Overview

Beckoned by the auracite, you arrive at the Orbonne Monastery─vestige of an ancient civilization lost beneath the twisted roots and vines of a forbidden jungle. The Durai Papers claim this holy sanctuary to be where the tale of young Ramza Beoulve began. Tonight, it is where your tale ends.

Strategy Notes

• NOTE: Throughout the fight, two types of special AoEs will spawn, each giving a specific Duty Action. The golden Shieldbearer makes the user immune to damage from the front. Moving or using other abilities while Shieldbearer is active will end the effect. The silver Swordbearer grants a short 180 degree arc attack that deals high damage to shielded enemies.
• Note: Auto-attacks will hit the tank of each party, not just a single tank.

• Swords stabbed in ground: Get close, AoE hits all but the innermost arc of each circular platform.

• Swords held sideways: Get away, AoE hits all but the outermost arc of each circular platform

• Swords raised over platforms: Stay off the circular platforms the swords are held over. Note that the AoE also hits the narrow area joining the attacked platform to the two adjacent to it. This version can either target every other circular platform, leaving a safe platform in between, or it can target a sequence of 3 platforms rotating clockwise or counterclockwise.

• Ultima will then re-summon all 3 for a three-round combo attack:

Boss Encounters

Mustadio

• Energy Burst: Raid-wide AoE
• Arm Shot: Tank Buster
• Leg Shot: Places a land mine beneath three random players. If a player runs into a mine, it explodes for high damage and inflicts Paralysis.
• Left/Right Handgonne: Hits the entire left or right side of the boss, plus an additional 30-degree overlap to the boss's front. The first time this is cast, it will be cast again on the opposing side immediately afterwards.
• Maintenance: Boss tethers two to six robots inside and around the arena. Outside robots attack a line directly across the arena. Inside robots attack the quadrant they're in.
• Ballistic Missile: Player-targeted AoE on one random player from each Alliance.
• Searchlight: Floor markers track targets and detonate, similar to Phantom Train's spotlights.
• Analysis + Last Testament: Ground, circle marker placed on each player with an opening on a side. Boss jumps out of the arena and appears randomly on the outside. Position character such that gap in the circle-marker around the character faces the boss by the time the cast finishes. The first time Mustadio casts this attack, a cutscene plays showing him lining up his shot while simultaneously allowing the players to determine his position. Afterward without the cutscene, less time is available to locate the boss and position accordingly.

Agrias

• Divine Light: Raid wide damage.
• Thunder Slash: The main tank is targeted with a red arrow. After a short delay, Agrias will launch a cone attack at the targeted player, dealing extremely high damage that is nearly guaranteed to kill non-Tanks.
• Judgment Blade: AoE Knockback and inflicts Vulnerability Up. To avoid, step into one of the Shieldbearer light pillars, face the boss, and use the duty action Holy Shield.
• Cleansing Blade: Six player-targeted AoEs on two players from each alliance.
• Cleansing Strike: One random alliance is pulled into another area where they are inflicted with a 1-minute Doom debuff and must slay all of the Tainted Soul and Taintless Soul adds that spawn. Tainted Souls slowly move toward the center of the area, where they explode for high damage and inflict Vulnerability Up. Taintless Souls stay put, but are highly resistant to any attack that isn't from the Sword duty action, and if left alone, will cast an attack that deals high damage. Once all of the adds have been killed, the Doom debuff will be dispelled and the alliance will be returned to the arena.
• Consecration: Used immediately after Cleansing Strike. Two Swordbearer circles will spawn, and one of the two remaining alliances will be trapped within Halidom adds and pulled to specific areas around the arena. Several untargetable Ephemeral Knight adds will launch line attacks across the arena, through each trapped alliance member. The remaining alliance's goal is to use the Sword duty action to destroy the traps holding the other alliance members captive.
• Hallowed Bolt: Two random players are marked for an AoE attack that hits twice in succession: Once as a circle AoE centered on the player, and once as a ring AoE centered on the player, with an inner radius equal to the prior circle AoE.
• Heavenly Judgment: Agrias begins charging up a Holy Blade meter. Two Sword Knight adds and one Shield Knight add spawn, along with two Shieldbearer and two Swordbearer circles. The two Sword Knights will cast Mortal Blow, dealing damage in a massive circle around them, which can be negated by using the Shieldbearer duty action. Meanwhile, a Swordbearer circle will spawn, alongside four Emblazoned Shield adds that tether to the Shield Knight and make it Invulnerable. These adds can be destroyed by using the Swordbearer duty action. If Agrias's Holy Blade meter reaches 100, Heavenly Judgment will wipe the raid.
• Divine Ruination: One random player from each alliance becomes tethered to Agrias, while two Shieldbearer circles spawn. After a short delay, Agrias will launch a highly-damaging line attack at each tethered player. Tethered players should acquire and use the Shieldbearer duty action to negate this damage. Non-tethered players can avoid damage by either using the Shieldbearer action or simply staying away from the tethered players.

