Final Fantasy/The Crystal of Fire: Difference between revisions

Floor 2 is, in a nutshell, a long corridor connected to a very large room which coincidently has a large cache of treasure, but almost all of it is guarded by some rather annoying enemies, such as [[Final Fantasy/Enemies#Pyros|Pyro]]s and the other Pyrolisks. Pyros are tough, but weak against [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Spells|Ice spells]], so use them and they'll die rather quickly. [[Final Fantasy/Enemies#Pyrolisk|Pyrolisks]] are nothing without a group as they are "pack hunters" so to speak. They are pretty weak but they use the instant-kill spell [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Glance|Glance]] often, and when you're dealing with a group of Pyrolisks, this means trouble. Use a strong spell or the Gauntlets that can hit multiple targets to get rid of them easily. Once you've collected the treasure, the stairs to floor 3 are at the far end of the aforementioned corridor, which you can reach via the two doors near the far bottom left corner of the large room.

Marilith has strong physical attacks that can do more than 100 damage to a Warrior and well over 200 to a White Mage or Black Mage. In addition to that, she has several mid-range spells that can wear you down easily. The first thing you should do in this battle is cast [[Final Fantasy/White magic#NulFire|NulFire]] and [[Final Fantasy/White magic#NulBolt|NulBolt]] to lessen the amount of damage caused by her spells. After that, your White Mages should cast [[Final Fantasy/White magic#Blink|Blink]], [[Final Fantasy/White magic#Shld2|Shld2]], [[Final Fantasy/White magic#Invs1|Invs1]]/[[Final Fantasy/White magic#Invs2|Invs2]] until Marilith can't hit you anymore.

As for your Black Mages, they are out of luck. Marilith has a good resistance to all of his spells, even [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Spells|ice]], which you would think she would be weak against. Just use up your strong offensive spells like [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Ice2|Ice2]], [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Ice3|Ice3]] (if you have it), and [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Bind|Bind]], which will work well if she continues to pound on your mages. Curiously, [[Final Fantasy/Black magic#Fire3|Fire3]] actually does decent damage to Marilith. Your physical attackers will be doing much of the damage here so also use your Mages to boost their attacks. After all of that, she should bite the dust soon.