Prayer

A Rotten Nation

Okay, so back at the end of Antlia when a guy first told us about passwords I said I wouldn't be using them. That's mostly true, but there are a few times I will be. This is mainly for ones that the game hands out as rewards for things (sidequests) because they're generally the only way to access those demons.

There are a few others I will be passwording in but with passwords that are all external from the game. There are a small number of demons that are only available via passwords that Atlus themselves released after the game was out.

And there are a tinier number of passwords that I will be using for Wacky Shenanigans and Ridiculously Stupid things but those are very very special.



Anyway, you password in a demon by registering it. This is very simple.



So this is the password we were given. It's very short for a password for this game - ones you generate from your compendium fully use both lines.



...Anyway, this thing is terrible! Red numbers are below what they are in their currently registered state. We're not a high enough level to have a Mishaguji-sama, so this is weaker than the base version.

But wait! That password was a math problem. This is not his strongest demon.



If you solve it exactly as it is written like your friends on Facebook do everytime something like this is posted, because they forget how maths work, you get an answer of 17980. So this is from adding 1 to 19 then multiply 21 by 20 for 420 and so on and so forth.



To the surprise of probably no one, this password is invalid because



If you solve it using order operations, like a sensible person, you get an answer of 2000.



This gives you a base Mishaguji but with Mediarama! Gasp!

This is not very good still, no. I will almost certainly not touch this again.



Oh and we'll make a Parvati. Comes with Megido, has no weakness, is immune to Expel and if you're wrong and care then her Source gives Recovery Amp which is... something.



Alright, so there's a couple doors on this floor as well. We'll see where they lead, because we can do that now.

Nope, never heard of it.



Okay, weird thing here that I'm only pointing out because barely no one reading this will know it (if you do, good job I guess). Kresnik is a Slavic god of the sun, summer solstice, fire, storms and sometimes fertility. He lives on a sacred mountain at the top of the world, which represents the axis mundi. He has absolutely nothing to do with vampires.

A Krsnik, of which this guy is one, is Croatian; they're shapeshifting shamans that learn magic from fairies and hunt vampires in general - hence the bat on his jacket - but prioritise Kudlaks which are not a specific entity but rather their evil vampire antithesis. Krsniks' souls eventually leaves their bodies to fight evil and help with good harvests and good health. Very different, but an understandable mistake right? Well, it's not a mistake. Krsnik has two alternative spellings because things are never easy. Kresnik is one of them. This leads to completely unimportant problems in some very specific niche situations that no one here will ever get into, myself include, so it's just a fun trivia thing.

The Belmonts, from Castlevania, are good examples of things you probably know about that are based on Krsniks!

We, uh... we'll totally find a Hawthorn Spear later because we definitely don't have one yet why would you think that.



Meanwhile through the left door, we have this Unlock door we can't open yet. Sounds about right at this point.



Also a container for 2 Revival Beads. Hard to complain about that, I guess.



Oh and a room with this guy in it.

We'll get a Pest Crop sooner or later, I'm sure, so we'll park this until then.



Heading on up to the 2nd floor now. Second guy is here as well, conveniently.

Well, it's better than a base version of a demon but with a terrible spell added I guess.



Probably not much of a surprise, but the door behind the terminal is a convenient shortcut. That second terminal over here is now completely stupid and superfluous.

Silence

Crisis

Malevolence and Benevolence

Prayer

Malevolence and Benevolence

Silence

In The Master's Name

Spirit Formless

An Honor Befitting That Name

Formless is an interesting... demon...? It's kind of terrible in a vacuum having absolutely no real offense whatsoever:



...Granted, this is a basic attack after a War Cry to a Resist but still! That's effectively all they can do for damage right now.



Defensively, they're neutral to Phys/Gun, Ice, Wind and Elec. Naturally, they're immune to Expel and Curse.



And, yeah, they're weak to Fire if you have something that can use that effectively. I don't at the moment, hence why this damage is really bad despite being post Acid Breath.



