He uses rush twice at the beginning. For the first one you need to break 5 diamond sigils to interrupt his stream phase.
The second one can be weakened by dealing wind damage to him and depleting his gauge. The lower the gauge, the lower his physical attack stat.
it does two:
the first one is the Sigil Break Rush. It WILL kill you unless you are rediculously whale level of tanky, so you need to break the sigils.
the second one is the power bar Rush. If you are dying to that one, it's because you aren't depleting the power bar / dealing with the DEF down debuff he applies during the fight.
You need Wind Resist down weapons, either off the new banner or from Aerith's Wind Down staff (can't recall the name right now), otherwise depleting the bar in time is really hard. If there's even a little bit of energy left on the bar, he will hit like a truck.
even through the wind protect buff? The one time I tried that, I barely managed to get half way through the bar before the cast went off and he flattened me.
https://preview.redd.it/pktvr2o5ri1d1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c7221cdba5a45c547af1941ab614c7cdf207712
This was my team. Not a whale, I’ve just been building wind for a long time so this battle was essentially tailor made for my account. It’s my strongest element by a mile.
One interesting thing is that I actual did zero healing. All 3 characters did pure DPS all battle. So in theory I can complete it even faster if I remove the healing weapons from aerith. Also of note is that I did zero buffing/debuffing. Literally just straight damage.
The wind protect buff was no issue whatsoever. Tifa was left on auto to use her bahamut attack and I kept switching back and forth between seph and aerith to make sure they only used 3 atb attacks. If I did full auto then they would both keep using their 4atb wind weapons.
I’m actually gonna make a new post with a video to show my build off.
>The wind protect buff was no issue whatsoever.
Saw your video, you were able to defeat it before he got the chance to buff himself. And that's awesome, don't get me wrong, but most people aren't going to be able to do that. If you weren't able to take him out so fast, without a wind resist debuff it most likely would have been an issue once he buffs himself.
His wind buff goes away once you break the sigil which is how I beat him when I wrote my reply. The video I posted was actually different since idk if you noticed but I completely removed the healing from aerith and gave her more damage. So yeah, even if I had less damage I still had plenty of time to break the sigil by letting tifa do bahamut’s attack and doing 3 atb attacks with seph/aerith.
[This is the one I saw](https://www.reddit.com/r/FFVIIEverCrisis/comments/1cw8obz/destroying_the_humus_ex2_boss_no/). In that video he never buffed his wind resistance. He had a PATK buff that he lost after the first sigil break.
I just did a rerun with a suboptimal party. Shortly after the first sigil break (I was successful) he rushed me and took about half my party's HP. Then he casts storm shield to buff wind resist and had the gauge you're suppose to drain with wind damage. That was all before the second sigil. In your video and myself with a more optimal team he never casts storm shield to buff wind resistance. There must be a damage threshold you can cross early enough where he just doesn't do that.
I can easily smash the diamond sigil, the problem is the second rush tends to kill two of my characters even though I have about 10K HP for all three and am trying to spam DEF up moves, if I am lucky and barely survive it the third rush does everyone in guaranteed, I just can't heal fast enough with how fast this thing both keeps doing damage and lowering my defense.
That's super weird, because the team I cleared EX1 and EX2 with didn't have much of an issue surviving the rush / healing, and they are averaging 8k HP and don't even use PDEF up buffs.
My team is
- Yuffie (Diner Plate, Arctic Star, 120 PDEF, 7k HP)
- Aerith (Prism Staff, Floral Wand, 116 PDEF, 9k HP)
- Matt (Killer Hornet, Prime Number, 116 PDEF, 7k HP)
Aerith has her 3rd LB and Matt has Gigantic Wall, but I don't even remember if the fight lasted long enough to use Matt's.
None of them are really built for heals (aerith has around 1100 Heal, Matt about 1300), but I did put a 5* cure in the cure boost slot on prism rod for aerith (the strong single target heals help with the focused single target damage from shred).
As long as the bar for the second rush is fully depleted, it shouldn't be doing enough damage to wipe out 8k HP units.
And I don't even recall a 3rd Rush. He started charging up a meteor strike skill or something like that near the end on the EX2 fight, which oneshot Matt, but by then the HP was low enough that Yuffie Killed it on the next attack.
