Game:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV (2018)

Duration: 33:54

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Several important things going on there:

This is a severely underlevelled fight. All my party is in their early 60s. (last day of act 1-1)
I should have neither the party nor equipment to win this fight(theoretically). Therefore I mailed my ristorante manager friend Mario and had him ship ALL of the cheese by express order.

Positioning of Altina is to bait the Vanish attack on every reappearance from stealth. This wastes boss' turns on something she will always survive unscathed.

Entering stealth with both characters seems to reset the boss' attack pattern and makes him not target Fie with vanish (spoiler: she can't handle it). If Fie ever sticks around unstealthed long enough she gets targeted and perishes. In general, I prefer not to delay Altina reappearance more than one boss turn after Fie's so that nothing dangerous happens to her that she cannot handle.

Both Fie and Altina have 60% magic evasion. 20 from Deva MQ and the rest from full set of Shield quartz.

Both Fie and Altina *can't* equip any healing quartz because replacing anything they have unravels the whole fight.

Altina has proxy puppet because something *always* goes wrong for her in this fight. As demonstrated in the later half.

Fie getting hit by Diamond Nova almost always leads to her instant death and reset. You cannot recover from death in this fight. I tried. I was exceptionally lucky that I was able to salvage that diamond nova hit at all.

Reserve members are used as a method to steal health nodes from the boss, until I have to recover about 13 minutes in and lose that option because reserve is also used as a one time batlle lines reset at the cost of reserve members.

All in all my characters are nowhere near confident in their ability to dodge magic attacks as is handily demonstrated in the later half of the vid. They were simply very lucky in the beginning of the fight. They need to be stealthed as much as possible.

The boss actually has considerably more than 380k HP courtesy of a ton of health nodes he inevitably gets. Once I've lost Kurt all I could do about it was to cope.

Relevant builds:
https://i.postimg.cc/3xd25BBM/altina.png
https://i.postimg.cc/PqDZN592/fie.png

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