Defiance of Fate

Overview

• Origin: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
• Type: Fixed-Party Trial Event
• Reference: Announcement
• Related Event: Defiance of Fate - The Lightning Tyrant, Defiance of Fate - Free-Party Trials, Defiance of Fate: The Lightning Tyrant - Tyrant Unleashed
• Event Period: 12/26/19 00:00 - 3/4/20 23:59 PST

Essence of Despair

Battle Info

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
290	5	1	580	2000	500	King Metal Minituar (Max level) (3)
Mission
Defeat Essence of Despair						5★+ Guaranteed EX Ticket
Clear without an ally being KO'd						500
Get a chain of 65 or more in 1 turn						10+1 Summon Ticket
No limit bursts						5-star Trust Moogle (50%)
Boss				Drop
Essence of Despair				Dark Megacryst

Party Info

White Lily Dark Fina

Sacred Shield Charlotte

Adventurer Locke

Magitek Warrior Terra

Myra

Boss Info

Essence of Despair No. 9079
Race	Demon
Level	100
HP	500,000,000
MP	100,000
ATK	400 + 240
DEF	850 + 510
MAG	300 + 180
SPR	200 + 120

Element Resistance
-	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null
Other Resistance
80% non-elemental resistance. Vulnerable to ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR break.

Abilities

Name	Effect	Target	ATK	DMG	Element
Dark Storm	Dark physical damage (8x) to all enemies	AoE	Physical
Event Horizon	Dark magic damage (8x) to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Avenging Bite	Physical damage (40x) to one enemy	ST	Physical
Diabolical Strike	Physical damage (12x) to one enemy	ST	Physical
Dark Depression	Physical damage (20x) to all enemies (ignore cover). Reduce Dark resistance (100%) for 3 turns to all enemies	AoE	Physical
Unholy Screech	Fixed* damage (5,000) to all enemies	AoE	Physical	Fixed
Demonic Gaze	Fixed* damage (10,000) to one enemy	ST	Physical	Fixed
Mad Rampage	Physical damage (24x) to all enemies (ignore cover). Reduce Fire resistance (300%) for 1 turn to caster	AoE	Physical
Broken Mind	Hybrid* damage (5x) as MP drain (50%) to all enemies	AoE	Fixed	Hybrid
Incantation Blast	Magic damage (16x) to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Undying Force	Increase DEF/SPR (100%) for 2 turns to caster	Caster
Killing Stance	Increase ATK/MAG (100%) for 2 turns to caster	Caster
Foul Miasma	Inflict poison (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Black Miasma	Inflict blind (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Chaotic Miasma	Inflict confuse (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Ethereal Barrier	Increase resistance to all elements (50%) for 1 turn to caster	Caster
Mystic Barricade	Mitigate magic damage taken (50%) for 1 turn to caster (can't be dispelled)	Caster
Hardened Skin	Mitigate physical damage taken (50%) for 1 turn to caster (can't be dispelled)

Attack Pattern

• The boss' attack pattern is quite random, with a chance to use certain abilities for each of its actions
• Using certain actions in previous blocks will seal actions in subsequent blocks

Above 50% HP

Under 50% HP

Starts the turn with a chance to use the following normal 'block' of actions: Dark Storm (3% chance) Dark Depression (5%) Event Horizon (5%) Diabolical Strike (20%) Normal attacks Every 3 turns, uses: Undying Force (50% chance) or Killing Stance (50%) If Killing Stance was used, starts the next turn with Dark Depression Adds a chance of using the following 'block' of skills Foul Miasma Black Miasma (5% chance) Chaotic Miasma (5%) Stops using the previous block, and adds a chance of using the following 'block' of skills If Foul Miasma was not used previously: Black Miasma Avenging Bite (3%) If Black Miasma wasn't used prevously: Demonic Gaze (5%) If Chaotic Miasma wasn't used prevously: Mad Rampage (1%) Stops using the previous block, and adds a chance of using the following 'block' of skills Chaotic Miasma Avenging Bite (10%) If it hadn't been used prevously: Demonic Gaze (5%) If it hadn't been used prevously: Mad Rampage (30%) If Demonic Gaze was used the last turn: Unholy Screech

