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How did you beat shinryu?

Posted: 25th July 2009 14:55

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Huhu,
since I wasn't able to find such a thread via search option I simply create one.

I personally found it to lame to follow the walkthrough, since I won't have to think about the problem by myself, and plus, it won't have been a challenge to me then.

So - I equipped everyone a coral ring, all got bare job (iirc) or mime,
I used Lenna for healing with 2x Red + lv6 White (allows you to cast level 6 white magic twice), mime, and blue magic (big guard)
+ Iceshield (against snowsstorm)
Faris had a sword equipped and used the Dance command at the beginning of the fight, I hoped to get Sword dance which would inflict 8k dmg +
She also had lv6 White magic for support. + ice shield
Cara had just Dance + Sword equipped.
Bartz X-Fight (SShot) + Time-Magic, 2 anti-dragon spears (hence the name, Lol ^^) equipped.
It took me serveral times to beat shinryu, but I finally did it.
I think my strat was not that bad, with a bit of luck it worked:

- Tidal Wave -
1. char turn Faris - Dance (hoped to use sword dance)
2. char turn cara - Dance - no sword dance
- If I recall correctly, shinryu wiped out 1 or 2 chars by now, so I revived them with 2x arise or with 1x arise followed by a other 1x arise + shell (depends on which character was ready to do actions)
3. char turn, if bartz is revived,
X-Fight did 2,5k damage with each hit, so 8 hits in total.
2500 x 8 =10k dmg + quick, so whole damage x2 = 20k dmg
4. than sometime later, cara, dance ->
I was lucky, so sword dance came up - 2 weapons equipped, 9-10k dmg + 6-8k dmg -> Shinryu RIP

Ok, I didn't had enough anti-dragon lances, but I think at least the most aggressive, and maybe even the best way to defeat Shinryu would have been:
Jobs mastered required:
Ninja (holding weapons in 2 hands) + Time mage (quick) + Hunter (X-Fight), of course more mastered jobs will enhance your character stats.

Then, give every character bare job, Time lv 6 + X-Fight, and two (anti) dragon spears

So if everyone would have just ONE turn to attack, it would look like the following:
20k damage per character turn x4 = imba damage, shinryu dead ^^ (80k damage versus 55k life)

But might take into consideration to give 1 or 2 characters Ice shield so they can survive ice storm

What do you think about my fight strategy? ^
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Posted: 25th July 2009 22:29

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Well, it worked. I dont' know enough about the game to really critique the strategy, though.

I went with Berserk + Dark Sigh, and game most of my party Image, or whatever that Ninja skill is called.

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Posted: 25th July 2009 23:02

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Ive beaten him at least 2 times...
1.The gladiators finisher ability(w/ coral rings)
2.Rapid Fire(and Dual wield)(My favorite Ability!!!)
Combining the bare-handed ability and the dancer job can reach 8000+ damge at level 50s!

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Posted: 26th July 2009 15:24

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Combining the bare-handed ability and the dancer job can reach 8000+ damge at level 50s!

Eh, use dual wield (two weapons) and Sword Dance will inflict two times damage, I reached up 16-18k damage beeing nearly level 50.
(Eh, best with bare job of course, cause then you can equip sword, catanas & lances)

Sure that the finisher (samurai I guess?) ability work at this boss?
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Posted: 27th July 2009 00:25

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My memory isn't that fresh about it. I guess I remember more about Neo-Shinryu. I was saved by a lucky jump on Bartz part.

Let's see, Coral rings are a must. Was too lazy to farm dragon spears, so I went with the normal broken set-ups. Lenna was a mime with white/summon. Krile was also a mime with time/black. Faris and Bartz had dual-wield, spell-blade, rapid-fire! And that´s all. My strategies are boring :[

Sword dance sounds fun, the only problem is that it's random. I didn't see it that much even with the special dancer equipment.

Finisher is only in the GBA version for the new gladiator class. I'm sure it works on bosses, but it is also random, sometimes it fails, sometimes it does massive elemental damage, depending on the character's crystal.

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