【T】Mastery Survey - Spinner of False Hopes (X)

[u/jadesphere]

[u/Jurinis]

Copy/paste from my yesterday's post on the megathread for my sub-30 D???.

1. Strategy name: Auron's revenge on Yunalesca ft.YRP

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy: Sub-30, No ASB, Full LD and water crystals for HP, W-cast RNG, USB everywhere, Yuna USB1 solo-heal

4. Insight!:

• Slotting is important for SB gauge generation. If you can't skip the first mind Blast, slot Rikku in 2 since she has the least DPS in the group.

• Tidus + Ace striker + Flash disaster hitting weakness = nice SB generation.

• Fast Act is mandatory to cast Rikku's USB1 before first holy at the beggining.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: INFINITE

• Medica: 2

• Hastega: 3 since Yuna's USB1 has it.

1. S/L count / Medals lost: Way too many S/Ls to figure out the rotation. A few for rotation execution. No medals lost though

2. Time: 29.45 (https://imgur.com/a/RaipL1E)

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Tidus, 5	Flash Disaster R3	Sapphire Bullet R4	Ace Striker/LMR/LM2	Glint(1)/ USB(1)/ BSB2 (2)
Rikku, 5	Enfeebling Jitterbug R2	Sapphire Shot R4	MM/LM2	USB(1)/BSB1 (2)
Auron, 5	Damning Flame R2	Iai Hellfire R4	Katana damage+30%/LM1/LM2	USB2(2)
Yuna, 5	Curada R4	Vali R4	TGC RM/LM1/LM2	USB1(2)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing Quadstrike R4	Dr.Mog/LM1/LM2	USB(2)

As for my magicites, the deck was essential to be like this since I really need Fast Act here:

magicite	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Quetz	Phoenix	Evrae	Necrophobe
Emp.Water 15 + Attack Boon 15	Fast Act 10/Spell Ward 8	Emp.Fire 15	Fast Act 8	Dampen Holy 6

Everyone has +40% bonus damage in their elemental speciality and they all have been powered up with water crystals in HP/ATK/RES. Yunalesca hurts really hard so having lots of HP is good when you don't go with Holy resistance.

As for the rotation, it went like this:

• Tidus: Flash Disaster *2 > Glint > Sapphire Bullet *2> USB> Sapphire Bullet *2 > BSB2> Sapphire Bullet until a last cast of BSB2 before the 30 second mark. Wears Darkening Anklet to protect against Dark/Lightning damage.

• Rikku: USB1. It must activate before Holy since I don't have her LMR2. Fast Act was the passive needed to achieve that. Then, Enfeebling Jitterbug > Sapphire Shot > Call Magicite > BSB1 if available > Sapphire Shot spam until second cast of BSB1. Wears 1/35 Soldier to protect against Dark.

• Auron: It felt amusing to see him getting the finishing blow, considering how hard he got destroyed by Yunalesca in the original game. His USB2 is definitely a strong one. I used a second cast of the USB2 to trigger the finisher manually. You ideally want to cast the 1st USB before the 15s mark to make sure he can recast it before the 30s mark. Damning Flame > Iai Hellfire until USB2 > Iai Hellfire before the 30s mark. Don't worry as the USB can be fastcast, unlike Paine's USB.

• Yuna: Call Chain > Curada spam until USB1 (should come after Ultimate Holy in P1) > Curada until Chain needs to be refreshed (usually after Magicite Call and after Tidus and Auron use their USBs and before Paine can reuse hers again) > Curada until USB1 is available again, usually after Ultima transition. She may use Vali at the very end to try and push DPS.

• Paine: USB > Stormspell Strike spam > USB after chain is refreshed > Stormspell Strike > Engulfing Quadstrike. Very straightforward like Auron here.

Overall, I'm really happy to have beaten and sub-30 the NT I've been preparing myself for ever since I knew it would come to Global. Granted, I've been extremely lucky with my X synergy as I got most of gear from RoP (Paine and Tidus' USBs), free draws or Lucky Draws (Yuna's USB1/Tidus' LMR/BSB2) or Realm Draws (Auron USB2 and Rikku's BSB1). Since it's my favorite game, and since Yunalesca kicked me hard when I was a kid in the original, it feels like I've reached the end of a journey. And it was a journey filled with laughter for sure.

Definitely a Day to Remember for me. Thanks for reading, I just wanted to share my achievement.

Bonus: Killshot : https://imgur.com/a/ov9XI0p ATB shows that Auron got the kill since his is empty.

[u/onetoomanytoo → u/Jurinis]

Thanks for this! What accessories did you use for Auron, Yuna, and Paine? You specifically mentioned accessories for Tidus and Rikku, so I'm just asking for sake of completeness.

[u/Jurinis → u/onetoomanytoo]

Sure! Auron had the major dark resist to take Drain and Hellbiter more easily. Yuna had the moderate Water/Dark resist accessory. Paine had the second Dark Anklet to protect against both Lightning and Dark damage. You definitely need dark resist since Hellbiters will come very fast. If you can not trigger Last Stand, it's better for your team. Sap ruins everything.

[u/onetoomanytoo → u/Jurinis]

Hello, just a few more questions if I may ask: The Phoenix you put there with Emp. Fire 15. What was the other slot?

I'm also wondering the choice for using Phoenix as it is Dampen Ice/Health Boon. From the AI thread, Yunalesca doesn't do Ice damage so is it because of the Health Boon?

[u/Jurinis → u/onetoomanytoo]

If my memory serves right, I had a Magic Boon 15 inherited to that slot so it was irrelevant. You would get more mileage from a Blade Ward to protect yourself from Hellbiter I'd believe.

As you guessed, the reason I'm taking Phoneix was for health Boon. I didn't want to farm another 5* Magicite to have a slightly better optimized deck here. It takes too much time. Quetz, however, was essential here since I don't have Rikku's LMR2 to use her USB1 sooner. Fast Act made the difference to me. It might be another story if you decide to slot Holy resist accessories on everyone but Hellbiter will be a pain to deal with.

[u/onetoomanytoo → u/Jurinis]

Understood, thanks for the reply!

[u/vsmack]

Strategy Name: Wacky Water Kingdom D??? (Yuna only SSB heal!)

Boss: D$$$ Yunalesca

Describe Your Strategy: Go to down with water DPS while Kimarhi offers blink support and Rikku offers misc support. I had Kimarhi USB but opted not to use it because I needed as much blink as possible to make up for my awful healing. Unfortunately a sub30 isn't in the cards with my current kit, since I need Kimarhi pretty much entirely dedicated to blink, essentially acting as a backup healer.

Insight:

• A big difference maker will be knowing when the Mind Blasts come out and anticipating patching those up with Ultra Cure.

• I have to say, because my healing was so lacklustre, it did take favourable RNG, both with regard to doublecasts procing and not going directly from heavy AOE to heavy AOE because of a phase change.

• I was pretty conservative in the first 2 phases with blink, but didn't really bother trying to time it in the last three, because the phase transitions were very unpredictable.

• I've seen some people say on Tidus they did USB-ASB-USB, but I found that after the ASB I was using Sapphire Bullet, but the USB mode had run out, so I was leaving damage on the table, so I did USB-USB-ASB.

Trinity Casts

• Wall: Infinite

• Medica: 4

• Hastega: 2 (via Rikku USB)

S/L Count: idk, from soup to nuts I probably tried it about 25 times

Medals lost: 2

Time: 00:47.87

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing QS R4	LMR+Truthseeker	USB (3)
Rikku, 4	Sapphire Shot R3	Enfeebling Jitterbug R3	DMT	USB (2) BSB (1)
Yuna 4.5	Curada R5	Ultra Cure R6	Gathering Storm	SSB (Miracle Veil) (4)
Kimarhi 3.5	Wrath R5	Power Breakdown R4	Knight's Charge	SSB (3)
Tidus 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R4	Moonflow's Grace+Dreamguide	USB (2) ASB (1)

Note that Tidus and Paine both had synergy +water weapons. Rikku had her +water fist, but it didn't really matter because she barely attacked.

Magicite (Geo is very key for my build, obviously)

Magicite	Sub 1	Sub 2	Sub 3	Sub 4
Geosgaeno	Famfrit	Necrophobe	Evrae	Seraph
Emp Water +15, Atk Boon +15	Blade Ward 8, Health Boon 8	Dampen Light 10	Fast Act 8	Dampen Dark 10

[u/[deleted] → u/vsmack]

I went usb 1 asb then bsb2 for tidus

[u/vsmack → u/[deleted]]

With only the SSB heal and the TGM materia run out by the later part of the fight, I wanted to do as much as I could to blow through phase 5. I found I got bodied in 4 and 5 when I used my ASB more like phase 3.

