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@@Janille_ I appreciate your kind comment. Yes, the plan was inspired by the ranking event with frog, where we had Cloud doing abysmal normal damage, but the fixed damage was killing the weak to earth adds regardless. So, since that fight I am trying to see how many bosses we can cheese :P B100, I have also seen clears done using this strategy, especially now that they patched the boss to have its shields raised again after sigil break.

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 yeah I have to work on another clear of B100 at some point I want to clear it again post patch

@@TeamSteelSky thank you very much for your kind words. I can’t yet do voice overs so I offer a somewhat of a “walkthrough” on each video in the description. I hope it helps :) I know it is whale oriented content, but my intention is still to showcase what can be done and how.

True... it took many hours of different setups to even figure out the mechanics.

@@Janille_ Thank you. I now need to play correctly and make a clean run. Since I notice I can speed run it, this is why I am now focusing on the Lucia build, to maybe get by with less tanky stuff and just go ham. If I have success I will update. What I did not understand is why I still proc Vengeance. Can you clarify on that? Not that it matters, but just to understand what is happening there.

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 if you look back I kill the first wave super duper late But I noticed that if I kill just After the first poison , After the stun sigil will start bypassing the vengeance phase probably because sigil takes priority (started by the game in the back as soon as poison start??) over vengeance but no way to confirm this it's just what I Noticed. Also I did go through one run where vengeance hit me I Can survive as long as there is no adds --I died during this run because of 1 miss step during double -5 mdef + aoe phase-- also throwing lasers to me because my Aerith can't heal and buff mdef Quick enough otherwise

@@Janille_ I will try to replicate kill tentacle as soon as poison resolves, and also compare HP on boss (as many phases of bosses so far are HP reliant). At any rate, I operate under the assumption Vengeance will trigger. And when I have more data and a polished fight, I will share. :) Thank you for the cooperation and support :)

Thank you! 🤗

Those that fear AI will take over... it won't :P

@@YuIivee 100%… watching the AI on such fights is cringe-inducing… especially during bomb phase where every… aoe… misses… and has to be done twice because the AI doesn’t wait for bombs to spawn properly… And obviously Barret simply refuses to buff Sephiroth, for no apparent reason. :P Still, that is the point of this challenge, to showcase that even with that kind of play, it is doable :)

@@kaioken07 Egg Staff. It was on the Easter banner.

The biggest hurdle here is the OB5 Yuffie AOE weapon. Sure, one could push a few points upwards, but the difference from OB5 to OB6 would ensure a vastly superior score, much bigger in difference than fine tuning this one. Which is the reason I didn’t fiddle with it more. But I agree, technically some more points could be scored by double buff, or having a Debrave to nerf initial AOE, etc, as well as stance dance each time a Sahagin attacks.

What’s your in game name btw?

@@anthonypatlyek3702 Penance.

I am flattered (especially considering the mistakes at the end by being so tilted by lag I just wanted to raise the limit and unleash not caring what I do, just fast materia :P )

This is a maxed out party. We all had ob10 weapons with the exception of Yuffie support, as there ob6 is enough for the proper buffs/debuffs. This obviously isn't the average party nor the intended way to clear the fight, just whales trolling to see if it was possible to kill fast. In terms of raw numbers, a maxed out Zack hits about 1.5 harder than a similar Cloud with Murasame and Garb. However, Cloud has the fastest animation speed with his weapon so there are instances he can fit more attacks due to that, or hit before an enemy ability resolves. So, both are useful... still, Zack's weapon is definitely power creep.

Ah… hmm… send me an email, I guess? Or create a new one, post in Payne’s discord and tag me.

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 I sent your cards buddy an email but I don't have yours lol. Also YT has shadowbanned several of my replies trying to ask you what your email address is because they contained potential links of what I was guessing your email was 😅 Not sure if they'll allow you to post links but my guess would be yes because it's your own channel 🤷‍♂

@@Manwes_Inspiring_Trax I sent him a PM to send me your correspondence. We shall figure it out, once he contacts me so as to avoid public comments :P

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 sounds good! I invited you for crash btw. Think we can do it without comms? 🤣

@@Manwes_Inspiring_Trax we definitely need comms. Do you have messenger, or anything we can use? Including a new discord account?

