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Behold the blade of purgation!

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Volk's Wrath: Master is a challenge quest centered on a boss battle with Volk, unlocked upon the completion of Chapter 10 and any Advanced Dragon Trial at standard difficulty, and meeting the minimum might requirement of 34,000.

• Rewards from Master difficulty include and small amounts of , which can be used to upgrade 6 flame Agito tier 1 weapons to tier 2, granting additional strength, new abilities, and might.
• Additionally, clearing Master difficulty for the first time rewards the player with sufficient amount of materials to immediately upgrade a MUB tier 1 flame Agito weapon to tier 2.
• Weekly bonuses from clearing the Master difficulty also provide a large amount of .

Stat and Equipment Requirements

HP

HP isn't too much of a concern, as most adventurers should be able to withstand the unavoidable damage Volk inflicts throughout the fight if they came prepared with sufficiently strong equipment, and at least one adventurer carries a dispel skill (either innate or shared).

Weapons

For Master, at a minimum, DPS adventurers should be equipped with at least a MUB 6 Agito tier 1 weapon.

• Supportive role adventurers and healers may use lesser weapons, but they are unlikely to meet might requirements in public co-op.

Weapon Category	Sword	Blade	Dagger	Axe	Lance	Bow	Wand	Staff
Agito Tier 1

Dragons

Everyone should ideally be equipped with a max-unbound 5 Flame-attuned dragon for Expert.

• Healers such as may carry offelement dragons which brings better utility, as their personal DPS is usually not too relevant.

Adventurers	Dragons
Prime Overdrive DPS - The Prince, Marth, and Chrom play largely the same role - prime ODPS deliverers as swordsmen and a major source of DPS. Gala Mars significantly improves all of their DPS. However, there are many other suitable dragons who still provide excellent damage output. The Prince disfavors Konohana Sakuya, due to his relatively weak skill slice. Marth can provide significant amounts of direct and indirect buffing to the entire team with his skills, and Gala Mars is hence a perfect fit for him. Chrom prefers running Konohana Sakuya before any other dragon not Gala Mars, due to his very high skill slice.

Adventurers	Dragons
Standard DPS - These standard DPS units deal damage to the boss. The dragons are mostly interchangeable, aside from Gala Mars being stronger than anyone else. Ezelith like having Arctos to complement her very high critical rate if Gala Mars is unavailable. Avoid using Arctos on other adventurers. Nobunaga like having Konohana Sakuya to boost her massive skill slice if Gala Mars is unavailable. Gala Mym has an unusually large practical standard attack slice, and hence disfavors Konohana Sakuya. Apollo may help with burn uptime and damage. Note that Gala Mym cannot burn with Apollo due to his skill being overwritten with Gala Brunhilda's, though the ability will still function.

Adventurers	Dragons
Spooky Flamewyrm - Halloween Mym's contribution comes from both a relatively large standard attack slice, as well as the supportive effects on her skills, but she can also burst down very hard with her dragon form, which is the strongest among Flame dragons, even when compared with Gala Mars. Konohana Sakuya is not a good choice for Halloween Mym due to her very low skill damage slice.

Adventurers	Dragons
Support Squad - Like most other adventurers, if possible, you give these purer support adventurers Gala Mars. If that's not possible, simply avoid equipping them with Konohana Sakuya, due to Emma's lack of innate damaging skills, or low damage slice of Sinoa.

Adventurers	Dragons
I'm a healer! - The on-element dragons provide differing benefits to the healer. Gala Mars lets the healer dish out some damage in dragon form, and also immediately reenables the use of all their skills. Arctos can be used for timing stun on Volk at critical points. Phoenix can be used to increase the healers' HP, which may make it harder for the healers to be defeated by taking too many hits, especially since she also grants a potent regen heal. As the healers' healing output are more than sufficient, even when lightly equipped, it is possible to experiment with off-element dragons for access to strong buffs. Pop-Star Siren can be used to grant the entire team significant strength and energy buffs.

Wyrmprints

Most adventurers should equip their standard wyrmprints.

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in a composition without a burner prefers a somewhat unusual setup to capitalize on their dragon form and their tendency to get them earlier than most other adventurers.

Adventurer	Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2
Dragon Spam! - The Red Impulse is Gala Mym's best secondary wyrmprint under most circumstances, should no one in the team be able to reliably inflict burn on Volk. grants Gala Mym additional Skill Damage that stays permanently on, and due to the multiplicative effect, can become devastatingly strong when combined with 's standard and any possible energized effects from a Pop-Star Siren's buffs. further augment the innate chain co-ability and to increase Strength gain with each shapeshift, and due to the very high frequency of Dragon Gauge gain, Gala Mym will ramp to full strength shortly after Volk enters Phase 2.
Dragon Spam, now with Axes! - The Red Impulse is Halloween Mym's best secondary wyrmprint under most circumstances, should no one in the team be able to reliably inflict burn on Volk. grants Halloween Mym additional Skill Damage that stays permanently on, and due to the multiplicative effect, can become devastatingly strong when combined with 's and any possible energized effects from a Pop-Star Siren's buffs, for when Halloween Mym unleashes in dragon form, or a high-power shared skill such as 's or 's . If defense debuff frequency is preferred instead, Memory of a Friend and Jewels of the Sun will help with meeting skill haste targets with their . Memory of a Friend's is more suitable if Halloween Mym has a combo time chain co-ability such as , while Jewels of the Sun's is weaker, but does not rely on combo. provide Halloween Mym a permanent increase of Strength with each shapeshift, making all of her attacks hit harder.

Special considerations should be taken for

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• If Halloween Lowen has trouble surviving attacks, even with , consider replacing the wyrmprint with either or to improve their odds of living through attacks.

