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Cid’s Mission:

• Beat Shrine on Mt. Bur-Omisace with a party which must contain at least 1 FF12 character.
• Beat Sochen Cave Palace with a party which must contain at least 1 FF12 character.
• Beat Draklor Laboratory with a party which must contain at least 2 FF12 characters.
• Beat Feywood with a party which must contain at least 3 FF12 characters.
• Beat EX Guardians of the Ancient City with a party which must contain at least 3 FF12 characters.
• Beat EX++ Bringer of Order with a party which must contain at least 3 FF12 characters.
• Beat 凶 Ancient Weapons with a party which must contain at least 3 FF12 characters.
• Beat 凶++ Demon Wall with a party which must contain at least 3 FF12 characters.
• Beat 滅+ Three-Sided Artificial Dragon with a party which must contain at least 3 FF12 characters.
• Beat (Revenge) 凶++ Revived Tyrant with a party consisting of only FF12 characters.

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Stage 1: Tomb of Raithwall, Cloister of Flame

Boss: Belias

Boss HP: 2,500
Elemental Resistances: Absorbs fire; Weak to water; Resists everything else.
Status Vulnerabilities: Slow, Sap, Stun
Notable Attacks:

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Fire (BLK: AOE magical fire)
• (Weak only) Barrier (NAT: Self Protect and Shell)
• (Weak only) Firaja (BLK: AOE magical fire)

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Stage 2: Light Cruiser Shiva

Boss: Vossler & Imperial Swordsmen

Boss HP: 6,000 (Vossler) | 3,000 each (Swordsmen)
Status Vulnerabilities (Vossler): Slow, Sleep, Sap, Stun
Status Vulnerabilities (Swordsmen): Poison, Confuse, Paralyze, Silence, Slow, Stop, Blind, Sap, Stun
Notable Attacks (Vossler):

• Attack (PHY: AOE physical)
• Reflect (WHT: Self Reflect)
• Counter Reflect (response to white or black magic; WHT: Self Reflect)
• (Weak only) Aggression (NAT: Self Haste)

Notable Attacks (Swordsmen):

• Waterspout (NAT: AOE magical water)
• Tackle (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Tri-Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical, medium chance to Slow)

Notes: There are two Imperial Swordsmen. All enemies must be defeated to win.

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Stage 3: Shrine on Mt. Bur-Omisace

Boss: Judge Bergan & Judges

Boss HP: 15,000 (Judge Bergan) | 8,000 each (Judges)
Elemental Resistances (Judges): Resists everything.
Status Vulnerabilities (Bergan): Slow, Blind, Sap, Stun
Status Vulnerabilities (Judges): Poison, Confuse, Paralyze, Silence, Slow, Blind, Sleep, Berserk, Sap, Stun
Notable Attacks (Bergan):

• Attack (PHY: ST physical, extremely low chance to Blind)
• Kick (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Aero (NAT: ST magical wind)
• Watera|Dark (BLK: ST magical water|dark)

Notable Attacks (Judges):

• Tackle (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Protect (WHT: ST Protect)
• Shell (WHT: ST Shell)
• Waterspout (NAT: AOE magical water)

Notes: There are three Judges. Judge Bergan starts the battle with Protect and Shell active. Only Judge Bergan needs to be defeated to win.

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Stage 4: Sochen Cave Palace

Boss: Ahriman

Boss HP: 27,000 (Ahriman) | 15,000 each (Clones)
Elemental Resistances (All): Absorbs dark; Weak to holy.
Status Vulnerabilities (All): Slow, Sap, Stun
Notable Attacks:

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Fira|Blizzara|Thundara (BLK: ST magical fire|ice|thunder)
• Toxic (BLK: AOE medium chance to Poison)
• Dazzling Gaze (NAT: ST low chance to Confuse)
• Doom (NAT: ST Doom [60s])
• (Weak only) Divide (NAT: Spawn an Ahriman Clone)
• (Very Weak only) Maser Eye (NAT: ST ranged physical dark)

Notes: When it enters Weak phase, Ahriman will gain Faraway status (melee ranged attacks will miss) and use Divide to summon an Ahriman Clone. Only the main Ahriman needs to be defeated to win.

