Tell me how to deal with the lava, I survived this battle abusing reraise haha

I liked this boss as well. On my hard mode playthrough, its crimson breath 3 would always proc even when I destroyed its chest, so I just had to beat him before he even got to that point in the fight.

I don’t think I used yuffie once in this fight lol. Explains why I wanted to cry because of the amount of times I died.

So glad I read this. I haven't arrived there yet but it's nice to know how to select the party on this.

Use magnify + manawall and it should be fairly easy.

I would also recommend having lightning materia for every one in your party as well as a healing materia. Bonus if you have a lightning attack in your folios as well for everyone. The water balls it casts to trap you, are also weak to lightning. In the words of Patches O’Hoolihan- dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge

You may be a bit underlevelled if you went straight to Under Junon. Doing sidequests gives the majority of exp to level, so if there are any available to do (you can see this on the region map) I would suggest doing those. Other than that try to treat the fight as more reactionary to what the boss does, then using your abilities first. If I remember correctly the boss should be weak to Lightning, so make sure most of the party you have can use Thunder.

Hmm, I beat him on my first try on Dynamic. You might be underleveled, have you been doing all the side quests?

That's not chapter 4 my guy that's still chapter 3. U need to go back to the grasslands and do some sidequests, and also do the junon chocobo ranch side quest to make sure you're not underleveled. Then upgrade your folios and make sure to keep your gear up to date.

Side quests will definitely give you more gear options and better survivability in general.

If you still want to do it first make sure you're using your synergy skills. Cloud's ranged synergy skills with Barret/Red are good for building ATB on both characters so you can quickly free bubbled members. They also let you stay out of melee range. Tifa/Cloud's aerial launch synergy skill is also great to get her stacks up. Cloud's defensive synergies that counter ranged attacks work on the water pistol attacks. Watch the ground when he does the creeping water move, you can eat a lot of damage from that without even realizing. Use lightning magic when it staggers. Barret is probably an MVP for this fight in general. Prayer materia on Barret is a solid choice as he gains ATB pretty quickly in my experience.

Don't sleep on defense. Take your time to defend yourself with guards, parries, synergy counters or just running out of the way.

If you get a game over against the final Sephiroth fight, isn't there a checkpoint for the fight and you can open the menu to change your builds. No need to start the whole gauntlet over?

I hear you about not comparing games too directly but I think when you’re focusing in on combat or hard fights it makes more sense to compare those elements to other games for that specific discussion

People don’t typically talk a lot about builds here that I see but some days I’m only scrolling by. I welcome it, post whatever you think is helpful and doesn’t take much of your time. People will see it, people will find it in search.

We still have lots of people who haven’t done all of Hard Mode or even played Rebirth and we have people who are waiting for Part 3 so there are plenty who will benefit still

The most annoying thing to me is pausing to assign somebody to heal the party only for it to not go off, due to them being interrupted. It’s frustrating but it’s also on me for not making sure my healer is in a good spot where they can safely pop off a heal.

With a little patience I’m able to better position / time my heals. I imagine the same approach would help you out as well. Be patient and reactive towards enemies that you find keep interrupting you.

I use summons as either and aggro taker or interruption. Lots of their abilities with interrupt an enemy and allow for combo beginning.

1. Aggro-ing the enemy with the PC is a superpower. Besides making the enemy focus on the player, who has the greater capability of dealing damage while also avoiding damage (when compared to AI controlled), you can also switch to the character you don't actually want to be using at the time, have them grab aggro, and switch to the character you do want, while the AI deals with the attack. Gives you a decent chunk of time to build/spend ATB.

2. Enemies really don't insta-aggro the player controlled character in the way a lot of people are saying. I'd imagine this really just comes down to confirmation bias. From what I can tell, it definitely makes the player higher on the "targeting priority," but it definitely isn't a static "always only target the player character" rule. I even noticed more instances where the enemies were taking too long to target me when wanted them too than instances where I was frustrated that I kept getting targeted.

summons are totally pointless and seem to do hardly any damage, unless you happen to use phoenix at the right time. I forget to use them lol.

Yeah that really is something I want to see improved in part 3, they could’ve gave us brief control over the summons like in FFXII, but I don’t see KOTR being like that so devs are probably gonna stick with useless summons that deal cheap damage.

I tried that zoomies battle in the gold saucer and Jesus fuck who designed that? Unless I'm missing something, if you don't have perfect block or counter mastered, you will get instantly stunlocked to death.

It makes sense for the enemy to aggro the active character, but it's not instant, the AI seems it will go after the last character to use an atb attack if you don't do anything too. And the player character is the most dangerous too. You can also exploit it by switching to somebody else and using an atb to leave your main character open for attacks or heals.

also I don't like when I tell somebody to heal and they get interrupted and waste an atb by an attack that basically came out of nowhere and I couldn't have reasonably predicted.

