Barthandelos - Chapter 9

[Boyiee]

I wonder what a faster setup for him is, because I used Light/Fang/Hope, and although that setup was perfect for staying alive and getting through the fight, it was taking quite a while.

any setup with haste lol

[Exoduso]

any setup with haste lol

lol stop forcing me to use Sazh!

I actually just learned Haste with Hope..

[Kiarax]

Can get the Auto-Haste accessory for your party when you get to Pulse anyway. Still rocking Sazh though.

[Stee]

Whenever it did destructo I put hope to medic and made sure everyone was at full hp then I did rav/rav/com setup to get a fast chain. If you keep attacking it during destructo, at some point he will stop and have to start the cast over. This will help you build the chain even further.

Once he uses destructo I immediately set Hope back to medic, Light to Com and Fang back to Sent. Once they are healed up, set Hope to Ravager to get it to stagger, just make sure you do this fast enough before he can start another destructo.

Rinse and repeat until dead.

[miokomioko]

If you keep attacking it during destructo, at some point he will stop and have to start the cast over. This will help you build the chain even further.

This will only very briefly pause his Destructo charging, not start it over. However, causing him to get stunned while charging it like that will drop Destructo's damage output by like a third. Which makes a big difference.

This is probably what most people are not doing and getting killed. The first time he used it on me, as soon as he started charging, I went into defensive mode and just waited forever for it to hit me so I could go back to attacking. Even with full HP and almost capped out Crystariums, it brought Lightning and Vanille to a few pixels from death and Snow to about 1/4. If I bashed him in the face while he was charging before going into defensive mode with RAV/RAV/MED or COM/RAV/MED, it only took the two girls down to like 1/3~1/2 HP.

[Maguspk]

Can get the Auto-Haste accessory for your party when you get to Pulse anyway. Still rocking Sazh though.

Does the auto-haste wear off like the other autos? That's the one thing that keeps me from using any of the auto-items outside of quick fights, the fact that they wear off is fucking stupid.

[Boyiee]

It does and you can't get the boots that early.

[miokomioko]

the fact that they wear off is fucking stupid.

That made my boner go away too.

In any fight that really mattered, by the time I was done Synergisting/Saboteuring it up, right when I went to whoop ass, my Auto-Protect on Fang started to fade.

[Rionel]

Oh sure, "beating him" Chapter 9 is do-able yes.

But has anyone actually 5 star'd the guy? =0

[Kiarax]

It does and you can't get the boots that early.

What? How can't you get them as soon as you get to Steppe?

[Mayareira]

You are a gimp if your auto-haste wears off before you kill the monster. Sigh, gimps with auto haste accessories -_-

[Kiarax]

You are a gimp if your auto-haste wears off before you kill the monster. Sigh, gimps with auto haste accessories -_-

Lol. Are you fucking kidding me?

[Gokulo]

Oh sure, "beating him" Chapter 9 is do-able yes.

But has anyone actually 5 star'd the guy? =0

On my first fight Just used shrouds before the fight and my Light/Fang/Vanille Rav/Com/Rav combo raped his face.

[Kumbai]

This was one of the worst fights for me personally. I managed to finally do it as:
Light/Hope/Snow
Com/Med/Sen
Com/Rav/Com
Rav/Rav/Rav
Med/Syn/Med(Just got him cure)
Med/Sab(Got his Deshell/protect)/Med
Com/Med/Com

Pretty much started as Med/Syn/Med, buffed up, then swapped to Rav x3, staggered, boosted the % by about 100-150, swapped to Com/Rav/Com and did damage as fast as I could, swapping to Com/Med/Com when I needed to be healed. Took me 4-5 tries. Main thing is to boost the stagger by 100 or so before doing melee damage, really helps.

[Jaregue]

fuckin pissing me off, even if i 3x rav while he readies destrudo. that shit still goes off and one shots light

[Maguspk]

You are a gimp if your auto-haste wears off before you kill the monster. Sigh, gimps with auto haste accessories -_-

Yo, this kid kills bosses in less than one minute and doesn't afraid of shit.

Fucking idiot, the point is they wear off which sucks, defeats the purpose of using them outside of grinding.

[Shenrien]

Spoiler: show

I used Light/Hope/Fang I had Light DD until all the heads were dead, Fang tank and hope cure, I kept protect and shell up at all times during the fight, the nukes were not that difficult to push through

when I got down to destruct I hit a brick wall, I had hope main cure the entire time while fang and light DD'd I nearly wiped a few times due to destruct, sometimes needing to use several pheonix downs, at the end he used doom on me, I managed to push him into stagger mode and I summoned Odin.

when this happened I noticed the doom timer fell off of me, I let Odin rape the shit out of him until his bar was nearly empty then switched modes and beat the piss and tar out of him, when I ended with Zantetsuken he was dead.

also, summons can be used as a form to fully restore your party back to full health and removing all status ailments.

[miokomioko]

fuckin pissing me off, even if i 3x rav while he readies destrudo. that shit still goes off and one shots light

I'm pretty sure it's physical attacks that can stun him, reducing Destrudo's power. I never had any problem surviving it with switching to COM/RAV/MED as soon as "Destrudo" popped up. Everyone was topped off HP, Barthandelos got stunned, and my party only ends up half dead by the time it actually goes off.

Switch to a super defensive paradigm right before it goes off so you survive any following attacks while you're weakened, then switch back over to all-out offensive paradigms as soon as you're green.

[Jaregue]

idk. tried com rav med to top off hp. then com rav rav to do the dmg to try and stun the timer

it never works. and always 1 shots light.

[Kumbai]

Are you keeping Pro/Shell up? Med x3 is really efficient... nearly as good as Renew, which is a godsend too~