > Vincent

A proper artifact weapon for whoever holds your awakening for breaking savage would help a LOT as well. If you're relying on magicite for rage breaking, then you can probably cap with a normal +fire weapon on whoever you bring.

[Vandalhart]

Unfortunately, I have nothing to suggest. I was using Vincent Awakening and Auron Chain on Mateus. Vincent was likely Imperiling until he had his SB fired up for his Awakening.

[Kellen]

Thanks for the feedback! I forgot Balthier can use THF abilities, so slotting Steal Defense should help.
I generally use Sora (Awakening) and Squall (bUSB and AOSB) to help break savage mode along with Magicites, so with Imperils and a chain, that should help.
Thanks again~

[Moridam]

made the very stupid decision to try wind-weak odin, no clue wtf the solution to this fight is. after a couple hours of trial and error, i finally got a good rhythm going and turn orders down and i just got instant-killed by zantetsuken. 99% sure i'd just killed rage mode prior, i don't remember seeing him go level 3 but he pulled out some flashy animation that just left my team dead, no damage or anything. my wind team's pretty nice too but this feels every bit as hopeless as titan.

how long until we have wind syncs that can crank out back to back instant-cast 600k turns

[kuronosan]

Soon I think.

[Kanriel]

made the very stupid decision to try wind-weak odin, no clue wtf the solution to this fight is. after a couple hours of trial and error, i finally got a good rhythm going and turn orders down and i just got instant-killed by zantetsuken. 99% sure i'd just killed rage mode prior, i don't remember seeing him go level 3 but he pulled out some flashy animation that just left my team dead, no damage or anything. my wind team's pretty nice too but this feels every bit as hopeless as titan.

how long until we have wind syncs that can crank out back to back instant-cast 600k turns

Either you were around 40-50% and you broke his rage and triggered his hp% that gives him 3 stacks of rage, or you were in the final phase which has a few turns and then death.

[Sumy]

Ugh, Titan driving me crazy... I know I have the perfect party for this... I even bought Zidane Glint to get wind stacking.

...but my timing always seems to be off. I cant get that sweet spot where Cloud AOSBs at 20secs (before Titan reapplies +3 rage). Instead it goes off just after Rage 3 pops, and the damage is neutered.

Has anyone defeated Ramuh before Titan (without the magicite)?

[synistar]

Maybe you need a fast act inherit to get your turns off before the rage? But what do I know, I haven't even attempted the fight.

[Sumy]

Maybe you need a fast act inherit to get your turns off before the rage? But what do I know, I haven't even attempted the fight.

I figured that too, so I tossed one in there (in exchange for a Earth Resist) -- and that got me to where I am today. Ill post my setup when I get home.

I've removed Double-cast Materias from both Zidane and Cloud, since I can never predict which of these two bastards are gonna be the one to send Titan into Wall-Mode -- some runs Cloud does it, then I can usually get Zidane to Meteor Twister it away before the Empower-stripping move. Then, sometimes Zidane will send him into Wall-mode, and I cant get an OSB up in time to remove it, and instead have to use Fabula mage -- which then wont leave me with enough overstrike damage to get him our of rage mode in the phase three... I cant count the number of times I've gotten him down to 20% HP remaining and just ran out of steam (the '-5 hones to both ability slots' move doesn't help either)... all the youtube videos make it look so easy.

Maybe now that OSBs are 1 meter I can deal with breaking rage in phase three more easily?

[Kirin]

Ugh, Titan driving me crazy... I know I have the perfect party for this... I even bought Zidane Glint to get wind stacking.

...but my timing always seems to be off. I cant get that sweet spot where Cloud AOSBs at 20secs (before Titan reapplies +3 rage). Instead it goes off just after Rage 3 pops, and the damage is neutered.

Has anyone defeated Ramuh before Titan (without the magicite)?

That's nearly the same spot I am in. Try holding Zidane off for a turn if you're using his Awakening to break rage before Cloud goes off. I'm having better success getting them off back to back instead of going with the flow of battle and inputting actions as they come up.

As a side note, I've had much more reliable success in trying to set up in phase 3 Titan with Clous using his USB1 last in whatever SB order you're using. It not only lasts longer past the P3 wall, but if you need to USB1 again to break the wall you have that option.

It's let me get Cloud's ASB off to force phase 3 much more reliably, but then I have issues in the that phase because I don't have Zidane's glint. May have to bite and nab it because switching to Bartz puts me in the same position.

[hyoton]

So, ramuh.

[hyoton]

Ugh, Titan driving me crazy... I know I have the perfect party for this... I even bought Zidane Glint to get wind stacking.

...but my timing always seems to be off. I cant get that sweet spot where Cloud AOSBs at 20secs (before Titan reapplies +3 rage). Instead it goes off just after Rage 3 pops, and the damage is neutered.

Has anyone defeated Ramuh before Titan (without the magicite)?

I found timing the perfect AOSB more work than it was worth. Just don't swing into titan with the rage mode or phase 3 buff up and it'll do plenty of work if you've been buffing enough.