Hypermax Osiris and Ceres, Lv10 0-Stone Clear

On impulse, I decided to delay the development of my water teams and went all in on wood, hypermaxing Osiris and Ceres. The reasoning behind Osiris was that he’s a great lead, will likely be a regular sub on my Awoken Bastet team and can pair with any wood lead to give the team a good HP and RCV boost. He’ll also serve as good practice until Awoken Bastet comes out (hopefully sooner than later). As for Ceres, I use her so much at this point it was inevitable that she’d get hypermaxed. Still my favorite art in the game, but Awoken Leilan is close.

I’m proud while not so proud of my my Lv10 clear. On one hand, I proved to myself I could consistently make 6+ combos over the course of a full dungeon, especially when it counted. On the other hand, not only did it take many, many tries to finally get the 0-stone, but on my successful run I feel I got very lucky with the heart drops. From my experience with Beelzebub, tank teams generally need to get lucky with heart drops to clear Lv10, but if I comboed even better it would’ve minimized this risk. It will take quite a bit of practice to get to that level, if I ever do, so I’ll take what I get.

I want to thank acx for giving me the idea of running Osiris + Parvati leads. While that ultimately wasn’t the team I used to clear it, I did attempt the dungeon a few good times with it and got very close. It just so happened I had a hypermax Osiris friend up but no more Parvatis. I think that team is more than capable of clearing the dungeon, though, especially if it had a better pilot. Without his input, though, I probably wouldn’t have gone through with hypermaxing the Osiris.

In my euphoria I didn’t get a screenshot of the clear screen, so the kill shot is going to have to be good enough proof for this one. I also don’t see myself recording any Lv10s in the near future; I choke enough as it is without the added pressure of trying to perform for the camera. Maybe someday I’ll have enough confidence.

For those curious, I wrote some brief notes for the things I watched out for when clearing Lv10 with this team. This is mainly for my own records, but there’s a small chance you could find it useful if you’re using a similar team:

Challenge Dungeons! 8 Teams

Dungeon	Team	Reward
Lv10
Lv9
Lv8
Lv7
Lv6

• Lv10 – Decided to hypermax Osiris and got a relatively easy clear considering my lack of comboing prowess.
• Lv9 – Verdandi struggled through floor 3-5, as I predicted. Gave up and 0-stoned it with Beelzebub the first try.
• Lv8 – It looks like I can cheese the 9th iteration with the same team. I considered +297ing Ceres, but didn’t need it (I later did for Lv10, though).
• Lv7 – It feels good to be strong, once in a while.

Challenge Dungeons 8 Brainstorming

It’s been so long since we had our last Challenge Dungeons that I’ve fallen out of the habit of preparing for them and feel far behind. With them starting on Monday, I’ll mostly have to make due with what I have. I was looking forward to using my Beelzebub team again, but the dark binds in Lv10 and 9 are looking to prevent that. It’ll be up to Verdandi to pick up the slack.