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Gentlemen Prefer Swords

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Gentlemen Prefer Swords

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Number
04
Level
50


Standard Time
3:30
Ideal Time
2:35
Act 1 Enemies
Arena Bat, Arena Wolf
Act 2 Enemies
Kreios
Gil Reward
Gil 3,000
Seals Reward
Allied Seal 50
Tomestones
Allagan Tomestone of Poetics 40 
Next stage
The Threepenny Turtles
Prev. stage
Waiting for Golem
Patch
4.5

Gentlemen Prefer Swords is a stage in The Masked Carnivale for Blue Mage, introduced in patch 4.5 with Stormblood.

Act 1

Enemies

Arena Bat

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

Arena Wolf

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

Strategy

Every status ailment works on these three. You can freeze them, petrify them, paralyze them, sleep them, or alternatively just murder them because they're also not that durable.

Act 2

Enemies

Kreios

Strategy

Avoid Grand Strike, interrupt Magitek Field and avoid or interrupt Magitek Ray. Spawns 6 Arena Beetles below half health, which apply Poison icon1.png Poison and are vulnerable to Earth Earth damage. The Ram's Voice.png  The Ram's Voice will freeze everything, including Kreios, to make the add phase very easy.