Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Dullahan & The Final Summon, Iris - Episode 85

[@Moose_Hawkins]

Dude, you *BIG-BRAINED* that fight without even realizing it. Normally, Dullahan's moves happen in a fixed sequence, but (and i didnt even know this until i looked it up *very* recently), when you seal his psynergy he swaps to a smaller, randomized moveset with fulminous edge, regular attacks, and a few other moves. This moveset EXCLUDES Djinn Storm, which puts all of your Djinn in recovery, and is usually game over. I can't BELIEVE that worked lmao

[@Olizandri]

Its been years now but I had played the game before unlike the mainstay of my playthroughs, so it wasn't a blind one and is not labled as such (Dark Dawn was a first playthrough), so if I did fight it before in my original playthrough I may have simply remembered what to do. My memory tends to fire up as im doing the thing, not prior to doing the thing, it's highly possible I looked up a guide the first time I played through before being a let's player, that might have recommended the block, so don't give me too much credit! Also while I do tend to have a bad memory and therefore maybe struggle on other bosses randomly, if a boss has an absolute game changer of an ability that makes it memorable, the chance that I do remember massively goes up. I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure if thats what happened or if it was best practice learnt throughout the let's play itself, I definitely didn't know about the moveset change, though seems those in the comments may have their suspicions otherwise.

[@MasterGeek360]

It looks like Oliz unwittingly abused a bug with this boss. While it's impossible to affect Dullahan with any status conditions (since he has greater than 40 luck), the djinn Luff and Rime seal psynergy without fail. Technically, this shouldn't disable any monster skills and Djinn Storm and Charon count as monster skills for him. However, when his psynergy is sealed his attacks are limited to Element Swap, normal attacks, Fulminous Edge (Formina Sage is a miss-translation) , and True Collide. It makes him significantly less dangerous. He should retry the boss without allowing himself to use those djinn for the full soul-shattering experience.

[@madnimrod2489]

Is that what happened? I had no idea about that trick.

[@fishofgold6553]

+Frans Elliott "...for the full soul-shattering experience." I have actually learned to defeat Dullahan without using Rime, Shade, Luff, Lull, Flash, Granite, Ground or Petra. :D Of course, I have an optimal class and equipment setup, with Felix being a Necromage with the ability to cast the 'Call Dullahan' Psynergy (learned at Level 47) while wielding the DarkSword ('Call Dullahan' takes into account the character's physical attack stat and Jupiter Power). All the other characters have excellent equipment, too. Isaac has the Sol Blade, while Piers and Garet have an Excalibur each. They all have Mithril equipment (forgeable from Mithril Silver) and Hyper Boots to drive the unleash/critical hit rate to 99% (except Garet - forgot to optimise him, but don't need to). The support-role characters - Ivan, Sheba, Jenna and Mia - all have rare weapons, but with equipment that boosts their agility and their Elemental Powers and Resistances, so their Summons are quite powerful. All party members are at Level 54 or higher and are not in their natural elemental classes.

[@emanuelpesquera4204]

But why he's already difficult in that state. That's not a bug lol

[@MasterGeek360]

