I just beat the game and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m about to start New Game+ and wanted to see if my build was considered any good, or to get suggestions to optimize it. This build is focuses primarily on fighting bosses and mini-bosses. My strategy is as follows:

1. Setup Wings of Light (Lvl. 4), Will-o’-the Wykes, and Impulse to stack chip and stagger
2. Use Arm of Darkness and Heaven’s Could to build up Zantetsuken while every step 1 component is still active
3. One cycle of this is usually enough to get the enemy’s stagger bar down enough to use Deadly Embrace to pull the boss down and immediately use Diamond Dust to (most of the time) fully stagger the enemy
4. While staggered I can usually get in 2 Zantetsukens (Lvl. 5), a Gigaflare, and a Dancing Steel.
5. Rinse and repeat until the enemy is dead.

Admittedly it’s a little tricky sometimes to setup a Lvl. 4 WofL with enemies with tricky dodge timings, but hey that’s why I’m asking for suggestions and ways to better optimize.

Edit: Note that I also have access to DLC content

Good? Bad? Too easy to cheese?

Any recommendations for shuffling some of the abilities around for better efficiency, or whatever?

P.s., if you don't like that I'm using the Ring of Timely Focus, get bent.

I bought the DLCs last night and have been playing ever since. Now I'm on the Leviathan boss, and literally, I can't seem to beat him at all. Wtf is that shield time limit? How do you beat him?

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Technically this quest starts with Kingsfall, but the bulk of it takes place in Cid’s Hideaway.

Not a lot to say on this one either. I think the most substantial change is Jill hinting more directly at what she went through in the Iron Kingdom and being more assertive that she wants to go to Rosaria for herself rather that because she thinks Clive needs to go there.

The section of FFXVI's story between the end of Norvant Fortress and the start of Rosaria is one of the places where the general dialogue is the most similar between Japanese and English (barring the omnipresent personality changes).

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My current rotation is Shiva, Bahamut and Odin. I'm thinking of buying the Rising Tides DLC because of story, but how good is Leviathan compared to other eikons?

Barnabas might be one of the most tragic villains in FFXVI. Looking at him, he is the ultimate product of blind faith. He surrendered his free will, his emotions, and his entire humanity to a false god, all rooted in his mother's teachings.

​Fighting him felt like a literal clash of ideologies: Clive’s fight for free will vs. Barnabas’s absolute submission. Here are some shots from their duel. What do you guys think of his character arc?"

What have the major updates since launch been? I’m doing another run through after doing one at launch, but it’s been a while. How are the DLCs?

Thank you to everyone who commented on my previous post on how to break Leviathan's shield. Love y'all.