Just beat all the Bonus fights, including Ultima Weapon, in the past 24 hours because Orbfest ended.
Not going to post exact teams since too lazy to remember them exactly,but i can post what strats I used and such.
For Ultima Weapon, I used a mixed team. Beatrix was there because Knight, and I had foresight to recognize Magic Blink might be really useful here so Seiken Shock just about everything else I had. Relm was my token healer...just assume that's the case until I get a healer BSB. Tyro was there because, well, SG and his BSB, the latter of which actually saw use for once later in the fight because Magic Blink > Sentinel Grimoire. Between him and Beatrix, there were a fair number of missed Ultimas. Raines went in with an MM+DZ set up, and I chose him because he had a Holy Elemental SSB which hit quite hard. In hindsight, Garnet may have been better with her BSB, but eh, I won with only one reset.
I CM'd Bartz U+ this time, losing 3 medals. A few things that help is Dorgan having Knight 5 lets him wield Banishing Strike, the existence of Gaia Cross allowing Gilgamesh to do SOMETHING while Drawtaliating, Ex-Death having an SSB for some extra DPS, and I did egg the characters up to 75 and RD'd some of them for added stats. Faris did stat breaking, Gilgamesh Drawtaliated, Dorgan threw up SG #1, and otherwise did Banishing Strike/Saint Cross, Ex-death did MM+DZ combos. Rough, mostly because Lenna's Medica was a shared Mystery Veil, but unlike the first Bartz U+, this felt do-able, if for no other reason than you know his first two turns won't slaughter you outright. Blue Magic Missile Salvo has the same overall effect as his opening Double Monk Kick bullshit in the previous, but the difference is because it's set damage, you know you'll survive, and I don't think he can use anything MT outside of that until Trueblade of Legend. This is a much better crafted fight as a result, if only because the fight isn't determined immediately of "Can you get Protectga up before Monk Kick #1, or 2 Layers of Non-Power Breakdown mitigation up BEFORE Monk Kick #2? If not, sucks to be you!"
Primal Ex-death...well...this is the fight where I really got to test out my new toy in Leylines. See, I didn't really have a good opportunity before since the Ultimate+s in the terror fights were a joke, and Ultima Weapon seemed like it begged for a physical or mixed team due to that glaring holy weakness. Here? Went in full Mage Meta, and GOOD LORD does Leylines make your DPS insane. Being able to stack 2 30% Magic Boosts (RWing VoF naturally) instead of a 30% + 20% through Lulu's focus makes a notable difference, but more to the point, Quick Magic + Haste combo was absurd. I actually felt like I was hitting him with a barrage attacks rather than the other way around.
Amusingly, between this fight and Rubicante U+, I actually did use Terra's BSB despite having the SSB2 + OSB combo, if only because she's like the one Mage who can actually exploit that water weakness to reasonable effectiveness. It's rare that the BSB becomes useful with that combo, but this was one such rare case! It won't be until like Gogo and Chain Waterga drop that any other Mage can really exploit Water well (waterja exists, but capped at 9999, and Leviabeetus just isn't enough by itself.)
Didn't bother attempting to Cid Mission Isegbind. He's a jerk in FF14 because he keeps landing on Meepel, but more importantly, my synergy here isn't quite as good as my FF5 Synergy overall, and I have the same "no real medica" for all that I do have Y'shtola's SSB with Proshellga + Heavy Regen, so maybe that could work? I'll figure it out at some point. I mage Meta'd the entire way, and Garuda exploded really fast. One worry part was I started charging En-Fired Scorching Flames...then she summoned her plumes and was worried Terra would blow her OSB on one of them, but no, she hit Garuda for like 96k damage and all was well.
But yeah, Papalymo has not disappointed. In fact, Garuda was a case where I took advantage of his White 4 as I gave him Shellga since it sounds like Garuda was a mixed attacker, so Relm runs Protectga, he runs Shellga. Granted, having Leylines, the RW AND one of Proshellga on one character does lead to a cluster fuck of buffs taking 3 turns, but shh!
