September 2019 Quest Challenge Level 9

September 2019 Quest Challenge Level 9

This challenge dungeon is hard. Very hard. Not because the enemies have hundreds of millions of HP, but because each floor has nasty big preemptive hits. Starting off with a total of 49k damage on first floor and it's getting worse for each floor after that. The boss, DQ Hera, has 338k preemptive hit!

There is, however, a way to cheese this dungeon using Fat Chocobo as leader. He has 2.5x HP for Light attribute. With double Fat Chocobo lead, your team has 6.25x HP. But he has no ATK multiplier, so how do you kill those enemies? The popular strategy is to use a very strong counter-attack. Only Lotta Lotta and Vivi has strong enough counter-attack to end those enemies with their own attack.

Field a team of high HP Light attribute cards, sub in Whaledor for the Skill Boost, have a 75% shield active skill and true damage of 50,000 or more for first floor.

First floor's enemies only has less than 50,000 HP. So, the run for Fat Chocobo team is like this:
Have necessary skills ready: 75% shield, true damage and counter-attack
use 75% shield and counter attack first, then true damage
when you kill first floor, the second floor will hit with big preemptive but since almost all enemies only have less than 2 millions HP, the counter-attack will killed them
then you move to the next floor, rinse and repeat without you doing nothing

you need a big HP though. At least 383k HP leaving first floor to survive the dungeon.

What if you don't have Lotta Lotta of Vivi?

Don't worry. Counter-attack isn't the only method to defeat this dungeon. I made a monstrous HP Yuna team like this:

A total of 6 active shields, four 50% from both Yuna and two 75% from Reincarnated Indra. My team has 320k HP and with heal TPA and some decent combo, my team could recover a lot of HP.

My team, however, lack one skill boost and I used 15% HP badge for this so Yuna won't be up first turn. I can only use Yuna's shield on the second floor, after taking some big preemptive hit. The trick is to heal up enough so that you could survive the next preemptive hit. Cycle the shield active skill. Use both Yuna and when I got to the sixth floor, I use Reincarnated Indra's 75% shield. With decent healing, I was able to soak all the damage including 338k from DQ Hera.

For me, this is more fun and challenging compared to running it with counter-attack team. Slower though. It's up to you whether you're gonna run this with counter-attack or a "normal" team.




Good luck and have fun. See you next time!