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Sword Master (1990)

Duration: 58:06

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00:00 Introduction
00:05 Ymir
05:30 Water balrog
08:19 Poseidon
10:54 Mia
13:15 Lugrant
16:13 Light Dragon
21:13 King
31:11 Kalisia
33:07 Gestaf
38:04 Fire Dragon
43:31 Efreet
45:21 Female Chaos
51:24 Baphomet
54:00 Ariel

In cases where 1-2 of your characters get hit, put your tankiest armor sets on them. When 4-5 of your characters get hit, evenly spread your armors so that everyone is equal HP/DEF/Damage Reduction. Everyone has 50%+ Crit Resist and 60% CDR with the exception of Cain, Yui, Efreet, & Mia.

Ymir Raid: Boss hits 1 person if you use Darkness. Boss does reduced damage to light characters.
Darkness (Gains 10% dmge reduction against dark enemies for each dark character on team)
Ymir: Buffs Darkness, provides shield & long skill animation for stalling
Lugrant: Her heals take effect even while another character's skill is active. When her heal is active & your team is less than half health, use another character's skill to stall.
Mia: Provides additional healing & also invincibility for 15s
Cain: Equip Demon Sword on him to make him Dark to buff Darkness

Water Chaos: Hits front 3 people
For this raid, find out the latest you can survive & then time a Mia ult at the last second. For me, this was around 60B. Then you burst as much damage as possible. Characters with long skill animations & decent damage are preferable which is why I used Ymir, Ryu, & Lugrant. If you don't have Ryu, you can use someone with a long skill animation like Airi.

Poseidon: Hits 4 people
Same strategy as Water Chaos Raid. Find the latest you can survive & time it so your 2nd to last Mia ult ends right before then so you can get 1 more Mia ult in. Afterwards burst as much damage as you can. Again, characters with long skill animations with heal/shields is preferable to survive.
Same team, Ymir, Ryu, Lugrant, Mia.

Mia: Hits entire team
Similar strategy to Poseidon. Get to the latest score you can survive until assuming you have Mia's heal in effect. Then Mia ult & burst as much as you can. In this example I try to ult with Mia when the boss is close to or more than 60B+
Gaia is in the team to reduce the team's damage taken by leaf enemies.

Lugrant: Boss does reduced damage to mages. Sadly Cain dies quickly here. Always have Lugrant's heal on. After ulting with Ymir, wait until your character's health drops to nearly 0 & then use a character's skill to stall allowing Lugrant's healing to take effect while being protected by the boss.

Light Dragon Raid: Hits entire team but does reduced dmge to light/water characters. An all water team is best here with Joan to reduce light damage. After 10B+, your skill effects are reduced by 50%, so Vivian's shield will last for approximately 7s. You can stall this by using other character's skills, allowing for Vivian's skill to come back. Rinse and repeat.

King Raid: Hits front 3. Only water will damage it. Same strategy as light dragon raid. Use Vivian & then stall by using a few other characters skills until Vivian's skill is back. One rotation can be something like Aqua, Airi, Cain slash, or Aqua, Joan, Cain slash and electric, etc.

Kalisia/Efreet: Kalisia will destroy Cain easily & Efreet hits the entire team so you need to find the latest you can survive to & then release your team's skill rotation followed by a Cain ult to stall for another rotation. Rosie's skill stuns for a few seconds so take advantage of that. Aina is there to reduce fire damage taken.

Gestaf: Boss does reduced damage to leaf characters. Back 2 characters can avoid getting hit so put 2 healers there. Tank should be Mia. Put your tankiest armor on her. For me I used Guardian Set & Two Great Swords.

Fire Dragon: Boss hits entire team but does reduced dmge to warrior & mages. Bring Aina for fire elemental dmge reduction. You'll need longer skill animations to breath cancel. Ymir and Airi can perfectly cancel a breath while providing support. Use Vivian to provide addition shields when shields are low.

Chaos (Female): Boss hits front 2 & does reduced damage to light characters. Use Darkness to tank. This strategy involves Cain dying so that Darkness can get focus healed. The back 3 are safe & provide healing/shields. Everyone has 60% CDR except for Yui.

Baphomet: Hits only Cain if you have 4 ranged characters. Does reduced damage to dark characters so equip Cain with the Demon Sword to make him dark. This strategy involves stalling to do damage & to take advantage of Lugrant's healing. Following Ymir's ult, wait until Cain's about to die to use a character's skill to stall for a couple seconds which'll allow Cain to heal. Stall with another skill in addition to Cain's skills until Ymir's ult is back up. Rinse and repeat.

Ariel: Hits the front 4. At 10B & every subsequent 10B, she charges for about 2.5 seconds to perform a devastating skill. Interrupt her by stunning which will leave her stunned for 10s. Burst with everyone & use the stun at the last second. Rinse and Repeat.

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