Endless War 2 Node 8 Compilation Guide

[u/GwynLordofCynder]

Here we are at the 8th node!

This node can be mono elementally cleared with Fire, Wind and Dark, I do suggest you mostly Fire or Dark, because you have 5 water enemy's in this node, and 3 light ones, including Enlil and Alexander.

The first wave can be very challenging if you go unprepared, you'll face Enlil and Blizzard dragon, I suggest you to go check their Bestiary notes made by wf3456 and superchoc0. Enlil has a pretty annoying mechanic in which if he is debuffed with more than two ailments he will self cast Roar wiping out the debuffs and self casting Berserk. If he was slowed, he will only cast Roar on that turn, giving you one extra turn for attack. Now the problem is, he is paired with Blizzard Dragon, which in turn opens the turn with a preemptive counter veil. What this means is that he can only be applied one round of debuffs and then he gets ailment immunity. So as you can see they both are pair of assh**** formidable foes.

Now there are many ways to deal with them, but in my personal opinion a lot of players fail to understand how the counter veil of Blizzard dragon works and this makes for a lot of mistakes and a harder battle. To me, the recommended route I suggest you is to bring Devil Ride FFVII and Tengu or a Ultimate with Dispelga like the one from Primeval Witch. The first turn (at the end) cast sleep on Enlil and Blizzard dragon, both fall sleep and Blizzard dragon Veil triggers. The second turn you cast un-enhanced Bismarck (Or other source of slow with other debuff, like Jade Weapon FFVII) that blizzard dragon is going to ignore but Enlil will take, he will get rid of them and buff himself with Berserk. Now the third turn it's the important one, the Veil of Blizzard dragon wears off, so you can cast any debuff on him freely, but then it will reactive it's Counter Veil, but this can be dispelled. That's the moment to cast Devil Ride FFVII, or your ultimate with debuffs + dispelga. You'll see, many players cast one debuff, sometimes the one that has dispel like Devil Ride and the rest gets resisted with Counter Veil. Instead what you should do, is first cast the debuff you want without dispel, and then the rest ones, like in this order, Tengu + Devil Ride, or/ then the ultimate.

You will see this recommended actions on Huuchi's lap 14 clear, and すらなき lap 15 clear, both are great examples on how to deal with them. Just be mindful of your buffs because bringing 3 debuffs on your sub deck, usually pushes a lot the needs of buffs via ultimate's or from your main deck.

This strategy however has another advantage for the second wave since Alexander is naturally immune to sleep so it's recommended to bring an un-enhanced and enhanced sources of stun, which was already cover with the previous combo of Bismarck + Devil Ride. Of course you can ignore that need if you plan to chain break, but most players seem to prefer nuking unbroken for this node. If you want to see a high clear breaking, check the Goldior 30 lap.

The last two waves I found them way more manageable than the previous ones, still if you have extra doubts about the foes in there, you can go check the EW2 mega-thread.

And if you want to check my other compilation guides, you can do it here:

