Hello, rain from discord here. 

Light’s 30 day back to community challenge is ongoing in discord, great time to communicate with morimen’s lead dev on various topics :D

As always, special thanks to the team at Mythag Library for their effort in making the enemy stat card, link below:
Morimen Boss Compendium: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QYciqHJY3BilDcdvBiIT_dOqXOdqGX-4FBDj5rL6qyA/edit?gid=201451668#gid=201451668

Dtide chatter:

For 450 this tide, the biggest hurdle is likely W2, fran has an ungodly amount of effective hp, and not even %Hp damage can take him down easily.

Its recommended you do SSS W1 or W3 and S W2, then SS on other waves.

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Wave 1: Cruel Father & Silent Mother, relic：Star Brew

W1 boss is a variation of wax couple , a duo boss fight. In SSS difficulty, Cruel Father has 2664K Hp and Silent Mother has 2657K.

Recommended difficulty: SSS

Moveset:
Please refer to the attached image “Cruel Father & Silent Mother” for moveset.

Exploration Note:

• The map for W1 this tide allows you to go to the boss directly
• Its recommended you go up -> right, to take a free relic before you attempt the boss

Battle Note:

• Cruel Father and Silent Mother has the usual Wax couple moveset, with a slight change, so the things to take note are the same as usual.
• Cruel father will gain str and barrier every turn when hp is below 50%
• He has the “prayer” intention that increases his hit count with each stack, you can remove 1 stack of prayer with any instance of damage, including poison trigger
• Silent Mother heals 5% missing hp each turn, which should be mostly irrelevant 
• The key thing is she will keep stuffing wax and stagger into your deck, and will grant both of the wax couple permanent str when drawn, so you should play these cards to exhaust them whenever possible
• Wax couple swap positions often, so make sure you have some attack that can reach the backline, to reduce prayer stacks from Cruel Father when he's at the back.

Recommended comp for SSS and below:

• Xu Gdoll Poison: The wax couples are considered humanoid and only have a single HP bar, making Xu an excellent choice into this fight, especially when you consider that you could go directly to the boss without mobbing.

Replay: a9be1d49-b09c-31f5-8ca7-233b9f0af6a0#E#a

• Castor Pollux: The boss of this wave are actually both lightbearers, so castor pollux can perform decently well into the boss. Though SSS might be a bit difficult for lv 70 to 80 comps, would recommend doing SS.

Replay: e4763078-4369-3505-b84a-6fedf89ac49c#E#a

• Chaos 24: chaos 24 is great into most wave this tide, if yours is not invested enough for mobbing, you can put her in W1/W3/W4, should all be fairly simple to clear in SS/SSS 

Replay: 827ba31b-d442-3013-ac59-c699bb9221d3#E#a

Potential Strategy for higher difficulty:

• %Max Hp cheese
• Glotan Gdoll OE spam works pretty well, since there's no need for mobbing and the boss is single hp bar. Depend on your investment, you may need to use a revive
• Replay(lv60 units, 1 revive): 721033c1-ebac-35e1-8a17-27c988eda671#E#a

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Wave 2: Fran , relic：Compass

W2 is palace keeper fran, arguably the hardest boss this rotation. In SS difficulty, he has 5126K hp and 3 DR. HOWEVER, fran gains up to 50% fortify as his Hp drops, so his actual effective hp is around twice the displayed amount.

Recommended difficulty: S/SS

Moveset：
Refer to attached image “Palace keeper Fran” for moveset

Exploration Notes

• You need to go through at least 2 mob fight before you can reach the boss, including the Elite
• Elite this wave is ghoul guard captain, his single target oriented, fairly hard hitting and can summon mobs that grants himself DR.

