I think that War Cry and Healing Knowhow are extremely powerful, cutting out any sort of need for Rakukaja, and freeing up turns for MC to attack instead of waste healing or MP-restoring items.
The question is, how to get them?
The answer is easy. Pele has Healing Knowhow, so you can fuse an extra Pele shortly before the Balor fight, then fuse her into a Thoth with Fortuna. Healing Knowhow works for Attack and Magic Mirror, too, so you can ALSO get away with having only one demon with Tetrakarn/Makarakarn.
Now, War Cry is a little more of a hassle, but still pretty easy to get. Hairy Jack (31) gets it for free. With Hairy Jack, you can use some fancy fusions to get Take-Minakata(sp?), which you can fuse into Dantalian, and later use Take-Minakata for some other useful fusions, giving you access to War Cry on at least two of your demons! Tarunda + Rakunda in one spell? Sign me up! (Full disclosure: In order to create a Hairy Jack, you do require two more demons. One is Fuxi, from the beginning dungeon, and the other is Caladrius, which you can pick up in Shinjuku as you leave to the Tower with the Angels)
Anyway, I firmly believe that War Cry and Healing Knowhow speed up quite a few fights, specifically the final few, where you never have to use healing items with the MC on Merkabah (Lucifer is is risk/reward thing, whether or not you want to gamble with your demons not recovering from confusion).
Thoughts? Or is this board dead?
Submitted one today. Didn't have any way to record onto a 3DS until recently. Summer break's nearing the end, so I grabbed a webcam to record. Shitty quality, but it'll do. Hope to do another couple before break is over. WR for Neutral Any% should be pretty easy (as easy as a 9+ hour speedrun can be, that is).
Also, Glacial Blast over Megidola is another thing that I think is superior to the old route. It has a higher base damage (on average), and has to potential to possibly 3-6 shot a boss, as opposed to the 6-8 shots it could take with Megidola.
