The fight that pretty much says that all the fights before it were just messing around - luckily, I was pretty much just messing around on the other fights too, and this was actually my first attempt at this fight. There are no more difficult fights after this, so there's no need to conserve resources anymore.
Needlessly casting clock down on one of the lions was a bit annoying when I saw it happen - it really didn't look like the tiger was in the AoE of the first clock down, but I guess since the tiger is a fat enemy it was just barely inside of it even if the sprite didn't look like it was. I also had forgotten if the doubles/lions were immune to AT down so I kind of messed up a little bit with using flicker on Joshua, but that wasn't particularly big even if it didn't work (I couldn't cast spells anyway since he would've gotten it cancelled).
Some notes on my characters equipment - I feel like I missed a + speed armor for women somewhere in the final chapter, as I seem to recall having at least 1 of them in my first playthrough - I'm not sure where I would've missed it though since I thought I was pretty thorough. Maybe it was on the Glorious since I didn't 'try' to search it as much as I did in my first playthrough (the glorious is bugged for me and the game freezes in a lot of places, so I can't explore it fully - I think I missed Kloe's weapon there too). Equipment that doesn't give + speed is a trap - speed is too important to not stack as much speed as you realistically can.
I put gladiator's belt on Joshua largely because it makes the following fight way faster (you get a 2nd gladiator's belt from Loewe, but you're given no opportunity to reequip Joshua before the final fight) - and besides, I don't need it on Kevin if I'm constantly spamming CP items on him anyway.
The Wood gem + yin yang on Kloe allows her to get death scream (not really relevant in this fight, but the alternatives don't really do anything of significance anyway), the septium vein on kevin allows him to have both gaia shield and Tear-All (and having petrify or something instead of it doesn't actually do anything for him anyway so there's no reason to not take the septium vein if you want gaia shield). I put the grail locket on Kloe because if for some reason I'm getting a lot of status effects I can always use her S break to remove status effects from everyone else (if I were really struggling with this fight I probably would've replaced it with an emergency puppet at some point, but as said, this was my first attempt and I was still using more or less my standard equipment/builds, except for the emergency puppet on Kevin which I didn't even end up using and the gladiator's belt being put on Joshua instead of Kevin).
On a minor sidenote, for some reason the clones are immune to clock down but Loewe himself isn't - I can't imagine why this is, but it is.
28 сен 2024
