High Brunhilda In-Depth Dive & Lily Guide Video Transcript

Welcome to my general and specific
guide to High Brunhilda's Trial.
This will cover the sequence of
the fight and general tips
and notes regarding them.


I have only played Lily in this fight
so take any comments I make
regarding other characters
with a grain of salt.

There is a lot of text in this
video so be prepared to
pause frequently.


This will cover a basic overview at
the start that will serve as a
baseline for understanding how the
fight should progress.


Then we will cover more advanced
topics towards the end, especially
regarding play with Lily specifically.


I have many strong opinions and
the guidelines I set forth may
be subject to change as the meta
develops, so be mindful that this
may not reflect the current
state of the game.


I will not cover the HP thresholds
to enter the fight proper, but
a cursory search should serve you
just well enough.

There will be helpful links in the
description, including the fight
timeline.


I think of this fight
as separated into 3 main phases.

The start of the fight.
Grand Muspelheim.
X-Muspelheim.

With a very good team, you can
bypass seeing X-Muspelheim.


There are two very different
roles. The healer and the DPS.
I will not go over the healer
in detail, as I am not
qualified to speak at length
about their job and thresholds.


The DPS have the job of...
Well, doing damage.

Uptime is key. You must pull
your weight if you intend
to clear this fight.


It must be noted that this
is not a forgiving fight.

Depending on the types of
mistakes made and the
quality of your healer,
your team is collectively
afforded maybe one or two
mistakes per phase.


Any more than that and you
will generally not pass
the HP checks.


Your choice in characters
generally consist of:

Thaniel
Orsem
Xainfried
Lily

Other characters can and
have cleared, but
know that it is because the
people involved know the fight
very well in order to fit clear.
The burn HURTS.


The minimum expected
requirements are a MUB dragon
for everybody,
alongside either a 5* 0UB
elemental weapon or a
4* MUB elemental weapon
depending on which characters
you are playing.


The usual suspects are:

Thaniel, Poseidon, 4* MUB
Lily, Leviathan, 4* MUB
Lily, Poseidon, 5* 0UB
Xainfried, Leviathan, 5* 0UB
Orsem, Leviathan, 5* 0UB

(Note: Leviathan is interchangable
with Dragonyule Jeanne.)


Alongside those are the budget
picks, whom are harder to run
with but it is possible. Do not
expect people to WANT to run with
you if you use these, however.


Your budget picks are:

Thaniel, Poliahu, 5* 0UB
(Requires high dojos.)

Xainfried, Vodyanoy, 5* 0UB
Orsem, Vodyanoy, 5* 0UB

Lily, Vodyanoy, 4* MUB
(Please do not do this.)


This listing is by no means
exhaustive and other
combinations can and have been
tried to varying degrees of effect.


The list of easily viable adventurers
is subject to change as Dragalia
receives more 100% burn
resistant adventurers, so please
keep that in mind.


As a general rule, you would like
your altars to be all level 30/30/30
and your dojos to be at least
levels 16/16.


As a DPS, your strength value should
be north of 2.4k if you are not using
a budget build and at least north of
2.1k if you are using a budget build.

Your strength value may be lower
than 2.4k if you are using
Dragonyule Jeanne instead of
Leviathan.

Ranged users will have slightly
lower strength, but compensate
with higher uptime.


PLEASE do not look at might values
and think that it means anything
about the viability of a particular
person’s character. What matters
is that they pass the HP check
and that their STR value is high
enough to carry their own weight.


Now, let us begin proper.


The text that will appear on
the top is the general phase
that is displayed in the video.

The text on the bottom will be
the current attack in the video.


Up first is Scorching Blast.
It’s ye olde HP check.

If you can’t pass this,
you are not ready.


Lily with Leviathan and the 4* MUB
wand has to use her S3 in order to
survive this blast. Everyone else
does not have anything special to
worry about.


Melees can avoid being knocked
back by performing and HOLDING a
force strike. Notice our Xainfried
that did not get knocked back
versus the one that did.


Immediately following that, she will
do a backpedal. This does no
damage, but will knock people
back if they are too close when
she performs this.

A breath will follow this
unless she is in a Hellfire phase.

The Hellfire phase will be
discussed later.


The breath targets the closest person
to Brunhilda and thus can be baited
by someone. This job usually falls
to Orsem to perform.

