DFFOO [JP][Garnet IW][Series] FFIX: Save the Queen with overflowing battery and heals

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Published on September 7, 2021 1:07:19 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TENPAGWfBo8

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Final Fantasy IX (2000)

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An overdue series run of FFIX delayed because of animation bug with Garnet follow-up when Steiner LD came along. This fight still takes quite long because of waiting for the enemy threshold animations, Beatrix countering one by one, extremely HP beefy bosses etc not really having a DPS main. It is a series and themed run, so I will just let Steiner and Beatrix take care of their queen.

Safety with the knights:
1. Preventing Dmg
With Beatrix and Steiner on the team, it is actually quite hard to die even after their HP gravity attacks. The debuff from Beatrix's LD shock saps the enemy before they attack (works even when they have not recovered from break) and triggers a follow-up after the security team is attacked or she is attacking them, thus shaving off their BRV. Even if all these fail and their BRV goes above your HP, turning purple and use their HP attack, Steiner has 30% HP dmg reduction built in to his LD buff, so the team is unlikely to die from the antlions having barely any overflowing BRV.

Beatrix's HP+ obtained from using her EX can block the gravity HP attacks on HP thresholds (19%, 39%, 69%), thus negating the danger of having low HP ever again. Both Steiner and Beatrix's output has notably increased with their C90, so I tend to save the HP attack until she has her EX up again as those two tend to drop their HPs faster than Beatrix can get another round of EX recharge. Her HP+ is now instant turn rate, so just in case the HP threshold is not met after the first HP+ is used, using her EX immediately after means you can use HP+ again while having the safeguard buff still active, ensuring there is no gap in between.

2. Healing
Garnet's LD heals besides of her EX, but typically I use it as her LD buff is falling off soon. With Beatrix and Steiner, there is not much for the queen to worry lol.
Beatrix C88 instant heals, so use it to have a boost and not die. Technically both Steiner and Beatrix has HP regen and they stack, but Steiner's is far more relevant in this fight. It is again a built-in feature of her LD buff so it is always active as long as it is up and it regens for more than Beatrix. Beatrix's is a generic and unframed buff that gets overwritten by the enemies' max HP down framed debuff. With Garnet putting extra buffs onto the party and no cleansing, hers don't have much uptime in this fight. That said, her HP+ from EX heals as well, so she has a more burst and instant heal role than Steiner.

Endless Battery:
Garnet's herself gives a lot of battery, from Aquamarine, generic BRV regen buffs on the party and C65 and also her LD follow-up etc. She has 10% extra BRV gain for herself and 10% for the party, but at this point of the game she needs her C90. Her BRV dmg is quite lacking for shaving purposes even with enchant, unless the enemies are heavy debuffed and the party is strongly supported. Though she is still capable of doing dmg due to HP dmg up and BRV gain + battery and converting that into BRV refund to the party.
Though Aquamarine stance gives more battery related benefits, mBRV up from Peridot stance may not be a bad idea, as Steiner's every field turn battery is based on his mBRV. That alone probably gives out far more iBRV based battery from Garnet's generic buff.

Beatrix's follow-up/counter ignore defence, and even if she is not hitting great BRV numbers (which she was), she tends to get near full battery from Steiner anyways. Her also has 30% BRV gain encouragement armor for that purpose, so she should be giving back tons of BRV after her attacks with max dmg.

Steiner is probably the most strongest support here. He may not have BRV dmg up for the party, but the HP dmg up, 30% BRV gain (20 from LD and 10 from C88) with every turn mBRV based battery keeps the party away from being broken and charged off. Even though Garnet is not doing the BRV dmg, he basically gives her the BRV for her max dmg attacks.

This team mostly operates on battery gameplay and HP dmg up. They don't have an awful lot of BRV dmg based support other than Garnet's enchant and BRV dmg up, but most of their attacks get BRV from multiple targets and have refund anyways (maybe not Steiner's magic sword). Garnet has a lot of split dmg moves so she would need a bit of HP dmg taken up debuffs with CAs, but the other two should do great with mostly splash dmg. Even with 90/70 reduction, they are able to do near max output while drowning in battery.

In the end, the queen's knights have been very capable of keeping her safe and eliminating the threat. Lucky for the antlions it is not a certain black mage just started blasting.

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