One of the first really tough boss battles, Barthandelus requires more than just brute strength to overcome. Don’t fret, GamerZines has you covered with the quickest way to overcome the beast that is Barthandelus. It is strongly recommended that you have at least 2 of your main roles maxed out as far as they can. Barthandelus is one tough cookie and if you are not prepared, you’re going to get pummelled. A good team to start using often is Lightning, Hope and Fang. All three offer great attack, defence and healing so are great for big tough battles such as this. Equip Tungsten Bangles to Lightning and a Gold Bangle to Hope, this should give you an advantage during the battle. Now, set up these paradigms;
- Lightning: Medic / Fang: Commando / Hope: Synergist – (Hero’s Change)
- Lightning: Commando / Fang: Saboteur / Hope: Synergist – (Bully)
- Lightning: Ravager / Fang: Commando / Hope: Medic – (Diversity)
- Lightning: Ravager / Fang: Commando / Hope: Ravager – (Relentless Assault)
- Lightning: Medic / Fang: Sentinel / Hope: Medic – (Combat Clinic)
Switch to Bully and start debuffing Barthandelus, don’t forget to use Librascope to grab intel on the various parts of the boss. Once you have slow cast on the main body (and a few extras), as well as some buffs for your own party, switch to Diversity and dealing out some damage to the right and left sides of the boss. It won’t take long until both the left and right Pauldrons and Ailettes are taken out. If you are strugglign to take these out then switch to Relentless Assault to build a quick stagger meter on each section. Once both sides have been taken out, switch back to Bully and build up the buffs on your party. You’ll want at least 4 or 5 before switching to Relentless Assault or Diversity again. Build that stagger meter and start pumping out damage. Once you see the notification for Destrudo, switch to Hero’s Change. You’ll see this coming when Barthandelus starts to power up. Use this to heal uo your party and then switch to Combat Clinic for the actual attack. The buffs and Fang’s Sentinel should cushion most of the damage. You can switch to Combat Clinic if you need to heal up afterwards. Switch back to Relentless Assault and continue to hammer away at the boss. Each time you stagger him, he still begin to charge up the Destrudo move. Just keep an eye on your health and use the steps described above. After a certain amount of time Doom might be cast onto your party. Don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of time to take him out before succumbing to doom. If all else fails, remember to summon Odin.
Tags: Final Fantasy XIII, levelling, power levelling, sahz, snow, vanille
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It sound good i will try it out when if have the chance…………
How long is the doom count?
I have that all set up already and I have done it as you stated, but he casts doom and i just cant beat him in the 800 seconds I have left at the moment^^’
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time is running out and I dont have much hope…i guess I can only hope that he will cast it later on next time cuz im going to fail this time, this will be the 4th time too
where is the picture
This is way too fucking hard, all the other bosses were a piece of piss and they whip this bad boy out. I did – sorta – what you said. But as soon as Destrudo came out I went straight onto Medi mode, I think that was what my problem was, cos he totally Doomed me when I had a quarter of his health off. I Odin’d him and went full out and got quite close but no biscuit. God, Square Enix decided they really want to frustrate their fans don’t they XD
OMG
I just had him down to 9k HP (out of 450k), then i got Doomed
On my second try
I probably could got him if i just kept attacking while he was charging his last Destrudo, but i wanted to play safe and went Med’ing
I’ve already beaten this guy once (after about 9 tries) what u said is more or less what I did and it finally worked. Honestly with this guy luck plays a big part in winning but u have to use this stratedgy to have any luck. I’m watchin my brother play right now and he is determined he is jus gonna pumble the guy and heal as needed. I told him he will never beat him that way but he has his mind made up. Here in an hour or so he will get tired of trying and quit playing lol.
if you do enoght damage to him ehile hes charging up destructo he wont use doom but will still use destructo so i hope that helps
He didn’t cast doom on me, maybe because, when he was charging Destrudo i switched to Rav/Rav/Rav to stagger him and took a chunk of his HP. Of course i needed to heal, so i healed my self first, it took me a few tries but i eventually got the timing right.
This really healped since I was stuck fightin him for 3 days and it was really fusterating, but he never casted doom on me. Oh n now im stuck ok raines which sucks
this is bullshit I tried it your way but I still can’t beat him. what you said about that doom that you will make it in time to beat him is really a load of crap :@ I can’t stand this, been busy for 2 whole hours and I’m not getting anny closer at all :’(
I tried it now woth lightning hope and snow and this time I came really close to victory. Gonna try it again tomorrow
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Wow, I used Lightning, Hope and Fang and I got him on my very first try. He didn’t cast doom and I just kept spamming him when he tried to use destructo. Using both an Aegisol and Fortisol before the battle cutscene helped since I had a lot of buffs to start out with. I only used Combat Clinic once, opting to focus solely on switching between Relentless Assault and Diversity. I hope this helps.
I got REALLY close using Lightning, Hope and Fang. I used Combat Clinic a couple of times, Diversity sometimes, Bully the most. When he use Destrudo, I played it safe and use Protection, THEN Bully so I can hope to stagger him but always failed. This strategy failed me, But sooner later, I listened to the comments and spammed him with Rav/Rav/Rav and eventually got him, Thanks comments!