1% HP threshold: Broken Mind Uses one of the following skills: Ethereal Barrier (33% chance) Mystic Barricade (33%) Hardened Skin (33%) Starts the turn with a chance to use the following normal 'block' of actions: Dark Storm (3% chance) Dark Depression (10%) Event Horizon (10%) Diabolical Strike (20%) Incantation Blast (15%) Normal attacks Every 3 turns, uses: Undying Force (50% chance) or Killing Stance (50%) Every turn, 10% chance to use Killing Stance If Killing Stance was used, starts the next turn with Dark Depression Adds a chance of using the following 'block' of skills Foul Miasma Black Miasma (5% chance) Chaotic Miasma (5%) Stops using the previous block, and adds a chance of using the following 'block' of skills If Foul Miasma was not used previously: Black Miasma Avenging Bite (3%) If Black Miasma wasn't used prevously: Demonic Gaze (5%) If Chaotic Miasma wasn't used prevously: Mad Rampage (1%) Stops using the previous block, and adds a chance of using the following 'block' of skills Chaotic Miasma Avenging Bite (10%) If it hadn't been used prevously: Demonic Gaze (5%) If it hadn't been used prevously: Mad Rampage (30%) If Demonic Gaze was used the last turn: Unholy Screech

Tips

• See testimonials and discussions.
• To get the 65 chain, setup the two mages to quadcast their CWA skills, wait ~2 seconds after casting them at the same time, and use the 3 other units to do their normal attacks.
• There is a HP lock at the 1% threshold.
  • It will use Broken Mind, an AoE MP drain, and then kill itself.

Maw of Malice

Battle Info

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
298	5	1	580	2000	500	King Metal Minituar (Max level) (3)
Mission
Defeat Maw of Malice						5★+ Guaranteed EX Ticket
Use 5 or more limit bursts						500
No white magic						10+1 Summon Ticket
Deal ice, lightning, and water damage to an enemy						5-star Trust Moogle (50%)
Boss				Drop
Maw of Malice				Fire Megacryst

Party Info

Aldore King Rain

Lucas

Warrior of Light Lenna

Summer Fina & Lid

Mastermind Xon

Boss Info

Maw of Malice No. 9080
Race	Demon
Level	100
HP	300,000,000
MP	100,000
ATK	250 + 150
DEF	100 + 60
MAG	300 + 180
SPR	850 + 510

Element Resistance
+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+50%	+100%	+100%	+100%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null
Other Resistance
80% non-elemental resistance. Vulnerable to ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR break.

Abilities

Name	Effect	Target	ATK	DMG	Element
Dark Storm	Dark physical damage (8x) to all enemies	AoE	Physical
Flame Storm	Fire physical damage (8x) to all enemies	AoE	Physical
Event Horizon	Dark magic damage (8x) to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Molten Core	Fire magic damage (8x) to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Avenging Bite	Physical damage (40x) to one enemy	ST	Physical
Diabolical Strike	Physical damage (12x) to one enemy	ST	Physical
Dark Depression	Physical damage (20x) to all enemies (ignores cover) Reduce dark resistance (100%) for 3 turns to all enemies	AoE	Physical
Molten Blast	Physical damage (20x) to all enemies (ignores cover) Reduce fire resistance (100%) for 3 turns to all enemies	AoE	Physical
Unholy Screech	Fixed* damage (5000) to all enemies	AoE	Physical	Fixed
Demonic Gaze	Fixed* damage (10000) to one enemy	ST	Physical	Fixed
Broken Mind	Hybrid* damage (5x) as MP drain (50%) to all enemies	AoE	Fixed	Hybrid
Degeneration	Magic damage (6x) to all enemies Reduce ATK (50%) for 8 turns to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Dark Terror	Magic damage (6x) to all enemies Reduce MAG (50%) for 8 turns to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Despair	Magic damage (6x) to all enemies Reduce DEF (50%) for 8 turns to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Black Misery	Magic damage (6x) to all enemies Reduce SPR (50%) for 8 turns to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Dimensional Void	Magic damage (40x) to all enemies	AoE	Magic
Disease	Remove resistances to disease for 1 turn from all enemies Inflict disease (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Merciless Death	Inflict death (100%) to all enemies (ignores death resist)	AoE
Undying Force II	Increase DEF/SPR (200%) for 2 turns to caster
Killing Stance II	Increase ATK/MAG (200%) for 2 turns to caster
Foul Miasma	Inflict poison (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Black Miasma	Inflict blind (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Chaotic Miasma	Inflict confuse (100%) to all enemies	AoE
Paralyzing Miasma	Inflict paralyze (100%) to one enemy	ST
Immovable Miasma	Inflict petrify (100%) to one enemy	ST
Ethereal Barrier	Increase resistance to all elements (50%) for 1 turn to caster
Mystic Barrier	Mitigate magic damage taken (50%) for 1 turn to caster (can't be dispelled)
Hardened Skin	Mitigate physical damage taken (50%) for 1 turn to caster (can't be dispelled)
The enemy gazes at you...	Increase chance of being targeted (200%) for 3 turns to one enemy	ST
Unholy Purge	Remove all debuffs from caster
Diabolical Judgement	No effect

