Stuck at Desert Flower Lever Puzzle

[Phil85]

I'm at the blocked doorway to the desert flower. I win every fight after clicking on the levers, but I can't open the door to the flower area. I don't see another path to get the flower. Any help would be great.

[_Artorias_]

you need to activate the levels in a particular order, that is the puzzle. you will get the sequence right when no enemies spawn once you activate a lever.

[Phil85]

Thanks for the quick response. So if I pick lever 1 correctly, I will not be attacked and I will know that this is the first level in the sequence?

[MasterKD]

You need to interact all 4 levels in an order that puts the 4 messages on the 4 pillars in the right order.
Watch this guy's video from 14:30. He did a good job showing how to solve this puzzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUtpbexjzSs

[Phil85]

I got past it. Thanks again.

[mreed2]

The alternative solution is to simply kill the third enemy group -- the one with 2 stacks of 4 titans.

It actually isn't all that hard -- you need to be luck and summon earth elementals first (adjacent to the two titans), but once you've done that, just keep summoning more elementals (set back, say, 4 tiles from the earth elementals), hoping for water or fire (/especially/ fire). Defend with the Earth Elementals each turn, and use the secondary elementals to attack the various stacks, leaving the titans for last. I ended up with 1 stack of earth elementals, 2 of air, and (I think) 2 of fire and was successful -- I could just /barely/ do enough damage to kill one Titan per round, slowly attriting away (due to retirbution strikes) the two stacks of air elementals, finally using the Earth elementals to attack to muster enough damage to take out a Titan (but by that point, I was down to one stack with, I believe 3 Titans remaining).

Unhappily, while you get tons of XP for winning this battle, and it /does/ (for once, given all the scripting errors in this game) allow you to continue afterwards, it matter less than you would hope (spoilers!)