@@emanuelpesquera4204 LOL Dullahan is pretty much a normal boss when his synergy is sealed. The only thing that sets him apart is his crazy high HP, high HP recovery, and the heal he has. It's the devastating Charon and Djinn Storm abilities that afford him the title "Super Boss". The rest of his kit is "meh". Just think about all of his moves: Reliable damage moves: - CHARON: Dullahan summons a death god to do INSANE Venus damage to your party. Even though this move certainly doesn't need help killing your adepts, it also has a chance to insta-kill any targets it hits (like Condemn). A deadly threat that usually you have to make preparations for if you intend to fight Dullahan "normally". My trick is to unleash Haze on my healer/reviver so they are guaranteed to survive. - Attack: With the right gear your adepts should be able to survive it, even at lower levels. It only targets a single adept, so it's not the end of the world. - Fulminous Edge: Take Dullahan's normal physical attack, multiply it by 2.8, and convert it to Jupiter damage. This is a deadly threat if it hits an adept with a smaller HP pool and weak Jupiter defense. However, it only targets a single adept, so it's not the end of the world given you have a way to revive heroes. - True Collide: Like HP Drain except multi-targeted and it does more damage. The damage is actually pretty lame. The heal it provides Dullahan is actually a bigger problem than the damage. It's not a threat to any party with an AOE heal. Other moves: - DJINN STORM: Dullahan raises the middle finger to whatever battle strategy you had in mind. If you were trying to summon-rush you basically have to reset the game at this point. Otherwise, this resets your adepts to their base classes, which means all your stats suddenly suck hard and you lose your AOE heals for many turns (since all the AOE heals are only available to higher-tier classes). Pretty much all of Dullahan's damaging moves for the next few turns are deadly threats to all of your adepts. If you are in anything besides your mono-elemental classes, this will play havoc with your classes as your Djinn recover. Basically, you CANNOT allow Dullahan to use this attack. Since Dullahan's attack pattern is known and can be manipulated, I would manipulate his attack pattern so that Djinn Storm will be his first move in a round, and use a Djinn like Ground during that turn to make him skip Djinn Storm. - Bind: Annoying, but not a big deal if you have restore/elixirs/salt/tonic. It's essentially a wasted move. - Break: Resets your buffs. Will decrease your party's DPS, but it's essentially a wasted move. - Condemn: Low chance to insta-kill one party member. If your party has high luck, chances of it working decreases. If a party member's luck is over 40, this move cannot affect them. It's essentially a wasted move, but a PITA if it succeeds. - Curse: A buff that insta-kills you after 7 turns. Dullahan will probably kill you in other ways before this goes off. It's essentially a wasted move. - Element Swap: This doesn't do anything except warn you Charon is 3 moves away. It's a wasted move. - Haunt: A debuff that causes you to take 1/4 of any damage you deal. This can be dangerous if you're summon-rushing because summons do damage based on a percentage of the target's HP, and Dullahan has the biggest HP pool of any boss in GS:TLA so that's A LOT of damage even after multiplied by 1/4. However, when you're not summon-rushing, it's nothing more than a nuisance, and that's only if it gets placed on one of your DPS adepts. When placed on your healer or buffer it's completely meaningless. It can be removed with salt/tonic (which you won't have if you're summon-rushing). It's essentially a wasted move unless you're summon-rushing. When Dullahan's psynergy is sealed, he stops running through his hard-coded move pattern and is limited to Attack, Fulminous Edge, True Collide, and Element Swap. Of those, only Fulminous Edge is actually dangerous. But since it's a single target ability you can deal with it as long as you have a tanky reviver (like a Paladin or a Chaos Lord). True Collide will be used more frequently, which will extend the battle. This is actually the real struggle with Dullahan. It's pretty easy to create a strategy withstand his assault, but he regenerates 200 HP each round + whatever he gets back from True Collide. You have to keep the pressure on him constantly otherwise he will start healing up alarmingly quickly. It's so frustrating when you've been pounding him for a half-hour, through some bad luck your party members go down and your DPS needs to handle some reviving duties for a few turns, and suddenly you see "Dullahan's HP has fully recovered!"

[@TheOG-GG]

You are so beyond lucky! He didn't use Djinn storm on your once! >_>

[@SkippytWalrus]

I do believe psyenergy seal actually blocks him from using djinn storm. I don't know that for sure but i don't think he used it but once on me when i was sealing his psyenergy every other turn. Also from the wiki i learned that his element swap skill does literally nothing. It is apparently supposed to warn you that he's about to summon charon a bunch

[@Fuuten]

GS 1 and 2, probably some of the best games ever. Definitely the best looking games on the gba, just insane how good those games looked.

[@novustalks7525]

The lost age is weaker than the first and third

[@Fuuten]

@@novustalks7525 What is the third? That ds version? GS 1 and 2 are infinitely better than that shitty dark dawn.

[@novustalks7525]

@@Fuuten no they’re not . Dark dawn was a masterpiece . The lost age was full of mindles padding and far longer than it needed to be . Plus the writing made no sense

[@Fuuten]

@@novustalks7525 Literally everything in that DS piece was shitty. I played all 3 games not too long ago. Literally every piece of the original gameplay that made those games good is shittier in the ds game. Even the graphics are better in GS 1.

[@novustalks7525]

@@Fuuten lol you couldn’t be more wrong . It improved on the the first two in every way . It’s visuals it’s combat and it’s characters are all better.

[@zeren4422]

"Fomina Sage comes out......and hits peirs for a billion..." lmaooo my thoughts every damn time he attacks with that move.

