Choi's Guide To Late Game Instances

Introduction

The main purpose of this guide is to provide information and tips on the main party-focused late-game instances for the game, as these will generally be the most difficult instances. My hope is that this will provide useful strategies and guidelines, so that everyone can find success and enjoy these instances. Please keep in mind that there are many different solutions to clear these instances, and the ones listed here is not the only one!

This guide will go into detail about key points about the instances and strategies. However, it won't cover all the details and mechanics, as they can be read in the related instance pages.

Constellation Tower

Recommended Classes - CT

Recommended Classes
Class	Role	Guides
Elemental Master	Provides Land Protector to the team and serves as the main tank with the Dragon Resist Build. It can also spell break casts and dispell Max Pain	Lxna's Elemental Master of Puppets Build Guide
Cardinal	Provides powerful supportive buffs and heals and resurrects fallen members. Can also serve as a tank.	Choi's Magic and Support Cardinal Guide
Shadow Cross/Ninja	(Optional) Removes the reflect effect from Betelguese when he uses Max Pain through the skills Dark Claw or Empty Shadow. If either of these aren't on your team, the team should be careful when DPSing to make sure that Max Pain hasn't been casted or has been dispelled.
DPS	Kill Betel!

Key Mechanics - CT

Climbing the Tower
There isn't too much to cover for climbing the tower. Generally, just kill the mobs and move onto the next floor. On floor 25, you can fight Naght Sieger (20996) or move on. On floor 50, you can choose to fight Betelgeuse (20994) or continue to fight a stronger version of Betelgeuse (20994) for more rewards. Additionally, you can choose to skip 4 levels by talking with the blue brazier on every 5th level. The total cost to use skips until level 75 is 2975 Meteorite Powder (1000372) which equates to 75 Meteorite Fragment (1000373) .

Difficulty/Star Levels
The difficulty of the Boss Fight with Betelgeuse (20994) depends on the Star Levels you set at the fountain. These Star levels determine its Health, Attack, HP Recovery, Defense, and the strength of its Traps. At floor 50, the total stars it can have is 15. At floor 75, the total stars it can have is 25.
My recommendation when rolling for maximum star level is to roll randomly until you get 3 maximum star level stats and then roll the maximum stars for the remaining stats.

Battle with Betelguese
The boss fight with Betelguese is split into 3 phases.

There are not too many mechanics in the boss fight with Betelguese. Key things to note are that it won't take damage when a party member is dead, so you will need to make sure everyone is alive, and the boss can cast Max Pain after a long cast time that will reflect all damage it takes which will essentially wipe your team. Max Pain is important to play around so make sure you have a way to remove the buff and not to hit it when it is in Max Pain status. It also casts a very powerful comet that will do significant damage to your team.

Starting on its second phase, the map will have traps that move across the map vertically to deal significant fixed damage on the player when they are hit by them. The traps don't do enough damage to kill you but will do about 80% of your hp in damage. These traps will still occur again in the third phase. Additionally, in the second phase, dead souls will spawn across the map which will prevent Betelguese from taking any damage until all of them are dead. These dead souls will have to be killed to progress in the fight.

Strategy - CT

Since Betelguese is Dragon, Dragon Tank EMs are a very cheap and effective tank against Betel, as they will take 1 damage from its skills and attacks if they have 100% dragon resist. Also note that Betelguese is neutral property, so the Jitterbug Card (27109) , Playing Pere Card (27107) , and Singing Pere Card (27108) Combo is a very useful against it.

The main strategy for the fight mainly focuses on avoiding both the powerful traps and its powerful skills. Luckily, while the traps spawn in the middle corridor of the map, the rest of the map is not affected by the traps. As such, there are safe zones on the map for the party to sit while your tank lures Betelguese to you and tanks it. Particularly, the location on the bottom left is a great spot for the team to hang out.

Alice Twisted Madness

Recommended Classes - Alice

Recommended Classes
Class	Role	Guides
Cardinal	Provides powerful supportive buffs and heals and resurrects fallen members. Can also serve as a tank.	Choi's Magic and Support Cardinal Guide
Elemental Master	Provides Land Protector to the team and can spell break the bosses casts.	Lxna's_Elemental_Master_of_Puppets_Build_Guide The Complete Elemental Master Guide by Goldie
Melee DPS	Kill Nightmare Key Holder!
Magic DPS	Kill Jabberwocky!
Ranged DPS	Kill Jabbawocky!

Key Mechanics - Alice

Strategy - Alice

Hall of Life

Recommended Classes - HoL

Recommended Classes
Class	Role	Guides
Cardinal	Provides powerful supportive buffs and heals and resurrects fallen members.	Choi's Magic and Support Cardinal Guide
Devo IG (1-3)	Absorbs damage for lower HP members of your team by casting Devotion on them. Also, provides supportive buffs like Guardian Shield and Holy Shield. The number of Devo IG required depends on how many squishy members you have on your team. Ideally, each IG should devo 3-4 people, but they can devo a maximum of 5.
Arch Mage	Alongside its DPS, provides strong debuffs on the boss through Comet and Level 4 Climax All Bloom. The rest of the team should use Fire element to make use of the 2x damage boost from Level 4 All Bloom
Elemental Master	Alongside its DPS, provides great supportive abilities that will boost your damage. The EM should cast Volcano where the party is stacked and cast Earth Insignia on the boss. It also has strong supportive abilities in and Spell Enchanting
Performer	Alongside its DPS, can provide many supportive buffs to the team. Particularly, Apple of Idun and are very useful to provide your team some extra tankiness. If you have a trouvere, you should make sure it is Soul Linked.
Soul Ascetic	Alongside its DPS, can provide many supportive buffs to the team. Particularly, Talisman of Five Elements will provide a significant buff against Rigel
DPS	Kill Betel!