DFFOO [JP][Relax] Alphinaud: Imagine letting the boss move because of a sap orb ft. Rude LC Lufenia
12Simply conveying the point of Alphinaud enabling the way of playing against a sap orb boss with breaks & delay, no boss turn without needing DPS racing against the orb. The reason why Rude LC Lufenia is chosen is there is simply no permanent content on Lufenia+ available with a sap orb lol. Those sap orb Lufenia+ in the past were all raids and events, such as Cait Sith Lufenia+ and the very recent Thancred Raid, which just disappeared as Alphinaud arrives with his LD.
I specifically chose Zell to rebreak and push the enemy away and because he has mostly ST dmg so he is not obliterating the boss within 15 orb turns. It is not because he has low DPT or anything. Just taking my time while the sap orb never decays with Alphinaud's field turn sap as they wither by the miasma HP poison.
It takes way too long with all kinds of saps on top of their individual mask changes as each of them are pushed pass HP thresholds, so I tend to push them all at the same time, unless Zell gets a meteor combo which is much more dmging in general.
It is kind of a remainder run as well as the LC Lufenia is coming to GL under 8 hours. GL should already be able to DPS race against the orb, so let alone the JP version. Alphinaud simply allows you to sit back and relax while Zell break them one by one. When JP has another sap orb in the future on Lufenia+, Alphinaud should be able to trivialize it and enable a lot more delay & rebreak teams.
Overwriting buffs:
One thing I discovered through this run though is that using characters that puts on generic buffs on others like Sazh with Alphinaud can be tricky especially if you want the moonshine buff to last while Alphinaud summons his Obsidian Carbuncle. In this case what you generally want from Sazh CA is the beefy ATK buff that empowers Alphinaud's HP poison, but since Alphinaud puts on the framed Obsidianshine buff after he summons it with EX, buffs would be overwritten.
Another delicate thing is Alphinaud starts with a mBRV buff, so depending on when Sazh CA comes compared to when Alphinaud's EX or Moonshine Carbuncle is summoned later, the order of the 3 buffs may be shuffled and different things may be overwritten instead, affecting the HP poison potency.
As a result it is much smoother to work with aura CAs or ATK aura bots like Ignis on papa bird stance, which he can get to after 50% threshold as the boss no longer spams the no BRV gained/stolen debuff.
This is just a concept run, gonna do a Lufenia+ out of synergy with him later.