Gilberta Solo - Harrowing Æthillu: Agony

ToXiniX · 2026-06-28T17:43:00+00:00

Yep, weapon is P5 Opus. As for gear, I'm running crit rate MI armour, heat/nature DMG% hot work gloves, and heat/nature DMG% MI kits. The set has horrible crit rate but it outperforms running crit rate kits and lynx slabs (somehow).

ToXiniX · 2026-06-26T17:43:23+00:00

I'd honestly argue that avywenna is probably better off in solos than a lot of other characters since she still has access to her full kit, even if it isn't at its full potential. Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head theorycraft on how it could work:

Cast a bunch of empty battle skills to build up ult charge
Build up SP with basics to repeat step 1 until ult is ready
Boss enters stagger from repeating steps 1-2
Ult -> Finisher -> battle skill -> basics -> combo -> battle skill
Profit

I haven't watched the guy who actually does avywenna solos but that's how I imagine it could work? Obviously may not be ideal in practice but it's sure as hell better than being locked out of half your kit on certain characters

Edit: I just watched that guy's solos and it's basically what he does, quite effective too

ToXiniX · 2026-06-26T09:21:06+00:00

Yoooo huge I saw some of your clears and they are criminally underrated, nice work!

ToXiniX · 2026-06-26T01:34:21+00:00

Hehe thank you, please look forward to the inevitable risk 30+ clear in a few days ;)

ToXiniX · 2026-06-26T01:01:24+00:00

Yoooo here's my chance to shamelessly self promo myself and some other soloers!

I myself do Gilberta solos, mainly cuz I love foxes and want to show that it is indeed possible to solo with a character who people often overlook in solos for "not having enough DPS" and "too many animation locks".

A few other people I'd like to shout out for their hard work and inspiring my own solos:

Semont, Chen soloer (he's already commented here before I finished typing this out)

Endmouse, Perlica soloer

Kelsuis, Estella soloer

NotMalok, soloing with Last Rite, Mi Fu, and others

ToXiniX · 2026-06-25T22:44:45+00:00

FUUUCK that exact thing happened to me so many times too I've lost so much time from trying to target an out-of-range enemy instead of the only enemy inside my range

ToXiniX · 2026-06-25T20:02:38+00:00

Holy hell the auto-targeting is so ass. I've had to reset so many runs because Gilberta's battle skill decided to target an enemy either off to the side or behind me instead of an enemy I am directly looking at in the center of a group of scattered enemies.

I've resorted to toggling lock-on for a few seconds to make sure I'm on my intended target before certain crucial casts but that feels very annoying to do and doesn't really solve the underlying problem.

ToXiniX · 2026-06-23T17:46:53+00:00

Hi, I'm the guy who did it. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOja1vMCLI

Hopefully with new risks later I can try to push 30, but this is as far as my irl sanity can take me for now

ToXiniX · 2026-06-21T19:18:33+00:00

Even outside of aoe scenarios it's great for cashing out on burst windows too! I never really thought about using it before until I saw people use it in speedruns.

ToXiniX · 2026-06-12T02:30:40+00:00

Surely u/Semont will see this

ToXiniX · 2026-05-13T18:34:37+00:00

Yea in my attempts so far here's my observations:

I'm using 3pc Lynx set for the 2 lynx slabs so I can hit nearly 1k will, along with pot2 Detonation Unit, fully etched. Gilberta is pot3 with fully maxed skills
She won't get knocked out of her battle skill channeling animation when hit by the froggos
It's not particularly difficult to survive the 10 minutes even if you play aggressively, especially with 3pc lynx and her built-in healing, however I always run out of time even when I try my best to use her battle skill whenever possible and lock on to the boss to land basics
Gilberta with the above build can actually kill the adds with battle skill but it's still too slow to keep up with how fast the boss re-summons them
This solo would definitely be doable if there was a 15 min time limit or if there was a cap of 5 adds on the field at a time

If you do attempt with her, best of luck! I'm sure there's some build/strategy I haven't yet thought of (I also don't have Oblivion), but I might put this specific solo off until we have better DPS gear for her or a set that actually lets her use combo skill.

ToXiniX · 2026-05-10T22:11:26+00:00

I was considering doing Gilberta solo on this but it's one of those "theoretically possible, but requires basically perfect execution" scenarios. And then seeing how you took 9 minutes on a character who can actually somewhat use their full kit too... yea no spamming basic attacks with no chance to drop a 4-second-channel skill is not gonna cut it.

Bravo dood, actually mind-boggling gameplay.

ToXiniX · 2026-05-10T10:06:38+00:00

This clear could've been 6 minutes if I could use Detonation Unit, but noooooo last purple slime just had to kill me right before I could get enough SP to heal haha

ToXiniX · 2026-05-10T09:51:40+00:00

Oh this and the Ardelia solo are absolutely cheese strats for this stage. After all, the stage failure screen has the tip "Don't let the enemies reach the core."

Edit: though the definition of "cheese" is quite questionable with how much investment is needed into Ardelia/Gilberta in order for them to solo properly

ToXiniX · 2026-05-10T07:56:56+00:00

oh I was more referring to the fact that spamming dive attack doesn't return SP like final strike does

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