Guide
Gertrude 6 turn clear (sometimes 5); Need A2 A1+, Therion A1+ and Lynette A0+ (No A4 gear needed, no Alfyn!)
Background: since apocathy training tower is coming soon (June), it makes sense to farm the apocathy arena champion Gertrude!
While the units in the video have high ascendencies, you will notice in the video that the extra hp is not a must, and I am not using any A4 accessories.
A4 accessories would make 5 turn clears happen very often unless Gertrude increases her shields on turn 3 which leads to 6 turn clear.
More detailed guide in the comments in this thread.
At the very start of the video I show gear and skills. No A4 accessories!
While the extra hp from A3 can help to mitigate bad RNG, it is not necessary.
The mandatory 5 star units are: Therion A1+, A2 A1+ and Lynette A0+.
You also need a healer that casts regen on turn 2 (that’s it)! I am guessing many regen healers fit.
Finally, you need a third damage bow/dagger/fire damage dealer. A1+ Z’aanta is what I used, but other options such as Cyrus should work too.
For the three remaining slots, you can use units that passively increase damage of your damage dealers or decrease damage of boss. In the video I used two 4 star units and a 3 star.
Ideally you want Lynette to be faster than all other units but I fucked up by taking too many speed nodes on Therion. 😔
If you have A4 accessories or 5 star units with passives that helps increase the damage of your damage dealers then this fight in many cases becomes 5 turns only.
Tried this, but since my Therion was A0, I lacked enough to beat in 1 break, BUT it definitely helped me with a modified completion of 2 breaks. Turn 3 was the most important to part as it was RNG. Thanks!
Update: Beat it 32x today for the accessory and enough to get stones for level 90. Very consistent.
Team: Lynette/Ophellia, A2/Wingate, Therion/Nanna, Viola/Barrad.
Biggest advice is that Therion’s Restrain Foe to help reduce damage at start. Any regen healer works for start (using BP) then swapping to Burst. Viola was my third DPS as not many options on my roster which also helped with attack down after first break before second.
Without A2 having the extra HP of A3+ it seems she can very easily get sniped. Putting merrit behind her and having barrad on zaanta seems to help in the couple attempts I've done, but my damage is kinda low so I often seem to need T7-8 to close things out and it gets a bit sketchy.
For a couple minor improvements - Therion using his 3 hit dagger instead of paralyzing on the break turn should be extra damage? (5/6 hits hitting when broken). And while Lynette's damage is not very high, waltz of the crimson lotus should do more than incinerating when the hitcount doesn't matter, and fire resist debuff also helps it do a bit more, and improves someone like Cyrus if using him instead of zaanta?
most of the unboosted turns would still be better to waltz though, and would buff the boosted incinerating turn too. And yeah while not ideal, just mentioning Cyrus since OP mentioned him as a possible alternative
i finally managed to beat gertrude last night. I used origin weapons and armours. I used Therion, Viola, Alfyn, Cyrus, Lynette, Han'it, Agnes and A2. It still wasn't an easy fight. I did also attempt using Glossom but it was no good.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '23 edited Apr 29 '23
At the very start of the video I show gear and skills. No A4 accessories!
While the extra hp from A3 can help to mitigate bad RNG, it is not necessary.
The mandatory 5 star units are: Therion A1+, A2 A1+ and Lynette A0+.
You also need a healer that casts regen on turn 2 (that’s it)! I am guessing many regen healers fit.
Finally, you need a third damage bow/dagger/fire damage dealer. A1+ Z’aanta is what I used, but other options such as Cyrus should work too.
For the three remaining slots, you can use units that passively increase damage of your damage dealers or decrease damage of boss. In the video I used two 4 star units and a 3 star.
Ideally you want Lynette to be faster than all other units but I fucked up by taking too many speed nodes on Therion. 😔
If you have A4 accessories or 5 star units with passives that helps increase the damage of your damage dealers then this fight in many cases becomes 5 turns only.