Talk:Darkness Awakens

2x Orlandeau: damage. Hyoh: damage. Balthier: light resistance break. Soliel: buff ATK. CG Lid: DEF break.

Make sure to gear your damage dealers with light elemental weapons + demon killer materia (cursed mouthpiece, sun beret, demon killer).

Enemy does status ailment attacks and AoE MP drain, so be aware. --Cho0oky (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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If you have a Hyoh plus friend Hyoh of around 2k ATK, say with fire weapons, they can just about get the OTKO by themselves. You really need to get a half decent DEF break in to make it sure & certain. I was lucky enough to pick up an Adam Jensen, who has 60% DEF break with his Wall Breaker. I just did a test run with a friend Hyoh with a lightning weapon & about 1700 ATK. My Hyoh has a flame weapon & about 1900 ATK, but that's ok. Mine does Flame blade + servant blade, friend does voltage + servant blade. Still gets the job done with the 60% DEF break (and getting a spark chain helps a bit too). Remember that Hyoh (7* level 110) gets a 100% ATK buff at the start, so you don't have to worry about buffing his ATK.

-Shakers

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2x Onion Knights (Enhanced) 2x Trance Terra (7* Enhanced) Warrior of Light

My Onion Knights were only able to do around 20% damage while perfect chaining. Both had Holy weapon with 1200 ATK. The Trance Terra's however both have around 1700 MAG completely destroyed the boss.

I ultimately used my OK to fire imperil the boss and then dual cast Chaos Flare for my first kill. Later kills were all Quadcast Chaos flare.

I suspect the boss has really high defense but low spirit. Also the boss has AoE MP drain and the ability to inflict Berserk.

--Alkaidg (talk) 18:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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The Boss has much lower spr than def An unpoted and unenhanced VoL can kill easier than Hyoh

I did it with it with 40% break (esper) and the chain of TMR farming unit equipped with pod 153 (9S TMR)

TT can solo it, I suppose DragonLord can do it too

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So what I'm doing now is using mage type classes with unique magic abilities (e.g. Trance Terra - Chaos Wave, or Christine, Snow Burial) to deal with this boss as it is more vulnerable against magic. It usually takes 1 turn preparation and then just destroy this boss during the 2nd turn. What you'll want is to have a female character equipped with Moon Jade Pendant to deal with the Aoe Petrification, a breaker like WoL to decrease Spr (along with 2 mag dmg dealers with fairly good mag stat), and a bonus would be VoE with omniblock to prevent stat loss. Imperil can also be quite useful if you'd rather have elemental casters like Rinoa and triple cast flare or other elemental spells.

So basically my party and turns go something like:

Turn 1: VoE - Omniblock, VoW - Exorcising Jade, Trance Terra - Magic Activation, Christine - Winter Fell, WoL - full break, +random party member

Turn 2: VoW - Imperil, Tt - Maduin's Power / Chaos Wave, Christine - dual snow burial

The boss basically melts.

If you don't have resistance to Petrification, it'll be a hard fight for sure. Idk the meta but this is how I'm easily beating this boss.

Edit: VoL with Diabolos (License To Kill + Demon Killer + M Demon Killer + Demon Killer Materia if you have any) and any breaker (35% break to DEF/SPR above are advised) can basically annihilate this boss.

--This Tim rules over all Tims

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One Punch Builds
The following builds should be able to one-punch the boss without issue. Make sure Diabolos has Demon Killer+ or Ramuh with M Demon Killer. These builds should only require 4* TMRs are most, other than the unit's own TMR.

Just cast Chaos Chain into 4x Chaos Wave, and you should do close to 6M damage, which gives a bit of room if you can't quite match the MAG stat.

Kafrizzle+2 will do 9.5M Damage. Theoretically, you can get really close to killing him with him almost naked except for Wizard Rod+ and Domineering Spirit. That said, I'd pack him out with MAG just to make sure it's really dead.

Kataikou (talk) 23:30, 28 September 2018 (UTC) --

Magic Damage seems to be highly effected. Using 2 Lexa's, a Shantoto, CG Nichol for buffs, Meliadoul to break is enough. Lexa 1 = 855 Magic,;

Lexa 2 = 691 Magic,;

Shantotto = 417 Magic,;

As you can see nothing too strong here. Crush Armor from Meli > Demonic Stance from CG Nichol Then Chain up Tornado > Aeroja from the three casters and the boss drops. --Edon1987 (talk) 03:07, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

MP down to 0
Was there a move that reduces everyone in my party's MP to zero? When it says 50% and 150% it meant the amount right? So each of them should be AoE and single target respectively. But i somehow got all my team's MP to zero in an AoE idk what it is


 * Where it says: "Magic* damage (6x) to all enemies. Fixed damage (1x) as MP drain" That it is not 'fixed 50%' it is 1x from the magic damage. Do your maths and estimate the damage with your team SPR and her MAG, the use the 1x factor. That's the MP burned.


 * Edit here. I meant to say that the fixed part is the damage done and the damage translated to 50% in a drain. The result is the one is fixed. No mitigation is placed.

My Marie with 800 SPR loses a little amount of MP, while my Hyohs are drained to 0. 175.33.53.100 13:18, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the more SPR you have the less hurt you will get from AoE MP drain? It is just the same scalar drain as per any old fashioned HP drain on good old fashioned regular attacks? But far more annoying, yeah?

-Shakers


 * Yeah. It is because you face a magic attack.


 * yep, I copped all that when I was playing it out for esper goals etc first time around. They've really hoiked up the degree of difficulty so soon after releasing these much vaunted 7* units. You should normally be able to take out these so-called RAID bosses with a OTKO before they get to hit back. -Shakers

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