Lufenia Quests are currently the hardest kind of fight in the Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia (DFFOO) mobile game. They’re level 200. Aside from the usual gems and tickets, winning will give you 20 High Guard Tokens, which can be used to buy High Armor.
Lufenia Quests Table of Contents
The Lufenia fights featured in this post are the following:
- The Terse Turk
- Mechanized Sentry (Guard Scorpion Raid)
- Roses of May
- Thrall of Darkness
- Storming the Citadel (Mission Dungeon)
- Tree for the Void
Introduction
After I ended up having to pity the Burst or BT weapons of both Cloud and Sephiroth, I wanted to use them as much as possible, especially in Lufenia fights.
Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII
My Cloud is Level 80 and Crystal Level 80. His 15cp, 35cp, Manikin weapon, World of Illusions weapon, Ex, and LD are fully MLB. His Ex is at Ex+ 3/3 or Purple. He’s currently equipped with his Burst weapon and his High Armor. All of his Boards have been completed. He has his Bloom Stone.
He has 3 Attack 108 with Max Brave 330 Artifacts and
3 Attack 108 with Debuff Attack Up★★ (Raises ATK by 5% when an enemy is debuffed) Artifacts.
My plan was to equip Cloud with triple 108/Debuff Attack Up★★ whenever I have him in a party with chars who are able to constantly inflict a lot of debuffs. However, I usually just end up equipping him with triple 108/330 anyway.
Cloud is equipped with the following Spheres:
- Tifa Lockhart’s (from Final Fantasy VII) Critical Attack Up Longer A Sphere
Raises ATK by 10% for 6 turns when dealing critical hit
- Sazh Katzroy’s (from Final Fantasy XIII) Critical Attack All Longer D Sphere
When dealing critical hit:
• Raises party’s ATK by 5% for 6 turns
- Faris Scherwiz’s (Sarisa Scherwil Tycoon from Final Fantasy V) Full HP Critical Poison All E Sphere
Grants effect for 6 turns that reduces enemy’s BRV by 30% of individual INT BRV at start of enemy’s turn when dealing critical hit while HP at MAX
*Does not stack with same sphere
Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII
My Sephiroth is Level 80 and Crystal Level 80. His 15cp, 35cp, Ex, and LD are fully MLB. His Ex is at Ex+ 3/3 or Purple. He’s currently equipped with his Burst weapon and his High Armor. All of his Boards have been completed. He has his Bloom Stone.
Sephiroth is equipped with the following Spheres:
- Jecht’s (from Final Fantasy X) Critical Base Attack Up Shorter (RF) A Sphere
When dealing critical hit:
• Raises INT BRV, ATK by 4% for 3 turns
- Jack’s (from Final Fantasy Type-0) Critical Attack Up Shorter Power A Sphere
When dealing critical hit:
• Raises BRV damage by 5%, ATK by 5% for 3 turns
- Yuri’s (from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates) Full HP Attack Boost Up A Sphere
Raises own MAX BRV, ATK by 5% while HP is MAX
The Terse Turk Lufenia Quest
The The Terse Turk is the event that introduced Rude (from Final Fantasy VII) as a playable char in this game. Sephiroth's Burst was also featured on Rude's banner (this was where I ended up pitying said BT), which meant he was also synergy for all the The Terse Turk quests.
- Oerba Yun Fang’s (from Final Fantasy XIII) Break Hit Attack Up Longer (RF) A Sphere
When inflicting Break or attacking target afflicted with Break:
• Raises own ATK by 4% for 6 turns
- Gabranth’s (Noah fon Ronsenburg from Final Fantasy XII) Critical Resist All Shorter (RF) B Sphere
After dealing critical hit:
• Reduces party’s BRV damage taken by 4% for 3 turns
- Garnet Til Alexandros XVII’s (from Final Fantasy IX) HP Heal Attack Up Longer (RF) C Sphere
When recovering own HP:
• Self: Raises ATK by 4% for 6 turns
I talk more about this in another post, but am really very pleased to have been able to get the win with this team.
