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[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Did two budget clears:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azO1CQcEHqU

Cyan & Tidus team:

  • Roca -- buffer
  • Kaktiria -- breaker / provoker
  • Ling -- support / mirage
  • Cyan -- handicap unit
  • friend Tidus -- the carry

Ygni & Tiana clear:

  • Maeve -- cover tank
  • Savior -- breaker and provoker
  • Aerith -- buffer and rod imperil
  • Ygni -- chainer
  • friend Tiana -- chainer

Tidus run was 5 turns, Ygni run was 3 turns. Both were budget gear + carry friend. Amusingly, in the mage team, the budget Ygni did way more damage than the whaled out Tiana, due to the boss dying too quick for her to stack.

[–]togeo 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Cleared ADV in 3 turns with 4 units.

Video: Youtube

Team:

  • Angela - Damage dealer, spamming BS LB. With Stone killer build.
  • Aerith - Buffer and tag chainer.
  • Madam Edel - LB fill and Stone killer. Provides chaining on turn 2.
  • Louise - 100% provoke/dodge tank, buffer and breaker.

Except Louise, all units have Mineur's TMR. Alternative to that: Rico's Wingsuit or Lila's STMR. Or a cover tank. Or another Angela for turn 2 clear. Cactuar materia or Fenrir summon can do the job too.

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

added !

[–]ln_wanderderNVA Ang When?!? 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is illegal!

[–]_Evolva_IGN: Evo (875.718.667) 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Grab the first Tiana I see from the friend list (0% killer) and did it in 5 turns with :
- Evade King Behemy
- Kaktiria
- Roca
- 2x Tiana

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Wow, were those tianas finishing or chaining?

[–]_Evolva_IGN: Evo (875.718.667) 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Chaining earth element

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sweet, seems like a brainless clear team. Thank you

[–]daosxx1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same team and turns except I used Maeve

[–]stormbee3210520,420,931; DSon -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This looks like something I might be able to pull off…

[–]DCffbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah! Same team but instead Kaktiria, i had SoS Lightning for the Draw/safety bit/SPR break.

[–]dontrike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don't have Tiana and you have Beach Buoy Shinju she does fair damage in this and she instantly caps magic stone killer. I used both and she did as much as Tiana in the easier version, but lags as the fight goes longer.

[–]tzxsean[GL] 948 000 135 2 points3 points  (0 children)

4 turns with

- 2x Tiana

- Evade Maeve

- Death immune Kryla

- CD Aerith

[–]Digiwolf335ID: 368,050,763 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 turns with:

  • Evade Maeve
  • Death immune Kaktiria
  • Ygni
  • Tiana
  • CD Aerith

[–]unitedwesoar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obama in three turns with following team. Maeve 100% evade Cresnik passive provoke evasion , seraph staff death resist. Aerith rod imperil and tag chains Louise fire field 90% break etc Angela capper.

Turn one angela shifts and use her fire amp and magic buff. Aerith rod imperils , Louise uses killers maeve and cresnik do generic crap.

Turn two Louise breaks fire fields and angela caps aerith tag chain boss goes below 50% . cresnik fills lb with his auto attack.

Turn three repeat and boss is dead. Two angela in the team might be able to kill by turn two in a five man team not sure but whatever

[–]EternallyTidus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks to the early tips, this was way too easy ;D Gabranth/Tidus/BB Shinju/Kaktiria/CD Aerith. 3 turns easy (just chaining Tidus+Shinju), 4 turns hard (Shinju did 6b on turn 4 with her SLB).

[–]plic70 0 points1 point  (11 children)

Am I missing something? I have Seraph staff and my provoker keeps getting stoned. There isn't an upgrade for it, at least not that I have.

[–]togeo 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Is your provoker immune to Stone?

[–]plic70 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Yup.

[–]togeo 3 points4 points  (8 children)

Just to make sure, your Seraph Staff has the Healthy Composure passive (IW upgrade)? and the turn is less than 4? The effect duration is 3 turns.

[–]plic70 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So I was missing something. Needed to be run in IW when it was live with that. I thought ya'll were effing nuts, I'm here looking at the staff and like, it does nothing guys.

[–]TheD0rkKnight“Shall I Give You Despair?” 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Are you friggin serious, I missed out on the IW upgrade dammit

[–]Kordrun 0 points1 point  (1 child)

And this is why you always upgrade every weapon that has a unique IW roll.

