MJ's Tales of Symphonia Mania Walkthrough Revision 3 Contact: [email protected] You may not publish or post this guide without my permission. This guide is a walkthrough for the various challenges you'll encounter in a Mania mode game. The guide is based on having spent 0 points in the Grade Shop, and setting the difficulty to Mania for the entirety of the game. The guide is mostly based on pre-battle configuration and battle tactics. It does not cover puzzle solving, data lists, lists of items or treasure to find, etc. There are already helpful Walkthroughs that cover those aspects of the game. The guide is a bit incomplete, as I got bored with it. Still, you should find some helpful strategies. On Mania mode, the enemies do 2x damage and have 2x HPs over normal mode. The AI is more aggressive and will often target your back row units whenever possible. How to play ToS well: Play through the game on normal or hard to get a feel for the general controls and AI of the game. 1. Change the default controller setup. The problem with the default setup is that your thumb has to keep moving between B,A, and X, which is both tiring and inefficient in intense battles. I recommend you change your controller configuration to this flexible setup. A - Attack B - Techs X - Delay Spell Y - Menu L - Target Change R - Defend Z - U. Attack By mapping Defend to the R button, you can not only concentrate your thumb on the B and A buttons, but you can also hold down defend while performing other actions with your thumb (instead of trying to hold down X and press other buttons at the same time). This is useful in intense battles where you need to be defending while constantly switching in and out of menus to give orders. It's impossible to use Delay Spell with this setup, but it's not needed in the course of the game anyway. If you really want to use Delay Spell in this configuration, simply switch Target Change (L) with Delay Spell (X). 2. Learn manual mode. Learn how to dash, jump, guard-dash, attack timings, combos, etc. 3. Learn to use the AI. Setting proper AI battle strategies is half the battle in this game. The AI has some important flaws you need to be aware of. The most critical flaw is that when your spellcasters run out of mana, they will always run up to the enemy and start close up melee attacking, which prettymuch guarantees their demise in Hard or Mania mode. The only way to prevent this is to keep them stocked with mana or switch them to 'Hold Position'. Once they run out of mana, even if you give them more mana, they will either start casting extremely close to the boss, or just run up to it and then run back endlessly. So you're basically screwed if that happens. Never let your casters run out of TP! 4. Learn to combat multiple enemies. The best strategy for fighting multiple enemies is to partition the enemies between your allies, so they are all occupied and not tempted to run to your casters. Learn to jump around and use the Tempest skill to get out of a corner or get out of a hairy situation. 5. Use your characters well. Lloyd - Your frontline melee unit, stacked with skills. His main problem is a lack of TP points, especially if you like going all out on the enemy. Use every opportunity to raise his TP. Usual AI Settings: Attack Same/Scatter At Once Frontlines Colette - Colette is best used as a spellcaster when you need angelic magic. She's not very useful as a melee attacker, and Genis is better than her with most spells, so I tend not to use her unless I'm trying to steal something or need her light magic abilities. Usual AI Settings: Attack Same/Scatter At Once L-Range Magic/Hold Position Genis - Genis is your main spellcaster. Usual AI Settings: Attack Same/Scatter At Once L-Range Magic/Hold Position Raine - Raine is your main healer. A required character in just about every battle. Her Photon spell is absolutely incredible, being able to negate any enemy defense. Kratos/Zelos - Kratos is fairly useful early in the game as a dedicated melee unit. You can also get his spells up a bit, to help fight a few bosses. Zelos will take some training with magic to unlock his best abilities. He's a decent melee fighter that is a good substitute for Presea when you feel like it. Most of the time you want Kratos/Zelos's spells and healing abilities turned off. Sheena - A good melee unit that is very lacking in hit points. You'll need to use her in many boss battles through the second half of the game, so do not neglect her, or you'll regret it! Get her as many HPs as possible! Regal - He's a decent unit, but unfortunately his moves often