Thank you!

Ye, it mostly shows how much progress we made from barely being able to defeat it, to not only doing so, but choosing how to and let the AI handle it :P (And it also shows the absurdity of the new party buff weapons)

@brianhook2108 I had the same issue… until I understood that the DPS check in this fight is more important than turtling. As every cycle is stronger than the previous one, so the more you delay to kill, the more damage you take with each AOE so at some point you cannot outheal it or die one shot. The fight needs: 1) Assault Gun on Barret or Centipede on Matt (preferable) 2) 1 Wind DPS with an ob6+ weapon, anyone will do, between Aerith (Prism Rod), Sephiroth (Dark Heavens), Tifa (Motor Drive) or Yuffie (Dinner Tray). 3) all characters with O sigil breaking materia, and at least two of them having x2 sigil abilities (so Aerith with Prism Rod, Barret with Heavy Hauser or Sephiroth with Dark Heavens). 4) at least 7.5K HP. No extra pdef is required if you play the aoe pdef buff, as for each stack you need 30 pdef which is a difficult number to have on all characters and maintain their power level. And with all the above you can kill fast enough before the 3rd cycle is done. Now, regarding Behemoth self-healing with Stamina Charge: if by the time after the first Body Slam we go to the second cycle and Primal Roar isn’t yet announced Behemoth has less than 50% HP, it will stamina charge. So, calculate your DPS and stay above 50% until that moment, and after Primal Roar, then go nuts. I hope all this helps. :) PS: this is why Centipede is a game changer in this fight, as, Barret was pure support and he has no Wind option, so you would only have 1 dedicated Wind DPS, 1 support and 1 healer to heal. You could not use Mythril Rod to buff as you then would not have time to heal as well. However, with Centipede you heal AND buff at the same time, which makes room for a second DPS. This can lower the threshold for the DPS check, as you can spread the damage between the two, and maybe manage the fight with less copies of main weapons. ;)

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 thanks I’ve been using cloud as my main dps with a series blow but I guess it’s not enough with 4000 patk. None of the wind weapons are near ob6 so may have to wait a while before I can meet the dos requirements. Have centipede ob3 and assault gun ob7 so defensively I seem to be there

@@brianhook2108 ​​⁠this particular fight is rigged by the floor rules. This is why nothing works except Wind. Anything, including non-elemental damage is nerfed by 30%. Zidane’s sword fully maxed does two times less than ob6 Motor Drive… and not only that, but also healing is nerfed as well, which is why you need your healer to have 500+ more heal stat than usual to mitigate. ;) This is why I wrote all the above as requirements, unfortunately it is the specific fight that not only gearchecks you, but also forces you to use Wind specifically. This was one of the reasons you would see whale accounts not clearing this fight for months despite clearly having superior power to clear everything else ;)

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 thanks for the tips. Maybe ill drop cloud for seph and see what happens

No, I have an issue convincing OBS to capture sound and for some reason Nvidia Experience picks all sound, not just the sound from a designated source. So, once I solve that I will resolve this. I just can’t figure out what is wrong with OBS and I can’t seem to find any settings to select sound sources in Nvidia. :P

@pliyo Thank you for your kind words :) Yes, those weapons are beyond broken. I will record more absurdities later to showcase :P For Matt, it depends. If you need the Healing Wind as extra heal, it is mandatory you use Aerith. If you want utility like here, Matt is king as he also has the buff shield limit, AND a Diamond Sigil breaker. Lastly, if you want an offensive healer, Zack and Cloud are equally good, as Zack with Twinkle Star can double down as DPS and Cloud has the Maritime, Crystal Sword, Grand Gloves combo. So, I can't say it is an end all be all "best"... ;) But I would tie Aerith and Matt as best dedicated healers while Cloud and Zack as best offensive healers. PS: IF I have to be pedantic about it, then because Aerith has also the Snowflake build so she CAN do offensive healing, she is the jack of all trades here.

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 LOVE some detailed thinking around units like this, because I do the same when I go through my own evaluations and I didn't think about including Zack / Cloud here, so that was a fantastic read, thank you!! So agree with everything you said! P.S: Glad to see you are doing content!

