FFXII - NLBLLG Part XI: Belias

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Published on August 16, 2007 7:57:42 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rviHTYUgr2Y

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Final Fantasy XII (2006)

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Harshcore ownage, kupo!

Belias is the beginning of the extreme bosses in this challenge. He doesn't have the ability to combo, however... He does not see the urge in this at all, as any attack from him is an instant KO to any of my party members except Vossler who should be used as a tank in this battle.

I've tried fighting him 4 times before recording this and I reached the conclusion that the only way to defeat him in less than 10-20 minutes is to set the battle speed to the fastest, and have Balthier shoot like crazy while in Haste AND Berserk. With a Vega and Aqua Shot, which can be acquired through Bazaar, Balthier is easily the only member of your party who should stay alive at all costs. The problem is, Belias will ALWAYS kill Balthier either the first or the second hit when the latter is berserked.

The avoid that have not one, not two, but THREE characters in Berserk. I chose Basch and Vossler as additional berserkers. The reason? A berserked character is not very careful and tends to stand closer than acceptable. However, when two berserkers are melee attackers and one is a gunner, the latter will still be further away and will not get hit if you make an effort to keep all 7 members of your party alive.

Enter the battle with Berserk and Haste and use a non-berserked character as a sacrifical lamb. Once the character is dead (Belias's attacks in the early phase can be blocked), switch him out immediately and bring in another one to revive him. I got lucky here by having Basch survive his blow, which helped GREATLY in the end.

He will use Sabre shortly, which is a great move for us as we can use it to our advantage. It doubles Belias's attack power but makes him take damage he deals. Since he kills anyone in a single slash, we don't mind this, do we?

Once his health bar is severely lowered, he will use Greater Barrier to double his defences. Annoying, I know. Remember that Firaja is coming next and will take out the entire party, Vossler including, so leave Vaan there to have 2 characters die instead of 4.

Switch in your girls and have them revive the party. Then switch in Balthier, Basch and Vossler, all of which should be revived and Vossler -- put to full health without hesitation. Belias should kill Basch and Vossler while Balthier gets to shoot. After Greater Barrier his shots will do around 400-500 damage, but with the highest battle speed he destroys his health bar quite fast.

He should go down much before he is able to use Firaja again.

That was close!

Music used: Steel - "Rock Tonite" (from SWEDEN). This is the cheesiest and most awesome-in-a-ridiculous-way rock song I could find on my computer.

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