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Tales of Vesperia (2008)

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No new game EX, Normal difficulty, forced fights only.

Yuri Lv 42 - Estelle Lv 41 - Raven Lv 42 - Rita Lv 41

Duke is tough when you don't know his attacks but unlike the previous hard bosses when you know his attacks he's much easier...Too easy.

Duke is basically Zagi capable of inflicting more status effects, most of his attacks don't do much damage but he attacks so often and fast that it racks up quickly, his capability to cause the Weak status effect and his Mystic Arte can easily cause you or your allies to die too.

Once Duke is close to death (About 100,000 and below HP) his damage will double, you can quickly get annihilated at this point so you want to finish him as fast as possible and hope you have a few of the usual items remaining.

There's a 3rd optional form to this fight which I won't be doing (and can't do because I've tried it and got slaughtered), note optional though and it requires side quests to be done which are against my rules :)

Rules:
No new game EX
Normal difficulty
No side quests
No Gald farming - Anything that gets you Gald that isn't from chests, selling or forced fights.
Forced fights only - There's no field enemy in the game that you must fight, optional forced fights must be avoided.

Finally after 73 hours of gameplay solely working on figuring what kind of challenge would be feasible whilst remaining difficult I completed this, it's hard to say which the hardest boss is because the harder ones were hard in their own way, it's between Zagi (2nd), Pteropus, Nan & Tison, Alexei and Khroma Dragon though, other bosses that stood out in difficulty were Gattuso (Easier version of Zagi 2nd), Belius, Schwann and Zagi (4th), I may have got lucky with them but I found them to be on a slightly lower scale than the hardest bosses.

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