Grim Pursuit - Early Bosses | Etheria: Restart

Foreword

Grim Pursuit is a mode where you have to kill a boss, well 10 different bosses. Furthermore, each boss stage is split into different difficulties and the difficulties change based on the boss, for example: Jacques has Basic and Hard difficulties available while NicoNana has Nightmare, Hell and Inferno difficulties.

The main reward from the mode are Shells that are equivalent of weapons in Etheria: Restart. Progressing through the various bosses - and their difficulties - will unlock higher rarity Shells that can drop. Different bosses drop different Shells, so you have to choose wisely which one do you want to farm. You will also get a single RGB Summon Ticket when you clear a stage for the first time.

Grim Pursuit - Early Bosses

In this guide, we will go over the first 4 bosses - Jacques, Shadowrunner, Apate and Kururu - that are unlocked early on. They are quite easy to beat with a lot of teams, so making dedicated guides to them isn't needed.

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Jacques Overview

Boss Name: Jacques.
Element: Reason.
Challenge Type: Grim Pursuit.
Difficulty Tiers: Normal → Hard.
Key Threats: AoE and Single target attack.

Shell Drops

Agent Lizard

Red Comet

Scorpion Queen

Abilities

Avian Torrent
Jacques gathers lightning at the spear tip, dealing 320% damage with a 100% chance to inflict a 2-turn [DEF-].

How to counter?

Easiest is to Taunt him, however the damage is fairly low and shouldn’t be a threat to your team as long as your HP remains high.

Team Compositions Tips

As the first Shell boss, Jacques is designed to be faced by a vast range of units, lacking both the punch and the resilience of later bosses:

Healer/Support - The most efficient way to deal with Jacques is to stay at high HP, so Shields, DEF Up, Damage Reduction and Heals are generally more than enough to deal with all of his mechanics.

Dorothy, Rin, Dorothy [The Wisher], Sania, Rin, Lingluo, Freya, Mia, Tiamat, Celince, Veronika, etc. Every Unit with one or multiple sources of the previously mentioned effects can easily fit into your team.

DPS - ere isn’t a single DPS that cannot perform well against Jacques, so bring whoever you prefer. Simply keep in mind that Jacques is a Reason Affinity boss, so Hollow units suffer from greatly reduced Crit Rate and Damage Dealt Reduction.

Odd Affinity Units get offensive advantages so favor them if you can.
Special mention to DPS like Rahu, Helkid and Fangus who offer defensive utility or Debuffs on top of their DPS

Buffer/Debuffer - Early on, Crit Rate is low so any source of Crit Rate Up is extremely useful. Another option is to completely ignore the Crit stats and focus solely on ATK Up and DEF Down. Any source of Turn Meter generation is also more than welcome to mitigate the low SPD across your entire roster.

Nell, Chiaki [The Echo], Freya, Marvell, Gray, Dinah, Lily, Ninfoniel, etc.

Tank - While not necessary, extra protection for your fragile characters is always a plus.

Rin and Tiamat are clear standouts in that role, Rin effortlessly providing multiple sources of [Taunt], a DEF Up and Shields, while Tiamat brings extra Healing and Damage, but less pure control.

Team Examples

If you don't have some of the characters visible in the teams, you can replace them with another one that fulfills the same role (check the section above).

Team 1

Jacques #1

Content: Grim Pursuit || Team type: F2P || Time: -

Debuff / DPS

Gray

DPS