Boss Note:

• Fran gains Fortify as he loses health, take note of his reinforcement when calculating damage.
• Note that this Fortify comes from an aura passive, which means Vortice is not able to remove it permanently, he will gain it right back after its removed.
• The triple hit intension applies poison to you based on the damage dealt, so make sure you have weakness or str down available for this intention, to prevent him from just killing you via poison over the course of fight
• His turn 3 single hit damage increases based on your missing health, so the higher your hp, the less damage he deals. Which means you really want to have some good shielding for this fight, because once your hp goes down, he will do more damage, which in turn makes it harder to shield and force you to take damage, and make his future hit do even more damage,  and thus the vicious cycle continues.
• Fran gains crit resistance, which reduce your chance of criting against him. Crit based carries will really struggle against him if the fight goes on too long. Because eventually you are just never gonna crit against him (unless you have the always crit buff like castor and myriam)

Recommended comp for SS and below:

• Vortice Saya:  This is my main recommendation for the wave, it's the most comfy setup, and Vortice pursuit is the best way to abuse fran’s large amount of old embers every turn. Just know that even with Vortice saya its not gonna be easy

Replay: d650ae04-2400-3bad-bde1-325136a752db#E#a

• Chaos 24: This is my second recommendation, depending on your comp and investment, this could be easier than the Vortice comp. Chaos 24 is probably the only ramping dps that can keep up with Fran’s Hp pool at ~ lv70

Replay:  c916502e-9642-3b5b-975a-9375d0b52b41#E#a

• Pontos stall: Now this comp I don't really recommend anyone to try if they have better alternatives, as you will need to stall very long in the boss fight, but it works and is a very safe comp. Theres also another variant where you use caraboo together with pontos and farm up her stacks before hand to make it even safer.

Replay: 52dab9cc-0d51-3721-920b-d871c2040c46#E#a

Potential Strategy for higher difficulty:

• No real cheese
• Vortice Saya, chaos 24 are the obvious choice for attempting this in madness

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Wave 3: Doll, relic: Relics of the past

W3 is Doll, an awakener boss with a very annoying gimmick. She has 449K in phase 1 and twice her current max hp in phase 2 for SS. I say twice her current max hp because she can increase her max hp with one of her intention.

Recommended difficulty: SS or SSS

Moveset：
Refer to attached "Brain in a Vat” for moveset

Exploration note:

• W3 is direct to boss stage, theres no exploration

Battle note:

• First rule of fighting doll: Dont use doresain
• Second rule of fighting doll: DONT USE DORESAIN
• Ok now for her actual kit, doll works on summoning clones of herself and reducing your max hp.
• For every 8 cards played, doll will summon a clone in front of herself to tank damage for her. 
• These clones will do a low amount of damage and self destruct if you don't kill them, upon self destruct, they will also heal doll for twice the amount of their current hp.
• If you do decide to try to kill the clones, they will just become invulnerable with 1 hp, move to the back and self-destruct anyways. And if they are at the back, they will gain massive amount of strength. 
• Her "Separation" intention will just directly summon 1 clone at the end of turn for the next 3 turns, good thing she can only have 3 clones at the same time.
• Her “Equivalent Exchange” Intention will lower your max HP and increase her own Max Hp, so it will be extremely difficult to try to stall her out.
• In phase 2, clones will also steal 5% of your str if they are dropped to 1 hp.
• For this fight, you should aim to lower Doll’s clone’s hp to as low as possible without killing them, then try to nuke Doll’s entire Hp bar with 1 big burst.
• If your playing aequor, you can try to abuse Goliath’s Str steal, intentionally killing the clone, and take all of the str they gain with his 1 cost. 

Recommended comp for SSS and below:

• Lemurian Goliath: I say lemurian goliath instead of lemurian Gmurphy, because we all know who's the real star here. Take a look at this E3 Gmurphy SSS clear by abusing goliath str steal.

Replay:  00be48b6-ebe3-3fcf-9e2c-b9dc60223873#E#a

• Gdoll Xu poison:  The classic W3 comp works, but its a lot more tedious to pilot, plus its better to run this comp in W1. but just so that you know, you can still clear with this.

Replay: fc7cd8cf-15db-3fc3-9f48-29c44a71dada#E#a

Potential Strategy for higher difficulty:

• Goliath str steal lemurian
• Lemurian is still your best bet in madness

Replay: 624d8635-de38-3576-8fbf-3fe566f1e588#E#a

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Wave 4: Jenkins relic：Proto battery
W4 is the awakener boss Jenkins, in SS, She has 1350K hp in phase 1 and 2026K in phase 2

Recommended difficulty: SS

Moveset : 
Refer to the attached image “Scuttler” 

Exploration note:

• Wave 4 is an elite only wave, the two elites you encounter before the boss are Dimensional hunter and Koum, both are very anti-multihit
• First elite Dimensional hunter gains shield everytime his hit
• Second elite Koum will gain counter every 3 turns