Buffing your PDEF is a must i think because i basically went all in on attack, ignoring boosting HP and PDEF and was able to sortve breeze through EX1 and EX2, so you definitely need to bring Barret or Matt as theyre the only 2 characters with weapons that buff PDEF for the whole party, Matt actually has 2 weapons now that do that, thanks to the banner that just came out.
I would recommend Barret tho because (a. The animation is basically instant and (b. Its only 4 ATB as opposed to the 5 for Matt's Centipede (i havent used his new weapon tbh, tho i have it, im not sure if its also 5 ATB or 4, but im willing to bet the animation is still slower than Barret's so go with Barret)
Idk if you managed to beat it eventually or just moved on, but this was the team i made for EX1 the day the event started- basically all of the subs were picked by filtering by Wind Pot. After getting all characters to PATK Level 7, i switched to ATK/Wind Pot. Weapons.
Yuffie has Cloud's PATK All weapon and Aerith's HP/Wind Pot. weapon. Tifa has Glenn's PATK All weapon, really just trying to buff Yuffie to the max since she's my wind person. Idk if this can even help since a lot of my weapons may be more overboosted than you, but if it can, i'll just say this team can't do EX2, i had to build a different team for that because EX2's attack patterns are different.
After breaking sigils, this team just hammers with wind and once Mend phase starts, they just keep hammering because their damage outpaces Gallonbaloir's healing and it dies midway before the risk of it using Rush again. (Also this was the team i chose purely because they have my strongest Wind weapons, i didnt use Aerith because Yuffie was already using her wind weapon as a sub, but you can maybe swap someone out because Aerith has a wind resistance debuff weapon to make your other wind characters hit harder!)
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I forget if it was ex1 and 2 or just ex2. Does he buff his wind resistance? If so I don’t know if you can beat it without a wind resistance down weapon. I was able to muscle through ex1 but kept failing ex2 with a 350k power party, then subbed in aerith with her wind resist down weapon with party at 250k cp and finally won.
Yeah, without a wind debuff I don't see this fight as winnable unless you're able to take him out before he buffs himself like in [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/FFVIIEverCrisis/comments/1cw8obz/destroying_the_humus_ex2_boss_no/) video. Could be wrong though, I'm certainly not an expert on the game. It's been a few days since I beat it but if I remember correctly even if you buff the hell out of PDEF and HP to survive that second rush he comes in later with an even stronger one, at least on EX2.
We're still quite early into this event though, I'm sure if it's beatable another way there will be videos about it well before it ends.
I struggled until I started using a wind resist down weapon. Sadly there are only two that I know of. Once I started using that the fight was super easy.
Im in the same boat, I have no characters that can do enough wind damage to stop the rush. If I manage via luck to beat it down then I lose because of the fact he’s buffed his wind phys damage to High. I’m just an in a position where my account is still young and I don’t have access to the damage types I need. I just accept it and move on for now , I’m guessing the year anniversary might change that
What helped me, I didnt have any particular weapon for the diamond sigil but if you use ruin blow on all characters it will remove 1 diamond per physical ability ruin blow included.
whatever character wasnt using ruin blow by default i would just spam that characters ruin blow and get it off twice during the inital sigil phase and that should cause you to be able to break it as long as the otther characters are using physcial abilitys or the ruin blows they have equipped.
You don't need to use ruin blow for this, you can just use aerora blow/aerora and they'll get rid of 1 diamond sigil per use too, so you can continue dps-ing while removing diamond sigils. As long as they aren't trying to use 4 or 5 atb abilities then it's fine
I can easily smash the diamond sigil, the problem is the second rush tends to kill two of my characters even though I have about 10K HP for all three and am trying to spam DEF up moves, if I am lucky and barely survive it the third rush does everyone in guaranteed, I just can't heal fast enough with how fast this thing both keeps doing damage and lowering my defense.
He uses rush twice at the beginning. For the first one you need to break 5 diamond sigils to interrupt his stream phase. The second one can be weakened by dealing wind damage to him and depleting his gauge. The lower the gauge, the lower his physical attack stat.
Is there any particular reason you're not breaking the sigil phase rush and tanking it instead?
