Here's the VOD on the full setup/fight I did. www.twitch.tv/videos/1953140350?filter=highlights&sort=time If you guys need anymore help my discord community has many user with more advice & setups. Discord: discord.gg/hycJN5j
If this don’t work for you guys, instead of not breaking sephiroth sigils, just break him using your healer that isn’t doing damage anyway, you can leave the healing to after you break his sigils and the “ferver” starts, also this way you can get more dps and charge more LB instead of just going full suicidal getting hit by shadow flare :)
Octopus coming in CLUTCH!! Right at the end too with the great strat! The biggest thing for me was NOT breaking during the earth/wind stages, it completely changed the fight and I got the win!!
thanks a lot man! this video helps me clear this fight. been struggling for a week. also, you guide on Ranked dungeon helped me reach 39th rank. kudos!
This fight would be much more manageable if you could cut the speed in half. I constantly had to fight against my own team and get ahead of them doing the wrong move even in Semi. They love buffing the person not getting attacked.
Trust me if you still haven't beaten this EX3 switch from Semi to Manual. I was also completing this event just now and I'm like I know I can do this so I checked this video out to see what I did different from Octo and my dumbdumb was playing on semi this whole time while he played on Manual and hovered Aerith and let me tell you it was night and day! I beat it my 2nd go as I got use to the manual. Also abuse those phases where he is weak to earth/wind.
Octo you never seem to fail us! I used the same team and mostly the same equipment, but I had pretty much the same Aerith, a worse Cloud by a few overboosts and 10 levels on the murasame (and just his default 3* SOLDIER outfit) and a slightly more overboosted edged wings on Sephiroth; so it balanced out for around the same power level. I also got the co-op crash Sephiroth done with some kind fellas from your discord a few days prior, but I truly did not believe I would beat EX 3 in time. You helped me prove myself wrong! You da man! 🤝
Finally after like 2h doing tryes swaping materias weapons managed to down him at 162 power (alot is inflated power for using hp subweapons) f2p, i can say whitout a doubt either sephiroth event weapon or barret event weapon makes this boss ALOT easier, before watching your video i got him a few time to like 5 to 10% then your trick where you dont equip sigils so in the wind and earth phase you do full dps helped me get that % i was missing thx alot ^^.
Thanks for this! My strategy was a mite different: my Cloud (w/ Murasame mainhand weapon) brought a Ruinra Triangle, and I had Aerith equip Fairy Tale and the Prismatic Staff (the wind-element one) and an X sigil ruinra. During the Infusion phases, Cloud would bust all Triangle sigils, then I'd use an X-sigil near the end if the interrupt wasn't about to happen. The interrupt phases gave me plenty of time to catch up on health damage, and I could leave my Sephiroth (who had better defense and health than my Cloud, I think) not as healed as the other characters, so Octaslash would target him. And, during Earth Infusion, my Aerith could help out immensely with damage via the Prismatic Staff. That extra damage was key, for my setup (since I ultimately survived with two characters left). Aerith's limit is useful to save for usage after a Heartless Angel, to catch up on healing, too. Biggest tip to add on to the vid: when an Octaslash is about to arrive (i.e. near end of interrupted Wind Infusion, if memory serves, as an example), swap to your Sephiroth to conserve ATB, so you can double-up the barrier. Helps eke out an additional Octaslash survival. :)
I just tried this, and I got so close. Less than 1/4 health left. But it seems like Sephiroth gets progressively stronger with his octoslash's? I have no problem defending against them for a while, but towards the end, he's able to 1 shot me even if I have 3 barriers up. I then realized that my characters are just not 55. IDK if that's the boost I need. If push comes to shove, I may unlock more nodes I've been neglecting as it costs memories to get them and I wanted to wait for lvl 55 to use memories.
My 3 characters are level 55, and when he's at less than 50% health, he just one shots me even at 6000+ hp and triple barrier. I really don't know what to do and I'm about to give up😭
You must of had a near perfect run. The wtb gauge never lined up properly for me before octoslash. Either just short to top off hp or just short to put up defense up :/. Got to 15-20 percent with your strat which was by far the best yet though. 👏👏
Thanks for this, I was like why am I losing so hard my power level finally got to like 163k and thought well I might barely make this… when got stumped. Searched myself for more hp weapons and pdef I had in my inventory and had some weapon Lvld them up with the spare materials I had and got more hp and got to that 163k powerlevel. But didn’t work yet… the strat of not breaking the sigel and going for elemental dmg changed the fight (though I did break the sigels with aerith every time just at the end for extra dps.)
