I beat Dark Falz on Ultimate !

[Benoit]

In the late afternoon, I started playing PSO, taking on the Ultimate Ruins. Despite not being that hard, I did die a couple of times, and played for many hours.<br>I started at LV 119, and leveled up to LV 120 early in Ruins 3.<p>The first time I faced Dark Falz I got to the fourth phase, and got killed by one of those rocks. Strange.<br>Other times I once got killed in the first phase by Darvants, and other times I got killed later, by Darvants, and once by Dark Falz' HP steal attack.<p>I will describe my strategy and what he does.<p>Equipment:<br>Red Saber +39<br>PARASITE WEAR: Nelgal<br>-Elf/Arm++<br>-Super/Resist<br>-Super/Resist<br>-Perfect/Resist<br>Secret Gear<p>First phase:<br>Kill something like 10 Darvants which have purple smoke in them. Pretty straightforward, just never stay still except to cast Resta!<p>Second phase:<br>He will cast Rafoie and Rabarta after having released several Darvants through one of the dragon heads. When he's severely damaged, he will release his dark shower attack.<br>Cast Zalure on one of the dragon heads, and do two normal-hard-hard combos on him. Maybe a third, if you see it fit. Then cast Rabarta 3 times to get rid of (most) Darvants. Heal when necessary, and shake your diagonal stick when frozen.<br>Also, be careful to not get behind his butt!<p>Third phase:<br>He will move really fast at most times, creating several after-images that fade quickly as he does. He will cast multiple Rafoie spells with his right arm, and multiple Rabarta spells with his left arm. Look at your radar to see something weird while he casts them.<br>After casting them, three Darvants raise from the ground in a triangle around you, often making targetting Dark Falz difficult. They move in only one direction, and go away after a couple of seconds. Be very careful when Rabarta is cast, you will often be frozen! Get out of there immediately or the Darvants will kill you!<br>Now, as for attacking, cast Zalure on him first when he's targetable, and hit him as much as possible. Often, he will chrash his body into the ground, affecting you with a "Slow" status, before releasing a dark shower attack. If you are just in front of him, doing damage while he chrashes his body, don't bother casting Anti. If you're further away from him, cast Anti and run to him to give him some slashes. You will have a good chance to evade his dark shower attack this way.<br>When he's low on health, he will steal over half of your HP. If you have (near) full HP, don't bother, and just slash away, else, heal immediately! Despite sucking something like 500 HP from you, it will heal him for a whopping 1200 HP! This is why you must always damage him as much as possible.<br>As always, during the fight, heal when necessary, keeping your HP at least close enough to full (100-200 HP from max).<p>Fourth phase:<br>Now it gets easier, at least for me. Change your Super/Resist units by two Resist/Devil units. At first, I changed them to Resist/Holy units. In this battle, keep your HP full AT ALL TIMES.<br>He will start with a slash attack that will take off about 700 HP. He might slash more than once, but you will lie down, so it doesn't matter.<br>If Dark Falz isn't close to you, release a couple Foie spells on him. Did 109 damage for me. If he does get close, hack away if he's vulnerable, and if he's not, cast Zalure if it looks like you will be able to slash at him.<br>Then he will get in the air. Start running along with the ring. You must start running at least before he launches his attack. His attack is several light rocks thrown at you. Unlike former difficulties, they won't fly by you after you dodge them, but they will seem to bounce on the invisible walls of the ring, following you. There's a good chance that you'll be hit by the last one, or even sooner, smacking you to the ground while losing most of your HP. Then Dark Falz casts Grants, but it won't affect you since you just were on the floor. This is when I decided that I best had two Resist/Devil units instead of Resist/Holy units. If you do manage to get away from the rocks, though, you will find out that his Grants isn't that strong. It did 507-508 damage to me, with a ELT of 9.<br>After either of these attacks, heal fully. Then the cycle repeats.<br>After having lost many HP, he will steal your soul for a while. Damage him with Foie for the amount that one cast of Resta heals you. Heal, and if you have time, do this again. Then he will fly up, release a slow Megid on you. This Megid spell actually works! Thankfully, I haven't had to experience that, though. Just keep running to dodge it! Then he will cast Grants, and return your soul. Heal fully, and then cast Foie as many times as you can, and attack him! He will do his usual cycle again one time, before stealing your seal again and doing the above once more.<p>My Red Saber laid the final blow, and Rico's soul was saved.<p>The ending, instead of showing your character's travels, showed the travels of Rico.<br>I have made pictures of the ending with the webcam of my siblings. It's not so good quality, but still not that bad, as I had made the room dark.<p>I was done with all this about 7 hours after starting.<p>I will upload the Ultimate Ruins' Rico's pod messages and the ending pictures tomorrow on my script site.<p>[size=small][Edit by Benoit on [TIME]1091754866[/TIME]][/size]<br><p>[size=small][Edit by Benoit on [TIME]1092131096[/TIME]][/size]

[Becky]

Nice one Benoit!<p>I too managed to beat him a while back on ultimate.<br>(cant remember what level i was at though)<p>Though he was a total pain to begin with but i did it in the end!<p>Now on to save Flowen's soul a?