Attack Pattern

Thresholds:

• 40%, 30% HP:
  • Broken Mind
  • Demonic Gaze
  • Continues turn
• 20%, 10% HP:
  • Broken Mind
  • Unholy Screech
  • Continues turn

• If attacked with:

Element	Attacks
Fire, dark physical/magical damage	Degeneration Dark Depression Foul Miasma
Lightning, earth physical/magical damage	Dark Terror Dark Depression Black Miasma
Wind, water physical/magical damage	Despair Molten Blast Chaotic Miasma
Light, ice physical/magical damage	Black Misery Molten Blast Paralyzing Miasma

• If less than 2 elements used last turn:
  • Unholy Purge
• Otherwise:
  • Diabolical Judgement

• Every 8 turns under 5% HP:
  • Merciless Death

• On turns 3, 6, 9, ...:
  • One of Undying Force II or Killing Stance II
• If Killing Stance II used last turn:
  • Dimensional Void

• On turns 5, 10, 15, ...:
  • The enemy gazes at you...
  • Immovable Miasma

• If Dark Storm was used last turn:
  • Event Horizon
• If Flame Storm was used last turn:
  • Molten Core

• Under 1% HP:
  • Once per fight, if a limit burst was used on 5 different turns under 5% HP:
    • Ends turn
  • Otherwise, once per fight:
    • Disease
    • Ends turn

• Remaining actions:
  • 10% chance of Dark Storm
  • 10% chance of Flame Storm
  • 5% chance of Avenging Bite
  • 30% chance of Diabolical Strike
  • Between 80% and 40% HP:
    • 10% chance of Ethereal Barrier
    • 10% chance of Mystic Barricade
    • 10% chance of Hardened Skin
  • Normal attack

Tips

• See testimonials and discussions.
• There is a HP lock at the 79%, 5%, and 1% threshold.
  • Once at 1%, it will use Disease, then kill itself.

Community Clear Rewards

Total Clears	Reward
150	King Metal Minituar (10)
500	Tyrant's Ring
1,500	Rare Summon Ticket (2)
3,000	Free Daily 4★+ Summon with bonus 3★ Trust Moogle (Unit-specific 5%) unlocked!
5,000	King Metal Minituar (20)
7,500	Special "Vault of Hidden Treasures" unlocked!
10,000	5-star Trust Moogle
15,000	Free Lapis Summon unlocked!
20,000	4★+ Guaranteed EX Ticket
25,000	5★+ Guaranteed EX Ticket
30,000	Free Daily 10 Summon unlocked!
90,000	Rare Summon Ticket (5)
110,000	4★+ Guaranteed Ticket
130,000	5-star Trust Moogle
150,000	Free Daily 10 Summon EXTENSION (1 week) unlocked!

References

• Essence of Despair: Stats and AI parse by aEnigmatic
• Maw of Malice: Stats and AI parse by aEnigmatic

Videos

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TriHard7	Essence Of Despair - Blind Run	YouTube
TriHard7	Maw Of Malice - Blind Run	YouTube
뽀오리	Essence Of Despair - 4tk all mission	YouTube
Sinzar	Essence Of Despair	YouTube
Sinzar	Maw Of Malice	YouTube
Spdy Gaming	Essence of Despair - 7TK All Missions	YouTube
Jason Gaming	Essence of Despair	YouTube
Jason gaming	Maw	YouTube
RR	Maw of Malice, All Missions, 4 Turns - with Antarctic Wind	YouTube
Edward Thatch	Essence of Despair	YouTube
David Aka Aztek	AMC + Guide (Easy4turn)	YouTube
[FR]ReiAyanamiTV	Essence Of Despair	YouTube
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Neptunesman	Essence of Despair, 3 turns, all missions, easy mode	YouTube
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Daigono TV	5 Turns - Maw of Malice - All Missions	YouTube
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