Green Beret, 
Moonring Blade, 
Mythril Gloves, Phoenix Down, Thief's Gloves Enemies: Crew Dust, Poltergeist, Defeater, Motor Trap,
Liquid Flame
Treasures: Cottage, Elixir x3, Green Beret, Moonring Blade, Mythril Gloves, Phoenix Down, Thief's Gloves
Blue Magic: 
Flash, Self-Destruct
Flash when alone. 'Tis true. If you didn't manage to extract Flash from the Headstones, here's where you'll definitely want to learn the attack. Crew Dust are weak to Ice-elemental attacks so multi-targeted 
Blizzara spells and Shiva clean major house. Crew Dust are also weak versus Wind-elemental attacks, but it's just that you don't have any truly powerful Wind-elemental attacks right now. Two Aero spells will take them down. They'll normally attack with physicals only, with the occasional !Sap thrown in (causes the Sap status). Another fun thing about Crew Dust is how they can't avoid Blue spells; they'll always hit. So Flash and Vampire will never miss or something, Aera is unblockable anyway.Thunder spell, they'll cast Self-Destruct which deals the caster's current HP worth of damage while killing the caster.Mythril Gloves. Now, ascend the stairs and get up the stairs to the far left. It'll eventually net you an Elixir. Now, get back down. In this room you can still find a chest with a Cottage, and the only stairs you haven't used up to that point gets you another Elixir. Now, leave through the other white door to find an elevator. See the red switch?Thief's Gloves! Finally, the right side leads to new sub-area where you eventually find a Green Beret. Nice.Thief's Gloves first. Only Thieves (aside from Freelancers) can equip these lightweight gloves; they add more Defense than the Silver Armlet and double your chances of successfully obtaining an item with !Steal and !Mug. They make sure that the Thief itself will forever be the superior robber, even if !Steal or !Mug is set on another Job. Get the Green Beret by entering pipe #4 (counting from the left as before), then proceed to the right (for your Thief/Monk/Red Mage/Blue Mage) and throw yourself down #2. Before going through the white door, follow the stairs, flip the red switch and find a spiffy new weapon for the Thief. The Moonring Blade deals the same amount of damage from the Back Row and is powerful enough to remove the need for Barehanded, so stick another ability on your Thief and put him or her in the Back Row.Liquid Flame  Bestiary #251 |
Type |
Level |
HP |
MP |
Gil |
EXP |
Speed |
None | 19 | 3000 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
Strength |
Attack Mult. |
Magic Atk. |
Evasion |
Defense |
Mag. Def. |
Mag. Evade |
|
18 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 20 | |
Stolen Items |
Dropped Items |
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None | Common: Flame Scroll | ||||||
Command Immunities | Elemental Immunities | ||||||
Physical, Slow, Haste, Stop, Shell, Catch, Control |   | ||||||
Elemental Absorb | Elemental Weakness | ||||||
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Blue Magic | Status Immunities | ||||||
None |            | ||||||
Strategy | |||||||
Normal Attacks | Counter | |
Human Form | Attack, !Rush, Blaze | Blaze |
Hand | Attack, !Ray | Fira (single target) |
Whirlwind | Fira (on self) | Magnet |
Frost Rod-boosted Blizzara spells, Frost Rod-boosted Shiva summons, Two-Handed Blizzara swords and...
Gravity! Gravity cuts the amount of current HP of Liquid Flame in half, dealing up to 1500 damage when Liquid Flame is undamaged. Note that Gravity doesn't work on the Hand form, as it is Heavy.Frost Rods versus the Liquid Flame; while released Blizzaga spells do enough damage to utterly destroy Liquid Flame in two hits, I don't think it's necessary in a normal game and it's just going to cost you items/money which other strategies don't. If you find yourself playing a single class challenge or something, it's a win ticket; you can also simply change to a Time Mage, have it cast Gravity, absorbs the first Blaze attack that will never kill anybody, then shatter an Frost Rod to kill the flame.Gravity spell, and heal up from the Blaze attack that is its counter. Mystic Knights are faster than Time Mages, so you should probably already have cast an Blizzara spell on any swords you may have wanted to imbue. If the Hand was called (that bloody thing!), have a neutral physical attack change it again (hey, is your Clothes class character good for something too!) and attack whatever the result is with a heavy Ice-elemental nuking. It should be close to defeat now, so heal up from whatever damage you may have taken and deliver the final blow.Blizzara or Gravity, and that's basically all you need (Two-Handed Blizzara swords and Shiva are variations, really) so this pretty much the strategy you should follow. Double !White or !Red casters are supremely useful to be able to restore HP as quickly as possible.
Cura spells to counter Blaze and Fira with, you shouldn't be in too much trouble. In this case, I should mention the fact that all parts are vulnerable to the !White Confuse spell and that the Whirlwind form very easily runs out of MP, so you might want to sit there and wait for it to run out of MP the first time you see it so you definitely have a brief moment of rest when you encounter it in the future.Flame Rod is quickly usable but is for freaking sale already, the Flame Scroll is a 200 Gil item you'll be able to use in the near future one single time and it'll be a while before you'll be able to wield the 
Flame Bow within a Job, at which time you'll easily have the money to buy one. I'd pick the Flame Bow simply because the most expensive item, but it's entirely up to you.