Heroines' Holdfast

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Start NPC	Nyzul Isle entrance, Alzadaal Undersea Ruins
Requirements	Treasures of Aht Urhgan 3-6 party members
Items Needed	Athena Orb (only one member needs to have an orb)
Title Granted	Unsung Heroine or Epic Heroine
Repeatable	Yes
Reward	None

This side quest does not appear in the quest log.

Walkthrough[]

Once you enter the battlefield, you have 5 poles you can trigger, numbered 1 through 5. Those are numbered in order of difficulty. Each portal has a single dungeon floor, Nyzul Isle-style, but with very little randomization.

1 = Lion (Easiest) 2 = Prishe 3 = Nashmeira 4 = Lilisette 5 = Mumor (Hardest)

Lion's portal: Talk to Zeid to open the door, and then talk to Aldo to activate the Runic Lamp.
's portal: Kill Twinkling Treant or Gigantoad to activate the Runic Lamp. It's random which one will activate the lamp.
's portal: Kill one of the Dynamis-style beastmen, such as Warder Depredator, to activate the Runic Lamp. It's random which one will activate the lamp.
's portal: Kill either Miura or Toro to activate the Runic Lamp. It's random which one will activate the lamp.
Mumor's portal: Kill Pyracmon and all Wraith Bats to activate the Runic Lamp.
All portals:
- You will encounter the following monsters, mostly nonaggressive, which can grant temporary items on defeat: Fortuitous Fenrir, Papa Monkey, Celebratory Coney, Bird of Wonder, Fortune Ram, Lucky Mouse, Wassailer Whitby, Unlucky Beak, Wood Bugard
- Speaking to various NPCs will grant you temporary items to heal and buff yourself.

Enemy: Lion
Cheerleader: Gilgamesh
Pirate Pummel: Single target damage and high DoT Burn.
Powder Keg: Conal damage, defense and magic defense down
Grapeshot: Conal damage, stun
Walk the Plank (used only at low HP after being prompted by Gilgamesh): AoE damage, knockback, bind, and dispel.

Enemies: Nashmeira, Mnejing, Ovjang
Cheerleader: Luzaf
Nashmeira herself is less dangerous than her puppets.
Her weapon skill Imperial Authority causes damage to one target, knocks them back, stuns, and resets hate. She runs around randomly for a while after using this move.
Nashmeira has a high reduction to damage taken until her automatons are defeated.
The real danger lies with her 2 puppets: Mnejing and Ovjang.
Ovjang is a Spiritreaver, spamming --ga IV and V spells.
Mnejing is a Valoredge, focusing on Automaton Weapon Skills.
One strategy here is to kill the BLM first, then just go for Nashmeira.
She has some abilities that can hurt a bit, but if you downed the BLM without too much trouble, you are essentially in the clear.

Enemy: Lilisette
Cheerleader: Cait Sith
Lilisette uses standard dancer abilities, including repeated Trances, and spams AoE dispels.
Sensual Dance: attack bonus for Lilisette, attack down for targets
Thorned Stance: defense and magic defense bonus for Lilisette
Vivifying Waltz: heals HP
Whirling Edge and Dancer's Fury: deals damage
When she reaches 50~25%, she splits into two.
Both Lilisettes share a single HP bar, but you can only damage one of them at a time, which can make holding hate a challenge.

Enemy: Mumor
Cheerleader: Uka Totlihn
Mumor is the most dangerous one.
EXTREMELY high HP.
- On the test servers, with all have relic gear (no Item Levels) the fight literally took ~25mins.
Mumor casts tier V nukes, and tier IV -ga and -ja nukes.
Lovely Miracle Waltz: Single target damage, knockback, and terror
Shining Summer Samba: Single target damage, defense and magic defense down
Super Crusher Jig: Single target damage, knockback, full dispel
Neo Crystal Jig: AoE damage, knockback, attack and magic attack down
Many of her abilities wipe shadow images.
- A well-geared paladin should be decent.
The meat of the fight happens at 25% when the music changes to the Shadow Lord theme.
At this point, her HP is restored to 50%, she speeds up significantly, deals additional damage, and gains a damage reduction trait.
New abilities in phase 2:
- Eternal Vana Illusion: Single target high damage
- Final Eternal Heart: 20' AoE Instant KO.
  - She uses an ability below 25% that inflicts instant death to anyone who does NOT stand close to her. Once she is about to do this, Uka Totlihn will say in chat: "I have a bad feeling about this... All of you! Get close to Mumor before it's too late!" Roughly 15 seconds after, she does the ability.

Once all five heroines have been defeated, the run will end immediately and the title "Unsung Heroine" will be granted to all party members.

If the Holdfast is reentered by someone who has already completed the battle and obtained the "Unsung Heroine" title , a new sixth lamp will be present.
Teleporting through this lamp brings the party to a final battlefield where you must fight all of them at once: Lion, Prishe, Nashmeira, Lilisette, Mumor, Mnejing, and Ovjang.
Note that in this version, they don't have nearly as much HP, they do not use their 'nasty' abilities (e.g., Lilisette does not divide), and they aren't nearly as powerful.
One strategy is to have someone kite all of them around the room, while the rest of the group eliminates them in order: BLM pup, WHM pup, Prishe, Lilisette, Lion, Nashmeira and then Mumor.
Completing this final battle awards the title "Epic Heroine".