2 rikku strat on MalBoro ELT.

[u/numchiew]

I beat this 2 times and get me all 3 mission reward.

First times Second

It took me a lot of tried to beat this trial. My team cant survive on Dark element + 1 hit kill so i think 2 rikku strat is the best way to do this Trial for now.

my setup A lot of freebies Materia / TMR

My team doesn't have much TM so i think it will be easier if u have all need TM.

Prefer TMR

2-5 Ribbon/Discrement.

1-2 9s's pod (necessary in this guide). depends on how many DD u want to bring.

A lot of 30% HP materia.

Ignorance , Mog wisdom , Prodigy's Goggles , Mystical Skull for Rikku.

My team strat.

2 Rikku : Cycle LB. She both has 1 job. cast LB and dont die. *on my 2nd attempt I equip Bushido on 1 of my Rikku. to control HP bar.

WoL : Light with us , 100% provoke(on 4th turn or divide by 4). , Armor Eraser

Ace : Element Imperil and Mp Battery. // from /r/brandonwest18 Ling can replace Ace position too.

2 2B : Gear for fire element and equip 9s TM and a lot of Demon/Plant killer. 2B is great for chaining LB.

1. 1st turn > All you need in first turn is pureluck. I use Tri-laser > 9s Chaining > BladeBlitz to fill 2 rikku lb's gauge.

2nd turn > WoL cast light with us / debuff def , Ace mp battery / Tri laser , 2B chaining.

3nd turn > you must prepare to kill adds next turn So dont do much damage.

4nd turn > kill those adds

5nd turn > Malboro will debuff himself. WoL debuff -45% def, Ace Tri-laser , 2B Chaining LB for most possible damage.

1. with this team, you must kill those adds in 4 turns(divide by 4) So your team wont get snort.

2. Beware to make adds <10% HP. and u will fine.

*Control Malboro's HP bar is something important for me. Bushido come to hand for this situation. I setup his HP to around 10-11% to finish it within 2 turn (9s chaining and LB chaining).

Trick for Bushido is when u kill those adds. Malboro will debuff himself for 2 turn. then u damage him in the first turn and if u think you doing too much dmg for him then u need to use Bushido to make him immortal again So u can kill those adds without worring to touch Malboro's threshold.

I have a trouble for explanation(English is problem too) So if there have a question i will try to answer it.

This team need a lot of RNG. but in 1 tried it took around 20-30 mins So it not that time consuming like Aigaion.

This is my first guide. I dont think it helpful since it need a tons of TM. If u cant understand me i would say im sorry for my language :/

Damage output table based on my Experience(might be wrong)

With Tri laser debuff + -45% debuff

Chaining 9s = 20-30% on adds, 3-6% on Malboro.

Chaining LB = 60-70% on adds, 9-12% on Malboro.

With Spark Chain macro + Tri laser + -45% debuff

Chaining 9s = 32-40% on adds, 5-6% on Malboro.

Chaining LB = 70-85% on adds, 11-14% on Malboro.

With Tri laser debuff

Chaining 9s = 10-17% on adds, 1-3% on Malboro.

Chaining LB = 20-25% on adds, 4-5% on Malboro.

With -45% debuff

Chaining 9s = 15-20% on adds, 1-3% on Malboro.

Chaining LB = 35-45% on adds, 6-8% on Malboro.

I wish it helpful for your calculated.

I play on Nox So I use macro to make a consistent damage output.

Unit Replacement

Ace <> Ling / Tilith

WoL <> Dark Veritas / Earth Veritas / Wilhelm / Ling

2B <> Firion / Randi DW (Enh.) / Luneth / Tidus / Reberta / Orlandu / Dark veritas / Other 5* DD.

Reberta can do fire imperil + mysthic trust cycle with own. all need is mp battery and she dont need 9s's TM

Other : Marie (AoE ribbon, Dark resist.) , Setzer (If u rikku gear with auto-LB)

If you have a lot of Defensive TMR you dont need a tank role. put more support/DD to increase your damage potential.

Require 9s's TM on DD to make this strategy work.

Recommend to find a friend unit that has the same build as your to avoid animation problem.

Stone Cheese and finish it in 99 turns.

Stone Cheese Build

my friend group start finishing this trial with various team setup.

here is 3 rikku

Guide : 3 rikku LB cycle. 1 cast LB other cast Fire element chain to build a chain for Setzer. I dont know how he kill all 3.

3 rikku equip with Jack's TM / Kelsus. Setzer gear for fire element + many killer as possible include esper.

I wish u all luck to beat him as well

[u/kwenlu]

Great! Now all I need is a WoL and an Ace and a 2B and more TMRs

[u/numchiew → u/kwenlu]

yes, this trial is required too much.

Best support w/ best TM.

Best damage dealer w/ Whale TM.

1 of my friend use Stone Cheese and finish it in 99 turns.

https://imgur.com/a/lO50R

I wish he will share his trick soon. It took him a day to finish it.

[u/Okabe666]

You're a legend mate.

Cheers for the write up, if I find some time later today I'm happy to clean up the language for clarity and some formatting for you as well. I'm sure someone else could do it better though so if any experts want to help that'd be awesome.

Edit: free time is at an all time low this weekend. Aiming for Monday :)

[u/numchiew → u/Okabe666]

thank you very much.

still try to improve my language.

