28-10-2025, 06:01 AM
So regarding that fight:
Spoiler:
I just beat it about an hour ago and I have no idea how. I wanted and was prepared to do it like Aragorn. Figured it was the E33 version of Manus from Dark Souls, even down to the location. Just needed to strap in and learn the dodges of his Speed of Light attack and The Sword of Lumiere attack.
First phase was fine. Took minimal damage and he was down in three or four rounds? But I had realized I hadn't switched out the pictos I was using from trying to get Maelle to one shot his phase two and I hadn't switched my party members around like I'd wanted to experiment.
So I wrote this off as a serious attempt and just tried to do some damage with Verso, Monoco, and Lune. Took maybe 10~12% of his health off.
My second team was still Maelle and Sciel form when I was doing the Maelle for damage, Sciel to set up double damage and pass back to Maelle combo. One I'd abandoned really and I'd leveled up since then so now Sciel was going first. I used her ability to give Maelle double damage and realized using her to pass to Maelle would be silly since Maelle is going next anyway. So I just give Simon a mark status to help Maelle do a little extra. Gets to Maelle and forgetting to switch my pictos back is biting me as I don't have enough for stendahl. I did have three gradient ranks though from my first team. So I hit gommage figuring this is an unserious attempt, might as well blow my load early anyway.
That gommage did 51 million and change and I won. I have no idea how. In the past it had done maybe 35% of his health? I was just staring at the screen for a couple seconds wondering how I accidentally killed Simon when I couldn't do it on purpose.
Well just have 100% compleation left to go. Which mostly is grinding up to level 99, then a couple things in NG+. Simon gives a cool sword too.
First phase was fine. Took minimal damage and he was down in three or four rounds? But I had realized I hadn't switched out the pictos I was using from trying to get Maelle to one shot his phase two and I hadn't switched my party members around like I'd wanted to experiment.
So I wrote this off as a serious attempt and just tried to do some damage with Verso, Monoco, and Lune. Took maybe 10~12% of his health off. My second team was still Maelle and Sciel form when I was doing the Maelle for damage, Sciel to set up double damage and pass back to Maelle combo. One I'd abandoned really and I'd leveled up since then so now Sciel was going first. I used her ability to give Maelle double damage and realized using her to pass to Maelle would be silly since Maelle is going next anyway. So I just give Simon a mark status to help Maelle do a little extra. Gets to Maelle and forgetting to switch my pictos back is biting me as I don't have enough for stendahl. I did have three gradient ranks though from my first team. So I hit gommage figuring this is an unserious attempt, might as well blow my load early anyway.
That gommage did 51 million and change and I won. I have no idea how. In the past it had done maybe 35% of his health? I was just staring at the screen for a couple seconds wondering how I accidentally killed Simon when I couldn't do it on purpose.
Well just have 100% compleation left to go. Which mostly is grinding up to level 99, then a couple things in NG+. Simon gives a cool sword too.
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