Final Fantasy V Walkthrough

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4.3: The Sealed Temple: Lethe Court

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Enemies: Great Dragon, King Behemoth, Crystal Dragon, Assassin, Behemoth, Dinozombie, Claret Dragon, Ironclad, Hades, Guardian, Launcher (A), Launcher (B), Wave Cannon

Treasures: Elixir , Sword Mutsunokami, Armor Robe Of Lords

Blue Magic: Doom, Roulette, Flash, Flame Thrower, Dark Spark, Off-Guard, Mighty Guard, Missile

Here be dragons, watch out. I mean 'dragons' here metaphorically, there are not really dragons here. Ironclad, Assassin and Dinozombie require Golem and powerful attacks. King Behemoth isn't Heavy, Behemoth is vulnerable to Sleep. Hades is new. He's not a good boy.

It seems Azulmagia was only one example of a race of giant Blue Mages. Hades has 33333 HP, is Heavy, Undead and immune to everything you'd like to set on it. It uses Black spells (

Flare,

Death), Blue spells (

Doom,

Roulette,

Dark Spark), Dark Arts (Deep Freeze, Meltdown, Curse) and two impressive monster attacks: Reaper's Sword and Almagest. When that thing uses Almagest, you can say goodbye to 5000+ HP per character. The only things that can protect you against that are the Shield

Aegis Shield (33% nullify), Accessory

Sorceror's Mantle (50% damage), Shell status (50% damage) and the Shield

Force Shield (nullifies). Whatta guy. Deep Freeze and Meltdown both inflict sufficient damage to kill the character it targets, unless it's protected from Ice (Deep Freeze) or Fire (Meltdown).

Kill these things ASAP. You can't use !Control or !Catch on these guys, which is a pain.

Quick +

Apollo's Harp, all the

Holy spells you can throw at it, stuff like that. Hades counters Magic with either

Flare (33%) or

Death (33%) and non-Magic with !Sickle (33%), so casting Carbuncle prior to throwing that

Holy party I just recommended might be a good idea. Also note that Hades is not fickle with that !Sickle and will leave quite a mark.

The path here is crystal clear. There's a chest with a Sword

Mutsunokami, the strongest katana with a 50% (!) critical percentage, and an Elixir. Find the eldritch warp point. You´ll be transported to another part of the Shadowed Gate; nothing to do here but find the next eldritch warp point. Another part of the Shadowed Gate here; there's the next warp point to the left of you, which leads to the Stairs of Destiny.

Bend to the right and follow the stairs unil you find the Armor

Robe Of Lords, a Robe with truly superior Defense, Magic Defense and Magic Evasion (24%). No special properties. Get back to the entrance of the Stairs of Destiny, then go to the left. You'll meet a sparkle.

Guardian Bestiary #317	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	97	55000	60000	0	0	?
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	110	30	50	0	40	10	0
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Blitzshot			Common: Crystal Orb
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	None			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	This four-part mech has tons of HP and a cannon that will kill every member of your party if it gets its attack off (defend against this by having someone Jumping!). The main target is invincible until the Launchers are dead, but you should wait to kill them until after the Wave Cannon, as it is the most dangerous part at first and is the only part that can't be resurrected. Once the Guardian is alone, you have only four rounds until the Launchers are returned, so hit as much as possible. All of the attacks that you would assume to be powerful are; consider equipping Ribbons, Bone Mail, and Angel Rings to up your defenses.

Wave Cannon Bestiary #320	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	97	22000	55000	0	0	?
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	120	30	100	0	20	0	0
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Blitzshot			Common: Blastshot
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	None			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	This four-part mech has tons of HP and a cannon that will kill every member of your party if it gets its attack off (defend against this by having someone Jumping!). The main target is invincible until the Launchers are dead, but you should wait to kill them until after the Wave Cannon, as it is the most dangerous part at first and is the only part that can't be resurrected. Once the Guardian is alone, you have only four rounds until the Launchers are returned, so hit as much as possible. All of the attacks that you would assume to be powerful are; consider equipping Ribbons, Bone Mail, and Angel Rings to up your defenses.