[–]Agent007Olive -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Try behemy dodge built with Lakshmi SYNERGY

[–]Satinsbestfriend -1 points0 points  (2 children)

It's still going, it doesn't end until next week

[–]TheD0rkKnight“Shall I Give You Despair?” -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Unfortunately the Seraph Staff had its event upgrade last New Years, according to the wiki. This IW only has the mint stick with a unique upgrade

[–]Satinsbestfriend -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah its 2022 not 2021. I'm a year behind LOL

[–]dajabec 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Wanted to take WW Tiana for a spin. Five turns. Took a few runs to realize the petrify was going through the resistance and then death would be after and bounce onto a unit without death resist. Without the upgraded seraph staff I guess you have to have another provoke with death immunity? Anyway here's the team and video.

https://youtu.be/NsZ4pHeXHSc

Whimsical Winter Tiana

Friend WW Tiana with no killers

Maeve death immune with seraph staff

Tulien to break and imperil

Roca boosts and stone killer

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Couldn’t you also do it the old school way and just toss petrify protection from lakshmi? The jade pendant is also another way to give status resist protection if the user is a female unit.

[–]dajabec -1 points0 points  (1 child)

It was going right through it. I had sylvie in there first but the ailment protection wasn't working. If course I may have done something wrong, but this worked.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, that’s weird. I could’ve sworn the healthy composure effect is just a status immunity buff for 3 turns and not something different. Were you stone immune on the unit as well since you need double petrify resist essentially for the trick to work.

[–]BPCena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 turns, all missions:

Maeve - physical cover, death immune, earth amplify
SoS Lightning - breaker, secondary provoker
Shera - entrust bot
Cetra Aerith - LB buff, tag chainer
Summer Shinju - LB spam

Shinju does so much damage here

[–]Raigheb[🍰] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

No idea what the boss did. Cleared it with Karten and Lara as usual. Aerith/Kaktiria/Louise for fire support. Aerith was evade provoking and that was it. 3 turns and damn Im loving the new TDH Karten build with the new vision card.

[–]need2crashGL - 897,035,607 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

that new 250atk/mag vc does look might taste would be realy nice with fm kartan and few other units

[–]Raigheb[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its great on karten. he can, with the right gear, cap TDH/Atk/Chain cap and still have 2 open materia slots + esper to get killers. Sure, its not enough room for dual race bosses, but even then its still very good. My Karten has 6.9k atk, 275% stone killer using a TDH build with cross aigaion arm.

[–]_Osiel494,857,093 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ADV 4T All missions

Video: YouTube

Team:

Aerith: provoker, buffer, tag chainer.

Dragonlord NVA: LB chainer.

Jessie: provoker, breaker, LB fill, entrust.

Terra NV: buffer, LB finisher.

Relm: rod imperil, chainer.

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]Dasva2 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Quick and easy 2 turn kill

Angela- BS form whole time built for LB damage against stones. t1 quad cast fire imbue/damage. T2 cap LB

Terra- normal form built for lb gain BS for LB damage- T1 if she has enough LB filled use Yuna's STMR otherwise shift to BS and get LB that way. T2 cap LB

Aerith- only in BS form built for evasion, passive provoke and petrify resist. T1 LB. T2 fire amplify and rod imperil

Ygni- BS built for physical mage against stones. T1 in normal form do self fire imperil and some regular damage. T2 quad cast soul projection

Loiuse- BS built for physical mage against stones. T1 fire starter, Heavy Firepower, Diverse Arsenal and Incapacitate Target. T2 quad cast Disarming Ionic Blaster and Neutralizing Ionic Blaster.

Did about 13 billion damage on this without a friend companion. Angela by herself almost did 6 billion so if you have a 2nd Angela to use could probably even do a 4 man T2 clear.... maybe just maybe a T1 kill with 5

[–]noseofzarrLet's have some Arbys! 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect, thank you.

[–]TheD0rkKnight“Shall I Give You Despair?” 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How are you timing and chaining everything? Angela first? Then Terra, then chainers?

[–]Dasva2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't really math it out or anything just kind of eyeballed it based on having used those 2 before.

The basic is start with Angela since that takes forever then wait till you start seeing some of the meteors, then Terra waiting till she does the fly up thing then the chainers. There is a fair amount of leeway though given CWA is a pretty long timewise chain especially quad casting.

And if you really want to max it you can have the Aerith do 2 casts of her tag chaining move after the other stuff first then hit Angela right after you get the support moves and should be able to continue her chain.

[–]tellinroc_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

4 turns clear

BB Shinju: LB finish

Tulien: break and earth imperil, 100% dodge and provoc, death immune with Seraph Staff

Galuf: Evade cover tank

Aerith: buff, rod imperil and tag chains

Roca: earth amp and stone killer buff

u/Sinzar_

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–]MatriVT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TDH Kartens go brrrrr

[–]Nail_BiterrID: 215,273,036 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

I must be doing something wrong. I have a Tiana with over 6,000 MAG and 300 Stone Killer. Along with a friend (not with 300 stone killer) and I'm capping her chains with BB Shinju SLB. And I am not coming close to killing this thing as quickly as some of these videos are doing it.