In terms of actual skills, the Formless are fairly limited. They just cast a small handful of ailment spells.



Like, a very small handful. I don't think I caught all of them but when I back to check they didn't use anything else and, surprising no-one, there is exactly no information about Formless online anywhere.

...Those resistances I listed earlier? Not documented anywhere.



Even the Megaten Wiki doesn't have a page for this. It's not like it has a minimum info requirement, given the number of demons it has that are unique to one game and don't even have a bio or anything other than an image and statblock. Sometimes that can be too much. My personal favourite, for its name alone, is Crispy Dead.



And if you leave one alive with sub-125HP (because it has 500 max, you see), it'll use Last Resort. This is just a Physical Almighty skill that hits every enemy in return for killing the user. It claims to deal Heavy damage but it's base power is 150. Agilao/Bufula/etc. have the same power, so uhhh. Strange Journey is really bad at describing what it's skills do.

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In The Master's Name

A Rotten Nation

Silence

In The Master's Name

An Honor Befitting That Name

Just more Formless. They're the same as the ones we fought before.



Well, except these ones are weak to Ice and neutral to Fire.

In The Master's Name

An Honor Befitting That Name

In The Master's Name

Silence

In The Master's Name

An Honor Befitting That Name

An Honor Befitting That Name

So, as no doubt expected after getting the Madman's Stone, the Delphinus Parasite has something to do with Asura after all.



But never mind that. Suddenly a BLUE flash! Gasp!

Silence

Lotus Aura fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Mar 15, 2017

Prayer

Chen raises a pretty good point. Why Gore? I'm sure we'll get an answer eventually.



Right now, we just get a smidge more stock to peruse. The Luna Knife is the requisite boring and ineffective weapon. It was ineffective before, now it's just a flat downgrade to what we could have for less actual work.

AT Delphite x2, Haunt Dry Skin x1 (Churel) and Femme Snow x1 (Yuki Jyorou) if you really want it and it's an upgrade somehow.



And for our only other new gun we have the Randall which... loving christ that's awful. I genuinely cannot imagine any situation where you would willingly and intentionally use this thing. It's weak as hell, can't be targeted, deals a random NoH and it's only skill is the gun Agilao.

AT Delphite x1, Vile Long Horn x1 (Baphomet) and Wood Roots x2 (Mandrake) if you somehow can fathom a use for this thing that isn't done better by basically anything and everything else.

A Rotten Nation

Alright, so NOW we can make progress in Delphi--

Wait, we CAN right? Nothing is going to appear when I take a step forward and stop that? Finally!



Now that we can finally advance somewhere, we'll take the obvious door on the left of the map which leads to a dead-end. Which hosts a Search B door.

...Why? This is so pointless.



Anyway, the area over here is kind of semi-sprawling so we'll grab this Chakra Drop set first. It doesn't do much for helping with navigation but it's something.



Fortunately, it turns out that everything just leads to the same place anyway. There's also A Man to talk to here. How nice!

There ARE stairs over near here, which means this is probably just here for the sake of this sidequest.



Welp, let's explore this then.



There's a fixed Forma down here, which is just a dead-end outside of this, huh? Disappointing.

Malevolence and Benevolence

Silence

Crisis

An Honor Befitting That Name

Okay, so McClane is just-- wait, hold on a minute. Those Nues have analyze bars.



Okay, that's better. Now, McClane is just a dude so he's immune to Expel by default. He's also immune to Curse because that'd be too easy otherwise.



This is his damage output. Granted this is after a War Cry, but it's still quite frankly ridiculously bad. It's the one so he's at -2 and he can't even hurt me.



That's all he can do, and he's neutral to every other ailment. Because he's just A Dude.

A Rotten Nation

The Fear of God

Anyway, now that we've gotten to actually explore the 3F and beyond, there's a whole slew of new* demons to discover!

_{* Probably not actually new.}

Caladrius we've seen before, and he's really not a threatening enemy demon. Just keep that Makarakarn in mind and he's not a threat at all.

