What's Portrait's gimmick?

[kaymarciy]

"If a skill slot is attached to the Master's Portrait, a shockwave of the same color as the aura around the Master's Portrait occurs when the portrait is revealed".
What? What shockwave? I revealed all portraits and did not see any shockwave.

"If the enemies defeated the Master's Portrait, gain 0.5 Phys resistance and 5 Fragile".
What? Portraits take zero damage, how am I supposed to defeat it?

[Alpha Chad]

So one portrait will do a funny shockwave and appear behind the main abno when it’s the correct one, you’re meant to memorise the colour and beat its ass next turn.
However, the correct portrait is the only one that blocks, so beat that one up

[kaymarciy]

Originally posted by Alpha Chad:

So one portrait will do a funny shockwave and appear behind the main abno when it’s the correct one, you’re meant to memorise the colour and beat its ass next turn.
However, the correct portrait is the only one that blocks, so beat that one up

I'm not sure I see any difference between portraits appearance, but I'll try to pay more attention. Thanks for response.

[Alpha Chad]

Originally posted by kaymarciy:

Originally posted by Alpha Chad:

So one portrait will do a funny shockwave and appear behind the main abno when it’s the correct one, you’re meant to memorise the colour and beat its ass next turn.
However, the correct portrait is the only one that blocks, so beat that one up

I'm not sure I see any difference between portraits appearance, but I'll try to pay more attention. Thanks for response.

Yea, it’s a bit weird if you haven’t seen it before and don’t know what to look for, having sound on helps.
Each portrait have a unique colour aura anyway so that helps

[H11DN-D4NG3R]

Its somewhat sound based(Doenst help cause clashes can be loud) and flashes ones very quickly when it reveals the correct 1

Tho reading and checking skills, it should be obvious wich is the real 1

I think it says gains -0.5 and not +,

During its portrait fase it gets lots of resistances.

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

Just need to Destroy the Portrait that switches to Defensive Mode before 2 Turns to debuff the Boss or it will get Offensive Boost.

[koimeiji]

Basically, the way its supposed to work is that on the turn that the portraits spawn, when you clash with the abnormality one of the portraits will "flash", signifying that that's the "master's portrait" and the one you're supposed to kill next turn.

The "problem" is that it's also the only portrait that uses a block skill instead of an evade skill, so there's no purpose in paying attention to the flash.


Either way, those first three waves are supposed to be when you build your EGO resources. They aren't hard fights, or at least they aren't supposed to be. You can basically ignore all the gimmicks.
No, seriously though, get as much Sin as you can in those first three waves. Farm anything you know will be harder to collect later on, or sin you know you'll need (such as gloom/lust/pride for fluid sac)

You are going to ♥♥♥♥♥♥' need it. Invidiae Peccatulum will kick your ass if you aren't using your EGO properly.

[Minh]

Clash Win against it. Defeat one that uses DEFENSE Skills Guard.

Originally posted by kaymarciy:

What?

Yes.

Originally posted by kaymarciy:

What shockwave?

It's not. It's sound that sounds like pained grunt.

Originally posted by kaymarciy:

What?

Yes.

Originally posted by kaymarciy:

Portraits take zero damage, how am I supposed to defeat it?

Don't defeat those. Defeat one that uses DEFENSE Skills Guard.

[Sweagen]

I honestly didn't notice any visual difference either between the portraits, but it's as others say the one which uses a defense skill is the one u need to kill

[SIGNAL]

The intended way the puzzle is laid out is similar to the Ozma fight in Library of Ruina: When hitting the abno, a portrait shows up with a specific color aura. If you hit the correct skill slot on the abno, the portrait should have a shockwave effect. You should have someone destroy that portrait as soon as possible.

Problem is, that portrait also happens to be the only one to use a guard skill so you don't actually have to pay attention when revealing it. Which means the puzzle is just

tl;dr "Hit every skill slot to reveal the portraits and destroy the only guarding portrait next turn"