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I left this one for last (of the 3 Bahamuts that debuted) because this realm has never been much of a powerhouse and I thought it would be daunting... and I was not wrong! This took me an inordinate amount of time to route. Meia has a sync with ATB tricks, but even with her speediness, this was a very close call.

Beyond Meia just ability spamming, Thief was a real MVP. I had to scroll-hone his second aasb in order for him to stay at max dps, since not only does it anti-fullbreak, but it also combines with Aasb1 to guarantee triplecasts of thief abilities. Additionally, it grants 3 stacks of damage-reduction barriers, which pairs amazingly with Garland’s sync, which charges up his damage each time a damage barrier is removed. Instead of cycling C2 - C1, Garland can just combo sync+aasb and spam HA, gaining his full dps-boost from Thief’s aasb2 barriers being destroyed.

While Sarah could’ve been on crit-bard spam to 50%crit the team, she ends up barding the attack buff because I brought in Tyro (since Lilisette is rendered a bit useless by Thief’s dual-aasb2s).

Beyond the party set-up, there are several precise timings for actions in this fight. The start of phase2 very specifically set up Meia to be on C2 spam, allowing her to insta-cast her aasb. Sarah gets in some insta-cast turns of sync C1 prior to phase 2 in order to set her up to call up the second chain right at 70% HP, and barely have enough meter to aasb and then bUsb thereafter. Thief’s aasb1 has to be timed to hit as immediately after Sarah’s chain as possible, as otherwise he won’t get in a very powerful turn just before the party interrupt. Garland also has to time his C1 to end phase 1, just before Sarah’s chain gets called.

As for phase 2’s soul break route, this was very specific as well. 3 souls breaks were used to reduce the crystal count immediately (aasbs for sarah, thief, meia), and then after the first SB-dependent attack by Bahamut, Garland aasb + Sarah bUsb were used to ensure that the party interrupt no longer targeted all 5 members (leaving Garland and Tyro to later complete actions uninterrupted). Sarah’s bUsb comes out at the last possible moment before Bahamut reduces the top 3 slots’ soul break meter, which was very strict to get in in time.

Once phase 3 began, Thief had to cast AASB quickly enough (plus a cast of historia crystal) to allow Garland to use his HA and break the apex barrier. A materia dualproc would’ve been enough to remove apex barrier entirely, but since I wasn’t lucky in this run, I relied on Meia’s arcane as a backup. I couldn’t gather enough meter to let Thief or Garland use their arcanes, so they just ability-spammed to close things out.

SBs used:

Tyro: Aasb

Meia: Sync, aasb, arcane

Sarah: glint+ (proshellhastega), sync, aasb, bUsb

Thief: glint+ (enwind), aasb1, aasb2(x2 via honing)

Garland: glint+ (meter), true arcane (only initial activation), sync, aasb