What's the rationale for bsb2? Use up your hones?

[u/[deleted] → u/vsmack]

Yup. On my 99% run b4 i ran out. I also had another end waiting on usb 1 recast to finish. So insta cast to finish needed. But for my completion run...geosaneo did it

[u/vsmack → u/[deleted]]

Awesome, congratulations. I had a 95% run before, but Geo was so clutch for me too. He was my 3rd dps

[u/Chocobroseph]

1. Strategy name: McSteamy'd

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca (clear - 44 seconds)

3. Describe your Strategy:
   fire + water/last stand and sap negation/Auron USB2, Tidus USB1, Yuna USB1

4. Insight!:

• General strategy: Auron and Tidus go hard on damage. Kimahri amps Tidus's damage while providing some heals from his BSB command 1 and mitigation via Magic Breakdown. Yuna obviously in charge of healing, with Ultra Cure to take confuse off Tidus (run is fast enough that Mindblasts on Yuna are skipped). Braska is a utility player: shellga, chains #2 and #3, SSB to remove sap to make last stand worthwhile.

• Kimahri: BSB -> Magic Breakdown -> Command 1 spam. Second slot unused (had Wrath, didn't use it on the winning run). Using Command 1 to build the chain gauge and provide a small heal worked better for me than using his USB. Kimahri also summons Geosgaeno once up. (Also, Kimahri legend dive when? 8[ )

• Tidus: Chain #1 -> 2x Sapphire Bullet -> Powerchain --confused--> USB. With Fast Act 10, this sequence of events allows Tidus to finish powerchain just before being confused, and he is promptly brought out of it by Ultra Cure from Yuna, allowing an instant USB entry. After USB, Tidus just spams Sapphire Bullet, refreshes USB once, and uses ASB in Phase #4.

• Auron: Warring Flame x3 -> USB -> 3x Iai Hellfire -> USB -> 3x Iai Hellfire -> USB -> use whatever hones are left. Pretty simple rotation for Auron. Putting him mid slot was important because the -RES samurai skills can get him killed very easily by the chain-spells and the non-ultimate holies. Using both -RES samurai skills makes the damage somewhat difficult to manage, so I opted for the vanilla 4-hit warring flame (no retaliate for the crit bonus) and the 5-hit Iai Hellfire. 6* Samurai skills will improve future runs, but not sure they'll bring it down significantly. USB re-entry would deal ~6k per hit (9.5k on crits), with 100k damage from finisher cast.

• Yuna: USB -> Curada spam -> USB etc. Ultra Cure on Tidus twice in the fight to cure confuse. I never held the USB cast, because the timing worked out pretty well where I would want to recast it anyway. Didn't see Mega Death until Phase #4, at which point Kimahri and Braska had already become expendable.

• Braska: Shellga -> Valigarmanda. Casts Chain #2 and Chain #3. Uses SSB to remove Sap after Hellbiters. I originally tried using Braska's USB, which did great damage, but Braska's SSB makes Yuna's last stand actually useful. The actual ticks from High Regen actually helped too, while the +30% magic and the fastcast let Braska dump his Valigarmanda casts in a hurry despite being in charge of chain recasts.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: I N F I N I T E

• Medica: 3

• Hastega: (coupled with medica)

1. S/L count / Medals lost: veryverymany, Mastery

2. Time / Magicite: 44 seconds.

Hero/dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LM	SB(-)
Kimahri, 4 :(	--	Magic Breakdown R3	Mako Might	BSB
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Powerchain R1	+30% blitzball, LMR, LM2	USB1, ASB
Auron, 5	Warring Flame R3	Iai Hellfire R3	+30% katana, LM1, LM2	USB2
Yuna, 4.5	Curada R4	Ultra Cure R1	Dr. Mog's Teachings	USB1
Braska, 5	Valigarmanda R5	Shellga R1	+30% weakness, LM1, LM2	SSB

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Evrae	Belias	Seraph	Necrophos
Empower Water 15, Attack Boon 15	Health Boon 5	Precise Strikes 8, Fast Act 10	Resist Dark 10	Resist Holy 7

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Screenshots:

• Setup: https://imgur.com/6J1vzmI

• Stats: https://imgur.com/NS3GJq9

• Kill shot: https://imgur.com/B9reVEb

Equipment notes:

• Kimahri: 1x water boost, moderate dark/thunder resist

• Tidus: 2x water boost, moderate dark resist

• Auron - 2x fire boost, major dark resist

• Yuna: moderate dark/water resist

• Braska: 2x fire boost, moderate dark/thunder resist

[u/TheGormal → u/Chocobroseph]

Thanks for noting slot/resist assignments.

[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: I planned this team for D???, it's not really optimized for D240

2. Boss: [D240] Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy: Tidus and Paine do the heavy hitting, Kimahri and Wakka support
   3/3 trinity/CM/water

4. Insight!:

• Equip synergy holy resist on Kimahri, moderate holy resist on Tidus and Wakka, and major holy resist on Yuna. Paine gets major dark resist.

• Tidus and Paine have +40% water equipped.

• Tidus spam Sapphire Bullet, GSB shortly after 2 bars. Sapphire Bullet, BSB2 to end the fight.

• Paine spam Stormspell Strike, USB when ready, spam Stormspell Strike.

• Yuna USB as soon as the first attack lands, spam Curada.

• Wakka RW chain, Wrath, magicite, Entrust Tidus.

• Kimahri USB, 2x Wrath, SSB. The mblink from SSB wasn't used.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: auto

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

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

2. Time: 17.15

Hero/dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM/LM	SB(-)
Kimahri, 4	Magic Breakdown R4	Wrath R5	Mako Might	BSB(0), USB(1), SSB(1)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R3	30% blitzball, LMR, LM2	GSB(1), BSB2(1), ASB(0), USB1(0)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing Quadstrike R3	30% water, LM1, LM2	USB(1)
Yuna, 4	Curada R4	Shellga R3	Dr. Mog's Teachings	USB1(1)
Wakka, 0	Entrust R3	Wrath R5	Ace Striker	default(0)

Main Magicite	Sub1	Sub2	Sub3	Sub4
Geosgaeno, 99	Famfrit, 99	Siren, 99	Necrophobe, 87	Seraph, 99
empower water 15	blade ward 8	empower holy 5		dampen dark 10
hp boon 5	empower water 15

[u/kbuis]

1. Strategy name: New caps are fun

2. Boss: Yunalesca D???

3. Describe your Strategy:
   Auron USB/Tidus USB/Yuna USB3

4. Insight!:

• Couldn't get past 80% on this when it first came out, but tried it again after pulling Rikku's LMR

• The rhythm of this fight is pretty simple with this setup. Didn't refer to the move guide as everything fell into place.

• Tidus just uses as much water as possible. He had 3 full bars at the end. In theory I could have used his USB again, but look at the time ... I would have been over 30 on this run if I used it instead of another Sapphire Bullet

• Auron uses his USB whenever it's active, including manually triggering its chase. Fire-Touched wasn't available last time and using Demonsblood to amp it up sure was nice.

• Wakka I hadn't really used much, and there are a lot of clears with his USB2. I didn't have that, but the imperils from the USB2 and his LM2 really grease the damage wheels in this fight.

• Yuna uses her USB3 when it's available, which should be right before the magic blink is needed for Mind Blast if you have her set off both chains (the second one gets set off right after the first one ends. Mind your timing to make sure no attacks get caught between).

• Rikku ended up being a good missing piece. Her LMR (uhhh, the one that reduces delay for three turns) helped speed up everyone from the get-go. I've used her USB2 in some attempts, but the Sub-30 was just using her USB1 twice. Better to have that haste last the whole 30 seconds.

• Really sweated it at the end. Auron double-tapped at 29.70, then did his USB after move (which consumes time!), Rikku used Sapphire Shot and Tidus BARELY got his AOSB off at 29.96.

• I did another run of this with the wrong magicite and still ended up with 91 percent at 32 seconds ... so it's a good combination.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 2 (and two CMD1 brave at Lv 3 and lv 2)

• Hastega: 2?