Mechanized Sentry (Guard Scorpion Raid) Lufenia Quest
The Mechanized Sentry (Guard Scorpion Raid) is the event that came with the introduction of Cloud’s LD and Burst. The second banner of this event was where I ended up pitying Cloud’s BT.
The Mechanized Sentry (Guard Scorpion Raid) Lufenia Quest is the first time I used Cloud in a Lufenia fight. This is Sephiroth’s second Lufenia battle. I brought Rude as my third char because the enemies here loved to HP attack. Rude heals, he batteries, and he even provides some good auras and buffs for the party.
I talk more about this in another post, but I’m super pleased that I was able to get the win by using both Sephiroth and Cloud in the same team. Even managed to bring in Rude for a full Final Fantasy VII (#ad) party.
Roses of May Lufenia Quest
The Roses of May is Beatrix’s (from Final Fantasy IX) Lost Chapter event. For the Lufenia Quest of this event, I saw a lot of clears that featured Cloud, but the only one with Sephiroth that I saw also included Beatrix. I couldn’t find any clears that included both Seph and Cloud in the same team. Since this is Beatrix’s event, she has synergy stats, but I couldn’t use her because I didn’t have any more resources to spare to pull for her LD.
After reading more info about this fight as well as watching a few vids, I decided to try it with a team comprised of Cloud, Sephiroth, and
Lightning (Claire Farron from Final Fantasy XIII).
My Lightning is Level 80 and Crystal Level 80. Her 15cp, 35cp, Manikin weapon, Ex, and LD are fully MLB. Her Ex is at Ex+ 3/3 or Purple. She’s currently equipped with her Burst weapon and her High Armor. All of her Boards have been completed. She has her Bloom Stone.
She has triple Attack 108 with Max Brave 330 and triple Attack 108 with Initial Brave 170 Artifacts.
Lightning is equipped with the following Spheres:
- Prishe’s (from Final Fantasy XI) Weak Attack Boost Up Shorter A Sphere
When attacking target’s weakness:
• Raises own MAX BRV, ATK by 10% for 3 turns
*Does not stack with same sphere
- Ardyn Izunia’s (Ardyn Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV) Break Raging Attack Boost Up A Sphere
When inflicting Break:
• Raises MAX BRV, ATK by 2% up to 5 times, once per turn
*Does not stack with same sphere
- Hope Estheim’s (from Final Fantasy XIII) Buff Success Attack Boost All Shorter D Sphere
After granting buff:
• Raises party’s MAX BRV, ATK by 5% for 3 turns
*Does not stack with same sphere
Right after Lightning's first move, I switched her out for the friend Amidatelion to delay the bosses as much as possible.
Cloud was so slow and his Ex charges fast so there were no issues with just spamming his skills every time he actually got a turn. What worried me was when the orbs were there and he needed to be able to move to dispel, but he was so freaking slow and Lightning just kept taking all the turns. His dispel and turn delay via LD helped a lot though. He also dealt lots of damage whenever he actually got the chance to move.
Sephiroth was... there. His damage was pretty meh. I guess the debuff from Scintilla and his speed down aura helped a bit. I mostly spammed his moves too although I used the occasional HP++, particularly when his Ex gauge was nearly full. Probably wouldn't have mattered much if I spammed his skills more though. He was faster than Cloud once he was at max Jenova stacks. Would have been better if Cloud was faster though so he could dispel more.
Lightning was the star of this team. She did most of the damage. She also took most of the turns so I had to use her HP++ a few times so as not to run out of skills. Also had to be super careful with her, particularly when the orbs were up because she just takes so many turns in a row, which causes the orbs to tick down, so it was necessary for Cloud to also be able to move to increase the count. Ended up having to summon Ifrit when one orb was at 1 because Cloud wasn't set to be able to move anytime soon.
