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Update 44: Preparing for the 3rd Boss
Okay, let's check on how the guild is doing.
I wonder, is this the right thing to do?
Susan here is our buffing support. She can help out party dish out a lot of damage, and with her Limit Boost passive, she can fire off Limits as soon as possible. She can also buff our party's defenses.
I'm really nervous about all this. I wonder just how tough this Gatekeeper is. 
Unfortunately, Alice's murdering prowess will not help her here. So she doesn't have much to contribute to this fight.
Now let's see... What would be the best way to take down a giant robot?
Faye is our healing support. She can provide a ton of healing with Protect Order and Party Heal. She can also provide defensive support with Guard Order, and increase our party's attack power with Attack Order.
I wonder what lies beyond the Gatekeeper.
Akatsuki is a damage dealer and a support. He can deal out okay amounts of damage with Izuna and Takanoha, but he can also enable our party members to use their skills more with Dark Ether. Now that he has Takanoha, he can actually contribute to boss fights!
Hmm, I'm wondering if we may be getting in over our heads here.
Asteria is our elemental attacker, and pretty good at her job. If she can make use of any elemental Limits, she can deal a whole lot of damage.
One thing's for sure. The Deep City won't like this at all.
Antivolt now reduces Volt damage by 36%.
Cassandra is our defensive support, being able to take damage in another party member's place. And is capable of defending our party against physical and elemental attacks.
I can't wait to hear about the Deep City's reactions once we break their stupid robot!
Endless Battle provides a 6% boost to Rose's physical damage output.
Rose is one of our physical attackers, and a pretty strong one at that. Blade Rave deals a whole lot of damage.
I dunno. Even though the Abyssal King and Olympia condoned all that murder, I'm pretty sure the whole city wasn't in on the plan or anything.
I leveled up Berserker Vow to 5, which unlocked White Flame.
Berserker Vow provides a 54% boost to physical damage, at the cost of 55% of Scott's current HP. I'm gonna focus on maxing this out now.
White Flame provides the user immunity to ailments for 4 turns. Unlike Prevent Order, it doesn't get dispelled once it blocks an ailment, so it's a bit more useful in that regard.
Scott is another option for a physical attacker. Thanks to his Jolly Roger, he hits pretty hard with Hanging.
As long as I get to demolish a giant robot, I don't give a hoot about what the Deep City thinks!
Front Mortar is now maxed out, making Sidney a really strong damage dealer. It deals 85% damage if used from the back row, but 382% damage if used from the front! Add in Giant Kill's bonus and that's a total of 592% damage right there!
Sidney is yet another option for a physical attacker. And he's one of the glass cannon variety. Not good at taking hits, but fantastic at dishing them out. He's pretty much on par with Scott in terms of damage.
Why can't we all just be friends? No really, why?
Holy moly! Ha ha ha!
I'm gonna work on getting all of Fang's binds up to max level. Call Mole is the leg bind version he has. It summons a Clawed Mole, who deals Slash damage to an enemy and has a 25% chance of binding their legs.
Call Snake now summons a snake who has 45 base HP, deals 85% damage on the initial attack, and 75% damage on its AI attack, and has a 27% chance to inflict arm bind.
Fang is our main source of ailments and binds. If his ailments land on the boss, it could make the fight a lot easier, but that's not really a strategy to rely on.
Anyways, here's some info on the boss itself.
Stratum 3 Boss
HP: 10000
AT: 45
DF: 42
Weakness: Slash, Strike, Pierce, Fire, Ice, Volt
Resistance: N/A
Absolute must haves:
-You need Aegis Defense for the fight. If you don't have that, then some way of increasing your physical defenses is required. You're not gonna live very long without either. If you're bringing neither, than bring lots of healing.
Highly recommended, but not required:
-Diversifying your damage types. Just make sure to have both physical and elemental damage on your side.
-Defense against both physical and elemental attacks.
-If you're using Aegis Defense, you want someone who is durable to have that Limit equipped. You don't want any Aegis Defense users dying throughout the fight. Also if someone happens to have Limit Boost, they would be an ideal candidate for an Aegis Defense user. Or someone with a spammable level 10 skill.
Vote for 3 party members to fight against the boss. Votes must be bolded.
And what do you think the 4th Stratum will look like?