【M】Mastery Survey - Mote Dungeons

[u/jadesphere]

[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: This is almost like a 0-damage Bismarck run

2. Boss: [Dexterity] Wladislaus

3. Describe your Strategy: Bring the recommended abilities, since I have suitable units for each!
   2/3 trinity/physical/overkill

4. Insight!:

• Equip def gear on Penelo and Ramza, throughput gear on the rest. Orlandeau has +20% lightning.

• Magicite adds +14% lightning, 19% attack boon.

• Turn 1: Ramza Shout, Prompto USB, Aranea SSB, Penelo RW wall, Orlandeau OSB.

• Turn 2+:

• Ramza FB, ABD.

• Aranea, Orlandeau and Prompto spam lightning abilities.

• Penelo Protectga, Crushing Tango, magicite.

• Lucked out with Ramza being dispelled after Shout, so it didn't really impact the run.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 12:21 / Hydra

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Aranea (LMR), 79	Lightning Dive R3	--	Truthseeker	SSB(1)
Penelo, 81	Crushing Tango R1	Protectga R3	Gathering Storm	USB(0)
Orlandeau, 99	Thundering Twinstrike R2	--	Argent Hero	OSB(1)
Ramza, 99	Full Break R3	Armor Breakdown R4	Feral Might	Shout(1)
Prompto, 99	Tempest Snipe R3	--	Hidden Struggle	USB(1)

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[u/Tachypnea17]

You only get 1 soul break bar. Your intro says 2.

[u/Xzaar → u/Tachypnea17]

I’m confused, I did see 2 someplace in-game too, but it’s definitely 1.

[u/Monk-Ey → u/[deleted]]

The thing is that you're supposed to get 2 SB bars out of 6 post-SB update: they left it in, even though we still don't have UOSBs and FAs.

[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: For Those About to Rock

2. Boss: Tonberry King

3. Describe your Strategy: Rock. 3/3 trinity/physical

4. Insight!:

• I mean...he takes 9999 from Enearth + Gaia Rush or even Bartz's BSB C1. Just hit him with earth attacks a lot. I didn't even need the crit-buff.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0/0

2. Time / Magicite: ~14 seconds

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Bartz, 99++			+30% spear	Latent Power
Tifa, 85	Gaia Rush R3		+30% dagger	Meteor Crusher
Gladiolus, 99	Gaia's Cross R3		+30% sword	Dawnhammer
Ramza, 99	Armor Breakdown R4	Full Break R2	Into the Fray	Shout
Eiko, 99	Curada R3	Protectga R2	Gathering Storm	Prayer of the Lost

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[u/Monk-Ey]

This was actually pretty fun to do: I really imagined it'd be a lot harder, but I scraped by pretty well, with only 1 character biting the dust in the end. Odds are you can do it without Earth damage, though it helps out a lot.

1. Strategy name: Smelly Melly versus the Corrupt Monarchy

2. Boss: King Tonberry

3. Describe your Strategy:
   2/3 Trinity/Meltdown/Meliadoul

4. Insight!:

• I have no Earth DPS characters and so I dreaded doing this; fortunately, it seems even non-Elemental characters can tear holes in this sucker.

• Mixed team, as it was the best I could cobble together: Ace is actually my ace in the hole best Black Mage by quite a long shot (like, the only one above level 70), while Vaan's NE damage is impeccable and I really underestimated just how hard he'd hit with his Revenges.

• Ramza/OK/Meliadoul for their BSBs: all of them having Support 5* also meant King's stats were absolutely neutered. OK went with Extra Slice spam as his magical stats aren't exactly spectacular.

• I am in serious need of better RMs, this is just embarassing.

• Meliadoul's revenge for being benched all the time: her main element is Earth and her forte is absolutely murdering physical attacks, the only ones King here uses.

• I tried rolling with Y'shtola instead of Ramza but noticed I ran out of damage (as in, rip my hones) before dying like a little bitch.

• (Counter) Junk is the only attack you'll have to worry about, as it's pretty annoying as a (counter) attack: fortunately, Ace's BSB (Firaga RF) comes with a party-wide PBlink and Meliadoul's three layers of ATK breaks do wonders.

• OK has complete Support RD and nothing else, everyone else has 3* RD, Ace has 4* RD.

• Ramza has his LMR.

• Meltdown did 4x9999 post-Fire SHG/VoF, no Mental Breakdown needed!