The bosses only managed to take 2 turns. The first time - the boss got to move freely. I was debating Summoning to prevent her from moving, but I thought, surely it wouldn't be so bad since this would be her first turn since the fight started. So I let her have a turn. It was bad. She dealt so much brave damage that Lightning nearly got broken. As if that wasn't enough, she followed that up with an HP attack that nearly killed Lightning. Had Seph use Penelo's Call as soon as he could move. Since Lightning took so many turns, she was back to full HP before Penelo's Call effect ended.
The second time the boss got to move, I only let it happen because she was currently paralyzed. But - argh! She healed herself for like 250k. Eff! After that, I decided not to let them move anymore, especially if they weren't paralyzed.
Was debating which Burst to use - Cloud’s or Lightning’s. Didn't bother considering Sephiroth's because I didn't think his damage would be enough. Went with Cloud because both orb counts were low already, and I worried Lightning would take more turns after Burst.
Lightning and Seph didn't deal that much damage in the launches during Cloud's Burst mode due to not having any battery, and I had to brave attack for a few of the launches just to get more brave. So I opted to use Cross Slash+ instead of another Finishing Touch. Another Finishing Touch before Burst mode ended gave Cloud the option to use another Cross Slash+ after his Burst. Cloud managed to dispel all the buffs by the time his Burst mode ended so I really needed to finish the fight soon. Was also running out of turns for the turn count requirement.
Thankfully managed to win and get all the mission requirements.
Sephiroth was the one who dealt the killing blow on the last remaining boss.
Really glad I was able to make this team work.
Thrall of Darkness Lufenia Quest
The Thrall of Darkness is Xande’s (from Final Fantasy III) event. I was rather worried about the Lufenia Quest of this event because you needed dark damage in order to increase the count of the Lufenia orbs. The problem was that I didn’t have any dark chars built.
Xande would have been perfect since this is his event, so he even has synergy stats. He’s also apparently the only char (so far, at least) who can Imperil enemies and Enchant the party with the dark element. So he would have been a great addition to my roster. Actually, my plan had been to pull on the Thrall of Darkness banner. Aside from all of Xande’s weapons, Cloud’s Burst was also featured there.
Unfortunately, what happened was that I ended up pitying Cloud’s Burst on one of the banners that also featured his LD. So now I didn’t have any more resources to spare for Xande, especially since I followed that Cloud pity with another pity on the banner with Sephiroth’s Burst.
So I’ve been looking up vids and info about this Lufenia Quest, and thankfully, it looks like it’s possible to win without using a dark char. But aside from not having any dark char, I also wanted to use both Cloud and Sephiroth for this fight. I wasn’t able to find a vid featuring those 2 together, so I had to come up with my own team comp.
For this Lufenia Quest, I found myself trying Cloud, Lightning, and Sephiroth again. Well, since it worked so well last time on Beatrix’s Lufenia Quest, I was hoping that it would work just as well for this fight too.
For my Summon, I had no choice but to bring Diabolos for his dark damage so I had some way of dealing with the orbs. For Calls, I found myself bringing Rude’s and Penelo’s again for healing, just in case, and Reno’s for the debuffs. For my friend support, I was debating between Vivi Ornitier (from Final Fantasy IX) for more orb control and Cloud with LD and Burst for more damage. In the end, I decided to try with Vivi first.
The Thrall of Darkness Lufenia Quest has 2 waves. For the first wave, I spammed Cloud’s and Sephiroth’s skills. I used Lightning’s skills sparingly though, mostly using her HP+ unless it was a free skill. Used 1 Cloud LD, 2 Seph LD, and 0 Light LD. Lightning and Cloud only attacked the main boss. I had Sephiroth deal with the add-ons if they needed to be broken.
For the second wave, I had to reset once because I let one enemy attack. Things were actually going well although it was pretty nerve-wracking trying to hurry and get the enemies to below 80% to get rid of the orb. Managed it, but the red aura was annoying me because it was wasting my delays unless it was via break.