Yes, that was exactly the plan for the next test. :) Matt can work with Centipede and Core Defender, and maintain his limit for the Divebomb attack.

I don’t think so. If I remember correctly this is one of the Republic only flashpoints. However, at the time I did this we were many versions ago and I haven’t touched Old Republic for years so my memoir may be fuzzy here.

The equivalent FP on imps side is boarding party i believe. Don't know how similar it is to taral v though

@@Berlinbower Its much more difficult to solo than Teral V. Best solo MM for imps in my experience is Red Reaper, especially if all youre doing is farming the first boss. Though I would recommend using a stealth character for this though.

This is happening precisely because you go for “turtling” instead of DPS. This fight is a DPS check. With each circle of Heartless Angel/Archangel, Sephiroth is increasing his power, so Octaslash will always do more and more and more, to the point it doesn’t matter if you have high defenses or not, it will literally “crash” though them ;) The fight, ideally, should end having taken only 3-4 Heartless abilities. With level 70, I only take 1 shadow flare in the beginning and do not even reach the point of the second one. Just like the fight in Floor 70, it is much more preferable to go all out in the offence. Shadow Flare will deal around 4.5k with buffs, or 5.8k without buffs and without any kind of mdef weapons. Octaslash would deal around 5k with 2 stacks of pdef buff, or 8.5k without it. Those are the highest thresholds for the first two cycles. That means that a healer that can out heal those numbers and a team with around 8.5k HP can do more than fine, so the rest should go to DPS and no defensive weapons at all. ;) Lastly, I make sure I do strong DPS during the Wind weakness phase in the first sigil break to land at least 3, preferably 4 attacks, as each attack there will count as 3.5-4 attacks in all other phases. This is the biggest “DPS window you have”. However, during that phase, Sephiroth hits like a truck and you need to be able to coordinate attacks, heals, and breaks. But the more you chip down there, the less you will need to deal afterwards. And my gear is prioritised to have potency of any kind, either physical or wind, or both. And I pay attention to have almost all attacks done with max attack stance as not doing so, tremendously hit the DPS done. I hope this helps.

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 Yes this is very helpful. Thanks

Thank you for your kind words. I hope the video helps, I understand the fight has a DPS check, but as long as you maintain the cycle, you might try. Wind is not important, it helps, but only during the first sigil break sequence. Any team capable of outputting above 15K damage per hit on the main DPS unit can meet the DPS check. HP above 8K is the wiggle room required for the fight. And nny healer with above 2.2K heal stat can outheal Sephiroth, provided the buffs are used as shown in the video: AOE mdef up before Shadow Flare and pdef up to the Octaslash target.

It should, but I haven't tested it (I haven't played in months). They have not changed the mechanics, only the item level, so I assume it works.

yes l do it on my shadow* tank every sunday to hit cap for the next week by stock piling blue items

There are two types of loot, personal loot and group loot your loot is protected but for the group loot there's an internal dice roll for it

Yes. Probably my favourite character in the game. Her, Blizz and Gault, and depending on the class, I choose one of those four. :)

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 nice,I use her in every situation cause she is the only lvl 50 comp I have,but she is very nice over all the three specs,especially as a tank and dps,well she atleast works for the content I do anyways

@@asamibeniko u just like me fellow force user

@@lettucelad u mean using Lana as main comp? Hell ya

@@asamibeniko so truee bestie

Not quite: 1) this does not require stealth, so any character can do it (although I agree that you can do it faster). 2) you can still finish the last flashpoint so this will net you 7-8 pieces, and while you wait for the phase lock to reset, you do other stuff (like GSF). As such, as far as alt gearing goes, you can't get faster than 5 minutes per piece, even GSF lasts longer per battle, or any heroic daily. ;)

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 Kind of but I don't know if you can do GSF. I seem to remember being locked out of PvP whenever I hit the limit? But yeah I could go do solo content like heroics