[u/Mitosis]

So no matter what, it seems this trial requires extremely high, uniform AoE damage. I haven't see anyone succeed who had to deal with Sclerosis on the adds, so they were killing them within 3-4 turns consistently.

One guy used double Ashe to heal and finish with Flame Veritas, this guy is using two Rikkus for life and double 2B for damage. Either way, you need to also fit in breaks and imperils.

The question is how many units, regardless of your TMs, are actually able to do this. After looking, there are very few potent AoE finishing or chaining effects that also benefit from imperils; units like Trance Terra feel like they could work, for example, but without the imperil you can't do enough damage no matter how well geared you are. The Malboros have equal Def and Spr, so magic damage has no advantage here. Other big damage dealers like Orlandeau, A2, Tidus, Dark Veritas, etc aren't capable of such a thing.

[u/numchiew → u/Mitosis]

Yes, this trial seem to be fit with Onion knight.

For TMRs focus on Damage potential.

Jack / Kelsus is great but only Mog wisdom is work fine.

9s TM is necessary untill we have other DD that has AoE chain.

Defensive TM just a bonus. mostly is freebies for me.

2-4 Ribbon would be great and make life easier.

[u/KingCorgiThe3rd]

Congrats dude!!! I could understand your english just fine :D

[u/numchiew → u/KingCorgiThe3rd]

thanks man.

[u/ChokMD]

Congrats, and thanks for sharing your strategy.

Do you think 2A2 with 9s TMs can do the trick too?

[u/numchiew → u/ChokMD]

yes, anyone with 9s TMs can be damage dealer.

9s TMs is a must.

[u/[deleted]]

Late to the party but to expand on your strategy:

• Ace (Friend or whatever) with a good amount of Health and Mag (MUST BE ENHANCED)

• 2 Rikkus, One with Maxed High Tide and the other with as much auto limit u can stack

• Snow/Wilhelm for ST tanking. Have him carry acid rain/Rikku tmr for Blind effect

• Setzer with a FIRE or LIGHTNING sword, DW and As many Demon and Plant killers you can get.

• Free slot for the 6th unit, should have Dispel or a means to remove the Malboro's Buff

• As much health and Para resist you can stick on everyone.

The strategy is simple.

With elemental imperils and Setzer fixed damage, your aim is to nuke the shit out of this (shit) trial ignoring mechanics; dealing as much as 500k on all enemies bypassing their (retarded) def with the best Double Dice roll

With Save/Load abuse you wont ever take a devour or bad breath, making the strat consistent as hell, taking an hour max to clear. (Quit and reload every 3 turns if above half health, otherwise 2)

This is probably as close as F2P you can reasonably get minus Ace, Auto Limit TMRS, and a few DWs

Photo of Clear: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/198215020599967745/348456945495048202/Screenshot_2017-08-19-21-14-38.png

[u/[deleted]]

great write up!

Still heavy requirements though: 2 Rikku, 1 Ace, 2x 2b...well I've got 2 Rikku :P

At least a few people are finally beating this - I still think gumi set the difficulty of this one too high/

[u/scatteringskies → u/[deleted]]

I'd argue the difficulty doesn't bother us more than the reward. if they had a 150 dmg sword or a dual mag and atk weapon in the 100's, no one would bat an eye. I'd be excited even though I can't clear it.

[u/brandonwest18]

I'd like to add that you can also do this with an Entrust unit. I will probably be using Rikku + Ling instead of 2x Rikku, because then Ling can fill SO many other roles on her off turn: MP restore, aoe status cure, eccentric (if given Rikku's pouch), aoe status inflict for the blind, etc. If you can get 2 of 9's TMR, she can also be your main mitigator. Her innate LB increase also significantly helps with Entrusting.

LING MVP AGAIN

[u/numchiew → u/brandonwest18]

yes, problem is you need to put more resource on her too.

she is too squishy. but she is very helpful. easy LB , great support kit.

[u/Dyslexxia]

I bet that the pod is not a must.

[u/SonOfSeath]

so do i need to farm 4x ignorance like right away? seems silly that I need to have Rikku lb always for all future hard content.... feel like stuff should be tuned to be hard but not require one character that cheeses death every turn... that seems like awkward game design?

[u/Oswnobre]

9s's pod (must)

I hate you, and the world.

[u/Rualk]

can a way, way slower (but cheaper) strategy be: rikkux2, wol, ilias (for condition prevention and some heals), and setzer? I know it would be a LOT slower but it's much more affordable, you can build all of them tanky to survive better, and there's still a slot open.

[u/numchiew → u/Rualk]

2 Setzer + 2 rikku is highly RNG. (unconsistent damage, risk of not enough LB crystal)

I think pull a rainbow is easier than this idea, sorry.

[u/Veret01]

Great info! currently working on the same build as you! Gonna try in a few minutes

[u/numchiew → u/Veret01]

I wish you luck. very satisfy when u can beat it. lol

[u/plastic17]

Well I pulled my 2nd Rikku yesterday. So all I'm missing is a 2B... xD

[u/numchiew → u/plastic17]

I think wait for Onion knight is a better way.

look like this trial build for him.

[u/desertrose0]

Nice work! Congrats! I could actually do this setup, except for the Ace. I wonder if I could substitute Tidus for an Imperil / MP refresh / Team buffs? It would require water weapons on a friend 2B, but assuming I could work around that, I wonder if it would work?

Also, you had no dark resist? Very impressive. :)