The in-game info didn't mention anything about how to get rid of them, so I thought letting them attack while paralyzed might be the way, but that didn't work. Maybe actually letting them attack might get the aura to disappear. I thought, how bad could one attack be? And I did have Rude’s and Penelo’s Calls for healing. So I let them attack. Big, big mistake. The attack killed Sephiroth and Lightning. Cloud survived, probably because of synergy stats. Note to self: find more info about the fight first before trying it.
So I reset and resolved never to let the enemies get a turn unless they were paralyzed. Like before, I managed to get the enemies below 80% to get rid of the orbs. A few turns after the orbs appeared for the second time, I switched out Sephiroth for the friend support Vivi that I borrowed.
I actually debated using Seph’s Burst just for the effect to help with delaying the enemies, but I didn't think the damage would be enough. Cloud moved right after Vivi so I had him use his Burst already because the enemies were moving after him. I didn't want to summon yet since Vivi was still there to help with the orbs. However, I did end up summoning a few turns after Cloud's Burst mode ended even though Vivi was still there since by then, the enemies were nearly dead anyway.
Vivi helped with the orbs. His damage was okay enough. With him there, I didn't have to worry about the orbs. I ended up worrying more about the health of my party. I had Lightning use Rude's Call, but it wasn't enough. Too bad I had Sephiroth equip Penelo's Call. Should have given it to Cloud instead. It didn't really matter though as long as the enemies didn't attack or were currently paralyzed if they did get a turn.
Lightning was really, really good, as always. Her being able to rebreak helped a lot when the enemies had the red aura since that was the only way to delay them. She dealt so much damage and took all the turns. Had to use her HP+ a few times so she won't run out of skills so soon. She still basically ended up running out anyway. Good thing the fight was nearly over by then.
Sephiroth dealt decent enough damage, I guess. Would I have been better off bringing either Kurasame Susaya (from Final Fantasy Type-0) or Amidatelion instead of him? Yeah, definitely, especially since Kurasame inflicts a debuff that increases HP damage taken. Even Amidatelion provides more utility than him since they can delete the turns of enemies. But Seph did help me save from having to use Lightning's skills on the first wave since I spammed his instead. And the debuff from his LD was useful enough, I suppose?
Cloud was so, so slow. I feel like he hardly got to move since he still had plenty of skills left over, and I wasn't even trying to save them. At least he got to deal a lot of damage every time he did get a turn. His paralysis helped a lot too. Should have spammed his LD more before the red aura showed up. At least it was also helpful in removing the shields since it dealt a lot of damage.
Super glad I was able to win without having my own dark char.
Wonder if I can do the next Lufenia Quest with this same team? Really want to use Seph and Cloud as much as possible since I pitied their Bursts, especially Sephiroth because at least I got to use Cloud on all his events, but for Seph, I literally only got his Burst right after pitying Cloud's, so by then I was done with his and Ciaran's (from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles) Lufenia Quests.
Storming the Citadel (Mission Dungeon) Lufenia Quest
I found this one of the worst Lufenia fights ever. I absolutely loathe this freaking quest. Oh, I have no doubt that I wouldn’t hate this battle half as much I do right now if I wasn’t trying to get the complete using both Sephiroth and Cloud in the same team. I’d seen plenty of clears featuring Cloud, but I couldn’t find any that included the both of them.
I wanted to try the Lightning, Cloud, and Sephiroth team again, but I worried that it wouldn’t work because of the Lufenia orb. The orb has a very short max count of only 8, and the only way to increase it is whenever your party receives direct healing. I doubted that I could finish the fight with Lightning, Sephiroth, and Cloud before the Lufenia orb got triggered. So I didn’t bother trying, but maybe I should have anyway. Who knows? It could have worked. It’s too late now though because at the time I’m writing this post, the Storming the Citadel (Mission Dungeon) event is long over.