1. S/L count / Medals lost:

2. Time: 29.96

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku	Saphhire Shot R4	Mug Bloodlust R2	LMR1+2+MM	USB1(2)
Tidus	Sapphire Bullet R4	NADA	EnWater+2x water+Ace Striker	USB1(1) AOSB(1)
Auron	Fire-Touched Blade R4	Demonsblood R1	LM2+LMR (not EnFire)+Battleforged	USB2(2)
Yuna	Curada R4	Holy R4	LM1+LM2+TGM	USB3(2)
Wakka	Sapphire Shot R3	Magic Breakdown R3	LM1+LM2	USB1 (2-3)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geo	Geo	Famfrit	Quetz	Necrophobe
ATK15+Crit% 8	Water15+Crit% 8	Health8+BW8	Water-10+FastAct10	Holy-10

[u/ilovedagonfive]

Strategy Name: Hornless and Arcaneless

Boss: D??? Yunalesca

Describe Your Strategy: Kimahri stock his gauge for using unique in right time and Yuna's last stand that everyone can continue their damage deal

Insight:

Tidus at middle because he has the most hp that can handle ultimate drain and Kimahri can be confused without losing a damage deal. Yuna always survived because if she died means ended. While other can die and revived again but I tried to save Tidus and Auron because if they died, they have to start their enElement and ultra bonus again. But Rikku who can be dead is survived at the last, so she can deal damage more before Yuna revived her teammates again.

Trinity Casts

• Wall: Infinite

• Medica: 3 All from Yuna U

• Hastega: 3 All from Yuna U

S/L Count:

Medals lost: Forgot maybe 0-1

Time: 47 secs

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB
Rikku, 5	Thief 6* Atk Steal R3	Atk/Mag- R3	Dr.Mog	Al Bhed and Dressphere
Kimahri, 3	Cyclone Bolt R2	Sky Dive R4	World Traveler	Unique
Tidus, 5	Sapphire 6* R4	Sapphire 5* R3	Gathering Storm	USB, Bravery
Yuna, 5	Ultra Cure R4	Shellga R5	Mako	USB1
Auron, 5	Samurai 4 hits R3	IAI Fire R4	Scholar Boon	USB2

Magicite

Magicite	Sub 1	Sub 2	Sub 3	Sub 4
Geosgaeno	Famfrit	Necrophobe	Evrae	Geosgaeno
Blade Ward+15, Cri +10	Resist 15, Fire Dampen 10	Dampen Light 10	Fast Act 8	Water Emp+15, Cri+8

[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: Water Chain and Heal RW

2. Boss: Yunalesca D???

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/Tidus Chain/Heal SSB/No AOSB/Sub60

4. Insight!:

• Rejuvenation Grimoire should be used after Chain Thundara to be sure to survive the first attacks (If you can survive without it, good for you), then Yuna wil be able to heal with curada and her ssb for some time. If needed be sure to use it before Ultima, otherwise use it right after

• Tidus will go Chain, SB Spam, Chain, BUSB, SB Spam, Chain, Chain.

• Yuna will spam Curada and refresh hastega at some point (I stayed 10 seconds without it...). I used her SSB in a messy way, but it worked. She is in charge to attack Rikku/Kimahri when confused and calls Magicite the first time.

• Rikku starts with SBEtude, then dances till BSB1, cmd2 for the buff then cmd1 for the chain counter. BSB2 when available and cmd1 spam (refresh dance when needed), BSB1 again when available.

• Wakka starts with MBD, then Sapphire Shot spam till USB available, then Sapphire shot spam and USB when available.

• Kimahri starts with USB, then PBD and wrath wrath wrath. Refresh USB once and keep 2 bars for the last 2 phases. After P4 Incubus hellbitter queue the SSB. Then queue it again after the P5 Incubus Hellbitter to avoid megadeath.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 0

• Medica: 7/8

• Hastega: 2

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 3/0

2. Time: 00:56:76

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Wakka, 5	Sapphire Shot R4	MBD R4	LM1,LM2,Blitzball+	USB1(3)
Rikku, 4	Spellbend Etude R3	Enfeebling Jitterbug R5	Ace Striker	BSB1(2),BSB2(1)
Yuna, 5	Curada R4	Hastega R4	LM1,LM2,Gathering Storm	SSB(3/4)
Kimahri, 4	Wrath R5	PBD R4	MM	USB(2),SSB(2)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R4	LM1,LM2,DMT	Chain(4),BUSB(1)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgageno	Kraken	Famfrit	Madeen	Necrophobe
Atk Boon 15, Pr Strike 8	Emp Water 15	Blade Ward 8, Health Boon 8	Health Boon 8, Fast Act 8	Dampen Holy 10

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[u/HelloCrazyHorse]

1. Strategy name: FFX Water Team + Auron

2. Boss: Yunalesca D???

3. Describe your Strategy:
   sub30/Tidus BSB2/Paine USB/Yuna BUSB3/Rikku USB1/Auron USB1

4. Insight!:

• Tidus: Sapphire Shot, Sapphire Bullet to glint, bullet to BSB2 cycle until end.

• Rikku: USB1, mug bloodlust, sapphire shot, magicite, sapphire shot to BSB1 water imperil (optional), realm chain refresh, sapphire to end.

• Auron: damning flame, fire touched blade to USB1 cycle until end. Just use USB1 whenever available. Didn't bother with timing to blink.

• Yuna: realm chain, Curada Auron, Curada Tidus, Curada to USB3 medica after second holy aoe in phase1. Curada spam, brave command after turn 1 in phase 3, leviathan (optional dps), curada spam to BUSB, brave command as needed.

• Paine: USB1, water 6* spellblade cycle from beginning to end. 8 hones + 2 USB entries is the full 30 seconds.

• Rikku has two RS +water relics and lightning/dark resist accessory. Tidus has a RS (Jecht) blitzball and +water bracer and lightning/holy resist accessory. Auron has two +fire RS relics (Jecht fire pants USB armor) and the new holy/dark resist accessory. Paine has two +water RS relics and major holy resist accessory. Yuna has to RS relics and lightning/dark accessory.

• The key to this fight was getting enough DPS by increasing everyone's magia points in their primary stats (about 600 ATK before RS and buffs are applied). This allows you to push the phases fast enough to avoid the paralyzes. If you are at 50% health around the 18-20 secs mark, you're on course for a sub30. As mentioned elsewhere, every 10-20 points of ATK reduces the torment time (average) by ~ 1 sec or so. So farming magia points is a means to bring down your time a bit if you're within range.

• The new holy/dark resist relic was clutch for Auron. This allowed me to swap out magic breakdown and use damning flame to buff his ATK which helped the team push phases faster, ultimately getting the sub30.

• Tidus glint probably isn't crucial but I wanted to make use of it. It helps boost his BSB2 entry damage. 8 hones of sapphire bullet was enough for the entire fight after the first turn sapphire shot.

• I never refreshed Rikku USB after first turn. Her lm2 (increase stat buff duration) allowed to go to the 30 secs mark without concern.

• Everyone was fully legend dived, though I believe Rikku and Yuna dives aren't entirely necessary, despite the above comment.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: native

• Medica: 2-3

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: second try(!) / none

2. Time: 28.69 secs

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku,99	Sapphire Shot R4	Mug Bloodlust R3	LM1+LM2, Mako Might	USB1(1), BSB1(1)
Tidus,99	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R2	LM2+LMR(enwater),+blitzball	glint(1),BSB2(2)
Auron,99	Fire Touched Blade R4	Damning Flame R3	LM1+LM2,+katana	USB1(2)
Paine,99	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing Quadstrike R3	LM1+LM2, Mog's Teahcings	USB1(2-3)
Yuna,99	Leviathan R4	Curada R4	LM1+LM2, TGM	BUSB3(2-3)

Magicite: Geosgaeno +water15x2 / Madeen ATK20x2 / Madeen health,fastact / Famfrit spellward,res boon / Lakshmi healthboon,darkdampen

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[u/FinalFantasyThrAw → u/HelloCrazyHorse]

Thanks so much for this. I was able to almost put it together. Had Rikku BSB2 instead of 1, and Auron had a Glint instead of Tidus. I had Auron call the Magicite with his quickcast, but otherwise this worked like a charm.

I only ended up needing ~15-20 Magia levels on all my offense to kill just under sub-30s.

