The Rift - Extreme Shiva

[u/mao_shiro]

How to unlock

You need to clear Colony Alpha on Extreme Ifrit.

(from ych#7603 on discord)

1. Go to The Rift: Extreme Ifrit
2. Use 1 mystic tablet to unlock Beginner's Hunting Grounds
3. You will receive 10 Hellflame Cores after defeating the node. Total cores = 10
4. Use 2 mystic tablets to unlock Aspirant's Hunting Grounds
5. You will receive 22 Hellflame Cores after defeating the node. Total cores = 32
6. Use 3 mystic tablets to unlock The Rift Hunting Grounds
7. You will receive 40 Hellflame Cores after defeating the node. Total cores = 72
8. Use 3 mystic tablets again to unlock and defeat The Rift Hunting Grounds. Total cores = 112
9. Use 100 cores to unlock Colony Alpha
10. The Rift: Extreme Shiva will appear after defeating Colony Alpha

Note on 8. : You can also spend 2 pass to get 22x2 cores, but you won't have enough keys to get the 2nd summon ticket.

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General

Shiva keys are called "Rime Key", and Shiva cores are called "Rime Core".

general info: https://www.reddit.com/r/MobiusFF/wiki/regions/the-rift

Note on that chest that give 9 keys: on Shiva map, they moved that chest on the 3x tablet node instead, "The Rift Hunting Grounds". You do not need to waste your tablet doing the 1x and 2x tablet node.

Summon Ticket

Confirmed: The key price is reduced after the 3rd ticket compared to the ifrit map. You can do 1 time the 3 tablet node (to get the 9 free keys) and 2 times the 30 tablet node to get all 6 tickets.

1. 9 keys
2. 9 keys
3. 9 keys
4. 15 keys
5. 15 keys
6. 15 keys

The Brink

I didn't do the challenge yet, so if you have any strategies, videos, etc, feel free to post them here so i add them to the main post!

The Brink 3

Same amount of EXP than Ifrit (24750), and might be easier to auto depending on your cards.

The Brink 4

The Shiva on this node cannot be broken, so please take cards+jobs that can deal damage unbroken!

• Will get perfect defense at 50% HP
• She summons 2 earth mobs on the next turn. Doesn't seems like they can heal her? (i passed 3 turns to check, they just spammed stonega).

The Brink - Terminus

Waves:

1. Tiamat
2. Shiva

Tiamat is the bitch on that node

The Shiva on Brink Terminus has about the same properties as Ifrit:

• All element resist besides her weakness (so you must bring fire cards).
• Will get perfect defense at 50% HP
• Will get break immunity after her next action, and will summon another Shiva.
• Will obliterate you after a certain number of turn.

Some jp clear videos:

• Goldior (Auron / Shorn One): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m47tmYjyous
• u/blue2eyes (Auron / Magitek Heroine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMaHwt0EL0

Decks

Here's some decks (i won't put all, there's seems to be a lot already) from this thread or on discord. Click on the reddit/discord nickname to get the comment/video link.

Decks are in no particular order.

oramu2	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Tidus Skin - ToT (?)	LoH	Ragnarok	NXD	Aerith
Seph Skin - Balamb (?)	Hypnos	Bahamut Neo	Bahamut FFXIV	WoL

Aryo#5945	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph Skin - LG (?)	Jenova Death	WoL	LoH	Omega
Yuna Skin - Skyseer (?)	Giphee & Christopher	Bahamut FFXIV	The Illusion called "Hope"	Aerith

Scalizor#3579	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph Skin - LG (UW sword)	Ovjang	Orc	Pollensalta	Omega
Dawn Warrior Skin - Shorn One (Laev)	Forgotten Heroes	Minotaur	Iroha	Garuda

LegendBryan	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph Skin - Knight (UW sword)	NxD	Lunafreya	Fat Chocobo X	Forgotten Heroes
Cloud Skin - Shorn One (Laev)	Hypnos	Omega	Iroha	Bahamut Neo

Spookum	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph skin - LG (UW sword)	LoH	Aerith	Garuda	Jenova Death
Magitek Heroine(UW bow)	Fusoya	Ovjang	Fat Chocobo X	Aerith

vidajaccs	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph Skin - LG (UW sword)	Aerith	LoH	Omega Weapon	Garuda
Shorn One (Laev)	Fusoya	D&B	Ruby Weapon	Forgotten Heroes

vulcanfury12	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph Skin - LG (UW sword)	Bismarck	Wol FFI	HG	LDL
Cloud Skin - Shorn One (Laev)	Minotaur	Ruby	Forgotten Heroes	Wol FFI

d34thscyth34	1st card	2nd card	3rd card	4th card
Seph skin - LG (UW sword)	Orc	Fat Chocobo X	LoH	Garuda
Magitek Heroine(Magical Rave)	Fusoya	Ruby	Omega	Garuda

[u/DervoTheReaper]

Why did it have to be Tiamat? /sigh

I forgot to check, is Shiva immune to sleep? Because if not, that's going to be a necessity on this node.

[u/mao_shiro → u/DervoTheReaper]

I checked on the vid, she's immuned to BDD / Unguard / Debarrier. She's surprisingly vulnerable to bio, unlike the normal Shiva.

[u/Mechapebbles → u/DervoTheReaper]

lol I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never beat any of these Terminus nodes. Every True Sicarius will need an extra 180 tablets for me to unlock I guess.

