I recently saw someone in a YouTube video using the ability Wave of Relief. In an attempt to find out how to get this ability, I returned to Gittingham Palace to find the next sage quest from that Supreme Sage book.
For this quest (Engaging the Sage) we were told to finish off the grotto boss Atlas with Zam. This would not be easy because Zam does about 100 points of damage, compared to 400 from a normal attack. As with similar quests, the first step is to find out how many HP Atlas has. After the first battle, I got the answer of 'between 5800 and 6300'. So we had to do about that much damage to him before spamming Zam.
At this point, George, Jasmine and I decided it would be easier to use Caster Sugar to make Zam do more damage, and Spooky Aura to make it do even more damage (spamming Spooky Aura didn't work). A few turns later, George's Zam spell knocked Atlas out.
Returning to Gittingham Palace, I was presented with a scroll called 'Sage's Scripture' which would allow one of us to use the ability Twocus Pocus, and let someone cast a spell twice in one turn. In practice, this turned out to be even better than it sounded:
- It can be used on anyone on the team, even someone other than the user. This means I can just give Jasmine the scroll because she has the most MP. Now each of us has one scroll :)
- The second cast does not use MP.
- If it is used with a single-target damage spell like Kafrizzle, the second cast does at least 20% more damage. This allows Jasmine, as a level 99 mage, can do 800 points of damage in one turn to some enemies, enough to kill a slugly betsy.
- It also works for healing spells, buff spells, and debuff spells. Marcus, as a priest, can now fully heal all of us in one turn with only 16 MP, fully heal any one of us with 4 MP, greatly raise one of our defense in one turn and increase the success chance of Zing and Whack by 50%.
With this power, we managed to take down Baramos (at level 1) in six turns, down from a previous record of 10.