DFFOO [JP][Paine IW] Paine but no suffering for me. Rest in peace in eternal darkness.

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Published on September 15, 2022 2:16:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtuceDZ_Qk

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Eternal Darkness (2002)

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It is the latter half of the month and I was in quite a pickle, because Paine's BT effect is interesting but I like Balthier as well (though his BT seems simplistic, powrful yet braindead). Then Paine gave me her BT, so there went the ingots. I may token Balthier and BT+ him later down the line, as I already have his FR and I have no interest in the twins FR.

I took the scenic route for this run with Aerith's BT phase to show how Paine's BT effect works. My first clear was actually my PB at 8m without turn planning and BT phase lol. It is a IW, the bosses have annoyance but they are quite squishy.

Boss: Zu
Force Mechanics:
+4%: Player action (seems like a trend)
30%: ATK down
50%: DEF down
60%: SPD down
80%: 150% HP dmg reduction outside of FA
FA: Sandstorm+++ (Guaranteed hit, AOE BRV+HP)
Also give themselves with ATK/SPD/DEF/(BRV dmg/HP dmg up and reduction) and AD down, all framed buffs

FT: 10T
If either the bosses have any buffs, or player have any debuffs:
- 100% BRV/HP dmg reduction outside of FA
- follow-up with "Sandstorm+" (another hard hitting AOE BRV+HP attack) after any boss action

Weakness: (Cancel FT)
Melee FA that within 1 action, either
- removes all player debuffs while attacking a target with buffs
- removes all player debuffs while dispelling all target buffs

Thresholds:
QS/50%: Getting more intimidating
- Give themselves the same frame buffs as the FA
- Guaranteed hit debuff player characters with ATK/SPD/DEF/BRV dmg/HP dmg down and AD up (all framed)

90/20%: Getting weaker
- Debuff themselves with ATK/DEF/SPD down

If the enemies are buffed AND player characters are debuffed, then this event becomes "Intimidation has reached its peak!" instead:
- reduces player health to 30% of current HP (ignore mitigation)
- heal themselves by 20% of their max HP

General Approach:
There are a lot of buffs and debuffs being applied off-turn and they are all framed. Their debuffs cannot be evaded through debuff immunity. Unless you fill all the buff slots, there is not really a way of avoiding them.
They are all framed and it happens at QS, so prepare some means of removing debuffs and buffs to properly set the team up.

The 90/20% threshold act as a form of buff/debuff check. If both of them are present, then the gravity HP attack happens and they get massively healed. Strictly speaking you don't need to keep buffs/debuffs off of you/the bosses at all times. In this run, Aerith prevented the bosses from buffing themselves again. Therefore I did not need to cleanse the debuffs from post 50%.

There are a lot of (BRV/) HP dmg reduction from buffs/debuffs and FT. The sweet spot is either before 80% or after cancelling their FT. You can somwhat overwhelm the HP dmg reduction after 80%, but you may see a drop in dmg quality.

Regarding Paine:
Rework:
Possibly second character in Shinryu era (other being Lyse) to get additional unique functionality to her support package instead of just dmg adjustments (The other being Lyse). She got a Cait Sith effect for her right stacks (buffs) and HP dmg dealt reduction for her left stacks (debuffs).

Her FR cleanses and dispels. Easy conditions with a high FR% return (attacking enemies with Status break, more than 10 field debuff+buff and characters with special effect). It can reach 999% very easily, especially when 2 of the conditions can be met without attacking.

Paine's BT double down on her positional dependent gameplay. The universal thing is the HP poison dmg on field turn. Though her position decides the amplifier (500/1000/1500% of her ATK; from left to right).
Attacking with any characters on her left (debuff), Paine inclusive, would apply a HP silence debuff. Any subsequent attack from them would extend it by 1 turn.
Attacks from characters on the right, Paine inclusive, would give the entire team one stack of "Haste!" buff (max 9). Once they reach 3 and beyond, they get an extra turn, then the stacks get reduced by 3.

Note that this work more like Lightning/Ardyn's rebreak instead of Lunafreya swiftness buff. Acting on the free turn (with non-instant turn rate moves) does not:
1. increase/decrease stacks
2. get you another turn even if the stack buff is above 3
Similarly, using C88/instant turn rate moves would start the next turn as a normal one. so you can "rebreak" again (get another turn).
You can see Aerith got a stack decrease during BT and a free turn outside. When she attacked during that extra turn, no stacks were consumed and she did not get another turn.
You can actually keep increasing the stacks for all with a BT phase.

In a balanced formation, you get 2 people increasing stacks while 2 people repeatedly extending the HP silence. Quite strong for any bosses that don't cleanse.

Paine's BT definitely call for a more "proactive" play I would say with the HP silence and extra turns.

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