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Ultimate Mastery Survey - A Special Place【U/U+】
Strategy name: Wing it with Thunder
Boss: Esthar Soliders
Describe your Strategy: Ixion r4+ recommended! Additionally, Wall over Shout if you can get the native haste.
AoE/Tank/SB spam
Insight!:
Ultimately, equip your best defense gear and keep mitigation up. Wall RW/Native haste or vice-versa if you can. Drawfire does help a decent amount during the first two waves.
Magic blink also helps a bit during the last couple waves, so if you have it go for it.
The final wave is where things can really fall apart, if you have R5 Ixion then I recommend saving 3 cast for that phase, otherwise with enough AoE, SSB/BSB DPS you can end this phase quickly before you're overtaken by Boomrangs and Gravity spam. (Unfortunately for me, Braska and Faris where taken out before I could benefit)
Describe your Strategy: Equip high RES gear and Flame resist on key characters. Wall or Divine Guardian + Shellga if you can find the DPS native. Otherwise, exploit enemy weakness and make sure you Banish strike before your mage goes,
ifrit/Magic Spam/tank
Insight!:
Disclaimer: This wasn't very difficult, as I have relatively great VIII synergy and my setup made it so I didn't really take any damage.
I have native Rinoa BSB so I took Divine Guardian RW instead just like Ifrit
Even without native Rinoa BSB I'm certain between Chain Blizzaga, Blizzaja and other means of dealing Ice/Holy damage it's doable
Holy Trinity casts:
Wall: 0 (RES +50% Bloodfest, mainly for damage)
Medica: Dreamstage
Hastega: 0 (RW Divine Guardian)
S/L count / Medals lost: Donuts
Roaming Warrior:
Divine Guardian (IX)
|Character |Ability 1|Ability 2|RM|SB(uses)|
|:---|:---|:---|:---|:---:|
|Irvine,80|FullBreak R2|Magical Breakdown R3|Feral's Might|Canistor Shot(1);unnecessary|
|Seifer,80|Drawfire R3|Banishing Strike R3|Lionheart|Bloodfest|
|Selphie,78|Curaja R4|Shellga R1|Mako's/Dr.Mogs|Dreamstage(1);magic blink unnecessary|
|Edea,79|Chain Blizzaga R3|Memento Mori R3|Devotion|default(-)|
|Rinoa,80|Shiva R3|Curaga (not used) R3|Ace Striker/Battleforged|Rinoa's BSB|
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Notes: In both cases you could likely find better RM's or more useful abilities than I used. I slapped these two teams together rather quickly last night so there's a ton of room for optimization and variants for teams with less synergy.