FINAL FANTASY: RECORD KEEPER

author=Jeroen_Sol
Speaking of Y'shtola, her Record Spheres are long overdue. Why doesn't she have any yet?

They mostly add record spheres at the start of an event for that realm. FFXIV gets little love, so Yshtola will have to wait about two more months.

OMG! I beat Omega!

I mean, I didn't master it, and Celes was the only character that didn't die, but I don't even care. I only lost out on some upgrade materials anyway. :D

Hell yeah!

Celes was definitely the MVP. The fact that Runic absorbs Wave Cannon really saved my hide big time. I decided to go Thundara strike on both Bartz and Celes, because two Spellblades was the only way I could deal damage fast enough to kill it before it whittled me down with Wave Cannon, which is just impossible to outheal.

I tried Esuna on Y'shtola at first, but I had to use Stoneskin on the first turn, making it so I couldn't get rid of blind fast enough before it started to cause problems like Faris not being able to hit with Deluge and Rough Tides, Bartz and Celes missing vital Thundara Strikes etc. When I gave Esuna to Celes instead it went a lot better, and also let Y'shtola pull off a few early heals, which definitely helped me survive.

I also had Divine Guardian as RW. The haste and Regen were definitely vital. I had a few very close calls where Wave Cannon put characters at empty HP bars and would have killed them if they hadn't regened some health just before Wave Cannon hit.



I should rethink my abilities on Faris though. With Beryl Serpent I don't really need Magic Breakdown or Full Break anymore. I guess I could go Mental Breakdown? But I tend to use physical parties, so that doesn't help much. Armour Breakdown would be cool, if it weren't for Zidane's Mug Defense making it virtually useless. Maybe I should just give Faris other abilities than Support abilities, though I'm having a tough time thinking of any useful ones. If she could use Lifesyphon that'd be one thing, but she can't...

My Wind team (read standard team) is slightly less powerful. I only have Stellar Circle Zidane, Finishing Touch Cloud and then Aerora Strike and Snowspell strike on Celes. It works well on bosses that use black magic, because Runic refreshes my rather lacking 2 Snowspell uses, but on bosses that don't, it doesn't work anywhere near as well. Also I usually don't use Cloud, because he'll just be competing with Celes over my Spellblade abilities, and Basch with Ruin Impendent feels more useful to me. Though I guess on magical bosses it isn't, and I should bring Cloud more often.

Zidane is usually the best character I have, but I was forced to bench him for Omega Weapon due to it absorbing everything besides Lightning.

My Omega Party:

Bartz: Thundara Strike + Steal Power, no special Soul Breaks
Faris: Armour Break + Halting Rumba, Beryl Serpent (The Halting Rumba was just for the medals, but Omega Weapon immediately snaps out of it, so it's completely useless. Beryl Serpent was very vital to my survival though.)
Basch: Lifesyphon + Draw Fire, Ruin Impendent (Not extremely useful, to be honest, but did give some breathing room when Omega Weapon used physical attacks. It definitely helps that Lifesyphon always hits though. Saved me from having to Esuna him.)
Y'shtola: Shellga + Curaja, Stoneskin II
Celes: Thundara Strike + Esuna, Indomitable Blade (Runic absorbs Wave Cannon, which is the single reason Celes stayed alive until the end while everyone else died around her.)

RW: Divine Guardian

My first Nightmare victory. ^.^ I should attempt some of the other nightmare bosses as well. The first few should be easier than Necrophobe, so I should be able to beat at least some of them with relative ease, I guess?

^.^

Faris is a goddess in these Support Nightmare bosses. The gimmick with them is that you have to use breakdown level support skills of a certain type, and with a single target Full Breakdown and a multi target Power/Magic Breakdown Soul Break she is definitely my mvp.

Though Tyro's Multi Break was also indispensible in this fight, because it allowed me to make both the nodes go haywire right after Zidane and Faris Power Stole and Armor Brokedown them.

That's good to hear! It always sucks when they disappear.

I still have a lot of nightmare bosses to complete, but the way those lines to the center light up when you beat them definitely has me wondering what kind of insane difficulty boss is awaiting us when we beat all 12 of them.

Level 200?! Looks like I have some 5* abilities to create/hone and SSB/BSB/OSB relics to draw.

Then I hope they're as easy to cheese as that Red Soul mote dungeon is. I can't even beat 180 bosses legitimately yet, haha.