Trials of Mana Remake - Anise Boss Guide

Guide on How to Defeat Anise

Anise is one of the bosses that you need to defeat in Trials of Mana. She appears in two forms. Her first form being a human dressed in an elegant blood red dress and emanates dark energy. Meanwhile, her final form appears as a large serpent-like creature. The boss appears in Anise’s Stockade X.

Boss Information

Here is a breakdown of the boss’ strengths and weaknesses, stats, and skills.

Anise’s Stats

Anise’s Skills

First Phase

Each of high tier spells involves a crystal that matches the elemental magic she’ll be using.

Second Phase

Boss Strategy

Here is a breakdown of the battle strategies against the boss.

Preparation

Make sure to be at least level 75 before challenging Anise. Have your party equip mana accessory or gear that gives status effect immunity. In addition, bring a mixture of stat boosts and healing items. The collection of items depends on your roster. If your team lacks buffs, bring stat boosting items in their place.

First Phase

Anise first appears human on your first encounter. When the battle starts, she will prepare crystals around the area. Each crystal grants her an extra skill or two. The spells normally consist of high-power versions of standard spells. That being said, focus on breaking the crystals to prevent Anise from taking advantage of the spells that she draws from them. Don’t use your stat-boosting items just yet.

After removing the crystals, shift your attention and whittle down Anise to continue with the next phase.

Second Phase

After Anise has weakened, she’ll transform into a huge serpent-like beast. She acquires new skills and takes less delay in between using skills. You may now spend your stat-boosting items to amplify your attack damage. You’ll encounter multiple area of effect skills and the majority involves determining the path and then dodging marked areas. Many of these skills should be familiar to you by now. Among them, you’ll need to watch out for the following: Destructobomb, Gush Blast and Scarlet Dust.

Dodge the Destructobomb

One of Anise’s new attacks is Destructobomb. The marked areas start from the corner and then gradually move to the center. After reaching the middle, bombs set off and cause some damage and inflict blind status. When she starts using the skill, the key is to sprint to the middle of the area and then move outward until you reach the corner.

Getting past Gush Blast

Anise has some attacks where she vanishes from the field. Gust Blast is one of these and she’ll snipe you with an energy beam. The trick is to leap across the beam. After doding, you’ll earn enough time to heal or use stat-boosts.

Smash the crystals

Anise shares a similar skill with other beasts through this skill. Many dark crystals appear around the area and you’ll have to break all of them to interrupt the attack. If you suspect that there’s not enough time to spare breaking all of them, be sure to have full health on your party to survive the onslaught.

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