Ame no Uzume meanwhile is probably the most boring demon we've seen yet. She has Hitonari's natural resistances (neutral to everything, immune to Expel, 100% ailment rate) and has bad a version of what he can do as well. It's not Silent Prayer; that just wipes all buffs and debuffs from everyone. It's not your party gets Dekunda'd and the enemy gets Dekaja'd. It's everything gone from everyone.

Usable Ame no Uzume swaps Ally Call out for our version of it which is Sabbatma. It costs 20MP to summon a demon from the stock. Just.. just use the actual Summon ability instead; it gets priority like items do and it doesn't cost anything to use!



Zhens are hanging out here too, that's cool. I think I covered their resistances before (what you can see plus immune to Paralyse and Poison if I forgot).

Encounter

The Fear of God

Hey Virtue. We ain't seen you in a while, huh!

...This is probably just me, but I vastle prefer Virtue's OG design over the weird floaty water man we've had since Devil Summoner (the first one on the Saturn).



Camazotz is just hangin' out in the dark rooms, huh. Strange Ray is an enemy only skill that's basically a free turn. Kanbari CAN do it as well, but Camazotz is more likely to survive long enough to get to use it.

It's an attack that damages one target's MP. That's it.



Dis is here. I didn't say much about her before because there is nothing TO say. She's simple, you shoot her and then she dies.



Skogsra has a cool design and hangs out here with Zhen, sometimes. That's about it. Everything I said about her applies to now too.

Oh wait, uh, she has Resist Wind here? That's weird and confusing. That's only on her enemy version because she resists Wind by default. Strange Journey what are you even doing?



And finally, we have the beautiful duwang - Pisaca. He's fairly boring overall, especially when you're using him, since he's just weak to Fire and neutral to all elements. Bites the Dust is a new thing, even though it's totally named wrong.



It inflicts Bomb on a single target (80% base chance). Pisaca has already touched the Parvati...

Oh, uh, Bomb is a contact ailment; if someone hits whoever is inflicted with it, they die immediately. This can only be prevented by Guarding. Bomb is the objective best ailment in the game in the player's hands, because enemies do not Guard, and that's why you never get to use it normally. It'd be too broken, which is saying something for this game.

it should totally be Killer Queen and not Bites The Dust because it's a reference to the main antagonist of Diamond is Not Crash; the fourth part of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Bites the Dust kills OTHER PEOPLE and sends whoever it's attached to back in time 1 hour.

A Rotten Nation

Gonna make a Vouivre while I can, because even though she's fairly eh her Source is relatively okay I guess. She's weak to Ice and immune to Poison and that's all that she has going on there. Her Source gives Agidyne and Ziodyne which is cool.

Also she's only called Vouivre in English (well, French technically but y'know, whatever). In the Japanese versions of the series, she's called Wyvern instead. Transliterated things online always leave it as Wyvern, and the game files do that here too.

Actually speaking of the game files, they have some fuckin' WEIRD names for things.



We'll head on over to the right hand side of 3F for now. There's not much in the bottom corner since it's just a bit of Macca.



Up north of the cashmoney, we get... 4 Dis-Paras. While that's not bad, per se, it's not exactly good either!



Fortunately, right here we have stairs leading on up to the next floor.

Honestly, that a Poltergeist is randomly here at all is kind of impressive. Good job, li'l buddy!



Meanwhile, we have a corridor to navigate. It's just a single linear path. This is only a dark room to be a mild annoyance. The most "meh" of all of them thus far.

Even Carina's first one in the basement was a bigger deal than this.



When we return to the light world, we can get this thing from a forma.



Being a thing for Irving, it's probably required to progress at some point. Might as well see where that point is before doubling back.



The terminal being right here does that make that rather tempting though. Hrm...

No, no. Focus.



Another dark room ahead, though. Hmm...



Well, we've already come this far. It's not like it'd help much with this anyway. No, the thing that makes these bearable doesn't exist until New Game+.