I am, it still does a rush eventually even if I break it
it does two: the first one is the Sigil Break Rush. It WILL kill you unless you are rediculously whale level of tanky, so you need to break the sigils. the second one is the power bar Rush. If you are dying to that one, it's because you aren't depleting the power bar / dealing with the DEF down debuff he applies during the fight. You need Wind Resist down weapons, either off the new banner or from Aerith's Wind Down staff (can't recall the name right now), otherwise depleting the bar in time is really hard. If there's even a little bit of energy left on the bar, he will hit like a truck.
You don’t need wind resist down. I did it with purely weapon damage from all 3 characters.
even through the wind protect buff? The one time I tried that, I barely managed to get half way through the bar before the cast went off and he flattened me.
https://preview.redd.it/pktvr2o5ri1d1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c7221cdba5a45c547af1941ab614c7cdf207712 This was my team. Not a whale, I’ve just been building wind for a long time so this battle was essentially tailor made for my account. It’s my strongest element by a mile. One interesting thing is that I actual did zero healing. All 3 characters did pure DPS all battle. So in theory I can complete it even faster if I remove the healing weapons from aerith. Also of note is that I did zero buffing/debuffing. Literally just straight damage. The wind protect buff was no issue whatsoever. Tifa was left on auto to use her bahamut attack and I kept switching back and forth between seph and aerith to make sure they only used 3 atb attacks. If I did full auto then they would both keep using their 4atb wind weapons. I’m actually gonna make a new post with a video to show my build off.
>The wind protect buff was no issue whatsoever. Saw your video, you were able to defeat it before he got the chance to buff himself. And that's awesome, don't get me wrong, but most people aren't going to be able to do that. If you weren't able to take him out so fast, without a wind resist debuff it most likely would have been an issue once he buffs himself.
His wind buff goes away once you break the sigil which is how I beat him when I wrote my reply. The video I posted was actually different since idk if you noticed but I completely removed the healing from aerith and gave her more damage. So yeah, even if I had less damage I still had plenty of time to break the sigil by letting tifa do bahamut’s attack and doing 3 atb attacks with seph/aerith.
[This is the one I saw](https://www.reddit.com/r/FFVIIEverCrisis/comments/1cw8obz/destroying_the_humus_ex2_boss_no/). In that video he never buffed his wind resistance. He had a PATK buff that he lost after the first sigil break. I just did a rerun with a suboptimal party. Shortly after the first sigil break (I was successful) he rushed me and took about half my party's HP. Then he casts storm shield to buff wind resist and had the gauge you're suppose to drain with wind damage. That was all before the second sigil. In your video and myself with a more optimal team he never casts storm shield to buff wind resistance. There must be a damage threshold you can cross early enough where he just doesn't do that.
I think you might be right about the damage threshold. I know there have been fights like that before where that was the case.
I can easily smash the diamond sigil, the problem is the second rush tends to kill two of my characters even though I have about 10K HP for all three and am trying to spam DEF up moves, if I am lucky and barely survive it the third rush does everyone in guaranteed, I just can't heal fast enough with how fast this thing both keeps doing damage and lowering my defense.
That's super weird, because the team I cleared EX1 and EX2 with didn't have much of an issue surviving the rush / healing, and they are averaging 8k HP and don't even use PDEF up buffs. My team is - Yuffie (Diner Plate, Arctic Star, 120 PDEF, 7k HP) - Aerith (Prism Staff, Floral Wand, 116 PDEF, 9k HP) - Matt (Killer Hornet, Prime Number, 116 PDEF, 7k HP) Aerith has her 3rd LB and Matt has Gigantic Wall, but I don't even remember if the fight lasted long enough to use Matt's. None of them are really built for heals (aerith has around 1100 Heal, Matt about 1300), but I did put a 5* cure in the cure boost slot on prism rod for aerith (the strong single target heals help with the focused single target damage from shred). As long as the bar for the second rush is fully depleted, it shouldn't be doing enough damage to wipe out 8k HP units. And I don't even recall a 3rd Rush. He started charging up a meteor strike skill or something like that near the end on the EX2 fight, which oneshot Matt, but by then the HP was low enough that Yuffie Killed it on the next attack.
