The "I'm stuck on a boss" thread

[Trocian]

Any help on mission 62 would be helpful, fuck these things & their multicast spam...

I have all 3 main roles capped (role lv 5) and 2 sub roles to role lv 3+. My Main team is fang/van/hope.. But i even went in w/ Light/fang/hope in hopes of an early [Army of One] instant chain.. but that's just not reliable enough. I got instant chain to proc right away once, but they still spammed Multicast so i couldnt get enough time to at least get deshell/imperil/deprotect up before going to town on the first and having enough time to down it. And After maining Fang/van/hope for so long, light is such a shitty healer that needing to use her in a paradigm that requires her to constantly heal is super gimp.

A few paradigms I relied on were:

sab/sab/med (to debuff)
syn/syn/syn (start off w/ this)
sen/sen/sen (to eat multicast spam - w/is so numerous that u hardly get a chance to do otherwise)

Use a bunch of -magic% accs, think I had around 40% on everyone. Open with Fortisol/Aegisol up, Deceptisol doesn't work. Start with RAV/RAV/RAV and just rush stagger on one. If you take alot of damage, wait to stagger and get your HP up. Once you stagger one, switch to SAB/SAB/SAB and get Deprot/Deshell/Imperil up. With enough STR on Fang you should be able to burn it down before they dispel themselves/you. The AoE they do while staggered is quite nasty, but if you get one of them down, the fight is pretty much over.

Think it took me ~2.5min to kill both, with a target time of like 10 minutes. I guess you can take it slow and still 5-star it pretty easily.

[BarthelloSylph]

Wait...

The game doesn't end when you beat it?????

[Trocian]

Wait...

The game doesn't end when you beat it?????

When you beat the final boss you unlock the last Crystarium level, and it spits you out in Orphan's Cradle where you can teleport back to GP/Eden. You can't really do many of the later missions without it.

[Katlan]

Thanks for the mission 62 help, will try it when i get home

[BarthelloSylph]

When you beat the final boss you unlock the last Crystarium level, and it spits you out in Orphan's Cradle where you can teleport back to GP/Eden. You can't really do many of the later missions without it.

I just beat it to see if I was getting bullshat, and I have to admit I was not, lol.

[Plow]

I just beat it to see if I was getting bullshat, and I have to admit I was not, lol.

I believe my highest HP character the first time I did last boss was about 8k.

Then I redid it from a different save after grinding to completely full crystarium and 999,999 to spare, and my highest was like 13-14k.

Crystarium completely filled out through the post-last-boss phase now and Snow has over 30k with no hp acc's on.

[BarthelloSylph]

Wow, that's crazy. I'm never going to have time to do that. Do I get trophies if one person finishes a job to level 5?

[Plow]

There's 7 trophies, 1 for maxing each job, which can be on any char, and then one for mastering all jobs, which happens on all chars at the same time anyway.

And don't worry, when you start farming for weapons the CP will be pouring in so fast you'll occasionally remember to look at your guys and notice 800k+ to spend.

[BarthelloSylph]

Farming for weapons?

[Plow]

For gil/trapezohedrons/dark matter to upgrade with.

[Jakson]

How much MAG do I need (with malboro wand) to land death on Neochu for CP Egg mission? Or does MAG even affect it? Just random spam it until it lands?

Edit: Nvm, just beat it after about half an hour of spamming with Van/Snow/Hope on SAB/SEN/MED

[darkepyon]

Fucking Barthandelus... Ugh....

Either the onslaught of the -ga spells from the armor screws me up, or I get slaughtered by Destrudo. This game is making me want to break stuff.

I use Lightning/Fang/Hope. I'm debating whether or not to swap out Hope for Sazh for haste, but it doesn't seem worth the loss of a second healer.

[Aeo]

Dark for destructo when he starts to do that push all 3 people into an attack mode because if you put enough damage into him he will do a grunt type thing and it does half the damage to you and i also use the same 3 people you do and chapter 11 is a bitch because it is nothing but farming CP

[Souj]

I use Lightning/Fang/Hope. I'm debating whether or not to swap out Hope for Sazh for haste, but it doesn't seem worth the loss of a second healer.

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[Raen Ryong]

Fucking Barthandelus... Ugh....

Either the onslaught of the -ga spells from the armor screws me up, or I get slaughtered by Destrudo. This game is making me want to break stuff.

I use Lightning/Fang/Hope. I'm debating whether or not to swap out Hope for Sazh for haste, but it doesn't seem worth the loss of a second healer.

Not a very nice fight, I agree! I would go with Light/Fang/Sazh. Start in COM/COM/SYN and Blitz spam the heads while Sazh buffs you. You can use Fang's SAB to Dispel the buffs Bart puts on the heads if you want, but you're probably better off just zerging them. Switch to RAV/COM/RAV and just decimate them one by one when you're properly buffed.

The fight with Bart main isn't that bad if you pay attention. Keep your HPs high in case of Thanatosian Laughter or whatever it is called in that fight. When he starts readying Destrudo, stop everything and just hit him with all you have. Eventually he will grunt (there will be a noticeable animation to show this - you won't miss it) and then switch to MED/SEN/SYN to absorb the (hopefully now manageable) damage.

Equip +HP or damage resist accessories if you do not care too much about kill time - they can help a lot.

[darkepyon]

Not a very nice fight, I agree! I would go with Light/Fang/Sazh. Start in COM/COM/SYN and Blitz spam the heads while Sazh buffs you. You can use Fang's SAB to Dispel the buffs Bart puts on the heads if you want, but you're probably better off just zerging them. Switch to RAV/COM/RAV and just decimate them one by one when you're properly buffed.

The fight with Bart main isn't that bad if you pay attention. Keep your HPs high in case of Thanatosian Laughter or whatever it is called in that fight. When he starts readying Destrudo, stop everything and just hit him with all you have. Eventually he will grunt (there will be a noticeable animation to show this - you won't miss it) and then switch to MED/SEN/SYN to absorb the (hopefully now manageable) damage.

Equip +HP or damage resist accessories if you do not care too much about kill time - they can help a lot.

Well, finally beat the bastard. Took me just over 14 minutes though. I only managed to stagger him maybe once and force a destrudo charge. After that, he'd usually charge up again when he got close to stagger. There were a number of things I could've done better but I was just glad to finally win. Thanks, Raen. That helped quite a bit.

It was definitely a cool fight with an interesting gimmick.

[Raen Ryong]

Anytime the game's difficulty picks up quite a bit from Chapter 9 boss onwards, so be prepared to have to think about a lot of fights from now on~

[Vendog]

OK Barthandalus and Orphan at the end. I can kill Bart but Orphan is being a bitch any tips?
I start the fight almost dead and can't use any aerosols. Party setup and strategy would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: It sucks you have to re-fight Bart if you wanna shut it off and try later

[Raen Ryong]

Light/Hope/Vanille. Start MED/MED/MED to eat his initial Merciless Judgment and then switch to MED/SYN/SAB. Buff up and make sure Vanille lands Poison! When Poison is up and you're decently buffed, just tank him in MED/MED/MED, reapplying Poison as necessary. Put some Cherub's Crowns on your main character and others if necessary. Should be a fairly quick and painless fight.

Second form: start COM/SYN/SAB => RAV/SYN/SAB until you have Haste on all of you and maybe a handful of debuffs on him. After this, RAV/RAV/RAV and stagger him really quickly. As soon as he is staggered, Army of One and zerg and he should die on the first stagger.

My version of the original Poison strat which was not my idea first.

[Vendog]

Finally Beat it (took a 2 week break was getting wasted alot >.>) Thanks for all your help guys.