@@Draemn you definitely can, as this is what I did with friends at the time. I played some 20 minutes quick FP gearing, and while I waited for the reset, I would grind GSF or do heroics. Again, obviously this is a thing only if you want to gear alts or have a 326 blue set readily available, because GSF is faster overall in terms of getting proper gear. As content isn't properly balanced for 326, I assume we will go to 330 in the next patch and operation gear will reach 334 (which is supposed to be the balancing target of the expansion), so I don't know which upgrade path will work better by then, hence I wanted to have: 1) a full 324 green gear to use in order to force 326 purple PvP gear to drop at specific slots I want 2) a full 326 purple PvP to use at is is the best gear outside of operations for which unfortunately I don't have a group to play 3) a full 326 blue gear to make sure to have available for upgrade if this path is the preferred method in the next patch for 330 Regardless of the above method (which soon will become redundant anyway) my prediction is that we would get 328-330 gold gear for PvP though GSF (to match the existing upgrade scaling of green-blue-purple every two points from 316 onwards), but even if we dont, logic dictates, we will get purple 330 from Flashpoints or green/blue 330 from heroics. Depending on the upgrade path I want to be ready, so I kept many unopened PvP and heroic boxes for the next patch.... I presume patch 7.1 will contain this. Let's see how this goes (as for now, there is no content to bother playing). :)

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 good to know. I was really frustrated before when I'd grind out SF on solo mode and then not be able to play anything for 20 minutes. I don't gsf though

Just use alts? Max 2 - 3 stealth classes and you are fine.

You can do the above strategy wearing 326 Green gear... the boss fight is just as easy, provided you wear augments (the same augments you wear on the blue and purple later on, augments are the most important part of the gear to be enough to survive this). The point of this farming process is to gear alts, as arguably, grinding for green 326 gear from heroics is slower than this one. But to answer your question, this is the "solo" approach to gearing: 1) you gind heroics until every piece is 324 Green (this costs 150 Aquatic currency per piece so you need 2 weeks of heroics to do so due to the 999 weekly limit) 2a) you play GSF for about 11 Weekly missions (can be done in the same week with alts to which you transfer the 324 gear), which will net you 11 boxes of 326 purple gear and 660 Thyrsian currency to purchase and upgrade to 326 the remaining 3 pieces) Alternatively: 2b) you can skip the GSF part if this isn't to your liking (the only other path for purple gear for now is Operations, so GSF is much easier and faster), and take another week of heroics to upgrade to 326 green. 3) you farm 326 blue gear for your main or alts using the above method.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, not as easy as this one. Closest thing to this is Hammer Station if you stealth it to the first boss, but you need to circumvent gold mobs as they detect you. It is doable, but it doesn't take 4-5 minutes as this does :/

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 Well, in that case my Sith Lord will take a break and send in his cloned brother (who, as part of a fanfiction, ended up with the Jedi) 🙂

@@KrautGoesWild this 😁

I figured out a method but it's not easy and it's completely random if you survive the encounter. For Empire the "Red Reaper" will be your FP of choice. However there are some drawbacks. While leaving the first room and entering the second a group of 3 enemies will spawn and attack you. I found out that it is best to get killed by them. Afterwards you can bypass them by stealth (stealth toon required in my case a concealment operative). You will get unstealthed in the second room at a random occasion and it depends where you are if you are drawn into a fight. If so get killed. You cannot leave combat by combat stealthing and you won't be able to use the elevator while in combat. Once you made it past the elevator just stealth past the large group of NPCs in the corridor. Then you are at the first boss. I absolutely need the companion ZO-OM at lvl 50 to survive this encounter at all. Shae Vizla simply doesn't pump out enough healing. And even with ZO-OM you can get killed. Usually takes me 3-4 tries to kill the boss. If you succeed you get a blue 326 item. I had 326 green items on me and I received in total 7 items that were an upgrade so far. It's the closest thing to this video I could figure out on Empire side.

You can run Red Reaper on Master mode. Requires some practice but when done right lasts 15 minutes (you kill al 3 bosses, so this is basically as efficient).

Thanks. Will try this. I have run this flashpoint solo many times now, skipping the second boss (it is harder than 6.3 but still doable), and any attempt at force camouflage got me detected by the droid, but never tried to do this hugging the wall. Might speed up the process significantly.

@@edwardsgamingcorner3880 Np, just get a little bit near the mobs, activate transcendence, then pop force camo all while hugging the wall, should work.

@@amandaneves435 Tried it and it works. It takes 30 seconds less now, as I literally don't kill anything other than the boss and the research stations. Thanks :)

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