Hein the Mage

Abilities

 * Barrier Shift (Preemptive): Decrease lightning resistance (250%) for 2 turns to caster
 * Barrier Shift (A): Decrease lightning resistance (250%) for 3 turns to caster
 * Barrier Shift (A): Decrease fire resistance (250%) for 3 turns to caster
 * Barrier Shift (A): Decrease ice resistance (250%) for 3 turns to caster
 * Barrier Shift (B): Decrease MAG/SPR (50%) for 3 turns to all enemies
 * Barrier Shift (B): Decrease ATK/DEF (50%) for 3 turns to all enemies
 * Barrier Shift (B): Increase water, wind, earth, light and dark resistance (30%) and decrease fire, ice and lightning resistance (30%) for 3 turns to all enemies
 * Firaga: Fire magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies
 * Blizzaga: Ice magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies
 * Thundaga: Lightning magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies
 * Bioga: Dark magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies and inflict poison (100%) to all enemies
 * Confuse: Inflict confuse (100%) to one enemy
 * Sleep: Inflict sleep (100%) to one enemy

Preemptive strike

 * Barrier Shift (Preemptive).

Conditional attacks

 * Every 3 turns: Barrier Shift (A). Random chance of skills.
 * Every 2 turns: Bioga.

Regular attacks

 * Up to 7 attacks per turn.
 * Below 50% HP threshold: Thundaga. Always trigger.
 * (Max 1/turn) -Ga. Random chance of skills, Bioga excluded.
 * (Max 1/turn) Barrier Shift (B). Random chance of skills.
 * (Max 1/turn) Sleep OR Confuse.
 * Normal attack.

Tips

 * See testimonials and discussions.
 * Preemptive strike does not increase the turn counter. For conditional attacks every X turn, subtract by one, e.g., every 3 turns would trigger on turn 2, 5, 8,...
 * Hein has an extremely high DEF and a low SPR, which can be broken further. Use magic damage.
 * Hein does mostly AoE elemental attacks and normal attacks. With a green mage and tank you can mitigate most of the damage. His -ga spells can be sealed with Sealing Blade or Manufacted Nethicite. Carbuncle or Marie's Reflect also can be effective - he will resist some, but take damage from others, depending on where he is in the elemental rotation.
 * Using Emperor to build Fire From Below stacks, then switching to Dual Cast Comet is super effective, even if he never becomes weak to fire, you should still be able to finish in 15 turns with a good SPR break.
 * Warrior of Light is especially useful here for his SPR break and Warriors Pride counterattack, which procs off to magic attacks.