The Ambitious Engineer and the Darkening Cloud

Battle Info

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	15	2	1617	15000	365	4-star Trust Moogle
Mission
Complete the quest						4-star Trust Moogle
Use Waterga						10,000
Party of 5 or less (Companion included)						Earth Resistance +15%
No green magic						Manufacted Nethicite
Boss
Doctor Cid, Famfrit

Boss Info

Wave 1

Doctor Cid
Race	Human
Level	99
HP	1,000,000
MP	5,000
ATK	320
DEF	52
MAG	330
SPR	50

Element Resistance
+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+50%	+50%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	+70%	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/MAG break. Vulnerable to DEF/SPR break.

Abilities

• Protect: Increase DEF (999%) for 99 turns to one ally.
• Shell: Increase SPR (999%) for 99 turns to one ally.
• Haste: Increase number of attacks to X per turn.
• Gatling Gun: Magic damage (2.2x) to all enemies.

Conditional attacks

• First turn: Protect, Shell, end turn.
• Every 3 turns: Protect, Shell.
• 50% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): Haste, Gatling Gun, end turn.

Regular attacks

• Up to 4 attacks per turn before haste.
• Up to 9 attacks per turn after haste.
• Normal attack.

Wave 2

Doctor Cid
Race	Human
Level	99
HP	2,500,000
MP	10,000
ATK	350
DEF	70
MAG	350
SPR	55

Element Resistance
+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+50%	+50%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	+70%	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/MAG break. Vulnerable to DEF/SPR break.

Abilities

• Protect: Increase DEF (999%) for 99 turns to one ally.
• Shell: Increase SPR (999%) for 99 turns to one ally.
• Haste: Increase number of attacks to 12 per turn.
• Anti-Magick: Reflect all spells for 3 turns to self.
• Gatling Gun: Magic damage (2.2x) to all enemies.
• Gatling Gun: Magic damage (2.5x) to all enemies.
• S-27 Tokamak: Magic damage (2.8x) to all enemies.
• S-27 Tokamak: Magic damage (3.3x) to all enemies.
• S-85 Cyclotrone: Magic damage (3.3x) to all enemies.
• S-85 Cyclotrone: Magic damage (3.6x) to all enemies.

Preemptive strike

• Protect, Shell, Anti-Magick, end turn.

Conditional attacks

• When Famfrit dies: Haste. All abilities receives damage upgrade.
• Every 4 turns and Famfrit is still alive: Protect, Shell.
• Every 5 turns: Readies tokamak. Next turn use S-27 Tokamak, end turn.
• Every 6 turns (Chance to use): Gatling Gun.
• 90% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): S-85 Cyclotrone, end turn.
• 60% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): S-85 Cyclotrone, end turn.
• 30% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): S-85 Cyclotrone, end turn.

Regular attacks

• Up to 8 attacks per turn before haste.
• Up to 12 attacks per turn after haste.
• Normal attack.

Famfrit
Race	Demon
Level	99
HP	2,500,000
MP	10,000
ATK	450
DEF	65
MAG	350
SPR	75

Element Resistance
-50%	-	-	+200%	-	-	+100%	-
Status Ailment Resistance
null	null	null	null	null	null	null	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/MAG/DEF/SPR break.

Abilities

• Briny Cannonade: Water magic damage (6x) to one enemy
• Waterja: Water magic damage (4x) to all enemies

Preemptive strike

• Readies cannonade, end turn. Next turn use Briny Cannonade, end turn.

Conditional attacks

• When Doctor Cid dies: Briny Cannonade.
• Every turn and Doctor Cid is alive: Readies cannonade, end turn. Next turn use Briny Cannonade, end turn.
  • This cannonade will target the lowest HP unit.
• Every turn and Doctor Cid is dead: Briny Cannonade.
• Every 3 turns and Doctor Cid is dead: Waterja, end turn.
• 70% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): Waterja, end turn.
• 50% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): Waterja, end turn.
• 40% HP threshold (Max 1/battle): Waterja, end turn.

Regular attacks

• Can only use regular attack if Doctor Cid is dead, otherwise it'll keep readying or using Briny Cannonade.
• Up to 3 attacks per turn.
• Normal attack.