juggle the enemy in the air, making it hard for your other allies to hit it. In addition, the AI never takes advantage of his ability to perform near-infinite juggles, so there's really no point. Just leave him behind, as he's not required in any battles. Presea - A good 'tank' unit, Presea can take a large amount of punishment while dealing damage to enemies all around her in a radius. She's very useful in some battles where the enemies will crowd around and attack from all sides. So, the best melee units for most of the game are Lloyd, Sheena, Zelos and Presea. Early in the game, though, you definiately want Kratos as a melee fighter. The best spellcasters are Colette, Genis, and Raine. Colette and Raine only get light magic, so keep that in mind when you're fighting anything resistant to light. Depending on the battle, you'll need to take in different mixes of unit types. The default setup is two melee and two casters, with Raine being one of the casters. In battles against mainly spellcasting bosses such as summons, three melees is useful to keep them pinned down and stunned, with Raine providing group healing. In battles against multiple bosses, two melees and two casters are best, as you can keep them juggled and occupied. In battles against enemies that only spells are effective against, one melee and three casters are best. 6. Choose good titles: Choosing good titles will help give your characters a free boost in their stats. All of the good titles are easy to get and definitely worth it. Lloyd - Tetra Slash/Berserker Colette - Klutz/Oblivious/Little Pickpocket Genis - Magic Cycle/Sorceror/Warlock/Mana Master Kratos - Tetra Slash Raine - Never Say Never Sheena - Indecisive/Acrobat Zelos - Tetra Slash/Princess Guard Presea - Lone Girl/Axman/Mature Kid Regal - Way of the Jungle/Battle Artist ToS Rankings: Here are some ToS rankings so you can tell just how good at the game you are. If you're up for the challenge, go for it! Personally I've done the Advanced rank and did the bonus for it as well. ToS Ranking Rules: 1. All New Game+ games must be the first completion, not the second or further completions. 2. When playing your game, you must stick to the difficulty level you chose at the start of the game from the main menu. If you change it, you're disqualified! 3. Powerleveling is not allowed. You can't deliberately run around an area fighting monsters for ages just to gain your levels and stats up to clobber a boss with brute force. 4. You may talk to one woman EACH with Zelos's personal skill. You may not abuse Zelos's personal skill. Don't make me come after you! 5. When spending grade points in shops on the Advanced ranking, you must subtract whatever grade points you carried over from the Grade Shop from your current grade score. You do not get to use your 1,000+ points in either the Grade Shop or in the game itself. Difficulty Rankings: ToS Gamer: Complete a New Game on Normal or a New Game+ on Normal or Hard. ToS Intermediate Gamer: Complete a New Game on Hard. Tos Intermediate-Advanced Gamer: Complete a New Game+ on Mania while spending points in the Grade Shop. ToS Advanced Gamer: Complete a New Game+ on Mania, while spending no (zero, 0) points in the Grade Shop and following rule #5. Extra l33t Bonus: Kill all three Sword Dancers as soon as they are available to fight. Kill Abyssion at Lv. 70 on Mania mode without using an all-divide. Walkthrough: Battle 1 - Desian Troops/Warrior Avg. Level - whatever you start the game with AI Behavior: Genis - Scatter Colette - Attack Same Starting out, buy yourself 4 apple gels and a few magic lenses. When you've got enough money, buy yourself a whole 8 pairs of Boots accessories. You'll want the +4 defense through the early portions of the game. Try to keep the soldiers pinned down and don't let them try to attack Genis. If Genis runs out of TP, immediately set him to Hold Position. It'll be a miracle if Colette doesn't die.. try to heal her with Genis. When the warrior shows up, set both AIs to Hold Position and just wait at the edge of the screen. After a few seconds, Kratos will show up. Now you can start pounding on him. The boss has a good 8,000 HPs, and he can kill Lloyd very easily. Use the orange gel on Genis and set him back to L-Range magic, and set the proper AI settings for Kratos. Keep Colette on Hold Position, as she will not last a second against the boss. Have her use lots of apple gels instead. The boss has very slow attacks, and you can easily run away or guard- dash backwards to avoid him. Move in and slam him when possible, then quickly fall back and let his