The Thunder God

• T.G. Holy Sword:: Mechanic depends on the boss's animation as he casts the ability:
• Cleansing Strike: Reduces entire alliance to 1 HP and inflicts a Doom that is dispelled when those afflicted are healed to full hit points.
• Duskblade: Creates a small circle on the innermost arc each of the six platforms. Each circle requires 3 players to stand in it to reduce the damage, indicated by 3 arcs within the circle animation. When a circle is occupied by three or more players, curved spikes will erupt from the circle. This deals no damage, being purely an indicator that the circle is filled.
• Shadowblade: Marks one player in each alliance with a large black AoE. When the attack goes off, each target will take moderate damage and a gradually-expanding black spheres will spawn on the spot each target was standing at the time. Standing inside the orbs inflicts a strong Bleeding debuff, but the true danger of Shadowblade comes from allowing two spheres to overlap. Any spheres that intersect each other at any point will inflict a stack of a highly-damaging Bleeding debuff to the entire alliance for each sphere (as two spheres are needed to actually overlap, the alliance will always be afflicted with at least two stacks of the debuff). Later on in the fight, two players in each alliance will be marked for this attack, with very little room for error to avoid overlap.
• Crush Helm: Each party's tank receives 4 stacks of a dispellable Slashing Resistance Down debuff, followed by a tank buster.
• Crush Armor: The boss tethers to each alliance's tank that strikes the tethered player with an attack that deals extremely high damage and inflicts a stack of Physical Vulnerability Up four times, with a noticeable delay between each attack. The tanks should immediately pass the tether off to another party member and avoid taking any of the stacks inflicted by this ability, as the debuff drastically increases the damage taken from the boss's auto-attacks. Other players in each alliance should hand off the tether after each attack lands, to avoid receiving more than 1 stack of the debuff. Only a tank can survive two strikes of Crush Armor, but this will almost guarantee death to the next auto-attack received.
• Crush Weapon: One player in each alliance is marked with a three-pronged black crosshair over their head, eventually dropping a large AoE beneath their feet that deals damage and inflicts Physical Vulnerability Up. The AoE will chase the player, striking four times in quick succession before ending. Note: running around the edge of one of the circular platforms is insufficient to escape the chasing AoE, players need to run in a relatively straight line away from the initial AoE.
• Colosseum: The boss becomes untargetable and launches the entire raid to a new flat and open arena, then spawns three Ephemeral Knight adds and begins charging a Swordplay gauge. If this gauge reaches 100 before all 3 adds are killed, the raid will wipe.
• Hallowed Bolt (1): One player in each alliance is marked with a red arrow that eventually creates a circle AoE followed by a ring AoE outside it (or vice-versa) centered on the target. Getting hit by this attack deals moderate damage and inflicts a strong, non-dispellable Electrocution damage over time debuff. Note that the ring AoE is large enough to reach the other alliances if the player with the debuff runs too far to the side or towards the center of the arena.
• Hallowed Bolt (2): Stack marker on one player in each alliance. In addition to dealing damage, the attack also inflicts a very short Magic Vulnerability Up debuff on those hit.
• Divine Ruination: One player in each alliance is marked with a purple arrow and is tethered to the boss. After a short delay, the adds will launch a wide line AoE at their respective marked target. Stick to the edges of the arena to prevent your party's add from hitting the other parties.
• Balance Asunder: Heavy raid-wide damage based on how far the Swordplay bar filled during add phase. If the boss was allowed to reach 100% before the adds were killed, his attack will wipe the alliance. If the alliance survives the attack, they will be returned to the initial platform.
• Crush Accessory: An ice puddle will spawn, covering the entire arena save for the six furthest points from the boss on each of the circles. Players are inflicted with Frostbite for as long as they stand in the puddle. Three Icewolf adds will each spawn in half of the safe areas and begin to slowly cast Burst, killing the add, but dealing very high damage to the entire alliance and inflicting a stack of Vulnerability Up. Once all of the adds are killed, the ice will be removed.

