04G: Thunderous Hooves

04G: Thunderous Hooves

Odin Eidolon Fight

After you complete the grind make sure that you equip an item in both of their extra Accessory slots before you proceed along the path!  Also you should edit your Paradigm Decks now, because you have a fight coming up that requires some tweaking - and requires another configuration to add to the ones you have now.

You currently should have:

• Slash & Burn: Commando Ravager
• Supersoldier: Comando Synergist
• Double Dose: Medic Medic
• Dualcasting: Ravager Ravager

You want to add the following to your decks:

• War & Peace: Commando Medic
• Symbiosis: Medic Synergist

As soon as you add that 5th deck, go ahead and proceed on the path past the save point to trigger a CS of you crossing the bridge - and laying in to Hope for his weakness.  This is so unlike you that clearly something is wrong - and if the pulsing red light from your L'Cie mark is not clue enough - well, something IS wrong!

Your Eidolon is Odin, and he now asserts himself, trying to kill Hope.  Thanks to your quick reflexes you manage to stop him, but the fight is now on!  Fortunately you have capped all your jobs, which will make this a lot easier than it might have otherwise been.

To simplify this fight please do the following:

• Set Battle Speed to Slow in the Settings Menu
• Cast the Aegisol Shroud
• Cast the Fortisol Shroud 
• Cross the bridge to start the CS and battle
• Use Libra on Odin
• Put your Deck in War & Peace
• When Odin uses Ular's Shield switch Deck to Dualcasting
• When Odin starts to attack switch Deck back to War & Peace
• Rinse and repeat the last two steps...

This strategy should allow you to take him out without having to recast Shell and Protect, but if for whatever reason you lose those buffs you need to switch to Symbiosis and wait for Hope to cast them again because without them, well, this is not a battle it is suicide!  The trick to this fight is not wasting any time at all - be fluid in switching, pay attention to Odin's mode so you go into Dualcasting as soon as he starts Ular's Shield otherwise you will not build up enough to make this work! 

Once you have the Gestalt bar filled TRIGGER IT!  That ends the fight, and while that may be obvious to you now, I sat and watched one of my mates fail this fight because he was paying total attention to the Stagger meter and not the Gestalt bar!  He could have ended and won the fight with well over 1500 left on the clock and he never hit the Gestalt button! 

Using the method I outline above you should have no trouble at all 5-starring this fight, just remember to switch the speed back to normal when you are done...

That was a tough fight, wasn't it?  Nothing like Snow's :)  Aren't you glad that is over?  After the fight Lightning gets an additional ATB segment, and Hope remarks that her L'Cie brand looks different.  Hope brings up the harsh words that Lightning used earlier - and she apologizes.  Whew.  Go ahead and use that conveniently placed save point behind us to save now.

As you move through the canyon on the other side of the bridge you trigger a CS and a tutorial on how to enter Gestalt Mode with an Eidolon - you should probably do this Tutorial right? 

It explains about using TP to summon Odin, and has you summon him.  I think this was a pretty impressive, but Odin does not last through the entire battle because we do not have that big a reserve of power - yet.  Once you are back in the fight Hope pops in, and you know what to do from there!

When you finish the fight you decide to take a rest here.  The CS that follows shows you a softer side of Lightning than you might have thought existed, but have no fear, she still has some cynic in her :)  We are now promoted to save - do that.