The breath can be dodged using
skills, so keeping a skill ready
for this will improve your
survivability significantly.


The breath timings MUST be
memorized if you intend to clear
consistently.

There is an indicator “!!” above
her head, but by then she has
already acquired her target.

You can tell how she will aim because
she will face who she targeted.


The breath starts from Brunhilda’s
left and she will slowly swing it
to the right. This is VERY slow.


If you are close, you can roll past
her to get behind her to dodge
the breath.

Here, you can see me do that.


And here you will observe me dodge
rolling away from the breath as
I had no skills prepared for it.

At the range I was at, two rolls
would have sufficed, but I did
three at that time.


Also in this clip is an instance of
what I will call “desync”, short
for desynchronization.

Note that she seems to slide to the
side without moving. Get used
to this and learn to love it. Only
the host doesn’t see this.

...usually.


Next up is what I will call the
“charge”. She will dash towards
the closest person to her and
this time will actually deal some
amount of damage.

It is small, but enough to kill
at the start of the fight if the
first heal has yet to go out.


This is always followed by
the “swipe”.

This hits very close to her and
in a cone in front of her. This
does a moderate amount of
damage but you generally should
not be hit by this.This is always followed by
the “swipe”.

This hits very close to her and
in a cone in front of her. This
does a moderate amount of
damage but you generally should
not be hit by this.


Now comes the problem mechanic.

This is the divebomb, or
“Crimson Inferno”, however you’d
like to call it.

This targets the FURTHEST person
from her on your screen.


And I do mean YOUR screen. She
will desync back to her proper
location as the host sees her
afterwards, but the spot she hits
on YOUR screen is YOUR danger
zone.


She acquires her target at a specific
time. Learn to feel for it, as it is
slightly earlier than her “!!” and
skill popup indicator. LOOK at who
the furthest person is on your screen.

You will know where your personal
danger zone will be if you do.


Colloquially, the Thaniel will take this
bait. Remember the timings. They
are very important.


Additionally, it isn’t seen here
because it happened off-screen
but the dive can and will be blocked
by the volcano rocks.

If you see her diving into where a
rock will be, she will stop short of the
rock and the danger zone will be
there instead.


This leads into “Volcanic Blitz”,
or the Hellfire phase.

In here, all four people will be
targeted with purple markers
sequentially.

Everyone gets their own
personal rock.

The order is random.


Drop these rocks near her and try to
trap her on the outskirts of the
stage. How well you do with
rock placement will determine the
amount of uptime you get later
when doing the Hellfire mechanic.


The way these rocks interact with
Hellfire is that she will blast the whole
map with an AOE. This cannot be
dodged using skills. You have to break
line of sight with her by hiding behind
or inside of a rock.

You can survive getting hit with
a Hellfire, but your healer must
have a skill ready to top you off or
you will wipe.


If you are about to have a rock drop
on you and she is about to do
Hellfire, it is safe everywhere for you.
You can stand still and be safe.

There is one VERY important
exception to this that will be
mentioned later on.


These rocks can and will shove
Brunhilda around. Be careful about
this, as it can make your breath
baiter’s life a living hell. If you drop
a rock in a bad spot it may be
impossible for your baiter
to properly pull the breath away.


She will interleave each of these
Hellfire casts with either: A charge
or a backpedal. In the first set, it is
always a charge into a charge into
a backpedal.

In the second set it is always a
backpedal into a charge into a charge.


There will be four rock drops, one for
each person. If you have ANY dead
person, you will be missing rocks and
will eat undodgable Hellfires.
This will wipe you.


These rocks will disappear in the order
in which they dropped. One after
each Hellfire.

As a general rule, if there are still
rocks on the map, there is still
another Hellfire coming. Do not
count the rocks. You will lose track.

I know because I have.


Next up is your spread marker, or
“Chaser”. Stand away from your
teammates.

Colloquially, the Orsem will stay on
top of the boss and Xainfried will get
a few hits in before force striking
away to a safe spot.


Now it’s the stack marker.
This will target the closest
person to Brunhilda.

Everyone get in.


Try to hug the boss as Orsem will
usually take the stack marker and his
movement might make the marker go
into unusual locations. Being close
helps make sure that you are in the
stack.


The spread marker into stack marker
is ALWAYS followed by a backpedal
into breath. If you are not baiting,
either skill or roll away to avoid
being knocked away. If you are
baiting, make sure you can get in
position in time to bait the breath.