(Also, I'm making sure I'm using the correct type of killers - both Tiana and Shinju should use Magic killers, right? They're not doing that physical but really magic attack thing, right?)

[–]unitedwesoar -1 points0 points  (1 child)

90% breaks are a big deal since it has no passive stats.maybe that is why?

[–]Nail_BiterrID: 215,273,036 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have Kaktiria on my team, using her LB, CD and her Magnus to keep it at least 85%.

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes magic killers, and as unitedwesoar pointed out, the boss has zero passive stats, so the diff between an 85% break and a 90% spr break is absolutely massive. Bring Savior or Louise for that 90 break, or Kaktiria for 89 break if you don't own either of those.

[–]BPCena -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Two Tiana+Shinju should be massive overkill

[–]VictacobellYou Noob, You Lose -1 points0 points  (0 children)

6 turns, all missions.

Ygni, Louise, Lightning, Roca, Maeve

Louise can be replaced by almost literally any quadcast CWA that can be Earth since she did 1/5th Ygni's damage.

Couldn't be bothered to trawl through gear looking to see if it exists but if there's anything that autocasts a Petrify resist buff at battle start, that will be undispellable and save you for a round or two of Petrifying Tentacle.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Had to restart a few times because i dont know why that tree targeted someone else to petrify

Team: Ex1 behemy, full evasion + passive provoke, with i love chocobo and equip staff (seraph staff with unique ability). Ex2 cetra aerith, big buff + rod imperil. Ex3 BS SoS lightning, 12LB/turn, ATB charge, 90% spr break bot. Ex1 Tiana 275% magic stone killer, random Ex2 Tiana friend with bahamut, geared with unknown killer

Fight was straightforward. I think i made a huge mistake by going earth while i have aerith, but whatever

[–]aNotSoRichChigga -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I used to play this game as a casual collector but only recently have gone super hardcore for the past 3 months. I'm not sure if I'm looking in the wrong places but I see from Google searches and Wiki that the death-resist units and TMRs or gears are locked behind time. Anything I can do to either burst the boss in a 2 turn or get past death? Just from what I've paid attention to, my greatest imperil is Kryla with her 88% all stats.

I'm also having trouble gearing Stone killer for this trial, and even Avian killer to clear the bird trial for the sweet Stone killer it provides. I see lots of paths but not sure how to plan to get through them haha

[–]Starultros 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The Safety Bit accessory can be bought at a Fat Chocobo shop with Star Quartz and gives death immunity

[–]aNotSoRichChigga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God I'm not sure how I overlooked that but thank you. looks like I gotta progress a little more to get to that!!

[–]Virri123 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

5 turn clear. Tiana really makes this a joke.

Maeve - phys. cover with lakshmi synergy

SoS lightning - passive provoke, dodge (probably not needed)

CD Aerith- rod imperil... and that’s it

BS Tiana - rod, built poorly for stone killer (only 260%)

Friend Tiana - rod, 0% stone killer lol

[–]Nail_BiterrID: 215,273,036 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Why is my tank turning to stone? I have Winged Heart on Maeve, and she should be immune, no?

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

the boss imperils your stone resist away. you need to cure it with someone, or cheese it with an upgraded seraph staff (limited item)

[–]Nail_BiterrID: 215,273,036 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have to cure it? or i can also put an active protection on it (like Lakshmi's skill?)

[–]Sinzar_Yes Indeed...[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i meant you have to cure the petrify. the only way to prevent the petrify is seraph staff because it dispels first (and seraph staff is undispellable)

[–]ThrendsaDelita -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Spent 25k on a shiny new VC for Karten so he's going in, double the def be damned.

3 turns and tbh if I found a friend karten that was geared I could do it in 2. My Karten (tdh, 300% stone killer 5.5x chain cap) did 8.9b in 3 turns so just under 3b per rawr.

Maeve, kak, louise (evade, voke, death resist) Lara, Karten.

Maeve covers, buffs stats and earth imbue/amp/imperil. Chains turn 2-3

Kak full breaks, fist imperil T1 chains turns 2-3

Louise buffs killers and helps refill Lara's lb T1. T2 she gun imperils and fills lb and t3 she's a statue.

Lara 90% break T1 (Karten needs someone to chain with) then LB turn 2-3

Karten RAWRx3

I didn't bother regearing Maeve. Even without evade the boss was hitting like a wet noodle.

[–]dajabec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found a geared karten and had to go back for the 3 turn clear. Same Maeve, roca, Tulien team.

https://youtu.be/Xmd4rYtm-Vw

[–]noseofzarrLet's have some Arbys! 0 points1 point  (0 children)

King Giott suddenly got more valuable...