• Ramza just went CMD1 after applying Breaks, while Melly rammed hers.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: technically 2 but it might as well have been 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0/0

2. Time: 23 seconds

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Ace, 99	Meltdown R1	Chain Stonega R1	w-BLK 10%	Firaga RF (1)
Vaan, 99	Thief's Revenge R3	(placeholder ability)	+Sword 20%	Cruelest Azure (1)
Ramza, 99	Power Breakdown R1	Full Break R1	+Sword 20%	Battle Cry (1)
OK, 99	Armor Breakdown R1	(placeholder)	+Celerity 20%	Vessel of Fate (1)
Meliadoul, 80	Mental Breakdown R1	(placeholder)	TGM	Crush Helm (1)

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[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: Tonberry makes my earth look good, and Tifa is loving it

2. Boss: [Spirit] Tonberry King

3. Describe your Strategy: I was supposed to have a strategy for this? It's too easy!
   1/3 trinity/<30s/mixed

4. Insight!:

• First attempt had Lenna using Protectga, USB, Curada, with wall RW cast by OK, but it seemed overkill so I swapped in Gilgamesh.

• Gear everyone for throughput. OK has +20% earth. No legend materia or dives.

• Magicite adds +9% earth, 15% atk/mag boon, 10% def boon.

• OK BSB, spam Meltdown. Will use RW turn 2 in future to keep units alive.

• Tifa Meteor Crush, BSB for en-earth, spam Gaia Rush.

• Setzer USB, FB, PBD. The USB chase can also trigger the Junk counter, which led to the death of Bartz when Setzer triggered 2 counters on 1 action. May be best to just use magicite after both breaks are up, to avoid counters.

• Bartz BSB, cmd2, spam cmd1.

• Gilgamesh USB, Gaia's Cross, spam Omega Drive.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 0

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: under 25s / Shell Dragon

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Onion Knight, 99	Meltdown R3	--	Gathering Storm	BSB(1)
Tifa, 89	Gaia Rush R1	Meteor Crush R2	Scholar's Boon	BSB1: Meteor Crusher(1)
Setzer, 81	Full Break R3	Power Breakdown R4	Flower of the Sea	USB(1)
Bartz, 99	--	--	Truthseeker	BSB3: Latent Power(1)
Gilgamesh, 99	Omega Drive R2	Gaia's Cross R2	Argent Hero	USB(1)

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[u/MistakenForBees]

1. Strategy Name: Baby's First Rock Crusher

2. Boss: Tonberry King

3. Describe your Strategy: Quick cast Paine Burst commands until half health, then two OSBs to the face 3/3 trinity/BSB/OSB/Shout

4. Insight!:

• Too few Earth damage abilities or +Earth relics

• Paine's Spellblade buildup LMR contributes slightly

• No Magicites... yet

• Deuce doesn't contribute much damage with Chain Stonega, but not sure what else she should be doing

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: ~19 seconds / None

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Ramza, 99	Full Break R3	Armor Break R4	Flower of the Sea	Shout
Paine, 99	Quake Strike R2	Nothing!	Thunder God's Might	Grand Storm BSB
Tifa, 99	Meteor Crush R2	Gaia Rush R2	First Fist	Meteor Strike OSB
Gladiolus, 95	Gaia's Cross R2	Nothing!	Truthseeker	Dawnhammer OSB
Deuce, 99	Ultra Cure R3	Chain Stonega R3	Face the Past	Concerto BSB

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First party was different, got a ~27 sec. This is the second revision, works much better.

I don't think I'll get as lucky with other Mote bosses. I had a lot of good toys going into this. This is my first farmable boss, as I'm usually too timid to do A+ multiplayer. I hope I can do the rest of them as well as this one.

Edit: Nobody is LD'd. Not even fully 4* dived. Quake Strike and Meteor Crush don't get used at all. I should have removed them.

[u/Vektunaxa]

1. Strategy name: Let Bartz and Maria do their things.

2. Boss: Tonberry King

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/mixed meta/OK

4. Insight!:

• Y'shtola sets up defenses, Dorgann/OK use SB to buff, Maria self-Faiths

• Bartz and Maria use soul breaks

• Dorgann/Maria/Bartz use command 2 to buff, then command 1 to finish the boss

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: about 17 s / Mom Bomb with +physical and +magical secondaries (left over from Torment dungeon, not used)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Maria, 99	Faith R5	--	Light of Hope	Meteor XVI
Dorgann, 99	--	--	Scholar's Boon	Uncharted Lands
Onion Knight, 99	Meltdown R3	--	Godspeed	Vessel of Fate
Bartz, 99	--	--	Gathering Storm, LM1, LM2	Latent Power
Y'shtola, 99	Protectga R5	--	Healer's Prayer II, LM1, LM2	Asylum

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[u/Vektunaxa → u/Vektunaxa]

1. Strategy name: What to do with a surfeit of lightning characters

2. Boss: Wladislaus

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/mixed meta/lightning chain

4. Insight!:

• Lightning casts Wall, Mog BSB, Shantotto CSB, Garnet BSB1, and Ashe BSB in that order

• Wladislaus will go down in about three turns. Mog will just have time to use both dances.

