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[SuperJolt]

Super Blair and Lenneth didn't put up much of a fight?

That's a suprise o_o

[MaidenofWar]

Yeah

For the most part Peppita's dancing triggered the NMG on most of the sphere bosses throughout most of the fights so I was able to Power Dance > Kaboom to my heart's content pretty much.

Super Blair went something like this - Power Dance = NMG Super Blair > Kaboom > Power Dance > Kaboom > Power Dance > Kaboom - Super Blair goes into spell stance - I move Peppita away and stay out of range if the spell is Southern Cross and ether sidestep or eat it if it's Lightning Strike though sometimes she'd target Fayt or Mirage w/th the spell instead. Then I'd go back into S/R and repeat the tactic! Things got a bit trickier when she went into Eddy of Light/Death Howl mode because at first I kept on trying to both both Mirage and Peppita out the way instead of just counter attacking w/th Peppy Anyway major counter for Eddy, short X counter > Power Dance > Kaboom chain for Death Howl. Oh and I did manage to sidestep Eddy with Fayt once which was cool and I managed to revive Mirage safety when she was out of range of Eddy

Lenneth was pretty much the same except Nibelung Valesti was even trickier to dodge and I ended up using a lot of reviving items because of it

[Yoherz]

You two have the most insane strategies. @_@
Just becuase of you two, I don't think I'll ever bea serious player that's gonna try an get some ranks and be an elite player, since you're both just so far ahead of me.
And beaten by girls, at that. x_x (No offense)

[SuperJolt]

I see... that explains Super Blair. Peppita's the only melee character I know of that can handle Eddy of Light with ease. For everyone else it's tricky sidesteps and if the AI is on Auto (my preferred playthrough style) they all begin to die repeatedly.

Were you able to counter through Nibelung Valesti, by chance?
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[MaidenofWar]

I see... that explains Super Blair. Peppita's the only melee character I know of that can handle Eddy of Light with ease. For everyone else it's tricky sidesteps and if the AI is on Auto (my preferred playthrough style) they all begin to die repeatedly.

That's because Peppita's awesme like that :P

Were you able to counter through Nibelung Valesti, by chance?

I never really tried :P I kept forgetting to use the major counter. Managed to knock her out of it a couple of times w/th the short X counter and chain into PD > Kaboom though but it didn't always work :P

I always had Mirage/Fayt or both out of range though.

Freya went down to a slew of Power Dance > Kabooms and basic Blazing Sword > Ethereal Blast combos - I could only get one cancel per shot w/th it though since lack of minus fury factors ;p Final part of the bsttle was amusing since after Peppita drained her Fury w/th 300% chains, I'd move away to recover fury (stopping and letting Freya start to move towards me first) and Freya would ALWAYs use a minor which by the time she got to Peppita would be hit by Pep's AAA Stun since she'd recovered fury by them.

Power Dance would trigger NMG when Freya was floating but if Kaboom knocked away the NMG would be broken and Freya would get up float towards Pep and demolish her ;x That was the main problem in the fight but at least it didn't happen all the time and Pep managed to get in enough 300% chains uninterupted eventually =D Luckily I had enough reviving items to last the fight too :P

[SuperJolt]

Sorry for not showing up lately. Apart from a few visits to youtube I haven't been online all that much. Lack of coming up with ideas or stuff to talk about Star Ocean-wise and in other areas.

MoW- I'm not actually at Ethereal Queen in my semi-perfect file. That was a different file that I took up on for a change of pace. Was watching a lot of the Final Fantasy level leap videos and thought this game may as well have one on there, too

It's not even the highest level jump in the series. A SO2 one involving a Lv255 Claude and a Lv1 Rena skyrocketed her up 110 levels. And that was with Claude alive at the end, too O_O

I never really tried :P I kept forgetting to use the major counter. Managed to knock her out of it a couple of times w/th the short X counter and chain into PD > Kaboom though but it didn't always work :P

I see... that's okay though. I have a feeling it can't be countered through anyway ('cept maybe with No Guard on lower difficulties), but it's always nice when others prove me wrong

I always had Mirage/Fayt or both out of range though.

Yeah, I can never keep all three in close proximity with Lenneth once her health drops to half (unless going for speed kills :P). Too many times where all three characters are attacking all-out and somehow she manages to go completely undisrupted and blow everyone up with blue light <.<

Freya went down to a slew of Power Dance > Kabooms and basic Blazing Sword > Ethereal Blast combos - I could only get one cancel per shot w/th it though since lack of minus fury factors ;p

If I remember correctly, Blazing Sword is 10 Fury and Ethereal Blast is 90. I think it's possible to do two Ether Blasts as long as the chain is started at 100% Fury, unless Berserk was OFF or something.

Final part of the bsttle was amusing since after Peppita drained her Fury w/th 300% chains, I'd move away to recover fury (stopping and letting Freya start to move towards me first) and Freya would ALWAYs use a minor which by the time she got to Peppita would be hit by Pep's AAA Stun since she'd recovered fury by them.

XD Guess that's why solo Energy Burst works so beautifully for Time and No Damage trophies on 4D. Trigger no movement thing, Energy Burst till Fury runs out, rest n' recover, Freya strikes with minor, Stun AAA!, repeat XD

Just one use, though finding a team usage is much more practical.

Power Dance would trigger NMG when Freya was floating but if Kaboom knocked away the NMG would be broken and Freya would get up float towards Pep and demolish her ;x That was the main problem in the fight but at least it didn't happen all the time and Pep managed to get in enough 300% chains uninterupted eventually =D Luckily I had enough reviving items to last the fight too :P

20 Fresh Sages, 20 Analeptics, and 6 Ressurection Elixirs? I typically lose a good stock of the elixirs at Lenneth during the Nibelung phase. Don't believe I've ever used Compounding to make revival items in all my files that abused Item Creation. Compared to Adray/Stanice/Balbados, the compounding line is much too slow =P