Strategy

• Depleting Famrit's MP makes him stop using water attacks, which makes the 2nd part of the battle - piece of cake. Use Lance, Duskblade or other MP Draining skills. (Note: He will resume using Briny Cannonade after Cid dies regardless of MP)
• Bring Xon and use Twist of Fate to steal Doctor Cid's 999% DEF/SPR buff. Enjoy invulnerability.
  • Active DEF buff is capped at 300%, while there is none for SPR, so you will notice much less DEF increase.
  • Copied buff has separate turn duration from the original, it has 2 turns duration.
• Otherwise, bring water resistance buff and dispel.
  • Tidus has non-magic (for 'No Green Magic' mission) 100% water resistance buff.
  • Minfilia, Luka, Seabreeze Dark Fina, Beach Time Fina, Summer Lid has non-magic 70% water resistance buff.
  • Marie has non-magic 50% water resistance buff and non-magic 40% imperil all elements debuff.
  • Rikku has non-magic 40% water resistance buff & 30% party wide damage mitigation in the same skill.
  • Tilith has non-magic 40% water resistance buff, and a non-magic dispel ability to remove his invulnerability. Also, a 40% all stat buff.
  • Equipping Siren gives 50% water resistance.
• combining Siren water resist 50% with 70% water buff Aqua Guard will make a character immune. If you put this on the lowest hp character then Famfrits water attack Briny Cannonade (while cid is alive) will do zero damage.
• Doctor Cid is vulnerable to Man-Eater while Famfrit is vulnerable to Demon Killer.
  • Use Diabolos to get both.
  • Sun Barrette gives Demon Killer.
  • Elza is the only unit with both Man-Eater and Demon Killer by default Firion can enhance his Legend Killer to damage Demons and Humans at +1.
• Doctor Cid has high resistance to all elements except light and dark. If you are not using any imperil effect don't use elemental damage or weapon.
  • Orlandeau's Divine Ruination debuffs light resistance by 50% effectively reducing Doctor Cid to 0% and Famfrit to 50%.
• Both Doctor Cid and Famfrit can be charmed.
• Double check the weapons on all your units, including your friend unit, to make sure nobody is using weapons with ANY elemental effect, (except dark) because all Cid has 100% elemental resistance for all elements except light and dark, which he has 50% for, and Famfrit has 200% for water, 100% for light.

Videos

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Username	Description	Units	Link
exkurizu	All Mission Clear, Non-Raid TMRs, No 5* bases	Ashe x2, Warrior of Light, Xon, Friend: Seabreeze Dark Fina	YouTube
FFBEVids	All Missions	Tilith, Zyrus, Xon, Orlandeau, Friend: Orlandeau	YouTube
FFBEVids	All Missions, No TMs	Minfilia, Zyrus, Xon, Ashe, Friend: Ashe	YouTube
Khimaira	All Missions, No 5*, F2P	Tilith, Warrior of Light, Zyrus, Rikku, Firion	YouTube
guide4gamersdotcom	All Missions	Delita, Cecil, Luka, Gilgamesh, Zyrus	YouTube
Gintoki	All Missions	Orlandeau, Xon, Minfilia, Tilith, Friend: Dark Fina	YouTube
claudius415	All Missions | F2P TMR only	Ashe, Ashe, Xon, Warrior of Light, Zyrus	YouTube
Mitch3ll	All Missions | Focus on Light Element	Tilith, Wilhelm, Tidus, Zyrus, Orlandeau	YouTube
Coolbeatlim	All Missions | No Tank	Seabreeze Dark Fina, Tilith, Elza, Orlandeau, Friend: Orlandeau	YouTube
claudius415	All Missions | F2P TMR only | No Xon	Ashe, Ashe, Setzer, Cecil, Zyrus	YouTube
Libridan	5 char/no green | Mainly F2P TMR only | No Xon	Tilith, Warrior of light, Rikku, Tidus, Y'shtola	YouTube
MoonPie	All Missions	Tilith, Warrior of light, Rikku, Tidus, Friend: Dark Fina	YouTube
MoonPie	All Missions | Light Elemental Chaining	Tilith, Shantotto, Tidus, Tidus, Friend: Orlandeau	YouTube
LeeVanDam	4 Missions Guide w/ Commentary	Dark Fina, Xon, Orlandeau, Tilith, Rikku	YouTube
Elegantique	4 Missions Guide	Ashe, Minfilia, Nichol, Xon, Friend: Ace	YouTube
NAGASHI HD	4 Stars No base 5*	Amelia, Minfilia, Firion, Xon, Mercedes	YouTube

See also

• Henne Mines