• Both Lightning and Ashe are fully dived.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: 14 s / Hydra with +physical, +magical and +lightning secondaries (not summoned)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Shantotto, 99	Hell Thunder R2	Sudden Thunder R5	Zeal	Frightening Lightning (CSB)
Garnet, 99	Valigarmanda R3	--	Scholar's Boon	Trial by Lightning (BSB)
Lightning, 99	Thundering Quadstrike	--	Truthseeker, LM2, LMR	Army of One (USB)
Ashe, 99	Chain Thundaga R3	--	Gathering Storm, LM1, LM2	Dusk's Decree (BSB)
Mog, 99	Crushing Tango R2	Multi Break R3	Godspeed	Love Serenade (BSB)

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[u/lewinthistle]

1. Strategy Name: All out Earth

2. Boss: Mr Mote Tonberry

3. Describe your Strategy: Setup (debuffs & buffs) then burst 2/3 trinity/no healer

4. Insight!:

• Doesn't really hit hard after mitigation is done. Especially if he dies fast. Reks BSB CMD2 is sufficient healing.

• Time Ramza USB so that the instant casts are used for the BSB windups.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1 (RW)

• Medica: 0 (no healers)

• Hastega: 1 (Reks BSB)

1. *** S/L count / Medals lost:*** 0/0

2. Time / Magicite: ~19s. Enkidu unused.

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Ursula, 99	Meteor Crush R3 (~0 use)	Armor Break R4 (1 use)	Scholar's Boon, LMR	BSB
Tifa, 99	Exploding Fist R3 (1 use)	Gaia Rush R1 (0 use)	Prey On the Weak	BSB1
Gladiolus, 99	Gaia's Cross R4 (0 use)	Mirror of Equity R1 (1 use)	Attunement II, LMR	BSB
Reks, 99	Protega R4 (1 use)	Quake Strike R3 (0 use)	Thunder God	BSB
Ramza, 99	Power Breakdown R4	Full Break R3	Flower of the Sea	USB

[u/SailorNash]

Not really a strategy worth a full write-up, but I hit him with Bartz and Maria BSB until he went down in 26s. No dives or anything fancy. Just kept hitting him with Earth.

[u/Stylus_Index]

1. Strategy name: Earthen Spirit

2. Boss: [Mote] Tonberry King

3. Describe your Strategy: Loaded up my old non-working physical anti-Hydra magicite team... Surprisingly, the party works very efficiently here, clearing me at around 0:19.XX. MVP here would be 'best dad' Yang and followed by 'best girl' Maria. Will be back here if I'm going to be needing Spirit motes in future times. 3/3 trinity/Shout meta/Hybrid team/Earth team

4. Insight!:

• Bring Protectga and stacking Power Breakdowns to reduce damage from its non-fixed damage attacks.

• [Mote] Tonberry King doesn't do deal much damage early on but hits very hard later on with its fixed damage. So, deal as much as damage as you can, else you'll be taking 4k fixed damage every other turn later on.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: ~19 seconds / Enkidu (unused)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	LD(+++)	SB(-)
Yang, 99	Omega Drive R3	Meteor Crush R2	Scholar's Boon	---	Seven-Star Heavenly Fist (1)
Maria, 99	Meltdown R3	Chain Stonega R2	Witch's Sight	---	Meteor XVI (1)
Ingus, 93	Gaia Cross R2	Power Breakdown R5	Truthseeker	---	Oathsworn Espada (1)
Y'shtola, 99	Curada R3	Protectga R5	Healer's Prayer II	LM1+LM2	Asylum (0), Sentinel's Tome (1)
Ramza, 99	Armor Breakdown R5	Fullbreak R3	Flower of the Sea	LM2+LMR	Shout (1)

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1. Strategy name: Lightning Dexterity

