Noah (Low Level, Hard, Extra Enemy Turn) - SMT Nocturne HD

I never liked his hat anyway.
Rules:
- EXP gain must be minimised, limited to forced encounters where possible
- Using Bright Might or Dark Might for guaranteed crits is forbidden
- Use of demons from the Maniax/Chronicle release is forbidden (This includes Fiends, Beelzebub, Black Frost, Futomimi, Metatron, Sakahagi and Dante/Raidou)
- The goal is to collect all Magatama and achieve the True Demon Ending
Noah is another gimmicky fight but he at least preserves his gimmick through both his phases, in fact he doubles down on it. To begin with he has no unusual resistances and does nothing but normal attacks but after dealing a bit of damage to him he will cast Aurora which will align him with a certain element. He will then only cast spells of that element. Additionally he will nullify all attacks against him that aren't of the opposing element (so if he casts fire spells you can only attack him with ice etc.). He always cycles through elements in the set order of fire-ice-electricity-force. You can't cheese him with almighty damage because he is one of two enemies in the whole game that resists it. This means your team needs access to all 4 elements if you don't want to have to wait for him to cycle his elements to one that you can attack. I've been prepping for this one for a little while. Once he enters his second phase he reflects all attacks that are not the opposite of his current element which importantly means that Pierce will stop working. He will also switch to using spells that target the party instead of single targets and gains access to Dekunda and Dekaja (although he very rarely uses them) and his unique attack Domination which drains a large amount of HP and MP. Overall he's not that hard but he forces you to pay attention.
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[@lefthandedscout9923]

Quick correction - Aurora doesn't change between phases. It's always a repel. From first Aurora, pierce stops working against Noah, unless you bring Freikugel with it on Demi-Fiend, Stinger with it on Dante, Tekisatsu on Raidou, or sacrifice skills on other demons. One would assume Domination would force this fight into a DPS race since he starts to outheal your damage without good elemental coverage, but as I discovered on my solo run, there's an alternate solution if you haven't picked up Freikugel yet; MP stall him. Domination costs MP, contrary to what the SMT wiki says about it, so if you give him enough time (this is a LONG time, by the way, like an hour) he will run himself dry and will stop attacking. Aurora is free to cast, though, so his barriers will remain changing and making the fight drag on and on even without any MP to attack you.

[@ZephhyrAgain]

Interesting that a boss exclusive skill has an MP cost when it would be mostly meaningless. Do you happen to know if any of Lucifer's exclusive skills have a cost?

[@lefthandedscout9923]

I do! They're all zero. Sorry. Hey, if you MP drain him, he can't use Dekaja and Dekunda! ...and he can't destroy his own turns throwing Glacial Blasts and Prominences at an immune team... ...and you'll be draining him for 3 hours an attempt... Yeah, it's not the best.

[@ZephhyrAgain]

@@lefthandedscout9923 Yeah I had already come to that conclusion unfortunately but I'm running out of other options...

[@TurboGhast.]

​@@lefthandedscout9923 Would he throw away turns trying to cast spells he doesn't have the MP for? It'd only be one at a time, unlike bashing an elemental attack into a repel, but it'd be better than taking another an almighty attack.

[@lefthandedscout9923]

@@TurboGhast. yes he does, though it is still boosting the chance of a wipe to Root of Evil into basic attack target DF

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Fun fact - his normal attack is like Surt's, only difference being that Noah's is Almighty

[@ZephhyrAgain]

oh yeah I suppose I forgot to mention that. It's not that damaging though so this isn't too important.

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Nobody gonna mention that blue 54 floating on the screen by the end?

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Nevermind, everyone did already

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Did you take advantage of cursed fusion in the run?

[@ZephhyrAgain]

I ended not needing it

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