Now it’s time for meteors. Brunhilda
will turn to the closest person to her
and then launch a bunch of small
purple markers at them. The breath
baiter usually takes these.

Do not run too far if you’re baiting
these as a dive is about to come out.


The dive baiter will take this dive
as usual.

The meteors are ALWAYS followed
by a dive. Be ready for it.

A melee took the dive on accident
in this clip.


If you’ve gotten this far, welcome
to the end of the first phase.

She will cast Grand Muspelheim and
fly high up.

Vertically-oriented skills
will be able to hit her here, like
the wand’s force strike or
Frozen Gale as long as you are
fast enough.


She will divide the arena in half,
left and right. People usually
go to the right side. Everyone must
be on the same side because a
stack is about to come out.


Generally, stand behind where the two
bone spines meet. That will be safe.

Spears can hit her from outside the
lava but be careful not to do too
many hits in a row.
Your weapon will move
you forward with certain strikes.


Now for the spread marker. Three
dodge rolls or so will be enough to
not overlap with someone else.

Colloquially, the healer will stay
put to get uptime and everyone
else moves. Orsem stays on top
of the boss as usual.


Now to discuss the break. There are
actually two patterns with the break.

There is an upcoming double-breath
in the fight.

If you break past that, you will
completely skip the second Hellfire
phase.


If you break before the
double-breath, then immediately
use any skills that execute quickly
and do a lot of damage and
then dragon and use your dragon’s
skill. This is VERY important, as this
comprises a significant portion of her
health bar.


Observe her health bar.

Be careful about where in the fight
you break her because she will
continue the fight from where you left
off when you broke her.


Xainfrieds should save their S2 for
this particular moment to make
the impact of the break that
much stronger.


Continuing back from
Grand Muspelheim to show what
happens if you break
at second breath.


Usually, you would like to break
before the second breath, as
you can use your dragon skills
during the break multiplier
and that is a significant amount
of damage.

The pattern is also easier, as you
actually see the second Hellfire
phase.


I show this current pattern up to
the double breath unbroken so
you can internalize how the order
of attacks goes.


First up is a charge.

Reminder that this targets closest
and is followed by a swipe.


Now meteors. Remember that
meteors are ALWAYS followed by
a dive. Closest, usually Orsem,
takes meteors. Furthest, usually
Thaniel, takes the dive.
You’ve seen this already, right before
Grand Muspelheim.


Now it’s a breath, backpedal, breath.
If you break after the second breath
you get a special pattern for being
too slow. This is because you
skip the second Hellfire phase if you
break too close to or during it.


Now to demonstrate a late break.
If you break on the second breath,
hold onto your dragon skill. You will
need it to iframe the spread marker.


If you are not Xainfried, wait about
3 seconds before shapeshifting.

You will need that time in order
to properly iframe the spread marker.


Here is the spread marker. Use your
skill before it explodes and
make sure it explodes
DURING YOUR SKILL ANIMATION.

This is important.

Otherwise you will lose dragon on the
first spread marker and then eat
the others to your health bar.


Remember that saving your dragon
skill is only if you break late.

If you take health damage to the
spread marker, you will wipe to
the following stack marker.


Another backpedal into breath.

This always follows a spread
marker into stack marker.


And now the third phase transition,
X-Muspelheim.


What happens here is she will first
divide the map into North/South
via a line that goes East/West.


And then she will divide the map into
East/West via a line that goes
North/South. Unlike the previous
one, you want everyone to have
their own personal corner because
you’re getting spread markers
then a stack marker.

If you haven’t discussed beforehand
which corner to take, just wing it.


Ranged units can still hit her from
their respective corners after she
lands. I suggest taking any corner
that is not South if you are ranged.
I find South to be the hardest to
get close enough without dying.


If you need to, turn yourself using
a force strike so you are facing her.

If the healer has kept enough
uptime leading up to this
and not too many mistakes
have been made, you should pass
this easily.


Now stay AWAY from Brunhilda if
you are not a healer. What is usually
done at this point is that Thaniel will
take the stack marker alone and
either use dragon to tank or drop it
or just eat it and die.


Thaniel can actually drop the stack
marker elsewhere by shapeshifting.

The game loses track of where the
target went and will just leave the
stack where Thaniel shapeshifted.

You can use this to achieve higher
dragon uptime.