attacks hit thin air. Don't let Kratos keep casting First Aid - disable it and make him get into the fight. Battle 2 - Exbeula Avg. Level - 5 A long and laborious battle. Learn the monsters patterns and just keep attacking it for a good couple of minutes. Pay attention to Genis's mana supplies. Battle 3 - Desian Desert Troops Avg. Level - 6 Buy a ribbon and gloves if you can afford it, to put on Colette for the Botta fight. Head into the temple and avoid the monster battles for now. Fight the Golems instead, which are much easier to handle. Don't go into the sorceror's ring room until you're ready - set Kratos AI to attack same before you go. Head down to the desert town and visit the fortune teller. You'll have to do a very tough fight against three Desian units. Make a run for the bowman and focus on him to kill him, while dodging and warding off the other whip masters attacks. Don't let any of them target Genis. Have Genis use apple gels on Llyod liberally. If you're good and lucky, you'll kill the bowman and be able to carefully kill the two whip users using standard block tactics. If you can survive this battle, you may be cut out for Mania mode after all! Battle 4 - Botta Avg. Level - 8 The next Botta battle is tough. Have your three melees focus on one guard at a time while Genis is set to scatter. Don't let Botta pin your units down or he'll easily kill them. Bring along plenty of apple gels and a few life bottles. You can sell the synthesis materials for 1,000 gold for funds if you need them. Colette will likely die - don't bother reviving her until both guards are taken out. With both guards down, gang up on him big time. Botta has a nasty 8,400 HPs and will take quite a beating. Use items with Colette very liberally - use tons of apple gels to keep the front line units from dying. He can be broken out of casting, so pound the crap out of him if he starts. Once he's at half HPs, he will cast Stalagmite, which can be extremey deadly. Try to avoid it at all costs! You can also set a quick AI command to 'Guard' from the main battle menu, which will get them running away. The spell may very well end your battle right there. Be very careful. When he hits his overlimit, guard/evade him and do not attack! I doubt you can win this with a positive grade score. Battle 5 - Ktguch Avg. Level - 10 Make sure you have everyones defenses and equipment at top notch. Fight around the temple, gather treasure, and get your characters up to level 10. Once you have the thief ability for Colette, fight the Fake chest. Use a Fire Quartz on Colette and have her steal an all-divide from the Fake, then run away. The party should be Lloyd, Colette, Kratos, and Genis Everyone should be set to Attack Same Now for the boss - he is most assuredly impossible to defeat without using an all-divide. I've tried many different strategies, but they simply do far too much damage for your party to handle. So use that all-divide you just stole! In battle, have everyone gang up on the Ktguchlings one at a time. Use tons of apple gels with Colette and try to block or dodge the Ktguch's shots. With the Ktguchlings gone, take on the boss. Gang up on him big time and he'll really feel the pain. Once he's at half HPs he'll cast explosion, but you should be able to weather it if you're still healthy. Despite using an all-divide, the battle doesn't take that long to complete. Afterwards, steal a few all-divides from the Fake then kill it. Battle 6 - Clumsy Assassin Avg. Level - 11 (Lloyd)/10 (Everyone Else) The party should be Lloyd, Kratos, Colette, and Genis AI Settings: Kratos - scatter/frontlines Genis - attack same Colette - scatter Avoid the monsters on the way to the Assassin, then fight. Attack the Guardian while the others keep Sheena busy. Sheena can do tons of damage with her Pyre attack, but her range is relatively short, so it's fairly easy to dodge her attacks. Try not to let Sheena back you into a corner - you can jump over her fairly easily. The guardian is easy enough with simple melee attacks. Once again, use tons of apple gels with Colette to keep your party alive and well. Battle 7 - Sword Dancer 1 Avg. Level - 14 (Lloyd)/13 (Everyone Else) Grab the EX Gem Lv. 1 in the mine and stick it on Colette to get the Item Finder skill. Use this to fight around the mines and trail. Avoid the soldier units as they are a very tough fight. Instead, focus on killing the bears which are both fairly easy to kill and also drop valuable materials that you can sell for 1,000 gold each. Get up to the average level and buy 20 Apple/Orange gels and plenty of life bottles. The