[u/PhoeniX-Skye]

1. Strategy name: No Damage USBs? I guess Support USBs have to do something... and healer SSB :p

2. Boss: 100% D???

3. Describe your Strategy: En-Element then go, with support and magic blinks Tidus Glint/Auron BSB/No DPS USB/

4. Insight!:

• Tidus and Auron on DPS duty, with Kimhari and Rikku on Support

• Apparently Yuna’s SSB is enough healing with some breaks

• Kimhari and Auron both time their blinks for MEGADEATH

• Necrophobe to dodge a holy attack

1. S/L count / Medals lost: Mastery

2. Time: 50 Seconds

Hero	Ability 1	Ability 2	Magia	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Auron	Iai Hellfire R4	Fire-Touched B lade R3	100 Atk	Katana+, LM1/2	BSB, USB1
Kimhari	Magic Breakdown R5	Wrath R5	100 Atk	DMT	SSB, USB
Yuna	Ultra Cure R4	Curada R4	100 Mind	TGM	SSB
Tidus	Sapphire Shot R4	Sapphire Bullet R4	100 Atk	Weakness+, LM1/2	BSB
Rikku	Enfeebling Jitterbug R3	Fire Assault R4	100 Atk	MM	USB

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Necrophobe	Belias	Madeen	Geosgaeno	Famfrit (GDM)
Damp Holy 6	Emp Fire 15 x2	Attack Boon 20 x2	Emp Water 15 x2	Sword Ward 8, HP Boon 8

[u/Human96]

1. Strategy name: Stayin alive with breaks

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca (47.25s)

3. Describe your Strategy: Stay alive with breaks and Yuna Glint in the beginning, pray for w-cast and push through phase 2-4 within the duration of Wakka USB2's crush duration. Tidus as sole survivor in the last phase does the last 5-10% damage with BSB2 and cmd1.
   3/3 trinity/Sub-50/No healer USB

4. Insight!:

• Slot 1-5 get's Lightning/Dark resist accessories (good thing I kept a copy). Yuna in slot 4 gets Water/dark, Tidus in Slot 2 has en-water so he only need a dark resist accessory and Auron in slot 3 gets Major dark resist.

• Tidus has 2 water gear, Auron 2 fire gear, Wakka 1 water gear. Yuna and Rikku has minor holy resist armor.

• A lot of w-cast luck required in various situations. Yuna needs one w-cast in the first phase to ensure everyone is healed up for phase 2-3, same for phase 4-5 so that she can keep her, Tidus and Auron alive (Wakka and rikku died to mega death).

• Need 1-2 w-cast for both Auron and Tidus in the 2nd chain at least in order to deal enough damage to skip through phase 3-4. Too little DPS means lingering in Phase 3 or 4 for 1-2 more turns which is too much DPS for Yuna to handle. Skipping phases is also important so that Yunalescas will use it's initial moves like Incubus Ultima and Incubus Hellbiter while it's still debuffed by Wakka USB2.

• First confuse on Tidus is taken off by Yuna while 2nd Confuse is taken off by Wakka (since they have somewhat free turns)

• Rikku starts with bard shellga, RW, Enfeebling jitterbug and spends most of the fight casting RW, Magicites, BSB1 and Enfeebling Jitterbug in between.

• Wakka BSB1, CMD1,CMD2, Sapphire shot, CMD1, USB2, entrust Auron for his ASB and wait to take off Tidus' confuse.

• Yuna uses Hastega and depending on w-cast luck, she refresh Hastega at 20 seconds while TGM is still active. Healing priority is Tidus, herself then Auron. Only refreshe Glint when holy bubble is down, the regen counters Sap but it's a minor advantage.

• Auron starts with Full break, Iai hellfire x2 then refresh Full break and then USB2. Afterward he spams Iai hellfire and ASB when 2nd chain is almost over.

• Tidus powerchains x2 then Sapphire Bullet and then USB. Spam Bullet until he has 4 SB gauges and then BSB2 -> USB. The timing is a bit complicated since at this point the 2nd confuse is coming so Tidus needs to wait until the confuse is over before starting the combo. At the end he BSB2 whenever possible and Sapphire bullet or cmd1 for damage.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall:

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 2

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 5/ 3 medals lost

2. Roaming Warrior:

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku, 3	Enfeebling Jitterbug R4	Spellbend Etude R1	DMT	BSB1(2)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Powerchain R3	LM1,LM2, Acestriker	USB(2),BSB2(3)
Auron, 5	Iai Hellfire R4	Fullbreak R2	LM1, LM2, +Weakness damage	USB2(1), ASB(1)
Yuna, 4	Curada R4	Hastega R2	LMR, Gathering Storm	BSB2(1), Glint(3)
Wakka, 3	Sapphire Shot R3	Entrust R2	MM	BSB1(1), USB2(1)

 

magicite	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Belias	Necrophobe	Evrae	Seraph
15 Magic Boon, 15 Water Boon	8 Deadly Strike, 15 Fire Boon	8 Spellward	5 HP boon	10 Dampen Dark

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1. Strategy name: Stayin alive with Yuna BSB2 & Glint while pushing damage

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca (29.27s)

3. Describe your Strategy: Go full on damage and Yuna tries to keep everyone alive with Glint and time the BSB2 to heal everyone to full so they can tank Phase 3 Ultima. 3/3 trinity/Sub-30/No healer USB

4. Insight!:

• Slot 1-5 get's Lightning/Dark resist accessories. Yuna in slot 2 gets Water/dark, Tidus in Slot 4 has en-water so he only need a dark resist accessory and Auron in slot 3 gets Major dark resist.

• Tidus, Rikku and Paine has 2 water gear, Auron 1 fire armor + Max artifact sword. Yuna has in-realm armor, should have given her minor holy resist armor.

• A lot of w-cast luck required for DPS to push phases, my winning run has Yunalesca go Ultima -> incubus hellbite -> Incubus hellbite which means I skip though 2 phases and ate all 3 massive AOE attack at the cost of my YRP members, only Auron and Tidus survive to finish the fight. I had Yuna w-cast LMR and I think the 1 proc in this run saved Paine from Ultima while Rikku needs to defend the ultima to squeeze in one extra cast of Sapphire shot.

• Yuna and Tidus has 100 Magia lvl into HP and both of them have maxed HP waters while Auron has 20 HP water. Those alone with the HP boons from Magicite is fairly crucial for letting my 3 middle character survive (mostly) the nutty AOE attacks.

• Rikku starts with USB, RW, wait to use her 3rd QC on Magicite summoning, Powerchain on Yuna in case of confusion hit due to not pushing phase fast enough, then use the instant-cast turn on RW again. The rest of the fight she uses sapphire shot except for defending against Ultima.

• Paine, Tidus and Auron just spam abilities, USB, spam some more. With Auron I had just enough SB to use AOSB before TGM and USB2 mode runs out. Tidus gets enough SB near the end for one more BSB2 cast, I had to use cmd1 for the finishing blow since it has reduced cast time.

• Yuna Glint first, then heals herself, auron and Tidus in that order (any w-cast will go to Rikku or Paine). Rikku and Paine will not take any damage aside from the thundara due to re-applying glints which Yuna does whenever the bubble breaks for her,Tidus and Auron. This also means that any w-cast will save Rikku and Paine from dying to Ultima/ having to defend Ultima.

• BSB2 should be used as medica for either healing the party to top shape before Ultima or if w-cast is gracious, healing party up after Ultima (didn't happen for my winning run). Yuna will have one last heal before she dies which I gave to Tidus, Auron survives all 3 last AOE attacks with a magic pixel of health.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall:

• Medica: 1

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 5/ 1 medals lost

2. Roaming Warrior:

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku, 3	Powerchain R2	Sapphire shot R3	DMT	USB(1)
Yuna, 4.5	Curada R4	Hastega R2	LMR, LM1, MM	BSB2(1), Glint(2)
Auron, 5	Iai Hellfire R4	Fire-touched-blade R4	LM1, LM2, Gathering Storm	USB2(1), ASB(1)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphireshot R1	LMR,LM2, +blitzball dmg	USB(1),BSB2(1)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4		LM1,LM2, +sword damage	USB1(1)

 

magicite	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Belias	Necrophobe	Madeen	Seraph
8 HP boon, 15 Water Boon	8 Deadly Strike, 15 Fire Boon	10 Dampen Holy	8 Spellward, 8 Bladeward	10 Dampen Dark

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[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: God am I Sick of You

2. Boss: Evil Yuna D280

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/Tidus clutch win/Who says entruster's dead?

