07I: Sustained by Hate

07I: Sustained by Hate

Ushumgal Boss Battle

Snow returns Hope the knife and renews his vow to make things better, and then stumbles off into the sunset.  Hope grows up a little here - which is good - but clearly not enough.  Just when you think everything is going good, a huge clawer monster flies in to ruin the day!

- Ushumgal Boss Fight -

Right, this is the second Ushumgal we have faced in this chapter - but this time we have to face it alone, as Hope.  That is not as bad a thing as it might be though, because Hope has some good jobs.  Start this fight by switching to Synergist and casting Shell on yourself as a minimum.  Now switch between Ravager and Medic as needed and tear that puppy apart!  Well, not really...

Once you do a certain amount of damage - a single Quake should do it - Fang and Lightning appear and join your party!  Excellent because let us be honest here, you were not going to kill that thing all alone no matter how ballsy you think you are!  Bear in mind that this second mob is not going to be as easy to take down as the first one was because it is not the same mob - this one has about twice the HP that the other one did and it even counts as a separate ID in our list if that helps you to grasp that it is a different type of the same mob?

Watch out for its special attack - if your main character is even a little damaged when it uses it, it is Game Over.  So Sorry.  Okay now I know you are probably getting frustrated here - but this is a boss mob fight!  Consider though that this is the first blatant grief code that we have encountered in the entire game so far!  That is not too bad when you consider that a lot of games these days practically rely upon it.

If you hare having trouble taking this guy down try the following - I know this worked really really well for me and it will for you too!

• Start by casting Libra on the mob
• Switch to Evened Odds and wait until slow has been cast on the mob and Shell and Protect on your party.
• Switch to Relentless Assault and start pounding the mob.
• When you see one or more of your party losing a little health use a potion in between attacks - this will work well to keep you capped up in health from the minor and medium attacks and it allows you to continue to work towards staggering the thing without having to shift to medic.  Do not underestimate the value of those potions, using this tactic gives you fluid progress and it works!
• Switch to Solidarity of one of your party goes into the yellow and let them get healed up, then switch back to Relentless Assault.  If Slow drops off of the mob quickly switch to Evened Odds and wait for it to be recast.  Same if you lose Shell or Protect.
• The first time that stagger is triggered concentrate on staying in Relentless Assault and use potions to heal, even if you have to do it after every attack!  You want to do as much damage as you can as quickly as you can and not waste any of the staggered time!
• Rinse and repeat the above to get the second staggered meter filled, then kill the thing and be done with it!

Seriously if you follow the advice I give above you will not die, you will kill it, and you will 5-Star this fight.  You will get a score of 13,800, the battle should take no more than 3 minutes and 59 seconds - well under the 6 minute 31 second target time, and it should pay off at least 960 CP!  I received a Shield Talisman and 8 Abominable Wing as spoils for this fight - YMMV.

At the end of the fight you get a CS of Hope handing the knife back to Lightning and a heart warming exchange between them.  Van pipes in as narrator, and our heroes stumble off into the sunset.