Dude thanks for the guide. Just beat it after like 5 tries after watching your guide. BTW I did it With Matt as healer. Worked perfectly. He didn't had 5K HP but his Def/Spr Buff with good timing were enough. I miss click at the end and Matt die to a Octoslash but Sephiroth was so low that Cloud + Sephiroth kill it 5 seconds latter.
Thanks dude! I followed your guide and beat him after 5th try with 140k PLVL but had to tweak the strategy a bit. Since my characters didnt do as much damage as yours (because i havent hit LVL 55 yet) i had to break his X sigils with Aerith while Cloud and Sephiroth take care of the Triangle sigils with elementals. This gave me a lot more breathing room, more damage and Aeriths LB since she isnt sedated by Shadow Flare. Then i had to double buff with Solid Barrier (and use Aeriths LB if party member isnt full health) since no one could survive his Octoslash anymore in last 3rd phase with only one cast of Solid Barrier. 😂
His Sephiroth and Cloud had 0 sigils, hence they kept using the elemental materia to get more damage. If he DID put sigils on them, the AI would always default to using the sigils because that's how they're programed when the breaks pop up.
I gave my Tifa and Sephiroth all sigil breaks. Cura/quake to aerith with her wind staff. Tifa had quake blow and ob8 motor drive and became a lot easier.
I would try killing Ex 3, but I didn't grind to 55 yet, using Cactuars for more usefull stuff than pure xp. And without 55 and the statstream increases it just seems like a hazzle to clear it that I decided to not even bother😅
I know it is obvious but the difference between manual and semi was lost on me. Knowing this now is gonna be the difference between an easy pass and a fail. Cannot wait to kick his arse after work! Don't think I am too fussed about the crash dungeon though!
seems doable when looking at you and listening the advices haha but still not sure I want to give it a try but also the 200 crystals looks tasty as F2P
As a unlucky player that got no shit on my dps characters I disagree, yes not knowing how to fight properly turns this into a nightmare, but without enough damage this is also unnecessarily hard, some people got unlucky with dupes on their dps weapons and their damage is a lot lower compared to octo, or I guess compared to you for example. I cleared this using a different strat manipulating sephi to always hit my tank and giving the tank triple barriers, low dps turns EX 3 into a extreme precision fight…
@peidei2vezes You should have at least 6 star DPS on your character if you focused on them and actually added their weapons you wanted to upgrade in Wishlist. If its a default wishlist, then yeah, you are gonna be unlucky and not finish this Solo fight and Only the Co-Op fight.
My problem was breaking the sigils, and was affraid of not surviving Shadow Flare, so in my head i was like "i have to break the sigils no matter what" lol. Once i tried not braking it like Octo said, i managed to beat it F2P. But yeah taking this fight on Semi\Auto is basically a dead sentence.
Thanks for the guide dude. Managed to finally beat it first try as a F2P. My problem was i was breaking the sigils, so i couldn't do enough dps during that period, so i did as you said and voilá, didn't need to build anything different than i already had besides taking sigil brake materia out of Cloud\Sephi and put it on Tifa since i was manualling her (yes, Tifa can also work as long u have the outfit and weapon from her summer banner). Also pro tip, after the first Heartless Angel, whoever he attacks with Heartless Angel again (the attack he does that leaves the character with 1hp) that's the character he will attack with Octoslash always, so be ready to give barrier and heal that character. Good luck everyone.
I dont think the atk and magic are combined when using LB/Summons. What I think it happens ,like in most RPG/FFs is that those attacks are both mag and phy so the enemy is damaged by whatever is most effective (depending on boss resistances/buffs). So a materia with both +atk and +mag should not make a LB do more mag damage than a materia with only +mag.
In my opinion saying this is "fully duable" is a overstatement ppl need to know that not everything will be able to be done and more if you need rng with materia, stats and PULLs lol, basically if you need a specific set up to BARELY pass it, most probably 80% of the player won't have it. And that's great to be honest, it keeps you want to get stronger and the game won't be boring.. i know i won't be able to clear it lol i have no even decent 2* quake nor aero materia to start.