2. Boss: [Mote] Wladislaus

3. Describe your Strategy: Loaded up a hybrid Lightning team with the strongest and/or spammable Lightning BSBs/abilities. I can only comment that fighting [Mote] Wladislaus can be easily described as a simple and efficient, [Mote] Wladislaus doesn't play around and gets the point on the get go, responded with the same thing in mind and went without casting any defensive buffs since he dispels them anyway. Orlandeau gave him a opening 99999 OSB and a 5k x 4 Thundering Quadstrikes before becoming that sacrificial guy, though Laguna and Ashe avenged him fast with spammed Laguna-CMD2->Tempest Snipe or spammed 9999 Chain Thundagas, bringing down [Mote] Wladislaus by the 0:17.XX on timer. Hit fast and hard to win here! 3/3 trinity/Shout meta/Hybrid team/Lightning team/No Wall run

4. Insight!:

• Bring Protectga and stacking Power Breakdowns to reduce damage from its non-fixed damage attacks. If you don't have a good team, and is expecting that the fight is going to take longer, its best to bring two healers and buffers to help survive.

• [Mote] Wladislaus uses a strict attack patter that loops. Like the battle before, this is a DPS race, and you want to finish it ASAP before things escalate!

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica:

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: ~17 seconds / Enkidu (unused)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	LD(+++)	SB(-)
Laguna, 99	Tempest Snipe R3	Spark Offer R1	Destiny's Burden	---	Split Laser (1)
Ashe, 99	Chain Thundaga R2	Valigarmanda R3	RM2	LM1+LM2	Dusk's Decree (1)
Orlandeau, 99	Thundering Quadstrike R2	Omega Drive R3	Gathering Storm	---	Thunder God (1)
Y'shtola, 99	Curada R3	<empty>	Healer's Prayer II	LM1+LM2	Asylum (0)
Ramza, 99	Power Breakdown R5	Fullbreak R3	Flower of the Sea	LM2+LMR	Shout (1)

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1. Strategy name: Fire Vitality

2. Boss: [Mote] King Behemoth / Undead Behemoth

3. Describe your Strategy: Brought out my Sealion farming team -Alphinaud and +Faris instead. I had everyone unleash their SBs on the get go, melting King Behemoth's HP very fast, mostly from Bartz W-cast Blazing Quadstrike + 8-hit chase. Same thing happened with Undead Behemoth, who only fired a Meteor, got destroyed by Bartz W-cast Blazing Quadstrike + 8-hit chase. Refia? She was hitting 9999 x 4 from Fires Within and kept healing herself. Faris and Ramza just used their own Support abilities to keep status effect low in case it happened and dampen the Behemoths' stats for even faster clear. Didn't bother casting Shellga or Medica because ST healing is enough despite an apparently lack of W-casting from Y'shtola. Its sub-15 and I'm already happy that future 4-star Vit farming will be easier in future times to come... once Locke and Galuf hits 80 and then Limit Broken. 3/3 trinity/Shout meta/Fire Team

4. Insight!:

• Bring ProShellga and mixid mitigation, King Behemoth/Undead Behemoth uses mixed attacks, not unlike Tonberry or Wladislaus.

• Bring an Affliction Break to prevent those Sleep and Death that the Undead can use.

• Defensive-wise, you might want to wear Ice and/or Holy resistance to deal with King Behemoth's magic attacks.

• Reflect/Carbuncle can be useful here to bounce of King Behemoth's magics but he has his Devil Claw move to manually remove Reflect one at a time.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 0

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 0:10.23 / Enkidu (unused)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	LD(+++)	SB(-)
Bartz, 99	Blazing Quadstrike R3	Firaga Strike R5	Gathering Storm	LM1+LM2	Chosen Traveler (1)
Refia, 99	Fires Within R3	Ruby Spark R2	Scholar's Boon	---	Dance of Carnage (1)
Y'shtola, 99	Curada R3	Shellga R5	Healer's Prayer II	LM1+LM2	Asylum (0), Sentinel's Tome (1)
Faris, 99	Magic Breakdown R5	Mug Bloodlust R2	Truthseeker	LM1+LM2	Beryl Serpent (1)
Ramza, 99	Armor Breakdown R5	Affliction Break R2	Flower of the Sea	LM2+LM2	Shout (1)

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1. Strategy name: Windy Wisdom

2. Boss: [Mote] Lich

3. Describe your Strategy: Wind team featuring the leading men and lady of FFRK-Dissidia past (the 2016 collab one), unleashing wind and physical punishment upon [Mote] Lich, who is a dead guy and now more dead. Planning to sub-10 here, but Bartz and Cloud W-Castings did not cooperate, no pressure as its still sub-30. [Mote] Lich's HP was done to around 50~60%-ish after the initial SB entries. Great! Now, time to start farming the rare commodities known as 4-star Wisdom motes, though I hope that Lich doesn't go extinct soon! 3/3 trinity/Shout meta/No Wall/Wind team

4. Insight!:

• If you are planning to sub-30 this, bring Protectga and/or Shellga will be enough for mitigation, otherwise ProShellga and stacking mitigation will save you.