boss here is the well known Sword Dancer, a very tough boss that has incredible melee power. On mania mode his strength is so powerful that he can do 100 damage per hit to to Lloyd/Kratos even if you guard! The party should be Lloyd, Colette (spell), Kratos (spell), and Genis. Use Lloyd and his beast skill to smack the boss back across the screen, while your allies pound him with spells. Time your beast attacks to hit just after Colette's Angel Feathers. Use orange gels constantly to restore the mana reserves of your party. If he's getting close with no spell in sight, try to move up to him and guard-dash backwards - he'll waste time attacking thin air and give you a bit of time. After a good 5 minute battle and probably all 20 orange gels used, he'll go down. Battle 8 - Kilia Avg. Level - 15 Go after Kilia, since she's an easy kill and you can't afford to storm the fortress. Use Lloyd, Colette, Raine, and Genis. Just block her attacks and strike when you see the chance. She doesn't have any super moves so just block and counter. She'll be down for the count in no time. Battle 9 - Maginus Avg. Level - 16 AI Behavior: Kratos - scatter Genis - attack same Magnius is a hellacious boss who has powerful splash damage attacks, beast attacks, and guard breaker skills. On top of that, you have to fight a group of guards before him that are definitely not easy on mania mode. Have your best cooking skills ready for the end of that battle. Start out by focusing on the bowman while Kratos keeps the other two busy. Use a life bottle immediately if he goes down. With the bowman out, take the whip master down. Use that spirit tablet you got from the Fake chest at around that time, and continually use orange and apple gels throughout the battle. Take on Magnius very carefully, making good use of the guard-dash to avoid his guard breaker attacks and other very nasty skills. His attacks do a full 500+ damage if you get hit by them, so you really want to keep yourself healthy so you can keep healing and restoring TP to your allies. Magnius is extremely powerful, and Kratos's stupid AI will get slammed by his attacks every single time. Just keep reviving him.. there's not much else you can do. Taking control of Kratos's AI will have Lloyd doing the exact same thing. Battle 10 - Water Temple Guardian Avg. Level - 18 Before heading into the water temple, head through the road pass to Asgard and get yourself better equipment. Try to level up on your way between the cities. The temple enemies are all nasty and appear in groups of 3-4, so you're better off avoiding them. Purchase at least two poison charms for Lloyd and Kratos. Make sure you have a few Red Quartz items from the fire temple - if not, go and get some. The party should be Lloyd, Kratos (melee), Colette (melee.. or spell once the minions are dead), and Raine. Set all of them to scatter. This is the second battle where you'll need to use an all-divide to survive. The boss does absolutely insane damage, and it will annihilate your party easily if you don't use it. The minions barely do any damage as long as you have a poison (water) charm on, but they are annoying, so take care of them first. Use a Red Quartz to increase your damage output on the minions and they should go down fairly quickly. With the minions out of the way, hunker down against the boss. It has a lot of HPs. Just corner it and pound away, blocking its attacks. Use Raine to keep everyone healthy and keep using orange gels for TP. Despite using an all-divide, you should still not take too long to finish it off. Raine should also have Photon by now, which is hands down one of the very best spells in the game. Battle 11 - Wind Dias Boss Avg. Level - 19 The party should be Lloyd, Colette (spell), Raine, and Genis. This boss is fairly easy to take care of.. about the same difficulty as Kilia. Get in its face with Lloyd, strike and defend when necessary, and it'll go down fairly quickly. Nothing but standard tactics here. Battle 12 - Wind Guardian Avg. Level - 21 With a large 28,000 HPs, this boss does not go down easily. Do plenty of battles in your exploration of the wind temple to level up. Battle 13 - Resolute Assassin Avg. Level - 21 No, you can't save at all between these battles. The designers were smoking crack and decided to put the save point near the entrance instead of near the boss. Ha ha ha! The party should be Lloyd, Kratos (melee), Colette (melee), and Genis Head straight for Sheena while the AI units go after the guardian. Be very careful as she can do insane radial damage with her Pyre Seal. Use an all-divide if you don't