Mother. Fucking. Runelord.
I found a job class cave and it was for a Runesword. Lvl. 50 danger level. I got a team of tressa/hunter cyrus/archmage primrose/healer alfyn/thief and we are just barely lvl 50 on tressa. The rest have just hit 40.
YOLO
I go in. He's weak to arrows, daggers, axes, light, and dark. That means Hunter Tressa Arrowstorm, Ruinous seed Alfyn, and Cyrus with the light spell are my guard breakers. Cyrus and Alfyn can hit for 3 and Tressa is a crapshoot. 3 is the usual. Tressa has every skill to make here hit extra. Eye for an eye, patience, whatever. She gets extra hits sometimes, extra turns and goes in so shes a troopper. Alfyn and Primrose are on healer duty and both have the healer skill to heal above their maximum HP...thats very important later.
Anyhow till halfway through the fight you can only break him with ax and dark. Once he shifted to arrows and light it was easier because my cyrus didn't have a dark ability. I had only just beat the archmage for the class and it was also tight but nothing like what I was about to face. You see once you get the Runelord to half health all his weaknesses unlock...but he has 9 shields to break and his attacks now hit EVERYONE and occassionally add sleep or blind. This mother fucker usually kills in his two turns. but so long as primrose is alive on healing I can survive long enough to break him and heal folks. Then I generally abuse my Large Ice soulstones that I loaded up on with Therion when I stole them from the enemies in the archmage cave. Dude earned me like 20+ so I could hit for 5400 every time I broke the runelord!
Fast forward...this dude is at half health, im out of stones and he put everyone to sleep. EVERYONE. That means he goes 4 turns not just 2. He kills everyone but Primrose who is going to die. I can't revive everyone because they'll die in a single hit and he goes next turn before I get another turn with Primrose. I dont have any BP to boost that revive with. If I heal Primrose to maximum he goes once, then I go then he goes. Theres no getting out of a cycle of healing than getting rocked and having to heal again next turn if I choose to heal. Plus if I get put to sleep again I lose.
Then I get an idea...I'd use a LARGE Olive of Life on Alfyn and see if he'd come back to life overhealed to 9999 because of his skill to heal beyond his limit.
...
It. Fucking. WORKED.
He's back, Prim dies, Alfyn gets hit by both turns. Still conscious. Does the same to Primrose. Now Prim is 9999 and Alfyn is still around 3000 (yes he hit me for nearly 6k in two turns). I revive and bring back the crew. Somehow things start lining up and I start to use Tressa arrows to break him, Prim to heal us all, and Alfyn concoct to hit them 3 times. Its working but we got like no damage. This cycle repeats like twice. One time we were all low on health and he had two turns coming up and the only chance I had would be if he killed everyone but Prim so she could use max boost revive otherwise there was no way I'd be able to make it if he killed all but like two of them because I'd need at least 3 turns to get everyone revived and ready to do an attack. If he killed two it'd be prim reviving them and then me and whoever else dying and not enough turns or items to revive the rest without slowly losing ground. I made it. He literally killed all but Prim, I revive them all with max boost, Prim dies and we use our turns to revive her, and get a few more shields broken.
This just keep going with me goin all the way down to Primrose and abusing Olive of Life but I use my last large one so I know I gotta do damage. Then I get an idea. Alfyn has been using Concoct the whole time meaning he's stockpiled Boost. This time instead of trying to break the guy I use Alfyn's lvl 3 skill that makes items hit everyone for 3 rounds and cast it on Primrose who is next. She then uses Revitalizing jam to max hp, sp, and BP the entire party. I manage to get the runelord broken during this time and do it again to refuel BP on Cyrus to cast his lvl 3 scholar ability to massively increase damage on attack all skills and have them only hit one person. Then I have Alfyn concoct a speed boost to primrose to go first next round to have her cast Peacock strut on Cyrus and boost his elemental damage, finally Tressa gets a bonus turn due to her skill and uses pomegranites to fully fuel Cyrus. When he comes up next turn he max boosts and hits the fucking Runelord for 15000ish.
Bastard still stands. I'm out of gear. I tell alfyn to use a medium shadowstone to at least get some damage on this fucker who wont fall.
DEAD.
O_O
Im exhausted. Holy fuck. I should've lost outright for like the entire last half of the fight. It was nothing but being put to sleep, everyone dead, healer near death, healing to only have her die, using my turns to revive her, and just a miserable war of atricion.
I got the Runelord job class now. I'm exhausted. Holy fuck this game. I've never had an RPG battle so god damned intense and close where I should've lost every fucking turn for half an hour only to win it after all.