Since I didn’t think I could get my usual team to work, I decided to try the fight using Rude, Cloud, and Sephiroth. Rude is one of the chars who can fulfill the orb’s condition. Unfortunately, things weren’t working out at all. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve tried this quest, but it was a lot. I kept trying and trying with this team, but I couldn’t win.
The orbs were a constant issue. Their count is really way too freaking low that I’d have runs wherein I couldn’t get Rude to keep up with increasing the number, especially since the enemies were really fast. They have high turn rates and they would sometimes get back-to-back turns, which was automatically minus 2 on the orb count.
There were a lot of tries wherein I’d end up using my Summon pretty early on just to help me deal with the orbs.
The enemies also love dealing group HP attacks so my team was often not at full health. There were so many runs wherein I worried that my party would die since the enemies often brought them down to very low HP.
As soon as one enemy gets down to 49% HP, both of them will “begin a powerful chant” and start floating. They’ll gain 4 buffs and an even stronger BRV damage reduction when compared to earlier in the fight. If one of the enemies was already floating when this happens, then only the one who wasn’t will get these buffs. So, ideally, you should only get one of them down to 49% while one of them is already levitating.
I’ve had numerous runs where I couldn’t do that though. There were so many times wherein I just couldn’t get the timing right. I’d end up getting one of them to 49% while they were both still on the ground, so they’d both levitate and get all the buffs. This made things even more difficult for me since my team’s damage really dropped when this happened. It wasn’t that high to begin with since I only really had Rude to provide party-wide buffs and auras. Cloud would have done better if I’d paired him with another support. As for Sephiroth - he’d need way more support to deal decent damage.
Anyway, there was one run wherein I actually managed to get things right in terms of only dropping the enemies down to 49% HP while one of them was already in the air. Was so pleased when this happened. I thought I actually had a chance to win. I Summoned, I activated my Cloud’s Burst mode, I used the friend support that I borrowed, I attacked and tried to deal as much damage as I could. But it wasn’t enough. I ended up running out of skills before the fight was over.
Using HP+ wasn’t cutting it because I needed more damage. I also needed to finish the fight ASAP, otherwise the orbs were going to kill me. After dropping the enemies down to 49% HP, the orbs will disappear. They will reappear after the enemies use their Globated Crush+ move. Sooner or later, my chars always ended up getting hit with this, so I had to deal with the orbs showing up again.
There was also the fact that once the enemies start floating, their turns can’t be delayed other than via break so Cloud’s LD was useless. I’d have to wait for them to get back on the ground before using Blade Beam.
Because of that, I even tried a run wherein I used Sephiroth’s Burst instead of Cloud’s, just so I could make use of his BT’s effect, which drops all the brave of all enemies down to 1 for 3 turns. This made it easy to keep delaying them even while they were floating. I couldn’t kill them though because my damage was lacking, so, eventually, Seph’s BT effect would end, and the enemies would soon be able to get a turn.
I kept trying and trying but, eventually, I got sick of doing this quest over and over again. I just wanted to get it over and done with already. Moreover, I was running out of time because the event was ending soon. I couldn’t keep doing this.
In the end, I decided to do this fight with Sephiroth, Rude, and Desch (from Final Fantasy III). This was inspired by a run I saw that featured this exact same team although we had different equipped Calls.
I had Sephiroth equipped with Rem Tokimiya’s (from Final Fantasy Type-0) Call, which heals the party, but I should have given him a Call that inflicts debuffs instead so that I could have used it when the bosses floated and gained their buffs at 49% HP. Thankfully, the friend support Cloud that I borrowed had his Deadly Rush passive equipped. This passive allows him to dispel buffs.
Desch is another char who can also increase the orb count in this quest. He works very well with Rude because Rude makes it so that any over healing is converted to brave. So whenever the party was at full health, Desch ends up batterying them with his moves aside from just dealing damage.
