Fornelias, Ruthless Overgrowth - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV - Act 1-2 (2/?)
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Game - The Legend of Heroes: Trials of Cold Steel IV
Platform - PS4 / Switch / PC
Chapter - 1-2
Difficulty - Hard
State - NG+ (Max bonding events)
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Timestamps: (Various Events will be marked - Notes not so much especially forced ones)
@0:00 - Start
@0:15 - Showing Equipment + Difficulty before attempt
@0:58 - Fornelias - Ruthless Overgrowth*
@22:20 - Fornelias Defeated - Frozen Epoch Lost Art Get
@23:20 - "Things can't go horribly wrong ... can it?"
*Note, I do not know if this would work on Nightmare Difficulty due to the Stat Bloat.
Also does this need to be done now? Nope! I've simply done it simply cause I saw the chance that I can actually beat it so I gave it a go! It's recommended to just ignore it and do it way later in the game but regardless my insights and strat below! It's kinda long so yeh!
As noted, there are quite a few things that need to be prepared before the fight.
You will need quite a bit of Sepith/Mira/U-Mats for some of the items you need. They aren't required but they can help mitigate and make things faster.
The Quartz in question are for Break/Hit/Impede Quartz for your Main hitters and Impassion for Support, Some U-Mats can be used to upgrade the first 3 Quartz to Rank 2 or Rank 3, I would say 800-1000 Sepith is good enough! (Break for Break Gauge, Hit to reduces chances of misses and Impede to Delay/stop Crafts/arts from boss)
In regards to Mira, Minimum of 24k is enough for the Accessories found in Saint-Arkh (Dark Pendulum), they are required as it protects you from an instant Gameover, If you get a bit more, you can purchase protections against Poison and Freeze but depending which ends up being the issue, would be best to purchase those! Dark Pendulums are NOT available after leaving Saint-Arkh and don't show up for quite a while!
The required Party Members for this attempt are Fie/Altina/Sara/Juna! Elliot is nice to have for Poison Cleanse and healing and Ash for DPS as well! Kurt can be used too but if you rely on his self buff, he could end up skipping turns thus causing issues.
Fie is required for Concealing Wind for her Self Buffs (Immunity + Guaranteed Crits)
Altina is required for Ebon Shade (Immunity and Guaranteed Crits) and Brave Order Ebon Crest EX
Juna is required for Quick Star with the Gladiator Headband for increased CP Gain
Sara is required for her Brave Order Lightspeed Flash
The first part of the fight is to survive for as long as possible while trying to Break the Boss, It can dish out alot of Statuses being Poison (Physical Craft), Freeze (Art) and Vanish (Physical) which if not prevented it will lead to a fast Gameover, Vanish being the most dangerous is why its best to get the Dark Pendulums (It likes to Stall with it by constantly Vanishing Characters right when they return which makes all those Characters effectively useless)
With Break Quartz equipped, it shouldn't take alot but the Boss can also enhance itself when it takes a considerable ammount of Damage such as 30-40% HP or close to 80-90% Break Damage which will cause it to Gain a Regen and recover all Break Damage.
It also doesn't help that the Boss is a bit fast (I believe it has 120-125 Speed) so its faster than most Characters at this point in time, Using Ebon Crest during the opportunities where it might get alot of turns or during its enhance phase is preferred.
By the time the Boss's Guard is close to be broken, you have to make sure that you got close to 5 Brave Points, Juna has more than 80 CP (preffered if over 100 OR close to Max)
Once the Boss is Broken, Swap Elliot with Sara or Ash and start hitting the Boss while using Lightspeed Flash on the last Character turn before the Boss gets one unless the Character is Juna, in which case she uses Quick Star on the 3 other Characters. If for some reason you don't have enough BP (you should unless you did something else that doesn't give you a Brave Point like S-Crafts), you can use Brave seeds which gives 3 (there should be some by this point), Thanks to Impede you could add Delay to the bosses turn in which the Turns will shuffle a bit, if Juna's turn comes up in a situation like that, if there are enough Characters after her in which you get enough for Lightspeed, you can skip her Quick Star otherwise if those characters have more than 100CP, have them S-craft then continue with Routine.
Repeat until boss is dead, any mess ups could lead to everything falling apart thus the boss recovering and most likely set you back 10-15 minutes.
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