Launcher (A) Bestiary #318	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	97	20000	50000	0	0	?
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	110	30	50	0	20	10	0
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Blastshot			None
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	None			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	This four-part mech has tons of HP and a cannon that will kill every member of your party if it gets its attack off (defend against this by having someone Jumping!). The main target is invincible until the Launchers are dead, but you should wait to kill them until after the Wave Cannon, as it is the most dangerous part at first and is the only part that can't be resurrected. Once the Guardian is alone, you have only four rounds until the Launchers are returned, so hit as much as possible. All of the attacks that you would assume to be powerful are; consider equipping Ribbons, Bone Mail, and Angel Rings to up your defenses.

Launcher (B) Bestiary #319	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	97	20000	50000	0	0	?
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	110	30	50	0	20	10	0
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Blastshot			None
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	None			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	This four-part mech has tons of HP and a cannon that will kill every member of your party if it gets its attack off (defend against this by having someone Jumping!). The main target is invincible until the Launchers are dead, but you should wait to kill them until after the Wave Cannon, as it is the most dangerous part at first and is the only part that can't be resurrected. Once the Guardian is alone, you have only four rounds until the Launchers are returned, so hit as much as possible. All of the attacks that you would assume to be powerful are; consider equipping Ribbons, Bone Mail, and Angel Rings to up your defenses.

Guardian! Throwback to Final Fantasy VI for the SNES? Who knows. The Guardian will feel like this dungeon's easiest boss fight, but it is still a nice challenge. The Guardian has three additional animi built into it. There are two Launchers that simultaneously attack you and protect the Guardian itself, and there is the Wave Cannon front panel that does nothing until it's ready to fire, at which point it performs a double Wave Cannon attack. If you don't have at least one character up in the air with !Jump when that thing goes off, you've lost your battle, as double Wave Cannon deals 100% of your maximum HP and inflicts Sap just for the hell of it. The Guardian itself is immune to attacks until you've destroyed both Launchers, at which point you can start damaging it.

You'll start the battle being attacked by the two Launchers and the Wave Cannon front panel starting its countdown. The Launcher on top is capable of using the nameless (Valiant Attack), a missile attack which cuts current HP by 50% and sets Old. In addition, it may use

Missile, Rocket Punch and Rainbow Wind. The other Launcher can use (Valiant Attack), and

Flash,

Missile and Mustard Bomb. Both Launchers have 20000 HP; every first turn is (Valiant Attack), every second turn is one of the other options.

The Wave Cannon goes like this:

DIFFUSION BEAM CANNON:
ONLINE LASER CROSSHAIR BRIGHTNESS: 20
SAFETY LOCK: OFFLINE
BARREL PRESSURE RISING BLAST SHIELDING: ACTIVATED
ENERGY CELLS: 128% CAPACITY
FIRING (and then you get a dual Wave Cannon)

You'll want to destroy both Launchers and the Wave Cannon, then pound on the Guardian itself. The Guardian won't start attacking until its Launchers have been destroyed, at which point it'll start off with a Delta Attack. Three more attacks can be performed, after which Guardian will have repaired both Launchers. When those are back, it'll turn itself invincible again.

Helmet

Ribbons,

Bone Mail and Accessory

Angel Rings will protect you from the weakening effects of (Valiant Attack). Helmet

Ribbons are best, since they also help against Delta Attack,

Flash and Rainbow Wind. The most important target to focus on is the Wave Cannon, as that's the countdown to Game Over part of the machine. In the meantime, you'll take percentage-based damage, but with all them Helmet

Ribbons on yer head, you won't suffer a lot. Next up, time to take out the Launchers. !Dualcast

Holy and Dual-Wield Flare Spellblade effects are very powerful in this fight. Once when the Launchers are gone, Guardian will be a lone target. Time to bust out !Rapid Fire, !Dualcast

Meteor, whatever other stuff you know and like.

For your troubles, you'll get a Accessory

Crystal Orb. It'll give you +5 Magic Power, superior Magic Defense and 12% Magic Evasion, once more proving there are tons of ways to be inferior to Accessory

Hermes Sandals.

Ascend for the final showdown. Lethe Court - The Void is bereft of any random encounters.

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