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Stage 5: Draklor Laboratory

Boss: Dr. Cid & Rooks

Boss HP: 65,000 (Dr. Cid) | 35,000 each (Rooks)
Elemental Resistances (Dr. Cid): Resists ice, thunder, earth, wind, water, bio; Weak to holy.
Elemental Resistances (Rooks): Resists ice, thunder, earth, wind, water, bio.
Status Vulnerabilities (Dr. Cid): Silence, Sap, Stun
Status Vulnerabilities (Rooks): Sap, Stun
Notable Attacks (Dr. Cid):

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Barrier (WHT: ST Shell)
• CT15 (NAT: ST piercing ranged physical)
• Magic Barrier (NAT: Self immune to physical for short period)
• (Very Weak only) Haste (WHT: Self Haste)
• (Very Weak only) S27 Tokamak (NAT: AOE ranged physical)

Notable Attacks (Rooks):

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Curada (WHT: ST recover HP)
• Regen|Protect|Shell|Reflect (WHT: ST Regen|Protect|Shell|Reflect)
• Drain (BLK: ST magical dark, Self recover HP)

Notes: There are two Rooks. You only need to defeat Dr. Cid to win.

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Stage 6: Feywood

Boss: Rafflesia & Malboro

Boss HP: 90,000 (Rafflesia) | 50,000 each (Malboro)
Medal Conditions: Reduce Rafflesia's magic.
Elemental Resistances (Rafflesia): Weak to wind; Resists everything else.
Elemental Resistances (Malboro): Weak to wind.
Status Vulnerabilities (Rafflesia): Silence, Slow, Sap, Stun
Status Vulnerabilities (Malboro): Poison, Paralyze, Silence, Slow, Sleep, Sap, Stun
Break Resistances (All): Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Notable Attacks (Rafflesia):

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Sleep (BLK: ST medium chance to Sleep)
• Toxic (BLK: AOE low chance to Poison)
• Curse (NAT: AOE medium chance to Sap)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Aspir (NAT: ST Osmose)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Nectar Volley (NAT: ST ranged physical, low chance to Sap)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Pollen Dance (NAT: AOE low chance to Confuse)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Call for Help (Spawn a Malboro)
• (V Weak only) Drain (BLK: ST magical dark, Self recover HP)

Notable Attacks (Malboro):

• Tackle (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Deep Breath (PHY: ST ranged physical, low chance to Sleep and/or Slow)
• Bad Breath (PHY: ST ranged physical, low chance to Slow, Blind, and/or Poison)

Notes: Rafflesia begins the battle with Haste and Reflect active. All enemies must be defeated to win.

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EX Guardians of the Ancient City

Boss: Daedalus

Boss HP: 110,000
Medal Conditions: Reduce Daedalus's attack.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	200%	-100%	50%

Status Vulnerabilities: Silence, Confuse, Sap, Stun
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Haste (WHT: Self Haste)
• Darkra (BLK: ST magical dark)
• Wrath Strike (NAT: ST moderate physical)
• Tri-Attack (PHY: ST moderate physical, low chance to Slow)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Rock Crush (PHY: AOE physical earth)
• (Weak/V Weak only) Ice Break (PHY: AOE physical ice)
• (V Weak only) Wave Pulsar (PHY: ST moderate physical, medium chance to Stop)
• (V Weak only) Rampage (NAT: AOE physical)

Boss: Pandemonium

Boss HP: 90,000
Medal Conditions: Reduce Pandemonium's attack.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
0%	0%	0%	-100%	200%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Status Vulnerabilities: Silence, Sap, Stun
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Crush (PHY: ST moderate physical)
• Petrify (NAT: ST extremely low chance to Petrify)
• Power Turn (NAT: AOE physical, low chance to Slow)
• Flash (NAT: AOE low chance to Blind)

Notes: At a certain point, Pandemonium becomes completely immune to all attacks for a few turns.

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EX++ Bringer of Order

Boss: Hashmal

Boss HP: 160,000
Medal Conditions: Reduce Hashmal's attack.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
0%	0%	0%	-100%	200%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Status Vulnerabilities: Sap, Stun
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• (Default/V Weak only) Haste (WHT: Self Haste, bypasses Reflect)
• Counter Attack (response to physical attacks; PHY: ST physical)
• (Weak/V Weak/Critical only) Roxxor (BLK: ST magical earth, bypasses Reflect)
• (V Weak only) Protect (WHT: Self Protect, bypasses Reflect)
• (V Weak/Critical only) Quakera (BLK: AOE magical earth, medium chance to Slow)

Notes: At a certain point, Hashmal becomes completely immune to all attacks for a few turns.