feel like the risk of death and having to fight the Wind Guardian over again. They both have huge amounts of HPs. The Guardian should go down first, then you can concentrate on Sheena herself. Battle 14 - Kvar Avg. Level - 22 Bring along Lloyd, Kratos, and Raine. Equip them all with Paralysis Charms if you want a prayer at surviving. Lloyd - attack same Lure the three energy runes down to the bottom of the screen. Kvar will not pursue you and will only cast lightning spells, so stay far away from him until the runes are down. Take control of Kratos and make liberal use of his Light Spear technique, hitting multiple runes at once. Block often and try to shove one or two away, as they'll come back slowly and give you time to hit the other ones. Jump over them or dash back if they try to surround you, and protect Raine if they start attacking her. Don't pursue them anywhere near the boss. Use three magic lenses on them so you can keep track of their health. They have low defense, so just keep beating on them and they'll go down eventually. Kvar himself is a pain. He has a ton of hit points and many of his lightning hits are unblockable. Make good use of the guard-dash feature to avoid his lightning strikes. Be careful - if you start seriously beating on him him while he's casting a spell, he'll go into overdrive. Use caution and don't attack him too hard when he starts casting. Keep healing and using gels with Raine. After a long beatdown, he'll go down on his knees. Battle 15 - Undine Avg. Level - 23 A fairly easy boss. Use Lloyd, Kratos, Sheena, and Raine, all equipped with Poison Charms. Back Undine into a corner and beat the holy crap out of her with three melees. All of her spells are interruptable, and her attacks are fairly slow to come out, so she should mostly remain in a stunned and beat up position through most of the battle. When she overdrives, just back off and heal your AI units when they take damage. Battle 16 - Efreet Avg. Level - 24 Bring along Lloyd, Kratos, Sheena, and Raine. Get a lid shield from a soldier for Kratos, and kitchen mittens for Sheena and Raine. The boss casts explosion and eruption spells constantly, so you have to keep on your toes and stay healthy. Use a lot of life bottles and try to gang beat him whenever possible. Battle 17 - Iaubis Avg. Level - 25 Bring Lloyd, Colette (melee), Kratos, and Raine. Put a stun charm on Lloyd and Kratos - you can get a second stun charm from a grab bag at the customization shops. Once again, gang up on the boss with three melee units to keep it relatively stunned and unable to do anything really nasty. Try to steal the White Quartz from the boss if you can, as it's the only one in the game that I'm aware of. Just set Colette's U-attack to Item Thief and she might get it that way.. or you may just have to do it the hard way. Use black quartz items on your weapons to do serious damage to the boss. He won't last very long with that kind of attack power honed in on him. His attacks are fairly slow and can easily be blocked, and he mostly just lumbers around and stays in place to get beat on. Battle 18 - Remiel Avg. Level - 27 This guy is can be a pain if he starts tossing around nasty spells. Although Lloyd and Sheena can handle his Ray and Judgment spells with stun charms equipped, Genis and Raine will take a good 600-800 damage per hit. Just keep him busy, using strong combos and beast attacks when possible. The battle can be fairly smooth if you can keep him from letting off his evil spells. Save your U-attacks for when he goes into overdrive. Battle 19 - Pronyma Avg. Level - 29/30 Pronyma isn't too tough if you have drain charms and gang up on her with 3 melee units. Battle 20 - Sword Dancer 2 Avg. Level - 32/33 The Sword Dancer is back with an incredible 66,666 HPs. His attacks can do 1000+ damage per hit to Lloyd. And this time he casts spells that can wreck your back row. Use the same strategies as last time, and try to heal your back row if they get hit by spells. Equip your casters with as much elemental resistance as possible to fire, lightning, and earth. If he casts spells at Lloyd, dodge out of the way! All of his spells can be dodged. Battle 21 - Defense System Avg. Level - 35 Have your allies take care of the Orbits while you knock out the self- repair system. Once that's down, just beat on the main system until the self-repair is back online. Try to keep everyone healthy and use plentiful items. Battle 22 - Volt Avg. Level - 36 Another 3 melee gang beating boss. Not much of a problem. Most of the summon bosses can be handled by ganging up on them with