[@ZT1ST]

Yeah, Charon has a chance to OHKO any person it encounters...except for bosses, IIRC. But it works for enemies too, so that's helpful-ish. Also, Iris doesn't just do a global heal to your allies, it revives anyone who's KO'd too. It's a *little* op., since you can set it up so that your back party can just straight up revive your front party...which can be useful for the final boss. Less so for the battle arena, but...yeah.

[@MasterGeek360]

Don't forget: Iris will heal and revive your reserve party as well. The heal works on all 8 of your party members. So ya it's really OP.

[@SammyBaggins]

Time for Super Boss!! The tables have turned when summons can be used on you!! D= No, people keep falling to Charon! Oliz, he's a Super Boss, of course he has too much hp. xD Good job, the Megido strat wins again.

[@madnimrod2489]

Dude, you got off SO LUCKY in that fight against Dullahan. Whenever I've fought him, he's used an ability called Djinn Storm, which puts ALL Djinn into Recovery Mode. I think he's used Djinn Well (a single-target version) on me too. Congrats! Also, Piers has a Djinni called Shade, which is AMAZING. That water barrier it puts up almost completely negates incoming damage for a single turn.

[@mathieucouture6546]

Mad Nimrod Put on top of that the fact that he grinded his way to Lv56, he would have been annihilated otherwise... But to be honest, just wait for the end boss, Djinn Storms and Cruel Ruins for DAYS ! I still remember getting my ass handed to me multiple times on that one the first time I faced him/them. ;)

[@madnimrod2489]

Mathieu Couture I first faced Dullahan at level 60 and he STILL killed me repeatedly. The first few times he enver used Charon, just Djinn Storm and Formina Sage spam. The final boss was too easy for me even the first time around. Course, i also used Eclipse a lot against the final boss.

[@mathieucouture6546]

Mad Nimrod Yea, I think they expected most people to end Mars Lighthouse straight away the first time. So facing that mofo at level 40-45 might be why I got wrecked. Too low level to endure the Cruel Ruin spam with no Djinn and unoptimised gear. Of course, Oliz should be relatively fine then :P Btw, Dullahan not Djinn Storming is indeed ridiculous luck.

[@madnimrod2489]

Mathieu Couture The trick to surviving him is judicious use of the Flash and Shade Djinn. Their barriers are game-changers.

[@neetigyabisen4209]

the same goes for the flash djinni with garet

[@siroccozephyrine5610]

Went back to the isle time to level up and got the cruel dragon drop it is a sword named: Trisiphone Edge. Howling ability "Vengeance" which at my time only good on Jenna 30+ attack replacing mesamune.

[@peterhoyanco]

Tisiphone edge is one the most powerful weapons. As powerful as excalibur but less than sol blade.

[@foutre_de_babouin]

"In case something nasty comes out of it", that's a good reflexe you have there, to prevent and protect yourself from the worst scenario case. It's curious that you haven't been that cautious with the other bosses though :)

[@dracokaleb1239]

Oliz the reason he didn't use break was because you had the psynergy seal up.

[@joshuajohnson508]

I used to play this game

[@KevinYannutz]

this is a fun game, but one should be able to defeat this boss at the level you reach him at which in my case is between 40 and 42. if you absolutely advise we get to level 56, can you do that at the battle arena? also that switching strategy was brilliant.

[@seph2312]

Wait..... Does Psy. Seal destroy the ability to use Djinni Storm? Because that is why I could never beat him. (Finally beat him now but, wow. He never used that ability once in your fight. Excellent display though, Olizandri. If all else fails, hit him in the head! *Felix* "I am the best leader!" Iris is too good. Feels nice to have that summon. Real nice. :P

[@Vebs.]

well Dullahan has a set order of attacks and if he can't use condemn or curse, her never gets far enough in the series to use djinni storm.

[@dracokaleb1239]

I think Charon has a chance of insta-kill also hi oliz!

[@heartgold7942]

You're right Charon dose instant kill. It's what keèps on getting me in golden sun dark dawn

[@Charzard4261]

Those man tiles did seam really annoying

[@ryuuotaku35]

Do you know that there super weapons you can hone? that’s a lot of time getting them.

[@jacobcollinsworth6620]

This is complete BS man I’m literally missing Vine ONE DJINN and have no way of getting him… I can do everything in the game but face Dullahan