I wish this Game wasn't so damn grindy, I fear with every update to story it'll get to the point where you can't progress without emptying your wallet.
@@SmellyOctopus yeah, I'm pretty caught up at the moment and sephiroth and cloud are my main damage dealers and I've got a good support/healer too. I've got everyone caught up and well equipped both weapon/materia wise but honestly I'm tired of grinding characters I don't use or care about.
@@Dragonisable So you already have the recipies. When making the synthesis, you only need to choose the option to choose the sigils at the top. If this doesn't appear, reinstall the game because it doesn't make sense for it not to be there.
Here's the VOD on the full setup/fight I did. www.twitch.tv/videos/1953140350?filter=highlights&sort=time
If you guys need anymore help my discord community has many user with more advice & setups. Discord: discord.gg/hycJN5j
If this don’t work for you guys, instead of not breaking sephiroth sigils, just break him using your healer that isn’t doing damage anyway, you can leave the healing to after you break his sigils and the “ferver” starts, also this way you can get more dps and charge more LB instead of just going full suicidal getting hit by shadow flare :)
Octopus coming in CLUTCH!! Right at the end too with the great strat! The biggest thing for me was NOT breaking during the earth/wind stages, it completely changed the fight and I got the win!!
thanks a lot man! this video helps me clear this fight.
been struggling for a week.
also, you guide on Ranked dungeon helped me reach 39th rank. kudos!
This fight would be much more manageable if you could cut the speed in half. I constantly had to fight against my own team and get ahead of them doing the wrong move even in Semi. They love buffing the person not getting attacked.
Trust me if you still haven't beaten this EX3 switch from Semi to Manual. I was also completing this event just now and I'm like I know I can do this so I checked this video out to see what I did different from Octo and my dumbdumb was playing on semi this whole time while he played on Manual and hovered Aerith and let me tell you it was night and day! I beat it my 2nd go as I got use to the manual. Also abuse those phases where he is weak to earth/wind.
Octo you never seem to fail us!
I used the same team and mostly the same equipment, but I had pretty much the same Aerith, a worse Cloud by a few overboosts and 10 levels on the murasame (and just his default 3* SOLDIER outfit) and a slightly more overboosted edged wings on Sephiroth; so it balanced out for around the same power level.
I also got the co-op crash Sephiroth done with some kind fellas from your discord a few days prior, but I truly did not believe I would beat EX 3 in time. You helped me prove myself wrong!
You da man! 🤝
Love your videos mate! They've helped me with every event so far!
Finally after like 2h doing tryes swaping materias weapons managed to down him at 162 power (alot is inflated power for using hp subweapons) f2p, i can say whitout a doubt either sephiroth event weapon or barret event weapon makes this boss ALOT easier, before watching your video i got him a few time to like 5 to 10% then your trick where you dont equip sigils so in the wind and earth phase you do full dps helped me get that % i was missing thx alot ^^.
MAN I DID IT! Thanks for the vid! I was stuck at like 20% the not breaking him got me over the hill!
Thanks for this!
My strategy was a mite different: my Cloud (w/ Murasame mainhand weapon) brought a Ruinra Triangle, and I had Aerith equip Fairy Tale and the Prismatic Staff (the wind-element one) and an X sigil ruinra.
During the Infusion phases, Cloud would bust all Triangle sigils, then I'd use an X-sigil near the end if the interrupt wasn't about to happen. The interrupt phases gave me plenty of time to catch up on health damage, and I could leave my Sephiroth (who had better defense and health than my Cloud, I think) not as healed as the other characters, so Octaslash would target him.
And, during Earth Infusion, my Aerith could help out immensely with damage via the Prismatic Staff. That extra damage was key, for my setup (since I ultimately survived with two characters left).
Aerith's limit is useful to save for usage after a Heartless Angel, to catch up on healing, too.
Biggest tip to add on to the vid: when an Octaslash is about to arrive (i.e. near end of interrupted Wind Infusion, if memory serves, as an example), swap to your Sephiroth to conserve ATB, so you can double-up the barrier. Helps eke out an additional Octaslash survival. :)
I just tried this, and I got so close. Less than 1/4 health left. But it seems like Sephiroth gets progressively stronger with his octoslash's? I have no problem defending against them for a while, but towards the end, he's able to 1 shot me even if I have 3 barriers up. I then realized that my characters are just not 55. IDK if that's the boost I need. If push comes to shove, I may unlock more nodes I've been neglecting as it costs memories to get them and I wanted to wait for lvl 55 to use memories.