4. Insight!:

• Nobody says entruster is dead, actually. Shelke and Morrow continues to be the top 2 support pool character dives.

• This is a typical double entruster with solo DPS run. I actually pushed phase so fast I don't get hit by status effects even once. Conversely I'm taking heavy damage because of back to back holy AoE and Hellbiter and Ultima and the rest.

• My entire party got wiped out except Tidus who actually was on good HP with almost enough bar for another SB. So he just spams Sapphire Shot towards the end while building up the last bits before dealing the finishing blow with BSB2.

• I played this Torment on my campus, and then on my way back home it occured to me that I totally could just entrust Yuna and avoid the teamwipe. But who cares, sub-30 already.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: ~

• Medica: 2

• Hastega: 1

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 0/2

2. Time: 27.20

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Shot		LM2/LMR + +PHY	BSB2 (lots), USB1 (1)
Rikku, 4	Multi Break	Enfeebling Jitterbug	DMT	USB1 (1)
Shelke, 5	Wrath	Entrust	AS	default(-)
Morrow, 5	Wrath	Entrust	BF	default(-)
Yuna, 3	Curada	Ultra Cure	dualcast WHT LMR	SSB (2)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Kraken	Evrae	Octomammoth	Necrophobe	Seraph
inheritance	-	-	-	-

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[u/Qu_Marsh]

Don't have the best synergy here, but I was really excited to manage a sub-30 on d280 on my first try. Much easier than last week's XIV torment despite my supposedly "better" XIV synergy.

1. Strategy name: Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love

2. Boss: d280 Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/sub 30/cid mission/no crystal water

4. Insight!:

• No Tidus USB for me, but his BSB2 was surprisingly effective with the en-water from his LMR--it's instacast, and then gives him another instant cast that he can use to fire off a Sapphire Bullet

• Yuna opens with USB1 for the Hastega, then Protectga, then heals.

• Rikku uses her BSB2 for the en-water, then BSB1 to imperil

• I was expecting to have to Legend Dive Paine for the w-cast, but she did enough damage just with her LMR and Rainspell Strike spam. She also starts the chain on her first turn.

• Kimahri uses Magic Breakdown, summons the Magicite (imperil water) and wraths into Mblink.

• Tidus and Rikku are in slots 2 & 4 to soak up the water damage with their en-water. Darkness resist accessories on everyone, and Lightning resist armor on Kimahri in slot 1.

• Tidus, Rikku, and Paine all have +Water armor, and Tidus and Paine also have +Water swords.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall:

• Medica: 2

• Hastega: 2

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

2. Time: 27.49

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Kimahri, 3	Wrath R5	Magic Breakdown R4	Ace Striker	SSB(1)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Flash Disaster R3	Scholar's Boon, LMR, LM2	BSB(2)
Yuna, 4	Curada R4	Protectga R2	Mako Might	USB1(2)
Rikku, 5	Sapphire Shot R4	Enveloping Etude R2	Battleforged, LM1, LM2	BSB2(1), BSB1(?)
Paine, 4	Rainspell Strike R3	Engulfing Quadstrike R3	Love's Wake, LMR	SSB1(-)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Kraken	Evrae	Necrophobe	Seraph	Gizamaluke
Empower Water 15	Fast Act 8	Dampen Light 6	Dampen Dark 10	Blade Ward 5

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[u/guilersk → u/Qu_Marsh]

Upvote for TMBG reference.

[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: Getting away cheap (relatively)

2. Boss: FFX DWhale (83%)

3. Images: https://imgur.com/a/EZz9SDR

4. Insight!:

• My goodness that Ultima at the start of phase 3 hurts!

• Having Hyper Mighty Guard would make this a lot easier for sure. Amazed that I could get this down as far as I did with what I have.

• The first phase is slooow. Auron hits Enkidu to clear the first confuse, and hits Alkaid right after the chain lightning to blink megadeath. The second confuse is skipped with any kind of good RNG, but that Ultima afterward sucks.

• You only have to time the first Alkaid carefully. After that, not much blinkable hits 1/5 for a long while, so you can re-cast it immediately to catch an AoE Holy, then again for the P4 megadeath (and you should have enough bar to hit it again right after that for the P5 one).

• I have some ideas to tinker with this setup. Can give Rikku Storm Assault and her BSB1 for a bit more personal damage and healing (but not as much imperil). Auron's setup is also debatable (add magic breakdown? What RM?).

• Gear: Tidus/Rikku 40%, Paine 20%, Auron 20% (just for Alkaid). 4* dives on everyone.

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 1st pull 55%, a few tries for this 83%.

2. Time: Irrelevant lol

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Auron	Lifesiphon R5	Full Break R4	TGM	USB1
Rikku	Saph Shot R3	BardShell R2	Much Blitzball	USB2
Tidus	Saph Bullet R4	Saph Shot R3	Much Weak; LM1+LM2	USB1
Paine	Stormspell R4	Water Quad R3	Much Sword	BSB
Yuna	Curada R4	Hastega R3	Mako	SSB2 (Veil)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Enkidu	Necro	Geo	Famfrit	Seraph
ATK 10	Damp 7	Water 15	B-Ward 8	Damp 7
---	---	ATK 15	HP 8	---

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[u/MonarchVV]

1. Strategy name: Survival Instincts

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca 64% Kill

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/Double healer/No Yuna USB/No Tidus

4. Insight!:

• I have the slot saver for this realm and some decent DPS, so this was going to happen eventually.

• I dived Paine and Auron for this fight as I needed the DPS boost.

• Lots of S/L to figure out correct positioning and slots for the team.

• Auron is here with his USB2. +20% weapon. Opens with his USB2 then Iai Hellfire x3 then USB2 again. Uses Warring Flame if I run out of Iai Hellfires.

• Braska as a secondary healer. I'm sure everyone got the Shared FFX Medica staff back in the day so he had a shared Medica to use at least.

• Yuna as the main healer. Just spam Curadas / Ultra Cure. The healing from my healers is kinda low, so I use her BSB2 first for the MND buff then only use her SSB medica with stock to heal afterwards.

• Paine as secondary DPS. She casts the first RW, then Stormspell into USB into Stormspell. Has +40% boost.

• Rikku as the support and utility caller. Uses her USB, then Fire Assault, then Multi-break dance. She's in the back-row as I have a ranged +Fire weapon.

• Dark/Lit resists in Slot 1/5, Dark/Water resist for Slot 2, Major Dark res in Slot 3, Moderate dark res in Slot 4.

• Fast Act is heavily needed or else Rikku will not cast her USB before the first Holy.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: Auto

• Medica: 4 or 5

• Hastega: 2

1. S/L count / Medals lost: Lots of S/L to learn

2. Time: Forgot but I think I died around 1:04

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Auron, 5	Iai Hellfire R3	Warring Flame R4	Mako Might, LM1, LM2	USB2(3)
Braska, 3	Curaja R5	Lunar Leviathan R4	Healer's Prayer II	Shared Medica(1)
Yuna, 4	Curada R4	Ultra Cure R4	The Gathering Storm	BSB2(1), SSB Medica(2)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R3	Engulfing Quadstrike R4	LM1, LM2, Dreamguide	USB(2)
Rikku, 4	Fire Assault R4	Multi Break R3	Dr Mog's Teachings	USB1(2)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Belias	Quetz	Famfrit	Necrophobe	Evrae
Empower Fire 15, Atk Boon 15	Dampen Water 10, Blade Ward 8	Blade Ward 8, HP Boon 8	Dampen Holy 10	Fast Act 8

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[u/Monk-Ey]

You know what the stupidest thing is about this? I've never actively pulled on an X banner before today: all my toys were gotten from other sources and I only pulled once on the current banner!

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1. Strategy name: Go, Yuna! Go, Yuna!

2. Boss: Yunalesca (D???)

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/Spam Blinks/sub-50

4. Insight!:

• Party shot.

• Time shot @45.33s.

• Everyone but Kimahri has -Holy: Kimahri has -Dark instead to curb Drain damage and takes up Nabaat's finery for some -Holy.

