Thread: [Event 06] Advent Battle vs Medusa

Originally Posted by SlickFenix

My team is Cassiopeia as Soul Equiped with Sneak Attack as extra ability. Next is Dike, Urania, Mephistopheles, and Brynhildr. Amon and Nike are the Subs. (I go with this setup because it has worked in the past and I usually get by the first group fairly quickly) When I have tried to switch out Amon with someone else I actually did worse....

My main weapon is the Light Staff that you get Urania from. Currently it's *** at Lvl 49/60 it's HP/ATK are 96/800.
My Eidolon are Pegasus as my main, and Got Phoenix from one of my Friends, the rest are Jormungandr, Typhon, Medusa, Sephiroth, and a *** Rare that's high lvl. My total team Atk is 21,951

I would like to say that this one ended up being one of my worst ones yet.

Round 1 - Cast Sneak Atk, Ruthless Beauty, Hely Requiem, Shine Snipe +, Celestial Light +, Soul Reaper +, Walpurgis Night, Grane Flare +, and Valkyrie Assault all at Medusiana. Then Atk Medusiana - Sliver of life left (Normally Dead already)
Round 2 - Atk and Kill Medusiana auto switch to Stheno
Round 3 - Atk Stheno
Round 4 - Use Healing Wave +, Atk Stheno, sliver of life left (normally dead before OD atk), get poisoned in OD atk (only 3 chars)
Round 5 - Atk and Kill Stheno auto switch to Euryale
Round 6 - Fiery Embrace for heal, Atk Euryale
Round 7 - Atk Euryale
Round 8 - Atk Euryale
Round 9 - Healing Wave, Kill Euryale

MEDUSA - Burst Counter all at 100

Round 1 - Use Phoenix to get Affliction Resist, Cast Sneak Atk, Holy Requiem, Shine Snipe +, Celestial Light +, Soul Reaper +, Walpurgis Night (Miss), Gran Flare +, Valkyrie Assault. Burst Atk - Medusa gets to rage, and has about half life remaing. She Instantly uses Stone and Stones 4/5 girls (including main Soul). All Debuffs on her are gone.
Round 2 - Use Sephiroth for Def, Atk with Dike
Round 3 - Use Jormungandr for Atk down, OD atk kills my soul, Brynhildr, and Urania

All downhill from there......won't bother with the rest

I'll try to switch out Meph with Amon next time. Also would be nice if more of my friends would equip Behemoth......Would be nice if I could draw her. Currently about 700 jewels away from next 10 draw gotcha...

Ah I forgot about Pegasus being light. In that case yes, making her Main Eido is a good idea unless you have a maxed limit broke Prisoner of Light.
I personally think having Cassiopeia with a mere R rarity light staff is a pretty bad idea, especially when you can be dealing so much more damage with SR Glaive with Beowulf.
I know you value the double healing over the raw damage of Beowulf but as I've mentioned, this is one of those runs where you should prioritise killing Medusa over playing defensively.
My original ult Medusa setup going into this was a 30k Fire team with Joan at the lead, two healers (Sol and Bryn) and two health regen providers (Joan and Belobog). I failed one third of my runs because I was playing too defensively and not even Amon, Belobog, Sol and Joan (with Maiden's Prayer, making it 4 freaking debuffers) can cleanse the petrify, let alone heal myself if all of them got froze at the same time.
After reading the forums, switched to a 26k Sieg light team with Urania, Belobog, Sol and Amon and (Orpheus as backup) and I still haven't lost a single run yet because the back-to-back Amon shield is already enough for me kill her consistently.

Anyway the point that I'm trying to make here is that you play defensively in this raid, the more petrifies you'll end up eating.
Prepare your team composition under the assumption that the worst will happen (in this case she will always use petrify if OD is not ready) and thus prepare to put up your shield by the time Stheno has used her AoE poison in Turn 5 like you said.

Do NOT use your abilities on your first turn with Medusa because Full burst alone should be enough to kickstart her directly into rage. Yes, while Rage mode is preferable compared to Normal mode like I said, you should also be aiming to Stun her ASAP just like any other boss and that is where you need to save your damage abilities to get her out of rage fast.

Originally Posted by BlackNov

..... first time ever I I saw the boss using single burst in rage mode. I have the ray dragon buff up, def buff up, boss was down 15% dmg, yet she one tap beholog(4.8k single) before landing another 1.8k on andromedia.

I was like wtf....

Your Belobog was definitely in petrified state when she was bitten by the Rage Overdrive right? Medusa deals double (or maybe even triple) damage on petrified targets when she uses her snake bite Rage Overdrive on three targets. That is why it is of utmost importance that NONE of your characters are in petrified state if her next attack is going to be the Rage OD.