Be careful if Thaniel does that,
however, since the stack marker will
not actually damage where it
says it will. If your Thaniel does
this, just hope he did it correctly
and didn’t accidentally drop it
on the Brunhilda.


Observe how the stack marker visual
goes out but Thaniel is not hit by
it. That is because the visual
and the actual mechanic were
in different places due to that
glitch.


Everything from this point onwards
just repeats from the start of the
first Hellfire phase, starting with
the first rock drop.

If you’ve gotten to this point, you
have seen the whole fight.


Something about the rocks is that
they will interrupt skills if they hit
you. Try not to drop them on top of
teammates if you can help it.

Don’t use a skill if it will be cancelled
too early by a rock drop as well.

Lily’s S1 especially.


Let’s go back to the second Hellfire
phase, since I showed what happens
if you skip it.


The order that she does the actions
in between Hellfires is different.

She does backpedal, charge, charge
instead of charge, charge, backpedal.


The third rock drop is special. Do NOT
try to block the Hellfire with the rock.
This rock and this rock only will
drop too late to block the Hellfire.

This is special to the second
Hellfire phase. The first and third
Hellfire phases do not have this.


Notice how Thaniel stays behind an
existing rock even though he has
a rock dropping on him.

It is very important to remember
that this rock alone is not safe to
freely place.


Also, if you are a ranged unit and a
rock drops on top of you, you can
safely fire away from the safety
of the rock. The only thing that will
hit you is her swipe.

Be mindful of which rock order you
dropped in and be ready to
move to safety when
your rock breaks.


This is the exact same spread
marker you skip to if you break
during or after the second of the
double breaths. What happens
from here on out is the same as
if you broke late.


Now for the worst topic. Desyncs.


Watch Brunhilda’s location carefully.


See that teleport? That’s desync.
Learn to hate it.
Learn to live with it.

Where you see the rocks is not
where the host sees the rocks.

Now watch me get hit by Hellfire
through two rocks.


The hosts’ version of events
is the correct version of events.

She can and will desync after every
charge, backpedal, and dive.

Really, any time she moves quickly
or is shoved by rocks she has a
chance to desync depending on
how good your connection
to the host is.


Generally, the desync will fix itself
in about a second after it happens
and you will witness Brunhilda either
teleport or slide into a new position
without moving herself.

Wait until this happens before you
use a skill if you aren’t familiar
with desync timings.


Is it your fault if you get hit through
a desync? Yes and no.

No in that you couldn’t have
foreseen it and that it defies
common sense.

Yes in that you should understand
it if you intend to consistently
clear.


The last general topic to cover is the
concept of dive-cancelling.


In a nutshell, if whenever Brunhilda
attempts to cast Crimson Inferno,
the dive, and the furthest person
is across the entirety of the map...


Then she will not actually dive and
instead will take a swipe in the
direction of the person furthest
from her position.


Observe Thaniel’s position on the
minimap. Brunhilda is about
to attempt a divebomb.


See that swipe? That was supposed
to be a divebomb. That is how the
dive-cancel operates.


I know some pugs do this, but I
personally don’t like it because you
lose DPS doing it. It requires
someone to run to the other side
of the map in order to cancel.


I mention this because some pugs
will do this. Watch for someone
rolling to the other side of the map
when a dive is about to occur. That
means there will be no dive and
she will instead SWIPE.

Remember the swipe. You might
die to it if you aren’t ready.


Again, I do not condone using
dive-cancelling. It makes runs
inconsistent if not everybody is
expecting it and you lose a
significant amount of uptime
from the person that performs the
dive-cancel.


But still, watch and expect this
in pugs in case they perform this.

It can and will kill your run if
you die to the swipe.


Now onto the Lily-specific guide.

This is only for the 4* wand with
Leviathan. I make no comment
about using 5* Lily with
Poseidon because I have not
run enough 5* Lily to talk about
it knowledgably.


As such, all of the following timing
tips are made specifically for
4* wand Lily, but the notes about
skill usage should still apply to
5* wand Lilies.


Open with 4 autos into your S3.

Your S3’s animation lock should be
cancelled by the initial blast.

You want this.


Follow up with 3 rolls forward which
will put you in her face and use
your S2 followed by your S1.

FINISH all 3 rolls. Do not cancel
your third roll early as you run a
chance of being knocked back by
her backpedal if you do.