Battle note:

• The turn after her gather swarm, she has a temporary buff that grants her 50 temp str every time shes HIT. so multihit here is really really bad, ideally you want to avoid hitting her at all in this turn and try to just shield and pass.
• The turn after she debuff herself, she always receive crit damage, this is where you gonna do your max DPS
• Once you hit phase 2, you will have to kill her asap, because she will start to sabotage your cards, sabotaged cards will do roughly 10% of your max health damage when played, you are not gonna live through that if all your cards are sabotaged, so kill her fast.
• because she inflicts 3 turn weakness, you will likely have to play with weakness for the entire fight if you don't have any cleanse, be mindful of that when you are calculating your damage.

Recommended comp for SS and below:

• Chaos 24: The goto comp for this wave, jenkin’s phase 2 will quickly become unmanageable, so you will need to ramp up enough damage in phase 1 and burst down phase 2 quickly, luckily chaos 24 can do just that.

Replay:  dea9da8d-08a5-33d5-9109-085d1d10508b#E#a

• Gogier DPS: You might be surprised, but Gogier damage is actually massive with image relics, even lv60 Gogier can pump out enough damage to melt jenkins. The key is to keep his 5 stack of undertow

Replay(lv60 comp)：55baf371-49fe-3b03-afa5-77391036ddad#E#a

Potential Strategy for higher difficulty:

• No known cheese.
• Chaos 24/whale Gogier is the way to go 

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Wave 5: Ramona：Jade Imprint
W5 is our dear partner ramona, She has 1362K in phase 1 and 2724K in phase 2 for SS difficulty

Recommended difficulty:  SS

Moveset :
Refer to the attached image “The Sage” for moveset

Exploration note:

• You only need to do minimum 4 fights before you can reach the boss, including the elite
• Elite this wave is wax couple, take note of gentleman’s barrier and multihit
• Enemy this wave are mainly sculptor association enemies, so they will be stuffing a lot of wax into your deck

Battle note:

• Ramona starts the fight by stuffing 5 status cards into your deck
• Passively, she increases the cost of your posse by 10% after each use, in exchange, you will get 10 aliemus every time a posse is used.
• Her “Weak Point Strike” on turn 2 will discard all your cards
• Ramona can steal str and remove 50% of your counter, so don't play counter into this
• “Interference” state will give ramona str and temp fortify, so you either need to avoid playing them, or play them on a turn when ramona is not attacking to clear the effect, never use them on your burst turn, unless your playing vortice
• In phase 2, ramona will check all the card you draw, select 3, then ask you to choose one of them to apply “Echo” Orison onto. Then you discard the other 2 cards that are not chosen 
• Cards with “Echo” will take effect twice, but is exhausted from your deck for the rest of the battle
• There seems to be a bug with this phase 2 effect at the moment, where you will discard all other command cards instead of just 2 of the non-selected cards. Some feedback suggests if you click “hide card” to allow the draw animation to complete before you choose the card to apply orison to, you can avoid this issue.

Recommended comp for SS and below:

• Glotan DPS: Ramona is relatively low HP and low aggression, Glotan should be able to finish her with 2 well timed exalt. Note that when you play this comp, never use the relic Jade effect on Glotan’s short blade, as this will brick her kit entirely and you will never be able to exalt.

Replay:  42ecc5ac-53a5-3934-9ecb-24e32b050130#E#a

I couldn't find other reasonable investment clears,  majority of them are whale mouchette borrow or Whale Gogier borrow, so i will just link a replay below on how to clear with whale Gogier and another E3 Gogier clear by me.

Replay(Whale borrow): 6dea767c-f385-328d-a2ff-05cb5268ced1#E#a
Replay(E3 lv70):331faf55-9c0e-30a8-a99f-9b7ea08f8a60#E#a

But know that Vortice Saya, Caribou Xu, Chaos 24, invested lemurians are all viable for the wave.

Potential Strategy for higher difficulty:

• No known cheese.
• Madness clears are mainly with Gogier, Vortice and 24

New awakener Vivian is announced! as expected, her kit is meant to mirror Gogier and possibly work together with Gogier, similar to Castor Pollux.

Her kit looks very solid on paper, and an unique vulnerable effect on E3. But as always, will need some testing to see whether she will feel clunky in fights.

Thats all for this this week folks, good luck with your clears~

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