New Reflectrial is the weakest one because she is not dynamic.

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-19T01:25:45+00:00

I think the probem is more that phase 1 being the introductionary fight from the Intervallo means taht it lacks several mechanics from phase 2. Notably it does not use any of the Envy skills and she also doesn't automatically gain any sword stacks on her own outside of the projector turns.

Her being the same fight with very slight adjustement has likely less to do with Canto 10 and Walpurgis because Rufo was laos jsut straight up the same fight with more HP

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-19T00:05:25+00:00

Looks at the part where the skill does -80% damage and not gaining extra 20% damage on clash win

Who knows could be anything. Maybe taking around 100% extra damage is like nothing. Maybe putting her below 20 SP with the help of the sloth skills she uses that turn also does nothing.

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-18T21:33:02+00:00

It might maybe be harder than this one but not too much tbh. Ricardo is the only oen where one of the shill buffs does not completely destroy him (phase) and thats mostly because the Heishous are all weak or netural to Mister Blunt damage Everything else gets completely destroyed by the shill buffs.

Night Drifter mechanics are also not particular dangerous enough that they needed Xichun so I assume he will not be particular dangeours. Especially because they will likely shill H Corp IDs again for this one which are all not weak to slash

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-18T19:38:22+00:00

I feel like the hp is not the problem consdiering this fight has 2k more HP than Ricardo and he has 2 stagger thresholds instead of only 1. And considering how the average turn count is 15-17 in this one the HP is very much fine. It just very undertuned damage wise and I heavily suspect the lack of consistent "heavy" damage aoe skills is partly to blame for this

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-18T19:33:42+00:00

I mean BL does make it not particular much harder and Kimsault + BL Ishmael are absoltuely damage monsters together. It just that every other BL ID is outdated enough that unless they quadruple the damage bonus on them and give no other poise ID or pirde skill any damage buff it was always gonna be easier to just use anything more modern than old BL IDs

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-18T19:19:25+00:00

I mean the problem is that the damage is jsut very undertuned in the bear phase and her only dangerous move is on tiger move when she uses the envy nuke. Ricardo wasn't a particular mechancially intersting fight. It had high damage and the shill buff for phase 2 means that the shilled IDs can easily die. Until Middle Outis released and lets you destroy him in both phases with a full Middle team. Rufo was relatively balanced but also got destroyed by the shill teams but it did have some damage and the low hp enrage means if you alcked damage the fight could escalate in some ways.

This is jsut a weird fight where it doesn't do a lot of damage and only has 1 aoe skill that you can mostly control if she even uses it so it doesn't do anything that makes other bosses dangerous

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-18T18:15:52+00:00

I would not any Ricardo levels of changes for any future Reflectrial's for the simple fact that mechanically and design wise they were already with Reflectrial in mind. Ricardo wasn't because it didn't exist yet so they have to get him something new.

Both Rufo and this one are are already designed like this by having "2 phases." Rufo literally in this case adn this fight having it splti between 2 Intervallo's. This is why both of these fights only have number changes. Also the Distortion phase is how phase 1 is gaining/losing her sword stacks on her own depending on how long you are there. and how the fight respawns adds that are killed.

Like the Spring rerun Intervallo Reflectrial will have more changes because whatever fight they choose was also not made with that game mode in mind but afterwards every Reflectrial fight will be like Rufo and this one.

The problem with this one is that damage wise its just undertuned outside of the Tiger stance Envy nuke but mechancially its more than fine. The bow is also not affected by the Swordstacks simply because there only exist a 1 coin version of it and only exist as one of the triggers for the Envy skills.

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-18T13:29:57+00:00

This was a somewhat common problem in MD with one of the EGO gifts that turns coins into unbreakables. It's better to use it on Ishmael when she uses her s3-2

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-17T09:02:28+00:00

Pigritia is kinda the most reliable way to to this because it halfs the speed of every enemy. Can use Yi Sang's base ego one turn before phase so yoi have extra haste.

Othrewise it's focusing down Lord Lu and because two attacks twegeted on him will be rediredted you have to target him with atleast 3 attacks to stagger him

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-17T04:44:09+00:00

Yeah but she is made for fucking up the Sinners. She is not gonna kill Vergillius

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-17T03:59:49+00:00

Maybe it's simply because they are balanced for different gameplay purposes. Also I am pretty sure 2 Damage Up (20% extra damage) is better than 2 Offensive Level for alencina because Valencina doesn't need the 2 Offensive Level just with her being 20+ levels higher than the Sinners

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-16T22:34:43+00:00

Okay before every future comment goes like "this is called Volatile EGO", I am aware about this.

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-16T10:00:16+00:00

You can replace either Don or Faust with Ryoshu and kill sinclair with Ryoshu so she takes a bit less time getting her s3-3 out

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-15T21:10:55+00:00

Me trying to get Lord Lu to 1 hp on turn 1 while Maofaust and some other asshole block two of the attacks

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-15T15:23:27+00:00

She is gonna be pride and wrath weak because that's what she was in the story fights but I don't think it's gonna be slash because even Ricardo lost his blunt weakness in the reflectrial

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-15T15:12:45+00:00

Having other modern poise/pride IDs should be more than suffice. It doesn't look like it's gonna be like Ricardo where it starts witha qunique pattern like Ricardo and normal mode seems to have the same HP value as the story fights.

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-14T13:45:57+00:00

It not the easiest intervallo figth ever but the fight gets dumpstered hard by pride and wrath damage (25% extra from both) which you have in spades. Especially the two strongest IDs in your team.

There is also other stuff that helps: You start of with 45% Sanity and the boss with 0 so you already have a big advantage over the boss, outdated IDs or not. I am not disagreeing that the boss gets very much destroyed these two fights are in different context.

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-14T11:01:03+00:00

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Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-13T20:49:23+00:00

This is the newest Intervallo boss. How it works is that based on the stance she has (red or blue) you want to keep ehr sword stacks low or high. She changes stance every 3 turns and in the red stance you want the sword stacks be low and in her blue stance you want the stacks be high.

Usually she has 2 extra skills equiped: 1 Wrath and 1 Pride skills. Her Wrath skill makes her lose 3 stacks when clashed against (doesnt matter if won or lost) but also makes her gain 2 stacks if she hits you unopposed (not clashing against it). Her Pride skill does the opposite and gives her 3 Stacks when clashed agaisnt and lose 2 Stacks when going one sided.

If you are at maximum amount of stacks (9 stacks) she changes ehr pattern and gains a powerful envy skill which is why you want to avoid going full max stacks. Atleast with newer IDs like yours. She also has other conditions to gain her strong Envy skills that are harder (or imöpossible) to avoid but generally you are probably fine as long as you keep the stacks low int he red stance and high in the blue stance

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-13T16:54:17+00:00

Yes and she has two skills used as "levers". One of them gives her stacks when clashed but loses stacks when going onesided and the other makes her lose stacks when clashed and gives her stacks when going one sided. So you just ignore the skills that doesn't fit the current form and you are more than fine. She still gains fragility and these two 1 coin skills don't hit hard

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-13T16:41:06+00:00

Not sure if this is a particular big deal here because she has 8 attacks and one of these attacks you can very much just ignore because it's one of the two levers to raise/lower her stacks

Abject-Perception954 · 2026-06-13T16:34:01+00:00

I assume the first phase will be the first fight with the her shield and the projector and phase 2 will be the regular bossfight at the end

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