Ok so Kalon is up in RC6.
Does anyone have a reliable method for dealing with him? Right now I started in on him with my standard go-to squad (always seems like a good place to start): Sirius(L), Ark(L), Silas, Vern, Kulyuk, Krantz.....and I *have* been beating him (so far) with this group, but I have had to abuse Smoke Bombs to do it.....a couple of times he's surprised me with Life Conversion with no warning, and he's hit me with it out of the blue on Turn 2 already also. So yea, I've been beating him, but taking a lot of deaths to do it.
I've considered going in with crazy ass DPS squads (Dual Eze or Dual Avant) to try to blast that fugger to death before he has too many opportunities to wipe my group, but I'm afraid that would weaken my group to the point that his regular attacks start to shred my folks and I'm left with too little DPS to get much done inbetween smoke bombs lol. I've also considered using a 'dummy' character in one slot to die for me, but that seems silly and as long as I am on top of watching for the ""Magic Sealing Chat" message, it would only help me in the cases of the surprise Life Conversions that sometimes seem to happen without warning.
Am I already taking the right approach? Adjustments? This is the first RC6 boss I really feel like I'm dancing on the knifes edge with. If I get hit by life conversion 3 times, it's game over...and he casts it plenty lol.
The thing is, I LOVE his sphere. Beiorg's Armor for tough Trials/GQ's etc of course, but Armor of Seals for basically everything else....I want 5 of these things. I"m completely ok with just abusing Smoke Bombs with my current group if that is what it takes....I might need to craft 60 of those goddamn things a day to keep up with how many it takes, but I'm harvesting my ass off, trying to keep up that pace gathering materials lol
4 Rizes? Daaaaamn. Had to blow my last unit of choice on a Rize, who remains my one and only. That one hurt, too. Was only a few months ago I think and I really, really didn't like blowing my uoc on such an old unit, but it was totally worth it.
I did a culling not long after I got back, was struggling for unit space and I had tons of dupes sitting around I never sorted through....I traded in almost all dupes for Merit Points (kept a few for key units where it made sense at the time)....I must have gotten rid of a Rize then, because I checked since I posted that and I only have 3 left. I still can barely imagine a scenario where I'd want more than 2 though....I'll probably Omni 2 and leave the other one at whatever Evolution its at for #star-specific content.
Edit: Fuck, Kalon just hit me with Life Conversion on Turn 3....haven't even read about folks getting hit on turn 3 lol....Won the match though.