Adventurer	Wyrmprint 1	Wyrmprint 2
Double-Prepped Prankster - From Whence He Comes is extremely important - this wyrmprint's will permit Halloween Lowen to instantly cleanse the first plague infliction with his S2, making it a lot safer for the entire team to defuse affliction bombs. The extends the duration of 's regen healing, long enough to produce at least one more healing tick, as well as letting 's buffs last longer. wyrmprints enable the swordsmen and to ramp faster via shapeshifting to proc Dragon's Claws abilities, and let the other DPS units instantly proc their abilities upon ending shapeshift, for users. The Bridal Dragon slightly increases Halloween Lowen's DPS while in dragon form with a ability, and is suitable for dragons that aren't Phoenix, Pop-Star Siren, or Freyja. Welcome to the Halidom! grants Halloween Lowen in a pinch.

Party Roles

Primary Melee DPS

These units will be doing the majority of the DPS, and are responsible for baiting Volk's close-range attacks in the opening of phase 1.

Adventurer	Notes
	Primary DPS with access to burn and a dragon kit that can ramp up to ludicrous levels.
	Primary DPS with access to burn and extremely large buffs that benefit the entire team.
	Primary DPS with potential for extremely huge S2 damage with the correct setup.

Secondary Melee DPS

These units also provide DPS, and may provide additional utility.

Adventurer	Notes
	May also fill a secondary melee DPS slot.
	High damage and dispel.
	High damage, very high break damage, potential for inflicting stun if running Arctos.
	High damage and dispel, easier to play than other choices here due to lance range.
	High damage, very high break damage, easier to play than other choices here due to lance range.
	Strength buffer and shielder for chip damage, easier to play than other choices here due to lance range.
	Defense debuffer, very high break damage.

Tertiary Melee DPS/Sinoa

These units also provide DPS, and may provide additional utility. An alternative is to run Sinoa for additional buffing.

Adventurer	Notes
	May also fill a tertiary melee DPS slot. Don't run more than 1 Halloween Mym in the entire team. Don't run more than 1 Emma in the entire team.
	Ranged buffer. Some randomness to buffs provided. Also slightly more personal DPS than Emma.

Healer

The healer will be spending the majority of the match buffing the entire team and keeping plague in control.

• Halloween Lowen tends to be the safest option.

Adventurer	Notes
	Healer and ranged baiter. Has relatively low personal DPS (but somehow still better than some of the worst DPS), but is extremely invaluable for tight plague cleansing, as well as being a great source of buffs to prepare for break damage.

General Party Setup

The general setup includes 3 DPSes, and a healer. At least one of the adventurers should have a differing resistance to the others, so that all affliction bombs may be detonated safely.

• For example, a team with 3 adventurers should have the remaining adventurer be .
• For another example, a team with 3 adventurers should have the remaining adventurer be .
• and should be considered as pure adventurers, as the -equivalent abilities are not relevant for this quest .

Either 2 melee 2 ranged or 3 melee 1 ranged are acceptable.

• However, going more than 2 ranged is inadvisable due to the way some attacks target two of the ranged units first before melee units.
  • In a 3 ranged comp, it becomes possible for the healer to not get targeted by such attacks, significantly reducing DPS during that phase.

Composition
Most 3DPS comps work fine, as long as everyone is properly equipped.
If you want to go really fast, look no further.
If you want to go extremely fast, this one's for you. This comp has a very low tolerance for mistakes.

Attacks and Patterns

On Plague

Plague is a special effect that will reduce an adventurer or Volk's resistance to afflictions.

• On adventurers, plague will set the adventurer's resistance to all afflictions to -100%. This means that attacks with a 0% chance to inflict an affliction will have a 100% success rate (this describes several of Volk's attacks). When plague's effects wear off, it will spread to surrounding adventurers. Plague will wear off after 90 seconds on its own, or it can be removed more quickly if the adventurer receives any form of healing.
• Plague can spread from an adventurer onto Volk himself if he hits them with an attack that has a Life Drain component.
• On Volk, resistance to all afflictions will be set to a fixed value for the duration of Plague, and the enemy cannot receive any form of healing (via Life Drain, for example). If the enemy gets afflicted while they are plagued, the fixed resistance value will not change, but their "true" resistance value will increment in the background accordingly. Once plague's effect ends, the enemy's true resistance value will be restored.
  • On therion Volk, plague will set his resistance to 50% and wear off after 10 seconds.
  • For example: if therion Volk had 75% resistance to burn, and then got plagued, his resistance to burn would be fixed at 50% for the duration of plague. Let's say he was burned once during plague, which would increase resistance by 5%. He will still be at 50% during plague, but after plague ends he will have his true res value, 80% (75% + 5%).

In the Master difficulty, the amount of HP recovered from getting struck by an attack with Life Drain is significantly higher than previous difficulties, and hence failure to mitigate life drain with avoidance or plague inflictions may cause DPS issues to crop up.

On Automatic Bracing

Bracing (air recovery) grants iframes, but these iframes end as soon as you land. Not bracing will cause your adventurer to fall to the ground if they were hit by Snapping Squalls, which grant extended iframes that last until a few moments after they pick themselves back up.

Automatic Bracing is an option that can be configured in the Game Settings tab of the game's Option menu. Make sure that this option is turned off if you are playing a

adventurer, as if automatic bracing is turned on, it's very likely that the unit will take damage twice - once from the initial hit, and another from getting hit again after landing from the same Snapping Squall. This usually ends poorly for the unit, as it is unlikely for most units to survive getting hit twice in a row without defensive buffs.