Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
At least I extended the courtesy of letting it have one turn.
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So this is the Jenova-BIRTH boss in the Nightmare 7 mod by Kuugen, which I ended up fighting when NeuroSephiroth (currently writing a walkthrough for this mod) sent me his save file so we could come up with a working strategy against it. The thing has 99,999HP and halves most physical elements, with a sturdy magic defence to boot.
For attacks, Ortus' Laser will dispel all buffs, Tail Laser will hit you with Death Sentence, and W-Laser can inflict Darkness, Silence, and Sadness. Gas will hit you for 1500 fixed damage and also forces the Poison status on you regardless of status defence (which can make the status permanent if you do have status protection against it), and instead of Stop it now has Comet2 which can easily land for 30,000 damage total (but seems to be limited to single-target damage, maybe due to Jenova's AI or an edit made to it's kernel targeting data). All of it's attacks are also non-elemental, with it countering any magical damage with Laser and any physical damage with Gas. Whew.
So for this fight, we want Ortus to open with Comet2 which can be recovered from thanks to it apparently being single-target. After reviving the downed party member, we get Haste on the go from Lunatic High and cast Slow on Ortus to maximise the turns we get (Dexterity has been boosted using accessories and Materia bonuses to compliment this).
Now we buff Cloud with Hero Drinks (aka Steroids) which give him a 30% boost to his stats and also the Fury status. The item apparently misses after the first use, but the status boost appears to still go through (it's likely the Barrier + Fury attached to it that's missing instead). We then give him a Mutagen which gives the Resist and 'Lucky Girl' statuses; Lucky Girl is basically auto-crits which is very useful.
When we're ready, we cast Wall on the party and have Cloud attack Ortus. She counters with Gas which deals a flat 1500 damage and fills his Limit gauge. He uses Braver, she counters with Gas and fills his gauge again. All Tifa and Red have to do is keep him healed until Ortus dies, at which point it'll use Tail Laser twice (which is tanked thanks to Wall).
While it's probably better to instead conserve Hero Drinks and go with a lower damage output of around 6-11,000 per Braver, it's not my playthrough so I just went with whatever would kill it's face the hardest.
At least I extended the courtesy of letting it have one turn.
-Strategy-
So this is the Jenova-BIRTH boss in the Nightmare 7 mod by Kuugen, which I ended up fighting when NeuroSephiroth (currently writing a walkthrough for this mod) sent me his save file so we could come up with a working strategy against it. The thing has 99,999HP and halves most physical elements, with a sturdy magic defence to boot.
For attacks, Ortus' Laser will dispel all buffs, Tail Laser will hit you with Death Sentence, and W-Laser can inflict Darkness, Silence, and Sadness. Gas will hit you for 1500 fixed damage and also forces the Poison status on you regardless of status defence (which can make the status permanent if you do have status protection against it), and instead of Stop it now has Comet2 which can easily land for 30,000 damage total (but seems to be limited to single-target damage, maybe due to Jenova's AI or an edit made to it's kernel targeting data). All of it's attacks are also non-elemental, with it countering any magical damage with Laser and any physical damage with Gas. Whew.
So for this fight, we want Ortus to open with Comet2 which can be recovered from thanks to it apparently being single-target. After reviving the downed party member, we get Haste on the go from Lunatic High and cast Slow on Ortus to maximise the turns we get (Dexterity has been boosted using accessories and Materia bonuses to compliment this).
Now we buff Cloud with Hero Drinks (aka Steroids) which give him a 30% boost to his stats and also the Fury status. The item apparently misses after the first use, but the status boost appears to still go through (it's likely the Barrier + Fury attached to it that's missing instead). We then give him a Mutagen which gives the Resist and 'Lucky Girl' statuses; Lucky Girl is basically auto-crits which is very useful.
When we're ready, we cast Wall on the party and have Cloud attack Ortus. She counters with Gas which deals a flat 1500 damage and fills his Limit gauge. He uses Braver, she counters with Gas and fills his gauge again. All Tifa and Red have to do is keep him healed until Ortus dies, at which point it'll use Tail Laser twice (which is tanked thanks to Wall).
While it's probably better to instead conserve Hero Drinks and go with a lower damage output of around 6-11,000 per Braver, it's not my playthrough so I just went with whatever would kill it's face the hardest.