Goin' for the left door first.



There's a Sacrifice here and either a super obvious pit or another blatant hidden door. In either case, I'm just going to ignore it out of spite at this point!

Well that and I just really wanted the Sacrifice. I'unno, I like having these guys. They let me be stupid and reckless!



The other door in the Dark Room just drops us onto an automove section. First one in a while, really, huh...



That kicks us into a hole which drops us onto THIS conveyer belt on 3F.



Which just drops us into a hole that points us to the Bead Chains here.



I somehow just blew right past this area on 3F before, so we'll see where this hidden door leads us. It's not exactly a subtle one, bu--



Oh, okay. I see what the deal is now. I'm onto you, Delphinus.



But at least this one is kind enough to let us get this fixed 5 AC Delphite if you needed it. The only way out of here is a conveyer belt that drops us back to the top of 1F. I'll see you in a moment...



This does at least give us the entire map for 2F. This is really all we were missing for so long, yes.



So, back to the Sacrifice room and this is in the alcove. To the surprise of, hopefully, no one when they first saw this.



This drops us onto this stretch of land here. The conveyer belt there is what the hole on 4F dropped us onto before.

Amrita Shower cures all ailments on the entire party at once. It's pretty good, but there are very, VERY few fights that make something like this even remotely worth it.

And by "very few" I mean one.



In all seriousness when it comes to the dark rooms for a moment, Delphinus really feels more like the introduction of them than Carina did. Sure, Carina did them first but it only had like 2 in the basement. There are more in Delphinus, and they feel more basic and simple for the most part. I really wonder what happened there...



Anyway, the left door leads to a small area with this in it and nothing else. Kamudo was one of the relative best Magatama in Nocturne, IMO. Not for what it did on its own, but rather because it teaches you Focus (2.5x Phys boost) really, REALLY early.

Here?



It's the Hawthorn Spear but worse. Now, ailment base proc rates for your weapons are a thing I don't have the data for but I sure hope this makes up for being deficient by having a higher base chance.

Ailment proc rates for demon attacks? Yeah, no, I have that for all of them. All of them.



Anyway, that hole on the 4th floor by the Sacrifice was required to make progress. Yes, really. It leads you to the stairs here, after all.



Oh and there's a shortcut behind the stairs here. This didn't appear at all before, because some hidden doors only appear at first on one side of a wall.

We gotta open it up from the back before we can use it as a shortcut? Hmm, now where have I heard that before...



Anyway, that's the entirety of 3F mapped out now. Unlike Carina, Delphinus is REALLY easy to fully map out on average.

I'unno, I think so at least.

Silence

Prayer

A Rotten Nation

It puts this cool retro VR/Tron style grid up instead of looking like the normal sector. I'm kind of okay with this.



But I didn't grab it for this floor, oh no. Oh no, no no.



And not just because we've mapped out the entire thing now. That definitely helps, though.



The 5th floor starts us off in a tiny corridor that immediately leads into two doors. One to the left and one to the right. We'll go left first I suppose.



This just leads us into a small dark room corridor. Very linear, very simple.



Next we come to a dark room with... an automove tile that pushes us back here. Guess we can't go this way after all.



It's hard to see on the top screen here, but there IS a conveyer belt to the right there that pushes us back up here as well.



.......Oh, okay. I get it. I get it. This is a maze, huh? It's dark so it doesn't get automapped making it super simple and it's automove so you need spacial awareness to keep track of it. In theory.



Now, it's important to note that the Visualiser is completely optional. It just shows you dark rooms after all, so you can technically just ignore the Keisetsu Stone and never get it.



That WOULD make this kind of insanely irritating and difficult but you'd have no one to blame but yourself. The Keisetsu Stone IS just lying there as a fixed forma, but it's right in the critical path to this point so you have no excuse.



Not taking it back to Irving requires more intent for sure, but there are 2 terminals between there and here so you still have to actively not do that.

Three if you include this one.