My 3 characters are level 55, and when he's at less than 50% health, he just one shots me even at 6000+ hp and triple barrier. I really don't know what to do and I'm about to give up😭
I feel the same. I think I need to somehow do more dps.@@bonni4493
Great video and perfectly explained! Thanks a bunch I'll try it out
You must of had a near perfect run. The wtb gauge never lined up properly for me before octoslash. Either just short to top off hp or just short to put up defense up :/. Got to 15-20 percent with your strat which was by far the best yet though. 👏👏
I'm definitely gonna try this strategy and see if it works. Thank you again for always giving us good content and great advice for F2P😊
awesome strategy thanks!
You are the best thank you I beat him thanks to all you’re tips I know who to come to when I can’t beat a boss
Thanks for this, I was like why am I losing so hard my power level finally got to like 163k and thought well I might barely make this… when got stumped. Searched myself for more hp weapons and pdef I had in my inventory and had some weapon Lvld them up with the spare materials I had and got more hp and got to that 163k powerlevel. But didn’t work yet… the strat of not breaking the sigel and going for elemental dmg changed the fight (though I did break the sigels with aerith every time just at the end for extra dps.)
Dude thanks for the guide. Just beat it after like 5 tries after watching your guide.
BTW I did it With Matt as healer. Worked perfectly. He didn't had 5K HP but his Def/Spr Buff with good timing were enough. I miss click at the end and Matt die to a Octoslash but Sephiroth was so low that Cloud + Sephiroth kill it 5 seconds latter.
Thanks dude! I followed your guide and beat him after 5th try with 140k PLVL but had to tweak the strategy a bit.
Since my characters didnt do as much damage as yours (because i havent hit LVL 55 yet) i had to break his X sigils with Aerith while Cloud and Sephiroth take care of the Triangle sigils with elementals. This gave me a lot more breathing room, more damage and Aeriths LB since she isnt sedated by Shadow Flare. Then i had to double buff with Solid Barrier (and use Aeriths LB if party member isnt full health) since no one could survive his Octoslash anymore in last 3rd phase with only one cast of Solid Barrier. 😂
I never knew summons drew of both physical and magical, I thought it was whichever was higher. Time to unlock Aerith's physical attack nodes |-)
All Damage LBs and Summon does needs PAtk+MAtk
TIL summon/damage LBs draw from both stats. I just assumed when I saw the two symbols that it was taking from whichever was higher LOL
Whoopsie
So when you’re on manual, the characters you’re not controlling will automatically go for elemental weakness instead of sigils?
His Sephiroth and Cloud had 0 sigils, hence they kept using the elemental materia to get more damage. If he DID put sigils on them, the AI would always default to using the sigils because that's how they're programed when the breaks pop up.
Nice vid as always! I managed to beat it with 137k cp f2p but took a lot attempts 😅 my strat was keep one unit low that stacked PDef.
I gave my Tifa and Sephiroth all sigil breaks. Cura/quake to aerith with her wind staff. Tifa had quake blow and ob8 motor drive and became a lot easier.
amazing. today a learned that I have to learn use manual mode.
Got him to 10% hp, maybe i should push that lv 55 and upgrade materias and i'm good to go. Thanks for the vid!
SmellyGoat period.
I have Aerith's wind weapon and I didn't see you use her saving grace so maybe I could try using that during his wind weak phase?
As long as you don't need the heals yes. I didn't use saving grace for anything importan.
Saving grace was used at least once, but like Mr. Octo said, it's not important or necessary.
I would try killing Ex 3, but I didn't grind to 55 yet, using Cactuars for more usefull stuff than pure xp.
And without 55 and the statstream increases it just seems like a hazzle to clear it that I decided to not even bother😅
Are you sure the summons do damage based on the combination of the stats and not the best stat? Has that been spaded already?
I Hope They Bring This Event Back Because I Never Cleared It 😫
We’re u able to beat the tough one stage 6 crash co op or the solo stage 13?
I know it is obvious but the difference between manual and semi was lost on me. Knowing this now is gonna be the difference between an easy pass and a fail. Cannot wait to kick his arse after work! Don't think I am too fussed about the crash dungeon though!
seems doable when looking at you and listening the advices haha but still not sure I want to give it a try but also the 200 crystals looks tasty as F2P
Just did it. Even with Matt healing this is a pretty good guide to follow.
