Talk:Thunder Summit/New Trial of the Sage

Testimonial 1 - Astra
This is an easy trial if you have a Magic Cover Tank with at least 170% lightning resistance and paralysis immunity.

Your team should consist of:

Any generic healer will do, I used Tilith for her MP recovery. You could also use Rosa (with Bless +2) as well. Your healer has to be equipped with Carbuncle's Barthundara if your MCT has only 170% lightning resistance. If your MCT can reach 220% lightning resistance, you can ignore this requirement.

Any provoke tank (E.g. Warrior of Light with Brave Presence +2) will do. If you can equip Gladiator's Shield, that would be beneficial in generating Esper orbs with counters. My WoL was equipped with 100% evade with Odin to Fingersnap but it really isn't necessary. Use Golem to get your DEF up if you need to.

Any magic cover tank such as Mystea, Chow, Basch and the newly available Shylt can perform this role as long as they have at least 170% lightning resistance.

Here's an example build: Mystea 6★ Right hand: Holy Wand ATK+16, SPR+120 Left hand: Dragon Shield DEF+38 Head: Cat-ear Hood MAG+25, SPR+25 Body: Rubber Suit DEF+32, SPR+28 Accessory 1: Gauntlets ATK+20%, DEF+5, SPR+5 Accessory 2: Topaz Ring MAG+5, SPR+10 Materia 1: True Hydaelyn Guard Materia 2: True Hydaelyn Guard Materia 3: Resentment HP+30% Materia 4: Null Paralysis Esper: Ramuh HP+28, MP+62, ATK+17, DEF+11, MAG+60, SPR+45 Total: HP:4856, MP:433, ATK:190, DEF:278, MAG:233, SPR:461 Lightning Resistance: 175%

Water chainers need to have a water weapon equipped. At least one of them has to have Siren equipped for the mission. I personally used Agrias with Divine Ruination +2 and a friend Fryevia with water weapon. The second chainer should preferably equip Diabolos for man-eater.

Rotation

Start by activating your Provoke tank's 100% provoke and MCT magic cover ability. Apply Barthundara.

Your aim is to initially build up Esper Orbs so you can summon Siren to clear the mission. Once you're done with that, just DPS the boss down. Thresholds are irrelevant since nothing will make it pass your buffed Magic Tank's 220% lightning resistance.

Only thing to note: Ramuh drains your tank of all MP on turn 3, so reapply 100% provoke on your tank to ensure that provoke is up on turn 4.

Rinse and repeat to victory.

Good luck!

--Astra (talk) 20:15, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

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Quick note - justkevin
It's nowhere in the info but the turn 3 moves will be skipped if you break a threshold on the same turn. So if you can break a threshold every third turn it might be worth holding back on dps if you have to, to avoid the MP drain and AoE blind. You still need 170% (or 220%) lightning resist on you magic tank, since the 120% lightning imperil (Judgment Bolt) is also cast on threshold turns.

--Just4kevin (talk) 14:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC) --

I used enhanced Kuja Barthundara+2 100% lightning resistance and equipped Tilith with Bushido Freedom self target to clear lightning imperil. Having Kuja removes the need for resist lightning gear except the unit equipped with Siren.

My party WoL with 100% evade Loren equipped with Man-Eater materia and Siren but like a pro I forgot to use lightning resist gear so she was dead after the 3rd turn. Sephiroth equppied with Diablos for Man-Eater 915 or so Attack One-winged Angel consistently do over 1mil damage and 1.3 to 1.4mil when chained Onion Knight. Tilith with Bushido Freedom Kuja Barthundara+2 who was the MVP in this fight. Friend's Onion Knight chained Splendor of Water with Sephiroth Aeolian Slash or Heavens Wept.

Good luck folks. ---

Testimonial 3?
After several failed combinations I came across one that worked perfectly. The only drawback is the trick of using dualcast to Target dispel on your own unit.

My team was 1) Noctis 100% evade +improved fish 2) Mystea 100% lightning resistance + imunity to paralysis (jeweled ring) + ramuh for osmose 3) Cecil dual cast + dispel + imunity to paralysis + diablos for osmose 4) Noctis for backup refresh and debuffs 5) Sephiroth dual wield with an elemental weapon(Excalibur in this case) 6) friend Sephiroth dual wield with an elemental weapon matching the element of my Sephiroth (in this case using Excalibur as well)

The basis of this group was magic cover tank, evade provoke tank, third unit to dispel the lightning resistance debuffs, a second refresh unit so Ramuh could not cripple your mp with a single osmose, and elemental chainer's.

Cecil as dispeller also helped because he can dual cast curaga and his limit burst is a really nice buff. Using the dualcast dispel trick instead of Bushido blade has the benefit of leaving the buffs on the rest of your team intact. Noctis refresher can double as debuffer.

First round: Noctis - fish Mystea - tritelia wall Noctis - warp strike Cecil - attack Sephiroths - chain heavens light

Second round, every 3rd round, and any round after breaking a threshold: Cecil - dualcast dispel on Ramuh and Mystea Mystea - tritelia wall Noctis(evade) - improved fish Noctis - cover if refresh effect is worn off, otherwise warp strike to debuff Ramuhs def Sephiroths - chain heavens light

Took about 10 turns to kill him.

Main issues that caused me to wipe on earlier attempts was Ramuh osmosing my refresher so everyone ran out of money, Bushido blade killing Mystea, and Mystea needing to dispel herself(and therefore no tritelia wall).

Good luck

OTK strategy
What you need:
 * A unit that can cast Summon Eidolon, you can use Ace, Queen or Rem at this time.
 * A unit that can perform breaks of DEF, I recommend Delita enhanced.
 * A unit equipped with Siren as Esper or a Summoner if Siren is equipped on a different unit.
 * 2 Physical Chainers, at this time Hyoh is ideal but you can use a strong Physical chainers instead.

How to complete all missions:
 * Delita: Shield Breaker, will reduce DEF.
 * Ace: Summon Eidolon, will fill the Esper gauge.
 * Unit equipped with Siren or Summoner: Summon Shiva.
 * Physical Chainers: use your chaining ability, Hyoh can use Double Blade with Servant of the Blade.

--Ikkireach (talk) 03:31, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

- 2 x Esther with TMR equipped, guard every round let static barrage do the rest, make sure non lighting weapon though

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6* decent build w/ Chow 155thunder resist by FalconX
> Party: lvl111 gladiolus (def677), Maritime strategist Nichol (mag908), summertime luka (mag604), immortal flame katy (mag638), askar (atk1970) friend: chow (spr1350, thunder resist155.

use flood x2 chain per round, from each of the mages, have tank provoke & put up buffs, chow just keeps magic cover & buffs up, askar can be swapped w/ any for chain help. tank just can be any lvl100 w/ provoke and decent def. have fun --Gogamer2018 (talk) 03:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

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