DFFOO [JP][Idea] Weaponizing Seymour BT party dispel with Balthier FR to get 80% off-turn bonus
Sorry for any subs that get notification bombardment these few days, but this one is quite interesting that I feel like posting, as it is also relevant to the Strago raid, even though it is not the stage shown (done too much of that stage already lol). Last one before new content I promise.
00:00 Battle starts
07:40 Balthier FR starts
10:22 The fun begins (enemy below 50%)
I have thought about this for a long time and I finally dumped some spare resources into Balthier FE/FR (side effect of Strago for being stingy).
At first I thought this combo would just be making every one on the team fulfilling the dispel bonus requirement with on-turn dmg, and then I realized that particular requirement actually does not state that it has to be on command selection or turn pass. Since no one really dispels with an off-turn attack, that was not really a particular useful detail.
Enter Seymour BT+.
While the focus of Seymour BT+ is mostly about his debuff aura or HP dmg cap up, there is actually a rather niche effect that tends to get overlooked because Seymour already dispels with his LD. At 3 stacks, Seymour actually makes every one on the team dispel 1 buff with any attack.
Thus when Seymour BT is used with Balthier FR which has these two relevant bonus requirements:
1. +40% when attacking an enemy with no buffs on command selection
2. +80% when dispelling an enemy
Every one on the team gets to fulfil the bonus conditions both on-turn and off-turn. Dispelling everything in one go is +120% on turn (+140% if ranged), just dispelling in off-turn would net you 80% per off-turn action (meaning for someone like Minwu, each trap dispel = +80%).
Another great thing is since Seymour BT only grants the team the power to dispel 1 buff at a time, having multiple off-turn triggers against a boss that has multiple buffs up at a time would be a FR bonus % buffet in one single turn.
Note that the dispel targeting is attack specific, meaning using an AOE (including something like Seymour's LD follow-up below 50% enemy HP) would dispel 1 buffs from all target at once. If you can find someone that has a ST off-turn trigger, such as Galuf in this case, you can farm different targets individually.
This combo is kind of niche as it requires bosses to buff themselves regularly, but when it works it works wonders. It gets hilariously efficient when the enemy likes to warp turns/threshold buff. It gets quite crazy like this one (Act 3 Final chapter mission dungeon) where bosses just has a lot of threshold triggers packed together, so you can reach 999% and keep on countering.
With someone like Kain, who consistently dish out off-turn dmg and happens to be a range character, he would be quite a great fit for Balthier FR and a partner for this duo.