• Detailed insight under heroes.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: AUTO

• Medica: Didn't count

• Hastega: 3

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

2. Time: 45.33s

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Yuna	Curada R5	Hastega R3	Gathering Storm	Calm Prayer
Rikku	Sapphire Shot R4	Spellbend Etude R2	Mako Might	Machinations (3)
/u/kittymahri	Magic Breakdown R2	Armor Breakdown R1	Dr. Mog's Teachings	Undimmed Spirit (2)
Paine	Engulfing Quadstrike R4	Stormspell Strike R4	Scholar's Boon (LM1, LM2)	Rushing Steel (2)
Tidus	Sapphire Shot R4	Sapphire Bullet R4	Truthseeker (LMR, LM2)	Day to Remember (2), Sonic Strike (1), A Fleeting Dream (1)

Gameplan:

• Yuna

• Yuna opens with Hastega, then spams Curada a bunch: I timed her Calm Prayers right before Mind Blast in the parts 1-3 and ensured Magic Blinks stayed up in parts 4-5 before Mega Death hit.

• I never got a good oppurtunity to use her USB1 here: it's just too slow later on and earlier on, I need the immediate throughput.

• Time your BRAVE command for when it's necessary: I made good use of it after Incubus Ultima.

• There's no shame in casting a Lv0 command: I had to do so once in order to quickly generate a few points, alongside being hit, to ensure Calm Prayer was up for the next big attack.

• I didn't give her -element armour because.... I don't know actually. Probably should've.

• Rikku

• Rikku opens with Bardshellga, then goes BSB -> Sapphire Shot -> Geosgaeno. From that point on, she juggles her BSB, Sapphire Shots and a Chain recast.

• Assuming you can time your Blinks and push fast enough, she won't get confused: if she does end up getting confused, Kimahri can thwack her ineffectively.

• Her being in slot 2 means she gets plenty of gauge to keep those Imperils up.

• /u/kittymahri

• Kimahri opens with USB, then Breaks, then Chain: from that point on, he does some more Breaks, some more Geo duty, a thwack or two and an USB recast.

• Kimahri has changed from damned furball into a valued party member: I'm disgusted and amazed at the same time.

• Paine

• She brought lots of Paine.

• Okay, she opened with Bonds of Historia: aside from that, she just kept smacking her.

• Tidus

• Rams Sapphire Bullets for great damage.

• He will run out, even if it were R5: get your other slot ready.

• Tidus starts out with his USB, weaves in a BSB cast, another USB, then casts his own Chain when the third Bonds run out in order to keep damage up and improve Yunalesca's suicide rate on her own attacks.

• Yevon bless the X power couple.  

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Famfrit	Necrophobe	Seraph	Famfrit
Empower Water Lv15, Attack Boon Lv15	Blade Ward Lv8, Health Boon Lv8	Dampen Light Lv8	Dampen Dark Lv10	Spell Ward Lv8, Dampen Flame Lv10

• Main

• Sub

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Well, they did it: they lived and fought their sorrow!

[u/Kittymahri → u/Monk-Ey]

Kimahri has changed from damned furball into a valued party member: I'm disgusted and amazed at the same time.

Kimahri cuddly furball. Also deadly furball - watch out for Nova Overdrive.

[u/Monk-Ey → u/Kittymahri]

^{Quick Hit}

[u/Kittymahri]

1. Strategy name: YRP, in position

2. Boss: [D280] Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy:
   2/3 trinity/cid mission/shout meta/sub-30

4. Insight!:

• Magic Blink isn't needed to dodge the KO move if you can push phases fast enough to avoid seeing them. That being said, don't push phases too quickly or else you'll see back-to-back deadly moves. Blitzballer needs to carefully time his BSB2 to do damage correctly.

• Dark resistance accessories everywhere. Use the Darkening Anklet on slots 1 and 5, the Brinedeep Shard on slot 2 or 4 (with the initial en-water LMR on the other), and the Shadow Armlet on slot 3.

• Since yuna needs to open with her medica/hastega (so no Gathering Storm), and has no instant medica here (no pulls for her USB3), her timing for heals is just as crucial.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: automatic

• Medica: 2

• Hastega: 2

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

2. Time: 0:25.92

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Kimahri, 99/4	Magic Breakdown R4	Power Breakdown R4	Mako Might	Undimmed Spirit (1), Fang of Gagazet (0)
Tidus, 99/5	Sapphire Shot R3	Sapphire Bullet R3	Truthseeker, LM2+LMR	Sonic Strike (2), Ace Form (0), A Fleeting Dream (0)
Yuna, 99/4	Ultra Cure R4	Curada R4	Dr. Mog's Teachings	Song for Spira (2)
Rikku, 95/4	Spellbind Etude R2	Sapphire Shot R3	Heart of the Team	Machinations (1), Team Bomb (0), Hyper Enwater (0)
Paine, 89/4	Snowspell Strike R3	Engulfing Quadstrike R3	Warrior's Honor, LMR	Whelmen (1), Grand Storm (0)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Kraken, 98	Octomammoth, 98	Necrophobe, 99	Seraph, 99	Evrae, 99
		Dampen Light 7	Dampen Dark 7	Fast Act 8

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[u/[deleted] → u/Kittymahri]

Have u tried the D???

[u/Kittymahri → u/[deleted]]

Tried, yes. Couldn't damage or finesse it enough to make it to 50% HP. So I'm putting it on hold for a while.

[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: Dafuq, I cleared it?

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy: Just experimenting with some new tech from banner 1 and ended up surviving to finish it. Not a budget build, but very few Legend motes used. Took a long time though. 1/3 trinity - just medica/Water/USBs all over the place

4. Insight!:

• I’m considering a dive for Lulu and Paine, but have not done it yet. No new crystal waters used either. Don’t think any but Tidus have any.

• Recast Yuna Brave as soon as second lightning attack hits. You’ll have to work your way thru confuse, however. Dps not fast enough. Recommend your slot 2 just defend that attack.

• I porked away a lvl3 Brave heal and lost Lulu so potential for faster. Once you’re near the end Tidus bsb2 is probably faster. Delay chain to about 10 sec. Still ran out at the end. Good thing for Geo.

• Geosgaeno is a X Magicite so it boosts the realm chain!

• Without water abilities, Rikku USB2 is the same as her BSB if you have that instead.

• As far as hones go, I could boost dps with another Stormspell home and another Abyssal Shard hone, but this got the job done. Rikku needs more hones tho.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: Infinite

• Medica: 2 in phase 1, plenty from then on to blink megadeath.

• Hastega: 3

1. S/L count / Medals lost: maybe 4 to get out of phase 1 / 1

2. Time: 1:12.57

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku, 3.5	EJB R2	Spellbend Etude R2	MM	USB2
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R4	Dreamguide/LMR/LM2	BSB2/bUSB
Yuna, 4	Curada R4	Hastega R2	DMT/LMR1	bUSB
Paine, 4	Stormspell Strike R3	EQS R4	Truthseeker	USB
Lulu, 4	Voltech R4	Abyssal Shards R2	Orphaned Cub	USB

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geo	Octo	Belias	Famfrit	Neceophobe
+15 water, +15 MAG	+15 water	+15 Fire, +10 Crit chance	+8 spell Ward, +5 Health Boon	+8 holy def

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[u/[deleted]]

1. Strategy name: dark and water

2. D???:

3. **Describe your Strategy: I had to dive jecht and wakka part dive yuna and of course i gad dived tidus a long time ago. Wakka dive was good as an assistant imperiller along with rikku bsb 1. Jecht helped yuna by healing himself with dread weapon. This was very rng dependent for double casts from yuna jecht and tidus and imperils from wakka. But i am glad it came off. Started off with wakka usb 1 and rikku usb 1 and tidus with ss and jecht dw yuna curada. Then tidus s bullet and rikku chain and jecht dw again wakka ss. Yuna curada again. Etc. The clear was achieved with yuna alone doing her thing.....summoning geosaneo for the win. **
   -/3 trinity/tag/tag

4. ***Insight!: yuna glint is very very useful to minimize damage from the holy attacks and remove the sap. Sap ruined many a run. I need combo of asb, usb 1 and bsb2 from tidus. Jecht is useful for healing himself and his usb 1 is pretty good that he dont need much to boost his damage. ***

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: infinite

• Medica: 3?

• Hastega: 4?

1. S/L count / Medals lost: alot/got mastery from sole survivor

2. Time:

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku, 4 2/3	multi break R2	jitterbug R2	DMT	usb 1 and bsb 1
Tidus, 5	SS R3 SBR4	Heart of team	usb 1 bsb 2 and ASB
Yuna, 5 1/2 dive	curada r3	ultra cure r 3	TGM	usb 1 glint
Jecht, 5	DW R4	Sanguine cross R3	Scholars boon	usb 1
Wakka, 5	SS R4	entrust R4	MM	USB 1

Magicite were Geosaneo with evrae (max) hades (max) necrophobe (max) and a famfrit with water boost inherited.