If you've done your due diligence and assessed the bosses on Normal, it's pretty easy to set yourself up for succes using their weaknesses on Hard Mode before you go into the fight.

Having said that, GI Nattack was a bit of a bastard for me on my second hard mode run. Any boss that has an insta-wipe move stresses me out and I make bad choices 😂

The red dragon guardian made me very frustrated. His upgraded ability to drown the area with lava is explained poorly in his description, so there was a lot not trial and error.

Felt so fucking good after I beat him on the 10+ try.

Aerith has Lustrous Shield that just blocks everything. After you cast firaga once and weed their numbers it's bearable.

Fire spells to exploit weakness.

With Aerith, I ran behind a rock that blocked their seed shots. Arcade Ward+ATB Boost+Firax2=Victory fanfare.

Not really a boss but the Cait vs two adjudicators in Chapter 11 took me many retries because I couldn't figure out how to dodge the sudden 9999-damage attacks

Not even a boss but the quest Flowers on the Hill on hard mode is a complete nightmare if you don't think of using a particular spell, and it's literally one hour in. It's one of the few times I died during the story of hard mode.

Making good use of buffs/devuffs is the way to go through out. This is the first fight that is apparent. Vig boss fights from here forward, always use your synergist and sabatour. You will make life much simpler.

buffs. Keep them up throughout the fight. Then it becomes a war of attrition

1. use potions to supplement healing and equip a Doctor’s Code to double their effectiveness

2. make sure you have Hope’s defensive buffs active at all times

3. you shouldn’t need Sentinel unless shit goes very sideways, so generally stick to Com/Rav, Rav/Rav, or Rav/Med as you build stagger

Use hope as a synergist to cast protect and Barfire and the boss does basically no damage after that.

Then Com/Rav for two full ATB uses then switch to Rav/Rav for another two full use and repeat.

If you need healing, switch to Sen/Med get healed up as quickly as possibly and repeat as above.

Using Hope as a Synergist is key here

Playing a caster in any kind of voice chat can be kind of funny when a round goes from "dude why did you ditch us to go to cathedral we really needed help with that miranda flower" to "ohhhhhhh I see thanks dude," if you're able to drop blood/blackflame or find a good AOE heal for night 3. I think the heal is what I'm usually happiest to see on recluse or duchess, as you can sometimes be pretty hard up for ways to help people who are down more than one bar, and preventing that situation from existing is usually worth prioritizing over everything else. I do hope that this everdark cycle helps more players take a closer look at seals, but especially non-casters who can benefit from some healing or weapon support incants

Easiest is to use Raider and stock up on Damage Negation passives & warming stones throughout the run. I stayed in one spot with occasional dodging from bubbles and of course just dodging to the side for the laser beams.

I had an iron eye quit on us in everdark after he went down to the gaping jaw 3 bars for the second time. He was probably bored since he spent 75% of that boss fight down. Still annoyed me.

Pretty much this. I know I'm not soloing the boss myself most of the time so I figure I may as well get you up if I can. I also do not enjoy the nagging feeling of pressure to finish the boss off, I like to slow down if I'm on my last chance but I really hate the idea that I'm doubly wasting someone's time with a failed solo attempt when we could just get on with it. Thankfully there's no deduction at night 3.

As a bird it's my job to make sure my babies leave the nest. I can't solo the boss, but I also can't die. (And then I die amongst my three barred children)

Counter point: Non Reverent player with her claws revives 3-bars in 4 seconds.

I have carried the lousiest teams through Everdark Libra solely because Rev dropped her claws. It’s so easy to revive with them.

I really hate that say it but the revive bonus should be taken away from the claws if rev isn’t using them. It’s completely fucking broken. It’s honestly criminal.

It's why when I see someone doing that I immediately know I'm playing with the noob

Like the guy has no ability to solo and you can tell he's nervous and he's like

"oh no oh no oh no oh no I'm alone I better just try to res this guy and if I fail it's okay because I was playing like a team player!!!"

You can tell these people have never played a game solo. And I'm talking like any of the souls games I've beat almost everyone solo myself which I guess is why I don't get nervous when my two teammates go down

I beat the nameless king by myself. Or any of these bosses for that matter except for some demon souls dark souls 2 that have been really really long

I get that but like I just fought ED pest and the guy was trying to revive me after Animus’ ultimate where Gnoster was just laying there

Awww…. Stop healing me you swineeee, the boss is one hittt

Yeah this is me i am sure i cant solo the boss have failed to clutch enough i just try to revive so worst case we all die in a pile 😭

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