Use the final moment of the S1
animation to zoom your camera
out if you need to. It is basically
one of the only times you can
zoom your camera without
inadverdently rolling.


Perform 5 autos followed by a force
strike and then roll to either side
or backwards depending on how
much you trust your baiter.

Try to visually guess who is closest
and therefore where she is
going to charge.


WAIT for her to stop moving from
the charge and then follow with 5
autos.

Follow with a force strike or a
single auto and then roll into her
and then use your S1.


Note: This S1 is VERY dangerous.
Do NOT do it if you don’t have
complete faith in your Thaniel baiting
the divebombs.

You WILL die if this dive is
improperly baited.


Then from there, there is no talk
about a “rotation” as the fight will
vary significantly depending on
where your team baited her and
how well your team baits the rocks
for the purpose of uptime.


I will instead give general rules for
when I tend to use skills in
lieu of a strict rotation.


Notice this S2 is half-cancelled by
the rock drop. Remember that
skills can and will be cancelled
by these. You can gain uptime
by cancelling skills after they
have done their damage but
before the animation has completed.


Watch the use of force strike here.
The dive is too fast to follow with
autos unless you are standing
directly behind her, so you can
get additional uptime by linking
with a force strike where she
is about to land.


You want to keep your damaging
skills on cooldown as much as
possible so you can be generating
skill charge as much as possible.

Almost all your damage comes from
skill usage.


There are a few notable moments to
delay your S1. They are:

Hellfires. Make sure you are
behind a rock and that she has
stopped desyncing after her
interleaved action
(charge or backpedal)
for you before you cast this.


Spread marker. Only cast your
S1 here if you are in position so
that you no longer have to move and
Brunhilda is under 25% completed
on casting it. Otherwise your S1
will be cancelled before your
second hit comes out.


REMEMBER that you must have your
S3 up at the end of the spread
marker if a stack marker follows!

This means that unless a stack
marker happened before the
spread marker (Grand Muspelheim),
you must leave enough time for you
to shield after!


Divebombs. Remember the times
these come out. Your S1 will root
you for 3 seconds or so. If you use
this at a bad time, you WILL die.

If you aren’t sure, wait with your
S1 and use it to chase the dive.


Breaths. If you don’t trust your breath
baiter, save your S1 to dodge the
breath in case it gets pointed at
you. You CAN use your S2 or S3 if
you have to, but your S2 will
generally either be a waste or
dangerous to use and your S3 will
either not be up or will not be up
for the next stack/spread marker.


Grand Muspelheim. If she is about
to perform Grand Muspelheim and
your S1 is up BUT YOUR S2 IS
EITHER UP OR ALMOST UP, try
to get your S2 out first and don’t
use your S1. This allows you
to charge your S2 during
Grand Muspelheim, as you
are locked out of your S2 for a
long time afterwards.


Volcano rock drop. Just don’t let your
S1 be cancelled. This goes for your
S2 as well.

Watch where your
teammates are and watch
who gets the rock drop to
decide whether or not they will
drop their rock on you.


If Brunhilda is about to backpedal
and you are worried that your S1
will not hit if it doesn’t chase, don’t
worry. Your S1 is large enough that
even if you target her old position
with it, it will still hit her new
position after the backpedal unless
your game desyncs.


Next is your S2. Use this whenever
it is off-cooldown with a few
exceptions:

Hellfires. Sometimes it is not safe
for you to use your S2 depending on
her distance to the rocks and how
quickly you can get to her
and then back out. Be aware that
if you do it TOO early, you run the
chance of being knocked down.


Break. If Brunhilda is about to
break, save your S2 for when the
break happens. Bonus points if
you time it so that it comes out
after Xainfried’s buff comes out.

Your skill will be worth so much
more this way. Do NOT do this
with your S1. It takes too long to
cast and you’d rather be attacking
her as a dragon instead.


Your S2 is VERY important to
keep off-cooldown and it is almost
always safe to do because of
how fast it comes out!


As a note for spread markers into
stack markers, if you use a skill after
the stack marker make sure you are
IN FRONT of her when you do so.

If you skill from behind her, she will
backpedal into you and you WILL
steal the aggro on the subsequent
breath.

If you steal the breath and it
hits Thaniel, it is your fault.


As a wand, you do significantly less
damage if you attack from
point blank. The minimum range for
maximum damage is about two
character body-lengths away.