Ultima, the High Seraph

• Ultima is embedded in a wall for the first phase of the fight. In this phase, Ultima is considered omni-directional for the purposes of position-based abilities.
• Holy IV: Targets the ground under several random alliance members, while also marking several other players with targeted AoEs that must be spread apart. Both sets of attacks deal heavy damage.
• Auralight: Large melee-range AoE coupled with three line AoEs, all of which deal extremely high damage. The line AoEs will leave behind unpassable walls of ice, restricting movement temporarily. The boss usually casts Holy IV immediately after this, requiring the raid to avoid the ground-targeted and player-targeted AoEs in the more limited area between the walls.
• Flare IV: Two random players are marked with player-targeted proximity AoEs and should stand clear of the rest of the alliance.
• Grand Cross: Three untargetable Auracite Shard adds will sequentially fall from the ceiling in square AoEs, instantly killing anyone caught beneath them as they land. After all three have landed, each one will simultaneously cast a highly-damaging cross-shaped attack, leaving only a single "square" of the arena safe from this attack. In the first phase, the safe zone will always be in the "row" closest to Ultima.
• Demi-Aquarius: Summons Demi-Famfrit, who will cast Dark Ewers to travel across the arena in lines. At the same time, Ultima will cast Auralight.
• Demi-Aries: Summons Demi-Belias to cast Time Eruption. Stand on a slow clock until the fast clocks detonate, then move to where a fast clock used to be. At the same time, Ultima will cast Holy IV. Unlike Belias's fight, the clocks are not in a set pattern.
• Demi-Leo: Summons Demi-Hashmal who will create and cut down two Control Towers. Ultima will cast Holy IV again, so players may need to dodge it while also avoiding the falling towers.
• First combo:
• Belias will cast Time Eruption, covering the arena in the fast and slow exploding clock faces
• Famfrit will cast Dark Cannonade, marking up all players in a random party with red triangles. The marked players must stack on top of at least one other triangle-marked player to prevent damage and knock-up.
• Hashmal will cast Earth Hammer, creating a large weight over a random spot in the arena that will fall after the other two attacks have resolved, dealing proximity-based damage.
• Second combo:
• Famfrit will cast Dark Ewer, creating ewers that travel in a straight line across the arena.
• Hashmal spawns on the east or west edge of the arena and begins to channel Extreme Edge, coating one of his arms in flames and then charging through the center of the arena, dealing extreme damage to the area he charges through and the entire (north or south) half of the arena on the side of his flaming arm.
• Belias will cast Eruption, marking up one random player in each alliance, creating three sequential AoEs below them.
• Third "ultimate" combo:
• Hashmal will slowly cast Landwaster.
• Famfrit will slowly cast Tsunami.
• Belias will slowly cast Hellfire.

Duty Information

• Duty Finder: Alliance Raids (Stormblood)
• Roulette: alliance raid
• Time Limit: 120 minutes
• Tomestones: 100 poetics + 100 + 12

Achievements

• Orbonne to Pick
• Mapping the Realm: The Orbonne Monastery

Music

• Main (before boss 2): Under the Stars
• Main (after boss 2): Bloody Excrement
• Boss 1: Mustadio: Pressure (No. 1)
• Boss 2: Agrias: Antipyretic
• Boss 3: The Thunder God: A Man Consumed
• Pre-final boss cutscene: Saint Ajora's Theme
• Final Boss Phase 1: Ultima, the High Seraph: Ultima's Transformation
• Final Boss Phase 2: Descent (Final Fantasy Tactics)
• Final Boss Phase 3: Ultima's Perfection
• Victory: Final Struggle / Hall of Worship