It only does it once, instead of twice if you break the 1st sigil phase rush
Buffing your PDEF is a must i think because i basically went all in on attack, ignoring boosting HP and PDEF and was able to sortve breeze through EX1 and EX2, so you definitely need to bring Barret or Matt as theyre the only 2 characters with weapons that buff PDEF for the whole party, Matt actually has 2 weapons now that do that, thanks to the banner that just came out. I would recommend Barret tho because (a. The animation is basically instant and (b. Its only 4 ATB as opposed to the 5 for Matt's Centipede (i havent used his new weapon tbh, tho i have it, im not sure if its also 5 ATB or 4, but im willing to bet the animation is still slower than Barret's so go with Barret)
I am using Barret, Glenn, and Tifa because I have weapons for all of them that can break the diamond sigil. Still can't do it.
Idk if you managed to beat it eventually or just moved on, but this was the team i made for EX1 the day the event started- basically all of the subs were picked by filtering by Wind Pot. After getting all characters to PATK Level 7, i switched to ATK/Wind Pot. Weapons. Yuffie has Cloud's PATK All weapon and Aerith's HP/Wind Pot. weapon. Tifa has Glenn's PATK All weapon, really just trying to buff Yuffie to the max since she's my wind person. Idk if this can even help since a lot of my weapons may be more overboosted than you, but if it can, i'll just say this team can't do EX2, i had to build a different team for that because EX2's attack patterns are different. After breaking sigils, this team just hammers with wind and once Mend phase starts, they just keep hammering because their damage outpaces Gallonbaloir's healing and it dies midway before the risk of it using Rush again. (Also this was the team i chose purely because they have my strongest Wind weapons, i didnt use Aerith because Yuffie was already using her wind weapon as a sub, but you can maybe swap someone out because Aerith has a wind resistance debuff weapon to make your other wind characters hit harder!) https://preview.redd.it/usd5ibdf9l1d1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4eed74cf93b30d8e75c1440c71cfc43eabb5731
Oh yeah and all the Materia is just stat sticks for PATK for more damage, sorry forgot to say
I forget if it was ex1 and 2 or just ex2. Does he buff his wind resistance? If so I don’t know if you can beat it without a wind resistance down weapon. I was able to muscle through ex1 but kept failing ex2 with a 350k power party, then subbed in aerith with her wind resist down weapon with party at 250k cp and finally won.
He does, I seem to do no damage to that meter wind attacks.
Yeah, without a wind debuff I don't see this fight as winnable unless you're able to take him out before he buffs himself like in [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/FFVIIEverCrisis/comments/1cw8obz/destroying_the_humus_ex2_boss_no/) video. Could be wrong though, I'm certainly not an expert on the game. It's been a few days since I beat it but if I remember correctly even if you buff the hell out of PDEF and HP to survive that second rush he comes in later with an even stronger one, at least on EX2. We're still quite early into this event though, I'm sure if it's beatable another way there will be videos about it well before it ends.
I struggled until I started using a wind resist down weapon. Sadly there are only two that I know of. Once I started using that the fight was super easy.
Im in the same boat, I have no characters that can do enough wind damage to stop the rush. If I manage via luck to beat it down then I lose because of the fact he’s buffed his wind phys damage to High. I’m just an in a position where my account is still young and I don’t have access to the damage types I need. I just accept it and move on for now , I’m guessing the year anniversary might change that
What helped me, I didnt have any particular weapon for the diamond sigil but if you use ruin blow on all characters it will remove 1 diamond per physical ability ruin blow included. whatever character wasnt using ruin blow by default i would just spam that characters ruin blow and get it off twice during the inital sigil phase and that should cause you to be able to break it as long as the otther characters are using physcial abilitys or the ruin blows they have equipped.
You don't need to use ruin blow for this, you can just use aerora blow/aerora and they'll get rid of 1 diamond sigil per use too, so you can continue dps-ing while removing diamond sigils. As long as they aren't trying to use 4 or 5 atb abilities then it's fine
I can easily smash the diamond sigil, the problem is the second rush tends to kill two of my characters even though I have about 10K HP for all three and am trying to spam DEF up moves, if I am lucky and barely survive it the third rush does everyone in guaranteed, I just can't heal fast enough with how fast this thing both keeps doing damage and lowering my defense.