About half the distance I am
currently standing is your minimum
distance.


This minimum range is just a
little further than the range of
your S2. If you look at your own
damage numbers, especially on your
first auto, you will learn to feel
what this minimum range
actually is.


However, your skill generation is the
same regardless of your distance.

Sometimes, you will suddenly be
point blank with her when she runs
into you. You do not immediately
need to make some distance!


If you are on your last 2 hits of your
5-hit auto combo and both your
skills are not charged, finish
the rest of your autos in the set
if it is safe to do so.

Your last 2 hits generate a LOT of
skill charge!


Additionally, if you need to generate
skill charge FAST and you are not
on the final hits of your autos, use
your force strike!

This is most important for getting
your S2 off before Grand Muspelheim
or getting your S3 up in time to tank
a stack/spread marker.


Regarding the usage of your
force strikes:

Use it to link autos if you need to
turn fast. This will usually happen
when she dives but will also happen
when she charges and when she
backpedals.


Your character does not turn that
quickly if Brunhilda suddenly changes
her angle to you. The force strike
will force your character to face
her new location and will
increase your uptime.


For Grand Muspelheim and
X-Muspelheim, you can use the
force strike to prepare a hit on her
before she lands because it does not
require a target.


You can also use force strikes to hit
her if she is too far to hit safely.

This will usually happen during the
Hellfire phases if a final rock is
badly placed.


Now, about your autos:

The is a lag after you do your set
of 5 autos before you do your
next set of autos.


(this part is unverified)

Link your next set of autos afterwards
by using a force strike or rolling to
cancel the ending lag introduced
by the 5th auto.

I do not know if this actually helps
but I sure feel like it does.

If someone actually knows this,
please contact me.


About rolls:

Do not roll more than necessary.

Any time you spend moving is time
you spend not attacking!


Now for general advice.

Be out of the way.
Your job as Lily has no mechanics.
You are responsible for none of them.
However, you are also responsible
for not being in the way of other
people doing mechanics.


Avoid dropping rocks on people!

Stand away and don’t steal meteor,
breath, and dive baits.

Make it easier for everyone else
because that will make your own
runs that much more consistent.


Just because you are not doing
mechanics does not you mean you
can ignore them!


You, more than anyone else are
responsible for uptime.

If you aren’t doing damage they
have no reason to bring you.

You are a damage bot.

That is all you do.


Above all, do not do what I
did just here.


Look at all those rolls just to get to
the safespot because I chose
a bad time to use S1!


Now I’ll show an annotated full
fight from my perspective.


The discussed inital rotation.

4 autos into S3.


3 rolls into S2 and S1.

FINISH your third roll.


5 autos into force strike.


I knew this Orsem tends to pull down
the middle so I roll myself in a way
that makes sure I both do not get
hit by the charge and do not need
to move to not steal the dive bait.

The swipe is a non-issue as long
as you are not directly in front of her.

It can and will kill you if it hits,
however.


Rolled into her and used S1 because
I was slightly late on my rotation
this time around and didn’t perform
the second force strike or auto here.

Notice how I had reacquired the
angle to autoattack Brunhilda
afterwards. That is the timing that
you want.


Stood here and kept doing
autoattacks to charge my S2.

Depending on how well-executed
your opening was, you will generate
an S2 to use before she outranges
you with divebomb.

S1 should be up around this time
as well, but prioritize S2 over S1.


The usual bait from the people that
I play with goes off to the
bottom-right. Please watch where
Thaniel is so where the dive ends
up going is not a surprise to you.


I waited until I verified the breath
was not going to be crossing over me
before I used S1 just to be safe.

Notice that someone dropped a rock
in front of me so I took the
opportunity to move myself close to
Brunhilda. Half-cancelling a roll into
a skill is the way you want to do
this if it’s available to you.


Even though I was safe inside the
rock that I had initially dropped,
it was both the first rock and far
from her position. You want to be
medium range from her in
this phase so you aren’t forced
to reposition if she suddenly
outranges you.


Notice how my S1 was ready but I
waited for her to start casting
Hellfire to cast my S1 because
she is guaranteed not to desync
move until Hellfire completes.

In rare cases, she will still
desync but I have not had
that happen to me.


In general, this sort of a rock wall
between you and her is what you
want to create. It makes eveyone’s
lives easier and gives more uptime
to everyone.

