Chapter 2 fountainhead boss fight

[Rion]

Just what's wrong with that one? Am I supposed to restart this until worms decide NOT to use their BS AoE attack back-to-back and obliterate everyone? Why the hell would they have single target 500 hp attack and 1300 hp aoe without cast time? It doesn't make any sense. I could get it were it the other way around or if aoe attack was a craft that you could interrupt but rn it just looks like 'pray for them not to chain their ground shakers'. Difficulty is hard but doubt it matters much. I just don't see a "solution" to this one aside from replaying until you are lucky enough.

Upd: Managed to prevail by hitting only one of them at a time. Still not sure if hitting them triggers their aoe spam but it's at least survivable when they don't hit you continously with that bs.

[Dr. Rudolf von Richten]

Originally posted by DriveAxe:

Upd: Managed to prevail by hitting only one of them at a time. Still not sure if hitting them triggers their aoe spam but it's at least survivable when they don't hit you continously with that bs.

This. Their description (if you have Heaven's Eye slotted in) says 'Causes quakes when injured'. So taking them out one by one is the trick. If you have Agate, delay the current target with Spiral Edge; if you have Schera, advance your turns with Heaven's Kiss.

Also, having at least one character dedicated to casting Earth Wall will help a lot. I think you can set it up on Tita at this point, which is good because her AOE attack is detrimental to you here. Oh, and bundle up in a corner before you start dealing with the Worms.

[Berahlen]

As ^ said, this is why you always have info or heaven's eye slotted.

If things get really hairy, they have very low MOV and are vulnerable to MOV debuffs. So you can buy time by smoke bombing the mosquitoes, run to a corner, Petrosphere when they clump up trying to chase and drop half the worms to 1 MOV, and easily single file them down.

[Rion]

Yeah, thing is i benched Kloe who had Heaven's Eye and thought it was no biggie for me to go without it. Delaying one of the worms with Agate and spamming Earth Wall with Olivier helped a lot even though I burned through all of the EP charges in the end. Thanks for the replies, just needed to vent somewhere because sometimes some of the fights feel really unfair.

[Dudu(C)]

Oh the worm guys, yup they can be a deal breaker for unprepared players. Also why it's wise to always bring someone with Heaven's Eye.

I forgot if at that point you already had access to Clock Down, I think you do, it makes the battle more manageable since the Worms are not fast, and move very slowly too.

[Berahlen]

I want to say Clock Down isn't quite possible yet. I thought of that on my Nightmare run and didn't end up using it. Petrosphere definitely is though.