Now, if you DO have the Visualiser? This becomes much, much easier. See, this area is pretty well designed like that. It's almost worryingly generous with the way the path is laid out.



Because I'm purposefully mapping the entire thing out, it highlights the obvious little tricks with the way the area is designed. You'll realistically never end up going back down here if you're not intentionally doing so, for example. The layout of the level itself, even without manually mapping it, makes it obvious you're just going in a circle.



And if you ARE having trouble with the Visualiser because the game doesn't automap for you? Then just map it yourself. Get some paper and draw it. It's not that big of an area and you don't need to do 100% of it to understand the layout.



There's a few times you might make a mistake looking for the critical path at first, but all the biggest "you won't do this intentionally" spots where you could make a mistake? Still helpful. This path here seems like it might be the right one because of the forma but it's just an easy way to get DF II guaranteed.



Beyond that, the actual goal is simple: get to the centre. Personally, I didn't map this one out by hand because it's so small and there's only a tiny number of spaces you can go. I find it really easy to just remember which path I'd already taken but not everyone can do that.



I realise I spent a lot of time on this spot, relative to like everywhere else so far, but this is the first major spot that I can see someone complaining about. I can definitely understand the complaints but at the same time, I kind of can't? If it was a bigger area and you couldn't have the Visualiser to help with any spacial problems then yeah, it'd be stupid and bullshit. But it's just one small area with no real mean tricks to it.



Now, if there was say holes (or spinners like this is some old school Wizardry nonsense) then it'd be much, much worse.



And if you really got annoyed by it, there's a terminal immediately afterwards as well.

....I realise we haven't done this since Antlia, but this seems like a good place to take a break, huh? Let's do that for now then.

Lotus Aura fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Mar 15, 2017

Prism fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jan 17, 2017

A Rotten Nation

After the dark maze that was the entirety of 5F, the 6th floor is much, much simpler. It's still kind of a conveyer belt maze, if you want to stretch the definition, but it's all outside.



You kind of get railroaded here and can't leave.



Fortunately, the wall-mounted D-Pad is a switch of some kind.



A very magical switch, because it somehow reverses the flow of... water...? Basically the automove directions are the opposite direction now. Formerly up goes down and vice versa, same with left/right.



This lets us actually explore the area a bit more. There's the occasional hole down to 5F but they all drop you by the stairs back up.



It's really no big deal. In this case, it even helps as an alternative way of getting where we want to go.



...Granted there ARE a lot of holes (kinda) and most of them are at the end of conveyer belts. If you're not intentionally jumping down them I can see this being really annoying.

The Fear of God

A Rotten Nation

Anyway, the real trick to 6F is that it's really simple and very small. If you just go where you can, the main path becomes very hard to miss.



The one spot where you might go where progress isn't, is this alcove here. There's just a couple fixed forma but it's good for getting AT II and just in general if you missed the DF on the 5th floor.



But, uh, that's the floor. Go left, flip switch, and now you can leave. The entire right-side of the floor is just an optional "puzzle" for getting the forma.



7F now, and we can see two new signals on the map at last. Odds are good they're more Formless, but they could theoretically not be.



6F was super simple because it was basically a tutorial for this floor. We have a slightly more difficult version of the same puzzle going on now.



Gotta navigate our way to the switches to reverse the conveyer belts. Can't make progress of any kind otherwise.



We COULD immediately just leave and go to the 8th floor apparently. We're not going to do that though! Just remember that this is an option.



Now, when I said this is slightly more difficult than 6F the emphasis was on the slightly.



You're still ultimately just railroaded to the switch if you opt to not take the stairs, so it's just a matter of following the super-linear path. It's just slightly longer so you fight more things.



We do have to flip both switches to make it to either signal it looks like. This one seems marginally more annoying to get to, so we'll do it first.

In The Master's Name

An Honor Befitting That Name

These guys are still ultimately identical to the past 3 times we fought them. But, yes, what about the man?



