Under the control of an evil wizard, this is where the World of Darkness comes to an end. Rain and the gang are following in the tracks of Warriors of Light, seeking to understand the crystals. As they are introduced to the crystals of another world, the mystery of those in their own world only deepens.
Note: Guide and figures are currently based on the Japanese Build. I will update accordingly when global event releases. The fight looks pretty simple from all the YouTube videos I watched (JP). However, knowing Global, we’ll definitely be getting a more difficult fight.
First Clear Reward:
Preparations
As this is an Exploration event, Players will need to prepare certain items and equipment to face the thrash mobs (alternatively, you can just escape the battle especially if you encounter 1 of the 3 Dragons in Elite Mode). Monsters from exploration are able to cast Petrify and Death effect thus it is important to prepare the follow items to counter it:
| Items | Description |
| Stona | White Magic to cure Petrify |
| Gold Needle | Item to cure Petrify |
| Gold Armlet, Gold Anklet, Jeweled Ring | Accessories to prevent Petrify |
| Raise | Magic for Revive |
| Phoenix Down | Item for Revive |
| Man Eater | Most of the bosses including final boss is a Humanoid |
| Dragon Killer | If you’re aiming to farm the Dragons for Elixirs. You can get the TM from Skaha (2* base Unit) |
Encounter and Dragons
Unlike the previous Final Fantasy IV event, Players will not need to fight all 4 bosses before the final boss. However, a slightly weaker version of bosses will appear as random encounter throughout the Dungeon Floor.
| Monster | Area |
| Kum kum | 1 |
| Platinal | 1.2.3.4.5. |
| Azer | 2.3.4.5. |
| Dark General | 3.4.5. |
| Gomory | 4.5. |
| Xande | 5 |
| Red Dragon (ELT onward) | 1.2.3.4.5. |
| Yellow Dragon (PRO onward) | 1.2.3.4.5. |
| Green Dragon (ADV onward) | 1.2.3.4.5. |
Dragons are random encounters. Each time you defeat a Dragon, it has a chance to drop Elixirs, Megacites and 6* Awakening Material. Take note of what you should not do with each Dragon to prevent it’s very painful Counter
| Dragon | HP | MP | Elemental | Status |
|
Red Dragon
(lv70) |
400000 | 900 | Fire↑100％ Ice, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Holy ↑50％ |
Paralyze ↑80％ Immune to all |
| Main Attack : Firaga, Aeroga, Thundaga | Counters: Esper, Abilities (Specials) | ||||
|
Yellow Dragon
(lv50) |
270000 | 500 | Lightning↑100％ Fire, Ice, Water, Wind, Holy ↑50％ |
Paralyze ↑80％ Immune to all |
| Main Attack : Thundaga | Counters: Esper, Limit Burst | ||||
|
Green Dragon
(lv60) |
350000 | 700 | Wind↑100％ Fire, Thunder, Water, Earth, Holy ↑50％ |
Sleep ↑80％ Immune to all |
| Main Attack : Aeroga | Counters: Esper, Magic | ||||
Special Treasure Chest
There are 5 special treasure chest in the middle of the dungeon. The treasure chest will only open after each available Boss is defeated (5 boss, 5 chest). You can only claim the treasure once.