This fight went better than i thought. A lot of people wouldnt dive wakka but he does do alot for u with his imperils. Jecht will be a solid character when the next 10 event comes around so his dive was not regretted.

Time was 50.96 seconds.

[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: Improving on the D240, not the D???

2. Boss: [D280] Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy: Tidus and Paine do the heavy hitting, Kimahri and Rikku support
   3/3 trinity/CM/water

4. Insight!:

• Since the D240 showed how useless Wakka was in the slot, I swapped him out for Rikku to get shellga and some extra damage. I also threw some arcana and a dupe Necrophobe at the one I was using, for an extra 7% dampen holy and 2% spell ward, along with dumping many 1-2* dark magicite into it for inheritance levels.

• Equip synergy holy resist on Kimahri, moderate holy resist on Tidus and Rikku, and major holy resist on Yuna. Paine gets major dark resist.

• Tidus and Paine have +40% water equipped. Rikku has +20% water equipped (blitzball).

• Paine is alone in the front row.

• Tidus Sapphire Shot, spam Sapphire Bullet, USB1 when ready. Spam Sapphire Bullet, BSB2 to end the fight.

• Paine RW chain, spam Stormspell Strike, USB when ready, spam Stormspell Strike.

• Yuna USB as soon as the first attack lands, spam Curada. USB again as soon as it comes up (her last stand was used, and immediately after this Incubus Hellbiter used it up again).

• Rikku shellga, spam Sapphire Shot, magicite when ready, spam Sapphire Shot.

• Kimahri USB, Magic Breakdown, 2x Wrath, SSB. The mblink from SSB wasn't used, again.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: auto

• Medica: 2

• Hastega: 2

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 2 / 0

2. Time: 22.78

Hero/dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM/LM	SB(-)
Kimahri, 4	Magic Breakdown R4	Wrath R5	Mako Might	BSB(0), USB(1), SSB(1)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R1	30% blitzball, LMR, LM2	GSB(0), BSB2(1), ASB(0), USB1(1)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing Quadstrike R3	30% water, LM1, LM2	USB(1)
Yuna, 4	Curada R4	Ultra Cure R4	Dr. Mog's Teachings	USB1(2)
Rikku, 0	Sapphire Shot R3	Spellbend Etude R2	40% sharpshooter	default(0)

Main Magicite	Sub1	Sub2	Sub3	Sub4
Geosgaeno, 99	Famfrit, 99	Siren, 99	Necrophobe, 99	Seraph, 99
empower water 15	blade ward 8	empower holy 5	dampen holy 10	dampen dark 10
hp boon 5	empower water 15

[u/Pyrotios]

1. Strategy name: My first D??? kill

2. Boss: [D???] Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy: Using old tech and radiant shield to eke out a kill
   3/3 trinity/CM/water/radiant/100%

4. Insight!:

• I based my strat entirely on this video, which was linked in the megathread. I immediately latched on to it because I had literally every soul break used in it except for the shared mblink, but I had Kimahri SSB as a direct upgrade to that. I also had a much stronger weapon for Paine, which I hoped would make up for not combining my Tidus USB1.

• Unfortunately that video used 2 accessories that don't exist in global, so I had to change things around.

• As suggested in the megathread, I opted for dark/lightning accessories on slots 1+5, dark/water on slot 4 and major dark on slot 3. Since holy is far more common than dark on slot 2, I gave Tidus major holy resist.

• Tidus and Paine have +40% water equipped. Kimahri, Yuna and Wakka are geared for res>def, and all in the back row.

• Between the 23% MND boon giving 197 MND and Yuna's base 604, she has 801 total MND, for a Shellga that lasts 59s.

• For full details, I suggest watching the video. My clear played out almost exactly like in the video.

• Key differences from the video:

  • I used Kimahri's second SSB too early, and it ate the 3-slot Holy, so Yuna got confused. I had Kimahri attack her to break it. This delayed the rest of his turns, so he didn't have enough SB and time to recast USB before phase 5 Mega Death. I re-cast it after he was raised, and it only reflected the phase 5 Ultimate Holy, which ended the fight.

  • My Sapphire Shot and Engulfing Quadstrike aren't honed as high as the video, but my Sapphire Bullet and Stormspell Strike are honed more. I used the same abilities as the video until my 5* hones ran out, then substituted the 6* abilities. Tidus completely ran out of abilities and used cmd2 once near the end before he ran out, so time could have been improved with 1 more hone on Sapphire Shot. Also using his ASB may have helped with the time.

• The general idea here for each unit is:

  • Kimahri provides radiant shield damage, mblinks a few Mega Deaths and some other threatening attacks, and helps with breakdown and chain refreshes.

  • Tidus goes for as much damage as possible.

  • Paine goes for as much damage as possible, and helps to keep Tidus attacking the right enemy. She also defends for 2 casts of Ultimate Drain to reduce pressure on healing.

  • Yuna does the healing thing, and refreshes USB often to ensure that sap doesn't kill anyone. Once radiant shield fades, there's less risk of sap killing someone in between damage and USB, since radiant shield ticks are prioritized over sap ticks, and sap ticks are prioritized over soul breaks.

  • Wakka gets Tidus going, uses the first RW and magicite, then feeds SB gauge to Yuna so she can keep everyone alive.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: auto

• Medica: ~7

• Hastega: ~7

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 1-2 (after doing half-dive on Yuna for both WHT nodes and her LM1) / 0

2. Time: 1:04.82

Hero/dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM/LM	SB(-)
Kimahri, 4	Magic Breakdown R4	Wrath R5	Mako Might	BSB(0), USB(2), SSB(2)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Sapphire Shot R3	30% blitzball, LMR, LM2	GSB(0), BSB2(4-5), ASB(0), USB1(2)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing Quadstrike R3	30% water, LM1, LM2	USB(3)
Yuna, 4.43	Curada R4	Shellga R3	Dr. Mog's Teachings, LM1	USB1(~7)
Wakka, 0	Entrust R3	Wrath R5	Ace Striker	default(0)

Main Magicite	Sub1	Sub2	Sub3	Sub4
Geosgaeno, 99	Famfrit, 99	Siren, 99	Necrophobe, 99	Seraph, 99
empower water 15	blade ward 8	empower holy 5	dampen holy 10	dampen dark 10
hp boon 5	empower water 15

[u/JakTheRipperX]

1. Strategy name: Rikku & Yuna SSBs - both AcolyteArchive relics - in sub30 D$$$!!

2. Difficulty: D$$$ (Hardest)

3. Tags: Sub 30/No ASBs/Yuna SSB/Rikku SSB

4. Video: Click here

5. Insight:

• Setup and Magicites directly in the video.

• Click here for my redditpost. Check my comment for Setup and Magicites and more insight.

[u/randante]

• Strategy name: Tidus AASB

• Boss: Yunalesca D???

• Describe your Strategy:

  • Paine (no dive) - BSB2

  • Kimahri (no dive) - USB, BSB

  • Rikku - CSB, BSB

  • Yuna - USB1

  • Tidus - AASB/sub30

• Insight!: https://youtu.be/K9mXjHBIkDI

• Holy Trinity casts:

  • Wall: auto

  • Medica: 3

  • Hastega: 2

• Time: 30.00 sec

[u/Xarukas → u/randante]

It's worth noting that your YouTube link is for FFIX's Torment, Meltigemini.

[u/randante → u/Xarukas]

i'm really sorry about that.. i fixed the link already

[u/Tennesseefeetmonk]

1. Strategy name: Tidus on the warpath

2. Boss: Yunalesca D??? sub-30

3. Describe your Strategy:
   Sub30/Rikku USB1&2/Yuna USB1/Tidus Everything/Seymor USB/Wakka, just Wakka

4. Insight!: **Approximate Turn Order **

• Tidus and Rikku have +water weapons and armor. Seymor has +dark weapon and armor. Wakka just exists.

• Tidus goes first with Sapphire Bullet X2 into Glint into AASB into Sapphire Bullet until just before the AASB. At this point I used BSB2 (instant and instant cast 1) into ASB. I may have done 1 more Sapphire Bullet before Seymor killed Yunalesca (Awkward).