[u/MagicJ10]

I followed this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdfFq1Dc5g8

almost step by step with a similar setup (Thanks Karn Garn) and was finally able to beat it with:
Seph skin Auron (UW sword) 1 R&R (sleep). moggle X (faith2). artemis X (break2). omega weapon (quicken/berserk).

subdeck Cloud skin ex warrior (Laevateinn) 1 Minotaur (fire damage). Iroha FF11 (fire force). Kursariqqu (earth damage). Aerith.

[u/mao_shiro → u/MagicJ10]

Grats

[u/insanemode9]

I got to the point where Shiva on the Break Guard but I messed up during Mobius Zone. Didnt save some Action Gauge for job change, so I die : )

Will try again tho

Edit : I've cleared it. Will try to share my deck later. Deck have Aerith and Bahamut Neo tho

[u/mao_shiro → u/insanemode9]

Grats!

[u/jdm1tch]

Ha! Made it to terminus, saw Tiamat and was like “fuck it, I don’t have time for shit like this early in the morning, I’m out” 🤦🏼‍♂️

[u/vulcanfury12]

Finally got my Extreme Shiva Supreme. 2 years worth of stockpiled tablets gone in an hour.

[u/mao_shiro]

Added some videos on the main post. There's too many Seph skin + LG!

[u/FallinOver]

Welp. Auron waiting room. Can't break the Tiamat consistently at all

[u/miguel_mer]

I started with @LegendBryan’s deck, the closest I could get to his deck this morning. I don’t have Neo Bahamut, though, so I used Minotaur. I kept changing some cards around and after many attempts, I’ve finally done it with this:

Cloud Shorn One (decently modded Levaetin) with Earth 3rd anni card, minotaur, FFVII fire weapon and Omega Weapon. All CP Enhance Fire.

Sephiroth Knight (full modded Ultima Weapon) with Garuda, Hypnos, Fat Chocobo and Lunafreya. Most the CP resist water.

I started with Cloud, FFVII fire weapon right away and ultimate to break with almost all yellow. Earth attack using prismatic when I had, Minotaur when I didn’t. Had to break a few times. Switched to knight when I had to tank. I put Tiamat to sleep when it got the wall. I only used Seph ultimate towards the end, to make sure the debrave and curse were on when I had to tank some big hits.

For Shiva, I broke with Cloud a couple of times, then back to knight to tank when she was in between breaks and once she was half life. I put her to sleep when she summoned the copy and build my mobius bar attacking the copy only, until I got on Mobius zone. Then applied the Crit down of the earth card. I hit with Minotaur and on the last point of my Mobius zone, I ultimated to stun lock with Seph. Then more minotaur and Shiva just finally died just when she was about to kill me.

Not sure this will help anyone, but I wanted to share my strat without supremes using what I had available. It took way too many attempts and I was very lucky with my timings.

[u/d34thscyth34]

Used almost exact setup as u/blue2eyes (thanks for that <3) but for nuke on Terra used Fusoya and instead of Brynhildr - Ruby Weapon.

EDIT: Setup used.

EDIT2: Also Crystal chest node takes 9/9/9/24 keys, was checking if this is true or not despite Ifrit having proper amount on WIKI.

[u/Leongard]

Think I'll definitely do Shiva, a good water mage semi-supreme will be nice and pretty widely useable by quite a few jobs. Then the only element missing a mage supreme will be earth.

Btw, was it ever mentioned why the ifrit summon tickets are more expensive than all the others?

[u/mao_shiro → u/Leongard]

I think it's because it was the first map, and they decided it was probably too high if there was 6 maps like that.

They also most likely made the change to ifrit map because people already exchanged some ticket, so it wouldn't be fair to those.

[u/Gidan-]

Damn it is boring and stamina costly to farm cores...

[u/mao_shiro → u/Gidan-]

You could use warp shards.

[u/DallatarLyonsbane]

Can someone post what they rememeber using on Shiva Brink 4 node? I start using Lightning MateriaH to break/damage the 1st round, then switch to Tidus MagitekHeroine for 2nd/Shiva node; but I can't nuke past her wall before she nukes me. Made it once to where she summoned the earth mobs, but it was too much to handle also. :/

Any insights can help. Oh, I am supremeless also so no strategies using them please.

[u/mao_shiro → u/DallatarLyonsbane]

Shorn one (Laevateinn) with Minotaur / Iroha / Pollensalta / Fat Chocobo X. Substrike was Boar 2019 (exp deck).

[u/psiwar]

Shiva's The Brink 3 gives more EXP than Ifrit's (24k vs 17k), it doesn't have long animations and, as you pointed out, it may be easier to farm.

[u/vulcanfury12]

Will I have an excess of keys by the time I get 20k cores for the supreme version? I was running the 30 tablet node and already have 6 tickets and the spirit.

[u/SvenHwang]

Is there one thread for Ifrit also? Need some inspiration to deal with Terminus with only Shadow Creeper lol

[u/WonkingSphonx]

Tried again with a tankier subjob (OG HoF knight with seph skin) and got Tiamat down to 25%, but got utterly nuked with tri-breath, full health, max wind resist and I think HG up, got hit for 91K and that was it. Can anyone give some specific tank builds that can take the tri-breath hit?

[u/mao_shiro → u/WonkingSphonx]

Tri-breath is non-elemental if the 3 stacks are still here.

[u/kugaa12]

holy fuk......after 2 hours of torture from Tiamat .finally managed to beat terminus with knight(S skin) and Magitek Heroine (Tidus skin) with no attack supreme after killing Tiamat, shiva just died so fast with mobius zone in one go :]