| No. | Get items | Remarks |
| ① | Mythril Dagger | Defeat BGN Boss |
| ② | Mythril Light Shield | Defeat INT Boss |
| ③ | Mythril Saber | Defeat ADV Boss |
| ④ | Gold Helm | Defeat Pro Boss |
| ⑤ | Gold Staff | Defeat Elite Boss |
BGN
| Energy | Rank Exp | First Clear Reward |
| 3 | 50 | 100 Lapis |
| No. | Items |
| ① | Star Quartz |
| ② | Light Curtain |
| ③ | Light Curtain |
| ④ | Earth Drum |
| ⑤ | Remedy |
| ⑥ | Tent |
| ⑦ | Ether |
| ⑧ | Potion |
Boss
 |
Platinal – Spirit LV – 10 HP – 2500 MP – 70 |
| None | |
| Immune to Sap and Petrify | |
INT
| Energy | Rank Exp | First Clear Reward |
| 5 | 105 | Royal Sword (Atk +37) |
| No. | Items |
| ① | X-Potion x 3 |
| ② | Turbo Ether x 3 |
| ③ | Mythril Plate |
| ④ | Phoenix Down x3 |
| ⑤ | Prismatic Horn x 5 |
| ⑥ | Calamity Gem x 5 |
| ⑦ | Star Quartz |
| ⑧ | Fairies’ Writ x 5 |
| ⑨ | Rainbow Bloom x5 |
Boss
 |
Azer – Human LV – 11 HP – 9100 MP – 60 |
| +50% Fire and Earth | -50% Ice and Water | |
| Immune to Sap and Petrify | |
ADV
No Treasure Chest
| Energy | Rank Exp | First Clear Reward |
| 7 | 150 | Reflect Mail (Def +46, Spr +10) |
Boss
 |
Dark General – Human LV – 37 HP – 60,000 MP – 35 |
| None | |
| Immune to Sap and Petrify | |
PRO
| Energy | Rank Exp | First Clear Reward |
| 10 | 250 | Mighty Hammer (Atk+72, HP+15%, Lightning Elemental) |
| No. | Items |
| ① | Calamity Writ x 5 |
| ② | Divine Crystal x 5 |
Boss
 |
Gomory x 2 – Demon LV – 47 HP – 120,000 MP – 280 |
| +50% Earth | |
| Immune to Sap and Petrify | |
ELT
| Energy | Rank Exp | First Clear Reward |
| 15 | 365 | Trust Moogle (+10% Trust) |
| No. | Items |
| ① | Star Quartz x 5 |
| ② | Golden Blade (Atk+51) |
| ③ | Elixir x 5 |
| ④ | Phoenix Down x 5 |
Boss
 |
Xande – Human LV – 112 HP – 500,000 MP – 900 |
| None | |
| Immune to All Status | |
- If you intend to cast Full-Break on Xande, do note that he is immune to Attack/Magic Break.
- Main attacks are Fire based thus Barfira will be useful in this fight.
- Man Eater
Turn One
- Xande will cast a debuff that will reduce your Atk/Def/Mag/Spr and Elemental Resistance, accompanied with 3 normal Attacks.
- Cast Cheer to dampen the damage intake.
Turn Two
- Here comes Meteor~ Incoming 3k Damage
- Use Focus, Shell, or even turn to Defense Mode to mitigate as much damage as possible for turn 2.
- You cannot skip this meteor turn even if you bring his HP down to his other threshold skills.
70% HP Threshold
- It will start raising it’s “Dark” skill.
- Use Dispel to cancel it off.
60% and 30% HP Threshold
- It will cast AOE Stop to all party members (1 turn) and there’s no way to prevent this (there is no Stop resistance in the game).
- Buff yourself with Barfira and Protect to increase your chance of survival.
- Another way to prevent the Stop skill is to deal as much damage as possible and kill the boss within 4 turns.
Recommended Party
- Most of the YouTube videos I watched for this fight favours a Melee heavy team.
- Kain is very good for this event for his Dragon Killer Skill. One of the guides I read, suggested a 5 Kain + 1 Cheer Member party setup.
- 1 Tank, 1 Healer, 1 Support, 3 Attackers – Safety party
Tank – Cecil
Healer – Garnet, Refia, White Witch Fina
Support – Cerius, WoL, Terra
Attackers – The best Melee characters you have.
5 Kain Strat
Turn 1 – Buff Cheer and chain Kain’s Limit Burst.
Turn 2 – Dragon Dive to avoid the Meteor.
Turn 3 – You can’t move after DD.
Turn 4 – Dragon Dive again to avoid Stop.
What does 5 Kain Strat means ??
strat = strategy
You use 5 Kain characters (who now can be 5 stars), using their passive dragon killer which is really effective in this event
relax your ass – who’s gonna have 5 5-star Kains just for this event ? hawhaw
People that played on the JP servers.
what is mythril saber, mythril dagger and gold staff stat?
Id suggest you check everything you need there : https://exviuswiki.com/Category:Weapons
Int 7th chest is 3 start quartz instead of 1. I guess Gumi was grateful 🙂
Green Dragon drops either [Green Megacite x4] or [Green Megacite x2 + Elixir] or [2 Elixirs].
Red Dragon drops [Calamity Writ x1].
Yellow Dragon drops [Yellow Megacite x4].
Green Dragon appears as early as ADV.
Yellow Dragon appears from PRO.
Red Dragon appears on ELT.
From my experience.
It can also just drop [Green Magicite x2] not sure if it matters how many you encounter as it was my second within the same PRO dungeon.
Why can’t I get treasure chests 2 and 4 on ELT? I’ve noticed that sometimes in the normal explorations some treasures don’t appear for me even though it says it does on exvius wiki or this site. Advice appreciated 🙂
There absolutely is treasure in the advanced dungeon, BTW. there is a room after the one you show here with chests.
Aw crap nevermind.