Well, he has the Frost Cannon which lets him fire powerful Wind bullets that tear into their weakness.

So that makes Fire, Ice, Elec and Wind in that order huh? I wonder if the next one will be weak to Expel...

In The Master's Name

A Rotten Nation

Only way out of this area is to head into a dead-end. If you pay attention to your map, you'll know this is a hole that drops you down to the 6th floor's one missing tile.



And I really wasn't kidding when I said one missing tile:



The 6th floor is tiny. Really, really tiny.



Oh and it's around here I realised I hit level 34 which means that A Dark Hee-ro Emerges!

He gets Skogsra's source for the Rakunda and Arrow Rain. Frost Ace is cool and good.



Anyway, 7F's super linear and we just hit the 2 switches again and then we're at the other door.

Silence

In The Master's Name

This'd be more intimidating by default if we hadn't beaten this thing four times over already.



Same as before except back to being weak to Fire, huh? I guess it just wraps around. Next one'll be Ice again, then!

A Rotten Nation

I'm gonna go and guess the 8th floor, or higher maybe, since we haven't been there yet.



Definitely not on the 7th since we've explored all of that now as well. I guess 1F is a technical possibility but the only place we haven't been there is somewhere we CAN'T get to...



8F has a pair of hidden doors right by its entrance.



Only noteworthy because they lead to already deflated cocoons and empty chambers. I guess there used to be Formless here before we killed 5 and they all buggered off somewhere?



There's a terminal up here as well, but we don't have a Strong Demon Detected yet so it can't be for that. It's probably to aid with backtracking.



There's also a 3rd empty chamber over here that isn't hidden. There was 8 Formless originaly and after we beat 5 they were like "okay gently caress this we gotta Get Serious" and went somewhere else.



Wherever it is, it's not on the 8th either since this is the entire floor done. Delphinus' upper levels get REALLY small, really fast huh?

Prayer

And while we're here, let's see what new things we can get from Irving. The Rock Vest is pretty nice; resists Fire and gives us a decent Defense boost too. Gonna pop this one on, but it can prove slightly tricky to make since it requires DF Delphite II x2, Beast Flask x2 (Hsing-Hsing and he's probably the rarest non-Fiend in the sector) and Vermin Antenna x1 (Mothman).



The accessories are, uh, still accessories. Resolve Ring requires AC Deplhite x3, Wood Bark x2 (Skogsra) and UMA Foot x2 (Hare of Inaba) to grant Hitonari immunity to Strain...? Blech, pass.



Not like the Boundless Ring is much better. AC Delphite x3, Divine Heart x2 (Virtue) and Genma Conch x1 (Kurama Tengu) for Mute nullification. It's definitely better but that's a very, very low bar.



The items are all exactly what you think they are. And that makes them pretty nice if you can be bothered to farm 'em:

Tetraja Stone takes DF Delphite II x1, Nymph Fan x1 (Ame no Uzume) and Enigma Himorogi x1 (Futotama).
Dekaja Stone takes DF Delphite II x1, Flight Feather x1 (Caladrius) and Genma Conch x1.
Dekunda Stone takes DF Delphite II x1, Flight Feather x1 and UMA Foot x1. Notably not worth it because Hare of Inaba drops Dekunda Stones with a 100% drop rate in the first place.

That's that for the store for now. Back to Delphinus we go, and I suppose we'll just go up until we get the Demonica's alert.

A Rotten Nation

Silence

Chaos Theme

As you'd expect, this is not at all animated. Just shows the Formless, shows the statue, then this. Boring.



This happens again and again...

Tyrant Asura

Vehement Rage

Asura isn't a specific one deity. It's a class of lords that are either benevolent deva in Zoroastrian mythology or malevolent in Hindu myth. In Buddhism, they are the lowest rank of demigods and have 3 heads, each with 3 faces. Asura's designs are all based on the Buddhist version, naturally.