This is important for Thaniel
to make sure he can easily
meet healchecks.


Notice our Thaniel. He was lucky
and got the fourth rock drop and
thus could sit inside it until the
end of the mechanic and never
ever have to move.


I immediately rolled towards a side
to “declare” where I was going
for the spread markers. I tend
not to use S1 here to adjust
for other people’s movements.


Notice that I was overlapping with
Orsem until the last moment.

This is for uptime since you can hit
her from outside Orsem’s spread
marker but it is nigh impossible
to judge properly quickly enough
for it to be worth it.


If I have the choice between S1 and
S2 when entering the stack marker
after a spread, I will always choose
S1 over S2. S1 just fills more of
the time in the mechanic.

You can fit in more autos with it
depending on how fast you
get in, but I wouldn’t suggest
it since you run the risk of
cutting your S1 short.


Roll backwards or skill after the
stack marker because she is
going to backpedal and you don’t
want to be knocked back.

Make sure you are far enough not
to steal the breath bait if she
has her back to a wall.

You can also see the absolute
minimum distance you can
stand for maximum damage here.


I try to stand near Xainfried for this
so the Orsem doesn’t have too many
targets to bait his
meteors away from.

I also try to stay away from Thaniel
since he is taking the divebomb
after this.


Force strike to chase the dive.

Learn to make this muscle memory.

This is VERY important for uptime.


See here that I made a mistake.
See my S2 charge?

It is almost full.

It should have been up before she
casts Grand Muspelheim.


Remember that if you manage to get
S2 right here, you can still catch
her as she’s flying up.

Force strikes also have enough
verticality to hit her while she is
flying up, so get in the habit
of tagging her when she does this.

You have to manually aim it,
however because she is
untargetable in this part.


Preparing a force strike for when
she lands. I only hit her once here
with it but if you time it better
you can hit her twice with it.


Notice that my S1 is up but
I didn’t use it. That is because my
S3 still needed to be charged
by a significant portion.

If my S3 was up or almost up,
I would have used S1 here.


3 rolls away will take you ourside of
Thaniel’s spread marker range.

Use S1 after you arrive if you
trust your team. Use autos
or force strikes if you are too
far from her if you don’t.

Also I get double tagged here by
a pixel. Be careful of Orsem’s
marker. It will be the one that
will likely clip you.


This is the earliest point you can use
your S2 after Grand Muspelheim if
you miss the timing to do the final
one beforehand.

That is a lot of skill charge that
went to waste if you didn’t
manage to use it back then.

It is worth about half a S2 cast.


I stayed closer than I should have
here only because I trust my Orsem.

You should probably stand a little
further away because she is about
to charge.


Break. Dragon. Skill.

If using Leviathan, 1 auto then skill.
2 autos then dash to cancel
after your skill.

Notice that Xainfried has used
his buff just prior to this.


Look at those dragon skill numbers!

16150 from me, 19885 from Orsem,
30386 from Xainfried.

Amazing!


REMEMBER at what point she
was in the fight when you broke her.

She is going to continue where she
left off.

In this case, meteors into divebomb.

Notice that everyone backed off so
Orsem could take the bait.


Also notice here how the baiting
for the meteors will glitch just like
the stack if you change into
dragon or out of dragon from
when the skill acquires you
as a target. That’s why it is hitting
empty space.


Another force strike chase.

I cannot stress enough how
important it is to do these.

I was late this time, however.


Mistiming on my part for the
knockdown. I intended for S2 to
be still going while she backpedaled
into me.

Don’t do this.


In general, this double breath into
Hellfire phase is a sort of dead
time for you and you can just
wail on her without really looking
at what she’s doing other than
the breath direction.


The timing here on the S1 I used
was timed so that even if I got
the rock it wouldn’t have been
cancelled.

You can get a feel for this with
enough runs.


Prepared to get behind a rock
because as noted earlier, the
third rock drop in the second
Hellfire phase is not safe.

Even if I get it, I still need to be
behind an existing rock.

Notice how Xainfried rolls
to get behind a rock.


Roll forwards to S2 because I knew
I was getting the fourth rock
as I had not been targeted before
and the fourth rock is safe.

You tend to want to drop
these rocks near Brunhilda.


That concludes this guide for
High Brunhilda.

If you’ve comments or
questions, drop me a line
in Discord at Archaic#0001.


Hopefully this guide will have been
useful to you.