three melee units. Bring Paralysis Charms. Battle 23 - Yuan & Botta Avg. Level - 38 Now this is a rough battle. Both guys can do tons of damage in addition to nasty attacks when they hit half health. It's simply not possible to concentrate on either one of them for an extended period of time as they'll go nuts or attack your healer. I suggest Raine and three powerful melee units. Alternate between the two units and heal like mad. Botta should go down first, followed by Yuan. You should bring Paralysis Charms in order to negate some of Yuan's insane thunder techs. Battle 24 - Dragons Avg. Level - 40 Try to get as much defense as possible in this battle, and equip the dragons tooth weapon. Have Nurse on speed cast and try to separate the dragons so you don't get beat on them at the same time. Bring along earth protection as well. The baby dragons have a lot of HPs but they take a ton of damage, too, so they will go down fairly quickly. Just keep healing like mad and attacking forcefully. Battle 25 - Gnome Avg. Level - 42 Gang up on poor Gnome and beat the crap out of him. You should go to Flainor and purchase Black Onyx gems, as they will serve your future battles very well. Battle 26 - Celsius Avg. Level - 44 This is a fairly difficult battle as Celsius can do huge amounts of damage, even with ice resistance items. Keep Celsius busy while your allies take out Fenrir, who is much less of a threat. Celsius is very hard to stun out of a move, so use caution and defense. If she nails your characters with a combo, expect massive amounts of damage. Battle 27 - Sylph Avg. Level - 45 This battle is completely nuts. Faeries will be flying everywhere and causing mayhem. A three melee unit team is best in this battle. Once the battle gets heated up, you should basically stay close to Raine and smack the crap out of any fairy that gets close. Use Beast skills plentifully as there are always other fairies to beat up on. It's pretty impossible to focus on one or the other. Battle 28 - Rodyle Avg. Level - 46 Bring along one melee and two casters for this battle, as Rodyle is slow and barely casts spells. You should have earth protection, also. He has a ton of HPs but is easy to beat on and block his attacks. Battle 29 - Shadow Avg. Level - 50 Another 3 melee gang up battle. Just gang up on him and he'll barely be able to do anything. Drain charms are a must here. Battle 30 - Aska & Luna Avg. Level - 51 Put on some stun charms for this battle. Three melees and Raine are best. Aska only does fairly weak melee attacks and Luna has a few spells but nothing special. Just alternate between the two and keep them separated apart. Beast skills come in handy for downing one then hitting the other. Battle 31 - Forcystus Avg. Level - 52 Although there aren't many anti-wind items out there, you'll definiately want to equip them on your characters for this battle! Forcystus is difficult to tackle, and will do incredible damage. Take out the wind machines ASAP while your allies handle Forcystus for a bit, then go after him. Use a lot of guard dashing to stay out of his unblockable wind attacks. He has high defense and will take a pounding before going down. Battle 32 - Plantix Avg. Level - 54 Another 3 melee gang up battle. This boss is very easy to slaughter. Battle 33 - Kratos 2 Avg. Level - 56 Kratos 2 is tough, but beatable. Bring along Stun Charms to negate his judgment spells, and make sure your party has very high defense. He's difficult to stun, but possible if you gang up on him. Guard dash back so he's only attacking thin air, and use a lot of beast techs for some time to use items while he's downed. Battle 34 - Sword Dancer 3 Avg. Level - 57 This monster has 200,000 HPs, so be prepared for a long and drawn out battle. He's basically the same as his second form, except he can do even more damage and takes even longer to kill. Also, for some reason on this battle stage, he can somehow get 'stuck' in a nearby corner and you won't be able to push him away very far. If that happens just pray you can knock him out of it and far away from you. Battle 35 - Pronyma 2 Avg. Level - 59 Immediately trash the Iduns and go after Pronyma. She can cast some very nasty spells, make sure you have Drain charms on. Battle 36 - Yggdrasil Avg. Level - 60 Treat him like a more deadly version of Kratos. Put on Stun charms and keep at him when he warps around. Battle 37 - Origin Avg. Level - 62 Just nail him with a three melee team. Proceed through the final dungeons and grab the Derris Emblem. Battle 38 - Maxwell Avg. Level - 67 Another melee team battle. Use healing items if he