So, Asura has a... few very special skills. Asura Roga is his favourite and he usually, but not quite always, uses it in the first time. If you buff/debuff to +/- 4, then he spams it even harder before getting rid of buffs/debuffs. 3 is fine, as per usual, of course.



...Well, that's not meant to happen.



Ahem, Asura Roga inflicts a whole new ailment! Rage doubles your Physical damage output and forces whoever has it to only make basic attacks against either a random enemy or ally. Notable is that they cannot attack themselves. It is essentially A Worse Charm.

Rage is a special ailment. Every demon in the game, regardless of what it is, has a flat 100% resistance so functionally neutral. Except two. There are two demons that have a different modifier.

Oni and one other demon we haven't seen yet have a 300% weakness instead. That's it. Nothing has a normal 200% weakness. Nothing has an arbitrary and weird intermediary value. Nothing resists it in any way. It doesn't even have a cure; it just wears off over time. You can use Amrita items to remove it, but that's a waste.

Rage, like Bomb, is usable normally by enemy demons only. Rage, unlike Bomb, is kind of terrible so that doesn't matter.



He CAN cast Maragidyne, but against this party in particular that doesn't help him much.



He'll also gladly cast Concentrate. He will in fact cast Concentrate a lot. He will Concentrate to Concentrate to Concentrate. This does absolutely nothing, of course, so it's kind of a gimme.



Did I mention he casts Asura Roga a lot? Because he does.



He has two other unique skills though. One of them he adamantly refused to do. Black Flame is random target heavy Fire damage.



This can go rather badly for him, yes, especially with this party in particular.



Oh and, yes, he IS weak to Ice. He Reflects Fire and Wind so maybe don't use them. He also resists Gun for all the nothing that matters.

The End

Honestly, in terms of actual proper bosses, Asura is a very stong contender for the overall easiest. He has a whole 2 things he can do and while Rage might be scary if you have no idea what it does, it becomes very apparent very quickly that his gimmick is to make you stronger so you kill him faster.



So, uh, good job there, Asura! At least he gives decent EXP and... adequate Macca, I suppose. The Magic Mirror is a bit of a piss-take though!

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Chaos Theme

What, did he drop a Rare Forma and the Rosetta?





Yes, yes he did. Color me surprised.

Silence

Malevolence and Benevolence

Fear

Yes! Eridanus!



Ahem.... Eridanus is a river, it is named after the River of Hades, Eriadnos, from Greek Mythology. It's the 6th largest constellation and was first discovered and named by Ptolemy. So, y'know, pretty old. There's even a river in northern Italy, the Po River, that is named after it.

Anyway, that's our Eridanus. The Schwarzwelt's Eridanus is the best sector. If you disagree, sorry, you're wrong. If you think it's the worst, you're double wrong.

Silence

Malevolence and Benevolence

Tyrant Asura v Human Hitonari

Vehement Rage

Asura's gimmick is that he inflicts Rage. Rage means you hit anyone EXCEPT YOURSELF. You hit them harder than normal.

If you're having trouble with Asura? Just buy the Rock Vest and rock up solo.



Asura Roga happens a lot. We can secretly deal ~150 damage a round with a non-Strength based Hitonari under Rage (you'll see). The Frost Cannon's Frost Shot deals slightly less and costs 20MP. That's balanced out by being more effective when not under Rage, yes.



The only thing that makes Asura not a guaranteed win, and instead only very likely, with this setup is this. Ashura is his last move and it's what he never used against my full party because he's a rude jerk.



It's just random heavy Phys damage. He only has Concentrate not Charge, so he can't make this stronger. The caveat is you can't realistically mitigate it AND Black Flame either.

You can use Tarunda/War Cry for sure and in this case Armshot if you don't want to have the Frost Cannon equipped for some unfathomable reason, though. Or I guess if you don't have it. But you have the Visualiser now, so go back and get it! Frost Ace is also really, really good!



So, yeah, if you're having trouble with Asura solo him and he will gladly help you murder him effortlessly. Go figure!

Lotus Aura fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Mar 15, 2017