Alright.

With the arrival of certain key 4* units we can say that trials moving forward will be more manageable.

I decided to make a video for the community clearing Marlboro ELT, all missions, without any 5* star units, TMs, or luck related equipment or materia.

Team:

• Shantotto
• Cagnazzo (potted)
• Soleil (enhanced)
• Rosa
• Mistair (potted, 100% dark resist)

Friend: Barbariccia (98% BiS with Malboro Tentacle)

Essentially every equip and materia used in this guide could have been obtained for free without any gacha luck whatsoever.

The only thing here is that obviously you require the units to do it this way, which is four non-limited 4* bases.

Before getting into a flame war, let me start by saying that you need certain units that accomplish specific roles to clear content in general depending on what you need for the specific fight, it cannot be just handed to you on a silver platter. So more times than not, you will need a DPS, Tank, Healer, etc. Some units are useless in certain situations and some times they aren't. You could always clear this with 2 decked out Shadows with 9S TM's a bunch of killers. So when I say this, I'm talking specifically about their innate skill kit in regards to this trial with this strategy.

Again, the purpose of this guide is to help the community to clear this content with the minimum requirements that I could think off. Everyone is free to try and give this a shot with other units and shittier equip or viceversa.

After about 6-7 failed runs I finally got something that worked and wanted to share with everyone. Basically, if you own these units, then you should be able to clear Malboro.

Video clear link: https://youtu.be/ZDUA2RWFwzM

People are free to review the video and write down the exact skills per turn count, but the most important piece of this is Mistair’s turn count which I’ll share below.

I’ll edit this post as the day’s go by, but I’m going to go ahead and list the most important things that you need to do here.

1) First 2 turns, build Aeroja stacks.
2) Make sure 120% Mag buff is up everytime you are attacking moving forward after turn 2. Also use the SPR breaks to get the damage in most of the time.
3) You need to do about 13-14% damage per turn to the big Marlboro. Essentially you need to be able to get it down to below 50% in 4 damage attempts.
4) Try to time turns so that you can get the SPR break on the Mini Malboros when they respawn.
5) When you get Marlboro to 32-36%, make sure you dispel him to prevent him from getting any more damage (attack first, then dispel with Rosa), this way you can kill him in 3 turns the next time he softens his skin, since at below 10% you are able to do damage to him regardless.
6) When you do Mistair’s LB, you can go ahead and provoke with Cagnazzo instead of his built in tank skill, since you will be getting mitigation from Mistair’s LB. This will allow you to finish the LB mission at the end.
7) Control the SPR breaks from Soleil when you don't need them in order to NOT kill the mini malboros ahead of time, or viceversa (SPR break when you need to kill them quicker)

Hope this helps everyone.

If for some reason, you are missing event limited equip or materia. Unfortunately the only thing I can think of is to replace them with some 3* TMs.

The most important TM for Mistair on this trial would be Equip H Shield from Charlotte (that I'm not using in the video, only to replace event limited equip that you don't have). This will allow you to equip Demon Shield for 50% dark resist, which will free other slots in order to make her more tanky and she shouldn’t die.

Mistar turn count:

1) Cover
2) Ailment Resist
3) Cover
4) Guard
5) Ailment Resist
6) Cover
7) Ailment Resist
8) Guard
9) Cover
10) Ailment
11) Cover Rosa Dispelga to get rid of Crazy Mad Buff after doing damage
12) Guard
13) Ailement Resist Rosa Dispelga on Malboro after doing damage
14) Cover
15) Limit Break
16) Guard
17) Cover

PLEASE FOCUS ON TURN 16 where you have to have LB up Guard Soleil Buff's in order to survive Tentacle Rampage. If you don't do this, on F2P equips, she will die. Turn 13-16 must go in this order. Half my runs ended here till I read in the Wiki and I remembered that summoning Golem doesn't affect Tentacle Rampage so I had to resort to Mistair's LB Guard.

CREDITS TO DoctoreOenomaus for his Barb and his original thread for inspiration
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBraveExvius/comments/7k6nmp/malboro_guide_no_rainbows_no_reraise/