starts getting unruly. Battle 39 - Abyssion Avg. Level - 70 This guy is really difficult on mania mode. He has 240,000 HPs and can do around 1500-2500 damage per hit. He's extremely difficult to stun and will cast some of the most powerful spells in the game. Try to equip as much elemental defense as possible, and at least one Black Onyx on all of your characters. It's also a good time to use all of those Red Savorys on Lloyd. You don't have to use an all-divide on this battle, although it will make it much easier to manage. If you use an all-divide, use a lot of TP restore items and have Raine casting Photon for the most part. If you don't use an all-divide, use a lot of HP restore items and have Raine healing like a madwoman. Try not to let anyone die as you only have a limited supply of life bottles. Despite the incredible damage he can do, the best team is three melees. Lloyd, Sheena, and Presea have the best chance against him, as they all have knockdown attacks that can break his casting and stun him. Use beast attacks very frequently to send him sprawling and give you some room to use healing items. Bring along plenty of Energy Tablets and Spirit Bottles. When he attacks, he'll do at least two moves in a row that are unblockable and unstunnable, followed by a near instant cast of a powerful spell. Once he starts casting a spell, it's your cue to rush him with your allies and try to break him out of it. Once you get him down to half HPs he will warp away from you and try to chain cast Indignant Judgment and Meteor Storm one after the other, basically guaranteeing death if you don't stop him in some way. The best ways to stop this are holding a Photon spell until he starts casting, trying to use a Unison Attack, or using an Hourglass, which you can get from Zelos's personal skill by talking to women. After he's down half HPs, he'll start casting indignation, ground dasher, and meteor storm. Keep up the pattern and he'll eventually run out of HPs, as long as you haven't run out of life bottles! Battle 41 - Mithos Avg. Level - 70 He's not much stronger than when you fought him before. If you beat Abyssion this guy should be a piece of cake. His first form is harder than his last, and he will cast Indignant Judgment, so be prepared! Secret Dungeon - Lv. 70 The secret dungeon is impossible without a whole ton of luck. Whenever you're given a choice of penalties, choose the second to last, and pray you don't get a red floor. If you do, you're screwed. Take this gamble three times and you may have enough soulfire by the end of the dungeon to pass to the last boss. I had about 980 or so after lucking out in this manner. When you start out the first few floors, try killing all the monsters. You can often kill them fast enough to get a small grade bonus. Equip yourself with weapons that go against the enemies weaknesses. On the red floors when you get nasty skull enemy fights, just try your hardest to beat them as fast as possible. The fights may take up to 2 minutes which means a huge grade penalty. Expect to lose up to 200 grade on the later red floors. Don't burn any of the torches on the red floors as you may end up having to wander around trying to find the last monster or whatever. The two bosses aren't incredibly difficult, but they will pose a challenge. On the mounted hell knight, use a lot of upward and aerial attacks, as many ground based attacks will simply miss. At the living armor, run away when he casts his spells and keep your allies healed. He will go into overlimit a lot if you do tons of damage to him, so just be careful and keep everyone healthy. Exhibition Match - Lv. 75 I recommend Lloyd, Zelos, and Raine for the exhibition match. Your job is to jump between Meredy and Farah, using beast skills to knock them over and generally stop them from causing too much trouble. Zelos should be occupied with Garr or Meredy. Generally Farah will be constantly trying to attack Raine, so keep her protected while hitting up Meredy. Just ignore Garr until last. Meredy will revive herself twice, so just keep wailing on her. Try to knock her out of her spells as much as possible, as she has some nasty attack as well as healing spells. I've even had an hourglass used against me once! Use tons of healing items, don't hold back! Once Meredy is down for good, it's easier to take out Farah and then finally Garr. The End Well hope you got a kick out of this guide. Give Tales of Destiny II US (i.e. Tales of Eternia JP) a try on hardcore mode without powerleveling for some more challenge.
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