Talk:Fort Vaullerey - Battle with Aranea

Zodiark here and.....wow....she can leap on me anytime...ahem as it reads, she only uses physical attacks, so cover tanks with evasion builds are a sure win. My Cover/Blink tank of choice for this fight was Veritas of Earth for the counter attacks, making it much easier to satisfy the Lb/Esper Summon conditions. As for the rest of setup, just bring a Breaker at least for attack, and a healer/Reraise option, attackers of your choosing and it's a win. See the Evasion build guide on the boss page. Now if ya'll excuse me, I've got a IX banner to roll on. And no, I did not consider Orlandeau as a tank...and yes he WAS there...

This strat relies on you having an Illusionist Nichool. If you do, you have already won. I went with a 100% evade Chizuru to tank with Nichols redirect because my Noctis was only hitting 95% and I didnt want to take that chance. Take your best chainer dps and a dupe friend unit, hopefully they both have man-eater on them or DIablos. Use one esper just for the mission. Just beat her down, you will never get hit if you keep Nichols redirection up on your evasion tank. Easiest fight ever.

Maxie here, and I'll show you how I killed this girl. Party was Veritas of the Dark, Veritas of the Earth, Garnet, Kryla (with Pod), Lunera, Orlandeau (Friend).

I guess you can see where this is going. Garnet offers heals (if needed) but most importantly she makes the Esper Gauge job a lot easier, plus if you feel like Baha Nuking somehow she can help with that too.

Kryla debuffs ATK and DEF with her strong debuffs and otherwise uses Pod 153 defense ability for even more protection. If needed I gave her some SPR gear plus Lakshmi for Cura, wasn't really needed tbh. You can use 9S for very much the same result but I'm kinda biased, duh.

Lunera is to sing with her lovely voice a sonata that will make us stronger, that's all she has to do really.

EarthMan defends the party with Guardian (he needs as much DEF and HP as you can give it to him at least for the first turn). Mine had 10k HP and 450 DEF (without buffs) and got reduced to 2k HP in the first turn through that could have been bad RNG too duh. Point is, he lives and counters a lot like a REAL lot, mine was countering for several minutes before ending. Tedious? yes but it yields results, namely LB crysts, Esper Orbs and also gets rid of Aranea's dodge move. He also counters Aranea's Breaks if they ever happen so, duh.........our Counter in Chief is perfect.

DarkMan and OldMan just pummel her as hard as they can with everything they have. Mind you I fucked up the Limit Burst thing to nullify her Highwind move, doing so killed my EarthMan and almost kills my party but managed to beat her. So DON'T FORGET TO USE THE LIMIT BURST when she uses Wind Reader or you will be destroyed.

And that's it. Don't fuck up and you'll be fine. --BGMaxie (talk) 17:39, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Jouset here, this is to help you in case you don't have the necessary TM's to build a character with 100% evade.

My party was Wilhelm, A2, Rikku, Illucionist Nichol, Ilias and A2 (friend).

Wilhelm (10K hp and 703 DEF with Mechanical Heart) His only job is to take all the damage during the battle, he will be using Impregnable+2 to get some extra damage mitigation, then the next two turns Wilhelm will be using guard to recover some hp and survive all the sets of hits given by Aranea, repeat this same the whole battle.

Rikku(with Bushido).- Her job is to boost Wilhelm defense and ensure his survavility with Rikku's LB as well as remove Aranea buff ATK (bushido) during the firts phase of the battle (100% - 50% Araneas HP)

Illucionist Nichol: He will be supporting Wilhelm by making him and AoE tank and at the same time to debuff Araneas ATK (45%) by using Nichol's Illusionist habilities.

Ilias: Before reaching Araneas 50% HP his only job will be as MP battery, every two turns he will be recovering 75 mp, once the 50% HP is reached then he will start using Debuff protection (Guard Serum) since Aranea will start reducing the DEF of your party (in this case of Wilhelm) making him vulnerable of being killed.