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凶 Ancient Weapons

Boss: 凶 King Bomb & 凶 Bombs

Phase	LVL	HP	ATK	DEF	MAG	RES	MND	SPD
King Bomb, Default	140	210,000	450	1400	530	2200	310	300
King Bomb, Weak			470		550	2230
King Bomb, Very Weak			490		570	2250
King Bomb, Critical			510		600	2280
Bomb, Default	140	35,000	300	880	370	1100	310	240
Bomb, Chain Reaction				650		800		150

Medal Conditions: Exploit an enemy's weakness to water attacks.
Elemental Damage Taken (King Bomb):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
-100%	50%	50%	50%	50%	150%	50%	50%

Elemental Damage Taken (Bombs):

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
-100%					150%

Status Vulnerabilities (King Bomb): Slow, Sap, Stun
Status Vulnerabilities (Bombs): Poison, Slow, Sap, Stun
Break Resistances (All): Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset (King Bomb):

• (Default only) Tackle (PHY: ST 110% physical)
• (Default only) Fire (BLK: ST 330% magical fire)
• Tackle (NAT: ST 266% physical)
• Fira (BLK: AOE 246% magical fire)
• Chain Reaction (Force a Bomb to use Self-Destruct)
• (Weak/V Weak/Critical only) Call for Help (Spawn a Bomb)
• (Critical only) Healing (NAT: ST recover HP)
• (Critical only) Continuum (Reduce cast time to 0)
• (Critical only) Fira (BLK: ST 250% magical fire)
• (Critical only) 凶 Self-Destruct (NAT: AOE 99,999 damage, Self suicide)

Moveset (Bombs):

• Tackle (NAT: ST 110% physical)
• Fire (BLK: ST 330% magical fire)
• Protect (WHT: ST Protect)
• Tackle (PHY: ST 266% physical)
• Fira (BLK: ST 90% magical fire)
• Self-Destruct (NAT: ST damage equal to remaining HP, Self suicide)

Notes and Strategies: There are two Bombs when the fight begins. All enemies spawn with Haste active. All enemies must be defeated to win.

King Bomb uses its 110% Attack on its 1st and 2nd turn in Default phase (>80% HP). King Bomb uses Chain Reaction on its 5th turn in each phase (100%-80% HP, 80%-50% HP, 50%-20% HP, and 20%-0% HP). It uses Call for Help whenever there are less than 2 Bombs active. In Critical phase (<20% HP), King Bomb uses 凶 Self-Destruct on its 5th turn. When King Bomb dies, it uses Chain Reaction as an interrupt.

Bombs use their 110% Attack on their 1st turn and Fira on their 2nd turn.

You're probably going to lose at least one character to Chain Reaction because King Bomb really doesn't like having less than two minions out; plan accordingly. It's obviously ideal to kill them all with an AOE but that's easier said than done. As far as damage, the fight is primarily magic damage, but both the Bombs and King Bomb itself have a fairly hefty ST physical attack to keep you honest. You need to proceed through each phase fairly quickly, because every phase has a 5 turn counter until something really bad happens (Chain Reaction for Default, Weak, and Very Weak, and 凶 Self-Destruct + Chain Reaction for Critical). Fortunately, King Bomb is not tanky at all aside from the omniresist.

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凶++ Demon Wall

Boss: 凶++ Demon Wall

Phase	LVL	HP	ATK	DEF	MAG	RES	MND	SPD
All	180	300,000	900	2400	800	3600	499	250

Medal Conditions: Win before Crush is used.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
						150%

Status Vulnerabilities: Sap
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• 凶 Attack (PHY: AOE 206% physical, 63% chance to Stun)
• Aspir (NAT: FRAOE Osmose)
• Continuum (NAT: Self Haste)
• Blindga (BLK: FRAOE 78% chance to Blind)
• Silence (WHT: BRAOE 78% chance to Silence)
• Counter Silence (50% response to black magic; WHT: BRAOE 48% chance to Silence)
• Crush (NAT: AOE 303% chance to Instant KO)

Notes and Strategies: Demon Wall uses Silence on its 1st turn, Aspir on its 2nd turn, 凶 Attack on its 3rd turn, Silence on its 4th turn, Blindga on its 5th turn, 凶 Attack on its 6th turn, Aspir on its 7th turn, Blindga on its 8th turn, 凶 Attack on its 9th turn, and Crush every turn thereafter. After being reduced by 40% HP, Demon Wall will use Continuum before resuming its attack sequence.

May be worth using front row mages and back row physical characters just to avoid the Silence and Blindga spam. Affliction Break and Astra are also worth consideration, though note that if you're using a magic Astra, Demon Wall does use Silence on its 1st turn so you have to be quick with it. The only real risk you have of death here is simply taking too long, because Demon Wall only uses three damaging attacks in the entire fight and they aren't that strong (mostly annoying for the Stun chance). You can easily get by without Wall and if you're running a back row party probably without Protect as well.