[Halikus]

Well Done Benoit. I did DF on Ultimate at Lv116 or so. I had to use 5 scapes and all fluids/mates I had with me.<p>My equipment was as follows<p>Surpessed Gun +9<br>Red Dagger+65<br>Guard Wave<br>+God/Battle<br>+God/Power<br>+Resist/holy<br>+Resist/holy<br>Delsabers Sheild<br>Devil's Tail 175 on power<br>Ila 180 Mind<p>All the units made sure that Grants did not kill me. although I found megid Killed me twice, I cant defend both. Benoit did you find phase 3 alot harder? the speed boost DF gats is a little extreme!<p>

[Benoit]

Yeah, he is really fast. That's not what made it harder though, it's the Darvants that pop out, and Dark Falz' improved HP steal attack! 1200 HP x_X<br>I made it to the last phase only two times.<p>His Grants is pretty weak compared to Gran Sorcerer's, though. One Resist/Holy should have been enough, and you could have used the other one for Resist/Devil. <p>As for mates and fluids, while I needed many Difluids and some Trifluids, and occasionally used a mate, I wasn't close to using them all, strangely enough. o_O<p>Well done, though.

[Neo48]

Strategys eh? Mine is....SHOOOOT...there you have it.<p>Equips: (These never change throughout the entire game, except for Olga Flow)<p>L&K Combats +20 (35% hit) - These do the shooting.<br>Electroframe<br>-God Body<br>-God Battle<br>-God Luck<br>-God Arm<br>Kasami Bracer<br>Sato (Soon to be Diwari)<p>When fighting Dark Falz-<p>Phase 1:<br>I shoot the only ones I can shoot.<p>Phase 2: <br>I shoot the closest head.<p>Phase 3:<br>I shoot the body, because its the only thing I can shoot. <p>Phase 4:<br>Again, more shooting of the only thing I can shoot.<p>As far as Darvants go, I just ignore them. As far as his attacks go, they are pretty much just a annoyance now. It usually takes me about one hour to get through all the ruins and falz.

[Benoit]

Yeah, well, that's because you are of such a high level. %) <br>How did you do it before getting all that fancy stuff and your high level?

[Neo48]

Same strategy....Combats with hit percent that are being used by a HUcast are unbelieveably strong. Plus, it may also be the high health and high defense.

[jherm]

benoit, my strategy with kleedus beating v-hard falz, at a low lvl, was pretty much the same as neo's current except for one thing. change those combats to asuka. its a simple strategy, if you jsut learn attack patterns and bring scape

[Butoden]

Those screens look cool. Good job Benoit. #)

[Benoit]

Yeah well, you had items from other characters. %) <p>Forgot to mention that the first time I went in, I did get killed in the second phase. But my Mag revived me!

[OzzaJW]

Congrats Benoit, and woithout a gun of some kind 0_0'' must've taken some patience haha.<p>First time round beating him on ult on GC was with a set-up of somethign like this (i can't remember exactly, was so long ago):<p>OzzaJW<br>HUnewearl<br>Level 85-85 (aroudn then sometime)<br>Equipment would have been:<br>Weapons: Charge Gatling+9 (50Hit, 45 Dark)<br> Diska Of Braveman <br> Asuka +30 (15 dark)<br>Armour+Slots: <br>Parasite Wear: Vajulla 4slot<br>Ogre/Power++ X3<br>God/Arm<br>SECRET GEAR<br>Savitri with balanced between ATP and ATA, level 200<p>the only thing that can occasionaklly knacker me offline on my characters is the 3rd phase (After Dravants and his sluggish moving phase) when he RAbarta's and the Darvants come up. On Ozza and Nightmare (HUnewearl level 174 and HUcast level 133) i have the HP to survive, but with my FOnewearl, RAmarl and my other Ult chars i can get beaten if i don't freeze-escape quickly enough.

[jherm]

benoit, the only item i had from other characters that i used was asuka. he found all his other stuff. i don't exactly find good armors or barriers. i find them, they just suck badly. so i had no increased dfp or evp from other characters.

[Butoden]

<blockquote>Forgot to mention that the first time I went in, I did get killed in the second phase. But my Mag revived me!</blockquote> <br>You never use Scape Dolls or something? ~0

[Benoit]

Well, you're still a HUcast, and Asuka is super strong, jherm.<p>No, I don't use Scape Dolls, Butoden. I never have spares when I reach the boss.

[Tekno-Crystal]

I see alost of people using Secret Gears. Sure they give high def, but they give very low evasion. So far, I've been better off with a regular shield than my Secret Gear. And now it only ads about 10 to def, and subtracts 50 from evasion.