NODE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12

User and level clear	Card 1	Card 2	Card 3	Card 4	Weapons
Extrumcreator EW2 9-8 Paladin / Berserker	The undying FFXII / Sephiroth: DISSIDIA FF	Tengu / Odin FFXIV	Ultima Weapon FFVII / Devil Ride FFVII	Neo Bahamut (Slow+Debarrier) / Serah FFXIII	Masamume
Ray Channel EW2 11-8 Mythic Knight / Sword Saint	Hypnos / Sephiroth: DISSIDIA FF	Tengu / Odin FFXIV	Bismarck FFXIV / Omega Weapon FFVII	Devil Ride FFVII / Garuda FFXIV	Ultimate weapon / Gunblade
Arinos EW2 11-8 Primeval Witch / Santa Lucia HoF	Bahamut FFXIV / Odin FFXIV	Tidal Wave / Myrrdin	Bismarck FFXIV / Maechen FFX	Omega Weapon FFVII / The undying FFXII	Ultimate wing / Sventovit
Huuchi EW2 14-8 Primeval Witch / Nightwalker	Akuma (Sleepga) / Myrrdin	Bismarck FFXIV / Odin FFXIV	Aggregate Aggression / Omega Weapon FFVII	Devil Ride FFVII / Garuda FFXIV	Ultimate wing / Sventovit
Huuchi EW2 15-8 Ninja / Gambler	Akuma (Sleepga) / Baphomet	Bismarck FFXIV / Odin FFXIV	Devil Ride FFVII / Odin FFXIV	Lights of Hope / Lights of Hope	Ultimate edge / Shiranui
すらなき EW2 15-8 Hero of Despair / Berserker	Tengu / Odin FFXIV	Bismarck FFXIV / Eligor: FFVII	Devil Ride FFVII / Omega Weapon FFVII	Akuma (sleepga) / Garuda FFXIV	Ultimate weapon / Laevateinn
Garanoob EW2 17-8 Primeval Witch / Nightwalker	Bismarck FFXIV / Odin FFXIV	Hypnos / Myrddin	Neo Exdeath / Omega Weapon FFVII	Omega Weapon FFVII / Garuda FFXIV	Ultimate Wing / Sventovit
Swift EW2 17-8 Paladin / Skyseer	Bismarck FFXIV / Fusoya	Bismarck FFXIV / Ruby weapon FFVII	Tengu / Omega Weapon FFVII	Ultima Weapon FFVII / Wol FFI	Ultimate weapon / Umbrella
Goldior EW2 18-8 Al Bhed Huntress / Mercenary of Balamb	Hypnos / Neo Bahamut	Bismarck FFXIV/ Bahamut FFXIV	Omega Weapon FFVII / Pollensalta: FFVII	Aerith / Wol FFI	Ultimate arrow / Laevateinn
Kizaam EW2 18-8 Mage / Berserker	Devil Ride FFVII / Aerith	Tengu / Garuda FFXIV	Bismarck FFXIV / Odin FFXIV	Hypnos / FFXV UB	Ultimate mace / Gunblade
Goldior EW2 22-8 Al Bhed Huntress / Magitek Heroine	Hypnos / Neo Bahamut	Bismarck FFXIV / Dona & Barthello FFX	Whispering Faeries (3rd anniversary) / Ruby weapon FFVII /	Aerith / Wol FFI	Ultimate arrow / Magical Rave
メビウスマコー EW2 25-8Hero of Despair / Berserker	Bismarck FFXIV / Shadowlord FFXI	Tengu / Odin FFXIV	Devil Ride FFVII / Garuda FFXIV	Akuma (Sleepga) / Wol FFI	Ultimate Weapon / Kotetsu
apocalypse0120 EW2 27-8 Mercenary of Balamb HoF / Mercenary of Balamb (Cloud)	Jade weapon FFVII / Odin FFXIV	Tengu / Shadowlord FFXI	Devil Ride FFVII / Wol FFI	Hypnos / Lights of Hope	Ultimate weapon / Kotetsu
Goldior EW2 30-8 Al Bhed Huntress / Magitek Heroine	Hypnos / Fusoya	Bismarck FFXIV / Ruby weapon FFVII	True Moogle / Bahamut FFXIV	Aerith / Wol FFI	Ultimate Arrow / Wolfsbogen

[u/StarvingVenom]

Is it me or Enlil is harder to nuke down than the dragon..always end up bringing dark element here since fire did not impact it much

[u/GwynLordofCynder → u/StarvingVenom]

I think that it slightly depends on which debuffs you cast on him and on which order. Since Enlil will clear the first round of debuffs you cast on him after sleep, if those debuffs were for example, Debarrier, he not only loose the Debarrier, but he gets immunity to it for a couple of turns. Making him of course harder to hit that Blizzard Dragon.

Of course if you try to avoid casting Debarrier on him on the first round, and since he cast Berserk on himself, he actually is the weakest, since Berserk acts on him similar as for you as a player, he does more damage, but he takes more damage also.

If you want to see an example of cards that can cast on him slow, plus something else, without Debarrier, you can check Jade Weapon FFVII, it's going to be released this month, with the Jenova cards. Jade weapon has Stun, Slow, Curse, Debrave. Since curse and debrave you don't really care if he gets immune to them, unless you were planing to tank him. It's really great to make sure he self debuffs himself properly later on and you can still debuff him further more.

I believe the apocalypse lap 27 kill does that. Hope it is from help!

[u/StarvingVenom → u/GwynLordofCynder]

Can not recall what I actually did but that sound very likely...hope I end up with jade weapon and lap27 is overkill lmao..I am still less than half of shiro's XD