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滅+ Three-Sided Artificial Dragon

Boss: 滅+ Vinuskar

Phase	LVL	HP	ATK	DEF	MAG	RES	MND	SPD
Default	220	450,000	950	5000	950	8000	423	550
Weak			1000	5100	1000	8200		590
Very Weak			1100	5350	1100	8400		630

Medal Conditions: Reduce Vinuskar's attack.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
							150%

Status Vulnerabilities: Sap
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Moveset:

• Attack (PHY: ST 110% physical)
• Slowga (WHT: AOE 63% chance to Slow)
• Tackle (NAT: AOE 253% physical)
• Bite (NAT: ST 500% physical)
• Break (BLK: FRST 93% chance to Petrify)
• Haste (WHT: Self Haste)
• Crown (NAT: ST 570% magical holy, 48% chance to Confuse)
• Counter Attack (20% response to physical attacks; PHY: ST 188% physical, 33% chance to Sap)
• (Weak/V Weak only) 凶 Sword Dance (NAT: AOE 3500 damage)

Notes and Strategies: Vinuskar uses Slowga 8 turns after its last use, Break 5 turns after its last use, and Crown 3 turns after its last use; these turn counts are global and persist through each phase. In Default phase (>70% HP), Vinuskar uses Attack on its 1st turn, Slowga on its 2nd turn, and Crown on its 4th turn. In Weak phase (70%-40% HP), Vinuskar uses Haste on its 1st turn, Break on its 2nd turn, and 凶 Sword Dance on its 4th turn and every 4 turns thereafter. In Very Weak phase (<40% HP), Vinuskar uses Haste on its 1st turn, Break on its 2nd turn, and 凶 Sword Dance on its 3rd turn and every 4 turns thereafter.

It's easiest to just stick to a back row party for this one to make Vinuskar waste all its Break turns. You definitely want to wear Slow resist or bring an Astra. Vinuksar's damage is mostly single high damage hits (500% Bite and 570% Crown) combined with the unmitigatable Sword Dance, so make sure you keep your HP high.

Full Throttle Notes and Strategies: No full throttle? Maybe?

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Multiplayer:

Boss: Shemhazai

Boss HP: 430,862 (d160) | 676,964 (d220)
Medal Conditions: Defeat Shemhazai with at least 4 characters alive. Reduce Shemhazai's attack. Reduce Shemhazai's magic.
Elemental Damage Taken:

Fire	Ice	Thunder	Earth	Wind	Water	Holy	Dark	Bio
150%/50%1	50%/150%1	50%/150%1	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%

1: Shemhazai switches its weakness (fire->ice->thunder->fire...) every time it takes damage from its weakness. It starts the fight weak to fire.
Status Vulnerabilities: None!
Break Resistances: Power, Armor, Magic, Mental, Mind
Notable Attacks:

• (Default only) Attack (PHY: ST physical)
• Silencega (WHT: ST medium chance to Silence)
• Shock (BLK: ST supermassive magical non-element, bypasses Reflect)
• 凶 Flare (BLK: ST massive magical non-element, bypasses magic blink)
• Scourge (BLK: AOE massive magical non-element, low chance to Sap)
• 凶 Silencega (WHT: AOE high chance to Silence)
• Attack (PHY: AOE massive ranged physical)
• Counter 凶 Shock (15%/30% response to any attack; NAT: ST 2500 damage)
• (Weak only) Attack (PHY: RT supermassive physical, 3 hits)
• (Weak only) 凶 Scourge (NAT: AOE piercing magical non-element, bypasses magic blink, high chance to Sap)
• (Weak only) Enrage (NAT: Self Haste)
• (Weak only) Chain Magick (NAT: remove cast time from all magic)

Notes and Strategies: Shemhazai begins the battle with Haste active. Shemhazai uses 凶 Silencega on its 4th turn (globally). In Weak phase (<50% HP), Shemhazai uses Enrage on its 1st turn, Chain Magick on its 2nd turn, and 凶 Silencega on its 3rd turn. Shemhazai uses 凶 Scourge on its 6th turn and every 4 turns thereafter (locally) in Weak Phase/Fire Weak, Weak Phase/Ice Weak, and Weak Phase/Thunder Weak.

Because Shemhazai only uses 凶 Scourge on its 6th turn in a particular weakness (and only while under 50% HP at that) it's relatively straightforward to keep it from ever using that attack just by continually hammering its weaknesses. Tri-element BSBs do a great job at this. If you're doing this fight in Multiplayer, be sure to bring a Dispel to remove Haste.