Shaolong Gui

Shaolong Gui appear in the game after completing ALL the missions in the circle grouping of Cie'th Stones (Missions 56-62). They appear along with Long Gui. Unlike its stronger counterpart, which shares the same drops as Adamantoise, Shaolong Gui does not share the same drops as Adamanchelid and is the main source for Dark Matter outside of R&D Depot.

Strategy
A party consisting of Fang, Hope, and Vanille with the paradigms SEN/SEN/SEN, SAB/SYN/SAB, MED/MED/MED, COM/SYN/MED, RAV/RAV/RAV, and COM/COM/COM can comfortably kill the Shaolong Gui within a reasonable period of time without too much risk.

Begin the battle with SEN/SEN/SEN to reduce the damage taken from the initial Quake attack, then immediately switch to SAB/SYN/SAB to begin debuffing the enemy. It is imperative that the Shaolong Gui is constantly debuffed by slow in order to reduce the frequency of its attacks, in addition to all of the debuffs that it is vulnerable to. Once that is done, push the chain gauge of the Shaolong Gui up to maximum and then switch to COM/COM/COM to inflict massive amounts of damage to it. It will take two maxed out staggers to bring the Shaolong Gui down.

Note: Always switch to SEN/SEN/SEN when the Shaolong Gui is about to cast either Ultima or Quake, as it will significantly reduce incoming damage.

Alternative Strategy 1
Party: Fang, Lightning, and Vanille setup as follows offer the fastest killing of this beast:


 * Fang: Venus Gospel, Genji, Power Glove, Imperial Armlet, Moonbow Anklet*
 * Lightning: Ultima Weapon, Genji, Power Glove, Imperial Armlet, Moonbow Anklet*
 * Hope: Urubutsin, Imperial Armlet, Moonbow Anklet**, Connoisseur Catelog, Growth Egg

* Can be replaced with a second Power Glove

** Can be replaced with a Genji Glove

Paradigms: 3xSYN (default), 3xSEN, 3xSAB, 3xRAV, 3xMED, 3xCOM

Strategy

1. Everyone will caste haste on themselves, quick shift to 2. 2. Tank the Quake hit. Shift to 3. 3. Slow till it sticks, Auto Debuff until DShell, DProtect, Imperil, Curse stick. Then Daze till it sticks. Shift to 1. 1. Fully buff everyone: Protect, Brave, Faith, Veil, Vigilance, ENFIRE Minimum. Shift to 5. 5. Heal, Shift to 4. 4. Stagger till 900 - 999% then shift to 6. 6. Attack. Use Highwind before Stagger Ends.


 * If at any point Ultima, Quake or Bay is launched, Cancel all attacks, SHIFT TO 2.

Attack Pattern: Stomp x3, Ultima, Stomp x 3, Bay+Quake. If Gui takes too much damage at once, he will sometimes Bay before his first Ultima. Bay removes debuffs and buffs, deals large damage, usually inflicts Daze and as the battle continues, the frequency of this attack increases.

Alternative Strategy 2
Party: Fang, Hope, Snow

Equipment:


 * Fang: Venus Gospel (~ lvl 80), Genji, 2x +250 strength or better
 * Hope: Urubutsin (not leveled after last upgrade), Genji, +250 magic + whatever else would be useful
 * Snow: Paladin or Sacrificial Circle (not leveled after last upgrade), Genji + free 2 slots for whatever else would be useful

In case of using Sacrificial Circle you may want to give 1 or 2 protective items to Snow such as resist all 20% or resist earth 40%. You may want to use Moonbow Anklet to prevent Daze from Bay, but it will be useless in almost all fights.

Paradigms: 3xSEN (default), SAB/SYN/SAB, 3xRAV, 3xMED, 3xSYN, 3xCOM

Start fight and wait a bit for Quake, switch to second paradigm and debuff like crazy while hope applying first buffs. Put on monster Imperil, Deprotect, Deshell, Curse, Slow and wait while Snow put Daze on him... it will be really quick. Now Switch to 3xSYN and manually cast Bravera, Faithra and Protectra on everyone (3 spells at once and then use repeat twice). On this moment everyone will be buffed to maximum and "slightly" damaged because of 1-2 stomps. Now switch to 3xMED and heal. After that switch to 3xRAV and stagger monster to 900+. Shift to 3xCOM and attack! In the middle of fight monster may try to use Ultimate - in this case quickly shift to 3xSEN and shift back to 3xCOM right after taking damage. Use Highwind if stagger almost finished and monster still alive but usually he will be already dead. In most cases Bay will not be used but monster may start battle with Bay instead of Quake or right after it - be aware, but it's really rare case. After 20 runs it was landed only once in the start and once before Ultima. Just keep cursor on 3xSEN while attacking as 3xCOM and you will be fine.

To farm for Darks and Golden Nuggets wipe 3x Shaolongs in the valley behind 2 Long Gui's (you know, behind that mountain with Gigantuar and some quest on the top), now got to the exit where save-point is, stick to the well on the right and jump on it when you will be able. Turn to the right and there is one more Shaolong Gui. Wipe it and came back to 3 respawned Shaolongs. Repeat as may times as you want. Upgrading strength bonuses to +300 and Fangs spear to lvl 100 will speedup fight even more. BTW monster can't drop both DM and GN. Because possibility of rare drop checked first then it will be wise to not use bonus to rare drop if you need money. This fight always will be 5-star and chance to obtain DM will be enormously hight anyway (~25%, 1-2 DM on each circle).

Related Enemies

 * Adamanchelid
 * Adamantoise
 * Adamantortoise
 * Long Gui