Im PW 202,000 and I cant beat crash solo bro. I think you need to be above 220 to even attempt that
Where is the crash solo?
Not possible unless you're 200k+
Man Octos account is insane for ftp
The reason why most players lose this fight coz they're always in semi or auto and not knowing how to manually fight or just lazy.
As a unlucky player that got no shit on my dps characters I disagree, yes not knowing how to fight properly turns this into a nightmare, but without enough damage this is also unnecessarily hard, some people got unlucky with dupes on their dps weapons and their damage is a lot lower compared to octo, or I guess compared to you for example. I cleared this using a different strat manipulating sephi to always hit my tank and giving the tank triple barriers, low dps turns EX 3 into a extreme precision fight…
@peidei2vezes You should have at least 6 star DPS on your character if you focused on them and actually added their weapons you wanted to upgrade in Wishlist. If its a default wishlist, then yeah, you are gonna be unlucky and not finish this Solo fight and Only the Co-Op fight.
My problem was breaking the sigils, and was affraid of not surviving Shadow Flare, so in my head i was like "i have to break the sigils no matter what" lol.
Once i tried not braking it like Octo said, i managed to beat it F2P.
But yeah taking this fight on Semi\Auto is basically a dead sentence.
Thanks for the guide dude.
Managed to finally beat it first try as a F2P.
My problem was i was breaking the sigils, so i couldn't do enough dps during that period, so i did as you said and voilá, didn't need to build anything different than i already had besides taking sigil brake materia out of Cloud\Sephi and put it on Tifa since i was manualling her (yes, Tifa can also work as long u have the outfit and weapon from her summer banner).
Also pro tip, after the first Heartless Angel, whoever he attacks with Heartless Angel again (the attack he does that leaves the character with 1hp) that's the character he will attack with Octoslash always, so be ready to give barrier and heal that character.
Good luck everyone.
Final Fantasy 9 is waiting Octavio :)
i dont wanna be banging my head, im gonna skip, thanks for the video tho man
Elliott could have taken Sephi one and won in one hit
I dont think the atk and magic are combined when using LB/Summons. What I think it happens ,like in most RPG/FFs is that those attacks are both mag and phy so the enemy is damaged by whatever is most effective (depending on boss resistances/buffs).
So a materia with both +atk and +mag should not make a LB do more mag damage than a materia with only +mag.
Wrong you can easily test this on game. It is combined.
Sephi fighting Sephi...this some KH time travel mumbo jumbo 🙃
If u would swap the weapons of sephiroth u would have better stats.
It doesn't work out because I would loose half the r.ability of MATK. It turns out with less damage.
@@SmellyOctopus I would understand if it is potency but it should be visible on the raw stats if the MATK boost is better.
I need help with Crash Sephi, the lvl 90 battle.
I just don’t have the dmg 😢 I go 10 minutes and he’s only 50% dead.
This guide needs a little more pears.
In my opinion saying this is "fully duable" is a overstatement ppl need to know that not everything will be able to be done and more if you need rng with materia, stats and PULLs lol, basically if you need a specific set up to BARELY pass it, most probably 80% of the player won't have it.
And that's great to be honest, it keeps you want to get stronger and the game won't be boring.. i know i won't be able to clear it lol i have no even decent 2* quake nor aero materia to start.
I wish this Game wasn't so damn grindy, I fear with every update to story it'll get to the point where you can't progress without emptying your wallet.
Eventually like most gachas the more you play over time the less you grind during each update.
@@SmellyOctopus yeah, I'm pretty caught up at the moment and sephiroth and cloud are my main damage dealers and I've got a good support/healer too. I've got everyone caught up and well equipped both weapon/materia wise but honestly I'm tired of grinding characters I don't use or care about.
WHERE TO FIND THE FUCKING RUIN AND RUIN BLOW RECIPES I CLEARED ALL DUNGEONS WHAT DID I MISSING??????
did you cleared the "crisis dungeons" normal mode? its a first rewards rank A.
@@farego2355 yes.....
@@Dragonisable So you already have the recipies. When making the synthesis, you only need to choose the option to choose the sigils at the top. If this doesn't appear, reinstall the game because it doesn't make sense for it not to be there.