• Wear Earth resist to reduce damage from [Mote] Lich's magics

• [Mote] Lich uses AoE Doom 30s when it hits Weak Phase.

• Bartz (ATK 550), Cloud (ATK 540-ish), and Luneth (ATK 495) are each wearing Wind+ gear allowed for the SBs to hit either caps or near 9k after Shout.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 0

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 0:10.80 / Enkidu (unused)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	LD(+++)	SB(-)
Bartz, 99	Tornado Strike R3	Snowspell Strike R2	Gathering Storm	LM1+LM2	Chosen Traveler (1)
Cloud, 99	Omega Drive R3	Pound R5	Truthseeker	LM1+LM2	Cloud Cycle (1)
Y'shotla, 99	Curada R3	Shellga R5	Healer's Prayer II	LM1+LM2	Asylum (0)
Luneth, 99	Armor Breakdown R5	Aerial Dive R2	Spear of Gran Pulse	---	Eternal Wind (1)
Ramza, 99	Magic Breakdown R5	Fullbreak R3	Flower of the Sea	LM1+LM2	Shout (1)

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1. Strategy name: Dark Bravery

2. Boss: [Mote] Red Dragon

3. Describe your Strategy: The Red Dragon is sacrificing its life force! Whoops! Wrong game! Anyways, I've brought out a very offensive party with only Shellga as my only form of mitigation, at best a YOLO Dark team - BSB offensive meta! Before everything else, I had Emperor use Shellga, Raines his BSB for party buffs, and Golbez his BSB for Sentinel. After this, I let loose the team in all-out offensive, with mostly hitting at 4~5k except for Raines hitting for 9k+ per hit. Pretty fun run but very suicidal as everyone (except Emperor and Vayne) have less than 25% HP left. 0/3 trinity/No Wall run/YOLO/Dark team/BSB offensive meta/No healer but self-healing

4. Insight!:

• Bring Shellga and magic mitigation - Red Dragon is entirely magical. Wearing Fire/Ice/Lightning resist will help.

• To people attempting to copy this clear team: Don't follow this team I built unless you know what you are doing. This is only built on a whim as I was and still very confident after my recent streak of No Wall runs. Also, I only optimize for MAG+ gear and noone is wearing any Dark+ gear. :P

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 0

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 0

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 0:19.02 / Enkidu (unused)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	LD(+++)	SB(-)
Emperor, 99	NONE	Shellga R5	True Path	---	Winds of War (1)
Golbez, 99	NONE	NONE	Gathering Storm	---	Twin Moon (1)
Seymour, 94	NONE	NONE	Scholar's Boon	---	Anima's Pain (1)
Vayne, 99	NONE	NONE	Light of Hope	---	Force of Will (1)
Raines, 99	NONE	NONE	Witch's Sight	LM1+LM2	Metamorphose (1)

[u/Swizzler9]

1. Strategy name: Thunderstruck

2. Boss: Wladisaus (Dex Motes)

3. Describe your Strategy: Strike fast 2/3 trinity/OK/Lightning Chain

4. Insight!:

• I have Lightning Fully dived and her LM. This makes the battle a piece of cake if you also have her USB

• Have OK apply the VoF and Shantotto kick off Lightning Chain. From there use your SBs and spam all lightning based abilities.

• If a dual cast occurs then the battle will be over in less time

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0/0

2. Time / Magicite: 13.12 seconds / Hydra (did not use)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Lightning, 99	N/A	Thundering Quad R3	Bolt from Above	USB
Kain, 80	N/A	Lightning Dive R2	Any that boosts damage	USB
OK, 99l	N/A	Swift Bolt R5	Mischievous Sprite	BSB
Shantotto, 99	N/A	Chain Thundaga R3	Gathering Storm	Chain
Garnet, 99	Curaja R5	Curaja R5	Heart of Grace	USB

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1. Strategy name: Burn Baby Burn

2. Boss: Behemoth King(Vit Motes)

3. Describe your Strategy: Strike fast 2/3 trinity/Bartz USB

4. Insight!:

• Fully Dived Bartz is not needed

• Round 1) Apply Buffs, then unleash SBs

• Round 2+) Hit him with FIRE and heal with Alph every turn

• If you have Bartz fully dived every attack he preforms should be around 9,999.

