Dawn

Mission Name	8-4 - Dawn
Locations:	Empyreal Paradox
Estimated Time	About 20 minutes of battle
Special Items:	none
Difficulty:	Impossible to guage!
Medicines Needed:	Nothing NEEDED, but having meds doesn't hurt
Brief synopsis:	The Final Showdown!

Well, it call comes down to this. If you’ve been managing to follow the CoP story up until this point, you’ll realize that the next battle you’ll fight will decide the fate of Vana’diel. If you’re like everyone else and has no real idea what’s going on, you’ll still have a pretty good idea that you’re in for a fun fight. And the game sure doesn’t disappoint.

Cutscene:

Zone	NPC name	Location
Al’Taieu	none	zone in

Return to the Garden of Ru’Hmet and pass through the Sealed Portal I marked on my map. It will now let you get to the main garden elevator without mucking around in Zdei gauntlets. Choose to decend from the first floor and you’ll zone into the Empyreal Paradox. Small BC zone. Nearby there is a Transcendental Radiance that you can check for a cutscene. While watching it, ponder why I tell you check the single, obvious thing in this room when you're clearly capable of getting very far into hard missions. After that cutscene, check the Transcendental Radiance again (sorry, it's my job) and enter the battleground!

Cutscene:

Zone	NPC name	Location
Empyreal Paradox	Transcendental Radiance	-

Some Extra Firepower

Easily the coolest battleground area in the game. It’s a pity there is only one fight here. Anyways, you’ll be face to face with the big evil himself Promathia. But wait! Those dirty rotten lazy NPCs that made you do all the fighting have decided to actually HELP this time!

That’s right. Prishe and Selh’teus are going to help you take down Promathia. And before you get all worried that you’ll be doing all the fighting AND keeping these weak NPCs alive, stop that thought right there. Not only does the battle not end if Prishe falls, but they’re perfectly capable of contributing lots to this battle.

Engage Promathia by drawing your weapon and the NPCs will attack. If no one engages within five minutes they will attack on their own.

Prische’s move list:

Move	Effect
Auroral Uppercut	weapon-skill damage
Nullifying Dropkick	breaks Promathia's shields
Banish III, Banishga III, Holy	light-based magic damage
Cure V	massive healing. Used on self AND on your party!
Ambrosia	food effect. Ups stats considerably.
Daedulus Wing	item. Restores TP
Carnal Incence	item. Temporary invincibility
Benedition	As the 2-hour. Restores Prishe and nearby allies to full HP.
Hundred Fists	As the 2-hour. Very fast melee attacks.

I am NOT making this up! MNK/WHM with full powers of both. She’s a machine! She even has an inventory! Prishe can use both 2-hours in the same battle. You can heal her so make sure to keep her alive when she takes aggro and she’ll make it worth your while. If she does fall the battle doesn't end but do everything you can to keep her alive. Healing Prishe does not seem to draw aggro from Promathia.

Should you abandon poor little Prishe and let her get killed, you can actually raise her! Just toss her a Raise 1. She won't complain about the exp loss and will pop right up again to continue the fight. Not even weakened... she's the best NPC in the game.

Selh’teus’s move list:

Move	Effect
Revelation	Light-based damage
Luminous Lance	Light-based damage and stun
Redemption	2-hour. Restores HP/MP/TP

The boy doesn’t have quite as flashy of moves, but he’s basically invincible, which is good because you can’t heal him. If you’re near him when he uses Redemption you’ll get full HP, full MP, and 300% TP! He will use Redemption to save his own life if he gets low on HP. If he dies from tanking or AoEs you will lose this battle immediately. Of course, if its down to Selh tanking you probably aren't doing that hot anyway.

The End of Mortality

My friends told me this battle is “ridiculously easy” and that I’d have to be “trying to lose” if I didn’t win. It’s not THAT easy. Come to think of it, I got a lot of pretty useless advice from my friends in general about CoP. Hopefully this guide is more useful.

Anyway, Promathia has two forms. During the first form the NPCs will generally take it easy and you’ll be required to do most of the damage. That’s okay, because Promathia is holding back too.

