Crystal Project 42: Tree and First Half of Castle

We've got the Golden Quintar, so, let's go to the Tree. Climbing the tree is much easier without having to swap around. The boss of the tree is all about surviving pressure and managing adds quickly. Keep some power AoE in reserve for each Raise Dead, and make sure whoever is tanking can survive the Shroomy Leer and Attack Combination. As always, hard CC and interrupts will prove helpful -- especially if you save them for right after the Raise Dead. Also: Keeping up DoTs on the boss will also help you to keep chipping away while dealing with adds. It's a long fight, so stay healthy and keep the MP flowing. Setting Nomad to Emikis's secondary helped me get out some more AoE to clear the fight, but you can probably think of better tricks.

The spear the boss drops is great, and the tree's final treasure is useful to get BEFORE you suffer Quintar Breeding. As it is, I've got very little to use gold on save Class Armors from Jade Passage.

For Parasite X, I fought it before in my earlier explorations, so I knew to slap on some Awake Rings, making this a very easy fight, so long as you also have good AoE to deal with the Funkers.

By now, you should be keen to Neo Warden's AoE nonsense. He's got a smaller HP pool than the extra bosses you've faced, so you can probably just blind/CC through with the blink Summon as extra insurance without having to set up specifically to deal with the AoEs. If you've got a Rogue standard in your party (which you probably have someone who can Rogue by this point), he'll be a push over.

We'll come back to deal with the block puzzle and the rest of the Castle soon.

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Time Stamps
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00:00 Jade Cavern and Tree Prep
05:30 Fly to the Tree and Tree Wandering
19:00 Spirit Cage: Round 1 and Setting Up
33:05 Spirit Cage: Bout 2
41:19 "Ok." More Prep...
42:15 Spirit Cage: Battle 3
47:10 More Prep, Again
49:30 Spirit Cage: Battle 4, With More Nomads
56:56 So Close... More Prep
57:43 Spirit Cage: Battle 5: With More Ninja
1:07:00 Preppering
1:09:06 Spirit Cage: Battle 6: Beat Time?
1:23:20 Hooray.
1:26:00 Castle Wandering
1:34:34 Parasite X
1:38:12 More Castle Wandering
1:45:10 "Oh Look, It's a New Boss;" Neo Warden Fight
1:49:53 Most Castle Wandering