Is there a pattern how Shiva selects her Heavenly Strike target? I was wondering why you chose to apply manaward on Zack before she selected him as the target as if you already knew, around 7:42. I feel like she always chooses the one with highest current hp, which is the case in 7:17 as she chose Red as the target, but in my case my Red had over 10k hp yet she chose Zack who barely had 7k and died to Heavenly Strike. Also you managed to make her chill AFTER Diamond Dust count down started, which gave you plenty of time to let the debuff wear off on their own (ice res down and silence), to me this is the most significant moment in this fight. I have yet to consistently achieve this, and tanking a DD with those debuff on is not game over, but makes the later fight much harder to manage.
While test running I noticed that she was targeting him around the 2nd half of the fight. If I would guess she is either targeting the dps or the character with 2nd highest ice resist. Shiva never targeted Aerith who is weaker than RedXIII and Zack.
@@aryo6264I ran a few more times, the result is quite different from your run. Basically after sigil phase -> DD -> HS, Shiva got some really strong buff, my fire attack can barely put a dent on her energy bar, and after a while she cast another DD which dealt over 20k+ damage to the whole party. She completely skipped the last 1/3 of your video (no HS around 7:50, no second sigil phase). I do have OB6 Stream Guard so dealt more damage than your team, yet somehow it made me unable to beat her smh
I needed RedXIII LB to remove Shiva's buffs and Aerith LB to remove Shiva's debuff, and I used Ifrit and Bahamut instead of Ifrit alone because of the party effect fire damage up2 which I needed to reduce Shiva's gauge by all party members.
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Is there a pattern how Shiva selects her Heavenly Strike target? I was wondering why you chose to apply manaward on Zack before she selected him as the target as if you already knew, around 7:42. I feel like she always chooses the one with highest current hp, which is the case in 7:17 as she chose Red as the target, but in my case my Red had over 10k hp yet she chose Zack who barely had 7k and died to Heavenly Strike. Also you managed to make her chill AFTER Diamond Dust count down started, which gave you plenty of time to let the debuff wear off on their own (ice res down and silence), to me this is the most significant moment in this fight. I have yet to consistently achieve this, and tanking a DD with those debuff on is not game over, but makes the later fight much harder to manage.
While test running I noticed that she was targeting him around the 2nd half of the fight. If I would guess she is either targeting the dps or the character with 2nd highest ice resist. Shiva never targeted Aerith who is weaker than RedXIII and Zack.
@@aryo6264I ran a few more times, the result is quite different from your run. Basically after sigil phase -> DD -> HS, Shiva got some really strong buff, my fire attack can barely put a dent on her energy bar, and after a while she cast another DD which dealt over 20k+ damage to the whole party. She completely skipped the last 1/3 of your video (no HS around 7:50, no second sigil phase). I do have OB6 Stream Guard so dealt more damage than your team, yet somehow it made me unable to beat her smh
Shiva targets highest HP it seems
@@Ludibundmedia You are right. I was teating this today and she targeted the one with the highest hp.
This is awesome. Why isnt red or zack using ifrit? You couldve won this battle way sooner
I needed RedXIII LB to remove Shiva's buffs and Aerith LB to remove Shiva's debuff, and I used Ifrit and Bahamut instead of Ifrit alone because of the party effect fire damage up2 which I needed to reduce Shiva's gauge by all party members.