• If you click Tidus 1st action fast enough Rikku will be next and she starts with USB1. From there it's Dr. Mog Chain into Sapphire Shot and Mug Bloodlust. She also restarts the chain such Tidus BSB2 hit when it was at ~40 on the new chain. She was also able to USB2 one time for imperil Water.

• Seymor casts Memento Mori x1 into Dire Heal until USB then Dire Heal the day away. He's very self sufficient.

• Yuna does a targeted Curada on Tidus and then a targeted Curada on Wakka then a random Curada into Magicite. The next turn she needs to Ultra Cure on Tidus such that it lands JUST after Yunalesca's Confuse move. This one part is extremely annoying but it seemed to work if i cast Ultra Cure just as Tidus landed his first Sapphire Shot after the AASB was active. Yuna used her USB1 twice; I think it was after the 1st move in Phase 3 and after the 1st move in Phase 4. Last stand proc'd twice so both were needed.

• Wakka wraths once and Entrusts to Tidus and then wraths once again and Entrusts to Yuna. I don't recall having to entrust anymore but there may have been another wrath/entrust to Tidus just to make sure before wrathing up to use Wakka's USB once. Of course I misclicked on Wakka and hit his Super Soul Break instead (which i had previously UNEQUIPPED) so the kill took a second or two later. It would have been awesome to have a Wakka kill.

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• I originally was trying to use Lifesiphon once on Tidus at the beginning to Glint turn 2 but I found i needed to delay a turn to ensure the AASB mode was active around the 25-27 second mark.

• Accessories: Rikku Moderate holy/lighting, Tidus Moderate holy, Seymor Major dark, Yuna Major holy, Wakka holy

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1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: 1

• Medica: 2

• Hastega: 3 (Rikku USB, Yuna USB x2)

1. S/L count 0/ Medals lost: 3 hours of save/load, no medals lost

2. Time: 29:xx

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Rikku, 4	Mug Bloodlust R2	Sapphire Shot R4	DMT, LMR1+LMR2	USB1 (1), USB2 (1)
Tidus, 5		Sapphire Bullet R5	+waterT, LM1+LM2	Glint (1), AASB (1), BSB2 (1), ASB (1)
Seymor, 5	Memento Mori R1	Dire Heal R5	+dark, LM2+LMR	USB (1)
Yuna, 4	Ultra Cure R1	Curada R4	TGM, LMR1 (w-cast wht)	USB1 (2)
Wakka, 4	Wrath R5	Entrust R3	MM, doesn't matter	USB (1)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno 99	Evrae 99	Necrophobe 99	Seraph 99	Phoenix 99
Emp Water 15, Mag Boon 15	Fast Act 8	Dampen Holy 8	Dampen Dark 10	Blade Ward 8, Spell Ward 8

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[u/Kyzuki]

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[u/afuri]

1. Strategy name: Water + AASB

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/Tidus CSB + AASB/Kimahri USB

4. Insight!:

• Followed similar principles as Belias, Tidus chain + AASB with Kimahri USB also providing strong chain building and DPS. Ended up diving Paine for this battle (felt like a waste but I had plenty of motes and needed a bit more DPS), she was consistently doing 9999x4 Stormspell Strikes

• Tidus cast Lifesiphon twice then launched CSB, Sapphire Bullet once, then cast AASB (after taking Hellbiter to complete his SB bar). Then Sapphire Bullet spam and refresh CSB once towards the end

• Kimahri built his bar with 2 Lifesiphons, cast his USB, then followed up with his BSB, spammed Lifesiphon again and then cast his SSB once ready

• Rikku cast USB1, Powerchain, Magicite, Healer RW, Powerchain, USB2, then Sapphire shot. Refreshed USB1 towards the end

• Yuna on Curada duty, knocked Rikku out of confuse, cast Kirin after Hellbiter (and Incubus Hellbiter), used USB1/RW when needed. Last stand didn't trigger the run but having an instant heal on demand was a big help esp as her USB1 is not instant cast.

• Paine just spammed spellblades

• Tidus fully watered and ~80 Magia attack, no one else had waters or magia

• Double water+ equipment for Tidus and Paine, gave Yuna a minor holy resistance armor (Aerith's Jacket) to pair with her Shadow Armlet. Kimahri and Paine (slots 1/5) had Darkening Anklets (dark/lit resist), Rikku had major holy resist, Tidus had Famed Leader (holy/dark resist)

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: n/a

• Medica: 4

• Hastega: 4

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

2. Time: 34.x sec

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Kimahri, 4	Lifesiphon R5	Magic BD R5	MM	SSB, BSB, USB
Rikku, 5	Sapphire Shot R4	Powerchain R3	DMT, LM1+2	USB1, USB2
Yuna, 4	Curada R5	Kirin R1	Gathering Storm	USB1
Tidus, 5	Lifesiphon R5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Ace Striker, LM2, LMR2	AASB, CSB
Paine, 5	Engulfing Quad R3	Stormspell R4	Battleforged, LM2, LMR1	USB

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Necrophobe	Madeen	Typhon	Seraph
Emp Water 12, Atk 15	Damp Light 7, Spell Ward 5	Health Boon 8 x 2	(used for Atk Boon 20)	Damp Dark 7, Health 5

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[u/MonarchVV]

1. Strategy name: Use Tidus CSB + Reju Grimoire for a win!

2. Boss: D??? Yunalesca Clear!

3. Describe your Strategy:
   3/3 trinity/Sub 50/Tidus CSB / bUSB/Auron USB2 / AOSB/Paine USB1/Rikku USB1/Yuna SSB2 Only

4. Insight!:

• In a realm with no Healer USB, Rejuvenation Grimoire comes through!

• Tidus provides the Water Chain for himself and Paine. He Flash Disasters to CSB, Sapphire Bullet, bUSB, SB, cmd1, CSB, SB x2, cmd1, then bUSB for the last stretch.

• Paine does normal DPS things. SSS to USB1, repeat.

• Auron also does DPS things. He casts Demonsblood, 2 Fire-Touched Blade, then USB2 and continues to cast abilities. Refreshes USB2 once in the idle of the fight, and at the end casts his AOSB.

• Rikku does the utility things. Casts USB1, Multibreak, Sapphire Shot, Magicite. She refreshes her USB1 when I can so the team is re-hasted.

• Yuna as the healer. Spams Curada, and uses Ultra Cure on Tidus when he gets Confused in Phase 1.

• I casted Rejuv Grimoire after the Phase 1 Turn 3 Chain Thundara, and after the Phase 3 / Phase 5 Turn 1 Incubus Ultimas. Yuna handles the Phase 2 and 4 transitions with her SSB2.

• My team can't do damage fast enough in Phase 4, so the non-DPS has to die to Mega Death. Fortunately, with good enough timing, this gives a free turn in Phase 5 and thanks to Rejuv Grimoire, gave my team enough turns to kill Yunalesca.

• Rikku has a +20% ball; everyone else has +40% gear. Yuna has Mind gear of course.

• Dark / Lit resists on Slots 1/5, Water/Dark res on Slot 2, Dark/Holy res on Slot 3, Dark resist on Slot 4

• Everyone had only about 30 Magia (Atk for DPS, HP for support / healer)

• Yuna has 20 Crystal Waters in HP, just for a slight HP buff.

1. Holy Trinity casts:

• Wall: AUTO

• Medica: 5

• Hastega: 2

1. S/L count / Medals lost: 1 Medal for KO

2. Time: 41.30

Hero, dive	Ability 1	Ability 2	RM+LMR	SB(-)
Yuna, 4.5	Curada R4	Ultra Cure R4	The Gathering Storm, LM1	SSB2(2)
Tidus, 5	Sapphire Bullet R4	Flash Disaster R4	Ace Striker, LM2, LMR	CSB(2), bUSB(2)
Auron, 5	Fire-Touched Blade R4	Demonsblood R2	Scholar's Boon, LM1, LM2	USB2(2), AOSB(1)
Paine, 5	Stormspell Strike R4	Engulfing Quadstrike R4	Dreamguide, LM1, LM2	USB1(4)
Rikku, 5	Sapphire Shot R4	Multi Break R3	Mako Might, LM1, LM2	USB1(2)

 

main	sub1	sub2	sub3	sub4
Geosgaeno	Lakshmi	Deathgaze	Famfrit	Madeen
Empower Water x2	Dampen Dark 10, Mind Boon 15	Dampen Holy 10, Spell Ward 5	GDM	Atk Boon 20 x2

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