I will assume the 2nd form is your problem: Start the second form with Com/Syn/Sab switch to Med/Syn/Sab if you get low. Once he gets some debuffs and you get buffed go to Rav/Rav/Com and get his stagger up quick. Once he gets staggered be quick to switch to Com/Rav/Com and get as many hits as you can. Once Deso comes it will stop his stagger now is the time to make sure everyone is healed but try to get some hits in before you switch to Med/Med/Sen.
If you take 20 mins I think it is he will cast doom on you and hopefully you killed him by then or he is about to die and you can pound it out. The key is trying to get at least a few more staggers in after the first one so you need to be quick on your switches to Rav/Rav/Com while keeping everyone alive.
The party I used was Light/Hope/Fang I actually used them for everything after that as well because they have a great mix of classes and all of them have good stats.
Well, Hope is better than Gabrielle in every area except HP and Saboteur. Everything else he ties with her or is just plain better.
Apologies to the dude at the beginning that said Hope > Vanille. Statwise so far that’s mostly correct.
But for me is just personal preference. Hope to me is the worst character ever created in FF and there is no way in hell I’ll use him unless he is forced on me like at the beginning of the game even if his stats are good.
The worst part about it all is that the HP difference doesn’t really matter once you start dabbling in the post game. After 12k HP, it’s all gravy. Unlikable little squirt.
I am still not at full Crystarium yet and the difference is insane.
Put Genji Gloves on Gabrielle, do Death and mid animation, switch to Commando. The damage difference is pretty noticeable. If you stay in Sab, it will do 50,000 + but on the switch it jumps to 200,000 + and this is without MP accesory boosts.
Okay, tested this on Behemoth King, Cactuar and Shao Long Gui.
It definitely works and this may change the tiers considerably.
Tried Death, then switch to all the roles mid animation.
The only one that made a difference in damage points besides Commando was Sentinel but still nowhere near Commando levels of hurt.
On Shao Long Gui at my current Crystarium on 850% Staggerbar, Death did 600,000 + so is obvious that with max Crystarium this will reach the cap of 999,999. Can you say broken? Can this make Gabrielle a better Commando than Xena? Debates, debates, LOL!
We know that Sazh is the best commando undisputed since no one can beat his over 3 million of damage but now with this Gabrielle makes a very strong case for second.
Xena’s Highwind reaches the cap quite easily but at the cost of a full stagger bar. However her individual hits could amount to over a million with full Crystarium and Taming Pole/Dragoon Lance, not sure yet.
Gabrielle can spam Death indefinitely with no stagger bar consequences with tons of damage. Only problem is it takes her whole ATB bar to do it although with Haste, this ain’t much of a problem.
One thing is for sure, she just put Hope to shame once and for all, hahahahahahahahahaha. :razz:
Now watch as some glitch is discovered with Hope’s Blitz or something, LOL!
His Blitz isn’t pretty good. His Blitz is godly. Over 3 million of damage ain’t nothing to laugh at.
And he doesn’t need launch at all. Blitz takes care of everything except the most tiny of enemies.
Also, since his weapons are ranged and he moves quite backwards in his animations, his attacks hit without delay (no moving forward to slash, punch, etc.) helping a juggle partner to continue a juggle without entering Ravager and there are moments when the enemy can’t even hit Sazh because he is wayyyyyyy behind all the action because of his animations.
How is that not the best Commando?
Best damage, great support, and gamebreaking stuff, hehe.