Cave of Shadows

[Chapmanisimo]

This is the dungeon where nearly all of the enemies divide when hit with physical attacks. How did you guys deal with it? I found a pretty interesting solution that I can basically auto-attack throughout the entire dungeon.

Bard: Paeon - this is the bard's party-healing song, and right now she's healing all party members for 250hp

Geomancer: Terrain - this will randomly select an attack type, but is mostly doing an AOE attack that hits all enemies

Black Belt: Kick - So this is interesting. He can 1-shot an enemy after boosting his normal attack, but the kick attack hits ALL the enemies, causing them to divide like crazy. It's not unusual that I'm killing up to 12 monsters in a single fight from the amount of dividing. Ergo, lots of xp. (New creatures made with the divide ability count as a new enemy).

Viking: Draw Attacks - This ability is the only reason I've been able to get past the first floor. The viking is an absolute sponge and keeps all my squishy guys safe.

All characters are in the back row to reduce the damage they take.

[SC_Nikki]

Dark Knights

[AH-1 Cobra]

Something else to note is when the enemy divides, their HP divides as well, which makes AOE attacks very effective against dividing opponents.

Black Belt's kick move is AOE, which means it doesn't matter if they divide or not, and kick does full damage from the back row as well. When I got to cave of shadows, I already had 3 characters as black belt with decent job levels, because auto-battle kick with 3 black belts was a pretty efficient and painless way to just insta-clear regular battles, and cave of shadows was no exception. If you're struggling with the mobs there, the boss is probably gonna clap your butt cheeks, so you might wanna get some levels anyway.

[fmalfeas]

The 'dark blades' that ninjas and dark knights use prevent splitting.