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SHIT.

Dominate doesn't reapply existing binds.

DOMINATE DOESN'T REAPPLY EXISTING BINDS.

In other words, if someone is bound in the legs but nowhere else, and you Dominate, it ignores the legs and binds the head and arms, rather than giving fresh new binds for all three.

Meaning that, with the 30F bonus boss' ridiculous recovery-from-binds rate (it is basically impossible for any bind to stay on for more than two rounds at most,) the old leg bind will wear off that round, meaning that he will begin the round after being Dominated with (in this case) a bound head and arms but free legs.

This makes it impossible to keep him completely under control, and ruins Ecstasy, which was by far my planned biggest damage source. Without Ecstasy, it is impossible for my current party to beat him within 13 rounds (at which point he throws Begone for an instant game over.)

Me: 0
Boss: 3

Fffffffffffffffffffff--

Okay. Okay. I can do this. I, uh, I need a different strategy, obviously. Dominate doesn't work as well as I was hoping it would, and there's no way I can out-damage his round-13-Begone timetable without Ecstasy, so I guess all that's left is to call in the only other way to survive it--Begone cannot be prevented (he will use it even if fully bound) or survived under normal circumstances (it hits for roughly 10,000 damage per person to the entire party in a game where your theoretical max HP is 999 and what you actually have at this point is probably closer to 500-700 depending on class, and things like being in the back row or defending do not affect this at all) but it can be endured with the Protector's "the party is completely invincible this round, absolutely everything does 0 damage, period" Limit Break skill Painless. Thus, I believe it is time for the "your job is to spam Painless every single round (because if he's not bound, Begone is far from the only skill he has we need to worry about) while everyone else feeds you Axcela IIs so you can keep doing it"-build Protector.

Let's see... with a Protector, I can probably just anti-element the Anger/Sadness/Mercy combo and completely ignore both Rests, meaning in one 13-round wave, I'll only need eight Painlesses, or 16 Axcela IIs per 13 rounds. Damage-wise, without Ecstasy I'm probably looking at 1000-1500 damage/round depending on whether I have Frailty support and who else happens to have time to attack when they're not busy keeping the Protector hopped up on goofballs Axcela IIs. With the boss' 25,000 HP, that puts me at victory in somewhere between 17 and 25 rounds (assuming my luck holds and I go all 25 rounds with him following the pattern and not deciding to get cute and throw his "I have a 3% chance every round to ignore the pattern and use this instead" move Heatskin or something,) which means a maximum of two 13-round waves, which means 16 Painlesses, or 32 Axcela IIs.

I currently have 12.

Fuck, time to go digging for Pop Leaves again. ;_;