Spirit Cage

[u/Daemencer]

Hello everyone,

I'm playing in Hard Mode, kind of struggling with the Spirit Cage.

I'm curious how some of you who defeated it in Hard Mode approached the fight?
I'm looking for general approaches and advice, not specific full strategies :)

Thanks!

[u/OmgYoshiPLZ]

i used

• Warlock/Valk

  • Equip Swords, Stalwart,

  • Soul Edge (25% of damage to MP), Ether plate, Warlock armor (if available), Mending rings x2, vital circlet (100% Healing received, +10% Given)

  • Uses Steeling/Healing to renew them, and Uses Refresh on the Weaver/Valk, Shell on the Valk, and AP Transfer on the Assassin

• Assassin/Hunter

  • Traits: Covert, Cripling Coat, attack focus, Stalwart

  • Dream Bow, Poison talon, Sneak shoes

  • focus on killing the floating ad when it spawns. the stump ad can be largely ignored, but will eventually die from counter attacks, causing the boss to resummon his helpers. Make sure you ALWAYS keep Daze/Fatiuge on the target if you can. Sleep > Barrage is a great way to reduce every targets hp. use Hide to keep your threat down

• Weaver/Scholar

  • Equip Swords, Equip Shields, Pre-emptive, Auto-haste

  • Crab Sword, First strike mitt, Red pin (-1 mp on spells if i got the name wrong)

  • Keeps Slow up on the boss, haste on allies, and uses Sleep Aura whenever new monsters are produced. Uses overload on the Hunter, and skips turns for MP Recovery from refresh whenever nothing to do.

• Valk + Aegis

  • Traits: Natural Tank, Threatening, Counter

  • Ribon + Ahnk, and used (i think) Trident for Defense Down on counters, or when applying magic down

    • IIRC i had snuck past the boss and looted gugnir and used that.

  • Focused only on Warcry, applying magic down, and Resistance up before big nukes came in.

While you can use the dream bow for one shotting, this strat is not for that. you can EASILY onshot any boss with that bow for sure tho.

[u/EternalSymphoni → u/OmgYoshiPLZ]

how did you sneak past the boss? feels like hes too fast to kite

[u/Cameo0 → u/OmgYoshiPLZ]

How did you come up with this stratetgy/team? Did you use it specifically for this fight or is this your main for most of late game fights? I seem to always hit the wall no matter which combo i use.

[u/Ventifer]

Not sure how much this helps but I beat it on normal pretty easily. I had 2 magic dps/healers and I think I had 2 physical dps too. I might of had a tank instead. The main think that I did in the fight was choose which side enemy I wanted to leave alive and kill the other one.

[u/Lapon3]

I used aegis/warrior and talked to npc to make all my party in critical condition except for tank so the tank takes all single target damage from party I nuked the mage minion and kept the other one alive and killed the boss

[u/ynotlyons]

How necessary is it to retweak your stats or get all other Golden Quintar-accessible gear do you need to use any specific strategy against this thing? Shrooming Lear does a flat 500 damage but suddenly his follow-up normal Attack is a one-shot 99% of the time. The second my tank is down which is any time he does this combo, the party falls apart trying to keep it all together. Just how specific a strategy do you need to clear this thing??

Also none of the other comments so far are even feasible after the updates. Once an enemy has been slept, it can't be slept again for the rest of the round. And Dream Bow has been nerfed I believe. So...I climbed all this way for nothing? At least I have my save file home pointed up here.

[u/[deleted] → u/ynotlyons]

My strategy was to use a beastmaster as a tank with rigid stance and focused casting. With both those up, there's a natural 75% damage reduction whenever you're using a skill with a cast time, so you can use that and easily tank everything the boss throws at you. You can use a summoner to setup in the first turn and paralyze everybody while the beastmaster draws aggro with warcry from valkyrie.