Promathia first form move list:

Move	Effect
Comet	Like Meteor, but single target
Empty Salvation	AoE damage
Infernal Deliverance	AoE stun
Malevolent Blessing	AoE curse
Chains of...	Arrogance, Apathy, etc. This move seems to do nothing

Once you beat the first form, Promathia will get serious. Music changes to final battle music. You can rest for a time. Promathia, Prishe, and Selh will wait until someone engages to attack. After about 3 minutes or so after the first form's defeat, however, Prishe will pull a Leeroy Jenkins-like charge at Promathia solo so you'd better be ready to help her out.

Promathia second form move list:
All of the above, plus…

Move	Effect
Meteor	AoE high damage
Bastion of Twilight	Magic shield. Magic spells get resisted fully. Prishe can break it.
Wheel of Impregnability	Physical shield. Physical hits do nothing. Prishe can break it.
Seal of Quiescence	AoE Super-Silence. Silena or echo drops do NOT remove
Winds of Oblivion	AoE Amnesia. Can't use job abilities.

Strategy tips:

Kiting Promathia is a good way to avoid most of his damaging atttacks.
Watch out for Prishe and she will watch out for you.

That’s a big move list but don’t worry about it too much. This is a pretty chaotic battle with Promathia, Prishe, and Selh talking trash in say, and is a lot of fun too.

Second form Promathia is pretty darn resistant to your attacks and can dish out some serious pain with Meteor and his bizarre seal moves. Both the silence and the job ability thing will wear off in time. Prishe and Selh will help your offense significantly and will start using some of their cooler moves. Spread out to avoid the weird AoEs and do whatever you can to keep Prishe alive, though she’ll probably be protecting you better than you can protect her.

See that circle thing behind Promathia? It's actually a color-coded indication of any shield he has up.

Color	Shield
nothing	no shield
red circle	physical shield
green circle	magical shield

So if you're observant you can avoid wasting your time on useless attacks. Eventually Prishe will break the shields.

Overall, it’s a bizarre and totally enjoyable battle. Fighting with smart NPCs makes it even better. Reduce second form Promathia to 0 HP and it’s all over. Really long cutscene explaining quite a lot of important stuffs. Good job!

Exp reward for completion: 2000! And it's a fun fight! Good times.

The Chains Fall Free

You have to wait until the next day, Japanese time, to finish the cutscenes for CoP. That's 10 AM eastern standard time (11 on daylight savings time). So get a good night’s sleep, then regather your static for a victory tour of the world. You can do these in any order, except for the marked ones, which must be done in that sequence. I recommend the following order to cut down on travel times:

Cutscenes:

Zone	NPC name	Location	Other
South San'dOria	Hinaree	(B-6)	1st Sandy
Uleguerand range	none	zone in	2nd Sandy
South San'dOria	Hinaree	(B-6)	3rd Sandy
Oldton Movapolis	none	zone in
Metalworks	Cid	(H-8)
Port Windurst	Chimpy-Popmy	(C-8)	Fisherman's Guild 1st Windy
Mhaura	none	zone in
Bibiki Bay Purgonorgo Isle	??? Warmachine	(H-11)	2nd Windy. Ramdom colored drop item

You get a colored drop candy from that 2nd windy one for NO apparent reason.

Once you get those 8 done, these next cutscenes must be done in order

Cutscenes

Zone
NPC name
Location
Other

Ru'Lude Gardens
none
(H-8)
approach palace

Upper Jeuno
Door: "Marble Bridge"
(F-7)

Upper Jeuno
Door: "Marble Bridge" (F-7)

This will get you your CoP ring of your choosing. But don’t stop there! There are two more, and they’re REALLY worth it.

Cutscenes:

Zone	NPC name	Location	Other
Tavnazian Safehold	Walnut Door	(K-7)	Upper map
Lufaise Meadows	none	(J-6)	Bladeblade Fell Approach

Once you’ve seen that last cutscene you’ll know you’re done with CoP. Congratulations!

So what now? Well, you've opened access to a whole lot of zones. There are tons of NMs in those level-capped areas with rare and obscure items to farm. Limbus, a mini-promyvion that many people seem to enjoy, is available to you once you get access to Al’Taieu as well. And of course you can farm enemies in sea for the In the Name of Science quest and sea god pops. But even if you're not into that sort of thing, you'll probably spend some time aweing over your cool ring and retellinging stories of your glory to your static party. A long and fruitful path. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Or, perhaps, Square-Enix could throw us all for a loop and release a new mission almost a year later. Do you still crave more battles against the Emptiness? Read onward!

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