He also provides some pretty good buffs and auras, including resistance to physical or magical attacks (depending on his current stance). It’s RNG, but he can also paralyze enemies. It’s really freaking awesome whenever it gets to proc. More than that, he also makes enemies weak to the thunder element and he Enchants the party so they can hit for weakness damage. Thanks to him and Rude, Sephiroth actually dealt pretty decent damage in this fight.
Between Rude and Desch, the orbs became much more manageable. Anyway, Sephiroth was the one who finished off the last remaining boss. By then, he only had 2 uses of Fervent Blow left. He was all out of Octaslash and Scintilla.
I didn’t get the chance to use Rem’s Call earlier since Rude and Desch handled the healing very well on their own. So I found myself using it now. This gave Seph more brave, which was more than enough to finish off the last boss who only had 1% HP left. I could have just used Fervent Blow already, but I decided to use his Additional Ability (AA) first. This was actually the turn after he cast his Ex so he had a free skill use. I opted to use his AA for the attack up before finally casting Fervent Blow.
And it’s finally done. At long last, I’m finally done with this Lufenia Quest. It only took one run with this team to get the win, which is great, of course. I’m glad I was able to win.
But I still can’t help but feel rather disappointed anyway. I was really hoping I’d be able to use Cloud and Sephiroth together in this Lufenia Quest. Sigh. I suppose I could do another run of this fight with Cloud this time, but eh, I already know he can do it, and I’m really sick of this battle by now so meh. Never mind. Here’s to hoping the next quest will make it easy for me to use both Sephiroth and Cloud together. Gotta use the Bursts I pitied back-to-back, you know? LOL.
Tree for the Void Lufenia Quest
The Tree for the Void is Exdeath’s (from Final Fantasy V) Lost Chapter event. After the hell that was the last Lufenia Quest, this one was like a breath of fresh air. Super pleased that I was able to use both Cloud and Sephiroth here. In fact, I was able to get my team of Cloud, Lightning, and Sephiroth to work in this fight, which is just all kinds of awesome. Hell, yeah!
As usual, I ended up bringing Penelo’s and Rude’s Calls for healing, in case things go wrong, and Reno’s for the debuffs. I brought Ifrit as my Summon for his attack up and because the bosses shouldn’t be getting any turns at all. I borrowed a friend support Cloud for his paralysis, turn delay, and damage.
Anyway, as soon as it was Sephiroth’s turn, I had him use Reno’s Call to apply its debuffs then I immediately switched him out for the friend support Cloud. It took way too long, but I reset until I managed to get both Clouds to paralyze with their Cross Slash. At first, I started by using Finishing Touch with my Cloud then just reset until the friend Cloud paralyzed with his Cross Slash but it wasn't working out because Lightning ended up taking a lot of turns so the enemy who wasn't paralyzed yet would get their aura before Cloud could move again.
But once both enemies were paralyzed, it was pretty smooth sailing from there. Just needed to make sure the enemies never get to move. Used the friend Cloud's Burst then his LD for more turn delay.
Lightning took all the turns as usual. Mostly, I spammed her moves with the occasional HP+. Cloud dealt a lot of damage too. Ended up using his Burst for even more damage. I feel like he didn't get to move much though since he still had plenty of skills left over whereas Lightning was down to 1 use of Sparkstrike near the end.
Sephiroth was... there. He's faster than Cloud so he got to move more often. I guess the debuff from his LD helped too. His damage was... okay? Oh, and he was the one who finished off the last enemy. Surely, that counts for something, right? LOL. In all seriousness though, Seph was the weakest link in this team. Bringing Kurasame instead for his increase HP damage taken debuff would have been much better.
Super pleased I was able to win with this team.
Conclusion
So, what about you? Which chars did you use to complete these Lufenia Quests? Did you pull for either Sephiroth or Cloud Strife or both? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging or replying to this post.
Notes:
- screenshots are from my Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia game account
- originally published on my main Tumblr blog on Apr 26th, 2021 10:16:39pm
