The Sword of Music

The Sword of Music

Number

17

Level

50

Standard Time

5:30

Ideal Time

4:15

Act 1 Enemies

Right Claw, Left Claw

Act 2 Enemies

Kreios

Gil Reward

 5,000

Seals Reward

 100

Tomestones

 80 

Prev. stage

Sunset Bull-evard

Next stage

Midsummer Night's Explosion

Patch

4.5

The Sword of Music is a stage in The Masked Carnivale for Blue Mage, introduced in patch 4.5 with Stormblood.

Act 1

Enemies

Right Claw

• Endurance: Average
• Strengths: --
• Weaknesses: Lightning
• Vulnerabilities: All status effects, except Interrupt

Left Claw

• Endurance: Average
• Strengths: --
• Weaknesses: Lightning
• Vulnerabilities: All status effects, except Interrupt

Strategy

Use magical attacks on Right Claw. Use physical attacks on Left Claw.

• Try to use single-target spells such as   Sonic Boom and   Abyssal Transfixion to ensure only the targeted hand is hit.
• Hitting the wrong hand reflects about half of the player's HP in damage - so if using AoEs, be prepared to cast   White Wind between attacks.

Act 2

Enemies

Kreios

• Endurance: Above Average
• Strengths: --
• Weaknesses: Lightning
• Vulnerabilities: Slow, Petrification, Paralysis, Interrupt, Blind

Strategy

Spawns a Right Claw and Left Claw at around 50% HP. Use magical attacks on Right Claw. Use physical attacks on Left Claw.

• Using   The Ram's Voice and   Ultravibration combo will work on the boss and skip the Claws. Otherwise, whittle away at the boss while keeping note of the Right and Left Claw spawns and dealing with them with the appropriate physical/magical attacks.
• The boss's Grand Strike line AoEs come out fast and in sets of 3. Be prepared to sidestep quickly.