CORRECTIONS: Dragons can appear on floors 4+. I ran into a Green Dragon on the 4th floor.
Also, the Green I fought used Blizzaga as well as Thundaga AND Aeroga. Rather than dropping elixers, he dropped 4 green megacites (even better imo!).
The dragons also drops alot of megacite…much much more than farming it on chamber crystal ^^,
DO NOT USE ESPERS WHEN FIGHTING A DRAGON!
I ran into green dragon on 1st floor
Ive just encountered red dra on second floor in elt
Well I just hit a green dragon on floor 1.
This was On Pro.
yupz edited based on all your findings 🙂
If you don’t want to deal with them, bring along an ESCAPE unit and just run from every battle til you get to the bosses.
has anyone been able to beat the last BOSS?
Any luck finishing the elite mode?
Actually managed to defeat a Red Dragon on ELT. Somehow, shining splendor’s blind effect went off (So he’s not 100% immune) at the very end of the battle and saved my butt.
Then got one turned KO’d by Meteor from Xande T.T All those phoenix downs used and the two 6* mats I got from red dragon.
lol I run 4x pro no dragon appear so sad 😭
Is the gold staff the same as the golden staff from colloseum adv b-4?
If you have someone that can rez, it’d be better to bring them rather than spend phoenix downs. Just remember which dragon hates what type: physical, magical or espers and don’t skimp on the damage ie bring too many leveling toons and you guys can beat it.
I’ve cleared ELT 10 times or so, but dragons always dropped the same thing.
Green: 4 Green Megacryst
Yellow: 4-8 Yellow Megacryst
Red: 1-2 6* mats
Also I’ve never seen more than 5 dragons spawn in ELT (and I stayed in the map for more than 40 minutes).
Got to the 3rd turn, he casts stop on my full buffed party (focus, barfira and even used CoD elem resist skill)..all dead…ffs
Uhm can Celes’ Sealing Blade nullify Xande’s meteor? Cause if it does, then I need to level Celes fast LOL
Best to use a character that can escape. I avoided most of the battle using “escape” skill with my Edin and it’s effective for me to conserve the fight with the boss.
I am stuck with fighting Gomory in order to obtain the Mighty Hammer.
With my team Lasswell, Rain, White Witch Fina, Fina & Black Cat Lid- I find that Black Cat Lid is effective with her last skill “Ultimate Blow” that deals quite a damage to Gomory. If I have another alliance partner who has Black Cat Lid as well, with the same skill “Ultimate Blow”, probably I have chances of winning.
Finally obtained the weapon !
Lighting, Lightning friend, Cecil, Vaan, Lenna, Cloud of Darkness
Brought along smoke bombs so I could run from the battles I wanted to run from.
Lightnings both did Crushing Blow. Vaan did Full Break, Lenna did Cheer and healing, Cecil did focus and his LB (got his LB gauge up before fighting Xande), Cloud of Darkness did Barrage. Dead on the 4th turn.
WTF . . I m give up . . Don’t have *6 unit and my cheer buff only fina . . . . All my unit max *5 and they all dead aftet 1x heal
Btw “seal” celes skill . They say can block all magiv include meteor . . But now Xande magic is invicible . . That mean now celes is useless . . WTF
Then her skill is a lie ;-;
Defeat Xande :
CoD *6 lv 70 Barrage
Kefka*5 80 mag 406 hyper drive/phoenix down/bar Fira
CoD*5 80 Barrage
BC Lid focus/Ultimate Blow/Cura/bar Stonra
Lenna cheer/curaja/esuna
friend CoD *6 lv90 Omni Veil /Barrage
nice combination , beat him at 5-6 turn just using barrage from all CoDs
when Xande give ‘Gauge’ just use “Guard” to defend it against his meteor
before he give ‘Stopper’ at about 30%~40% hp, don’t forget use Bar Fira / Bar Stonra
party average spr ~170-180+ (included focus),
still able to survive although kefka always down at last minute ^^
6* Lightning(ifrit)471att, 6* Cecil(diabolos)5.5k HP, 6* WW Fina(shiva), 5* Kefka(ramuh)408mag, 5* Kain(golem), and friend Luneth for great damage. I also added barfira on Lightning. Kefka dies often but revive with Fina and heal with Cecil. Jump Kain 2nd turn not 1st to dodge meteor and Guard with Kefka for meteor. I use Diabolos with Cecil for osmos sustain. It’s worth fighting all the dragons for the loot. Just bring a Tent item to use just before boss.
Btw, I can only ever get 1 red dragon to appear so I guess they are limited? I get multiple green and yelllow dragons.