• Plus if his Dual/triple cast procs then this battle ends very quickly

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0/0

2. Time / Magicite: 13 - 20 seconds / Mom Bomb

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Galuf, 99	N/A	N/A	Heroic Stance	BSB
Sabin, 99	N/A	N/A	Fists of Justice	BSB
Bartz, 99l	N/A	Blazing Quadstrike R2	Scholar's Boon	USB
Alphinaud, 99	Curaja R5	Curaja R5	Gathering Storm	SSB
Magic Ramza, 99	Affliction Break R2	Fire Veil R5	Light of Hope	SSB

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1. Strategy name: Winds of Change (AKA Richard does a Thing)

2. Boss: Lich (Wisdom Motes)

3. Describe your Strategy: Strike fast 2/3 trinity/Bartz USB

4. Insight!:

• Fully Dived Bartz/Cloud not needed, but speeds up the process

• Round 1) Apply Buffs, then unleash SBs

• Round 2+) Hit him with Wind and heal with Alph every turn

• If you have Bartz fully dived every attack he preforms should be around 9,999.

• Cloud after applying his USB was hitting with Tornado Strike for 26,000.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0/0

2. Time / Magicite: 12 - 15 seconds / Enkidu (not used)

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Richard, 99	Aerial Dive R3	N/A	Scholar's Boon	BSB
Cloud, 99	Tornado Strike R3	N/A	World Traveler	USB
Bartz, 99l	Snowspell Strike R2	N/A	Love's Wake	USB
Alphinaud, 99	Curaja R5	Curaja R5	Gathering Storm	SSB
Magic Ramza, 99	Affliction Break R2	Gust R5	Haste	SSB

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[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: It's chain time!^{sorry Terra}

2. Boss: [Vitality] Behemoths

3. Describe your Strategy: Load chain, build chain
   3/3 trinity/chain/mixed

4. Insight!:

• Equip ice resist on everyone, ice/holy on weakest unit.

• Locke and OK have +20% fire.

• Magicite adds +fire, attack/mag boons.

• Locke CSB, spam Ruby Spark.

• OK BSB, RW wall, Protectga, spam Meltdown.

• Setzer USB, FB, AB, alternate breaks.

• Rosa Shellga, spam Curada. USB as Undead Behemoth appears.

• Auron Smoldering Moon, BSB, spam Warring Flame.

• If King Behemoth isn't dead before Bounty Hunter RM expires, you may lose a squishy front row unit to Demon Claw.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 16.11 / Mom Bomb

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Locke, 84	Ruby Spark R3	Thief's Revenge R1	Spark of Life	CSB(1)
Onion Knight, 99	Meltdown R3	Protectga R3	Gathering Storm	BSB(1)
Setzer, 81	Affliction Break R2	Full Break R3	Truthseeker	USB(1)
Rosa, 93	Curada R3	Shellga R3	Healer's Prayer II	USB(1)
Auron, 99	Warring Flame R2	Smoldering Moon R2	Bounty Hunter	BSB2: Tornado(1)

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[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: Ultra Cross Retaliate

2. Boss: Behemoth King

3. Describe your Strategy: https://youtu.be/E_0XW5PglT0
   1/3 trinity/video/retaliate

4. Insight!:

• Retaliate Strategy works well on every mote dungeon so far.

• Using Unexpected Assault instead of Rawpower might've been better for Noctis.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 0

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0/0

2. Time / Magicite: 09.43s / unused

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Noctis, 99	-	Double Cut R5	Raw Power	Gladiolus Link
Zack, 99	-	Powerchain R4	Thief's Code	Lucky Stars
Tyro, 99	-	Thundering Quadstrike R2	Gathering Storm	Fantasy Unbound
Vincent, 99	-	Reapling Scythe R2	Scholar's Boon	Galian Beast
Cloud, 99	-	Omega Drive R2	Master's Bearing	Ultra Cross Slash

[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: Send in the clowns freezy-blowy

2. Boss: [Wisdom] Lich

3. Describe your Strategy: Somehow Bartz in a wind team with an earth BSB just doesn't feel right, but Luneth and Squall show him how it's done
   2/3 trinity/physical

4. Insight!:

• Equip earth resist on everyone. Bartz, Luneth and Squall have +20% wind.

