Monday, July 29, 2013

Grinding for the secret boss

The fight against Vainqueur is frustratingly difficult. The real kicker is that it's a two part battle.

The first part is handled easily enough. A flurry of G-Fire and G-Frost brings the spider-back house and Vainqueur himself tumbling down. What comes next is quite a bit trickier, though.

Vainqueur splits himself into four and the battle begins - with the four of them. More often than not you'll be fighting against six turns with your own three, and truly, as the guide I'm following says, the fight would be practically impossible without one of Eruca's techniques: Divine Light. This nulls two attacks for a single ally, and is what helped me to keep alive until the collective Vainqueur had about 300 HP left.

At that point Marco and Eruca were knocked out, and Stocke was left with 10 HP. Resurrecting the other members, even to draw fire away from Stocke, proved useless, and in a few more turns Stocke and co. were immolated. Considering the fact that Stocke and Marco were at level 61 and Eruca was at level 45 when the recommended level for the fight is 68, I have to say I managed the battle well.

I've managed to grind pretty nicely too. Making it clearer who is available for your party at different nodes would be greatly convenient at this point, though.

Replaying the boss fight at the "Etherion" node to level Eruca up brought her to level 51 quickly enough, but there's got to be another node where she's available and there's a ruin or field to clear the monsters out of. Still, I'll be giving the game's hardest boss another go before pushing the party to level 68 all around.

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