A2's as a chainers(with Diabolos sper).- It can be any chainer in the game not necessary A2.

Side notes: Make sure to use any LB right after she uses Wind Reader (each 4 turns) this will reduce a lot the damage of her next attack hability (Highwind) and she will get a DEF brake debuff making her more vulnerable for damage.

If everything goes fine Wilhelm will survive each an every turn withouth having any evasion % and if he does not survive Rikku's LB will be there to give you a new opportunity to beat her.

--Jouset187.152.198.2 06:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Shakers here. I have to say, when I first heard of 100% dodge tanks, I lacked a few bits and pieces to get one for myself. I think I can do it now, just barely after months of grinding TMR's. So anyway, after reading the parent page here, I simply stuck Illusionist Nichol (that I had luckily & conveniently leveled up earlier, don't even need any gear on him for this one) into my team and brought along a 100% dodge Noctis friend (because I was too lazy to gear my own one up).

If you can get an I.Nichol -> 100% dodge tank then this one is simply a matter of patience & time & damaging & not forgetting to re-target Noctis. Oh yeah and trying to talk Noctis into not getting bored and jumping into orbit.

And then just yesterday, I had Fohlen drop... He is the dude on the Chocobo, with 30% inherent evade, and an aggravate+2 ability that makes him 100% FBI most wanted for the next 2 turns without the need for an I.Nicholl.

Options... options...

IF you do not have any evade builds (with illusionist Nichol) or evade physical cover tanks (Basch could be ideal with his TMR and some others borrowed) or a tough physical cover tank with at least 10k of health and at least 650 of def or some evade with auto-revive healer, not even in your friend list, or if you cannot manage to find someone in reddits forums: DO NOT WASTE ENRG ON ARANEA.


 * I disagree. There are heaps of evade tank builds out there available as friends. Even if they are not on your personal friends list. Just keep doing normal missions, but keep looking at the bottom of your list for 100% dodge WoL''s or Noctii. You can usually pick out the 100% dodge Noctii, because their ATK tends to be under 800... and such a Noctii will win it for you even if it means hitting Auto and coming back 30 mins later with the rest of your party having a bit of a rest... Do not give up so easily :)

Hey, SomeSN here (yeah yeah, I know) this is my first post. This is for people, like me, who can't beat it on their own. It's reliant on a 100% evasion support, but this method will allow you to get all 4 missions without the support being on your friend list. And it's super easy to do and requires ZERO paid content on your account.

All you need is: 100% evade support, even a non friend or friend without an esper will work; One Esper; and Any two characters with Hide. This means two 2 star Montanas at level 21 or higher and Siren is all you need.

The strategy is simple. You need your esper equipped on one of your Hide users. Attack with your 100% evade support and gather the crystals. At the end of every turn (you MUST gather the crystals first if this is going to work) hide with both characters. When you can, use a limit burst with one of them, if you only have one Esper equipped, this has to be the one without an esper equipped. They will horribly die, but they did their job. When your esper gauge is filled, have the other one invoke the esper. They will also horribly die.

That's it, now just wait however long it takes for your 100% evasion support to win the battle.

All 4 missions, 100% free to you! And all it requires is to have a non friend support with an evade setup. I recommend using TMR people in the other three slots.

Noctis just had an awakening to his Fish ability - which means he can take attacks for 2 turns instead of one... which means you only need a friend 100% dodge Noctis do Fish+2 every 2 turns to keep the rest of your party safe while you deal damage... how easy is that :)

I mentioned WoL (Warrior of Light) earlier. There are heaps of him available out there with 100% dodge build and awakened Brave Presence. If you bring one of these along, the only 2 things that will stop you are lack of patience & lack of MP. Awakened Brave Presence+2 means you only have to do it every 3 turns. Simple!

--Shakers

[edit] sorry, my bad. It is his Fish ability, not Link, that gives him 2 turns 100% targeted. Edited the above. Actually only need Fish+1 to extend it to 2 turns.