- This page is about the battle against Professor Harvey. For the main character page, see Harvey.
Battle[]
At the beginning of battle, Osvald's EX Skill, One True Magic, becomes unlocked and immediately usable.
Abilities[]
- Attack: Physical attack
, single target. - Begin Experiment: Summons 2 Pure Elementals to the field.
- Lecture: Inflict Sleep to a single target for 3 turns.
- Demonic Flash: Applies the buffs Increased Evasion, Increased Speed and Increased Critical for 3, 4 and 7 turns respectively to himself.
- Advanced Magic: Boosts the intensity of his arsenal of spells, making these spells hit twice.
- Fireball // Fire Storm: Elemental damage, , targets entire party. This spell can be intensified to Fire Storm with Advanced Magic.
- Icewind // Blizzard: Elemental damage, , targets entire party. This spell can be intensified to Blizzard with Advanced Magic.
- Lightning Bolt // Lightning Blast: Elemental damage, , targets entire party. This spell can be intensified to Lightning Blast with Advanced Magic.
- Concentrate Elements: Elemental damage, , target single target for each spell.
- Elemental Distortion: Elemental damage, , target random target for each spell.
- Harvey begins chanting...: Changes his stance without use an action turn. Will either emanate Waves of Darkness or unleash One True Magic if not broken beforehand. One True Magic grants Harvey more actions per turn and will be intensified in each use, even after recovering from break. At roughly 33% health, changes weaknesses to second set:
- Waves of darkness emanate from Harvey...: Used while Harvey continues chanting. Also reduces SP from all party members. Has a chance to inflict Blindness for 1 turn.
- One True Magic: Powerful magic damage, skips the Waves of Darkness. Hits entire party, the elementals, and the user.
- One True Magic II: Powerful magic damage, add more actions. Hits entire party, the elementals, and the user.
- One True Magic III: Powerful magic damage, change his weakness and add more actions. Hits entire party, the elementals, and the user.
- Ultimate Magic: Powerful magic damage. Hits entire party, the elementals, and the user for heavy damage.
- Waves of darkness emanate from Harvey...: Used while Harvey continues chanting. Also reduces SP from all party members. Has a chance to inflict
Minions[]
Strategy[]
Harvey is both an extremely difficult boss in some ways, while also being easy in many other ways. His first weakness set is easy to exploit, which also makes it extremely easy to stop his charge attacks- which his weakness. However, he has an incredible lineup of skills, as well as two minions who can certainly be annoying.
Osvald is obviously required, but Temenos is a recommenced unit. He has high elemental defense, as well as with the Scholar subjob can shred Harvey's 10 shields with Elemental Barrage. Bringing a hunter or a thief is also a good idea, as if he changes his weakness Precise Shot and HP Thief can help break him quicker. He also has no way to remove buffs, so bringing an Arcanist like Partitio with a dancer such as Agnea or Throne- who can also cover the thief job- can let them throw elemental reflections over the whole party. This has the potenital to cheese him, but quite a few of his spells can hit multiple times- so be careful not to let your charges run out.
When he starts chanting, break him quickly. Failure to do so will result in blindness, SP and BP damage, and if you fail to break him multiple times, incredibly high amounts of damage. Castii is a good option for this very reason- Concoct can partially counteract this.
The elementals aren't too scary, but they can chip you down. Not only that, but their Supernova attack can put you in a rough spot if used at the wrong time. They can also absorb Elemental Barrage, which are normally attacking Harvey only, letting him survive with more shields. Overall, this fight isn't too hard, just comes down to surviving nukes every now and then.