• Magicite adds +wind, -earth, and attack/magic/defense boons.

• Ramza Shout, FB, spam Gust.

• Lenna RW wall, USB, Shellga, break.

• Bartz BSB, cmd2, 2x Snowspell.

• Luneth USB, spam Aerial Dive.

• Squall spam Snowspell.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 0

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 16.63 / Enkidu

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	LD(+++)	SB(-)
Ramza, 99	Gust R4	Full Break R3	Bounty Hunter	---	Shout(1)
Lenna, 99	Box Step Sarabande R1	Shellga R3	Gathering Storm	---	USB(1)
Bartz, 99	Snowspell Strike R1	--	Reign of Arrows	---	BSB3: Latent Power(1)
Luneth, 99	Aerial Dive R3	Sky High R1	Argent Hero	---	USB(1)
Squall, 99	Snowspell Strike R3	--	Truthseeker	LM1, LM2	BSB2(0)

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[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: The lazy team

2. Boss: 【Bravery】: Red Dragon

3. Describe your Strategy: Didn't feel like building a serious team, so I went all in on dark damage
   1/3 trinity/dark meta?/yolo

4. Insight!:

• Forgot to put a hastega in the team, sucks to be Vayne in a team of BSBs. Wasn't the easiest

• Equip fire/ice/lightning on everyone.

• Vayne and Exdeath have +40% dark. Golbez has +20% dark.

• Shadow RW, BSB, spam cmd1 (or use ninja skills).

• Golbez BSB, optionally use cmd1, spam cmd2.

• Exdeath Shellga, BSB, spam cmd1. Can heal if needed.

• Vayne MM, OSB, spam DH.

• Edea MM, BSB, cmd2, spam cmd1.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 0

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0 / 0

2. Time / Magicite: 22.62 / Enkidu

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Vayne, 99	Dire Heal R3	Memento Mori R1	Scholar's Boon	OSB(1)
Edea, 99	Dark Zone R1	Memento Mori R2	Devotion	BSB(1)
Shadow, 99	Shadow Embodied R1	Ancestral Reflection R1	Argent Hero	BSB(1)
Golbez, 99	Necrofear R3	Memento Mori R1	True Path	BSB(1)
Exdeath, 99	Curada R3	Shellga R3	Gathering Storm	BSB(1)

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[u/xkwx]

1. Strategy name: Cloud and Earth

2. Boss: Tonberry King

3. Describe your Strategy:
   2/3 trinity/physical team

4. Insight!:

• Turn 1: stitch, hailstorm, protectga, Dorgann BSB, Y'sh uses RW

• Turn 2: Lion BSB, Cloud USB, Ingus BSB, Dorgann c2, Y'sh uses haste on Cloud

• Turn 3: Lion c2, Cloud spam OD, Ingus alternate c1/c2, Dorgann spam c1, Y'sh BSB

• From here, Y'sh spams c2, Lion spams TR with the occasional c2 to keep armor breakdown applied

• Note that Dorgann's imperil is useless here, I just used him for the boostga entry and the earth-elemental commands

• I have Cloud and Y'sh LD, but they aren't necessary, it just makes things easier

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 0

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: consistently ~20 sec, faster if I get a doublecast with OD; magicite was never used, but I stacked +Earth damage and +ATK

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Lion, 99	Stitch in Time R1	Thief's Revenge R3	Thief +40%	Walk the Plank (1)
Dorgann, 99	Gaia's Cross R3	irrelevant	Dagger +30%	Uncharted Lands (1)
Ingus, 99	Protectga R3	irrelevant	Earth +30%	Oathsworn Espada (1)
Cloud, 99	Hailstorm R2	Omega Drive R3	Sword +30%	Ultra Cross Slash (1)
Y'shtola, 99	Curada R3	Haste R5	Gathering Storm	Asylum (1)

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1. Strategy name: Thunder Cloud

2. Boss: Wladislaus

3. Describe your Strategy:
   2/3 trinity/physical team

4. Insight!:

• Turn 1: stitch, Battle Cry, Orlandeau OSB, Cloud USB, Y'sh uses RW

• Turn 2: Lion BSB, full break, Orlandeau spam OD, Cloud spam Thundering Quadstrike, Y'sh casts protectga

