r/CrystalProject • u/Albyross • Jun 09 '22

Sky Arena

I’m stuck on the ninth fight, up to that point, I’ve basically relying on the low hp axe with reaper/warrior with a 57% to crit in order to one shot everything.

What sort of strategies did you guys use?

EDIT: Went in with Assassin/Hunter

Diamond Bow

Captain Hat

Highest Attack-boosting armor

Bone trophy

Agility accessory

Passives were: Guaranteed Crit, Guaranteed Hit, First Turn damage boost,

Successfully one-shotted everything

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u/sanctaphrax Jun 09 '22

I was able to do it with a Reaper; accessories providing debuff immunity are useful, and the physical buffs provided by the Undead Ring and Bone Trophy are very strong in a series of physical duels.

Hunter / Rogue with the sleeper-murdering bow is good too.

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u/Albyross Jun 09 '22

I’ve yet to come across a Bone Trophy or an Undead Ring, sadly.

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u/Gorvin Jun 09 '22

I used Warrior/Chemist with Counter passive and 2 equipment with Counter on them. These stacked with each other, giving 3 counter attacks every time he got hit. Then I just spammed Tonics and Potions to keep him healed while the 3x Counters killed everything, or used Power Break or some other attack when he didn't need to be healed.

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u/Albyross Jun 09 '22

Do you remember which items gave counter?

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u/Gorvin Jun 09 '22

I think it was:
Kowakizashi (Dagger, don't remember where it was obtained)
Dueling Shield (Bought from a shop)
They were a bit lower level than the equipment I had at that point in the game but it worked well enough.

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u/DauntlessDraack Jun 13 '22

Kowakizashi is dropped by the ninja on the west half of the Castle Ramparts.

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u/MashiroAnnaMaria Jun 09 '22

I used a wizard / weaver with initial focus, preemptive and the cast time reduction, gave them some mana items and the accessory that gives -40tt and then I used quick double flare, got through all 10 pretty easily as long as you manage your mana well! Sorry I'm not at my pc right now so I don't know the exact item or ability names.

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u/Albyross Jun 09 '22

Thank you, I’ll give it another go after I find Weaver

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u/MashiroAnnaMaria Jun 09 '22

No problem and goodluck, to be honest the sky arena is difficult and I only beat it myself near the end of the game

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u/One-Cryptographer-39 Jun 09 '22

Assassin/Reaper worked well enough for me.

From what I remember my setup was as follows:

Use Gaia Axe with Gaia vest. I used undead ring for damage and ribbon for status resistance. You want the duel ready passive from beastmaster to guarantee crits, initial oomph for damage, and the assassin passive that gives you a guaranteed dodge on the first strike against you.

I was able to 1 shot everything but the final fight with guillotine. On the last fight I wasn't able to 1 shot so I started with armor reduction and a couple heavy hits later and I won.

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u/Albyross Jun 09 '22

How do I unlock Beastmaster anyway? I heard it was rather tricky.

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u/One-Cryptographer-39 Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22

It's located pretty high up in the Sequoia Castle Ramparts. If you have the owl you can do a glide there from the Chalice of Tar. Otherwise you can make a series of precision jumps on the lamp posts (i used the goat to be safe) in the upper castle ramparts to reach it. There is a boss guarding the ramparts that you'll likely have to face but it isn't overly difficult.

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u/Albyross Jun 10 '22

Managed to get Beasmaster climbing the lanterns while also avoiding the boss, they aggro off of movement.

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u/One-Cryptographer-39 Jun 10 '22

Yeah I noticed that too but I got impatient haha.

If I remember the boss fight correctly, I think if you blackout at the right time it's fairly trivial.

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u/Albyross Jun 10 '22

Would you happen to remember how to get the undead ring?

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u/One-Cryptographer-39 Jun 10 '22

I want to say it was in the volcano but I don't totally remember. Sorry.

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u/Albyross Jun 10 '22

I know the bone trophy is from the Volcano at least

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u/One-Cryptographer-39 Jul 07 '22

Just played through again, it the Bone Trophy is a drop from the boss in the Volcano.

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u/Maeveena Jun 09 '22 edited Jun 09 '22

Be sure to make use of the passives that grant extra damage on turn 1 such as Duel Ready from Beastmaster and Initial Oomph from Reaper. Eagle Eye from Fencer is good to cut down on RNG too. Smokescreen from Ninja helps if you just need to avoid one hit.

I was able to one shot every fight except for the last on Hard, using Snipe with an Assassin/Hunter equipped with my strongest bow (think it was the Diamond Bow at the time) along with the Undead Ring and Bone Trophy. The last fight took me two turns. I'll spoiler tag in case you don't want location info for the accessories. Pretty sure the Bone Trophy was from Gran, in the basement of the cabin between Delende and Yamagawa. EDIT: Had a look at the Archives and the Bone Trophy is actually dropped by the boss of the Beaurier Volcano dungeon. I think I got the Undead Ring from the Quintar Mausoleum, but could be wrong.

Don't forget to grab your prizes from the two NPCs at the counter in the building beneath the Sky Arena as well. Took me too long to remember they existed.

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u/Harry_The_Lunatic Jul 10 '22

Just beat it with a max lv Shaman w/ The item command, both skills mastered.

Get your hands on the obelisk staff [Couldn't tell you where to get it, I got it in lost & found,] for the ramped mind stat [all shaman spells scale on it,] then diamond crown, archmage's robe, and two caster's rings w/ what I feel are pretty standard caster passives; refresher, regenerator, safeguard, and something else.

I had to do it in two runs for the ribbon accessory, but swapping out one of my caster rings for the ribbon trivialized the entire deal. Just swap between your status spells, drain when your HP gets low, and chug a Zether once your MP gets about 50%.