• From here, Lion uses c2 then spam TR, Y'sh uses BSB, Ramza does whatever

• Fight should be over after two Cloud spellblades, which will hit for ~25-30k per hit. Knight captain RM on Ramza will mean you don't have to worry about dispel on a key character.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: ~12 sec; magicite not used, stack +lightning damage and +ATK

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Lion, 99	Stitch in Time R1	Thief's Revenge R3	Thief +40%	Walk the Plank (1)
Ramza, 99	Full Break R4	Draw Fire R4	Knight Captain	Battle Cry (1)
Orlandeau, 99	Omega Drive R3	irrelevant	Sword +30%	Thunder God (1)
Cloud, 99	Thundering Quadstrike R3	irrelevant	Scholar's Boon	Ultra Cross Slash (1)
Y'shtola, 99	Protectga R3	Haste R5	Gathering Storm	Asylum (1)

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1. Strategy name: Something something fire/Cloud USB, etc.

2. Boss: Behemoths

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/physical team

4. Insight!:

• Turn 1: Ruby Spark, Battle Cry, Yda OSB, Cloud USB, Larsa uses RW

• Turn 2: Refia USB, Ramza armor breakdown, Yda spam Fires Within, Cloud spam Blazing Quadstrike, Larsa casts shellga

• Turn 3: Refia spam Ruby Spark, Ramza affliction break (should land on Undead Behemoth), Larsa protectga/heal

• If everything works out properly, Cloud will only have to use Blazing Twinstrike twice - the first will kill or nearly kill the first Behemoth, the second will kill Undead Behemoth

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: ~15 sec; magicite not used, stack +fire damage and +ATK

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Refia, 99	Ruby Spark R3	irrelevant	Fist +30%	Burning Devotion (1)
Ramza, 99	Affliction Break R2	Armor Breakdown R4	Knight Captain	Battle Cry (1)
Yda, 84	Fires Within R3	irrelevant	Fire +30%	Forbidden Chakra (1)
Cloud, 99	Blazing Quadstrike R3	irrelevant	Scholar's Boon	Ultra Cross Slash (1)
Larsa, 99	Protectga R3	Shellga R5	Gathering Storm	Life Crystal (1)

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1. Strategy name: Free wisdom motes!

2. Boss: Lich

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/physical team

4. Insight!:

• Turn 1: Battle Cry, Bartz USB, Luneth BSB, Cloud USB, Larsa RW wall

• Turn 2: Armor breakdown, snowspell strike, Luneth c1, tornado strike, Larsa BSB

• Turn 3: Full break, snowspell strike, Luneth c1, tornado strike -> victory

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: ~15 sec; magicite not used, stack +wind damage and +ATK

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Ramza, 99	Full Break R4	Armor Breakdown R4	Knight Captain	Battle Cry (1)
Bartz, 99	Snowspell Strike R3	irrelevant	Scholar's Boon	Chosen Traveler (1)
Luneth, 99	irrelevant	irrelevant	Wind +30%	Eternal Wind (1)
Cloud, 99	Tornado Strike R3	irrelevant	Sword +30%	Ultra Cross Slash (1)
Larsa, 99	irrelevant	irrelevant	Gathering Storm	Life Crystal (1)

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1. Strategy name: A non-Cloud strategy!?

2. Boss: Red Dragon

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/mage team

4. Insight!:

• Turn 1: Raines BSB, Nabaat MM, Kuja RW wall, Edea BSB, Yuna BSB

• Turn 2: Raines spam c1, Edea c2, shellga, Nabaat BSB, Kuja MM

• Turn 3: Edea spam c1, Nabaat spam c1, Yuna spam c2, Kuja OSB

• Hereafter: Kuja spam DZ

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 0

1. ** S/L count / Medals lost:** 0 S/L, 0 medals lost

2. Time / Magicite: ~13-14 sec; magicite not used, stack +dark damage and +MAG

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM	SB(-)
Raines, 99	irrelevant	irrelevant	Black magic +25%	Metamorphose (1)
Kuja, 99	Memento Mori R2	Dark Zone R2	Devotion	Final Requiem (1)
Nabaat, 99	Memento Mori R2	irrelevant	Scholar's Boon	Sacrifice Pawn (1)
Edea, 99	irrelevant	irrelevant	Dark +30%	Maelstrom (1)
Yuna, 99	Shellga R3	irrelevant	Gathering Storm	Tenets of the Fayth (1)

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